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Home   Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian Opens Wednesday at the National Gallery in London Lorenzo Lotto, Portrait of Giovanni della Volta with his Wife and Children, 1547. © The National Gallery, London. Bequeathed by Miss Sarah Solly, 1879 (NG 1047) LONDON.- A landmark exhibition at the National Gallery explores the dramatic rise of portraiture in the Renaissance, through the great Masters of Northern and Southern Europe. 'Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian' features masterpieces by, among others: ...More November Film Series Reveals Aspects of Artistic Luxury at the Cleveland Museum of Art CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art presents the silver screen’s interpretation of turn-of-the-century opulence, some of which is displayed in the museum’s current exhibition Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique. The CMA’s November film series features films that intersect with objects and the era of Artistic Luxury....More Art Deco Exhibition at The New York Public Library Showcases Rarely Seen Prints and Posters NEW YORK, NY.- A New York Public Library exhibition explores the rich history, legacy and influences behind Art Deco, a style which visually captured the fascinating decades of the 1920s and 1930s and signaled the birth of our contemporary concept of modernism. Art Deco Design: Rhythm and Verve will be on view at The New York Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library at ...More New Museum Presents C.L.U.E. (Color Light Ultimate Experience) NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, the New Museum on the Bowery presents “C.L.U.E. (color light ultimate experience), Part 1, 2007,” a special project coinciding with major surveys of work by painters Mary Heilmann and Elizabeth Peyton. A collaboration between artist A.L. Steiner and movement artists’ robbinschilds (Layla Childs and Sonya Robbins), “C.L.U.E.” morphs and changes to...More Aperture Gallery Presents Work From Josef Koudelka's Latest Project-Invasion 68: Prague NEW YORK, NY.- In 1968 Josef Koudelka was thirty years old. He had committed himself to photography as a full-time career only recently, and had been chronicling the theater, and the lives of gypsies, but he had never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political...More Cleveland Museum of Art Painting Chosen by U.S. Postal Service as Christmas Stamp CLEVELAND, OH.- Working from a detail of a painting titled “Virgin and Child With the Young John the Baptist” by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli, designer Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, AZ, created the Postal Service’s 2008 Christmas stamp. The painting, tempera and oil on wood, dates to around 1490 and is now in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art....More Virgin Name Train After Tate Liverpool in Honour of its 20th Anniversary LONDON.- Virgin Trains will commemorate Tate Liverpool’s twentieth anniversary by naming a Virgin Pendolino train after it, in what is a rare accolade for a museum or gallery. The dedicated train, unveiled at Liverpool Lime Street station, also marks Virgin Trains’ commitment to bringing visitors into Liverpool in its year as European Capital of Culture to enjoy cultural attractions such as Tate ...More Surrealist Wifredo Lam's Afro-Cuban Mythology Meets Salvador Dalí's Personal Myths ST. PETERSBURG.- Two new exhibitions which opened at the Salvador Dalí Museum this fall highlight the diverse ways Western and non-Western mythology enlivened Surrealism. Wifredo Lam in North America is the first U.S. exhibit in over 30 years to feature works by Lam, the celebrated 20th century Cuban-born artist. This national traveling exhibition organized by the Haggerty ...More Plains Art Museum Names Jaclyn Miller Membership Manager FARGO, ND.- Plains Art Museum has named Jaclyn Miller to the position of membership manager. Her responsibilities include member relations and enhancement of the membership program of the Museum. Miller has a Bachelor of Science in Business, Human Resources and Industrial ...More National Museum of the American Indian and the National Gallery of Art Present Visionary Series WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the National Gallery of Art are presenting the eight-part film and discussion series “Film Indians Now!” The programs offer visitors a fresh perspective on how contemporary Native Americans present themselves through the media. ...More Cape Ann Museum to Present Gershon Benjamin and His Contemporaries NEW YORK, NY.- The Cape Ann Museum will present Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985) and His Contemporaries. The exhibition will be on view from November 8 through January 31, 2009. Gershon Benjamin moved from Montreal to New York during the early 1920s with...More A Major Exhibition of Paintings by George Tooker Presented at the National Academy Museum NEW YORK, NY.- George Tooker: A Retrospective is the first museum retrospective in three decades of the work of George Tooker (b. 1920), providing a comprehensive examination of his place in American art and revealing the full scope of his achievement as a painter. Jointly organized by the National Academy Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Columbus Museum ...More Boise Art Museum Announces Reflections on Conflict An-My Le: Small Wars BOISE.- Boise Art Museum (BAM) announces a new exhibition featuring two photographic series by artist An-My Lê, on display November 29, 2008, through March 1, 2009. The exhibition examines two modern military conflicts: the war in Vietnam and the current war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Her series Small Wars (1999-2002) depicts men who spend weekends in the forests of Virginia, ...More The Museum of Modern Art to Host Film Benefit Honoring Award-Winning Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art's Film Benefit, a gala dinner to be held on November 10, will honor the award-winning work of Baz Luhrmann, director, producer, and screenwriter of such films as Strictly Ballroom (1992), Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (2001). Hugh Jackman will serve as Honorary Chair of the event; co-chairs are Jay Fielden, editor of Men's Vogue; ...More Challenges of an Artistic Relationship: David Smith and Dorothy Dehner SANTA FE, NM.- During their 23 years of marriage, David Smith and Dorothy Dehner evolved an original approach to abstraction in the 1940s and 1950s, responding to a world at war as well as to the more intimate tragedies and joys of a shared life. Guest lecturer Joan Marter features sculpture, drawings, and paintings created by Smith and Dehner during their tempestuous relationship, both...More Munch, Picasso, and Two Distinguished Collections Lead Christie's Fall Prints and Multiples Sale NEW YORK, NY.- On October 28 and 29, Christie's New York will hold its Prints and Multiples sale, offering original limited edition prints by leading artists, such as Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon. Highlights of the sale include two distinguished collections from the Collection of Wolfgang A. Herz, comprised of prints by American artists; and the Collection of ...More Azam Painting Raises 80,000 Euros at The 2008 Sovereign European Art Prize Auction LONDON.- A painting by acclaimed British artist Nasser Azam, donated to The 2008 Sovereign European Art Prize Exhibition, was last night (Friday 10 October) sold for 80,000€ in a Gala Charity Auction at the Embankment Galleries, Somerset House. ...More Art on the Plains X Juried Art Exhibition Opens at Plains Art Museum FARGO, ND.- Art on the Plains X, Plains Art Museum ’s tenth regional juried exhibition, opens at the Museum November 26, 2008 and runs through March 1, 2009, in the William and Anna Jane Schlossman Gallery. The exhibition, previously an annual exhibition, returns as an invigorated biennial. The exhibition accepts entries from both established and emerging visual artists from the region ...More