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Wednesday 23 November 2011Lady Bird Johnson's Turkey Dressing
Wednesday 9 November 2011"When Applying the Paint Was Spreading the News"
Robin Pogrebin's article in The New York Times, published on October 17, 2011, considers Louis Lang's masterpiece Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. From the Seat of War. The painting will be the centrepiece of the New-York Historical Society's opening exhibition, Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy, which looks at taste and collecting in art as it was defined from......Continue reading
Monday 17 October 2011Eugene Savage: The Seminole Paintings
American artist Eugene Savage is best known today as a muralist. However, in the 1930s he became enchanted with the Seminole Indian tribe and began to depict them in paintings and works on paper. In 2007, The Cummer purchased more than 100 of these important works for its permanent collection, and they will be on show from October 7, 2011 through January 8, 2012
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Wednesday 12 October 2011To Live Forever moves to Frist Center
On show at the Frist Center until January 8, 2012, To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum includes 109 important works from the superb collection of the Brooklyn Museum that illustrate Egyptian beliefs regarding the defeat of death and promise of the eternal afterlife.
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Wednesday 12 October 2011Modern Masters in North Carolina
Modern Masters has just opened at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC Continue reading
Wednesday 12 October 2011Discovering the Civil War opens in Houston
Discovering the Civil War opens at The Houston Museum of Natural Science on October 14. Continue reading
Tuesday 4 October 2011Photographs that document the human condition
Gordon Parks is the subject of a new book in the Fields of Vision series published by D Giles Limited with the Library of Congress, Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Gordon Parks. “Very few people know he worked for the FSA-OWI,” says W. Ralph Eubanks, director of publishing at the Library of Congress. “I had always thought Parks was biding his time there, until he could branch off and do what......Continue reading
Tuesday 27 September 2011New Leonardo Drew exhibition opens in London
VIGO, the latest contemporary gallery to open in Old Bond Street is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of wall based tree sculptures by American artist Leonardo Drew, on view from 12th October – 11th November 2011.
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Thursday 8 September 2011Mint Museum Announces Romare Bearden Southern Recollections Retrospective
The Mint Museum presents Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections, a major retrospective of one of America’s most preeminent African American artists and foremost collagists. Opening on the centennial of the artist’s birth in Charlotte, the city in which he was born, the exhibition is the first of its kind to examine in depth how the South served as a source of inspiration throughout Bearden’s......Continue reading
Wednesday 7 September 2011Anne Truitt show to open in London
Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to announce a forthcoming exhibition of work by American artist Anne Truitt. Anne Truitt: Works from the Estate has been conceived in collaboration with the artist's estate and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. The exhibition will present a body of sculptural works rarely seen before in the UK.
Private view: Tuesday 11 October 2011, 6-8pm
Exhibition: 11......Continue reading
