Exhibition Releases

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Geoff Grace wins 2008 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are proud to announce that Geoff Grace is the winner of the 2008 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The coveted $25,000 prize was presented at this evening’s awards ceremony at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Works of art by the prizewinner and five other finalists are on view at the BMA until August 3.
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Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972-2008
October 12, 2008 – January 4, 2009
The Baltimore Museum of Art has organized the first major U.S. retrospective on Franz West, an internationally acclaimed Austrian artist whose singular vision has resulted in one of the most remarkable bodies of work produced since the 1960s. Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972-2008 includes more than 120 objects that reflect West’s extraordinary innovations in sculpture, design, and works on paper—ranging from early interactive works from the 1970s to two enormous brightly colored objects created for this exhibition.
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Front Room: Jim Dine
June 11 – October 5, 2008
The series of contemporary art exhibitions in The Baltimore Museum of Art’s experimental project space continues with Front Room: Jim Dine. On view June 11 – October 5, 2008, the exhibition features approximately 20 works on paper from the BMA’s holdings along with loans from private collections.
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Bonnard & Vuillard
April 23 – August 10, 2008
The BMA presents this luminous two-gallery exhibition of works by Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard—two modern masters whose experimental work inspired artists from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Henri Matisse. The exhibition presents four paintings, three drawings, and over 30 lithographs, etchings, posters, and illustrated books drawn from the BMA’s outstanding collection that showcase the change in style for both artists as they progressed through their artistic careers.
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Front Room: Notes on Monumentality
February 27 – May 25, 2008
The Front Room series at The Baltimore Museum of Art continues with an exhibition focusing on monuments and monumentality. Front Room: Notes on Monumentality reconsiders historic and contemporary conceptions of the monument and monumentality through the presentation of more than 40 photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, video, and sculpture.
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Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900–1960
March 16 – June 8, 2008
This exhibition features more than 150 rarely shown vintage prints by some of the world's best-known European and American artists. Iconic images by Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and others showcase the impressive range and depth of the BMA’s photography collection while illuminating some of the most important achievements in the history of the medium.
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Meditations on African Art: Pattern
March 12 – August 17, 2008
The third and final installation in the BMA’s Meditations on African Art series exploring light, color, and pattern in the BMA’s distinguished African collection, Meditations on African Art: Pattern, features more than 70 diverse works that define the shape and surface of African art. Dramatic textiles, whimsical adinkra dye stamps, delicately carved ivories, boldly painted shields, and figurative works show the role of pattern and how it defines the shape and surface of African works of art by proclaiming the distinctive styles of individual men, women, and cultures.
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Printed Sculpture/Sculpted Prints
November 14, 2007 – March 30, 2008
The BMA’s outstanding print collection served as the inspiration for a group of students from The Johns Hopkins University to explore how sculpture was represented in European prints from the mid-16th through early 19th centuries. The results of their work is an exhibition that reveals how printmakers imbued two-dimensional works with as much grandeur as their three-dimensional counterparts.
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Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
October 28, 2007 – February 3, 2008
The Baltimore Museum of Art is the last stop on the national tour for Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, the first major exhibition of Henri Matisse’s sculpture in the U.S. in nearly 40 years. This widely acclaimed exhibition brings together more than 160 sculptures, paintings, and drawings from museums and private collections around the world to reveal for the first time how the insights Matisse gained in one medium led to innovations in another.
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