Author: Darko Topalski

NEW YORK,
NY.- Red Dot Art
Fair announced its return to New
York City, March 4 through 7, 2010. Red Dot
Art Fair will partner with MillionTreesNYC, a project initiated by Mayor Michael
R. Bloomberg and New York Restoration Project (NYRP) Founder Bette
Midler. Led by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
and NYRP, MillionTreesNYC has a goal to plant and care for one million trees
across the City’s five boroughs over the next decade. The opening reception on
Thursday, March 4th, will benefit this great initiative. All donations will
support future tree plantings and each benefactor will be awarded a custom
certificate from MillionTreesNYC.

NEW YORK,
NY.- Red Dot Art
Fair announced its return to New
York City, March 4 through 7, 2010. Red Dot
Art Fair will partner with MillionTreesNYC, a project initiated by Mayor Michael
R. Bloomberg and New York Restoration Project (NYRP) Founder Bette
Midler. Led by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
and NYRP, MillionTreesNYC has a goal to plant and care for one million trees
across the City’s five boroughs over the next decade. The opening reception on
Thursday, March 4th, will benefit this great initiative. All donations will
support future tree plantings and each benefactor will be awarded a custom
certificate from MillionTreesNYC.

Lincoln,
NE – Organized by the University of New Mexico Art Museum and Tamarind
Institute, includes works from six Native American artists who have completed
residencies at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Crow’s
Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton, Oregon The artists are:
Steven Deo (Creek), Tom Jones (Ho Chunk), Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), Ryan
Lee Smith (Cherokee), Star Wallowing Bull (Chippewa, White Earth Reservation)
and Marie Watt (Seneca). On exhibition through 25 April,
2010.

LOS ANGELES, CA – The J. Paul Getty Museum in
Los Angeles and the Sicilian cultural ministry will collaborate to conserve art
objects, stage exhibitions and conduct scholarly research. The
agreement with the Sicilian Ministry of Culture and Sicilian Identity was
announced Wednesday in Palermo and Los Angeles.Sicilian museums will lend marble
statues and ancient vases to the Getty Museum and the museum’s preservation
staff will use their expertise in creating displays that protect the artwork
from earthquakes, said Getty spokeswoman Rebecca Taylor.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – On Thursday 25 February, the
Rubens & van Dyck exhibition opens at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
From then until May 23rd, visitors will be able to see works by two of
the 17th century’s leading painters and some of their disciples. The
exhibition brings together works by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck, two
of the leading painters of the 17th-century Baroque, highlighting the
relationship between them and their unparalleled influence on Flemish painting
in their day. The Rubens & van Dyck exhibition runs from 25 February to 23
May 2010.

NEW
YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery presents their second gallery
exhibition by Chinese expatriate artist Yun-Fei Ji, opening February 19 and
running through March 27. The exhibition will include new works
on paper as well as Ji’s artist’s book, Migrants from the Three Gorges Dam,
recently published by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art,
NY. Like in the ancient stories, Ji’s ghosts are stand-ins, free to
express themselves in ways not allowed to people living under tightly controlled
social and political hierarchies.

CHICAGO (REUTERS).- King Tutankhamen, the
teen-aged pharaoh whose Egyptian tomb yielded dazzling treasures, limped around
on tender bones and a club foot and probably died from malaria, researchers said
on Tuesday. There has been speculation about the fate of the
boy king, who died sometime around 1324 BC probably at age 19, since the 1922
discovery of his intact tomb in Egypt’s Valley of Kings.