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Street Furniture Available--Suite Home Chicago is an exhibition on the sidewalks, parkways and plazas of downtown Chicago through October. Fiberglass forms of suites of furniture have been decorated by local artists and sponsored by a business, organization or individual. A charity auction will be held at the end of the event.

Record Set--A record price was paid at Sotheby's-London recently for a work in Monet's "Haystack" series. "Haystacks, Last Rays of the Sun" sold for $14.2 million.

Art Expo Scheduled--The fourth annual San Francisco International Art Exposition will be held Sept. 21-24 at Fort Mason Center. Featured will be more than 100 international galleries, which represent 12 countries and more than 2,000 artists. The collection of modern and contemporary artworks includes paintings, drawings, photography, printmaking, sculpture, video, installation and mixed media.

Estate Available--The oceanfront estate of late Pop artist Andy Warhol in Montauk, N.Y., has been put on the market. If the asking price of $50 million were met, a record would be set for the real estate market in that area.

Cave Paintings Discovered--Hundreds of prehistoric engravings have been found in the Cussac cave in western France. This major discovery, depicting animals and human figures, is believed to predate (28,000 B.C.) those in the Lascaux caves.

Search for Chair--A search by the Bush administration is on for a new chairperson for the National Endowment for the Arts. William Ivey will leave the post at the end of September.

Exhibitions:

Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA -- Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2001 -- Featured are 43 works by 34 sculptors from 10 states. Fabricated in steel, fiberglass, slate, glass, clay, stone, bronze, aluminum, wood and other assorted media, the sculptures exhibit a variety of contemporary styles and fabricating techniques. Through October 9.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio -- An Added Dimension: Sculptors as Printmakers -- Focusing on work done in the last half of the 20th century, the exhibition features over 50 prints that represent the work of artists traditionally known for sculpture--Marino Marini, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Mark di Suvero. -- Through Sept. 23.

New York Public Library, NYC -- Celebrity Caricature in America -- Organized by the National Portrait Gallery, this exhibition features more than 200 works of witty images by artists such as Peggy Bacon, Will Cotton, and Al Hirschfeld. -- Through Aug. 31.

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE -- Painter/Etcher: The American Painter-Etcher Movement -- Featured are approximately 40 works by Whistler, the Morans, and Turner, among others. This exhibition documents the origins and zenith of the movement, whose members sought to elevate the status of engraving by creating moody, atmospheric images to rival great landscape paintings. -- Through Sept. 30.

American Craft Museum, NYC -- Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright -- Included are 50 pieces that explore how the legendary architect came to see the design of window spaces as a way to bring the outside in and to unite visually landscape and interior. -- Origamic Architecture includes more than 100 works by Japanese artists and others, from diminutive to large-scale in size, that range from world-famous architectural flowers and animals to recreations of important monuments such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower. -- Through Sept. 2.

Portland Art Museum, OR -- Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection -- All 155 paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the museum's newly acquired collection are on view for the first time ever and include works by Jules Olitski, Hans Hofmann, Helen Frankenthaler, and more. Through Sept. 16.

High Museum, Atlanta, GA -- Michelangelo: Drawings and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti, Florence -- This exhibition contains many works by Michelangelo that have never before been displayed in this country alongside works by other artists and memorabilia from the artist's family home. Included are two dozen sketches and preparatory studies for such important works as the Sistine Chapel and the Medici Tombs. -- Through Sept. 2, then travels to Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.

Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA -- One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed by N. C. Wyeth and James Wyeth -- Featured are approximately 80 drawings and paintings that challenge viewers' definitions of "patriot" and "pirate," primarily in the political arena. The paintings and drawings chronicle the changing attitude of the nation regarding "patriotism" from the beginning of the century to the present. -- Through Sept. 2.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA -- Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870's -- This exhibition brings together a group of paintings Homer exhibited during the 1870's, the decade in which he emerged as the most promising artist in the country. -- Through Sept. 9.

August Birthdays:
  8    Andy Warhol
10    William Hartnett
19    Gustave Caillebotte
22    Jacques Lipchitz
24    George Stubbs

Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 11 No. 10 -- August 2001