Pablo Picasso
CinÈsias et Myrrhine (Cinesias and Myrrhine), pl. 3, from the book Lysistrata by Aristophanes (New York: Limited Edition Club, 1934)
Etching on Arches paper
1934
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Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz - Duesseldorf: Bernd and Hilla Becher: Typologies of industrial Buildings
Bernd and Hilla becher have been busy searching their stock of prints and negatives and modifying or extending older typologies. Exhibited are thus updated typologies, which comprehend individual photographs from different periods.
For many years...
Sprengel Museum: Donations from Ann and Juergen Wilde's Photographic Collection
made to the Sprengel Museum Hannover
Twenty-seven original photographs from
this collection now belong to the Sprengel
Museum Hannover. Ann and Jürgen Wilde
donated these works as a special 'thanks
for the fruitful collaboration over the years
and especi...
Museum of Modern Art: Recent Photographs by Andreas Gursky
From Tokyo to New York, Paris to Brasília, Cairo, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Bonn, Hong Kong, and
elsewhere, Gursky has sought out signs of our times - vast hotel lobbies, apartment buildings, warehouses, sporting
cham...
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach: Candida Hofer: Architecture of Absence
For over thirty years, Candida Höfer has been photographing rooms in public places that are centers of
cultural life, such as libraries, museums, theatres, cafés, universities, and historic houses and palaces.
Among the unique aspects of Höfer’s...
ASU Art Museum: Andreas Gursky: Photographs
Gursky, born in Leipzig, Germany in 1955, studied at
Germany's Leading school of traditional photography, the
Folkwangschule in Essen. He also studied with photographic
artist Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademi in Dusseldorf.
Andreas Gursk...
Frye Art Museum: An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art
The exciting presentation includes the
work of several prominent pre-war European photographers
published in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine
Camerawork; a very significant group o...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory
Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
Camden Arts Centre: Pioneer American Conceptual Artist Douglas Huebler
Many of the works are self-portraits and photographs documenting personal activities (following the sound of bird-calls in Central Park), photographs of friends and family (the artist Bernd Becher pulling faces), or photographs of strangers in cit...
Australian Center for Photography: Polixeni Papapetrou: AUTHORITY, Andrew Curtis: VOLT, Darren Sylvester: WE CAN DO ANYTHING, Joachim Froese: RHOPOGRAPHY
In a series of photo-digital triptychs Polixeni Papapetrou compares the motifs of aristocratic power in Renaissance Europe with the designer-name tee shirts of contemporary urban culture worldwide. The work questions the apparent democratisation o...
Robert Mann Gallery: Joe Deal: The Fault Zone and Other Work 1976-1986
They created a map of American culture by making documentary photographs that were, as curator William Jenkins explains, "anthropological rather than critical, scientific rather than artistic." The relevance of the New Topographics artists has onl...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of
the Chase Manhattan
Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a
wondrous display of 120 contemporary
masterpieces, including: a powerful
thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis;
a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder;
and a landmark video installation by
Nam Jun...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a
chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has
greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its
growing presence in museums w...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography Transformed: Selections from the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company Collection
The exhibition will include large-scale
portraits, urban and natural landscapes, and staged works by 54 artists, most working in color media. They
in...
Vancouver Art Gallery: The Big Picture: Recent Acquisition from the Collection of Alison and Alan Schwartz
At a point in history where lens-based imagery pervades the visual arts, The Big Picture provides a timely overview of contemporary photographic practices. The exhibition includes a total of 75 photo-based works ranging in scale from intimate to ...
Photographer's Gallery: Altered States of America: Catherine Opie
Im kind of a twisted social documentary photographer
Catherine Opie shot to prominence in the mid 1990s with a
spectacular sequence of Portraits of her close friends within
Los Angeles leather community: transvestites,
female-to-male tr...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS: Landmark Pictures: Ed Ruscha and Andreas Gursky
The Art Museums have actively collected the art of our times since the early twentieth century. Over the years, these holdings have grown significantly, prompting the recent creation of a curatorial department of modern and contemporary art. T...
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art: SUPERMODEL
The artists in SUPERMODEL rely on the tradition of architectural
photography advanced by such artists as Eugène Atget, August Sander, Bernd
and Hilla Becher and Thomas Struth. They also draw from photography's
surrealist and fictional forms, f...
Fruitmarket Gallery: Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere: Collections sans Frontieres III
Somewhere Nowhere Everywhere is an exhibition selected from the holdings of five of the FRACs, the FRACs du Grand Est – Alsace, Bourgogne, Champagne-Ardenne, Franche-Comté and Lorraine. In recognition of the FRACs’ particular status as regionally-...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Guggenheim Museum: Moving Pictures: Woork in Photography, Film, and Video
The exhibition fills the museum’s entire Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, Thannhauser gallery 4, and Annex gallery 5. Moving Pictures is on view from June 28, 2002 to January 12, 2003.
This exhibition is sponsored by Delta Airlines.
During the la...
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