Traveling Exhibitions

 

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American Art and Artists

Posing Beauty In
African American Culture

Sally Mann:
The Family and The Land

Paul Outerbridge:
New Color Photographs
from Mexico and California

Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life

Yosuf Karsh:
Regarding Heroes


Modern/Contemporary Art

Uncanny Likeness: The
Contemporary Self-Portrait

Artists, Poets & Intimates:
Portraits of a Life
by Françoise Gilot

Modern Photography of the
Russian Avant-Garde

Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor

The Great Picture

Cuba Avant-Garde:
Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection

Book of Lies:
Volumes I, II, and III

André Kertész: On Reading


Artist Retrospectives

Mythopoetic Seeing:
Twenty-Five Years of Photographs
by Elisabeth Sunday

SAGA: The Journey of
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Thirty-Five Years of Photographs


Architecture/Decorative Art

Peter Shire: Chairs

Julius Shulman:
Desert Modern

Hollyock House and
Olive Hill:
Frank Lloyd Wright and
Edmund Teske


History and Culture

E. O. Hoppé:
The Indian Subcontinent
on the Cusp of Change

The Black & White Fifties:
South Africa Photographs by Jurgen Schadeberg

number of works:
appx 120

frame sizes:
various, 16 x 20 to
20 x 30 inches
(40 x 50 to 30 x 75 cm)

space requirements:
300 linear feet
(105 linear feet)

tour dates:
Spring 2010–2011

participation fee:
*high

support materials:
publication in preparation

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*Because projects are planned years in advance, the final participation fee may not be published. Fees fall within the following ranges:

low: under $10,000
medium: $10,000–$20,000
high: over $20,000


Modern Photography of the Russian Avant-Garde

Curated by Steve Yates


Modern Photography of the Russian Avant-Garde traces the history of this movement with rare photographic works in a variety of media, including original photographs, montages, collages, avant-garde journals, posters, film and theatre as well as experiments in mixed media. Rarely seen and largely unpublished works from Russian public and private collections are assembled together in this exhibition for the first time.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Russia was one of the leading centers of modernism. Russian artists were among the first to grasp the idea of the object as a sign, and their photography and graphic arts created powerful images that became icons of the 1917 revolution.

The artistic and intellectual output of that period was of great importance and complexity. Exhibition curator Steve Yates illuminates one of the most potent movements in art and social history, as artists expressed the changing values of their lives and culture during this turbulent era.

Modern Photography of the Russian Avant-Garde presents groundbreaking, pioneering efforts and collaborations by Alexander Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Dziga Vertov, Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina, Georgi and Vladimir Stenberg, El Lissitzky, Boris Ignatovich, Georgi Zelma, Max Alpert and others, who took modern photographic art to new heights.

Steve Yates was the former Curator of Photography at Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a three-time Fulbright Scholar (Russia 2006–2007, 1995 and USSR 1991).


Image:
Alexander Rodchenko, photomontage for Part I, “Ballad of Reading Gaol” in Pro Eto (It) by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1923.

 

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