ArtDaily Newsletter, Wednesday, December 31, 2008

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Home   Belvedere in Vienna to Show Masterpieces from the Belvedere: Lovis Corinth in 2009 Lovis Corinth, Woman Reading near a Goldfish Tank, 1911. Oil on canvas 74 x 90,5 cm. Belvedere, Vienna © Belvedere Vienna. VIENNA.- Starting in 2009, the Belvedere will present a new exhibition series: special displays of selected works from its collections envisaged for spring and autumn 2009 aim to demonstrate the high quaility of the Belvedere’s holdings - such as in...More Holbein to Tillmans: In New Light to be Shown at Schaulager BASEL.- For the first time, Schaulager is opening its spaces to an exhibition that includes many artists. This year, the institution for image storage is presenting works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel that needed a place to stay temporarily during the Kunstmuseum’s large van Gogh exhibition. Having been ...More Obituary: Art World Loses Singular and Durable Talents this Year The art world lost some singular and durable talents this past year. ArtDaily would like to remember those painters, sculptors, architects, photographers and collectors who left us in 2008. The list has been organized by date from December to January, in chronological order....More Tyler Museum of Art Rings in New Year with Under Pressure TYLER, TX.- A unique vision will be the spotlight as the Tyler Museum of Art opens 2009 with a new exhibition, Nature Under Pressure: Etchings & Lithographs by William B. Montgomery. ...More Rare and Enticing Maritime Collectibles at Christie's New York on January 15 NEW YORK, NY.- A large model of a British ship-of-the-line carved from bone and ebony, a 1916 New York Yacht Club trophy, and a scrimshaw whale’s tooth depicting the female pirate Fanny Campbell are some of the rare and enticing collectibles included in Christie’s Maritime Decorative Arts sale on January 15, ...More Corning Museum of Glass: These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things CORNING, NY.- An assemblage of luminous, bright white icons of modernist glass design, a ghostly, life-size figure in an evening dress, and a dramatic red, cast-glass pyramid seemingly lit from within: these are among the art works that have captivated visitors to The Corning Museum of Glass time and again and are three of ...More Statens Museum for Kunst to Show Wilhelm Freddie Exhibition in 2009 COPENHAGEN.- The "Wilhelm Freddie" exhibition marks the centenary of the birth of the artist. With approx. 130 works, it is the first of its kind to show all sides of Freddie’s life work: paintings, collages and sculptures. It also includes lesser known aspects of the production of this controversial and wide-ranging artist, such as his films, ballets, haute couture, window dressing, happenings, as ...More Sotheby's to Offer The Silver and Furniture Collection of the First Parish Church in Cohasset, MA NEW YORK, NY.- On January 23 & 24, 2008, Sotheby’s New York will offer for sale The Silver and Furniture Collection of the First Parish Church in Cohasset, Massachusetts, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, as part of its twoday sale of Important Americana. The collection will feature six lots of 18th and ...More Under a Virginia Sky Paintings by Steven Walker on View at the VMFA Pauley Center RICHMOND, VA.- Born in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and raised in Richmond, Va., Steven Walker has been captivated by art since childhood. With encouragement from his parents, he worked to improve his craft and attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he studied illustration....More Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Shows Steinlen, l'oeil de la rue LAUSANNE.- Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, a naturalized French citizen of Swiss origin, was a cartoonist, engraver, caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, painter, and sculptor. Although selftaught, he inherited a rich artistic tradition (Delacroix, Daumier, and Manet), which he reinterpreted in genre scenes, in the domain of political iconography, and through a series of nudes, still life paintings, ...More Tabitha Vevers: Narrative Bodies to Open at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park LINCOLN, MA.- Narrative Bodies is mid-career survey exhibition of the work of painter Tabitha Vevers that highlights the artist's feminist engagement with tradition and myth. The exhibition will be on view at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park from January 24 through May 17, 2009....More Children's Museum in Ontario to Open Warhol Exhibition KITCHENER, ON.- The Children's Museum of Waterloo Region is thrilled to be announcing plans for an exhibition featuring the work of Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol's Factory 2009, will feature four distinct areas, offering something to...More Boston University Art Gallery Presents Exposures: Other Histories in Early Postcards from Africa BOSTON, MA.- Postcards of Africa and Africans made from photographs produced in Africa between c. 1870 and the 1930s are typically understood as a part of colonial discourse, reflecting European stereotypes and featuring images tied to and enacting imperialistic political agendas. While postcards played a significant role in determining how the colonial world viewed Africa, this exhibition...More Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw Presents Ulrike Ottinger Retrospective WARSAW.- Ulrike Ottinger (b. 1942) is one of Germany's most original independent world-class directors who gained renown with her extravagant and surreal pirate film, Madame X - An Absolute Ruler (1977). In her early films, such as Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press (1984), Ottinger, in a punk love for all things kitsch and over-the-top, often employs icons of the German pop-...More Arkansas Arts Center Presents What Comes After Nothing: Post Minimalist Drawings from the Collection LITTLE ROCK, AR.- The Arkansas Arts Center presents the exhibition What Comes After Nothing: Post Minimalist Drawings from the Collection, on view January 16 – March 1, 2009, in the Sam Strauss, Sr. Gallery....More Dayton Art Institute Announces Exhibition Schedule for 90th Birthday DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute will offer a diverse schedule of special exhibitions in 2009 in celebration of the museum’s 90th anniversary. The exhibitions range from dynamic glass by one of America’s leading artists to unseen treasures from the museum’s own collection to modern art from the...More Action/Abstraction Draws Record Attendance at Saint Louis Art Museum SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announced today that its featured exhibition, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976, drew 4,252 visitors last week, including 2,186 patrons on December 26....More Nordic Watercolour Museum Presents a Selection from the Museum's Collection SKARHAMN.- When the seasons move towards their winter rest the Nordic Watercolour Museum chooses instead to gladden the darkness with a selection from their own collections with the emphasis firmly on colour....More VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network Presents "The Living Shelter Café" hosted by architect Terry K. Phelan PHOENIX, AZ.- Terry K. Phelan, architect and owner of Living Shelter Design Architects, is recognized in the field of sustainable home and community design, and for being a leader in the green building movement in the Pacific Northwest. She will begin hosting her new radio show, "The Living Shelter Café" starting Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 9AM PST on VoiceAmerica's Green Talk ...More Wonderful Things Exhibition at the Michael C. Carlos Museum ATLANTA, GA.- The thrill of discovery, chronicled as a turning-point in the appreciation of ancient art and societies, connects the exhibition "Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun" at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University ...More

ArtDaily Newsletter, Tuesday, December 30, 2008

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Home   Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to Open Kees Van Dongen: A Fauve in the City Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968), The Wrestlers or tabarin Wrestlers, 1907-08. Oil on canvas 105.5 X 164 cm. Noveau Musee National de Monaco. Photo Marcel Loli ⓒEstate of Kees Van Dongen / SODRAC (2008) MONTREAL.- Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the first major retrospective of the art of Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) in North America will be presented from January 22 to April 19, 2009. It will bring together some 200 works, including over a hundred paintings, as well ...More National Gallery of Art to Show Corot to Monet Next Summer LONDON.- The Impressionists were indebted to a longer tradition of sketching and painting outdoors. ‘Corot to Monet’ will chart the development of open-air landscape painting up to the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874....More Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie on View at the Menil Collection HOUSTON, TX.- During the summer of 1934, German-born artist Max Ernst executed a mural for the Dancing Mascotte, the bar at Zürich’s Corso Theatre. One of the largest painted works of the artist’s seven-decade career, Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie (Petals and Garden of Nymph Ancolie) adorned a wall of the popular nightspot. Based on an illustration found in a ...More Setting the Stage: Twentieth-Century Theater Models on View at Bruce Museum GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut celebrates the imagination of the theatrical set designer and the craftsmanship of the model maker with its newest exhibition Setting the Stage: Twentieth-Century Theater Models, on view through Sunday, March 15, 2009. The exhibition spotlights over...More Carnegie Museum of Art to Open Matsubara: A Celebration in Pittsburgh in 2009 PITTSBURGH, PA.- For almost 50 years, Naoko Matsubara has explored the medium of the woodblock print, creating a body of works that are bold, often large scale, and always captivating. This retrospective of over 60 works provides an overview of Matsubara’s career, from her earliest prints, in which she investigated representational imagery using innovative black-and-white ...More P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Founder and Director Alanna Heiss to Retire NEW YORK, NY.- Alanna Heiss, the founding director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, who over the course of the last 37 years oversaw the transformation of a turn-of-the-century public school building in Long Island City, Queens, into a space that reflected the originality and independence of hundreds of artists, will retire from...More Amalias Street 5a by Inta Ruka on View at Moderna Museet STOCKHOLM.- On the outskirts of Riga lies Amalias Street 5a, a house whose tenants have been documented by photographer Inta Ruka since 2004. The photos are presented, as in all Inta Ruka’s projects, together with short comments based on what the individuals have told her. The comments are about why they live the way they do, who they know, what they do for a living or want to become, ...More Elo: Inner Exile - Outer Limits on View at MUDAM in Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG.- The exhibition Elo (“now” in Luxembourg parlance) presents a snapshot of contemporary production in Luxembourg. Organised by Mudam, it exhibits works mostly produced specially for the exhibition by artists brought together by the independent curator Christian Mosar....More Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play to Open at the Art Gallery of Hamilton HAMILTON.- Montreal artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier has been active on the contemporary art scene since the mid-1990s, when he quickly gained recognition for the inventiveness of his work. The kinetic installations that have emerged from his exploration of the acoustic and metaphorical potential of the found object combine humour and poetry in a highly rigorous investigative approach. With an ...More MoMA Presents the Films of Terence Davies from the Museum's Collection NEW YORK, NY.- Terence Davies: From the Collection presents two features and a trilogy of short films by director Terence Davies. The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984), The Long Day Closes (1993), and The House of Mirth (2000), all of which are from MoMA's collection, will be screened January 15 through 17, ...More Antony Gormley to Exhibit at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Summer of 2009 BREGENZ.- Together with the British sculptor Antony Gormley, the Kunsthaus Bregenz is planning a solo exhibition at the KUB and, parallel to this show, a largescale landscape project in Vorarlberg, both to take place in the summer of 2009. Antony Gormley ranks among the most ...More Martin Frommelt: Early and Recent Paintings on View at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein VADUZ.- The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is showing the exhibition "Martin Frommelt. Early and Recent Paintings", which presents works by Martin Frommelt, one of the most important painter and graphic artist in Liechtenstein after 1945....More Fuller Craft Presents Only East Coast Exhibition of Craft in America-Expanding Traditions BROCKTON, MA.- Fuller Craft Museum presents the only east coast exhibition of Craft in America–Expanding Traditions, a multi-faceted journey into the origin and continuation of American craft traditions. This traveling exhibition is associated with the wildly popular, Peabody Award-winning, three-part PBS television series ...More Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts to Open China! China! China in February NORWICH.- For years now we have all been talking about China. Enormous economic growth has been accompanied by radical social change – cities and communities have been transformed in a single decade. This capitalist expansion has been matched by an explosion in the art market for Chinese contemporary art. Curators from all over the world have been beating a path to...More Merseyside Maritime Museum Opens New Titanic Wreck Exhibits LIVERPOOL.- Fascinating objects salvaged from around the wreck of the Titanic 2.5 miles down on the ocean floor are new attractions at the Merseyside Maritime Museum....More Fresno Art Museum Shows Theophilus Brown: Paintings FRESNO, CA.- Theophilus Brown is one of the central figures in California painting of the second half of the twentieth century. The highly influential Bay Area figurative painters and sculptors emerged in the mid-fifties and attained national acclaim by the early sixties. Their improvisational compositions and the perceptually based canvases of the East Coast realists marked the regeneration of ...More Free Gallery Talk at the Clark Explores Musical Group on January 8 WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Take a winter sojourn to Italy to explore François Joseph Navez's 1821 painting, Musical Group, during the Thursday, January 8, Looking at Lunchtime Talk at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Danielle Steinmann, assistant curator of education, will present the 12:30 pm gallery talk. ...More The Writing of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940 CHICAGO, IL.- The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago presents The “Writing” of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850–1940. The exhibition, the latest in a series of projects developed by the Smart Museum in collaboration with University of Chicago faculty and students,...More The Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts BALTIMORE, MD.- Romance is in the air this winter when Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts opens at the Walters Art Museum on January 24, 2009. The exhibition features lavishly illuminated copies of The Romance of the Rose, a book-length poem written in Old French ...More Postal Service Previews 2009 Commemorative Stamp Program WASHINGTON, DC.- What do Lassie, The Tonight Show, Abe Lincoln, Gary Cooper, Gulf Coast Lighthouses, Civil Rights Pioneers and Wedding Cakes have in common? They're all 2009 stamp subjects the U.S. Postal Service is providing a sneak peek at today....More

International Art News: December 29, 2008

ARTS NEWS: December 29, 2008 Top Stories Painters of American Life: The Eight AND The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC USA United States of America LAUNCH 08: Peter Cabocky, Sabina MacMahon and Ian Slattery FOUR, Dublin, IE Ireland Jaume Queralt Hotel del Arte, Barcelona, ES Spain Painters of American Life: The Eight AND The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC USA United States of America The Gibbes Museum of Art plays host to two traveling exhibitions from December 19, 2008 through March 29, 2009. Painters of American Life: The Eight will be on view in the Main Gallery and The American Scene on Paper: Prints and Drawings from the Schoen Collection will be showcased in the Rotunda Galleries. 'These two exhibitions complement each other because of their focus on early 20th century American life but in two different mediums: paintings and prints. We are fortunate to be able to bring both exhibitions to Charleston simultaneously,' states Gibbes Executive Director Angela Mack. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   LAUNCH 08: Peter Cabocky, Sabina MacMahon and Ian Slattery FOUR, Dublin, IE Ireland The LAB and FOUR are pleased to present LAUNCH, an exhibition supporting recent graduates. LAUNCH is committed to providing exposure to innovative and exciting artists, and to offer an important platform from which these artists can develop their creative and professional practice. It is intended to promote opportunities and public discussion of new developments in emerging contemporary Irish art. LAUNCH 08 is curated by Jasper Sharp, a writer and curator based in Vienna. He worked from 1999-2005 as Exhibitions Organiser and Collections Coordinator at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, where he was responsible for all temporary exhibitions, collection installations and contemporary projects including the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2006-7 he worked as Curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, and has since been engaged in a series of independent curatorial, lecture and writing projects. He is currently editing a monograph for JRP Ringier of artist Arcangelo Sassolino, and preparing an exhibition of Abstract Expressionism to be presented at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in Spring 2009. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Jaume Queralt Hotel del Arte, Barcelona, ES Spain In the world of Art, where almost all subjects have already been exploited, the fact of finding artists and exhibitions with the capacity to surprise is encouraging from the point of view of the visitor who perseveres in his search for new ways of artistic expression. Such is the case of the artist Jaume Queralt, in his continuing plastic investigation. We talk about an artist who, from his isolation in his studio in the small town of Alforja (Tarragona) - where he lives and works -, is able to simultaneously develop different lines of argument, which despite being complementary, they respond to disparate reasonings with impact on different ways to understand the psyche and the human condition. Hotel del Arte promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Call for Artists: Alexander Rutsch 2009 Award and Solo Exhibition for Painting Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY USA United States of America Pelham Art Center is pleased to announce the 5th Alexander Rutsch Award and Exhibition, an open, juried competition for U.S.-based artists aged 19 or older. In 2009, the award is for painting. A $5,000 cash prize and a solo exhibition at Pelham Art Center are awarded to the winner. Pelham Art Center is proud to sponsor the competition and award to honor the memory and artistic achievement of Alexander Rutsch (1916 - 1997), an artist who actively supported Pelham Art Center for more than 25 years. After his death, friends and supporters of Alexander Rutsch and his family established a generous and significant fund to support a bi-annual, open, juried competition in a range of mediums. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com   Absolutearts subscribers save 10% at Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com: Portfolios-and-Art-Cases.com is offering a 10% discount to Absolutearts subscribers who place orders through their online store today. Their innovative portfolio cases provide a convenient way to carry mounted, framed, and even oversized artwork. Enter coupon code ABSART1 at checkout to receive the discount. SPECIAL: Portfolio cases for mounted, framed, even oversized artwork! 10% Discount offered today for Absolutearts subscribers. 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ArtDaily Newsletter, Monday, December 29, 2008

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Home   Art Institute of Chicago Announces Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944). Golgotha, 1900. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.) Munch Museum, Oslo, MMM 36 (C) 2008 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. CHICAGO, IL.- Two potent myths have traditionally defined our understanding of the artist Edvard Munch: that he was mentally unstable, as his iconic work The Scream suggests, and that he was influenced by the contemporary art of France and Germany to the exclusion of his native Norway. The Art Institute’s ...More LACMA Features First U.S. Exhibition to Examine the Complexity of Art Developed During the Cold War LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures (on view January 25 to April 19, 2009), the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the range of art created during the Cold War. Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures continues LACMA’s ...More Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to Present Exhibition Devoted to the Pictorial World of the Pre-Raphaelites STOCKHOLM.- In the coming spring, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm will present an exhibition devoted to the pictorial world of the Pre-Raphaelites. This group of nineteenth-century English artists sought inspiration in mediaeval art. Their style is ...More Arken Museum to Show Impressionists and Postimpressionists from The Israel Museum COPENHAGEN.- They caused an outrage when they appeared. Today they rank among the most reproduced, popular and priceless artists in the world. Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Rodin, van Gogh, Cézanne, Braque… From the end of January 2009 they can all be seen at Arken Museum of Modern Art....More Museum der Moderne Shows Karl Geiser: Photographs SALZBURG.- Karl Geiser (1898-1957), one of the most significant 20th-century Swiss sculptors, was also an obsessive photographer. The camera released him from the unfulfillable aspirations which almost crushed him in his sculpture work. He photographed when he wanted to capture the atmospheric, the fleeting experience, the play of light, the external or internal mood – on streets and...More Columbia Museum of Art Shows Art Collection in a New Way COLUMBIA, SC.- Highlights from the Collection opens on Saturday, January 10 and runs through June 7. The exhibition includes approximately 80 works of art spanning 1000 years pulled from the Columbia Museum of Art’s galleries and storage. The exhibition encompasses the breadth of the ...More Masterpieces from the Davies Collection to be Shown at Oklahoma City Museum of Art OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- The National Museum Wales counts among its treasures the Davies Collection, an extraordinary group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century paintings that is remarkable for its breadth and quality. Assembled between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, the collection is exceptionally strong in Realist and Impressionist works and ...More Famous Los Angeles Sculptor Robert Graham Died at Age 70 LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles sculptor, Robert Graham, died Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Graham, who had been ill for about six months, was 70....More Humour, Exaggeration & Anti-Authoritarianism at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht MAASTRICHT.- Exile on Main St. is the title of an exhibition of American art. Ever since the sixties, American art has had connotations of sensationalism and commercialism. Pop Art, in particular, appears to fit this image and has lent a great deal of weight to the term 'mainstream'. Yet an opposing force of artists emerged who presented themselves as artists' artists rather than mediagenic ...More Goteborg Konsthall Presents History Acts: Exhibition About our Relationship to Past and Present GOTHENBURG.- History Acts is an exhibition about our relationship to past and present. Eleven internationally active artists are taking part. Their works range from the manufacture of news items and imaginary insurance companies to water-powered computers in 1950’s Guatemela and accounts related by citizens of Göteborg concerning their places of work....More Norton Simon Museum to Show Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Matisse’s Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard’s Love Poems, an exhibition featuring a selection of lithographs from Henri Matisse’s exceptional but rarely considered livre d’artiste, titled Florilège des Amours de Ronsard or Anthology of Ronsard’s Love ...More NOMA Opens New Gallery: Peter Carl Fabergé and Other Russian Masters NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A new chapter in the New Orleans Museum of Art’s tradition of exhibiting the finest jeweled objects from Imperial Russia commenced with the opening of a new permanent gallery on the second-floor mezzanine, Peter Carl Fabergé and Other Russian Masters. The installation features scores of works never before seen by local audiences, including 33 miniature Easter Eggs by Fabergé, as well as six larger eggs created by the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory for Tsars Nicholas I, Alexander III and Nicholas II. In all, Peter Carl Fabergé and Other Russian Masters features 58 works by Fabergé, including cigarette cases, photograph frames, hardstone animals, table ...More After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest to Open at Des Moines Art Center DES MOINES, IA.- After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest is the first exhibition to address the artistic battles that were waged simultaneously in New York and the Midwest during the 1930s and the early 1940s. In the midst of the Great Depression, one of the most contentious and fractious artistic debates emerged, one that pitted progressive modernist figures such as ...More Wrapped In Pride: Kente Cloth at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The cloth called kente, made by the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo, is the best known of all African textiles. Kente's renown has spread internationally, so that it is now one of the most admired of all fabrics. This strip-woven cloth began in the former Gold Coast of West Africa as festive dress for special occasions -- traditionally worn by...More Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967 at the Ukranian Museum NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition that provides an overview of the most important periods in the life of famed Futurist David Burliuk opened at The Ukrainian Museum. Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967, includes examples of Burliuk's work during his early years in Ukraine and Russia (1907-1918), his travels through Siberia (1918-1920), his time in Japan (1920-1922), and his life in the United States, both in New York City (1922-1941) and on Long Island (1941-1967). ...More Arkansas Arts Center Presents Factories: Warhol, Sex and Disasters / Photographs by Tim Hursley LITTLE ROCK, AR.- The Arkansas Arts Center presents the exhibition Factories: Warhol, Sex and Disasters / Photographs by Tim Hursley, on view through February 1, 2009, in the Alice Pratt Brown Atrium. Tim Hursley, an internationally known architectural photographer, documents Andy Warhol’s factory, brothels in Nevada, polygamist colonies and disaster in post-Katrina New Orleans. During his initial foray into Warhol’s world, Hursley became interested in how architectural and interior spaces are metaphors for those who inhabit them. This exhibition tells the story of each “factory,” beyond the structural bones of the rooms and buildings....More I Heard a Voice: the Art of Lesley Dill to Open at Hunter Museum CHATTANOOGA, TN.- The Hunter Museum, in conjunction with George Adams Gallery in New York, has organized an exciting exhibition of artist Lesley Dill’s work that will focus on her most recent large-scale theatrical work. This is the first time in its 54-year history that the Hunter has organized and toured an exhibition of this scale. For the last twenty years Dill has been a sculptor, photographer, printmaker and performance artist,...More Las Vegas Art Museum Presents L.A. Now Organized by David Pagel LAS VEGAS.- The “L.A. Now” exhibition features 20 emerging artists who live and work in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition is organized by critic and curator David Pagel. Artists included in the exhibition were selected from among those who presented outstanding artworks in Los Angeles commercial galleries during the 2007-2008 season. The artists work in a wide variety of styles and...More