THE ART OF LIVING

22 May 2009  |  Week in Review  |  Fine Art

May 16 - May 22

This week: Cooper-Hewitt's new exhibition of green design - "Design for a Living World"; Who really cut off Van Gogh's ear?; a round up from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; and a new book of essays reconsiders the East Building at the National Gallery of Art.

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• A Grand and Intimate Modern Art Trove The Modern Wing opens on Saturday, 23 May at the Art Institute of Chicago. This wing adds 264,000 square feet of interior space to the institute’s floor plan, making it the second-largest museum in the country after the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From Nytimes.com

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• Cooper-Hewitt Brings Green Design Down to Earth Lately there's been a bevy of shows devoted to all things green, but this one takes it a step further, with the imprimatur of the Nature Conservancy. From ARTINFO.com Photo by Roel Van Tour, courtesy Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

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• Who Really Cut Off Van Gogh's Ear? Most anyone who's had a beginning art history class knows the story of how the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh sliced off part of his left ear during a fit of madness. From npr.org

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• Round up from the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut The Aldrich, long known for being one of the best contemporary art museums in New England has put together another formidable display this spring. From fadwebsite.com

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• The NGA's Landmark East Building, Reconsidered The National Gallery and Yale Press have published a substantial new volume on the East Building: A Modernist Museum in Perspective. From Artsjournal.com