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New Museum Debuts--The new $21 million National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame has opened in Ft. Worth, TX. Its mission is to honor and document the accomplishments of pioneering women, and artist Georgia O'Keeffe is among the 158 women included in the hall of fame.

Sculpture Completed--"Ascent," a 70 ft. tall abstract swirling silver spire by noted sculptor John Safer, has been completed and is temporarily on view at Tallix in Beacon, NY. The work is to be installed at the Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, a new extension of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

Painting Sets Records--A painting recently attributed to Flemish Master Rubens has set several records at auction at Sotheby's-London. At $76.7 million, "The Massacre of the Innocents" (1609-1611) received the third highest price ever paid for a painting at auction as well as the highest auction price ever for an old master painting.

Surprise Discovery Made--While visiting New York recently, the director of the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh rummaged through boxes of old drawings of light fixtures at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum. And he discovered what he and authorities believe is likely a 17 x 10 inch chalk drawing by Michelangelo!

Exhibitions

Chadds Ford, PA -- Brandywine River Museum -- A Summer Idyll: Landscapes of the Brandywine Valley features approximately 70 original landscapes by many of America's greatest artists depicting southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware during the summer months. Through Sept. 2.

Princeton, NJ -- Princeton University Art Museum -- Japanese Woodblock Prints: Gifts from Anne van Biema includes 16 prints organized to show the development of woodblock printing techniques, pigments, and styles from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Through Sept. 1.

San Francisco, CA -- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor -- Eternal Egypt is the first major exhibition to take an art historical approach to this great culture and the first in this country to be drawn solely from the British Museum's outstanding collection of Egyptian antiquities--nearly 150 renowned masterpieces and other treasures. Opening Aug. 10 through Nov. 11.

Portland, OR -- Portland Art Museum -- Beyond Beads and Feathers consists of approximately 36 recent works of art (painting and sculpture) by six contemporary Native American artists who live outside the greater Portland region. This exhibition will enable visitors to experience a variety of works that expand the concept of what Native American art is and also to see how contemporary Native American artists continue to be inspired by their own cultural traditions while also being influenced by the contemporary world in which we all live. Through Dec. 1.

Poughkeepsie, NY -- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College -- Made in Woodstock: Printmaking from 1903 to 1945 traces the diversity and richness of original prints made in Woodstock, NY, one of the most well-known art colonies in the U.S. Through Sept. 15.

Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 12 No. 10 -- August 2002