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| Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Celebrates Cy Twombly's 80th Birthday with Exhibition |
Untitled (from Blooming. A Scattering of Blossoms & Other Things), 2007 by Cy Twombly. Photo: EFE / Luis Tejido.
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BILBAO.- Coinciding with Cy Twombly’s eightieth birthday, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will present the most important monographic exhibition that any Spanish institution has ever dedicated to this artist—one of the most influential of the latter half of the 20th century and the dawn of the 21st—from October 28, 2008, to February 15, 2009, organized in collaboration with the ...More
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| First Julio Gonzalez Retrospective Exhibition in Barcelona at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya |
BARCELONA.- The MNAC is organizing the first retrospective exhibition held in Barcelona devoted to this great Catalan artist, one of the most outstanding sculptors of the early avant-garde, who pursued his artistic career in Paris. The show presents original iron sculptures, and also includes drawings and object arts – mainly jewels – from centres like the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ...More
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| The Aztec World: A Unique View of a Mighty Empire Exclusive Exhibition at Chicago's Field Museum |
CHICAGO.- The Field Museum’s newest exhibition, The Aztec World, gives visitors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the otherworldly grandeur and sophistication of one of history’s great civilizations. The Field has gathered nearly 300 artifacts including monumental works in stone, colorful ceramics, and intricate jewelry made of precious metals. Many of these treasures will be ...More
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| Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth Hosts a Program of David Bowie's Music Videos at MoMA |
NEW YORK, NY.- On Monday, December 1, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., MoMA will host a film program of David Bowie’s music videos, co-organized by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media, The Museum of Modern Art. The event will take place in The Roy and Niuta Titus 1 Theater, as part of the Modern Monday series, which presents works by ...More
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| Immortal! The Cult of the Artist at Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz |
BERLIN.- For thousands of years the figure of the artist has stood at the centre of a multitude of creation myths and even now at the beginning of the 21st century, he is still idealized as the chosen medium of a higher world, one from which his profane contemporaries are barred. With the aid of more than 150 masterpieces taken from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin and the...More
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| Toplight: Roof Transparencies from 1760 to 1960 on View at Canadian Centre for Architecture |
MONTREAL.- Toplight presents the appearance and evolution of skylights in architecture starting from their origins in projects built or drawn towards the end of the 18th century, when this type of fenestration was first explored in Paris’s new corn exchange, the Halle au blé, up to James Stirling’s History Faculty Building, University of Cambridge (1963-1968). The exhibition is organised around a series...More
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| Seduction of Light: Ammi Phillips and Mark Rothko Compositions in Pink, Green, and Red |
NEW YORK.- Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) and Mark Rothko (1903-1970), two American masters disparate in time, place, and presentation, pursued the creation of inner light through the vehicle of color. For both artists, color was a complex language of its own, used to invent and investigate the depths offered by the deceptive flat plane of the canvas. The exhibition The Seduction of Light: ...More
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| Christie's New York Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale to Offer an Extraordinary Selection of Works |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s New York Fall 2008 Evening Sale of Post War and Contemporary Art takes place on November 12 and will present 75 master works representing major movements of the category. Significant examples by Post-War masters Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gerhard Richter, Lucio Fontana, Arshile Gorky, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, and Willem de Kooning...More
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| Sculptor Evaristo Belloti Exhibits at Palacio de Cristal in Madrid's El Retiro Park |
MADRID.- At the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid’s El Retiro Park, the sculptor, painter, draughtsman and writer Evaristo Bellotti presents an installation consisting of an expanse of white Macael marble and a mass of water that rises up from the building floor to branch out in multiple directions....More
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| Legacy for the Generations: Jacob Lawrence's Legend of John Brown |
RICHMOND.- In 1941, while living in New Orleans with his new wife, Gwendolyn, 24-year-old artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) began a series of gouache paintings focused on the life of the abolitionist John Brown. More than 35 years later, the deteriorating paintings were in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Lawrence revisited the series to produce screenprints ...More
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| Tate Acquires Major New Works of Contemporary Art at Frieze |
LONDON.- The following works have been acquired as gifts to the Tate Collection thanks to the The Outset /Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate Collection...More
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| Olafur Eliasson: Your Spiral View Returns to ZKM |
BERLIN.- After the outstanding success of his first large overview exhibition Surroundings Surrounded at the ZKM | Karlsruhe, in 2001, and the subsequent, sensational exhibition The Weather Project held at the London Tate Modern, in 2003, which drew in two million visitors, Olafur Eliasson now returns once again to the ZKM | Media Museum with his large-format mirror object Your ...More
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| Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Presents its Fourth Annual Collaboration with Cinefemme |
SAN DIEGO, CA.- On Thursday, November 13, 2008, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will present its fourth annual collaborative screening with Cinefemme, the San Francisco and Los Angeles-based nonprofit, showcasing the films of independent women filmmakers. This short-film showcase will take place for one night only at MCASD's La Jolla location, in the Sherwood Auditorium,...More
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| AXA Art Insurance Appoints New Director of Business Development |
NEW YORK, NY.- AXA Art Insurance Corporation today announced the appointment of Jill Arnold to the position of director of business development. In this role, Ms. Arnold will develop and execute strategies and tools in conjunction with the company's national underwriting and fine art departments to support AXA Art's focus on sustainable and profitable growth. Additionally, the director of ...More
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| Remembering the War of 1812 Douglas Coupland Sculpture Commission Unveiled November 3 |
TORONTO.- At 12:30 pm on 3 November, 2008, we remember Canada in a new and permanent way: almost 200 years after the battle that essentially "made" Canada, artist Douglas Coupland will unveil his compelling sculpture, entitled "Monument to the War of 1812," at the corner of Fleet Street and Lake Shore Boulevard....More
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