Tag: 1970s

MOCA Presents Comprehensive Survey Exhibition of Graffiti & Street Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum exhibition on the history of graffiti and street art, April 17 through August 8, 2011, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The exhibition trac…

MOCA Presents the First Comprehensive U.S. Museum Survey Exhibition of Graffiti and Street Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum exhibition on the history of graffiti and street art, April 17 through August 8, 2011, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The exhibition traces t…

Snap Galleries Presents Michael Putland’s Second Solo Exhibition with the Gallery

LONDON.- Snap Galleries hosted a solo show for Michael Putland in their Birmingham gallery in 2005 which was a great success, and now they are working with Michael again on this new exhibition of triptychs. In this new exhibition, Michael Putland prese…

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Returns Tapestry Room to Its Original Glory and Configuration

BOSTON, MA.- For the first time since it opened in 1914, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s 4,000-square-foot Tapestry Room is being restored to its original glory and will once again take its place as one of the nation’s great tapestry halls. The …

Celia, the Most Beautiful Boy in the World (and Percy) Star in Bonhams Hockney Sale

LONDON.- A rare signed proof copy of David Hockney’s lithograph ‘An Image of Celia’ in the original frame hand painted by the artist is the star item in sale dedicated to Hockney’s work at Bonhams on 20 April. Dating from the mid-19…

Public Art Fund Presents Rob Pruitt’s Monument to the Father of Pop Art: Andy Warhol

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Public Art Fund presents Rob Pruitt’s The Andy Monument, March 30 – October 2, 2011, at the northwest corner of Union Square. The monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York’s enduring cultural icon…

Sale at Christie’s Offers Superb Chinese Works Largely Unseen for Thirty Years

NEW YORK, NY.- On March 24, Christie’s New York presents Magnificent Qing Monochrome and Earlier Works of Art from the Gordon Collection, a single-owner sale highlighted by a group of magnificent imperial monochrome-glazed porcelains from the Qing…

Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s at Barbican Art Gallery, London

LONDON.- This Spring Barbican Art Gallery presents Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s. This is the first major presentation to examine the experimental and often daring approaches – fr…

Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s at Barbican Art Gallery, London

LONDON.- This Spring Barbican Art Gallery presents Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s. This is the first major presentation to examine the experimental and often daring approaches – fr…

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 Examines a Moment of Radical Experimentation in 20th Century Art

NEW YORK, NY.- The exhibition Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 takes as its point of departure two works given to The Museum of Modern Art by Pablo Picasso in the early 1970s: Guitar, assembled from cardboard, paper, wire, glue, and string in 1912, and a sec…

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