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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center shows 'Facebook / Images of People in Photographs' Posted: 18 Jul 2008 12:46 AM CDT POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- While the Facebook social networking website has proven to be enormously popular, linking millions of photographs of faces to searchable biographical data, the notion of collecting and cataloguing pictures of people is not a new one. In the 1920s August Sander created a typological catalogue of more than six hundred photographs of German people from all walks of life, in his monumental lifelong project to document the residents of his native Westerwald, near Cologne.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Frances-Lehman_Loeb-Art_Center.html


Chinese Gardens for Living ~ Illusion into Reality at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Posted: 18 Jul 2008 12:23 AM CDT Dresden, Germany - This summer an exhibition by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in association with the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, will be presenting contemporary art from China. “Chinese Gardens for Living: Illusion into Reality” will show works by famous Chinese designers, architects, painters and photographers who have explored the philosophy behind the Chinese garden.
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Maurice de Vlaminck’s Exhibit at Musee du Luxembourg in Paris Posted: 17 Jul 2008 11:45 PM CDT PARIS - This exhibition brings together works of the period 1900-1915, from Maurice de Vlaminck’s (1876-1958) earliest known paintings - Vlaminck’s career started when he was 17, but none of his juvenalia has been preserved - in which he already asserted his characteristic violence, down to the works produced at the beginning of the First World War, which reflect his contemporary research on the rendering of space.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Maurice-de_Vlaminck.html

Sea Creatures in Glass at Harvard Museum of Natural History Posted: 17 Jul 2008 11:24 PM CDT CAMBRIDGE, MA - Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the “Glass Flowers,” father and son artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka meticulously shaped glass and wire into lifelike models of marine animals. Renowned for their beauty and exacting detail, the Blaschka marine invertebrate models were commissioned by universities and museums throughout world during the 19th century. Sea Creatures in Glass will be on display through January 4, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Leopold_and_Rudolph_Blaschka.html


Painting for Eternity ~ The Tombs of Paestum at Martin Gropius Bau Posted: 17 Jul 2008 11:12 PM CDT BERLIN - With its three large Doric temples, Paestum became a well-known site early on thanks to engravings by Piranesi (1777/78) and Goethe’s impressive descriptions in his Italienische Reise (1787). However, many people are unaware that Paestum contains one of the greatest treasure troves of ancient fresco paintings: During excavations in the 1960s, around 200 richly painted tombs from the Lucanian period (4th century B.C.) were discovered.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Paestum.html

History of New Arrivals to America at Minnesota History Center Posted: 17 Jul 2008 09:21 PM CDT ST. PAUL, MN.- For many, Ellis Island is the ultimate symbol of American immigration and the immigrant experience. The Minnesota History Center opened a new exhibit celebrating the stories of the more than 12 million immigrants who entered the United States through the New York City federal immigration station. On exhibition through 21 September, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Augustus_Frederick_Sherman.html


JMW Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld at Wordsworth Museum Posted: 17 Jul 2008 08:58 PM CDT GRASMERE, UK - Outstanding works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), from The Courtauld in London, will be displayed together for the first time in this exciting exhibition at the Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery. The variety of style and technique seen in these works is evidence of the Turner's extraordinarily inventive approach to the making of landscape in watercolour.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner.html



Greek Olympic Art Exhibit from the British Museum at the Shanghai Museum Posted: 17 Jul 2008 08:44 PM CDT SHANGHAI.- Less than one month before the Olympic Games begin in Beijing, the famous discus thrower and more than a hundred sculptures and porcelains from ancient Greece have visited China, where thanks to a temporary exhibit in Shanghai have been discovered by over 330,000 Chinese visitors at the Shanghai Museum.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Shanghai_Museum.html