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| Women in Power: Caterina and Maria de' Medici - Two Queens of France Return to Florence |
Jacopo Chimenti named l’Empoli (1551-1640), Wedding of Maria de’ Medici and Henry IV King of France, Oil on canvas, 242 x 242 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
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FLORENCE.- On 30 June 1559, the young Florentine bride of the French King Henri II suddenly found herself a widow. In the failing light, her dashing and headstrong 40-year-old husband was killed in a friendly joust by the young captain of his Scottish guard whose lance accidentally pierced the king’s eye through his metal visor. In a tragedy said to have been foretold by Nostradamus, Caterina de’ Medici lost a husband and was surrounded by enemies, the Dukes of Guise and Montmorency, each vying for power over her frail 15-year-old son Francis II, the new King of France. As her own childhood had been shaped by intrigues and assassination attempts, Caterina knew how important it was to keep and exercise power. Palazzo Strozzi presents Women in Power: Caterina and Maria de’ Medici - The Return to Florence of Two Queens of France, on view through 8 February 2009. ...More
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| Barcelona Painter Joan Abelló i Prat, 85, Passes Away |
BARCELONA.- Barcelona painter Joan Abelló, 85, has passed away, just one day before he would have turned 86 years old, reported the Abelló Museum. The funeral will take place this Saturday at the Sant Vicenç church in Mollet at noon. The artist had donated his art collection and art to the city of Mollet del Vallés (Barcelona). Joan Abelló i Prat was born in Mollet del Vallès in 1922 and took his first steps in the world of painting at an early age. Of his training period, we should ...More
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| Toulouse-Lautrec And Paris Heats Up The Clark Beginning February 1 |
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA- Vibrant and racy Parisian nightlife of the late nineteenth century will be on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute this winter. Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris, an exhibition of over eighty remarkable oil paintings, posters, photographs, drawings, and lithographs, marks the first time in over fifteen years that the Clark will show nearly its entire extraordinary collection of works by the great French painter and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Toulouse-Lautrec and ...More
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| New Views of Humankind Beginning January 2, 2009 In the Ars Electronica Center |
LINZ January 2, 2009. 11 AM. Strange sounds reverberate over the Ars Electronica Plaza. Then a drum roll. A foghorn. And with that, the big moment has finally arrived … 35 hours into Linz’s Capital of Culture year, the doors of the new Ars Electronica Center will swing open and launch OpenDays (January 2-4), Ars Electronica and LIWEST’s cordial invitation to embark on an all-expenses-paid journey of adventure through the new facility. And no matter how big a crowd gathers at the Wintergastgarten on the Main Deck, no one will be left out in the cold....More
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| Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Presents Mark Manders - "The Absence of Mark Manders" |
GHENT.- Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent presents Mark Manders - “The Absence of Mark Manders”, on view through February 22, 2009. Since the end of the 1980s Mark Manders (b. 1968, Volkel, the Netherlands) has created sculptural installations – or better said: installation sculpture – which can all be regarded as sections of a self portrait in the form of imaginary spaces. Through his recent participation in the 24th Sao Paulo Biennale (1998), the Venice Biennale (2001) and Documenta 11 in ...More
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| The Clark Acquires Important Album of Prints By J.M.W. Turner |
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute announced today the acquisition of a nineteenth-century collector's album of prints from J.M.W. Turner's Liber Studiorum, or Book of Studies. Widely considered to be Turner's "visual manifesto" on the art of landscape, the Liber Studiorum had an enormous influence on artists in the nineteenth century. The new acquisition...More
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| Public To Vote on London's Largest Street Exhibition By Students From The Royal Academy Schools |
LONDON.-The Royal Academy Schools and the international real estate company Hines, launch an online competition inviting members of the public to vote for their favourite work of art from a raft of talented Royal Academy Schools’ students. The competition can be found on a dedicated website www.onespiritshowcase.com. The artworks will be exhibited on London’s biggest urban gallery, which takes the form of a super-sized canvas stretched across the southern façade of One Grafton Street - a corner building currently under construction in Central London....More
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| Musée de l'Elysée Presents Valérie Belin - Retrospective |
LAUSANNE.- Musée de l'Elysée presents Valérie Belin - Retrospective, on view through January 14, 2009. This mid-career retrospective, organized in collaboration with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Museum Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, presents the work of a French photographer, one of the most talented and highly esteemed artists of her generation. The body and its metamorphoses is the common denominator of the themes dealt with by Valérie Belin. Her subjects ...More
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| The Museum of Modern Art Screens Blithe Spirit Film Today |
NEW YORK.- The Museum of Modern Art will screen today Blithe Spirit at 4:45 p.m. The film also screens Wednesday, December 31, 6:30 p.m. Based on Noel Coward's 1941 play and adapted for the screen by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, and Ronald Neame, Blithe Spirit (1945, Great Britain) stars Rex Harrison as a remarried widower doing research on the supernatural. When he and his second...More
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| artparis Welcomes the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation Prize for Contemporary Drawing2009 |
PARIS.- From March 19th through 23rd, artparis, the international art fair, celebrates modern and contemporary art in all its forms, reuniting 130 international galleries at the historical Grand Palais in Paris. On this occasion, contemporary drawing is awarded a place of honor with the Prize for Contemporary Drawing of the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation. Launched at the moment of artparis 06, the prize aims to underline the importance of ...More
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| Lights On Tampa Public Art Project Returns |
TAMPA, FL.- Lights On Tampa returns as the esthetically beautiful and engaging public art project from January 10 thru Super Bowl XLIII on February 1. The biennial is free, and is one of the most ambitious public art projects in the region. Lights On Tampa will transform the city’s urban spaces with installations that embellish downtown's public realm with visual innovation created by nationally and internationally renowned artists....More
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| The Donnie 2009 International Contest and Exhibit. First prize: $1000.00 |
BROOKLYN, NY.- This is the ninth annual international contest and exhibit, one of the largest and most prestigious digital art events in the world. It is an open event for quality digital art and enhanced photography from beginners to advanced artists. No art is refused. Even if you're not a winner, this is a powerful venue for your art virtually and physically. That is, the museum will professionally print and frame behind glass ...More
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| Farida Batool, Tazeen Qayyum, and Adeela Suleman - Three Female Contemporary Artists From Pakistan |
NEW YORK.- Aicon Gallery New York presents three female Pakistani artists, Farida Batool, Tazeen Qayyum, and Adeela Suleman, in its recently relocated space on 35 Great Jones Street. During a time of great political upheaval for the country, the three women’s artistic practices speak to the role of women, the tumultuous recent history, and the contemporary view of the nation and its inhabitants in the eyes of the West....More
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| Jon Montero and Naiara Montero Win Competition to Renovate Tabakalera |
SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN.- The team formed by Jon Montero and Naiara Montero has recently won the International Competition for the Architectural Renovation of Tabakalera. The Jury's proposal was officially ratified by a decision made by the ICCC Board of Directors on December. The Jury highlighted the following aspects of the winning proposal: Its sensitivity to the uses of the future centre and its ability to adapt to the requirements of said uses. Its openness ...More
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| Stephen Bulger Elected President of The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) |
NEW YORK.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), a non-profit organization comprising the world's leading photography art dealers, has announced that Stephen Bulger, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, has been elected as AIPAD's next president. His two-year term will begin on January 1, 2009. "Stephen Bulger has made significant contributions to the photography community ...More
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| Esphyr Slobodkina Retrospective at The Heckscher Museum of Art |
HUNTINGTON, NY.- To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Russian-American artist Esphyr Slobodkina’s birth, a retrospective of her work will be shown at The Heckscher Museum of Art. The exhibition will include works from The Heckscher Museum's extensive Slobodkina holdings, supplemented with works from the collection of the Slobodkina Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the ...More
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| Wynwood Alternative Gallery Receives Funding Award to Ensure Continuity of Public Art Project |
MIAMI, FL.- Artformz Alternative announces the award of a 3-year grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Foundation reviewed 1,700 submissions and chose 31 winning projects that demonstrated the power to positively impact Miami's cultural community. The Knight Foundation Arts Partnership is a five-year, $40 million initiative to transform the South Florida arts. The effort includes endowment grants to leading arts institutions, plus a community-wide contest to fund the best arts ideas. The ...More
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| The Odyssey Within at The Agora Gallery |
NEW YORK, NY.-The Agora Gallery (530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, 10001) is proud to present The Odyssey Within: Fine Art by Artists Living in Italy and Greece and of Italian and Greek Origin. Scheduled to run through January 2, 2009, The Odyssey Within is a captivating survey of modern-day artists from Greece and Italy. The artistic conceptions vary dramatically while retaining a ...More
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| Proud Galleries Presents The Blues Anthology |
LONDON.- Proud Camden presents The Blues Anthology, a photographic portrait of the icons whose music was to inform the sound of all popular music thereafter. Profiled through rare and iconic images by the very best Blues photographers, Proud Camden will expose the artists of a sound that had roots in the field hollers and work songs of slavery but evolved into music that was to ...More
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| Los Angeles Art Show Makes Move to Los Angeles Convention Center |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) and KR Martindale Show Management announced the leap of the Los Angeles Art Show (LA Art Show) to the Los Angeles Convention Center beginning with the January 21-25, 2009 show. Now in its 14th year, the move will nearly double the size of the LA Art Show and increase the number of international galleries to 175 exhibitors. With...More
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