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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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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Liu Heung Shing and Asia Society Director Orville Schell at New York for a talk and the presentation of the book "China: Portrait of a Country"November 24, 2008United States As part of the Art and China's Revolution (September 5th to January 4th 2009) exhibition program of events, China.Portrait of a Country will be presented and discussed with editor Liu Heung Shing and Asia Society Director, Orville Schell at Asia Society, New York on November 24th from 6:00 pm. |
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Book PresentationPhotographer Liu Heung Shing at TASCHEN Store NY for the book signing of his book "China: Portrait of a Country"November 21, 2008TASCHEN Soho 107 Greene Street, New York NY 10012, United States Liu Heung Shing, Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer and editor of China: Portrait of a Country to sign his book at the TASCHEN store Soho on the 21st November, from 6 - 8 pm. |
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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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ExhibitionLooking at MusicAugust 13, 2008 - January 05, 2009MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019-5497, Tel: 212-708-9400, United States This exhibition looks at the dynamic connections that occurred from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with a display of early media works by Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie presented alongside related drawings, prints, and photographs by John Cage, Jack Smith, Ray Johnson, and others. |
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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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