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Six seminal projects from Bauhaus designers Josef and Anni Albers
Nicholas Fox Weber, a longtime friend of Josef and Anni Albers and executive director of their foundation, has authored a visual biography of the renowned Bauhaus couple and their work. Here he discusses six of the most interesting projects from the book.
Called Anni & Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal, the book traces their artistic evolution from meeting at the Bauhaus, the German art school that gave birth to the Bauhaus design movement, in 1922 to fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930s and teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
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This weekend, two distinctly disorienting gallery shows open in New York. Theyâre not the bad kind of disorienting, like what we all experienced last year (although the pandemic and its associated disassociation do come up in one of them). What instead happens in both shows is an
unsticking, from linear time in Daniel Arshamâs âTime Dilationâ at Perrotin and from the stark spatial geometry of the grid in Tara Donovanâs âIntermediariesâ at Pace. And rather than alienating or dispiriting, they both have the effect of amusing, beguiling, and altogether delighting.