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Juan Munoz.


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.  

Juan Munoz's series of cast-resin and bronze tableaux occupied a full floor of the Dia Center in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 in 1996-97, but the Hirshhorn exhibition comprises the Spanish sculptor's first career survey in the States. A cluster of Borgesian tropes--the balcony, the trompe l'oeil floor, the dwarf--run through Munoz's strange theatrical settings, featuring figures enigmatically assembled as if for conversation. The catalogue to the exhibition, which includes work made since the mid '80s, includes essays by Art Institute curator Neal Benezra, Hirshhorn curator Olga Viso, and critic Michael Brenson. Oct. 18-Jan. 13; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles This article is about Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. For other Museums named Museum of Contemporary Art, see Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum in and near Los Angeles, California.
, Apr. 21-July 28; 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 , Sept. 14-Dec. 8, 2002; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Jan. 24, 2003- Mar. 30, 2003.
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Author:Richard, Frances
Publication:Artforum International
Date:Sep 1, 2001
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