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Presenting almost every exhibitor and giving a page for each of them, allowing to present our creation! Soon to be LIVE but meanwhile you can check out MY page http://promenadedesartistes.org/art26LMNY.htm

It's National Call-In Time! Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 The day of the National Call-In is here! Support the 2009 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Advocacy Day from your home by participating in our National Call-In on Tuesday, March 31st, between the hours of 9am – 5pm Eastern Time. While you’re phoning in for the National Call-In on Tuesday, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network volunteers from across the country will meet with their Members of Congress in Washington, DC, to discuss the critical issues surrounding pancreatic cancer. YOU can amplify their efforts by participating in the National Call-In. By calling your U.S. Representative and Senators on March 31st to ask for their support, you can magnify our critical message on Capitol Hill like never before. Your calls will take less than 10 minutes, but they will have a massive impact on our efforts to urge legislators to support the Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act. Your 10 minutes can help us to make real progress ag...

NEW YORK, NY - Helen Levitt, who has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time”, died in her sleep at her home in Manhattan on Sunday. She associated with Walker Evans in 1938 and 1939. In 1943 Edward Steichen curated her first solo exhibition "Helen Levitt: Photographs of Children" at the Museum of Modern Art. She subsequently began to find press work as a documentary photographer. Levitt grew up in Brooklyn. Dropping out of high school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. While teaching some classes in art to children in 1937, Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children's street culture of the time. She purchased a Leica camera and began to photograph these works as well as the children who made them. The resulting photographs were ultimately published in 1987 as In The Street: chalk drawings and messages, New York City 1938–1948. In 1959 a...

City Thoughts:Recent Paintings by Sonya Sklaroff Apr 1 - Apr 25, 2009 Opening this coming Thursday.....

Toshiko Takaezu Sold at SOFA CHICAGO 2008 by Donna Schneier Fine Art, Palm Beach, FL 12th Annual International SOFA New York Art Fair opens in April NEW YORK , NY - Long considered the world's premier fairs for outstanding contemporary decorative arts and design, the next edition of SOFA, the 12th annual international Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair in New York City will feature an unrivalled range of contemporary decorative arts and design. Slated for April 16 through 19, 2009 with an Opening Night Preview Gala on Wednesday, April 15 at the historic Park Avenue Armory, SOFA NEW YORK regularly draws record numbers of collectors, curators, architects, interior designers and new enthusiasts.

The original Cedar Tavern at 24 University Place, photographed by Fred McDarrah Once the hangout of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and others of the New York School, then of beats Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso, and in the '60s Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs, David Amram, and occasionally Dylan. Though it has a long and honorable history, Cedar Tavern has been at its current location only since the early '60s; the original location was a few blocks south at 24 University Place. According to Bob Spitz's Dylan: A Biography, D.A. Pennebaker, Dylan, and Bobby Neuwirth met to plan the shooting of Don't Look Back in the Cedar Tavern. Thanks to Robert McNamara for the Cedar Tavern information source: http://www.new-pony.com/tour/cedartavern.html

UCCA presents 'Nature & Innocents' starring Artist Yan Pei-Ming Beijing, China - UCCA will present Nature & Innocents, an exhibition by painter Yan Pei-Ming, from June 18 to September 13, 2009. Nature & Innocents will stand as a surprising exhibition and for the first time in Yan Pei-Ming’s career, he will produce a show without canvases. Huge landscapes directly painted onto UCCA big hall’s walls, will frame a series of painted flags, representing portraits of 200 new born Chinese children. Imagined as an experimental walk through, the exhibition powerfully conveys Yan Pei Ming’s intentions and gives the audience an opportunity to discover the victims, memories and a vision of united nations in a landscape of crisis.

The artist Jeff Cohen has a number of works you can admire @ the Gallery Stricoff http://www.stricoff.com/ Chelsea and 25th Street

C’est une drôle de destinée que celle du peintre impressionniste Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) : longtemps négligé en France, il a connu un succès immédiat et posthume auprès des collectionneurs américains, qui détiennent désormais la majorité de ses tableaux.........suite...click on the title

INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR NY MAY 1 THROUGH MAY 5, 2009 PREVIEW OPENING for the benefit of The Frick Collection Thursday April 30, 2009 6 pm-9 pm The Park Avenue Armory Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York, NY 10065

G & O ART presents the latest works by B O U D R O @ Galerie Geraldine Zberro 23 rue Jean Mermoz PARIS 75008 OPENING / VERNISSAGE: March 26 @ 6pm Exhibit on view thru April 2, 2009 New York - Art Agents - Paris New York - 347.739.8366 www.goartonline.com Paris - 06.20.73.11.09

www.joellelescornec.com Merci de visiter, commenter, repandre a tout vent, . Bonne soiree/journee. Joelle Joelle Le Scornec J.Lescornec@gmail.com PO Box 181 RAINIER WA. 98576. 360 446 0795

PARIS - This year Claude Lévêque is the artist who will represent France at the 53rd International Exhibition of Art – Venice Biennale. At the French Pavilion, he will feature an installation entitled “Le Grand Soir”, which will be in character with the thrust of his work. A uniquely French concept from the eve of the Revolution, “Le Grand Soir” evokes the moment when the world changed. To support him in this project, Claude Lévêque has selected Christian Bernard as curator; Christian Bernard is the director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva.

NEW YORK, NY - Christie’s will offer a selection of works from the Collection of Betty Freeman in the May 13th Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale. Leading the selection is one of the most important works to come to the auction market by David Hockney, Beverly Hills Housewife, (estimate: $7-10 million), 1966-1967. The Evening Sale selection of works from the collection comprises 19 lots and is estimated at $26-40 million. In addition to Beverly Hills Housewife, the New York Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale will also feature works from the Collection of Betty Freeman by Roy Lichtenstein, Dan Flavin, Alexander Calder, Sam Francis, Andy Warhol, and Claes Oldenburg.

Barbara Kruger Untitled (We don't need another hero) 1987 photograph and type on paper 5 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches 14.6 x 28.9 cm Barbara Kruger Pre-digital 1980 - 1992 _ Through April 18, 2009 Skarstedt Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Pre-digital 1980 – 1992, by Barbara Kruger. These works, professionally known as “paste-ups,” share a methodology derived from Kruger’s experience as an editorial designer at various magazines. However, the meanings they create are worlds away from the decorative delusions that fill the magazines. Her ability to construct powerful messages using an inherently commercial technique focuses attention on how images and words have the power to make meaning: to construct who we are and who we want to be. In Thinking of You, Steven Heller states, “…her work resonates for its audacity in attacking assumptions of power as much for transforming, through her choice of public address, the essence of art itself.” These works, all forty-four of which were c...

March 28, 2009, 8:30 pm local time World Wildlife Fund is asking individuals, businesses, governments and organizations around the world (except perhaps in Crawford, TX) to turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour – to make a global statement of concern about climate change and to demonstrate commitment to finding solutions. http://www.earthhour.org/home/

KLAUS MEISTER Vous invite au vernissage de son Exposition «Vasistace» Le jeudi 9 avril à partir de 18 h Au lavoir Charles Vasserot Rue Quaranta (près de la place des Lices) A SAINT TROPEZ DU 7 AU 14 AVRIL 2009 Adresse atelier: Lieu dit Gassiniére Quartier du brost Gassin 83580 Mobile: 00 33(0) 6 27 62 36 72 Mail: meister.klaus@wanadoo.fr www.klausmeister.com

Hello all , I am taking the liberty of sending you this flyer to advertise for a used furniture collection on the 25 th of April. You will be able to get rid of your unwanted furniture by dropping it off at one of the 3 locations mentioned below. This will benefit a good cause as the furniture will be redistributed to families in need. If you could please read the flyers and spread the word it would be very helpful. In any case thank you very much, Francoise Si vous voulez plus d'information, n'hesitez pas a me contacter a cette adresse email ou sur mon portable 914 834 1354 , D'avance merci, Francoise -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: bialok@aol.com Subject: Furniture Sharehouse County-Wide Furniture Drive on April 25 with Three Drop-Off Locations Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:54:36 -0400 From: bialok@aol.com Dear Friends: Believe it or not, Furniture Sharehouse is about to celebrate its SECOND ANNIVERSARY. Many of you ...

MoMA to show the First Comprehensive Presentation from the Rothschild Collection NEW YORK, NY - The Museum of Modern Art presents Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, an exhibition of more than 300 works that will be the first comprehensive presentation of this collection, a donation of approximately 2,500 works on paper by more than 650 artists that entered the Museum’s collection in May 2005. Assembled over a two-year period and ranging from the 1930s to 2005 with a heavy focus on contemporary practice, the collection provides a unique panorama of the state of drawing today.

Cooper-Hewitt announces Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection NEW YORK, NY - “Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection,” the ninth installment in an exhibition series devoted to showing rotations of the museum’s holdings, will be on view from March 6, 2009, and continue through August 31, 2009, at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Internationally acclaimed artist Shahzia Sikander will mine and interpret the museum’s collection and produce an installation of the selected objects. A highlight of the exhibition will be a new work created by Sikander, inspired by Cooper-Hewitt’s collection.

The Katonah Museum of Art presents 'Lichtenstein in Process' Katonah , NY - Lichtenstein in Process , featuring 65 works by one of America’s preeminent 20th century artists, opens on March 29th at the Katonah Museum of Art. Offering a rare glimpse of the pop artist’s creative process, the exhibition focuses on sequences of serial preliminary sketches, drawings, and collages, dating the 1970s to the 1990s. Originally organized by the Fundación Juan March (in collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation) and shown at the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, and the Museo d’Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma, the exhibition has its US debut at the KMA, March 29th through June 28th , and then travels to the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis.

L'AIR DU TEMPS Maître Bergé et ses Warhol Il ne se lasse pas d’être à la une et ferait presque de l’ombre au très actif président français. Pierre Bergé est omniprésent. Quand ce n’est pas pour la vente de la collection amassée avec Yves Saint Laurent et pour les polémiques qui l’entourent (le rat et le lapin de Chine), c’est pour un gala contre le sida ou en tant qu’animateur des Amis de Ségolène. Mécène du prix littéraire Décembre, propriétaire d’une maison de ventes, titulaire du droit moral su r l’œuvre de Cocteau, membre du comité Jean-Michel Frank, l’homme à mille bras de la culture française en fait parfois trop, dérapant vers les caprices de diva. Yves Saint Laurent, que beaucoup s’attendent à trouver à la rétrospective Warhol du Grand Palais, n’y est pas : un conflit a opposé les organisateurs à Pierre Bergé. Ce dernier ne voulait pas que les quatre portraits de son compagnon soient au milieu des gens de la mode (qu’il porte généralement en piètre estime) mais avec les v...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The New York Photo Festival is pleased to announce the Call for Entries for the New York Photo Awards 2009 Submissions Accepted Starting March 2nd, 2009 Visit http://www.newyorkphotoawards.com Following the successful first year of the New York Photo Awards, the New York Photo Festival 2009 (NYPH’09) is proud to announce the kickoff of the New York Photo Awards 2009. In its inaugural year, the New York Photo Awards surpassed all expectations in terms of the quality, reach and number of submissions that were received (over 3,500 submissions and 15,000 images were received from 60+ countries worldwide). The New York Photo Awards Ceremony, a gala affair held at the world-renowned St. Ann’s Warehouse on the evening of May 16th, at the height of the New York Photo Festival 2008, was attended by more than 650 photographers and industry professionals, and reflected the passion and dedication of the international photographic community who came together to honor the...

more about art in Paris from your cultured English Ami ------- To see this story with its related links on the guardian.co.uk site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/18/andy-warhol-grand-palais-paris

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A l’occasion de la visite à New York du Président de la Caisse des Français de l’Étranger (CFE), Monsieur Jean-Pierre Cantegrit, une réunion d’information sur la protection sociale des expatriés (maladie, maternité, invalidité, accidents du travail et retraite), suivie d'un vin d’un vin d’honneur se tiendra au Consulat Général de France à New York 934 Fifth Avenue (entre 74th et 75th Streets) le lundi 6 avril 2009 de 18h à 20h. RSVP : Madame Marie-Thérèse Maurice (212- 744-0600) ou mtmacmaj@ao1.com avant Ie 2 avril

Next Friday the 20th my friend Carmen Meausoone will be presenting at Dolores's home the new jewelry collection from a wonderful venezuelan designer. Come and have a cup of coffe a good chat and enjoy the beautiful and affordable unique pieces!! Please spread the word among your friends! Thank you so much and I hope to see you Friday. Dolores Her telephone is 914-834-7521, and please park you car in the coul de sac before coming up the hill to the house, thanks again

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Number 27, 1950 Oil on canvas, 49 x 106 in. (124.5 x 269.2 cm) Purchase 53.12 © 2000 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Reproduction of this image, including downloading, is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts announces “The Art of Survival” CBS SUNDAY MORNING Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 9:30 am With arts institutions across the country increasingly feeling financially squeezed, some are turning to selling their works of art to pay expenses. Martha Teichner visits the National Academy Museum, which was has been censured by the Association of Art Museum Directors for its sale of two paintings. CBS also goes to Brandeis University where their announced plans to close the Rose Art Museum and sell off the collection ignited a firestorm of criticism and protests forcing the University to rethink its plans. Don’t miss this important program!

WORKS ON PAPER among the featured artists: Holly Meeker Rom OPEN HOUSE saturday March 27th 1-4pm Port Chester

Layers in Motion: Egúngún Masquerade Costumes Egúngún Festival Family Program Saturday, April 4, 2009 | 1-4 pm Experience with the entire family a vibrant African masquerade still performed today: Egúngún. Workshops, performances and members of an African village in 1-4 pm Drop-in art workshop Children will explore African masquerade through storytelling, drumming, and creating their own masks. (Most suitable for children ages 5-10.) 1-2 pm Layers in Motion: Egúngún Masquerade Costumes Improvisation by the students of the Purchase Hand Drumming Ensemble, Dance and Drama Departments, Purchase College. 2-4 pm Nigeria to Carolina: Ancestor Veneration and Egúngún Masquerade Illustrated performance with audience participation led by Chief Alagba Olaitan and members of Oyotunji African Village (Sheldon, South Carolina) in presence of His Royal Majesty Oba (King) Adejuyigbe Adefunmi II of Oyotunji Village. Admission is free for all 12-5 pm as part of our First Saturdays program. Program suppo...

Friday, March 13 | 5:30-8:30 pm Neu Nights Out Ease into your weekend with art, music and cocktails. Join us for cosmopolitans; hors d'oeuvres; the perfect music mix provided by on-air personalities Claudia Marshall and Jeff Kuprycz from WFUV radio; and the art of Andy Warhol and the artists exploring new technologies in new media: why. Neuberger Museum of Art is proud to partner with WFUV Radio 90.7 FM and wfuv.org to present this fabulous evening of music blended with visual art. $20 / Free to members of both Neuberger Museum of Art and WFUV and one guest. Become a member today to enjoy this admission benefit. RSVP suggested: 914.251.6125

Don't miss this One-time-only discount tickets: VIP passes : $95 ($125 after March 25) Includes Opening night and all films. General Passes $50 ($60 after March 25) Includes all films excluding Opening night gala dinner. For more information on the festival, please visit our website at www.focusonfrenchcinema.org or call the Alliance Francaise office at 203-629-3644

Emily Barletta Pelt 2007 A.I.R. Gallery & The Feminist Art Project celebrate Women in the Arts in March 2009 You are invited to Part 1 of a two panel series on Women's Art in the Market: Wednesday, March 11, 7pm The Market: Women Artists from Studio to Collections Panelists: Helen Allen Founder & Owner, PULSE art fair; Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, curator, Jersey City Museum; Florence Lynch of Florence Lynch Gallery and artist Mimi Smith, New York Moderated by Judith K. Brodsky and Kat Griefen Click Here for Panelist Bios Click Here for Panel Press Release at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, BMCC, 199 Chambers Street, New York NY admission $5 includes reception following the panel Click Here for Directions These events are made possible in part through funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

Une fée dit à un couple marié : Pour avoir été un couple si exemplaire depuis 25 ans, je vous accorde à chacun un vœu La femme dit alors : je voudrais faire le tour du monde avec mon mari adoré. La fée agite sa baguette magique, et abracadabra, des billets d'avion apparaissent dans la main de la femme. Maintenant c'est au tour du mari : euh... c'est un instant très romantique, mais une opportunité comme celle-là n'arrive qu'une fois dans la vie. Alors je suis désolé ma chérie, mais j'aimerais avoir une femme 30 ans plus jeune que moi. La femme est terriblement déçue, mais un vœu est un vœu.. La fée fait un cercle avec sa baguette magique... abracadabra ! Soudain le mari a 90 ans ! Les hommes sont peut-être des salauds, mais les Fées sont des femmes !!!

Information Architecture Series March 24, 25 and 26 6:30 pm The Drawing Center is pelased to offer this series of talks in which leading philosophers, architects, designers, editors, and artists consider how information is diagrammed, modeled, structures, and otherwise disseminated. Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 pm Alva Noë is an author and Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkley. Danica Phelps is an artist who started exhibiting her work in 1997 with a solo exhibition at Jack Tilton Gallery in New York. Her work has since been exhibited at Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, Gupta, Chicago, and Dina4Projekte, Munich. Wednesday, March 25, 6:30pm Jeffrey Inaba is the Director of C-Lab, the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting and founder of INABA Projects, Los Angeles. Nathan Carter is an artist who has been exhibiting his work at Casey Kaplan Gallery since 2001. His work is included in many public collections includin the Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, ...

A BENEFIT FOR AFRICAN SERVICES COMMITTEE Thursday, March 12 7:00-9:00PM James Cohan Gallery New York 533 West 26th Street New York, NY 10001 T: 212.714.9500 F: 212.714.9510 Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm info@jamescohan.com www.jamescohan.com James Cohan Gallery is proud to partner with African Services Committee to host a benefit cocktail party for their Pediatric HIV Program in Ethiopia. The event will take place at the gallery on Thursday, March 12th from 7:00-9:00PM. African Services has provided rapid HIV testing to children over 18 months of age at their Pediatric AIDS clinic since 2004. To date, they have diagnosed over 200 HIV positive children, who were then referred to partner organizations for further clinical evaluation, treatment, care, and support. Pediatric nurses examine children monthly and meet with their families to monitor their medical treatment and nutrition. African Services also supplies families with the vitamin supplements necessary to support healthy immune system...

Largest and most International Asian art fair in the city." Antiques & The Arts Weekly NEW LOCATION!!! March 14th through March 18th, 2009 Nineteenth Show 7 W New York 7 West 34th St @ 5th Ave Across from the Empire State Building. New York, NY "The most important antique fair for Chinese ceramics, textiles & jade as well as Japanese works of art."

Man in Raincoat Joseph McNamara Visiting Artist and Scholar - Discussion Series Joseph McNamara "Reflects on "The Persistence of Realism" Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:00 - 3:00pm Joseph McNamara is an American-born painter and photographer known for his penetrating depictions of narratives portraying human industry's engagement with the landscape and compositional diligence manifest in the balancing of structural abstraction and perspectival extension. His paintings, which are notable for their meticulous detail created during months of work in his studio, are characterized by their extensive scope as much as their rigorous attention to detail and are composed of a fused sequence of visual observations. All events are free of charge, but reservations are required on a first-come, first-served basis. Please respond by telephone to 203 861-7527 ext. 202 or Email: lindaw@sevenbridges.org Reservation confirmations and directions to Seven Bridges will be provided t...

+ preview @ Sotheby's......... You've the choice: Scope Volta Pulse Armory Red Dot Pool Bridge Art FAIR : http://www.bridgeartfair.com/newyorkindex.html Fountain Art Fair: http://fountainexhibit.com/blog/

M. Sutherland Fine Art, Ltd.. ASIAN ART DEALERS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE M Sutherland Fine Arts -Asia Week Open House WIne Reception 5-8pm, March 14 M. Sutherland Fine Art, Ltd. DATE: Saturday March 14th TIME: Noon - 8pm LOCATION: 55 East 80th Street 2nd Floor On View SELECTIONS 10 Years. A decade in bringing you the finest in Chinese Contemporary Art in New York Selections will include works by: Jia Youfu, Hsia I-fu, Hsu Kuo-huang, Yang Mian, Zhang Jian, Zhu Daoping and others.

LAA Draws! An exhibit of black & white drawings by select LAA artists. You are invited to the Opening Reception on Friday March 13 from 6pm to 9pm. LAA Draws! opens on March 13 and runs through April 26, 2009. Gallery hours are Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5 pm Pass this invitation along to friends and family. ________________________________________ Plus Two Special Free Events: “DRAW ON!” Come to our studios & draw with us! • Visit loftartists.com/gallery.php for details. TWO SATURDAYS: Saturday March 28, 2-5pm & Saturday April 4, 2-5pm Highlights: Draw a Collective Mural with LAA artists; Draw “Trading & Art” Cards; Draw to Music, Stories, Models ALL AGES WELCOME! FREE! “Draw On!” Sponsors: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Hersam-Acorn Newspapers, Weston Woods Studios. Logo for Draw On! designed by Peter H. Reynolds. Visit peterhreynolds.com ________________________________________

Présentation de l’évènement L’Atelier des Anysés est un groupe crée à l’initiative de quelques français habitant à New-York. Composé de créateurs français amateurs, semi-professionnels ou professionnels, l’Atelier des Anysés vous invite à participer à son 2ème événement au printemps 2009. Dans le quartier historique de Harlem, où de nombreux artistes ont élu domicile ces dernières années, l’évènement se déroulera sur deux jours, les 17 et 18 avril 2009. Le vendredi 17 avril, de 17h à 21h, est prévu le vernissage avec un cocktail de présentation du groupe. Les créations des participants seront exposées dès le vendredi.
 Le samedi 18 avril, de 11h à 18h, les participants exposeront/présenteront leurs créations à la vente. Plusieurs animations sont prévues (démonstrations, soins, maquillage, musique…) 10% des ventes de chaque exposant seront prélevés au profit de l'association l'Entraide Française dont la mission est d’apporter à nos compatriotes résidents ou de passage dans la r...

Frans Hals (Holland, 1581/85 - 1666) Laughing Child, circa 1623-1625 Painting, Oil on panel, Diameter: 11 in. (28 cm) Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn (AC1992.152.144)

Interesting to have on view the painting by Frans Hals called "The Laughing Child" (1620-25) and what an interesting exercice of compare and constrast with Robert Henri "Laughing Child" painted in 1907

Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968; in U.S.A. 1915-18, 1920-23, 1942-68), Nude Descending a Staircase, 1911-12, oil on canvas, 58 x 35 inches, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA. Sometimes called Cubo-Futurist, so also see Cubism, as well as the Armory Show of 1913, in which this painting was highly controversial. Source: Artlex Futurism or futurism - A modern art movement originating among Italian artists in 1909, when Filippo Marinetti's first manifesto of futurism appeared, until the end of World War I. Futurism was a celebration of the machine age, glorifying war and favoring the growth of fascism. Futurist painting and sculpture were especially concerned with expressing movement and the dynamics of natural and man-made forms. Some of these ideas, including the use of modern materials and technique, were taken up later by Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968), the cubists, and the constructivists.

Check the source of this post ARTLEX referenced on the left side in "websites about Art" Cubism or cubism - One of the most influential art movements (1907-1914) of the twentieth century, Cubism was begun by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1882-1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) in 1907 . They were greatly inspired by African sculpture, by painters Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906) and Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891), and by the Fauves. In Cubism the subject matter is broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted form. Picasso and Braque initiated the movement when they followed the advice of Paul Cézanne, who in 1904 said artists should treat nature "in terms of the cylinder, the sphere and the cone." There were three phases in the development of Cubism: Facet Cubism, Analytic Cubism, and Synthetic Cubism. After fauvist beginnings, Braque went with Raoul Dufy in 1908 on a trip to l'Estaque, a place often painted by Cézanne. They produced a series o...

Robert Henri (born Robert Henry Cozad) (American, 1865-1929), The Masquerade Dress, 1911, oil on canvas, 76 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches (194.2 x 92 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. Source:ARTLEX on the eight: ( http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/e/theeight.html) The Eight- A group of American painters who united to oppose various traditions upheld by the National Academy. They exhibited together only once — in 1908, but the effect of their gesture was to strengthen the advance of modernism in the United States. The Eight included five painters associated with the Ashcan school: Robert Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), William Glackens (1870-1938), John Sloan (1871-1951), and Everett Shinn (1876-1953), along with Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924), Ernest Lawson (1873-1939), and Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928).

Robert Henri (1865-1929) The Failure of Sylvester, c. 1914 oil on canvas Museum Purchase through the bequest of Anita Bevill McMichael Stallworth Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art SOURCE: Past Exhibit in 2009 at the Cheekwood(http://www.cheekwood.org/Art/Exhibitions.aspx) PAINTERS OF AMERICAN LIFE: THE EIGHT March 8 - June 15 Celebrating the anniversary of the group’s famous 1908 exhibition at Macbeth Galleries in New York, the exhibition will include representative work by all members of the original Eight: Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan. On February 3, 1908, Macbeth Galleries in New York opened a show of works by eight living American artists that became the talk of the town. Thousands of visitors crowded into the galleries, even lining up outside in the morning to get in, all trying to catch a glimpse of paintings by Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest ...

Hi All - for those who want to come back, for those who could not join us last week, here's another round of great cocktails, beautiful pillows and delicate jewelery Invitation is enclosed and we hope to see you all on Thursday March 5th ! You can also check my new Pillows' collection here: http://www.sylvie-pillows.com/pillows/far-east/198 All the best, Sylvie ***************************************** Sylvie GUIEYSSE (917) 349 7959 sylvie@sylvie-pillows.com www.sylvie-pillows.com *****************************************

A Message from the Gallery CANADA Lower East Side: Phone: 212-925-4631 Hours: Wed - Sun 12-6 gallery@canadanewyork.com We are pleased to announce our participation in The Armory Show 2009 with new work by Matt Connors Pier 94, Booth 962 March 5 - 8, 2009