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"id": 301878,
"title": "Year in Review: 1973",
"description": "Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).",
"opening_date": "1974-01-30T05:00:00"
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"id": 219047,
"title": "CMA@MOCA (rotation 2)",
"description": "CMA@MOCA (rotation 2). Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 13, 2007).",
"opening_date": "2007-01-25T00:00:00"
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{
"id": 282041,
"title": "Albert Oehlen: Woods Near Oehle",
"description": "Albert Oehlen: Woods Near Oehle. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 4, 2016-March 12, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2016-12-04T05:00:00"
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"description": "CMA 1974: \"Year in Review 1973,\" CMA Bulletin LXI (February, 1974), no. 141, p. 77, reproduced p. 57",
"opening_date": "1974-02-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art (1/25/2007 - 5/13/2007): \"CMA@MOCA\"",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cAlbert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle\u201d (12/4/2016-3/12/2017)",
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"did_you_know": "Chamberlain once quipped, \u201cI think of my art materials not as junk, but as garbage.\u201d",
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"description": "Throughout his career, Chamberlain was fascinated by the radical notion that consumer waste could be reconstituted into art. Most often he made sculpture by variously bending, twisting, crushing, and welding pieces of discarded car parts. Through both their junkyard material and atypical methods of construction, these works upended traditional sculpture created from carved marble or cast bronze.",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cAn Important Sculpture by John Chamberlain.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 8 (October 1973): 242\u2013246.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 242-243, fig. 1",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152492"
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"citation": "\u201cThe Year in Review for 1973.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31\u201378.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 77, no. 141",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"
},
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 251",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n271"
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:46.584000"
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