Artist: Walter De Maria (1935 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Minimalism
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Walter De Maria was an early founder of Minimalism, using the movement simplistic approach in his sculpture and experimental art. His earliest work in this fashion was produced in 1960 before there was a recognized term form the movement. De Maria also was one of the first artists to explore Land Art, although much of this work is borderline Conceptualism.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Walter Richard Sickert - Portrait of Rear Admiral Walter Lumsden, C.I.E. 1927 oil on burlap Minneapolis Institute of Arts British
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Domenico Maria Bonavera A Christian Martyr Saint, after Domenico Maria Canuti Etching and engraving 17th century
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Gilbert Stuart - Dr. Walter Landor c. 1785 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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(Sans titre) (1961) by BARANOWSKA Maria, PAPA Maria (dite)
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Advertisement for a Lecture by Walter Crane in Budapest, Walter Crane (England, Liverpool, 1845 - 1915)  (Designed by), 1900, Color lithograph on paper
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Pablo Picasso - Tete de Femme, Portrait of Marie-Therese Walter (Head of a Woman, Portrait of Marie-Therese Walter) 1934 oil on canvas Portland Museum of Art Spanish
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Canaletto - View of the Grand Canal: Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana from Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo early 1730's oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Woman’s Dress, Walter R. Bass (United States) , circa 1956, Silk
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Woman’s Poncho, Walter R. Bass (United States) , circa 1963, Wool
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Jacques Villon - Portrait of Walter Pach 1932-47 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Walter Quirt The Lynching black crayon on paper circa 1935
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Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428-1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, 1456-1495), probably 1470 Hans Memling
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Edward J. Steichen - Alphonse Maria Mucha 1901 gum platinum print The Royal Photographic Society American
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Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen - Anna Maria van Schurman 1657 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Dutch
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Charles Peale Polk - Anna Maria Cumpston c. 1790 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Ambrogio de Predis - Bianca Maria Sforza c. 1493 oil on panel National Gallery of Art Italian
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Hesiquio Iriarte Sta. Maria de Toscanella/ en los Estados Pontificios (Sta. Maria of Toscanella in the Papal States) Color lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Portrait de Walter Crane (1898 en) by LEGROS Alphonse
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MRS WALTER CRANE (1882) by CRANE Walter
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Sig.ri amirativi (Amazed Gentlemen), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Non ho mai visto il piu* bello (I Have Never Seen Anyone More Handsome) , from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Giocatori smafaroni (Gamesters), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Conversacione considerabile (A Lot of Talking), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Julian Alden Weir - Portrait of Robert Walter Weir c. 1885 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Julian Alden Weir - Portrait of Mrs. Robert Walter Weir c. 1885 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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G. Jacob Andiron iron mid 16th century
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G. Jacob Andiron iron mid 16th century
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Luigi Marie Sotta - Maria Celina Piqueri Wiltz 1841 oil on canvas Louisiana State Museum Italian
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Domenico Maria Bonavera Rebecca at the Well Etching with engraving 1665
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Anton Hohenstein - Portrait of Maria Deyoung Rhine 1859 Oil on Canvas Arkansas Arts Center American
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Florence Maria Ahlberg Datura Series Group 1 lithograph 1938
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Florence Maria Ahlberg Moonlit Wharf lithograph 20th century
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Florence Maria Ahlberg Datura Series Group 2 lithograph 1938
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Oche belle persÛne (Look at the Handsome One), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Sonatori sconcertati (Discordant Musicians), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Ballarina gentilissima ( Most Noble Ballerina), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Sir Anthony van Dyck - Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria 1638 oil on canvas Brooks Museum Flemish
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Hans Mielich - Maria Kitscher, Frau von Freyberg 1545 oil on panel Cleveland Museum of Art German
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Walter Gay, American, 1856-1937 La Cheminée 1909 Oil on paperboard mounted on wooden stretcher 54.61
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Accademici scontornati (Drawing Academy for the Untalented), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Walter Gay Interior oil on canvas circa 1912
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Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun - Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucqoi 1793 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli Uberiaconi fumanti (Totally Drunk[not a literal translation]), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings Engraving 1686
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Prophète et sibylle de la coupole Santa Maria de Campagna by SACCHIENSE Giovanni Antonio (d'après)
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Prophète et sibylle de la coupole Santa Maria de Campagna by SACCHIENSE Giovanni Antonio (d'après)
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Prophète et sibylle de la coupole Santa Maria de Campagna by SACCHIENSE Giovanni Antonio (d'après)
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Prophète et sibylle de la coupole de Santa Maria de Campagna by SACCHIENSE Giovanni Antonio (d'après)
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Santa Maria della Salute Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; 21 x 33 3/4
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Avian amulet Body adornment Quimbaya Costa Rica, A.D. 500–1000 Gold 12.05 cm (4 3/4 in.)
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Prophète et sibylle de la coupole Santa Maria de Campagna by SACCHIENSE Giovanni Antonio (d'après)
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Prophète et Sibylle de la coupole Santa Maria de Campagna by SACCHIENSE Giovanni Antonio (d'après)
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Domenico Maria Bonavera Lot and His Daughters, after Annibale Caracci Etching 17th century
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Turtle effigy pendant Body adornment Veraguas-Gran Chiriquí A.D. 450–1550 Gold alloy 3.3 x 3.2 cm
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Nose ornament Body adornment Sinú (Zenú) Sinú, San Jorge, or Nechi River Basins, Colombia, Sucre
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Paul Cezanne - Maison Maria with a View of Chateau Noir c. 1895 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum French
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Sir Anthony van Dyck - Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson 1633 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Flemish
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José-Maria de Heredia (1881) by LEVY Emile
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Dona Maria II, reine du Portugal (1826) by anonyme
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Walter Monteith Aikman The Lock wood engraving 1913
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Walter Elmer Schofield The Birches (The Ravine) oil on canvas 1922

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Kitimat Centennial Museum: Sounds of the Soul: Works by Maria Angelo
Maria Angelo was born on October 2, 1950 in Lisbon, Portugal. Maria paints and exhibits most of her work in Portugal, although, she has taken part in a group exhibition at the Terrace Art Gallery, and has also had three paintings shown at th...
Medusa Gallery: Maria Grigoriadi: Painting
"You cannot tell everything. According to a Thai myth, what you cannot tell you should shout inside the hollow of a tree, which you then seal with mud and dried grass. I seal them with white colour. "Take up this process too enthusiastically...
E. Gordon Gallery: Maria Winiarski: Secrets Whispered in the Night
Mystery also exudes from Maria Winiarski's artwork through the echoes of un-told secrets that rest beneath the surface. Winiarski’s adept use of color creates a dreamlike setting where we are transported to be voyeurs into a world that only exists...
Kaddisfly: Published Works by Maria Angelo
The paintings chosen by the band are:
Glances
Silent Pain
My Paper Boat
Encontros
Danca com Nenufares
Maria Angelo is a contemporary painter who has been an absolutearts.com Premiere Portfolio member clos...
Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes: Members Artists Exhibition to Include Maria Angelo
Angelo had her first private exhibition in 1995, and since then, has taken part in several exhibitions - collectives and solos. She is now represented in several private collections, as well as at "Culturanjos", Junta da Freguesia dos Anjos, where...
Mappin Art Gallery: Ana Maria Pacheco
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Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery: MARIA NOEL LOESCHBOR - Engravings / Objects
The artwork is born from the everyday, it is made out of what is playful, humorous, out of the innocence and tenderness countered with the wounds and scratches nonetheless hurting, provoking, and setting one's teeth on edge, particularly in the ma...
Broadway Gallery: Reverie: Air Fire Water Earth
All of the artists featured tend to favor nuance, discreet places, dissonance, and symbolic displacement. Above all, the works in Reverie eschew nostalgia and spiritual platitudes in order to reference the ineffable within the materiality of exist...
Rockaway Artist Alliance, sTudio 6 Gallery: Lines in the Sand: The Chairs of Bagno Maria - Photographs by Christina Jorge
The painterly photographs of Christina Jorge capture the beauty of the color and design of The Chairs of Bagno Maria – Marina di Pietrasanta in her solo exhibit Lines in the Sand. Jorge was recently featured in the pages of Newsday. Fort Tilden, ...
Sin Sin Fine Art: Circular: Maria Lobo
Lobo states, “It is about traveling through the layers and the finding your place in space and time. The work is East and West reflecting my heritage, history and the multi-cultural world in which we live”. The collection also combines the ...
Black Maria: Knight and Hunters : Ken Garduno, Jason Hernandez, Michael C. Hsiung, Sam Saghatelian
"Against the backdrop of gender politics, the ever-evolving roles of men and women, and particularly the cultural underpinnings that inform tradition and change, the 'Knights and Hunters' exhibition examines our understanding of what could be desc...
Florence Lynch Gallery: Paintings by Maria Morganti
While not apparent to the viewer, the layers have increased; and there remain strong monochromatic references. The structural dynamics of the paintings are more intriguing than ever; and continue to be read as a juxtaposing of form and color, ...
Kunsthaus Graz: Two or Three or Something: Maria Lassnig, Liz Larner
In her monumental sculptures and installations, Liz Larner depicts “the world not just as a given... (but) as a construction” whereas Maria Lassnig in her introspective paintings takes on an investigation into the truth of human emotions and bod...
Fundacion Santa Maria de Albarracin: Vicente Pascual: Turris Eburnea / Memorias de la Torre Blanca
Pascual (born 1955, Zaragoza, Spain) has developed a long trajectory that began in the 70s, when he formed the "Hermandad Pictorica" with his brother Angel. Pascual‚s practice has evolved from politically-charged Pop (70s) to sublime/romantic expl...
Courthouse Galleries: Cross-Currents:Maria Barbosa, Nick Cave, Rieneke Leenders, Linda Gissen and Richard Ward.
The mixed-media installations by Maria Barbosa, a native of Brazil, address the issues of cross-cultural perceptions and language barriers. In her artwork, Barbosa addresses the survival of the native cultures living in the Brazilian Rainforest...
National Gallery: Masaccio: 'The Pisa Altarpiece'
Tommaso di ser Giovanni, known as Masaccio, was born on 21 December 1401 in San Giovanni Valdarno, south of Florence. It is not known with whom he trained, but he may have spent time in the workshop of the sculptor Donatello. From around 1423 Masacci...
Karlovassi Municipality Hall: Contemporary Art Exhibition: Roes Akis Flux
Painters in the exhibtion include Atila Ilkyaz, Aris Kalafatis, Vicky Lekatou,
Cleveland Museum of Art: Body/Culture/Spirit: Photographs by Maria-Magdalena Campos-Pons
Her multi-image works, assembled from 20- by 24-inch color Polaroid studio photographs, cross the boundaries between still-life and portraiture....
Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery: Luis Bernardi: Wood Sculptures AND Maria Noel Loeschbor: Engravings and mixed techniques on textiles
Maria Noel Loeschbor has presented 7 individual exhibitions, among which we find the series: "Libros de Artista"("Books of an Artist") 2004, "Himno Nacional Argentino" ("Argentine National Anthem") 2003, "Grabados para Ciegos" ("Engravings for the...
Hamburger Kunsthalle: Emil Nolde: Legend, Vision, Ecstasy
The exhibition also includes paintings which feature rapturous depictions of dance, illustrating the fact that Nolde was not interested in religion in ...
Hotel del Arte: The Music of the Sea by Maria Assumpcio Raventos
The work of Maria Assumpcio Raventos continues on having that interesting synthesis of vitality and lyricism that facilitates its arrival to the profane audience as well as to the most expert. All this backed by her impressive curriculum and by th...
Soho Gallery: Roberto Carlos Umpierrez
In the December of 1979 he established, together with the artists Rossi and Filetto ‘The Experimental Laboratory of Fine Arts’....
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: ZOOMORPHIA: Sculpture, Installations and Video Works from Maria Fernanda Cardoso
Characterised by the use of unconventional materials, Cardoso's work reveals her longstanding fascination with the natural world and the complexity of our relationship to it. Some of the works use the preserved bodies of frogs and lizards and dea...
Site Gallery: Fine lines
Maria Marshall uses a wide range of filmic techniques and digital special effects to create a psychological space for the continuing exploration of her roles as both mother and artist. Maria Marshall has shown widely in the USA & Europe but this i...
Art Ireland: Ireland's Largest Visual Arts Event of the Year
"Thanks to its variety of exhibits and democratic nature, Art Ireland is playing an important role in breaking down many of the prejudices and pretensions surrounding the visual arts scene. One of our great strengths is that with so many artists o...
Black Maria: Muses: New Works by Tin, Kendra Binney and Jeremiah Ketner
Tin, based in Maine, has exploded onto the art scene. He works in pastels and oil. Tin's work is beautifully rendered and elicits a sensual quality that is truly unique. The figures in his work are damaged, both physically and emotionally. Though ...
Modern Museum: Organising Freedom - Nordic Art of the 90 s
Something has been happening in the North: artists have become a driving force behind a vital network of collectors, gallery owners, exhibition halls, museums, biennials...
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art: Cool Times: Works by Dan Asher, Nin Brudermann, Ko Kyong-Ho, Stuart Hawkins, Daniel Mirer, Dean Monogenis, Massimo Vitali and Wiebke Maria Wachmann.
Dan Ashers photographic portraits of icebergs capture the beauty of these solemn white sentinels. Austrian Nin Brudermann also finds beauty in far-flung locales, but the subjects of her photos are sites of extreme human intervention. In a multim...
Centre of Gaudinist Studies: Sixth International Conference of Gaudinist Studies
We remember Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949) to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death. Conference organised by: Centre of Gaudinist Studies (CEG) Sant Joan Despí Town Council Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Sponsors: Sant Joan ...
Maria Perides Gallery: Trisha Lambi and Max Lieberman: Oil Paintings
“Light and its effect on form is my inspiration and whilst I don’t particularly aspire to convey a conscious emotion in my work it seems to emerge of its own will,” says Lambi. Lambi was invited to participate in, and represent Australia at...
Contemporary Arts Center: Maria Lassnig: Preeminent Austrian Painter's First US Exhibition
“Maria Lassnig has exhibited a fiercely idiosyncratic independence and has persevered in her autonomy – consistently eschewing fashionable trends, while remaining oblivious to her standing in the art world,” asserts Platow. “Instead of responding ...
Haus der Kunst: War and Peace: A German Tsarina in Pavlovsk Palace
This German princess, subsequently Grand Duchess, Tsarina and widow of the Tsar, devoted forty years of her life to constructing and designing the palace and the park grounds. With all her energy, with her great artistic talent, her knowledge of b...
William Traver Gallery - Tacoma: Shift: Charlotte Meyer and Maria Phillips
The main element in Shift is a large piece titled “Internal Diversions”, made of glass, steel and silver.  This meticulous hanging sculpture symbolizes both organic systems and physical ornamentation.  The viewer is reflected in its many mirrored ...
Artempresa Gallery: Call for Entries: Proposals Being Accepted for the 2002-3 Year
For further information,contact artempresa@arnet.com.ar Send 10 slides, a slide list with sizes and media, a resume, artist statement, and SASE to: Maria Elena Kravetz
Artempresa Gallery Director
Av.Jose M.Estrada 131
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Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery: Two Brothers in Cordoba Argentina: Timothy and Walter King
Timothy King is an observational and perceptual painter who explores his visual perception finding viscerally intriguing images...nudes, landscapes, still life are all subject to his gaze. He is part of a group of panters who are interested in Fig...
Van Gogh Museum: Jugendstil in word and image
In addition to the beautifully illustrated books and periodicals, there is a representative selection of applied art from the Mathildenhöhe (Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt), including styli...
Il Ramo d'Oro: All of You Will Fly: Maria Pia Daidone and Vincenzo Montella
Vincenzo Montella was born in Benevento, Italy in 1952 and lives in Naples where he works as psychiatrist. Montella graduated in Medicine and Philosophy and is a specialist in psychiatry and family psychotherapy. He is an artist, poet and photog...
Orlando Museum of Art: Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portraits of family members, friends and famous individuals by Judith Baca, Amalia Mesa-Bains and others honor members in the community. Maria Brito and Abelardo Morell evoke places real or imagined that resonate with memories of the past as well ...
Modern Museum: Moderna Museet Projekt: Douglas Gordon
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Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea: Joanna Borkowska, Maria Eugenia Akel, Patricia Abramovich to Exhibit at Fortezza da Basso
The Biennale will also see the presence of important artists. In the 2007 edition, the ãLorenzo il Magnifico" career prize was conferred to Gilbert & George, for the 2005 edition to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and to Richard Anuszkiewicz and in 2003...

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