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LAKELAND, FL.- Polk Museum of Art welcomes new Curator of Art, Adam Justice. Justice will be in charge of organizing the Museum’s exhibitions with the assistance of the Artistic Programs Committee. He is also responsible for working with the Acquisition and Collection Committee to expand and maintain the Museum’s permanent collection. This will include working with the Art Resource Trust, a group of members who actively support the acquisition of new pieces of artwork for the collection. “After a national search, we are excited that we have found Adam Justice

NEW YORK, NY.- To celebrate the recent acquisition of 36 newly struck prints of films by Frederick Wiseman (American, b. 1930), The Museum of Modern Art presents a comprehensive retrospective of the director’s work, from January 20 through December 31, 2010. Featuring three to four films each month, this yearlong survey opens on January 20, when Frederick Wiseman introduces ‘Basic Training’, (1971), followed by an onstage conversation. The exhibition spans his entire career, from ‘Titicut Follies’, (1967) to his two most recent projects, La

AMSTERDAM.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale 163 works from the former Peter Stuyvesant Collection, property of British American Tobacco Netherlands (BAT), on Monday, March 8, 2010 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam. The works from the collection to be offered for sale are estimated to realise in excess of €4 million.”The collection is the largest collection of Post War and Contemporary Art ever to come at auction in the Netherlands. Starting in the late 1950s it became famous as the Peter Stuyvesant Collection and now consists of more than 1000 works created by artists from over 40 countries. The core body of the collection, which

LONDON (REUTERS).- A major London exhibition of treasures from the Prince of Liechtenstein’s collection has been canceled because of a dispute over the export of one of the prince’s paintings. The show was billed as one of the highlights of the 2010 season at the Royal Academy, and the prestigious gallery is now working on alternatives to fill its main galleries between September and December next year. “After many months of planning … we are of course very disappointed that the Prince of Liechtenstein has decided to cancel the exhibition,” a spokesman for the gallery

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The California College of the Arts reported that one of its most beloved faculty members, Larry Sultan, died of cancer on Sunday. He was a distinguished professor in both the undergraduate Photography Program and the Graduate Program in Fine Arts and had taught at CCA since 1988. Tammy Rae Carland, chair of the Photography Program, says, “Larry Sultan was one of the most compassionate, generous educators I’ve ever known. He was a great mentor, a great teacher, a great colleague. He had a lot of success in his own career but continued to be vital to

VALENCIA.- A 32-year-old man has been arrested after breaking a sculpture that was on view outside the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM). The sculpture by Bernardi Roig has been valued at euro 80,000. The man was detained and arrested at 4:00 AM this past Sunday by policemen after the guard at the museum alerted them of the damage to the sculpture. An IVAM spokesperson said that the damaged sculpture has been taken to a workshop where Bernardi Roig will look at it when he visits the museum again on January 27, 2010. Bernardi Roig’s works

LONDON.- Now in his 82nd year, Alex Katz is one of the most significant artists of his generation. His distinctive portraits and lyrical landscapes are noted for their pristine flat surface and economy of line, depicting scenes from modern life. Katz’s minimal aesthetic was developed in the 1950s and was at the time, both an anticipation of Pop Art and a reaction to the prevalence of Abstract Expressionism. Katz has always been that intriguing thing: an artist’s artist. His influence is widely felt: many of today’s most successful contemporary artists from Peter Doig to Elizabeth Peyton

ZARAGOZA.- The Fundación Banco Santander presents Selecta. Del Greco a Picasso. Colección Santander an exhibition that joins together a selection of the most representative works of the Santander Collection. A total of 62 works will be exhibited in the Universidad’s de Zaragoza aasembly hall from December 2009 to March 2010. The exhibition stands out for the presence of painting, coming across with canvas’ El Greco, Zurbarán, Alonso Cano, Rubens, Esquivel, Sorolla or Picasso, but also will boast sculptures by Chillida, Alberto Sánchez or Chirino and a tapestry by the Royale Manufacture de Beauvais. Sixty-two works of art from the most distinguished of the Santander Collection – composed by over a thousand works belonging to five centuries and of which the Foundation has been in charge of, in its tasks of study, cataloguing and preservation – form an outstanding frieze- divided in three halls and two floors- from the 16th century until today. The careful selec

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Artt presents “Performance 7: Mirage” by Joan Jonas, a gallery installation by the artist Joan Jonas (American, b. 1936), from December 18, 2009, through May 31, 2010, in The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery. The installation, which recently entered MoMA’s collection, re-imagines Mirage, a groundbreaking performance originally created in 1976 for the screening room of New York’s Anthology Film Archives. For the original performance version of Mirage, Jonas carried out a series

BRONX, NY.- During the span of twelve years, a series of events, later hailed as the Civil Rights Movement, would forever change the social and political course of America. From March 28 – July 11, 2010, The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present two sweeping exhibitions that chronicle both these pivotal moments in the nation’s history and its legacy surveyed through the works of young African-American artists. The first, “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956 – 1968”, will feature 150 vintage photographs; images that not only exposed rampant acts of discrimination in America’s past, but also revealed