And a new london exhibition celebrates the work and influence of iconic British Fashion designer mary quant. Throughout this year there are numerous event celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Bauhaus School one of the most influential movements of art and design in the Twentieth Century and is still influencing our design All Over The World Today but our house was founded by visor copius in the city of volume ah im not sworn in a new museum as to celebrate the anniversary and includes every day by our House Designs some of which maybe youll recognize. Together let us conceive and create the new building of the future those were the goals of foul house according to their founding manifesto from Nine Hundred Nineteen one hundred years later the city of weimar has erected a new monument to this global Modernist Movement the chief curator for architecture and design from new yorks Museum Of Modern Art has flown over it especially for
the unveiling that is at th
And rebecca horn is germanys gong performance and installation art is famous for her exploration of body extensions and machines and turns seventy five on sunday and take a look back at her. An exhibition that looks at the influence of late pop star Michael Jackson on art and on other artists has opened in bonn and the bonus points tyler thats hosting it is having to justify the decision to go ahead with it and the show opens just weeks after the h. B. O. Documentary leaving neverland made new allegations of jacksons alleged sexual. Abuse of children forcing us to consider the king of pop in a new light. Who was this man who millions of fans still hail as the king of pop this exhibition portrays Michael Jackson through the work of more than forty contemporary artists they include some well known works like these portraits by
andy warhol but should the singer still be given center stage in light of the most recent accusations of sexual abuse this exhibition is controversial. We have new
a lot of the debate around it. it is interesting because this issue itself on the burqini is something that we need your daughter bella took on recently did a web video looking at the burqini look at the issues around it and we looked at also the fact that the controversy over women fashion is nothing new also nothing new in the western world we compared to the issues around the bikini when the bikini first came out it was also banned on european beaches back then it was women had to cover up now with the burqini being banned women have to take off some of their clothes when i go to the beach i don t know discussions are going to go. scott thanks very much for coming in. fashion of a different kind now but also controversial in its time mary quant is synonymous with the swinging sixty s when london was the center of the world when it came to music and fashion qualm was the driving force behind a mini skirt hot pants
a headscarf the other about women being forced to do so there s no easy solution to the debate so says scholar of islam but one script is in which there is repression in our muslim communities towards women who would like to take off their head scarves who don t want to wear one at all if they are told they re dressing like a western woman that a muslim can t dress that way and i think you have to take that into consideration when you present islamic dress as fashion and islamic. as mordor in sr does fashion reflect institutional political power structures or is it an expression of individual freedom this is at the core of the frankfurt exhibit and wherever you stand on the issues a topic worthy of debate. we will now briefly with our colleague scott rockstro now this exhibition was in san francisco before coming to frank was controversial that was controversial but not nearly as much as it was here in frankfurt and the debate there seemed to be more about young muslim
of the new bauhaus museum just as darkness descends on by mom. now the market for muslim fashion is growing exponentially while by the fine arts museum in san francisco is the first museum to explore the complex and diverse dress codes of muslim fashion now what became a controversial exhibition has transferred to europe to a museum in frankfurt and the discussions go on my colleague scott will join me for more in a minute but first let s have a look at the exhibition. a security check at the museum of applied arts in frankfurt all that s inside is an exhibit of modern muslim fashion but that was enough to attract sharp criticism and violent threats the clothes and selves hardly seen shocking they look fashionable modern even chic for some women s rights activists the exhibit is a slap in the face the iranian born monica cassini has been fighting for years to free muslim women forced to wear the headscarf this is for me it s an instrument of