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Anne Frank’s Full Diary on Display at the House Where She Wrote It

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Dutch queen Beatrix (L) and Teresien da Silva (R), head of collections of the Anne Frank Foundation, look at the original diaries of Anne Frank in the House of Anne Frank in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 28 April 2010. It's the first time the works are being exposed, as the museum marked its 50th anniversary. EPA/ Marcel Antonisse

AMSTERDAM (AP).- Nearly all of Anne Frank’s diary
went on display for the first time at the Dutch house where she wrote it
during
the two years the Jewish teenager was in hiding from the Nazis. The
notebooks
and pages that comprise the World War II diary have been moved into the
Anne
Frank House museum to mark 50 years since it opened its doors to the
public.
Dutch Queen Beatrix opened the exhibition, then attended a commemoration
at the
17th century Western Church a few dozen steps from museum.

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Artist Mark Ryden Presents New Work at Paul Kasmin Gallery

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Mark Ryden - "The Piano Player", 2010 - Oil on canvas with hand carved frame, hand painted by the artist, 20 x 30 inches; 50.8 x 76.2 cm., framed: 29 x 39 x 3 inches; 73.7 x 99.1 x 7.6 cm. - ©Mark Ryden, Courtesy of artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.

NEW
YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents The Gay 90’s:
Old Tyme Art Show, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by
the Los
Angeles artist Mark Ryden. On view at 293 Tenth Avenue from April 29 to
June 5,
2010, this will be Ryden’s first significant solo show in New York since
2003,
as well as his first with the gallery. In his hauntingly
beautiful and
masterfully executed oil paintings, Ryden creates his own contemporary
mythologies whose archetypes include fairy tale creatures, historical
figures,
and pop cultural icons.

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Bonhams & Butterfields Auction of California and Western Paintings

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Edgar Payne - "Hills at Altadena" - Oil on canvas, 36 x 45 in, overall: 44 x 53 in. Est. $100,000-150,000, sold for $128,000. - Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields
held
its Spring auction of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture on
April
20, 2010. The Los Angeles-based sale featured a wide variety of
important
California, Western, Society of Six, Hawaiian scenes and Plein Air works
by
established American artists including Joseph Kleitsch, Franz Bischoff,
Edgar
Payne, Granville Redmond and William Wendt as well as an early, rare to
market
work by Thomas Hill. Undoubtedly, the highlight of the $2.9-million sale
was a
selection of works from the Estate of Los Angeles philanthropist, Nancy
M.
Daly.

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Maxfield Parrish ~ ‘The Art of the Print’ at The Everson Museum

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Maxfield Parrish - "The Lantern Bearers", 1910 - Lithograph, 11½” x 8¾”, framed: 12½” x 10” Heritage Auctions - Courtesy of The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

SYRACUSE, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art
presents
the long awaited exhibition, Fantasies and Fairy-Tales: Maxfield Parrish
and the
Art of the Print will open to the public on Thursday, April 29, 2010.
The
exhibition will remain on view through July 11, 2010. During the height
of
Maxfield Parrish’s popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, he was the most
reproduced
American artist of his era. Disseminated through magazine covers, book
illustrations, calendar pads, advertisements and color reproductions,
Parrish’s
images occupied a ubiquitous presence in popular visual culture.

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David Zwirner presents Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom Exhibit

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Mamma Andersson - "Pigeon House", 2010 - Acrylic and oil on panel, 33 1/2 x 48 inches. - Photo: Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents Who is sleeping on my
pillow, two concurrent solo exhibitions by Swedish artists Mamma Andersson and
Jockum Nordström. After spending half their lives together while maintaining
separate practices, this is the first time they have exhibited together. This is
Mamma Andersson’s second exhibition at the gallery (her U.S. debut was at David
Zwirner in 2006), and Jockum Nordström’s fifth. Known for her complex,
multilayered subjects that converge between domestic interiors and Nordic
landscapes, Andersson will present all new paintings. From Nordström, on view
will be collages, other works on paper, and sculptures made of cardboard and
matchboxes. Also featured will be two collaborative works, Sleepwalkers and
Wetland, both from 2010. In these two-sided works on paper, Andersson has
created lush color washes on the back, while Nordström has collaged the front
with figures of people, animals, and trees. On view 29 April through 12
June.

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Lee Bul’s Utopian Modernity on Display at Lehmann Maupin

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Lee Bul - Untitled sculpture W4-2, 2010 - Stainless steel, aluminum, mirror, wood, polyurethane sheet, acrylic mirror, glass beads, 218 x 113 x 87 cm. - Courtesy of the Artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.

NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin presents an
exhibition of new works by Lee Bul, on view at 201 Chrystie Street,
through 19
June 2010. Lee will present an installation of sculptures, along with
related
drawings and marquettes that expand upon her continuing engagement with
the
fractured tropes and narratives of utopian modernity. In November 2011 a

traveling retrospective of Lee Bul’s work, curated by Mami Kataoka, will
begin
at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.

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Cleaners Paint Over Priceless Graffiti Stencil of a Rat by Banksy

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People walk past a vinyl replacement of the street art stencil titled "Little Diver" by British street artist Banksy in central Melbourne. An Australian council is ruling a decision to send street cleaners into a Melbourne lane after they painted over a priceless stencil of a rat by the celebrated graffiti artist Banksy.

CANBERRA (REUTERS).- An Australian council is rueing
a decision to send street cleaners into a Melbourne lane after they
painted over
a priceless stencil of a rat by the celebrated British graffiti artist
Banksy.
Melbourne Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley last week sent a clean-up team
into
Hosier Lane, renowned internationally for its colorful street art, to
clean up
garbage in the graffiti-lined passage after local residents complained.

In 2008, a London wall bearing one of his stencils was said to have sold
on eBay
for almost $500,000.

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Sculptural Installations by Francis Upritchard at Vienna’s Secession

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Francis Upritchard - IN DIE HÖHLE, Installationsansicht, Secession 2010 - Fotos: Wolfgang Thaler

VIENNA.- Francis Upritchard creates
sculptural
installations in which human figures, painted in bright colours, inhabit
a world
replete with found objects and everyday items, modified to meet their
needs. The
inhabitants and their objects are shown on specially produced or found
pieces of
furniture. Paying as much attention to the furniture, to its careful
refurbishment as to the figures themselves, her work gives equal weight
to art,
craft, and display: the design and staging within the exhibition space
is an
integral part of the work. On view April 30 through June 20,
2010.

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National Portrait Gallery Announces BP Portrait Award 2010 Shortlist

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Daphne Todd - "Last Portrait of Mother" - ©Daphne Todd - Short-listed for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery.

LONDON.- After a record number of entries,
three
artists have been short-listed for the BP Portrait Award at the National

Portrait Gallery, one of Britain’s most prestigious
international art prizes. This year the prize received 2,177 entries, an

increase of over 276 on last year. For the fourth year, the competition
has been
open to all aged 18 or over. 58 portraits have been selected for the
exhibition
at the National Portrait Gallery which runs from 24 June until 19
September
2010. The Portrait Award, now in its 31st year at the National
Portrait
Gallery and 21st year of sponsorship by BP, is a highly successful
annual event
aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon, and develop, the theme of
painted
portraiture within their work.

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British Painter Nigel Cooke Opens at Stuart Shave-Modern Art

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Nigel Cooke - To Work Is To Play, 2008 - Oil on canvas, 220 X 370.5 cm. - Photo: Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art

LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art presents a
solo
exhibition of new work by the British painter Nigel Cooke, Night
Crossing. This
is Cooke’s fourth solo exhibition with Modern Art. Nigel Cooke’s
paintings
construct a dark and melancholic world; a deeply psychologised landscape
filled
with an atmosphere that articulates the trauma of creative dereliction.
At its
core, Cooke’s work is an allegorical conception of creativity and
production,
played out in a world populated by artists and philosophers.
This is a
place haunted by vagrant and degenerate martyrs who have caved-in to a
parody of
existentialism and committed themselves to experience over abstractions
of
thought. These characters abandon reason, willfully and foolishly
throwing
themselves headlong into the unseen and unknown. On view 30
April until
29 May.