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Ahlen Art Museum to Present a Special Exhibition "Intimacy! Bathing in Art"

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Written by Gunder Schmidt   
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 02:49

David Hockney - Man Taking Shower in Beverly Hills, 1964 - Oil on canvas, 167 x 167 cm. Private Collection

BERLIN.- The Ahlen Art Museum will be presenting in this exhibit the historical developments, contextual significance, and especially the artistic reflections of the topic 'bathing.' In the exhibit, 140 works by 90 artists will be presented, including Pierre Bonnard, Louise Bourgeois, Gustave Caillebotte, William N. Copley, Gregory Crewdson, Edgar Degas, Albrecht Dürer, Eric Fischl, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Xenia Hausner, David Hockney, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Édouard Manet, Bettina Rheims, Norbert Tadeusz, and Bill Viola. On view 31 January through 25 April, 2010.

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Dale Chihuly Exhibition In 2010 will Dazzle Audiences at Cheekwood Museum of Art

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Written by Maggie Jackson   
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 01:45

Dale Chihuly - Boat, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, 2006. - Photo by: Terry Rishel

NASHVILLE, TN.- The highly acclaimed art of Dale Chihuly, exploring the visual relationship of glass and nature, will appear in the glorious setting of Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art opening May 25, 2010 and on display through October 31, 2010. The show, Chihuly at Cheekwood, features thousands of stunning, hand-blown glass sculptures on display throughout the botanical garden at Cheekwood, in various ponds and within the Museum of Art and Frist Learning Center. Chihuly’s spectacular creations are found in more than 200 museums worldwide including : the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Garden exhibitions of his work have been mounted at the New York Botanical Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Atlanta Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanical Gardens.

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Israel Museum Gifted $12-Million Gift from Mandel Family

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Written by Eleshiva Blum   
Wednesday, 23 December 2009 01:35

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, to receive a $12-million gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the Mandel Supporting Foundations. This gift marks the completion of its $100-million capital campaign to support the comprehensive transformation of its 20-acre campus.

JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, today announced a $12-million gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the Mandel Supporting Foundations. This gift marks the completion of its $100-million capital campaign to support the comprehensive transformation of its 20-acre campus. The Mandel gift supports the reconstruction, reinstallation, and endowment of the Museum’s Jewish Art and Life Wing, housing the world’s preeminent collection of Judaica and Jewish Ethnography. The Wing will be named the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Wing for Jewish Art and Life in honor of the family’s generous support, and it will present objects from sacred and secular Jewish traditions together for the first time in a newly combined permanent display.

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Kunstmuseum Bonn displays Franz Ackermann's Very Colorful Paintings

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Written by Bernd Singer   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:37

Franz Ackermann - Terminao Tropicao 2008/9 (Installation Bonn, 2009) - Mixed Media. Courtesy The Artist. Foto: Jens Ziehe, Berlin.

BONN, GERMANY - Franz Ackermann who was born in Neumarkt St. Veit (Bavaria) in 1963 is one of the most innovative painters of the past ten years. Since 2001 this internationally acclaimed artist has also been employed as a professor at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. Time and time again, he manages to make an impression with his room filling and extremely colourful pictures, drawings and installations which effortlessly combine elements of globalised society with apparently purely pictorial aspects. On exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn through 21 February, 2010.

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Michael Hoppen Contemporary to Present Photographer Kishin Shinoyama

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Written by Casey Hampton   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:36

Kishin Shinoyama - The Birth 1, 1968 - Vintage Silver gelatin print, 24 x 23.5 © Kishin Shinoyama / Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London

LONDON.- Still hard at work well into his late 70s, Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama’s images have lost none of the potency that would make his 1960’s nude studies so revered and sensationalized in equal measure. Michael Hoppen Contemporary announced the first exhibition of his work in the UK, which will focus on his most iconic series – Birth, Twin, Death Valley, Brown Lilly and Phantom, as well as studies of a dancer, also from the 1960s. Shinoyama was born in Tokyo in 1940 and at the age of three underwent ordination rites to become a Buddhist priest.

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Pacific Asia Museum features Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art

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Written by Audrey Fields   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:06

Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art addresses issues of power and culture, questioning the idea of universality.

PASADENA, CA.- Pacific Asia Museum presents a multi-cultural exhibition that explores the idea of art as a strategy for breaking down concepts of painting/writing, legibility/illegibility, insider/outsider and Asian art/Western art. Guest curated by Collette Chattopadhyay, Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art will be on view through January 17, 2010 and includes works by artists : Apex, Chaz Bojorquez, Vince Cavallo, Cre8, Desi W.O.M.E., Duce, Fung Ming Chip, Gronk, Gu Wenda, Julianna Hernandez, Keo, Leo Limon, Man One, Minette Lee Mangahas, Mear, Sano, Scud, Toons, John Valadez, Vyal, Xu Bing, Yu Kun Yang, Zhang Dali, Zender and Chongbin Zheng. The exhibition is trilingual and features text and labels in Spanish, Chinese and English.

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Leading Russian & Eastern European Artists to Exhibit at Calvert 22

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Written by Nonna Materkova   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:09

Olga Chernysheva - Untitled, 2008 - Photo Studies at the Moscow Cinema Academy, Moscow

LONDON.- Calvert22 will present Photo I, Photo You, the fourth exhibition at the contemporary art space in Shoreditch. Curated by Iara Boubnova, the exhibition will present works by leading Russian and Eastern European artists who invite the viewer to reconsider, revisit and rediscover what they think they know through a series of mixed media works. Exhibition on view from 28 January through 28 March, 2010.

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The Eglinton Watercolours and Shields Secured for East Ayrshire

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Written by Adam Geary   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:49

The Eglinton Watercolours by James Henry Nixon are considered to be of outstanding significance for the study of Scottish social history and of the Gothic Revival in 19th century Britain. The Eglinton Watercolours by James Henry Nixon are considered to be of outstanding significance for the study of Scottish social history and of the Gothic Revival in 19th century Britain.

LONDON.- With help from The Art Fund and other funding bodies, East Ayrshire Council has successfully raised the £85,100 needed to buy a nationally significant set of watercolours which will go on display at Dean Castle, Kilmarnock, early next year. The Eglinton Watercolours by James Henry Nixon are considered to be of outstanding significance for the study of Scottish social history and of the Gothic Revival in 19th century Britain. The accompanying historic shields, which were used to furnish the knights’ tents at the 19th century tournament, have been purchased for £7,000, along with the watercolours.

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Green Cardamom to Show New Work by Pakistani Artist Bani Abidi

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Written by Sarah Livingworth   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 02:48

Bani Abidi - Karachi Series 1 consists of a series of six photographs on lightboxes, all featuring a central protagonist involved in a seemingly banal, domestic activity in the middle of a deserted street at sunset.

LONDON.- Bani Abidi is one of the leading figures from a generation of Pakistani artists who trained during the 1990s and began exploring social contradictions through their artistic practice. Green Cardamom presents two key works by Abidi at this exhibition – Karachi Series 1 (2009), a photographic investigation into, and a lament, of the loss of Pakistan’s diverse cultural character in the face of the Islamisation of the nation’s society that began in the 1980s. This work was shown for the first time at the recent Xth Lyon Biennale curated by Hou Hanru. On view 26 February through 28 March, 2010.

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A Series of Exhibitions in Italy will Celebrate Elio Ciol's 80th Anniversary

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Written by Bruno Caesura   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:46

Detail of Two Angels in a Fresco Depicting Noli Me Tangere from Life of Saint Mary Magdalene Attributed to Giotto Photo Image by © Elio Ciol / CORBIS

UDINE, ITALY.- A series of exhibitions organized at Villa Manin di Passariano, in Casarsa della Delizia and in Pordenone celebrates the eighty years of Elio Ciol, one of the Italian landscape photographers better known in the world, and sixty years of professional work of the artist. Elio Ciol is known mainly for his photographic interpretations of Italian landscape and for his work of documentation of artistic heritage. The Villa Manin exhibition deals with a lesser known period of the photographer, that of the years of his formation, between 1950 and 1964. The exhibition is made of 140 photographs, many of which never previously shown, and is held in a lateral building of Villa Manin, the great country palace near Codroipo that has been one of the major exhibition sites of Friuli Venezia Giulia county for many years

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Camden Arts Centre Announces Exhibition by Anna Maria Maiolino

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Written by Betsy Corning   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:45

Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino - Installation view Territories of Immanence (retrospective exhibition), 2006. Miami Art Central, USA. Photo: Oriol Tarridas / Courtesy the artist.

LONDON.- Italian-born, Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. Her new exhibition at Camden Arts Centre will include a site-specific installation and a selection of film works made over the last 30 years. In a career that spans five decades and a diversity of disciplines and mediums including clay, ink, film and performance, Anna Maria Maiolino’s work retains a fundamental concern with creative and destructive processes and with identity; from the subjective to the universal. Conducting a dialogue between opposite yet complementary categories, Maiolino’s practice dissolves the dichotomies of inner and outer, self and other, void and matter, ancient and contemporary.

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Egypt Antiquities Chief Zahi Hawass to Demand Return of Nefertiti Bust

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Written by Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press Writer   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:45

A photographer takes a picture of the famous 3,300-year-old bust of Nefertiti at the "Neues Museum", New Museum, at a media preview in Berlin, Germany, as Berlin's Neues Museum welcomes back the famed bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, after more than 60 years. AP Photo/Markus Schreiber.

CAIRO (AP).- Egypt's antiquities chief said Sunday he will formally demand the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from a Berlin museum after confirming it was sneaked out of Cairo through fraudulent documents. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, has been aggressively campaigning to reclaim treasures that he says were stolen from Egypt and purchased by some of the world's leading museums. Nefertiti is the 14th century B.C. wife of Akhenaton, who initiated a new monotheistic religion that involved the worship of the sun. Her bust was recently moved back to Berlin's Neues Museum from the adjacent Atles Museum, part of a cluster of five art halls that make up one of Berlin's most familiar landmarks.

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