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George Custer dealer Christopher Kortlander seeks return of seized artifacts George Custer dealer Christopher Kortlander seeks return of seized artifacts

January 30, 2012 by   - Filed under Education & Research


GARRYOWNE (AP).- A few miles from where George Custer made his infamous Last Stand against thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, artifacts dealer Christopher Kortlander is waging his own battle with authorities to reclaim a trove of war bonnets, medicine bags and other items seized during government raids on his privately-operated Custer museum. The raids came during a five-year investigation into Kortlander’s alleged dealings in fraudulent artifacts and eagle feathers in violation of federal law. No charges were ever filed. The government dropped its investigation... [Full Article]

The Clark explores the art of copying – “Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art” opens The Clark explores the art of copying – “Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art” opens

January 30, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute opened its latest exhibition, Copycat: Reproducing Works of Art, on January 29. Exploring the line between innovation and imitation, the exhibition features 50 prints and photographs that are both original works of art and repetitions of drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, and architecture created by other artists. The exhibition highlights the complex process of copying by studying replications of many rarely seen works from the Clark’s permanent collection, including those by Albrecht Dürer,... [Full Article]

Israeli artist Ruven Kuperman opens exhibition at Kit Schulte Contemporary Art Israeli artist Ruven Kuperman opens exhibition at Kit Schulte Contemporary Art

January 30, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


BERLIN.- Kit Schulte Contemporary Art announces an exhibition by Israeli artist Ruven Kuperman to the Berlin audience. In New Mythologies, Kuperman attempts to connect japanese elements of tradition and culture with a heroic contemporary imagery, based on the old and new testament. Ruven Kuperman, Pets, 2011. Color pencils on paper, 110 x 150 cm. Kuperman’s recent works on paper are large-format drawings with colored pencil, inspired by the japanese woodcuts of the Edo period, especial ly by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Kuperman searches for an opportunity to create... [Full Article]

Celebrities and unknowns alike star in presentation of nearly forty rarely or never-seen Andy Warhol Polaroids Celebrities and unknowns alike star in presentation of nearly forty rarely or never-seen Andy Warhol Polaroids

January 30, 2012 by   - Filed under Photography


BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archivepresents Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240. The exhibition features a selection of Warhol’s Polaroid portraits drawn from an extraordinary gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to the museum. From 1970 to 1987, Warhol, armed with his Polaroid Big Shot camera, captured a wide range of individuals—the royalty, rock stars, executives, artists, patrons of the arts, and athletes who epitomized seventies and eighties high society, but also as many unknown subjects.... [Full Article]

Kunsthalle Zurich announces opening date in new permanent home in the Lowenbrau art complex Kunsthalle Zurich announces opening date in new permanent home in the Lowenbrau art complex

January 30, 2012 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


ZURICH.- The Kunsthalle Zürich will re-open to the public in its new permanent home in the Löwenbräu art complex in Zurich on 10 June 2012 with the special exhibition, Looking Back for the Future. Since it was founded in 1985, the Kunsthalle Zürich has established itself as one of Europe’s most influential art institutions, helping to define the direction of contemporary art. Having moved to a series of different venues in its early years, the Kunsthalle has been based in the Löwenbräu art complex since 1996. The complex, which also houses the Migros Museum... [Full Article]

Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda presents exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda presents exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof

January 30, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


BERLIN.- Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for theHamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum’s east and west wings. The exhibition’s title “db” (abbr. for decibel) refers to this symmetry while simultaneously indicating the complementary relationship between the two exhibition spaces. Ikeda has designed the white room and the black room as counterparts, not only physically (brightness, color), but also conceptually and... [Full Article]

Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition explores van Gogh’s deep immersion into nature Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition explores van Gogh’s deep immersion into nature

January 30, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured


PHILADELPHIA, PA.- “I…am always obliged to go and gaze at a blade of grass, a pine-tree branch, an ear of wheat, to calm myself,” Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter to his sister, Wilhemina, in July of 1889. An artist of exceptional intensity, not only in his use of color and exuberant application of paint but also in his personal life, van Gogh was powerfully and passionately drawn to nature. From 1886, when van Gogh left Antwerp for Paris, to 1890 when he ended his own life in Auvers, van Gogh’s feverish artistic experimentation and zeal for the natural... [Full Article]

Newly renovated and freshly installed 19th-Century French galleries reopen at National Gallery of Art Newly renovated and freshly installed 19th-Century French galleries reopen at National Gallery of Art

January 30, 2012 by   - Filed under Featured, Multimedia Art


WASHINGTON, DC.- Following a two-year renovation, the galleries devoted to impressionism and post-impressionism in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art reopened to the public on January 28, 2012. Among the greatest collections in the world of paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin, the Gallery’s later 19th-century French paintings returned to public view in a freshly conceived installation design. “The Gallery’s French impressionist and post-impressionist holdings, comprising nearly 400 paintings, are among... [Full Article]

LACMA presents first international survey of women Surrealist artists in North America LACMA presents first international survey of women Surrealist artists in North America

January 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions, Featured


LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Co-organized by LACMA and the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) in Mexico City, In Wonderland is the first large-scale international survey of women surrealist artists in North America. Past surveys of surrealism have either largely excluded female artists or minimized their contributions. This landmark exhibition highlights the significant role of women surrealists who were active in these two countries, and the effects... [Full Article]

Dixon exhibit features European masterpieces including Rembrandt, Rubens and more Dixon exhibit features European masterpieces including Rembrandt, Rubens and more

January 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


MEMPHIS, TN.- The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is presenting an exhibition of more than 70 major works by master painters Rembrandt, Rubens, Tiepolo, Gainsborough, Hogarth and others from the renowned collection of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. On view through April 15, Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting illustrates how the tremendous changes in religion, science, and politics coupled with economic growth in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to a golden age of painting. The exhibition is comprised of brilliant... [Full Article]

American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and their circle opens at the Neuberger Museum American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and their circle opens at the Neuberger Museum

January 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


PURCHASE, NY.- From the late 1920s to the early 1940s, many of America’s most inventive and important artists, including Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Adolph Gottlieb, forged their identities, dramatically transforming conceptions of what a painting or sculpture could be. A group linked by friendship and common aspirations, many had shared experiences in the classes of influential Czech Cubist Jan Matulka at the Art Students League and in the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. Most significantly, they were... [Full Article]

Art Institute becomes first U.S. museum to receive grant from Government of India Art Institute becomes first U.S. museum to receive grant from Government of India

January 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Museums & Galleries


CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced that the Government of India has given a major grant to the Art Institute in support of a new professional exchange program between India and the museum. The Vivekananda Memorial Program for Museum Excellence –the first grant ever made by the Indian government to an American art museum–honors Swami Vivekananda, who gave one of the most important speeches in modern religious history at what is now the Art Institute on September 11, 1893. On Saturday, January 28, 2012, the Art Institute will host an Indian... [Full Article]

First exhibition to explore Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s legacy opens at the National Gallery of Art First exhibition to explore Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s legacy opens at the National Gallery of Art

January 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


WASHINGTON (AP).- An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art will showcase its rich holdings of works on paper by the Italian baroque master Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664), as well as works by his contemporaries and followers. On view in the Gallery’s West Building from January 29 to July 8, 2012, The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione suggests, for the first time, the complex sources of his style such as Rembrandt van Rijn and Claude Lorrain, as well as its importance for later artists, from Giambattista Piranesi and the Tiepolo... [Full Article]

Academy Award-winning visual artist Eiko Ishioka has died at age 73 of pancreatic cancer Academy Award-winning visual artist Eiko Ishioka has died at age 73 of pancreatic cancer

January 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Artists & People


NEW YORK (AP).- Eiko Ishioka, a bold, Academy Award-winning visual artist whose surreal and sensual costumes were worn by Broadway actors, Olympic athletes, Cirque du Soleil performers and movie stars like Jennifer Lopez, has died in Tokyo. She was 73. Her studio manager, Tracy Roberts, said Thursday that the designer died of pancreatic cancer. Ishioka, who also worked in advertising and other graphic arts, won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film “Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’” directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Her... [Full Article]

Miki Kratsman presents exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Musem of Castille and Leon Miki Kratsman presents exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Musem of Castille and Leon

January 29, 2012 by   - Filed under Art Events & Exhibitions


LEON.- The entire body of Miki Kratsman’s work (Argentina, 1959; Israeli citizen since 1971) is centred on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and it unfolds between the vicissitudes and circumstances of the daily life of the Palestinian people, shaped by displacement, constant siege, and the systematic occupation that they have undergone for more than sixty years. Kratsman’s photography shows before the public the consequences of a devastated reality—a destroyed territory of ravaged or abandoned buildings and desolate fields—behind which one recognizes a politics... [Full Article]