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.- One of the most innovative artists and designers of the 20th-century avant-garde, Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) challenged the borders between abstract art, design and craft. Tate Moderns major exhibition is the first in the UK to trace Taeuber-Arps accomplished career as a painter, architect, teacher, writer, and designer of textiles, marionettes and interiors. Bringing together over 200 objects from collections across Europe and America, the exhibition shows how she blazed a new path for the development of abstraction.
After studying fine and applied arts in Munich, Sophie Taeuber-Arp began her career in Zurich, an international hub for the avant-garde during the First World War. She took classes at Rudolf von Labans influential school of dance, and met her lifelong partner, artist and poet Jean (Hans) Arp. She became a successful textile practitioner and teacher while simultaneously experimenting with non-figurative art. Responding to the g
Automania at MoMA balances celebration and criticism of cars
A 1963 Jaguar E-Type Roadster by William Lyons, Malcolm Sayer and William M. Heynes at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, June 29, 2021. The MoMA exhibit Automania, drawn almost exclusively from the museums own collection, walks a painted white line between critique and celebration. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Lawrence Ulrich
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.- For many Americans, cars became a lifeline and refuge during the pandemic, even as newly sparkling air over locked-down cities highlighted their darker side. Soul-searching over commuting and climate change was balanced by hope that cars might clean up their act via electricity, and allow new generations to fall for their beauty and ingenuity.
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