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ARTS NEWS: August 20, 2009
 Top Stories Mandala: The Perfect Circle - Buddhist Cosmic Diagrams Come to Life
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY USA United States of America Aeron Chair WEB - Good Design : Stories from Herman Miller
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI USA United States of America FLATLANDS - by Marc Shoul
AVA - Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, ZA South Africa | | Mandala: The Perfect Circle - Buddhist Cosmic Diagrams Come to Life
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY USA United States of America Mandala: The Perfect Circle takes visitors from the 8th to the 21st century, displaying some of the oldest known mandalas in the world, large paintings found in the Dunhuang caves in northwestern China, alongside virtual, computer-generated varieties created by designers at Cornell University and Zurich University. On rare loan from the Musee Guimet in Paris, an early Dunhuang mandala masterfully depicts a crowded pantheon of deities, each situated symmetrically in its proper symbolic place. The virtual mandalas will provide an explosion of intense digital color in rare three-dimensional views of a mandala�s creation and final form.� - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Aeron Chair WEB - Good Design : Stories from Herman Miller
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI USA United States of America The Muskegon Museum of Art announces its creation of the traveling design exhibition Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller. The exhibition opens in Muskegon on August 20, 2009, and will subsequently tour as many as 15 American cities into 2013. The exhibition explores the collaborative problem-solving design process employed at the world-renowned and West Michigan-based furniture company, Herman Miller, Inc. The interpretive exhibition is organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art (MMA) in collaboration with The Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, drawing upon that institution's Herman Miller Design Collection -- a comprehensive archive of the company's innovative processes and products. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | FLATLANDS - by Marc Shoul
AVA - Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, ZA South Africa The AVA in partnership with Spier presents the opening of a new photographic exhibition entitled 'FLATLANDS - by Marc Shoul'. The exhibition runs from 18 of August - 04 September 2009. Johannesburg has always been a city of immigrants, a beacon for people searching for 'gold' in one form or another. Today, this sprawling and ambivalent metropolis continues to attract a constant stream of hopefuls from all over Africa. And many of these new arrivals settle in the Joburg inner city, which has become a hub for the entire sub-continent. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
| | | Picasso and the Allure of Language
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC USA United States of America The Nasher Museum presents a groundbreaking exhibition examining Pablo Picasso's lifelong relationship with writers and the many ways in which language affected his work. Picasso and the Allure of Language comprises some 60 works in all media by Picasso, as well as select examples by fellow artist Georges Braque, and photographs, letters, manuscripts and book projects by a diverse group of artists and writers. Together, these works illuminate Picasso's deep and multidimensional interest in writing and language, which gives new meaning to highlights of his lifetime of work. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
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