Monthly Archives: January 2012

Regarding Marisa Merz: The Latest Presentation of the MAXXI Arte Collection

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Ten works by Marisa Merz exhibited together with the works of Rosa Barba, Elisabetta Benassi, Alighiero Boetti, Jim Isermann, Ketty La Rocca, Luisa Lambri, Claudia Losi, Mario Merz, Paola Pivi, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker and Franz West. Regarding Marisa Merz … Continue reading  

Possibly the Greatest Comics Auction Ever Announced

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The Billy Wright Collection, a newly CGC-pedigreed collection – featuring five of the top six comic books in the hobby, all unrestored and all offered without reserves – leads the way in Heritage’s Feb. 22-24 Vintage Comics and Comic Art … Continue reading  

Daniel Crouch Rare Books to Exhibit First Color Atlas at the Miami International Map Fair

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Daniel Crouch Rare Books, leading specialist in rare maps and atlases, will be exhibiting two fine and rare cartographic works at the Miami International Map Fair; by Ptolemy, and Jesuit monk Ferdinand Verbiest. Ferdinand Verbiest, (known as Nan Huairen in … Continue reading  

Asia Week NY Starts With Plenty of Gallery Open Houses and Museum Exhibitions

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For Asia Week New York starting on March 16, nearly three-dozen galleries will host simultaneous exhibitions to spotlight prized ancient, antique, and contemporary Asian artworks. International and Manhattan dealers will showcase an astonishing array of the best art from China, … Continue reading  

Indianapolis Museum of Art to Celebrate Super Bowl XLVI With Special Installation

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The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced today that it has placed Robert Indiana’s sculptures Numbers (four) and Numbers (six) in the IMA Welcome Center to celebrate Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. The sculptures will be on view from January 27 … Continue reading  

Exhibition at Tate Britain Explores How British Art Has Been Shaped by Migration

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In January 2012 Tate Britain presents an exhibition exploring how British art has been shaped by migration. Featuring artists from Van Dyck, Whistler and Mondrian to Steve McQueen and Francis Alÿs, Migrations traces not only the movement of artists, but … Continue reading  

Archives of American Art Exhibition Celebrates Jackson Pollock’s Enduring Legacy

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The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art presents “Memories Arrested in Space, a centennial tribute to Jackson Pollock from the Archives of American Art.” The exhibition opened on the centennial of Jackson Pollock’s birthday, Jan. 28, at the Lawrence A. Fleischman … Continue reading  

Art From the Collections of “la Caixa” Foundation on View at the Guggenheim

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From January 31 to September 2, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will be hosting The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of ”la Caixa” Foundation and MACBA, a superb selection of works belonging to two outstanding contemporary art collections that … Continue reading  

Newly Renovated 19th-Century French Galleries Reopen at National Gallery of Art

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Following a two-year renovation, the galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art reopened to the public on January 28, 2012. Among the greatest collections in the world of paintings by Manet, … Continue reading  

Weegee Exhibit at the International Center of Photography in New York

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Gangland murders, gruesome car crashes, and perilous tenement fires were for the photographer Weegee (1899—1968) the staples of his flashlit black-and-white work as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1930s. Such graphically dramatic and sometimes sensationalistic photographs of New York crimes … Continue reading