Artist: Robert Mapplethorpe ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Raymond, Robert Mapplethorpe (United States, New York, New York City, 1946 - 1989) , 1985, Platinum print
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Self-Portrait, Robert Mapplethorpe (United States, New York, New York City, 1946 - 1989) , 1980, Gelatin-silver print
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Self-Portrait, Robert Mapplethorpe (United States, New York, New York City, 1946 - 1989) , 1988, Gelatin-silver print
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Lisa Lyons, Robert Mapplethorpe (United States, New York, New York City, 1946 - 1989) , circa 1982, Gelatin-silver print
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Lisa Lyons, Robert Mapplethorpe (United States, New York, New York City, 1946 - 1989) , circa 1982, Gelatin-silver print
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Robert Mapplethorpe - Tampa Orchid 1986 Photogravure and scr Polk Museum of Art American
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Untitled, Diane Arbus (United States, 1923 - 1971) , 1970-1971, Gelatin-silver print
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Russian Midget Friends in a Living Room on 100th Street, NYC, Neil Selkirk  (Printer), 1963, printed 1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Russian Midget Friends in a Living Room on 100th Street, NYC, Neil Selkirk  (Printer), 1963, printed 1972, Gelatin-silver print
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Puerto Rican Woman with Beauty Mark, NYC, Diane Arbus (United States, 1923 - 1971) , 1965, printed 1969, Gelatin-silver print
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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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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 Gottingen, plate 30 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 Quedlinburg, plate 23 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 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 Kˆnigstein, plate 4 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 Karlshafen, plate 13 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 The Rostrappe, plate 12 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 Hohnstein, plate 3 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 Dresden, plate 35 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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PORTRAIT DE FEMME (1722) by ROBERT Paul (dit), ROBERT Paul Ponce Antoine ; ROBERT DE SERI (dit)
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Robert Batty St. Andrew's, Brunswick, plate 11 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 View from the Pastey, plate 19 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 Dom Kirche, Lubeck, plate 21 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 St. Nicholas, Hamburgh, plate 20 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 The Castle of Falkenstein, plate 7 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 The Exchange, Copenhagen, plate 53 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 The Port, Hamburgh, plate 42 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 Blaukenburg Hartz, plate 60 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 Ilsenburg, Hartz, plate 50 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 Hoxter, on the Weser, plate 52 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 Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829) book with 61 steel engravings and uncounted wood engravings 1829
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Robert f. Blum - Studio of Robert F. Blum 1883-84 pastel Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Robert Cooper Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 18th - 19th century
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Robert Batty Village of Oker Hartz, plate 56 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 Bridge near the Werra, at Munden, plate 9 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 The Gammel Torv, Copenhagen, plate 54 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 The Stadt Haus, Bremen, plate 33 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 The Oker Thal Harz, plate 22 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 Palace of Gredericksborg, Denmark, plate 49 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 Church of St. Catherine, Brunswick, plate 57 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 Palace of Fredericksborg_Entrance Side, plate 55 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 Karlshafen, from the Cassel Road, plate 51 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 Pirna and the Castle of Sonnenstein, plate 45 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 The Fiefe Grund, Saxony, plate 15 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 Chateau of the Prince of Waldeck, plate 24 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 The Weser, between Herstelle & Karlhafu, plate 40 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 The Kaeblinger Strasse, Hanover, plate 6 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 Palace of the Christiansborg, Copenhagen, plate 38 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 Katolische Kirche, Dresden, plate 5 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 Rocks near the Bastey, Saxony, plate 47 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 Ferdinandstein, in Rathewalde Grund, plate 2 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 Bridge over the Weser, Bremen, plate 48 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 The New Market Place, Hamburgh, plate 32 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 The Town Hall, Copenhagen, plate 59 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 Entrance to the Liebethaler Grund, plate 8 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 Stadt Haus, Lubeck, plate 28 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: (35)
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Graves Gallery, Museums Sheffield: Robert Mapplethorpe : Works from the 70s and 80s
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Robert Mapplethorpe,
Patti Smith, 1975
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Born in 1946, American artist Robert Mapplethorpe produced some of the most striking images of the last 50 years. Garnering fame and notoriety in e...
Photofusion Photography Centre: Eulogy to Beauty:
The concern here is not with nudity for its own sake, but with the aesthetics of beauty. However, it is a commonplace that the male - and indeed often female - gaze finds its target for this aesthetic in the feminine form, and the erotic represent...
National Portrait Gallery: Horst: Portraits - Sixty Years of Style
This is the first major exhibition of Horst's work since his death in November 1999, and the first ever to focus solely on his portraiture. It brings together 150 portraits, in black and white and colour, exploring the worlds ...
Detroit Institute of Art: Beyond Big: Oversized Prints, Drawings and Photographs
In the last half of the 20th century, advances in technology have permitted artists to create prints and photographs of unprecedented scale. With equipment and paper now being produced in sizes that rival dimensions that only paintings and some dr...
Association of Photographers Gallery: Natural Fictions: Exhibition by photographer Richard Freestone
Photographing flowers has always been a personal passion of Freestone’s, akin to Robert Mapplethorpe, who photographed flowers to clear his mind and prepare himself for photographing people. “I am particularly fascinated by tulips. The way the...
CAC Art Center (New Orleans): The Culture of Queer: A Tribute to J.B. Harter
In addition, selections from the permanent collection of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, that also collected Harter‚s work, will include seldom seen „queer art‰ works by Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Pierson, Arthur Tress, Bruce of ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun
An ambitious businessman, he established a studio in 1868 that eventually became one of the largest photographic publishing houses in the world. His primary purpose was to identify new uses for photography and, through the applicat...
Art Gallery of Bishop's University: Donation Luc LaRochelle: A History of photography through the collection of the Museé des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
G.W. Wilson; Samuel Bourne; J. Valentine; George Fiske; Walker Evans; R. Mapplethorpe; Cecil Beaton; Gilles Caron; A. McBean; Charles Gagnon; Suzy Lake; H. Saxe; S. Toussignant; Geoffrey James; Richard-Max Tremblay; Larry Fink; André Kertesz; A...
Thorne Gallery, Keene State College: FACULTY EXHIBITION
The artists featured in the exhibit include Samuel Azzaro, Daniel Carr, Dede Cummings, Rosemarie Bernardi, Julia Ferrari, Henry Freedman, Heather Gendron, Laura Hall, Marsha Hewitt, Karl Hluska, Laura Jones, Ann Laroche, Jack Marshall, Stephani...
Whitney Museum of American Art: Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000
Curator Sylvia Wolf's selection focuses on artists who live and work in this country. Portraits, landscapes, street photographs, and genre subjects will be featured, including works by Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney, Dawoud Bey, Nancy B...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: The First Annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition Opens Today
Collectors, curators, and photographers will have an extraordinary opportunity to view thousands of images. The fair is organized by Stephen Cohen, organizer of photo l.a., The Lo...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection
Within the realm of death, science is making hungry progress towards the explication of heretofore "incurable" diseases, and in the realm of life, has, as everyone knows, begun beating a path into that delicate territory of cloned birth. The focus...
photo l.a. 2000: 9th LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT EXPOSITION
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston an...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: photo san francisco 2001 Opens Tomorrow
Works by Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Man Ray, Sebastian Salgado, Josef Sudek, Weegee, Edward Weston an...
Pretoria Art Museum: Pandemic: Imaging AIDS
Imaging AIDS illuminates the worldwide struggle against the epidemic, revealing the range of responses to and against a disease that has thoroughly altered the way we approach life, our bodies, and relationships both personal and political. These ...
Pump House Gallery: Shake It :  An Instant History of the Polaroid
Besides work by some of the most important artists working with the medium, the show will also include Polaroids from other diverse professions and disciplines such as forensics, archaeology, medicine, filmmaking and fashion, as well as those of a...
Andy Warhol Museum: Strange Messenger: The Art of Patti Smith
"Like Andy Warhol, Patti Smith isn't an artist who is easily categorized. She moves fluidly through the genres of music, visual art, and language," says John Smith, exhibition curator and archivist at The Warhol. "Her work and her career defy t...
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...
photo l.a. 2003, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Inc.: 12th annual Los Angeles International Photographic Print Exposition Opens
BENEFIT RECEPTION - January 16th, 6-9pm The opening night preview reception will benefit the Photographic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has one of the major collections of photogr...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: First-year graduate students curate exhibitions: I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real
The three exhibitions, I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real were conceived in collaboration between curatorial teams of first-year graduate students and visiting curator, Maria Hlavajova, artistic director of the Bega...
Bonnefanten Museum: The Vincent
The Province of Limburg and the city of Maastricht support the Award to commemorate the European Maastricht Treaty of 1992. The Award of 50.000 Euro has been installed to support the work of European artists in t...
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: JULES OLITSKI EXHIBIT OPENS THORNE SEASON
Olitski, 77, made his mark in the art world in the 1960s, and was heralded as the best living abstract painter by formalist critic Clement Greenberg. He had his first solo exhibition in 1967 at the Corcoran Galler...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: Third Annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition at Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
Collectors, curators, and photographers will have an extraordinary opportunity to view thousands of images. The fair is organized by Stephen Cohen, organizer of photo l.a., the Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition which celebrated it’s eleve...
Haus der Kunst: Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith
A newspaper photograph of the destruction of the towers of the World Trade Center reminded her of Peter Brueghel’s The Tower of Babel (1563) and provided the starting point for these drawings. In her book of poems Babel, published in 1978, she ...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: Three Exhibtions Celebrate 10th Anniversary: The Arch of Desire-Women in the Marieluise Hessel Collection -- Re(f)use -- Text, Texture, Touch
The Center for Curatorial Studies was founded by Marieluise Hessel as a center for the study of late-20th-century art. It offers an innovative, interdisciplinary graduate program in curating and criticism of contemporary art. In the 10 years since...
photo san francisco, Stephen Cohen Gallery: Fourth annual San Francisco Photographic Print Exposition Opens Today
Collecting Seminars are held before public hours, at 9 a.m., and are limited to 30 people. This year seminar hosts are Keith Davis, of The Hallmark Collection, Robert Flynn Johnson, curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at T...
Contemporary Arts Center: Loop: Back to the Beginning
Assembled by Klaus Biesenbach, Loop examines the phenomenon of cyclical time as illustrated by the repeated gesture or event. In each of the works included in this exhibition, time becomes a sculptural component. Time is chopped up, carved, compre...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: TheFlower as Image: 150 Works by the World’s Greatest Artists
It is thus the ambition of the exhibition to show how, throughout the epoch of modern art, the artists use, treat, challenge, express and experiment with the flower and its potential in the artistic process. Or, to put it differently, with the flo...
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...
Center for Creative Photography: Our Quarter Century: The University of Arizona's Center For Creative Photography Turns Twenty-Five
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona, a world-renowned museum and research institution dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record, is commemorating its 25th Anniversary with special exhibitions,...
Eric I. Spoutz Gallery: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993): A Comprehensive Retrospective
"The subject matter of my paintings has become so completely buried that it doesnít matter what I paint, whether it is my shoes, my dog, the work clothes, my easels, or the bridges of New York. It is the painting first and subject matter latter. I...
Guggenheim: Clemente
Born in Naples in 1952, Clemente moved to Rome in 1970 to study architecture. The '70s in Italy were marked by frequent student protests, massive labor strikes, outbreaks of urban terrorism, and sweepin...
photo L.A.: The 10th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition
This is an unparalleled opportunity for collectors, curators and the curious to view thousands of images from all over the world. Over 6000 people attended last year...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

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