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Home   LACMA Hosts Four BMW Art Cars by Warhol, Stella, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg Roy Lichtenstein, Art Car, 1977. BMW 320i Group Five Racing Version. ⓒBMW AG LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents an installation of BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg from February 12–24, 2009. The cars will be on view in the BP Grand Entrance, an admission-free area of the ...More Shepard Fairey Sues the Associated Press Over Obama Image NEW YORK, NY.- Shepard Fairey, the artist who designed the now famous Barack Obama Hope poster has filed a lawauit in New York against the Associated Press. Last week the Associated Press challenged Fairey when it declared that the poster was based on an image taken by AP photographer Mannie Garcia....More Thyssen-Bornemisza and Caja Madrid Open Exhibition on the Depiction of Projected Shadow MADRID.- Opening on February 10, the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting Shadows, the first major exhibition on the depiction of projected shadow in western art. It brings ...More Unprecedented Reciprocal Loan Collaboration Between the Frick and Norton Simon Museum NEW YORK, NY.- Established decades apart and on separate coasts, New York’s Frick Collection and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA, are both fine examples of a museum type that focuses on the viewpoint and taste of an individual founder. Henry Clay Frick was...More Senior Curator Ronni Baer of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to be Accorded Honor by Spain BOSTON, MA.- Ronni Baer, the William and Ann Elfers Senior Curator of Paintings in the Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will be honored as a knight-commander in the Order of Isabella the Catholic (“Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Católica”) by the Spanish ...More Earliest Known Portrait of Rembrandt at Milwaukee Art Museum MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced that the Dutch master Jan Lievens used Rembrandt van Rijn as a model in four works painted over approximately six years between c. 1623 and 1628. Highlighting the close working relationship between the artists, three of the paintings can be seen in Jan...More National Portrait Gallery Launches New Website with Virtual Gallery Tour 'Behind the Scenes' Access LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery launches its newly redesigned website offering exciting facilities, greater interactivity and fascinating glimpses of the Gallery's work behind the scenes. The site, which has been redeveloped in partnership with digital media company Cogapp, now provides a first-class experience for the site's 16 ...More 20 / 21 International Art Fair: Accessible Prices, Quality and Variety LONDON.- The third 20|21 international art fair takes place at the prestigious Royal College of Art, in Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 19 - 22 February. It will be opened by Griff Rhys Jones at 12 noon on the 19th....More artnet Online Auctions - Marilyn Monroe Photographs Sale To Feature Limited Edition Bert Stern Prints NEW YORK, NY.- From February 10-24 artnet Online Auctions will feature a special sale of 60 photographs of the legendary screen icon Marilyn Monroe by renowned photographers including Bert Stern, George Barris, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ken Galente, and George Zimbel. The sale chronicles Monroe’s rise from a young...More Johnnetta Cole Named Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art WASHINGTON, DC.- Johnnetta Cole has been named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, effective March 2. Cole is the board chair of the Johnnetta B. Cole Global Diversity and Inclusion ...More Jeu de Paume Opens Paris City of Photography 1920-1940 from the Christian Bougueret Collection PARIS.- A collection raises many questions about the whys and wherefores of its contents and its history, but also about the personality, sensibility, aspirations and ambitions of the person who created it […] Christian Bouqueret is at once a collector of photographs (original prints, but also books and magazines, etc.), a historian of photography, an exhibition organiser, a publisher ...More New Galleries Opening in April at Nelson-Atkins Museum; Present Fresh View of American Artistic Expression KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Sarah and Landon Rowland American Art Galleries, an expansion and major reinstallation of the American art collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, will open April 17, providing a fresh view of the range of artistic expression that shaped American culture from the Colonial era to World War II....More Metropolitan Museum's 2009 Series of "Met Holiday Mondays" to Continue with Presidents' Day, Feb. 16 NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues its popular "Met Holiday Mondays" program by opening the doors of its main building to the public on Presidents' Day, February 16. (The next Met Holiday Monday will be Memorial Day, May 25.) Before the Met Holiday Mondays were initiated in 2003, the Museum...More Walker Art Center's Annual International Festival of Works by Women Directors Celebrates 16th Anniversary MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- From March 6–21, the Walker Art Center presents Women with Vision 2009: Dimensions, the 16th installment of this renowned film festival which recognizes the perspectives women bring to the art of filmmaking. This year's festival situates us in a world interconnected by ...More Art in Bloom 2009: Celebrating 26 Years Timeless Art and Fresh Flowers MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Celebrating its 26th year, Art in Bloom continues its much-anticipated tradition as the major fund-raising event of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA). Sponsored by the Friends of the Institute, this perennial event pairs exquisite arrangements by top floral designers with masterworks from the ...More Plains Art Museum Signs Charitable Gaming Lease with Cactus Jacks Saloon FARGO, ND.- Plains Art Museum will begin charitable gaming operations July 1 at Cactus Jack's Saloon in West Acres Bowl, 3402 Interstate Boulevard South. The Museum has conducted charitable gaming as the Blue Wolf Casino at the Prairie Rose Inn (formerly Expressway Inn) since 1982 and will continue there until June 30 this ...More San Antonio Museum of Art Opens Marcia Gygli King: Botanical Paintings, Part of 40 Year Retrospective SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Three concurrent exhibitions, at The University of Texas at San Antonio, at the San Antonio Museum of Art, and at the Southwest School of Art & Craft, reflect different facets of the respected artist Marcia Gygli King during her 40-year-long career. ...More Indianapolis Museum of Art to Host Video Exhibition Examining the Practice of Adaptation in Contemporary Video Art INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced that it will host the exhibition Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation, an exhibition organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. In six video installations adapted from source ...More Princeton University Art Museum to Present Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art PRINCETON, NJ.- Princeton University Art Museum is pleased to present Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art, on view from March 7 through June 7, 2009. This diverse selection of more than fifty works by six artists includes paintings, drawings, photography, book arts, sculpture and installations...More