Johann Wolfgang Goethe; drawing by Siegfried Woldhek

Super Goethe by Ferdinand Mount (a review of "Goethe: Life as a Work of Art")

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Herr Glaser of Stützerbach was proud of the life-sized oil portrait of himself that hung above his dining table. The corpulent merchant was even prouder to show it off to the young Duke of Saxe-Weimar and his new privy councilor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe. While Glaser was out of the room, the privy councilor took a knife, cut the face out of the canvas, and stuck his own head through the hole.

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Convergence: Ross Lovegrove

Convergence: Ross Lovegrove

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Ross Lovegrove is an internationally renowned designer and visionary, whose works are celebrated as the new aesthetic expression of the twenty-first century. His industrial design is inspired by the logic and beauty of nature. It connects technology and innovative production methods with new materials and an intelligent, organic vocabulary of forms, in an inimitable way.

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Eileen Gray Intimate Architecture

Eileen Gray Intimate Architecture

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Eileen Gray was one of the most emblematic figures of the art deco and modernist movements, having developed a new and intimate form of architecture over her 50-year career.

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Losange collection by  Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec at Galerie kreo

Losange collection by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec at Galerie kreo

17 November '17 - 2 February '18

The new Losange collection is composed of diamond-shaped ceramic vases. They are a continuation from the exhibition «Seventeen Screens» in which Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec experimented with the material and the various enamelling techniques. The pieces are presented in two colours, blue and green, and four different heights.

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Furnification, a solo exhibition by Joep van Lieshout at Carpenters Workshop Gallery

Furnification, a solo exhibition by Joep van Lieshout at Carpenters Workshop Gallery

7 September - 23 December '17

Carpenters Workshop Gallery is proud to present Furnification, a solo exhibition by Joep van Lieshout. Furnification features the results of van Lieshout’s recent sculptural experiments to invent a new material vocabulary.

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Keith Haring back at the Stedelijk

Keith Haring back at the Stedelijk

12 October '17 - 3 June '18

On 12 October 2017, the velum painted by Keith Haring (1958-1990) will be on display again at the Stedelijk Museum. The American artist painted the canopy, which filters daylight into the grand hallway, especially for his solo exhibition at the Stedelijk in 1986. For this show, Haring didn’t simply want to present artwork he’d already made – he insisted on making new work.

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Tanya Aguiñiga REINDIGENIZING THE SELF at Volume Gallery

Tanya Aguiñiga REINDIGENIZING THE SELF at Volume Gallery

3 November - 31 December '17

“How do the liminal land?”

The works featured in Reindigenizing the Self are the result of Aguiñiga’s own explorations into identity, driven by Latin and Mesoamerican Surrealism. Fully tapping into her Mexican heritage in both material and ideological explorations, Aguiñiga digs deep and ponders the resulting questions with a nod to Mexican surrealism and the sometimes absurdist explanations of the Popol-Vuh (the Mayan creation myth).

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Anni Albers: Touching Vision at Guggenheim Bilbao

Anni Albers: Touching Vision at Guggenheim Bilbao

6 October '17 – 14 January '18

Best known for her pioneering role in the field of textile or fiber art, her innovative treatment of warp and weft, and her constant quest for new patterns and uses of fabric, Anni Albers (b. 1899, Berlin; d. 1994, Orange, CT) was instrumental in redefining the artist as a designer.

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