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	Your Guide to Art Chicago 2008 and ARTROPOLIS. April 25-28, Friday through Monday at the Merchandise Mart -- Chicago's international art fair weekend includes Art Chicago 2008; NEXT; The Artist Project; The Intuit Show and more. More...
	Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 at the Milwaukee Art Museum thru 5/4. Featuring more than 165 original works of photographs and photomontage, Foto is an important documentation of the enthusiasm and variety with which European nations adopted photography as the new language of modernity after the great World War... More...
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	Xiaoze Xie: Both Sides Now at Zolla/Lieberman Gallery thru 5/24 Both Sides Now presents images of newspapers: stacked, amassed, hoarded; or presented as front-page sheets whose thin vernacular paper bleeds through its headlines with images from its opposite side... More...
	Re-presenting 'The Migration': Reproductions of Paintings by Jacob Lawrence at the Field Museum thru 7/6 Painted in the 1940s, The Migration, Jacob Lawrence's sequential narrative of 60 panels, recounts the Great Migration of the early 20th century... More...

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	Images from the Neocerebellum: The Wood Engravings of George A. Walker by George A. Walker "I feel an odd sort of sensation in my chest. I try to open my mouth to say something, then the trunk of a tree emerges from my throat..." More...
	In Monet's Garden: Artists and the Lure of Giverny by Charles Stuckey, James Yood. The now-famous gardens were laid out by Jean-Claude Monet at his country home toward the end of his career... More...
	Marc Chagall by Jonathan Wilson. What Isaac Bashevis Singer did for literature, Marc Chagall did for art: brought a still-living folklore into the visual... More...

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Monday, May 12, 2008

Chicago

Anish Kapoor Talks of Mirrored Blobs, Subway Bowels: Interview -- Bloomberg - USA

Chicago painter's work inspired translation to stage -- Chicago Sun-Times - IL

New Millennium Park bridge shaping up as work of art -- Chicago Sun-Times - IL

Art Chicago finds niche of its own -- Denver Post - CO

National

SFMOMA Appoints New Director of Development -- ArtDaily - ArtDaily.com

Democratizing The Art World -- Forbes - NY

An Identity Crisis? Hirshhorn Embraces It -- New York Times - IL

Negotiator, Cleveland Museum of Art say no deal yet on returning antiquities to Italy -- The Plain Dealer - OH

Art Collecting Is Not Just for the Rich -- U.S. News & World Report - Washington, DC

Regional artists have a champion in the Cleveland Museum of Art's new curator of contemporary art -- WKSU Kent State University - OH

International

Sothebys to Hold Inaugural Exhibition in Kiev and Preview in Moscow -- Art Daily - USA

Top 10 art museums in the world -- Canada.com - Canada

Christie's sale of South Asian masters to fetch $7 mn -- Economic Times - India

How the Tate got streetwise -- The Observer - UK

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-- Packer Schopf Gallery 5/9/2008
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Thursday, May 8, 2008

National

Art museum, Anschutz purchase Eakins piece -- Denver Post - CO

International

Record Monet Fails to Stem Dip in Christie's Impressionist Sale -- Bloomberg - USA

Vancouver set to welcome Bill Reid Gallery -- CBC - Canada

Govt. gives $177 mln for Pushkin art museum restoration -- Russian Information Agency Novosti - Russia

An unexpected trip to Venice -- Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom

Monday, May 5, 2008

Chicag

MCA's new director strives to make museum 'necessary' -- Chicago Tribune - IL

Mart gets to ART of the matter -- Crain's Chicago Business - USA

Art Institute of Chicago Announces Major Contemporary Acquisitions -- Art Daily - ArtDaily.com

Famous pop sculpture demolished -- ABC 7 Chicago - IL

National

The recipe for a record price: auction house hype, media frenzy, and billionaire buyers -- The Art Newspaper - UK

N.C. Museum of Art sending a cherished painting to Italy -- The Charlotte Observer - NC

Blair Museum to reopen with expanded collection -- Toledo Blade - OH

Whitney Museum unveils Renzo Piano design for satellite museum in lower Manhattan -- Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - MN

8 bronzes enhance SF's civic beauty -- San Francisco Chronicle - CA

MoMA exhibit dies five weeks into show -- The Art Newspaper - UK

International

Revealed: $72.8m Rockefeller Rothko has gone to Qatar -- The Art Newspaper - UK

New mayor of Rome threatens to scrap "disfiguring" Richard Meier museum -- Times Online - UK

National Gallery gets endowment for art touring -- CBC via Yahoo! Canada News - Canada

Mona Lisa's theft set the blueprint for art crime -- guardian.co.uk - UK

Asia's new art collectors seek status, style and smart investments -- TODAYonline

Thursday, May 1, 2008

National

The fine art of sitting -- Chicago Tribune - IL

ART CHICAGO 2008 Attracts World's Leading Contemporary and Modern Art Galleries -- ArtDaily - ArtDaily.org

National

Surrealist Painter, Enrico Donati, Died at 99 in New York -- ArtDaily - ArtDaily.org

Joseph Solman, Founder of The Ten, died in his Sleep at 99 -- ArtDaily - ArtDaily.org

International

Amid Asian Art Boom, Manhattan Gallery to Open Branch in Beijing -- New York Times - NY

Market news: private art sales -- Telegraph.co.uk - UK

Art is leaving las Vegas -- guardian.co.uk - UK

Artists catch head lice for show -- BBC News - UK

Artistic director of Art Basel resigns -- The Art Newspaper - UK

Calcutta-born 'upstart' set for Sotheby's rebirth -- The Telegraph - India

Experts Say Oil Painting Originally Started in Asia not Europe After Studying Bamiyan Caves -- ArtDaily - ArtDaily.org

Monday, April 28, 2008

National

Crashing the Artropolis party -- Chicago Sun-Times - IL

MCA's new director strives to make museum 'necessary' -- Chicago Tribune - IL

Sculpture returns, but artist not happy -- Chicago Tribune - IL

National

Denver's most interesting museum? -- Denver Post - CO

Rauschenberg sues artist for selling his trash -- The Art Newspaper - UK

Art: Museum of Art seals Eakins deal -- The Philadelphia Inquirer - PA

International

Art ordered returned to son of Romanian dictator Ceausescu -- AP via Yahoo! Finance - USA

Indian artist wins UK's largest art award -- Deccan Herald - India

Are lice art? Israelis scratch their heads -- Reuters India - India

Iraq war thwarts loans to Louvre -- The Art Newspaper - UK

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Chicago

5 art fairs under one roof -- Chicago Tribune - IL

David Travis to Retire from Art Institute of Chicago -- ARTINFO - New York,NY,USA

National

Art museum and Anschutz purchase piece -- Denver Post - CO

Staying in Vegas? Not the Guggenheim -- Los Angeles Times - CA

Arts institutions feeling impact of ailing economy -- The Associated Press

Denver Art Museum Names Eric Paddock Curator of Photography -- Art Daily - ArtDaily.org

International

Art Cologne Sells Picasso, Warhol, Kirchner as Visitors Decline -- Bloomberg.com - USA

Art Cologne's emerging new identity -- International Herald Tribune - France

Art stored for museum's facelift -- BBC News - UK

Eurostar launches digital gallery -- BBC News - UK

Flop to Fortune: Ouyang Shows Rise of Chinese Contemporary Art -- Bloomberg - USA

Monday, April 21, 2008

Chicago

Chicago drawing art lovers with downtown Artropolis celebration -- Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - MI

Tiffany dome undergoing restoration -- ABC 7 Chicago - IL

Car-ka-bob appears doomed -- Moldova.org - Moldova

National

NC Art Museum prepares 700-year-old painting for Italy -- AP via Yahoo! News - USA

Sotheby's N. Y. Sale of 19th Century European Art Achieves $26.3 Million -- ArtDaily - ArtDaily.org

University of Michigan Museum of Art Receives Collection Including Works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka -- PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - USA

International

Over 8,000 Items from the National Gallery of Canada's Collection and Archives now Accessible Online -- ArtDaily - ArtDaily.org

Jeff Wall wins $30000 Audain Prize for BC artists -- CBC.ca - Canada

Controversial Last Supper art removed from museum -- Columbia Missourian - MO

Swiss police investigate another suspected art robbery -- EARTHtimes.org

Stolen 18th century painting found in Moscow -- Russian Information Agency Novosti - Russia

Time-based art needs plenty of tender, loving care -- The Art Newspaper - UK

Can you trade your way through a recession? -- The Art Newspaper - UK

American Art, American City: A Chicago Celebration. Discover new works, view special exhibits, renew a lively interest in long-time favorites. This yearlong, city-wide initiative features abundant programming focusing on American art in Chicago. From October 2007 thru December 2008, over 80 exhibitions, programs and collections will be featured at over 28 participating cultural institutions in and around the city. For details, visit AmericanArtAmericanCity.org. American Art American City is sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

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