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Tres generaciones radicales (Vanguards and identity signs. Three radical generations) (1950-1960-1970)\u201d; \u201cConsagraciones y emergencias desde la posmodernidad (Enshrinings and emergences from postmodernism) (1980-1990-2010)\u201d, and \u201cV\u00ednculos transparentes (Transparent links)\u201d are the four sections that make up the \u201cFernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection\/A Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d museum exhibition.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The production and organization of the exhibition is headed by Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero and Nancy B\u00e1ez, collectors; Mar\u00eda Elena Ditr\u00e9n, Art Historian and Executive Director of the Museum of Modern Art; Danilo De los Santos, Senior Artist and Historian of Dominican art; Abil Peralta Ag\u00fcero, Director of the Technical Unit of Culture of the House of Representatives; and Amable L\u00f3pez Mel\u00e9ndez, Art Critic and Head Curator at MAM.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The exhibition will remain open until the end of August, Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, at the Museum of Modern Art of the Dominican Republic, located on Av. Pedro Henr\u00edquez Ure\u00f1a, Plaza de la Cultura Juan Pablo Duarte, in Santo Domingo.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 8px\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5491_1.jpg\" width=500> <IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 8px\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5491_2.jpg\" width=500> <IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 8px\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5491_3.jpg\" width=500> <IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 8px\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5491_4.jpg\" width=500> <IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 8px\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5491_5.jpg\" width=500> <IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 8px\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5491_6.jpg\" width=500> <IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 8px\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5491_7.jpg\" width=500> <IMG class=thinborderfloat1 style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 8px\" border=0 alt=\"\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM\" src=\"\/portal\/noticias\/5491_8.jpg\" width=500> <\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAMSanto Domingo, June 19, 2014 The Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art (MAM), will open on June 25th, at 7 pm, the exhibition \u201cFernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection \/ A Century of Modern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti5491\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cA Century of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic\u201d, a selection from the Fernando B\u00e1ez Guerrero Collection at MAM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}