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Home   Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art's Acquisitions Pieter Brueghel the Younger, “Paying the Tax (The Tax Collector)”, oil on panel, 1620 – 1640, USC Fisher Museum of Art, The Armand Hammer Collection. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The University of Southern California Fisher Museum of Art presents the exhibition Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art, a selection of artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection. Organized by USC Fisher Museum of Art curator Ariadni A. Liokatis, the exhibition will be on view through February 8, 2009. Seven Decades of Collecting will showcasesome ofthe museum’s most prized possessions as well as recent acquisitions ranging from 16th century European paintings to 21st century Spanish and Latin American art. Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art traces over 70 years of collecting with art from the founding collection of Elizabeth Holmes Fisher, the Museum’s namesake and founder, and Armand Hammer. A selection of 16th& 17th c Italian and Dutch masterworks, 17th & 18th c European portraits...More The Impressionist Eye On View at Marmottan Monet Museum PARIS.- The Marmottan Monet Museum presents Monet, The Impressionist Eye, on view through February 15, 2009. The way in which the painter represents the world has been studied from many different angles: historical, cultural, social, religious, and particularly since the advent of modern art, from the point of view of the artist’s own psychology. The eye and its vision are a complex filter. When this filter...More Last Days to See Rembrandt: Painter of Stories at The Museo del Prado MADRID.- The Museo del Prado is about to close the exhibition Rembrandt: Painter of Stories. Among the great masters of northern European painting, Rembrandt (Leyden 1606 – Amsterdam 1669) is one of the least represented in Spanish collections, including that of the Prado, which only has one autograph work by the artist, Artemisia of 1634. For this reason the Museum has decided to ...More The Clark Exhibits Rarely Seen Italian Drawings From the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- A magnificent group of rarely seen and unpublished sixteenth- through eighteenth-century Italian drawings will be highlighted in Drawn to Drama: Italian Works on Paper, 1500-1800, an exhibition on view the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on view through January 4, 2009. Selected from the Clark's impressive...More The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions NEW YORK, NY.- To celebrate Philippe de Montebello's 31 years as Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the curators of the Museum organized an exhibition of approximately 300 of the more than 84,000 works of art acquired during his tenure. This unique project – The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, which will be on view in The ...More Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946-2004 - A Retrospective at Martin-Gropius-Bau BERLIN.-Martin-Gropius-Bau presents Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946–2004 - A Retrospective, on view through January 19, 2009. This is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of the American star photographer Richard Avedon since his death in 2004. Many epoch-making and pioneering pictures are on show: the picture of the famous model Dovima,...More Time and Time Again: An Evening of Performance Art - The East Wing Collection LONDON.-Following the highly acclaimed East Wing opening night in January 2008, the collection celebrates its first anniversary with a re-launch party on 13th February 2009 presenting a rich and varied performance programme. This exclusive and innovative evening offers visitors the opportunity to interact with the exhibition at a new level and enjoy performances in often unconventional ways. ...More Museum Presents the First Retrospective Devoted to James Castle PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the art of James Castle (1899-1977), one of the most enigmatic and remarkable self-taught artists to emerge in the United States during the 20th...More Claudia Schwalb and Dick Sebastian at The Reading Room at the Hudson Park Library NEW YORK.- The Reading Room at the Hudson Park Library presents Claudia Schwalb and Dick Sebastian, on view through February 28, 2009. Animation in contemporary cartooning as well as in its theory behind Renaissance painting place the audience in an advantageous position. Whereas Minimalism is more about the worship of icons, a very good tool in teaching beginners, those ...More Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag at The Nevada Museum of Art RENO, NV.- The Nevada Museum of Art presents Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag, on view through February 22, 2009. Arguably one of the most recognizable icons in the world today, the American flag has enjoyed a long history of graphic renderings and artistic re-interpretations. Although the Continental Congress agreed in 1777 that the United States flag should be comprised of stars and stripes in red, white, and blue, more than a ...More The Upper Belvedere Presents Intervention: Franz Kapfer VIENNA.-At the outermost edge of the ceiling fresco in the Marble Hall of the Upper Belvedere two Turkish slaves eke out their existence among allegories of princely virtues. The young Austrian artist Franz Kapfer positions large mirrors exactly underneath these pictures of lamentation and tyranny, on a floor covered with blood-red foil. A purist lattice structure rises up between the mirrors like an ...More Theaster Gates: Temple Exercises at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago CHICAGO.- A gallery is transformed into a temple-like environment where complex issues of race, spirituality, and aesthetics are confronted with the hope of unifying disparate communities. Chicago artist and urban planner Theaster Gates, Jr. merges visual and performance art at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago to stimulate and build communal and social interaction. Gates ...More Bruce Museum Presents That Liberty Shall Not Perish: World War I Posters GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, spotlights a recent gift with a patriotic theme that has been added to the Museum’s permanent collection in the new exhibition That Liberty Shall Not Perish: World War I Posters, on view through February 1, 2009. The show features eighteen original posters from the First World War, including those created for the four ...More New York-Based Installation Artist Explores 1960's at The Galleries at Moore PHILADELPHIA, PA.- InSights: Devon Dikeou - Marilyn Monroe Wanted to be Buried in Pucci is a mixed-media installation by New York-based artist, Devon Dikeou opens January 30, 2009 and runs through March 14, 2009 at the Galleries at Moore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The artist will be present for an opening reception will be held Thursday, January 29 from 6 to 8 pm. Tiffany & Co. will ...More Whitney Museum of American Art To Present Elad Lassry: Three Films NEW YORK.- This winter, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the first solo New York museum exhibition of the work of Elad Lassry, a Los Angeles–based artist who works in photography and film. Curated by senior curatorial assistant Gary Carrion-Murayari, Elad Lassry: Three Films opens January 22, in the second-floor Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery....More