Edward Ruscha.HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum was designed by Gordon Bunshaft to house 6,000 pieces of the enormous art collection amassed by the industrialist Joseph H. The gas stations, the strip, the plain language, the cool wit, the games with light: Surely Ed Ruscha is the consummate West Coast artist. Yet, to former Hirshhorn assistant director Neal Benezra (now at the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by ), that's a limiting label. "I've always felt this work is of primary importance internationally," he says, and together with MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce. Oxford director Kerry Brougher and associate curator Phyllis Rosenzweig, he's gathering seventy-five works from the '6os to the present (including all sixteen of Ruscha's books) to prove the point. June 29-Sept. 17; MOCA, Chicago, Nov. 20, 2000-Feb. 5, 2001; Miami Art Museum The Miami Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum located in Downtown Miami, Florida, in the United States. It was founded in 1996 as the successor to the Center for the Fine Arts. , Mar. 22- June 3, 2001; Modem Art Museum of Fort Worth, July 1-Sept. 30, 2001; and MOMA Oxford, Oct. 27, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002. |
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