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| Experts Say Picasso Could Have Been Inspired by Mozarabic Bible for his Guernica Figures |
The similarity also manifests itself in the horse’s head that appears in the painting and, to a lesser extent, in the faces of the persons, as well as some of the profiles that also allude to the ones appearing in the bible. Photo: EFE/ J.Casares.
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LEON, SPAIN.- Several experts from the world of art have stated that there is an extraordinary likeness between the figures that appear in the Guernica painted by the artist and those in a Mozarabic Bible from the 10th Century, which is housed in the Cathedral in Leon, to the point where it has been discarded that it was fruit of a coincidence. This Bible was exhibited in Barcelona in 1929 and in Paris in 1937, a time when the Cubist genius could have discovered the expressionist drawings that appear in the medieval text, according to the head of the Cathedral of Leon Museum, Máximo Gómez Rascón. ...More
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| Laurent Van der Stockt's Our Fellow Man on View at Maison Européenne de la Photographie |
PARIS.- Our Fellow Man consists of several dozen photographs selected from amongst thousands by Laurent Van der Stockt destined for the press, without regard for chronology or location. They were taken during three wars whose primary victims have been civilians, wars referred to as “unconventional”: First those from Iraq, from 2003 to 2005; then those taken in Chechnya from 1995 to 1999; and last, in ...More
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| artnet Launches Abstract Paintings Sale Featuring Works by Renowned New York School Artists |
NEW YORK, NY.- From April 20-30 artnet Online Auctions will feature a special sale of 60 abstract paintings by 50 New York School artists including Mary Abbott, Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Michael Goldberg and Robert Motherwell.
The New York School artists painted and frequently socialized...More
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| Black Box: Guido van der Werve on View at the Hirshhorn Museum |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents a new exhibition in the museum’s Black Box space. Since 2005, as part of its commitment to the creative possibilities of new media, the Hirshhorn’s Black Box has presented the work of a diverse range of emerging and established ...More
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| Salatino Named Director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art |
BRUNSWICK, ME.- Kevin Salatino has been named director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Salatino has served as Head of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) since 2000, following nine years as Curator of Graphic Arts at the Getty Research Institute....More
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| Picasso Portraits and Rare Works by Ernst, Giacometti, and Jawlensky Highlight Christie's Sale |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced details of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on May 6, 2009. Comprised of 50 works from the great masters of the era, the sale presents a unique opportunity to collect rare and important works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Tamara de Lempicka, Henry ...More
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| spctclr vws, a Contemporary Show Featuring Artists will Open at One Brooklyn Bridge Park |
BROOKLYN, NY.- Artists are collaborating, conceptualizing, performing, and much more in spctclr vws, a contemporary show featuring artists and the teachers, friends, students, and colleagues who inspire them. This month-long exhibition starting May 15 will feature over fifty artists including Peter Drake, Tom Butter, Owen Mundy, Karen Santry, Janis Salek, Charles Seplowin, Stephen Davis, Frank Detrich, Elisa Jensen, Sandi Slone, Lori Nozick, Tom Lendvai, Luis da Cruz,...More
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| Travel to the West - 70 Years of Turkish Painting at the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Turkey |
EMIRGAN.- Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM), with the support of Yüksel İnşaat A.Ş., is hosting from 16 April to 30 June 2009, "VOYAGE TO THE WEST – The 70-year Adventure of the Art of Turkish Painting (1860 - 1930)".
By means of the works of artists born in the 19th century, from Osman Hamdi Bey to İbrahim Çallı, from Feyhaman Duran to ...More
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| Rare Pennsylvania WPA Posters from Collector Laurence Miller on View at Michener Art Museum |
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- Eclectic posters designed through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s and early 1940s are on display at the James A. Michener Art Museum from April 25 through August 2, 2009. On view in the Pfundt Gallery, Work, War & Wilderness: Pennsylvania WPA Posters 1937-1943 ...More
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| An Exhibition that Probes the Precarious Balance Between Man and Nature |
OTTAWA.- Human relations with the natural world are the central focus of the exhibition Scott McFarland: A Cultivated View, organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP), and on view at the National Gallery of Canada through September 13, 2009. The exhibition brings together 36 works by ...More
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| Rose Issa Projects will Show Works of Art by Provocative Young Creator Al Braithwaite |
LONDON.- Al Braithwaite, the provocative young creator of Museum No. 1: Hizbollah’s Caviar, set out in 2002 with big ambitions: he wanted to bridge the gap opened by warfare using the common language of art and humanity. Having sold his possessions, he left London with an idealistic group of artists to live in the Middle East....More
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| Queensland Art Gallery Launches its China Project with Three Exhibitions |
BRISBANE.-Two important exhibitions have turned the spotlight on contemporary Chinese art at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA).
Arts Minister Rod Welford said The China Project: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection and Zhang Xiaogang:...More
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| SFMOMA's Live-art Program Presents Today is not a Dress Rehearsal, by New Humans |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- For three days (May 10–12, 2009), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Schwab Room, part of SFMOMA's public atrium, will be transformed into a hybrid installation/film set by New York–based artist Mika Tajima (who often works collaboratively under the name New Humans). This site-specific project, ...More
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| President Bill Clinton Keynotes Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Public Grand Opening |
SKOKIE, ILL.- President Bill Clinton was the featured speaker at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center's highly anticipated Public Grand Opening in Skokie, Illinois. President Clinton joined Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, foreign dignitaries, Holocaust survivors and several thousand members of the general public as the new museum officially opened its doors for the first time....More
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| Hammer Museum Presents It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq is a new work by British artist Jeremy Deller. The artist has invited a diverse group of individuals—including Iraq war veterans, journalists, scholars, playwrights and Iraqi nationals who have first-hand experience of Iraq —to take up residence at the Hammer Museum with the express purpose of encouraging discussion with visitors to ...More
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| Jay Cogan Named 16th President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Jay Coogan, former provost at the Rhode Island School of Design, was named the 16th president of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design on March 31, 2009. David Hartwell, Chair of MCAD's Board of Trustees, announced Coogan's appointment to the College community....More
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| Modern Mondays at MoMA in May: Péter Forgács, Aernout Mik, and Gulnara Kasmalieva and Murtabek Djumaliev |
NEW YORK, NY.- Modern Mondays, is a weekly program that brings contemporary, innovative film and movingimage works to the public and provides a forum for viewers to engage in dialogue and debate with contemporary filmmakers and artists. Modern Mondays presents new-and newly rediscovered-film and media works with the director in attendance, stimulating discourse, dialogue, and interaction in a social setting....More
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| Contemporary Art Network Announces its Next Event in its Ongoing Lecture Series |
NEW YORK, NY.- The talk by A.D. Coleman 'Saga' - The making of a Retrospective" will take place on Friday, April 24, 2009. In his talk A.D.Coleman will present a slideshow version of the exhibition "Saga:The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Photographs 1970-2005," while discussing the curatorial decisions involved in selecting and structuring the project in both exhibition and book form....More
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| Socrates Sculpture Park to Hold its Seventh Annual Kite Making Workshop |
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Socrates Sculpture Park and The Noguchi Museum are proud to present the seventh annual kite making workshop and flying event. This free hands-on workshop will take place at Socrates Sculpture Park and welcomes children of all ages to participate. Using recycled paper, children and their families can draw inspiration from the Park's fantastic view of the Manhattan skyline to build and decorate a kite, and then fly it in the Park. ...More
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