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Home   First French Museum Retrospective for Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Opened at the Louvre Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, La Soupe du couvent, 1858, Huile sur bois, Vienne, Belvédère, Nr 10 © Belvedere Vienne. PARIS.- With this retrospective, the first of its kind to be presented in a French museum, the Louvre, in association with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, invites visitors to discover the work of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Although little known in France, this artist had a profound impact on nineteenth-century Austrian painting. A master of ...More The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Presents Two Exhibitions PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum of Art presents two complementary exhibitions which highlight portraits of artists. Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of Artists and Facing Artists: Twentieth Century Portraits from the Collection will showcase the work of the photographer Yousuf Karsh and other artists such as Andy Warhol, ...More Exhibition at Fundació Fran Daurel Revives the Procative Spirit of the Dau al Set BARCELONA.- The digital version of all the edited numbers of the magazine "Dau al Set", the media outlet of the avante-garde movement with the same name is presented for the first time in an exhibition dedicated to this generation of artists, included are works by Tapies, Cuixart, Tharrats, Brossa and Joan Ponç....More Espace Dali Presents the Only Permanent Exhibition in France Entirely Dedicated to the Surrealist PARIS.- Located in the heart of picturesque Montmartre, two steps away from the famous Place du Tertre, the Espace Dali welcomes more than 100,000 visitors every year. Ranked as the 21st Parisian museum ( source : Tourist Office 2006) visitors can experience the permanent exhibition, two fine art galleries and two stores ...More Display Celebrates over 20 Years of Photographic Portraiture by Jillian Edelstein LONDON.- Portraits of rock band Blur, boxer Lennox Lewis, artist Bridget Riley and actor Simon Pegg are some of the highlights in the first solo display of photographs by Jillian Edelstein at the National Portrait Gallery. This display celebrates over 20 years of photographic portraiture by Edelstein from the Gallery’s collection and will...More World's First Kinetic, Electronic & New Media Art Fair Opens in London LONDON.- Robotic, sound and solar sculptures, mechanical writing machines, laser and subliminal installations are just some of the incredible exhibits at Kinetica Art Fair, the world’s first art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and time-based art....More Van Abbemuseum Presents the Solo Exhibition The Unanimous Life by Deimantas Narkevicius EINDHOVEN.- Van Abbemuseum presents the solo exhibition The Unanimous Life by Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuania, 1964). In this new solo exhibition, Narkevičius explores the links between record, memory and testimony in a selection of video and film works as well as sculptures and photography. ...More Old Master Prints with Ties to Local Family on Display at Hyde GLEN FALLS, NY.- The Hyde opened an exhibition of its most recent acquisition – Old Master prints from the collection of Tobin Sparling, a South Glens Falls native. Late last year, Sparling donated nearly thirty prints in memory of his parents, Leon H. and Marie Buttlar Sparling. ...More Retrospective Exhibition Highlights 50 Years of Master American Photographer Lee Friedlander CLEVELAND, OH.- Friedlander, the largest and most comprehensive survey to date of the works of photographer Lee Friedlander, provides a rare opportunity to witness the range of his subject matter, intelligence and wit of his work. The international touring exhibition makes its final stop at the Cleveland Museum of Art...More SFMOMA Announces it will Present Looking in: Robert Frank's "The Americans" SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans," the most comprehensive and in-depth exploration of Frank's groundbreaking book to date. On view from May 16 to August 23, 2009, the exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of The ...More Bennett Media Studio Presents Queens and Whores: Jezevel According to Carla Gannis NEW YORK, NY.- To some Jezebel is an arcane reference, to others she represents an archetype that resonates into the 21st century. Carla Gannis will discuss how her Jezebels personify, through an artistic process of digital collage and appropriation, the mythology, history and stereotypes that have shaped and ...More Record Crowd Attends 30th Annual Naples National Art Festival NAPLES, FL.- Perhaps looking for something colorful and upbeat among the bleakness of the economy, a record 25,000 people attended the 30th annual Naples National Art Festival, hosted by the Naples Art Association at The von Liebig Art Center on Feb. 21 and 22. The festival provides the organization with approximately 20 ...More Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts The Studio Project Presents Teen Open Wall BOULDER, CO.- The Studio Project, a teen arts-engagement program of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, brings back its popular event, Teen Open Wall for high school students, Friday, March 13 from 6–9pm. Teen Open Wall offers artistically-inclined teens the opportunity to share their artwork with peers in a cool, inspiring ...More Getty Research Institute Presents "Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City" LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute (GRI) presents “Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City,” featuring selections from the GRI’s unique and extensive archive of historical materials on the Middle East and North Africa. ...More The Museum of Modern Art Announces Major Exhibition Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Bauhaus NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Bauhaus 1919 1933: Workshops for Modernity, a major retrospective presented in collaboration with a consortium of the three Bauhaus collections in Germany (Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and Klassik Stiftung ...More DeCordova Announces Response to Economic Slowdown LINCOLN, MA.- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Director Dennis Kois announced today that in response to the continuing decline in the economy and the resultant impact on DeCordova the Museum is making budgetary adjustments and reducing its full-time staff by seven, to twenty-five....More Joslyn Art Museum Draws High School Students In with Fun, Educational Saturday Night of Art Instruction OMAHA, NE.- On Saturday, March 21, Joslyn Art Museum will host its second annual Draw-A-Thon, a dynamic evening for art-minded, high school-aged youth. Held from 6:00-11:30 pm, Draw-A-Thon exposes participants to a variety of drawing exercises while providing a safe and secure environment for teens interested in art to meet ...More Third Annual Out@Wex Festival Devoted to New Queer Cinema COLUMBUS, OH.- The Wexner Center presents the third annual Out@Wex film festival, a celebration of innovative filmmaking around GLBT issues and subject matter, Thursday–Saturday, March 12–14. The festival features seven films, a party on Friday, and a Q&A session with interfaith chaplain Kayla Bonewell, who ...More Call for Entries: SMart Multimedia Art Festival GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- 'We are looking for multimedia at which has been created today, because yesterday is already art history,' says Dr. Zora Carrier, curator of the SMart Multimedia Art Festival. Where is tomorrow in multimedia art? That is the motto of the 4th SMart Festival in Grand Rapids, ...More