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Artists' Choice Museum
Artists’ Choice Museum in New York City was started in 1976 by many of the same younger artists who were active in the Alliance of Figurative Artists and the Figurative Coops. The first exhibition, a survey of 146 contemporary figurative artists was selected and organized by the artists of the Green Mountain, Bowery, Prince Street, and First Street Galleries - although it was a broad survey and did not exhibit just artists from those galleries. After the first show older artists were brought into its structure. Other group shows followed in clusters of galleries on 57th street and in museums: “Benefit Exhibit” in 1979 (40 artists), “Younger Artists: Benefit Exhibit” in 1980 (61 artists), “Intimate Visions” in 1982 (14 artists), “Narrative Sculpture” in 1982 (12 Artists), “Painted Light” in 1983 (90 artists) and “Bodies and Souls” in 1983 (156 artists) to name some. By 1980 The Museum was publishing a bimonthly newsletter and by 1982 a magazine. By ...
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city.
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Figurative Art
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract art: Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world. Painting and sculpture can therefore be divided into the categories of figurative, representational and abstract, although, strictly speaking, abstract art is derived (or abstracted) from a figurative or other natural source. However, "abstract" is sometimes used as a synonym of non-representational art and non-objective art, i.e. art which has no derivation from figures or objects. Figurative art is not synonymous with figure painting (art that represents the human figure), although human and animal figures are frequent subjects. Formal elements The formal elements, those aesthetic ...
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Bowery
The Bowery () is a street and neighbourhood, neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York. The street runs from Chatham Square at Park Row (Manhattan), Park Row, Worth Street, and Mott Street in the south to Cooper Square at 4th Street (Manhattan), 4th Street in the north.Jackson, Kenneth L. "Bowery" in , p. 148 The eponymous neighborhood runs roughly from the Bowery east to Allen Street and First Avenue (Manhattan), First Avenue, and from Canal Street (Manhattan), Canal Street north to Cooper Square/East Fourth Street (Manhattan), Fourth Street. The neighborhood roughly overlaps with Little Australia, Manhattan, Little Australia. To the south is Chinatown, Manhattan, Chinatown, to the east are the Lower East Side and the East Village, Manhattan, East Village, and to the west are Little Italy, Manhattan, Little Italy and NoHo, Manhattan, NoHo. It has historically been considered a part of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In the 17th century, the road branched of ...
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Museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the art museums, arts, science museums, science, natural history museums, natural history or Local museum, local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the List of most-visited museums, most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually. Since the establishment of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, the earliest known museum in ancient history, ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preserva ...
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West Broadway
West Broadway is a north-south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, separated into two parts by Tribeca Park. The northern part begins at Tribeca Park, near the intersection of Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), Walker Street and Beach Street in Tribeca. It runs northbound as a one-way street past Canal Street and becomes two-way at the intersection with Grand Street one block farther north. West Broadway then operates as a main north-south thoroughfare through SoHo until its northern end at Houston Street, on the border between SoHo and Greenwich Village. North of Houston Street, it is designated as LaGuardia Place, which continues until Washington Square South. The southern part of West Broadway runs southbound from Tribeca ParkAlthough the neighborhood is "TriBeCa", the park is called by the city's Parks Department "Tribeca Park". Se"Tribeca Park" New York City Department of Parks and Recreation through the TriBeCa neighborhood, ending at Park Place ...
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Paul Georges
Paul Gordon Georges (June 15, 1923 – April 16, 2002) was an American painter. He painted large-scale figurative allegories and numerous self-portraits. Biography In January 1966, the cover of ''Art News'' featured Georges' painting ''In The Studio'', now in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Works were included in Whitney Museum Annuals of 1961, 1963, 1967 & 1969. Paintings by Georges are also in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Smart Museum University of Chicago; National Academy Museum, NYC; Rose Art Museum, Massachusetts; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Virginia Art Museum; Parrish Art Museum Southampton, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton and numerous others across America. He was in 1976 the founder and until 1985 the chairman of the Artists' Choice Museum in New York City. He was a student of Fernande Leger in Paris 1949–52, and Hans Hofmann during 1947 in Provincetown with Larry Rivers, Wolf Kahn, Jane Freilicher and many other artists w ...
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Jack Beal
Walter Henry "Jack" Beal Jr. (June 25, 1931 – August 29, 2013) was an American realist painter. Biography Jack Beal was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1931. He studied at the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary and then at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he was a student of Kathleen Blackshear. At the Art Institute of Chicago, he met artist Sondra Freckelton (1936-2019), who he married in 1955. In 1957, Beal and Freckleton moved to New York City and then in the 1970s to a farm in Oneonta, New York. He died in Oneonta in August 2013 at the age of 82. Beal achieved recognition in New York City and elsewhere during the 1960s. His realist paintings were seen in solo exhibitions at the Allen Frumkin Galleries in New York City and Chicago, and dozens of other galleries in New York, Boston, Miami, Paris and elsewhere. His paintings have been included in important exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ...
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Marjorie Kramer
Marjorie Kramer (born 1943 in Englewood, NJ, raised in Greenwich, CT) is a figurative painter of al fresco landscapes and feminist self-portraits.Barbara Love, ed., “Marjorie Kramer,” ''Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975'' (University of Illinois Press, 2006), 263. Early life and feminism Kramer has a BFA from Cooper Union and was a founding student in 1964 at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and studied with Mercedes Matter, Charles Cajori and Louis Finkelstein. She donated a portion of her small inheritance to pay the School’s first month’s rent of $500. Kramer was a founding editor with Irene Peslikis and others of the ''Woman and Art Quarterly'' (1969–71), the first women artists' publication. From 1968 to 1973, Kramer organized shows of work by women artists, including ''SoHo Women's Artists'' in a Canal Street loft with Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) and ''Feminist Art'' at Columbia University with Patricia Mainardi. With these ...
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Paul Resika
Paul Resika (born 1928) is an American painter born and raised in New York City. Resika is a former student of Hans Hofmann. He began exhibiting his paintings in New York City in the 1940s. He has had several dozen one-man exhibitions in galleries and museums, and his works have been included in hundreds of group exhibitions since the late 1940s until the present. Resika assisted, and later collaborated with artist Edward Melcarth. He chaired the Parsons School of Design MFA program from 1978 to 1990. He is a member of the National Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Resika's work is in the permanent collections of dozens of museums and corporations throughout the United States and the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Academy, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC., the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, the Parrish A ...
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SoHo Weekly News
The ''SoHo Weekly News'' (SWN) was a weekly alternative newspaper founded by music publicist Michael Goldstein and published in New York City from 1973 to 1982. Positioned as a competitor to ''The Village Voice'', it struggled financially. The paper was purchased by DMG Media, Associated Newspaper Group in 1979 and shut down three years later when they were unable to make it profitable. The paper was known for its coverage of SoHo, Manhattan, Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood, which was just starting to become fashionable. Although the official editorial stance was anti-gentrification, some retrospectives have argued that its coverage of local culture and business actually contributed to the upward trend in property values. Coverage of emerging music acts in local venues was particularly strong, including being one of the first papers to interview the punk rock band the Ramones. Many staff at the paper had storied careers after the paper shut down. Annie Flanders founded Details ...
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Defunct Art Museums And Galleries In New York City
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1976 Establishments In New York City
Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. * January 27 ** The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state. ** The First Battle of Amgala (1976), First Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara. February * February 4 ** The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria. ** The 7.5 1976 Guatemala earthquake, Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured. * February 9 – The Australian Defence Force is formed by unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Au ...
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