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ExhibitionSuperheroes: Fashion and FantasyMay 07, 2008 - September 01, 2008The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028-0198, Phone: 212-535-7710, United States
This exhibition will explore the symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it will reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects will be organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers will be catalysts for the discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion.
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ExhibitionCut: Revealing the SectionFebruary 08, 2008 - June 08, 2008San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, Phone: 415.357.4000, United States
This dynamic selection drawn from the SFMOMA collection highlights the vital yet little-understood architectural section, a representational tool that provides a vertical complement to the plan or map view. The section helps architects and designers visualize their work by focusing on spatial elements concealed by the plan — height, lighting, structure, and volume — as well as spatial adjacencies and discontinuities. Works on view address the section in a variety of formats, including an extensive group of architectural drawings by Morphosis, Timothy Pflueger, and Joel Sanders, among others; Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1974 performance documentation film Splitting; and a new installation by artist Peter Wegner.
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ExhibitionInside Architecture: Selections from the permanent collectionMarch 09, 2008 - June 01, 2008The Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Phone: 213/626-6222, United States
From intimate domestic settings to grand institutional spaces, the interior has always been a source of inspiration for artists. Inside Architecture: Selections from the permanent collection brings together works from MOCA’s permanent collection that examine artists’ ongoing fascination with interior spaces and the range of ways they have chosen to depict or represent both the public and private places inside buildings, whether anonymous or well known. The exhibition will include drawings, paintings, and photographs by artists Candida Höfer, Richard Prince, Paul Sietsema, Thomas Struth, Matthias Weischer, and Paul Winstanley, among others.
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ExhibitionMaps: Finding Our Place in the WorldMarch 16, 2008 - June 08, 2008The Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, Phone: 410-547-9000, United States
Visitors will come face-to-face with some of the world’s greatest cartographic treasures, not only maps made by great cartographers of the Middle Ages and the age of exploration, but also seldom-seen and exciting artifacts from around the world that will broaden visitors’ knowledge of the almost universal human activity of map-making. The exhibition will feature a variety of unique, rare, and often beautiful artifacts, including maps on cuneiform tablets, medieval maps, manuscript maps of explorers, globes, maps of areas all around the earth, and maps of nowhere: utopias and imaginary maps. Highlights include three maps by Leonardo da Vinci, J. R. R. Tolkien’s map of Minas Tirith, and Thomas Jefferson’s map of the proposed contours of the states of the Union.
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ExhibitionLights! Camera! Glamour! The Photography of George HurrellJanuary 08, 2008 - June 29, 2008The California Heritage Museum, 2612 Main Street,Santa Monica, California 90405, Phone: (310) 392-8537, United States
As studio photographer for MGM, Warner Brothers and Columbia, Hurrell shot some of the world's most beautiful and intriguing personalities, creating the template for the Hollywood glamour portrait. His flawless photography was instrumental in shaping the images of stars such as Joan Crawford, James Cagney and Rita Hayworth.
The exhibition will show more than eighty iconic photographs ranging from Jean Harlow, and Clark Gable to Joan Collins and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The exhibition also features a replica of Hurrell's studio, with his camera, boom light and handpainted screen and a room of nude portraits, many of which are being shown for the first time. |
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ExhibitionThe Baroque World of Fernando BoterMarch 15, 2008 - June 08, 2008Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, Delaware 19806, Ph: 302-571-9590, United States
Colombian-born Fernando Botero is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman renowned for his extravagantly rounded figures combining the polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists. Their humorous exaggeration belies the more serious content of Botero’s work—commentary on colonialism, political instability in Latin America, and the vernacular artistic traditions of the region, as well as European art history.
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ExhibitionThe Baroque World of Fernando BoteroMarch 15, 2008 - June 08, 2008Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway, Wilmington, DE, Ph: 866.232.3714, United States
Colombian-born Fernando Botero is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman renowned for his extravagantly rounded figures combining the polish and excess of Spanish colonial baroque with the social realism of the Mexican muralists. Their humorous exaggeration belies the more serious content of Botero’s work—commentary on colonialism, political instability in Latin America, and the vernacular artistic traditions of the region, as well as European art history.
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ExhibitionAlexander Calder JewelryFebruary 23, 2008 - June 15, 2008Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, Phone: (561) 832 - 5196, United States
The art of Alexander Calder has been celebrated and examined at some length in numerous exhibitions. However, his work in the field of jewelry is not so well-known, and when shown has been just a small component of large survey exhibitions. Indeed, Calder dealt with this field much as he did in his other work: the jewelry has the same linear yet three-dimensional aspect as the mobiles, and the parts that comprise each piece are hammered, shaped, chiseled and composed in a fashion that precisely echoes the artist’s creation of his sculpture. This exhibition will consist of approximately one hundred objects—necklaces, bracelets, pins, earrings, and crowns
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ExhibitionChagall: My StoriesMarch 29, 2008 - September 07, 2008Pola Museum of Art, 1285 Kozukayama Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa 250-0631, +81 (0)4604 2111, United States |
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ExhibitionCollecting CollectionsFebruary 09, 2008 - May 19, 2008The Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Phone: 213/626-6222, United States Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The surprising depth and coherence of MOCA’s permanent collection is due in great measure to it being a “collection of collections,” of which key acquisitions and gifts from several important collectors form the armature. This exhibition surveys the major works acquired by MOCA since the museum’s 1979 founding that have defined and continue to define one of the country’s great groupings of contemporary art. Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is organized chronologically into a cohesive presentation that reflects a span of important movements—abstract expressionism, minimalism, conceptualism, pop art, postminimalism, postmodernism, figurative sculpture, new figuration, appropriation, and postconceptualism. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper that range in date from one of the earliest works in the collection, Piet Mondrian’s Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow and White: Nom III (1939), to recent works such as Maurizio Cattelan’s Charlie (2003). |
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