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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.htmlThe 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.
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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.htmlWoodson 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.htmlJacob 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.
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