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| Van Dongen - A Fauve In The City Opens Today at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts |
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968), The Wrestlers or Tabarin Wrestlers, 1907-08, oil on canvas, 105.5 x 164 cm. Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Photo Marcel Loli. © Estate of Kees van Dongen/ SODRAC (2008).
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MONTREAL.- The exhibition Van Dongen - A Fauve in the City, presented from January 22 to April 19, 2009 at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (www.mmfa.qc.ca), is the first major retrospective of the work of Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) in North America. The exhibition, which brings together some 200 works, including over a hundred paintings, forty rare drawings, prints and other archival documents and photographs as well as for the first time, a dozen Fauvist ceramics, will illustrate the influential role Van Dongen played in the early twentieth century as the only portraitist among the Fauves....More
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| Marco Perego Show Portraying Amy Winehouse Opens at Half Gallery |
NEW YORK.- Marrying the hyperrealist tradition of Duane Hanson and Andy Warhol’s prophetic approach to pop culture, Marco Perego unveils his most ambitious set piece to date, a sculpture of William Burroughs murdering Amy Winehouse entitled, “The Only Good Rock Star is a Dead Rock Star.” Perhaps only Maurizio Cattelan – another curious Italian— or Damien Hirst could come close to ...More
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| The Journey to Impressionism and Two Places at One Time at Museo de Arte de Ponce |
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.- Since ancient Rome paintings of Nature have decorated urban palaces, providing their inhabitants with a welcomed escape from the stress of daily life. In the nineteenth century in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, landscape painting reemerged and soon dominated the walls of the Salon de Paris, again offering a tranquil alternative to a continent now in the ...More
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| Kunstmuseum Bern Presents Ego Documents - The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art |
BERN.-Kunstmuseum Bern presents Ego Documents – The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, on view through February 15, 2009. The exhibition “Ego Documents” is presenting contemporary art by artists who have made their own life the theme of their work. We will be showing autobiographical video films, photographs, prints, drawings, installations, paintings and a slide ...More
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| AMOA Presents: Workers: Photographs by Sebastiao Salgado |
AUSTIN, TX.- The Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) presents Workers: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado. Sixty-two large-scale, black and white photographs are included in the exhibition. Salgado’s work poses many disparate questions. Do the photographs honor the dignity of labor, or expose brutal working conditions? Do they document economic growth and development, or provide...More
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| Ian Wallace - "A Literature of Images" Opens at Kunsthalle Zürich |
ZURICH.- The Kunsthalle Zürich presents the exhibition «A Literature of Images», a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Ian Wallace, who was born in 1943, lives and works in Vancouver, and is one of the most important representatives of the Vancouver conceptual art scene. The exhibition includes a wide range of the artist’s works extending from the 1970s to the present day. Ian ...More
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| The Heckscher Museum of Art Presents Mythic Landscapes of America |
HUNTINGTON, NY.- This fall, The Heckscher Museum of Art is proud to open Mythic Landscapes of America. The exhibition, running from November 15, 2008, through January 4, 2009, will include works from The Heckscher’s strong collection of landscape paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as many contemporary pieces fitting the exhibition’s themes....More
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| Artists in Their Studios Captures Major American Artists at Work |
STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- The interplay between artists and their studios will be the subject of a major exhibition opening this winter at Norman Rockwell Museum. On view from February 7 through May 25, 2009, Artists in Their Studios will present a behind-the-scenes view into the lives of over 75 noted American artists through hundreds of rarely-exhibited photographs and primary source ...More
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| Saving Face: Portraits from the Collection of Robert Infarinato Opens |
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- From the pensive gaze of Georgia O'Keeffe in profile to the carefree grins of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot at the seashore, some of the most iconic portraits of artists and celebrities are part of the expansive collection of Bucks County resident Robert M. Infarinato. Over 50 photographs from this striking assembly are on view at the James A. Michener Art Museum in ...More
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| MacDougall's Russian Art Auctions, 25-27 November 2008 |
LONDON.- MacDougall Auctions announced the highlights of their 3 Sales during the upcoming London Russian Art Week, presenting a collection of more than 550 Lots. Last June’s Russian Art Week saw MacDougall’s exceed £12.4 million in sales, outselling Christies, Bonhams and Phillips, to become the second largest auction house for Russian Paintings....More
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| "Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx By Ray Mortenson" Opens in New York City |
NEW YORK.- Documenting the abandoned, burnt out, and razed structures of entire city blocks in the South Bronx in the aftermath of the 1970s, during which this neighborhood experienced dramatic decline, Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx by Ray Mortenson will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York from November 14, 2008 through March 9, 2009. The 50 ...More
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| The Lion & The Unicorn by Cornford & Cross at Wolverhampton Art Gallery |
WOLVERHAMPTON, UK.- Drawing inspiration from the industrial past of Wolverhampton and the Black Country region, Cornford & Cross have created a powerful and darkly beautiful installation which addresses issues of rising fuel costs, climate change and increasing economic instability at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Created using tons of regionally sourced coal, the installation aims to reconnect...More
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| Pinakothek der Moderne Presents Canadian Artist Marcel Dzama |
MUNICH.- Canadian artist Marcel Dzama is designing the next Edition 46 of the SZ-Magazin (weekly magazine of Süddeutsche Zeitung). It will appear on Friday, 14th November 2008. The project will be accompanied by an exhibition of the artist’s work at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. In the 46th week of every year the entire SZ-Magazin is designed by a...More
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| Amon Carter Museum Presents Video Installation by Artist Mary Lucier |
FORT WORTH, TX.- Today, November 15, the Amon Carter Museum will present the first video installation in the institution’s history, Mary Lucier: The Plains of Sweet Regret. This one-work exhibition, an 18-minute, five-channel video work, will occupy an entire gallery, filling the space with beautiful yet haunting images of the Great Plains in North Dakota. The images are accompanied ...More
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| Bowers Museum Displays Powerful Images of African Rituals |
SANTA ANA, CA.- The Bowers Museum presents Passages: Photographs in Africa by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, an exhibition of dramatic images that portray time-honored African ceremonial traditions of the passing from one life phase into another by critically acclaimed photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher. Known for their vibrant images of African life, the photographers ...More
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| Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Receives $1.2 Million Mellon Foundation Challenge Grant to Establish New Position |
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million challenge grant to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, to help create and support a new postdoctoral position for a Coordinator of Academic Affairs. The grant is the largest to date received by the Art Center, according to James Mundy, the museum's Anne Hendricks Bass Director....More
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| Deutscher and Hackett to Offer Important Colin McCahon at Auction |
MELBOURNE.- Deutscher and Hackett, a leading Australian fine art auction house, are excited to announce that its final auction for the year, to be held in Melbourne on November 26, will feature an exceptionally rare and important work by Colin McCahon. The painting, Mondrian’s Last Chrysanthemum: Scared, has been held in a private collection for the last 12 years, and its sale ...More
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| Emily Jacir Named Winner of Seventh Biennial Hugo Boss Prize |
NEW YORK, NY.- Palestinian-American artist Emily Jacir has been named the winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2008, it was announced last night by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and HUGO BOSS. Jacir, who received the Golden Lion Award for an artist under 40 at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, is the seventh artist to win the prestigious HUGO BOSS PRIZE, a biennial award that ...More
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| Eli Wilner to Appear on The Martha Stewart Show on Monday, November 17th at 11:00am EST on NBC |
NEW YORK.- Eli Wilner, founder of Eli Wilner & Company, will be appearing on The Martha Stewart Show on Monday, November 17th at 11:00am EST on NBC. Martha will be interviewing Eli about the reframing of The Metropolitan Museum's monumental painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze. Eli Wilner & Company is the world’s largest resource for antique American and ...More
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| Iranian Artist Mania Akbari at Xerxes Fine Arts |
LONDON.- Xerxes Fine Arts holds the first solo show, outside of the Persian Gulf, of the renowned Iranian film maker, actress and artist Mania Akbari. The Many Faces of Eve, is an exhibition of two series of photographic works on canvas by Akbari which explore feminism and the role of women in post-Revolutionary Iranian society and the rest of the world. Individual and social ...More
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| Prix Marcel Duchamp Winner Laurent Grasso's "Infinite Light" on view at Hunter College |
NEW YORK.- A major outdoor work by French artist Laurent Grasso, who has just won the prestigious Prix Marcel Duchamp (awarded yearly to a contemporary artist based in France), is currently on display at New York's Hunter College. In connection with the college's to: Night exhibition, the work, entitled Infinite Light, spans the exterior of the pedestrian bridges that connect the main ...More
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