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Artist: Danny Lyon (1942 - )
Nationality: American
Movement:
Media: Photography
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Biography:
Danny Lyon published his first photographs in the 1960’s while working for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. They appeared in The Movement, a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement. He later began creating his own books, beginning in 1967 with his study of the lives of outlaw motorcyclists called Bikeriders. His other works include Conversations with the Dead (1971, a look at prison life in Texas and I Like to Eat Right on the Dirt, a compilation of Polaroids of his children. Lyon also creates film documentaries and received the Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for photography and filmmaking.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
For Evans and Agee
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John Costigan Danny Etching 1941
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Cadwallader Washburn Danny Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Danny Pierce In the Fields #2 Woodcut 1953
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Danny Lyon - National Guard Arrest, Sit-in, Cambridge, Maryland 1964 gelatin silver print Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Hilaire Hiler - Factories at Lyon 1930 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Joahnn Baptist Homann [Map of the Lyon region of France]~Map - La Generalite Proprietaire de Lyon hand colored map on paper 1762
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Edgar Degas - Ceremonie d'ordination dans la Cathedrale de Lyon n.d. oil on paper maroufl The Fitzwilliam Museum French
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Corneille de Lyon Portrait of a Man oil on panel 16th century
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Corneille de Lyon Portrait of a Man oil on panel 16th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man with Gloves Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by 1533,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Young Woman Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by 1533, died
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Ian Alec Johnson Cheyne Beeches in Glen Lyon Color woodcut 1915
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Bearded Man in Black Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by
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Jean-Baptiste Pillement Les Ruines oil on canvas 18th century
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Jean-Baptiste Pillement Les Moissoneurs oil on canvas 18th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man with a Black-Plumed Hat Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active
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J.B. Lyon and Company Sugar bowl (cover broken) glass 1855 - 1870
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Adolphe Appian Environs De Lyon. 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Environs de Lyon etching 1879
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Charles Etienne Pierre Motte Napoleanic War Series III: Ruines de Lyon Relevees 18th - 19th century
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Pierre Gabriel Berthault Napoleanic War Series I: Pillage de L*Arcenal de Lyon, 1790 18th - 19th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
John Neagle, American, 1796-1865 Pat Lyon at the Forge 1826-27 Oil on canvas 238.12 x
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Bearded Man in White Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by 1533, died 1575)Oil
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Jean Jacques Boissieu Ancienne porte de Vaize a Lyon Etching 1803
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Charles de Cossé (1506-1563), Comte de Brissac Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by
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Pierre Philippe Choffard Napoleanic War Series I: Fusillades de Lyon, Commandees par Collot-D*Herbois 18th - 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man with Gloves Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by 1533, died 1575)Oil
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Adolphe Appian Wharf with sail boats on the river, Environs de Lyon etching 1879
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Widow Style of Corneille de Lyon (French, second quarter 16th century)Oil on
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Dwarf Style of Corneille de Lyon (French, second quarter 16th century)Oil on
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man, ca. 1545 Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by 1533,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Anne de Pisseleu (1508-1576), Duchesse d"Étampes Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by 1533,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man with a Gold Chain Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by 1533, died 1575)Oil
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man with a Pointed Collar Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active
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John Wootton The Lyon and the Cub, plate for Fable XIX on page 73 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man Style of Corneille de Lyon (French, second quarter 16th century)Oil on
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John Wootton The Lyon, the Fox, and the Geese, plate for Fable VIIon page 25 in the book Fables by Mr. [John] Gay. 3rd ed. (London: J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1729) engraving 1729
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Corneille de Lyon - Portrait of a Man c. 1540 oil on panel National Gallery of Art French
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Corneille de Lyon - Portrait of a Man 1534-1574 oil on walnut The National Gallery, London French
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Corneille de Lyon - Portrait of a Man 1534-1574 oil on walnut The National Gallery, London French
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Jean d"Albon de Saint-André (1472-1549) Attributed to Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, active by 1533, died
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Corneille de Lyon - Bust Portrait of a Man 1545-1550 oil on walnut The National Gallery, London French
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Jeannette Agnew Lyon - Yellow Roses c. 1935 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Corneille de Lyon - Portrait of a Woman c. 1550 oil on lime The National Gallery, London French
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R. Bridgens Various Headdresses. plate 2: Assisi, Near Naples, Palestrina, Lyon, Molins, Viterbo, plate 46 in the book Sketches Illustrative of the Manners and Costumes of France, Switzerland, and Italy by R. Bridgens (London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
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Corneille de Lyon - Portrait of Charles Ler de Cosse, Comte de Brissac c. 1530 oil on panel Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester French
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Adolphe Appian A Venice (At Venice) etching 1878
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Adolphe Appian Aux environs de Menton etching 1879
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Adolphe Appian Environs de Rix etching 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Canal Aux Martigues 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Au Valromey (AIN) etching 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Le Champ de Ble etching 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Chemin de Roches Etching 19th century
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Adolphe Appian A Gorge De Loup Etching 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Entree Du Village D'Artemare 1880
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Adolphe Appian Bords du Lac du Bourget etching 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Une Mare Environs de Rossillon etching 1867
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Adolphe Appian Before the rain, village de Villeneuve etching 1869
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Adolphe Appian Entree Du Village D'artemare.(Ain) 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Cabanes de Pecheurs (Cotes d'Italie) etching 1876
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Adolphe Appian Barques de Cabotage (Cotes d'Italie) etching 1874
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Adolphe Appian Flottille de Barques Marchandes (Monaco) etching 19th century
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Adolphe Appian Chemin des Roches (environs de Creys) etching 19th century
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Adolphe Appian L'Etang Neuf pres de Creys (Isere) etching 1864
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Adolphe Appian Cattle Barge Crossing a River charcoal and chalk 19th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Jean Baptiste Tabard, 1779-1845 Tenor trombone (buccin) France, (Lyon), about 1830 Brass Overall Length: 110
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Adolphe Appian A gorge de Loups, first plate, opposite p. 10 in the book, Catalogue complet d* eaux-fortes originales et inÈdites (Paris: Vve A. Cadart, 1878) Etching 1863
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Pierre C. Puvis de Chavannes Fortune Lithograph 19th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel St. Jerome Etching and engraving 17
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Nicolas Le Fevre 17th - 18th century
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Renaud Polus 17th - 18th century
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Jacques Arminius 17th - 18th century
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Francois Gomarus 17th - 18th century
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Nicholas Raymond de la Fage A battle scene Etching 17th century
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Nicholas Raymond de la Fage Le Serpent d'Arain Etching 17th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel The old woman Etching 17th - 18th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel Two Lovers in a Landscape, from a set of six Etching 17th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel St. Jerome Etching and engraving 17th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel Man on horseback Etching and engraving 17th - 18th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel Two lovers in a landscape Etching 17th - 18th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel A distant landscape Etching 17th - 18th century
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Nicholas Raymond de la Fage Sacrifice performed in front of a king Etching 17th century
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Nicholas Raymond de la Fage Soldiers battling civilians, with women among them Etching 17th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel Man and two women in shade of trees Etching 17th - 18th century
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Adriaen van der Cabel Man and two women in shade of trees Etching 17th - 18th century
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Edmont Richer, docteur of Theology Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Portrait of Friedericus, King of Prussia Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Pierre C. Puvis de Chavannes Kneeling nude woman, viewed from back Lithograph 19th century
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Nicholas Raymond de la Fage Jupiter visiting female, three cupids present Etching 17th century
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Claude Drevet Portrait of Henry Oswald, Cardinal of Auvergne, Archbishop of Vienne, etc. Engraving 1749
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Portrait of Emperor Caesar Carolus VI, Augustus Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Claude Drevet Portrait of F. Pierre Calvairac, Abbot of Pontigny Engraving 18th century
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Portrait of Jerome de Prague, died 1416 Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Portrait of Jean Calvin, born in Noyon 1509 Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Pierre C. Puvis de Chavannes Standing nude woman, head resting on upraised right arm, viewed from back Lithograph 19th century
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Etienne Jehandir Desrochers Portrait of Marie Eleonore, Archduchess of Austria, died 1744 Engraving 17th - 18th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Mulatière Bridge

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Centre Georges Pompidou: Blanc and Demilly, Photographs of Lyon 1924-1962
The photos were first published in 1933 on a catalogue - Aspects of Lyon which constituted probably one of the most remarkable and most poetic visions of the great city on the Rhone. Since the dispersation of their of funds in 1962, their oeuvre is n...

Association of Photographers Gallery: 7 - Seven Incredible Photographers
AOP members Marcus Lyon, Julie Fisher, Luc Beziat, Roger Hutchings, Dod Miller, Andy Wilson and Matthew Stuart have brought together some of their most thought provoking and stunning Black and White images. In ‘7’ Roger Hutchings lifts the ...

GenArtSF: New-Fangle 2000
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Ike Brooker
Rubber O Cement
Joann Denning
Kora Juenger
R T Mark
Clay Newton
Adam Rees
Richard Rinehart
Marissa Silverbach
Niem Tran New-Fangle ...

Museum of Contemporary Art, LA: Street Credibility: Photographs from the 1940s to the 1970s
Focusing on the similarity of this generation's subjects and approaches, the exhibition is organized around visual tropes, such as people inside their homes, the equation of individuals with their possessions, couples, entertainers, and specta...

Tacoma Art Museum: In Style: Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Centuries
In Style features a selection of fifty Japanese woodblock prints dating from the 18th and 19th Centuries and are grouped into themes: Actors and Popular Th...

Contemporary Art Center Lacoux: Martine Clerc: The Garden, Sculptures and Other Celestial Objects
" I wanted to show the macrocosmos of unlimited and empty space with strange mineral travelling objects, and, in an other side, the microcosmos of an intimate red room with prints evocating the world of cells and biological life. This room beats l...

Terra Museum of American Art: Indivisible: Stories of American Community
Working in the documentary ...

National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...

Akron Art Museum: Indivisible: Stories of American Community
The twelve photographers chosen to participate in Indivisible have made considerable contributions to social history and the art of photography, and bring their own artistic viewpoint to each community site. They are Dawoud Bey, Bill Burke, Deb...

Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi and Co. Gallery: American Artist Dan Walsh
The evolution of his works, from the early 1990s to the present, has led him to abandon the concept of the "ideal" in abstract painting, which in the history of art is always somehow connected with a "psychological condition", in an attempt to giv...

Chisenhale Gallery: Gary Webb: Deep Heatt, Reg Laguna
Webb's sculpture hovers between abstraction and a subtle form of figuration, creating organic forms that coexist alongside mass-produced elements. The familiarity and vivid sensuality of his materials draw in the viewer, edgily defining our relati...

Miami Art Museum: Works By Shirin Neshat
The exhibition, which will only be seen in Montréal, Minneapolis, Miami, and then in Houston, brings together the largest collection of Neshat’s video environments ever presented including: Soliloquy of 1999, Pulse and Passage of 2001, as well as ...

DiverseWork: To the Trade: An Out-of-the-ordinary Approach to Arts Presentation
To the Trade is a trade show for the art industry. Curated by Bernard Brunon (Texas) and Jade Dellinger (Florida), the exhibition doubles as an actual trade fair oriented towards providing services and where the viewers are able to commission the ...

Saint-Gervais - Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine: Melik Ohanian (T)HERE – installations
Wooden furniture invites the visitor to enter the universe of the artist, Melik Ohanian, who conceives its relation with the spectator as: "Those who contemplate or understand, the more they feel free to come face to face with my work, the more ha...

Frick Collection: Greuze the Draftsman
the Albertina, Vienna; the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; and others.  Among Greuze's many admirers was Catherine the Great, ...

Brian Gross Fine Art: Phil Sims: Fire/Light/Color/Matter - Paintings and Tea Bowls from 2004
While best known for his monochromatic paintings, Sims also studied and taught ceramics.  Much like the unusual texture of his paintings, this installation explores the complex surfaces of his ceramics, which comprise pits, cracks, skin-like creas...

Center for Creative Photography: Indivisible: Stories of American Community
The exhibition features nearly two hundred original photographs by twelve distinguished photographers. Dawoud Bey, Bill Burke, Lucy Capehart, Lynn Davis, Terry Evans, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Lauren Greenfield, Joan Liftin, Reagan Louie, Danny Ly...

Culture Arts et Langues, Galabia galerie d'art: Life Drawing the Female Nude: One week of demonstrations and tutored classes in the Bugey region of south-east France
Course dates: August 27th to September 1st.
Arrive Sunday (27/8/00) 16H to 18H,
reception at 19H followed by dinner.
Daily Routine: Monday-Friday
depart Friday (1/9/00) 16H
(participants can arrange individually with the...

ZONE: Chelsea, Center for the Arts: Molly Davies: Retrospective of Video Installation Works
Ms. Davies work explores movement of the performing body and film, distilling the everyday to suggest undercurrents of desire, isolation and joy.  Juxtaposing images to create layers of meaning, her work immerses the viewer into striking, poetic w...

Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art: Nedko Solakov: A 12 1/3 (and even more) Year Survey
Conceived as an artistic itinerary leading from one piece to the next, this show will be the first to present side by side most of Nedko Solakov's major works - including New Noah's Ark (1992), The Truth (The Earth is Plane, the World is Flat) (19...

Malmo Konsthall: Susan Philipsz: Stay with Me
Philipsz uses known songs, music and film themes to capture her audience between the public and the private and to take us on a journey into our own memory. She draws inspiration from literature and music, and has, for instance, rerecorded Davi...

Museum of Fine Arts, Basel: The House for Cubism: The Raoul La Roche Collection
Raoul La Roche, born in Basel in 1889, went to Paris as a young banker in 1911. There he cultivated close contact with his compatriots, including the architect from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edou...

Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center: Mélik Ohanian: You're mY destinY
Ohanian's oeuvre includes Island of an Island, a project on chance and encounter. While searching the internet for virgin territory, seeking places without national or cultural identity, Ohanian stumbled on the island of Surtsey, near Iceland, ...

Photographer's Gallery: Erwin Wurm: No 5 and No 8 Great Newport Street
Wurm's sculptures are wrought from the human body choreographed into absurd, witty and often perilous, relationships with objects of everyday life - vegetables, crockery, chairs, cardboard boxes, brooms, balls, and bicycles. Riven with a se...

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Recent Work by Wang Du
Wang refers to his monumental sculptures and installations as “three dimensional images.” Wang’s subjects are cropped just as glossy graphic imagery and front-page photos are cut off by their frames. Pieces faithfully simulate the exaggerated one...

Center for Creative Photography: Our Quarter Century: The University of Arizona's Center For Creative Photography Turns Twenty-Five
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona, a world-renowned museum and research institution dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record, is commemorating its 25th Anniversary with special exhibitions,...

State Hermitage Museum: Louise Bourgeois: First Major Exhibition of a Living American Artist Within the Walls of the Winter Palace
These works reveal the enormous emotional charge Bourgeois gives her creations. An installation of the Insomnia Drawings, on loan from the Daros Foundation in Switzerland, be seen in a room of the second floor of the museum. The courtyard of the H...

Ketterer Kunst: And the Moral of the Story...Lovis Corinth's Lithographs Depicting the Fable of Reinecke Fuchs are the Highlights of the Auction - Modern Art on Paper
Very colourful is a Komposition mit Figurengruppe (Composition with a group of figures) by Adolf Hölzel, which is depicted on the cover of the catalogue. The pastel by the teacher of important artists such as Willy Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer and ...

MASS MoCA: Largest Gallery to Re-Open with an Installation by Ann Hamilton
“Ann is probably the best known maker of site-specific installations in this country, if not the world,” said Joseph Thompson, Director of MASS MoCA. “Being in one of her evocative installations engages all the senses: they are experiential, immer...

Targetti Art Light Collection: Call to Artists: SECOND EDITION OF THE TARGETTI ART LIGHT AWARD DEDICATED TO YOUNG ARTISTS
ART. 3 ART WORKS

All works of art must be unpublished (meaning neither previously exhibited at shows nor published in printed editions). Artificial light must be used as the essential component of the work and every type of lighting tech...

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