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Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Expansion Delay

7 listopada 2008 | Komentarze są wyłączone | Kategoria: Bez kategorii

SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announced today a decision by its Board of Commissioners to delay the start date of its $125 million expansion in Forest Park, originally intended for late 2008. The Board acted in response to current market conditions. “With the current disruption in the financial markets, we believe it is in the best interest of the Museum and the St. Louis community to temporarily delay our

The Museum of Modern Art in Brussels Presents Today COBRA

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BRUSSELS.-The Museum of Modern Art presents today COBRA. Created in Paris in November 1948 by artists coming from Copenhague (Jorn), Brussels (Dotremont, Noiret) and Amsterdam (Appel, Corneille, Constant), the CoBrA movement remains unknown out of Europe. Sometimes considered as a tail of Surrealist comet, sometimes as a Nordic expression of the tachiste or informal art,

Queensland Art Gallery Presents War: The Prints of Otto Dix

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QUEENSLAND.-The Queensland Art Gallery presents today War: The Prints of Otto Dix, on view through February 1, 2009. Otto DixÂ’s print cycle Der Krieg (War) 1924 ranks alongside PicassoÂ’s Guernica 1937 as one of the most powerful indictments of war created in the twentieth century. Produced as a print portfolio in an edition of 70, Der Krieg consists of 51 etchings

Revealed Anew Opens at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

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POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- As a number of key works from the permanent collection are on tour in a major exhibition in Japan, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (FLLAC) curators decided to review rarely seen paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures in the museum’s storage vaults in order to present a sampling of works that have not been on view in recent years. In addition to the

An Icon of American Advertising J. C. Leyendecker: America’s “Other” Illustrator at the Morris Museum of Art

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AUGUSTA, GA.- Before Norman Rockwell became famous, there was J. C. Leyendecker—the nation’s most popular and successful commercial artist of the first four decades of the twentieth century. The Morris Museum of Art exhibits J.C. Leyendecker: America’s “Other” Illustrator—more than fifty paintings, sketches, original magazine covers, and advertisements by Leyendecker from the collection

GL Strand Presents Kara Walker – Humour and Horror in Seductive Works

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COPENHAGEN.- GL Strand presents Kara Walker – Humour and Horror in Seductive Works, on view through January 18, 2009. For the first time in Scandinavia GL STRAND presents a solo exhibition with the world famous artist Kara Walker, who is known for her seductively beautiful silhouette-scenarios about race, gender and differences. Kara Walker is one of the most complex and ambitious American artists in her

Design Museum Gent Presents Hermann Jünger. Jewelry – Found Treasures

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GHENT.- Design Museum Gent presents Hermann Jünger. Jewelry – Found Treasures, on view through February 8, 2009. Hermann Jünger (1928-2005) is regarded internationally as one of the most influential goldsmiths of the present day. His work possessed ignitive, innovative character. His art revolutionised modern jewelry design. “Found treasures and jewelry pieces united – connections, parallels,

Museum Exhibition of McBrien Collection Surveys and Celebrates 20th Century Japanese Craft

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PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a survey exhibition of Japanese crafts – including ceramics, lacquerware, metalwork, and wood – in all their rich diversity of media and techniques spanning the 20th century. In The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present (December 6, 2008 – Spring 2009), the works reflect many key moments of artistic activity, from

Neuberger Museum of Art Announces Important Curatorial Appointment

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PURCHASE, NY.- Helaine Posner, well-known contemporary art curator and co-author of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, has been named Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs of the Neuberger Museum of Art. The appointment was announced today by Thom Collins, Director of the Museum, the tenth largest

The RISD Museum of Art Presents Harry Callahan: Eleanor

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PROVIDENCE, RI.- On Friday, November 7, The RISD Museum of Art presents approximately 80 acclaimed and influential images by former RISD faculty member and photography department founder Harry Callahan in an exhibition that explores one of the artist’s most studied subject—his wife Eleanor Callahan. Harry Callahan: Eleanor offers an in-depth study of Callahan’s

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