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| Stolen Nude by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Is Recovered in Italy After 33 Years - Three Arrested |
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ROME.- Italian police informed that a work of art by Pierre-Auguste Renoir that was stolen from a private collector in Milan in 1975, was recovered. Three people have been arrested in a northern Italian town near the Austria border allegedly for trafficking in stolen art works. According to the police, the small oil painting features the back of a naked woman turning her head towards the viewer and is valued at around €500,000. Renoir painted it in his last years. Police officer Raffaele Mancino said, "It was stolen in 1975 along with other paintings from a restoration lab where the owner, who has since died, had taken it for minor repairs."...More
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| Andy Warhol: Pop Politics at Manchester's Currier Museum of Art |
MANCHESTER, NH.- Andy Warhol—one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century—captured the likeness of some of the most visionary and powerful political leaders of the 20th century. Images of John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, and Mao Zedong, among others will hang side-by-side when the Currier Museum of Art presents ...More
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| Jan Fabre: From the Cellar to the Attic, From the Feet to the Brain at Kunsthaus Bregenz |
BREGENZ.- In 1978, Jan Fabre (*1958 in Antwerp/Belgium) erected a tent on his parents property, which was to serve as his bedroom, laboratory, studio, retreat, and private universe for a long time to come. He called this work De neus/neuslaboratorium”(The Nose/Nose Lab”). It was Fabre‘s first sculptural work and can be considered the nucleus of his oeuvre. Three tent poles, a blanket ...More
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| Museum of Arts and Design Opens New Home at Columbus Circle Designed by Brad Cloepfil |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) opens the doors to its new home at Columbus Circle, designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, on September 27. With triple the space of its previous facility, the 54,000-square-foot building allows MAD to dedicate galleries to its growing permanent collection for the first time in its history, and distinguishes the...More
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| Enchanted Eyes: Surrealist Drawings and Prints on View at Kunstmuseum Basel |
BASEL.- Surrealism began as a literary movement, for which reason Max Morise attacked surrealist art in his article “Les yeux enchantés (Enchanted eyes)”, published in the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste (The Surrealist Revolution, 1 December 1924). ...More
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| Fenimore Art Museum to Present a Major Retrospective on the Work of Earl Cunningham |
COOPERSTOWN, NY.- The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, will present Earl Cunningham’s America, an exhibition featuring the paintings of one of the premier folk artists of the 20th century, Earl Cunningham (1893-1977). This national traveling exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., will be on view through December 31, 2008. ...More
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| Lawrence Weiner - As Far as the Eye Can See Opens at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen |
DUSSELDORF.- The exhibition Lawrence Weiner - As Far as the Eye can See is a retrospective on the oeuvre of one of the cofounders (born in 1942) of so-called Conceptual Art. There has not been a comparative show of this radical, complex, epochmaking and influential work since 1988. This show has already taken place in the Whitney Museum in New York and the Museum of Contemporary...More
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| ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art to Open The Discreet Charm of Technology: Arts in Spain |
KARLSRUHE.- Luis Buñuel made more than a hint at his ambiguous, ironic intent when he entitled one of his most memorable films "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie". Apart from making an acid social critique, the film also shows us the fragile boundaries that exist between different ways of acting on reality. ...More
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| Erwin Olaf - Rain, Hope, Grief & Fall Opens at Hague Museum of Photography |
THE HAGUE.- With their averted eyes half open, staring into nothingness, the models in the photographs in Erwin Olaf’s latest series, Fall, evoke a strange kind of aloofness. The portraits are interspersed with still lifes of plants and flowers in simple ceramic vases. With its use of colour, the strange, almost awkward expressions on the faces of the models and the almost unreal setting...More
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| Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play Opens at Akron Art Museum |
AKRON, OH.- Inquiring minds want to know – “How exactly does a ‘kinetic sculptural installation’ come to fruition? What makes the sculpture chatter, jump, jitter and sing?” Jean-Pierre Gauthier presents today a new exhibition, Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play, in the museum’s Karl and Bertl Arnstein galleries. Eleven installations, several of which fill an entire gallery by ...More
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| The Other Mainstream II: Selections From the Collection of Mikke and Stanley Weithorn Opens |
TEMPE, AZ.- The Arizona State University Art Museum presents The Other Mainstream II: Selections From the Collection of Mikke and Stanley Weithorn, on view through January 4, 2009. The Other Mainstream II is the second exhibition at the ASU Art Museum that focuses on the adventurous contemporary art collection of Valley residents Mikki and Stanley Weithorn. ...More
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| Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers Opens at Bruce Museum |
GREENWICH.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents a fascinating array of both famous and little-known works in its new exhibition and catalogue Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers, which is on view through January 4, 2009. This is the first museum show to feature the great mosaic of Parisian art as a "group portrait" of its leading practitioners. Kenneth E. Silver, ...More
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| The Harwood Museum of Art Announces New Development Director |
TAOS, NM.- The Harwood Museum of Art announced the hire of new Development Director, Juniper Manley. Ms Manley received her Masters in Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon University: Heinz School of Public Policy and Management in 2004 and a BA in Arts in Anthropology from Reed College in 1996. She has been a valued member of the Harwood Alliance for the past few years ...More
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| New Public Art Finds Inspiration in the Anaphoric Clock |
KANSAS CITY.-It is likely the largest, and most accurate, modern recreation of an anaphoric clock in the world. The Star Disk (2008), a new public art sculpture located in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, was created by Kansas City artist, Laura DeAngelis with Davison Architecture + Urban Design. The new sculpture brings a creative and interactive approach to learning about science and ...More
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| Cheekwood Museum of Art Presents Its Second Scarecrows Exhibition |
NASHVILLE, TN.- Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art presents the second annual exhibition, Scarecrows, on display September 27 through November 9. Dozens of fabulous, weird, funny, and traditional scarecrows will lurk along Cheekwood’s paths. The community is invited to participate by designing one of the many scarecrows that will be displayed....More
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| Palmer Museum of Art Presents Selling the Susquehanna |
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art presents Selling the Susquehanna, on view through December 21, 2008. The longest river on the eastern seaboard, the Susquehanna River figures prominently in the Museum's Pennsylvania Print Collection. The 330 pieces in the collection were acquired in 1986 as a partial gift from John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager, who for ...More
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