• 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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