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Home   Tate Britain Announces It Will Present Van Dyck and Britain Exhibition on February Sir Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait 1640, Private Collection. LONDON.-Tate Britain has announced it will present Van Dyck and Britain, 18 February – 17 May. Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) was the greatest painter in seventeenth-century Britain. Van Dyck and Britain will reveal the Flemish artist’s unique impact on British cultural life, from the reign of Charles I onwards. This visually sumptuous exhibition will bring together some of the finest and most magnificent paintings that van Dyck produced during his years in Britain. It will also demonstrate his continuing visual legacy through portraits by artists from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, including Sir Joshua Reynolds and John Singer Sargent. Van Dyck was born and trained in the major art centre of Antwerp. He made a brief initial visit to London in 1620-21 before returning in 1632 to become the outstanding painter at the art-enthusiastic court of King Charles I. Intensely ambitious and hugely productiv...More William Wegman - Dogs on Rocks - In The Woods - At The Seaside DUSSELDORF.- Following its exhibitions of photo pieces and Polaroids by William Wegman (*1943) in the years 1995, 1997 and 2004, and of drawings in 2007, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer now presents a series of new coloured photographic works by this American, New York-based conceptual artist who is equally at home in the media of painting, drawing, video, film and photography....More Martin Amis And His Friends - Photographs by Angela Gorgas LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery presents today display previously unseen photographs of Martin Amis taken by his friend, the photographer Angela Gorgas. These evocative black and white portraits provide an intimate document of the literary and artistic circles in which they moved in the late 1970s. Taken in London and Paris the photographs feature literary and social figures including Ian McEwan, Christopher Hitchens, Kingsley Amis, James Fenton, Pat ...More Modernists in New Mexico : Works from a Private Collector at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum presents an exhibition that includes a number of paintings designated as partial gifts to the Museum by an anonymous New Mexico collector. Since moving to Santa Fe eleven years ago and acquiring his first New Mexico picture at a local gallery, the owner of this collection has passionately pursued his love of American Modernism by collecting works that ...More Hossein Khosrojerdi - Cogito Ergo Sum To Open in Londonm LONDON.- As the 30th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Islamic Republic approach, the Revolution’s state artist, Hossein Khosrojerdi, exhibits his latest works at Xerxes Fine Arts, in a solo exhibition titled Cogito Ergo Sum. Xerxes Fine Arts marks the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution with an exhibition of works by artist Hossein Khosrojerdi. Born in Tehran in 1957 ...More Japanese Print Exhibit Opens at Berman Museum at Ursinus COLLEGEVILLE, PA.- Impressions of an Age: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Berman Collection, opens in the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in the Upper Gallery. The exhibit runs until April 17. The Opening Reception and Gallery Talk by the curators will be Sunday January 25 from 2 to 4 p.m. Matthew Mizenko, associate professor of Japanese and East Asian Studies at Ursinus, and Frank L. Chance, associate director, Center of East Asian Studies, University of ...More First Ever Retrospective, Valentina: American Couture and The Cult of Celebrity To Open NEW YORK CITY.- An exhibition exploring the life and career of Valentina Sanina Schlee, known professionally simply as Valentina, will open at the Museum of the City of New York on February 14, 2009—Valentine’s Day. Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity, which will close on May 17, is the first retrospective to focus on this legendary American designer....More MoMA Presents Korean Films Made During The Japanese Occupation NEW YORK.- With Korean Films Made During the Japanese Occupation, The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with The Korea Society, presents an exhibition of very rare Korean films from the 1930s and 1940s, a period during which Korea was colonized by a militarized Japan. The seven films in this exhibition are among the earliest known Korean ...More The Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art Presents Flag: Peter Regli NEW YORK.- The Swiss Institute presents Flag: Peter Regli, on view through August 31, 2009. After the successful appropriations of Olaf Breuning and Olivier Mosset, the Swiss Institute commissioned Peter Regli to re-design its Swiss flag. Regli's work often explores the interactions between institutions and public situations. For the SI, he remixes the red and white of the Swiss flag into a two faceted design; in effect, the Swiss cross is shattered into pieces like a puzzle. While waving in the wind, this face may either grin or frown at you....More Graphic Designer Pierre Mendell, 79, Passes Away in Munich MUNICH.-Pierre Mendell – one the world’s leading graphic designers – passed away at the age of 79 on December 19, 2008 in Munich. For nearly 30 years, he masterminded the visual identity of Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich. Only a few days prior to his death, Pierre Mendell designed his last poster – for an event that the museum will host in February 2009....More Columbia Museum of Art Shows Art Collection in a New Way COLUMBIA, SC.- Highlights from the Collection opens on Saturday, January 10 and runs through June 7 at Columbia Museum of Art. The exhibition includes approximately 80 works of art spanning 1000 years pulled from the Columbia Museum of Art’s galleries and storage. The exhibition encompasses the breadth of the collection from Ancient art to Contemporary and from paintings to silver. The Museum’s Asian art collection is highlighted in the exhibition Eye to the East: The Turner Collection of Chinese Art, opening on December 19 and running through ...More Exhibition of Worldwide Creative Excellence Launches at Urbis MANCHESTER.- From design greats like Neville Brody, Vince Frost, Michael Johnson, Bob Gill, and Tony Meeuwissen, the Annual chronicles the best in creative communications as judged worthy of a Yellow Pencil each year at the D&AD Awards. “PENCIL – 45 Years of Creativity from the D&AD Annuals” will display the complete set of books together for the first time. The exhibition will ...More Sotheby's London To Offer A Rare and Important Painting By German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner LONDON.- Sotheby's announced that one of the major highlights of its forthcoming sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, which is scheduled to take place in London on the evening of Tuesday, February 3, 2009, is Strassenszene (Street Scene), 1913, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), estimated at £5-7 million. The painting captures a Berlin street scene – a theme which occupies a central position in Kirchner's oeuvre – and is directly related to the artist's monumental Die Strasse from 1913 in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Strassenszene is ...More Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya Opens at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art ITHACA, NY.- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art presents today Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, on view through April 5. In the more than thirty-five years since its advent at the tiny settlement of Papunya in the desert heart of Australia, the so-called "dot-painting" movement has ...More "Personal Geometry" and "John Dubrow: Small Landscapes" Open NEW YORK.- Lori Bookstein Fine Art presents "Personal Geometry" and "John Dubrow: Small Landscapes," both on view through February 7th, 2009. "Personal Geometry" presents a broad swath of artists who, while dedicated to the language of geometric abstraction, have resolutely denied its impersonal constraints. Using color, texture, and myriad geometric structures, these artists ...More