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On view throughout the Museum are an especially varied range of objects, images, and room-sized installations, including masterworks by some of the most influential artists of the portrait past forty years, along with an impressive number of recently acquired works by emerging artists. Open Ends includes eleven of and the distinct exhibitions and ten large-scale works and installations that examine key themes and artist lines of affinity that portrait and of define contemporary art and artists. The exhibition opens in three stages. the Architecture Hot and Cold presents a wide range of images artist of architecture principally drawn from the Museum’s collections portrait of photographs and architectural drawings. The exhibition includes of works by architects including Archigram the and artist and Rem Koolhaas are portrait shown alongside of the photography the of Andreas artist Gursky and Robert portrait Adams, for example, of as well as works in different media by artists such as Gordon Matta-Clark, the Andy Warhol, and Joel Shapiro.

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