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unusual facts about Museum of Modern Art, Saitama



2009 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

The MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2009 was broadcast the 8th annual awards show on Saturday, May 30, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Saitama.

Ada Tolla

LOT-EK has completed numerous residential, commercial and institutional projects in the US and abroad, as well as exhibition design and site-specific installations for major cultural institutions and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim.

Adrenaline MMA

Although the organization had yet to hold its first card, its first co-promotion effort was Yarennoka! held in Saitama, Japan on New Year's Eve, 2007.

Ali Bahjat

In 11 September 2012 Bahjat made his debut against Japan in Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Japan in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification, which it was ended 0-1 loss.

Baschet Brothers

In 1966 they were invited to hold an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and director Alfred Barr purchased a sculpture for the museum's collection.

Bongoût

Their artists books are in numerous prestigious museums and collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University's Fine Art library in Cambridge, MA, the Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University "Art of the Book" Collection (Sterling Library), New Haven, CT.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Clemens Weiss

Clemens Weiss has works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Folkwang Museum (Essen), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), New York Public Library (The Spencer Collection), Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Palace of Nations (Geneva), University of South Florida (Art Museum), Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany) and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (USA).

Creative Playthings

After the Breuer house, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Woman's Home Companion cosponsored another model house in the garden featuring Creative Playthings' designs, this time by Los Angeles architect Gregory Ain.

Development of a Bottle in Space

Once exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco (1915), Development of a Bottle in Space, has since become part of the collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Ena Swansea

Her work is included in many prominent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Sammlung Falckenberg Hamburg and the Olbricht Collection, Berlin.

Franciszek Starowieyski

He was the first Polish artist to have a one man show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 1986.

Gordon Saussy

His grandson, Kirk Varnedoe, played rugby for 14 years and later became the Director of Painting and Sculpting at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

Hanno Station

Hannō Station (飯能駅) on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line in Hannō, Saitama, Japan

Hester van Eeghen

And now they can be found not just in her little Amsterdam shop, but in luxury and museum stores throughout Europe, Japan and even New York City's Museum of Modern Art.

Ice Cream for Crow

However, the video was included in the Letterman broadcast on NBC-TV, and was accepted into the Museum of Modern Art, where it has been used in several of their programs related to music.

Isa Genzken

Genzken's work is included in the collections of many institutions internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Generali Foundation, Vienna; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

Jerome Liebling

His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Jewish Museum in New York, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

José-Miguel Ullán

Ullán wrote poems on various on several artists, which are displaied at Museum of Modern Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Joseph Chaikov

He was named an Honored Artist of the USSR in 1959, and his work is in the permanent collection of MOMA.

Julio de Diego

In 1946 he held Modern Handmade Jewelry exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and two years later remarried Gypsy Rose Lee, becoming her third husband that way.

Kai Althoff

He has also shown work in group exhibitions including the 2004 Venice Biennale, Drawing Now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Chère Paintre, Liebe Maler, Dear Painter at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, A Perilous Space at Magnani in London and Kaiki at Focal Point Gallery in Southend-on-Sea.

Kanto Tsukuba Bank

While the bank has a majority of its branches in Ibaraki Prefecture, it operates several branches outside the prefecture, notable in Tokyo, Chiba, Tochigi, and Saitama Prefectures.

Karl Priebe

His paintings were shown at major public and private galleries, among them the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kazue Nagahori

Kazue Nagahori was born in Saitama, Japan, and began her career in 1984, when she started as a fighter in All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling.

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

In 2006, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein together with the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen and the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt acquired the collection of Cologne based galerist Rolf Ricke that includes works by Richard Artschwager, Bill Bollinger, Donald Judd, Fabian Marcaccio, Steven Parrino, David Reed, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier or Jessica Stockholder.

Leonard Baskin

His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums.

Maciej Urbaniec

His Mona Lisa CYRK poster, which is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York has been honored with a postage stamp issued in 2002 by the Polish post office.

Massimo D'Amico

But will the knowledge, (one of which, with Francesco Clemente made in a bar in Brooklyn) and long visits to MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), then replace it very soon with the long sessions of sketches made in the subway, in the square of Union Square on the 14th Street, in the crowded streets of Manhattan and outlying stations and other underprivileged suburbs of New York, which will lead him to launch his personal style of painting.

Matt McCormick

He has had three films screen at the Sundance Film Festival, has had work exhibited at Art Basel, The Moscow Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art, and his film The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal was named in ‘Top 10 film lists of 2002’ in both Art Forum Magazine and the Village Voice.

Nader Tehrani

Tehrani's research and installations have been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Nanakōdai Station

Nanakōdai Station is served by the Tobu Noda Line, and is located 25.1 km from the western terminus of the line at Ōmiya Station.

Niele Toroni

Toroni's works are part of major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg; the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum Luzern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.

Nooruddeen Durkee

Paintings in various private collections as well as the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

One 4 U

On May 21, it was revealed that A-Jax was set to be the opening act in Kara's last two shows of their first tour, Karasia, in Saitama, Japan.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim

Despite a short career, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim exhibited her work in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, London, Venice, Padua, Murano, Palm Beach, Vincenzo, Stockholm, Toronto, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego.

Pop Hart

Hart's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian Institution; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the British Museum, and other institutions in the United States and Europe.

Reginald H. Neal

Neal participated in The Responsive Eye, (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965) and Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s (Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, 2007).

Rose Art Museum

Sam Hunter, the first director of the Rose Art Museum, came to Brandeis from the Museum of Modern Art, and with a small grant of $50,000 from collectors Leon Mnuchin and his wife, Harriet Gevirtz-Mnuchin, launched a collection with iconic works by Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Willem de Kooning and several others—21 works with a ceiling of $5,000 for any one piece bought with the grant.

Ross McElwee

Retrospectives include the Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Retrospectives have also been held in Paris, Tehran, Moscow, Seoul, Lisbon, and Quito.

S. Lane Faison

Several of his students went on to direct major museums including Earl A. Powell III of the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Thomas Krens of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Saitama Rapid Railway Line

In the future, the line may be extended north from Urawa-Misono through Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama to Hasuda Station (in Hasuda, Saitama) on the JR East Utsunomiya Line, but financial problems have prevented Saitama Prefecture from the construction of the extension.

Tal Burstein

In August 2001, Burstein was a member of the Israeli Under-22 national team at the FIBA Under-21 World Championship in Saitama, Japan, where his team finished in 7th place.

The Plum Blossoms

On September 8, 2005, it was purchased for New York's Museum of Modern Art by Henry Kravis and the new president of the museum, Marie-Josée Drouin.

Thomas Scheibitz

Scheibitz' works are included in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; and the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Tokihiro Satō

Sato’s photographs are held throughout the world in public and private museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Japan); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

Vivian Selbo

Selbo has created sites and web works for clients such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), the Walker Art Center, Cal Art's Center for Integrated Media, the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, PBS/POV, Visual Understanding in Education, and Eyebeam, among others.

William Larson

His works can be found in many significant collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the George Eastman House, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Yono

Yono was a town (1889-1956) and then a city (-2001) of Saitama Prefecture, Japan and currently comprises the most of Chūō-ku, Saitama.


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