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| Fourteen Masterpieces from the Museo del Prado in Mega-high Resolution on Google Earth |
Google Earth’s unique technology makes it possible to navigate these images, whose approximately 14,000 mega-pixels offer a precision 1,400 times greater than that of a 10 mega-pixel digital camera.
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MADRID.- The Museo del Prado and Google are today presenting the project “Masterpieces from the Prado on Google Earth”, which will allow users to see details invisible to the naked eye of 14 of the Museum’s masterpieces. Las Meninas, Gentleman with his ...More
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| Contemporary Art in the Middle East - Symposium at Tate |
LONDON.- A major symposium focusing on contemporary art in the Middle East will take place at Tate on 22 and 23 January 2009.
This two-day event, which begins at Tate Britain and concludes at Tate Modern, ...More
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| Largest Modern British and Contemporary Art Showcase in the UK Opens |
LONDON.- London Art Fair, the largest Modern British and contemporary art showcase in the UK, turns 21 in 2009. With a reputation both for quality and accessibility, the Fair will bring together one hundred leading British galleries, a selection of international projects and a showcase of contemporary ...More
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| Art Historian, Critic, Artist and Wife of Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Died at 66 |
NEW YORK, NY.- Art historian, critic, artist and wife of Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, died on Saturday in Los Angeles from metastatic breast cancer, Andrea Glimcher, director of communications at PaceWildenstein told the New York Times....More
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| Picasso Museum Director, Bernardo Laniado-Romero, Resigns |
MALAGA.- The Picasso Museum in Malaga presented yesterday its exhibition and activity program for 2009. When it was time for the director to talk he surprisingly announced his resignation. “I leave here eleven years of my life, four and a half as head of the museum. This is the correct moment for a change...More
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| Breaking Through: The Abstract Expressionism of Grace Hartigan to Open at the Morris Museum |
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum presents works by major American artist and New Jersey native Grace Hartigan in the exhibition Breaking Through: The Abstract Expressionism of Grace Hartigan. Hartigan (born in Newark in 1922) died at her home in Maryland on November 15, 2008. The Morris Museum’s ...More
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| FBI Returns Pre-Columbian Artifacts to the Government of Panama |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Today the FBI returned to the government of Panama more than 100 ancient artifacts uncovered during an investigation conducted by the FBI’s Portland Division. Deputy Assistant Director Daniel D. Roberts, Criminal Investigative Division, presented the artifacts to Deputy Chief of Mission Abey Saied, Embassy ...More
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| Plains Art Museum Presents Art of the Guitar Exhibition |
FARGO, ND.- Art of the Guitar: A Luthier’s Renaissance opens on February 26 in Plains Art Museum’s Jane L. Stern gallery and runs through June 7. The exhibition opens with a Celebration of Acoustic Music and Art from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, February 28 with a concert and discussion experience featuring Fargo ...More
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| Program to Explore Origins of American Commerce, Culture, and Values at South Street Seaport Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- Exploring the beginnings of New York as a pluralistic seaport and crossroads of goods and cultures that continues to shape American character and identity, the South Street Seaport Museum will present New Amsterdam: The Island at the Center of the World in Fall 2009. The exhibition will be the ...More
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| Albright-Knox Art Gallery to Open Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 |
BUFFALO, NY.- The Albright-Knox Art Gallery will present the nationally touring exhibition Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, from February 13 to June 10, 2009. The first major U.S. exhibition in twenty years to reconsider Abstract Expressionism and the art movements that followed, it will ...More
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| Major Career Survey of Provocative Brazilian Artist Cildo Meireles Opens in North America at the MFAH |
HOUSTON, TX.- Among the most important figures of the Brazilian avant-garde, and widely recognized as one of the leaders in the international development of Conceptual art, Cildo Meireles (b. 1948) is best known for his absorbing, politically charged sensory environments that are by turns elegant and disorienting. Over 40 years he has produced a stunningly varied body of work, ...More
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| Museum of Contemporary Art Announces Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008 |
CHICAGO, IL.- This exhibition, co-presented by the MCA and the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, explores Italian art and creativity from the late 1960s to the present. It offers an unprecedented look at the artistic production of a country where cultural change ...More
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| Nature, Space and Time: Recent Acquisitions from the Kroller-Müller Museum |
OTTERLO.- The Kröller-Müller Museum is showing the exhibition Nature, space and time – recent acquisitions. The museum is very proud to have been able to enrich its collection with works by Lara Almarcegui, Gerard Byrne, Wessel Couzijn, Jan Dibbets, Willie Doherty, Stano Filko, Mario Garcia Torres, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Marta ...More
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| MoMA Exhibition Focuses on Pioneering Performance Artist Tehching Hsieh |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh, an installation documenting the work of pioneering performance artist Tehching Hsieh (Taiwanese American, b. Taiwan 1950). The exhibition focuses on Hsieh’s earliest performance, Cage Piece (1978-79), in which the artist spent one...More
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| Prop Master: An Installation by Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page to Open at Gibbes Museum of Art |
CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art will present the new exhibition Prop Master: An Installation by Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page in the Main Gallery from April 3 through July 19, 2009. This site-specific, large-scale installation created exclusively for the Gibbes, draws materials from the museum's permanent ...More
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| "A Story of Roses" on Exhibition at the Rubin-Frankel Gallery |
BOSTON, MA.- The Rubin-Frankel Gallery at the Boston University Florence & Chafetz Hillel House is featuring the work of American photographer Larry Volk, in a show entitled “A Story of Roses.” The exhibit consists of a series of collages that combine photographs, writing, official papers and documents, incorporating a loose narrative depicting the life of his late mother Rosette Volk, a Holocaust survivor. “A Story of Roses” will...More
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| Getty Museum Announces New Curator Lecture Series Highlighting Works on View |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hear directly from the Getty's expert curators on the priceless art they work with every day. The J. Paul Getty Museum launches its new "Curator Lecture Series" next month, featuring the curators in charge of the Getty's permanent collections and exhibitions speaking about the art they have come to know
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| Reading Group Delves Into Toulouse-Lautrec and Sterling Clark's Paris |
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA, MA.- Delve into a selection of books—including some from Sterling Clark’s personal collection—focused on Belle Epoque Paris and the cultural milieu in which the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and, later, Sterling Clark participated, during a month-long reading group at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art ...More
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| Photograph Institute in Beirut Helps Preserve Rich Heritage of Middle East |
BEIRUT.- The photographic treasures of the Middle East span the archaeological expeditions of the 1800s, whose images of great pyramids and sphinxes opened the world's eyes to the region, to the wedding parties, refugee camps, and other scenes of daily life that show both the beauty and tumult of today....More
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| Museum Presents Rare 19th Century Portraits of African American Couple with Family Ties to the City's First Mayor |
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present an extremely rare pair of portraits of African American sitters whose heritage can be traced back to the city’s first mayor, Humphrey Morrey (b. c. 1650, England; d. 1716, Philadelphia), appointed to his office by William Penn in 1691. The [portraits were ...More
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| Guggenheim Welcomes a Passionate Collector and New Trustee |
NEW YORK, NY.- In September 2008, the Board of Trustees welcomed its newest member—passionate collector, patron, and champion of the arts Carl Gustaf Ehrnrooth of Helsinki, Finland....More
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