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Xie Zhiliu (1910-1997) at the Met (Song of a Reformed Headhunter)
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:24:00 GMT

The title of the exhibition says it all: Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting. Unlike many Chinese artists, Xie Zhiliu, a native of Changzhou, kept the copies and sketches he made throughout his career, and these now provide an absorbing account of the development of a traditional Chinese painter working in the twentieth century. Copying the masters and working from nature...

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Sam Francis Foundation Gifts Over 500 Prints to Milwaukee Art Museum (Art Knowledge News)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:16:13 GMT

MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Sam Francis Foundation has donated over 500 prints to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Sam Francis (1923–1994) was an American painter and printmaker who used a variety of colors and techniques to experiment with both surrealism and abstract expressionism. “The Museum is honored to be a repository for the work of Sam Francis,” said Dan Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art...

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Rosa Bonheur (Rambles from my Chair)
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:27:00 GMT

In the Walker Art Gallery there is currently an exhibition of art by women artists. Among them is a painting by Rosa Bonheur. (Because photography is not allowed in the special exhibitions I am unablke to show it but hopefully these other excamples of her work will show you what a marvellous artist she was..) Rosa Bonheur, née Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, was born in...

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Inverleith House Opens First Museum Exhibition in the UK Devoted to the Artist Joan Mitchell (Artdaily)
Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:55:00 GMT

EDINBURGH.- Inverleith House presents the first museum exhibition in the UK devoted to the artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) – one of the most important and singular American painters of the post war period, whose influence and stature are gaining increasing recognition today. Mitchell studied at The Art Institute of Chicago before moving to New York in the late 1940s where she...

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Gothic witch is Manchester Mona Lisa (A bad witch's blog)
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:01:00 GMT

... for the photo competition, which was run by MOSI as part of the current Da Vinci – The Genius exhibition, and aimed to attract anyone who has the qualities (not necessarily the features) of Leonardo da Vinci’s classic painting. Entrants could be women, men or even pets! The candidate simply had to have to have an air of mystery, calm and an enigmatic smile. Carol Hodge said:...

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“Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins” Exhibition at LACMA (Selectism.com)
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:13:11 GMT

Now on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins. Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins celebrates LACMA’s 2007 acquisition of Eakins’s great sporting painting, Wrestlers, 1899. The exhibition will examine the work in a broad thematic context, providing a rare opportunity to consider [...] This article...

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Alfred Augustus Glendening Jr - The Dove (Victorian Paintings)
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 05:00:00 GMT

1895 oil on canvas h: 43 x w: 31 in / h: 109.2 x w: 78.7 cm Alfred Augustus Glendening Jnr. was born into an artistic family in 1861. Glendening was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and from 1880 was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy. His work now hangs in the Tate Gallery, London and in Aberdeen, Scotland. Glendening was an important Victorian artist who was able to...

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Run, golden ears (A Journey Round My Skull)
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:19:00 GMT

Čiurlionis, "Courez, epis dores...", 1909 google's translation: Run, golden ears Čiurlionis, Viendra la nuit noire, 1909 Čiurlionis, Viendra la nuit noire, 1909 The amazing mystical paintings of M. K. Čiurlionis can be seen on wikipedia , this web gallery , and many others sites. I found these lesser-known works flipping through an exhibition catalog (Musee D'Orsay,...

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Neil LeDoux at Right Window (Belladodie)
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:40:00 GMT

Neil LeDoux “Come On, You Son of a Bitch” curated by Dodie Bellamy August 1 - 28, 2010 Opening: Sunday, August 1, 5 - 8 p.m. Right Window at ATA 992 Valencia at 21st Street, San Francisco Right Window is pleased to present a new installation by Louisiana-born, San Francisco-based artist Neil LeDoux. The exhibition takes its name and its imagery from the finale of Season 5 of the...

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LACMA Presents First L.A. Exhibition of Thomas Eakins Since 1927 (Artdaily)
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:10:27 GMT

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins, on view from July 25 to October 17, 2010. Organized exclusively for LACMA by Ilene Susan Fort, the museum's Gail and John Liebes Curator of American Art, the exhibition celebrates the museum's acquisition of Eakins's last great sporting painting, Wrestlers...

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Leonardo In London (Coxsoft Art News)
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:51:00 GMT

A future Winter biggy at London's National Gallery promises to be fascinating as well as expensive to enter: Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter At The Court Of Milan . It will run from 9 November 2011 until 5 February 2012 and will include works never before seen in the UK. The example shown, Madonna Litta (c. 1492) will travel from the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia. La Belle...

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Restored Thomas Eakins's 'The Gross Clinic' to be Centerpiece of Exhibition (Art Knowledge News)
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:34:49 GMT

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Gross Clinic of 1875 is the most renowned work created by the great Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and a landmark in the history of 19th-century American art. In late 2008, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, joint owners of The Gross Clinic, initiated a plan to evaluate the condition of the painting,...

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National Gallery Announces Most Complete Display of Leonardo da Vinci (Art Knowledge News)
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:01:25 GMT

LONDON.- 'Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' is the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. This unprecedented exhibition – the first of its kind anywhere in the world – brings together sensational international loans never before seen in the UK, including 'La Belle Ferronière' (Musée du Louvre, Paris), the 'Madonna Litta'...

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Amazing Art I Saw on My Vacation: Pt. 1 (Slog)
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:04:34 GMT

... listed, s/he was simply known as " Vendor #97 ". I was immediately drawn to Vendor #97 by this cat painting since it reminds me of my favorite piece in the MOBA collection, In The Mouth of the Cat . The rest of the gallery did not disappoint: sad-eyed dogs; anthropromorphic chickens; and most importantly, PIRATE CATS . And all the works were reasonably-priced between $25 and...

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Sketchbook snapshot, July 21, 2001 (the Painting Activist)
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:00:43 GMT

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Settlement Finally Reached in "Portrait of Wally" Case (Illicit Cultural Property)
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:40:00 GMT

"Portrait of Wally", by Egon Schiele As has been hinted for a few days now, the very long legal dispute over this work has been settled. A trial was set to begin on July 26th. This was a dispute brought nearly 12 years ago by Federal prosecutors against the work. In these civil forfeiture proceedings it is then the task of all claimants to the painting to come forward and establish their...

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An Homage to Edward Hopper (Luxist)
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:54:13 GMT

To accompany a major new European traveling exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan , Fondazione Roma Museo in Rome and Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne, Skira has released a massive new monograph on famed American artist Edward Hopper . Illustrated with over 150 oils, watercolors, etchings, and drawings with critical comments on their formal and technical characteristics, topics...

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I'll Go On (continued) (Tom Phillips)
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:14:00 GMT

Quantum Poetics, July 2010. Like those stages of the World Cup in which England feebly participated my painting Quantum Poetics has turned into a game of two halves. What, in a recent issue of Turps, claimed to be the almost finished thing ended up vague and veiled and somehow incomplete. It called for a complete revision. I added, by way of injury time, a further section of panels to its...

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Slide Show: Otto Dix (The New York Review of Books)
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:00:00 GMT

by Sanford Schwartz This summer, the Neue Galerie in New York is offering the first large-scale American exhibition of the gleefully provocative German painter Otto Dix (1891–1969)—providing a rare opportunity, as New York Review contributor Sanford Schwartz says, “to appreciate an artist who could almost be our contemporary.” Here are a selection of images from the show, together...

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Raphael in the Sistine Chapel - A Unique Exhibition in London (The New Liturgical Movement)
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:01:00 GMT

On the occasion of the Holy Father’s visit to England in September, the Vatican Museums and the Victoria and Albert Museum of London have put together what promises to be one of the most interesting artistic exhibitions in recent memory. Four tapestries designed by Raphael for use in the Sistine Chapel will be loaned to the V&A, and displayed alongside the original preparatory...

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