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| 100 Objects from Stunning Loans Comprise Babylon Myth and Reality at the British Museum |
Mush-hushshu dragon from the Ishtar Gate in Babylon. 6th century BC; 169 x 119 cm © Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Photo: Olaf M. Teßmer.
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LONDON.- The city of Babylon (in modern-day Iraq) has engendered a rich legacy in art and thought, from great paintings to contemporary film and music. This exhibition brings together such works of imagination with archaeological treasures from ancient Babylon, to reveal the reality behind the legends. Babylon will look at the famous myths and stories about the city that are ...More
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| Paris Photo 2008: A Promising Wind Blows in from Contemporary Asia |
PARIS.- From November 13 to 16, 2008, Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for 19th century, modern and contemporary photography, will bring together 107 exhibitors (86 galleries + 21 publishers) from 19 countries at the Carrousel du Louvre.
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| Victoria & Albert Museum to Open New Medieval and Renaissance Galleries in November 2009 |
LONDON.- The V&A’s new Medieval and Renaissance Galleries will open in November 2009, housing one of the world’s most remarkable collections of treasures from the period, including the Becket Casket, Gothic altarpieces and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. There will also be an outstanding collection of Renaissance sculpture by Italian masters such as Donatello and Giambologna....More
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| Spindle Vases Made by Young-Jae Lee to Open at Pinakothek der Moderne |
MUNICH.- Following her exciting installation of 1111 bowls in the Rotunda of the Pinakothek der Moderne in 2006, the Korean potter Young-Jae Lee will be exhibiting further examples of her work.
Again, the show is about variations on a single design form, this time that of the...More
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| Master Works by Homer, Hassam, Cole, Remington and Farny Among Sale Highlights at Christie's |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced details of its Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture auction to be held Thursday, December 4, 2008. The sale features 186 works, with exceptional offerings from the finest American masters, including Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Hudson River School founder Thomas Cole, and Western artists Frederic Remington and Henry Farny....More
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| Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Confirms List of Works to be Shown by Yoko Ono in December |
GATESHEAD.- Yoko Ono is one of the pioneers of conceptual art and has an international exhibition career spanning nearly 50 years. From Sunday 14 December, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art will present YOKO ONO Between the Sky and My Head, comprising work by Yoko Ono from the 1950s to the present day. ...More
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| Deimantas Narkevicius: The Unanimous Life Opens at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |
MADRID.- The career of Deimantas Narkevičius (Utena, Lithuania, 1964) has developed primarily in the fields of film and video, although he occasionally turns to sculpture. His work is an investigation into how history is perceived and the mechanisms that transform it, based on diverse utopias and ideologies....More
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| Bold New Dell Red Artwork for Studio Laptops Express Passion for Art |
ROUND ROCK, TX.- Dell continues to celebrate a season of design and discovery with the unveiling of the (PRODUCT) RED artwork for the Dell StudioTM laptops. This artwork exemplifies the unique visions of artists passionate about fighting AIDS in Africa. Today’s announcement expands on the Dell Art House offerings, and allows users to celebrate their personal style, while supporting The ...More
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| Fresno Metropolitan Museum Returns Home November 13th |
FRESNO, CA.- Three years of jackhammers, bulldozers and excavators will come to a close, as the Fresno Metropolitan Museum reopens to the public in its newly renovated building on November 13, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. with a grand reopening ceremony....More
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| Poster Auctions International Sells Over 500 Posters at Auction in New York |
NEW YORK, NY.- With the current financial crisis still looming large in the minds of buyers, many auction houses have come to consider themselves lucky if 25-35% of their lots are sold. This was not the case this past Sunday at Poster Auctions International, Inc., where the sale, comprised of over 500 lots of rare, vintage posters, reached a remarkable 44%, for a total of $1,300,000. ...More
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| John Webber's Portrait of the Captive Tahitian Princess Poetua to be Sold at Christie's in December |
LONDON.- Christie’s announce that they will offer a little known and highly important portrait of a Tahitian Princess at the auction of Important Old Master and British Pictures on 2 December 2008 in London. Consigned by the descendants of the last Queen of Tahiti, Poedua, daughter of Oreo, chief of Ulaietea, one of the Society Isles by John Webber, R.A. (1751-1793) is the least ...More
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| ART ASIA Announces Dynamic Alliance with SCOPE and Celebrates Inaugural Asian Contemporary Art Fair in Miami |
MIAMI.- ART ASIA Miami 08 and SCOPE Art Fair are proud to announce that they have joined forces to create a dynamic partnership. By doing so, both fairs increase audience attendance, exposure to new collectors, curators and press while expanding their museum quality programming and lecture series. The two fairs will continue to maintain their unique identities with separate pavilions ...More
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| New Art Dealers Alliance Presents the 6th Edition of the NADA Art Fair in Miami |
MIAMI.- The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) will present the 6th edition of the NADA Art Fair in Miami. Featuring 88 emerging art galleries from 19 countries, the NADA Art Fair is renowned for its diverse, high quality group of exhibitors as well as its unique atmosphere in the vast sound stages and gardens of the Ice Palace Studios. The fair is free and open to the public from Wednesday, ...More
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| Mikhail Sokovikov and Jason Aaron Wall: Industry Calling to Exhibit at Ogilvy New York |
NEW YORK, NY.- Andy Warhol appropriated the everyday pop image into a work of art, added a new layer of meaning to the familiar, and conceded. Warhol and others of the Pop Art movement exposed our subconscious obsession with superficial surfaces. Slick design, balanced color fields, and textures with 3-dimensional illusions are techniques that advertisers and artists use to captivate ...More
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| Southern California Collaboration Highlights Area's Exceptional Holdings of Rembrandt Paintings |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A group of five Los Angeles art museums today unveiled a virtual exhibition highlighting Southern California holdings of paintings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669). The product of a groundbreaking collaboration, a dedicated Web site—Rembrandt in Southern California (www.rembrandtinsocal.org) has been created by the J. Paul Getty Museum in ...More
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| The Museum of Modern Art's First Film Benefit Raises $948,000 for the Museum's Collection of Film |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Film Benefit gala at The Museum of Modern Art, which honored the award-winning work of director, producer, and screenwriter Baz Luhrmann, raised $948,000 for the Museum’s collection of film.
Hugh Jackman served as Honorary Chair of the event; co-chairs were Jay Fielden, ...More
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| Norman White from Canada is the Award Winner of the d.velop Digital Art Award 2008 |
BERLIN.- The d.velop digital art award [ddaa] is a highly regarded international prize that honours the most important artists in the area of digital art for their life's work or for a group of works. In 2008, the prize was awarded for the third time, this time under the patronage of the governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, and in the context of the ART FORUM BERLIN....More
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| Into the Pixel 2008 Art Exhibition Debuts at AnimFX New Zealand |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For the first time ever, the Into the Pixel exhibit will be shown during the AnimeFX New Zealand Convergence Conference in Wellington, New Zealand. On Sunday, November 16, 2008 there will be an Into the Pixel Charity Auction and four lucky bidders will get to take home a limited edition print from the show. ...More
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| Tobey "Alamo" in Historical Diorama; Original Painting at Jenack Auction |
NEW YORK, NY.- "The Battle at The Alamo", a well-known oil painting by the famous late historical illustrator Alton S. Tobey (1914-2005), created for the 12-volume history book series "The Golden Books History of The United States" has been incorporated into a major diorama, completed this month by the well known collector of toy soldiers and diorama maker Tom Munson, of Chagrin Falls, ...More
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| 'Green' Art Museum to Open in Buffalo, NY |
BUFFALO, NY.- When the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College opens to the public Nov. 22, it is expected to be the first art museum in New York State to be certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program of the U.S. Green Building Council....More
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