| Happy Holidays To All and A Joyful New Year Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:35 PM PST ANNOUNCEMENT: Our website was hacked and our servers were frozen for three days +. We have repaired the damage and we are back online with our daily publication. Sorry for the many emails that have bounced during the downtime that was beyond our control. Because of our downtime we are posting many interesting articles from our archives, some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in your magazine during the past six plus (6+) years . . Enjoy. |  |
| The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to showcase Impressionist Giovanni Boldini Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:33 PM PST 
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- During his lifetime, the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) achieved tremendous popularity in Europe and the United States, where he was celebrated for his vibrant brushwork and striking portraits. The exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris illuminates Boldini's early career when he lived in Paris and painted the city's bustling streets, cafes, and concert halls, as well as charming scenes of its sunny suburban landscapes, while developing his unique style. Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, the first Boldini exhibition in the United States in twenty years, opens at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on February 14, 2010.
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| National Gallery of Victoria Acquires the John Brack Masterpiece ~ 'The Bar' Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:31 PM PST 
MELBOURNE, AU - The National Gallery of Victoria announced that the NGV has acquired John Brack's outstanding work, "The Bar", with support from the Victorian Government. The painting, which the NGV sought unsuccessfully to purchase at auction in 2006, was offered to the Gallery for acquisition by Tasmanian collector David Walsh, who purchased it at public auction. The bar is widely regarded as the companion painting to John Brack's Collins St., 5 p.m., one of the NGV's most popular works with the visiting public.  |
| MoMA celebrates The Philippe de Montebello Years ~ Three Decades of Acquisitions Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:30 PM PST 
New York City - To celebrate Philippe de Montebello's 31 years as Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the curators of the Museum organized an exhibition of approximately 300 of the more than 84,000 works of art acquired during his tenure. This unique project – The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions, which will be on view in The Tisch Galleries through February 1, 2009 – is a collaboration of the curators currently working in the Museum's 17 curatorial departments. Mr. de Montebello – the eighth and longest-serving Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art – announced in January his plans to retire at the end of the year.  |
| Roy Lichtenstein - Posters at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:28 PM PST 
HAMBURG, GERMANY - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg presents Roy Lichtenstein - Posters - First composed: C. 70 exhibits from the period 1962 – 1997, on view through March 1, 2009. In all, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) designed something like seventy posters, which are brought together here for the first time. They give an overview of the prolific motives which fill the world of an artist who, with his trademark dot matrices painted in a two-dimensional plane, became a bye-word for American Pop Art together with Andy Warhol.  |
| The National Gallery of Art premieres Dutch Cityscapes Exhibition Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:27 PM PST 
WASHINGTON, DC.- Visitors will travel back in time to Dutch cities of the 17th century during Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age, on view February 1 through May 3, 2009, in the West Building, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibition of 48 paintings and 23 maps, atlases, and illustrated books will offer a breathtaking survey of the Dutch cityscape, from wide-angle panoramas depicting the urban skyline with its fortifications, windmills, and church steeples, to renderings of daily life along the canals, in city streets, and in town squares.  |
| New Raffaëlli Acquisition at the de Young Museum this Summer Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:25 PM PST 
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Coincidentally timed with the special exhibition Birth of Impressionism at the de Young Museum, John E. Buchanan, Jr., the director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announces the acquisition of The Absinthe Drinkers (Les buveurs d'absinthe), 1881, by the French painter Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850–1924). Widely regarded as one of the artist's most important and accomplished paintings, The Absinthe Drinkers will temporarily grace the entrance of the Birth of Impressionism exhibition this summer before settling into its permanent home in gallery 19 at the Legion of Honor.  |
| The London Jewish Museum Acquires An Unseen Masterpiece by Marc Chagall Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:23 PM PST 
LONDON.- Ben Uri, The London Jewish Museum of Art kick-start their search for a new 20,000 sq ft building in the heart of Central London with an exhibition demonstrating the wealth and depth of the BU Collection, including the unveiling of a rare and unseen masterpiece by Marc Chagall. Ben Uri was invited by Osborne Samuel to launch their 2010 exhibition programme at their gallery in Mayfair but the exhibition and catalogue had to change with the acquisition of this lost masterwork. "Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio" is Chagall's private response to the end of the war, the Holocaust and his wife Bella's death, most likely painted in March/April 1945. This work has never been recorded outside the archives and never exhibited or published till now. It will be on show as part of the Apocalypse exhibition January 8-31. |
| Marlborough Fine Art will present London Show of New Work of Juan Genovés Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:22 PM PST 
LONDON. - The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art announced the first London exhibition in over 40 years by the Spanish artist Juan Genovés of 15 new paintings that will open at Marlborough Fine Art, London on October 29th. Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés has been exhibiting with Marlborough worldwide since 1964. This exhibition continues Genovés' exploration of people in groups, depicted through bird's-eye views of crowds where the absence of buildings, roads, trees or clues to a common landscape creates a dynamic of intensity and dislocation. The motivations for the groups' activities are never clear, as Genovés allows the viewer to draw his own conclusions.  |
| Christie's to Offer Masterpieces from the Collection of Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:20 PM PST 
DUBAI.- Christie's will offer 25 masterpieces from the Collection of Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi at the auction of International Modern and Contemporary Art on 27 April 2010 in Dubai. While serving first as Mayor and then as Lord Mayor of Jeddah in the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Farsi was instrumental in making the city one of the largest open-air galleries in the world and in highlighting international art in the Middle East region; Jeddah boasts sculptures by Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Hans Arp and Alexander Calder, among others. Dr. Farsi was deeply influenced by Egypt where he attended the University of Alexandria, and during his lifetime he has assembled the most important private collection of Modern Egyptian art, from which 25 works will be offered at Christie's in April.  |
| The Impressionist Era at The Carnegie Museum Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:19 PM PST 
Pittsburgh, PA - In April 1874, a group of artists in Paris abandoned academic traditions and organized a public exhibition of work independently from the Salon, the government-sanctioned, official exhibition associated with the Academy of Fine Arts. |
| Sotheby's Sold Edouard Manet Self-portrait for A Record $33.1 million Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:17 PM PST 
LONDON - The painting, "Self Portrait with a Palette", was bought for a record price by New York dealer Franck Giraud, who was bidding at the Sothebys sale, in central London. The Manet was among 51 lots in Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and modern works at the start of a series of auctions in London over the coming fortnight.Three lots sold for more than £10 million including the 1878 Manet, one of only two self-portraits he painted. It shows the artist dressed as a Parisian dandy, rather than as a working artist. It was created at a time when Manet was enjoying unprecedented critical acclaim. The previous highest price paid for the French artist was £17.8 million ($26.4 million), for the 1878 street scene "La rue Mosnier aux drapeaux" at Christie's in New York in November 1989.  |
| The Bass Museum shows 'The Sacred and Sublime: Renaissance & Baroque' Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:15 PM PST 
MIAMI BEACH, FL –The Bass Museum is known for important examples of Northern European Renaissance and Baroque art. Works on view in this ongoing exhibition span two centuries and include religious paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Gerard Seghers (1591-1651), Marcellus Koffermans (active 1549-1579) and Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562-1638). Secular yet sublime works include the museum's 16th century tapestry masterpiece The Salute before the Tournament and the major Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680) painting of Venus and Adonis.  |
| Napoleon Mourning Ring Comes 'Home' to the Sir John Soane Museum Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:14 PM PST 
LONDON.- Sir John Soane's Museum in London and independent charity The Art Fund today announce the return of a lost treasure to the Museum – a gold mourning ring containing a lock of Napoleon's hair, one of Sir John Soane's prized possessions. This acquisition is a triumph for the Museum, which was unable to acquire the ring at auction earlier this year. The mourning ring originally belonged to Sir John Soane, celebrated architect and founder of the eponymous Museum, founded in 1833. It was one of his most treasured private possessions, but was not left to his Museum, featuring on his will among other items to be kept "as heir looms in my family". However, it eventually passed out of the family's ownership and was deemed 'lost'. This autumn, thanks to a £30,000 grant from The Art Fund and support from Soane enthusiasts, the museum reclaimed this lost treasure for a total of £41,000 and returned it to its original home.
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| Baroque Woodcuts at the National Gallery of Art Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:10 PM PST WASHINGTON, DC - The last flowering of the woodcut in its classic form will be revealed in The Baroque Woodcut, an exhibition of approximately 80 prints and illustrated books on view at the National Gallery of Art, on view through March 30, 2008, in the West Building prints and drawings galleries. Woodcuts achieved a final triumph in the baroque era when painters of outstanding caliber, such as Peter Paul Rubens and Guido Reni, chose it as a dramatic means for expressing the energy and refinement of their draftsmanship.  |
| Museum Wiesbaden Restitutes Painting by Dutch Painter Pieter de Grebber Posted: 22 Dec 2010 08:09 PM PST 
WIESBADEN, GERMANY - On Tuesday, the 10th August 2010, the Museum Wiesbaden restituted the painting attributed to Dutch Baroque painter Pieter de Grebber (1600-1653) titled "Double Portrait of a young couple" to the heirs of Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer. The Museum Wiesbaden follows this restitution to the principles of the Washington Declaration of 3 December 1998 and to the declaration of the Federal Government, state and community associations to locate and return of Nazi confiscated art, especially from Jewish property, in December 1999.  |
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| Happy Holidays Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:54 PM PST ANNOUNCEMENT: Our website was hacked and our servers were frozen for three days +. We have repaired the damage and we are back online with daily publication starting today. Sorry for the many emails that have bounced during the downtime that was beyond our control.
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| The Hebrew Union College hosts Mirta Kupferminc - "Wanderings" Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:52 PM PST 
New York, NY - Mirta Kupferminc, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1955, is a highly acclaimed artist who employs Magic Realism to illustrate loss and dislocation. Focusing on a personal micro cosmos with the intensity of a miniaturist, she fills her paintings with surprising juxtapositions of color, light, and perspective. The artist's Hungarian-born mother and Polish-born father emigrated as Holocaust survivors. There is a continuing reference in her work to their experiences of family loss, dislocation, and renewal. On view through 25 June, 2010 at The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.  |
| Georg Baselitz Exhibition Deals with the Subject of Dresden and its History Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:49 PM PST 
DRESDEN.- Unique exhibition on the theme of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall: The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is showing works by Georg Baselitz dealing with the subject of Dresden and its history. To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Galerie Neue Meister and the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden are holding a special exhibition entitled "Georg Baselitz. Dresdner Frauen" through February 28, 2010. This unique show features major works by Georg Baselitz in which there is a direct connection between the exhibition venue and the artist's creative process.  |
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