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Exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec in Chicago

One of the most popular painters of late 19th century France, Toulouse-Lautrec was last the focus of a retrospective in 1991, when a major exhibit of his work was displayed in London and Paris. Now, The Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is doing a more selective presentation. The...

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Margaret Preston: Art and Life - A Retrospective - Opens

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.-Margaret Preston (1875-1963) is one of Australia's most celebrated artists, and is certainly Australia's most famous woman artist. Her cosmopolitan paintings and prints of the 1920s, 30s and 40s epitomise not only one of the most distinctive eras in the history of Australian art, but also one of the country's most aesthetically...

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Prince Walid bin Talal Donates $20.5 Million to Louvre

PARIS, FRANCE.- Prince Walid bin Talal has donated more than $20.5 million for an Islamic art gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris. The prince stated he hoped the gallery would help people to gain an understanding of Islam as a religion of humanity and tolerance. The Louvre announced this new wing will hold its Islamic art collection. There are,...

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High Drama: Eugene Berman at Long Beach Museum

LONG BEACH, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art presents High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, featuring the paintings of Surrealist artist Eugene Berman together with work by his contemporaries, and later artists exploring similar themes and subjects. The exhibition includes 92 paintings, photographs, sculptures and...

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Fooling the Eye, Fooling the Mind: Burnished Drawings

SACRAMENTO, CA.-The Crocker Art Museum presents Fooling the Eye, Fooling the Mind: Burnished Drawings by Don Reich, on view through September 11, 2005. This exhibition examines a brief but important period, the mid-1970s, in the career of Sacramento artist Don Reich. Although this work is decidedly different from any that preceded or followed,...

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The Way We Work Now at Camden Arts Centre

LONDON, ENGLAND.- Camden Arts Centre presents exhibition "The Way We Work Now: some attitudes to materials and making", on view through 11 September 2005. This group exhibition at Camden Arts Centre presents new and recent work from seven London-based artists interested in the materials or stuff from which art is made. It includes painting,...

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Miami Art Museum Presents Wangechi Mutu

MIAMI, FLORIDA.-Miami Art Museum presents the first solo museum exhibition by Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born artist currently living in New York. Mutu�s growing, widespread acclaim includes being named as one of this season�s �Top 25 Movers, Shakers, and Makers� by ARTnews magazine. The exhibition is curated by MAM Assistant Director for...

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Is your painting on their website? The FBI is looking for works faked by the Manhattan dealer Ely Sakhai

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seeking information from the public to help find paintings that may have been forged by New York dealer Ely Sakhai and his office manager Houshi Sandjaby, and then sold through Sakhai�s Manhattan gallery Exclusive Art Gallery, Ltd over the last 15 years. The pair pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges on...

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At the Edge of the World: New Work from Japan

DETROIT, MICHIGAN.-The Museum of New Art presents At the Edge of the World: New Work from Japan, on view through August 13, 2005. Tokyo-based Kenzu Nagawa, Maki Moro, and Taki Murakishi apply their own collective strategy to this new exhibit of their work. Known in Japan as Stray Dog, the three artists have created, not only a full body of their...

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World Nature Art at Nieuwe Kerk

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.-The Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam in conjunction with Staatsbosbeheer (the Dutch Forestry Commission) will present the major exhibition World Nature Art on nature in art, through October 23, 2005. Some 175 objects from many Dutch collections and several museum and private collections in other countries will be used to show the...

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An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture Opens

CINCINNATI, OHIO.- The Taft Museum of Art presents An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, on view through August 28, 2005. Forever changing the course of art history, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists depicted everyday city and country life in a style that explored the transitory effects...

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Famous Picasso Gifted to Scotland

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.- One of Pablo Picasso's most famous works has been acquired by Scotland, it was announced today. The work was accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the collection at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Culture Minister Patricia Ferguson today unveiled the etching Weeping Woman I, 1937,...

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A Rare Yuan Dynasty Jar Sells For $27.7 Million Dollars

LONDON, ENGLAND.- Christie�s sold the most expensive Asian Work of Art ever today when an exceptionally rare and important blue and white jar, Yuan Dynasty, 14th century, realized �15,688,000 /$27,679,100 / �22,731,912. After a fierce bidding battle with over six clients vying over the telephone and in the room, the jar was eventually acquired by...

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Van Gogh Museum Acquires Two Works

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.- The Vincent van Gogh Stichting recently purchased two well-known posters. One by Theophile Steinlen (1859-1923): La tourn�e du Chat Noir, and one by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901): Eldorado, Aristide Bruant. The Van Gogh Museum already possessed several smaller lithographs by these artists. Both acquisitions can be...

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Archaeology of Horror: Findings of WWII

BERLIN, GERMANY.- The Museum for Pre- and Early History presents Archaeology of Horror: Findings of the Second World War in Berlin, on view through September 11, 2005. To mark the 60th anniversary of the ending of the Second World War, the Museum for Pre- and Early History presents results of archaeological research in Berlin on the period of...

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Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Renaissance

OTTAWA, CANADA.- The National Gallery of Canada is celebrating one of the most innovative periods in the history of art with its exclusive new exhibition Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence, presented by Bell Canada through 5 September 2005. The more than 120 works assembled for this special occasion showcase not just...

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Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art Opens

WASHINGTON, DC.- Exceptional oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints from the Gallery's extensive holdings by distinguished American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910) will be on view in the National Gallery of Art's East Building, through February 20, 2006. Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art spans the artist's entire career from...

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Andrea del Sarto Drawing Sells For $11.4 Million in UK

LONDON, ENGLAND.- King Street � A rediscovered drawing by Andrea del Sarto, the last great Florentine artist of the High Renaissance, sold today at Christie�s in London for �6,504,000 / $11,395,008 / �9,586,896, a world record price for the artist. Head of St Joseph, a study for a picture now in the Pitti Palace, Florence, has become the third most...

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Daniel Richter: Pink Flag - White Horse

OTTAWA, CANADA.- The National Gallery of Canada is proud to present German artist Daniel Richter�s electrifying, large-scale paintings in the new exhibition Daniel Richter: Pink Flag - White Horse, in the Contemporary Galleries until 10 September 2005. The Berlin-based painter, who built his reputation with abstract works, has attracted an...

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Van Gogh Museum Presents Finest Van Gogh Drawings

AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum presents today of the finest drawings by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), on view through September 18. This representative survey of over one hundred of Van Gogh's many drawings reveals the full extent of his remarkable talent as a draughtsman. The works have been brought together from public and private collections...

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The National Gallery Presents Stubbs and the Horse

LONDON, ENGLAND.- It is almost twenty years since the last major exhibition of Stubbs's work and this is the first to focus exclusively on the object of his true passion, the horse. The starting point for this exhibition is Whistlejacket, painted by Stubbs in 1762, one of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery. Its heroic scale and the...

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Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris at Tate Modern

LONDON, ENGLAND.- From November Tate Modern will present the most impressive selection of exotic jungle paintings by the French painter Henri Rousseau ever assembled, almost eight decades after his last exhibition in London. The jungle paintings are among the best-known and most frequently reproduced works of art in the world, and yet they remain...

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War/Hell: Master Prints by Otto Dix and Max Beckmann

NEW YORK.- The Neue Galerie just opened �War/Hell: Master Prints by Otto Dix and Max Beckmann,� an exhibition of two of the greatest German print portfolios of the twentieth century. Both series depict the horrors witnessed by the artists during World War I, and have never been shown together. These images take on a renewed resonance in the face of...

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Christie's To Auction Painting of Washingotn By Peale

NEW YORK.- An American painting of momentous national, cultural and historic importance is to be auctioned at Christie�s New York on January 21, 2006. A full-length painting of George Washington by Charles Willson Peale is estimated at $10,000,000-15,000,000, and will lead The Collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, which also includes a fine selection...

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Pioneering Modern Painting: C�zanne and Pissarro

NEW YORK.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Pioneering Modern Painting: C�zanne and Pissarro 1865�1885, on view through September 12. Pioneering Modern Painting: C�zanne and Pissarro 1865�1885 is a major exhibition that presents the work of Paul C�zanne and Camille Pissarro in the context of their artistic relationship. This exhibition offers an...

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Caillebotte - At the Heart of Impressionism Opens Today

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND.- Showing a hundred works by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), this exhibition, organized under the patronage of Monsieur Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic, gives a closer look at just how original the artist�s contribution was to Impressionism. Both as a painter -- between 1876 and 1882 he took part in five of...

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Whitney Museum Presents Robert Smithson

NEW YORK.- A major figure in the cultural landscape of the 1960s and 1970s, and an influence on contemporary artists to this day, Robert Smithson�s impact on American art is the subject of an exhibition opening at the Whitney Museum on June 23, 2005. This is the first comprehensive American retrospective devoted to Smithson�s work. Organized for...

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Impressionist and Modern Art Totals $57.5 Million

LONDON June 22, 2005 Christie's evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art realised �31,573,600 ($57,527,099 �47,328,826) tonight. The sale was 73% sold by lot and 83% sold by value with 92% of the works sold tonight achieving prices within or above estimate. Seventeen works sold for over $1 million. �Another strong evening sale of...

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Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe

SAN DIEGO, CA.- SAN DIEGO�More than 80 works of superlative design and beauty by Maxfield Parrish (1870�1966) will be presented this summer in a major exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art. Running July 16 to September 11, 2005, the nationally touring exhibition, Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe, features many of the master...

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"Picasso Erotica"

"Picasso Erotica" Throughout his life, from early youth through old age, Picasso�s two great passions were woman and art, and these came together in his erotic works. The most famous of these is his monumentally important painting of 1907, Les Demoiselles d�Avignon, which is viewed by art historians as the prototypical modern painting. This...

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