Artist: Vito Acconci (1940 - )
Nationality: American
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Media: Sculpture, Installation
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Artworks in Museum Collections: (1)
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Pomponio Amalteo A Group of Putti, studies for group to left of Christ and the Virgin in Assumption of the Virgin, the cupola fresco of Santa Maria dei Battuti, S. Vito al Tagliamento, Friuli Pen and brown ink and brown wash over red and white chalks

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art
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Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Volume: Bed of Sound
VOLUME: Bed of Sound explores the roots of sound art and presents audio works by over sixty artists, spanning the last three decades. The exhibition runs the gamut from historical works - sound effects tracks from Apoca...
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Performing Photography
Performing Photography features a range of images of performances, from those staged specifically for the camera to documentation of public performance works. On view is a work by Vito Acconci for which he shot a p...
Museum of New Art: Documenta USA: 1,000 Artists from 35 Countries
Documenting implies research, study and analysis, but it may also be raw, emotional, and creative. It is defined as information gathering, but, at the same time, the processing of information into something new. - the Tate Modern There ...
Virginia Museum of Fine Art: Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts
Outer and Inner Space places the three recent video installations in the context of classic video art from the 1960s to early 1980s. These early works ...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: Four Exhibitions: Bodily Acts, Beyond the Sentence, Just what is it that makes trailer homes so different, so appealing, In Person and
Bodily Acts, curated by Jennifer L. Gray, investigates performances of three generations of artists. Photographs and videos by Vanessa Beecroft, Patty Chang, Valie Export, Nikki S. Lee, and Cindy Sherman comment on identity, objectification...
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art: MAKING TIME: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video & Film
Time in art had for centuries been connected to the idea of permanence, and then, since the 1960s, performance. But where is time nowNULL In an age when global ...
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College: First-year graduate students curate exhibitions: I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real
The three exhibitions, I Need You To Be There, Angles of Incidence, and The Volatile Real were conceived in collaboration between curatorial teams of first-year graduate students and visiting curator, Maria Hlavajova, artistic director of the Bega...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Photographs: A Decade of Collecting
Collecting great works of art is the Metropolitan Museum's most important mission, noted Director Philippe de Montebello. The enrichment of our photography hol...
Power Plant: Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works
Since 1987, Kelley and McCarthy have collaborated on three major installations and five videos as well as producing two series of photographs, design of the Sod and Sodie Sock catalogue and a double CD of performances in Tokyo with Japanes...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Whitney Museum of American Art: Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000
Curator Sylvia Wolf's selection focuses on artists who live and work in this country. Portraits, landscapes, street photographs, and genre subjects will be featured, including works by Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney, Dawoud Bey, Nancy B...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Extreme Connoisseurship - How Traditional Study of Objects Can Be Adapted to Illuminate Current Works
The Fogg’s decision four years ago to create a Department of Modern and Contemporary Art was, in a way, the genesis of this exhibition, said James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot director of the Harvard University Art Museums. Extreme Connois...
Guggenheim Museum: Moving Pictures: Woork in Photography, Film, and Video
The exhibition fills the museum’s entire Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, Thannhauser gallery 4, and Annex gallery 5. Moving Pictures is on view from June 28, 2002 to January 12, 2003. This exhibition is sponsored by Delta Airlines. During the la...
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Arts: Stimuli
Stimuli explores in a number of modern classics and contemporary works the physical experience of visual arts on the basis of this hallucinatory experience. With ...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality
"This exhibition provides a unique and rare opportunity to see some of the most remarkable international artshakers in the world, artists who are highly influential and work with ideas of communication through giving," says AGH Chief Curator Sh...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Biennale of Sydney 2002, International Festival of Contemporary Art: (The World May Be) Fantastic.
The 2002 exhibition invites you to view My Living Room is a Martian Base (Gilles Barbier, France), see Nixon in Chains (Jeffrey Vallance, USA), hear A Strange Message From Another Star (Veli Granö, Finland), experience the killing in the Muriel...
BAWAG Foundation: Elke Krystufek: The Rich Visit the Poor, the Poor Visit the Rich
Artists, gallery owners, collectors, curators - Krystufek falls back on the entire art scene yakuza, making them appear against a backdrop of slums and palaces, in chic salons and trashy saloons, in pink Cadillacs, designer chairs, and high-gra...
Guggenheim Museum: Hugo Boss Prize 2002 Finalists Announced
On behalf of the jury, I’m delighted to announce the shortlist for the HUGO BOSS PRIZE: 2002, said Thomas Krens. The biennial prize has become an integral component of the Guggenheim Museum’s contemporary art programming since its inception in 1...

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