During the economic boom of the 1990s, art museums expanded dramatically in size, scope, and ambition. They came to be seen as new civic centers: on the one hand as places of entertainment, leisure, and commerce, on the other as socially therapeutic institutions. But museums were also criticized for everything from elitism to looting or illegally ...
The two hundred stunning color photographs of illuminated manuscripts, ceramics, and metalwork are an elegant showcase of Timurid design, and they place these masterpieces in political, social, and cultural perspective.
From Barbara Kruger's screenprinted feminist billboards to Felix Gonzalez-Torres's stacks of posters featuring head shots of people killed by guns; from Elizabeth Murray's colorful abstract lithographs to Anselm Kiefer's woodcuts embedded in Germany history; from Lucian Freud's moody figure study etchings to Donald Judd's rigid, monochromatic, ...
Accompanied by a comment written by curators in MoMA's departments of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and design, this collection includes works by Braque, Czanne, Chagall, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Man Ray, Matisse, Picasso, Warhol, and many others. 250 color illustrations.
Perfect Acts of Architecture presents six sets of highly inventive drawings by the contemporary avant-garde architects Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind, and Thom Mayne. Created between 1972 and 1988, when many architects turned to teaching because economic conditions had drastically curtailed ...
Greater New York 2005, jointly organized by P.S.1 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York went on view March 13, 2005, showcasing 150 artists who have emerged since 2000. Their work explores this specific time period, during which New York City has changed dramatically; shows vitality, energy, and exciting promise; and anticipates new artistic ...
The German-born Venezuelan artist known as Gego (1912-1994) created spare and unequivocally abstract drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging net pieces, and wire constructions of extraordinary quality. Although championed early in her career by Alfred Barr, founder of MoMA, Gego has remained little known outside of Latin America. This ...
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Michael Brand, Glenn D. Lowry, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University. Dept. of Fine Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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