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| Exhibition Celebrates Enduring Influence of Classical Antiquity with Figure Drawings |
Jerome-Martin Langlois (French, 1778-1838), Alexander Ceding Campaspe to Apelles, 1819. Black and white chalk, gray washes, heightened with white gouache. 39.1 X 51.4 cm. 86.GG.475. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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LOS ANGELES, CA.- The ability of ancient sculptors to perfect the human form has long been revered by later artists as the ideal way to render the figure. Drawing the Classical Figure, on view December 23, 2008 – March 8, 2009 at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, brings together more than 40 drawings—spanning 400 years of art ...More
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| Grand Palais in Paris to Show Warhol's Wide World Next Year |
PARIS.- In 1962, Andy Warhol painted the portraits of Marilyn Monroe and her rival Liz Taylor, reinterpreted the Mona Lisa and Elvis Presley. From 1967 until his death in 1987, he produced commissioned portraits of dozens of personalities, famous or obscure, creating a world fascinated by appearances, a vertiginous flattering mirror. He revived a neglected genre, applying new codes ...More
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| A Very Marty Holiday at the Film Society of Lincoln Center |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Film Society of Lincoln Center rings in the New Year with a New York institution, Martin Scorsese. From Dec. 26-31 at the Walter Reade Theater, the film series Scorsese Classics will bring 11 prominent titles by the Academy Award-winning director back to the big screen. Classic highlights ...More
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| Works & Process at the Guggenheim Announces Spring 2009 Season |
NEW YORK, NY.- Works & Process at the Guggenheim is pleased to announce the 2009 spring season. For 24 years and in more than 300 productions, Works & Process at the Guggenheim has been a pioneer in creating ground-breaking, carefully crafted programs which uniquely blend performance and ...More
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| Discover the Secrets of Life and Death in Ancient Egypt |
GATINEAU.- A journey that began thousands of years ago aome to a halt in Gatineau when the Canadian Museum of Civilization presents Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt. This major exhibition offers visitors a symbolic journey through a burial tomb to discover the secrets of life, death and ...More
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| Statens Museum for Kunst Announces 2009 Schedule of Exhibitions |
COPENHAGEN.- Two full-scale retrospective exhibitions of Wilhelm Freddie and Nicolai Abildgaard. Read also about the autumn’s grand exhibitions on the occasion of the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and the new exhibition initiatives of the Collection of Prints and Drawings....More
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| Van Abbemuseum and the Stedelijk Museum Celebrate Wim Crouwel's 80th Birthday |
EINDHOVEN.- To celebrate Wim Crouwel’s 80th birthday, the Van Abbemuseum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are looking back on the period
during which, in his capacity as graphic designer, he designed catalogues, posters,
invitations and the letterhead for both museums. In 1956, the then director of the ...More
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| Sotheby's Announces Auction Highlights for First Quarter of 2009 |
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s 2009 auction season in New York will begin with the two-day sale of Important Americana. Leading the Folk Art offerings is A Rare and Important Molded Copper Fireman “Old Jake” Weathervane Made for the Union Fire Hall, now Charley Rouss Fire Company, Winchester, Virginia, American,...More
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| Nature Conservancy and Cooper-Hewitt Present Design for a Living World |
WASHINGTON, DC.- This spring, The Nature Conservancy and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will present “Design for a Living World,” a traveling exhibition featuring objects created by leading designers and made from ...More
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| Pakistani Film-maker, Ismet Khawaja, to be Artist in Residence at the Herbert |
COVENTRY.- A film-maker from Pakistan will be inspiring art and design students in Coventry when she travels to the city as part of a major new exhibition.
Ismet Khawaja is travelling to the city to be artist in residence at Coventry University School of Art & Design as part of the Through Other Eyes: ...More
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| National Gallery of Victoria Opens Exhibition of the Works of Art Made by Rosalie Gascoigne |
MELBOURNE.- This December the National Gallery of Victoria presents a major retrospective of the work of one of Australia's most accomplished artists, Rosalie Gascoigne (1917-1999)....More
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| Blythe McCarthy Appointed Andrew W. Mellon Senior Scientist |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Blythe McCarthy recently was appointed the Andrew W. Mellon Senior Scientist in the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. McCarthy, who has worked as a scientist at the galleries since 1998,...More
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts' Friends Announce Bus Funding for Minneapolis Public Schools |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Friends of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) have announced that they will provide every second grader in the Minneapolis Public Schools an opportunity to visit the museum for a docent-led tour during the next three years. This commitment of over $60,000 provides bus transportation for approximately ...More
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| Third Edition of Expanding the Frame Series Features Experimental Film and Video Works |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- From January 15–February 28, the Walker Art Center presents Expanding the Frame, a seven-week showcase of established and emerging directors who are breaking the boundaries of film and video. The third edition of the series is presented in two programmatic threads: ...More
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| Moscow Museum of Modern Art Opens Rena Tsuzmer Exhibition |
MOSCOW.- Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens a solo show of Rena Tsuzmer — an artist who has managed to put a new spin on the antique art of ceramics. For over 40 years she has been fighting the stereotyped vision of ceramics as a craft, rather than art. Tsuzmer frees her works from their habitual ...More
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| MCA Announces Creative Learning Centre Regional Node in Blue Mountains |
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Australia and the Blue Mountains City Council today announced a strategic collaboration to bring the contemporary arts direct to the people of the Blue Mountains....More
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| The Map: Navigating the Present on View at Bild Museet |
UMEA.- The Map: Navigating the Present is a genuinely trans-disciplinary and intercultural event engaging human culture's possibly most fascinating, sophisticated and diverse means of knowing and navigating the world, i.e. the map. The Map takes a very broad approach to maps and cartographic practices of today; allowing for artistic, cultural, political and scientific practices to combine and ...More
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| New York Public Library's Arezoo Moseni Honored with The Carnegie Corporation of New York/NYT Award |
NEW YORK, NY.- Arezoo Moseni, Senior Librarian at The New York Public Library's Mid-Manhattan Branch, thinks of herself as just one of many of her contemporaries looking to make a difference in the lives of those visiting libraries across America, but according to 3,200 library users nationwide, Arezoo is in an elite class all her...More
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| Hyde Receives NEH Grant for Archives Assessment |
GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection has recently received notification that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Museum a nearly $4,000 grant for an onsite survey and assessment of its archives by a professional archivist....More
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