FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4-6, 2009 Amsterdam Pfeffer (1972) and others. dance Galerie Clairefontaine “Sonia Gaskell” explores the life and Sept. 9-12 work of the Russian-born dancer and % 352-47-23-24 choreographer Sonia Gaskell www.photomeetings.lu (1904-74) through photographs, cos- tumes and video clips. Paris Jewish Historical Museum photography Sept. 11-Jan. 31 “August Sander: Look, Observe and % 31-20-5310-310 Think” showcases a selection of impor- www.jhm.nl tant works by German photographer August Sander (1876-1964). design Fondation Cartier Bresson “Made in Britain” displays bags and Sept. 9-Dec. 20 purses designed by English designers % 33-1-5680-2700 selected from recent collections by Vi- vienne Westwood, Alexander Mc- www.henricartierbresson.org Queen, Stella McCartney, Paul Smith and others. art Museum of Bags and Purses “Bruegel, Memling, Van Eyck ... The Sept. 7 to Feb. 21 Brukenthal collection” brings together % 31-20-5246-452 50 works by masters of the Flemish www.tassenmuseum.nl school, including Van Eyck (ca. 1395-1441) and Bruegel (1525-69), alongside works by Titian (ca. Berlin 1490-1576) Lorenzo Lotto fireworks (1480-1556) and others. “Pyronale 2009” brings six interna- Musee Jacquemart-André tional pyrotechnical companies to com- Sept. 11-Jan. 11 pete on the Maifeld area of Berlin’s % Olympiastadion for two nights of spar- 33-1-4562-1159 kle and noise. www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com Olympia Stadium Sept. 4-5 Rotterdam % 49-30-3157-5413 art www.pyronale.biz “New Horizons: The Hague School and the modern Dutch Landscape” juxta- Bonn poses 30 historic 19th-century photo- music graphs with a selection of The Hague Empire bag in gold solid “Beethovenfest 2009” is a classical- School paintings by Willem Roelofs, brass, red enamel and music festival featuring performances Anton Mauve, the Maris brothers and Swarovski crystals by by Kent Nagano, Ingo Metzmacher, Johan Weissenbruch and others Alexander McQueen (2008) Sol Gabetta, Valery Gergiev, Gustavo Kunsthal at the Museum of Bags and Dudamel and others. Sept. 12-Dec. 6 Purses in Amsterdam; below, Leo Potma % 31-10-4400-301 Beethovenhalle ‘After the Bath’ (circa 1893) www.kunsthal.nl Until Oct. 3 by Edgar Degas in Vienna. % 49-228-20-1034-5 en.beethovenfest.de Turin art Hamburg from the 20th Century” examines 19th-century war photography, show- “Gianni Colombo” is a retrospective of Brussels photography works by 20th-century artists con- ing the earliest photos in the National work by Italian artist Gianni Colombo fronting the theme of war, including opera “Veto—Contemporary Positions in Ger- Army Museum’s collection. (1937-93), showing about 100 works Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), Ernst “Semele” stages Handel’s opera based man Photography” displays works by National Army Museum retracing the artist’s career. Barlach (1870-1938), Max Beckmann on a Greco-Roman myth, staged by eight German photographers con- Until Jan. 2 Castello di Rivoli (1884-1950) and Otto Dix Chinese artist Zhang Huan and con- fronted with the concept of reality, in- % 44-20-7730-0717 Sept. 16-Jan. 10 (1891-1969). ducted by Christophe Rousset, leading cluding Andreas Gefeller (born 1970) www.national-army-museum.ac.uk % 39-011-9565-222 Sprengel Museum Les Talens Lyriques orchestra. and Beate Gütschow (1970). www.castellodirivoli.org La Monnaie Deichtorhallen Hamburg Sept. 9-Nov. 29 music Sept. 8-30 Until Nov. 15 % 49-511-1684-3875 “Rockwell” presents performances by Vienna % 32-2-2291-206 % 49-40-3210-30 www.sprengel-museum.de Tom Jones, Robert Plant, Razorlight, art www.lamonnaie.be www.deichtorhallen.de Joss Stone, David Gray and others as a benefit for the Nordoff-Robbins Mu- “Impressionism—Painting Light” show- London sic Therapy charity. cases 170 works of Impressionist and Düsseldorf Hannover O2 Arena Post-Impressionist painting, including glass art art photography Sept. 11 work by Caillebotte (1848-94), Manet “Neighbours, Glass from the Nether- “Artists and War—War and Art. Art “First Shots” explores the evolution of 49-0844-2774-442 (1832-83), Monet (1840-1926) and lands” exhibits 50 glass objects, includ- www.ticketmaster.co.uk Renoir (1841-1919). ing designs by A.D. Copier (1901-91), Albertina Karel de Bazel (1969-23), Chris Leb- theater Sept. 11-Jan. 10 eau (1878-1945) and Sybren Valkema “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is Samuel Ad- % 43-1-5348-30 (1916-96). amson’s stage adaptation of Truman www.albertina.at Glasmuseum Hentrich Capote’s novel and the Blake Edwards Until Oct. 24 film. It stars Anna Friel as Holly Zurich % 49-211-8992-461 Golightly and Joseph Cross as William www.glasmuseum-hentrich.de art Champions league “Fred” Parsons. Theatre Royal Haymarket “Treasures from Ancient Gandhara, Pa- Edinburgh Sept. 9-Jan. 10 kistan” exhibits objects of Gandharan Norwegian cooks bring imagination to the table art % 44-0845-4811-870 art, focusing on stone reliefs depicting “As Others See Us” features photo- www.breakfastattiffanys.co.uk the life of the Buddha created from graphic portraits by Tricia Malley the first to the fifth century A.D. (born 1955) and Ross Gillespie of note- Luxembourg Werner Abegg Gallery-Museum Rietberg worthy Scots, including actors, writers photography Sept. 6-Jan. 3 and politicians, reflecting on the life “Photomeetings Luxembourg 2009” and work of poet Robert Burns. presents workshops, lectures and exhi- % 41-44-2063-131 National Gallery Complex bitions around the theme “Taboo” in stadt-zuerich.ch Until Nov. 8 contemporary photography, with % 44-131-6246-200 works by Marla Rutherford (born Source: ArtBase Global Arts News Ser- www.nationalgalleries.org 1971), Michel Medinger (1941), Roman vice, WSJE research. Jan Krugier and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Geneva Stylish return of the ‘King of Cool’ Greek island rocks for climbers W12 FRIDAY - SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 - 6, 2009 | WEEKEND JOURNAL v Taste Contents Celebrating the Bauhaus at 90 6-7 | Cover story Food | By A.J. Goldmann haus in the three different insti- merge the arts under the wing of course, stressed a study of na- other European modernist move- 3 | Fashion 8 Film tutions,” says Annemarie Jaeggi, architecture. In 1923, he pro- ture to “freely design abstract ments; but it was also an acad- Berlin director of the Bauhaus Archive nounced a new ideal: “art and shapes that go beyond the forc- emy, a community, a social entity. t No artistic movement of the Berlin. “There isn’t one Bauhaus, technology—the new unity.” edly schematic and arrive at a The photos of everyday life at the On Style: ‘September Issue’ is old news 20th century has been more but many Bauhäuser,” she adds, The bursts of creativity and ex- new naturalness, the naturalness Bauhäuser—students playing A league lauded, debated, misunderstood stressing the amount of transfor- uberance are seen in the roles of the work.” The exhibit show- sports, attending parties, playing The ‘King 9 | Books and maligned than the Bauhaus, mation within the Bauhaus itself that Bauhaus masters and stu- cases teaching materials and ex- music and creating their art—af- the interdisciplinary workshop during the years of the school’s dents took in Expressionism, Cub- ercises from the Vorkurs, includ- firm this rapturous description in of Cool’ for modernity whose name has existence first in Weimar, then ism, Constructivism and Dadaism. ing myriad studies in composi- Tom Wolfe’s otherwise critical of extraordinary Fall books feature literary stars become practically synonymous in Dessau, and finally (briefly) It is discernible in a list of the tion, contrast, rhythm, material book “From Bauhaus to Our returns with the stripped-down function- in Berlin. school’s teachers: Oskar Schlem- and form. What all these class- House”: “It was more than a 10 | Top Picks alism that the movement brought “Bauhaus” is often tossed mer, László Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel room analyses show is the in- school; it was a commune, a spiri- chefs to architecture and design in the around as a catchall phrase for Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kan- tense dissection and experimen- tual movement, a radical ap- short-lived Weimar Republic. the constellation of modernism, dinsky and Josef Albers were in- tation being pursued by both proach to art in all its forms, a design and architecture. Another ternationally recognized artists masters and disciples. philosophical center comparable Norwegian cooks Clark pumps up the volume misconception is that Bauhaus re- all, but the Bauhaus was for The exhibit progresses both to the Garden of Epicurus.” bring imagination to the table Bauhaus: A Conceptual fers to a specific architectural many of them just one stage in a chronologically and thematically, In the artistically and experi- style noted for its clarity and long and varied career. with different colors correspond- mentally charged atmosphere of Braunschweig Model functionality; in ing to periods the Weimar Republic, the Bau- celebrates Emperor Year Martin-Gropius-Bau, fact, this was and topics. Most haus strove to be exemplary and 4 | Sports Berlin true of only one of the time, dis- exceptional. To this end, its 11 | Taste Through Oct. 4 phase of the Bau- played items are members harnessed propaganda haus, a two-year left to speak for to spread their message. Many Greece lures climbers to grottoes period in Dessau themselves, with- items on display deal with how Bauhaus at 90 Bauhaus turns 90 this year under the direc- out much in the the school ensured it was talked 5 | Art and Berlin is celebrating with torship of way of accompa- about. Its name became a seal “Bauhaus: A Conceptual Model.” Hannes Meyer. nying text. of quality and a label. This 12 | Time Off The exhibit presents a comprehen- “Many people One of the branding is responsible for the sive overview of the school in all think that Bau- most extraordi- enduring misunderstandings U.K.