Archive for July, 2013

Ron Arad “In Reverse” @ Holon Design Museum

Ron Arad “In Reverse” @ Holon Design Museum

“The main subject is the shift in my personal career from physical manipulation of materials to digital – from mallets to pixels” …. “Normally you manipulate materials to make them functional. Here I did the opposite – took a functional object and made it delightfully useless.” .. Ron Arad

“The Zervos” to be re-issued

“The Zervos” to be re-issued

‘Pablo Picasso par Christian Zervos,’ known by many simply as “the Zervos”, is the most prominent and trusted catalogue raisonne of Picasso’s paintings and drawings.

It comprises 33 volumes and more than 16,000 images, and was the result of an intense four-decade collaboration between Picasso and Christian Zervos.

Life on a String – 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Life on a String – 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead

Symbolizing power, enabling ornamentation, and facilitating trade, glass beads are miniature masterpieces that have played significant roles throughout time and across cultures.

Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead showcases, for the first time, nearly 200 important works from the large historical glass bead collection of The Corning Museum of Glass.