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New Museum Opens--The Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art has opened in Tacoma, WA, and is dedicated to the presentation of the medium of glass within the context of contemporary art in all media. Artists from around the world will be invited to work with the museum's resident team through the hot shop artist programs.

Renaissance Art/Snowmen Featured--The U.S. Postal Service Christmas stamp for 2002 features Jan Gossaert's "Madonna and Child" (circa 1520) from a collection at The Art Institute of Chicago. Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, AZ, was designer and art director for the stamp. In addition, four Snowmen stamps, issued as part of the Holiday series, feature photographs of four whimsical snowmen figurines, designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, D.C., and photographed by Sally Andersen-Bruse of New Milford, CT.

Gifts for SFMOMA--The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has received a gift of a series of eight paintings, each titled "Abstract Picture," by Gerhard Richter. These are included in the traveling show "Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting," at the museum through Jan. 14.

Author Celebrated--A "life-sized vision" of literary icon Rip Van Winkle has been installed on Main Street in Irvington, NY, nearby the home of the late author Washington Irving. Sculptor Richard Masloski of New Windsor, NY, created the six-foot-long, 900-pound bronze statue at the Polich Art Works. Rip Van Winkle first appeared in Irving's "The Sketch Book" in 1819.

Tribute Paid--The Martin Beck Theater in Manhattan, NYC, will officially be renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theater on June 21, 2003, the 100th birthday of the artist/illustrator. Hirschfeld is renowned for his caricatures of American theater and film personalities.

Move Planned--The Barnes Foundation has filed legal papers requesting permission to move to a new downtown building. The relocation and proposed reorganization would contrast with the will of Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the millionaire who assembled this incredible collection. See www.barnesfoundation.org.

Prize Winners Announced--The Praemium Imperiale was established by the Japan Art Association in Tokyo in memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu to celebrate the human spirit expressed through the genius of artists of the world. Among the five 2002 recipients are Sigmar Polke (Germany, Painting) and Giuliano Vangi (Italy, Sculpture). The 2002 Laureates each received an award of $125,000.

Exhibitions:

Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY -- Exposed: The Victorian Nude is the first exhibition to chart the moral and aesthetic controversies about the nude body in English visual culture from 1837-1901. Organized by the Tate Britain, it includes some 150 works ranging from painting and sculpture to popular illustration, photography and moving pictures. Through Jan. 5.

The Phillips Collection -- Washington, D.C. -- Pierre Bonnard -- Early and Late includes over 130 of his works in all media--including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, decorative arts and sculpture--and explores the vision that united his work from the turn of the century to the late '40s. Through Jan. 19.

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL -- Picasso Ceramics from the Bernie Bercuson Collection includes 65 ceramic works done by Pablo Picasso in Madoura, France, between 1947 and 1970. Through Feb. 16.

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. -- The Shape of Color: Joan Miro's Painted Sculpture is the first comprehensive exploration of Miro's late polychrome sculpture and traces the artist's process by showing maquettes, documentary photos and rare films, as well as preparatory drawings and sketchbooks. Through Jan. 6 and then travels to the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC -- Richard Avedon: Portraits features approximately 180 works that span the artist's entire career. At the core of the installation is a powerful group of portraits of many of the key artistic, intellectual and political figures from the late '50s through early '70s, including several large murals. Through Jan. 5.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. -- Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure brings together nearly 70 of the most beautiful works on paper that the artist executed between 1940 and 1955 and is the first exhibition to examine his pioneering vision of the female form. Through Jan. 5. In addition, the new sculpture galleries are open and display more than 800 works of art from the permanent collection. They feature primarily European sculpture dating from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. Several galleries and three French period rooms have been renovated, and seventeen new galleries have been designed to relate to the neoclassical spaces on the West Building's upper floor.

Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 13 No. 1 -- November 2002