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Artist: Benjamin Block ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Museum of the City of NewYork: Renewing a Block and the Spirit of Its People: Photographs of Carmel Hill, Harlem by Bill Foley
Foley has also skillfully captured the change in attitudes among the block’s residents, a transformation from despair to hope, pride in accomplishment, and the spirit necessary to make it t...
Royal Academy of the Arts: Joseph Beuys: The Secret Block for a Secret Person in
Beuys selected the drawings for the mysteriously-named The Secret Block for a Secret Person in Ireland himself, from his output between 1936 and 1976, adding to the block throughout his career until it reached a total of 456 sheets. For B...
Phillips Collection: A Collector's Cabinet: Whistler's Lithographs and 20th Century American Prints from the Collection of Steven Block
The understated eloquence of Whistler's lithographs connects the personal exploration of Whistler with the experimentation of early American modernists. Admired by artists, including Alfred Stieglitz, Whistler's contribution ...
Speed Art Museum: Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler from the Collection of Steven Block
First introduced to lithography in 1878, Whistler’s interest in the medium never waned and he experimented with lithography intermittently until his death in 1903. Works included in this exhibition depict intimate scenes from daily life, delicate ...
Courtyard Gallery: Wang Shugang: Apartment Block Life
The phrase 'apartment blocks' refers to the vast labyrinth of numbered doorways in Chinese housing complexes represented here by bamboo cages. Each cage stands akin to the iron grilles adorning the exterior of Chinese apartment windows. This insta...
George Billis Gallery, L.A.: Carol Es: 1-SELF
Carol is a native Los Angelina and self-taught painter whose work has shown locally for several years. Her work intimately explores the tribulations of childhood trauma using pigment, manila paper and sewing pins to overcome them. Her witty psycho...
Columbia Museum of Art: Winslow Homer: The Civil War Years and Winslow Homer: The Gloucester Years (Focus Gallery 3)
Newspaper illustrations at the time were using an improved method of woodblock reproduction know as wood engraving. Using the end grain of boxwood, the illustrator could draw finer line...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz
Drawn from collections in Poland, Israel, the United States, Germany and France, the artwork contains genres ranging from self-portraits and landscapes to illustrated letters, political cartoons, caricatures and images of camp existence. The work...
Royal Albert Hall: Henry Reichold: English Natinal Ballet Exhibition
The exhibition is sponsored by Adobe, Hewlett-Packard and The Royal Albert Hall. The images all originate from 35mm transparencies and are then manipulated in Adobe Photoshop. The output is via an HP 5000 large format inkjet printer...
cherrydelosreyes: Antonio Adriano Puleo: To This World I Must Give In
The figures in Puleo’s paintings are either headless, as in Protect Your Neck (I Feel My Head Going Down Again) or “block heads.” They almost always have a divine type of presence due to graphic beams of light penetrating apertures in the block h...
Carol Ann Newsome: New Leaf
Every New Leaf is “planted” in plain sight in a public area where anyone can find it. Finders are welcome to keep their Leaf. Plantings may consist of a single Leaf to several hundred New Leafs placed in a certain area over a period of several da...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Contemporary Directions: Glass from the Maxine and William Block Collection
A complementary exhibition, William Morris: Man Adorned, an installation by Morris, a contemporary studio glass artist renowned for his technical skill and innovative subject matter, will also be on view throughout the run of Contemporary Dire...
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art: The White House Collection of American Crafts
Related to the White House exhibition is a 128-page catalogue. "The White House Collection of American Crafts" (New York, 1995), published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., includes 92 full-color photographs of the entire collection, in addition to severa...
San Francisco Women Artists Gallery: Exploring Structures: Large Works
Special fundraising art available for sale during the month of September with all proceeds going towards helping the organization survive in a high-rent city. San Francisco Women Artists Gallery is located at 380 Hayes Street (cross street G...
Bellevue Art Museum: Alex Katz: The Complete Woodcuts and Linocuts, 1951-2001
In the prints of the 1950s, Katz leaves the roughness of the wood creating an expressive texture to the print, which emphasizes a more traditional printmaking method. While the prints of the 1980s to present, Katz tends to create more simplified b...
Portland Museum of Art: Open House: Tanja Alexia Hollander
The fourth exhibition in this series highlights new work by Tanja Alexia Hollander. Hollander is best known for her moody, abstract photographs displaying views seen through a window. On the surface, these lovely images use suffused light, gentle ...
gallery twenty-four: Varda Carmeli: Security Wall
In her work Varda Carmeli imparts, from different aspects, her ambivalent feelings vis-à-vis this subject by delving into fragments on the one hand and projecting a global overview on the other. The seemingly esthetic presentation emphasizes this ...
Sherborne House and Gallery Holt: Past Perfect: Savage, Sonia Hanney and Adam Dade, Shrimpton and Bolas, Paul McGowan
Past Perfect is presented in two venues, Sherborne House and Gallery Holt in Sherborne Boys School. Savage An old chair that looks from a distance as if it is covered in green velvet, on closer inspection reveals it is in fact covered in ...
Gallery ART U: Xu Zhongmin: City of Dreams
In the late 1990s when Xu created a large-scale woodcarving relief from a printing block, this scenery had attained a dreamlike megalopolis aspect with its boundlessly intricate structures. Innumerable human figures, flickering as if they were ...
Dallas Museum of Art: Concentrations 40: Maki Tamura
With her graceful scrolls (watercolor and linoleum print on mulberry paper and mounted on linen), which vary in length from 12 to 20 feet, she intertwines disparate images, forms, and figures—Japanese style blossoms, children’s book teddy bears, A...
ACIDplanet.com: Electronic music artist, Cirrus, teams up with Sony Pictures and ACIDplanet.com for remix contest.
Months before the official street release date, fans and music-producer hopefuls are getting a chance to create their own versions of the soon-to-be dancefloor hit. Individual samples of the song are available for download and contestants can use th...
Adam Gallery: Eduardo Chillida 1924-2002
By 1951 his work transformed into a new abstract style using materials such as wood, steel and iron. Meeting Frank Lloyd Wright, Alberto Giacometti and later Joan Miro formed strong influences for him in his use of drawing in space and light in ...
Contemporary Arts Center: My Reality: The Culture of Anime
The work in the show explores anime's slick conventions, such as futuristic technology, cyborgs, fantastical creatures and post-apocalyptic landscapes, as well as such themes as changing gender roles and the explosion of consumerism. My ...
Courtauld Institute of Art: Art on The Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836
Here the Academy held its annual exhibitions until 1836; it is the experience of those exhibitions that the Courtauld seeks to recreate. Some 300 Royal Academy exhibits, all of which first went on public view at Somerset House, will be brought tog...
Gibbes Museum of Art: Birds, Beasts and Bugs: Japanese Wood Block Prints
Birds, Beasts and Bugs features unique images of nature created by Japanese artists in the Edo period (1615-1868). Beyond portraying great aesthetic beauty, the woodblock prints highlighted in this exhibition dually function as meditations upon ma...
Humanitad Foundation: Call to Artists: Monument to Mankind, One Sculptor from Each Nation
These blocks will then be constructed into a Peruvian-style stepped pyramid; it will be the largest internationally collaborated arts project in history and will be a universal symbol of human fellowship. The monument will either be constructed ...
Art Gallery of Mississauga: A Graphic Eye: Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection
A Graphic Eye gives the Gallery the opportunity to display a wide variety of prints from almost every print medium as well as a range of drawings featured in the Gallery's holdings. It offers a chance to expand on various printmaking techniques as...
Tate Britain: Art Now: Ian Kiaer
These forms derive from Kiaer’s research into the idealistic visions of eccentric historical figures, united in their desire for retreat from the dominant ideologies of their day, or concerned with reconciling the relationship between man and envi...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Ann Hamilton at hand
The exhibition encompasses installation, video and photography, creating emotive spaces through a combination of sight, sound and touch and spanning her practice f...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: Margaret Morton: The Tunnel
Residents dwell in continual darkness, constructing homes of cinder-block bunkers and freestanding hand-made structures in alcoves and on ledges. With sensitivity and compassion, Margaret Morton has chronicled the lives and living spaces of the tu...

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