Richard Hamilton: Museum Ludwig. (Cologne).
With Independent Group cohorts Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Alloway (London, 1926 - New York, January 2, 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from the 1960s. In the 1950s he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. , Peter and Alison Smithson, and Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, CBE, FRA (March 7 1924 – April 22 2005), was a Scottish sculptor and artist.
Paolozzi was born in Leith in north Edinburgh, the eldest son of Italian immigrants. , Richard Hamilton Richard Hamilton may refer to: - Richard Hamilton (actor) (1920–2004)
- Richard Hamilton (architect), American architect and cofounder of Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc
- Richard Hamilton (artist) (born 1922), British painter and collage artist
organized the legendary 1956 exhibition "This is Tomorrow," where he presented the collage that kicked off Pop art in the UK. That display and a number of key shows of his career will be reconstructed in this comprehensive retrospective, organized by the artist himself (with curator Vincente Todoli, director of Tate Modern) and bringing together some 180 works from 1938 to the present. A coproduction between Barcelona's MACBA MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art) , where it was first mounted, and the Museum Ludwig, the exhibition boasts a two-volume artist's book/catalogue with essays by Laszlo Glozer, Hal Foster, and Sarat Maharaj.
MACBA, through June 1; Museum Ludwig, July 12-Nov. 9.
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