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| Schaulager in Basel Assembles 200 Paintings and Sculptures for this Year's Exhibition |
Frank Stella, Damascus Gate. Variation I. 1969-70, acrylic on canvas, 119 4/5 x 480 1/3 x 3 1/7". Kunstmuseum Basel. Photo: Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Martin P. Bühler © 2009 Pro Litteris, Zürich.
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BASEL.- This year’s exhibition at Schaulager, ‘Holbein to Tillmans’, assembles approximately 200 paintings and sculptures, created between 1500 and the present, from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel. They are joined by several works from private collections and roughly thirty works from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, which is associated with the Kunstmuseum. With this exhibition, Schaulager, which until now has been exclusively dedicated to contemporary art, is setting out on ...More
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| New Museum to Present Life & Achievement of Walt Disney Opening Fall 2009 |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The fascinating and inspiring story of Walt Disney, whose artistry, creations, and vision helped define 20th century American culture, will be brought to life at The Walt Disney Family Museum, which opens in San Francisco in the fall of 2009. The Museum will illuminate Walt Disney’s tremendous ...More
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| Scheffer's Painting of Christ the Comforter Discovered in a Church in Rural Minnesota |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- A painting from 1851 of one of the most celebrated and reproduced religious images of the nineteenth century – Christus Consolator – has been rediscovered by Rev. Steven Olson, pastor of Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Dassel, Minnesota, and given in memory of Rev. D. J. Nordling to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts ...More
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| International Design Museum in Munich Opens Democratic Design: IKEA |
MUNICH.- »Beautiful shapes are there for everyone. And are not just for the museum!«
This exclamation in 1979 by the then IKEA Head of Design still sets the South Swedish corporation’s design agenda today – it has since its foundation in 1948 by Ingvar Kamprad morphed from a one-man store...More
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| Sotheby's will Stage its Scottish Pictures Auction in London for the First Time |
LONDON.- 2008 was a successful year for Scottish Pictures at Sotheby’s with almost £9 million worth of Scottish Pictures sold and at least eight new auction records established. Now, the first of the bi-annual sales in the field this year will be staged on Wednesday, April ...More
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| Moscow Museum of Modern Art Opens Christian Dior: 60 Years of Photography |
MOSCOW.- Christian Dior presents the exhibition Christian Dior: 60 years of Photography that will be held during the 6th International Festival “Fashion and Style in Photography 2009”. This exhibition tells the history of Christian Dior through a selection of 120 pictures from the world’s greatest photographers....More
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| Revised Plans for New Tate Modern Building Receive Planning Permission |
LONDON.- The revised plans for the new development of Tate Modern by leading international architects Herzog & de Meuron have been granted planning permission by Southwark Council it was announced today. ...More
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| Imagine: The Peace Ballad of John & Yoko Exclusively at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |
MONTREAL.- In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s famous Bed-in, held from May 26 to June 2 in Suite 1742 of Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel, made headlines around the world. Forty years later, from April 2 to June 21, 2009, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will celebrate this legendary event with Imagine: The Peace Ballad of ...More
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| Art 40 Basel Announces Art Premiere: 19 Gallery-curated Projects |
BASEL.- The Art Premiere sector at Art 40 Basel this year presents 19 gallery-curated projects featuring a dialogue juxtaposing two artists, a presentation by a single artist of any age or exceptional art historical material – a new category within the sector, which focuses on the curatorial aspects of the gallerist’s practice. With a record ...More
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| Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Shows Virgin with the Child as Part of the Guest Work Programme |
BILBAO.- From 2001, The Guest Work programme has exhibited outstanding works from a number of museums and collections as a way of enriching our vision of artists with works in the permanent Museum collection, or of showing artists not represented there. In 2004 the Fundación Santander became ...More
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| Edinburgh Art Festival Receives Money to Establish a Commissioning Fund |
EDINBURGH.- Edinburgh Art Festival has received money from the Scottish Government Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund to establish a commissioning fund for new work by Scottish visual artists. ...More
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| High Museum Extends Hours and Special Offers for the First Emperor in April |
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art continues to extend hours and special offers in the final week of “The First Emperor: China ’s Terracotta Army.” The exhibition, which has brought in over 320,000 visitors to date, will close on Sunday, April 19. The High will be offering half-price tickets on Monday, April 6, courtesy of GE (who is also...More
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| Walker Art Center Announces Exhibition that Examines the Magic and Mysteries of Conceptual Art |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Art that reaches beyond itself to describe the limits of what we know—and the immensity of what we don’t—is surveyed in the Walker Art Center exhibition The Quick and the Dead premiering April 25–September 27. The show seeks, in part, to ask what is alive and dead within the legacy of...More
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| Cheekwood Announces Special Lecture with Artist William Christenberry |
NASHVILLE, TN.- On April 15, renowned Artist William Christenberry will discuss the exhibition Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry currently on view in Cheekwood’s Museum of Art. Christenberry, along with Cheekwood’s curator of art, Jochen Wierich, will share the stories and memories that inspired him and led him to ...More
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| Artist and Writer Harland Miller to Present a Collection of Paintings and Montages at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art |
GATESHEAD.- These works, located on the ground floor, have been made or adapted, specifically for Baltic from a series of works Miller has referred to as the Bad Weather paintings. Based on the dust jackets of old Penguin books they are painterly reproductions of these iconic classics but with fictitious titles that are ...More
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| Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H. C. Westermann Study Collection |
CHICAGO, IL.- The University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H. C. Westermann Study Collection, a comprehensive new exhibition that offers fresh insight into the work and life of the postwar American artist H. C. (“Cliff”) Westermann (1922–1981). ...More
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| Zoe Leonard: Photographs Opens at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich |
MUNICH.- American Zoe Leonard (born in 1961 in Liberty, New York), whose works have been exhibited several times at the documenta and the Whitney Biennial, is one of the most exceptional artists of her generation. For more than twenty years her photographs have reflected her cerebral roaming combined with carefully considered observations. On her forays through ...More
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| Art Fair ROMA: The Road to Contemporary Art Opens Today |
ROME.- After the success of the last edition, the Italian capital welcomes the return of the international art fair ROMA - The Road to Contemporary Art, which runs from April 2 – 5, 2009. This year, the event will not only be a great opportunity for art market professionals to meet and do business, but will also feature a series of ...More
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| The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Announces "The Tsars and the East: Gifts from and Iran in The Moscow Kremlin" |
WASHINGTON, DC.- His Excellency Dmitry A. Medvedev, president of the Russian Federation, has granted his patronage to the upcoming exhibition, "The Tsars and the East: Gifts from Turkey and Iran in The Moscow Kremlin," at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution May 9 through Sept. 13. "The...More
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| Christie's Prints and Multiples Sale in April Features a Strong Selection of Modern Art |
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s Prints & Multiples sale on April 28 in New York will feature a wonderful selection of works from private collections, many of which will appear for the first time at auction. Rich in quality, the sale presents collectors with opportunities to acquire historically important and rare works such as Wassily...More
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| Masterpieces of African and Oceanic Art from Barbier-Mueller Museum on View This Summer at Metropolitan Museum |
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition featuring exceptional works of African and Oceanic sculpture selected from the extensive holdings of the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, one of Europe's preeminent private collections of non-Western art, will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 2. Presenting more ...More
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