5 exhibitions designed to inspire
The fall season is bringing the work of top artists to museums around the world.
The London Design Museum’s 2018 Designers in Residence: Hester Buck, Ella Bulley, Dr. Helga Schmid and Eva Jäger & Guillemette Legrand (Legrand Jäger), will be creating objects, experience and interactions the push design boundaries in Designers in Residence 2018: Dwelling.
November – March 2019, Design Museum London / designmuseum.org
Barbara Kasten, b.1936 Photogenic Painting, Untitled 74/13 (ID187) 1974
Photograph, salted paper print 558 x 762 mm Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Bortolami Gallery, New York © Barbara Kasten
With over 350 works by 100 artists, the major new exhibition The Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art illuminates the complex and beautiful connections between stories of photography and abstract art and sculptures from 1910 until the present.
Through 14 October, Tate Modern / tate.org.uk
Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Before and After [4], 1962. Acrylic and graphite on linen, 72 1 ⁄8 x 99 3 ⁄4 in. (183.2 x 253.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from Charles Simon, 71.226 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
12 November- 31 March 2019 /The Whitney Musuem, whitney.org
Contemporary Muslim Fashions is the first major museum exhibition to explore the complex and diverse Muslim dress codes worldwide. Eighty ensembles have been drawn from established and emerging designers in high-end fashion, streetwear, sportswear, and couture.
22 September- 6 January 2019, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums San Francisco / deyoung.famsf.org
The Titanic in dry dock c. 1911 © Getty Images
The first exhibition at the V&A Dundee – Scotland’ new design museum – is Ocean Liners: Speed and Style. Showcasing more than 250 objects from these ‘floating palaces’ will include paintings, sculptures, ship and engine models, wall panels, furniture, fashion, textiles, photographs, posters and film.
15 September- 24 February, V&A Dundee / vam.ac.uk/dundee/
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