Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Self-portrait Abraham Mignon (German, 1640-1679)Oil on canvas; 22 1/4
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Gallery 218: After Duchamp: 23 Works of Art from US Artists
The "players" or Artists exhibiting (in no particular order, of course) are: Elaine Fisher, (MA), Florence Alfano McEwin (WY), Thomas Kovacich (WI), George Jones V.(WI), Fred Stein (WI), Ron Koehler (MS), Carl S. Richards (MA), Jean Sobon (WI), He...
Everson Musuem of Art: Still Life Paintings from the Collection
Lie’s painting did not engender the same puzzlement or derision as did
some of the works shown at the Armory by his more experimental colleagues
(Duchamp’s Nude Descendi...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Photographs of Artists
Don't miss this opportunity to come face
to face with artists represented in the Gallery's collection
such as Henri...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video
This exhibition is an attempt, in several sections, to keep track of the history and the transformations
of the medium. It starts out with photographic pieces from the 19th century that still tried to translate
...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Modern Museum of Art: Modern Starts: Things
In painting, the still-life genre, with its focus on the representation of objects, experienced a
renewed interest. Beginning with P...
Louvre Musuem: Possess and Destroy.
Sexual Strategies in Western Art
And yet, for a long time we have stopped seeing these images as what
they are: an inexhaustible and cruel metaphor of what we call with a
...
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Surface Invention: Post-1945 Graphic Art
Visitors will be able to make connections with artists such as Joe Tilson,
Richard Hamilton, Henry Moore and John Salt who are exhibiting in both these
events. Tilson's Transparency, The Five Senses ? Taste, a stylised version of
Marilyn Mon...
Vancouver Art Gallery: The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture
Modern culture’s representation of the cyborg shuttles between a celebratory fascination with the machine and an intense anxiety
around masculinity and mechanical equipment. Key historical works will include a 19th century automaton, 19th Century...
Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona: RAYMOND HAINS
The techniques of appropriation which Raymond Hains constantly uses are complex cultural
operations, the basis of which lies in the play of language and the laws of the unconscious
formulated by psychoanalysis. Following in the tradition of Raymond...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art
Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites
paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects,
poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...
Art Gallery of Bishop's University: Fabienne Lasserre: The Cave
The imposing atmosphere, which contributes greatly to the magic in this work, is created by the accumulation of the stacks of televisions placed throughout the space of the gallery, which is no longer shared only by the spectator. The electric dro...
Walker Art Center: A PRACTICAL DREAMER: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MAN RAY
Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and drawn from its extensive collection of
photographs, the exhibition focuses on Man Ray’s photographic work and includes 100 vintage prints
spanning the period from 1916 to the...
Chatham Cultural Centre, Thames Art Gallery: War Stories for Children and Art Stories for Adults: Recent Paintings and Sculptures byTony Calzetta
This exhibition has been organized by the Thames Art Gallery and will
circulate to galleries in the Yukon, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. A 24
page catalogue with color plates and essays by Liz Wylie and Kate Regan is
available.
Excerpt f...
John Elder Gallery: Tetsuya Yamada, CHANT: Beyond the Ready-made
Never content to ride on past successes, Yamada has broken new ground with a fantastic body of cast and glazed porcelain works. Each form is repeated and then placed in rows of varying length, and placed on simple wooden constructions. When Duch...
National Gallery of Art: Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting
This exhibition is generously supported by Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
"Throughout the ages, trompe l’oeil has always been one of the most popular genre...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA
Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA is an exclusive SFMOMA presentation; the exhibition is co-organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn, the Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and John S. Weber, the Leanne ...
Modern Museum: Rosemarie Trockel
Rosemarie Trockel was the official representative of Germany at
the Venice Biennale in 1999. Her piece Haus für Schweine und
Menschen, which she ...
Malmo Konsthall: Jacob Dahlgren and Katarina Lofstrom: Visual and Emotional
By creating what we experience
as abstract images, the artists on the one hand set us free from the
limiting literalness of pure representation and make possible narratives
(and emotions) with multiple layers of meaning in us, the observers. On...
ART6 Gallery: Totemic Magic: Suzanna Biro and Frederick Chiriboga.
Suzanna Biro studied and traveled in
Colombia, S.A. for more than three years
learning weaving, pottery and painting
from artists in villages throughout the
country. She also studied sculpture and
drawing in New York City. Her mixed media
...
Tate Gallery: Abracadabra: International Contempory Art
Another crucial characteristic which these artists share is that they address the
real world and everyday life, and their art is therefore further distinguished by its
combination of the real and the imaginat...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Len Lye: Experimental Filmmaker, Sculptor, Photographer and Writer
'the least boring person who ever lived' Poet Alistair
Reid
As an experimental filmmaker, sculptor, photographer and
writer, Len Lye was a diverse original, eccentric and
celebrated artist. Commemorating the centennial year of his
birth, ...
Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago: Sky-Wreck, a Large Site-specific Textile work by Chicago-based Conceptual Artist Helen Mirra
For her exhibition at The Society, Mirra has created Sky-Wreck, a work based
on the geodesic designs of Buckminster Fuller, utopian engineer, inventor,
cartographer and architect, best remembered for the geodesic dome. Sky-Wreck
consist of 110 ...
Deutsche Guggenheim: Douglas Gordon‘s The VANITY of Allegory
For The VANITY of Allegory, Gordon turned to the histories of art and film for his source material, appropriating existing works as so many readymades with which to articulate his theme. His installation — which houses its own cinema — includes lo...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been
acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first
time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues
...
Michael Dunev Art Projects: Sculpture by Manuel Sola / 20th Century Avantgarde
Their strong verticality recall the totems and ceremonial figures of African and Oceanic cutlures, and like them, give material sense to a spiritual world shared by all humanity. They are prayers to a world that is unravelling, presented with humi...
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier
I think there is enough variety in this exhibit to pique people's
interest,'' says Maureen Ahern, director of the Thorne-Sagendorph.
Photographs range from portraits of scientists Albert Einstein and
Charles Darwin to artists Andy Warhol and...
Walker Art Center: Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker
For this exhibition, Barney will create a room focused on the diverse sculptural and photographic elements of Cremaster 2, which premiered at the Walker in 1999.
Since the early 1980s, Robert Gober has developed a body of work informed by cult...
MENIL COLLECTION: Remembering Saul Steinberg
Exhibition curator Walter Hopps was already at work selecting some twenty drawings for a Steinberg show when the artist died last May at
the age of 84. “Steinberg was not just a cartoonist,” says Hopps, “but the wittiest member of the New ...
National Gallery of Canada: REFLECTIONS ON THE ARTIST: SELF-PORTRAITS AND PORTRAITS
Visitors to the exhibition will have a wonderful opportunity to observe a captivating and diverse selection of
portraits, some light-hearted and humorous in tone, others more serious and reflective in nature, said
Pierre Théberge, Director, Na...
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