| November 2008 |
Curator Simon Zalkind is planning a show of Hafftka for November 2008 to January 2009 at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture in Denver, Colorado.
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| October 2008 |
Two books from Six Gallery Press
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| February 2008 |
The Terror of Loch Ness reviewed at MUNGBEING.COM
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| January 2008 |
Wait, 60"x40" oil on canvas, 2006, was added to the permanent collection of Central High School, Philadelphia, PA, and is on permanent display.
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| September 2007 |
Conscious/Unconscious reviewed at The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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| August 17, 2007 |
Aleph-Bet in the national newspaper, The Jewish Daily Forward, on the first page of the Arts section and on the homepage online. View article here.
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| July 2007 |
The Yeshiva University Museum acquired “The Hill (Jerusalem)", a major 1985 painting, for their permanent collection. The painting had been previously exhibited at the Jewish Museum in NY in the 1986 show Jewish Themes and was reproduced in their catalogue with the following text written by the curator of the Jewish Museum, Susan Tumarkin Goodman: |
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| March 2006 |
Brussels, Belgium
Three large paintings will be included in a show at the Musee des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles. The show will be on view from October 18, 2006 to January 10, 2007 and will travel to Arizona State University Art Museum in March 2007. Please click on the images to enlarge. |
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| November 2005 |
Tempe, AZ
The ASU Art Museum, part of the Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University, has just received a gift of two encaustic paintings by Hafftka from the collector Stephane Jansen, a resident of Arizona. The ASU, named "the single most impressive venue for contemporary art in Arizona" by Art in America magazine, now has a total of three encaustic paintings by Hafftka. |
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| April 2005 |
Washington, DC
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, aquires a 1985 set of etchings by Hafftka named Overtones. To view the set click here. |
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| December 2004 |
Tempe, Arizona
The Arizona State Univeristy Art Museum located in Tempe, AZ, has recently aquired through a generous donation from Stephane Janssen of Scottsdale, a painting by Michael Hafftka called "Fat Man". The painting is one of six encaustic panels created by the artist in 1988. |
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| April 30, 2003 |
Pittsburg, PA
 The Carnegie Museum of Art acquired this month a portrait of John Caldwell by the artist Michael Hafftka.John Caldwell (1941-1993) served as the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie from 1983 to 1989. Richard Armstrong, the Director at the Carnegie Museum, knew and worked with John Caldwell and thus can appreciate the significance of the portrait to the history of the museum. As a Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art for more than a decade during the eighties, Mr. Armstrong also knows the work of Michael Hafftka and has followed his career over the years.Caldwell discovered Hafftka’s work shortly before joining the Carnegie. Several years later under Caldwell’s directive, the Carnegie bought a large painting by Hafftka for the Museum’s permanent collection. Caldwell wrote extensively about Hafftka’s work and a friendship between the two ensued.The painting was purchased from Michael Hafftka in Brooklyn by Ms. Laura Hoptman, Curator of Contemporary Art, under the directive of Mr. Armstrong.X X X |
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