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| Unprecedented Reciprocal Loan Collaboration Between the Frick and Norton Simon Museum |
Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte), Italian, (c. 1510–1592), The Flight into Egypt, c. 1544–45. Oil on canvas 48 ½ x 77 ¼ inches. Norton Simon Art Foundation.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Established decades apart and on separate coasts, New
York’s Frick Collection and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA, are both fine examples of a museum type that focuses on the viewpoint and taste of an individual founder. Henry Clay Frick was...More
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| Kunsthaus Bregenz Announces Markus Schinwald Exhibition |
BREGENZ.- Dancing objects, object-like dancers, marionettes, costumes, fetishes, encoded stories that exist in the no-man’s-land of dance, theater, film, object, and image – the young Austrian artist Markus Schinwald (*1973 in Salzburg) gives the inanimate a personality and transforms people into puppet-like figures. The psychological study of space and body, the unease and the irrational ...More
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| Black Box: Ori Gersht at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Ori Gersht (b. 1967, Tel Aviv) currently lives and works in London. He is noted for his series of large-scale photographs and arresting moving-image pieces. The artist’s work encourages viewers to reflect on the power of natural beauty and how it is affected by human intervention. In “The Forest” (2006) the camera pans a lush, primeval forest. Sound alternates with ...More
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| New Gallery for V&As Renowned Collection of Buddhist Sculpture |
LONDON.- The V&A will open The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Gallery in April, the first gallery for Buddhist sculpture in the UK. The new day-lit gallery will display highlights from the V&A’s world class collection of Buddhist sculpture ranging from monumental Chinese temple sculptures to tiny portable...More
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| Jeu de Paume Presents Potuguese Artist Vasco Araujo: Eco |
PARIS.- Vasco Araújo (born Lisbon, 1975) — explores the identity and complexity of personality by means of disguise, narrative and language. The artist, who is also an opera singer, explores the social dimension of seduction and eroticism and their power games. Drawing frequently on literature ( Restif de la Bretonne, Shakespeare, etc.) and opera (Mozart, Puccini, Wagner), his work is ...More
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| Museu Coleccao Berardo Announces 2009 Exhibition Calendar |
LISBON.- Lisbon is part of the Modern and Contemporary Art map since the opening of Museu Colecção Berardo - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - in June 2007. There would certainly be a great void if a museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art was missing in Lisbon. Such a space is now a reality presented to the international and Portuguese visitors who come to Lisbon in ...More
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| Melle's Creation at the Arnhem Museum for Modern Art |
ARNHEM.- Melle (1908-1976) – who as artist dropped his surname Oldeboerrigter because it was difficult to remember – holds a unique position in Dutch art. His early drawings and graphic works are full of social protest and solidarity with the oppressed. His later work was populated with hermaphrodites, disabled veterans, skeletons, people suffering from syphilis as well as children and...More
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| Don Baum: In Memoriam Opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago |
CHICAGO, IL.- A member of the Chicago's "Monster Roster" of figurative artists that emerged in the late 1950s (Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, and H.C. Westermann were colleagues) Don Baum was also an important educator, teaching at Roosevelt University for over 30 years, as well as an indispensable curator of the Chicago school. As exhibitions director for the Hyde Park Art Center...More
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| Paul-Armand Gette and Niele Toroni Join Forces to Create Installation at Gemeentemuseum |
THE HAGUE.- One is a Minimalist artist who has reduced painting to repeated, regularly spaced imprints of a n° 50 paintbrush, the other a conceptual artist who began his career as a scientist. Niele Toroni (b. Muralto, Switzerland, 1937) and Paul-Armand Gette (b. Lyon, France, 1927) are now joining forces to create a work of art in the Triton Room at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. They...More
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| Devotion: Private Prayer and Piety through Eight Centuries Announced at Southern Methodist |
DALLAS, TX.- Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University announces the opening of an exhibition of ancient and modern personal prayer books held by the library’s Special Collections. Opening February 2, 2009, this exhibition highlights sixty books dating from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries that ...More
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| A Magical Holiday Season with the National Gallery of Canada |
OTTAWA.- During this holiday season, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) offers an ideal opportunity to visit opulent exhibitions, purchase gifts, take part in enriching, playful and fun art-education activities, and simply relax and enjoy yourself at one of its restaurants. The Gallery welcomes ...More
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| Turner in January: The Vaughan Bequest at National Galleries of Scotland |
EDINBURGH.- In keeping with a century-old tradition, New Year's Day at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh will be marked by the opening of the annual display of watercolours by J M W Turner (1775–1851). The thirty-eight works in the display were bequeathed in 1900 by Henry Vaughan, a London art collector who amassed ...More
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| Images of Arctic Exploration at the Portland Museum of Art |
PORTLAND, ME.- In honor of the International Polar Year (March 2007 through March 2009), the Portland Museum of Art will present an exhibition of the story of Arctic exploration during its peak years from 1850 to 1910. Drawn from the collection of the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine in ...More
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| A Thousand Kisses: Love Letters from the Archives of American Art |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Love letters bring out the voyeur in most of us. These deeply personal communications have the power to make a reader blush or, at the very least, reveal a tender moment in the complex lives of others. Curator Liza Kirwin invites visitors to "take a break from texting to vicariously experience the romantic power of a handmade love letter. Emotionally charged ...More
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| Every Picture Really Does Tell a Story Art of Normal Rockwell Going to Detroit Institute of Arts |
DETROIT, MI.- Family … innocence … heroism. These are the core themes interwoven throughout the work of Norman Rockwell, one of America's most recognized and beloved artists. American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) March 8-May 31, 2009, explores Rockwell the artist, ...More
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| Corcoran Embarks on Major Roof Renovation in January 2009 |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design in downtown D.C. announces it will begin restoration of the roof of its historic 1897 Beaux-Arts building in late January 2009....More
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| The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Receives Major Donations for its New Galleries Devoted to the Art of Ancient America |
MONTREAL.- The collection of pre-Columbian art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, one of the largest in Canada, has grown again, with important donations that are now on display in the new galleries devoted to the art of ancient America. Some 100 objects, including thirty-two recent donations and nineteen loans, have ...More
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| Mastro Connoisseur Auction Shines Despite Economy |
BURR RIDGE, IL.- In a busy month for Mastro Auctions, kicking off with a spectacular and highly successful live sports auction in New York City on December 8th and ending with a 1,500 lot internet auction December 17th and 18th, the company held a 'Connoisseur' event at its Illinois headquarters in suburban Chicago. ...More
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| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Initiates New Policy Offering FREE Admission to Everyone on His or Her Birthday |
BOSTON, MA.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is one of the world's most beloved arts institutions – a Venetian-inspired palace museum housing a world-class collection personally installed by Isabella Stewart Gardner to create an intimate experience with great art. Always free for kids under the age of ...More
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