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ArtPourri
MOMA NY News Finding itself without a van Gogh, MOMA has purchased a drawing of olive trees at Sotheby's for $8.5 million, a record price for a van Gogh drawing. A gift from the museum's chairman, Ronald Lauder, the drawing will go on view soon. Gary Garrels, recently of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has been appointed chief curator of drawings and a curator of painting and sculpture at the New York museum.
Grant Awarded The Friends of Olana, a group that runs the Columbia County historic home of landscape painter Frederic E. Church, has been awarded $112,500 from the Institute of Library and Museum Services. The grant will support a wide range of programs at the historic site near Hudson, N.Y.
New Director Named The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced that Katharine Lee Reid has been appointed its new director. Reid was previously director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.
Retrospective Planned The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has scheduled a major retrospective of the work of fashion designer Giorgio Armani next fall. Armani is a major benefactor to the museum.
Painting Recovered A portrait by Paul Rubens that was painted during the early 17C. has been recovered after being stolen seven years ago in Belgium. Titled Unidentified Man Wearing a Ruff, the painting is valued at $3.1 million.
Milestones American painter Paul Cadmus has died at the age of 94. A social realist in the school of Thomas Hart Benton, he was renowned for his W.P.A. mural work in public buildings. Marc Davis, a master animator for Walt Disney, has died at the age of 86. Highly praised for his work, Davis helped to create characters such as Cruella DeVil and Cinderella.
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Grants Nominations Due Did you know you could submit nominations to the National Endowment for the Arts for Grants to Organizations and the National Medal of Arts? For guidelines and applications, see the NEA web site at www.arts.endow.gov. Postmark deadline is March 31.
Exhibitions:
Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art At the End of the Century: 100 Years of Architecture offers a global panorama of the century's visions and achievements in architecture and urban design. Through Feb. 27.
Hartford, CT Wadsworth Atheneum Salvador Dali's Optical Illusions presents a major survey of Dali's trompe l'oeil work. Through March 26.
Los Angeles LA County Museum of Art- The Age of Piranesi: Printmaking in Italy in the Eighteenth Century opens Feb. 17. This exhibition will survey the museum's collection of eighteenth-century printmaking in Italy with a selection of about 100 etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. Through May 14. J. Paul Getty Museum--The Body Beautiful: Artists Draw the Nude (1440-1850) chronicles how artists represented the human body over the course of 400 years and features more than 25 works from the museum's collection. Through Feb. 27.
New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art "Only the Best: Masterpieces of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon includes masterpieces of paintings by Rubens, Fragonard, Turner, Manet, and Monet. Through Feb. 27.
North Miami, FL Museum of Modern Art- Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules features interrelated large-scale works, including paintings and architectural works. Through March 12.
Birthdays:
1 Thomas Cole
4 Fernand Leger
13 Grant Wood
20 Ansel Adams
26 Honor‚ Daumier
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