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ÜberPortrait at Bellevue Arts Museum / A fresh perspective on contemporary portraiture

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 04:35

Ah Xian - Human Human cloisonné Bust 8 _Ten Thousand Flower , 2005 Hand-beaten copper, finely enameled in the cloisonné technique with "Bird and Flower" design. Made in Da Chang County. He Bei Province. China. 46 x 45 x 26 cm. Photo: Ah Xian

Bellevue , WA   –   Bellevue Arts Museum offers a fresh perspective on contemporary portraiture with its new exhibition ÜberPortrait , on view through October 18, 2009. Comprised of over 30 works by locally, nationally and internationally celebrated artists, this unique exhibit examines the ‘portrait’ in all its facets – from individual likeness to overarching cultural identity. Working in a broad range of media such as sculpture, ceramics, photography, fiber, performance art and film, artists highlighted in ÜberPortrait share a common interest: exploring the age-old fascination with capturing a person’s likeness and/or recreating his or her identity, both as individual and a collective entity.

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Jeff Koons Signature Works from his Popeye Series at the Serpentine Gallery in London

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 04:05

Jeff Koons - Hook , 2003 - Oil on canvas, 259.1 x 350.5 cm. - © 2009 Jeff Koons - Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo

LONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery presents an exhibition of the work of the celebrated American artist Jeff Koons. This will be England’s first ever major survey of Koons’s work in a public gallery. For his exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, Jeff Koons presents works from his Popeye series, which he began in 2002. The works incorporate some of Koons’s signature ideas and motifs, including surreal combinations of everyday objects, cartoon imagery, art-historical references and children’s toys. The sculptures on show continue Koons’s interest in casting inflatable toys. Those typically used by children in a swimming pool are cast in aluminium, their surfaces painted to bear an uncanny resemblance to the original objects. On exhibition 2 July through 13 September, 2009.

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Dallas Museum of Art to host "All the World’s a Stage ~ Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts"

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 03:22

Yinka Shonibare, M.B.E. - Un Ballo in Maschera, 2004 - High-definition digital video. Running time: 31 min. Dallas Museum of Art, DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund

DALLAS, TX.- The dynamic and historic connections between the visual and performing arts will be explored in two exhibitions—one focusing on contemporary artists and the other spanning multiple eras and cultures—at the Dallas Museum of Art. Drawn from the DMA’s encyclopedic collections and special loans, the exhibitions will be presented in conjunction with this fall’s historic opening of the new Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and the completion of the Dallas Arts District. The exhibition will also incorporate several theatrical tableaux in photography, including pieces by Cindy Sherman, Nic Nicosia, Matthew Barney, and Gregory Crewdson, among others. In these images, conventions of costume, character, and set are combined to create characters and scenarios often found on the stage.

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Major Contemporary Ceramics Collection Gifted to Crocker Art Museum

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 03:22

Colin Pearson - Bowl, n.d. Stoneware, 9 5/8 x 10 3/4 x 9 in. - Crocker Art Museum, promised gift of Sidney Swidler. Photography by Jesse Bravo

Sacramento, CA The Crocker Art Museum has received a gift of an encyclopedic collection of 20th-century ceramics, comprised of nearly 800 works by more than 300 artists. The collection, given by Syndey Swidler, brings to the Museum a fully developed view of the medium from the early-20th-century to the present. Works by some of the most prominent artists in contemporary international ceramics are featured in the collection, including Curtis Benzle, Colin Pearson, Angela Verdon, Val Cushing and Jeffrey Swindell. The Swidler Collection will be showcased as one of the inaugural exhibits when the Crocker opens its 125,000-square-foot expansion in 2010.

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Expands Public Access to Archives

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 03:22

Installation view of The Great Utopia, 1992. Photo: David M. Heald, © SRGF, New York - Guggenheim Museum, NY

NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building this year, has expanded the public and private access to its archival materials with the support of four recent grants totaling more than $200,000. The grants have been awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the Documentary Heritage Program of the New York State Archives, the Hilla von Rebay Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts to preserve archives that document the museum’s founding history and select areas of exhibition and educational programming.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art announces Augustus Saint-Gaudens Exhibition

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 03:10

The most acclaimed sculpture on Boston Common - Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Robert Gould Shaw Memorial Photo courtesy Larry Stritof © 2006  -  ( Not on exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art )

NEW YORK, NY - Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) was a French-Irish immigrant who became the greatest American sculptor of his day. From humble roots, through his prodigious talent, he rose in society, eventually counting some of America's most influential people in art and literature, diplomacy and economics, technology and social policy among his friends and clients. The collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art contains nearly four dozen works by the accomplished artist, representing the entire range of his oeuvre, from early cameos to innovative painterly bas-reliefs to character-penetrating portrait busts and statuettes derived from his public monuments.

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Wikimedia Foundation receives Ford Foundation Grant to grow Wikimedia Commons

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 03:02

The Wikimedia Foundation Family

San Francisco, CA - The Wikimedia Foundation, the non- profit organization which operates Wikipedia, has received a $300,000  Ford Foundation grant to make it easier for people around the world to  participate in Wikimedia Commons, the Internet's largest repository of  high quality, freely reusable educational illustrations, photographs,  maps, sound, and video files. Available in 85 languages, Wikimedia Commons is a global community  dedicated to sharing media. The Wikimedia Commons also acts as the  central multimedia library for Wikipedia. The Ford Foundation grant  will support interface and work-flow improvements to make it much  easier to contribute freely reusable content.

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Jeu de Paume shows Planète Parr ~ The Martin Parr Collection

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 02:46

Martin Parr - Egypt. Giza. The Sphinx, 1992 - De la série "Small World" - Color photo, 140 x 175 cm. © Martin Parr, Magnum Photos / Kamel Mennour

PARIS - Loud colours, strange patterns and concise narratives are what characterise the photographs of Martin Parr (born in Bristol in 1952). While some of his images may seem over the top, they are always astonishingly inventive and richly humorous. Over the last thirty years, Parr has been documenting Western society, and in particular his fellow citizens of the United Kingdom. However, he is also interested in phenomena linked to globalisation such as mass tourism, consumerism and so-called leisure. His work is seen as a satirical look at contemporary life which unmasks the grotesque element behind banality. On exhibition from 30 June 2009 until 27 September 2009.

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Christie's Auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in London Tops $31.8 Million

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 02:46

Peter Doig's Night Playground sold for £3,009,250 / $5,016,420 / €3,553,924, achieved 2nd highest price for the artist at auction. Photo: Alberto Gonzalez/Christie's Images Ltd. 2009.

LONDON.-Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction took place this evening and realised £19,063,350 / $31,778,604 / €22,513,816 selling 88% by lot and 86% by value. The top price was paid for Night Playground by Peter Doig (b.1959), 1997/98, an exemplary large scale painting described by the artist as one of his own favourites. It was offered at auction for the first time and realised £3,009,250 / $5,016,420 / €3,553,924, the second highest price for the artist at auction (estimate: £1.5 million to £2 million). A particularly rare urban view, the painting shows night falling on a city playground and portrays the contrast between nature and the man-made. At this evening’s auction, 4 works of art sold for over £1 million / 11 for over $1 million, and buyers (by lot / by origin) were 65% UK and Europe, 29% Americas and 6% Asia.

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"Workshop Missoni ~ Daring to be Different" opens at The Estorick Collection

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Thursday, 02 July 2009 02:46

Tancredi (1927-64) - Untitled. Oil on canvas, 134 x 164 cm. - Courtesy of The Estorick Collection

LONDON.- Missoni is one of the leading and most distinctive fashion houses in the world. The Missoni style has evolved out of a long-standing collaboration between the husband and wife team of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni. In the late 1940s, Ottavio Missoni established a workshop producing jersey tracksuits that were sported by the Italian Athletic Team at the 1948 London Olympics, where Ottavio himself qualified for the final of the 400m hurdle race. The exhibition is curated by Luca Missoni. It is accompanied by The Black and White of Colour, a thirty-minute documentary profile produced by Maggie Norden of the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. On view at the Estorick Collection through 20 September, 2009.

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