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In honour of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus school, some interesting resources... For the better part of a century, Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus Dessau has been a mecca for a certain flavor of design lover. People from around the world travel to the modernist building in Weimar, Germany, to pay homage to the school that launched countless design careers. Now, a smaller version of the Dessau is hitting the road in celebration of the Bauhaus’s 100th anniversary this year. A 161-square-foot building-on-wheels designed to look like the iconic workshop wing of the Gropius building - glass facade and sans-serif signage included - will travel to Berlin, Kinshasa, in the Democratic of Congo, and Hong Kong, playing host to workshops and exhibitions that aim to update the Bauhaus’s European-centric teachings for a more global modern age. ... [read more on Curbed] . When architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus school in 1919, his utopian manifesto proclaimed that minimalism and a...

The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of World Wars Museum of Fine Arts, Boston To January 21, 2019 Propaganda of the era appeared on posters, postcards and stamps "Leonard Lauder was first drawn to postcards as a boarding school student in Miami Beach. Lauder, the 85-year-old chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies... stuck to collecting. Before long, he was buying 100-year-old postcards from a stamp dealership. Today, he owns about 130,000 postcards. Much of the collection is a promised gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." "[Collecting] cards taught him how easy it can be to fall prey to a dangerous message. 'If you look at the imagery today, you would say, "How could they have been duped by it?" But they were,' he noted. 'What drove me to do this book was that most people did not realize the banality of the propaganda and how effective it was. That was… the Facebook of the time...'" [ read mor...