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DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland‘s famous Vaughan collection of watercolors by JMW Turner (1775-1851) will be on display for the month of January. It includes Turner’s most striking works in watercolor painted during his later European tours: the Doge’s Palace in Venice, Lake Lucerne, and the fortresses at Bellinzona in Switzerland. This year the exhibition will be complemented by a display of seventeenth-, eight­eenth- and nineteenth-century silhouettes and miniatures from the Mary A. McNeill

LANCASHIRE.- The Luxury Antiques Weekend at Kilhey Court returns to the four star Macdonald Kilhey Court Hotel, Standish, Lancashire WN1 2XN from Friday, 15, to Sunday, January 17, 2010. This boutique-style antiques fair organized by The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited was hailed as a great success on its debut visit in January 2009 and this next show promises to be every bit as appealing. From flamboyant show-stoppers in jewellery, paintings, silver or sculpture to useful furniture and oriental carpets, around 20 exhibitors offer a broad range of quality and affordable pieces. The fair is a great day out, both for interior designers, private customers and avid collectors seeking unique and unusual furnishings or simply just to browse and chat to the dealers. All the exhibitors are members of The British Antique Dealers’ Association or LAPADA, the UK’s largest association of professional art and antiques dealers.

LONDON.- The MOU defines areas in which Arts Council England and the British Council can work more closely to help artists build links internationally. It establishes a framework within which the two agencies can jointly develop and create programs that are strategic, coherent, and serve the interests of artists and audiences. The collaboration recognizes the shared territory between the two organizations, offering the benefits of their expertise and relationships to further artistic practice in England, supporting artists and arts organisations to take their work to audiences worldwide, and bringing the best of international practice to audiences across the country. Martin Davidson, Chief Executive British Council said:“Today’s agreement builds on years of collaboration between Arts Council England and the British Council and provides a framework for our relationship to go from strength to strength. “By upholding and celebrating domestic and international ex

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Lovingly created from the remnants of worn garments and embroidered with motifs and tales drawn from the rich visual and narrative repertoire of Bengal, kanthas were traditionally stitched by women as gifts to be used in the celebration of weddings and other family occasions. “Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal” from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (December 12, 2009 – July 25, 2010) presents 44 examples of this vibrant domestic art, created by village and urban women in the Bengal region, now comprised of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal, India between the mid-19th and the mid-20th century. The first exhibition devoted solely to this form of art ever presented outside of South Asia, “Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal” focuses on two premier collections. One was assembled and donated to the Museum by it

NEW YORK, NY.- The Tata Nano, designed to be the world’s most affordable car, will be on view at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum from Feb. 18 through April 25, 2010. Unveiled last year in India by Tata Motors, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, the ‘Tata Nano’ is targeted to families who had not previously been able to afford a car. Billed as “the people’s car,” the base model starts at $2,200 in India and can accommodate up to five adults. A bright, sunshine yellow Nano will be on display in Cooper-Hewitt’s Great Hall, along with diagrams and a short film describing its concept, development and production.

GRONINGEN.- From December 13, 2009 to April 11, 2010, the Groninger Museum will present the highlights from the collection of the Brücke Museum in Berlin. The exhibition, which will be held in the Ploeg Pavilion, will display 150 works, including paintings, drawings, prints and figures by the Brücke members Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt- Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Cuno Amiet and Otto Mueller. The basis of the collection and the foundation of the Brücke Museum was the donation of a large number of works by Karl Schmidt- Rottluff. Since then, the collection

ROME.- Caravaggio did not paint much in his life. Because life often took precedence over art. And yet, many artworks over the centuries have been attributed to Michelangelo Merisi. For some too many, for others simply dubious attributions. The exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale will present the public with only those artworks that are certainly by Caravaggio, the sum of the indisputable master. A roundup of extraordinary paintings, because technique, vision and innovation in the art of Caravaggio are extraordinary, because nobody before and after him was able to “give light to darkness.” The exhibition is under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic organized by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo

FORT WORTH, TX.- In 1900, Edward S. Curtis undertook the momentous task of documenting American Indian cultures across the United States. Over the next 30 years, he took over 40,000 photographs and collected information about more than 80 tribes, ranging from the Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. He assembled this material into 20 lavishly illustrated text volumes, each accompanied by a folio of approximately 38 exquisitely printed, hand-pulled photogravures. Today, The North American Indian is widely heralded as a masterpiece of unparalleled scope and beauty, revered by many as a key artistic and historical resource. <a href=http://www.cartermuseum.org

BERLIN.- At C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, Schwarzkopf presents photographs by Karl Lagerfeld, Gabo, and Russell James and illustrations by Olaf Hajek from December 12, 2009, to January 17, 2010. The exhibition accompanying the book We Love Hair will be shown at the Postfuhramt at Oranienburger Straße 35/36. A symbol of beauty, temptation, and seduction; an expression of power and strength, intimidation and protest—hair is a universal medium of self-expression. Always making a statement, hair can signal group membership while simultaneously demonstrating otherness. With its wide variety of shapes, colors, and textures, hair serves as a means of self-definition and self-dramatization. Although hair is a recurring motif in the visual arts and an