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“Museum head quits over Enola Gay flap" (Philadelphia Inquirer, May 3, 1995) “Official: Enola Gay Response Unexpected” (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1995) “The History That Tripped Over Memory - War of Words: What the Museum Couldn’t Say” Reports on the controversial “Enola Gay” exhibition,Īt the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum “Artist’s Birth is a link to the Birth of the Atomic Age” (Baltimore Sun, March 15, 1995) TRACES of the Atomic Age (1945-2020) essay by David Tafler TRACES (1995) signed 20 page 8” x 8 “ catalogue, Introduction by Helen Glazer.ĭocuments include: letters, news articles, magazine covers, and museum ephemera. TRACES (1995 / 2020) 8 photographs: 14” x 11” Hahnemuhle Baryta Inkjet Archival paper TRACES (1995 / 2020) HDV 8 minute loop, BW & color, stereo sound Includes the video, 8 photographs, catalogue, and 22 archivalĭigital documents in a black clamshell portfolio box 2” depth. It also addresses the controversy surrounding the Smithsonian’s decision to modify the “Enola Gay” exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC that opened in June, 1995.Įdition of 5 + 2 AP Box set 14” x 11” with a Certificate of Authenticity TRACES is a limited edition box set composed of a video, photographs, catalogue, letters and related ephemera dating back to 1945.
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During August, it was incorporated into the 50th anniversary series of events, “Becoming Death: Cinema and the Atomic Age,” curated by Steve Seid at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. The TRACES video installation initially premiered at three art museums across the U.S.
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He was born in 1945, between the A-bomb test on July 16 in New Mexico, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 6 and 9. TRACES, a work in the exhibition, is the culmination of Peter d’Agostino’s lifelong obsession with the tragic consequences of nuclear proliferation. Now marking the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the Atomic Age, Transmission Gallery presents Peter d’Agostino: A-bombs / Climate walks, the artist’s personal view of nukes and the changing climate, is on display at the Transmission Gallery, October 1- November 21, 2020. Peter d’Agostino’s pioneering video and new media works have long addressed the two ongoing existential dangers of climate change and nuclear disaster always in play as the backdrop to the current crises.