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Brevard Art Museum

Ray Burggraf - Dolphin Day -  Image courtesy of the artist From 'A Mysterious Clarity' exhibition at the Brevard Art Museum 

MELBOURNE, FL –  Three landscape painters bring their distinctive point of view together in the exhibition A Mysterious Clarity  on view at the Brevard Art Museum through January 4, 2009.

Christie's Latin American Art Sales

Francisco Zúñiga - Grupo frente al mar, 1984 - Bronze with green patina, sold for $1,202,500 - Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2008 

New York City - Christie’s two-day sales of Latin American Art totaled $14,150,963/ £9,433,975/ €11,230,923, and was 70% sold by lot. Combined with the $33.8 million fetched in the Spring auctions, Christie’s grand total for Latin American Art in 2008 is $48,012,313, representing the second highest annual total for Christie’s.

Francisco Godia Foundation

Joan Miro - Woman and bird before the moon (1962) - one of the works displayed at the Godia Foundation in Barcelona - Photo: EFE / Toni Garriga 

BARCELONA - The Francisco Godia Foundation was inaugurated with the presence of Infanta Cristina. The holdings of the foundation are now housed in the antigua casa Garriga Nogués, a modern building located at Diputación 250 where 296 works of art that comprise the collection can be seen.

Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery

Painting by Desirée Maldonado at Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery - Cordoba, Argentina 

Cordoba, Argentina - Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery to exhibit the paintings of Desirée Maldonado. on view from November 26th to December 20th, 2008.

Michael Kane at Rubicon Gallery

Michael Kane - Two Workers with a Mill - Mixed Media on Paper - 80 x 103 cm. framed, 2007 Image Courtesy Rubicon Gallery Dublin 

Dublin, Ireland - Michael Kane (b. 1935, Co. Wicklow) sees painting as a conductor of meaning in human experience. His work is uncompromisingly figurative. He does not particularly stress figure or ground but both seem larger and more mythical than ordinary reality. Kane’s figures make exaggerated gestures, and are themselves fashioned by large painterly gestures - yet his visceral execution draws profoundly on the intellect. Exhibition at Rubicon Gallery 24th November – 20th December 2008.

Sabine Weiss Photos

Sabinee Weiss, Paris - Porte de Vanves, 1952 - © Sabine Weiss / Rapho  

Paris - A half a Century of Photographs by Sabine Weiss Opens at Maison Europeenne de la Photographie. Swiss photographer Sabine Weiss has been photographing people with the same unflaggingly tender curiosity for 45 years. Assistant to fashion photographer Willy Maywald in the late 1940s, she was trained in the best studio lighting techniques and this experience paradoxically helped her to understand the full potential of natural light to convey emotion.

Colin McCahon at Auction

Colin McCahon, Mondrian’s Last Chrysanthemum: Scared (Scared series), 1976 - Acrylic on Steinbach paper mounted on hardboard,signed with initials ‘C.McC’ and dated ‘76’ lower left, 73 x 109.5 cm. - TCMDAIL No. 001460 

MELBOURNE - Deutscher and Hackett, a leading Australian fine art auction house, are excited to announce that its final auction for the year, to be held in Melbourne on November 26, will feature an exceptionally rare and important work by Colin McCahon. The painting, Mondrian’s Last Chrysanthemum: Scared, has been held in a private collection for the last 12 years, and its sale represents an exceptional opportunity to secure the work before it disappears once more.

White Bird Gallery

 Scott Johnson’s landscape based paintings offer powerful scenes of delicate tree branches against foreboding skies that evoke the atmosphere of twilight nights, mutable weather, or the mood of misty mornings, at White Bird Gallery.

Cannon Beach, Oregon - White Bird Gallery presents its Annual Holiday Exhibition NOVEMBER 8, 2007 - JANUARY 5, 2008.

Portraits by Aboriginal Artists

Dana Claxton -  Daddy’s Gotta New Ride, 2008 - From The Mustang Suite - Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) 

OTTAWA.- Profoundly symbolic works by some of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous artists send a powerful message on the evolution of Aboriginal self-determination in Canada. They will be presented by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in an exhibition entitled Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists which will be on view until March 22, 2009.

Michelle Obama Painting

Elizabeth Peyton - Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008. - Photo: courtesy Gavin Brown’s enterprise. 

New York City - The New Museum unveiled a painting in tribute to incoming First Lady Michelle Obama. The portrait, titled "Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008," is now part of the exhibition Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton.

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