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William Baziotes
William Baziotes , 1912-64, American painter, b. Pittsburgh. Baziotes's works of the 1940s and 50s are largely abstract images, usually with brooding, primitive qualities encompassed in rich and muted colors. He taught in New York City at several schools including the Brooklyn Museum Art School and... Read more |
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Paul J Sachs
Paul J. Sachs , 1878-1965, American art teacher and collector, b. New York City. As professor of fine arts at Harvard, Sachs influenced and inspired many art historians and curators during the years of growth in the history of American art museums. His major publications include Drawings in the... Read more |
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Robert Goldwater
Robert Goldwater 1907-73, American art historian, b. New York City. Goldwater taught at Queens College, N.Y., from 1934 to 1957, when he was appointed professor of fine arts at New York Univ. The same year he also became the director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City. Known primarily... Read more |
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Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H. Barr , Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the museum specialized in loan shows of contemporary European and American art. A start toward its... Read more |
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John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain 1927-, American sculptor, b. Rochester, Ind. In the late 1950s, Chamberlain became known for his welded assemblages of smashed automobile parts and colored scrap metal. His work is represented in the Los Angeles County Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.... Read more |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York New York)
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, is an international showplace for twentieth-century art, that is committed to the exhibition of nonobjective art and a movement "from the materialistic to the... Read more |
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Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld (Albert Hirschfeld) , 1903-2003, American graphic artist, b. St. Louis. He and his family moved to New York City when he was 12, and he studied art there and in Paris. A master of line, Hirschfeld is famous for his witty, perceptive, and joyful caricatures of celebrities from the... Read more |
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Adele Simpson
SIMPSON, Adele American fashion designer Born: Adele Smithline, in New York City, 28 December 1904. Education: Studied dressmaking at Pratt Institute of Design, Brooklyn, New York, 1921-22. Family: Married textile manufacturer Wesley William Simpson, 1930 (deceased); children: Jeffrey, Joan.... Read more |
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Elizabeth Hawes
HAWES, Elizabeth American designer Born: Ridgewood, New Jersey, 16 December 1903. Education: Studied at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1921-25. Family: Married Ralph Jester in 1930 (divorced, 1934); married Joseph Losey in 1937 (divorced, 1944), son: Gavrik Losey. Career: Worked in... Read more |
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Anselm Kiefer. (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
...faith that art alone can...degenerate art" is one...includes all the arts) is the...theory of art that so thoroughly...art into a new moral era...imperative than Anselm Kiefer, whose sludged...staff of the Museum of Modern Art has ... |
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Seeing Is Believing: From Tokyo to Chicago, German photographer Andreas...
...opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has just...approach to his art has put Gursky...world painters Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar...stuff the modern world offers...computer. MoMA curator Peter...them. In museums, the audience... |
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MOMA wrapping up a mammoth millennium.
...Michael Kilian New York's Museum of Modern Art has opened the...last 40 years of modern art. In addition...Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, Jasper Johns...Kasimir Malevich, MOMA has made room...Knowledge in Early Modern Europe," an... |
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DOUBLE DOSE OF MIES OFFERS NY DIVERSITY NEW YORK EXHIBITS OFFER DIVERSE VIEWS...
New York City is hog...Guggenheim Museum, we've...Museum of Modern Art has "Mies...school of modern design. Then...Avenue) in New York; and the...Berlin" at MoMA will be of...German painter Anselm Kiefer. It's enough... |
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Ancient and modern.(EDITOR'S LETTER)(modern and ancient art)(Column)
...public in some new or definitive...certainly MoMA's recent...Coates, art critic for...group of New York artists who...a British museum like Tare Modern didn't...curated 'Modern Antiquity...ancient and the modern is something...figures. Anselm ... |
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Arts Guide
...ViennaKunsthistorisches Museum, tel...Museum of Fine Arts, tel...L'Art Egyptien...Documents the arts of the Old...travel to New York and Toronto...Museum and Art Gallery...29: ''Anselm Kiefer: Stelle...Museum of Modern Art, ... |
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Major art shows are all over the map.(ENTERTAINMENT)
...Philadelphia Museum of Art...Gursky, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar...world. Its new show, "German Art Now," features...German Art Now" runs...Houston hosts MOMA masterpieces...Museum of Fine Arts, Houston...Museum of Modern Art ... |
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Meet the artists.(Features)
...include the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw...P.S.1, New York, USA, TateModern...Academy of Arts, London...including the Tate Modern, London (UK),MOMA, New York, Jewish Museum...Montreal and the Anselm Kiefer Prize 2003... |
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Contemporary art in Italy: Entrepreneurial derring-do
...Kimmelman The New York Times Media...Contemporary art in Italy...Kimmelman The New York Times Media...Chelsea of New York reaches the...installations; Anselm Kiefer's, an...museum of modern art, but...museum against museum - ... |
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Four decades of works by German painter reveal versatility, vision.
...Sozanski NEW YORK _ During the...compatriots like Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz...exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art proves the...This show, MoMA's last major...might be. MoMA curator Robert...But unlike Kiefer, for example... |
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