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| MoMA Loans The Persistence of Memory to the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí for Two Months |
The director of the Teatro-Museo Dalí, Antoni Pitxot and the director of the Centro de Estudios Dalinianos, Montse Aguer, stand beside Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory. Photo: EFE/R.T./Robin Townsend.
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FIGUERES.- The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí presented the temporary loan of Salvador Dalí's most famous oil painting, The Persistence of Memory, also know as "The Soft Watches", thanks to its owner, the MoMA in New York. It will be seen in Room 22 until next 18 March and will coincide two weeks of January with the ...More
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| Major Disney Exhibition Going to New Orleans in November |
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- From November 15, 2009 to March 14, 2010, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will present Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio, a major exhibition featuring more than 600 original artworks that shaped legendary animated features including Snow White, Cinderella, ...More
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| Acquisition of Buten Wedgwood Collection Makes Birmingham Museum's Holdings Largest in U.S. |
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- The Birmingham Museum of Art announced today the acquisition of the Buten Wedgwood Collection of more than 8,000 objects made by the Wedgwood factory in England dating from 1759. Combined with the Museum’s existing Dwight and Lucille Beeson Wedgwood Collection of more than 1,400 ...More
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| Chicago Architecture Foundation Opens ORD: Documenting the Definitive Modern Airport |
CHICAGO, IL.- ORD: Documenting the Definitive Modern Airport is the new exhibition on view through May 1 at the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF), in Chicago. Free and open daily, the exhibition portrays O’Hare as an international model of airport design. ...More
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| Nassau County Museum of Art Presents Winslow Homer: Illustrating America |
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Works depicting scenes that span more than two decades of American life (1857-1878) are seen in Winslow Homer: Illustrating America, an exhibition opening on January 18 at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA). Featuring more than 100 prints from illustrated weeklies and ...More
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| Public Art Fund Presents Robert Melee on View in City Hall Park |
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Melee's four new, oversized, figurative sculptures in City Hall Park seem familiar in their generalized characteristics and poses, but also exude a haunting sense of disguise through their amorphous features. To construct these commanding forms, Melee starts with mannequins to establish the basic human figure, and then works to blur recognizable details with ...More
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| The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Sets the Stage for The Puppet Show |
HOUSTON, TX.- The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston's Brow Foundation Gallery becomes a stage for The Puppet Show, a group exhibition that looks at the imagery of puppets in contemporary art. The Puppet Show concentrates on sculpture, video, and photography and brings together several generations of ...More
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| International Art World Professionals to Gather for Symposium January 30 |
BUFFALO, NY.- In conjunction with planning for the major regional art exhibition Beyond/In Western New York 2010, a distinguished group of international art world professionals is being brought together for a symposium at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery to consider the question “Why Biennials?” Moderated by ...More
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| Estorick Collection in London Opens Exhibition Devoted to Umberto Boccioni |
LONDON.- As part of its celebrations to mark the centenary of the Futurist movement, founded by F. T. Marinetti in 1909, the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is proud to be hosting the first exhibition in Britain to focus solely on the work of Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) for many years. Comprising...More
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| Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Sketch Sells for $1.15 million at Auction |
ST. PETERSBURG.- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin´s sketch sold at auction for 37 million roubles ($1.15 million) at a charity auction.
The sketch features a log house in a winter setting and it was one of other works of art sold to raise money for a hospital, a church and a cancer clinic in St. ...More
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| Javier Ramires Limon Opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego |
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Cerca Series: Javier Ramírez Limón at its La Jolla location. The exhibition--curated by MCASD Assistant Curator, Lucía Sanromán--features photographic works by the Tijuana-based artist Javier Ramírez Limón, and will be on view through May 10,
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| Jeu Paume Presents Sophie Ristelhueber Exhibition |
PARIS.- Since the early 1980s, Sophie Ristelhueber has been one of the most original and significant proponents of a new approach that has moved documentary photography towards into a more poetical, political and aesthetic territory. This shift in values, applied to the codes of representation of the real, has significantly changed the space in which the conception, production and ...More
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| Two Sculptures Join Crystal Bridges Permanent Collection |
BENTONVILLE, AR.- Two sculptures with contrasting styles and mediums but a common theme will be the first pieces in the permanent collection to be installed at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Focusing on nature as the subject rather than the background, a Skyspace by James Turrell and Lowell's Ocean 2005-2008...More
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| Seeing Ourselves Exhibition Opens February 1 at Philbrook |
TULSA, OK.- Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography from the George Eastman House Collection introduces American audiences to historical and contemporary photographic masterpieces. The Seeing Ourselves exhibition of 155 images is organized in broad subject-based groupings that represent more than ...More
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| The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment 1965 - 2005 at Snite Museum |
NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art presents the exhibition entitled The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment 1965 - 2005 that will be on exhibit in the Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery through March 1, 2009. Elizabeth Resnick, Chaz Maviyane-...More
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| Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University Opens Hans Hofmann Exhibition |
WALTHAM, MA.- Several works by legendary American abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), never shown in a U.S. museum before, debuted this winter at The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University....More
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| Exhibits Focus on Cartoonist Patrick Oliphant and His Major Influence, Honoré Daumier |
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- In two new exhibits at the University of Virginia Art Museum, the work of contemporary artist Patrick Oliphant and 19th-century artist HonorÈ Daumier provide commentary on social and political life....More
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| Burgums Announce $200,000 Gift to Plains Art Museum "Little Artist" Campaign |
FARGO, ND.- Representing the Katherine Kilbourne Burgum Charitable Lead Unitrust, Doug and Brad Burgum announced a $200,000 grant to Plains Art Museum’s “Little Artist in All of Us” campaign at a reception there Tuesday. The grant was a response to the Museum’s request to fund its “Creativity Center for Lifelong ...More
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| Local Legend Examines "Hometown" Concept in Multi-media Exhibit |
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- In the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Modern's exhibit, Atomicelroy's Hometown, artist Atomic Elroy explores the myth and madness of his 40-year dysfunctional relationship with his residence and artistic career in Colorado Springs....More
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| National Gallery of Art's Film Offerings in Early 2009 Celebrate Robert Frank and Welcome Leading Filmmakers |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art's ongoing film program of classic cinema, documentary, avant-garde, and area premieres begins 2009 with films offered in conjunction with the exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" and a historic retrospective of the works of Japan's avant-garde ...More
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