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• The Florence Griswold Museum Hosts American Landscapes From the Parrish Art Museum
• Newseum Website Crashes On News Of Osama bin Laden "Dead"
• Samstag Museum of Art To Show "White Rabbit: Contemporary Chinese Art Collection"
• "The Figurative Landscape, a Tradition in Provincetown Painting" at ACME Fine Arts
• The Serpentine Gallery in London to Show "Mark Leckey ~ See We Assemble"
• "Silent Treasures: Porfolio Works From Matisse to Twombly" at the Marta Herford Museum
• The Agial Gallery in Beiruit Presents "Oussamm Baalbaki ~ Rituals of Isolation"
• Metropolitan Museum of Art Captures Alexander McQueen's "Savage Beauty"
• "Van Gogh to Munch" at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art This Summer
• Phillips Collection to Display Masterworks from The Allen Memorial Art Museum
• Jen P. Harris Solos at Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
• The Frick Collection ~ The Best Private Art Museum In New York
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC) opens Recent Works by Gustavo Acosta
• Getty Museum Reopens North Pavilion Galleries with a Major Reinstallation
• The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson ~ at The Jewish Museum
• Aperture Foundation Announces New Exhibition - "Paul Strand in Mexico"
• Museo de Zaragoza features "Goya and the Modern World"
• Venus, Adonis and Cupid (1588-1590) at Museo del Prado
• The Rose Art Museum presents Major Hans Hofmann Exhibition : Circa 1950
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Florence Griswold Museum Hosts American Landscapes From the Parrish Art Museum Posted: 03 May 2011 09:36 PM PDT Old Lyme, CT.- From July 1 through September 18, the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme hosts an exhibition of over 40 American landscape paintings from the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. "American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum" traces the evolution of American art from its roots in an emerging national landscape tradition to the liberating influences of European modernism.  Some of the artists represented include William Merritt Chase, William Stanley Haseltine, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, John Marin, John Sloan, Ernest Lawson, Fairfield Porter, and Alex Katz.  Of special interest is Lyme Art Colony painter Childe Hassam, whose view of the Church at Old Lyme (1906) will be featured. "We are delighted at the opportunity to present one of Hassam's legendary paintings of the Congregational church, which put Old Lyme on the map artistically when he exhibited them here and in New York during the early years of the colony," said Curator Amy Kurtz Lansing. "Partnering with the Parrish has allowed us to exhibit one of the treasures of American Impressionism." At the beginning of the nineteenth-century, artists of the Hudson River School were among the first to record the "New Eden" that was the North American continent. Their framing of the view into the distance, often with a solitary figure in the foreground, literally invented a new way of seeing. By the middle of the century, the border of the wilderness had been pushed farther west and industrialization had begun to transform the topography of the eastern United States. A painting like Samuel Colman's Farmyard, East Hampton (ca. 1880) evokes a nostalgia for the vanishing rural scene. Artists of the post-Civil War period frequently traveled to Europe to study. The exhibition includes work by American artists who spent extended periods abroad in the 1880s and 1890s, William Stanley Haseltine, William Lamb Picknell, and Theodore Robinson among them. Lessons learned abroad were brought home by such artists as William Merritt Chase, John Henry Twachtman, and Childe Hassam. Their work will be compared and contrasted with that of their colleagues who remained overseas. After their stays abroad, many artists returned to the United States with much enthusiasm and a new mode of expression. The brighter palettes, more vibrant brushwork and intimate themes of Impressionism began to appear. Both Hassam and Twachtman translated Impressionism to an American context, placing a greater emphasis on personal responses to nature than their French colleagues. Twachtman's nearly abstract rendering of Horseshoe Falls, Niagara presents it as a natural phenomenon rather than a national icon and Hassam's selection of subjects such as Old Lyme's Congregational church reflect his deep affection for New England architecture. Artists also continued their experience in the European artist communities by establishing their own art colonies outside metropolitan areas like New York and Boston. To Hassam, Old Lyme was emblematic of America's rich heritage. He arrived there in 1903 to stay in the boardinghouse of Florence Griswold (now the Florence Griswold Museum). Hassam depicted Old Lyme's most famous edifice, the First Congregational Church seven times. Modernist painters in the earlier decades of the twentieth century, such as John Marin, John Sloan, and Ernest Lawson, continued a landscape tradition that expanded to include urban settings. American Landscapes concludes with a particularly strong representation of artists of the second half of the century, such as Fairfield Porter, Jane Wilson, Jane Freilicher, and Sheridan Lord, who were drawn to the beauty of Long Island's East End. Located on an 11-acre site in the historic village of Old Lyme, the Florence Griswold Museum is known as the Home of American Impressionism. In addition to the restored Florence Griswold House, where the artists of the Lyme Art Colony lived, the Museum features a gallery of changing art exhibitions, education and landscape centers, extensive gardens, and a restored artist's studio. The Museum is located at 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT. Thanks in large measure to "Miss Florence" Griswold, what is known today as the Florence Griswold Museum has, for more than a century, been the home of the Lyme Art Colony, America's center of Impressionism. One of four children of a ship captain, Miss Florence was born on Christmas Day, 1850 and raised in the finest house on the main street of a thriving Connecticut town. Old Lyme, a center of shipbuilding and commerce, was established in the early 1600s and counted the Griswolds among the town's oldest families. Their Late Georgian-style mansion, built in 1817 on a twelve-acre estate, was purchased by Captain Robert Griswold for his bride Helen Powers in 1841. The family's and the town's fortunes reversed, however, as a result of the Civil War and the invention of steam-powered vessels. To survive financially the Griswolds turned their home into a school and eventually a boarding house. By the late 1890s only Miss Florence was left to maintain the family homestead. In 1899, an artist came calling. Henry Ward Ranger, having recently returned from Europe, saw in Old Lyme an ideal setting for establishing a new American school of landscape painting. He found in Miss Florence's home and hospitality the perfect place to settle. Other artists followed suit and the Lyme Art Colony was born. With the arrival of Childe Hassam in 1903, some of the country's most accomplished artists gathered in her home. Florence Griswold was the very soul of the Colony. She retrieved lost brushes, praised good work and lent respectability to this bohemian group of painters' good—natured high jinks. Over the next decade, the House became the center of America's best-known Impressionist art colony. For her part in helping write a vital chapter in the history of American art, Florence Griswold was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 2002. She joins nearly 100 Connecticut women who have broken new ground or emerged as leaders in their fields. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.flogris.org Source: press release (to the editor) from the museum (reply to Tammi Flynn Florence Griswold Museum <tammi@flogris.org>), museum website and google image search (we have featured this travelling exhibition before - 6 months ago, when it started at the Parrish, but all the images offered this time around are new).

Newseum Website Crashes On News Of Osama bin Laden "Dead" Posted: 03 May 2011 09:35 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — When big news breaks, newspapers are in demand despite the immediacy of online news. Newspaper across the country including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., printed extra copies in anticipation of higher demand Monday, when headlines heralded the death of Osama bin Laden. The Newseum site was processing more than 2,800 requests per second when it became overloaded Monday, he said. Traffic started to peak at 3 a.m. Eastern time Monday when Europeans woke to the news. It grew again at about 6 a.m. Newseum even became one of the 10 most-talked about topics on Twitter for a while.

Samstag Museum of Art To Show "White Rabbit: Contemporary Chinese Art Collection" Posted: 03 May 2011 09:27 PM PDT Adelaide, South Australia.- The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia has teemed up wirh Sydney's White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection to create an exhibition featuring works which explore China's rapidly changing society. From Mao's oppressive Cultural Revolution to the excesses and exuberance of China's economic boom. Wang Zhiyuan's brilliantly alluring Object of Desire, 2008, adds a whimsical note that mocks its own gaudy morality, and is presented alongside Sun Furong's cut-up Mao suits which express the idea that, as the artist says, "in the struggle for survival you are stripped and eaten away by many things you cannot help…until you are broken".

"The Figurative Landscape, a Tradition in Provincetown Painting" at ACME Fine Arts Posted: 03 May 2011 09:03 PM PDT Boston, MA.- "The Figurative Landscape, a Tradition in Provincetown Painting" featuring works by Edwin Dickinson, Ross Moffett, Tony Vevers and Richard Baker is on view at ACME Fine Arts in Boston from May 12th through July 2nd. This group exhibition will explore the history and tradition of figure and landscape painting on Cape Cod. The four critically acclaimed artists represented in the exhibition all have long been associated with the Outer Cape, and all have well-established national reputations. The artwork selected for the exhibition was created over the course of almost a century. Edwin Dickinson and Ross Moffett were among what is now considered the early group of artists that "discovered" Provincetown as a painter's place. They were considered by their colleagues at the time, and are considered by art historians today, to be pioneers of modernism in the early 20th century.

The Serpentine Gallery in London to Show "Mark Leckey ~ See We Assemble" Posted: 03 May 2011 08:48 PM PDT London.- From May 19th until June 26th, the Serpentine Gallery presents a new exhibition conceived by Mark Leckey. In a multi-disciplinary practice that encompasses sculpture, sound, film and performance, Leckey explores the potential of the human imagination to appropriate and to animate a concept, an object or an environment. Drawing on his personal experiences as a London-based artist, who spent his formative years in the north of England, Leckey returns frequently to the themes of desire and transformation. Leckey's fascination with the affective power of images is another recurring theme. Meticulously sourced and reconfigured archival footage is a predominant feature of some of his best-known works.

"Silent Treasures: Porfolio Works From Matisse to Twombly" at the Marta Herford Museum Posted: 03 May 2011 08:32 PM PDT Herford, Germany - MARTA Herford Museum announces a fascinating exhibition featuring selected portfolio works from a major private collection. "Silent Treasures – Portfolio Works from Matisse to Twombly from the Marzona Collection" will be on view at the MARTA Herford from 22 May until 21 August. Diverse gems of printing art from the past 100 years will be displayed together. Containing over 40 exquisite and in some cases very rare portfolios and artists' books, the exhibition will present the spectrum of different artistic forms of printing and reproduction techniques ranging from woodcut, copperplate and lithography to photography and offset printing. Artists like Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Meret Oppenheim and Ulrich Rückriem, to name but a few, began experimenting with these techniques in the early 20th century in order to explore the possibilities of greater dissemination for their art.

The Agial Gallery in Beiruit Presents "Oussamm Baalbaki ~ Rituals of Isolation" Posted: 03 May 2011 08:16 PM PDT Beiruit, Lebanon - The Agial Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of works by Lebanese painter Oussamma Baalbaki. "Oussama Baalbaki: Rituals of Isolation" will be on view at the gallery from May 5th until May 21st. The traditional self-portrait is a request of recognition addressed by the painter to society at large, a proclamation of his irreplaceable idiosyncrasy. Oussama Baalbaki's (b.1978) self portrayals are, contrariwise, a demand of seclusion, a denial to recognize society and its intrinsic barbarity, a repudiation of heteronomy and a proclamation of the artist's moral and creative autonomy. Through their ambiguity, their humor, their irony and their derision, Oussama Baalbaki's self-portraits edict a code of ethics of painting practice.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Captures Alexander McQueen's "Savage Beauty" Posted: 03 May 2011 07:53 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Dark vs. light. Past vs. future. Masculine vs. feminine. The extremes straddled by fashion designer Alexander McQueen in his work, inspiration and, seemingly, in his life, fit together like a jigsaw puzzle in a new museum exhibit called "Savage Beauty." The study of contrasts in the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute shows McQueen, the artist and intellectual, as he was celebrated during his career — and even after his suicide at age 40 in February of 2010. "Savage Beauty" runs through July 31 at the Met.

"Van Gogh to Munch" at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art This Summer Posted: 03 May 2011 07:52 PM PDT Santa Barbara, CA.- From June 4 to August 28, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is pleased to present a selection of important paintings that have been generously lent by two Foundations: the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. "Van Gogh to Munch: European Masterworks from the Armand Hammer Foundation and Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation" presents nearly 30 works, combining 12 paintings from SBMA's permanent collection with 17 extraordinary loans from two of the most important American collections of Impressionist and Modern art in the last century. Upon conclusion of this special summer exhibition in McCormick gallery, the loans from the two Foundations will be reintegrated into the Museum's permanent collection installation in Preston Morton and Ridley-Tree galleries, where they will be on view for the next two years. The paintings on view from the Armand Hammer Foundation represent just a small fraction of the ravishing collection put together by Dr. Armand Hammer (1898-1990), an American business tycoon most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran for decades; but also well-known for the extraordinary works of art he gifted to his namesake, the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1965 through 1990. His interest in art originated during his travels to the former Soviet Union in the early 1920s, where he had initially hoped to practice medicine, but realized the greatest need of the people was a reliable source of food – which turned into one of his first business ventures. Hammer began collecting art as he decorated his home in Moscow, and brought many of the works back when he returned to the United States in 1929. These pieces were the foundation for the Hammer Galleries in New York, which continues to operate today. The works on loan in this exhibition complement beautifully many of the most beloved works of art in SBMA's collection of 19th-century French art and have been installed so as to demonstrate this easy dialogue. Works by Corot, Chagall, Degas, Fantin-Latour, Morisot, and Renoir from the Hammer Foundation are presented side-by-side with canvases by the same or related masters from the Museum's own collection or from area private collections.  For example, the exquisite van Gogh from the Hammer Foundation dates from just one year after the landscape on deposit here from a private collection of the outskirts of Paris; and yet there is a dramatic transformation of the artist's palette from the earthy tones of the landscape to the bursts of pigment swagged on with a loaded brush in the floral still life.  Alongside the Museum's Villas in Bordighera (1884) by Monet, the Hammer Foundation's Renoir landscape instances these two artists' shared passion for the Mediterranean landscape in the 1880s. Native Texan Sarah Campbell Blaffer (1885-1975) was an art patron and philanthropist, and daughter of William Thomas, one of the founders of the Texas Company (later Texaco). Her devotion to the visual arts began during a visit to the Louvre on her wedding trip to Europe in 1909 after her marriage to Robert E. Lee Blaffer, one of the founders of Humble Oil and Refining. Blaffer formed her Foundation in 1964 with the primary goal to bring the visual arts to people throughout the state of Texas. The Foundation's collection, comprises mostly old master paintings dating from the Renaissance through the 18th century. The handful of early 20th-century, northern modernist paintings were available for extended loan, offering a rare means of counterbalancing the Museum's recognized strength in the area of French 19th- and early 20th-century European paintings. The large canvases by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, in particular, are powerful embodiments of Western sensibilities at the turn of the last century, when cutting-edge art strove to represent the angst-ridden experience of the modern individual, alienated from society and suffering from the neuroses that Sigmund Freud would so eloquently describe in his Civilization and its Discontents (published in 1930). The paintings by Lyonel Feininger and Max Beckmann exemplify the German adaptation between the World Wars of French avant-garde technique, meshing van Gogh's expressive facture with the Fauves' willful rejection of a conventional palette in favor of strident, anti-naturalistic hues characteristic of the movement generically termed German Expressionism. American artist Feininger and his work "Zirchow 1" makes for an intriguing, but perhaps less obvious, comparison with SBMA's painting by German painter Max Pechstein, "Die Alte Brücke (The Old Bridge)" Zirchow I is part of a series of increasingly abstract landscapes, centering on the architectural motif of a church.  The sharply delineated shards of color reflect the artist's debt to Cubism. By contrast, Pechstein's landscape, which was probably done just after his visit to Paris where he encountered the strident hues of Matisse and the Fauves, is more blatantly anti-naturalistic in palette. Despite these differences, the works were completed only a year apart when both artists were members of the Dresden-based alternative art movement group, Die Brücke (in English, 'the Bridge'), whose name alludes to the artists' aspiration to create a new pictorial language that would pave the way to the future. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art opened to the public on June 5, 1941, in a building that was at one time the Santa Barbara Post Office (1914–1932). Chicago architect David Adler simplified the building's façade and created the Museum's galleries, most notably Ludington Court which offers a dramatic sense of arrival for museum visitors. The newly renovated Park Wing Entrance and Luria Activities Center open in June 2006. Over its history the Museum has expanded with the addition of the Stanley R. McCormick Gallery in 1942 and the Sterling and Preston Morton Galleries in 1963. Significant expansions came when the Alice Keck Park Wing opened to the public in 1985 and the Jean and Austin H. Peck, Jr. Wing in 1998. The Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House, a center for art education activities, was established in 1991. Today, the Museum's 60,000 square feet include exhibition galleries, a Museum Store, Cafe, a 154-seat auditorium, a library containing 50,000 books and 55,000 slides, a children's gallery dedicated to participatory interactive programming and an 11,500-square-foot off-site facility, the Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.sbmuseart.org

Phillips Collection to Display Masterworks from The Allen Memorial Art Museum Posted: 03 May 2011 07:40 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- Illustrating its unconventional approach to displaying art, The Phillips Collection will present loosely themed groupings of some of its own masterworks with 25 masterpieces from Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum. Half of the 24 paintings and one sculpture on loan from the Allen are old masters, dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries. They include rare works by painters of the British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish schools. The other Allen pieces are important modern works of the 19th and 20th centuries. Oberlin extended the opportunity to display some of its treasures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the Phillips while the Allen is closed for renovations. Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Phillips, opens September 11, 2010, and runs through January 16, 2011.

Jen P. Harris Solos at Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Posted: 03 May 2011 07:39 PM PDT WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts presents New York-based artist Jen P. Harris's solo exhibition titled Conversations, on view in Dupont II Gallery through March 21, 2010. Conversations is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper of images that are reinterpretations of Hollywood depictions of romances or composites of visual information found in magazines, on the Internet, or in the artist's digital camera with which she gives form to indeterminate but suggestive narrative and psychological content.

The Frick Collection ~ The Best Private Art Museum In New York Posted: 03 May 2011 07:38 PM PDT The Frick Collection is a not-for-profit educational institution originally founded by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist. In 1913, construction began on Henry Frick's New York mansion at Seventieth Street and Fifth Avenue, designed by Carrère and Hastings to accommodate Mr. Frick's paintings and other art objects. The house cost $5,000,000, but from its inception, took into account Mr. Frick's intention to leave his house and his art collection to the public. Mr. Frick died in 1919 and in his will, left the house and all of the works of art in it together with the furnishings ("subject to occupancy by Mrs. Frick during her lifetime") to become a gallery called The Frick Collection. He provided an endowment of $15,000,000 to be used for the maintenance of the Collection and for improvements and additions. After Mrs. Frick's death in 1931, family and trustees of The Frick Collection began the transformation of the Fifth Avenue residence into a museum and commissioned John Russell Pope to make additions to the original house, including two galleries (the Oval Room and East Gallery), a combination lecture hall and music room, and the enclosed courtyard. In December 1935 The Frick Collection opened to the public. In 1977, a garden on Seventieth Street to the east of the Collection was designed by Russell Page, to be seen from the street and from the pavilion added at the same time to accommodate increasing attendance at the museum. This new Reception Hall was designed by Harry van Dyke, John Barrington Bayley, and G. Frederick Poehler. Two additional galleries were opened on the lower level of the pavilion to house temporary exhibitions. The nearby Frick Art Reference Library was founded in 1920 to serve "adults with a serious interest in art," among them scholars, art professionals, collectors, and students. The Library's book and photograph research collections relate chiefly to paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from the fourth to the mid-twentieth centuries by European and American artists. Known internationally for its rich holdings of auction and exhibition catalogs, the Library is a leading site for collecting and provenance research. Archival materials and special collections augment the research collections with documents pertaining to the history of collecting art in America and of Henry Clay Frick's collecting in particular. The Frick Collection developed the "Art of Observation" training course, initially for medical students, but now used by police, security and defense personnel throughout the USA. Using works of art to train students in observation techniques proved so effective that enquiries were received from as far as way as London's Metropolitan Police Force. Visit the museum's website at … www.frick.org

Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC) opens Recent Works by Gustavo Acosta Posted: 03 May 2011 07:37 PM PDT Panama City, Panama - The Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama (MAC) is proud to present the exhibition "Preguntas al Espejo" ("Questions to the Mirror"), recent works by the Cuban American artist, Gustavo Acosta.   Opening reception will be on Thursday, June 25th, 2009, 7:30 p.m., with the artist present.   Once again, the urban landscape is the main character and the stage in his works.   "I've always been interested in the landscape as a place of a possible mise-en-scène.   I'm interested in it is unreality, its symbolic meaning.   I want them to work as models, or paintings of models; a still life of physical spaces." Curated by guest curator, Mirie de la Guardia. On exhibition through the 30th of July, 2009.

Getty Museum Reopens North Pavilion Galleries with a Major Reinstallation Posted: 03 May 2011 07:36 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that four permanent collection galleries at the Getty Center will reopen tomorrow with an innovative reinstallation of sculpture and decorative arts. One of the overarching goals of this project was to reinvigorate the display of objects by placing them in new contexts and juxtaposing them with works from other areas in the Museum's collection to stimulate new dialogues. The most significant change is a shift from an installation organized by medium (with separate galleries dedicated to bronze, maiolica, and glass) to a chrono-thematic configuration that explores a variety of objects from the same era. This new presentation integrates other art forms by including selected paintings and manuscripts from the Museum's collection alongside sculpture and decorative arts.

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson ~ at The Jewish Museum Posted: 03 May 2011 07:35 PM PDT New York City - Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was a towering figure in postwar American art, exerting great influence with her monumental installations, innovative sculptures made of found wood objects, and celebrated public art.  She was recognized during her lifetime as one of America's most prominent and innovative sculptors, and her work continues to inspire contemporary sculptors today.  This exhibition, the first American survey of her work since 1980, focuses on all phases of Nevelson's career and demonstrates how her life story became a subject in her art.  On exhibition May 5 – September 16, 2007 at The Jewish Museum.

Aperture Foundation Announces New Exhibition - "Paul Strand in Mexico" Posted: 03 May 2011 07:34 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture Foundation announced Paul Strand in Mexico, an exhibition comprised of over a hundred photographic works by Strand, including vintage prints; stills from his classic film, Redes (The Wave; 1936); and previously unseen documents and ephemera related to Strand's time in Mexico. The exhibition, a unique and important photographic portrait of Mexico at a critical point in its history by one of the great modern masters, will open at Aperture Gallery on September 9, 2010, to coincide with the celebrations commemorating the bicentennial of Mexico's Independence (1810) and the centennial of its Revolution (1910). An opening reception for the public will take place the following week on Thursday, September 16, 6:00–8:00 p.m., marking the official start date of the Mexican Revolution.

Museo de Zaragoza features "Goya and the Modern World" Posted: 03 May 2011 07:33 PM PDT ZARAGOZA, SPAIN - The President of the government of Aragon, Marcelino Iglesias, inaugurated today at the Museo de Zaragoza the exhibition "Goya and the Modern World" which includes 345 works of art – 138 made by the artist from Fuendetodos—in which the influence of the painter from Aragon reflects on artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museo de Zaragoza will open this exhibit on Thursday, December 18, and this exhibition will be open to the public until the first week of March. The exhibition has been organized by the Government of Aragon and the Goya Foundation.

Venus, Adonis and Cupid (1588-1590) at Museo del Prado Posted: 03 May 2011 07:32 PM PDT Madrid, Spain - This magnificent painting reveals Annibale Carracci's direct knowledge of Venetian painting and was already described in old inventories as having been painted "ad emulatione di quella di Tiziano" (to emulate Titian's).  The Venetian artist painted several versions of this subject, one of which is in the Museo del Prado.

The Rose Art Museum presents Major Hans Hofmann Exhibition : Circa 1950 Posted: 03 May 2011 07:31 PM PDT   WALTHAM, Mass. – Several works by legendary American abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), never shown in a U.S. museum before, debuts at The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. "Hans Hofmann: Circa 1950" includes more than 35 works, some never seen before in a U.S. museum. An extraordinary body of work created by Hans Hofmann for the architect Josep Sert's 1950 city plan called the Chimbote Project is the genesis for this exhibition. On exhibition 15 January through 5 April, 2009.

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