The Sigman Gift and German Expressionism

German Expressionist Masterpieces and highlights from Jugendstil to the Bauhaus at NYC's Neue Galerie

Last night saw two compelling openings at NYC’s Neue Galerie, a museum dedicated to German and Austrian art and design from the early 20 century. Highlights from collector Harry C. Sigman’s recent gift to Neue—which total more than 100 works representing the very best of the Jugendstil period of German design—are now on display, along with the museum’s major display of German Expressionism masterpieces. In …

(dis)location

Photographer Filip Dujardin's solo exhibit blurs the line between architectural fact and fiction

With his wonderfully imaginative architectural “photomontages,” artist Filip Dujardin addresses questions of what might have been and what’s still to come. Pulling solely from his extensive archive of his own photographs of buildings, urban spaces and landscapes, the Belgian artist dissects and meticulously reassembles images—with the assistance of computer retouching—to create an augmented reality of near-believable structures in bizarrely complementary environments. Dujardin’s second solo exhibition …

Veal

Opera, dance and industrial design in Harrison Atelier's latest show at The Invisible Dog

Opening tonight, 7 February 2013, at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, “Veal” is a multidisciplinary performance that marries unlikely traditions from opera to industrial design. Thematically, the show plays off of the notion of the “industrial animal,” looking at the process from artificial insemination to life in confinement and finally to the overwhelming cycle that is modern food production. Design collective Harrison Atelier created instruments …