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.
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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Clark Art Institute Exhibits Rarely Seen Italian Drawings WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - A magnificent group of rarely seen and unpublished sixteenth- through eighteenth-century Italian drawings will be highlighted in Drawn to Drama: Italian Works on Paper, 1500 - 1800, an exhibition on view the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.
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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.
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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.
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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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