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The Evolution of Pop Artist Jim Dine

For over thirty years, Dine's work has been collected and exhibited internationally. Dine has lived and worked all over the world, including New York, London, Vermont, Salzburg, Paris, and Berlin. An exhibit of his work, "North" recently opened at Pace Wildenstein in New York. This collection consists of nine large paintings of crows, hearts, owls, and skulls which Dine made in Berlin and New York. Dine's wife, filmmaker Nancy Dine was nominated this year to receive an Academy Award for Best Documentary: Short Subject for "Jim Dine A Self Portrait on the Walls."

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, December 9, 1996: Interview with Leonard Cole; Interview with Jim Dine.
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