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| Berlusconi's Sense of Humor Kicks Back, Paintings by Filippo Panseca on View in Italy |
The painting by Filippo Panseca shows Berlusconi with wings approaching a nude Carfagna sitting on the grass in a romantic atmosphere. Photo: EFE.
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SAVONA, ITALY.- Italian artist, Filippo Panseca, has started uproar in Italy with two paintings that represent, one Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, beside Minister of Equal Opportunities Mara Carfagna, and another with the leader’s wife, Veronica Lario, with the wings of an angel. The paintings, made from photographs of the three protagonists and painted bodies, are on view in the exhibition Art & Savonnerie, in the city of Savona (northwest Italy)....More
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| First Viewing Together in Twenty Years of Frick's Whistlers in Three Media |
NEW YORK, NY.- This summer The Frick Collection will present a focus exhibition dedicated to the colorful and often controversial artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903). The Frick’s ensemble of four full-length portraits by Whistler will be displayed in the museum’s Oval Room alongside his evocative seascape, ...More
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| "Pictures Generation" of New York Contemporary Artists Featured Metropolitan Museum Exhibition |
NEW YORK, NY.- The first major museum exhibition to focus on the highly influential group of New York artists known as the "Pictures Generation" will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 21 through August 2, 2009. The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 will trace the development of one of the most important art ...More
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| Rare and Spectacular Master Works Highlight Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on May 13 will offer fresh to market works from some of the most prominent artists of Post-War and Contemporary Art. The 54 lot sale is expected to achieve $71-104 million.
Robert Manley, Head of Christie’s New York Post-War & Contemporary Art...More
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| BP Portrait Award 2009 Shortlist Announced - Record Number of Entries |
LONDON.- Following a record number of entries, three artists have been short-listed for the BP Portrait Award, one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes. This year the prize received 1,901 entries, an increase of over 10% on last year. For the third year running, the competition has been open to all aged 18 or over. 56 portraits have been selected for the exhibition which will be shown at the National Portrait Gallery from 18 June to 14 September 2009....More
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| Patrick Farrell and Damon Winter Win Pulitzer Prizes for their Works of Art |
NEW YORK, NY.- The 93rd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Photography awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced today by Columbia University.
The winners in each category, along with the names of the finalists in the competition, follow:...More
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| Exhibition Explores Major Movements in Latin American Art |
HOUSTON, TX.- North Looks South: Building the Latin American Art Collection, opening June 7 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), celebrates the museum’s major Latin American art acquisitions since 2001, with more than 80 works in every medium, ranging in date from the 1920s to the present. North Looks South is organized around unexpected juxtapositions between artists and ...More
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| The Treasure of Ulysses Davis Features 40 Carved Busts of All the U.S. Presidents |
NEW YORK, NY.- Though rarely exhibited, the sculptures of Georgia artist Ulysses Davis have been recognized as important examples of African American vernacular art, especially his series of carved busts of forty U.S. presidents. The exhibition The Treasure of Ulysses Davis is on view at the American Folk Art Museum from ...More
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| Artists Announced for ECA's Landmark Stone Carving Exhibition: Milestone |
EDINBURGH.- This Thursday Edinburgh College of Art will host a public lecture at 4pm at which Head of Sculpture Professor Jake Harvey will announce the stone artists confirmed for Milestone, the largest stone carving exhibition ever hosted in Scotland, opening this August at the College. ...More
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| Thousands of Teenagers to Flood Sleaford in New Art Work |
SLEAFORD.- A youth mob composed of thousands of teenagers is due to descend upon the rural Lincolnshire town of Sleaford as part of a new art work by artist Kelly Large.
The artist who is particularly interested in the 'theatre' of crowds says, "These ...More
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| Drago Publishing Presents Nick Walker's Book Debut Titled "A Sequence of Events" |
LONDON.- Many events happen within the world of urban art, but every year a tremor flows through the market when Nick Walker makes work available. His work hangs in private museums, Hollywood A-lister’s walls and art collections the world over....More
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| Everson Museum of Art Presents Skaneateles Connect Event: Art on the Lake |
SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art announced a special evening of Art on the Lake, which will take place at the Skaneateles Country Club, on Saturday, May 9, 2009 from 5.30 – 7.30p.m. ...More
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| Artworks by New York City School Students on View at Guggenheim Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- A Year with Children 2009: Selected Works from Learning Through Art, an exhibition organized by the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim Museum, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from May 13 through August 9, 2009. The exhibition...More
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| Can the Public be Trusted to Choose Public Art? The Art Fund's Big Art Debate at the RSA |
LONDON.- From figures on a beach to a giant white horse, there's been an explosion of public art commissioning in the UK over the last decade, not witnessed since the Victorian era. But the art for our public spaces is chosen by 'experts' and committees. The public rarely has a say in what goes where....More
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| Flower in the Pocket, Which Follows a Young Malaysian Family, has a Weeklong Run at MoMA |
NEW YORK, NY.- Closing this season’s ContemporAsian series, The Museum of Modern Art presents a weeklong run of Flower in the Pocket (2007), from May 4 through 10, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2. The film is written and directed by Liew Seng Tat (b. Malaysia 1979), one of the bright new directors in the flourishing Malaysian cinema, as evidenced by Flower in the Pocket....More
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| Park Avenue Armory Launches Annual Commissioning Program |
NEW YORK, NY.- Park Avenue Armory has announced the next step in its evolution as a dynamic arts institution with the launch of an annual program in which an artist will be commissioned to create a work catalyzed by the Armory’s vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall. The artist for the inaugural “Drill Hall ...More
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| Walker Art Center's Raising Creative Kids Initiative Presents Talk with Photographer Todd Deutsch |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center invites visitors to spend an evening with Todd Deutsch on Tuesday, May 5, from 7–8:30 pm as the photographer navigates a journey through his captivating portraits of family life and youth culture. In this lecture, Deutsch will provide a window onto his artistic process, and...More
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