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Guggenheim in Bilbao Opens Internationally Recognized Cai Guo-Qiang's I Want to Believe
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Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang poses in front of his work “Drawing for the Prints of History, 2008," made with gun powder on paper which is presented in the exhibition I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao until September 13. Photo: EFE/Alfredo Aldai.

BILBAO.- From March 17 to September 6, 2009, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want To Believe, an exhibition that presents the full spectrum of the artist’s multimedia art in all its conceptual complexity.

The exhibition comes to Bilbao after its success at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where it became the most visited visual art show in the Museum’s history and at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, where it was part of the cultural program for the 2008 Olympic Games. Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally recognized as an artist, curator, and creator of large-scale explosion events, who has been active in exhibitions, biennales, and public celebrations around the world for the last twenty years. This comprehensive retrospective is the Guggenheim Museums first solo show devoted to a Chinese-born artist....More

Indianapolis Museum of Art Launches Searchable Database of Deaccessioned Artworks
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced today that it has launched a searchable database of recently deaccessioned artworks on its website. The database includes information on works the museum has identified for sale and their valuations. The database includes works of art identified since ...More

Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition to Kick Off Guggenheim 50th Anniversary Year
NEW YORK, NY.- Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright's renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the...More

International Loan Exhibition of Korean Art Opens at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- The early Joseon period, a time of extraordinary artistic achievements in Korea, will be explored in a loan exhibition opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2009. Showcasing approximately 47 spectacular works—painting, ceramics, metalwork, and lacquer—Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-...More

MoMA to Show First U.S. Survey of Aernout Mik's Moving Installations
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition Aernout Mik. In this first North American survey of the artist’s work, MoMA will have on view eight installations in gallery and non-gallery spaces throughout the Museum, ranging from Mik’s first filmed work Fluff (1996) to Schoolyard (2009), which was...More

Brisk Sales as Thousands Attend TEFAF Maastricht this Weekend
MAASTRICHT.- Dealers reported strong sales to private collectors and museums as people poured through the doors of TEFAF Maastricht that has become one of the art and antiques world’s most celebrated annual events. Among major sales were works by Rubens, Breughel, Le Corbusier, Basquiat and Louise Bourgeois. The new TEFAF Design section where eight specialist dealers are exhibiting works of 20th century design and applied arts proved extremely popular at the Fair, which ...More

Nottingham City Museums and Galleries Acquire work by Renowned British Artist Sam Taylor-Wood
NOTTINGHAM.- A brand new photograph by British contemporary artist Sam Taylor-Wood has been purchased by Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, thanks to help from the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and The Art Fund, the UK's leading independent art charity. It is the first piece by the artist to enter the Museum's collection, and goes on show today, Monday 16th March, at
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Saudi Arabian Art to Feature in Christie's Dubai Sale in April
DUBAI.- Christie’s will offer a selection of works by Saudi Arabian artists in their widely anticipated sale of International Modern and Contemporary Art on April 29th, 2009 in Dubai, the first time that a group of work from Saudi Arabia has been included in an international auction. The sale follows Jewels and Watches to be held on April 28th, 2009, and will include works by six contemporary artists including Ahmed Mater Al-Ziad Aseeri and Lulwah Al-Homoud, reflecting the vibrancy of the Kingdom’s young artistic talent....More

More Than 75 Works By Andrew Stevovich On Display At Boca Raton Museum Of Art
BOCA RATON, FL.- Who is the mysterious figure at the center of Boca Raton Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Andrew Stevovich: The Truth About Lola? Ponder this, and other artful riddles, when the show opens March 17, 2009. The exhibition will run through May 31, 2009.

Andrew Stevovich (born in Austria in 1948-) may consider himself to be an abstract painter more concerned with meticulous composition than with narrative, ...More

Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video Opens at Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston
BOSTON, MA.- In an all-video exhibition opening this March, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston introduces a new generation of artists—Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Phil Collins, Javier Téllez, and Artur Zmijewski—exploring the expressive potential of social experiment, where the impromptu actions of people are ...More

Vashti Bunyan Film and Q&A for Oxjam Festival
EDINBURGH.- From Here To Before, a documentary about influential UK singer songwriter Vashti Bunyan is to be screened at The Filmhouse in Edinburgh on April 6 as part of the Oxjam Music Festival. Oxjam raises money and awareness for Oxfam through music. Vashti Bunyan will be present for a Q&A after the screening....More

Milwaukee Art Museum Announces Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The words and faces of forty students make up a penetrating view into contemporary American youth in Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures, on view April 16-July 12, 2009 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. A compelling juxtaposition of first- and third-person perspectives, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue ...More

This Summer the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Makes a "Green Shift"
MONTREAL.- This summer, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be going green. On the one hand, the Museum will be presenting the exhibition Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918, from June 18 to September 27. The “environmentally friendly” design and catalogue will...More

The Snite Museum of Art Opens an Exhibition Entitled Mauricio Lasansky: Great Thinkers
SOUTH BEND, IN.- Mauricio Lasansky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1914 where he learned the art of printmaking at a young age. By the age of twenty-two he had already become the director of the Free Fine Arts School in Villa Maria, Cordoba, Argentina. Seven years later in 1943, he was offered a Guggenheim Fellowship to come to the United States and study the print collection ...More

Newly-commissioned Portrait of Astronomer Martin Rees to be Focus of Display at National Portrait Gallery
LONDON.- A newly-commissioned painted portrait of the Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, Baron Rees, President of the Royal Society, will form the focus of a display to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy. This new portrait will be shown alongside recent photographs of astronomers by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies, and further portraits from the ...More

Judith E. Leonard Named General Counsel of the Smithsonian Institution
WASHINGTON, DC.- Judith E. Leonard, the vice president for legal affairs and general counsel since 1998 at The University of Arizona, has been named general counsel of the Smithsonian Institution, effective June 1....More

This Easter Tate Liverpool invites you to take up the Great Green Sculpture Challenge!
LONDON.- Over the Easter holidays Tate Liverpool will be giving over its ground floor gallery to The Great Green Sculpture Challenge – a fun way to bring together recycling and art. From 4-17 April artist Graham Marsden will inspire visitors to build their own statuesque sculptures out of recycled materials. Building on the success of ...More

Brooklyn Museum Gala to Honor James S. Polshek, Founder and Senior Design Counsel, Polshek Partnership Architects
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum will honor James S. Polshek, Founder and Senior Design Counsel, Polshek Partnership Architects, at its annual gala, the Brooklyn Ball, Thursday evening, April 23, 2009, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Polshek will accept the Museum's highest honor, the Augustus Graham Medal, for ...More

Music and Poetry Together in a Program of "French Impressionisms" at Reynolda House Museum of American Art
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art will present "French Impressionisms," a program of French Impressionist music and poetry, on Sunday, March 22 at 3 p.m. The program is held in conjunction with the museum's current exhibition, "American Impressions: Selections from the National ...More

Exhibition of Influential Irish Artist Willie Doherty to Debut at The Dallas Museum of Art
DALLAS, TX.- On May 24, the Dallas Museum of Art will premiere Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance, an exhibition of works by one of the most important artists to emerge from Northern Ireland in the past three decades, and a two-time nominee for the Tate's Turner Prize. The exhibition brings together for the first time Doherty's ...More

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