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Félix González-Torres

Index Félix González-Torres

Felix Gonzalez-Torres (November 26, 1957 – January 9, 1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. [1]

77 relations: Ad Reinhardt, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Appropriation (art), Art intervention, Artforum, Artpace, Bellingham, Washington, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Beyeler Foundation, Bill Viola, California Institute of the Arts, Carol Bove, Chicago Tribune, Christie's, Conceptual art, Critical theory, Cuba, Danh Vo, David Zwirner Gallery, Florida International University, Found object, Francesco Bonami, German Academic Exchange Service, Germany, Guáimaro, Hamburger Bahnhof, Hanover, HIV/AIDS, Installation art, International Center of Photography, Istanbul Biennial, Joseph Kosuth, Julie Ault, London, Miami, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Minimalism, Modern art, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, National Endowment for the Arts, National Portrait Gallery (United States), Neoliberalism, New York City, New York University, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philippe Ségalot, Phillips (auctioneers), ..., Pratt Institute, Process art, Relational art, Renaissance Society, Robert Smithson, Roni Horn, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sarah Thornton, Sculpture, Serpentine Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Soft power, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Sotheby's, Sprengel Museum, Stonewall riots, The Economist, The New York Times International Edition, The Wall Street Journal, Tino Sehgal, Tony Feher, United States, University of Puerto Rico, Venice Biennale, Western Washington University, Whitney Museum of American Art, Wiels. Expand index (27 more) »

Ad Reinhardt

Adolph Frederick "Ad" Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s.

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Andrea Rosen Gallery

Andrea Rosen Gallery is an art gallery in New York City, founded by Andrea Rosen in 1990.

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Appropriation (art)

Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.

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Art intervention

Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience, venue/space or situation.

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Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.

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Artpace

Artpace is a non-profit contemporary art gallery located in San Antonio, Texas, United States, founded by Linda Pace.

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Bellingham, Washington

Bellingham is the largest city in and the county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum and repertory movie theater and archive, associated with the University of California, Berkeley.

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Beyeler Foundation

The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler with its museum in Riehen, near Basel, owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler.

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Bill Viola

Bill Viola (born 1951) is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media.

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California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, known by its nickname CalArts, is a private university located in Valencia, California.

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Carol Bove

Carol Bove (born 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland) is an American artist based in New York City.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house.

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Conceptual art

Conceptual art, sometimes simply called conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

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Critical theory

Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Danh Vo

Danh Vō (born 1975) is a Vietnamese-born Danish performance art inspired conceptual artist.

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David Zwirner Gallery

The David Zwirner Gallery is an American contemporary art gallery owned by David Zwirner.

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Florida International University

Florida International University (FIU) is a metropolitan public research university in Greater Miami, Florida.

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Found object

Found object originates from the French objet trouvé, describing art created from undisguised, but often modified, objects or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function.

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Francesco Bonami

Francesco Bonami (b. Florence, 1955) is an Italian art curator and writer who is currently Honorary Director of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.

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German Academic Exchange Service

The German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Guáimaro

Guáimaro is a town and municipality in the southern part of Camagüey Province in Cuba.

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Hamburger Bahnhof

Hamburger Bahnhof is the former terminus of the Berlin–Hamburg Railway in Berlin, Germany, on Invalidenstrasse in the Moabit district opposite the Charité hospital.

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Hanover

Hanover or Hannover (Hannover), on the River Leine, is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover).

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Installation art

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that often are site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

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International Center of Photography

The International Center of Photography (ICP) in Manhattan, New York City, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture at 250 Bowery and a photography school in Midtown Manhattan.

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Istanbul Biennial

The International Istanbul Biennial is a contemporary art exhibition, held every two years in Istanbul, Turkey, since 1987.

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Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth (born January 31, 1945), an American conceptual artist, lives in New York and London, Guggenheim Collection.

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Julie Ault

Julie Ault (born 1957) is an American artist, curator, and editor who was a cofounder of Group Material, a New York-based artists' collaborative that has produced over fifty exhibitions and public projects exploring relationships between politics and aesthetics.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, or mima, is a contemporary art gallery based in the centre of Middlesbrough, England.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Modern art

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophy of the art produced during that era.

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Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (City of Paris' Museum of Modern Art) or MAMVP, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Museum für Moderne Kunst

The Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, Germany, was founded in 1981.

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Portrait Gallery (United States)

The National Portrait Gallery is a historic art museum located between 7th, 9th, F, and G Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

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Neoliberalism

Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism refers primarily to the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

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Philippe Ségalot

Philippe Ségalot is a French art dealer.

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Phillips (auctioneers)

Phillips, formerly known as Phillips the Auctioneers (briefly as Phillips de Pury) is a British auction house.

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Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private, nonsectarian, non-profit institution of higher learning located in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, with a satellite campus located at 14th Street in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York (Pratt MWP).

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Process art

Process art is an artistic movement as well as a creative sentiment where the end product of art and craft, the objet d’art (work of art/found object), is not the principal focus.

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Relational art

Relational art or relational aesthetics is a mode or tendency in fine art practice originally observed and highlighted by French art critic Nicolas Bourriaud.

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Renaissance Society

The Renaissance Society is a non-collecting contemporary art museum in Chicago, Illinois.

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Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American artist who used photography in relation to sculpture and land art.

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Roni Horn

Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer.

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California.

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Sarah Thornton

Sarah L. Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Serpentine Galleries

The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Soft power

Soft power is the ability to attract and co-opt, rather than by coercion (hard power), which is using force or giving money as a means of persuasion.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British founded, American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City.

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Sprengel Museum

The Sprengel Museum in Hanover houses one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany.

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Stonewall riots

The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) communityAt the time, the term "gay" was commonly used to refer to all LGBT people.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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The New York Times International Edition

The New York Times International Edition is an English-language newspaper printed at 38 sites throughout the world and sold in more than 160 countries and territories.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal (born 1976) is an artist of German and Indian descent, based in Berlin, who describes his work as "constructed situations".

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Tony Feher

Tony Feher (1956 – June 24, 2016) was an American sculptor.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Puerto Rico

The University of Puerto Rico (in Spanish, Universidad de Puerto Rico, or UPR) is the main public university system of Puerto Rico and a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.

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Western Washington University

Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is one of six public universities in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art – known informally as the "Whitney" – is an art museum located in Manhattan.

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Wiels

WIELS is a contemporary art centre situated in Forest, in the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium in a building of the former Wielemans brewery.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_González-Torres

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