Influential Contemporary Art Exhibitions in the 20th and 21st Century
The artist-info selection below is not based on any ‘blockbuster’ criteria. It is our research on exhibitions since 1930 with the eye of an art historian and a historian which adds exhibitions to this constantly updated list.
Our List below starts 1929 with the first exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art – MoMA, New York, Nov 7, 1929: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh. It enjoyed an unexpected high number of visitors – despite ‘Black Tuesday’ at Wall St
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Ferus Gallery – the artists, curators, and exhibitions – its history
The exhibition ‘Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye’, March 15 – April 11, 1957
was the inaugural group show at the famous Ferus Gallery, directed by curator Walter Hopps, and the artist Edward Kienholz.
Which artists were shown between 1957 – 1966, the years the gallery was active?
How was the gallery and the artists connected with other venues of the time?
Ferus Gallery was important in many aspects.
Visualizing Art Networks
How are artists and exhibition places and curators connected among each other?
The world of contemporary fine art might have many random aspects, but on an upper level the bits and pieces summarize to network structures and clusters.
It is the first time ever a network graph is used to analyse and describe the world of contemporary art with artists, curators, and exhibition places.
The Visualization identifies, helps to explore, and to develop the valuabl
Neue Sachlichkeit - Franz Roh, Exhibitions and their Artists
The influential book 'Nach-Expressionismus. Magischer Realismus. Probleme der neuesten Europäischen Malerei' by Franz Roh, published in autumn 1925, includes 2 lists of alltogether 110 artists.
Our survey compares the list of artists in Franz Roh's book with the exhibited artists by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub in Mannheim in 1925, the exhbitions in Jena 1926, Berlin 1927, and Amsterdam 1929, and further the artists in the exhibition 'Neue Sachlichkeit', Haus