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Arts to Benefit—The New York State Council on the Arts will benefit from a new offering to New York drivers. Beginning Jan. 1, custom license plates declaring New York "The State of the Arts" will be available to motorists, with $15 from each plate going to the Council.
Holidays Celebrated—Visit "Mistletoe & Merriment: Recreating Yuletides Past" through Jan. 3 at the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE, to bolster your holiday spirit. You'll see grand displays recreating holiday scenes from the past including a 19C. Hanukkah celebration, two vignettes inspired by Imperial Russia, a Swedish American holiday celebration, Creole Christmas Eve dinner, and much more. Reservations: 1-800-448-3883.
Painting Seized—"The Duquesne and Berigny Basins at Dieppe in Cloudy Weather" by Pissarro has been seized by FBI agents prior to auction in Cleveland. Valued at over $400,000, it is believed the painting was stolen from a home in Worcester, MA, in 1978. Ownership must be decided in court.
Complementary Showing—The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, has opened an exhibition in conjunction with a retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. "Mary Cassatt: Drawings and Prints in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" runs through Jan. 24.
Sculptures Acquired—The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, has acquired several new sculptures for its permanent collection. Among these are Ellsworth Kelly's "Sculpture for a Large Wall" and David Smith's "Sentinel," both considered important works.
Bonny Art—In celebration of his 50th birthday, Charles, The Prince of Wales, will exhibit 50 of his landscape watercolors at Hampton Court Palace through Feb. 28. The works in "Travels With the Prince" were created during official tours and royal holidays and also include works by 10 British artists who accompanied him on tours.
Show Postponed—Because a sponsor could not be found to cover expenses, an exhibition of 75 photos of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis did not open as scheduled recently in the new Grand Central Terminal in NYC. To date, the traveling show has raised over $1 million to benefit the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Lymphoma Fund. The NY exhibition is to be rescheduled for next year.
Winners Announced—Included among the winners of the 1998 National Medal of Arts are architect Frank Gehry, arts advocate Barbara Handman, visual artist Agnes Martin, and arts patron the Sara Lee Corporation. The awards were recently presented at a White House ceremony.
New Museum Planned—Frank Gehry (see above) has been selected to design a new museum in Biloxi, MS, to showcase the area's culture. It will be home to a major collection of works by famed potter George Ohr.
Exhibitions to Still Catch
Picasso: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, L.A. County Museum of Art, Jan. 4; A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray, Getty Center, L.A., Jan. 17; New Worlds From Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Jan. 3; Edgar Degas, Photographer, MOMA, NYC, Jan. 3; Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, Jan. 3; French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers, MFA, Boston, MA, Jan. 10.
December Birthdays
2 Georges Seurat
4 Wassily Kandinsky
8 Diego Rivera
12 Helen Frankenthaler
24 Joseph Cornell
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
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Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 9 No. 2 -- December 1998