Monthly archives of “October 2016

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, September 30, 2016 – February 26, 2017

“Featuring creative and alternative approaches to confronting textile industry waste, “Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse” presents the work of three designers who put sustainability at the heart of the design process. Highlighting contemporary design that embraces the tradition of using handcraft to give new life to scraps and… Read More

Dubuffet Drawings, 1935-1962 at The Morgan Library & Museum, September 30, 2016 – January 2, 2017

“In the mid-1940s, French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) shocked the art establishment with his paintings inspired by children’s drawings, graffiti, and the art of psychiatric patients. Rejecting conventional notions of beauty and good taste, Dubuffet asserted that invention and creativity could only be found outside traditional cultural channels.… Read More