Midcentury May NYC
Five of the city's primo cultural organizations have partnered this month
cover admission to all participating venues. Sounds like a great
way to combine museum-hopping with meandering through NY's parks,
which are now spectacularly in full bloom.
Featured exhibitions include:
Everything is Design: The Work of Paul Rand (Museum of the City of NY);
How Posters Work (Cooper Hewitt); Revolution of the Eye (The Jewish Museum);
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, (MAD Museum); and
Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism (Museum of Jewish Heritage).
Five of the city's primo cultural organizations have partnered this month
cover admission to all participating venues. Sounds like a great
way to combine museum-hopping with meandering through NY's parks,
which are now spectacularly in full bloom.
Featured exhibitions include:
Everything is Design: The Work of Paul Rand (Museum of the City of NY);
How Posters Work (Cooper Hewitt); Revolution of the Eye (The Jewish Museum);
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, (MAD Museum); and
Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism (Museum of Jewish Heritage).
"Everything is Design. Everything!" ... Paul Rand
Rand's witty and eye-catching graphics are on view
at the Museum of the City of NY -->
Sept. 7, 2015
Above: Logos by Paul Rand
Paul Rand, Eye Bee M, 1981
(get it?)
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from Cooper Hewitt's How Posters Work
Grammo-Grafik, 1957
"How Posters Work" features more than 125 pieces from the museum's permanent collection, demonstrating how some of the world’s most creative graphic artists have employed design principles to produce powerful acts of visual communication. The exhibition is organized into 14 subsections: focus the eye, overwhelm the eye, use text as image, overlap, cut and paste, assault the surface, simplify, tell a story, amplify, double the meaning, manipulate scale, activate the diagonal, make eye contact and make a system.
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Installation view, Revolution of the Eye, Jewish Museum
The impact of Jews on American television, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, is a force which cannot be denied, sometimes leading to the mistaken impression that "Jews control the media". Rod Serling's seminal "Twilight Zone" and Gene Rodenberry's "Star Trek", both highlighted in this exhibition, exemplify the continuing resonance of the Holocaust and the immigrant experience on Jewish screenwriters.
Works by Saul Bass, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Eero Saarinen, Ben Shahn, and Andy Warhol are also included in
Revolution of the Eye, along with ephemera, television memorabilia, and clips from
The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, and Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
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Below: from Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) exhibition
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design
Eva Zeisel, Frame for a Folding Chair, 1949;
Chrome-plated tubular steel
Vivian Beer, Anchored Candy No. 7, 2014
Steel, automotive paint
° ° ° ° ° ° °
The design exhibition at NY's Museum of Jewish Heritage
is superb --a highlight of the 2015 museum season!
See my May 11 blog posting about it.
George Nelson's Marshmallow Sofa and desk --
I'll take one of each!
° ° ° ° ° ° °
Rand's witty and eye-catching graphics are on view
at the Museum of the City of NY -->
Sept. 7, 2015
at the Museum of the City of NY -->
Sept. 7, 2015
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Above: Logos by Paul Rand (get it?) ° ° ° ° ° ° ° from Cooper Hewitt's How Posters Work 
"How Posters Work" features more than 125 pieces from the museum's permanent collection, demonstrating how some of the world’s most creative graphic artists have employed design principles to produce powerful acts of visual communication. The exhibition is organized into 14 subsections: focus the eye, overwhelm the eye, use text as image, overlap, cut and paste, assault the surface, simplify, tell a story, amplify, double the meaning, manipulate scale, activate the diagonal, make eye contact and make a system.
° ° ° ° ° ° °
Installation view, Revolution of the Eye, Jewish Museum 
The impact of Jews on American television, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, is a force which cannot be denied, sometimes leading to the mistaken impression that "Jews control the media". Rod Serling's seminal "Twilight Zone" and Gene Rodenberry's "Star Trek", both highlighted in this exhibition, exemplify the continuing resonance of the Holocaust and the immigrant experience on Jewish screenwriters.
Works by Saul Bass, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Eero Saarinen, Ben Shahn, and Andy Warhol are also included in
Revolution of the Eye, along with ephemera, television memorabilia, and clips from
The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, and Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
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Below: from Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) exhibition
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design
Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design
Eva Zeisel, Frame for a Folding Chair, 1949;
Chrome-plated tubular steel
Vivian Beer, Anchored Candy No. 7, 2014
Steel, automotive paint
° ° ° ° ° ° °
The design exhibition at NY's Museum of Jewish Heritage
is superb --a highlight of the 2015 museum season!
is superb --a highlight of the 2015 museum season!
See my May 11 blog posting about it.
George Nelson's Marshmallow Sofa and desk --
I'll take one of each!
° ° ° ° ° ° °
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