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Home   UNHCR Spanish Committee Organizes Online Auction to Benefit Displaced Refugees Image of a painting made by Eduardo Chillida, which forms part of the approximately 50 works of art made by 39 artists such as Miquel Barceló, Eduardo Chillida, Víctor Ochoa, Antoni Tápies, Antonio Saura, Joan Genovés and Manolo Valdés, among others, which will be auctioned to Benedit refugees from Kenya, Chad, Ethiopia and Darfur. Photo: EFE/Angel Díaz. MADRID.- From the 21 to the 29 of January, the ACNUR/UNHCR Spanish committee is organizing an exhibition and online auction, titled Refugi@rte, at an exhibition space owned by BBVA. This artistic project gathers 50 works of art made by 39 internationally recognized such artists including Miquel Barcelo, ...More Dozens of Works Suspected to Be Fake Dalis Confiscated By Spanish Police in Madrid MADRID.- Police in Spain announced that they have confiscated dozens of suspected fake Dali works of art that were going to be sold in the town of Estepona. Police seized a total of 81 works. Around twelve of them could be genuine works by Salvador Dali and are alike to ones that were reported stolen in Belgium, France and the United States, according to lists held by Spanish police and Interpol. The art works are sculptures, bas-reliefs, cutlery, textile pieces and lithographs....More Studying Nature: Oil Sketches From The Thaw Collection at The Morgan Library & Museum NEW YORK.- Intimately scaled sketches made in oils and executed in nature are the subject of a new exhibition on view at The Morgan Library & Museum from January 23 through August 30, 2009. Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection presents more than twenty works drawn from the collection of Eugene V. and Clare Thaw, which chronicles the history of the genre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The fresh and immediate quality of many of these sketches, the majority of which are executed on paper adhered to canvas, places them both literally and conceptually in between paintings and drawings. The complex circumstances of...More Artist Rooms Collection of Contemporary Art Goes Nationwide LONDON.- The tour of Artist Rooms, a unique scheme to bring one of the largest and most imaginative acquisitions of post-war and contemporary art to audiences across Britain, from Bill Viola in Stromness to Joseph Beuys in Bexhill on Sea, is launched today. Throughout 2009, 18 museums and galleries across the UK will be showing over 30 Artist Rooms from the collection created by the dealer and collector, Anthony d’Offay, and acquired by the nation in February 2008. This is the first time a national collection has been shared and shown simultaneously across the UK, and has only been made possible through the exceptional generosity of independent charity...More Dead Shot Dan - Bruce Nauman - Opens at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Dead Shot Dan, an exhibition of works by the preeminent American artist Bruce Nauman. Bruce Nauman’s work is often discussed in relationship to the writer Samuel Beckett, a playwright who evoked the painful drama of existence, and yet never left laughter too far behind. Beckett’s only film screenplay, appropriately titled Film (1965), stars the ageing Buster Keaton and adds a comic edge to the classical Beckettian loop of tragic paralysis. And indeed, Keaton’s own films tell tales of ...More Frank Stella Exhibition at Grand Rapids Art Museum Includes Monumental Woodblocks For The Fountain GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM), a new leading cultural destination, presents the work of Frank Stella in an exhibition by one of the great living American artists. MOBY DICK: Frank Stella and Herman Melville, on view January 23 through May 3, 2009, features more than thirty monumental printed works from Stella’s Moby Dick series, the artist’s greatest sustained achievement in four decades of making art. From 1985 to 1997, Stella created a major series of works linked to Melville’s classic novel....More Dali Universe Shows Stunning Pieces by the Spanish Master in Permanent Retrospective LONDON.- Melting clocks, Mae West’s lips and a twenty foot high Space Elephant are just a few of the extraordinary works of art on display at the Dali Universe. Enter the genial mind of the greatest surrealist, self-publicist and creative genius of the Twentieth Century, Salvador Dali, in this stunning, permanent 30,000 square foot retrospective located on London’s South Bank. ...More Italian Drawings at Northwestern University Block Museum This Winter EVANSTON, IL.- Drawings by Michelangelo and other 16th century masters not previously seen in the United States are coming to the Chicago area this winter in two major exhibitions at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A Century of Italian Drawings from the Prado,” in the Main Gallery Jan. 23 to April 5, focuses on the period from roughly 1520 to 1620, when artists achieved exceptional technical proficiency in figure composition and drawing was used extensively in preparation for multiple types of art, including frescos, prints, tapestries and stained glass. The exhibition...More Carlson/Strom: New Performance Video Opens at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park opens the first major museum presentation of the collaborative work of choreographer and performer Ann Carlson and video installation artist Mary Ellen Strom. Through the lens of the historic record and art history, Carlson and Strom employ tactics of spectacle and humor to provide spaces of reflection about this contemporary moment. Carlson/Strom: New Performance Video will be on view at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park from January 24 through May 17, 2009....More James Steward Named Director of Princeton University Art Museum PRINCETON, NJ.- James Steward, a skilled arts administrator and a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century European art and culture, has been selected as director of the Princeton University Art Museum. Steward, director of the Museum of Art and a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1998, will begin his work at Princeton in late April. "James Steward is a distinguished scholar, a gifted manager and a proven leader in the museum world," said Princeton Provost Christopher Eisgruber, to whom he will report. "At the University of Michigan, he has presided over a successful fundraising campaign that has added new galleries and public spaces to the ...More Linz View - Images of the City in Art 1909-2009 Opens at Lentos Art Museum LINZ.- The Lentos Art Museumpresents today Linz View - Images of the City in Art 1909-2009, on view through April 19, 2009. Stories on, with and about Linz are told on the basis of collection holdings from the Museums of the City of Linz ( Lentos Art Museum, Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz). Paintings, graphic works, photography, sculptures, film stills, objects, videos and examples of architecture, all from the last one hundred years, show the various stages of the development of Linz: selected examples from art and culture show the identity of the city. ...More Artist Servon Depicts Emotional Rollercoaster With Installation at Art Center MIAMI BEACH, FL.- ArtCenter/South Florida presents Hanging On and Holding Out, an installation comprising painted walls, drawings, photographs, sculptures and video. Born of the self-described emotional rollercoaster that redefined artist Jody Servon’s life, this exhibit responds to human nature and its inconspicuous moments in a candid manner. Hanging On and Holding Out is about creating a visceral experience for viewers to explore, interpret and adopt for themselves....More Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Picks Stephen D. Bonadies For Chief Conservator and Collections Management Job RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has named Stephen D. Bonadies to be its chief conservator and deputy director for collections management, VMFA Director Alex Nyerges has announced. A 27-year veteran of museum work, Bonadies comes to Richmond from the Cincinnati Art Museum, where he held positions including chief conservator, director of museum services, deputy director and interim co-director. He will begin work at VMFA March 2. “VMFA’s collections management division was formed last year in a strategic realignment of functions and staff to facilitate a larger and more efficient ...More Brilliant Chinese Paintings and Calligraphies of Ming Dynasty in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum NEW YORK, NY.- Drawn entirely from the extensive resources of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts of the Ming Dynasty: China's Age of Brilliance will present a grand array of works of art created during one of the most celebrated dynasties in Chinese history. Featuring 80 paintings and calligraphies, including masterpieces...More Metropolitan Museum's Summer Exhibitions J. M. W. Turner, Jeff Koons, and Superheroes Generated $610 Million NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum's presentation of three acclaimed and widely attended exhibitions in the summer 2008 season—J. M. W. Turner, Jeff Koons on the Roof, and Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy—generated $610 million in spending by regional, national, and foreign tourists to New York, ...More 100 Year Anniversary Exhibition Tells Story of Revolutionary Art Movement SEATTLE, WA.- The Munich Secession, founded in 1892, was the first in a series of Secession movements that were to sweep across Europe and lay the foundation for the emergence of the avant-garde in the twentieth century. From January 24 through April 12, 2009, the Frye Art Museum will present The Munich Secession and America, a major survey of the leading artists of the Munich Secession, and of the Munich Künstlergenossenschaft, the influential artists' association which preceded it. ...More Winter Antiques Show Celebrates Its 55th Year NEW YORK.- The Winter Antiques Show celebrates its 55th year as America's most prestigious antiques show, providing museums, established collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers with opportunities to see and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by 75 exhibitors. This year, new specialists in 20th century Scandinavian furniture, American and European 20th ...More SFMOMA Celebrates 75th Anniversary with Two Special Exhibitions in 2010 SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In celebration of the museum's 75th anniversary (on January 18, 2010), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present two special exhibitions tracing the extraordinary growth and evolution of the collection and offering an in-depth look at SFMOMA's past, present, and future....More At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750 - Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection CHAPEL HILL, NC.- The Ackland continues the celebration of its fifitieth anniversary year this spring with a special exhibition drawn from one of the most extensive private collections of prints and posters associated with industry and labor. At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750 - Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection (January 24 - May 17, 2009) includes approximately seventy-five pieces selected from the collection of Dr. John P. Eckblad. The exhibition includes works that explore the world of coal production and consumption, featuring such artists as Camille Pissarro, Theophile Steinlen, Constantin Meunier, Joseph Pennell, C. R. W. Nevinson, and Craig McPherson, as ...More Artist And Sculptor Philip Ross To Speak at Ursinus COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- Interdisciplinary artist and sculptor Philip Ross will speak at Ursinus on Friday, Feb. 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Musser Auditorium, Pfahler Hall. Ross is a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute as well as a Senior Lecturer at the California College of the Arts. His work readily appropriates the aesthetics at work in varied biological and environmental science practices. The event is free and open to the public without tickets or reservations....More France Honors Bob Berney, Philip S. Birsh, Glen W. Bowersock, and Dominique Nabokov NEW YORK.- On January 26, Kareen Rispal, Cultural Counselor of the Embassy of France, will confer upon Bob Berney, Philip S. Birsh, Glen W. Bowersock, and Dominique Nabokov the insignia of chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. The ceremony will take place in New York at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Bob Berney has been a preeminent force in the international film world for more...More