ARTTalk - The Seventh Annual International Exposition of Sculpture

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Acquisitions Made--The Museum of American Folk Art has acquired 22 paintings, manuscript books and an extensive archive of sketches, tracings, etc., of Henry Darger, a noted self-taught artist of the 20th Century. This collection, the largest in the world, will be housed in a new building to open in late 2001.

Public Art Events Slated--Boston--The Revolving Museum's Tunnel Vision project is a public art series addressing personal, social, and political issues that arise when an arts community is threatened by displacement. Several events have been planned through December in response to the Central Artery/Tunnel Project in the Fort Point Neighborhood: a public display of monumental artworks (mobile pieces and large-scale sculptural works), Art Carts that will travel through the streets, a Poetry and Photography Push Cart, Sculpture on Wheels, Art Cars, and more. Visit www.revolvingmuseum.org; 617-439-8617.

Milestone--The illustrator of British nanny Mary Poppins for a series of seven books by P. L. Travers has died in London at age 90. Mary Shepard, the daughter of E. H. Shepard, illustrator of Winnie-the-Pooh, began the first sketches at age 23 when just out of the Slade School of Art.

Expo Scheduled The Seventh Annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art (SOFA) will be held at the Navy Pier, Chicago, from November 3-5. This event features 90 select galleries exhibiting over 1,000 of the world's foremost artists working in the media of glass, ceramics, wood, metal and fiber.

Exhibitions:
Portland, OR -- Portland Art Museum -- "Painting Revolution: Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde" includes 86 paintings from 13 Russian museums and covers a wide range of individual styles, movements, and significant trends in Russian art underlining the extraordinary vitality of early 20th Century Russian painting. Through Jan. 7. Also, "In Search of the Promised Land--Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church" demonstrates how this Hudson River School artist's interests in exploration and the natural world were manifested in his art. Through Jan. 3.

Baltimore, MD -- Baltimore Museum of Art -- "Power, Politics & Style: Art for the Presidents" hails the election of a new chief and the 200th anniversary of the White House. One hundred magnificent objects from 15 different U.S. presidents tell the story--from Washington to Clinton--of how they have used everything from furnishings and fashion to portraits and china to carry their message to the nation. Through Jan. 7.

Cleveland, OH -- Cleveland Museum of Art -- "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints" represents a full range of techniques and serves as a mini-history of printmaking in America and Europe. Through Nov. 26. Also "Picasso: the Artist's Studio" includes 60 paintings and a limited group of works on paper that represent major styles periods, and genres of Picasso's work--and the studio was the crossroads of all that occurred in his. Through Jan. 6.

New York City -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- "Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861" includes more than 300 artworks that chronicle the beginning of New York as a world-class art/cultural center. Through Jan. 7.

November Birthdays:
  2     Jean Baptiste Chardin
  5     Raymond Duchamp-Villon
11     Paul Signac
14     John Steuart Curry
15     Georgia O'Keeffe
18     Louis Daguerre

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