Upcoming Exhibition Listing
Mary GrandPré: Harry Potter and Beyond
November 1 - December 1, 2008
Illustrator of several children's titles, GrandPré is perhaps best known for her illustrations of the American version of J. K. Rawlings' series of Harry Potter books. The Cedar Rapids exhibition will be her first in many years and will feature works from all aspects of her career: children's books, Harry Potter books, magazine covers, and poster design.
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American Narratives: Photographs by Thomas C. Jackson
January 31 - April 26, 2009
American Narratives: Photographs by Thomas C. Jackson will focus on a different medium altogether, photography, which Jackson came to only recently. The splicing together of his separate, seemingly-unrelated photographs creates fascinating and intriguing new narratives.
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Persian Visions: Contemporary Art from Iran
February 21 - May 10, 2009
In the first survey of contemporary Iranian photography to travel to the United States, Persian Visions features 20 artists who use the camera as a tool for cultural expression and self-exploration.
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Malvina Hoffman: Rodin's Last Student
March 1 - December 15, 2009
This exhibition will reopen in early 2009.
In 1985 and 1986, the CRMA received a large number of plaster and bronze works by Malvina Hoffman. In 2003, Hoffman's magnificent Bacchanale Frieze was permanently installed in the Museum's Carnegie Wing. A substantial exhibition of her work, however, hasn't happened for some time. This exhibition of more than 30 works by Hoffman from the Museum's collection is on display through November 16, 2008.
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Mauricio Lasansky: Master Printmaker
March 1, 2009
This ongoing, permanent collection exhibition will reopen in early 2009.
Best known for large-scale prints in which he uses multiple plates and full ranges of color, Lasansky combines a spectrum of graphic techniques including etching, drypoint, aquatint, and engraving.
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Art in Roman Life
March 1, 2009
This ongoing, permanent collection exhibition will reopen in early 2009.
This is an exhibition of more than 50 works—including 21 Roman portrait busts donated to the CRMA by Tom and Nan Riley in 1996.
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Christian Marclay's Telephones
May 9 - August 2, 2009
Cleverly conceived and artfully edited, Christian Marclay's 7 1/2-minute video, Telephones, comprises a succession of brief film clips that creates a humorous narrative of its own in which the characters, in progression, dial, hear the phone ring, pick it up, converse, react, say goodbye and hang up.
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John Buck: Iconography
May 30 - August 16, 2009
An overview of the Iowa-born, Montana-based, John Buck’s 40-year career in printmaking and sculpture, the exhibit includes over 60 works including prints, large-scale sculpture, wooden constructions (shadow boxes) and glass and wood works created at Pilchuck.
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Goya's "Disasters of War"
August 15 - December 6, 2009
Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) gained widespread recognition, both during his lifetime and afterwards, for his revealing portraits of the Spanish Bourbon monarchy and for his powerful portrayals of the brutal repression of Spanish rebels against Napoleon in 1808.
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Norman Rockwell: Fact and Fiction
September 5, 2009 - January 3, 2010
In the 65 years since his visit, numerous anecdotes and stories have arisen about the artist's time in Cedar Rapids and the creation of this work. This exhibition uses these five, newly conserved and restored watercolors, along with numerous photographs taken by local photographer Wes Panek for Rockwell, to investigate the many facts and fictions associated with Rockwell's visit and this set of watercolors.
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