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| Pioneers of Photography Exhibit From the Ordóñez-Falcón Collection Opens in Bilbao |
The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao presents an exhibit featuring photographs from the Ordóñez-Falcón Collection. In this picture a visitor looks at a photograph made by Eadweard Muybridge. Photo: EFE / Alfredo Aldai.
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BILBAO.- The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao opens an exhibit featuring the Ordóñez-Falcón Collection. which includes the pioneers of photography ranging from the years 1845-1930.
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| Annie Leibovitz: A Photographers Life, 1990-2005 at Maison Européenne de la Photographie |
PARIS.- This summer, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie will present an internationally touring exhibition of works by celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz. This special exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 includes more than 200 photographs, featuring well-known work made on editorial assignment, as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends....More
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| National Museum Cardiff Launches Four New Galleries with Welsh Landscape Exhibit |
CARDIFF.- All four galleries have a particular focus on the art of Wales and landscape painting, and all of these elements come together in the Welsh Landscape Gallery, a spectacular space which explores how artists have responded to the changing inspirational land of Wales for over more than three hundred years....More
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| Getty Research Institute Exhibition Unites Two Superlative Manuscripts on the History of Peru |
LOS ANGELES.- Two illuminated manuscripts of extraordinary importance, along with books, prints, maps, watercolors, and photographs that illustrate the history and culture of Peru will be on display in The Marvel and Measure of Peru: Three Centuries of Artists’ Histories, 1550–1880, at the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Center, July 8–October 19, 2008....More
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| Fencing the Museum: 7 Artists Create a Hoarding for the Stedelijk Museum |
AMSTERDAM.- The project 'Fencing the Museum' involves seven young artists creating a completely different appearance every two months for the fence surrounding the building site of the new Stedelijk Museum....More
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| Eight New Sites Added to UNESCO's World Heritage List |
QUEBEC CITY.- The World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City has added eight new cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on the morning of the 7 of July. With these inscriptions, Papua New Guinea and San Marino enter the World Heritage List for the first time. ...More
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| 80 Original Drawings by Bone Creator Jeff Smith on View at Wexner Center |
COLUMBUS, OH.- Jeff Smith: Bone and Beyond, the first museum exhibition of work by the influential, Columbus-based comic book artist and writer—best known for his epic graphic novel Bone—will be on view May 10-August 3, 2008 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. ...More
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| Kunsthalle Basel Opens Armando Andrade Tudela - Gamblers Die Broke |
BASEL.- Peruvian-born artist, Armando Andrade Tudela (b. 1975), to be held in Switzerland. The phrase is borrowed from The Asphalt Jungle (1950), a film noir by John Huston. It has been removed from its original context to be shown in a different light, a method that is essential to Andrade Tudela’s work. ...More
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| Guantanamo Museum by Alicia Framis Opens at Centre d'Art Santa Monica |
BARCELONA.- The project being presented by Alicia Framis (Barcelona, 1967) at the Centre d'Art Santa Monica has its origin in the perception that in a society with an apparently insatiable need to museify everything, in all likelihood the prison at Guantanamo will end up being converted into a museum. ...More
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| Israel's 60th Anniversary, Real Time: Art in Israel 1998-2008 is on View Until August 30 |
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary Israeli creativity from the past ten years, tackling what many consider to be the most dynamic decade in the development of modern
Israel’s visual culture....More
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| Beadwork from Around the World-and One Amazing Closet |
SEATTLE.- The Seattle Art Museum opens the exhibit A Bead Quiz. No matter where in the world you go, beads are usually there. They travel vast distances, pulling different parts of the world together like miniature magnets. In this installation, you’ll see how small glass "seed beads," manufactured in the Czech Republic and Venice, Italy, have circled the globe....More
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