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Haus der Kunst to feature William Eggleston's Retrospective of Photographs & Video
Munich, Germany - William Eggleston's early photographs were black and white. In the 1960s he began to photograph in colour and - almost single-handedly - heralded in the era of fine art colour photography. A solo show at the MoMA in 1976 made him famous. Eggleston's snapshot aesthetic and his psychologising use of colour was still unusual at the time; in an annual review, the MoMA show was even called, "The most hated show of the year." Today Eggleston enjoys a cult status among younger generations of photographers and film directors. On exhibition at the Haus der Kunst from 20 February through 17 May, 2009.http://www.artknowledgenews.com/William_Eggleston.html

"Superabundant ~ A Celebration of Pattern" to open at Turner Contemporary
KENT, UK - " Superabundant " is an exhibition that creates a sense of celebration, of joy and delight through the power of pattern. The exhibition features work by nine artists who make use of pattern and decoration in very different ways, some adopting a systems approach to pattern whilst others are more fluid and organic. For this exhibition, many of the artists have created new and sometimes site specific work especially for the Turner Contemporary Project Space. On view 24 January through 22 March, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Turner_Contemporary_Project_Space_Celebration_of_Pattern.html

The Film Forum to Premiere Chiara Clemente's Portrait of 5 NYC Women Artists
NEW YORK, NY - The Film Forum will present the New York theatrical premiere of OUR CITY DREAMS, a new documentary by Chiara Clemente, beginning Wednesday, February 4. It’s an affecting love letter to the city which strings together the self-told narratives of five women artists (ages 30 – 80), each of whom has a passion for art-making inseparable from her devotion to New York . Swoon, the youngest, exhibits cut-outs directly on city walls and subways, and exudes idealism and energy while carrying a two by four the way some women would carry a briefcase. Cairo-born Ghada Amer mixes media -- embroidering with painting -- to confront sexual taboos that cross cultural boundaries.
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Saint Louis Art Museum shows 'Action/Abstraction ~ Pollock, de Kooning & American Art' The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the October 19 opening of "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976", the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to re-examine Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed. Prior to traveling to St. Louis, Action/Abstraction opened at The Jewish Museum in New York. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., is the exhibition’s third and final venue. On view in Saint Louis October 19th through January 11th, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Saint_Louis_Art_Museum_Action_Abstraction.html

Musée d'Orsay Opens Picasso / Manet ~ The Luncheon on the Grass. In tandem with the exhibition Picasso and the Masters at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, the Musée d’Orsay is presenting around forty paintings, drawings, engravings and models produced by Picasso between 1954 and 1962, and inspired by Manet’s, Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe [The Luncheon on the Grass]. The Musée du Louvre, for its part, is showing the variations on Delacroix’s Algerian Women [Femmes d’Alger]. This is the first time these three great Parisian institutions have come together with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux to try and reconstitute Picasso’s artistic pantheon.
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The Clark Art Institute Exhibits Rarely Seen Italian Drawings WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - A magnificent group of rarely seen and unpublished sixteenth- through eighteenth-century Italian drawings will be highlighted in Drawn to Drama: Italian Works on Paper, 1500 - 1800, an exhibition on view the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute October 12, 2008 to January 4, 2009. Selected from the Clark’s impressive collection of Old Master drawings and the private collection of Robert Loper, Drawn to Drama will offer a unique opportunity to view this special group of Italian drawings that are dramatic in subject, composition, and execution. Sixty-five drawings including those by Giorgio Vasari, Guercino, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Salvator Rosa, Luca Giordano, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo are featured in the exhibition.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Clark_Art_Institute.html


Cindy Sherman Honored at the Brooklyn Museum
One of the most influential conceptual artists of the twentieth century, Cindy Sherman, will be honored at the sixth annual Women in the Arts luncheon on Friday, November 6, 2008 at the Brooklyn Museum. Proceeds from the event, which is organized by the Museum's Community Committee, a volunteer organization, will benefit a wide range of Museum programs. Cindy Sherman uses photography to address the role and representation of women in the media and society, as well as the role of the contemporary artist.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Cindy_Sherman_Honored.html


IVAM Collection on View at Bancaja Cultural Centre of Alicante Art and sport are two cultural expressions which are of ever-increasing interest for the general public. The exhibition The Avant-garde and Sport in the IVAM Collection, which Bancaja presents at its Cultural Centre in Alicante, is taking place thanks to the collaboration agreement between the IVAM and Bancaja which, every year, enables the Valencian museum to bring its artworks closer to the citizens of Alicante. Throughout the course of the modern age, sporting events have occupied an increasingly more important position within the wide-ranging offer of leisure time activites of industrial cities and their public spaces.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//IVAM_Collection.html


53 Lee Miller photographs showing the private life Pablo Picasso have gone on display at the Picasso Casa Natal Museum in Málaga. Miller took over 1000 photographs of Picasso during the 36 years they were friends. Exhibition director Katherine Slusher said much of Miller´s work was forgotten until her death in 1977 when her son Antony found 70,000 negatives in her attic.Her son not only found photos of Picasso but also work from Miller´s surrealist period, her time with Man Ray and the six years she spent in Egypt photographing the desert.
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Picasso's Blue Period 1901-04

Have you ever wondered what is Picasso's Blue Period?
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Exhibition Exploring the Life and Work of Palladio Celebrates his 500th Anniversary
Venice, Italy - This exhibition celebrating the 500th anniversary of Palladio’s birth tells the story of a remarkable life and attempts to solve a mystery: how did a humble miller’s son become the most renowned world architect in the last five centuries? The story is told in unique ‘film stills’, i.e. the works brought together from over eighty European museums and libraries by an international team of scholars from Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Palladio_his_500th_Anniversary.html

The Museum of Arts and Design shows Elegant Armor ~ The Art of Jewelry
NEW YORK.- The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will inaugurate the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery in its new Columbus Circle home with Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry. On view from September 2008 to March 2009, the exhibition explores the inspirations for contemporary jewelry, including the fine arts, the human form and the natural world. Featuring over 130 works from 1948 to the present, Elegant Armor draws from the Museum’s collection of approximately 450 modern and contemporary works, the entirety of which will be housed in the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery in publicly accessible study drawers

http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Museum_of_Arts_and_Design_MAD.html

Modern Photographs ~ The Machine, the Body and the City ~ at Parrish Art Museum
Southampton, NY - This exhibition traces the evolution of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries, from early Pictorialist works that mimic the moodiness of late 19th-century painting, through the Modern formal experimentations of the Constructivist and Bauhaus schools, to the documentary ethos of mid-century America and the large-scale, staged tableaux of our own time. As indicated by its title, the exhibition also examines three prominent themes highlighted by the selection: depictions of the metropolis, modern machinery, and the human figure. On view at the Parrish Art Museum though 30 November, 2008.

http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Parrish_Art_Museum_Machine_Body_City.html

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents 'Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night'
NEW YORK.- The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, presents Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night, the first exhibition to examine Vincent van Gogh’s lyrical view of the night through nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which he often combined with other longstanding themes of his art—peasant life, sowers, wheatfields, and the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene. This exhibition includes 23 paintings and 10 works on paper from all periods of Van Gogh’s career, as well as a selection of his letters and examples of the rich literary sources that influenced the artist’s work in this area by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Jules Michelet, and Emile Zola. It will be on view at MoMA through January 5, 2009, and then it travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where it will be on view February 13 to June 7, 2009.

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Noyes Museum of Art presents 'Awakenings ~ Art & Healing'

OCEANVILLE, N.J. – The Noyes Museum of Art presents Awakenings: Art & Healing, an exhibition of contemporary Outsider Art through November 2, 2008. Awakenings explores the power of art as a tool for healing, hope and communication for people with mental and physical challenges. The featured artists are associated with Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI) in New York City, an organization that is devoted to using professional artists to reach individuals in group residences and treatment programs for chronically mentally ill adults.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Noyes_Museum_of_Art_Awakenings.html


André Kostelanetz Papers Are Donated to the Library of Congress
Washington, DC - Papers of conductor and arranger André Kostelanetz are being donated to the Library of Congress by the musician’s estate, marking a significant expansion of the collection Kostelanetz provided to the Library during his lifetime. Kostelanetz, who died in 1980, was a major figure in U.S. popular music and on radio for half a century. Early in his career, he was best known for his interpretations of classical pieces, and over his lifetime he was credited with selling more than 50 million recordings that tapped a public appetite for popular arrangements of classical and Broadway music.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Andre_Kostelanetz.html

Tacoma Art Museum presents " Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire "
TACOMA, WA - Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition "Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire" from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. Many Europeans relied on published travelogues for information, but many also traveled to the region. Genre paintings, the prevalent form of Orientalist art in the nineteenth century, were greatly influenced by these artists' direct experience of everyday life in the region. The exhibition is on view Saturday, September 20, 2008 through Sunday, January 4, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Tacoma_Art_Museum_Oasis.html


Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art shows 'Spectacular Saturn ~ Images from Cassini-Huygens Mission'
ITHACA, NY - The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission, on view through January 4, 2009. This exhibit displays over fifty images of the planet Saturn, its rings, and its satellites. This selection, by Cornell members of the Cassini project, was made from almost two hundred thousand images that have been transmitted to Earth since the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004.
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The Museo del Prado to show " Rembrandt ~ A History Painter "
Madrid, Spain - Of the great masters of European painting, Rembrandt is one of the least well represented in the Museo del Prado, which has only one work by his hand, the Artemisia (1634). For this reason, the Museum has decided to organise an exhibition that will allow the public to see more of the work of this remarkable artist. It includes around 30 paintings and five prints loaned from leading European and American museums and will focus on the subject of Rembrandt as a narrative painter. On exhibition 15th October 2008 to 6th January 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Museo_del_Prado_Rembrandt.html


The Library of Congress Awards the Gershwin Prize to Stevie Wonder
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder—who burst on the scene in the early 1960s as a musical prodigy, and whose dance hits and love songs segued over the years into thoughtful commentaries on the joy and injustice in our world—as the recipient of the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The award presentation will take place in the Great Hall of the Library on Feb. 23, 2009. As an added distinction to this year’s Gershwin Prize, the Library has offered, and Wonder has accepted, a musical commission. He joins a group of eminent composers who have received Library commissions, ranging from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein to Paquito D’Rivera.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Stevie_Wonder.html

San Diego Museum of Art presents "The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota"
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, on view November 1, 2008–January 4, 2009. In conjunction with the Timken Museum of Art, SDMA is presenting a major exhibition featuring the work of internationally recognized Japanese textile artist and kimono designer, Itchiku Kubota (1917–2003). Kubota used a variety of traditional techniques and unique personal innovations to create shimmering, abstract landscapes through a complex layering of dyes and inks on monumentally-scaled kimono.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Landscapes_of_Itchiku_Kubota.html

Woodson Art Museum’s 33rd Annual Birds in Art Exhibition
WAUSAU, WISCONSIN.- The Woodson Art Museum’s 33rd annual Birds in Art exhibition, opening Saturday, September 6, offers a creative and surefire remedy to cure avian envy. With the exhibition closing on November 9th, visitors have nine weeks to take the cure. Birds in Art comprises 126 original contemporary works by 113 painters and sculptors hailing from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England,France,Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United States
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Woodson_Art_Museum.html


Jacob Philipp Hackert ~ Europe's Landscape Painter ~ at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar Weimer, Germany - On the occasion of its theme-year,“Europe in Weimar 2008”, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is showing the retrospective exhibition “Jakob Philipp Hackert, Europe’s Landscape Painter of the Goethe Era” through November 2, 2008. The exhibition, which was jointly prepared by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Hamburg Kunsthalle, includes some 80 paintings as well as 120 gouaches, water-colours and drawings. It is thus the most comprehensive Hackert retrospective ever shown.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Jacob_Philipp_Hackert.html


Arken Museum exhibits 'Triumph of Desire ~ Danish and International Surrealism'
Copenhagen, Denmark - Arken Museum of Modern Art presents Triumph of Desire - Danish and International Surrealism, on view through January 11, 2009. In the 1930s Surrealism spread like wildfire across Europe, led by Dalí, Magritte and Miró. Danish Surrealists from Wilhelm Freddie and Richard Mortensen to Heerup and Jorn were influenced by the international wave. But how was it expressed in their art? This is what ARKEN will spotlight in the autumn exhibition.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Arken_Museum_of_Modern_Art.html

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Nasher Museum of Art presents " From El Greco to Velazquez "


DURHAM, N.C. - The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the exhibition, El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III, the first comprehensive exhibition of art made for this Spanish court four centuries ago. Among the works of two giants of Spanish art, the show will introduce great unknown masters of painting and sculpture. El Greco to Velázquez will be on view at the Nasher Museum from August 21 through November 9, 2008.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Nasher=Museum_of_Art.html
Meselson Collection Offered at Bonhams’ September 19th Fine Japanese Art Auction

New York City - Bonhams New York announces an important sale of Fine Japanese Art is to be held on Friday, September 19, 2008 at 1 pm in its prestigious new premises at 580 Madison Avenue. This auction will showcase inro together with a selection of netsuke from the collection of the late and influential Ann Swedlow Meselson of Los Angeles, California.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Bonhams=Japanese_Art_Auction.html

Calgary Celebrates Art from Canadians at The Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Canada - The Glenbow Museum brings you the art event of the summer! The BIG Gift: Calgary Celebrates Art from Canadians opened at the museum on July 26th! Come feast your eyes on approximately 200 works of contemporary art – including painting, sculpture, videos, art installations and photography. The range is stunning. On exhibition through 14 September, 2008.
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Hammer Museum Shows First Major U.S. Presentation of Paintings by Tomma Abts
LOS ANGELES, CA- The first major U.S. solo exhibition of paintings by London-based artist Tomma Abts (born Kiel, Germany, 1967) at the Hammer Museum. The exhibition originated at the New Museum in New York and is organized by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator. The exhibition includes roughly fifteen paintings created over the past ten years, as well as a selection of colored pencil drawings. Abts’ works might be modest in size—18 7/8 by 15 inches (48 x 38 cm), but actually they are extremely ambitious undertakings. On view through 9th November, 2008.
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Tibetan Buddhist Monks to Create a Mandala Sand Painting at JCSM

AUBURN, AL - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art announced the opening of a small exhibition of works from the Nelson and Joan Cousins Hartman Collection of Tibetan Bronzes. The exhibition, Aspects of Buddha, is open now and will be on display through the fall semester. On August 21-24 monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta will create a sand mandala in the Grand Gallery of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. The public is invited to see the monks at work, and take part in the opening and closing ceremonies of the mandala making
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Jule_Collins_Smith_Museum.html

Victoria and Albert Museum in London displays " Fashion V Sport "


LONDON - At the V&A this summer, Fashion V Sport, will explore the relationship between contemporary fashion and global sportswear brands. Both industries have been inspired by street style and have been working in closer collaboration in recent years. On display will be around 60 outfits including performance sportswear, work by fashion designers such as Stella McCartney who have designed sportswear ranges, and garments such as the work of Japanese label Visvim which show the influence of sportswear on high fashion. There will also be design drawings, photographs and film to examine how these products are worn, designed, advertised and collected. On view through 4 January, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//V-and-A_Fashion_V_Sport.html


Le Corbusier "Le Grand" ~ A Spectacular Visual Biography of his Life and Work \

NEW YORK CITY - Using the same grandly oversized format as Warhol "Giant Size" (Phaidon, 2006), Le Corbusier Le Grand includes approximately 2,000 images and documents, many previously unpublished, featuring his major built works, urban plans, paintings, publications, and furniture as well as sketches and archival photographs. Rarely seen photographs and personal correspondences also shed new light on Le Corbusier’s relationships with Josephine Baker, Eileen Gray, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Prouvé, and many others.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Annie Leibovitz: A Photographers Life, 1990-2005 at Maison Européenne de la Photographie Posted: 09 Jul 2008 12:21 AM CDT PARIS - The Maison Européenne de la Photographie presents an internationally touring exhibition of works by celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz. This special exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 includes more than 200 photographs, featuring well-known work made on editorial assignment, as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends. “I don’t have two lives,” Leibovitz says. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” On exhibit through 14 September, 2008.
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Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao exhibits ~ Pioneers of Photography Posted: 08 Jul 2008 11:31 PM CDT BILBAO, SPAIN - The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao opens an exhibit featuring the Ordóñez-Falcón Collection. which includes the pioneers of photography ranging from the years 1845-1930. One of the most important collections of photography in the world in private hands, the Ordóñez-Falcón collection comprises more than 1.500 works from different times, with a broad range of tendencies and techniques, by the leading authors in the history of photography. On view through 14 September, 2008.
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Wexner Center for the Arts shows ~ Jeff Smith " Bone and Beyond " Solo Posted: 08 Jul 2008 11:03 PM CDT COLUMBUS, OH - Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond, the first museum exhibition of work by the influential, Columbus-based comic book artist and writer—best known for his epic graphic novel Bone will be on view through August 3, 2008 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. The exhibition includes a selection of original comics whose artists Smith cites as direct influences, among them examples from Walt Kelly's Pogo, Carl Barks’s Uncle Scrooge, Will Eisner's The Spirit, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, and E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre.
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Tria Gallery 'Summer Cocktail' ~ A Group Exhibition of Mixed Media Works Posted: 08 Jul 2008 09:25 PM CDT New York, NY - Tria Gallery presents its “Summer Cocktail” from June 26 through August 1, 2008. On display to help viewers escape the heat will be a cool mix of artwork, including mixed media sculpture by Monica Banks and Howard Kalish, prints and woodcuts by Karen Kunc, and paintings by Jenny Nelson, Annamaria Suppa and Joanne Topol.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Tria/Gallery.html



National Museum Cardiff Launches a Welsh Landscape Exhibit
Posted: 08 Jul 2008 09:00 PM CDT Cardiff, Wales - National Museum Cardiff Launches Four New Galleries with a Welsh Landscape Exhibit.All four galleries have a particular focus on the art of Wales and landscape painting, and all of these elements come together in the Welsh Landscape Gallery, a spectacular space which explores how artists have responded to the changing inspirational land of Wales for over more than three hundred years.
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Cesar: An Anthology of the French Sculptor by Jean Nouvel Opens at The Fondation Cartier Posted: 07 Jul 2008 10:35 PM CDT
PARIS - The Fondation Cartier presents a major exhibition of the work of French sculptor César on the tenth anniversary of his death. Jean Nouvel —the Fondation Cartier’s architect and a close friend of the artist—has been invited to select the works as well as design their presentation, thus offering a fresh perspective on the work of an artist who passionately explored the formal and expressive possibilities of industrial materials. Through this exhibition, the Fondation Cartier will celebrate an artist who played a major role in its history, from its inception in 1984 until his death in 1998.
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Shelburne Museum hosts a Major Mary Cassatt Exhibit
Posted: 07 Jul 2008 10:25 PM CDT SHELBURNE, VT - Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family features more than 60 works by Cassatt and Edgar Degas, many of which are on loan from private collections and museums including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Cassatt’s signature monumental mother-and-child works figure prominently in the exhibit. Little known family portraits and Cassatt’s personal correspondence add fresh insight into the artist’s world.
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Memorial Art Gallery Receives Edith Lunt Small’s Midtown Plaza 1962–1987
Posted: 07 Jul 2008 10:15 PM CDT ROCHESTER, NY.- As the city of Rochester moves ahead with plans to raze Midtown Plaza, the property’s former owner has donated a commemorative painting of the historic mall to the Memorial Art Gallery. Edith Lunt Small’s Midtown Plaza 1962–1987 is a virtual Who’s Who of Rochester during the era. The 4-by 6-foot work, a gift of Midtown Rochester Properties, LLC, went on public view on July 2.
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Detroit Institute of Arts shows 'People at Play in American Prints & Drawings', 1890–1945 Posted: 06 Jul 2008 11:08 PM CDT Detroit, MI - This exhibition of approximately 100 works on paper serves as a corollary and thematic complement to Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925. It is drawn almost entirely from the DIA’s collection and is dominated by the prints of John Sloan, George Bellows, Glenn O. Coleman, and Martin Lewis. On view through 3 August, 2008.
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Christie’s to sell the contents of Langford Hall, Nottinghamshire
Posted: 06 Jul 2008 11:00 PM CDT SOUTH KENSINGTON, UK - Christie’s is selling the contents of Langford Hall, Nottinghamshire. Both Patrick Radford and his wife Evelyn were fascinated by antiques and design and over the course of their lives together at Langford Hall, collected a variety of items that filled the Georgian house and family home. Patrick Radford trained as a cabinet maker for the family firm Stag Furniture, and his eye for quality craftsmanship and design is reflected in the broad range of furniture offered in the Collection.
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Rare Luis Buñuel Photographs on View at the Spanish Film Library Posted: 06 Jul 2008 10:50 PM CDT MADRID - Luis Buñuel is, without a doubt, one of the best known movie directors. A lot has been written about him and many exhibitions on him have been organized. But,there are some aspects of his works that are not known, and we have not resisted temptation to show some of these. In the archives of the Spanish Film Library, there is a collection of photographs made by him when he was looking for exterior locations for the films he made in Mexico and the organizers wanted to show this work that illustrates the work he did prior to making a movie, and that also shows us another face of Buñuel.
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Smart Museum of Art exhibits ' Images of New York ' by John Sloan Posted: 06 Jul 2008 10:34 PM CDT Chicago, IL - John Sloan's images of New York helped define the city in the popular imagination. In gritty depictions of urban life, Sloan celebrated the metropolis of New York by focusing on street scenes, elevated trains, public spaces, and the lives of ordinary Americans. Yet Sloan's vision was a subjective one, tied to his particular observations of the neighborhoods in which he lived and the individuals he encountered. More than a series of distinct locations, Sloan's images of New York reflect the artist’s own movement through and experience of the city. On view through 14 September 2008.
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The Tibor de Nagy Gallery exhibits Paintings & Paste-Ups of Jess

New York City - The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is pleased to present its first exhibition of works by the celebrated painter and collage artist Jess (Collins), a leading light of the San Francisco art scene from the 1950s until his death in 2004, and one of the most original artists of the second half of the 20th century. On view through 31 July, 2008.
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Architect David Fisher Announces the World's First Rotating Skyscraper

NEW YORK - Visionary Italian architect Dr. David Fisher announced the launch of the revolutionary Dynamic Tower, the world's first building in motion, to be constructed in Dubai and Moscow with other locations planned worldwide. Rotating Tower Dubai Development Ltd headed by the Dynamic Group, announced the opening on June 24 of the reservations list for the first Dynamic Tower in Dubai. The company has also revealed the design and floor plans of the rotating building which will have 80 floors and be 420 meters (1,380 feet) tall. Apartments will range in size from 124 square meters (1,334 SF), to Villas of 1,200 SM (12,916 SF) complete with a parking space inside the apartment.
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Luce Foundation Awards VMFA $200,000 For New American Installation

Richmond, VA - The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for reinstalling and reinterpreting its collection of historical American art—from painting, sculpture and works on paper to the decorative arts of furniture, silver, glass and ceramics. The largest amount of the permanent-collection gallery space in a new wing—approximately 11,200 square feet—will be devoted to the exhibition of VMFA’s current American collection, more than doubling its previous footprint.
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Sotheby's Sale of Contemporary Art to Feature Works by Indian Contemporary Artists

LONDON - Indian artists such as Subodh Gupta (b. 1964), Bharti Kher (b. 1969), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Raqib Shaw (b. 1974) and T.V. Santhosh (b. 1968) are an ever-growing force in Sotheby’s international sales of Contemporary Art – in addition to the company’s regular dedicated sales of Indian Art – and this summer’s major series of Contemporary Art sales in London will see this trend gather further momentum still. The sales on Tuesday, July 1 and Wednesday, July 2, 2008, will present a total of eight works by these cutting-edge and highly sought-after names and together the works are estimated in excess of £2 million.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Indian_Contemporary_Artists.html

Milestones in Automotive Design at Mercedes-Benz State Museum

Munich, Germany - Striking in their radical posture – already from a distance they arouse our curiosity: Extremely rare examples of cars bearing the star symbol of Mercedes-Benz. Never before have they been seen in this particular composition, stringently focused on aerodynamics, speed and Gestaltung (form giving processes). On exhibition at Mercedes-Benz State Museum.
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Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
VENICE, ITALY - From June 28 to October 12, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Coming of Age. American Art, 1850s to 1950s. The exhibition will be installed in the recently renovated temporary exhibition galleries and will chronicle the transformation that occurred in a century of American art from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, from a literal depiction of nature to an abstract interpretation of universal ideas.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Peggy_Guggenheim_Collection.html


Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008
Boston, MA - During her residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2007, artist Luisa Rabbia was inspired by photographs Isabella Gardner collected and pasted into elaborate travel scrapbooks while traveling in China in 1883. The Italian-born, New York-based artist returns to the Gardner Museum this summer to present a new contemporary exhibition: Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008, on view June 27 through September 28, 2008.
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