AzizArt Jan2020

"This Not That"; and Pure Beauty
opened at the Tate Modern,
London, in 2009 and travelled to
MACBA, Barcelona; LACMA, Los
Angeles; and The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, through
2011.
There was an "Artist's Choice:
John Baldessari" at the Museum
of Modern Art in 1994, and the
artist was invited to curate the
exhibition "Ways of Seeing: John
Baldessari Explores the Collection"
at the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden in 2006, and he
created the exhibition design for
"Magritte and Contemporary Art:
The Treachery of Images"
at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art.
For the 2017/2018 season at the
Vienna State Opera he designed
the large-scale image (176 m²)
"Graduation" for the ongoing series
"Safety Curtain", conceived by
museum in progress.
Collections
Baldessari's works are part of major
public and private collections,
including the Museum of Modern
Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden and the Broad
Collection.
Position in the art market
Baldessari set a personal auction
record when his acrylic-on-canvas
piece Quality Material (1966–1968)
was sold for $4,408,000 at
Christie's New York in 2007.
In 1972, Ileana Sonnabend agreed
to represent him worldwide. In
1999, after twenty-six years with
the Sonnabend Gallery, Baldessari
went to Marian Goodman.He has
also been represented by Margo
Leavin (1984-2013),[8] and Sprüth
Magers (since 1998)