Sentences with phrase «legendary curator of shows»

She frequented 6 Gallery, which staged Allen Ginsberg's reading of «Howl» in 1955, and was close to Walter Hopps, the legendary curator of shows for the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles and organizer of the pivotal Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1963.

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Spiced by gossip about the artist's fecklessness, which, on an earlier visit to the city, had caused her to be ousted from a series of hotels, starting at the Waldorf and ending in a youth hostel, the show is legendary; Laura Hoptman, a curator of the moma show, told me that art - world types who didn't see it (including me) are tempted to pretend, or may even believe, that they did.

At the Prada Foundation, celebrated curator Germano Celant (best known for ushering Arte Povera to international renown) has organized a fascinating show together with artist Thomas Demand and architect Rem Koolhaas that lovers of art history can't miss: an artwork - by - artwork restaging of curator Harald Szeemann's legendary 1969 show «When Attitudes Become Form» at the Bern Kunsthalle, which redefined the possibilities of what curating can and should be.

With those paintings he achieved almost immediate fame and Dorothy Miller, curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, put Stella in the seminal exhibition, Sixteen Americans in 1959 - 60, just as the legendary art dealer Leo Castelli was readying a solo show at his Upper East Side gallery.

Curators Arielle de Saint Phalle and Taylor Roy will be showing Mr. Jarmusch's collages, along with works by Michael Zwack, co-founder of the legendary Buffalo alternative art space Hallwalls Gallery, poet David Shapiro and artists Robin Winters and Jacques Villaglé.

Edited by curators Marilyn S. Kushner and Kimberly Orcutt, along with Casey Nelson Blake, The Armory Show at 100: Modernism and Revolution (D Giles Limited, $ 79.95 hardcover) will feature thirty - one essays from a range of prominent scholars across diverse fields, shedding new light on the artists represented, the public reception of the works, and how the media responded to this legendary exhibition.