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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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The Art Gallery of Alberta creates a Museum of National Significance

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The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), in downtown Edmonton, opened to the public on January 31, 2010. Randall Stout Architects, Inc. (RSA) was selected from 25 international submissions during the spring of 2005. Photo: Robert Lemermeyer.

EDMONTON, AB.- The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA),
in downtown Edmonton, opened to the public on January 31, 2010. The remodeled
85,000 square foot gallery, designed by Los Angeles architect Randall
Stout, features three floors of exhibition space that showcases
historical and contemporary Canadian and international art. The opening
marks a major milestone in the AGA’s New Vision project and fulfills its goal of
creating an art gallery of national significance for the Province of Alberta.

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Art Institute of Chicago Presents Vernacular Photography Exhibition

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CHICAGO, IL.- For at least a century, vernacular photographs— those ordinary, amateur or professional, “everyday” pictures—both challenged and inspired fine-art photography. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized In the Vernacular, an exhibition that brings together images by artists who—through their choice of content, process, aesthetic, and means of distribution—blur or erase the boundaries that seem to separate fine art from the commonplace. In the Vernacular will be on view February 6 through May 31, 2010, in Galleries 1 and 2, and features more than 100 images culled from the museum’s permanent collection. Twenty new acquisitions made by the Department of Photography including works by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Misrach, and Andy Warhol—are included in the show. Many of these images are familiar and universal: snapshots, crime-scene photos, advertising images, family pictures, travel albums, and pin-up posters. Serving as bot

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Romare Bearden’s ‘The Block’ and Related Drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), "The Block", detail, 1971. Cut & pasted printed, colored and metallic papers, photostats, pencil, ink marker, gouache, watercolor, and pen and ink on Masonite, 48 x 216 inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Shore, 1978 © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York , NY.

NEW YORK, NY.- Romare Bearden’s vibrant mural-size tableau The
Block (1971) and related sketches and photographs will be featured at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning January 15, 2010, in a small
installation of works from the collection. The Block, an ambitious 18-foot-long
collage, celebrates the Harlem neighborhood in New York City that nurtured and
inspired so much of the artist’s life and work. On view through Spring,
2010.

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Frank Stella Receives the Julio González Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts

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Frank Stella’s “Severinda” (1995), mixed media on Fiberglas, is part of “Frank Stella: Painting Into Architecture,” at the Metropolitain Museum of Art - Photo : Librado Romero/The New York Times

VALENCIA.- American painter Frank Stella received
the Julio González Prize recognizing his work in the arts and his contributions
to Modern art. This is the ninth time that the award has been given out
and previous winners have been: Georg Baselitz, Cy Twombly, Eduardo Chillida,
Anish Kapoor, Markus Lüpertz, Robert Rauschenberg, Anthony Caro, Pierre Soulages
and Miquel Navarro. Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts. After
attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he went on
to Princeton University, where he painted, influenced by the abstract
expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and majored in history. Early
visits to New York art galleries would prove to be an influence upon his
artistic development. Stella moved to New York in 1958 after his graduation.
He is one of the most well-regarded postwar American painters who still
works today. Frank Stella has reinvented himself in consecutive bodies of work
over the course of his five-decade career.

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Seattle Art Museum (SAM) showcases Michelangelo Drawings from Florence

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Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian,1475-1564 - Study of a man's face for the Flood in the Sistine ceiling, 1509-1510, Red chalk. , 4.92 x 5.59 inches. - Photo courtesy of Fondazione Casa Buonarroti.

SEATTLE, WA.- Michelangelo’s towering reputation as
the quintessential Renaissance man — architect, painter, sculptor, poet and
engineer — intimidated both his contemporaries and later historians to the point
that the adjective “divine” became a fixture attached to his name.
Bringing together drawings and sculptural models by Michelangelo with a range of
works by his contemporaries and generations of followers, Michelangelo Public
and Private: Drawings for the Sistine Chapel and Other Treasures from the Casa
Buonarroti is a small but powerful exhibition that humanizes the great master,
exposing the working process that led to masterpieces such as the Sistine Chapel
ceiling frescoes. Organized by the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), the
exhibition’s only venue, in collaboration with the Casa Buonarroti in Florence,
Italy, Michelangelo Public and Private will show a side of this unequivocal
master that he never wanted the public to see. The exhibition will be on view through January 31, 2010.

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Marble Sarcophagus Relief Sells for $1.5 Million at Sotheby’s Antiquities Auction

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$1.5 million achieved at Sotheby's for the Roman Sarcophagus marble relief. The piece boasts remarkable ownership history, having belonged not only to Emile Zola but over the past 100 years to the actress Cécile Sorel and Paul Reynaud the former French head of state.

NEW YORK, NY.- An ancient Roman marble relief panel
with Dionysiac decoration that was recently discovered to once have been in the
collection of French writer Émile Zola sold for $1,538,500 at Sotheby’s
Antiquities auction in New York. Six bidders competed for the piece which
eventually sold to an anonymous telephone bidder. It was the
highlight of the sale which totaled $5.8 million – well in excess of the
$2.3/3.5 million estimate, with 86% lots sold by lot and 96% by value.
Discussing the sale Richard Keresey and Florent Heintz of Sotheby’s Antiquities
Department said: “We are thrilled with the $1.5 million achieved today for the
Roman Sarcophagus relief. The piece boasts remarkable ownership history, having
belonged not only to Emile Zola but at times over the past 100 years to the
actress Cécile Sorel and Paul Reynaud the former French head of state. We are
able to trace unbroken provenance trace back over 500 years.”

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“A” is for Aivazovsky as Bonhams Russian Sale Boasts a Cyrillic Who’s Who

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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817-1900) - The morning catch - signed in Cyrillic and dated '1870' (lower right) oil on canvas 71.5 x 88.5cm (28 1/8 x 34 13/16in). / Sold for £378,400 inclusive of Buyer's Premium

LONDON.- On 30th November at Bonhams New Bond
Street hosted the sale of Russian Art, featuring the eminent names of both
Aivazovsky and Fabergé. The first painting by Aivazovsky, whose career spanned
almost the entire 19th century, is named “The Morning Catch”. It is
signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘1870’ (lower right) and further signed in Latin
and dated ‘1870’ (lower left). The exceptional seascape oil painting is expected
to fetch between £150,000 and £250,000 for the much sought-after artist. Sold for
£378,400 inclusive of Buyer’s Premium.

Art Invitations

Gallery show‏-downtownsf gallery

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Hello, Introduction In Brief ; The 4000 sq feet gallery “The Artists Alley” is one of the largest galleries of Californian and international artists in SF, currently showing over 450 works of over 50 artists.We accept submissions on an ongoing basis and are interviewing artists for current and future shows. There is a nominal participation…