Artist: Robert Adam (1728 - 1792)
Nationality: British
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Media: Architecture, Design
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Robert Adam Wall Light ormolu and cut glass circa 1790 - 1800
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Robert Adam Table mahogany 1770 - 1780
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Adam Pynacker The Annunciation to the Shepherds oil on panel circa 1640
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Thomas Crawford - Adam and Eve 1855 marble Boston Athenaeum American
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Lucas Cranach - Adam c. 1530 oil on panel The Art Institute of Chicago German
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Cincinnati Art Museum German
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Carnegie Museum of Art German
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Alex Katz - Adam and Eve 1985 charcoal Arkansas Arts Center American
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Fernando Botero - Adam and Eve 1973 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Colombian
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving on ivory l The Art Institute of Chicago German
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Smith College Museum of Art German
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Adam and Eve 1638 etching on paper The Art Institute of Chicago Dutch
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Lucas Cranach the Elder - Adam c. 1530 Oil on panel Norton Simon Museum German
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John Singleton Copley - Adam Babcock c. 1744 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Faed - Expulsion of Adam and Eve 1880's oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art Scottish
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Jan Polack - Adam and Eve in Paradise c. 1500 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art German
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Jan Polack - Adam and Eve in Paradise c. 1500 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art German
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Domenichino - The Rebuke of Adam and Eve 1626 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Jacob Matham Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Eve offering apples to Adam Engraving 1606
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Adam von Bartsch Catalogue des estampes de J. Adam de Bartsch (Vienna: Tendlerä, 1818) book with text only 1818
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Benjamin West - The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise 1791 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Untitled Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with city in the background Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 1665
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 1665
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 1665
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Tapestry Room from Croome Court, 18th century (ca. 1760-69) Room designed by Robert Adam (1728-1792);
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape ET 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape ET 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape ET 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Untitled 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape ET 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape 17th century
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Alfredo Arreguin - Sueno (Dream: Eve Before Adam) 1992 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Adam Chandelier glass 1785 - 1800
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Shipyard Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Untitled Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle L'Automne Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape Etching 17th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Designed by Robert Adam, Scottish, 1728-1792 Marked by Daniel Smith, English, in partnership with with
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Robert Henri - Portrait of Mrs. Robert C. Watts 1926 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Abigail Smith Babcock (Mrs. Adam Babcock) c. 1774 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Christ Talking To His Disciples Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with men fishing Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with a road Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with ruins Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with a road Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with a road Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Veue de la grande Chapelle... ET 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Arrival of Christ Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with St. Anthony? Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape along a river Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Christ by the river Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with a road Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with three men in the foreground Etching 17th century
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Jerome Paul Witkin Adam and Eve ink and wash 1961
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Adam Buck Sapho lithograph 1830
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with two men talking by the river Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with three figures walking in the foreground 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with castle in background Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with road and people Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with ruins in the foreground Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Veues De Rome Et Des Environs Etching 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with Christ walking, flanked by two men 17th century
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Adam, Gabriel and Nicolas Perelle Landscape with Christ flanked by two men Etching 17th century
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Robert Hennel Egg Cruet Silver, sterling 1852
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Robert Batty Hameln, plate 29 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829
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Robert Batty Wernigerode, plate 17 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829
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Robert Batty Trendelburg, plate 46 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829
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Robert Batty Buckeburg, plate 18 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829
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Robert Batty Gottingen, plate 30 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) steel engraving 1829

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Farouk Hosny/Adam Henein: Contemporary Egyptian Artists and Heirs to an Ancient Tradition
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Zone 9 Art: Perennial: Adam Janes
Adam Janes is a graduate of the Pasadena Art Center. He has been asked to exhibit in group shows in San Francisco at Culture Cache and in LA as a guest artist at Cartoon Network. Zone 9: Art, which is located at 453 S. Spring Street on t...
Adam Gallery: Hsiao-Mei Lin: Recent Works
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Hsiao-Mei Lin
Yellow Bank
Oil on Board
24" x 24" ...
ArtHaus: Revelations: New Works in Various Media
Artists also included in this exhibition are: Andrea Arroyo, Astrid, Suzanne Benton, Brian Blood, Deborah Brown, Marc Lambrechts, Joanne Landis, Samuel F. Lewis and Carol Schiavo. IMAGE:
Adam Kurtzman
Flip Flop
bronze
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Adam Gallery: Michael Hyam: Recent Works
The stories of Judith and Holfernes and of Salome recur as themes in this body of work, as do symbolic motifs such as a black vase and dried flowers and the charged brooding landscapes. These are works which are deeply personal; they are close to ...
Fotomuseum: Adam Fuss - Less of a test than earth
His work - to be found where the world as science meets the world as image - provides a very exiting, original contrast to so-called mainstream contemporary culture. Using motifs which take up the themes of nature, energy, memory and longing...
Adam Gallery: Gail Harvey: New Works
Gail Harvey was born in 1954 in Glasgow. She attended theGlasgow School of Art where she received both a Diploma of Art and a Diploma of Postgraduate Studies. Since 1979, Harvey has beena member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Waterco...
ArtHaus: No Contest: A Sculpted Installation by Adam Kurtzman
Kurtzman decided to address this concept in early 2000 with his first doll, whereby he pushed the fetish aspect of the sensuality in the figure. “She had the classic ‘kewpee’ pose, and reticent, innocent expression. After sculpting the prototype...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: Adam Donovan, Jondi Keane, Rodney Spooner, and Carl Warner
Adam Donovan’s exhibit, entitled Heterodyning Cage, combines the highly specialised field of scientific acoustics with the visual arts. His work is interactive, with gallery visitors becoming the subject of his work as a number of camera systems t...
Whangarei Art Museum: Capital! Locating Tradition: Placing Ourselves - Art from the Victoria University of Wellington Collection
WAM director Scott Pothan approached the Adam Art Gallery with the idea of touring key works from the collection, dispersed throughout the campus to a first-time gathering outside Wellington. Detail: Richard Killeen Welcome to the South Pacific 1...
Physica Room: pHonic Curated by r a d i o q u a l i a opens Today
Recent developments in the delivery of audio across the Internet have also lead to the mass distribution of music online. Though this has ...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Carvings by Fred Webster
His primary subject matter is biblical—illustrating stories such as the Temptation of Adam or Jonah and the Whale—as well as groups of biblical figures like angels in concert. There is a striking sense of whimsy to his small figural grouping...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Parallel Worlds: Works by Lisa Crowley, Megan Dunn, Sean kerr, Maddie Leach, Ella Bella Moonshine Reed, Jono Rotman
Their practices reflect a look both outwards to mass media and popular visual information and inward to subjects and ideas of personal and idiosyncratic interest. These new works implying seemingly objective representations or popular archetypes ...
31 Grand: Adam Stennett: Before the Accident
The installation IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD, involves 30-50 live mice which run through a series of industrial Clear Schedule 40 PVC pipe hanging a few feet overhead and extending into the walls of the gallery. ...
Cambridge Galleries: Architecture in Cambridge: Shaping the City
The unique situation ofCambridges core has offered many of the School of Architectures students an opportunity to reflect ...
ArtHaus: Group Exhibition: LOCATION ~ LOCATION
Serena Bocchino’s paintings and drawings translate the compositional, spontaneous rhythm of jazz into a two dimensional form. Her work uses rhythm, volume and tone to capture different ways in which line may interact with color. A New York Times ...
Bartley Nees Project: Monique Jansen, Esther Leigh and Sara Hughes
Their paintings, which show a delight in process, explore the effect, affect and impact of repetitive patterns. Entering the territory of op art and even pop art they are at once ethereal and sensual, transparent and dense, serious and light-he...
Mobius, Fort Point Cultural Coalition: Babel Part Four: Redemption - Works by Susan Berstler and Lee Mandell
Since then, the artists have rechanneled their initial anger and frustration by creating a four part series of Babble, Limbo, Requiem, and now, Redemption. The series is intended to parallel the very real battle that is taking place in Assembly S...
MEO Contemportary Art Collection: FOTOK: Photographs by Young Czech Artists Opens Today
Included in the exhibition are: Patricie Fexova
Alena Kotzmannova
Jan Kadlec
Jolana Rucharova
Filip Turek
Katerina Seda
Marketa Othova and Pierre Daguin
Andrea Cihlarova
Michal Pechoucek
Zbynek Bal...
Göteborg Museum of Art: Paul Gauguin: A Distant Paradise

Art Institute of Chicago: The Human Form Divine: The Body as Seen by the Camera
This exhibition includes approximately 60 photographs spanning a century and a half, most of them gelatin silver, with some albumen prints and Pictorialist work, as well a number of chromogenic color prints. Exploring the range of attitudes and f...
Greenbelt Arts Center: Call to Artist: Clown Art Exhibition
The exhibit will take place April 1- May 13, 2001 at the Greenbelt Arts Center as part of Acme Clown Month, a residency in Greenbelt, Maryland by Clown Laureate Adam Gertsacov, boss clown of the Acme Clown Company
Sherborne House and Gallery Holt: Past Perfect: Savage, Sonia Hanney and Adam Dade, Shrimpton and Bolas, Paul McGowan
Past Perfect is presented in two venues, Sherborne House and Gallery Holt in Sherborne Boys School. Savage  An old chair that looks from a distance as if it is covered in green velvet, on closer inspection reveals it is in fact covered in ...
Lux Gallery: New England: Ann Course, Stephanie Bolt and Eric Lesdema, Subc_t + Mufcoli, Adam Scrivener, Mark Aerial Waller
Ann Course presents her animations, drawings, and a neon work entitled 'Mother Sleeping Bag' (animation's edited by Paul Clark). Previous exhibitions and screenings include 'Pandæmonium', 'Pandemic 01', Lux Centre (2000), 'Girl...
O.K. Center of Contemporary Art: Dialog III: RE:LOCATION Upper Austria - Poland
During the spring, a small group of Austrian and Polish artists with very different cultural and geographical backgrounds will collaborate on a dialogical exhibition ...
Adam Gallery: Eduardo Chillida 1924-2002
By 1951 his work transformed into a new abstract style using materials such as wood, steel and iron. Meeting Frank Lloyd Wright, Alberto Giacometti and later Joan Miro formed strong influences for him in his use of drawing in space and light in ...
Adam Gallery: New Paintings: Barbara Rae Ra
Following is the essay from the catalogue: " Taste; we are not born with it. It has to be acquired in the same way we learn grammar to improve creative writing. If we feel uncertain about judging a work of art, or the utilitarian design of a c...
ArtSpace: warp: Work by Graduates from the 2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honors Program
All of the artists are graduates from the 2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honors Program, School of Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney This exhibition has been made possible and supported by the School of Contemporary Arts, Unive...
Museum of Garden History: diversion: 23 Artists' Reflexions of the Museum of Garden History
Artists taking part in diversion include Suky Best Ellen Bigge Clare Bryan Annie Cattrell Lisa Cheung David Cotterrell Edith Dekyndt Peter Dukes Judith Frost Dan Howard-Birt Theo Kaccoufa Sophie Lascelles Laura Malacart Charlie Murphy S/bas...
Whitney Museum of American Art: Whitney Biennial 2004 Opens Tomorrow
Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney's Alice Pratt Brown Director, said, "The Biennial is a great tradition that goes back to the Museum's earliest roots. This gathering of new and established artists plunges us into the present moment in American contem...

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