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Home   MoMA Displays Installation of Reproductions at Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street Subway Station MoMA Atlantic/Pacific subway project. Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street subway station, Brooklyn. Credit: Jeff Baxter. © 2008 The Museum of Modern Art. NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA Atlantic/Pacific is a large-scale installation of reproductions from The Museum of Modern Art’s renowned collection of modern and contemporary art, displayed in the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street subway station in Brooklyn from February 10 through March 15, 2009. The purpose of the underground ...More Columbia Museum of Art Presents Major Retrospective Exhibition of Painter Cleve Gray COLUMBIA, SC.- Cleve Gray: Man and Nature, a 30-year retrospective of noted American painter Cleve Gray, will be on view at the Columbia Museum of Art from June 26 through September 27, 2009. The exhibition illustrates the full progression of Gray’s practice as he developed his signature gestural style...More Exclusive UK Launch of Le Corbusier's Cabanon at the RIBA LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects and Cassina present the exhibition Le Corbusier’s Cabanon. The Interior 1:1. Le Corbusier 1952 - Cassina 2006 which will remain open from the 5th of March to the 28th of April 2009, in the Florence Hall of the RIBA. ...More Exhibition Presents Recently Acquired Paintings from Japan's Overlooked Showa Era BOSTON, MA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will debut Shōwa Sophistication: Japan in the 1930s focusing on works largely created for exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, during the 1930s¬—the early Shōwa era—an important yet overlooked period in the history of the arts in Japan. The exhibition includes 20 ...More ARCOmadrid_2009 Opens Set on the Horizon of Moderation and Calm Forecast MADRID.- On Wednesday 11th February the International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid_2009, is opening its doors with 238 galleries from 32 countries in Halls 6, 8 & 10 at Feria de Madrid. As we have come to expect in the month of February, galleries, collectors and other players from the art world...More Fundacion Juan March Opens Tarsila do Amaral's First Solo Presentation in Europe MADRID.- This exhibition is the first solo presentation and one of the most important to be held in Europe on the work of the Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral (Capivari, São Paolo, 1886 – São Paolo, 1973), a key figure in Brazilian painting and responsible for the introduction of the European avant-garde into that country. For Juan Manuel Bonet, curator of the exhibition, Tarsila do Amaral ...More Chinese Tricycles Between Day to Day Culture and Art Intervention on View at Museum Tinguely BASEL.- If the humble rickshaw was generally widespread in pre modern-day China, in the 20th century its place was taken by the three-wheeled cycle. This tricycle was to be found everywhere in Beijing (Peking), the capital city. Barely a crowded street, a market square, a shopping mile or entertainment district, or even scrap yards were imaginable without the ever-present tricycle....More MACBA Presents the Largest Exhibition in Spain of the Brazilian Artist Cildo Meireles BARCELONA.- On the floor, a sea of broken glass, which crackles and crunches underfoot time and time again. Before your eyes, a maze in which there are no walls, only prison bars, fences, curtains, aquariums with translucent fish swimming around, their bones easily visible to the naked eye, mosquito nets, metal stakes and chicken wire… In the middle, a giant ball of crumpled ...More Sotheby's to Exhibit One of the Greatest Privately Held Libraries in the World NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's announced today that it would display in its entirety, for the first time ever, the Valmadonna Trust Library, the finest private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world. Assembled over the past century, this extensive group of over 11,000 works is monumental in its...More Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Opera for a Small Room to Open at Carnegie Art Museum PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art is pleased to present Opera for a Small Room, a collaboration between acclaimed contemporary artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller....More Work by Idaho Artist Garth Claassen to be Shown at Boise Art Museum BOISE, ID.- Boise Art Museum (BAM) will feature an installation by Idaho artist Garth Claassen, March 14 – May 31, 2009, entitled Bloated Floaters, Snouted Sappers, and the Defense of Empire....More Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art to Present Duane Hopkins: Sunday GATESHEAD.- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with Third will present Sunday, an exhibition by one of Britain’s most exciting emerging filmakers Duane Hopkins. Sunday is a multi–screen film installation composed of a sequence of film portraits ...More Revel in Rockwell at Detroit Institute of Arts American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell Opens March 8 DETROIT, MI.- Family … innocence … heroism. These are the core themes interwoven throughout the work of Norman Rockwell, one of America's most recognized and beloved artists. American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) March 8–May 31, 2009, explores Rockwell the artist, ...More Museum in Dresden Breaks New Ground with Presence in Second Life DRESDEN.- The premiere was an international success: In May 2007, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) became the first to open a virtual museum in Second Life. Since then the faithful reproduction of the renowned Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery) has fascinated visitors ...More SCOPE Foundation Lets Artists Take The Reigns NEW YORK, NY.- The Scope Foundation 501C3 will present two, unique events in a 2000 square foot tent connected to the SCOPE New York Pavilion at Lincoln Center, March 4-8, 2009. The SCOPE Foundation's mandate is to help emerging contemporary artists, through grants, awards, and acquisitions. The SCOPE Foundation creates the opportunity for everyone to be a philanthropist. ...More Freer and Sackler Galleries Celebrate Persian New Year March 7 WASHINGTON, DC.- Gold coins and goldfish, fire jumping, dancing clowns, the banging of bowls and spoons and many other joyful sights and sounds will fill the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries during an early celebration of "Nowruz! A Persian New Year Celebration," Saturday, March 7, from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m....More Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Neoclassical Acquisition SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of François-André Vincent's Arria and Poetus, a neoclassical oil painting on canvas. The Museum has been interested in adding a neoclassical painting to its collection for more than 20 years....More Fine Arts Center Opens Exhibits of Contemporary and Historical Paintings COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center presents a pair of new exhibits, featuring works by Colorado Springs and Taos artists....More Plains Art Museum Announces All New Merchandising in Store FARGO, ND.- Plains Art Museum has extensively re-merchandised its store, located on the main floor of the Museum. New store manager, Tonya Scott of Fargo, has a strong background in retail merchandising, including most recently as divisional merchandise manager with Vanity, a national retail chain with headquarters in ...More February 22 Lecture at the Clark Explores Toulouse-Lautrec's Fascination with Parisian Nightlife WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has long been synonymous with the racy nightlife of turn-of-the-century Paris. Mary Weaver Chapin, assistant curator of prints and drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum, will discuss Toulouse-Lautrec’s lifelong engagement with Parisian nightlife during “On the Town with Toulouse-Lautrec.” The free lecture will be held on ...More Picturing History: Art and the American Presidency at the Nelson-Atkins KANSAS CITY, MO.- Raymond T. Starzmann, the engaging and talented historical re-enactor returns to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Feb. 19 for a theatrical journey through the American presidency. Portraying Harry S Truman, Starzmann uses photographs, paintings, prints and sculpture to inform and enlighten the ...More