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| First Exhibition for Magnum Photographer Steve McCurry at Stadtmuseum Schleswig |
American photographer Steve McCurry (r), poses besides his portrait of a young Afghan girl, at the Museum in Schleswig, Germany. The museum exhibits 80 works of art made by McCurry, in a retrospective that can be viewed until May 17, 2009. Photo: EFE / Carsten Rehder.
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SCHLESWIG.- American Steve McCurry is one of the finest and best-known photographers of our time. He has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1986.
His documentation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 won him the ...More
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| Masterpieces of Dada and Surrealist Art to be Featured in Exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum |
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museum will be the sole U.S. venue for an exhibition that features works by the greatest masters of Dada and Surrealist art, including Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Jean (Hans) Arp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Höch and Paul ...More
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| Andy Warhol: Pop Politics Opens at Neuberger Museum of Art |
PURCHASE, NY.- Andy Warhol—one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century—captured the likenesses of some of the most visionary and powerful political leaders of his time. Warhol’s portraits of American presidents, European royalty, Communist dictators, and other political figures reveal intriguing, and, until now, unexplored insights into his own celebrity status ...More
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| Richard Serra's Missing Sculpture Replaced at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia |
MADRID.- The new sculpture by Richard Serra "Equal Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi" can now be seen at the Museo Reina Sofia, where the old library has been specially prepared to house the work of art, which substitutes the one created in 1986, which disappeared in 2006....More
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| The Museum of Modern Art Acquires the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection of Fluxus Art |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has acquired the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection, widely considered the largest and most important of its kind in the world, MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry announced today. The collection, which was assembled in Detroit over three decades by the Silvermans, ...More
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| The Saint John's Bible: A Modern Vision through Medieval Methods Opens at the Walters Art Museum |
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum presents The Saint John’s Bible: A Modern Vision through Medieval Methods, an exhibition showcasing 44 contemporary illuminated manuscript pages from two volumes of a Bible commissioned by Saint John’s Abbey and University in Minnesota. In addition, 49 ...More
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| New Museum Premieres First U.S. Commission by Urban China |
NEW YORK, NY.- For the “New Commissions” exhibition on view this winter, as part of the Three M Project, the New Museum presents “Urban China: Informal Cities,” the first U.S. commission of Urban China magazine, the only magazine devoted to issues of urbanism published in China. The magazine’s global, cross-disciplinary...More
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| Van Dyck Portrait of Royal Princess Mary Returns Home to Hampton Court Palace |
LONDON.- A beautiful portrait of Princess Mary (1631 - 1660), the eldest daughter of Charles I, by Anthony van Dyck, has been saved for the nation and has returned to the palace where it appears to have hung in the last days of the reign of the sitter's ill-fated father. The portrait of Mary, Princess Royal, later Princess of Orange and mother of William III, has been acquired by the nation ...More
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| Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Presents Focus: Jeff Elrod |
FORT WORTH, TX.- As a young painter in the mid-1980s, Texas-based artist Jeff Elrod focused on creating ironic works that addressed American postwar abstraction. “I was conflicted,” the artist explains, “I was trying to find a clever way to approach painting because I felt like it wasn’t acceptable to earnestly make abstract work, even though I was earnest about it. I was searching for a relevant ...More
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| Emergence: The Resident Artist Exhibition to Open at The Armory Art Center |
WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- The annual Resident Artist Exhibition at The Armory Art Center opens on Friday, April 24, 2009. This year’s exhibition is titled, Emergence: The Resident Artist Exhibition and runs through May 15. The Artist-in-Residence will exhibit new work created during their residency. There work will be displayed in ...More
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| The Montclair Art Museum Receives 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator |
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- Charity Navigator, an independent charity evaluator whose ratings are key to donor confidence in nonprofit organizations, announced that the Montclair Art Museum (MAM) has received a four-star rating for the 2007 fiscal year. This is the first time MAM has achieved four stars, the highest possible score....More
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| The Clark Celebrates Women Artists with Exhibition and Lectures |
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will celebrate the achievements of women artists in conjunction with the Berkshires-wide recognition of International Women's Day and its 2009 theme, "The Power of Women in the Arts." Thirteen prints, drawings, and photographs created by women will be ...More
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| Frye Celebrates Release of Looking Together: Writers on Art |
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye’s New Works Reading Performance program, a four-part series in which renowned Northwest writers explored the stylistic relationships between visual art in the Frye Collection or special exhibitions and the literary arts, culminates on Thursday, March 12, with two final readings and a signing of ...More
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| Dallas Museum of Art McDermott Interns Organize Exhibition from Works in Museum's Collections |
DALLAS, TX.- This spring, the 2008-2009 class of McDermott Interns will present the second intern-curated exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, titled Life in Space: Staging Identity. The exhibition will be on view from March 6 through May 3, 2009 on the Mezzanine 2 level of the Museum, outside the Mildred ...More
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| National Postal Museum Celebrates Lincoln's 200th Birthday with New Online Collection |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Abraham Lincoln was a town postmaster in New Salem, Ill., before he became President and guided the United States through the Civil War, signed the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the Gettysburg Address. To celebrate Lincoln’s 200th birthday, the Smithsonian’s National ...More
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| Alex Katz Foundation Gives Colby Museum Six Marsden Hartley Paintings |
WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art will receive, from the Alex Katz Foundation, a collection of six paintings by the American modernist painter Marsden Hartley, Museum Director and Chief Curator Sharon Corwin announced....More
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| Proof Positive Showcases African-American Prints and the Art of Printmaking |
BENTONVILLE, AR.- Prints of works by prominent African-American artists are the focus of the newest exhibition opening at Crystal Bridges at the Massey. Proof Positive: Master Prints from the Collection of Fisk University Galleries features 40 prints from the art collection of this historically black...More
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| The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Presents a Selection of Works from its Collection |
MONTREAL.- In tribute to Betty Goodwin (1923–2008), from February 19 to April 5, 2009, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will exhibit seventeen works from its permanent collection that attest to this great Montreal artist's unique and inspiring genius, as well as illustrate some of the high points of her artistic career. ...More
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| Exhibition Showcasing Floral Motifs in Fashion to Premiere at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in April 2009 |
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- This spring, the gardens and grounds aren’t the only thing in bloom at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. On April 4, 2009, the Museum will open Fashion in Bloom in the Paul Fashion Arts Gallery. The exhibition will run through January 31, 2010....More
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| British Artist to Present Sound Installation at Wexner Center for the Arts |
COLUMBUS, OH.- Siren, a whirling, spinning spectacle of sound and light, will be presented at the Wexner Center Thursday–Saturday, February 26–28 at 8 pm. The sound installation, by British composer and artist Ray Lee, is comprised of tall metal tripods rigged with rotating arms, each equipped with a pair of tone generators and two LED ...More
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