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Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) Exhibition Opens Today at The National Gallery of Ireland
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Thomas Roberts (1748-1777), ‘Ballyshannon’ Photo © National Gallery of Ireland.

DUBLIN.-A major retrospective exhibition of Waterford-born artist Thomas Roberts (1748-1777), will open in the Beit Wing of the National Gallery of Ireland on 28 March and will continue until 28 June 2009. Admission is free. The exhibition, which features some 50 works by Roberts, is the first significant show devoted to the artist and the largest ever gathering of his works. It coincides with the publication of the most comprehensive study on the artist in over 30 years, 'Thomas Roberts: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Ireland', written by William Laffan and Brendan Rooney, who have also curated the National Gallery exhibition. There has not been an in-depth presentation of Roberts's work since the National Gallery's exhibition in 1978 when just 16 works by the artist were on display. Since then, important paintings by Roberts have come to light and now have an opportunity to be admired in full splendour....More

Getty Museum's Recently Acquired Baroque Painting Joins Captured Emotions for the Final 6 Weeks
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced its acquisition of David with the Head of Goliath (c. 1645-1650) by the great Italian Baroque painter Guido Cagnacci (1601-1663). The acquisition builds on one of the Getty's core areas of strength-Italian Baroque painting-and joins...More

Art Gallery of New South Wales Presents Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas, on view through May 17, 2009. Tim Johnson is a fascinating Sydney painter who is making a significant contribution to Australian art. Since the late 1970s spiritual beings have cohabited with living people in his painterly universe— Buddhas, bodhisattvas, Aboriginal artists, indigenous Americans...More

Raoul De Keyser: Watercolors Opens atSerralves Museum of Contemporary Art
PORTO.- The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presents Raoul De Keyser: Watercolors, on view through May 3, 2009. Raoul De Keyser is a painter, born in 1930 in Deinze, Belgium, where he still lives. His works have been exhibited since the 1960s, and since the middle of the 1980s his painting has enjoyed the highest international acclaim. While Raoul De Keyser tries to avoid...More

Kunsthal Rotterdam Presents Silk Stories -Taisho Kimono 1900-1940
ROTTERDAM.- Kunsthal Rotterdam
presents today Silk Stories -Taisho Kimono 1900-1940, on view through June 21, 2009. The kimono is part of Japan's most well known cultural heritage. Within the scope of the 400 year jubilee of Japanese-Dutch trading relations (1609-2009) the Kunsthal presents the exhibition Silk Stories, in which the development of the kimono, in the form...More

Illuminating the Sea: The Marine Paintings of James E. Buttersworth, 1817-1894 at the Bruce Museum
GREENWICH, CT.- Illuminating the Sea: The Marine Paintings of James E. Buttersworth, 1817-1894, a major retrospective exhibition highlighting the work of famed 19th-century marine artist James Edward Buttersworth, opens at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, on Saturday, March 28, 2009, and is on view through Sunday, July ...More

Architect Named for Atlanta's Center for Civil and Human Rights
ATLANTA, GA.- The Freelon Group, a Research Triangle, N.C.-based architecture and design firm, has been selected as the winner of a design competition for the new Center for Civil & Human Rights (CCHR) in Atlanta. Under the leadership of Philip Freelon, FAIA, The Freelon Group will partner with HOK, an Atlanta-based architecture and design firm, as the Center’s Architect...More

The Global Artistry of Leo and Diane Dillon - Colorful Book Illustrations on View At The Akron Art Museum
AKRON, OH.- From the well loved characters of Dr. Seuss to Kadir Nelson’s historic portraits, the Akron Art Museum has a tradition of showing the work of world-renowned children’s book illustrators. This spring, the museum will continue that tradition by hosting an exhibition of work by the esteemed illustrating duo Leo and Diane Dillon, titled The Global Artistry of Leo and Diane Dillon. The exhibition...More

SAMA Opens Exhibitions by Major San Antonio Artists to Coincide with City-wide Arts Festival
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art debuts an installation Ry Cooder/Vincent Valdez: El Chávez Ravine. El Chávez Ravine was commissioned by Ry Cooder, the Grammy Award winning guitarist, singer, and composer. In 2004, Cooder hired San Antonio artist Vincent Valdez to paint a mural on a vintage 1953 Chevy ice cream truck, the subject of which would be the late 1950s...More

"Pulp Function" Exhibit at Michener Art Museum Demonstrates The Ultimate in Paper Recycling
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- From a floor-length gown made of 1,000 shredded United States dollar bills to a “painting” constructed of newspaper and hemp, a surprising variety of art crafted out of paper is showcased in Pulp Function, on view in the Fred Beans Gallery at the James A. Michener Art Museum from March 28 through June 28, 2009. Organized by the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts, and curated by Lloyd Herman...More

New York Gallery Owner, Lawrence B. Salander, Charged in $88M Fraud
NEW YORK, NY.- Former Manhattan art gallery owner, Lawrence B. Salander, was charged with stealing $88 million US from a client list that included tennis great John McEnroe, hedge-fund chief Roy Lennox, banker Morton Bender, actor Robert DeNiro, merchant banker David Schupak and Earl Davis, the son of painter Stuart Davis, among others. “State Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus ...More

University of Michigan Museum of Art Opens Landmark 53,000-square-foot Expansion
ANN ARBOR, MI.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) will open a landmark 53,000-square-foot expansion and major restoration of its historic, 41,000-square-foot home, Alumni Memorial Hall. Designed by principal architect Brad Cloepfil and his team at Allied Works Architecture, the $41.9 million...More

Alberto Giacometti's Le Chat to Appear at Auction for the First Time in More than Thirty Years
NEW YORK, NY.- On the evening of May 5, 2009, Alberto Giacometti’s Le Chat from 1951 will appear at auction for the first time in 34 years. This iconic bronze has been in a private European collection since the 1960s and will be one of the highlights of Sotheby’s spring sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in ...More

The Textile Museum Announces Director's Resignation
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Textile Museum announced today that Director Daniel Walker has resigned. Walker has served as director since May 2005. In his letter of resignation to the Board of Trustees, Walker wrote, “Given the economic climate, this is a difficult time for museums large and small. Therefore, ...More

Christie's Interiors Sale to Feature Asian Ceramics and Works of Art from the Prominent Arthur M. Sackler Collections
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the outstanding results achieved for Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections on March 18, Christie’s will feature additional pieces from this collection in its Interiors sale on April 1 and 2. With a remarkable 99% sell-through rate by lot and by value, the recent sale totaled $10.9 million and further reinforced that rare and exceptional works with excellent provenance continue to generate huge interest and demand from collectors ...More

Michael Anderson: Collage Geomancy at Marlborough Chelsea
NEW YORK.- Marlborough Chelsea presents an exhibition of recent collages by New York based artist Michael Anderson will continue through Saturday, April 25th. This will be the artist's third solo exhibition with Marlborough and his second at Marlborough Chelsea, located at 545 West 25th street. The exhibition will consist of twelve new collages and a single sculpture, all of which are comprised of mass-produced advertising materials accumulated by the artist. Born in the Bronx in 1968, Mr. Anderson began his artistic career fusing painting and collage but has concentrated on collage since the early 1990s. Since ...More

A Higher Ambition: Owen Jones (1809-74)
LONDON.- The Victoria & Albert Museum presents today A Higher Ambition: Owen Jones (1809–74), on view through November 22, 2009. This display will trace Owen Jones's unique contributions to Victorian design reform; from his early studies of Islamic decoration at the Alhambra Palace, through to his designs for the 1851 Great Exhibition building, the publication of the Grammar of Ornament (one of the most important design sourcebooks of all time) and his influence in the founding of the South Kensington Museum....More

Colonial Williamsburg Acquires Extremely Rare Indian Peace Medal
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has purchased an extremely rare Virginia Indian peace medal produced by order of Gov. Thomas Jefferson in 1780. The medal will be exhibited in the introductory gallery of the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum beginning March 28. Matchless in the history of relations between the independent Commonwealth of Virginia and the region's native tribes, the "Happy While United" peace medal was cast in bronze by Robert Scot — later chief engraver at the U.S. Mint — in Williamsburg or Richmond while Jefferson was governor....More

Jersey City Museum Presents Priscila De Carvalho: Passageways
JERSEY CITY.- This spring, Jersey City Museum's Atrium Gallery is transformed into an urban labyrinth of stairways, tracks and streets with Priscila De Carvalho's installation titled Passageways. On view through August 22, 2009, this 10 ft. long, 35 ft. wide city, constructed of paint, foam, paper, photographs, collage and rubber, guarantees to intrigue viewers. This exhibition at Jersey City Museum is De Carvalho's largest and most ambitious work to date. Passageways conveys the complexity, chaos and paradoxes of contemporary life that affect America, as a continent, in the age of globalization. While addressing ...More

Was that you or the house? Opens at The Watermill
WATERMILL, NY.-Linda Austin, a dancer/choreographer, and Caroline Woolard, an installation artist, will present Was that you or the house?, a collaborative performance rehearsal produced by cross-disciplinary dialogue. Using their Watermill residency as a "user-testing research laboratory for sculptural tools," Was that you or the house? will use pieces from the Watermill Collection as objects that serve as catalysts for actions of simple wonder. Austin's and Woolard's play and improvisation create unique encounters between dancer and object....More

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