Taking one of Andy Warhol's famous Campbell soup can paintings as its starting point, From Pop to Now presents a definitive survey of works collected by international gallery owners Ileana and Michael Sonnabend over the last four decades. For more than half a century, the Sonnabends have been a seminal force in the contemporary art world, often showing bold new work considered impossible to sell or too difficult for the times. In Paris from 1962 to 1973 and in New York from 1970 to the present, the Sonnabend galleries' shows have showcased a virtual who's who of contemporary art, spanning the full gamut of artistic exploration, from Pop Art to Minimalism and Conceptualism, from painting and sculpture to video and photography. During the height of the Pop movement, Ileana was dubbed the Mom of Pop Art, and the impact made by her artists at the time -- among them Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and James Rosenquist -- is now as legendary as Sonnabend's passion for collecting contemporary art. Committed to exposing audiences in Europe and the United States to the most exciting contemporary work on both continents, the Sonnabends brought to New York the works of Italian Arte Povera artists -- Mario Merz, Gilberto Zorio, Jannis Kounellis, and Pier Calzolari -- and other Europeans, including Bernd and Hilla Becher, Christian Boltanski, and Anselm Kieffer. More than a collection, From Pop to Now looks at a pivotal time in contemporary art history, bringing together not only the names that have made history but also the seminal artworks that have defined a generation.

From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection

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Containing some 53 color plates reproducing art from an exhibition put on by the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, this accompany catalogue also contains eight essays dealing with the social and artistic history of human hair and hair fashions, half penned by the guest curator responsible for the exhibition. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Hair: Untangling a Social History

Erchak, Gerald M.

Jolly, Penny Howell

Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery

Skidmore College Art Gallery

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For his first solo exhibition, the New York-based artist, Jeff Sonhouse featured portraits of black figures wearing literal and metaphorical masks. His mixed media paintings use a variety of materials, incorporating matchsticks, steel wool and cowry shells and include references to art historical figures ranging from Ed Paschke to Pablo Picasso.

Opener 26: Jeff Sonhouse — Slowmotion

Ian Berry

Isolde Brielmaier

Pattern is deeply embedded in everything we do. Pattern defines and regulates how we speak, think, and interact with our natural and manufactured environments. The exhibition Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science was created in collaboration with nine Skidmore College faculty members who worked together to explore how and why humans discern, design, and desire pattern across all areas of our lives. This publication was produced in conjunction with the exhibition and features new scholarship by Skidmore College faculty and contributions by students.

Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science

Rachel Roe-Dale

Rachel Seligman

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