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Ed Ruscha, Victory, 1987, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh © Ed Ruscha

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The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection

November 18, 2023–March 17, 2024
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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Milton and Sheila Fine have been longtime advocates and supporters of the arts in their philanthropy throughout the Pittsburgh region. Promised to Carnegie Museum of Art in 2015, their collection of contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, and drawing reflects their interest in American and German art from the 1980s to the 2000s. This exhibition, which is presented as a celebration and remembrance of Milton Fine, who passed away in 2019, foregrounds the importance and impact of the gift. Work by Richard Artschwager, Georg Baselitz, Mark Grotjahn, Donald Judd, Brice Marden, David ReedEd Ruscha, Richard SerraJeff Wall, and Christopher Wool is included.

Ed Ruscha, Victory, 1987, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh © Ed Ruscha

Jonas Wood, Patterned Interior with Mar Vista View, 2020, Rachofsky Collection, installation view, The Warehouse, Dallas © Jonas Wood. Photo: Kevin Todora

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Room by Room
Concepts, Themes, and Artists in the Rachofsky Collection

September 9–November 25, 2023
The Warehouse, Dallas
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Room by Room builds on the ongoing interest at The Warehouse to reflect on the development of its collection, presenting works for the first time. Spanning a range of mediums, geographies, and eras, each gallery focuses on a single artist or theme, allowing an in-depth look at the artistic movements important to the collection from the outset, together with other avenues of interest that have developed over the years. Work by Richard Artschwager, Carol Bove, Alex Israel, Sterling Ruby, and Jonas Wood is included.

Jonas Wood, Patterned Interior with Mar Vista View, 2020, Rachofsky Collection, installation view, The Warehouse, Dallas © Jonas Wood. Photo: Kevin Todora

Installation view, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–February 20, 2022. Artwork, left to right: © Claes Oldenburg; © Yayoi Kusama; © 2022 The Estate of Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz

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Making Knowing
Craft in Art, 1950–2019

November 22, 2019–February 20, 2022
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Some expand techniques with long histories, such as weaving, sewing, or pottery, while others experiment with clay, beads, and glass, among other mediums. Work by Richard Artschwager and Sterling Ruby is included.

Installation view, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 22, 2019–February 20, 2022. Artwork, left to right: © Claes Oldenburg; © Yayoi Kusama; © 2022 The Estate of Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz

Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 1997/2005 © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Lothar Schnepf

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Albert Oehlen
“Grandi quadri miei con piccoli quadri di altri”

September 5, 2021–February 20, 2022
Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
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In this exhibition, Albert Oehlen: Big Paintings by Me with Small Paintings by Others”, select works from Oehlen’s personal art collection are on view alongside some of his most significant paintings. In staging this large-scale exhibition, Oehlen aims to make relationships perceptible between his artworks and those by artists whose practices he has long admired. Work by Richard Artschwager, Willem de Kooning, Duane Hanson, Mike Kelley, and Franz West, among others, is included.

Albert Oehlen, Untitled, 1997/2005 © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Lothar Schnepf

Installation view, Richard Artschwager, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy, October 12, 2019–February 2, 2020. Artwork © 2020 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Luca Meneghel

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Richard Artschwager

February 29–August 23, 2020
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus

This retrospective, curated by Germano Celant and Manuel Cirauqui, celebrates Richard Artschwager’s diverse artistic production. By subtly altering the familiar, Artschwager’s art challenges accepted notions of the real and encourages unconventional ways of seeing. This exhibition has traveled from the Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto in Italy.

Installation view, Richard Artschwager, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy, October 12, 2019–February 2, 2020. Artwork © 2020 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Luca Meneghel

Richard Artschwager, Self-Portrait, 2003 © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Richard Artschwager

October 12, 2019–February 2, 2020
Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
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This retrospective, curated by Germano Celant, celebrates Richard Artschwager’s diverse artistic production. By subtly altering the familiar, Artschwager’s art challenges accepted notions of the real and encourages unconventional ways of seeing.

Richard Artschwager, Self-Portrait, 2003 © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Richard Artschwager, Splatter Piano, 1999 © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Richard Artschwager

May 11–December 1, 2019
Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont
www.hallartfoundation.org

This exhibition includes approximately forty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the Hall Collection that span Richard Artschwager’s career from 1964 to 2011.

Richard Artschwager, Splatter Piano, 1999 © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Richard Artschwager, blp, 2013 © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Richard Artschwager in
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions

February 26–May 26, 2019
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
www.castellodirivoli.org

Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions explores the life and career of the quintessential exhibition maker, from his groundbreaking involvement with the avant-garde movements of the 1960s and ’70s and his global contemporary exhibitions of the 1990s and 2000s, to his personal reading of early twentieth-century modernism. This show originated at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Work by Richard Artschwager is included.

Richard Artschwager, blp, 2013 © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Ed Ruscha, Azteca/Azteca In Decline, 2007, Broad Art Foundation © Ed Ruscha

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A Journey That Wasn’t

June 30, 2018–February 10, 2019
The Broad, Los Angeles
www.thebroad.org

This exhibition explores complex representations of time and its passage. The show includes more than fifty works drawn from the museum’s collection of postwar and contemporary art and features more than twenty artists, including Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, Anselm Kiefer, and Ed Ruscha.

Ed Ruscha, Azteca/Azteca In Decline, 2007, Broad Art Foundation © Ed Ruscha

Richard Artschwager, blp, 2013 © 2018 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Richard Artschwager in
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions

October 13, 2018–January 20, 2019
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de

Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions explores the life and career of the quintessential exhibition maker, from his groundbreaking involvement with the avant-garde movements of the 1960s and ’70s and his global contemporary exhibitions of the 1990s and 2000s, to his personal reading of early twentieth-century modernism. Work by Richard Artschwager is included. This show originated at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Richard Artschwager, blp, 2013 © 2018 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Richard Artschwager, Single Dinner, 1988 © Estate of Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Richard Artschwager

December 14, 2017–January 13, 2019
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
www.sfmoma.org

Richard Artschwager’s mercurial paintings and sculptures pair strange and familiar materials to confound visual perception. This focused presentation shows the range of Artschwager’s investigations in paintings, objects, furniture, and works on paper.

Richard Artschwager, Single Dinner, 1988 © Estate of Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Richard Artschwager, blp, 2013 © 2018 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Richard Artschwager in
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions

June 9–September 2, 2018
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
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Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions explores the life and career of the quintessential exhibition maker, from his groundbreaking involvement with the avant-garde movements of the 1960s and ’70s and his global contemporary exhibitions of the 1990s and 2000s, to his personal reading of early twentieth-century modernism. Work by Richard Artschwager is included. This show has traveled from the Getty, Los Angeles.

Richard Artschwager, blp, 2013 © 2018 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Richard Artschwager, blp, 2013 © 2018 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Richard Artschwager in
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions

February 6–May 6, 2018
Getty Center, Los Angeles
www.getty.edu

Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions explores the life and career of the quintessential exhibition maker, from his groundbreaking involvement with the avant-garde movements of the 1960s and ’70s and his global contemporary exhibitions of the 1990s and 2000s, to his personal reading of early twentieth-century modernism. Work by Richard Artschwager is included.

Richard Artschwager, blp, 2013 © 2018 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986 © Jeff Koons.Photo by Nathan Keay © MCA Chicago

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We Are Here

August 19, 2017–April 1, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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In honor of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s fiftieth anniversary, the museum presents We Are Here, a three-part exhibition drawn from its collection. I Am You gathers works that question how we relate to and shape our environments; You Are Here examines how the role of the viewer has changed over time; and We Are Everywhere showcases artists who borrow from popular culture. Work by Richard Artschwager, Francis Bacon, Chris Burden, Ellen Gallagher, Andreas Gursky, Michael Heizer, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Stingel, Andy Warhol, and Franz West is included.

Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986 © Jeff Koons.
Photo by Nathan Keay © MCA Chicago

Photo by Axel Schneider

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Primary Structures
Masterworks of Minimal Art

February 22–August 13, 2017
MMK2, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
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The Minimal art current emerged in the US in the early 1960s, its exponents striving in their works for objectiveness, logic, and industrial production without artistic signature. The exhibition investigates the international impact of the influential Minimal art movement from the ’60s to the present. This show includes works by Richard Artschwager, Walter De Maria, Bruce Nauman, Steven Parrino, and Richard Serra.

Photo by Axel Schneider

Richard Artschwager, Cerise, 2002 © 2015 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Literary Devices

October 11, 2014–March 15, 2015
Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
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Literary Devices, which comprises works representing text, literary themes, and books themselves, explores the tension between language and image. The exhibition features works by over forty artists, including Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Neil Jenney, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, and Cy Twombly.

Richard Artschwager, Cerise, 2002 © 2015 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Mark Tansey, Valley of Doubt, 1990 © Mark Tansey. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art

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Legacy
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

June 5–September 14, 2014
San José Museum of Art, California
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Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection presents a selection of works from the historic gift of art pledged to the Whitney in May 2010 by longtime museum trustee Emily Fisher Landau. The exhibition, which includes more than seventy works by thirty-eight artists, traces many of the ideas that have preoccupied artists in the United States, particularly since the 1960s. Questions about the relevance of painting in the aftermath of Minimalism, debates about representation, “culture wars,” and a revived interest in personal narratives are explored. This exhibition has traveled from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Work by Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Willem de Kooning, Nan Goldin, Neil Jenney, Vera Lutter, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol is included.

Mark Tansey, Valley of Doubt, 1990 © Mark Tansey. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art

Installation view, Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 10–May 1, 2011. Artwork, left to right © Mark Tansey, © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art

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Legacy
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

February 10–May 1, 2011
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org

Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection presents a selection of works from the historic gift of art pledged to the Whitney in May 2010 by longtime museum trustee Emily Fisher Landau. The exhibition, which includes works by fifty-three artists, traces many of the ideas that have preoccupied artists in the United States, particularly since the 1960s. Questions about the relevance of painting in the aftermath of Minimalism, debates about representation, “culture wars,” and a revived interest in personal narratives are explored. Work by Richard Artschwager, Gregory Crewdson, Willem de Kooning, Nan Goldin, Neil Jenney, Vera Lutter, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol is included.

Installation view, Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 10–May 1, 2011. Artwork, left to right © Mark Tansey, © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art