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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

1979: 46 exhibitions

Berenice Abbott, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró and Odilon Redon were exhibited most in 1979.

Projects: Video XXIII

4–30 January 1979

Barbara London and Howard Fried were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Paul Klee Centennial: Prints and Transfer Drawings

8 January to 3 April 1979

Paul Klee and Howardena Pindell were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Jackie Winsor

12 January to 6 March 1979

Kynaston McShine and Jackie Winsor were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Anne Ryan: The Intimate Collages

16 January to 6 March 1979

Anne Ryan and Lisa M. Messinger were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Posters from the Collection

18 January to 15 July 1979

A. M. Cassandre and J. Stewart Johnson were involved.

Projects: Video XXIV

1–27 February 1979

Barbara London, Alan Lande, David Kirkpatrick and Fred Naiden, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Projects: Donald Lipski

8 February to 18 March 1979

Barbara London and Donald Lipski were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Prairie: Photographs by Robert Adams

9 February to 1 May 1979

John Szarkowski and Robert Adams were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Transformations in Modern Architecture

21 February to 24 April 1979

Arthur Drexler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer, among others, were involved.

Projects: Video XXV

1 March to 10 April 1979

Barbara London, Paul Wong, Robert Filliou and Hank Bull, among others, were involved.

Gaetano Pesce: Projects for a Skyscraper

2 March to 10 April 1979

J. Stewart Johnson and Gaetano Pesce were involved.

The Stage Show

5 March to 29 May 1979

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Dubuffet and Frank Stella, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Frank Stella: The Indian Bird Maquettes

12 March to 1 May 1979

Frank Stella and William S. Rubin were involved.

Photo of the exhibition The Masterworks of Edvard Munch

15 March to 24 April 1979

Edvard Munch and John Elderfield were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Projects: Bill Viola

15 March to 24 April 1979

Barbara London and Bill Viola were involved.

Photo of the exhibition The James Thrall Soby Bequest

22 March to 9 May 1979

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Giorgio de Chirico and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Projects: Martín Chambi and Edward Ranney

23 March to 3 May 1979

Betsy Jablow, Edward Ranney and Martín Chambi were involved.

Photo of the exhibition David Hockney: The Blue Guitar

10 April to 10 July 1979

Robert Motherwell, David Hockney and Alexandra Schwartz were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Larry Rivers/Terry Southern: The Donkey and the Darling

10 April to 10 July 1979

Larry Rivers, Alexandra Schwartz and Terry Southern were involved.

Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto

19 April to 19 June 1979

Barbara London, Toshio Matsumoto, Mako Idemitsu and Ko Nakajima, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Three Houses

21 April to 20 May 1979

J. Stewart Johnson, R. Buckminster Fuller, Paul Nelson and David Jacob were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the Arnold H. Crane Collection

7 May to 29 July 1979

David Octavius Hill, William Henry Fox Talbot, Robert Adamson and Henri Le Secq, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

18 May to 7 August 1979

Jean Dubuffet, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein and Sol LeWitt, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Thirty Sculptors' Drawings

18 May to 6 June 1979

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

Projects: Video XXVII

18 May to 6 June 1979

Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra and Bill Viola, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Architectural Projects by Roger Ferri and Allan Greenberg

2 June to 15 July 1979

Arthur Drexler, Allan Greenberg and Roger C. Ferri were involved.

Views over America

4 June to 30 July 1979

Claes Oldenburg, Lyonel Feininger, John Marin and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

Sound Art

25 June to 5 July 1979

Barbara London, Julia Heyward, Connie Beckley and Maggie Payne were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Gifts of Drawing

9 August to 13 November 1979

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Larry Fink

6 August to 30 October 1979

Susan Kismaric and Larry Fink were involved.

Projects: Video XXVIII

7 August to 18 September 1979

Gary Hill, Davidson Gigliotti, Shalom Gorewitz and Ralph Hocking, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition American International Pictures: Twenty-Five Years

16 July to 4 September 1979

Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Architecture and Design

4 August to 30 September 1979

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Isamu Noguchi, Marcel Breuer and J. Stewart Johnson, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist

22 August to 21 October 1979

John Elderfield, William C. Agee, Patrick Henry Bruce and Barbara Rose were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Ansel Adams and the West

5 September to 28 October 1979

John Szarkowski and Ansel Adams were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Peter Ellenshaw: Special Effects Artist

17 September to 30 October 1979

Mary Corliss and Pat Cunningham were involved.

People Watching

1 October to 27 November 1979

Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Berenice Abbott and David Hockney, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Liberty State Park: The Master Plan

12 October to 25 November 1979

Arthur Drexler and Robert Geddes were involved.

Projects: Video XXX, Urban Focus/New York

8 November 1979 to 1 January 1980

Nam June Paik, Skip Blumberg, Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition In the Twenties: Portraits from the Photography Collection

14 November 1979 to 16 March 1980

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Marc Chagall: Prints, Monotypes, Illustrated Books

22 November 1979 to 28 January 1980

Marc Chagall and Riva Castleman were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Women of the Nineties: Fin-de-Siècle Prints

28 November 1979 to 28 January 1980

Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, among others, were involved.

Movin'

6 December 1979 to 10 February 1980

Robert Rauschenberg, Odilon Redon, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Buildings for Best Products

12 December 1979 to 10 February 1980

Arthur Drexler, Michael Graves, Charles Moore and Allan Greenberg, among others, were involved.

Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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