Active Archive | Martha McDonald Process + Performance

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center 120 College Street, Ashville, NC, United States

 56 + 69 BROADWAY Opening Reception: Friday, September 29, 5-7pm – Performance by Martha McDonald at 5:30 pm FREE ACTIVE ARCHIVE is a stream of programs that pairs the museum’s extensive collection with contemporary artists, curators, and cultural thinkers. It launches with an exhibition featuring the museum’s permanent collection curated by Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist Martha McDonald. […]

FOG Design+Art Fair

Fort Mason Center Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Landmark Building C, 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA, United States

The fifth annual edition of FOG Design+Art will take place January 11–14, 2018 with a Preview Gala benefiting San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on Wednesday, January 10, 2018.

$25

Anni Albers in Dusseldorf

K20 Grabbeplatz Grabbeplatz 5, Düsseldorf, Germany

Anni Albers (1899 – 1994) was a multifaceted artist who established weaving as an art form and united this ancient cultural technology with modern artistic practices. This retrospective exhibition offers deep insight into the achievement of the artist, craftswoman, designer, author, and teacher Anni Albers, from her beginnings at the innovative Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, to her time at the legendary Black Mountain College, and up until the 1980s.

€12

Ruth Asawa: Life’s Work at the Pulitzer

Pulitzer Arts Foundation 3716 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, United States

The Pulitzer presents the first major museum exhibition of the work of Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) since 2006, and the first ever outside the West Coast, where the artist lived and worked for six decades. This landmark career-spanning show brings together some eighty works, comprising nearly sixty sculptures from the full trajectory of her career.

Free

Dance Performance by Emma Lanier

Pulitzer Arts Foundation 3716 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, United States

Emma Lanier, dancer, choreographer, and granddaughter of Ruth Asawa, performs an original dance solo alongside the artist’s sculptures in Life’s Work. Though Asawa identified as a visual artist, she studied dance with Merce Cunningham in the summer of 1948 during her formative years at Black Mountain College. Through her performance, Lanier reflects on her grandmother’s […]

Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College

One of the most widely regarded American artists of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is known for his paintings, drawings, and prints that hover between abstraction and socially inspired narrative realism, chronicling African-American history and experience during his lifetime. Between Form and Content will be the very first exhibition to focus on Jacob Lawrence’s experiences during the summer of 1946, when Josef Albers invited Lawrence to teach painting at Black Mountain College.

Free

Frieze Masters London

Regent's Park Gloucester Green, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom

Frieze Masters features more than 130 leading modern and historical galleries from around the world, showcasing art from the ancient era and Old Masters to the late 20th century.

£38.70

Anni Albers at the Tate Modern

Tate Modern Bankside, London, United Kingdom

Anni Albers combined the ancient craft of hand-weaving with the language of modern art. Exhibition at the Tate Modern.

£16

The Bauhaus and Harvard

Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Mounted in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, The Bauhaus and Harvard presents nearly 200 works by 74 artists, drawn almost entirely from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s extensive Bauhaus collection.

$15

The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950

Cantor Arts Center 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA, United States

Using works created since 1950, this exhibition explores the relationship between subject, content, and the materials that informed each object’s production.

Free