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"A Tribute to Robert Rauschenberg: Prints" Exhibition
A Tribute to Robert Rauschenberg is a survey exhibition divided into two parts. Part One: Prints, on view October 23 through December 6, 2008, highlights his print series, from the first Booster and 7 (...)
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"to: Night" Exhibition
- at Hunter College Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- Closes in 2 days
to: Night brings together a selection of artworks which explore the theme of night using a variety of approaches. In the context of this exhibition, “night” is taken as a descriptive term which encompasses (...)
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Laurent Grasso "Infinite Light"
A work entitled Infinite Light created by the French artist Laurent Grasso, is intended to span the exterior of the pedestrian bridges that connect the main buildings at Hunter College.
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"Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939" Exhibition
Rhythms of Modern Life will be the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning (...)
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"Henry Moore and The Modern Form" Exhibition
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"Ink" Exhibition
Salon 94 presents Ink, a two-part exhibition of new work by Lorna Simpson. The exhibition is comprised of a video projection and a series of drawings that explore politics and social history. One suite (...)
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Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon "Isabel and Other Intimate Strangers"
This exhibition brings together important loans and rarely seen works from international museums and private collections, including the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, The Metropolitan Museum, (...)
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Liza Lou Exhibition
L&M Arts is honored to present a solo exhibition by Liza Lou, her first in New York since 2002. Liza Lou first gained attention when her monumental work Kitchen was shown at the New Museum of Contemporary (...)
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Nicolás Guagnini "Power Structure "
Andrew Roth is pleased to announce the opening of Power Structure by Nicolás Guagnini. For his third exhibition at ROTH, Guagnini brings together a consortium of his peers – both contemporary and historically (...)
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"Giorgio Morandi, 1890–1964" Exhibition
This will be a comprehensive survey—the first in this country—of the career of Giorgio Morandi, one of the greatest 20th-century masters of still-life and landscape painting in the tradition of Chardin (...)
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"The Last Emperor’s Collection: Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy from the Liaoning Provincial Museum" Exhibition
Painting and calligraphy, China’s most revered art forms, were collected by its emperors from at least the fifth century AD. These two art forms have been a treasured part of the imperial collection throughout (...)
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Gallery Group Exhibition
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Bessie Jamieson "Jewelry"
This exhibition will consist of hand-made necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and pins of 22-karat gold with precious and semi-precious gemstones, including antique rose-cut diamonds and coral beads. JAMIESON (...)
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Pam Sheehan "Oil Sketches"
Pam Sheehan’s work has been shown at Davis & Langdale Company since 1999. The forthcoming exhibition will consist of approximately 20 paintings, most painted within the past year. Sheehan’s landscape (...)
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Robert M. Kulicke "Works on Paper"
Robert M. Kulicke was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, frame designer, framemaker, potter, goldsmith, historian, collector, and teacher. This exhibition is composed of twenty drawings, watercolors, (...)
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"SIGN/AGE Part Two: Lost in the Supermarket" Exhibition
"Lost in the Supermarket" is the second in our three part SIGN/AGE series. Assembling works by artists from the Post-War period to the present, these exhibitions mine ideas and images from the rich arenas (...)
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John Marin "The Late Oils"
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Max Weber "Paintings from the 1930s, 40s and 50s"
Max Weber was at the forefront of abstraction as one of its most versatile, inventive, and exceptional trail blazers in America. A consummate Expressionist who touched on virtually every phase of modernism, (...)
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"Small is Beautiful" Exhibition
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"Deflationary Objects, 1962-1976" Exhibition
Leo Castelli Gallery announces “Robert Morris, Deflationary Objects, 1962-1976”, an exhibition of small-scale sculptures by the well-known American artist. This will be the first time the public will (...)
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"History Portraits" Exhibition
Skarstedt Gallery announces the exhibition History Portraits by Cindy Sherman. A total of twenty out of the thirty-five pieces produced in this series from 1989-1990. In this series we find Sherman, always (...)
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"Michael Tompkins Paintings and Works on Paper" Exhibition
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"New Mothers" Exhibition
Mireille Mosler, Ltd announces New Mothers, Don Doe's second solo exhibition with the gallery, comprised of vibrant and classically composed new work on paper. Responding to popular culture and stylistically (...)
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"Untitled (Vicarious)" Exhibition
Untitled (Vicarious) explores the defining relationship between sculpture and photography as exemplified by a group of artists spanning several generations. Central to the exhibition is the dematerialization (...)
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Geoffrey Johnson Exhibition
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John Marin "Ten Masterworks in Watercolor"
John Marin: Ten Masterworks in Watercolor is on view at Meredith Ward Fine Art. The show features 10 rarely seen works from the artist’s estate and other prominent collections spanning four decades. The (...)
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Neil Jenney Exhibition
For over forty years, Neil Jenney has been one of the art world’s great contrarians. Defiant of trends and movements, he has consistently remained committed to his distinctive artistic principles. In (...)
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Olly and Suzi "68 Degrees North"
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Richard Serra "Solids"
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present Solids, a recent sequence of twenty-five drawings by Richard Serra. Solids was first shown in "Work comes out of work," Serra's comprehensive drawing exhibition at (...)
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Zeng Shanqing Exhibition
Zeng Shanqing Exhibition is the third in a series of 15 shows on the New Ink Painting that Goedhuis Contemporary will stage in the next two years. In Zeng Shanqing's recent works can be seen the ultimate (...)
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"Holiday Season of Fine Japanese Works of Art" Exhibition
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"Minimal and Conceptual Art in Europe: The Helga and Walter Lauffs Collection" Exhibition
Zwirner & Wirth (32 East 69th Street) and David Zwirner (519 West 19th Street) will present a two-part exhibition that aims to provide a focused overview of the Minimal and Conceptual artistic practices (...)
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Geoffrey Dashwood and Vivienne Foley Exhibition
Dashwood's cast bronze sculptures in this exhibition depict various birds in refined elegance. Dashwood brings to each of his sculptures the deepest understanding of his subject, born of long and close (...)
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Jeff Sonhouse Exhibition
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"Catholics in New York, 1808-1946" Exhibition
Catholics in New York 1808-1946, will explore the social and political history of the diverse group of people who established the formidable Catholic presence in New York. The exhibition, the first of (...)
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Catherine Cabaniss Exhibition
Work in the exhibit by Catherine Cabaniss will include paintings made in Prague from 2004-2006. Also included will be 4 collagraphs from the artist's body of work "Water-Based."
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Jenny Holzer "For the Guggenheim"
From September 2005 to July 2008, the Guggenheim Museum was enclosed in scaffolding while a team of architects, structural engineers, and conservators undertook a comprehensive condition assessment and (...)
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"A.R. Penck: Paintings from the Eighties" Exhibition
This exhibition presents a group of works painted in the years immediately following the artist's emigration to the West. The works in A.R. Penck: Paintings from the Eighties show the artist's continued (...)
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"Coming Attractions: Poster Paintings for the Cinema" Exhibition
Hirschl & Adler Galleries presents Coming Attractions: Poster Paintings for the Cinema by Batiste Madalena. Like the MoMA show, the Hirschl & Adler exhibition draws on a singular collection of (...)
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"Coney Island" Exhibition
As you step off the elevated D train and walk across Surf Avenue, the sea air and the smell of grilling franks from Nathan’s Famous reminds you there is no place like Coney Island. For over a century, (...)
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Bruno Romeda "A Survey"
For many years, Bruno Romeda, who was born in Italy, has focused on the most simple, absolute geometric shapes - the square, the circle, and the triangle. From time to time, he will undertake variations (...)
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"Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717)" Exhibition
Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late 17th-century China, played a key role in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting as well as in establishing the stylistic foundations for the (...)
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"New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940" Exhibition
In the late 1930s, Rudy Burckhardt—then a recent émigré to America from Switzerland—created what are today considered to be some of the greatest photographs of New York ever made. This exhibition will (...)
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"The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World" Exhibition
In 1947, a significant discovery of ancient Jewish texts written on parchment was made in a cave in the Judean Desert, east of Jerusalem and near the Dead Sea. These first scrolls turned out to contain (...)
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"The Unknown Blakelock" Exhibition
The Unknown Blakelock offers new perspectives on the prescient work of Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) specifically addressing the modernity of his accomplishments as reflected in this exhibition’s (...)
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Corin Hewitt "Seed Stage"
Artist Corin Hewitt takes up occupancy in the Whitney's Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Lobby Gallery in this ongoing installation that is part performance art, part live theater, and part meditation on ideas (...)
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Leola Bermanzohn "Otiyot"
Leola Bermanzohn will produce a temporary, site-specific mural in the basement lobby of The Jewish Museum. Otiyot (Letters) responds to the script of the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as the spiritual and sacred (...)
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"Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche" Presentation
The Museum will continue a long-standing holiday tradition with the annual presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid eighteenth-century Neapolitan (...)
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"Robert Kelly: New Paintings" Exhibition
Leslie Feely Fine Art announces the opening of Robert Kelly: New Paintings exhibition which is the first show of Kelly’s work in New York City in five years and will run through January 6th, 2009.
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"theanyspacewhatever" Exhibition
During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition (...)
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Catherine Opie "American Photographer"
Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore (...)
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"Eros" Exhibition
Richard L. Feigen & Co.’s fall exhibition, Eros, will focus on the themes of love, romance, and eroticism, which have fascinated artists for centuries. Paintings, drawings, prints, and video art from (...)
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"Image in the Box: From Cornell to Contemporary" Exhibition
Comprised of 59 works covering the period from the 1920s to the present, the assemblage of box constructions presented evokes magical journeys of the imagination, captures the poetry within the most unassuming (...)
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Helen Frankenthaler "Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades"
Helen Frankenthaler, eminent among American abstract painters, will be eighty in December 2008. To celebrate her landmark birthday, Knoedler & Company is pleased to present this survey exhibition of (...)
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Jaimie Warren "Don't You Feel Better"
Higher Pictures presents the first solo exhibition of the artist Jaimie Warren (imagine the love child of Martin Parr and Cindy Sherman.) Warren’s theatrical and humorous self-portraits mine her naturally (...)
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"Art and China's Revolution" Exhibition
Asia Society presents Art and China's Revolution, a groundbreaking exhibition that considers the artistic achievement and legacy of one of the most tumultuous and catastrophic periods in recent Chinese (...)
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"Drawings and Prints" Selections from the Permanent Collection
On view will be European works on paper spanning the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, including a number of recent acquisitions. Among the highlights is a group exploring depictions of gatherings (...)
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"A Passion for Fashion" Exhibition
Keith de Lellis Gallery presents an exhibition of vintage photographs by two leading 20th century fashion photography icons, George Hoyningen-Huene and Louise Dahl-Wolfe. They were the fashion industry’s (...)
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"The Cadiz Caprices" Exhibition
Jacobson Howard Gallery presents The Cadiz Caprices, a series of new abstract works by the renowned English painter William Tillyer. The Cadiz Caprices, at once the latest proposition in a long-term investigation (...)
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Andrea Riccio "Renaissance Master of Bronze"
The Frick Collection presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Riccio (1470–1532), one of the most creative sculptors of the Renaissance. On view will be thirty-one autograph works (...)
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"If Elected: The Game of American Politics" Exhibition
The New-York Historical Society will mark the occasion of the upcoming November elections with an installation that surveys the history of American presidential elections through the lens of campaign ephemera (...)
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"House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection" Exhibition
This exhibition showcases Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw’s collection of nineteenth-century watercolor drawings, which meticulously detail the era’s interior furnishings and document the social, cultural, (...)
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William Eggleston "Democratic Camera"
Nearly fifty years of extraordinary image-making by the photographer William Eggleston will be presented in a major retrospective, "William Eggleston: Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961-2008" (...)
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Alfred Kubin "Drawings, 1897-1909"
The Neue Galerie New York opens the exhibition “Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909,” featuring over 100 works on paper by the artist Alfred Kubin. This is the first major museum exhibition of his work ever (...)
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Carlos Cruz-Diez "(In)formed by Color"
Americas Society will present Carlos Cruz-Diez’s first solo show in a major U.S. cultural institution. Focusing on the relationship between color and perception, the exhibition will increase the visibility (...)
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"The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions" Exhibition
Philippe de Montebello—whose long and storied career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art has spanned nearly a third of the institution’s entire history—will retire after more than thirty-one years as director. (...)
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"Theaters of Memory: Art and the Holocaust" Exhibition
Theaters of Memory presents work by eight artists who have addressed the histories surrounding the Second World War, the atrocities of genocide and mass destruction, and their attendant moral devastation. (...)
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Shigeyuki Kihara "Living Photographs"
This exhibition presents photographs by Shigeyuki Kihara, a Samoan-born multimedia and performance artist who uses photography to explore themes of Pacific culture, identity, colonialism, indigenous spirituality, (...)
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Susan Hiller "The J. Street Project"
Artist Susan Hiller researched every German street that has the prefix "Juden" (Jews) in its name. The street signs she found mark the absence of Jewish communities that lived in Germany before the Holocaust. (...)
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Uriel Orlow "1942 (Poznan)"
1942 (Poznan) memorializes a place, a people, and one of the darkest periods in European history. The video begins with a close-up of a tiled floor. The camera then rises to reveal an indoor pool with (...)
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Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, c. 1600–1900 and Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur'an
These exhibitions present examples of Islamic calligraphy, such as practice exercises, manuscripts, and folios from the Qur'an, along with the tools used to create these masterful works. The approximately (...)
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Alexander Calder "The Paris Years, 1926-1933"
When Alexander Calder (1898-1976) arrived in Paris in the mid-1920s, he aspired to be a painter; when he left in the early-1930s, he had evolved into the artist we know today, an international figure and (...)
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"Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" Exhibition
This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance. The approximately 150 objects, which date from about 1400 to the mid-16th century, (...)
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Eudora Welty "Photographs of the Early 1930s"
Eudora Welty (1909-2001) is acknowledged as one of the great authors of the twentieth century and in more recent years her talent as a photographer has been recognized. Eudora Welty in New York: Photographs (...)
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"Wonder Women" Exhibition
The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is pleased to exhibit the work of women Abstract artists, whose work was so ignobly treated in the fifties and sixties. The work of these extremely talented women exhibits the (...)
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"Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940" Exhibition
- at The Museum of the City of New York
- Media: Architecture - Fashion - Film
- Closes in 80 days
The 1920s and ‘30s witnessed a burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining fashion, and giving visual form to (...)
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"Chinese Political Pop" Exhibition
Nathan Bernstein Gallery presents an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Political Pop Art. The exhibition brings together some of the most controversial art works by the leading Chinese Avant Garde artists (...)
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"Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008" Exhibition
- at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Media: Graphics - Painting - Drawing
- Closes in 87 days
International in scope and possessing one of the most diverse and comprehensive collections of design works in existence, the Museum's rich holdings range from the Han Dynasty (200 B.C.) to the present (...)
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"Raqib Shaw at the Met" Exhibition
In this selection of work by Raqib Shaw (b. 1974), the Indian-born, London-based artist responds to the Holbein in England exhibition held in 2006–7 at Tate Britain. This is Shaw’s first solo show at a (...)
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"Provocative Visions: Race and Identity" Selections from the Permanent Collection
This installation features new acquisitions from the past fifteen years, on view at the Museum for the first time. Included are sculptures and prints by contemporary African-American artists—Chakaia Booker, (...)
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Ray Mortenson "Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx"
Made between 1982 and 1984, the photographs in Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson focus on the burned out, abandoned, and razed structures of entire city blocks in the South (...)
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"Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C." Exhibition
This exhibition focuses on the extraordinary art created as a result of a sophisticated network of interaction that developed among kings, diplomats, merchants, and others in the Near East during the second (...)
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"Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949" Exhibition
The Jewish Museum is organizing the first exhibition devoted to the extraordinary artwork created for Russian Jewish theater productions in the 1920s and 1930s. The exhibition will bring to light a remarkable (...)
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"Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting: The Palm-Leaf Tradition" Exhibition


