Tag: Museum of Arts and Design
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Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art
As well as putting artist-made clothing firmly into the category of art, this show also looks at its wider role in gender, protest and cultural differences
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Glenn Adamson interview: ‘Webb saw clearly that human connection was the real value to be found in the handmade’
As New York’s Museum of Arts and Design celebrates its founder, Aileen Osborn Webb, with a superb array of 100 objects, including some made by Webb herself, MAD’s director, Glenn Adamson, talks about this indomitable pioneer of foundational craft organisations…
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NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial
Jake Yuzna, director of public programmes at the Museum of Arts and Design, talks to Cindi di Marzo about the wildly diverse entries selected from the city’s creative communities for the museum’s first biennial
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Crisis and Catharsis in Clay: an interview with Sana Musasama
Body & Soul features 24 artists responding with clay to the pain of living in an exploitative, violent world. The emotionally charged pieces gathered for this show argue for the impact that socially committed artists can have on individual lives,…
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Containers for the human condition
The 24 artists selected for Body & Soul: New International Ceramics are using clay – traditionally made into vessels and decorative objects – to sculpt powerful responses to social injustices, environmental devastation and the day-to-day pain of living in an…
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A Post-Modern Renaissance Rooted in Tradition
Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 19 March–7 July 2013
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Purely Elemental: Wood Craft as Fine Art
Nature Transformed: Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection Museum of Arts and Design, New York 18 May-10 September 2006 The history of turned wood objects is long and varied, changing from functional craft to art to hobby and back again.…
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A Redefining Moment in the History of Native American Art
Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 Contemporary Native North American Art from the Northeast and Southeast Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 26 June–21 October 2012
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Beauty that is Always Strange. Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2010
Dead or Alive Museum of Arts and Design, New York 27 April–14 October 2010
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A Human Museum Without Walls. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
