Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
"It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories. As we begin principally with the material, color itself,
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Sperone Westwater 415 West 13th Street, 212-999-7337 Chelsea September 16 - November 1, 2008 Opening: Tuesday, September 16, 6 - 8PM Web Site Josef Albers, Homage to the Square , 1967, 28 × 28 inches (71,1 × 71,1 cm) Josef Albers, Andrew Grassie, On Kawara, Giorgio Morandi, Roman Opalka catalogue available with essay by Steve Holmes Sperone Westwater is pleased to present an exhibition of works by...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
BUFFALO, NY - Organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery Associate Curator Holly E. Hughes, the exhibition includes 43 paintings and sculptures from artists central to the Op Art or Optical Art movement, such as Josef Albers, Richard Anuskiewicz, Bridget Riley, Julian Stanczak, and Victor Vasarely. Through the use of parallel lines, concentric circles and electric colors, these artists manipulated depth,...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
PICK Gering & Lopez Gallery 730 Fifth Avenue, 646-336-7183 Midtown May 1 - June 14, 2008 Opening: Friday, May 2, 6 - 8PM Web Site left: Josef Albers, Composure, 1937, Oil on masonite, right: Dan Flavin, Untitled (To Rainer) 2, 1987, photo: D. James Dee Gering & López Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Dan Flavin and Josef Albers. Pairing two highly influential artists of the 20th...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
In 1971, Josef Albers established a not-for-profit organization to further the revelation and evocation of vision through art. Today, this organizationThe Josef and Anni Albers Foundationis devoted to preserving and promoting the enduring achievements of both Josef and Anni Albers, and the aesthetic and philosophical principles by which they lived. It serves as a unique center for the understanding...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
I would normally avoid singling out any work as the most important in a show, though there is no way of doing so with Josef Albers' Bent Back (A) and Dulwich Picture Gallery's Coming of Age: American Art 1850s to 1950s. Albers' abstract, of 1940, looks like an open door, and so it is. Step through it, and you're in the last room and decade of this silly exhibition – the moment when American art finally...
today and tomorrow (Free subscription) | 18/03/2008
Can you feel the Bauhaus too? ‘Structural Constellation’ by Josef Albers. found at FFFFOUND!
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 13/03/2008
Josef Albers was both an artist and at one time, the artistic director of the Bauhaus workshop. And these Josef Albers nesting tables are a result of both of those influences. Recently reissued by Vitra these mid-twenties tables are influenced...
I want - I got (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Jeremy Laing Ready to Wear - Fall Winter 2008 - 2009 Inspired by the kaleidoscopic cover of The Possibility of an Island, the latest novel by Michel Houellebecq. The interior of a ’50s couture bodice, with its excess seam allowance becoming a decorative element. Josef Albers's “Homage to a Square” color-field experiments. Quadrant-based construction, [...]
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
Josef Albers' color experiments and his Homage to the Square' series, an antique dress form assembled with rivets, spatters of mercury, a beet-and-spinach salad. Jeremy Laing
