Events & Exhibitions
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ExhibitionAction/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976October 19, 2008 - January 11, 2009The St. Louis Art Museum, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380, Phone: 314.721.0072, United States This exhibition proposes a fresh look at the painting and sculpture that transformed the art world in the years following World War II—a period when abstraction emerged as a dominant means of artistic expression. Key works by such artists as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Clyfford Still, David Smith, Helen Frankenthaler and Philip Guston represent a carefully chosen group of fifty examples from major institutions and collections throughout the U.S. and abroad. Against a background of Cold War politics, rising mass culture and growing consumerism, critic Harold Rosenberg championed the concept of action (the creative act of the artist) versus the ideal purity of a non-representational aesthetic defended by Clement Greenberg. Action/Abstraction re-examines how these critics' theories vied with each other and with the intentions of the artists—who nevertheless remained keenly aware of the critics' perspectives and were often influenced by them. |
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ExhibitionGreen CommunityOctober 01, 2008 - October 01, 2009National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20001, Phone 202.272.2448, United States Green Community will expand on the themes of its highly acclaimed predecessors, Big and Green and The Green House, examining how and why we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings. |
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ExhibitionCalder JewelryDecember 09, 2008 - March 01, 20091000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028-0198, Tel: 212-535-7710, United States American-born artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is celebrated for his mobiles, stabiles, paintings, and objets d’art. This landmark exhibition will be the first museum presentation dedicated solely to his extensive output of inventive jewelry. |
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ExhibitionAlexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933October 16, 2008 - February 15, 2009Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021, Tel: 212-570-3600, United States A highly focused historical show with the spirit of a young artist’s first retrospective, Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926–1933 explores a time when, from the ages of 27 to 34, Calder created his first wire drawings in space, performed his Circus (made in Paris 1926–31 and part of the Whitney’s permanent collection), and invented his signature mobiles. |
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ExhibitionChagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949November 09, 2008 - March 22, 2009The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10128, Tel: 212.423.3200, United States Paintings, costume and set designs, posters, photographs, fillm clips and ephemera are among the offerings in "Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949." Chagall is the dominant figure, but other artists, such as Robert Falk, Natan Altman and Alexander Tyshler, likewise combined elements of folklore and the Russian avant-garde, joining forces with playwrights to create enormously popular productions in both Hebrew and Yiddish after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. |
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ExhibitionThe First Emperor: China's Terracotta ArmyNovember 16, 2008 - April 19, 2009The High Museum of Art Atlanta, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Tel: 404-733-4400, United States The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army is inspired by one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. The exhibition includes complete terracotta warrior figures and represents one of the most important groups of works relating to the First Emperor ever to be loaned to the U.S. |
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ExhibitionChristo and Jeanne-Claude: Over the RiverOctober 11, 2008 - January 25, 2009The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009, Phone: (202) 387-2151, United States Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over The River, a Work in Progress, an exhibition of more than 150 photographs, collages, drawings, and maps, will chronicle the artists’ process as they prepare to assemble and suspend massive silvery fabric panels over the Arkansas River in Colorado. Highlighting The Phillips Collection’s longstanding commitment to representing important developments in modern and contemporary art, the exhibition at The Phillips will be followed by a national tour. In time for the exhibition TASCHEN will publish a book which documents the project. More information will follow soon. |
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ExhibitionHere Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary ArtSeptember 10, 2008 - March 30, 2009MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019-5497, United States The fifth in a series of installations focusing on MoMA's contemporary holdings, Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art maps a chronological path through the art of the recent past. The exhibition brings together photographs, paintings, sculptures, drawings, films, and videos in thematic groupings, and includes several new acquisitions. |
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ExhibitionTutankhamun and the Golden Age of the PharaohsOctober 03, 2008 - May 17, 2009Dallas Art Museum, 1717 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas 75201, Ph: 214-922-1200, United States Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, the exhibition that drew nearly four million visitors during its two-year, four-city tour, will return to the United States for a three-city encore tour. Following the success of the first tour, which broke records at each of the four museums it visited in the United States from June 2005 through September 2007, the exhibition will return from its current London engagement to open at the Dallas Museum of Art in October 2008, followed by visits to two yet to be named museums. |
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ExhibitionTo Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn MuseumOctober 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009The John and Mable Rindling Museum of Art, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, Florida 34243, Tel: 941.359.5700, United States Presenting over a hundred objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned collections of ancient Egyptian art – including mummies, coffins, stone sculpture, gold jewelry, precious amulets, and sacred vessels – To Live Forever is a special and rare opportunity to view precious treasures from one of history’s most intriguing civilizations, inviting all to explore the ways in which the Egyptians approached the most momentous and mysterious of events, death. |
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