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| Albertina Presents Routes Through Modern Art - From The Collection of Eberhard W. Kornfeld |
Marc Chagall, The Cattle Dealer, 1912. © VBK, Vienna 2008 / Eberhard W. Kornfeld, Berne.
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VIENNA.- The Albertina presents Routes Through Modern Art - From The Collection of Eberhard W. Kornfeld, on view through Fabruary 8, 2009. In honour of the 85th birthday of Swiss art dealer Eberhard W. Kornfeld, some 200 works from his remarkable private art collection are on exhibit at the Albertina. The auction house owner and art publisher is a distinguished expert on prints and the ...More
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| The Norton Simon Museum Presents Vermeer's A Lady Writing |
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents a special installation of Johannes Vermeer’s A Lady Writing, c. 1665-66, a delicate yet captivating painting on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. One of about 35 known works by the Dutch master, the painting will be on view from November 7, 2008 through February 2, 2009, providing audiences with the ...More
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| The National Portrait Gallery Presents "One Life: The Mask of Lincoln" |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809–April 15, 1865) is one of America’s most revered presidents. His leadership during America’s most divisive crisis, the Civil War, was essential to the abolition of slavery and the preservation of the union. In this exhibition, “One Life: The Mask of Lincoln,” National Portrait Gallery historian David C. Ward continues the museum’s “One ...More
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| Jean Muir: A Fashion Icon at The National Museum of Scotland |
EDINBURGH.- The National Museum of Scotland present today Jean Muir: A Fashion Icon, on view through March 15, 2009. Explore the workings of this 20th century fashion designer, and unravel the distinctive 'Jean Muir' look. Jean Muir was an iconic figure in the world of fashion design. In 2005, the Jean Muir collection of over 18,000 items was donated to National Museums Scotland by ...More
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| The Modern Age: Property from the Hillman Family Collection |
NEW YORK.-Christie’s held the auction The Modern Age: Property from the Hillman Family Collection and the Collection of Alice Lawrence. Set as a landmark event and a true connoisseur’s sale, the Hillman Family Collection and the Collection of Alice Lawrence offered an exceptional ensemble of key works including paintings, sculpture and decorative arts spanning a full century across ...More
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| Looking for Mushrooms - Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk and Minimal Art: Art and Counterculture |
COLOGNE.- Museum Ludwig presents Looking for Mushrooms - Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk and Minimal Art: Art and Counterculture in San Francisco 1955 - 1968, on view through March 1, 2009. Forty years on from 1968, the year that spelt radical change for society, it is time to turn our minds back to the art scene in a city that was regarded in the 1960s and 1970s as the Mecca of ...More
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| Eudora Welty in New York: Photographs of the Early 1930's |
NEW YORK.- Fifty black-and-white photographs taken by Eudora Welty (1909-2001), one of the 20th century’s greatest American authors, will be on exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York from November 7, 2008, through February 15, 2009. Beginning with a re-creation of her first solo photography show held in 1936 at the then Photographic Galleries in New York, and ending with ...More
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| The RISD Museum of Art Presents Harry Callahan: Eleanor |
PROVIDENCE, RI.- On Friday, November 7, The RISD Museum of Art presents approximately 80 acclaimed and influential images by former RISD faculty member and photography department founder Harry Callahan in an exhibition that explores one of the artist’s most studied subject—his wife Eleanor Callahan. Harry Callahan: Eleanor offers an in-depth study of Callahan’s ...More
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| Neuberger Museum of Art Announces Important Curatorial Appointment |
PURCHASE, NY.- Helaine Posner, well-known contemporary art curator and co-author of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, has been named Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs of the Neuberger Museum of Art. The appointment was announced today by Thom Collins, Director of the Museum, the tenth largest ...More
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| Museum Exhibition of McBrien Collection Surveys and Celebrates 20th Century Japanese Craft |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a survey exhibition of Japanese crafts – including ceramics, lacquerware, metalwork, and wood - in all their rich diversity of media and techniques spanning the 20th century. In The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present (December 6, 2008 - Spring 2009), the works reflect many key moments of artistic activity, from ...More
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| Design Museum Gent Presents Hermann Jünger. Jewelry - Found Treasures |
GHENT.- Design Museum Gent presents Hermann Jünger. Jewelry – Found Treasures, on view through February 8, 2009. Hermann Jünger (1928-2005) is regarded internationally as one of the most influential goldsmiths of the present day. His work possessed ignitive, innovative character. His art revolutionised modern jewelry design. “Found treasures and jewelry pieces united – connections, parallels,...More
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| GL Strand Presents Kara Walker - Humour and Horror in Seductive Works |
COPENHAGEN.- GL Strand presents Kara Walker - Humour and Horror in Seductive Works, on view through January 18, 2009. For the first time in Scandinavia GL STRAND presents a solo exhibition with the world famous artist Kara Walker, who is known for her seductively beautiful silhouette-scenarios about race, gender and differences. Kara Walker is one of the most complex and ambitious American artists in her...More
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| An Icon of American Advertising J. C. Leyendecker: America's "Other" Illustrator at the Morris Museum of Art |
AUGUSTA, GA.- Before Norman Rockwell became famous, there was J. C. Leyendecker—the nation's most popular and successful commercial artist of the first four decades of the twentieth century. The Morris Museum of Art exhibits J.C. Leyendecker: America’s “Other” Illustrator—more than fifty paintings, sketches, original magazine covers, and advertisements by Leyendecker from the collection ...More
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| Revealed Anew Opens at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center |
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- As a number of key works from the permanent collection are on tour in a major exhibition in Japan, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (FLLAC) curators decided to review rarely seen paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures in the museum’s storage vaults in order to present a sampling of works that have not been on view in recent years. In addition to the ...More
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| Queensland Art Gallery Presents War: The Prints of Otto Dix |
QUEENSLAND.-The Queensland Art Gallery presents today War: The Prints of Otto Dix, on view through February 1, 2009. Otto Dix's print cycle Der Krieg (War) 1924 ranks alongside Picasso's Guernica 1937 as one of the most powerful indictments of war created in the twentieth century. Produced as a print portfolio in an edition of 70, Der Krieg consists of 51 etchings...More
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| The Museum of Modern Art in Brussels Presents Today COBRA |
BRUSSELS.-The Museum of Modern Art presents today COBRA. Created in Paris in November 1948 by artists coming from Copenhague (Jorn), Brussels (Dotremont, Noiret) and Amsterdam (Appel, Corneille, Constant), the CoBrA movement remains unknown out of Europe. Sometimes considered as a tail of Surrealist comet, sometimes as a Nordic expression of the tachiste or informal art, ...More
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| Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Expansion Delay |
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announced today a decision by its Board of Commissioners to delay the start date of its $125 million expansion in Forest Park, originally intended for late 2008. The Board acted in response to current market conditions. "With the current disruption in the financial markets, we believe it is in the best interest of the Museum and the St. Louis community to temporarily delay our ...More
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