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IMA’s European Design Survey Sets the Pace

If you like design — or want to learn more about it — you should pack your bags and head for Indianpolis. R. Craig Miller, design curator at the Indianapolis Art Museum, has created a wide-ranging show of European design since 1985 that’s a marvel. It’s his third design survey show, and he knocks it out of the park.

That’s a different metaphor than I used when I wrote about it in an article published in today’s Wall Street Journal (where French seemed more appropriate).

dubuisson1989desk2.jpgThe Journal, by the way, has a terrific slide show of about a dozen pieces in the show, different from those on IMA’s website.

A gorgeous Sylvain Dubuisson desk is at right.

 

 

 

Photo Credit: Indianapolis Art Museum

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About Judith H. Dobrzynski

Now an independent journalist, I've worked as a reporter in the culture and business sections of The New York Times, and been the editor of the Sunday business section and deputy business editor there as well as a senior editor of Business Week and the managing editor of CNBC, the cable TV

About Real Clear Arts

This blog is about culture in America as seen through my lens, which is informed and colored by years of reporting not only on the arts and humanities, but also on business, philanthropy, science, government and other subjects. I may break news, but more likely I will comment, provide

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