Jonathan Williams Jun 6, 2008
Vivid, spare and sympathetic, it instantly casts itself as a signature Williams portrait, shot with a Rolleiflex and sensitised by an understanding of the spatial fields of the Bauhaus and abstract expressionism, the two poles of Black Mountain College which shaped the intelligence of this unique American poet, photographer and publisher, who has died aged 79. Williams was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Washington DC. Early exposure to works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Alton Kelley, poster designer for 60s counterculture, is dead Jun 6, 2008
"But we went ahead and looked at American Indian stuff, Chinese stuff, Art Nouveau, Art D?co, Modern, Bauhaus, whatever.". One of their first posters, for a concert headlined by Big Brother and the Holding Company, reproduced the logo for Zig-Zag cigarette papers, used widely for rolling marijuana joints. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Alton Kelley, 68; graphic artist created iconic psychedelic images Jun 5, 2008
"But we went ahead and looked at American Indian stuff, Chinese stuff, art nouveau, art deco, modern, Bauhaus - whatever. We were stunned by what we found and what we were able to do. We had free rein to just go graphically crazy.". Reporters who were trying to divine the meaning behind the "Summer of Love" soon found him. (Boston Globe)
Why Asymmetrical Architecture Is So Disturbing May 22, 2008
All exemplary Modernist buildings celebrated asymmetry: The wings of Walter Gropius' Bauhaus shoot off in different directions; the columns of Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion are symmetrical, but you can hardly tell, thanks to the randomly spaced walls; nothing in Frank Lloyd Wright's pinwheeling Fallingwater mirrors anything else; and Le Corbusier's Ronchamps dispenses with traditional church geometry altogether. The facades of Philip Johnson's Glass House are rare instances of Modernist... (Slate)
Robert Rauschenberg, art's eclectic master, dies at 82 May 14, 2008
He studied at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s with Josef Albers, a famously severe product of Germany's Bauhaus. Mr. Rauschenberg called him "the most important teacher" he ever had, in part because he learned to do "exactly the reverse" of what Albers taught. (Boston Globe)
Turning Bytes into Books Apr 18, 2008
Much of the material can only be described as artsy-craftsy and might not work as well for a self-published book on Bauhaus architecture. One set selling for $2. (Globe and Mail)
Behind The Emo Attacks: We Head To Mexico City To Talk To The People Involved Apr 18, 2008
"Emos can't define what it is to be emo music. To them, everything is emo screamo, Joy Division, Bauhaus so I said they confuse genres. And because most of the emos here are young girls, I said they like the group because of the lead singer. ... They said My Chemical Romance is emo, when Gerard Way said, 'I'm not emo.' Because he has black hair ... because they like him, he's emo. They classify whatever they like as emo. ... Everyone attacks me because of what I said, but nobody refutes my... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Did Portishead kill trip hop? Apr 17, 2008
Their 2003 album "100th Window" sounded more like an answer to the post-punk atmospherics of early '80s bands like Bauhaus. By the turn of the millennium, it seemed as if the genre's last hope was an album representing a return to blackness from one of its main progenitors. (Salon)
blinkx Partners With The Roland Collection to Bring Users an International Collection of Films on Art Apr 10, 2008
From ancient stone circles to the Bauhaus and beyond, the Roland Collection has spent more than 40 years selecting titles of lasting importance and securing content that educates, challenges and inspires. With the explosion of the Internet and the evolution of online video and digital art mediums, it s easy to overlook earlier forms of art, many of which are still very relevant today, said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. (BusinessWire)
An Art Experience: Milwaukee Art Museums Sensory Overload exhibit takes the viewer back in time Apr 10, 2008
In addition to being a treat for the senses, the exhibition with its chronological presentation is also a walk through time that takes visitors from the teachings of Bauhaus artists, whose ideas inspired the art of the sixties and seventies, to artists today whose video and installation work has roots in the kinetic art movement. Most contemporary art today goes back to the ideas of the Bauhaus School in 1920s Germany, Ketner said. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Preserve modernist buildings at UM Apr 5, 2008
The streamlined, pared-down look of intersecting planes and asymmetrical boxes, flat roofs and glass curtain walls came primarily from French architect Le Corbusier but also from the German Bauhaus. The Nazis closed down that progressive Berlin school in 1933 and its leading architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe came to America as exiles. (Missoulian, MT)
A light in the dark Mar 30, 2008
As well as listening to music by Bauhaus, the Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees, many goths like to read dark tales by the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley. The poetry of Emily Dickinson is popular, as are macabre comedy films like Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the cerebral fantasy flick Donnie Darko. (Scotsman)
David O'Brien Mar 28, 2008
I also got Mike Doughty s Golden Delicious, The Gutter Twins Saturnalia, and Bauhaus first CD or original material since 1983, Go Away White. And for the funk lovers out there, I strongly suggest the splendidly late-60s/70s era Carolina Funk compilation from the First in Funk set. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Glavine may pitch home opener Mar 25, 2008
I also got Mike Doughty s Golden Delicious, The Gutter Twins Saturnalia, and Bauhaus first CD or original material since 1983, Go Away White ... How s the Bauhaus and Mike Doughty albums ... I wasn t sold on Bauhaus, but have been previwing the Doughty on iTunes. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The inventive sound of artistic defiance Mar 24, 2008
Perhaps Stewart's Bauhaus T-shirt was meant to serve more as a statement of purpose than fashion. The overall effect was that of a nervous waking dream. (Boston Globe)
From Golden State to golden culture Mar 23, 2008
There are two fundamental strains to Modernism: the exalted apartness of the alienated self (think of Kafka, "The Waste Land," "Wozzeck") vs. the ideal of a better world for all through better art for all (Brecht, the Bauhaus, Soviet silent cinema). In California the latter ideal came closer to fruition than it ever did anywhere else - especially if one extends "art" to include the arts of living. (Boston Globe)
Black Crowes, Gutter Twins have new CDs Mar 22, 2008
Also, new releases from Ashton Shepherd, Bauhaus, Michael McDonald ... Bauhaus, Go Away WhiteRecorded in 18 days, some tracks in one take, Bauhaus fifth studio album proves that even a quarter-centurys hiatus cant kill a great band, especially if it was undead to begin with ... Instead, it picks up right where Bauhaus left off: a wet dream for original fans and a blast of recognition for the newly eye-lined. (MSNBC -- Music)
Books offers fashion advice for boomers Mar 21, 2008
This will explain what the Bauhaus was ("hugely influential German art and architecture school") and admonish you to maintain your shoes: "Keep heels from getting run-down, polish leather, and brush suede.". "Wife Dressing" also lacks pictures, though there are black-and-white sketches for chapters like "After the trousseau what?" and "Am wife will travel." Rosemary Feitelberg, a writer at Women's Wear Daily, found the original volume at a fashion exhibition. (AZCentral -- Business)
ALBUMS:Bauhaus - 'Going Away White' Mar 5, 2008
Album Review: Bauhaus - 'Going Away White' - CD Reviews. Hi-Def Update. (Variety)
Portishead Relaunching At Coachella Feb 23, 2008
The Jesus and Mary Chain, the Pixies, Rage Against the Machine, Gang of Four and Bauhaus are just a handful of the acts who've come back to life at the Indio, Calif. -based event in recent years. (MediaWeek.com)
A clear modern vision Feb 17, 2008
But the word is also the name of a style that flourished in the United States from about 1940 to 1975, beginning with the arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, at Harvard in 1937, where he helped train a generation of modern architects including Johnson, I.M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, and numerous others. New Canaan was a hotbed of early modernism in the 1940s and 1950s, as were Boston suburbs like Lincoln. (Boston Globe)
A new chapter in the Goth tale of Gene Loves Jezebel Feb 13, 2008
The Astons first parted company in 1989, nine years after forming Gene Loves Jezebel, whose wailing vocals, dense guitar sound and aggressive rhythms helped bridge the gap between Bauhaus and The Cult ... "It's been around longer than the hippies, the rockabillies or the punks. The Goth audience didn't have any bands, (but) as soon as the Sex Pistols happened, it all blew up. ... "They adopted us, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, The Southern Death Cult, The Cure. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Career Produced an Elegant Design Feb 3, 2008
Melding Bauhaus functionalism and an American sensibility, Viktor Schreckengost pioneered industrial design for products from toys to dinnerware ... After attending art school in Cleveland, he studied ceramics with Bauhaus masters in Vienna. (Wall Street Journal)
Jane's Addiction Raids Vaults For Boxed Set, DVD Jan 24, 2008
"I'm partial to grabbing some live shows -- live stuff that I recall being a really splendid night as far as the band having a good time on stage," he says, saying he'd favor shows featuring Bauhaus covers as opposed to routine versions of "Ted, Just Admit It" or "Ocean Size.". "There's all those great '91 Lollapalooza shows, where Ice T would join us, or Siouxsie, or Dave [Navarro] would go out with Living Colour," Perkins says. (Billboard.com)
Back in business Jan 13, 2008
BAUHAUS, "Go Away White" (March 4) To the delight of unnaturally pale music fans, the Brit gloom-meisters reunited after 22 years for a 2005 tour. But Bauhaus has broken up again. (Boston Globe)
Past and future perfect Jan 12, 2008
Berlin flamed into the Roaring Twenties with a rebellious burst of dissonant music, stark Bauhaus design and defiant Dadaist art. Jazz joints wailed until dawn, street contortionists and dancing bears titillated the children, and Josephine Baker shimmied in a fringe of banana leaves and little else. (Globe and Mail)
Goths go on cruises Jan 8, 2008
Some, like Lobster, bring special outfits for the private dance parties that are the only official goth-themed events on the cruises, when DJs play Bauhaus, the Cure and New Order. Reactions to their appearance range from the oft-repeated question Are you in a band. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Steve Furber, BBC Micro man, gets CBE Jan 2, 2008
When you look at the Bauhaus movement it was a great moment where the spiritual and technical came together. Instead of the Olympics the government should build creative cafes or just places for scientist, technologist and others to get together. (Guardian Unlimited)
Jane's Addiction Ex-Bassist Eric Avery Recovers With Solo LP, Calls Billy Corgan 'Inspiring' Dec 27, 2007
Avery never intended on surviving in music as a hired gun, but enjoyed working with Corgan because "the guy really gives a sh-- about what he does, and I sort of had allowed myself to get lazy as a musician because of ProTools. When 00004000 I got around Corgan, he wanted to play the same thing 30 different ways to make sure he got it just the way he wanted it. I found that to be really inspiring. "What I'm most excited about when it comes to this record is that it's the beginning of making... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Place, perspective: Exhibitions by Jay Johnson, Raul Guerrero Dec 21, 2007
Johnson has also revived and refined a style of archetypal figure, with a body and faceless head that alludes to sci-fi sources, Bauhaus theater costumes, kachina dolls and and sculptures by post-minimalist Joel Shapiro. Johnson uses them to disturbingly hypnotic effect in Joiners, fusing an abundance of little people, covered in black flocking. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
New acquisitions at Cleveland Museum of Art Dec 14, 2007
It incorporates a spraying technique Klee devised while teaching at the Bauhaus, an innovative art and design school in Germany. This watercolor joins three drawings by Klee that are already in CMA s collection. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
LACMA gets huge gift Dec 12, 2007
" About 80 works from the collection will go on view Jan. 13, a month before the museum unveils the first phase of an ambitious expansion and renovation program that includes a new contemporary art building financed by Los Angeles collector-philanthropist Eli Broad. The Lazarof donation will debut in three galleries on the plaza level of the Ahmanson Building, in a new 22,000-square-foot showcase for modern art. Although Henri Lazarof is a veteran composer and his wife, a daughter of the late... (Los Angeles Times)
Classic cool Dec 10, 2007
All of this work had roots in earlier modernist developments, the Bauhaus in Germany, the De Stijl in Holland and the International Style in general. Most of the period's main figures created designs in multiple styles. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Bauhaus Bowing Out With New Album Dec 5, 2007
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. The good news for Bauhaus fans: the group is eyeing a March 4 release for "Going Away White," its first studio album since 1983 ... As such, "Going Away White," which the band is releasing digitally via iTunes and on CD via its own Bauhaus Music imprint through Redeye Distribution, will close the book on Bauhaus ... "We all decided, let's just give it a go and see if it's working. What emerged were songs Haskins says stay true to the original Bauhaus spirit, including... (Billboard.com)
A Dickens of a Christmas Nov 27, 2007
From Pullman to pantos, Brad Pitt to Bauhaus, our critics pick the top 50 shows to see this Yuletide ... Art Bauhaus: 1919-1933 ... The Bauhaus was modernism's inter-war utopian dream of the future; this exhibition at the beautiful Mima gallery focuses on painting, architecture, design and furniture. (Guardian Unlimited)
The feckless Sleuth of today... Nov 25, 2007
The beams, bourgeois comfort and playful automata of Ken Adam's 1972 set have been replaced by an austere Bauhaus Modernism, all gleaming surfaces, gun-metal grey furnishings and CCTV screens. The play's wit has been ditched along with the decor, and the tone is less the subtly nuanced examination of social values Pinter brought to bear on his classic adaptations for Joseph Losey than the vicious tirades delivered by the valet in his 1975 play No Man's Land and the brutality of his recent... (The Observer)
Book Review: Modernism Nov 22, 2007
Literature, music and architecture, especially the pioneering architectural and design work of the Bauhaus movement, bring out his most insightful writing. Gay, in the chapter "Eccentrics and Barbarians," takes a bit of a detour to profile wayward figures like Charles Ives and Knut Hamsun, the "anti-modern modernists." These are the most engaging pages in the book, offering shrewd analyses that reveal how easily Modernism could embrace retrograde political thinkers and the seeming paradox, in... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
David J: Musician likes working against the grain Nov 16, 2007
He was co-founder of the famous Bauhaus and then Love and Rockets in the '80s and '90s ... It's like when we started Bauhaus, we hated certain. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pushing design's boundaries Nov 12, 2007
a-Anton, trace this spirit back to the origins of the modern movement in 1920s Germany, when students at the Bauhaus were encouraged to imbue art with social and political purpose by applying its values to designs for industry ... When Bauhaus teachers, like Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, sought refuge in the United States during the 1930s, they found themselves and their students applying their design skills in the corporate sector. (International Herald Tribune)
The Judds reunite at Stagecoach; Nov 9, 2007
Coachella has a tradition of reunion -- the Pixies, the Jesus Chain, Bauhaus -- and the Judds will give Stagecoach ( ) its biggest "event" booking to date. Wynonna Judd said that she is as excited about the booking as the group's fans. (Los Angeles Times)
Orange County art exhibit captures the spirit of the '50s Nov 9, 2007
Artists and architects alike owed a debt to the Bauhaus school and the broader International Style. But in California, there was stronger attention to color (in painting) and expanses of glass (in buildings). (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Well, you decide. Nov 8, 2007
Desert winds are sighing amid banshee wails, as the art of Oriental dance also called belly dance marries its percussive rhythms to the decadent musings of Bauhaus, Ministry and the Cocteau Twins. For Arlington-based performer Regina Harrison known in the Middle Eastern dance community as Badriya al-Badi ya the resulting new genre, Gothic Oriental dance, is a gracious groove with a dark side and endless possibilities for innovation. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
She Wants Revenge riles the crowd Nov 7, 2007
The band, led by Warfield and Adam Bravin who mans the keyboards and synthesizers, appeared in 2006 with a sound hotly influenced by 80's dark wave acts like Joy Division and Bauhaus. Dressed all in black with a backdrop of a red rose, the band members strolled onto stage banging out a numbingly loud beat that embraced the Marquee. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Yousuf Karsh's widow finds art and his portraits an uplifting legacy Nov 6, 2007
It was like walking into the Bauhaus. ""Jacques Lipchitz had a house in Pieve di Camaiore you could reach only by ruining your tires. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Nearing 100, Brazilian architect Niemeyer still has designs on future Oct 29, 2007
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Niemeyer graduated from Brazil's National School of Fine Arts in 1934 and joined a team that worked with Swiss-born Bauhaus giant Le Corbusier on a new Ministry of Education and Health. In 1939, Niemeyer teamed up with Lucio Costa to design the Brazilian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, for which he was named an honorary citizen of New York by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Giant list of parties Oct 25, 2007
Daniel Ash of Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets spins music. For ages 21 and older. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
SignOn Entertainment Guide staff Oct 19, 2007
the 22nd is David J from Bauhaus. I THINK (googling to confirm right now, if you care). (San Diego Union-Tribune)
A Tel Aviv home in Bahaus style works magic with simple materials Oct 5, 2007
That was the goal of the city's earliest architects when, from the 1920s through 1950s, they built what is now called the White City, a metropolis of square, white buildings in the Bauhaus style ... His predecessors, the city's original Bauhaus architects, "had an understanding of Modernism's sophisticated simplicity," said Pomagrin, who designs both private and public buildings around the country. (International Herald Tribune)
* Event & Entertainment Sep 28, 2007
Choreographed by Liou Shaw Lu (Bl) with music by Keiko Harada, the dance incorporates "Kandinsky's dots and lines, experiences the aesthetics of Bauhaus art and architecture, the material disorder of the 1960s, the body distortion, and the chaos of direction.". Today and tomorrow at 7:30pm; tomorrow and Sunday at 2:30pm. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Roger Cohen: Down time for murder Sep 23, 2007
The walk from Buchenwald's brick-chimneyed crematory to the genteel streets of Weimar - home to Schiller and Goethe, birthplace of the Bauhaus - is illusion-stripping. In 1942, Buchenwald prisoners were ordered to make wooden boxes to protect Schiller's work. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
She Wants Revenge Finds 'Forever' On New Album... Sep 21, 2007
"The original [scene] had Bauhaus playing, so it's like we kind of replaced it and put a little twist of our own at the end," Bravin explains. Bravin and Warfield will hit the road starting Oct. 5 in Los Angeles in support of "This Is Forever," finishing this first leg in mid-November. (Billboard.com)
Ingo Maurer: The magic of his light years Sep 3, 2007
One is the technocracy that defined the modernist design tradition of the Bauhaus and Braun in the 20th century. The other evokes the dreamy visions of 19th century Romantics, like Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Casper David Friedrich. (International Herald Tribune)
James Van Nuys: Beautiful architecture becomes art for the city Aug 31, 2007
(For details, read Tom Wolfe's "From Bauhaus to Our House."). To me, the most aesthetically offensive characteristic of the modern architects was their arrogance -- their disregard for context. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
From Tarantino to the Turner ... Aug 28, 2007
Art: Bauhaus: 1919-1933. No school of art and design has been more influential than the Bauhaus, founded in Weimar by architect Walter Gropius in 1919. (Guardian Unlimited)
Chairs sitting pretty as a design icon, but for how long? Aug 12, 2007
A Bauhaus classic like Marcel Breuer's Wassily. A sexy slice of 1960s futurism like the S-shaped Panton. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Wahpeton Legion B ready for tournaments Jul 26, 2007
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Guggenheim exhibit explores the forms of space Jul 21, 2007
Part of "Untitled (Dance Floor)" by Piotr Uklanski, on view at the Guggenheim. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Revealing an Israel that goes beyond the headlines Jul 20, 2007
The city is a mishmash -- in places, a dingy, commercial hub whose once-sleek Bauhaus buildings badly need a whitewash. An arts center and wide, grassy boulevard look fresher. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Love suggestion: a night at the museums Jul 19, 2007
It was designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus design school and one of the most influential architects of the 20th century ... The house is wonderfully preserved , with the family's furnishings -- many designed by Marcel Breuer and made in the Bauhaus workshops -- kept in place. (Boston Globe)
Human Impact Jul 6, 2007
"He was an inspiration, a real visionary." Her father studied architecture under Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and taught at Washington University. Her brother and two uncles were architects, her mother studied through the Art Students League and was a photographer, her sister a sculptor and her grandfather, Clark Voorhees, started the American Impressionist movement in Connecticut. (Lambertville Beacon, NJ)
A new PuritanismModern America struggles with an old attitude to alcohol Jun 14, 2007
The red-brick blocks are tastefully minimalist with a nod to Bauhaus and there are neat rows of freshly planted oleander. In the visitors' lobby, polished wooden frames adorn the portraits of employees of the month. (BBC News -- Americas)
Night Kills Day set to play in Manhattan Jun 14, 2007
The band's echoing guitar lines and Goth-tinged melodies borrow from a range of doom-sayers, including Bauhaus, Nine Inch Nails and Interpol. The single "Dive!" alludes to cocaine use; "Enjoy the Ride" plays out the psychodrama of Brian's car-crash fixation; "Rainbows in NYC" seems to point to the cycle of addiction with the refrain, "I don't want to feel all the time.". (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Candlelit Barges to Float Down Thames as Festival Hall Reopens Jun 10, 2007
They were inspired by the ideals of Bauhaus and modernism, and had an intellectual commitment to a dialogue between art forms and providing public access to that. I find that inspiring too. (Bloomberg)
Heavy on the '60s trip Jun 9, 2007
They loathed the efficient, streamlined aesthetic of the Bauhaus, the geometry of the Cubist grid and the hard sheen of Pop.. Andy Warhol does make an appearance, but an awkward one. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Mistress of Goth marks anniversary Jun 8, 2007
Q Goth usually means the Cure or Bauhaus. A We call that "name-brand Goth." I play them, but I choose more obscure tracks. (Boston Globe)
