Artist: Bruce Nauman ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Life Fly Lifes Flies, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1997, Etching on BFK Rives paper
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Bruce Nauman War Color lithograph 1971
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Bruce Nauman War Color lithograph 1971
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Bruce Nauman Lip, from Studies for Holograms Color photo screenprint 1970
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Bruce Nauman War Color lithograph 1971
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Partial Truth, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1997, One-color etching
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Verso Recto, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1996, One-color intaglio
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Partial Truth, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1997, Two-color screenprint with embossing
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Screenprint
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Screenprint
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Screenprint
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1993-1994, Etching
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1993-1994, Etching
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1985-1994, Lithograph
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , circa 1965, Fiberglass
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Partial Truth, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1999, Embossment
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1971, Color lithograph
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1993-1994, One-color etching
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1993-1994, One-color etching
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1993-1994, One-color etching
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1993-1994, One-color etching
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1993-1994, One-color lithograph
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Study for Hologram, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Off-set photolithographic print
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Study for Hologram, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Off-set photolithographic print
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Study for Hologram, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Off-set photolithographic print
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1994, Lithograph in three colors
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1985-1994, Color lithograph/screenprint
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Holding Hands All Thumbs, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1998, One color etching
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Study for Holograms, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Suite of 5 off-set photolithographic prints
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Study for Hologram, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Offset photolithographic print
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Study for Hologram, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1970, Offset photolithographic print
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Human Nature/Life Death/Knows Doesn’t Know, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1983, Neon
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Human Companionship, Human Drain, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1981, Lithograph
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Verso Recto (State I), Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1998, Three color lithograph/screenprint
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1972, Drypoint on Rives BFK paper
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Caned Dance, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1974, Lithograph on Arches paper
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M. Ampere, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1973, Lithograph on Copperplate Deluxe paper
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1973, Drypoint and burnishing on Rives BFK paper
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Tone Mirror, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1974, Lithograph on Copperplate Deluxe paper
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Normal Desires, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1973, Lithograph on Copperplate Deluxe paper
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Raw-War, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1971, Three-color lithograph on Arches paper, printed in three runs from three matrices (stones and aluminum plates)
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1971, Three-color lithograph on Rives paper, printed in three runs from three stones
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Walk with Contrapposto, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1968, Digital Beta created 2004, Videotape (black and white, sound, 60 min.)
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Raw-War, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1971, Three-color lithograph on Arches paper, printed in three runs from three matrices (stones and aluminum plates)
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Doe Fawn, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , December 1973, Two-color lithograph on Roll Rives paper, printed in two runs from two stones
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Perfect Odor, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1973, One-color lithograph on Roll Rives paper, printed in one run from one aluminum plate
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Perfect Door, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1973, One-color lithograph on Roll Rives paper, printed in one run from one aluminum plate
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1971, Three-color lithograph on Arches paper, printed in three runs from one aluminum plate and two stones
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Perfect Rodo, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1973, One-color lithograph on Roll Rives paper, printed in one run from one aluminum plate
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1971, Three-color lithograph on Arches paper, printed in three runs from three matrices (stones and aluminum plates)
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Untitled, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1972, One-color drypoint (drawn with scribe, roulette, and file) on Rives BFK paper, printed in one run from one copper plate
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Suposter, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1973, Color lithograph/silkscreen
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Josef Eberz : Sonderausstellung, 15 April - 15 Mai, 1918, 44. Ausstellung, Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, München, Bruce Nauman (United States, Indiana, Fort Wayne, born 1941-12-06) , 1918, Printed material
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Pitcher, Bruce Anderson (1915 - 1986) , 20th century, Stoneware
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Striped Mat Vase, Bruce Anderson (1915 - 1986) , 20th century, Stoneware
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Philip Alexius Laszlo - Ailsa Mellon Bruce 1926 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Jo Davidson - Ailsa Mellon Bruce 1927 marble National Gallery of Art American
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Decanter/Large Vase, Bruce Anderson (1915 - 1986) , circa 1970s, Stoneware
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Pair of Bird Ashtrays, Bruce Anderson (1915 - 1986) , 20th century, Stoneware
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Bruce Conner Untitled Lithograph 1970

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Museum of Contemporary Art: Encounter: Bruce Nauman and Kcho
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Dia Center for the Arts: Rodney Graham and Bruce Nauman: ...the nearest faraway place...
Born in 1949 in Masqui, British Columbia, Rodney Graham studied art history at the University of British Columbia from 1968 to 1971 and at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver from 1978 to 1979. Beginning with a series of solo shows in the late...
Dia Center for the Arts: Mapping The Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)
With seven projections and multiple audio tracks of ambient sounds, Nauman, in his words, used this traffic as a way of mapping the leftover parts and work areas of the last several years of other completed, unfinished, or discarded projects...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Notations - Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni
The two works are currently on view in Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, the exhibition organized by the Museum to represent the United States in the 53rd Venice Biennale. They are the artist’s most recent works in the thematic survey comprising ...
Deutsche Guggenheim: Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience
Like many artists who began working in the 1960s, Nauman rejected the traditional, self-contained art object in order to create an art of real experience. Inspired by the participation or "performance" of the viewer inherent in all sculpture, whic...
Stedelijk Museum: Mapping the Studio: Artists’ Relationships to Their Working Environments
One of the earliest and most crucial moments in the transformation of the studio are Bruce Nauman’s studio films (1967/1968). Nauman’s work clearly manifests the transfiguration of the studio from mythic ‘sanctuary’ to mundane workshop. A similar ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art
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: Art Dealer Monolith Leo Castelli Dies at 91
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Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Last Chance! Contemporary German and American Art from The Froehlich Collection
To capture the unique spirit of the Froehlich Collection, this exhibition explores the contrasts and similarities between the work of a geographically diverse group of artists. Warhols iconi...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism
Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism is an international manifestation of contemporary art, organised by the Rotterdam City Collection. It comprises a group exhibition, a catalogue and a poster presentation and encompasses the expansion of Rotterdam a...
Guild Hall Museum: Stranger in the Village: Contemporary Drawings and Photographs
In recognition of the global reach that charaterizes MoMA's collecting practices, this exhibition presents such artists as Janine Antoni, Jose Bedia, Vija Celmins, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky, Arturo Herrera, William Kentridge, Martin Ki...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Extreme Connoisseurship - How Traditional Study of Objects Can Be Adapted to Illuminate Current Works
The Fogg’s decision four years ago to create a Department of Modern and Contemporary Art was, in a way, the genesis of this exhibition, said James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot director of the Harvard University Art Museums. Extreme Connois...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...
MASS MoCA: Video Art of Bostonian Denise Marika
Marika's work combines video and sculpture by confining or embedding a moving image in a physical structure. Working with her own body, the artist records activities or personal rituals exploring issues of power, control and vulnerability. He...
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum: Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
Following the inaugural exhibition, the private collection of around 2,000 works of art, which has been loaned to the Hamburger Bahnhof for a period of seven years, will be gradually shown in its entirety in a series of temporary exhibitions. The ...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture
These are among the finest examples of recent figurative sculpture by very important artists from around the world, said Albright-Knox Project Curator Holly E. Hughes. We are pleased to be able to bring this caliber of contemporary sculpture to...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Crossroads of American Sculpture

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Gary Hill: Selected Works 1976 - 2001
An American, living in Seattle, he began his artistic career as a sculptor. The Kunstmuseum now presents a representative survey of Hill’s video pieces. The early videos of the 1970s, which concentrate on formal experimentation, are included a...
Tate Modern: Between Cinema and a Hard Place
Ranging from film and video to sculpture, the exhibition features works by the following artists: Miroslaw Balka, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff and George Bures-Miller, James Coleman, Stan Douglas,...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Retrospective for American Sculptor H.C. Westermann
On tour from its summer 2001 premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, this exhibition of over 130 works includes Westermann's images of houses, ships, towers, boxes, robots, coffins, surreal landscapes, and toy-like figurines wit...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: 14th Biennale Of Sydney Opens Today
On Reason and Emotion is Curator Isabel Carlos’ theme for Sydney’s 14th Biennale, encouraging the viewer to think and to feel, using all their senses to engage with the exciting work on display throughout the city. Carlos’ theme emerged fro...
Juan Miro Foundation: Irony: Works by Over 30 Artists Dealing with the Subject of Irony
The exhibition consists of video projections, installations, photographs and sculptures by Francis Al˙s, Ibon Aramberri, Marcel Broodthaers, Joan Brossa, Maurizio Cattelan, Wim Delvoye, Christian Jancowsky, Jeff Koons, Zbigniew Libera, Javier Long...
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...
International Biennial of Contemporary Art: Angel Orensanz awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico Prize
In the pavillions interior, Angel Orensanz exhibited over two hundred bronzes arranged in a forest like formation of body parts and charred small landscapes. Outside the exhibition pavilion, he placed a city bus that was transformed into an antiw...
Stedelijk Museum: Up to now = Tot zo ver
The presentation which is being assembled at the moment by departing director Rudi Fuchs and a number of the Museum's curators will include all of the disciplines in the collection. The emphasis lies on the postwar period, although many familiar (...
Kroller-Muller Museum: Longing for the Garden – sculptures from storage
Some of the works are displayed outside on the events area, including a 15-metre high Schwarz/weisse Doppelfahne, a black and white ‘double’ flag by the German artist Reiner Ruthenbeck. Other works are shown in the galleries and corridors of the ...
Museum of Fine Art: Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties
Normal activities on the ranch supplied Rothenberg with some of the subjects of her paintings, as in Dogs Killing Rabbit (1990–91) and the two Accident paintings, on the theme of a rider thrown from a horse. However,...
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art: MAKING TIME: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video & Film
Time in art had for centuries been connected to the idea of permanence, and then, since the 1960s, performance. But where is time nowNULL In an age when global ...
Kunsthalle Zurich: Sean Landers: Text and Cartoon Works on Paper, Paintings, Sculptures, Video and Audio Works
“My original idea was to make conceptual art entertaining, sloppy, emotional, human and funny. Over the years I got so far out on this conceptual limb that I went around full circle until I was a traditional artist again. I tried to be ironic abou...
Haunch of Venison: Animals: 17 Artists Explore the Otherness of Animals
The works in the exhibition question the common ways we understand animals, and rather than objectifying or anthropomorphising them, present them as beings in their own right, often incomprehensible and mysterious. For example in Marina Kappos’s...
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Bull's Eye: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection
The artists employ objects and images from reality directly in their works. Jeff Koons has manufactured a gigantic piece of kitsch in fragile, gilt porcelain – a sculpture portraying the pop star Michael Jackson with his favourite chimpanzee, Bubb...
Virginia Museum of Fine Art: Outer and Inner Space Exhibition: Jane and Louise Wilson, Stasi City
“Stasi City” uses two pairs of simultaneous projections in opposite corners of the gallery to present a dynamic and disorienting view of the abandoned headquarters of the former East German secret police, the Stasi. In surrounding viewers wit...
Portland Museum of Art: Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection
As a teacher at Freeport High School and Curator of Maine Coast Artists in Rockport, Brown has educated many people about art and has also assembled a phenomenal collection of contemporary prints on a limited budget. Brown began collecting in the...
Joan Miro Foundation: The beauty of failure / The failure of beauty
The exhibition is about how great dreams and utopias that seem so splendid in the abstract are doomed to failure when we try to materialise them, because they presuppose an entirely new, ideal society that can never exist. The show is divid...
Virginia Museum of Fine Art: Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts
A selection of early videos – by artists such as Marina Abramovi and Ulay, Juan Downey, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Daniel Reeves, and Howardena Pindell – treats related themes of gender roles, cultural identity and spatial divides. Neshat ...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Space Odysseys: Sensation and Immersion
The Gallery will be transformed into a series of immersive spatial experiences – both physical and virtual. The works range from the phantasmagoric to the meditative – some intangible, others humourous or uncanny. Environments are created, chamb...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Sigmar Polka: Alhemist
However, Louisiana does not plan its exhibitions according to Capitals art compass. The museum has its own instruments of navigation, but on these, too, the needles have been pointing to Sigmar P...
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...
Virginia Museum of Fine Art: Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts
Outer and Inner Space places the three recent video installations in the context of classic video art from the 1960s to early 1980s. These early works ...

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