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Fashion Photography of Richard Avedon at the Norton Museum of Art

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Written by Kevin Santiago   
Monday, 08 February 2010 05:47

Nadja Auermann and A Person Unknown, dress by Romeo Gigli, pajamas by Masha Calloway, Montauk, New York , August 1995. © 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL.- Avedon Fashion 1944-2000 will be on view at the Norton Museum of Art from February 9 through May 9, 2010. The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Richard Avedon's fashion work, it will feature over 150 objects, including photographs from throughout his productive career, as well as original magazines showing his work in context and materials demonstrating his creative process. Richard Avedon is the most significant and influential photographer to have taken fashion as one of his subjects. He began working for Harper's Bazaar in 1944, when he was only twenty-one, and revolutionized fashion photography, dispensing with its prevailing mannered and statically posed formulas and introducing a more youthful, spirited, and distinctly American style.

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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag opens Retrospective of the Work of Der Blaue Reiter

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Written by Marion Belmar   
Monday, 08 February 2010 05:47

Wassily Kandinsky, Holland – 'Strandkörbe', May/June,1904 - Oil on canvas on board, 53,5 x 32.8 cm. - Collection Lenbachhaus München.

THE HAGUE.- In the early 20th century, a group of artists caused a huge furor in the Munich art world. Calling themselves Der Blaue Reiter, the artists produced expressive, brightly coloured, lyrical paintings which were to prompt the development of Expressionism in Germany. The core members of the group were Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and kindred spirit Franz Marc. Although the group was so important for the later development of modern art, this exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will be the first major retrospective of its work ever held in the Netherlands. Many of the works were seen earlier as part of the successful Kandinsky exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. On view through 24 May, 2010.

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Audubon’s Final Achievement ~ "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America"

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Written by Quincy Salinger   
Monday, 08 February 2010 04:31

John James Audubon - Northern Hare (Winter) - From the Imperial Folio edition of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Hand-colored stone lithograph by J. T. Bowen, Philadelphia, 1845

AUBURN, AL.- Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art announces that the Louise Hauss and Davis Brent Miller Audubon Gallery will be closed for renovation February 15 through March 26 to allow for an upgrade of the lighting system. We are installing new track lights that will provide more flexibility in illumination of the exhibitions and ensure better control over light levels and UV filtering to further safeguard the collections. We apologize for the inconvenience, but think you’ll be delighted with what you see at the grand reopening of the galleries -- an exhibition based on one of JCSM’s Audubon treasures, never before exhibited at the museum. On view 27 March through 3 July, 2010.

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Haunch of Venison to show New Work by Indian Artist Jitish Kallat

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Written by Stephan Jennings   
Monday, 08 February 2010 04:30

Jitish Kallat - "Haemoglyphics" (Archipelago of Aches), 2009 - Oil and acrylic on linen, bronze - 203.2 x 457.2 cm. - © Jitish Kallat 2010

LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London will present an exhibition of new work by the Indian artist Jitish Kallat. Following his acclaimed exhibition at Haunch of Venison Zürich in 2008, Kallat’s new work showcases the full range of his visual vocabulary incorporating video, sculptural installation, photography and the large format paintings for which he is best known. Tackling his foundational themes of sustenance, survival and mortality in the contemporary urban environment of Mumbai, Kallat offsets a vivid, hand-made aesthetic with digitised renderings of streets fit-to-burst, where the cumulative impression of daily existence is pushed to the extreme. On view 15 February through 27 March, 2010.

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Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosts Survey of Marcel Dzama's Outrageous Art

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Written by Julie Brackman   
Monday, 08 February 2010 04:30

Marcel Dzama - 'We Shall Be Given Back to the Old Disharmony', 2009 - Oil on board, 22,9 x 30,5 cm. Avec l’aimable permission de l’artiste et David Zwirner, New York. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York.

MONTREAL.- While Vancouver and Toronto may have boasted the most vibrant art scenes in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, Winnipeg took over in the 2000s, spurred on by artist Marcel Dzama. He quickly carved out an international reputation for his unclassifiable, disconcerting art that reveals a fanciful, anachronistic world. Marcel Dzama – title (Of Many Turns), which offers a critical survey of his haunting yet outrageous work, is the largest solo exhibition of Dzama’s art by a public gallery. It will be presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from February 4 to April 25, 2010.

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Michael Werner Gallery exhibits Paintings by Swiss Artist Félix Vallotton

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Written by Cassie Silversmith   
Monday, 08 February 2010 01:30

Félix Vallotton - "Femme en torse tenant sa chemise", 1905 - Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches, 60 x 50 cm. Photo: Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery.

NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (Lausanne, 1865 – Paris, 1925). The exhibition features portraits of women, primarily nudes, and is the first gallery exhibition in New York devoted to the artist’s paintings. Félix Vallotton’s paintings do not give pleasure easily. In portraiture he is not a flashy virtuoso and his nudes are not “sexy”, at least not in any typical fashion. His paint handling is careful and deliberate; his palette, subdued and a little flat; his surfaces, slow and at times somewhat dry. His intense, unforgiving attention to detail lends a palpable realism to the paintings. Enlivened by a thinly veiled eroticism, his subtly voyeuristic scenes leave one feeling more than a little uncomfortable. Paintings of Félix Vallotton is on view from 4 February to 10 April 2010.

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Flamenco & Photography Celebrated at Aperture Gallery in New York

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Written by Mason Belinkoff   
Monday, 08 February 2010 01:29

María Pagés,1994 - Photo: Carlos Saura - Photo: Courtesy Aperture Foundation, New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography, and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions opening February 4 and 5 at Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes respectively, just prior to the launch of the 10th annual New York Flamenco Festival on February 11. Exhibition on view through 1 April, 2010.

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Recent Works by Cy Twombly Showcased at the Portland Art Museum

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Written by Sylvia Bangstrom   
Monday, 08 February 2010 00:45

Cy Twombly - Untitled, 2007, from Blooming, A Scattering of Blossoms & Other Things -  Acrylic on panel, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica. © Cy Twombly. Courtesy: Gagosian Gallery.

PORTLAND, OR.- Among the most important and influential artists of his generation, Cy Twombly has used mark-making and written language as the core of his artistic practice since the late 1950s. Twombly’s work has come to define an important branch of gestural abstraction that conflates painting and poetry, line and word. The exhibition showcases three recent works—two virtuosic paintings and a bronze sculpture—that illuminate the artist’s continuing engagement with process and content, the immediacy of materials, and the continuum of history.

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Record Attendance Marks Opening of 14th American International Fine Art Fair

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Written by Richard Davidoff   
Monday, 08 February 2010 00:44

Ken Howard - "Rain Effect S. Marco", 2009 - Oil on canvas - Signed, 101.6 x 121.9 cm. 40 x 48 inch - Courtesy Richard Green Gallery, London

PALM BEACH, FL.- International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) founders and AIFAF organizers David and Lee Ann Lester reported that a record 5,100 collectors attended the opening Vernissage honoring the Norton Museum of Art Tuesday evening at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Sales during the first day of the fair indicate that the US art economy is rebounding strongly – consistent with very strong auction sales in New York on Wednesday – where a Giacometti sculpture sold for a record $105 million – a new high for any work of art. The American International Fine Art Fair continues its run through February 8.

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Exhibition Examines Waste and Recycling As Contemporary Art

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Written by Carmen Constante   
Monday, 08 February 2010 00:43

Regina Jose Galindo - (We don't lose anything by being born), 2000 -  Image courtesy of prometeogallery di Ida Pisani

HUESCA, SPAIN - The first notions that usually come to mind when considering garbage, waste and deterioration are generally negative, when not outright nauseating. We are aware of the physical and chemical processes of the matter around us, beginning with the cycles of nature itself, including industrial processes, technical constructions and manufactured consumer items, and ending with the very materiality of the human being as a living organism. This crisscrossing of elements and activities-which, after all, is what makes the human being civilized and cultural, negotiating and struggling to domesticate and exploit the landscape and the ecosystem, the planet, in short-generates endless reactions, overpopulation and overproduction, upsets and imbalances, and therefore waste, before which we often do not know how to react or that, metaphorically, but also in the practical reality, we end up sweeping under the rug and looking the other way.

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First Solo Show in London in 5 Years for Kenneth Anger at Sprüth Magers

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Written by Curtis Mannheim   
Monday, 08 February 2010 00:43

Kenneth Anger, Filmstill -  'Invocation of my Demon Brother', 1969 - 16 mm film. © Kenneth Anger. Courtesy: Sprüth Magers Berlin London

LONDON.- Sprüth Magers London announced an exhibition of work by the legendary filmmaker and artist Kenneth Anger, in his first solo show in London in over five years. Making films continuously since the late 1940s and considered a countercultural icon, Kenneth Anger is widely acclaimed as a pioneering and influential force in avant-garde cinema. His groundbreaking body of work has inspired cineastes, filmmakers and artists alike. Many channels of contemporary visual culture, from queer iconography to MTV, similarly owe a debt to his art. On view 19 February though 27 March, 2010.

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The Fondation Beyeler honors French Artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) ~ 100 Years

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Written by Philippe Büttner   
Sunday, 07 February 2010 05:40

Henri Rousseau - "Surprise !", 1891 - Oil on canvas, 129,8 x 161,9 cm - Courtesy of The  Fondation Beyeler, Basel

BASEL.- One hundred years after the death of the French artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an exhibition to this pioneer of modernism. Forty outstanding works provide a concise overview of the development and diversity of his oeuvre. A customs official, Rousseau had no formal art training and initially painted in his free time. Many years passed before his art, non-academic and long considered merely naive, found recognition in the Paris salons. In addition to the legendary jungle pictures characteristic of his late work, Rousseau also painted views of Paris and environs, as well as figures, portraits, allegories and genre scenes. With Monet, Cézanne, van Gogh and Gauguin, Rousseau was one of the artists whose visual inventions paved the way for incipient modernism. On exhibition 7 February though 9 May, 2010.

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