Relative newcomer Prada, on the other hand, is going public: The company's art arm, the Fondazione Prada, has enlisted architect Rem Koolhaas to design a new contemporary art museum on an industrial site south of Milan.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
You can buy beautiful blenders, retro washing machines and vacuums that look like objects d'art from the space museum, but AC design has been frozen since the Summer of Sam.
Visitors to the Skate it or Hang It exhibit at the Museum of Design Atlanta can see how skateboard art has gone from simple line "tattoo" art to high-end illustrations and actual photography, and how the process is completed.
With "The Art of Scent, " the Museum of Arts and Design has left a good idea smelling rank.
From here it's a 1.2km stroll southwest to the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum), as spectacular for its Art Deco design as it is for its murals.
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Long before the storm, Ripple and his partners had established their firm as a highly respected regional player in architecture and design -- jointly renovating and expanding the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Fair Grounds Race Course and the Aquarium of the Americas.
New cultural endeavors such as the Design Museum in next-door Holon, the annual Fresh Paint contemporary art fair and the biannual Art TLV festival are placing Tel Aviv on the global art map.
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The exhibition Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, full of her biomorphic, fluid product design, is an apt descriptor of Hadid herself: Dynamic, unapologetic and utterly fearless.
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As the founder and longtime head of the Museum of Modern Art's pioneering Department of Architecture and Design, Johnson had introduced Modernism to America as the International Style in the now landmark 1932 exhibition done in collaboration with the historian Henry Russell Hitchcock.
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"If you've lost a piece of veneer on an Eames piece, take it to someone who knows the task of veneer, " said Don Menveg, an art conservator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who worked on the installation of the "California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way" exhibit.
Now add to the mix "The Art of Scent: 1889-2012" at New York's Museum of Arts and Design.
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