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| Thyssen-Bornemisza Examines Matisse's Work During the Central Period of His Career |
'Portrait of Marguerite Sleeping', one of eighty paintings, sculptures and drawings that are included in the exhibition that the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza dedicates to Matisse. Photo: EFE/Ballesteros.
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MADRID.- From June 9, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the exhibition Matisse: 1917-1941, comprising a survey of the artist’s work during the central period of his career. The exhibition’s curator has selected 74 paintings, sculptures and drawings, most of which have never been previously exhibited in Spain, loaned from about fifty museums and collections world-wide. Matisse: 1917-1941 aims to analyse Matisse’s work over a lengthy period that has until now been of less scholarly interest than the start and end of his career. It proposes to establish the keys to this period in the light of the artistic climate in which the artist was working. Marked by the shadow of World War I and the forebodings of the next world war, for modern art this was a period of rapid ...More
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| Guggenheim Teams with Google in Global Design Competition Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Google today announced the launch of Design It: Shelter Competition, a global, online initiative that invites the public to use Google Earth and Google SketchUp to create and submit designs for virtual 3-D shelters for a location of their choice anywhere on Earth. The competition opens today, June 8, 2009, Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday; closes to submissions on August 23; and ends on October 21, the 50th anniversary of the ...More
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| Yale University Art Gallery Acquires Important Edward Hopper Drawings |
NEW HAVEN. CT.- The Yale University Art Gallery has announced its purchase of important preparatory drawings by American artist Edward Hopper for two of his celebrated paintings, Rooms by the Sea (1951) and Western Motel (1957), both in the Gallery’s collection. The drawings related to Rooms by the Sea are rendered on two sides of a single sheet of paper, while the sheet related to Western Motel contains a single sketch. Each of the drawings provides rare insight into the...More
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| Exhibition Captures the Dramatic Transformation of Paris During the Rise and Fall of Napoleon III |
NEW YORK, NY.- During the reign of Emperor Napoleon III, the narrow streets and medieval buildings of Paris gave way to the broad boulevards and grand public works that still define the urban landscape of the French capital. Napoleon III and Paris, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 9 through September 7, 2009, portrays the ...More
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| Sainsbury Centre Opens An Impossible Journey: The Art and Theatre of Tadeusz Kantor |
LONDON.- An Impossible Journey, the first major UK exhibition of Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor’s work for over 30 years, opened at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, on Tuesday 2 June and runs until Sunday 30 August. The Sainsbury Centre worked with Cricoteka, Kraków, and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival to develop the exhibition. An Impossible Journey runs concurrently with Take a Look at Me Now: Contemporary Art from Poland. The exhibitions have been developed by the Sainsbury Centre and are part of two UK...More
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| Doig, Fontana, Koons and Richter Lead Christie's Auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art |
LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place at Christie’s on 30 June 2009 and will offer 41 lots including exceptional and significant works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. The first auction to take place under the direction of Francis Outred who joined the company in January 2009 as International Director and Head of Post-War and ...More
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| Journal of War and Exile, Spain-France, 1936-1939 by Agusti Centelles Presented at Jeu de Paume |
PARIS.- This exhibition retraces the career of Catalan photographer Agustí Centelles (Valencia, Spain, 1909-Barcelona, 1985) between 1936 and 1939, including his experience of the Spanish Civil War and his internment in the Bram camp in France.
A renowned photojournalist in the troubled pre-war period, Centelles reacted to the putsch of the Extreme Right by joining the Democratic defence effort in 1936....More
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| Kustodiev Painting Sells for 2.8 Million Pounds, Almost Three Times its Low Estimate |
LONDON.- Tonight, Sotheby’s London biannual Russian Art Evening Auction achieved the solid total of £7,906,050 ($12,546,901), within its pre-sale auction estimate of £6,740,000-9,920,000, and was very well-attended. The sale was 63% sold by lot and 73.3% by value, and saw new auction records established for four Russian artists: Isaak Brodsky, Boris Kustodiev, Konstantin Kryzhitsky and Vladimir Lebedev....More
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| Tableau Vivant of the Artist and His Model Featured in the Icelandic Pavilion at La Biennale |
VENICE.- The official Icelandic representation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia features Ragnar Kjartansson, a self-described incurable romantic, whose multifaceted artistic practice is rooted in a tradition of acting and performance with an existential and absurdist sensibility that can be linked to artists ranging from Caspar David Friedrich to Gilbert and George. Kjartansson’s ...More
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| Bonhams to Sell Painting by Artist Described by Hitler As "Degenerate" |
LONDON.- Oscar Kokoschka’s magnificent riverscape, `London, Chelsea Reach’, a view from Lindsay House looking towards Battersea was done when the artist was 71 years old in 1957 having fled Prague in 1938 to escape Hitler’s invading army. Bonhams are selling this picture (estimate at £700,000 to £1m) at its Impressionist and Modern Art sale on 23rd June in New Bond Street. ...More
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| Nollywood Babylon, a Documentary About the Extraordinary Growth of the Film Industry in Nigeria to be Shown at MoMA |
NEW YORK, NY.- MoMA presents a weeklong run of the feature documentary Nollywood Babylon, which focuses on the brash, inventive, and wildly popular contemporary films being made in Nigeria today by enterprising filmmakers who make movies with low production values and shoestring budgets. Nollywood Babylon will be shown in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters from July 3 through 8, 2009....More
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| Robert Austin RA: Prints and Drawings on View at the Royal Academy |
LONDON.- An exhibition of prints and drawings by Royal Academician, Robert Austin (1895-1973) opened at the Royal Academy of Arts this Spring. The prints that Austin produced in the 1920s and ‘30s were among the most admired and collectable of the period. He was unusual in making original engravings in the tradition of German masters from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries such as Martin Schongauer and Albrecht Dürer. Austin found ...More
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| Exhibition Highlights Images of King David from the Getty Museums Collection of Psalm Illustrations |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Whether sung, spoken, or silently read, the Psalms and their illuminations played a central role in medieval Christianity. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, June 9 – August 16, 2009, Temptation and Salvation: The Psalms of King David features splendidly illuminated manuscripts and leaves from the Museum’s collection that reveal the importance of the Psalms in medieval devotion....More
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| PHotoEspaña 2009: Filmoteca Española Presents 14 Films by Reality Filmmaker Pedro Costa |
MADRID.- As part of PHotoEspaña 2009, Filmoteca Española presents 14 films by a filmmaker who shoots reality without concessions, getting close to its most heartbreaking and marginal elements. Filmoteca Española offers a panoramic vision of director’s filmography in In Vanda’s Room, Bones or Down to Earth. Pedro Costa is a pioneer in the fusion between documentary and fiction.
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| Robert Hull Fleming Museum Opens Two New Summer Exhibitions |
BURLINGTON, VT.- The Robert Hull Fleming Museum announced the opening of two new special exhibitions for the Summer 2009 season. Joining the current large-scale Lake Champlain Quadricentennial exhibition,A Beckoning Country: Art and Objects from the Lake Champlain Valley, are the contemporary art exhibition Elizabeth Billings: The Ties that Bind and the historical exhibition, Buffalo Soldiers in Vermont....More
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| National Gallery Joins Forces with Feltham Young Offenders Institution to Launch Creative Arts Academy |
LONDON.- The National Gallery is launching a new outreach programme encouraging young men detained in Feltham Young Offenders Institution to engage with the creative arts.
The programme, named 'Inside Art', will be undertaken by groups of 18–21 year-old men at the institution and will include sessions on sculpture, drawing, painting and gilding....More
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| Association of Art Museum Curators Welcomes its Fourth President, John Ravenal |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Association of Art Museum Curators announced the election of John Ravenal as its fourth president. “John Ravenal is both a distinguished curator and a respected member of the larger museum community; we are fortunate to have him as our next president,” says Sally Block, Executive Director of the AAMC. Ravenal is the Sydney and France Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, a position he ...More
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| Origin of Kaan Dynasty Could be in Ichkabal |
MEXICO CITY.- Ichkabal Archaeological Site is located in Quintana Roo, where answers to important Maya questions might be found, such as their agricultural system, scopes of their relation with Teotihuacan, and early history of Kaan reign, the most powerful among Maya States.
Transcendence of the site located 90 kilometers away from Bacalar Lagoon as link to Prehispanic civilization, turns it into a priority project of the ...More
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| NASA Announces Winners in Second Annual Lunar Art Contest |
HAMPTON, VA.- "Crater Core Sample," a painting by Zachary Madere of the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Lakewood, Colo., was judged the best of more than 90 imaginative entries. The painting shows an astronaut holding an icy cylinder in a darkened crater while two other astronauts look on.
This year, in addition to two-dimensional artwork and sculpture, NASA accepted three-dimensional art and digital art, including video....More
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