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Friday 16-Oct-2009 - Sunday 14-Mar-2010

An exhibition highlighting the role of the automobile in modern American culture.

This exhibition explores the role of the automobile in shaping modern American culture, presenting artworks for concept and production cars, sculpted car models, drawings for automobile showrooms, filling stations, bridges and roadways, and illustrations for automobile advertisements. These works are presented alongside advertising brochures, auto industry periodicals and other printed ephemera.

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  Art Medium:

  Various

  Art Period:

  Modern (1880 – 1965)

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  Venue Type:

  Museum

  Venue Description:

  The mission of The Wolfsonian as a museum and research centre is reflected in its multidisciplinary approach to looking at objects as both agents and expressions of change. The museum fulfils its dual roles through exhibitions, publications, educational programs and individual scholarship. Covering the late 19th and twentieth century, the Wolfsonian’s exhibits can be understood in the context in which the objects were created, and can also be seen to illuminate much about contemporary times.

  Venue Category:

  Crafts, Design, Fine arts, Other

  Other Artists Represented:

  Marcel Breuer, John Vassos, Walter Dorwin Teague, Jan Theodoor Toorop, Paul Theodore Frankl, L.Horney, Jac.Van Den Bosch, Virginia Berresford, Peter Behrens, Ljudmila Viktorovna Protopopova, Harry Clarke, Evelyn Rumsey Cary, William Arthur Smith Benson, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi,

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  Do You Know Your MoMA? 07/31/2010

   

  How well do you know your MoMA? It’s summer, so what better time to test your knowledge of collection works currently on view in the Sculpture Garden? If you think you can identify the artist and title of each work, please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We’ll provide the answers—along with some information about each work—in two weeks (on Friday, August 13), along with the next Do You Know Your MoMA? challenge. And if you don’t already know, MoMA is open late the first T...

   

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  Published 30-Jul-10
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  AJ Fosik at David B. Smith Gallery

   

  Denver’s David B. Smith Gallery has a knack for drawing compelling artists to the Rocky Mountains. The current duel artist exhibition features Parson’s Educated and current Philadelphia resident AJ Fosik. Fosik’s 3-dimensional sculpture build from wood, paint, and found objects. The Animal formed through a series of symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns, the sculptures are at once figurative and hypnotic. Vibrant colors further embellish the pieces, adding to the rhythm. Fosik’s portion of Coun...

   

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  Published 30-Jul-10
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  AJ Fosik at David B. Smith Gallery

   

  Denver’s David B. Smith Gallery has a knack for drawing compelling artists to the Rocky Mountains. The current duel artist exhibition features Parsons educated and current Philadelphia resident AJ Fosik. Fosik’s 3-dimensional sculpture build from wood, paint, and found objects. The Animal formed through a series of symmetrical and asymmetrical patterns, the sculptures are at once figurative and hypnotic. Vibrant colors further embellish the pieces, adding to the rhythm. Fosik’s portion of Count...

   

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  Published 30-Jul-10
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  Lady Lever Art Gallery Announces Old Master Drawings Exhibition

   

  LIVERPOOL.- A new exhibition explores why artists have drawn over the centuries ? from copying other works to making life studies ? and the role of sketching in the creation of artworks. Old Master Drawings: Guercino, Rubens, Tintoretto 22 October 2010 to 2 May 2011 features 29 drawings from the Old Master collections of the Lady Lever and Walker Art Galleries. Works by some of the great Italian Renaissance and Northern European artists between 1500 and 1800 are used to examine the reasons for p...

   

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  Published 30-Jul-10
  Source: www.artdaily.org

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  Original Paintings by Roger Tory Peterson Highlight Christie's American Paintings Sale

   

  NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the upcoming sale of twenty original paintings by the celebrated naturalist, artist, and educator Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996). Peterson’s best-selling field guides, beginning with his seminal 1934 book A Field Guide to the Birds of North America, have been a must-read for generations of ornithologists and bird-watchers alike. This selection of original paintings and works on paper, consigned directly from Peterson’s art studio, represents the large...

   

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  Ship Lost for More than 150 Years is Recovered in Canada

   

  TORONTO (AP).- Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday. Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic. ...

   

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  The Diary: Womad World Music Festival; Paul Raymond; Cumbernauld sculpture; Ronnie Scott's; Raza Jaffrey

   

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  Published 29-Jul-10
  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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  Art Review: MoMA’s ‘Original Copy,’ Photos Meet Sculpture

   

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  Published 29-Jul-10
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  Miles plots and China Chow cries in Bravo's 'Work of Art'

   

  As the number of contestants dwindles and the competition approaches its final stages, Bravo's reality series "Work of Art" has taken on distinct hues of gloom and unease. The normally icy host, China Chow, even showed her emotional side by openly weeping on Wednesday's episode. This week's challenge paired off the remaining contestants to tackle a series of opposing themes -- male versus female, order versus chaos and heaven versus hell. Each pair had to create a conjoin...

   

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  Published 29-Jul-10
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