PreviewBiennials & festivals
Performa 19 to take viewers on a utopian journey back to the Bauhaus
The latest edition of New York’s performance art biennial commemorates the centenary of the ground-breaking art school
BlogFrieze London 2019
Frieze London diary: Song Dong's edible art and Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus ballet gets a reboot
Plus, Harper Beckham meets Kaws
NewsBauhaus
'Black box' dedicated to Bauhaus opens in Dessau
Museum celebrates the German design school in the city most closely associated with founder Walter Gropius
NewsBauhaus
Art Institute of Chicago show traces the Bauhaus’s legacy in 20th-century textile art
The weaving workshop was “an incubator of aesthetic and pedagogical talent”
NewsBauhaus
Big birthday is a boon for Bauhaus
How the market for artists associated with the German movement is hotting up in this centenary year
ReviewExhibitions
Harvard’s sublime show makes you see Bauhaus everywhere
The university has a long history with the movement’s artists, many of whom fled from Germany to Cambridge, and has drawn from its impressive archive for a 100th anniversary exhibition
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Weimar—birthplace of Bauhaus—opens new museum dedicated to the influential design school
On the same day, the nearby Neues Museum Weimar will open a new permanent exhibition on early Modernism
FeatureBauhaus
Bauhaus is 100 years old in 2019—but which one are we celebrating?
The German school, one of the crucibles of Modernism, was a complex entity
FeatureBauhaus
Germany celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus with a bonanza of museum openings and exhibitions
From newly conserved buildings and puppet shows to virtual-reality installations and ballet, across the country the German school is finally getting its due
FeatureAnni Albers
Paul Smith gets wrapped up in the work of the Bauhaus
After a life of collaborating with commercial brands, Anni Albers' foundation has posthumously licensed a design to be used by the UK fashion designer
FeatureAnni Albers
Weaving walls: how Anni Albers challenged Bauhaus prejudice
Founder Walter Gropius had limited expectations of the school’s “beautiful sex”, but one student quietly subverted them with a new category: the textile artist
NewsHeritage
Bauhaus in Belsize Park: Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy honoured in London
Blue plaque installed on Grade-I-listed Isokon Building honours the Modernist artists and architects