'Seducting Speed' at Art Museum

The Porsche is considered to be an awesome example of German engineering. The car is aerodynamic, lightweight, and undoubtedly sexy. At the North Carolina Museum of Art, there will be twenty Porsche's on display this fall. According to the museum's director Lawrence Wheeler, the Porsche is an extraordinary example of product design. The exhibit is the first U.S. art-museum auto show to focus on a single brand. The focus of the exhibit is to celebrate the esthetic design of the Porsche over the years. There is a special exhibition fee for 'Porsche by Design' which is eighteen dollars. There is an anticipation for over 100,000 visitors to the museum.



http://www.artnews.com/2013/03/14/porsche-show-at-north-carolina-museum/

Wood Gone Wild

Lowery Stokes Sims, the curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, has always been fascinated with woodworking. She said wood is the ultimate material for an artist's direct approach to a material. Sims spent hours researching how to work with wood for a new exhibit. She found that wood was very easily transformable in the hands of artists. On March 19th, a new exhibit will be on view in the museum called "Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary, Art, Craft and Design." One of the coolest projects in the exhibit is a smooth seated chair with random wood fragments. Ian Spence and Cairn Young used computer-aided technology to create the fragments for the chair. The artists' inspiration was the chaos of nature.  

http://www.artnews.com/2013/03/11/board-expression-going-wild-with-wood/

Strange happenings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

 Back in 1954 the very first museum curator of modern art the Minneapolis Institute of Arts disappeared after boarding a train for Washington, DC. He was never seen again. Barton Kestle was his name. When he was at the museum he spent many long hours working late in the night in a office near the front entrance. When they were doing construction after his disappearance they mistakenly sealed off his office from the outside world. Recently people found the office by mistake and didn't change the vintage office and created a new exhibit. This kind of discovery is extremely lucky and gives people a view into the world from fifty years ago.

 http://www.artnews.com/2013/02/28/mark-dion-curator-office-in-minneapolis/