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Coins Popular with Masses The Commission of Fine Arts has recommended commemorative quarter designs for NY, NC, RI, VT and KY, which are due out next year and will join those already in production for six other states. Seen by many collectors as little pieces of art, the U.S. Mint has had to more than double its production to keep up with the huge demand.

Photography Winners Announced Among the winners of the third annual Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography are Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz. The new talent award went to Martin Schoeller. Winners received $1,500 and a Steuben sculpture, and their winning work appeared in a special issue of Life magazine.

Restoration Completed A dozen 15th Century paintings on plaster are again available for viewing by the public at the Church of San Francesco in Arezzo, Italy. The frescoes, titled "Legend of the True Cross" by Renaissance master Piero, had undergone 15 years of high-tech restoration.

Museum Gifted with Sculpture The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, has received 84 works of art, primarily 20th Century sculptures, from a foundation created by the heirs of the founder of Hallmark Cards. Valued at more than $80 million, the gift includes works by Moore, Oldenburg, Abakanowicz, di Suvero, Noguchi, Calder, Segal, and others.

Truce Declared NYC Mayor Giuliani has agreed to abandon his campaign to evict the Brooklyn Museum of Art and cut its city financing over the "Sensation" exhibition. In turn, the museum dropped its First Amendment lawsuit against the mayor.

Stamp Issues Delayed The Postal Service has announced a postponement of the Thanksgiving and Christmas (Madonna and Child by Jan Gosaert and four contemporary images of Santa) stamps planned for this year. A possible postage rate increase and 53 million remaining booklets of last year's stamps were given as the reasons.

Artists to Exhibit New Jersey artist Robert Anderson has been selected as one of 25 artists to participate in Cows on Parade 2000 - New Jersey with his "Moona Lisa" design (www.arttekstudios.com/ftp/moonacow.jpg.) The "herd" will be exhibited outdoors throughout the town of West Orange from June 15 through Sept. 4. Switzerland began a tradition a few years ago of having artists paint full-size fiberglass cows under corporate sponsorship and exhibiting them in major cities. Last year Chicago sponsored 300 cows to great success. The cows will later be auctioned with the proceeds donated to charity.

--ARTtalk publisher Robert Paschal will exhibit New Paintings at the World West Galleries in Washington, PA, beginning May 6th for a month. Paintings in acrylics will include abstract still lifes and landscapes. Gallery: (724) 225-4663.

Questionable Paintings Listed The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has joined other major museums in publishing lists of paintings in its collection that may have been stolen by the Nazis in WWII. The 12 to 15 paintings with questionable histories will be posted on the museum's Web site.

Exhibitions:

Los Angeles -- Getty Center Research Institute Exhibition Gallery -- The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals presents 17th and 18th Century prints and festival books capturing the designs of ephemeral, edible art created for celebration in major European courts and cities, including that of Louis XIV at Versailles. Through May 21.

Washington, DC

--Corcoran Gallery of Art -- Palace of Gold and Light: Treasures From the Topkapi, Istanbul features more than 200 objects of art and artifacts from the palace that was home to the Ottoman sultans from the 15th 19th Centuries. Through June 15. Travels to San Diego Museum of Art and Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale.

--National Gallery of Art -- Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection includes more than 70 works that trace the course of American art from the 1913 Armory Show in New York until the 1960's. Through June 11. Travels to Seattle Art Museum.

--Textile Museum -- Flowers of Silk and Gold: Four Centuries of Ottoman Embroidery features over 50 embroidered textiles dating from the 17th to 20th centuries. Through July 30.

Portland, OR -- Portland Art Museum -- Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family showcases more than 230 treasures assembled by the Stroganoff family of St. Petersburg, Russia. Through May 31.

New York City -- Museum of Modern Art -- Making Choices is the second cycle of MoMA2000 exhibitions and focuses on the years between 1920 and 1960, a period of social and political turmoil and spirited debate. The exhibition juxtaposes 24 distinct exhibitions that vary widely in scale, principle of selection, and style of display among them "The Dream of Utopia/Utopia of the Dream," "Modern Living 1," and "Walker Evans & Company." Through Sept. 26.

Charlotte, NC - Mint Museum -- To Have and to Hold: 135 Years of Wedding Fashions opens May 6 and will feature approximately 50 bridal gowns and grooms' wear from 1850 to the 1980s selected from the museum's extensive costume collection. Through August 12.

Lowell, MA -- The New England Quilt Museum -- Mood Indigo: Antique Quilts explores the use of indigo textiles in quilts made by some of the earliest American quiltmakers. Through May 21. Mood Indigo: Contemporary Quilts opening May 25 is a national juried exhibition that explores the contemporary quiltmaker's use of indigo which, according to many, still produces the most reliable and the best quality of blue dye today. Through August 6.

May Birthdays:
    13  Joseph Stella
    15  Jasper Johns
    21  Albrecht Durer
          Henri Rousseau
    22  Marisol

Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 10 No. 7 -- May 2000