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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million challenge grant to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, to help create and support a new postdoctoral position for a Coordinator of Academic Affairs. The grant is the largest to date received by the Art Center, according to James Mundy, the museum’s Anne Hendricks Bass Director.

ZURICH.- The Kunsthalle Zürich presents the exhibition «A Literature of Images», a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Ian Wallace, who was born in 1943, lives and works in Vancouver, and is one of the most important representatives of the Vancouver conceptual art scene. The exhibition includes a wide range of the artist’s works extending from the 1970s to the present day. Ian

MONTREAL.- The exhibition Van Dongen - A Fauve in the City, presented from January 22 to April 19, 2009 at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (www.mmfa.qc.ca), is the first major retrospective of the work of Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968) in North America. The exhibition, which brings together some 200 works, including over a hundred paintings, forty rare drawings, prints and other archival documents and photographs as well as for the first time, a dozen Fauvist ceramics, will illustrate the influential role Van Dongen played in the early twentieth century as the only portraitist among the Fauves.

Sound art exhibitions opening - VACANT SPACE by Janek Schaefer, and more…
Sound, space and more: a season of exhibitions and events exploring sound art 25 Nov 2006 - 21 Jan 2007
Vacant Space A new sound and image installation by Janek Schaefer in collaboration with Chris Watson and David Tinapple
Does a tree falling in a forest make a sound if no one is there to hear it? Have you ever wondered what happens when you are not there?
Internationally-acclaimed, local sound artist and Guinness Book of Records record-holder Janek Schaefer’s new audio-visual installation, Vacant Space, invites you to experience the world in one small room. Let this beautiful, seductive and immersive work lead you through the infinite vistas of the private lives of sounds and buildings.
This stunning environment will guide you on a constantly shifting tour of hundreds of merging panoramic images and hours of captivating field recordings collected at locations all over the globe by award winning sound recording artist Chris Watson (The Life of Mammals, Big Cat Diary, Life in the Undergrowth).
Experience it now at South Hill Park
Credits: Commissioned by the Sonic Arts Network, Vacant Space was developed in collaboration with the sound recordist Chris Watson. Sound reactive projections were programmed by David Tinapple. Presentation supported by Film and Video Umbrella. With thanks to Ehouse.co.uk for the loan of their virtual tours image archive. Janek Schaeffer will be taking part in the Sound:Space Symposium on Sat 20 Jan 2007 at South Hill Park.
For more information http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org and http://www.southhillpark.org.uk
Opening reception: Fri 24 Nov 2006, 6-8.30p Free, all welcome. Art band Zedd5
Also showing:
Cracked Cities` by Julian Konczak interactive urban-focussed audio installation
Tone Poems by Nick Moore bold paintings doubling as musical scores
Pop, Skip & Jump 3 by John Stokes sound sculpture featuring vintage gadgetry
Looks like Sound by Barbs Attwood photography of sound
America is Bleeding by Stanza net-based sound projection
For further details contact:
Tom Freshwater Head of Visual Arts South Hill Park Arts Centre Bracknell RG12 7PA Direct tel. 01344 416240 http://www.southhillpark.org.uk mailto:tom.freshwater@southhillpark.org.uk