- New Design Japan: Cool Ideas & Hot Products
- Series of lectures on "The fusion of Japan's renowned technological expertise and flourishing cultural energy." With Karim Rashid, Paola Antonelli, Tatsuya Matsui and others...
- Friday - Sunday, March 18-20 (admission fee)
- Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street (212.832.1155)
- Sacral Spaces: Modern Finnish Churches
- 12 churches constructed after World War II during an extraordinary period in which approximately 200 churches designed by prominent architects were built in Finland.
- Through 2/19
- Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave., New York. (212) 879-9779
- Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living
- The Albers - of Bauhaus and Black Mountain College fame - collected textiles and furniture pair off with one another
- Through 2/27
- Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
Art
- Tim Hawkinson at The Whitney
- "One of America's most singular and inventive sculptors," Tim Hawkinson is remarkable. This is "the first major museum survey of this West Coast artist known for his kinetic and sound-producing sculptures"
- February 11 – May 29
- 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street (800.WHITNEY)
- "in spiritus" at RKL Gallery
- Curated by Christina Chow and featuring Eric Holtzman's remarkable dreamscapes and Kazmira Rachfal's colorful geometries among others...
- March 9 - April 10 (Opening Wed, March 16 6-8pm)
- RKL Gallery, 349 Leonard Street, Williamsburg, Bklyn
- The Armory Show
- "The spare-no-expense art bonanza, with a gala opening to benefit MoMA's Exhibition Fund"
- Thursday, March 10 - 13
- Piers 90 and 92, Twelfth Ave. at 50th St. (212.805.8800)
- The Fourth Annual -scopeNewYork
- "A really interesting format for an art fair, where art reps, artists and galleries take over several floors of a hotel, each using a room as their "booth"."
- Friday opening night party begins at 9pm ($20 admission)
- Friday, March 11 through Monday, March 14 ($10 admission)
- Flatotel Hotel, 135 West 52nd Street (between 6th and 7th avenues).
- Gregory Colbert at the Nomadic Museum
- "A don't-miss exhibit this spring is Ashes and Snow, more than 200 literally amazing large-scale photographic works and an accompanying 35mm film that are the fruit of the artist's 13-year personal and artistic odyssey..capturing extraordinary moments of contact between man and animal." NYC
- Opens to the public March 5th
- At Pier 54 (you can't miss it)
- William Crump - Images
- "Through an ironic brand of self-deprecating humor, Crump's images remake our childish dreams into a more forgiving view of our present circumstances. His work is an enlightened revision of a distinctly American question: how to cross the desert between our heroes and ourselves. The answer: with beauty and humor."
- Opening: Friday, March 4, 6-8 PM
- Exhibition: March 4 - April 3, 2005
- DAVID ALLEN ART & DESIGN GALLERY
331 Smith Street, Brooklyn
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