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Artists reinvent favorite album art in a group show

Skindeep approximations, deceitful marketing ploys, masterpieces of graphic design—cover art’s slippery role gets a tribute in Cover Version (LP), curator and artist Timothy Hull’s second show to take up the theme. The first, held at Los Angeles’ Taylor De Cordoba gallery, had artists dreaming up alternate covers for books in 2008, but in this show Hull tasked the over two dozen artists with re-imagining record covers that made an impact on them.

Predictably, the resulting exhibit currently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music runs the range, from the iconic (Grace Jones’ Night Clubbing by Colby Bird) to sardonic (
Mathew Cerletty’s stock photograph version of Harvest) and silly (a topless girl astride a dinosaur as envisioned by Dave McDermott).

The show is open through 20 March 2011, check out more images in the slideshow below.

As Kermit the Frog or anyone who has applied for LEED certification will tell you: it’s not easy being green. In fact the whole process can be rather dull (and we say this in full support of low-VOC paints and rooftop rainwater collection systems). An exhibition opening February 12 at A+D, the Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles, aims to make sustainable design sexy. And so it’s ix-nay on the calming bamboo accents and compost chutes, and in with high-tech projects that promise to leave all previous efforts at green architecture in the dust. Dubbed “SOUPERgreen” for its souped-up take on green design, the show will feature “architectural propositions” by Doug Jackson (Doug Jackson Design Office), Wes Jones (Jones, Partners: Architecture), Aryan Omar (Richard Meier & Partners Architects), Steven Purvis (APLSD Design), and Randolph Ruiz (AAA Architecture). The five newly completed projects explore the way that technology can promote and enhance a more constructive engagement between architecture and the environment. The result? According to A+D, “Architecture that is not only environmentally responsible by quantifiable measures, but which also critically and positively promotes more expressive, exuberant, rad, boss, and totally stoked green experiences.”

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Following last year’s outstanding “Quicktake” exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Rodarte will get its close-up on the other side of the country with a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Since founding the fashion house in 2005, sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy have earned the support of major retailers (and reportedly the keen interest of a certain luxury goods giant) as well as a growing list of honors, including the CFDA Womenswear Design of the Year award and the National Design Award for Fashion. “We are very excited that MOCA will present the first museum exhibition of our work in Los Angeles,” said Kate Mulleavy, in a statement issued today by MOCA. “The exhibition will explore the transitional states of garments and examine them as vessels without bodies.” Opening March 4, “Rodarte: States of Matter” will feature approximately 20 pieces from the house’s spring 2010, fall 2010, and fall 2008 collections as well as original ballet costumes the Mulleavys designed for Black Swan. MOCA curator Rebecca Morse is keeping the focus on construction with pieces that are mostly black and white with occasional red accents, while exhibition designer Alexandre de Betak is masterminding a mannequin-free installation that will display the garments as “charged sculptural objects.” Expect kinetic displays, dramatic lighting, and other theatrical elements that have become a staple of Rodarte runway shows.
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Lively demand for exhibition space – 360° live elegance: new concept for luxury yacht hall
Messe Düsseldorf is looking forward with great ..

Rich Brilliant Willing—the New York-based design studio behind some of our favorite tables, among other forward-looking furnishings—is preparing for its first solo exhibition. The RBW trio of Theo Richardson, Charles Brill, and Alexander Williams (pictured at right, defying gravity) will debut a limited-edition collection of personal storage pieces in “Pro Forma,” a show opening March 18 at Volume Gallery in Chicago. And speaking of furniture that moves with you, the new pieces were inspired by international air-shipping containers and what the designers identify as “a transient nature in the contemporary idea of home.” Expect sturdy yet luxuriously lacquered shelving with heavily chamfered corners and tables whose similarly rugged shapes are tamed by materials unaccustomed to being stuffed into a fuselage, including brass, leather, and American hardwoods. Think “steamer trunks in an age of global logistics,” note gallery founders (and Wright veterans) Claire Warner and Sam Vinz. Keep an eye on Volume’s website for more details about the exhibition.

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