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| Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to Open Kees Van Dongen: A Fauve in the City |
Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968), The Wrestlers or tabarin Wrestlers, 1907-08. Oil on canvas 105.5 X 164 cm. Noveau Musee National de Monaco. Photo Marcel Loli ⓒEstate of Kees Van Dongen / SODRAC (2008)
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MONTREAL.- Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the first major retrospective of the art of Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) in North America will be presented from January 22 to April 19, 2009. It will bring together some 200 works, including over a hundred paintings, as well ...More
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| National Gallery of Art to Show Corot to Monet Next Summer |
LONDON.- The Impressionists were indebted to a longer tradition of sketching and painting outdoors. ‘Corot to Monet’ will chart the development of open-air landscape painting up to the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874....More
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| Max Ernst in the Garden of Nymph Ancolie on View at the Menil Collection |
HOUSTON, TX.- During the summer of 1934, German-born artist Max Ernst executed a mural for the Dancing Mascotte, the bar at Zürich’s Corso Theatre. One of the largest painted works of the artist’s seven-decade career, Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie (Petals and Garden of Nymph Ancolie) adorned a wall of the popular nightspot. Based on an illustration found in a ...More
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| Setting the Stage: Twentieth-Century Theater Models on View at Bruce Museum |
GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut celebrates the imagination of the theatrical set designer and the craftsmanship of the model maker with its newest exhibition Setting the Stage: Twentieth-Century Theater Models, on view through Sunday, March 15, 2009. The exhibition spotlights over...More
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| Carnegie Museum of Art to Open Matsubara: A Celebration in Pittsburgh in 2009 |
PITTSBURGH, PA.- For almost 50 years, Naoko Matsubara has explored the medium of the woodblock print, creating a body of works that are bold, often large scale, and always captivating. This retrospective of over 60 works provides an overview of Matsubara’s career, from her earliest prints, in which she investigated representational imagery using innovative black-and-white ...More
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| P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Founder and Director Alanna Heiss to Retire |
NEW YORK, NY.- Alanna Heiss, the founding director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, who over the course of the last 37 years oversaw the transformation of a turn-of-the-century public school building in Long Island City, Queens, into a space that reflected the originality and independence of hundreds of artists, will retire from...More
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| Amalias Street 5a by Inta Ruka on View at Moderna Museet |
STOCKHOLM.- On the outskirts of Riga lies Amalias Street 5a, a house whose tenants have been documented by photographer Inta Ruka since 2004. The photos are presented, as in all Inta Ruka’s projects, together with short comments based on what the individuals have told her. The comments are about why they live the way they do, who they know, what they do for a living or want to become, ...More
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| Elo: Inner Exile - Outer Limits on View at MUDAM in Luxembourg |
LUXEMBOURG.- The exhibition Elo (“now” in Luxembourg parlance) presents a snapshot of contemporary production in Luxembourg. Organised by Mudam, it exhibits works mostly produced specially for the exhibition by artists brought together by the independent curator Christian Mosar....More
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| Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play to Open at the Art Gallery of Hamilton |
HAMILTON.- Montreal artist Jean-Pierre Gauthier has been active on the contemporary art scene since the mid-1990s, when he quickly gained recognition for the inventiveness of his work. The kinetic installations that have emerged from his exploration of the acoustic and metaphorical potential of the found object combine humour and poetry in a highly rigorous investigative approach. With an ...More
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| MoMA Presents the Films of Terence Davies from the Museum's Collection |
NEW YORK, NY.- Terence Davies: From the Collection presents two features and a trilogy of short films by director Terence Davies. The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984), The Long Day Closes (1993), and The House of Mirth (2000), all of which are from MoMA's collection, will be screened January 15 through 17,
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| Antony Gormley to Exhibit at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Summer of 2009 |
BREGENZ.- Together with the British sculptor Antony Gormley, the Kunsthaus Bregenz is planning a solo exhibition at the KUB and, parallel to this show, a largescale landscape project in Vorarlberg, both to take place in the summer of 2009. Antony Gormley ranks among the most ...More
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| Martin Frommelt: Early and Recent Paintings on View at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein |
VADUZ.- The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is showing the exhibition "Martin Frommelt. Early and Recent Paintings", which presents works by Martin Frommelt, one of the most important painter and graphic artist in Liechtenstein after 1945....More
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| Fuller Craft Presents Only East Coast Exhibition of Craft in America-Expanding Traditions |
BROCKTON, MA.- 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 wildly popular, Peabody Award-winning, three-part PBS television series ...More
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| Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts to Open China! China! China in February |
NORWICH.- For years now we have all been talking about China. Enormous economic growth has been accompanied by radical social change – cities and communities have been transformed in a single decade. This capitalist expansion has been matched by an explosion in the art market for Chinese contemporary art. Curators from all over the world have been beating a path to...More
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| Merseyside Maritime Museum Opens New Titanic Wreck Exhibits |
LIVERPOOL.- Fascinating objects salvaged from around the wreck of the Titanic 2.5 miles down on the ocean floor are new attractions at the Merseyside Maritime Museum....More
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| Fresno Art Museum Shows Theophilus Brown: Paintings |
FRESNO, CA.- Theophilus Brown is one of the central figures in California painting of the second half of the twentieth century. The highly influential Bay Area figurative painters and sculptors emerged in the mid-fifties and attained national acclaim by the early sixties. Their improvisational compositions and the perceptually based canvases of the East Coast realists marked the regeneration of ...More
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| Free Gallery Talk at the Clark Explores Musical Group on January 8 |
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Take a winter sojourn to Italy to explore François Joseph Navez's 1821 painting, Musical Group, during the Thursday, January 8, Looking at Lunchtime Talk at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Danielle Steinmann, assistant curator of education, will present the 12:30 pm gallery talk. ...More
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| The Writing of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940 |
CHICAGO, IL.- The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago presents The “Writing” of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850–1940. The exhibition, the latest in a series of projects developed by the Smart Museum in collaboration with University of Chicago faculty and students,...More
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| The Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts |
BALTIMORE, MD.- Romance is in the air this winter when Romance of the Rose: Visions of Love in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts opens at the Walters Art Museum on January 24, 2009. The exhibition features lavishly illuminated copies of The Romance of the Rose, a book-length poem written in Old French ...More
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| Postal Service Previews 2009 Commemorative Stamp Program |
WASHINGTON, DC.- What do Lassie, The Tonight Show, Abe Lincoln, Gary Cooper, Gulf Coast Lighthouses, Civil Rights Pioneers and Wedding Cakes have in common? They're all 2009 stamp subjects the U.S. Postal Service is providing a sneak peek at today....More
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