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Exhibition review

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 297 Collections and/or Records:

[Untitled] / Haus am Wasser ; Hainke W ; Olbrich JO ; Schon EM., 1994

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Identifier: CC-09796-9990
Scope and Contents

This is a compendium of photocopied exhibition reviews of shows held at this museum from 1990-1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visions of Africa and Ohio, in All Sorts of Materials / Glueck, Grace; Robinson A., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44567-46720
Scope and Contents

This is an exhibition review of "Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson," at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.. The Sackner Archive lent a work to the show. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Walker Art Center Calendar. Dec-Jan / Rehfeldt R., 1999 - 2000

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Identifier: CC-33878-35549
Scope and Contents

The back cover depicts a political poster by Robert Rehfeldt related to the Global Conceptualism exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999 - 2000

Wallace Berman: Revelation and Mystification / Solnit, Rebecca; Berman W; Jess., 1988

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Identifier: CC-01898-1934
Scope and Contents

Review of W. Berman exhibition at L.A. Louver Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Weekend. Nov / Phillips T., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00298-306
Scope and Contents

This issue includes review by Steven Litt of Tom Phillips' exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Well-Collected / Rice, Robin; Finlay IH; Phillips T; Seille G; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1993

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Identifier: CC-03593-3658
Scope and Contents

This is a review of "Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections" at the ICA at the University of Pennsylvania in which selections from the Sackner Archive were included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

What does Islam Look Like? / Cotter, Holland; Koraichi R; Neshat S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44564-46717
Scope and Contents This review of an exhibition at MoMA in New York states that "Rachid Koraichi , raised in a Sufi family in Algeria and now living in Paris, invents 'calligraphic' texts with Arabic characters, Chinese-style ideograms and talismanic signs, and embroiders them in gold on silk banners to creat banners for a new, universal language." Cotter also writes that "Shirin Neshat, born in Iran, turns the written word - as distinct from calligraphy, with its very particular skills - into a quasi-revolutionary instsrument in a seies of 1996 studio photographs of young women wha are dressed in traditional black veils but carry guns and have passages from erotic poetry and paeans to religious martyrdom written in Persian on their faces and hands. The artist seems to be symbolically placing political power in the hands of the kinds of veiled women who are automatically assumed by many Westerners to be oppressed victims of Islamic religious law, but who don't necessarily see themselves that way at...
Dates: 2006

When Islam was sensual / Dannatt, Adrian; Amer, Ghada; Amer G ., 2001

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Identifier: CC-43821-45917
Scope and Contents

This interview with the Egyptian artist Ghada Amer explains how she draws on a medieval Muslim erotic text for her works of art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

When Word's Meaning Is in Their Look / Cotter, Holland; Drucker J; Hirschman J; Wolf A; McVarish E; Straus A; Bernstein C; Bee S; Scher P; Seagram B; Freeman B; Goswell J; Licko Z; Fella E; Ligorano N; Reese M; Burke B; Lehrer W; Meador C; Laxson R; Kellner T; Weiner L., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31028-32489
Scope and Contents

Cotter reviews "The Next Word" at the Neuberger Museum of Art to which the Sackner Archive lent 25 books and pictures. Several of the works from the Archive are specifically described in the article including a manuscript by Jack Hirschman, a drawing by Anne Wolf, Emily McVarish's pasted-up words locked inside a metal frame, Paula Scher's "Opinionated Map: Central and South America" in which every inch on the Southern Hemisphere that is jammed with critical annotationt. "Elsewhere, the printed text, often taking a cue from advertising, comes to the fore. Blair Seagram's 'U Temp est Us' uses a sleek sans-serif type, offbeat spacing and shifting character sizes to hide phrases within other phrases." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

With Failure as an Ingredient, He Made His Own Magic / Schwendener, Martha; Gysin B; Burroughs WS., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51368-72459
Scope and Contents

This is a review of an excellent, detailed exhibition of the lifetime works of Brion Gysin at the New Museum in New York. An exhibition catalogue was issued that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Words in Three Dimensions / Gonzalez, Fernando; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; DeCampos A; Campos C; Silveira W; Phillips T; Dwyer N; Cheung CH; Hartmann W; Gomringer E; Pignatari D., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31275-32746
Scope and Contents

Fernando Gonzalez reviews the multi media performance of De Campos, Poetry Is Risk, and the concrete poetry movement in Brazil in his first article; he describes the Sackner Archive in the second section. The Sackners are photographed in their gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998