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Centennial Celebration Planned Yaddo, the renowned artists' working community in Saratoga Springs, NY, will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a major arts festival scheduled from May through August. The event will kick off with a recital at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, New York City, on May 4. In addition to concerts, there are readings, exhibitions, symposiums and more scheduled. (518) 584-1312.
Quilt to Benefit Children As a result of the compassion and efforts of artist Teresa Griffin, a quilt will be auctioned online on eBay to benefit St. Jude Children's Hospital. Caring artists from the U.S. and Canada volunteered to paint textile squares using airbrush technique with the theme Seasons/Wilderness/Wildlife.
Whitney Support Dropped/New Award Planned Marylou Whitney has withdrawn her financial and fund-raising support of the Whitney Museum because of a work by German-born New York artist Hans Haacke in the 2000 Biennial that links Mayor Giuliani and other political figures to the Nazis. The Whitney has created the Bucksbaum Award, a $100,000 prize to be given every two years to an emerging artist living and working in the U.S.
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Canine Paintings Popular As evidenced at the William Doyle Galleries in NYC recently, paintings of dogs are hot. John Emms' Jack and Two Knaves brought $140,000 as bidders responded from around the world. The record still belongs to George Stubbs' Portrait of a Newfoundland Dog that sold in the fall for over $3.6 million.
Exhibitions:
Boston, MA--Museum of Fine Arts - Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism Through May 28. In addition to the 140 vintage Weston photographs, the exhibition reveals Weston's contribution to avant-garde styles by juxtaposing his works with selected examples of paintings, drawings, and sculpture by the artists with whom he associated. Art In Bloom, from April 25-27, is Boston's premier celebration of fine arts and flowers and includes the opportunity to view more than 70 masterpieces from the MFA's eminent collections and their creative floral interpretations by members of New England Garden Clubs. Call (617) 267-9300 for info on corresponding events.
New York City--Dahesh Museum - Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Academie Julian Through May 13. The first major museum exhibition to explore the Academie Julian concentrates on the women who traveled to Paris to study and then established themselves as working artists in their native countries, thereby creating a new class of female professionals. Travels to Memphis, July 9.
April Birthdays:
4 Edward Hicks
15 Leonardo da Vinci
18 Max Weber
24 Willem de Kooning
26 Dorothea Lange
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Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 10 No. 6 -- April 2000