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Annie Leibovitz Restrospective: A Photographer's Life 1990-2005 Opens at C/O in Berlin
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American photographer Annie Leibovitz stands with one of her photographs at the opening of the exhibition "'A Photographer's Life 1990-2005" at C/O Gallery in Berlin. Photo: EFE / Tim Brakemeiern.

BERLIN.- C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues presents the work of photographer Annie Leibovitz in the exhibition A Photographer’s Life from through May 24, 2009.
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Power and Glory: Court Arts from China's Ming Dynasty Opens at the Saint Louis Art Museum
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- 2008—The Saint Louis Art Museum opens the Power and Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty, the first exhibition of its kind to focus on the art from China’s Ming dynasty (1368–1644)....More

An Enticing Selection of Indian and Southeast Asian Works of Art at Christie's in March
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 20, concluding Asian Art Week, Christie's will offer a single owner collection, Highlights from the Star Collection: From India to Indonesia followed by Indian and Southeast Asian Art. Combined, the two sales will offer a superb selection of over 200 lots of sculpture, paintings, ritual objects, and works...More

Pulse New York Presents its Most Diverse Fair Ever with Vastly Expanded Cultural Programming
NEW YORK, NY.- Following PULSE’s largest show to date in Miami 2008, described by critics as the City’s new ‘second’ fair after Art Basel Miami Beach, PULSE New York returns to Pier 40 in Greenwich Village, March 5-8, 2009, concurrent with The Armory Show. The fourth New York edition of PULSE is the most diverse to date,...More

Royal Academy of Arts Announces Exhibition by One of the Greatest Japanese Print Artists
LONDON.- This Spring, the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition on one of the greatest Japanese print artists, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 – 1861). Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition will present Kuniyoshi as a master of imaginative design. It will reveal the graphic power and beauty of his prints across an ...More

Baltimore Museum of Art Presents an Exhibition of High-flying Circus Images by Picasso and Others
BALTIMORE, MD.- See daring feats, exotic acts, and colorful circus characters through the eyes of some of the greatest artists of the 20th century. A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger, on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art February 22–May 17, 2009, features more than 80 prints, drawings, paintings, and books by Pablo Picasso, ...More

Angela Ferreira and Narelle Jubelin Collaborate in Exhibition at Art Gallery of New South Wales
SYDNEY.- Ângela Ferreira and Narelle Jubelin began a dialogue about their art practices in 1992, but this will only be their second collaborative exhibition following on from their project Front of house (also with Marcos Corrales and Andrew Renton), at Parasol unit in London in 2008. ...More

Huntington Receives Masterwork by Abstract Expressionist Painter Sam Francis
SAN MARINO, CA.- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced the gift of an important painting by California abstract expressionist Samuel L. (“Sam”) Francis (1923–1994). Free Floating Clouds (1980), a work of overlapping layers of shimmering colors that measures more than 10 feet tall and
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Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or Opens at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
NEW YORK, NY.- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Jonathan Horowitz: And/Or, the first solo exhibition of the New York-based artist at a New York museum. Working in video, sculpture, sound installation, and photography, Horowitz critically examines the cultures of politics, celebrity, cinema, war, and consumerism. The exhibition will ...More

Mario García Torres: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, and Some Reference Materials
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents Mario García Torres: Je ne sais si c’en est la cause, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, and Some Reference Materials, which features work by an artist who communes with earlier generations ...More

Rare Treasure Found in Basement now Hangs at Detroit Institute of Arts
DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) recently put on display a rare biblical painting by 19th century African American artist Robert Scott Duncanson. The painting was unknown to scholars of work by the internationally acclaimed artist until its discovery approximately five years ago in a basement at University ...More

Exhibit Your Artwork at Baltic with CTRL.ALT.SHIFT
GATESHEAD.- Ctrl.Alt.Shift and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art have joined forces to offer all budding young artists an opportunity to exhibit their work at Baltic as part of The Ctrl.Alt.Shift Exhibition which runs from Friday 13 March until Sunday 26 ...More

Engineering and Art World Combine to Preserve Old Masters
LONDON.- Engineering and art researchers have used advanced computer modelling to help preserve old works of art. Researchers at the University of Warwick and The Courtauld Institute of Art worked together on the project which shows the creative side of engineering. The results of the study including ...More

MCA Sydney Celebrates New Wave of Contemporary Australian Drawing
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) celebrates the reinvigoration of drawing in Australia with a new exhibition featuring 29 contemporary artists from across the nation....More

Walker Art Center's UK Performance Now! Series Continues with Conceptual Artist Gary Stevens' Ape
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Through a barrage of repeated clichés ping-ponging between two performers, an entire, highly distilled affair builds and breaks in a scant 2.5 minutes. This is just one scene from Ape, whose performers are bound—by the rule of lauded UK conceptual artist Gary Stevens—to copy each other's words and actions. Played out with rapid-fire delivery and comedic timing
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The Heckscher Museum of Art Appoints New Board Member
HUNTINGTON, NY.- The Heckscher Museum of Art announced the appointment of Holli Gersh to their Board of Trustees.

Raised in Huntington, Mrs. Holli Gersh has been married to Edward Gersh, owner...More

Le Corbusier Subject of March 10 Lecture at the Clark
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Tim Benton will present the spring 2009 Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor Lecture "The Rhetoric of Images: Le Corbusier's Lectures" on Tuesday, March 10, at 5:30 pm, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Benton is lecturer in the History of Art at Open University (Milton ...More

Phillips de Pury & Company's Ny Photographs Sale Feature Important Works by Classic and Contemporary Photographers
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced the highlights of the forthcoming New York Photographs sale to be held on April 1, 2009....More

National Museum of African American History and Culture Looks Back at the Black Power Movement in a Symposium
WASHINGTON, DC.- A two-day symposium on the history and impact of the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s will take place Monday, March 30, and Tuesday, March 31, at the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National ...More

Saint Louis Art Museum Announces "The Big Event for Teachers"
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum will host "The Big Event for Teachers," its annual free day of professional development for teachers of all subjects, on March 2. Teachers of elementary school through high school students are encouraged to attend; college and university professors may also attend.
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