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Robert Longo Biography
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1953 |
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Born: in Brooklyn, NY on January 7th
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BFA, State University College, Buffalo, NY
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Recipient, the Goslar Kaiserring
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010 - 2011
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Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
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2009
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No Wave, Galerie Saks, Geneva, Switzerland. (solo)
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2009
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Robert Longo Survey Exhibition: 1979-2009, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nicé, France. (solo)
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2009
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Robert Longo at Metro Pictures: Surrendering the Absolutes, Metro Pictures, New York, New York. (solo)
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2009
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Robert Longo: Dancing with Chains On, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany. (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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Nights Bright Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California. (solo)
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2008
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Robert Longo: Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain (solo)
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2007
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Children of Nyx, Metro Pictures, New York (solo)
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2007
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Beginning of the world, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
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2007
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Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (cat.)
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2007
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Chelsea to Caochangdi, Chambers Fine Art, Bejing
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2007
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History Will Repeat Itself, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (cat.)
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2007
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Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat.)
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2007
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Lights, Camera, Action: Artist Films for the Cinema, Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York
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2007
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Hot Rock, Transmission Gallery, Scotland
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2006
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Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico (cat.)
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2006
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The Movement of Images, Centre Pompidou Editions, Paris (Design)
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2006
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The Outward Visible Signs of an Inward Invisible Grace, Metro Pictures, New York (solo)
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2006
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Ouroboros, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (solo)
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2006
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New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (cat.)
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2006
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Les Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou, France (cat.)
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2006
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Ma+h Coun+s, Curated by Barry Rosenberg, University of Connecticut, Connecticut
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2006
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The Downtown Art Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984,” Grey Art Gallery, Fales Library, New York University (cat.)
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2005
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Neo-Baroque, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona (cat.)
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2005
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Atomica: Making the Visible Invisible, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
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2005
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Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties, Kunstmuseum Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
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2005
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Drawing from the Modern, MoMA, New York
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2005
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Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (solo) (Curated by Richard Milazzo)
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2005
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Something Wicked This Way Comes, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
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2005
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Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
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2004
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Laocoonte devoarto. Arte y violencia politica, Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Comtemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
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2004
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Our sickness of reason created monsters - The Colossus , Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris
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2004
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Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American, New York, NY
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2004
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by Amerika, Galerie Steinek, Vienna (group)
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2003
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The Eighties – Part II : USA, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
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2003
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Andy Warhol / Robert Longo – Cars, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
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2003
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Robert Longo – Lust of Eye, galleria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
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2003
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Aufgeschraubt und Abgestaubt – Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neupräsentation, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
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2003
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M_ARS – Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
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2002
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Trance und Traum, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich
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2002
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Robert Longo : Sigmund Freud, Jündisches Museum Berlin, Galerie Steinek, Vienna
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2002
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The Freud Drawings, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Museen Haus Lange/ Huas Esters ; Albertina, Vienna
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2002
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Monster Waves, Galerie Steinek, Vienna (solo)
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2002
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20 years Galerie Steinek, Vienna (group)
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2001
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Pop Art & Co – Uniques, Graphics and Multiples, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Essen
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2000
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Robert Longo - Superheroes, Lipanje Puntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste
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2000
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Supermodel – Identity and Transformation, Lipanje Puntin
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2000
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Artecontemporanea, Trieste
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2000
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Robert Longo: 1980 - 2000, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (solo) (Curated by Richard Milazzo)
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1999
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The Kiasma Collection, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinski
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1999
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The Virginia & Bagley Wrught Collection, Seattle Art Museum
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1998
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Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
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1998
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Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
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1998
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Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
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1998
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Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium (solo)
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1997
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Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
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1997
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Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
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1997
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Metro Pictures, NY, USA (solo)
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1997
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La Biennale di Venezia: XLVII Espozioione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
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1997
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Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies: Bard College
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1997
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Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
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1997
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Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany (solo)
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1997
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Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (solo)
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1996
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Bang! The Gun as Image, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
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1996
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Metro Pictures, New York, New York 'Unplugged', Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
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1996
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Robert Longo: Kreuze, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (solo)
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1995
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Passion Privees, Musees d'art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
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1995
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Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center: 1975-1995, Burchfield-Penny, Art Center, Buffalo, NY
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1995
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Robert Longo: A Retrospective, The Isetan Mseum of Art, Tokyo (solo)
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1995
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Ashikaga City Museum, Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka (solo)
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1995
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Essence and Persuasion: The Power of Black and White, Anderson Gallery Buffalo, NY
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1995
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Johnny Paintings, Galerie Gana-Beaubourg Paris, France
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1994
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New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France
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1994
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Generev Grunwald Gallery Toronto, Canada
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1993
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Lucio Silla Group Exhibit, Kleines Festspielhaus Salzburg, Austria
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1993
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg
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1992
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When Heaven and Hell Change Places, Galerie Hans Mayer Dusseldorf
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1992
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Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
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1991
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Power, Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis
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1991
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Linda Cathcart Gallery Los Angeles, USA
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| Literature |
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2008
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Robert Longo: Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain. Richard Millazzo, essay
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2007
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Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar (ed.), Merrell Publishers Limited, London, pp. 102-103
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2007
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Collection Art Contemporain, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, pp. 284
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2007
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Bollen, Christopher, “Disaster Art,” Vman, Spring/Summer, Issue 8, pp. 88
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2007
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Jonathan T.D. Neil, “Robert Longo: The Outward and Visible Signs of an Inward and Invisible
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2007
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Grace, Art Review, February, pp. 132
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2007
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Sarah Valdez, “Robert Longo: Review,” Art on Paper, January/February, pp. 89
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2007
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Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marlieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, pp. 28
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2007
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Joanne Bernstein, The UBS Art Collection: Drawings, UBS AG, Zürich, pp. 160-161
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2007
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“The Producers,” Artforum, October, pp. 352-359, 402
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2007
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Dorothy Spears, “It’s Only Rock and Art, but They Like It,” The New York Times, September 30, pp. 30
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2007
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History Will Repeat Itself, Inke Arns and Gabriele Horn (ed.), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, pp. 134-137
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2006
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Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico, pp. 213
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2006
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The Movement of Images, Centre Pompidou Editions, Paris, pp. cover, 102
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2006
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“Robert Longo,” The New Yorker, December 4, pp. 24
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2006
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Sarah Douglas, “Staying Power,” Art + Auction, November, pp. 160-167
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2006
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Galerie Daniel Templon: 40 ans, Communic’Art, Paris, pp. 304, 386, 595
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2006
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No. 1, Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig (ed.), D.A.P., New York, pp. 225
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2006
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Tilman Osterwold, Irritation des Gleichgewichts, Snoeck, Cologne, pp.51-53
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2006
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Germano Celant and Lisa Dennison, New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Skira, Monaco, pp. 480 - 483
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2006
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Hatje Cantz Verlag, Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 1980s, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland
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2005
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Neo-Baroque!, curated by Micaela Giovanotti and Joyce B. Korotkin, Byblos Gallery, Charta Publishers, Milan
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2005
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Richard Lacayo, “How Does ‘80s Art Look Now,” Time, 26 March, pp. 58-62
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2005
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Drawings on Geology, Serge Onnen, J & L Books, New York
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2005
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Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy. Richard Milazzo and Achille Bonito Oliva, essays
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2005
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Jordan Kantor, Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 105
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2005
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Werner Spies, Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum Publishing, Goslar (cat.)
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2005
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Robert Longo, “A Universe in Climax Sonic Grandeur: Robert Longo Talks with Glenn Branca Yard, ed. Ellen Ross, London Terrace Station, New York pp. 46-53
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