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Contemporary Jewish Museum exhibits Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949

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Marc Chagall - Introduction to the Jewish Theater, (detail) 1920 - Tempera, gouache, and opaque white on canvas. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

San Francisco, CA – During the artistic ferment following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, major artists
joined actors, choreographers, writers, and musicians in creating a daring new
theater.   This collaboration gave rise to extraordinary productions with highly original stage designs that
redefined the concept of theater itself, attracting large, diverse audiences and
garnering international critical praise.  In Chagall and the Artists
of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949, on view through September 8, 2009,
the Contemporary Jewish Museum tells the little-known and tumultuous story of
this vanguard artistic flowering, which thrived on the stage for thirty years
before being brutally extinguished during the Stalinist
era.

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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to exhibit Love! Art! Passion! ~ Artist Couples

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Marianne von Werefkin - Herbst (Schule), 1907 - Oil on Canvas - Courtesy Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne

The Hague, NL – Love, art and passion at the Gemeentemuseum are the key focuses of this major exhibition featuring 17 famous artist couples like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter, Natalia Gontscharowa and Michel Larionov, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej von Jawlensky, and Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely. Each couple’s personal and artistic ties are revealed via works of art created in a period stretching from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and now gathered together from all over the world.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Thomas Chambers ~ “America’s First Modern?

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Thomas Chambers - Packet Ship Passing Castle Williams, New York Harbor, c. 1838-45 - Oil on canvas, 22 ¼ x 30 inches National Gallery of Art; Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980

Philadelphia, PA – The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first museum exhibition devoted to the bold and expressive vision of Thomas Chambers, the 19th-century artist who was once hailed as “America’s first modern.” Thomas Chambers (1808-1869), American Marine and Landscape Painter (Sept. 27 – Dec. 28, 2008) includes 44 of the artist’s works, approximately 15 paintings and prints by his contemporaries and a selection of decorative arts from the heyday of American “fancy” taste. Although much of his life has been a mystery until recently, Chambers played a pioneering role in the development of popular American landscape and maritime art in the mid-19th century.

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E.G. Bührle Collection of French Impressionism Plans to Move To Kunsthaus Zürich

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Claude Monet - "Champ de coquelicots près de Vétheuil", around 1879. Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm. Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

ZURICH.- Today, 60 years after it first saw the
light of day, Emil Bührle’s is still one of the leading collections of
20th-century art. It focuses on French Impressionist painting, which has always
enjoyed vivid interest in Switzerland and is also represented in the Kunsthaus
Zürich’s own collection. At the Bührle Collection’s current home,
however, in Zurich’s Zollikerstrasse, the private collection had been seen
annually by no more than 10,000 visitors before even those numbers dwindled to
just a few hundred following the notorious robbery in February of 2008.
The Kunsthaus, on the other hand, welcomes between 200,000 and 300,000
guests each year, eager to view its examples of French painting and of the
schools that preceded and followed it.

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Richard Avedon ~ Photographs 1946-2004 ~ A Retrospective at Martin-Gropius-Bau

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Richard Avedon - Dovina with Elephants - Dress by Dior - August, 1955, Paris

BERLIN – Martin-Gropius-Bau presents Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946–2004 – A Retrospective. This is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of the American star photographer Richard Avedon since his death in 2004. Many epoch-making and pioneering pictures are on show: the picture of the famous model Dovima, posing amidst sawdust and hay between elephants in an haute-couture creation, was revolutionary and ground-breaking in 1948; the 9.5 x 3 m. group portrait of “Andy Warhol and the members of the Factory” from 1969, where Avedon was able to bring out the individual personalities in the group; and the picture of Charles Chaplin, forming devil’s horns on his forehead and waving goodbye to McCarthyism’s USA with his gaze.

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Gagosian Gallery Presents a Major New Work by Takashi Murakam

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Takashi Murakami - " A Picture of The Blessed Lion Who Stares At Death ", 2009 Acrylic on canvas, 4 Panels : 300 x 600 cm. - Gagosian Gallery, NYC

NEW
YORK, NY.- In his distinctive “Superflat” style, which employs
highly refined classical Japanese painting techniques to depict a super-charged
mix of Pop, animé and otaku content within a flattened representational
picture-plane, Murakami moves freely within an ever-expanding field of aesthetic
issues and cultural inspirations. Parallel to the familiar utopian and
dystopian themes that feature masses of smiling flowers, elaborate scenes of
toonish apocalypse, and the ever-morphing cult figures of DOB, Mr. Pointy,
Kaikai and Kiki, he recollects and revitalizes narratives of transcendence and
enlightenment, often involving outsider-savants. Mining religious and secular
subjects favored by the so-called Japanese “eccentrics” or non-conformist
artists of the Early Modern era commonly considered to be counterpart to the
Western Romantic tradition, Murakami situates himself within their legacy of
bold and lively individualism in a manner that is entirely his own and of his
time.  On view at Gagsosian Gallery through 24th October,
2009.

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Museo Picasso Málaga opens “Beyond Painting ~ Max Ernst in the Würth Collection”

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Max Ernst - La horde [The Horde],1927 - Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm. Collection Würth, Künzelsau ( Germany ) - © Max Ernst, VEGAP, Málaga 2008

Málaga,Spain – Opening on 22 September 2008, Beyond Painting. Max Ernst in the Würth Collection brings together fifty-seven works including an important selection of illustrated books that is outstanding both for its artistic worth and for the rare occasions on which it is so fully displayed. The exhibition also encompasses paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages and engravings that delve into and reveal the artist’s unsettling, extraordinary world. The works on display belong to the Würth Collection, Künzelsau (Germany), one of Europe’s foremost private holdings and will be shown until 1 March 2009 at the Museo Picasso Málaga.

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‘Ports of Entry’ ~ Richard Morris Hunt’s Architectural Drawings

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Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) - A Winter Garden: Perspective for the First Class, Concours sur Projets Rendus, - November 4. 1851 & January, 1852 - Ink and wash on paper, 15 x 16 7/8 in. - Print and Drawings Collection, The Octagon, American Architectural Foundation, Washington, D.C.

New York CITY – Richard Morris Hunt’s architectural genius radiates from the chambers of The Breakers in Newport, R.I., the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., the great entrance wing to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, among other notable structures.  Ports of Entry: Richard Morris Hunt’s Architectural Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts and the Gates of Central Park consists of twenty-five architectural drawings that Hunt created between 1847 and 1863, all of which are on loan from the Print and Drawings Collection of The Octagon, American Architectural Foundation, Washington, D.C.  On exhibition 7 February through 20 April 2008 at The National Academy.
 

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Seattle Art Museum (SAM) opens “Target Practice ~ Painting Under Attack 1949-78”

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Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923 – 1997) - Red Painting (Brushstroke), 1965 - Oil and magna on canvas. Collection Charles Simonyi, Seattle. Courtesy of the lender, © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein

SEATTLE, WA.-  Organized by the Seattle Art
Museum (SAM),Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78 is an
international, historical survey of the assaults that painting
endured in the years following World War II,
documenting why artists felt compelled to shoot, rip, tear,
burn, erase, nail, unzip and deconstruct painting in order to usher
in a new way of thinking. Target Practice includes works by
well-known artists like Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy
Warhol, as well as lesser-known peers who were making equally
challenging work in Europe, Asia, South America and North America.
With more than 70 works of art, including documentary photographs
and video, Target Practice introduces a compelling way to appreciate
the breakthroughs made by a new generation of artists in the fertile
years between 1949 and 1978. Curated by Michael Darling, SAM’s Jon
and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, the
exhibition will be on view at SAM from June 25 to September 7,
2009.

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Super Rich Collectors Ready to Spend Again at Auctions of Rare Art

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"Self Portrait" by artist Andy Warhol shown during a preview of the Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art and Contemporary Art Sales of New York. The painting is expected to bring US$10-15 million at the Sotheby's New York on May 12, 2010. - (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

NEW YORK, (REUTERS).- Fueled by
international
collectors and Wall Street investors reaping soaring profits, the
beaten-down
art market appears poised for a remarkable comeback after an 18-month
stumble.
Rare buying opportunities to buy works by such modern masters as Jasper
Johns
and Mark Rothko will spur stiff competition and hefty spending by
deep-pocketed
collectors at the critical spring sales hosted by auction powerhouses
Sotheby’s
and Christie’s, art experts predict. “You’re going to see records set,”
said
Baird Ryan, managing director of the private financial and consulting
services
firm Art Capital Group.