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Bonnefanten Museum: Roman Signer: Works 1971 - 2000
Signer became famous through his Aktionen. He submerges himself in a kayak, for instance, then uses explosives to
saw it into seven pieces, or sets it upright in an oil drum. He also has a black ring of smoke escape from an explod...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Picturing the Past: Piranesi to Pearlstein
As early as the Renaissance, the study of famous works of art of the Greek and Roman civilizations was
an essential part of an artists education. The city of Rome was an important destination for anyone who
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Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University: From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture
The exhibition will be complemented by a variety of scholarly and educational
programs. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition will consist of detailed entries on the individual
objects featured in the exhibition, as well as sig...
Camden Arts Centre: Roman Signer
Simple objects like balloons, buckets, a canoe, a bicycle, a rifle, water, explosives, are exposed to processes of movement or material transformation (melting, firing, catapulting, sinking, floating). All available expertise, inventiveness and ex...
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts: Spatial Narratives 3
Milan, a city whose origins are in an Ancient Roman fortification superimposed over a Celtic settlement, offers dense layers of evidence of dominant political factions and conquering cultures. Early Christians reworked the Roman city, medieval pro...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: New Cypriot Galleries
Acquired by General Luigi Palma di Cesnola while he was serving as American consul in
Cyprus, these works were purchased by the Metropolitan Museum between 1874 and
1876 and constituted i...
Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: The Rich Life and the Dance: Weavings from Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Egypt
The hand-woven fabrics, most of them dating from the third to seventh centuries, feature images of dancers, haloed saints with hands raised in prayer, and a myriad of flora and fauna evoking the abundance of the Nile Valley. Some display Arabic in...
LA MERIDIANA: Study Ceramics in Italy
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Spertus Museum: Vishniac Photographs Breathe Life into Memories of Children from a Vanished World
An exhibition of 50 of Vishniac’s photographs are part of the exhibition Roman Vishniac: Children of a Vanished World, on display at Spertus Museum (618 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago) from January 28 - August 31, 2001. Approximately two thirds of...
RAM galleri: Jan Steffensen: Aquaduct
At Ram Gallery the aqueduct will run from wall to wall, and therefore indicate a continuation beyond the gallery space. A segment of reality cuts through the room, thereby leading our attention towards the world outside the sphere of art. The he...
British Museum: Gladiators and Caesars, the power of spectacle in ancient Rome
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Dagmar de Pooter Gallery: Vespasiennes: Jan de Pooter
Artist Jan De Pooter ( Belgium, °1958) has taken interest in this and started a project to bring public toilets back into public interest. He made an inventory of public urinals in Antwerp and mapped and documented these. In the last years he took...
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Russian Icons, the Saints
Noted for its outstanding exhibitions the Fondation Gianadda, constructed over Roman ruins, since its opening in
1978, has presented works by such distinguished artists as Chagall, Gauguin, van Gogh, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Lautrec,
M...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art at Eton College: Selections from the Myers Museum
The collection is particularly notable for the number
of small-scale, exquisitely crafted items such as stunning chalices
and bowls of faience, statuettes, and jewelry. Among the many
highlights on view is a royal pectoral from the Middle Ki...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The New Greek Galleries
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Worcester Art Museum: Antioch: The Lost Ancient City
As diverse as New York City and Worcester
are today, Antioch attracted ambitious
entrepreneurs from all over the
...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: The City of Sardis: Approaches in Graphic Recording
This exhibit is about the topographic landscape and historic architecture of Sardis, and their graphic recording since the middle of the eighteenth century. Architectural and topographical features of the site have attracted visitors for different...
Albertina: BORROMINI. ARCHITECT IN BAROQUE ROME
Borromini's importance in the history of architecture is illustrated for the first time in this
exhibition and set in the context of the cultural and intellectual history of 17th century
Rome.
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US Art Gallery: The Jupiter Drawing Room: An Exhibit of Graphic Design
Consistantly one of South Africas top agencies, and voted the fifth best agency in the world last year, The Jupiter Drawing Room has won many local and international awards. The exhibition will be opened on Wednesday 14 August at 7pm by Ross Chow...
Menil Collection: Sharon Kopriva: Work 1986-1998
The deeply
human tradition of memento mori, creating a
remembrance of death, is an identifying element of her
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Zamalek Art Gallery: The Egyptian Woman - Paintings by Farghali Abdel Hafiz
This exhibition is dedicated to venerate the status of the Egyptian woman, who enjoyed her freedoms, as well as human, social and economic rights and had equal footings with man. Such rights had never been experienced in any other culture across c...
Dallas Museum of Art: Golden Treasures from the Ancient World
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur and Ancient gold Jewelry from the
Dallas Museum of Art will be on display at the Dallas Museum of Art
between May 30 and September 5. The exhibitions will be installed in
adjacent galleries. One ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Antioch: The Lost Ancient City
Central to the show is a reconstructed dining room reuniting pieces of a
mosaic floor now owned by the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Princeton University, and the
Wor...
Art Gallery of South Australia: Gods and Heroes, The Ancient Lives of the Greeks, Romans & Etruscans
The exhibition tour in Australia has been
organised by the Western Australian
Museum and is from the National Museum
of Antiquities at Leiden, The Netherlands
and is accompanied by a fully illustrated all
colour catalogue (see b...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: The Rich Life and The Dance, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt
The hand-woven fabrics, most of them dating from the 3rd to 7th centuries, feature images of dancers, haloed saints with hands raised in prayer and a myriad of flora and fauna evoking the abundance of the Nile Valley. Some display Arabic inscripti...
Anderson Gallery, Drake University: Syntagm :: Paradigm | Wade Carter :: William Porter
For Jakobson these were two fundamental inclinations of the creative mind; he associated similarity disorders with mastery of the paradigmatic axis of language and the literary figure of metaphor, and contiguity disorders with the sytagmatic axis ...
Haus der Kunst: Stories: Narrative Structures in Contemporary Art
In genre painting since the 17th century, paintings have been used to depict day-to-day happenings, and, more particularly since the beginning of the 19th century, historical events (historical painting).
At the beginning of the 20th century,...
BildMuseet, Umeå: Taking Over - an art project by Andreas Gedin
The new work Taking over by Andreas Gedin an attack on Europe,
as a beginning. He has carried out walks in the capitals of Greece,
Germany, France, England and Sweden. In each city the carefully
planned and labo...
Louvre Museum: Heka: Magic and bewitchment in Ancient Egypt
As for this formula, it must not be
revealed to anyone, no one must know of
it. Never reveal it to common mortals!
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Frye Art Museum: Shelley Jordan: Revealing Beauty
In 1994, Jordon was a visiting artist at the
American Academy in Rome. There, she
discovered examples of an ancient Roman
painting tradition called humilia, mural-sized
paintings of domestic scenes and interiors
that exerted a signi...
AllLearn: Call for Artists: Rediscover the Fascinating City of Pompeii
Yale professor and art historian Diana E. E. Kleiner, author of the acclaimed AllLearn course eClavdia, examines Pompeii's well-preserved frescoes and delicate mosaics, its statues and friezes, its luxurious villas and artisan quarters. Drawing on...
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst: Once is Nothing: Brussel Biennale 1-Brussels Biennial 1
The Brussels Biennial 1 takes place from 19 October 2008 until 4 January 2009 in a derelict, 1950s modernist building in Brussels, and includes a number of institutions and projects rethinking the legacy of modernity in a global context. The conce...
Red Gate Gallery: Made in Beijing: Yang Mian
Without paying tribute to history and the involvement of the cultural circle, architecture in China is all the same everywhere. There is no individuality,not or the tradition of regional culture. This is not due to political power. The fact that o...
KX Gallery: One Way Street: Video works by Amanda Beech, Pierre Bismuth, Jaspar Joseph Lester, Roman Vasseur
The title of the show takes its cue from Walter Benjamin’s text of the same name. Benjamin’s text intermingles a series of disjointed narrative spaces, scenarios, theories and memories that effectively collapse the monumental, ideological space of...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from The British Museum
Through these treasures, many of which have never before been seen in this country, experience more than 3,500 years of this vanished African civilization that has captured the imagination of generations down through the ages.
From the Firs...
First Street Gallery: Guest Artist - BYRON DOBELL Recent Works
Although Dobell is best known as a portraitist, his shows are devoted to landscapes and figurative works. He has exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at the Century Association in New York where he is an artist member. His wor...
Courtyard Gallery: Qiu Zhijie: Social Portraits
A prominent figure in Chinese and international art circles, Qiu has created new work for this solo exhibition at CourtYard Gallery Beijing that chronicles seemingly random phenomena observed around China, that catch Qiu's eye while going unnotice...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Uniform: Robin Pacific - Collaboration with Protection Services Officers
Their collective desire to make the unique personalities and opinions of fellow PSOs both audible and visible at the AGO is realized in UNIFORM, a series of photographic, audio and video installations throughout the galleries. The PSOs are:
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Slater Memorial Museum: Connecticut Women Artists Juried Exhibition
For 75 years, Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. has provided a forum for women's artwork and continues to emphasize the value of art for our society today. The group sponsors two juried exhibitions annually at varying galleries in Connecticut.
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Queensland Art Gallery: Transformations: A Century of Sculpture
The exhibition opens with two works by Auguste Rodin, a great
influence on 20th century sculpture. Smaller bronzes from late
19th/early 20th century explore the figure as an allegory and are
presented with reference to t...
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