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	'MoMA Exhibit Displays a Century of Modernity' 2010-01-14 13:14:46 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has entirely revamped its modern design section. The section now houses a 300-piece, five-section exhibit called �Shaping Modernity: Design 1880�1980.� Featured in the exhibit is a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles that five periods in design history and how each interpreted modernity. Key highlights from...

	'Introducing the Neo Con Navigator' 2009-01-27 14:10:07 No, it's not a giant SUV for Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Perle to drive around planning world domination in. It's 2008's very welcome new upgrade to a very large convention � the 50,000 design industry pro-strong NeoCon World's Trade Fair. The convention will be held at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago June 9-11, and will feature over 1,200 exhibitors and vendors representing...

	'Cool New modern design From Old Garbage' 2009-01-27 14:00:41 We all know we're supposed to recycle � to bring our own bags to the grocery store, to separate our paper from our plastic from our glass from our metal, to avoid the wretched excess of the eighties and nineties like the plague. But some designers are taking the idea of recycling one step further, creating beautiful, functional, desirable objects from what is, essentially,...

	'SCOPE New York 08 of Modern Art and Modern Design' 2009-01-27 13:53:07 An invitation-only event art, SCOPE New York 08 promised to build on the overwhelming success of the Miami event which took the city by storm last December. And it delivered on that promise. SCOPE New York 08 is the flagship event, which returned to the Lincoln Center this year. Located at the corner of 62nd Street and 10th Avenue, the glass facade pavilion that overlooks the center's...

	'Brad Pitt�s Shopping Spree' 2009-01-27 13:35:27 By the time you read this, Angelina Jolie may have finally ended the media speculation and popped those twins out, but it seems her equally-gorgeous partner is the one who's nesting. Pitt was spotted picking up a few items � likely for the growing family's new pad in the South of France � at the Design Miami / art Basel event in Basel, Switzerland. And while most dads-to-be...

	'Art Goes Green at New San Jose Library' 2009-01-07 16:55:45 We all know green technology is good for the planet. What might come as a surprise is the fact that it can also be beautiful. As part of the surrounding Silicon Valley�s Green Vision project, promoting economic development through environmentally-conscious projects, San Jose, California�s new Pearl Avenue branch of the public library features an example of technology at work that is...

	'Britain to Host Le Corbusier Retrospective' 2008-11-26 17:02:08 Charles-Edouard Jeanneret Gris is a name that might not be familiar to even the most die-hard design expert. But say the name Le Corbusier, which Gris adopted as his moniker, and you're saying the name of a modernist legend. Le Corbusier was an architect, interior designer and furniture designer who dominated the modernist scene for four decades, beginning in the 1920s. ...

	'Deconstructing David' 2008-12-10 01:35:40 Year after year, visitors to Florence, Italy stand in a long, long line, patiently waiting for their chance to gaze upon the most perfect man ever to grace the earth. No, we're not talking about Brad Pitt � everyone knows he and Angelina are living in France these days. We're talking about Michelangelo's David, the seventeen foot tall, marble hunk or manhood who has represented...

	'Islam Comes to the Louvre' 2009-01-26 16:27:37 In the 1980's, I.M. Pei created an international controversy when he added his very modern glass pyramid to the Louvre, Paris's very old, very famous art museum. Now, more than two decades since Pei's pyramid made architecture history, work has begun on what will be only the second major modern addition in the Louvre's history � the Islam Gallery. As the first stone was...

	'Hadid�s Mobile Museum Heads for the USA' 2009-01-26 16:05:15 Legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld, current designer-in-residence at Chanel, told Vanity Fair he believes "architecture is the real art of today." So when it came time to plan a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the iconic Chanel bag � the black, quilted number that never seems to go out of style � he turned to an architect to help him mark the occasion. Lagerfeld's...