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The Best of The Rest; Big shows, big crowds.(art galleries and museums)(Calendar)
There's no shortage of crowd-pleasers this summer. So reserve your tickets, and line up early. Our favorite don't-miss shows:
* Tutankhamun--The Golden Beyond: Treasures From the Valley of the Kings , at the Antikenmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, through Oct. 3, brings together 50 small but choice objects from the famous tomb.
* Joan Miro, 1917-34 focuses on the best two decades in the Catalonian artist's long career in abstraction. At the Centre Pompidou in Paris through June 28.
* Schwitters/Arp gathers 140 works by the two most renowned collagists of the 20th century (Kurt Schwitters got the technique from Hans Arp, who learned from Picasso). Through Aug. 22 at the Kunstmuseum in Basel.
...- "Dada": Centre Pompidou.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Fer, Briony February 1, 2006 700+ words
...Watching the film at the Centre Pompidou, where it was screened as...jointly organized by the Centre Pompidou and the National Gallery of...established names (Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp...
- Barn.(Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn installation)
- Magazine article from: Art Monthly May 1, 2006 700+ words
...Richard Hamilton announced plans to save Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn site on the Cylinders Estate...fundraising appeal charity auction. A Kurt Schwitters In England Merzbarn Trust is being...up of a Merzbarn study centre, a Kurt Schwitters in England gallery/museum and...
- Kurt Schwitters. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Danto, Arthur Coleman August 3, 1985 700+ words
Kurt Schwitters Whoever has visited any representative collection of modern European...1920s, will have encountered --and remembered--two or three of Kurt Schwitters's unmistakable collages, or Merzbilder, as he called them. They...
- The Arts: THE SON, THE LOVER AND DADA'S LEGACY Dada artist Kurt Schwitters...
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London KEITH ALEXANDER October 27, 1996 700+ words
...Schwitters is the son and heir of the German Dada artist Kurt Schwitters, who transformed rubbish into art with his collages made...speak, much had been achieved in gaining recognition for Kurt Schwitters's work, as well as making Ernst a wealthy man. But he...
- Kurt Schwitters.(German artist)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 3, 1999 700+ words
...known masterpieces of 20th century art. This bizarrely beautiful work, the Merzbarn relief, is by the German artist, Kurt Schwitters, born in Hanover in 1887 and one of the great figures of the European avant- garde between the two world wars. He constructed...
- Kurt Schwitters at Ubu.(New York)(exhbition of the artist's work)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Gilmore, Jonathan January 1, 2004 700+ words
This museum-quality display of over 60 of Kurt Schwitters's collages, paintings and drawings from the 1910s through the '40s offered a palpable sense of what he meant by an art that...
- Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery....
- Magazine article from: Interior Design Abercrombie, Stanley February 1, 2001 700+ words
Kurt Schwitters' Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery by Elizabeth Burns Gamard New York: Princeton Architectural Press 196 pages, 37 b...
- Abstraktion als stilbildendes Prinzip in der Lyrik von Hans Arp und Kurt...
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Sheppard, Richard September 1, 1996 700+ words
...this journal in 1975; her sense of the intricate relationship between Schwitters and Dada by a piece which appeared in the Kurt Schwitters-Almanach in 1982; her sense of the relationship between Arp's Kaspar and Schwitters's Anna Blume (p. 195) by an...
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