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"Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture" at RISD Museum through July 19

By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX STAFF | April 27, 2009

The RISD Museum presents "Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture," a major retrospective of the late Bauhaus designer's furniture and buildings, through July 19.

Pictured: Slatted chair ti 1a, 1924. Photo: © Vitra Design Museum Archive, Weil am Rhein / Photo: Thomas Dix

Read: "The Chair Man" by Greg Cook.

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Creative loafing
Essential geek grounds
Photos: The Brilliant Line at RISD's Museum of Art
Photos from artwork at the Rhode Island School of Design in T he Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480- 1650, exhibit.
Brave new RISD
The Rhode Island School of Design, for all its artful ambition, is a conservative place. Students draw. They mold clay. They are awash in taxidermy. So there was more than a little anxiety when John Maeda — sneaker designer, MIT professor, digital media rock star — took over as RISD president last summer.
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Creative loafing
Essential geek grounds
Photos: The Brilliant Line at RISD's Museum of Art
Photos from artwork at the Rhode Island School of Design in T he Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480- 1650, exhibit.
Brave new RISD
The Rhode Island School of Design, for all its artful ambition, is a conservative place. Students draw. They mold clay. They are awash in taxidermy. So there was more than a little anxiety when John Maeda — sneaker designer, MIT professor, digital media rock star — took over as RISD president last summer.
Slideshow: Bike cover art contest 2009
Several students from Bob Maloney's Experimental Illustration Class at MassArt competed in the contest and Allison Bamcat won.
The Chair Man
It is one of the icons of 20th-century design. What distinguishes Marcel Breuer's B34 armchair from 1928 is its materials (fabric seats slung between steel tubing) and the lack of rear legs.
Review: Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight
In Wendy Keys's extreme hagiography, nobody on earth seems to have a bad word about graphic designer Milton Glaser, either his art or his person.
Limits of non-traditional leadership
John Maeda arrived at the Rhode Island School of Design a year ago pledging a different sort of leadership.
A ’stache grows in Providence
Beards are easy. Almost any guy can grow some scruff, and in some circles, it's almost de rigueur. But a mustache — that takes work, and it takes guts. A mustache is bold.
Slideshow: Ski Cover Art Contest
Art submissions for the cover of the Phoenix's Ski supplement
Old school
Back in 1928, a Providence Journal headline dubbed painter Hezekiah Anthony Dyer a "militant anti-Modernist." Modern art was just about showing off, he said.
Deep layers
Throughout his long career Mark Wethli's work has been studied, careful, and formally rigorous.
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