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| All the Histories of Art: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna Exhibit at Guggenheim in Bilbao |
Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (Pisa, 1563 – London, 1639), Penitent Mary Magdalene, ca. 1621-23, Oil on canvas, 163 x 208 cm. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Picture Gallery, inv. nr. 179.
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BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents All the Histories of Art: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna , the first and most comprehensive and innovative show ever presented in Spain about the collection of Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna , one of the oldest museums in the world. With a selection of almost 200 works and around one hundred artists ranging from Egypt and the ancient world to the 18th century, the show, which has been generously sponsored by Iberdrola, is divided into six major sections that correspond to the main artistic genres in art history. However, these genres are not limited solely to the examples provided by what are traditionally called the “major arts”, as they also include samples of the art dubbed “industrial”, “sumptuary” or “decorative”....More
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| Nude Portait of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Unveiled in Chicago |
CHICAGO.- Bruce Elliott has unveiled a nude portrait of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in his bar in the North Side of Chicago, the Old Town Ale House. The work is four feet tall and is drawing crowds to the bar. In the portrait, the governor is wearing her trademark hairdo, holding an automatic rifle and standing naked on a polar-bear skin rug....More
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| Brooklyn Museum Presents Retrospective of Work By Artists Gilbert & George |
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum will be the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of art by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. On view from October 3, 2008, through January 11, 2009, the exhibition comprises of more than ninety pictures produced since 1970, among them more than a dozen that will be seen only in the ...More
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| Exhibition Celebrates the 125th Anniversary of the Dutch Rembrandt Association |
AMSTERDAM.-125 masterpieces from more than 30 Dutch museums can be seen together, this once only, at the Van Gogh Museum. The exhibition, titled 125 favourites. Acquired with the support of the Rembrandt Association, has been organised to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Rembrandt Association. The exhibition reveals the high quality and diversity of the acquisitions that have been ...More
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| Meijer Gardens Opens Largest Exhibition by Jaume Plensa |
GRAND RAPIDS.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, the most significant sculpture and botanic experience in the Midwest and an emerging cultural destination on the national scene, welcomes Spanish artist, Jaume Plensa, for his largest exhibition in the United States to date....More
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| Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940 Opens |
NEW YORK.- The cultural love affair and rivalry between two world capitals, New York and Paris, will be explored in a revelatory exhibition opening October 3, 2008, in the new wing at the Museum of the City of New York. Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940, on view through February 22, 2009, will trace a balance of power that shifted to New York, which was then ...More
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| Demuth Museum to Mount Two-Part David Brumbach Exhibition |
LANCATER, PA.- The Demuth Museum will present David Brumbach Unbound: Pages from his Book from November 8, 2008 – January 4, 2009. This two-part exhibition will explore the work of Lancaster artist David Brumbach (1948-1992). Like Charles Demuth, David Brumbach had diabetes and suffered from the ravaging effects of the disease. In 1985, Brumbach was a patient at Lancaster ...More
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| Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass (Renwick) |
WASHINGTON, DC.- “Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass,” on view at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum from Oct. 3 through Jan. 11, 2009, is the first exhibition to thoroughly examine the art of Lino Tagliapietra, widely revered as a master of glass blowing. The exhibition explores the evolution of Tagliapietra’s work and ...More
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| VMFA Great Hall Is Reinstalled With Focus On 17th Century Age of Magnificence |
RICHMOND, VA.- The Great Hall at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has been reinstalled with a focus on the 17th-century Age of Magnificence and “a feeling of drama that is appropriate for the art of the period,” says Dr. Mitchell Merling, the museum’s Paul Mellon Curator and head of the Department of European Art. Included in the reinstallation are significant works by what Merling calls “some of...More
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| First Museum Exhibition for Anthony Lepore at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art |
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The extraordinary and, at times, magical emerge from Anthony Lepore’s color photographs as he intuitively examines people’s desires to connect, relate, and possess the world around them. The exhibition Anthony Lepore: Restoration is on view October 3, 2008–January 4, 2009, at Kansas City’s Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. This is the artist’s first solo ...More
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| John James Audubon: American Artist and Naturalist Opens |
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI.- The Mississippi Museum of Art premiers its 2008 fall season with an exhibition of work by one of the world’s most renowned artists. John James Audubon: American Artist and Naturalist is on view through January 4, 2009. Audubon’s name is synonymous with the study and preservation of American wildlife. His tireless quest to identify and depict avian life took him across the...More
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| Treasures from the Garden of Eden: Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry Opens |
NEW YORK, NY.- The National Jewelry Institute (NJI), the world’s first institute devoted to jewelry and precious objects, announced that Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization is on view at The Forbes Galleries, located at 62 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY through December 31, 2008. Cited by experts as the most unique and profound show of its kind, the exhibition...More
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| Hannah Wilke: Gestures Opens at The Neuberger Museum of Art |
PURCHASE, NY.- Although best known as a photographer and a performance artist, Hannah Wilke (1940–1993) began her career as a sculptor working in ceramics, which was the foundation for all other aspects of her practice. Throughout her career, she produced videos, performances, and photographs in which she used her own body to confront the erotic representation of women in art ...More
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| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Displays Zen Paintings and Calligraphies From the Gitter-Yellen Collection |
BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents Zen Mind/Zen Brush: Japanese Ink Paintings From The Gitter-Yelen Collection, featuring paintings and calligraphies by monks from the 18th century to the present day, who have expressed their spirituality through their art. Included in the exhibition are 35 hanging scrolls and screens from the collection of Kurt Gitter ...More
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| Avocats Sans Frontieres Presents "Room for Justice" |
BRUSSELS.- At the occasion of the contemporary art exhibition "Corpus Delicti" at the Palace of Justice of Brussels, Avocats Sans Frontières presents “Room for Justice”, an exhibition about Globalization and Justice through October 31, 2008. “Room for Justice” creates a unique space in a courthouse. A journey towards another universe that cannot fail to move you. A journey on which it is no longer ...More
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| Canada's Only Major Modern and Contemporary International Art Fair Returns to Toronto |
TORONTO.- Now in its ninth year, the highly anticipated Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF) – ART TORONTO 2008 opens its doors to the public from October 3rd to 6th at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. As Canada’s premiere art event, TIAF will showcase renowned Canadian and international modern and contemporary fine art from modern masters to the vanguard and ...More
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| Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Launches Major Project Researching Provenance |
DRESDEN.-Ten years after the Washington Conference of 1998, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is launching a major project researching the provenance of its entire holdings with the International Scientific Conference on the Restitution of Artworks on 2 October in Dresden. The International Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets was held in Washington...More
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| Tony Gill - New Work 2008 Opens at Idea Generation Gallery |
LONDON.- Idea Generation Gallery presents selected works from the highly acclaimed British artist, Tony Gill. Curated by Matthew Donaldson, the striking exhibition made up of a series of immense 8 foot high canvases and works on paper forms part of the Concrete and Glass festival, taking place at numerous venues across Shoreditch. London born Gill trained at Chelsea Art School before ...More
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| George Nakashima's Family Gifts Famed 20th-Century Furniture Designer's Archives |
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- Mira Nakashima-Yarnall and Kevin Nakashima, on behalf of George Nakashima Woodworker SA, Ltd., signed an "Agreement for Gift of Archives" with the James A. Michener Art Museum during a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony at the Minguren Arts Building on the Nakashima Compound in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The agreement establishes that the Michener Art Museum in ...More
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| New Museum Announces Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund |
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, announced the formation of the Stuart Regen Visionaries Fund, established to support a new series of public lectures and presentations by cultural visionaries. The Visionaries Series at the New Museum will spotlight leading international thinkers in the fields of art, architecture, design, and related disciplines of contemporary culture, to ...More
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