Learn about the Japanese baskets in the Asian Art Museum's collection.

Norwood Viviano uses digital 3D modeling and printing technology in combination with the casting process to create his sculptural works. In his March 2012 Residency at The Studio, Viviano created urban and industrial landscapes out of kiln-cast glass as an extension of his previous installations. His work was to "focus on smaller Midwestern industrialized cities that witnessed a huge population exodus during the second half of the 20th century, and West Coast and Southern cities that went through a transition of population growth, loss, and re-growth during the same period".

View the conservation and installation of the large Cosmological Painting for the "Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past" exhibition (on view at the Asian Art Museum from May 18-September 2, 2012).

Although this painting was named after a bustling square in Paris, it is removed from any notion of realistic reproduction. Rather, the network of lines and color blocks pulsates with the energy of the modern city that Mondrian embraced and celebrated. Piet Mondrian fled from Paris in 1938 and settled in New York City a few years later, bringing with him this painting.

Responding to the dynamism of the modern American city, he altered the painting, scraping away paint, widening lines, and adding bars of color. He said the blocks of color he added gave the work “more boogie woogie.”

Sustainable fashion designer and author Timo Rissanen of Parsons School of Design, and Indianapolis’ own People for Urban Progress director Michael Bricker have a high-stakes conversation about designs that waste nothing. From apparel patterns that leave nothing on the cutting room floor or in the landfill, to repurposing colorful stadium seats to punctuate a cityscape, consider Indy’s place at the crossroads of design decisions as smart as they are sustainable. Moderated by Petra Slinkard, IMA Curatorial Associate, Textile and Fashion Arts.

Produced in conjunction with the exhibition German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse

Special thanks to Phil Sanders, Director and Master Printer, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. A program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.

Created by Plowshares Media

© 2011 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

GlassLab, a film by Deidi von Schaewen, 2012. See this film on view in Making Ideas: Experiments in Design at GlassLab at The Corning Museum of Glass through January 6, 2013. http://www.cmog.org/glasslab GlassLab offers designers unprecedented access to molten glass.

Multiverse (2008), a site-specific LED sculpture by Leo Villareal, is on view in the Concourse walkway connecting the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. The sculpture, which includes approximately 41,000 LED (light-emitting diode) nodes controlled by custom-designed software, is Villareal's largest and most ambitious work to date. Watch Gallery staff and volunteers install the LED nodes over the course of 65 days (the process was captured in 58,296 photographs). The sculpture was generously funded by Victoria and Roger Sant and Sharon P. and Jay Rockefeller.