Excerpted from a newly published biography published on the pioneering photographer, we look at Alfred Stieglitz’s change in perspective towards the end of his career—and the hotly opinionated responses he received from his peers about it. By Artspace Editors Credited with helping make photography…
As the Bauhaus turns 100, we turn the spotlight on the school’s extraordinary women, whose experiences are still instructive today. By Alexandra Lange alter Gropius published the founding manifesto of the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919. Both the Lyonel Feininger woodcut of a cathedral…
The Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke and Bauhaus-trained artist Herbert Bayer helped transform Aspen into a cultural and skiing mecca. More than a half century later, here’s what remains of their legacy. By David Hill The story of how the Bauhaus came to Aspen, Colo.,…
Walter Gropius’s lofty rhetoric about equality fell short of the essentialist differences that the art school’s founders perceived between the sexes (and imposed on women at the school). Kriston Capps – Mar 15, 2019 There’s a famous image from the Bauhaus, one that places…
A quick educational video on the history of The Bauhaus… short but sweet. Sotheby’s Published on Feb 21, 2019 In this episode of Expert Voices, we mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the influential German school of art and design. Considered one…