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| PHotoEspaña 2009: Festival of Photography Offers 74 Exhibitions at Twelfth Edition |
View of the exhibition “The 70’s. Photography and everyday”, which was presented today at Fundacion Santander as part of the program of exhibitions at PhotoEspaña 2009. The exhibition includes more than two hundred photographs from 23 of the best artists from the last quarter of the 20th Century, Photo: EFE/JuanJo Martín.
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MADRID.- PHotoEspaña 2009 will take place from 3 June to 26 July. The Festival of Photography and Visual Arts will offer at this twelfth edition a proposal comprising 74 exhibitions, 31 in the Official Section, 7 in other venues and 35 in the Off Festival, spread in a total of 60 exhibition spaces such as museums, art galleries, art centres and exhibition rooms. 259 artists and creators of 40 nationalities will participate at the Festival. The Official Section of PHE09 will develop the concept of The everyday. The Festival will include exhibitions by artists belonging to different generations, geographic origins and artistic and conceptual tendencies. It will preferably focus on recent productions, but will also try to reveal historic times where connection between photography and the everyday has acquired special importance. The Official Section will be completed by Historical exhibitions and Grand Masters, and it will also ...More
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| Tate Britain Shows First Survey in London for Eighteen Years of the Work of Richard Long |
LONDON.- Heaven and Earth is a major exhibition of the work of Richard Long and his first survey in London for eighteen years. The exhibition will include important works selected across four decades and will provide an opportunity to understand afresh Long’s radical rethinking of the relationship between art and landscape. Comprising around 80 works, Heaven and Earth will include sculptures, new large-scale wall works, and photographic and text works documenting walks around the world, from Dartmoor to Japan. ...More
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| Duchamp, Miró, Marc, Monet and Picasso Highlight Christie's Auction of Impressionist and Modern Art |
LONDON.- The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will take place at Christie’s on 23 June and will offer 46 works of art, including exceptional museum-quality masterpieces by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Franz Marc, Joan Miró, Camille Pissarro and Marcel Duchamp. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £40 million and will be on public view at Christie’s in London from 18 to 23 June 2009....More
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| Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt Showcases Comprehensive Solo Sarah Morris Exhibition |
FRANKFURT.- MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main is showcasing a comprehensive solo exhibition of works by American artist Sarah Morris (born 1967) in conjunction with the current presentation of works from the MMK’s collection, which focuses on American and European art of the 1960s and major examples of Pop Art and Minimalism. Morris’s oeuvre spans across both film and painting, relating strongly to the formal language of the Pop Art and Minimalist movements, expanding and challenging their vocabulary and placing it in a new ...More
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| Arriving at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: A Gothic Tower by Artist Wim Delvoye |
VENICE.- From June 3 to November 22, 2009 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s latest creation Torre: a stainless steel Gothic tower constructed, with its ogival windows and its turrets, to rise over the terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, overlooking the Grand Canal.
Both architecture and ornament, Torre by Delvoye demonstrates not only ethereal majesty and vision but forceful material presence, drawing inspiration from masterpieces of Gothic architecture such as ...More
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| Mark Lewis Represents Canada with Four New Films at the 53rd International Art Exhibition |
VENICE.- Cold Morning, a selection of four new films by Mark Lewis, one of Canada’s most internationally renowned artists, will be on view at the Canada Pavilion as part of the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2009. On view from 7 June to 22 November 2009, La Biennale di Venezia is the longest-running and most prestigious international venue for presenting contemporary visual art.
The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House (...More
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| Loan Exhibition of Major American Impressionist and Realist Paintings Opens at Queensland Art Gallery |
BRISBANE.- American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met makes available to Australian audiences, for the first time and on an unprecedented scale, a selection of 71 paintings from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition opened May 30 at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, the exhibition includes many of the Metropolitan’s best examples in the American Impressionist and Realist traditions. These paintings have never before been displayed together ...More
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| A Collection of Color Plate Books, Maps, Atlases, Watercolors and Paintings will be Offered at Sotheby's |
NEW YORK, NY.- On 19 June 2009, Sotheby’s will present The Graham Arader Sale. For almost four decades, Graham Arader has been one of the world’s most recognizable collectors and dealers of color-plate books, atlases, cartography, and natural history watercolors. This June, Sotheby’s will offer a remarkable selection from his holdings, ranging from original watercolors from Redouté’s Les Lilacées to the ...More
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| MoMA to Present the First Major U.S. Retrospective of Ron Arad's Work |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Ron Arad: No Discipline, the first major U.S. retrospective of Arad’s work. Among the most influential designers of our time, Arad (British, b. Israel 1951) stands out for his daredevil curiosity about form, structure, technology, and materials and for the versatile nature of his work, which spans industrial design, hand-crafted studio...More
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| Internationally Renowned Architect Glenn Murcutt Honoured at Museum of Sydney |
SYDNEY.- Discover why Glenn Murcutt is Australia’s best-known and most influential international architect when the exhibition Glenn Murcutt: Architecture for Place opens 13 June at the Museum of Sydney.
Originally presented at the prestigious Gallery Ma in Tokyo, the exhibition has been brought to Sydney by the Architecture Foundation Australia....More
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| Susan Kleinberg Mounts Installation at Telecom Italia Future Center for the Venice Biennale |
VENICE.- Susan Kleinberg presents her latest projection, “Tierra Sin Males,” during the opening week of the 2009 Venice Biennale at the Telecom Italia Future Centre in the exquisite 16th Century Cloister of San Salvador, designed by Sansovino....More
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| Design Museum Celebrates Visionary Design from London's Creative Mavericks |
LONDON.- Super Contemporary is the spirit of London design, past, present and future. The exhibition celebrates and examines the creative magnetism of London and its enduring reputation as a beacon of design. The Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to showcase 15 new commissions from London’s most dynamic creatives to explore what it is that attracts the world’s leading designers to study, work and live in the city....More
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| New York Academy of Art Opens its Summer Exhibition 2009 Juried by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers and Anne Strauss |
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Academy of Art will open its annual Summer Exhibition. The exhibition comprises 123 works by current students and alumni including paintings, drawings, limited-edition prints and sculpture. It opens at the Academy with a public reception on Tuesday, June 2nd, from 6 – 8 pm. The show will run from June 3rd to August 2nd, Monday through Friday, 1 – 7 pm, Saturday, 12 – 5:30 pm, or by appointment. It is free and open to the public. All works are available for purchase....More
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| First Solo Museum Show Devoted to Katharina Fritsch' s Work Opens in Zurich |
ZURICH.- From 3 June to 30 August 2009, the Kunsthaus Zürich will host a retrospective devoted to the work of Katharina Fritsch, one of the most significant artists of our day. The show will also include new pieces by the artist. Famed for her large-scale sculptures, whose hypnotic effect the viewer experiences in the blink of an eye, Fritsch plays with humanity’s primeval ideas, desires and fears. Her most recent art ventures into fresh artistic territory, including erotica as seen from the female point of view....More
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| Crystal Bridges Expands Public Programs Team |
BENTONVILLE, AR.- Aaron W. Jones recently joined the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Learning Experiences team as the Public Tour Program Coordinator. Jones began his duties May 18, 2009 and currently reports to Director of Learning Experiences Lynn Berkowitz until the Head of Public Programs position is filled....More
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| Pierre-Marie Giraud will Present Some Sixty Original Contemporary Ceramic Pieces in Basel |
BASEL.- For his second participation in Design Miami/Basel, scheduled to run from June 8 to 13, 2009, Brussels gallery owner Pierre-Marie Giraud will present some sixty original contemporary ceramic pieces that study the relationship between contemporary ceramics and sculpture.
“The collector’s eye has diversified; a taste for mixture has returned. So let’s use ...More
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| Roxy Paine Makes New "Dendroid" for National Gallery of Art; Slated for Fall 2009 Installation in Sculpture Garden |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has commissioned American sculptor Roxy Paine to make a stainless steel Dendroid, as the artist calls his series of tree–like sculptures. Scheduled to be installed in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden this fall, this work will be the first by Paine to enter the collection, as well as the first contemporary sculpture to be installed in the Sculpture Garden in the nearly ten years since it opened. ...More
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| "Artful Animals" Exhibition Opens July 1 at the National Museum of African Art |
WASHINGTON, DC.- “Artful Animals” is a new family-friendly exhibition of artworks that presents the animals of Africa in a new light, dispelling myths and stereotypes and highlighting where and why they are represented in community performances, paintings and textiles by traditional and contemporary artists. The exhibition opens at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art Wednesday, July 1, and continues through Feb. 21, 2010. The exhibition of 125 works is ...More
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| Heart of Houston's Museum District To Be Transformed This Week With a Public Art Installation |
HOUSTON, TX.- This week, Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez brings his Kinetic Art sensibilities to the streets of Houston, transforming the crosswalks that connect the central campus buildings of the MFAH with an optical grid of "zebra" stripes. The artist generously donated one of his original concepts to the MFAH, which calls for the streets themselves to be used as a canvas; a lead gift to help fund the project has been given by prominent Latin American art collectors Leslie and Brad Bucher;...More
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| Cultural Artifacts Returned to Anguilla by the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
WASHINGTON, DC.- The FBI today returned more than 100 bronze medallions to the Government of Anguilla in a ceremony during the island's 42nd national holiday, or Anguilla Day, celebrations. The medallions were presented to The Honorable Mr. Osbourne Fleming, Chief Minister, by Samuel Bryant, Jr., the FBI Legal Attaché in Bridgetown. ...More
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