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| Museums Around the World Open their Doors at Night Offering Special Attractions |
Of the more than 2,200 museums from 41 countries that opened their doors last night, 1,200 were French, where this event has been celebrated since 1999. Photo: EFE/Lucas Dolega.
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PARIS.- More than one thousand French museums showed their most original presentations and free of charges, this Saturday night to attract the public to the 5th European Long Night of Museums, which this year had the support from UNESCO. The most unusual intitiatives were to contemplate Rodin’s sculptures under the lights at the museum that bears his name, or listen to traditional Vietnamese music at the Cernuschi and even listen to stories from primitive cultures at the Quai Branly....More
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| First U.S. Exhibition in 25 Years of Luis Melendez's Still Lifes Premieres at the National Gallery of Art |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Delights of the Spanish table depicted by 18th-century painter Luis Meléndez (1715-1780) will be presented to American audiences for the first time in nearly 25 years at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 17 through August 23, 2009. In a rare opportunity to explore the artist’s working method, Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life will showcase 31 paintings, some of...More
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| Tate Modern to Show Pop Life: Art in a Material World in October |
LONDON.- Pop Life: Art in a Material World will propose a re-reading of one of the major legacies of Pop Art. Exploring Andy Warhol’s notorious provocation that ‘good business is the best art’, the exhibition takes Warhol’s influential practice as a starting point. It looks ahead to the various ways that subsequent generations since the 1980s have created their own brands, engaged in self-promotion and developed ideas around the mass media, celebrity and the...More
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| The Intimate Diary of Frida Kahlo, a Singular Literary Self-portrait |
MEXICO CITY.-(EFE) The intimate diary of Frida Kahlo is really no such thing - rather it is a literary self-portrait comparable in quality to the pictures the artist painted of herself, an Italian researcher told Efe.
The specialist in intimate literature Cristina Secci, a native of Cagliari, Italy, presented Saturday in Mexico City a study of the literary genre to which Kahlo's diary belongs.
"An intimate diary...More
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| Groninger Museum Opens Large-scale Retrospective of Cuban Art and History |
GRONINGER.- From 17 May to 20 September 2009, the Groninger Museum will present a large-scale retrospective exhibition of the development in the art and history of Cuba from 1868 to today. Work of more than one hundred artists, including Wifredo Lam, Marcelo Pogolotti, Juan Bautista Valdés and Joaquín Blez, will be on show. The many paintings, photos, installations, video and graphics present a picture of Cuban culture....More
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| Museum Ritter Presents Francois Morellet: The Squaring of the Square, an Introspective |
WALDENBUCH, GERMANY.- Museum Ritter opens a major solo exhibition of work by François Morellet and pays tribute to one of the foremost artists in France today. Right until 27 September 2009, the entire building will present a broad cross-section of his wide-ranging oeuvre. Apart from geometrical paintings, the exhibition will also feature works with lattices and adhesive tape, as well as light installations using coloured neon tubes. The choice of works was made in close ...More
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| Spectacular New Sculpture for Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art |
GLASGOW.- Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art has acquired a major piece of sculpture, Seven and Seven Is or Sunshine Bathed the Golden Glow by Turner-shortlisted artist Jim Lambie. The purchase of this vibrant and exciting work has been made possible by a £76,700 grant from independent charity The Art Fund.
A riotously coloured freestanding sculpture, Seven and Seven Is or Sunshine Bathed the...More
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| Aleksandra Mir's New Exhibition 'Triumph' Collects Together More than 2,500 Trophies |
FRANKFURT.- Aleksandra Mir’s new exhibition ‘Triumph’ for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt collects together more than 2,500 trophies: sentimental objects representing the triumphs of others. Through this collection the artist looks at the history of the trophy and the ways we have of signifying victory – in sports and in the art world – as well as at the emotional moment of letting go, which every participant did in this project when they gave to Mir their souvenir of past ...More
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| Exhibition from the Irish Museum of Modern Art's Collection to Open in Co Clare |
DUBLIN.- Seanscéalta / Myths and Legends, an exhibition developed through the continued partnership between Iniscealtra Festival of the Arts and IMMA’s National Programme, opens to the public at Raheen Hospital Day Care Centre and Scariff Library, Co Clare on Monday 25 May 2009. Seanscéalta / Myths and Legends explores the world of childhood stories and memories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales....More
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| Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Opens Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Gallery |
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston opens a new permanent gallery in the Caroline Wiess Law Building dedicated to the museum´s growing Indian art collection. The Nidhika and Pershant Mehta Arts of India Gallery introduces audiences to the richness of traditional Indian art and bridges the past with the present by also including modern and contemporary examples....More
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| Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Re-opens its Doors with a Stunning New Exhibition "Pure Pleasure" |
BOULDER, CO.- On June 5, 2009, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art will present “Pure Pleasure”. This exhibition celebrates the re-opening of the museum following a four-month closure. The museum has undergone renovations to include installation of an elevator and upgrading our jewel of an historic building. We are excited to be able to make our exhibits and programs accessible to a larger community. ...More
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| The Emergence of Gay Liberation in New York City Explored in Exhibition at The New York Public Library |
NEW YORK, NY.- June 28, 2009 will mark the 40th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Riots that occurred in Greenwich Village, New York. Many cite the riots as the birth of the Gay Rights Movement in the United States. From June 1969 until June 1970, gays and lesbians in New York City radicalized in an unprecedented way founding several activist groups that created a new vision for Gay Liberation. The exhibition 1969: The Year of Gay Liberation charts the ...More
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| Center for the Visual Arts to Open Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration |
NASHVILLE, TN.- The work of Chuck Close, renowned as one of America’s foremost artists in any medium, will be featured in Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, opening in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts’ Ingram Gallery June 26, 2009. The exhibition will remain on view through the summer and will close Sept. 13, 2009....More
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| The Art Part: How SAMA is Supporting the Public Art Efforts of the Museum Reach |
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio River Foundation has commissioned eight local, national, and international artists to create 12 permanent public art installations for the Urban Segment of the Museum Reach River Walk extension.
David S. Rubin, who joined the ...More
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| Kunsthaus Zürich Presents 'World Art Meets World Music' |
ZURICH.- From 7 p.m. until midnight on 23 May 2009, art meets world music at the Kunsthaus Zürich when the museum invites Montreux Jazz to help stage ‘World Art meets World Music’. The evening features live music and dance as well as guided tours and discussion, all with an eye to investigating the influence of the Orient as well as of African, Japanese and South American culture on western European music and art....More
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| Public Art Fund to Open A Clearing in the Streets, Designed by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith |
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 27, amidst Lower Manhattan 's concrete and asphalt, a temporary landscape will begin to grow. A Clearing in the Streets, designed by Julie Farris and Sarah Wayland-Smith, is a ten-sided plywood structure that houses a small meadow, fifteen feet in diameter, offset by a panoramic interior mural of a vast blue sky. Eight-inch gaps spaced throughout the structure permit controlled visual access to the enclosed landscape, exaggerating...More
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| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Hosts 23rd Annual Young at Art Festival |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Visual and Performing Arts Office of the San Francisco Unified School District unveils Young at Art; a nine-day celebration of student creativity in visual, literary, media, and performing arts hosted by the de Young through May 24. For the past twenty-three years, this unique San Francisco event (formerly San Francisco Youth Arts Festival) has been a point of destination for families,...More
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| 120 Students Win Newhouse Architecture Competition |
CHICAGO, IL.- Students excelling in architecture, design, art, and math were awarded prizes in the 2009 Chicago Architecture Foundation's Newhouse Competition today. The winners were chosen from hundreds of entries from Chicago Public School students....More
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| Columbia Museum of Art Offers Workshop with Artist Trained at Vatican Mosaic Studio in Rome |
COLUMBIA, SC.- Contemporary studio artist Vanessa Somers Vreeland returns to Columbia to teach a two-day fused-glass workshop Saturday, June 6 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, June 7 noon until 4:00 p.m. at the Columbia Museum of Art....More
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| Museum of Liverpool Branding Consultants Announced |
LIVERPOOL.- National Museums Liverpool announced the appointment of Pentagram to deliver a lasting brand identity for the Museum of Liverpool.
Following an open call for tenders, National Museums Liverpool received over 90 submissions from branding consultants who wanted to work on the project, including tenders from regional, national and international agencies....More
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