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| Italy Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Futurism with Several Exhibitions |
Giacomo Balla, Abstract Speed + Sound (Velocità astratta + rumore), 1913–14. Oil on board, 54.5 x 76.5 cm including artist’s frame. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice © Giacomo Balla, by SIAE 2009
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ROME.- Several exhibitions and artistic performances that started this Friday prove that Italian culture still has in mind that artistic movement that was born on February 20, 1909 with the publishing of the Futurist Manifesto by Filippo Tommaso, which he published in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro....More
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| P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Presents Kenneth Anger's Major Survey of Work at a U.S. Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Kenneth Anger, the first major survey of the filmmaker’s body of work at a U.S. museum in over a decade. Making films since 1947, Anger is considered internationally as a pioneering and influential force in avantgarde cinema. His ground breaking films have inspired the likes of ...More
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| Grolier Club Commemorates the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII |
NEW YORK, NY.- The magisterial and tyrannical reign of King Henry VIII will be the subject of a major exhibition, Vivat Rex! An Exhibition Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII, to be held in New York City at The Grolier Club from March 4 to May 2, 2009. The exhibition will travel, in modified form, to the...More
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| Small but Exceptional Impressionist Show at the Lady Lever Art Gallery |
LIVERPOOL.- Renoir, Monet, Degas and Rodin are amongst some of the artists to be featured in a significant new exhibition for 2009 at the Lady Lever Art Gallery....More
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| Noble Dreams & Simple Pleasures: American Masterworks from Minnestotta Collections Opens |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- A unique exhibition of more than 140 works of American painting and sculpture is on view at Minneapolis Institute of Arts from February 22 through May 3, 2009. Celebrating American art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Noble Dreams & Simple Pleasures: American Masterworks from Minnesota ...More
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| The Art Fund Helps Save Futurist Metal Book 100 Years after the Founding of Futurism |
LONDON.- A rare metal book, Parole in Libertà..., produced in 1932 by Italian avant-garde artists Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) and Tullio D'Albisola (1899-1971) has been bought by the British Library with help of independent charity The Art Fund. Its acquisition ...More
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| Arcade, a New Shared Catalog, Positions Three Major New York City Art Museum Libraries |
NEW YORK, NY.- More than 800,000 records representing the holdings of The Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art are now accessible via Arcade, a new catalog developed with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The catalog, at http://arcade.nyarc.org, ...More
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| Mary Lucier Captures the Changing Landscape of Rural America in Video Installation |
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- Mary Lucier’s video installation, The Plains of Sweet Regret, will be on view at the Birmingham Museum of Art March 25-July 15, 2009. This five-channel video lyrically addresses a dying way of life on the Great Plains of the American west. Small towns and their communities of lone ranchers, cowboys,...More
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| Menil Collection to Host Marlene Dumas' First Mid-career Survey: Measuring Your own Body |
HOUSTON, TX.- On view at The Menil Collection from March 27 to June 21, Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave is the first mid-career survey of the acclaimed artist's work to be mounted in North America. Though Dumas has maintained a high degree of recognition throughout the European art world, her work has not ...More
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| Exhibition Bridging Continents and Culture to Open at Miami Art Museum |
MIAMI, FL.- Although for centuries spirituality was an essential, even guiding, component of art, in the modern era artists have often distanced themselves from otherworldly concerns. NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, on view at Miami Art Museum February 22 – May 24, 2009, brings together an intergenerational ...More
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| National Indigenous Art Triennial on Show at Gallery of Modern Art |
QUEENSLAND.- Works by leading Queensland artists Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Daniel Boyd, Destiny Deacon, Gordon Hookey, Danie Mellor, Dennis Nona, Arthur Koo'ekka Pambegan Jr and Christian Thompson and Judy Watson feature in a nationally touring Indigenous art triennial now showing at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)....More
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| Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents New Deal Paintings from the First Federally Funded Art Program in the U.S: |
WASHINGTON, DC.- In 1934, Americans grappled with an economic situation that feels all too familiar today. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the U.S. government created the Public Works of Art Program—the first federal government program to support the arts nationally. A selection of paintings made with support from this program will be on view Feb. 27 through ...More
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| Polly Apfelbaum's Split Spills Across Floor at KC's Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art |
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Since the early 1990s, American artist Polly Apfelbaum has been absorbed by staining—pouring and dripping fabric dye onto cotton sheeting and synthetic velvet. The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art draws from its permanent collection for the exhibition Polly Apfelbaum: Split, on view February 6–...More
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| New Energy and Young Talent at the Rijksmuseum: Five Departments get New Leadership |
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has named new heads for five departments: Education & Public Information, Exhibitions, History, Painting and Communication & Marketing. By appointing new and young talent for the five strategically important departments, the Rijksmuseum is entering the next phase of its development,
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| National Museum of American History and USA Weekend Magazine Partner for National Anthem YouTube Singing Contest |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, home of the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the national anthem, has partnered with USA Weekend Magazine to launch the Star-Spangled Banner YouTube Singing Contest. ...More
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| ROMA - The Road to Contemporary Art |
ROME.- After the success of the last edition, the Italian capital welcomes the return of the international art fair ROMA - The Road to Contemporary Art, which runs from 2-5 April, 2009. This year, the event will not only be a great opportunity for art market professionals to meet and do business, but will also feature a series of events spread among Rome's most beautiful sites, with a ...More
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| Werner Reiterer: Raw Loop at USFCAM, Tampa |
TAMPA, FL.- The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to premier Tampa's first solo exhibition by Austrian artist Werner Reiterer, Raw Loop. The exhibition is on view in the East Gallery, January 9 to March 7....More
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| Walker Art Center Presents Pioneering Choreographer/Theater Director/Writer David Gordon |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- German dramatist Bertolt Brecht viewed most wars as a political panacea for economic downturns and a purposeful division of people by color, religion, language, and geography—a timely perspective in an era defined by the "war on terror," fears about immigration, and ethnic conflict worldwide. For this reimagining of Brecht and composer Hanns Eisler's rarely ...More
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| 140-Acre Winter Playground at the Clark Open Free to the Public |
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- With 140 acres of woodlands, meadows, and pasture covered in snow, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute's grounds are a winter playground for families, outdoor enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a fantastic art-in-nature combination. And the best part? At this time of the year, ...More
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