Events

DON’T MISS THIS WEEK

28 November — 3 December 2023

The Wrong Biennale: Expanded Optics

The Wrong Biennale presents E.O. (Expanded Optics), a project focusing on video expression and audio-visual art. Screenings of works by notable international artists and Japanese artists on the theme of sensory expansion. Featuring the works by MSHR, Alexander Dupuis, Dirk Koy (see ‘Jump Cuts’ in Eye 104), Arnaud Laffond, Nicolas Gebbe, Robert Seidel, Kenichi Yoneda, Yu Miyashita, Mototanaka, Fumiya Kamachi and Shusaku Kaji.

Admission is free.

Jikan <space>, 1 Chome-7-11 Kyomachibori, Nishi Ward, Osaka, 550-0003, Japan

1 December 2023 — 24 February 2024

Pauline Boty: A Portrait

‘Pauline Boty: A Portrait’ presents a remarkable opportunity to view Boty’s coveted paintings in unison, alongside a plethora of profound, archival materials. A prominent figure in the British Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Boty waylaid convention with her fearless exploration of femininity, societal norms, politics, and popular culture

Gazelli Art House London, 39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN

to 3 December 2023

Extol: Phil Baines celebrating letters

This exhibition celebrates letters through the lens of work by Phil Baines (see ‘Reputations’ in Eye 69) – from letterforms printed on the page to those which appear on signs or public monuments. On display is a wide range of design contexts, from Penguin book covers to public memorials commemorating the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

Also presented are the influences, including medieval manuscripts, rare and early printed books and photographic archives, which have helped shape Phil Baines’s approach.

Admission is free / Tuesday to Friday, 11am – 6pm and Saturday to Sunday 12-5pm

Central Saint Martins, Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King's Cross, N1C 4AA London

The show also includes examples of Phil Baines’s writing for Eye, including ‘A design (to sign roads by)’ (Eye 34), ‘Sculptured letters and public poetry’ (Eye 37) and ‘Letter rich Lisbon’ (Eye 54), co-authored with Catherine Dixon, one of the curators of ‘Extol’.

to 3 December 2023

Porto Design Biennale

A global gathering on design issues, the ‘Porto Design Biennale’ takes the form of a series of exhibitions, conferences and workshops, highlighting the importance of this discipline in the production of culture and critical knowledge reflecting on the most pressing contemporary issues. The central theme of the third edition was announced as ‘Being water: How we flow together and shape each other’.

The event will take place across Porto and Matosinhos in Portugal.

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CURRENTLY ON

to 9 December 2023

Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer: Word Parts

Standpoint Gallery is pleased to present Word Parts, a solo exhibition of new work by Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer that responds to a year-long research residency at New North Press in partnership with Standpoint. Word Parts explores the sculptural potential of written language and the book form in relation to the endangered craft of letterpress printing. Photographs by Philip Sayer.

Admission is free.

Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet St, London N1 6HD

See ‘So it goes’ about Alida Sayer’s Marsden Woo exhibition ‘There is No Why’ (2010).

to 16 December 2023

Triennale Milano: A History in Posters

Exhibition in Lima (Peru) displaying a selection of posters designed by graphic designers and artists between 1923 and 2022, tells the story of the 23 editions of the Triennale Milano International Exhibition. For each edition, Triennale commissioned Italian and international graphic designers and artists to design the visual identity of the event, and this exhibition shows some important examples of this work, including posters born from the collaboration between the institution and, among others, Massimo Vignelli (see ‘Reputations’ in Eye 83), Bob Noorda, Roberto Sambonet, Italo Lupi,Mario Sironi, Albe Steiner, Max Huber (see Eye 63), Eugenio Carmi, Anna Kulachek, 2x4 (see Eye 58).

Italian Cultural Institute, Av. Arequipa 1055, Santa Beatriz – Lima 1, Peru

Above: Aldo Scarzella, poster for the I Biennale di Monza, 1923

to 17 December 2023

UVA: Synchronicity

An exhibition of London-based artist collective United Visual Artists (UVA), featuring seven large-scale immersive works, several newly commissioned pieces and collaborations that explore our perception of space and time and challenge the ways we attempt to make sense of the world.

Tickets from £20.

180, The Strand, London, WC2R 1EA

to 7 January 2024

Claudia Caviezel: Caleidoscope

For more than twenty years, the trained textile designer has been working in the realm of fabrics and beyond. Caviezel lets herself be guided by her own creative intuition, working spontaneously, directly and experimentally – she interweaves traditional craftsmanship with digital tools, demonstrating a flair for colour and pattern. The exhibition features textile objects, large-format prints, sketches, and recent works.

Admission is CHF 8-12.

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zurich

to 7 January 2024

Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today

Here We Are! Women in Design 1900 – Today offers a critical survey of the achievements and the working conditions of women designers in the last century. The exhibition presents objects created by leading female protagonists in different areas of design ranging from furniture, interiors, graphic design and lighting, to textiles, ceramics and jewellery.

Tickets are €4-6

Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Pl. de les Glòries Catalanes, 37-38 08018 Barcelona

to 13 January 2024

Ed Ruscha: Now Then

‘Ed Ruscha: Now Then’ will feature over 200 works that make use of everything from gunpowder to chocolate. Exploring Ruscha’s landmark contributions to post-war American art as well as lesser-known aspects of his more than six-decade career, the exhibition will offer new perspectives on a body of work that has influenced generations of artists, architects, designers and writers.

Tickets are $14-25.

The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA

Above: Ed Ruscha. Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half. 1964. Oil on canvas, 65 x 121 1/2" (165.1 x 308.6 cm). Private collection. © Edward Ruscha. Photo © Evie Marie Bishop, courtesy of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

to 14 January 2024

Refreshing the loop

After 35 years, the animated GIF remains prevalent. Following nearly three decades of evolving GIF culture, from their use in bulletin board systems and Netscape 2.0 to online communities like Surf Clubs, Tumblr, and GIPHY, a new generation of artists are now gaining acclaim for their work within the constraints of a 256-color palette. Refreshing the Loop continues Museum of the Moving Image’s tradition of displaying GIFs in our passenger elevator, with added artist conversations on the topic.

Also see ‘Jump cuts’ by John L. Walters in Eye 104.

Tickets are $10–20. Open Thursday to Sunday.

Museum of Moving Image, 36-01 35 Ave, Astoria, NY 11106

to 21 January 2024

Alphabets Alive!

The exhibition brings the magic of books and alphabets to life, featuring more than 150 works inspired by the alphabet – manuscripts, prints, posters, sculptures, alphabet books and, especially, artists’ books in their many shapes, sizes, colours, materials and languages. Encounter medieval and modern bestiaries, miniature and monumental books, alphabets made by Renaissance designers or generated by artificial intelligence, and abecedaries of human bodies and beachcombed rocks. Trace how the centuries-old ABC book for teaching children to read has influenced modern alphabet books and artists' books and discover how the simple structure of the alphabet inspires works that are playful, provocative and profound.

Admission is free.

Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG, UK

to 29 January 2024

Trains, Planes and Automobiles

Drawn from the Edward Bawden archive, see large linocuts of London's iconic stations and an array of wonderful vehicles from hot air balloon to jumbo jets and tall ships to cruise liners. This exhibition explores how trains, planes, automobiles and the occasional boat are in so much of his works including well-known prints, advertising campaigns and private commissions.

The Higgins Bedford, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK40 3XD, UK

to 14 April 2023

Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems

At the intersection of typography, linguistics, and fiction, the exhibition approaches the invention of writing systems as a speculative process and an exercise to discover new quasi-realities within our systems of communication. This practice reveals a fascination with otherness where mythology and utopia are recurring themes. Through this exploration, ‘Quasi’ contributes to an ongoing dialog about re-worlding, imagination, and the importance of playing with language to foster linguistic diversity that can reshape our collective narrative.

Free and open to the public.

HMCT Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, South Campus, 950 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, 91105, US

to 11 February 2024

Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective

For more than sixty years, Daido Moriyama has used his camera to interrogate and revolutionise the way we look at the world with his dense, grainy images. The exhibition traces the path of a photographer who transformed the way we see photography and questioned the very nature of photography itself.

Tickets: £5-8 / Fridays free from 5pm

The Photographers Gallery, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F7LW

to 14 April 2024

Advertising India’s Sandalwood Film Industry

Since 1971, a printer known as Ramachandraiah has been running a small shop in Bangalore with his son, Raju, the shop’s resident artist. Using a lithographic press built in 1901, they create striking movie posters for single-screen cinemas across the city, often copied directly from the movie’s official promotional material. Featuring bold colours and charming hand-drawn images of the film’s stars, these posters encapsulate the essence of South Indian Kannada cinema.

Admission: $8-12

Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US

to 24 February 2024

Marco Sanges: London ‘Sensations’

Haus der Fotografie Museum in Husum, Germany, presents the photographic works of Marco Sanges. The exhibition titled ‘London “Sensations”’ features black and white surrealist imagery, borrowing stylistically from the silent movies of the 1920s and 30s.

Admission: €6 / Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm, and Sunday 11am – 4pm.

Haus der Fotografie Museum, Am Aussenhafen 28, D-25813 Husum, Germany

to 14 April 2024

Creating Community: Event Posters for AIGA NY

This exhibition highlights the full range of events hosted by AIGA NY from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. It chronicles the evolving state of the graphic design field, from the analogue to the dawn of the digital age and beyond.

Admission: $8-12

Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US

to 25 February 2024

We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020

Every poster in this exhibition is a failure – not in the sense that they failed in their graphic intent of communicating a message, but rather that they failed to successfully modify behaviour. Nevertheless, these impactful images have shaped the bounds of public debate on environmental issues, drawing attention to distinct and particular concerns. This exhibition avoids these tropes, charting a global history of environmental activism through posters, ranging in style from whimsical to apocalyptic.

Admission: $8-12

Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US

to 25 February 2024

Talking Bodies: Body Images in the Poster

Ever since the advent of the modern illustrated poster around 1900, the human body has been a popular subject. In the context of current debates on gender and race, as well as on body optimisation and media self-staging, the exhibition questions the body images propagated by our visual culture. Posters from the museum collection meet up with artworks and everyday objects to prompt a multifaceted examination of the body in its cultural, social and political dimensions.

Admission: CHF 12/8

Museum für Gestaltung, Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005 Zurich

to 25 February 2024

Art Deco: Commercialising the Avant-Garde

Featuring over 50 posters, this exhibition chronicles the rise and fall of what would come to be known as Art Deco, starting with the 1925 Paris Exhibition where various factions of the European avant-garde were distilled through commercial endeavours to become the visual language of capitalism, and ending as Deco graphics became more nationalistic in the lead up to World War II.

Admission: $8-12

Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street New York, NY 10011, US

to 25 February 2024

Ryoji Ikeda

Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda conducts sound, visuals, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations.

For this exhibition Ikeda will create new pieces that work together with the unique architecture of Amos Rex. In addition, parts one and two of Ikeda’s massive audiovisual installation, the hypnotic video trilogy data-verse (2019) will be on view.

Tickets are €5-20

Amos Rex, Mannerheimintie 22–24, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

Read ‘Clicks and sparks’, John L. Walters’ article about Ryoji Ikeda’s data.anatomy on the Eye blog.

to 23 March 2024

New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching

What makes a 500-year-old printing process new? Master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel has brought etchings – prints created by transferring ink from a metal plate to paper – into the 21st century through collaborations with more than 60 contemporary artists. Some of the artists had never made prints; others had hated the process. But with Samuel’s guidance, they all adapted this historic technique to their artistic visions. ‘New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching’ gathers the resulting books and print portfolios to show the flexibility of etching and its reinvention for a contemporary world.

Admission: $30

MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, Manhattan, New York

to 21 April 2024

Ettore Sottsass: Design Metaphors

The exhibition brings together a series of photographs taken by Ettore Sottsass between 1972 and 1978 and grouped under the title ‘Metafore’ (Metaphors).

Admission: €5

Triennale Milano, Viale Alemagna 6, 20121 Milano

to 3 March 2024

The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time

Since the dawn of cinema, posters have played a key role in publicising films. Posters put a movie on the streets and captivate the imagination. The exhibition The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time presents three hundred original film posters dating from the early 1900s to the 2020s, all chosen from the Graphic Design Collection of the Kunstbibliothek (Art Library) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, with the help of international guests from the film world.

Admission €10 / €5

Kulturforum, Exhibition Hall, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin

Above: detail from Solo Sunny by Gerda Dassing, 1979 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Dietmar Katz

to 7 July 2024

Designing the Social

Designing the Social

Exhibition examining socially driven ideas about living together, and exploring how Dutch society redesigned itself over the past 100 years. In a series of installations designers, researchers and curators select and (re)interpret pieces from archives to tell stories on social design.

Admission: €10.50

Het Nieuwe Instituut, Museumpark 25, 3015 CB Rotterdam, Netherlands

to 11 August 2024

Japan: Myths to Manga

Young V&A’s very first exhibition presents an atmospheric trip through Japanese history, exploring how landscape and folklore have influenced Japan’s culture, technology and design.

Tickets: £10

Young V&A, Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA

to 8 September 2024

Quentin Blake: Book Covers

This exhibition features 60 of Blake’s book covers from the 1960s to the present: from mid-century Penguin paperbacks to finely crafted special editions. First editions are shown alongside reproductions of original artwork from Blake’s archive that show how he combines typography, dynamic layouts and his unique way of drawing to create playful designs.

The travelling exhibition will be available at the following locations:

8 July — 17 September 2023
Aberdeen Art Gallery

2 October — 30 October 2023
South Dublin Libraries

10 February — 11 May 2024
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum

29 June — 8 September 2024
Oxfordshire Museum

to 22 September 2024

Paula Scher: Type is Image

With ‘Type is Image’, Munich’s Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum – continues its tradition of inviting important contemporary designers to a site-specific installation. Paula Scher accepted this invitation with a walk-in exhibition that allows the public to immerse themselves in her world. From the floor to the walls to the hanging letters and posters, visitors are surrounded by Scher’s works.

See Reputations: Paula Scher in Eye 77.

Open daily 10-6pm, Thursday 10-8pm, closed on Mondays.

Die Neue Sammlung, Türkenstrasse 15, 80333 Munich

to 24 September 2024

Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols

Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols

From the STOP sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. As communication tools designed to break language barriers, symbols instruct, protect, entertain, connect, and communicate beliefs. This exhibition demonstrates how symbol design is a dynamic and collaborative effort through which individuals and communities have created, adopted, and redesigned symbols over time.

Admission: $7-16

Cooper Hewitt, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128

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DECEMBER 2023

1 December 2023 — 24 February 2024

Pauline Boty: A Portrait

‘Pauline Boty: A Portrait’ presents a remarkable opportunity to view Boty’s coveted paintings in unison, alongside a plethora of profound, archival materials. A prominent figure in the British Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Boty waylaid convention with her fearless exploration of femininity, societal norms, politics, and popular culture

Gazelli Art House London, 39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN

1 December 2023 — 24 February 2024

5 December 2023

Street Eyes

This free exhibition takes place for one night only at Chatham Mill (formerly M-One Studios), at 8 Lower Ormond Street Manchester M1 5QF.

Street Eyes includes work from some big names in illustration, typography and photography, including illustrators Matt Blease, Supermundane and Stanley Chow; typographers Anthony Burrill, Gemma O’Brien and Dave Towers; and photographers Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda, Yener Torun and many more. The exhibition celebrates the construction of its latest outdoor gallery and three newly installed exhibits including Sarah Boris’ ‘Subverting the Rainbow’ (see ‘Word play’ in Eye 101) at Chatham Mill, Oxford Rd, Al Maser’s stunning expressive abstract painting ‘Compass’ at The Giving Tree, Whitworth Park and David Towers’ hand-painted type piece ‘Nope’ at the Mustard Tree, Ancoats.

To mark the occasion creative musical improvisation ensemble Epiphany will respond to some of the artworks with live music, and play ‘Sound Sketches’ – like having your portrait painted, but with music. A limited number of artworks on show will be available to buy on the night.

Tuesday 5 December 2023, from 6-9pm. Free tickets available from Eventbrite.

Above. Sarah Boris at Chatham Mill. Photo by Adrian Lambert, 2023.
Below. Maser at The Giving Tree, 2023.

7-9 December 2023

The Drawing Year 2023 End of Year Exhibition

A selection of over 400 drawings, prints and works on paper by students graduating from The Drawing Year 2023 postgraduate programme.

Admission is free

Royal Drawing School, 19-22 Charlotte Rd, London EC2A 3SG

13 December 2023

Looking forward reaching back

A lecture by Letter Exchange with lettercarver Richard Kindersley (see ‘From stone to screen’ on Eye blog). Over a long career starting in 1966 when he set up his own studio in London after 5 years working for his father David, Richard has undertaken hundreds of prestigious public and private commissions around the world involving lettering and sculpture in a wide variety of materials, some on a large architectural scale using innovative techniques.

Members £7, non-members £10, students £5 / In person and online / 6.30-8.30pm

The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

14-16 December 2023

OFFF Sevilla 2023

OFFF Sevilla brings together an international cohort of designers, who will share their knowledge and experiences through inspiring talks, workshops and performances. Speakers include Sarah Boris (see Eye 101), Gab Bois, Filipe Carvalho, Dixon Baxi (see Eye 70), Media.Monks and many others.

Tickets are €115

14 December 2023

From Gutenberg to the Gallery: Five Decades of Print and Book Art

Join us for an evening with Harry Reese, this year’s Lieberman lecturer, as he recounts his years as a graduate student at Brown University when he started the literary small press, Turkey Press, in partnership with his wife Sandra Liddell Reese. Their work has embraced patterns of personal discovery and dedicated workmanship that led to making, exhibiting, and teaching – all within the relatively new context of the book considered as a contemporary work of art.

Admission is free / online and in-person / 5–7pm PT

Letterform Archive, 2325 Third St. Floor 4R, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

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JANUARY 2024

31 January — 1 February 2023

Design Matters Mexico 24

Design Matters is a two-day conference formed by designers and activists. Its goal is to spark up the conversation about the work and the role of digital designers – now and in the future – and to build a global, diverse, and inclusive community where people connect and empower each other. Speakers to be announced.

Admission: 3,570 – 6,262 Mexican Pesos / In-person and online

CENTRO, Av Constituyentes 455, América, Miguel Hidalgo, 11820 Ciudad de México

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FEBURARY 2024

21 February 2024

Typographic control and artistic freedom

A lecture by Letter Exchange with letterpress artist, graphic designer and art director Julia Humfress. She says: ‘my love of letterforms has developed throughout my career and how I use them has changed dramatically. As a corporate designer and art director working for luxury brands, such as Harrods and Condé Nast, through to my work as a printmaker in the Wood Words Letterpress Studio, I’d like to explore how I have used both digital and analogue typography to capture an audience, communicate ideals and to make art and how corporate constraints and artistic freedoms have affected my work.’

Members £7, non-members £10, students £5 / In person and online / 6.30-8.30pm

The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

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MARCH 2024

13 March 2023

Writing and painting: same source 书画同源

A lecture by Letter Exchange with calligrapher, lettering artist and painter Susie Leiper. ‘Writing and painting share a common source’ is a Chinese maxim. It is true of Chinese calligraphy and painting because both are executed with the brush. For Susie it is not so different. Having begun her lettering career with the pen, Susie has gone on to develop many forms of brush lettering before taking the brush further, into the realm of abstract painting.

Members £7, non-members £10, students £5 / In person and online / 6.30-8.30pm

The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

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ONLINE + ONGOING

Ongoing

Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia

Philip Sayer: A journey through East Anglia

A digital exhibition presenting an extended series of photographs taken by Philip Sayer between 2005 and 2023 within a thirty-mile radius of his Norfolk home.

Through Sayer’s lens, the viewer is transported into a richly atmospheric vision of the region as an impressive sequence of images that sweep across its varied terrain. In his distinctive style – developed over the course of a professional photography career that spans six decades – deep darks meet fluctuating patches of vibrant light and between them a dynamic interplay of bold contrasts emerges.

Ongoing

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The 39th Graphic Design Exhibition of the Turkish Graphic Designers Association

This year the annual GMK Graphic Design Exhibition, a recollection of graphic design in Turkey since its debut in 1981, is being held online. The GMK Graphic Design Exhibition Digital Archive will also be publicly accessible in the coming months, displaying this recollection and allowing closer examination of the work and shifting tendencies in Turkish design over the past 39 years.

Ongoing

Yuri Suzuki Sonic Bloom

Sonic Bloom

A community-focused, multi-sensory installation exploring the nature of communication through the interactive deployment of sound. Curated by Alter-Projects and designed by sound artist, designer, and electronic musician, Yuri Suzuki.

Brown Hart Gardens, North Mayfair, London.

Free access

Online

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Reverting to Type 2020: Protest Posters

Reverting to Type 2020 is an exhibition of letterpress artwork with something to say, an international exhibition showcasing progressive letterpress artwork by 100 artists from seventeen countries, alongside the work of specially invited collaborators, including John Anstiss, Shelley Bird, Sarah Boris, Dennis Gould, Peter Kennard and Stewart Lee. (See Word play in Eye 101). The full exhibition contents can be seen at: revertingtotype.com

Ongoing

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Letterform Archive Online

The Letterform Archive have made their Online Archive public access. You can now enjoy virtual access to nearly 1500 objects and 9000 hi-fi images from their collection.

See ‘Access all areas’ by Claire Mason on the Eye blog and ‘Letterform Archive: Objects of inspiration’ in Eye 100.

Ongoing

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Design Interview 10Q

A series of design talks – with Matteo Bologna, Erik Brandt, Dafi Kühne, Thomas Kronbichler and Niklaus Troxler, with more to come – curated by graphic designer Fabio Mario Rizzotti. You can watch the interviews on the @designinterview10q IGTV and YouTube channel.

See ‘Sticks in the mind’ in Eye 69.

Ongoing

Soho Photography Quarter

Soho Photography Quarter

Soho Photography Quarter is a permanent new outdoor cultural space, presenting the very best of contemporary photography, for free. A tranquil and accessible cultural space only seconds from Oxford Street, Soho, Photography Quarter will present a rotating, open-air programme of site-specific and interactive artworks, which will change twice a year. The presentations will feature a significant art frieze in the main square, large-scale over street banners, plus moving image projections, soundscapes and other interactive works depending on the project.

Soho Photography Quarter, 16-18 Ramillies Street, London, W1F 7LW

Ongoing

Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)


Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)

MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building.

MOCA Gaffen, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Above: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions), 1990/2018, on view October 20, 2018–November 2020 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, photo by Elon Schoenholz.

Ongoing

Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020

Ruben Pater of Untold Stories at Insights 2020

Focusing on the ethics of design, this lecture discusses the unspoken realities of designers working remotely across the globe, and from there dives into social and political issues such as climate change, surveillance, and affordable housing.

See Peter Buwert’s ‘Design’s ugly truths’, a review of Ruben Pater’s The Politics of Design, in Eye 93.

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The 1970s

The decade marks a historic turn in art history for photography. No longer was traditional landscape and documentary photography the same. Photography shared the spotlight with painting.

Online exhibition on the website of the PDNB Gallery.

Above: Bill Owens, Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back, 1971.