In the Museums

Plywood: Material, Process, Form

2012-02-27T09:39:00.000-05:00

Through February 27, 2012

Museum of Modern Art, New York
212/708-9400, moma.org

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

2012-02-20T09:48:00.000-05:00

Sketches, prototypes and products

by the industrial designer for Braun.
Through February 20, 2012

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
415/357-4000, sfmoma.org

Mexican Modern Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection

2012-02-19T09:48:00.001-05:00

Through February 19, 2012

San Diego Museum of Art
619/696-1966, sdmart.org

Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles

2012-02-19T09:48:00.000-05:00

Through February 19, 2012

Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
213/625-0414, janm.org

Giorgio di Sant’Angelo: Through February 12, 2012

2012-02-12T09:41:00.000-05:00

Retrospective of the American fashion designer, noted for his use of stretch
fabrics, who worked from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Phoenix Art Museum
602/257-1222, phxart.org

Beatrice Wood: Career Woman – Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects

2012-01-01T09:48:00.000-05:00

Through March 3, 2012

Santa Monica Museum of Art
310/437-1689, smmoa.org

The Art of the Album Cover

2012-01-01T09:42:00.000-05:00

Through March 2012

SFO Museum, San Francisco
650/821-6700, flysfo.com

California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way

2012-01-01T09:41:00.001-05:00

Through March 25, 2012

Los Angeles County Museum
323/857-6000, lacma.org

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity: French Design for Living

2012-01-01T09:41:00.000-05:00

Through March 26, 2012

Wolfsonian-Florida
International University, Miami
305/531-1001, wolfsonian.org

Revolutions per Minute: The Evolution of the Record

2012-01-01T09:40:00.005-05:00

Through March 2012

SFO Museum, San Francisco
650/821-6700, flysfo.com

San Diego’s Craft Revolution: From Post-War Modern to California Design

2012-01-01T09:40:00.004-05:00

Through April 15, 2012

Mingei International Museum, San Diego
619/239-0003, mingei.org

Moto Bellissima: Italian Motorcycles from the 1950s and 1960s

2012-01-01T09:40:00.003-05:00

Through April 28, 2012

SFO Museum, San Francisco
650/821-6700, flysfo.com

Picasso to Warhol

2012-01-01T09:40:00.002-05:00

Through April 29, 2012

100 works by 12 artists from the

Museum of Modern Art.

High Museum of Art, Atlanta
404/733-4444, high.org

Indoor Ecologies: The Evolution of the Eames House Living Room

2012-01-01T09:40:00.001-05:00

Through April 30, 2012

Eames Foundation, Pacific Palisades
310/459-9663, eamesfoundation.org

Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969

2012-01-01T09:40:00.000-05:00

February 11 – May 6, 2012

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
805/963-4364, sbma.net

Space-Light-Structure: The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta

2012-01-01T09:39:00.005-05:00

February 3 – May 13, 2012

Oakland Museum of California
510/318-8453, museumca.org

Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art

2012-01-01T09:39:00.004-05:00

Through May 14, 2012

Museum of Modern Art, New York
212/708-9400, moma.org

Beauty as Duty: Textiles and the Home Front in WWII Britain

2012-01-01T09:39:00.003-05:00

Through May 28, 2012

Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles (1945-1970)

2012-01-01T09:39:00.002-05:00

Through June 3, 2012

Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles
213/485-8567, camla.org

Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch, 1920-1960

2012-01-01T09:39:00.001-05:00

February 26 – June 17, 2012

University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
805/893-7564, www.uam.ucsb.edu

Jewels, Gems, and Treasures Ancient to Modern

2012-01-01T09:39:00.000-05:00

Through November 25, 2012

Museum of Fine Arts Boston
617/267-9300, mfa.org

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990

2011-12-31T11:33:00.000-05:00

September 24, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
+44 20 7942 2000, vam.ac.uk

Alvar Aalto & Viljo Hirvonen & Valaistustyö Ky

2011-12-31T11:31:00.001-05:00

The collaboration between Aalto and master metalworker Viljo Hirvonen.
Through December 31, 2011
Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä
+358 207 480 123, alvaraalto.fi

Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present

2011-12-31T11:28:00.000-05:00

Through January 29, 2012
Dallas Museum of Art
214/922-1803, dallasmuseumofart.org

Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood

2011-12-31T11:27:00.000-05:00

Ongoing
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
412/622.3131, cmoa.org

Northwest Modern: Revisiting the Annual Ceramic Exhibitions of 1950-64

2011-12-31T11:25:00.001-05:00

Through February 25, 2012
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland
503/546-2654, museumofcontemporarycraft.org

Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion

2011-12-31T11:25:00.000-05:00

September 2011 – March 2012
Furniture, decorative art, jewelry and footwear by the first female Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner, set in a sculptural environment designed by the architect.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
412/622-3131, cmoa.org

Chanel: Designs for the Modern Woman

2011-12-31T11:24:00.001-05:00

Through December 31
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte
704/337-2000, mintmuseum.org

Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers

2011-12-31T11:23:00.000-05:00

September 16 – December 18, 2011
Japan Society, New York
212/832-1155, japansociety.org

San Diego’s Craft Revolution: From Post-War Modern to California Design

2011-12-31T11:22:00.000-05:00

October 16, 2011 – April 15, 2012
Mingei International Museum, San Diego
619/239-0003, mingei.org

Mex/LA: Mexican Modernism(s) In Los Angeles 1930-1985

2011-12-31T11:21:00.000-05:00

September 18, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach
562/437-1689, molaa.org

Beatrice Wood: Career Woman – Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects

2011-12-31T11:20:00.000-05:00

September 10, 2011 – March 3, 2012
Santa Monica Museum of Art
310/586-6488, smmoa.org

Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California

2011-12-31T11:17:00.000-05:00

October 1, 2011 – April 2, 2012
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
626/449-6840, nortonsimon.org

Indoor Ecologies: The Evolution of the Eames House Living Room

2011-12-31T11:16:00.000-05:00

October 1, 2011 – April 30, 2012
Eames Foundation, Pacific Palisades
310/459-9663, eamesfoundation.org

Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design

2011-12-31T11:15:00.000-05:00

The role of architecture critic and historian Esther McCoy in shaping American modernism.
September 28, 2011– January 8, 2012
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, West Hollywood
323/651-1510, mak.at

Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980

2011-12-31T11:13:00.000-05:00

The legacy of the city’s African-American visual artists.
October 2, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
310/443-7000, hammer.ucla.edu

Eames Designs: The Guest-Host Relationship

2011-12-31T11:11:00.000-05:00

Furniture and films by Charles and Ray Eames, created from 1939 to 1982.
October 1, 2011 – January 16, 2012
A + D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, aplusd.org

The Golden State of Craft: California 1960 – 1985

2011-12-31T11:09:00.001-05:00

September 25, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
323/937-4230, cafam.org

California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way”

2011-12-31T11:09:00.000-05:00

The first major study of California midcentury modern design.
October 1, 2011 – March 25, 2012
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
323/857-6000, lacma.org

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design

2011-12-31T11:07:00.000-05:00

October 11, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
212/299-7777, madmuseum.org

Picasso to Koons: Artist as Jeweler

2011-12-31T11:06:00.000-05:00

September 20, 2011– January 8, 2012
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
212/299-7777, madmuseum.org

Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O’Keeffe

2011-12-31T11:05:00.000-05:00

October 13, 2011 – January 2, 2012
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
212/535-7710, metmuseum.org

194X-9/11: American Architects and the City

2011-12-31T11:03:00.001-05:00

Through January 2, 2012
Museum of Modern Art, New York
212/708-9400, moma.org

Plywood: Material, Process, Form

2011-12-31T11:03:00.000-05:00

Through February 27, 2012
Museum of Modern Art, New York
212/708-9400, moma.org

American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960

2011-12-31T11:01:00.001-05:00

September 27, 2011– January 1, 2012
Bard Graduate Center, New York
212/501-3023, bgc.bard.edu

Graphic Design: Now in Production

2011-12-31T11:01:00.000-05:00

Developments in graphics over the past decade.
October 22, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
612/375-7600, walkerart.org

Modernist Photography: 1910-1950

2011-12-31T10:59:00.000-05:00

Through April 1, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
617/267-9300, mfa.org

Jewels, Gems, and Treasures Ancient to Modern

2011-12-31T10:56:00.000-05:00

Through November 25, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
617/267-9300, mfa.org

Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention

2011-12-31T10:55:00.000-05:00

Through January 8, 2012
The Art Institute of Chicago
312/443-3600, artic.edu/aic

Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Posters

2011-12-31T10:53:00.001-05:00

October 2, 2011 – January 1, 2012
Museum of Design, Atlanta
404/979-6455, museumofdesign.org

Picasso to Warhol

2011-12-31T10:52:00.000-05:00

100 works by 12 artists from the
Museum of Modern Art.
October 15, 2011 – April 29, 2012
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
404/733-4444, high.org

Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams

2011-12-31T10:48:00.000-05:00

Sketches, prototypes and products
by the industrial designer for Braun.
Through February 20, 2012
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
415/357-4000, sfmoma.org

Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939

2011-12-31T10:46:00.000-05:00

October 25, 2011 – March 11, 2012
Getty Center, Los Angeles
310/440-7300, getty.edu

The Alchemy of June Schwarcz: Enamel Vessels from the Forrest L. Merrill Collection

2011-12-31T10:45:00.000-05:00

September 25, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
323/937-4230, cafam.org

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970

2011-12-31T10:44:00.000-05:00

A survey of Conceptual art and
related genres.
October 9, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach
949/759-1122, ocma.net

Giorgio di Sant’Angelo

2011-12-31T10:42:00.000-05:00

Retrospective of the American fashion designer, noted for his use of stretch
fabrics, who worked from the 1960s through the 1990s.
September 17, 2011 – February 12, 2012
Phoenix Art Museum
602/257-1222, phxart.org

The American Style: Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis

2011-12-31T10:38:00.001-05:00

Through November 6
Museum of the City of New York
212/534-1672, mcny.org

Jewels, Gems, and Treasures

2011-12-31T10:38:00.000-05:00

Ancient to Modern
July 19, 2011 – November 25, 2012
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
617/267-9300, mfa.org

Gwathmey Siegel: Inspiration and Transformation

2011-12-31T09:36:00.000-05:00

Through January 27, 2012

Yale School of Architecture Gallery,
New Haven
203/432-2292, www.architecture.yale.edu

Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design and Activism in Post-War Los Angeles

2011-12-30T11:14:00.000-05:00

October 8, 2011– February 19, 2012
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
213/625-0414, janm.org

Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph: 1964–1977

2011-12-05T12:16:00.001-05:00

Through March 11, 2012

Art Institute of Chicago
312/443-3600, artic.edu

The Three Graces

2011-12-05T12:15:00.001-05:00

Cultural history through anonymous snapshots of women in groups of three.

Through January 22, 2012

Modernist Photography: 1910–1950

2011-12-05T12:03:00.001-05:00

Through April 1, 2012

Museum of Fine Arts Boston
617/267-9300, mfa.org

In Focus: Los Angeles 1945–1980

2011-12-05T12:02:00.003-05:00

December 20, 2011 – May 6, 2012

Getty Center, Los Angeles
310/440-7300, getty.edu

Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939

2011-12-05T12:02:00.001-05:00

Through March 11, 2012

Getty Center, Los Angeles
310/440-7300, getty.edu

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990

2011-12-05T12:01:00.001-05:00

Through January 15, 2012

Victoria and Albert Museum, London
+44 20 7942 2000, www.vam.ac.uk

Terence Conran and the Way We Live

2011-12-05T12:00:00.003-05:00

The British designer’s approach and influence.

Through March 4, 2012

Design Museum London
+ 44 20 7940 8790, designmuseum.org

Masterpieces of Modern Crafts and Living National Treasures from the Museum Collection

2011-12-05T12:00:00.001-05:00

Through January 29, 2012

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
+81 3 5777 8600, momat.go.jp

Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday

2011-12-05T11:59:00.001-05:00

Through May 1, 2012

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
+49 7621 702 3200,
design-museum.de

Building with Timber: Paths into the Future

2011-12-05T11:58:00.001-05:00

Through February 5, 2012

Architecture Museum Munich
+49 89 289 22493,
architekturmuseum.de

Contemporary Collections: The 1960s to the present

2011-12-05T11:53:00.001-05:00

Through February 13, 2012

Centre Pompidou, Paris
+33 1 44 78 12 33, centrepompidou.fr

Towards New Social Housing

2011-12-05T11:31:00.001-05:00

Architecture and the city from

1850 to 2001.
Through June 17, 2012

Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
+33 1 58 51 52 00, citechaillot.fr

Kim Cridler: My Wisconsin Home

2011-12-05T11:30:00.003-05:00

Vessels in steel, bronze and

organic materials.
Through July 22, 2012

Racine Art Museum
262/638-8300, ramart.org

Andy Warhol: Shadows

2011-12-05T11:30:00.001-05:00

102 silkscreened and hand-painted

canvases from 1978 featuring distorted
photographs of shadows.
Through January 15, 2012

Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden
202/633-4674, hirshhorn.si.edu

Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present

2011-12-05T11:29:00.001-05:00

Through January 29, 2012

Dallas Museum of Art
214/922-1803,
dallasmuseumofart.org

Focus: KAWS

2011-12-05T11:04:00.001-05:00

Pop-influenced artist Brian Donnelly: street art, sketches, sculpture and graphic and product design.

Through February 19, 2012

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
817/738-9215, themodern.org

Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design

2011-12-05T10:46:00.001-05:00

Through Fall 2012

Philadelphia Art Museum
215/763-8100, philamuseum.org

Past Meets Present: Decorative Arts and Design at Carnegie Museum of Art

2011-12-05T10:45:00.001-05:00

Ongoing

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
412/622-3131, cmoa.org

Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion

2011-12-05T10:42:00.001-05:00

Furniture, decorative art, jewelry and footwear in a sculptural environment designed by the architect.

Through March 25, 2012

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
412/622-3131, cmoa.org

Northwest Modern: Revisiting the Annual Ceramic Exhibitions of 1950–64

2011-12-05T10:41:00.001-05:00

Through February 25, 2012

Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland
503/546-2654,
museumofcontemporarycraft.org

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design

2011-12-05T10:40:00.003-05:00

Through January 15, 2012

Museum of Arts and Design, New York
212/299-7777, madmuseum.org

19th Century Modern

2011-12-05T10:40:00.001-05:00

Through April 1, 2012

Brooklyn Museum
718/638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org

Print/Out

2011-12-05T10:39:00.001-05:00

Survey of prints, books, multiples and ephemera.
February 19 – May 14, 2012

Museum of Modern Art, New York
212/708-9400, moma.org

Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980

2011-12-05T10:36:00.001-05:00

New installation of the architecture and design galleries.

Ongoing

Museum of Modern Art, New York
212/708-9400, moma.org

DeSigned by Ando

2011-11-30T11:30:00.000-05:00

Forty-five notebooks that demonstrate Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s working process.
October 28, 2011 – January 22, 2012
Danish Museum of Art and Design
+45 33 18 56 56, designmuseum.dk

Carefree California: Cliff May and the Romance of the Ranch, 1920–1960

2011-11-30T11:17:00.000-05:00

February 25 – June 17, 2012
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
805/893-8000, uam.ucsb.edu

Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles (1945-1970)

2011-11-30T11:14:00.000-05:00

January 19 – June 3, 2012
Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles
213/485-8567, camla.org

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art

2011-11-30T11:04:00.000-05:00

November 13, 2011 – February 27, 2012
Museum of Modern Art, New York
212/708-9400, moma.org

Mexican Modern Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection

2011-11-30T10:49:00.000-05:00

November 5, 2011 – February 19, 2012
San Diego Museum of Art
619/696-1966, sdmart.org

Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia in the Presence of the Antique

2011-11-30T10:47:00.000-05:00

November 2, 2011 – January 16, 2012
The Getty Villa, Malibu
310/440-7300, getty.edu

Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière

2011-11-27T10:49:00.000-05:00

Art Deco muralist, mosaicist, painter
and decorative artist.
Through November 27
National Building Museum
202/272-2448, nbm.org

Japanese Kimono, 1915–1940: From Tradition to Ready-to-Wear

2011-11-13T10:54:00.000-05:00

Through November 13
The Art Institute of Chicago
312/443-3600, artic.edu/aic

Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s

2011-11-13T10:53:00.000-05:00

Through November 13
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
312/280-2660, mcachicago.org

Japanese Kimono, 1915–1940: From Tradition to Ready-To-Wear

2011-11-13T10:38:00.000-05:00

June 16 – November 13
The Art Institute of Chicago
312/443-3600, artic.edu/aic

Don Hisaka: The Cleveland Years

2011-11-11T11:24:00.000-05:00

The Cleveland roots of the modernist architect.
Through November 11
Cleveland Artists Foundation at the Cleveland Clinic
216/227-9507, clevelandartists.org

Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects

2011-11-07T11:02:00.000-05:00

Through November 7
Museum of Modern Art, New York
212/708-9400, moma.org

Playful Plastic: Libuše Niklova Toy Designer

2011-11-06T11:31:00.000-05:00

Through November 6
Les Arts Décoratifs,
Galerie des Jouets, Paris
+33 1 44 55 57 50, lesartsdecoratifs.fr

In Hundertwasser’s World

2011-11-06T11:29:00.000-05:00

Through November 6
Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna
+43 1 712 04 9, kunsthauswien.com

The American Style: Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis

2011-11-06T11:05:00.000-05:00

Through November 6
Museum of the City of New York
212/534-1672, mcny.org

Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks

2011-11-06T10:40:00.000-05:00

Through November 6, 2011
Phoenix Art Museum
602/257-1222, phxart.org