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ExhibitionSuperheroes: Fashion and FantasyMay 07, 2008 - September 01, 2008The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028-0198, Phone: 212-535-7710, United States This exhibition will explore the symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it will reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects will be organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers will be catalysts for the discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion. |
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ExhibitionNobuyoshi Araki: Araki FlowersMay 10, 2008 - July 26, 20081018 Art, 1018 Madison Avenue, Floor 3, New York, NY 10021, Tel: +1-212-537-0453, United States This exhibition includes eleven unique metallic prints of close-up views of a variety of flowers in their last moments of bloom. Influenced by traditional Japanese art forms such as Ukiyo-e prints and the erotic Shunga art of the Seventeenth Century, Araki seeks to capture a pivotal moment of beauty and impart permanence to that which is fleeting. |
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ExhibitionThe Baroque World of Fernando BoteroJune 28, 2008 - September 21, 2008New Orleans Museum of Art, One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124, United States |
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ExhibitionFraming a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940June 03, 2008 - September 01, 2008Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028, Ph: 212-535-7710, United States The exhibition features masterpieces by 13 of photography's greatest artists: William Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton, Julia Margaret Cameron, Carleton Watkins, Gustave Le Gray, Nadar, Edouard Baldus, Charles Marville, Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray, and Brassaï. The exhibition will illuminate the ways that the Met’s recent acquisition of the Gilman Collection dovetails with its previous holdings to give great strength to the Museum’s collection of many of the most important masters of photography’s first century. |
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ExhibitionChagall: My StoriesMarch 29, 2008 - September 07, 2008Pola Museum of Art, 1285 Kozukayama Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa 250-0631, +81 (0)4604 2111, United States |
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ExhibitionDalí: Painting and FilmJune 29, 2008 - September 15, 2008MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019-5497, Ph: (212) 708-9400, United States, United States This exhibition brings together more than 100 works by Salvador Dalí (1904–89) including major paintings, photographs, drawings, and films to explore the central role of cinema in his work as both an inspiration and an outlet for experimentation. |
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ExhibitionOlafur Eliasson: 'The New York Waterfalls' installation in NY's East RiverJune 26, 2008 - October 31, 2008East River, New York, NY, United States This summer, the Danish/Icelandic artist will install a series of freestanding waterfalls in New York's East River. The project, funded by the Public Art Fund. Four giant waterfalls will be erected for three months this summer in a public art project. Three of the waterfalls will cascade into the East River and New York Harbor from free-standing scaffolding towers that Eliasson said were part of his artistic vision, mirroring the scaffolding towers that sprout up throughout New York. The waterfalls project will coincide with a retrospective of Mr. Eliasson's work, called "Take Your Time," which will run at the Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 between April 20 and June 30. The exhibition, currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the first major retrospective of his work in America. |
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ExhibitionThe Dystopian Line: James Ensor's Alimentation Doctrinaire in ContextApril 10, 2008 - July 06, 2008Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036, Tel. 323-857-6000, United States Focusing on a rare impression of one of James Ensor’s most important and politically subversive etchings, The Dystopian Line: James Ensor’s Alimentation Doctrinaire in Context will bring The Doctrinal Nourishment (1889–1895) together with approximately sixty works on paper selected from LACMA’s significant holdings in Ensor and German Expressionist prints, as well as from key local institutions and private collections. |
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ExhibitionEl Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip IIIApril 20, 2008 - July 27, 2008Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5597, Ph: 617-267-9300, United States El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III” features paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts—including a partial recreation of the camarín of the Duke of Lerma, possibly the most important non-royal collector in Europe at the time and the favorite of Philip III—organized around themes such as portraiture, religion and the court, and still life and the birth of naturalism. Gund Gallery |
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ExhibitionInspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the PastJune 19, 2008 - September 21, 2009Seattle Art Museum Downtown, 1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101-2003, Ph: 206.654.3100, United States While defining the specific characteristics that, in its time, made Impressionism provocative and new—a focus on everyday subjects, spontaneity, luminosity, loose brushwork—Inspiring Impressionism launches an in-depth exploration of the links between the Impressionists and the major European art historical movements that preceded them. |
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