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| Getty Museum Acquires Landscape Painting by Roelandt Slavery and Drawing by Rodin |
Roelandt Savery (1576-1639), Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony, 1617. Oil on panel. Framed: 75.5 X 120.3 X 102. cm. L 2007.79. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of two new works: Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony (1617) by 17th-century Flemish landscape and still-life painter Roelandt Savery (1576-1639) and a brown wash and graphite drawing entitled Sphinx (c. 1898-1900) by renowned ...More
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| Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney Unveils Redevelopment Plans |
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art has today revealed plans that will see the institution transformed into a global hub for contemporary art and ideas by 2011, including the building of a new northern wing and the refurbishment of its current headquarters on Sydney’s Circular Quay....More
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| Hirshhorn Museum Presents Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Figurative art plays an important role in the Hirshorn’s collection. “Strange Bodies,” on view from Dec. 11 to early 2010, brings together some of the most celebrated examples of figuration from the museum’s holdings to examine how and why artists depict and distort the body. Organized by associate curator Kristen...More
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| Vik Muniz Creates Rebus, an Inventive Narrative of Works from MoMA's Collection |
NEW YORK, NY.- Vik Muniz (Brazilian, b. 1961) is the ninth participant in Artist’s Choice, a series of exhibitions in which an artist serves as curator, selecting works from MoMA’s collection to create an exhibition. To organize his Artist’s Choice exhibition, Muniz uses a rebus—a puzzle that combines unrelated ...More
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| Milwaukee Art Museum Announces Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered |
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The first U.S. exhibition of the work of Jan Lievens (1607–1674), one of the great Dutch artists of the 17th century, will be on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum February 7–April 26, 2009. Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered challenges the artist’s place in art history, calling into question why the artist has only been ...More
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| Museo Soumaya Opens Tobacco Exhibition in Mexico City |
MEXICO CITY.- Behind are the days when people could smoke, have a cup of coffee and chat in public places. With the passing of the time, those days of smoke become blurred in history. The Museo Soumaya•Fundación Carlos Slim takes a journey to the past to evoke stories and to intensify memories in nostalgia and ...More
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| Julio Quaresma: Playing Equality Opens at Institut Valencia d'Art Modern |
VALENCIA.- This site-specific exhibition project is located in two spaces, the terrace and the hall of the IVAM, chosen by the artist to hold the theme of equality, immigration and human rights.
Outside the IVAM, a multidisciplinary sculpture made up of 22 coloured iron and ...More
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| Growing and Greening New York Explores Greater Sustainability for NYC and City's Role in Global Efforts |
NEW YORK, NY.- Growing and Greening New York: PlaNYC and the Future of the City, on view at the Museum of the City of New York December 11, 2008, through April 12, 2009, will make the complexities of greater environmental sustainability in New York City vivid, compelling, and understandable by bringing ...More
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| Balthasar Burkhard & Naoya Hatakeyama: Two Mountains on View at Museum in Zalburg |
SALZBURG.- “Two Mountains” is an artistic project which the two photographers, Balthasar Burkhard from Switzerland (born 1944) and Naoya Hatakeyama from Japan (born 1958), were invited to join. Each examined the mountain world of the other’s respective homeland, thus linking up the criteria for viewing landscape with the individual photographic language of imagery used by ...More
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| Fuller Craft to Present Only East Coast Exhibition of Craft in America: Expanding Traditions |
BROCKTON, MASS.- Fuller Craft Museum presents the only east coast exhibition of Craft in America–Expanding Traditions, a multi-faceted journey into the origin and continuation of American craft traditions. This traveling exhibition is associated with the three-part Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated PBS...More
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| Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz Presents Anne Schneider: Nothing Without the body |
LINZ.- For Anne Schneider, who holds one of the most prominent positions in Austria in the sculpting profession, sculpture is the embodiment of the moment of a psychodynamic constellation in space. Wax is one of her preferred materials. The design process occurs directly and without tools, solely with the hands, the fluid wax quickly congeals only granting a limited period of time for ...More
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| New Gallery at the World Museum Liverpool Reveals Mummies |
LIVERPOOL.- A major new gallery at the World Museum Liverpool looks at the incredible world of the Pharaohs and the remarkable culture that built the Pyramids and the Sphinx. ...More
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| Important Tiffany to be Auctioned at Sotheby's in New York |
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 18th at 10am, Sotheby’s New York will offer a sale dedicated to Important Tiffany, highlighted by several prominent single-owner collections. This highly curated offering of 40 lots features top-caliber examples of the firm’s leaded glass lamps, favrile glass vases and bronze objects, ...More
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| Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum Presents Jubilee: African American Celebration |
WASHINGTON, DC.- "Jubilee: African American Celebration," is on view at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum through Sept. 20, 2009. Through a colorful display with costumes and tableaus, "Jubilee" offers a cross section of nearly 50 traditions and celebrations observed in the African American community from days of slavery to...More
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| Philbrook Announces Major Gift of Modern and Contemporary Industrial Design |
TULSA, OK.- The Philbrook Museum of Art is pleased to announce a gift of nearly 100 works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century design from the George R. Kravis II Collection. The promised gift will immediately provide Philbrook with a core collection of exceptional design material and establish a vital new collecting ...More
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| Kunstmuseum Bonn Exhibits Finalists of the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize |
BONN.- Every two years from 1984 on, the Dorothea von Stetten Art Award has been given to artists who have not yet turned 36 but whose work shows interesting perspectives and possibilities for development. Consequently, the award focuses on young contemporary art thus providing an important emphasis in the museum’s overall programme. Five independent curators who are ...More
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| Puerto Rican Art Now-with Antonio Martorell Presented at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum Dec. 12 |
WASHINGTON, DC.- As part of the Puerto Rico at the Smithsonian program series, the Smithsonian Latino Center presents a lecture with Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell Dec. 12 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Ring Auditorium of the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum. Largely regarded as one of Puerto Rico's best-known contemporary...More
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