Artist: Yona Friedman ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Tom Friedman - Untitled 2000 ink on paper Des Moines Art Center American
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The Departure of Saints Paula and Eustochium for the Holy Land Giuseppe Bottani (Italian, Cremonese,
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Friedman Sternheimer, late 19th century Folding fan United States, New York, after 1888 Glazed cotton
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Hans Sebald Beham, German, 1500-1550 The Little Buffoon 1542 Engraving Platemark: 4.5 x 7.9 cm
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Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528 Apollo and Diana about 1502 Engraving Sheet: 11.4 x 7.2 cm
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669 Artist Drawing from the Model about 1639 Etching, drypoint
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Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528 Three Peasants in Conversation about 1497 Engraving Platemark: 10.8 x 7.7
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (active England), 1834-1903 St. James"s Street 1878 Etching Platemark: 27.6
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Unidentified artist, English, 18th century Related to Paul Revere II, American, 1734-1818 The Able Doctor
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Charles François Daubigny, French, 1817-1878 Old Woman Seated by Oil Lamp about 1854 Charcoal on
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Giacomo Maria Giovannini, Italian, 1667 –1717 After Lodovico Carracci, Italian, 1555-1619 Recto: Two Caryatid Groups
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669 Three Heads of Women 1637 Etching Platemark: 14.1 x
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669 Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple 1635
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Ann Peartree, born about 1722-44 Summer Embroidered picture Massachusetts, (Boston), 1739 Linen plain weave embroidered
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Charity Cesare Dandini (Italian, Florentine, 1596-1656)Oil on canvas; 47 1/8 x 41 1/2 in. (119.7
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John Cage, HV2 19c, 1992
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Divination figure, 20th century
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The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728-1779)Ivory; 5 1/8 x
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John Cage, Without Horizon 15, 1992
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Allegory of Avarice Jacopo Ligozzi (Italian, Florentine, 1547-1626)Oil on canvas; 54 7/8 x 33 1/4
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Betye Saar, American, Born in 1926 A Siege of Sirens 1966 Lithograph sheet: 20 x
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Maud Morgan, American, 1903-1999 1–2–3 1974 Screenprint Image: 64.1 x 48.8 cm (25 1/4 x
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Helen Frankenthaler, American, Born in 1928 Dawn After the Storm 1957 Oil and alkyd on
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© 2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ DACS, London ; William Thomson, Canadian, 1926
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Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter, 1891 Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)Oil on canvas; 18 3/8
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Max Beckmann, German, 1884-1950 Das Martyrium (from the series "Die Hölle") The Martyrdom (from the
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Peter Plamondon, American, Born in 1939 Cups and Bowls on Round Table 1977 Oil on
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© Joel Shapiro/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Joel Shapiro, American, Born in
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Odilon Redon, French, 1840-1916 Fear La Peur 1866 Etching on cream wove paper Image: 11
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Robert Bauer, American, Born in 1942 Untitled (12b) 1999 Graphite pencil with erasures Image: 10
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Courtesy the Denise Cade Gallery ; Lester Johnson, American, Born in 1919 City Scene 1970
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© Sigmar Polke ; Sigmar Polke, German, Born in 1941 Untitled 1988 Spraypaint, tusche, and
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© Edward Ruscha ; Edward Ruscha, American, Born in 1937 Miracle 1975 Lithograph on Rives
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Peter Hujar, American, 1934-1997 Untitled (Cow) 1978 Photograph, gelatin silver print Image: 37.12 x 37.46
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Anna Atkins, English, 1799-1871 Thistle (Carduus acanthoides) 1851-54 Photograph, cyanotype Image: 34.9 x 24.8 cm
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© Georg Baselitz ; Georg Baselitz, German, Born in 1938 Shoes 1981 Linocut, hand-painted 86
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Julia Margaret Cameron, English, 1815-1879 Rebecca Photograph, albumen print Image/Sheet (oval): 34.9 x 27.0 cm
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French, 1864-1901 Poster for the cabaret Divan Japonais, published version 1893 Color
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Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York ; Carl Fudge, English, Born in 1962 Rhapsody
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Courtesy the Denise Cade Gallery ; Lester Johnson, American, Born in 1919 Untitled (Five Nudes)

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago: Tom Friedman
The exhibition will include approximately thirty of Friedman’s sculptures, works on paper, and other pieces, including new works made especially for this show, in the MCA's Turner, Cohen, and fourth-floor lobby galleries. The MCA is the fi...
SITE Santa Fe: Dara Friedman: Film and Video Projects
Miami, Florida-based artist Dara Friedman was born in Germany where she studied with the pioneering experimental Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka. She received an MFA from the University of Miami, Schoo...
Julia Friedman Gallery: Orly Cogan: Bachelor Girl
Acknowledging the history of the female nude in art, Cogan subverts the genre's traditionally refined associations. Cogan's empowered female figures emerge from floral patterned linen or domestic fabric to boldly embrace their sexuality. Many ...
Fondazione Prada: Tom Friedman

Friedman’s work is constructed carefully and obsessively with sometimes ironic results. In his works constructive excess and manual perfection become visual and plastic marvels. Upon closer examination, a small white dot on a wall becomes a self-p...
Pratt Institute: Selections from the Collection Fonds Regional d Art Contemporain du Centre, Orleans, France
Yona Friedman, a French architect known for his intriguing research into architectural form and structure, will give a lecture Thursday, February 8, 2001, at 5:30 p.m., Higgins Hall South, 65 St. James Place, Brooklyn, New York. Following the lect...
McNay Art Museum: Joel Shapiro: Sculpture
Curated by Martin Friedman, former director of the Walker Art Center, the exhibition features 17 objects ranging in height from five to 24 feet installed throughout the McNay's 23 acres of landscaped...
Centre of Attention: Email Art
Jenny Holzer has shown worldwide in prominent institutions and major spaces such as the Guggenheim museum (New York, Bilbao), the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the ICA in London or the Pompidou Centre on Paris. The main focus of ...
ARTworkSF - Mezzanine Gallery: Road Trip: Memories of Places by 17 Artists
Taking the road less traveled brings the promise of new experiences and the feelings of adventure that accompany exploration often result in the most rewarding and life changing chapters of our lives. Just as rewarding, following the well-traveled...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: FACE/OFF: a portrait of the artist
However, these are no conventional self-portraits. As the title suggests, there will be few, if any, faces in the exhibition. Rather, the works suggest alternative ways, perhaps more accurate, certainly more playful, by which an artist might po...
Mission 17: By Any Means UnNecessary: First Annual Juried Exhibition
The questions continue - What are the politics of work and play? Is free-time good for nothing more than "vacation"? If art is defined by purposelessness, is it merely frivolous? What do we need? Mission 17 has invited artists to submit work t...
Barbican Art Gallery: the americans. new art. - Opens Today
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the hand-made among American artists, and the show contains a large proportion of painting and sculpture. However, these supposedl...
Julia Friedman Gallery: Pablo Helguera: Swan Song
In a 100-page book that constitutes one of the works in the exhibition, the artist puts forth a theory of creativity based on the art of memory. While loosely following the spirit of early XXth century manifestos, this theory is rooted in a com...
New York Society of Women Artist: Members Exhibition at Weill Cornell Medical Library
Painting, mixed media, prints and sculpture will be featured. Both nature and space are explored through realism, abstract and non-objective statements and conceptual pieces. On view will be delicate watercolors, bold acrylics and oils as we...
Centre of Attention: Call to Artists: Center of Attention Search Engine in San Francisco
The Center of Attention is a non-commercial independent contemporary art gallery based in London, UK. In the past year, it has shown a mix of established artists such as Sylvie Fleury, Jenny Holzer, Ken Friedman (Fluxus West) and Genesis P-Orridge...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
These items appear, along with 250 other works in Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960. A decade in the planning, this exhibition is the first ever to present examples of all the visual arts that made use of org...
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 ...
Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art
Light, which makes vision possible, has always been a component of visual art, although in certain periods light has been more significant than in others. The tenebrism of Caravaggio and de la Tour, for example, represents the use of light in the...
Galerie Karin Sachs: Silicon Valley - Nunciative Modality and a Viral Redux: Recent Works by Joseph Nechvatal
Joseph Nechvatal's computer-robotic assisted paintings allow the tradition of canvas painting to collide with our present digital and technology-based culture. In this sense they create an interface between the virtual and actual - what Nechvatal ...
William Traver Gallery - Tacoma: Shift: Charlotte Meyer and Maria Phillips
The main element in Shift is a large piece titled “Internal Diversions”, made of glass, steel and silver.  This meticulous hanging sculpture symbolizes both organic systems and physical ornamentation.  The viewer is reflected in its many mirrored ...
Tate Britian: Intelligence: New British Art 2000
Intelligence means both information gathering (intelligence as in MI5) and the faculty employed to process information into something new. Many artists today can be seen as intelligence agents at large in society, gathering, siftin...
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art: ALMOST WARM AND FUZZY: Childhood and Contemporary Art
The exhibition features several kinetic and interactive pieces. Among the many captivating installation works are: Sandy Skoglund’s Shimmering Madness, a d...
Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Yinka Shonibare: Entertaining, Seducing, Provoking,
Born in London in 1962, raised in Lagos, to later return to London, Yinka Shonibare tends to describe himself as a “post-colonial hybrid” and perhaps can be considered as an example of the increasing hybridization of unambiguous cultural or na...
Art Gallery at Ontario: waste management at the Art Gallery
waste management takes a humorously provocative look at modern society, at our habits of consumption and the values that accompany them. A sense of mutability and possibility characterizes the work ...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...
Guggenheim Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect: Retrospective Features Models, Plans, Drawings, Furniture, Photographs, and Video Footage, as well as Two Site-Specific Architectural Elements
Frank Gehry has raised the bar for architectural innovation, said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. He has accomplished this because of his openness to the concept of difference and radical juxtaposition. Place two unli...
Dallas Museum of Art: Concentration 45: Helen Mirra
"Drawing on a minimalist vocabulary of repetition and reductive forms to bring in narrative, poetics and the personal, Mirra's sculptural work explores themes of labor, transportation, railroad and expansionism," said Suzanne Weaver, Associate Cur...
Canadian Center for Architecture: Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History
In addressing Scarpa’s ability to weave new work into – and often out of – the disparate fragments of the old, Carlo Scarpa, Architect: Intervening with History moves beyond the focus on artisanry, detail, and material. ...
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...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Oldenburg and van Bruggen on the Roof
On view will be three very large, intensely colored works, on which the husband and wife sculptors have collaborated in recent years: Architect’s Handkerchief,...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

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