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UNICEF's Life-saving Programs

Tue, 05 May 2009 23:17:59 -0400

CHICAGO, IL.- Celebrate a unique night out to raise funds for UNICEF. Evangeline Gouletas, President’s Council Member for the Midwest Region of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, will underwrite the event. Guests will have the one-of-a-kind opportunity to meet one of the southeast's finest sculptors, Steve Miller, and accomplished author and motivational speaker Rudy Ferraro. Casey Marsh, Midwest Regional Director of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, will speak to guests about UNICEF’s lifesaving programs worldwide.

University of the Arts

Sat, 02 May 2009 00:01:57 -0400

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Recognizing artists as a vital component in Pre K - 12 educational reform, the University of the Arts and the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP), in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, will begin offering a first-in-the-nation Teaching Artist certificate through the University's Continuing Studies Division this fall.

'Dream' Sculpture in England

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:40:53 -0400

ST. HELENS, UK - The final piece of "Dream", a landmark new sculpture, was lowered into place on the site of a former coal mine in St.Helens, next to a busy motorway where it will be seen by millions of motorists each year. The spectacular 20 metre-high 'Dream' sculpture, by internationally renowned artist Jaume Plensa, is situated on the site of the former Sutton Manor Colliery in St.Helens, midway between Liverpool and Manchester. A celebratory, forward-looking symbol of both St.Helens' rich mining heritage and its more recent post-industrial transformation, 'Dream' will be highly visible to the 100,000 people who drive past the site on the M62 every day.

Dorestad / World City

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:25:44 -0400

LEIDEN, NL - If you think the Middle Ages were boring and dark, you are wrong. Circa 800 A.D., Dorestad, located where Wijk bij Duurstede now lies (in the Netherlands), was a city that was bustling with activity, merchants and craftsmen. In the lively decor of the new family exhibition ‘Dorestad. World City in the Middle Ages’ (through 1 November 2009), young and old can acquaint themselves with life in this medieval port city. Archaeological discoveries, games and a scavenger hunt guarantee an adventurous journey of discovery for the entire family. On view at the National Museum of Antiquities.

Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:21:45 -0400

WASHINGTON, DC - The monumental sculpture “Modern Head” by Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), a major figure in the pop art movement, now is part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection. In 1996, “Modern Head” was installed by the Public Art Fund of New York City in Battery Park City, one block from the World Trade Center. The sculpture survived the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack with only surface scratches and temporarily was used by the FBI as a message board during its investigation.

Art Basel To Solo Young Artists

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:33:38 -0400

Basel, Switzerland - For Art 40 Basel the Art Statements sector includes 27 solo shows by young artists. Selected by the Art Basel Committee from a record number of more than 300 applications, the participating artists come from 13 different countries. Art Statements has promoted young artists for over 10 years now, offering them a special platform that brings them to the eyes of an international audience of curators, collectors and art critics. Many past artists have been awarded major exhibitions as a result of being discovered at Art Statements. These 27 projects promise art enthusiasts interesting and stimulating encounters with work from the rising generation of artists.

Magnetic Landscape Exhibition

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:16:53 -0400

COLUMBUS, GA - Magnetic Landscape examines the ways several contemporary video artists use landscape as a way to create new visual metaphors. For decades, video art has been a force in the visual art world. Many artists create works that combine art, technology and science as a reflection of today’s society. Present day video art exists within a range of technology‐driven disciplines such as architecture, design, sculpture, electronic art and digital art.

Mongolian Steppes

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:33:48 -0400

NEW YORK, NY - As part of its ongoing ContemporAsian series, The Museum of Modern Art presents a week-long run of Hyazgar (Desert Dream) (2007), from April 15 through 20, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. Written and directed by Lu Zhang (Chinese, b. 1962), the film focuses on Hungai, who lives with his family on the isolated Mongolian steppes and is obsessively devoted to the reforestation of the barren land that surrounds him. When his wife and daughter leave on a trip to the city, Hungai finds himself hosting a pair of North Korean refugees, Soonhee and her son Changho, who gradually fill familial roles that Hungai never cherished with his own wife and daughter.

Ateneum Museum Picasso Exhibition

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:37:32 -0400

HELSINKI, FINLAND - In mid-September, the Ateneum Art Museum will open an exhibition of Pablo Picasso's art, and advance tickets went on sale on Monday the16th of March. The tickets are only available from the Finnish National Gallery web shop at www.shop.fng.fi. This advance sale of exhibition tickets is a pilot project for Ateneum, and tickets are at first available for October and November.

2009 NC Artists Exhibition

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:35:35 -0400

RALEIGH, NC – When the 31st annual North Carolina Artists Exhibition opened this month in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh, an oil painting by Chapel Hill artist Kimberly Alvis was among the works carefully selected for the show by Nasher Museum of Art director Kimberly Rorschach, Ph.D., who served as juror.

Ukrainian Museum Benefit

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:44:25 -0400

NEW YORK, NY - The Ukrainian Museum in New York City will hold its "Gala Celebration of Spring" this Saturday, March 21, a benefit event that will take place for the first time in the Museum’s galleries.

Cinematheque Ontario

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:22:00 -0400

Toronto, Ont. - On March 19 and 22, Cinematheque Ontario presents a long-anticipated new 35 mm print of Chantal Akerman’s legendary masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). Made with an all-female crew, Akerman’s breakthrough film is a key feminist text about three days in the life of an attractive Belgian widow (played by Delphine Seyrig), dominated by an unwavering routine of domestic chores and pre-arranged midafternoon rendezvous.

Museo del Prado New Library

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:30:37 -0400

MADRID, SPAIN - The Museo del Prado has opened a research library whose content relates to its collections. Due to its specific nature, this library is an important tool of research both for those working in the Museum and for art historians in general. Over the past few years and as a result of the acquisition of the Cervelló and Madrazo Libraries, the Museum now has an important holding of old books on the visual arts.

Love Poem Jug Discovered

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:17:08 -0400

JERUSALEM - A fragment of a pottery vessel of Persian provenance that dates to the Middle Ages (12th-13th centuries CE) was discovered in an archaeological excavation directed by Dr. Rina Avner, on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, in the Old City of Jerusalem, prior to construction by a private contractor.

FDR Postal Exhibition

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:44:58 -0400

WASHINGTON, DC - Franklin D. Roosevelt, President during the Great Depression, used stamps to communicate with the American people. A stamp collector himself, he understood the power of visual imagery, and he changed the look of stamps to convey messages of hope, optimism and the solidity of the federal government.