Hasta La Ideas

A nifty feature over at Art Info who just this week headed to a very, very early press preview for the MoMA‘s upcoming Tim Burton retrospective. Although the exhibit won’t kick off until around Thanksgiving weekend (thus solidifying a massive opening weekend for the museum), the MoMA seems rightly eager to get the word out early. The collection will feature hundreds of pieces, from artwork the director has created to rarely-seen short films to storyboards and various other pieces attached to his larger, well-known movies. Burton was there at the museum for the press tour and explained a bit of the process in assembling the sure-to-be-popular exhibition:

…he had not looked at most of the pieces for years and described the experience as a “reenergizing process” and a way of reconnecting with himself. Apparently, he essentially gave [Assistant Film Curator Ron Magliozzi] free rein over his archives, allowing MoMA to pull what it wished for the show.

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(From left: works by James Victore, Drew Hodges, and Rodrigo Corral)

As Richard Wilde, chairman of the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department at New York’s School of Visual Arts, celebrates his fortieth year at the College, SVA is gearing up to recognize him with a fall exhibition of iconic works by more than 100 alumni from throughout his tenure. “The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture” will feature a This is Your Life-style slate of design stars—including Rodrigo Corral, Drew Hodges (SpotCo), James Victore, Julia Hoffman (MoMA), Scott Wadler (MTV Networks), and Archie Ferguson (HarperCollins)—and their greatest hits, from Pepsi advertising campaigns and CD packaging for Eminem to theatrical posters and the irresistible book jacket for James Frey‘s A Million Little Pieces. The exhibition opens on October 9 and will run through November 7 at the Visual Arts Gallery in New York City.

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If we can share with you a little something we were lucky enough to catch the other day right now, we hope you’ll appreciate it. Last Thursday night, we stayed up way past our usual bedtime (5:30pm) to head over to Mies van der Rohe‘s beautiful S.R. Crown Hall on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. We were there to see “Lighting Crown Hall,” a collaboration between artist Jan Tichy, students at ths School of the Art Institute and the Illinois Institute of Technology, the Mies van der Rohe Society, and members of the Bauhaus Lab. The collective had turned the famous building into something like a huge light box, projecting random bits of video and the occasional still photo onto the windows. It was really remarkable. And because we’re such fans over at Coudal Partners, where this writer spends his days, we brought along our camera and put together this short video. While there, we ran into the mighty terrific Edward Lifson, who is always a joy to talk to. As we knew he would, he put together this great post on his site about the “Lighting” project, as well as his own video interviewing Jan Tichy, which comes highly recommended. All in all, a terrific night and if they ever do this or something similar again and you’re in the area, you owe it to yourself to catch it next time around.

In case you missed the news late last week, this Saturday marked the launch of mega-street artist Banksy‘s first show in his home turf of Bristol in the UK, or more specifically, at the City Museum and Art Gallery. It looks similar to several of his other, rare exhibitions (though we’ve yet to hear anything about an elephant, like he had in Los Angeles), but what makes the exhibit perhaps most interesting was that the museum kept the entire thing a secret up until the day before it opened, even from the city council who provide the museum’s funding, realizing that there would be quite a bit of bureaucratic back and forth if they proposed it earlier, what with Banksy’s history in the city (half seem to love him, half seem to hate his work popping on random walls). In addition to the linked story above, the show’s opening has resulted in a bunch of video, of course, including this piece which we enjoyed:

Are you getting excited for SANAA‘s Serpentine Pavilion? We certainly are, as you’ll recall us telling you all about back in February, when the Japanese firm was selected, and in early April, when the first illustrations for the pavilion were released. If you just can’t wait until July, when it’s finally finished and open for the public, we highly recommend hitting up the Olll Architecture Gallery site, where they have dozens upon dozens of photos of the ongoing construction. Not much info to read, or any really, but we think you’ll find browsing through all the shots and dreaming of what’s soon to be time well spent. But if it is reading you’re after, and you demand that it must be about this topic, might we suggest learning that actress Tilda Swanson really wants to get back to her collaboration with artist Cornelia Parker on their 1995 Serpentine piece The Maybe, which found Swanson sleeping in a big glass box for days on end in front of thousands of people, resulting in her contracting shingles? Well there you go. Enjoy.