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| Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting Exhibition Opens at The Royal Collection |
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-7. Photo: The Royal Collection (c) 2008, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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LONDON.- This first exhibition ever mounted of Flemish paintings in the Royal Collection brings together 51 works from the 15th to 17th centuries, including masterpieces by Hans Memling, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Brueghel, Van Dyck and Rubens. By the 1550s the Netherlands enjoyed a level of wealth that remained unmatched in the West for centuries. The Eighty Years War with ...More
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| Roman Culture Brought to Life in Kunsthal Rotterdam Exhibition |
ROTTERDAM.- The influence of the Roman Empire stretches up to the present. Western script, the weight system and the names of the months: all Roman inventions that still determine our daily lives. Kunsthal Rotterdam shows the wealth of imperial Rome and presents, with a collection of 450 objects, one of the largest exhibitions ever on classical culture. Numerous marble sculptures, ...More
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| Serial Landscape Photographs by Three Legendary Photographers on view at National Gallery of Art |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Three important and beautiful series of black-and-white landscape photographs will be showcased in, Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz, on view through March 15, 2009 (West Building Ground Floor Gallery 34). This focus exhibition features 21 works in chronological order: ten by Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), five by Ansel Adams ...More
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| Lucian Freud's Portrait of Francis Bacon Sells for 5.4 Million Pounds at Christie's |
LONDON.- One of only two oil portraits of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) ever painted by Lucian Freud (b. 1922) sold today at Christie’s auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art for £5,417,250 / $9,404,346 / €6,972,001. The last known remaining oil portrait (the other was stolen from an exhibition in Berlin in 1988), the rarely-seen painting offers a tangible and intimate glimpse into the ...More
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| PAFA Is Only East Coast Venue for Peter Saul: A Retrospective |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is the only East Coast venue for the most comprehensive survey of Peter Saul's work ever to appear in the United States. Peter Saul: A Retrospective will be on view in PAFA’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, October 18, 2008 – January 4, 2009. PAFA is proud to announce an exciting and ambitious series of public ...More
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| Film Society Mounts the Most Complete Retrospective of Polish Filmmaker's Work |
NEW YORK, NY.- With Truth or Dare: The Films of Andrzej Wajda, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presents the most complete retrospective ever mounted in the United States of the work of one of cinema’s most revered figures, at the Walter Reade Theater, Oct. 17 – Nov. 13. Wajda, recipient of several of filmmaking’s highest accolades including the Cannes Palme d’Or and an honorary...More
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| Spectacular Paintings by Volanakis, Ralli and Gysis lead Sotheby's Sale of Greek Art in November |
LONDON.- Sotheby’s has led the field in Greek Art auctions since its inaugural sale in 2001 and its sale in April this year realised a record-breaking £9.5 million, a figure which still represents the highest total for any sale of Greek Art at any auction house. Its forthcoming sale, on Tuesday, November 11, 2008, is set to be equally as strong with all the leading names of 19th and 20th centuries ...More
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| Dutch Factory Girls: Photos from the Collection of the National Archive on View in Denmark |
ROTTERDAM.- Kunsthal Rotterdam presents a selection of those pictures that can be considered most extraordinary from a total of over 4000 photographs of Labour Inspection that are in the collection of the National Archives. The photographs, in black and white, have been taken by members of Labour Inspection between 1900 and 1950 in order to shed light on the poor working ...More
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| October UBS 12 X 12 Presents Industry of the Ordinary at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago |
CHICAGO, IL.- Neon political signs and an allusion to an illicit affair are theatrically presented behind a curtain that suggests a voting booth at the October UBS 12 x 12 New Artists/New Work exhibition. Industry of the Ordinary uses the element of audience participation as well as the charged atmosphere surrounding this year’s presidential election to present ideas about the private and public ...More
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| One Hundred Works by Latin American Artist Fernando Botero on View in Memphis |
MEMPHIS.- This fall, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art presents The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, the first major U.S retrospective of the artist's work in more than 30 years, through January 11, 2009. Recognized as one of the most well-known and commercially successful artists to emerge from Latin America, the Colombia native now has his work exhibited and collected by major ...More
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| Spertus Museum Presents Double Vision Exhibition |
CHICAGO, IL.- In conjunction with the Chicago Humanities Festival, Spertus Museum is proud to present an exhibition of New York-based artists and identical twins, Trevor and Ryan Oakes, who invented a method to render, by hand, an accurate camera-obscura style tracing of the world onto a curved surface. Entitled Double Vision, the exhibition includes highly-detailed drawings, ...More
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| 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
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| The McNay Mounts a Major Retrospective of the Kinetic Sculptures of George Rickey |
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay celebrates the achievements of George Rickey, an artist who helped make movement a central concern in modern sculpture, through January 11, 2009.
Located both inside and outside of the new Jane & Arthur Stieren Center for ...More
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| Exploring Surrealism, a New American Century and the Manipulation of Film Stock |
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis unveiedl a historical and contemporary look at surrealism, a cultural movement rooted in the 1920s. "Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy" showcases significant historical works from the museum's collection in dialogue with contemporary paintings and videos that carry on the legacy of surrealism.
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| Conversations in Clay at the Katonah Museum of Art |
KATONAH, NY.- The Katonah Museum of Art presents Conversations in Clay on October 19, featuring installations by ten internationally acclaimed artists. The exhibition is part of All Fired Up, a Westchester County-wide clay celebration that encompasses 68 venues. The artists featured in Conversations in Clay use this ancient material to create contemporary installations that address such ...More
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| New sculpture in Babbidge Library to be dedicated Oct. 23 |
STORRS, CT.- University Libraries will celebrate the installation of the sculpture "Endangered Species" by internationally known sculptor, printmaker, and painter Werner Pfeiffer on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Pfeiffer's sculpture, titled "Endangered Species," uses books that have been sealed...More
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