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The Eclectic Eye - Pop and Illusion

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, US, is hosting now an impressive exhibition with works from one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art, that of Frederick R. Weisman. He began collecting in the 1950's, together with his wife, buying European and American art, and slowly built one of the richest collections in the...

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The Prints of James McNeill Whistler

James McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903) is still considered one of the most important artists of the 19 th century, renowned worldwide for his varied and skillfull compositions, which changed the world of painting in his time. A printer, printmaker, painter and draftsman, Whistler was by all means a model for younger artists. The National...

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Retrospective Henri Cartier-Bresson, Tokyo

until August 12, 2007 "De qui s'agit-il ?" Retrospective Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson is recognized as one of the greatest photographers of the Twentieth Century. Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908, in Chanteloupe, France, of prosperous middle-class parents. He owned a Box Brownie as a...

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Baroque Tapestries at the MET in New York

Starting on the 17 th of October the MET in New York will be hosting an exhibition dedicated to the art of European tapestries in the 17 th century, under the title "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor", the event being the first comprehensive presentation of this chapter of the history of tapestries ever shown in the USA....

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Auguste Rodin Exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Few artists of the last two centuries have played such a major role in the history of art as Rodin did, his influence and power of expression still being admired today. During his lifetime and beyond, Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) was...

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Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967

The exhibition with the controversial title "Sympathy for the Devil : Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967" will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on the 29 th of September 2007, and is sure to be an impressive and unique event dedicated to a mostly ignored chapter in the art of the 20 th century. The curators of the show...

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Darwin Exhibition at the Field Museum in Chicago

Charles Darwin is one of the most important, popular and controversial personalitaties of the 19 th century, his revolutionary theory of evolution is forever changing our view on the birth and development of the natural world. Hated with passion or supported with enthusiasm, he has by no...

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Animals and Flowers in Chinese Decorative Arts

Nature has always played an important rol in Asian art and especially in China and Japan , where it became more than a source of inspiration, gaining a spiritual and religious importance. Chinese artists, even from the ancient times, turned to nature for their ambitious compositions,...

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The Art of Fakes and Forgeries at the Bruce Museum

Despite it's dark side, the art of fakes and forgeries has always been a major part of the art world and a continued source of fascination and legends. It is a subject that is more than important and vivid on today's art market, as every day dozens of impressive fakes are discovered all around...

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The Magic of Chocolate at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich

Chocolate. It is hard to believe that there is a single soul in the entire world that hasn't heard or tasted this delicious confection, in either of it's forms. Over the history the product made from cocoa beans has been used in religious rituals, has been traded as currency, given as a gift on millions of occasions and is now a symbol of pleasure,...

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The Frida Kahlo Exhibition in Mexico City is a Success

As most art specialists predicted, the Frida Kahlo exhibition hosted at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City has proven to be a great success. According to the estimates provided by the museum, so far over 155.500 visitors have attended the show, and the number is sure to grow until August 19, the closing day of the event....

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Frida Kahlo Through the Lense of Nickolas Muray

Frida Kahlo is already considered one of the most important artists of the 20 th century, with a strange and original style, shocking and even scandalous subjects and an artistic vision that transcended everything that had been done before. At the same time, Frida Kahlo doubled her unique art world with a fascinating and dramatic...

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J. M. W. Turner Retrospective

The largest and richest retrospective of J.M.W. Turner's works ever assembled in the US will be hosted by the National Gallery of Art in Washington , starting on the 1 st o October 2007. The curators have already selected 70 oil paintings and around 70 works on paper made by one of the best landscape painters in the history of...

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Japanese Tea Ceramics and Their Makers Exhibition

Tea has played a key role in the development of Japanese culture, customs and history, being more, much more that just a pleasant and healthy drink, destined simply for consumption. For the Japanese tea was a symbol, a mark of their identity and a sign of civilisation, that separated them from the "barbarians" of the west. The Tea...

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Impressionist and Modern Paintings at the MET

Until the 19 th of August 2007 the famous MET in New York, one of the most prestigious and famous museums in the world, will be hosting an exhibition of Impressionist and early modern paintings, reuniting over 65 masterpieces by artists such as Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sargent, as well as Cezanne, Picasso, Eakins, Seurat and many...

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Soviet Architecture from 1922 - 1932

"Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-32" in an exhibition hosted at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, documenting the changes, ideas, techniques and projects in the Soviet avant-garde architecture, in the first decade after the Revolution. Most of the projects presented in this show, although they are an important part...

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Reality and Fantasy Journeys in Chinese Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, US, is presenting one of the few exhibition of Chinese art, dedicated to the depiction of the theme of journeys, both real and imaginnary, between the 12 th and the 19 th century. This was one of the most important subjects in Chinese...

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American Landscape Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum

The practice of sketching and painting outdoors was adopted by the US artists early, in the 19 th century, under the direct influence of the French schools of painting and especially of the Impressionists. Young artists were particularly fond of this technique, and especially the Hundson River School proclaimed the necessity...

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Ladies of the Japanese Woodblock Prints

Ranging from depictions of Geishas to those of misterious and beautiful ladies of the Japanese aristocracy, landscapes, deities and mythological scenes, the collection of Japanese woodblocks of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is by all standards...

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The Image of the American Indians at the Huntington Library

The interest for the life and customs of the American Indians came once again into high fashion when the first filmmakers in Hollywood began producing the first Westerns, a genre that would prove to be hugely popular all around the...

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Joan Miro - Fantastic Universe

The San Jose Museum of Art will be hosting, starting on November 3 2007 an exbition dedicated to the works and life of Joan Miro, one of the most popular and influential artists of the 20 th century. The curators have chosen to present prints made by the artist, selecting around 60 works, all of them rarely seen in public. ...

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European Drawings in the 19th century

The 19 th century was a time when art seemed to develop and evolve at a much faster rate than ever, new artists, movements, genres, techniques and schoold appearing overnight. The artists began to have more opportunities to exhibit and sale their art, their names became more and more popular, the works were reproduced in great number...

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Callum Innes at Kettlea��s Yard

Cambridge, UK - Following showings in Edinburgh and Oxford, Kettle’s Yard will be this exhibition’s last stop in the UK before it travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia. Callum Innes: from memory brings together a selection of key paintings and works on paper, and offers a rare opportunity to trace the...

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National Gallery faces worst acquisition crisis in over a century

LONDON. The National Gallery is facing its most serious acquisition crisis for over 100 years, with the threat of losing pictures on loan worth around £200m. Not since cuts in government funding in the 1890s has the situation been more difficult. We can reveal that the latest work on loan coming up for sale is Rubenss Apotheosis of King James...

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Apartheid - The South African Mirror at CCCB

BARCELONA, SPAIN.- The Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona will present Apartheid – The South African Mirror, on view 26th September, 2007 – 13th January, 2008. “Apartheid in South Africa can be seen, not only as an extreme manifestation of old, deeply-rooted Western racism, but also as a dramatic but clear precedent,...

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The First Impressionist : Eugene Boudin

Although overlooked by many art lovers and even art historians, Eugene Boudin (1824 - 1898) was the first Impressionist artist and one of the most important and tallented painters of the 19 th century. From the beginning, his works were popular due to their spontaneity, keen sense and observation and the desire to bring something new to...

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American Artists and the Magic of the Sea

Starting on May 13 th , the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama , USA , is presenting for art lovers one of the few exhibition dedicated to the presence of the sea in the works of American painters. The organisers have chosen an impressive selection of works by artists such as Giuseppe Moretti, Balcomb Greene, Alfred Thompson...

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The World of the Medieval Beasts

Some of the most interesting and artistic manuscripts of the Middle Ages were the famous bestiaries, regarded with both awe and fascination, as their pages were literally swarmed with fantastic and mythological beasts of all kind. The usual animals played a key-role in the medieval...

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Greeks on the Black Sea at the J. Paul Getty Center

The J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles , USA , is hosting until September 3 2007 a fascinating exhibition dedicated to the civilisation of the Greeks at the Black Sea , were they were colonists, conquerors, sailors and merchants. The first Greeks who ever...

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The Language of the Nude in Art History

Since the beginning of art history, the human body has fascinated countless generations of painters and sculptors, becoming since the Antiquity the supreme form of expression. The nude became a genre in itself, being used to represent religious and mythological figures, gods and...

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