“Cuban Mid-Century Design: A Modernist Regime” included in Elle Decor’s Fall 2024 Coffee Table Book Selections

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Cranbrook Art Museum Opens ‘Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within’ | artdaily

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Cranbrook Art Museum to Open Two New Exhibitions Dedicated to Detroit Artists

How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part IThe debut of works by Detroit artists added to the museum's permanent collectionSubtleism: Neha Vedpathak with Agnes MartinThird exhibition in the museum's Fresh Paint series featuring emerging artistsArtMembers Preview Party for All Fall Exhibitions: October 25, 2024Exhibitions Open from October 27, 2024 – March 2, 2025Sydney James, Bereavement?, 2023. Collection Cranbrook Art Museum. Gift of Rose M. Shuey, from the Collection of Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey, by exchange. Image courtesy of Anthony Hughes.BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., Oct. 15, 2024 – This month, Cranbrook Art Museum will welcome three new exhibitions to its galleries, including two focused on the emerging and established talent from Detroit’s creative community.How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part I is the inaugural exhibition of Cranbrook’s newest collection devoted to celebrating and preserving the work of Detroit-based artists and designers. Subtleism: Neha Vedpathak with Agnes Martin will present a new ...

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Retrospective exhibition of experimental artist comes to Cranbrook | Axios Detroit

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Cranbrook Art Museum to Open “Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within”

Exhibition is the first traveling retrospective of the artist’s work in 20 yearsOn view: October 9, 2024 – January 12, 2025Special ArtMembers Exclusive Weekend: October 5–6ArtMembers Preview Party for All Fall Exhibitions: October 25, 2024Toshiko Takaezu with her works at home in Quakertown, New Jersey, 1997. Photo: Bobby Jae Kim. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Lilane and David M. Stewart Collection, gift of Bobby Jae Kim. BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., Sept. 18, 2024 – This fall, Cranbrook Art Museum will present three new exhibitions to its galleries, including Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, the first nationally touring retrospective of Takaezu’s work in 20 years. It will accompany two exhibitions featuring Detroit-based artists, How We Make the Planet Move: The Detroit Collection Part I and Subtleism: Neha Vedpathak with Agnes Martin, opening later in the month. All exhibitions support Cranbrook Art Museum's mission to continue to feature work from Detroit artists and those with a connection to Cranbrook ...

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“There Is Design in Everything” | Places Journal

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Cranbrook Art Museum Announces First Museum Exhibition Dedicated to Cuban Mid-Century Design

Images clockwise from top left: 1) Helena Serrano, Day of the Heroic Guerrilla (October 8), 1968, poster for the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL). 2) Gonzalo Córdoba, Habana Lounge Chair, 1964, for Dujo Muebles, mahogany and leather. Photo: David Avilés. 3) Marco Castillo, Beltrán, 2019, mahogany and cane. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler Gallery. 4) Félix Beltrán, Libertad Para Angela Davis (Freedom for Angela Davis), 1971. 5) Eva Björklund, Monster Chair, c. 1970. Photo: Claudia Monteagudo. 6) Clara Porset, Miguelito Armchair, 1960, linden tree wood and leather. Photo: David Avilés.A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century DesignExhibition Dates: July 11, 2023-September 22, 2024Opening Celebration: July 11, 2024The new exhibition will feature furniture never exhibited outside of Cuba.An accompanying book will tell the story of a lost generation of design.Will be accompanied by two other exhibitions featuring contemporary Cuban artists and designers in A Modernist Regime: The Cuban Contemporary LensBloomfield Hills, ...

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Marco Castillo: The Hands of the Collector

As part of A Modernist Regime: The Contemporary Cuban Lens, the solo exhibition Marco Castillo: The Hands of the Collector features several bodies of work by the artist and prolific collector of Cuban mid-century design that he initially started to amass while working as part of the artist collective Los Carpinteros (1992–2018). Castillo incorporates the aesthetics derived from Cuban modernism in his practice to resurrect Cuban design history and to critique the oppression by the government against artists, designers, and intellectuals in Cuba. Many of the artworks are named after modernist Cuban architects and designers in homage to this forgotten generation of creators, including Gonzalo Córdoba, María Victoria Caignet, Iván Espín, Reinaldo Togores, Heriberto Duverger, Clara Porset, and Félix Beltrán—all of whom are featured in the companion historical exhibition, also on view at the museum, A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Design. Castillo’s work often references the aerial view of the ...

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Cuba Dispersa (Cuba Dispersed)

As part of A Modernist Regime: The Contemporary Cuban Lens, the exhibition Cuba Dispersa (Cuba Dispersed) features six artists and designers—Julío Llopíz Casal, Liliam Dooley, Anet Melo Glaria, Celia González Álvarez, Hamlet Lavastida, and Ernesto Oroza—that respond to the current conditions in Cuba. As of now, none of the artists live in Cuba, with some forced into exile. Over the past few years, the Cuban government has launched a campaign to suppress the artistic community and control creative production through official legislation, such as Decree 349, in an attempt to quell the outpouring of anti-government artwork and music. The exhibition features six new commissions that use their individual practices to mine these design and material histories to elucidate the past and imagine potential futures. As co-curator Abel González Fernández explains, “When looking at Cuba, we must recognize our fascinating, tragic, elegant, and complex Cuban history. What are we going to ...

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A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Design 

This exhibition is the first museum presentation on Cuban mid-century design anchored by an under-acknowledged collection of furniture and furnishings, examples of which have not been exhibited off the island.  Focused on the decades immediately following the Cuban Revolution (1959), A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Modern Design presents a small but prolific cohort of artists, designers, and architects who responded to the demands of a newly centralized economy, including the material constraints imposed by ensuing embargoes, popular demands for more equitable access to goods, and initial excitement about the role modern design could play in shaping a new society.  The exhibition includes the pioneering work of designers such as Clara Porset and the furniture produced through the Dujo brand and its successor line EMPROVA, led by Gonzalo Córdoba and María Victoria Caignet. In the 1960s, Dujo continued the trajectory of pre-revolutionary mid-century design to produce unique pieces that featured indigenous cultural references ...

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