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René Magritte 1948 La Periode Vache Opens at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany
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A visitor looks at René Magritte's Le Galet (The Pebble) from 1948 at Schirn Kunsthalle.

FRANKFURT.- René Magritte numbers not only among the most important, but also among the most popular twentieth-century artists. Often against the grain of the artistic tendencies of his time, the Belgian Surrealist painter developed a unique and unmistakable pictorial language. His work’s continuing crucial influence on later generations of artists and his impact on ...More

Sotheby's to Auction Staircase from the Eiffel Tower in Paris
PARIS.- Sotheby's sale of 20th Century Decorative Arts & Design in Paris on 26 November culminates with a slice of history: a section of the original staircase of the Eiffel Tower, the global symbol of Paris, that has remained in the same collection since the landmark sale staged by Ader-Picard-Tajan in Paris on 1st December 1983. The section is numbered n°15, has sixteen steps, stands 12ft ...More

Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from the Courtauld Opens
LONDON.- Throughout his life, Turner orchestrated his career with fame in mind. Intensely ambitious, he travelled throughout Britain and the Continent in search of inspirational views which would be commercially successful. Following in his footsteps, the exhibition tracks the evolution of his extraordinarily inventive and entrepreneurial approach to making watercolour landscapes. It also stresses...More

Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Announces The Model as Muse for Spring 2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The spring 2009 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, it was announced by the Museum today. The exhibition, which will be on view at the Metropolitan from May 6 through August 9, 2009, will explore the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, and will ...More

Three Centuries of Swiss Art History - From Arnold Bocklin to Peter Fischli and David Weiss
ZURICH.- In the Swiss Art sale on 1 December 2008, Christie’s Zurich will offer highlights from three centuries of Swiss art history: From one of the last Arnold Böcklin paintings in private hands (Die Nacht / The Night 1870, estimate: SFr 1,200,000 – 1,500,000), to an undiscovered masterpiece by Giovanni Giacometti (Maternité, 1908, estimate: SFr 2,500,00-3,500,000) up to the most ...More

Contemporary Art Arrives in Madrid with Estampa Art Fair
MADRID.- The Estampa fair, the largest platform for the dissemination of contemporaneous multiple art held in Spain and in Europe has a meeting point with art collectors and lovers from the 29th of October to the 2nd of November in Madrid, at the new pavilions of the IFEMA Trade Fair facilities. ...More

National Museum of the American Indian Presents Major Retrospective of Fritz Scholder's Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- This fall, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian mounts a career retrospective of works by one of the most transformative American artists of the last half century, Fritz Scholder (1937–2005), marshaling new scholarship and broadening perspectives to assess the artist’s significance....More

Artists Ligorano/Reese Meltdown the Economy at Foley Square, Close to the Heart of Wall Street
NEW YORK, NY.- On October 29, 2008, the 79th anniversary of Black Tuesday, the stock market crash that caused the Great Depression in 1929, artists Ligorano/Reese melted down the “Economy.”

In a new, time-based event, called Main Street Meltdown the artists installed the...More

Art Positions: Young Galleries by the Beach at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008
MIAMI.- At this year’s Art Positions, 20 young galleries present their special exhibition projects in converted shipping containers, located by the beach at Collins Park between 21st and 22nd Streets. Art Positions counts participating galleries from USA, Italy, Mexico, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Norway, Spain and Denmark, chosen by the Selection Committee from over 120 submitted ...More

Audio Forensics: Ambitious Works by Nine Artists who Employ Sound to Open at IMT
LONDON.- Comprising of ambitious works by nine artists who employ sound as the principle media of their practice, Audio Forensics demonstrates the breadth of engagement with sound in the arts, and how it can be re-evaluated in the context of an increasingly noisy world. The artists exhibiting are Libero Colimberti, Jan Hendrickse, Simone Izzi, Nitin Lachhani, Luc Messinezis, Maria ...More

Carnegie Museum of Art Announces the Redesign of the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces the redesign of the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries, which will open in November 2009. The renovated galleries will focus on the museum's decorative arts and design collections, illustrating strengths from the 1740s to the present. Included among more than 550 objects on display will be the museum's important collection of early Western ...More

Orientalist Offerings at Sotheby's London This Autumn
LONDON.- In response to the increasing demand for works from the Orientalist genre, Sotheby’s is staging an unprecedented three sales of Orientalist Art this autumn. The first of these sales took place in New York on October 23 and saw strong prices achieved for among others, Leopold Carl Muller’s An Almée’s Admirers (Egyptische Tänzerin) (realised $1.6 million) and Jean-Leon Gerome’s Le ...More

Jim Dine Debuts New Sculpture and Poetry Inspired by Objects in the Getty Museum
LOS ANGELES, CA.- When artist Jim Dine first saw three sculptures in the Getty Museum 's antiquities collection-the life-size group Poet as Orpheus with Two Sirens (about 350-300 B.C.), Statuette of a Dancer (300-200 B.C.) and Statuette of a Dancer Playing the Lyre (200-100 B.C.)-he had an emotional connection with the Greek terracotta figures. Inspired by the beauty of their form ...More

From a Fondo Oro Probably Commissioned by the Visconti Family to a Venice View by Guardi
MILAN.- The catalogue – consisting of over 140 lots – opens with a pictorial group of Fondo oro panels among which is a striking gold-ground painting by Salomone de’ Grassi, The Trinity, commissioned by the Visconti family. Salomone, a renowned miniaturist and painter, is cited among the most significant Viscontean artists, together with his father Giovannino, from whom he inherited ...More

Understanding the Wow Factor
LEICESTER.- What links a neuroscientist with a social anthropologist and the UK's premier independent art charity?

The answer is the visual perception of art. When, why and how are individuals moved by a piece of art in a museum or gallery?...More

Portraiture Now: Feature Photography Open at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery Nov. 26
WASHINGTON, DC.- Photographers Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke, Martin Schoeller and Alec Soth are featured in the National Portrait Gallery’s fourth installation of “Portraiture Now.” This series presents some of the most creative 21st-century portrait artists. The current installation, titled “Feature Photography,” identifies six critically acclaimed fine-art ...More

York St. John University Presents New Temporary Video Installation by Roger Bourke
NORTH YORKSHIRE.- York St John University is pleased to present a new temporary site-responsive video and sound installation by internationally established British artist Roger Bourke. The installation has been commissioned for LUX 2008 and curated by Judit Bodor on behalf of Illuminating York and York St John University as the institution's third annual contribution to the city's festival of ...More

MSU Faculty Share Creative Research in the 2008 Studio Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition
EAST LANSING, MI.- Continuing a long tradition of successful collaboration between the Department of Art & Art History and the Kresge Art Museum, the 2008 Studio Art Faculty Biennial will showcase the recent work of twenty-two studio art faculty members. ...More

Metropolitan Museum Director Philippe De Montebello Honored at the 2008 Trophee Des Arts Gala
NEW YORK, NY.- FIAF (French Institute Alliance FranAaise) is celebrating its annual Trophee des Arts Gala on October 29, 2008 in New York's historic and newly renovated Plaza Ballroom, honoring Jean-Bernard Levy, CEO of Vivendi and Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ...More

Metal Art Steel Sculpture Information and Basic Metal Art Information Just Released
HOBART, WA.- Fistfire Metal Art has just released a new section of their website that has all of the basics on Metal Art Steel Sculpture, Metal Artists, and Metal Art Steel Sculptures. This is part of a new community website that is all about Metal Art. Members and non-members can visit this Metal Art page on
the FistFire website for free at: www.fistfire.com....More

D.C. Premiere of A Brush with Georgia O'Keeffe
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Washington, D.C., premiere of the 2008 off-Broadway play, “A Brush with Georgia O’Keeffe,” will be performed as a staged reading at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Nov. 1 at 3 p.m. Written by playwright Natalie Mosco and directed by Robert Kalfin, the play takes an innovative and fresh look at the life of Georgia O’Keeffe and her ascent to ...More

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