Gender and art

LONDON.- Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan has won the Design Museum Design of the Year Award 2014. Hadid is the first ever woman to win the top prize in the competition, now in its seventh year.

 

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"Andrée Putman mena la rénovation du Musée des Beaux-arts de Rouen en 1993. Elle y inséra son style moderne et unique par petites touches, sans faire de l'ombre aux collections elles-mêmes. Aujourd'hui, jusqu'au 28 février 2014, l'établissement rend hommage à cette grande femme designer disparue en janvier dernier."

"When you think of women in design you probably think of one of two things: female fashion designers or marathons of Designing Women on TV Land. (Both are awesome, we'll admit.) Designing Modern Women: 1890-1990 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is about to broaden your horizons with a retrospective of female contributions to the broader field of design. 

This isn't just a showcase of the Ray Eames or Sophie Tauber Arps of the art and design worlds, nor is it a heady exploration that non-art nerds won't be able to relate to; this exhibit runs the gamut of mediums, artists, and movements meaning there is truly something for everyone to love. From Anni Albers' Bauhaus designs for wall hangings to Robert Mappelthorpe's photos of Patti Smith to Jules Cheret's famous posters for Loie Fuller at Folies Bergere, the galleries are full to the brim with inspirational and interesting objects for, by, and about women. 
Perhaps the coolest pieces in the exhibit are Bonnie MacLean's concert posters from the '60s for bands like Pink Floyd, The Doors, Buffalo Springfield and more for shows at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. MacLean's creations combine sweeping Art Nouveau stylizations with LSD-inspired colors. Translation: these are the best posters ever..."

 

Designing Modern Women: 1890-1990

MOMA, New York, October 5, 2013–October 1, 2014

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1397

PARIS — "Eileen Gray designed furniture that didn’t so much inhabit as space as touch lightly on it. With discreet forms and minimalist waves that contrasted their industrial materials to the waning of Art Nouveau, the Irish designer quietly influenced the Modernism that would guide architecture and design beyond the 1920s and 30s..."

 

The retrospective on Eileen Gray is at the Centre Georges Pompidou (19 Rue Beaubourg, 75004, Paris) through May 20, 2013.

A selection of artworks, books and ephemera related to British architect and educator Jane Drew.

Jane Drew (1911-1996) was a British architect and educator. Her work signaled a major shift from universal modernism to responsive and vernacular design. Drew was an instrumental agent across the projects and fields of urban and domestic design in which she worked, yet has remained unrecognised relative to her male contemporaries.

 

Jane Drew (1911-1996): An Introduction

12 Feb 2014 – 23 Mar 2014

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London

http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/jane-drew-1911-1996-introduction

 

"IMMA presents a major retrospective of the work of Eileen Gray, one of the most celebrated and influential designers and architects of the 20th-century. Designed and produced by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with IMMA, this exhibition is a tribute to Gray’s career as a leading member of the modern design movement. The exhibition at IMMA celebrates Gray’s Irish roots and presents a number of previously unseen works that offer new insights into Gray’s extraordinary career."

 

Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter

12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014

IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 

Image : Charles and Ray Eames

 

Modern design of the twentieth century was profoundly shaped and enhanced by the creativity of women---as muses of modernity and shapers of new ways of living, and as designers, patrons, performers and educators. This installation, drawn entirely from MoMA's collection, celebrates the diversity and vitality of individual artists’ engagement in the modern world, from Loïe Fuller’s pulsating turn-of-the-century performances to April Greiman's 1980s computer-generated graphics, at the vanguard of early digital design.

 

Highlights include the first display of a newly conserved kitchen by Charlotte Perriand with Le Corbusier (1952) from the Unité d'Habitation housing project, furniture and designs by Lilly Reich, Eileen Gray, Eva Zeisel, Ray Eames, Lella Vignelli, and Denise Scott Brown; textiles by Anni Albers and Eszter Haraszty; ceramics by Lucy Rie; a display of 1960s psychedelic concert posters by graphic designer Bonnie Maclean, and a never-before-seen selection of posters and graphic material from the punk era.

 

Designing Modern Women 1890–1990

MoMA, New York 

October 5, 2013–October 1, 2014

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1397