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Less is More at Christie's
by Mary Lapides

This week the auction world kicks into high gear with Christie's and Sotheby's much anticipated Impressionist and Modern Day and evening sales on November 3 and 4 in New York. According to specialists at Christie's the number of lots offered this season is down from the usual 50 to 60 lots to a leaner 41 lots. Connor Jordan, the newly appointed Head of the Evening sale and a seasoned Christie's veteran stressed that well priced, tightly edited offerings typified the evening sale. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/the-market/2009-11-02/christies-impressionist/ Image: Pissarros, Le Quai Malaquais et l'Institut, (1890–1903).

Hight school gymnasium. LA TOURELLE A SARCELLES

Located 16 kilometers from Paris, Sarcelles is part of the “banlieue” that hurriedly accommodated the immigrants who arrived at the end of the 50s. With a current population close to 60,000, Sarcelles consist of a small old core and a huge expansion to the south known as Le grand Ensemble and conceived in 1965 by Jacques Henri Labourdette. http://www.architizer.com/en_us/projects/view/hight-school-gymnasium_la-tourelle-a-sarcelles/209/

Life Goes On

By: Jennifer Busch

Northside Forsyth Hospital Women's Center

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Kris Kirchner of K2J Inc. was called upon to help design the interiors, which are heavily influence by the Arts & Crafts style. The guiding principles here included an honest use of materials, simplicity in details and surroundings, nature as a source of inspiration, and furnishings that promote comfort, not formality; so natural stones, woods, textures, elements of nature, and abundant natural light were used to create a soothing atmosphere. "We also wanted to appeal to Generation Y with interiors that were streamlined, with clean lines and a spa-like feel," notes Sugg. And while the boutique-like interiors certainly appeal to the high-end demographic that is rapidly transforming Forsyth County, the Center did not want to alienate the more rural community that still makes up a good portion of the population there. "The simple, honest use of materials is something that any demographic understands," notes Lee. For this article in its entirety please visit: http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/esearch/e3i19437ccbf2fa6773e53bbb2d5d3b0cd3

Christine Nuell: Laser Engravings

Nuell, a printmaking professor at MTSU, creates laser engraved prints that have a playful sense of improvisation by mixing imagery from the Victorian Era with images of technology. The exhibition will be shown in the Leu Art Gallery through December 3. The exhibition are free and open to the public.

http://www.belmont.edu/cvpa/

A Distant Bauhaus Star

By ALICE RAWSTHORN

Published: November 1, 2009
LONDON — Josef and Anni Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer. The names of the students and teachers at the Bauhaus art and design school read like a roll call of some of the 20th century’s greatest artists, architects and designers.
Their work is to be celebrated in “Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity,” an exhibition opening Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/arts/02iht-design02.html?_r=1&ref=arts

Speed and Spectacle in UAE

By: George Beane for Metropolis

If oil money is the figurative blood of the UAE, dazzling architecture might be its skin. And if that metaphor seems a bit strained, it should make more sense once you’ve seen images of Asymptote’s new project in Abu Dhabi. The 500-room Yas Hotel, which sits alongside the city’s Formula 1 racing circuit, features 5,800 pivoting diamond-shaped glass panels—its epidermis, so to speak—covering two hotel towers and a bridge linking the structures. Asymptote took the raceway as its inspiration, and in the spectacle of the hotel the designers have attempted what principal Hani Rashid calls an architectural reaction to the “art and poetics of speed.” Fittingly, the glass-panel roof and façade actually traverse the racetrack, making the circuit integral to both site and structure. Yas is scheduled to open on November 1st, which, not coincidentally, marks the start date of the inaugural 2009 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20091029/speed-and-spectacle-in-the-uae

Necklace by Michaela Niegeman

Why wear your heart on your sleeve when putting your emotions on a necklace allows easier access to your feelings, nails and all?

Michaela Niegemann chooses forgiveness, understanding, love and hurt as the focus for her jewellery of copper and rubber, and uses silhouettes of people who have hurt her and those that she loves as nail-clad pendants.
http://mocoloco.com/archives/012321.php