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Art is Arp: Drawings, Collages, Reliefs, Sculptures, Poetry on View at Arp Museum
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The Director of the Arp Museum Remagen Rolandseck, Oliver Kornhoff, is photographed in front of a portrait of the artist Hans Arp, at the exhibition 'Art is Arp' in Remagen, Germany. Photo: EFE/THOMAS FREY.

REMAGEN.- Marcel Duchamp’s proclamation “For Arp, art is Arp” serves as the title for one of the most comprehensive retrospectives on Hans Arp ever undertaken. The Arp Museum Bahnof Rolandseck is showing the exhibition “Art is Arp” with over 100 drawings, collages, sculptures, and reliefs as well as ca. 80 texts, ...More

Lovis Corinth: A Feast of Painting on View at the Belvedere
VIENNA.- Closely scrutinizing the way museums operate today leads to the impression that many institutions are placing increasing value on large-scale, temporary exhibitions that are popular with the public. Of course, generating a large number of visitors is an important aspect in times when museums are pressed to think and act economically. However, museums are also obliged to ...More

First Comprehensive Presentation from the Rothschild Collection to Open in April at MoMA
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, an exhibition of more than 300 works that will be the first comprehensive presentation of this collection, a donation of approximately 2,500 ...More

National Gallery of Victoria Acquires John Brack Masterpiece the Bar
MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria announced that the NGV has acquired John Brack’s outstanding work, The bar, with support from the Victorian Government.

The painting, which the NGV sought unsuccessfully to purchase at auction in 2006, was offered to the Gallery for acquisition by Tasmanian collector David Walsh, who...More

Monographic Exhibition Devoted to the Work of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec Stops at Grand-Hornu
HAINAUT.- After the La Villa Noailles in Hyères last summer and the ELAC in Lausanne very shortly thereafter, the monographic exhibition “Etapes” devoted to the work of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec makes a stop at the Grand-Hornu. They chose to entitle this look at their work “Etapes (Stages)”.

This plural title with multiple meanings indicates the intention to show a process ...More

Kunsthalle Basel Presents First Solo Exhibition in Switzerland by Georgian Artist Thea Djordjadze
BASEL.- The show’s title – endless enclosure – conveys a powerful image of an open horizon but its paradoxical formulation also brings to mind Alain de Lille’s famous 12th century description of the mystical geometry of the absolute as a “cosmic sphere, whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere”. These thoughts can be later found reiterated in the writings of
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Nelson Leirner and Albuquerque Mendes Present a Joint Work at Valencian Institute of Modern Art
VALENCIA.- The internationally renowned artists Nelson Leirner and Albuquerque Mendes are presenting a joint work that establishes a dialogue between two related cultures, two ways of understanding the transcendence of life. This experience, originating from an exchange of letters between the two artists, has culminated in a grand project which includes over a hundred works. Miniature...More

Eurantica Brussels, a Fair Full of Tradition Opens this Weekend
BRUSSELS.- Located in the prestigious Hall 5 of Brussels Expo for the last 5 years, Eurantica Fine Art & Antiques Fair, takes place from Friday 20 to Sunday 29 March 2009. For this 28th edition, Eurantica Brussels brings together 150 antique dealers and galleries from all over Europe chosen by the selection committee made up of ...More

Sotheby's Hong Kong to Offer an Extraordinary Tang Dynasty Tortoiseshell and Mother-of-Pearl Box
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong will offer an extraordinary single lot - The Magnificent Large Tortoiseshell Octagonal Box and Cover Inlaid with Mother-of-pearl in the Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sales series on 8th April 2009 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. It is expected to...More

Berardo Collection Museum Presents Drawings and Paintings Made by Raul Perez
LISBON.- This exhibition brings together ninety works produced between the 1960s and 2008, and shows the perspective of a very peculiar visual and aesthetical universe. The painter Raúl Perez was born in 1944, in Lovelhe, a vil¬lage in the Minho region, in the north of Portugal. He exhibits solo since 1972. In 1973 he joined the Phases Group (Paris). ...More

First Annual Fine Art Photography Auction Raises Inpressive Scholarship Funds for Academy of Art University Students
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On Saturday, March 7, 2009, the Academy of Art University welcomed hundreds of photography collectors, and dealers to its highly anticipated First Annual Faculty & Alumni Fine Art Photography Auction at 79 Gallery in the heart of San Francisco. Photography enthusiasts from across the ...More

Brooklyn Museum Announces Watercolors by Conceptual Artist Patricia Cronin
BROOKLYN, NY.- A group of twenty-eight watercolors by Brooklyn-based conceptual artist Patricia Cronin, inspired by the work of nineteenth-century sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908), will be on view in the Herstory Gallery and Forum of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum,
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Three Venues in Dublin Show Important Exhibition by Renowned Irish Artist James Coleman
DUBLIN.- The Irish Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Projects Arts Centre, and the Royal Hibernian Academy, opened an important exhibition by the ...More

Louis Cameron: Heineken Closes March 29 at the Saint Louis Art Museum
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the March 29, 2009 closing of Louis Cameron: Heineken, an installation in the Museum's New Media Series. This new addition to the Museum's collection was made possible by the generosity of Elissa and Paul Cahn and Joan and Mitchell Markow....More

"The Benjamin K. Miller Collection" Stamps Its Mark Online
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Benjamin K. Miller Collection of the New York Public Library had not been seen by collectors or the public since 1977 until it was displayed at the National Postal Museum from May 2006 to March 2009. “Rarity Revealed: The Benjamin K. Miller Collection” showcased U.S. ...More

Four Young New York Artists Showcase Their Work in the Free Display It's My Turn at the NYPL's Hamilton Fish Park Branch
NEW YORK, NY.- The diverse artwork of four talented young New York artists is on display in the free exhibit It's My Turn on display at The New York Public Library's Hamilton Fish Park Branch through May 1. The exhibition provides a showcase for prints, drawings, sketches, and paintings by these emerging artists. Also on ...More

New Orleans Museum of Art Announcess The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- From May 16 to October 11, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography, a major exhibition of more than 200 works exploring the moments that shape our being, from intimate memories to historic tragedies. Renowned photographer Annie ...More

Smithsonian Fiscal Year 2009 Federal Budget Appropriation Totals $731.4 Million
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's FY 2009 budget appropriation from Congress is $731.4 million, an increase of about 7 percent from the $682.6 million appropriated to the Institution in FY 2008. This year's appropriation, which covers the year that began Oct. 1, 2008, includes $593.4 million for salaries and ...More

Sculptures from Hunger Benefit to be Displayed Outside of Weston Art Gallery
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Taft Museum of Art will be home to two sculptures that will be part of Canstruction®, the global anti-hunger project that locally benefits the Freestore Foodbank....More

'Live Cinema' Presents First Museum Exhibition of New York Artist Tim Hyde
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The work of Brooklyn-based artist Tim Hyde will be the subject of the latest exhibition in the Live Cinema series at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It will include three works by the 40-year-old artist who uses video and collaged photography to explore the ways in which space is perceived and ...More

Gods of Power and Greed Clash with Human Bones and Depleted Uranium at Duke Art Show
DURHAM, NC.- When Duke University offered to host an art exhibition for accomplished artist Robert Mihaly they had no idea what they were getting into. It turns out two decades of chiseling elaborate stone and marble sculptures for the Elite had prepared Mihaly for a fight....More

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