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Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao Opens Exhibition Dedicated to Novecentismo and Avant-Garde
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"Old Fisherman", by Julian de Tellaeche, which forms part of the exhibition that the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao has opened under the title Novecentismo and Avant-Garde (1930-1936). Photo: EFE/Luis Tejido.

BILBAO.- The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao has inaugurated an exhibition that pretends to take a “new and deeper” look at the presence of Novecentismo and the Avant-Garde in Basque art at the beginning of the 20th Century....More

2009 Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award to be Shown at The Ian Potter Centre
MELBOURNE.- This month, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) will present the fifth Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award.

The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award is a generous legacy of the ...More

Getty Exhibition Showcases Japanese Lacquer Masterpieces
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sometime around 1640, Japanese craftsmen at a lacquer workshop in Kyoto finished what was to become one of their country’s most beautiful historical treasures: a masterpiece of black and gold lacquer known today as the Mazarin Chest. Lavishly decorated with scenes from Japanese literature including the Tale of Genji and the Tale of the Soga Brothers, the chest ...More

Chinese Bidder at Christie's YSL Auction Refuses to Pay for Controversial Works of Art
BEIJING.- A Chinese art expert revealed today that he offered the highest bid for the bronze heads at the Yves Saint Laurent auction last week and said that he will not pay for them and that he bid on them “in the name of the Chinese people”. Cai Mingchao, manager of a private gallery named Xinhe in Xiamen (province of Fujian, in southeast China), attended a press conference to ...More

John Baldessari: Brick Bldg. LG Windows w/ Xlent Views, Partially Furnished, Renowned Architect
KREFELD.- John Baldessari, born in 1931 the son of European emigrants in National City, California, and now resident in Santa Monica, is one of the pioneers of American concept art and numbers among the most prominent artists of our time. Parallel to this, through his teaching activities at the California Institute of Arts (1970-1988) and UCLA (since 1996) he has produced a number of ...More

Arts Commission Announces New Installation by Artist Patrick Dougherty
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Luis R. Cancel, Director of Cultural Affairs for the San Francisco Arts Commission, announced the completion of a new environmental artwork by acclaimed artist Patrick Dougherty. The Upper Crust consists of a series of conical forms comprised of 18,000 pounds of freshly cut willow saplings ...More

Pierre Charpin: Amidst the Vases Opens at Museum of Design and Applied Arts
LAUSANNE.- For its tenth “carte blanche” exhibition dedicated to an unusual creative figure the mudac is presenting a vast panorama of creations by Pierre Charpin from different periods. In a previously unseen installation, the designer shows a selection of objects interreacting with short animation films produced ...More

Pioneering "Soul i-D" Exhibition Tours to Christie's South Kensington
LONDON.- In collaboration with i-D Magazine, Christie’s South Kensington is delighted to announce that it will host a pioneering exhibition, supported by Diesel, celebrating the recent publication of a 600 page book entitled SOUL i-D. From Monday 2 March until Tuesday 10 March 2009, Christie’s South Kensington...More

Chronicles of Absence by Óscar Muñoz and Rosangela Rennó Opens at Museo Tamayo
MEXICO CITY.- Chronicles of Absence. Óscar Muñoz and Rosângela Rennó brings together a selection of works that include photographs, installations and videos from the early 1990s, as well as more recent pieces, that explore memory and oblivion as interdependent concepts. The continual and endless production of images in society reveals how extensively we resort to these ...More

Sotheby's To Offer a Newly Discovered Painting by Johann Zoffany in its Gianni Versace Sale
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London announced the recent discovery of a rare and important oil painting by Johann Zoffany among the exquisite collection of furniture and Works of Art from Gianni Versace’s Lake Como Villa, which is to be offered for sale on Wednesday 18th March 2009. Portrait of Major George Maule, Acting Chief Engineer of Madras (1751-1793) (est. £40,000-60,000*), dating from...More

Photographer Gregory Crewdson Inaugurates Discussion Series Sponsored by the Photography Society of The Nelson-Atkins
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Famed photographer Gregory Crewdson will present the inaugural discussion in a series sponsored by the Photography Society of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The artist’s talk is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 12 in Atkins Auditorium at the Museum. Crewdson’s work has been widely exhibited and reviewed. He makes...More

Ad van Denderen: So Blue, So Blue - Edges of the Mediterranean on View at Fotomuseum Winterthur
ZURICH.- So Blue, So Blue – Edges of the Mediterranean is the title of a major work by Dutch photographer Ad van Denderen (b. 1943), exploring the seventeen countries that fringe the Mediterranean. In recent years, this region has become the playground of the wealthy industrialized world. Yet this one-sided view of its azure waters, sandy beaches and tourist resorts ignores the social, ...More

Amon Carter Museum Announces Exhibition of Esteemed Private Collection of African-American Art
FORT WORTH, TX.- The works of more than 50 African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years of this century will be on view at the Amon Carter Museum from June 6 through August 23, 2009, in the special exhibition The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper. The Kelley ...More

The George Segal Gallery and Studio Monclair Present Studio Montclair's 12th Annual Juried Exhibition
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University and Studio Montclair present “Continuum,” Studio Montclair’s 12th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition. Juried by Patterson Sims, sixty-one artists and 105 works were selected which present a range of styles, media and themes. In preparing ...More

New Jersey Artist to Show at Dutch Art Spot W139
AMSTERDAM.- New Jersey-born visual artist, Erin Marie Dunn, will present her solo show ‘Distinguished by the Swans’ March 14th thought April 12th at the popular Dutch art spot W139. W139 is managed, run and staffed by artists and has become an important artist meeting place in Amsterdam. Its openings...More

Inge Morath Award Now Accepting Submissions
NEW YORK, NY.- The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation announce the sixth annual Inge Morath Award. The annual prize of $5,000 is awarded by the Magnum Foundation to a female documentary photographer under...More

The Life of a Controversial Philosopher Inspires New Media Artist David Clark
HALIFAX.- Media Arts Professor David Clark, BFA '85 has released a net.art work called: 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand). The interactive, animated, feature-length film is a complex and non-linear work created for the internet. The interactive piece revolves around the life of the...More

Plains Art Museum Presents 121 Popsicle Towers Made by NDSU Students
FARGO, ND.- Plains Art Museum will host 126 students of North Dakota State University’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture from 9 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, March 5. The students will exhibit 121 towers made out of Popsicle sticks in the one-day exhibition in the Atrium of the Museum’s main floor. ...More

Art Alliance Austin Reveals 2009 Commissioned Artist Project Jaclyn Pryor's Pink [unplugged]
AUSTIN, TX.- On Saturday, February 28, Art Alliance Austin's 6th annual Art Night Austin 09 revealed Jaclyn Pryor's pink [unplugged], the 2009 commissioned artist project for Art City Austin. Cycling between the various art spaces on decorated bicycles, pink-clad couriers brought art to the streets as they delivered love notes in small glass bottles to recipients and revelers alike. The ...More

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art Presents Rex Bruce's Images of the L.A. Sky-scape
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Rex Bruce gave up his car and spent two years riding public transportation recording images of the L.A. sky-scape as a meditation on the climate crisis. The camera is always aimed towards that which daily absorbs tons of greenhouse gas: the atmosphere. Stills and video are shot through dirty windows of buses traversing Hollywood and central L.A. and ...More

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