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BROOKLYN, NY.- This May Causey Contemporary will present the mixed media paintings of Korean artist Hyun Ju Park in Out of Darkness…Light and Consequential Tea, a group exhibition of tea inspired stoneware. Consequential Tea will feature the stoneware of Joe Campbell, Dick Lehman, Kristin Muller, Takao Okazaki, and Shane Sellars. Both exhibitions will open on May 21 and be on view till June 14. An opening reception will be held at the gallery’s 92 Wythe Avenue location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Friday May 21 from 6 – 9 p.m. The public is invited to attend this event and visit the gallery during hours of Wednesday – Sunday 11 am – 7 pm, Sunday noon – 6 pm, and Monday 9 am – 5 p.m. 

 Out of Darkness…Light is Hyun Ju Park’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Her abstract paintings on panel fully integrate the medium by using distinct materials like, hair and nails with traditional

TOKYO.- The Art Fair Tokyo Executive Committee announces that Misa Shin, Executive Director of Art Fair Tokyo since 2005, will be stepping down at the end of May 2010. Shin has directed a total of four editions of Art Fair Tokyo, since her appointment as Executive Director in November 2005. During this time, her aims have been to encourage the development of an art market in Japan and to create a truly international art fair in Tokyo. Under each year of Shin’s direction, Art Fair Tokyo has attracted a wide variety of international and domestic art collectors and art enthusiasts. The fifth edition, held in 2010, attracted a record 50,000 visitors. This proved that the spring-time Art Fair Tokyo has firmly established itself on the international art scene. Shin succeeded in developing the Japanese art world by nurturing a new

SYDNEY.- Sydney artist, Craig Ruddy has won the 2010 Archibald People’s Choice Prize for his portrait of writer/director Warwick Thornton. In 2004 Craig Ruddy was awarded both the Archibald Prize and the People’s Choice for Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions for his popular but contentious portrait of actor David Gulpilil. This year his subject is Aboriginal writer/director Warwick Thornton. Thornton won the Camera d’Or for Best Feature Film at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival for Samson & Delilah. The movie – which was his first feature film – has since won six AFI Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, along with numerous other prizes. Ruddy was inspired and motivated by Thornton’s raw, honest filmmaking after seeing Samson & Delilah. ‘Warwick’s strong social consciousness drives him to fearlessly tackle society’s darkest issues head on,’ he says. ‘In a dignified and sensitive manner he carries us deep into

EDINBURGH.- Over 30 chess pieces from the National Museums Scotland and British Museum are starting a tour at National Museum of Scotland on 21 May and will continue to further Scottish venues. A major study led by National Museums Scotland has cast new light on the story of the origins and uses of the iconic Lewis Chessmen. The Lewis Chessmen were found on Lewis in 1831. They are believed to have been made in Scandinavia and to date to the late 12th century. The majority are in the collection of the British Museum and eleven are owned by the National Museum of Scotland. The research, led by Dr David Caldwell, Keeper of Scotland in Europe, National Museums Scotland, is the most wide-ranging and multidisciplinary study on the chessmen since 1832 and is published today in the journal Medieval Archaeology. Dr Caldwell

BOSTON, MA.- The National Heritage Board (NHB) of Singapore welcomes Dr Alan Chong as the new Director of the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), one of the five national museums of Singapore. The announcement concludes an intensive 12-month worldwide search since news of the retirement of Dr Kenson Kwok, the museum’s former Director, was announced in 2008. Currently the William and Lia Poorvu curator at the renowned Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Dr Alan Chong succeeds Dr Kenson Kwok who served as Director of the ACM from 1994 to 2009. Says Mrs Lee Suet Fern, Chair of the ACM Board, who led the search committee for the new Director: “The search was intensive and truly international in scope. We believe that we have found an ideal leader in Alan Chong. I know that he will bring the ACM and Peranakan Museum towards a new future of innovation and growth. The entire ACM Board joins me in welcoming Alan to the museum

MUNICH.- By now it is hard to imagine the Kunstareal without it: the Museum Brandhorst, inaugurated at an official ceremony on 18 May, 2009, takes positive stock of its first year: 345 000 visitors streamed to Munich’s new highlight with its characteristic, brightly-coloured ceramic rods – and the interest shows no signs of letting up. 2 255 guided tours with some 39 300 participants are one more clear confirmation of the extent to which the museum has become an established institution in Munich and beyond. »I’m thrilled at the positive response that the museum has witnessed since its opening«, Klaus Schrenk, Director General of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, said. »The architecture and the collection at the Museum Brandhorst fuse in a way not found anywhere else. The issue of sustainable architecture in a museum context is of interest to visitors and the Cy Twombly rooms, with

LONDON.- On Thursday, 16 September 2010, Sotheby’s will offer in its New Bond Street salerooms an exceptional Private European Collection of Prints. The collection consists of masterworks by Pablo Picasso, the most important and innovative printmaker of the Modern Period who has been credited with the creation of some of the most significant works in the medium’s five hundred year history. Together, the 57 lots are estimated to realise in excess of £2.5 million. Three of Picasso’s greatest prints will spearhead the sale and these are Le Repas Frugal, La Minotauromachie and La Femme Qui Pleure. Each of these works is singularly important in the development of Picasso’s graphic oeuvre, reflecting key themes and demonstrating a mastery of technique that is unsurpassed. Throughout his life, Picasso restlessly explored the medium of the print,

LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 RIBA Awards. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence will be presented to 102 buildings in the UK and Europe (93 in the UK and nine in the rest of the EU). The award-winning buildings range from a small circular loo for bus drivers in London to the Neues Museum in Berlin, from a zero-carbon house to the energy substation for the 2012 Olympics. The high arts have done well with galleries, museums, theatres and auditoriums winning many awards (including the Ashmolean Musuem, Nottingham Contemporary and Aldeburgh Music Campus). Education buildings have also flourished with 17 of the 93 UK awards going to schools and universities. Another feature of the RIBA Awards this year are public spaces – pavilions, monuments, Liverpool Pierhead and the Infinity Bridge in Teesdale have all picked up an award. Amongst the architects th

LONDON.- A major exhibition bringing together over 150 works by Picasso from across the world will be presented at Tate Liverpool from 21 May to 30 August 2010. Picasso: Peace and Freedom will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist’s life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely-held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert. This is the first exhibition to explore the post-War period of the artist’s life in depth, and will reflect a new Picasso for a new time. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the exhibition provides a timely look at Picasso’s work in the Cold War era and how the artist transcended the ideological and aesthetic oppositions of East and West. The exhibition will bring together key paintings and drawings related to war and peace from 1944-1973, alongside a wide range of contextual materials and ephemera. T

LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Bomford, acting director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, announced the installation of The Madonna and Child with Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin (The Beffi Triptych) in the Getty Museum’s permanent collection galleries over the summer months. The painting is the first work of art to be transported out of Abruzzo, Italy, in the aftermath of the violent earthquake that struck the region on April 6, 2009. One of the most important works from the National Museum of Abruzzo in the city of L’Aquila, the Triptych is on loan to the Getty from the Italian government and will be on view through September 5th in the Museum’s North Pavilion (Gallery N201), alongside other paintings from Italy that were created around the