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Home   Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome Opens Major Monographic Exhibition on Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini, Allegoria sacra, circa 1485-1488, tavola. Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi. Photo: Gabinetto fotografico Soprintendenza P.S.A.E. e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze. ROME.- The major monographic exhibition on "Giovanni Bellini" that Mauro Lucco and Giovanni C. F. Villa are organizing at Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale exhibition center, putting together a scientific committee of immense international prestige comprising the world's leading experts on the painter, is an operation that is going to entail numerous difficulties due to the fragile condition ...More Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert to Show Early Works from 1939-1954 by Lucian Freud LONDON.- A major loan exhibition of early works by Lucian Freud (born 1922) will be held at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 38 Bury Street, St James’s, London SW1 from 9 October – 12 December 2008. The earliest paintings, from 1939, were completed when the artist was only 16. Many of the paintings in the exhibition are from private collections and not normally available to be seen by the public. ...More MoMA's International Festival of Film Preservation Showcases Newly Restored Masterworks NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents To Save and Project: The Sixth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, its annual festival of preserved and restored films from international film archives and studios around the world, from October 24 through November 16, 2008. Spanning 90 years of film history, from 1891 to 1984, the festival includes over 25 films, ...More Baltimore Museum of Art Presents Rarely Shown British Landscapes BALTIMORE.- Majestic settings of the English countryside have inspired writers and artists from the poetry of William Wordsworth to the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. This fall, the BMA focuses on the transforming British landscape in Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints. On view through December 7, 2008, this one gallery exhibition features an array of more than 20 prints, ...More The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: The Baroque to Open in November LONDON.- The drama of the Baroque comes to Edinburgh in part two of The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection. The 31 paintings and 43 drawings selected for the exhibition reflect the great stylistic diversity of the period, which gave birth to the powerful realism of Caravaggio, the revolutionary naturalism of the Carracci and the cool classicism of Poussin and Domenichino. Highlights of the ...More Sotheby's Print Auction on October 30 and 31 to include Edvard Munch's Iconic Work The Scream NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s fall Print auction will take place on October 30 and 31, 2008. The approximately 560 works being offered in the sale will be on view in Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning on October 26. Of significant importance is Edvard Munch’s masterpiece, Das Geschrei (The ...More Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection on View Next Year in Manchester MANCHESTER.- To celebrate the 60th birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales on 14 November 2008, ten of the Royal Collection’s finest drawings by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) will be shown at the following four venues across the United Kingdom in 2008-9:...More Contemporary Art Biennial Opens in Seville Including Works by Nam June Paik and Bill Viola SEVILLE.- The Seville Biennial is — indeed, a global Biennial. Contemporary art production is not restricted to Europe and North America, but takes place all over the globe, from Chile to Korea. The Biennial makes a new map of Global Art, World Art. The Biennial tries to initiate a shift of paradigm: from the Euramerican paradigm to the Eurasian and Eurabian paradigm. This could be...More Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Opens Audrey Corregan: Obviously AMSTERDAM.- As part of the Foam_3h exhibition series, Foam presents Obviously, an exhibition by the French photographer Audrey Corregan (b. 1982). Last April, Corregan won the prestigious photography prize at the Hyères Festival de International de Mode & Photographie with this series of photos. The exhibition features seven portraits of stuffed birds shown from behind, transforming them ...More Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Welcomes Spared from the Storm KALAMAZOO.- The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is sharing 89 of its finest works of European and American art from a 300-year period - works that survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that ensued. The exhibition, Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art, will open at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (www.kiarts.org) on Saturday, ...More Classic 1930s Street Photographs of New York City on View at Metropolitan Museum NEW YORK, NY.- In the late 1930s, Rudy Burckhardt—then a recent émigré to America from Switzerland—photographed his adopted hometown of New York City, and immediately made some of the most lyrical, witty, and poetic images of the city ever created. New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940, opening September 23 at the Metropolitan Museum, will ...More British Artist Charlotte Mann Creates Stunning Mural for The School of Life LONDON.- Up and coming British artist Charlotte Mann has been commissioned by Sophie Howarth, Director of The School of Life and former curator of programming at Tate Modern to design a stunning and contemporary mural of everyday life in the School's underground classroom....More Beside the Seaside: Snapshots of British Coastal Life, 1880-1950 on View at the National Maritime Museum LONDON.- From dramatic coastlines and idyllic fishing villages to sea-bathing, promenades and donkey rides, the popularity of the seaside has led to its enduring status as a quintessential British experience. The National Maritime Museum opened Beside the Seaside: snapshots of British ...More Weighing and Wanting: Selections From the Collections Opened at Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection at MCASD’s La Jolla location. The exhibition, curated by Dr. Hugh M. Davies, MCASD’s David C. Copley Director, features approximately 130 works from the Museum’s collection acquired during the past 25 years. The exhibition will be on view through January 4, 2009....More