ASU Art Museum opens Body/Magic a new exhibition by artist Liz Cohen
Liz Cohen, Zwickau Routine: Yellow Inward Turn, 2010, C-Print, 16 x 20 inches, image courtesy of the artist.
TEMPE, AZ
.- Body/Magic: Liz Cohen presents all aspects of Phoenix-based artist Liz Cohens well-known Bodywork series for the first time. The exhibition at ASU Art Museum offers new and never-before-seen video, photographs, performance and ephemera related to this tour-de-force project.
For the original Bodywork series, Cohen merged two cars, the American El Camino and the East German Trabant, into one customized lowrider. Simultaneously, she transformed her own body to become a bikini model for her car, which she presented at lowrider shows in and around Phoenix, Arizona. In the car show, there are really three kinds of people, said the artist. There are the car owners, the car builders and the models that represent the cars. I want to be all three. This ongoing project exam
New book chronicles how Cranbrook Academy of Art radicalized art and design in America
Cranbrook Academy of Art Library. Photo: Paul-David Rearick. Courtesy of Cranbrook Academy of Art.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI
.- Cranbrook Art Museum announced the forthcoming release of With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, a singular exploration of the storied institution as a radical experiment in the education of artists, and survey of the artists who studied and taught there. Available February 2021, the 624-plus-page hardcover book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the museum from June 18September 19, 2021.
Although schools of art and design emerged in the twentieth century places such as the Bauhaus or Black Mountain College only Cranbrook Academy of Art remains today as a vital force in the worlds of art, architecture, craft, and design. Widely considered the cradle of mid-century modernism in America, the Academy not only pioneered a more organ
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