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SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum today announced that it is proceeding with its ambitious $130.5 million expansion project, following a one-year delay. Once begun, construction is anticipated to take approximately two years. The Museum will remain open to the public during construction of the new David Chipperfield-designed addition. “The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of our region’s most valuable cultural assets,” said John D. Weil, president of the Museum’s Board of Commissioners. “This expansion is our generation’s contribution to the future of this great St. Louis institution.” The more

MIAMI BEACH, FL.- The Wolfsonian–Florida International University presents “Women’s Work / Men’s Work: Labor and Gender in America”, an exhibition that explores how the sexual division of labor in America has been represented in art, propaganda, and advertising. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, is on view in The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University from January 20 through April 25, 2010. Until relatively recently, notions of the

BOGOTA (EFE).- The Fernando Botero Prize will no longer be given out due to the artist’s recent comments about juries and the quality of the works that won the award, Fundacion Jovenes Artistas Colombianos director Maria Elvira Pardo told the press. The decision to stop handing out the prize, which carried a $50,000 cash award, was made by the foundation’s management council several days ago, the El Tiempo newspaper reported on its Web site. The foundation cited Botero’s statements to Arcadia magazine that he was unhappy because the winning works “seemed very bad” as the reason for its decision. Colombia’s most famous painter, known worldwide for his depiction of

LONDON.- Spring 2010 sees the return of the longest running print fair in the world, the London Original Print Fair, 29 April – 3 May 2010. The 25th Fair will take place in the main galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly. It will be the largest ever, with some 60 exhibitors including new participants from America and a specialist in Japanese prints. Dealers, Print Workshops and Publishers come from France, Germany, Ireland and America as well as Britain. In 2009 attendance rose from 6,000 to 10,000 and strong sales were reported in all areas, old master, modern and contemporary. This year the Fair will include first-time

NEW YORK, NY.- An installation of 14 bold and colorful paintings created by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 15. Drawn from a U. S. private collection, “Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia” will provide an introduction to Aboriginal painting, which has become Australia’s most celebrated contemporary art movement and has attained prominence within the international art world. The installation will present works created primarily over the past decade by artists from the central

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art 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

VALENCIA.- In Miradas Reveladoras one can observe a graphic sequence that was intended to be an illustrated report and has ended up being a work of art because of the sharpness of the details in the composition as well as the sensitiveness in reflecting the social discourse that provided each photograph with veracity. This exhibition is a compilation of images of the most significant sociocultural changes that took place in Cuba 50 years ago and shows the cracks of Cuban society in decisive moments of confrontation with its fate. Some critics talk about the thematic exhibition as a testimony which shows with amazing clarity the atmosphere and circumstances that surrounded individuals, masses, leaders, and those who were captured by the lens.

LONDON.- An album of 40 ‘suppressed’ cartoons by leading British caricaturist James Gillray (1756-1815) has recently come to light in the Criminal Law Policy Unit of the Ministry of Justice. It features material judged socially unacceptable in the 19th century – including explicitly sexual, scatological and politically outrageous subject matter. The album was probably seized by police more than a century ago as ‘pornographic material’ and handed to Government officials. This slim volume of ‘Curiosa’ has now been transferred to the print collections of the V&A. In the 1840s Gillray’s plates were acquired by an

DETROIT (AP).- Houses with dreary urban facades covered in polka dots. A traveling dollhouse made from the remnants of abandoned homes. A dilapidated residence covered in ice. Artists across the Detroit area are using the city’s blight as their canvas, transforming abandoned homes into high-concept projects to draw attention to the homelessness, poverty and urban decay plaguing Detroit. They hope the ongoing experiment will shed some creatively inspired light on what Detroit was, is and could