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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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Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin (Agnes Bernice Martin), 1912-2004, American painter, b. Macklin, Canada. She moved to the United States in 1931, became a U.S. citizen in 1950, and emerged as an important artist in the late 50s and early 60s. Martin is best known for her spare, abstract all-over grid paintings.... Read more |
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Germano Celant
Celant, Germano (1940– ). Italian art critic. He studied at Genoa University, where he gained a doctorate in art history. In 1967 he coined the term Arte Povera and he is best known as the chief propagandist for this kind of art, although he has also written on other subjects, including the... Read more |
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Peggy Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim (Marguerite Guggenheim), 1898-1979, American modern art patron and collector, b. New York City. The daughter of Benjamin, niece of Solomon, and grand-daughter of Meyer Guggenheim , she grew up in luxury, inherited a fortune, and became a friend, patron, and sometime lover to a... Read more |
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Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin , 1933-96, American sculptor, b. New York City. In the early 1960s, Flavin experimented with fluorescent lights, bending them into complex, angular shapes. His sculptures, which are closely related to minimalism in underlying approach, incorporate installations of commercially made... Read more |
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Systemic art
Systemic art. Term coined by the critic Lawrence Alloway in 1966 to refer to a type of abstract art characterized by the use of very simple standardized forms, usually geometrical in character, used either in a single image or repeated in a pattern arranged according to a clear principle of... Read more |
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Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue famous north-south street of the borough of Manhattan, New York City. It begins at Washington Square and ends at the Harlem River. Between 34th and 59th streets, Fifth Ave. is lined with fashionable department stores and specialty shops. Fronting the avenue are the Empire State... Read more |
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Wallace Markfield
MARKFIELD, Wallace (Arthur) Nationality: American. Born: Brooklyn, New York, 12 August 1926. Education: Abraham Lincoln High School, New York; Brooklyn College, B.A. 1947; New York University, 1948-50. Family: Married Anna May Goodman in 1949; one daughter. Career: Film critic, New... Read more |
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is a complex of many buildings, including the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, the New York State Theater, the Juilliard School (including Alice Tully Hall... Read more |
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New Image Painting
New Image Painting (or New Image Art). A vague term applied since the late 1970s to the work of certain avant-garde artists who work in a strident figurative style, often with cartoon-like imagery and abrasive handling owing something to Neo-Expressionism. It was given currency by an exhibition... Read more |
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