Delray Beach, FL - Elliott Landy, the official photographer of the epochal Woodstock Festival of 1969, returns to Delray Beach to mount a new exhibit, “Elliott Landy’s Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation,” April 14 to June 3, at the Palm Beach Photographic Center.

Elliot Landy is a longtime friend of Palm Beach Photographic Centre. In fact, an exhibit of his work was one of the Photographic Centre’s first photo exhibits when it opened in Delray Beach. Most recently, he took part in FOTOfusion 2006, where he lectured and led a workshop.

“Woodstock Vision” is an outgrowth of Landy’s book of the same name, first published in 1994 and reprinted in 1997. What makes this exhibit fresh and unique is that all the images are processed with a new Hewlett-Packard Design Jet 130 printer and HP paper (HP is a show sponsor) that enables Landy to enhance images shot more than 35 years ago by computer rather than a darkroom, creating prints that will last much longer than conventional photographs.

Morristown, NJ - Fifty-seven pieces of outstanding artwork by talented high school artists will be on view in the 18th annual Fresh Perspectives exhibition at the Morris Museum from April 25 – June 18, 2006. This exhibition is designed to encourage promising young artists by sharing their artistic achievements with the public and to recognize art teachers for effective teaching. Nearly 550 works of art were submitted for consideration.

This year’s jurors were Kristen Accola, director of exhibitions at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, and Steve Gerberich, mechanical sculptor.

“As a full-time artist, I know how difficult it is to develop one’s own, unique voice – especially when today’s new media present students with a seemingly endless array of possibilities,” said juror Steven Gerberich. “Fortunately, this juried exhibition at the Morris Museum exists to help meet such important needs, and I am pleased to say that the Morris Museum’s sincere effort to reach out to the community of New Jersey public high schools successfully creates a rare and marvelous opportunity for students to step into the art world and participate in their culture at large.”

Raleigh, NC - ­To celebrate the 400th birthday of famed artist Rembrandt van Rijn, the North Carolina Museum of Art presents a group of etchings by the Dutch master. The exhibition—entitled Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt’s Etchings, Selections from the John Villarino Collection. The exhibition includes prints made from copper plate etchings, which date between 1629 and 1654, and thus correspond with the years when Rembrandt was most actively involved with the medium. With 35 works on display, viewers will have the opportunity to see how Rembrandt experimented with inks, paper, and the reworking of the copper plates to enhance the visual impact of the imagery.

As the exhibition title suggests, Sordid and Sacred is dedicated to images of beggars, subjects Rembrandt portrays sympathetically.

“Rembrandt renders his beggars with the same feeling for humanity that he brought to his portraits and narrative subjects,” said Dennis P. Weller, Ph. D., chief curator and curator of northern European art. “In his hands, beggars are not contemptible or loathsome creatures, but rather individuals who demand a certain degree of respect. These etchings are significant and really beautiful, and the exhibition is a fitting commemoration of Rembrandt’s birthday.”

Boston, MA - The Arden Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition featuring the evocative realist paintings of Norma Bessouet. Rendered in classic fashion, painstakingly applied layers of thin glazes engender mysterious, fantasy-like narratives. Bessouet’s often surreal and descriptive works develop slowly, as ideas are reworked and refined patiently over a period of months. The results of her efforts are pristine and luminous surfaces, precise in clarity and masterful in execution.

Clever, yet subtle compositions reveal complex tales saturated with symbolism. Populated by isolated female figures, Bessouet’s paintings embark on intricate paths enticing viewers to consider uncommon ironies. What is reality and what is dreamed blend, creating an intoxicating and sensual experience. The exhibit ends April 29th, 2006.

Los Angeles, CA - The National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues, 1867-1955, at the California African American Museum (CAAM). Continuing through August 16, 2006, the exhibit’s photographs and artifacts tell the story of Black players who were kept out of “organized” baseball.

The year 2006 marks the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball. Many fans of the game celebrate that accomplishment, but they don’t know about the accomplishments of Robinson and other segregated players before that time. The National Pastime in Black and White: The Negro Baseball Leagues, 1867-1955, reveals the historic and social aspects of the Negro Leagues, as well as the roles that teams and players had in their communities. The exhibition also details the innovations of the Negro Leagues, such as night lighting, and highlights the importance of weekly Black newspapers.

Florence, Italy - The Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Arezzo, patronised by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, will be holding a large retrospective exhibition of works by Alberto Sughi, one of the greatest Italian artists from the second half the twentieth century, from April 14 to May 21, 2006. From his first exhibition, with Corrado Cagli and Marcello Muccini at the Il Pincio Gallery in 1954, Rome, to his contributions to the Biennale exhibition in Venice and the Quadriennale in Rome (of which he has also been Chairman), to the large retrospective exhibitions held in various Museums in Italy, Europe and America, his artistic development has always been sustained by public acclaim and by support from the most qualified art critics.

"Alberto Sughi: The Drawing and the Image" gathers together 50 works (all on paper over canvas) deriving from private collections as well as the artist's own collection.

The exhibition has been organised by the art historian Giovanni Faccenda and sponsored by the Spagnoli Gallery in Florence under the patronage of the Cultural Heritage Office of the city of Arezzo.

Cincinnati, OH - A new exhibit beautifully uncovering the natural sanctuary that Henry David Thoreau used as his retreat when he wrote his classic, Walden, now at Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal.

Opening in the Museum of Natural History & Science, Thoreau’s Walden: A Journey in Photographs by Scot Miller was developed by the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) in cooperation with Scot Miller and the Walden Woods Project and is sponsored nationally by Houghton Mifflin. It is the second exhibit that has come to Cincinnati as a result of Museum Center’s partnership with the Harvard Museum of Natural History. When the exhibit closes in Cincinnati on May 7, Museum Center will manage its national tour for the Harvard Museum.

New York City - Newman Popiashvili Gallery is pleased to presents a solo exhibition of Lynne Gelfman . The exhibition features four large-scale paintings from Gelfman’s latest series “Resist / React.” The exhibition will be on view from April 1 - May 6, 2006. In this new body of work, Gelfman continues experimenting with non-traditional materials and techniques. She intricately constructs the multiple layers of her paintings. Her work is often about illusion. From a distance, the surfaces appear to show thick paint, but up close, they are sanded fine and smooth. Gelfman introduces another layer, embodying the element of chance, in “Resist / React”. The top level shows a chemical resist that pulls apart the paint.

Gelfman plays with the reaction of the resist to create movement across the image. Patterns of small spheres evoke associations with foam, spindrift, bubbles and hover over a sub-painting that suggests animal-like skins. Gelfman has often explored abstraction and its references to the physical world, architectural structures, aerial landscapes textiles and lichen. Here the work extends to the ethereal.

Long Island City, NY - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents Reprocessing Reality, a consideration of the relationship between the proliferation of documentary film and the escalating significance and prevalence of this genre in the art world today. The intergenerational and primarily European group of thirteen artists and artist teams approach documentary work through a variety of media, including sculpture, painting, film, and installation. Reprocessing Reality is on view from April 6 through May 29, 2006.

The artists featured in Reprocessing Reality are: Christoph Büchel (b. 1966 in Basel, Switzerland), Willie Doherty (b. 1959 in Derry, Northern Ireland), Christoph Draeger (b. 1965 in Zurich, Switzerland; lives in New York), Robert Frank (b. 1924 in Zurich; lives in New York and Mabou, Canada), Philipp Gasser (b. 1958 in Chur, Switzerland; lives in Basel), Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi (both b. 1942; live in Milan, Italy), Eric Hattan (b. 1955 in Wettingen, Switzerland; lives in Basel and Paris), Mike Hoolboom (b. 1959 in Toronto), Rémy Markowitsch (b. 1957 in Zurich; lives in Berlin), Guido Nussbaum (b. 1948 in Muri, Switzerland; lives in Basel), Anri Sala (b. 1974 in Tirana, Albania; lives in Paris and Berlin), Ingrid Wildi (b. 1961 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in Geneva), and UweWittwer (b. 1954 in Zurich; lives in Zurich).