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Lawrence Weiner
[American Conceptual Artist, born in 1940]
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Lawrence Weiner Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Lawrence Weiner available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Guggenheim Berlin This space is now closed, but some information about past exhibitions remains online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Click "View all" to see a total of 5 works online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Information about a 2007 exhibition
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois West
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Centre Pompidou, Paris Hour-long video of a presentation of Weiner's videos and him discussing his work (in French)
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany To see the text in English, click on "English", then "Collection", then on the artist name
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French) 
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago Information about a 1978 exhibition
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands Up on (in) the air/down on (in) the ground, 1975
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University Until It Is
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 3 works online when last checked
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Sender Collection, New York A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art (Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")
The Snow Show, Finland
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Frieze Magazine "Having Been Said: Writings and Interviews of Lawrence Weiner, 1968-2003"
Frieze Magazine Review (from issue 113): Lawrence Weiner
Frieze Magazine "Having Been Said: Writings and Interviews of Lawrence Weiner, 1968-2003"
Multimedia:
äda'web Weiner's interactive project Homeport (requires a software plugin called "Palace")
Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan Fairly low-quality RealMedia clip of the artist discussing his work
Tate Channel In the Studio: Lawrence Weiner (2009)
Tate Channel Lawrence Weiner: Talking Art (2008)
Video Data Bank: Video Art and Video Artists Click on the videocamera icon to launch video (videos are fairly small)
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself Mixed bag of videos, mostly of Weiner speaking about his work
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
 Lawrence Weiner (Contemporary Artists)
look inside
 How to Touch What: An Artists' Book
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