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The LADD family: what a family!!!

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Father’s Day Weekend Show Features Art by the Ladd Family of Cazenovia Cazenovia College’s Summer Art Series begins Friday, June 19 with “A Ladd Family Affair,” an exhibition of art by the members of the Ladd family of Cazenovia. The show features Col. James Von K. Ladd; his son, James Ladd, Jr.; his daughter, Ann Ladd Ferencz, a 1974 alumna of Cazenovia College; and her children, Jude and Kate Ferencz. The show will be open June, 19, 20 and 21, and June 26, 27 and 28, with a reception on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 21. Show hours are Fridays from 6 to 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The Cazenovia College Art Gallery is on the corner of Sullivan and Seminary streets in Cazenovia. The gallery is handicapped accessible. For more information, contact Danielle M. Murray, chair of the Summer Art Series committee, at 315-655-7365, or e-mail dmmurray@cazenovia.edu. Ann Ladd Ferencz says that a strong artistic gene has always run through her family. “We are thankful to Margaret

Do you want something new? Visit the souk June 6-7th week end

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http://www.muslimvoicesfestival.org/event/souk Marketplace | International, US Souk Saturday, Jun 6th 12:00pm Sunday, Jun 7th 12:00pm FREE ADMISSION Over 150 vendors will transform BAM's neighborhood into a vibrant souk, or open-air market, featuring food, arts, and crafts from diverse Muslim cultures. The market will also include craft demonstrations, hands-on workshops, exhibits, and outdoor performances by local Muslim artists and artisans. Music presented in partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council. Check back for additional souk event information and updates. Information on vendor participation: General information: http://www.bam.org/viewdocument.aspx?did=2276 Application: http://www.bam.org/viewdocument.aspx?did=2278 Map:link to http://www.bam.org/viewdocument.aspx?did=2277 For more vendor information, contact the Souk Coordinator at communityaffairs@BAM.org Sat, Jun 6, 12—10pm Sun, Jun 7, 12—8pm Support for Muslim Voices: Arts & Ideas community programming is provided by

Stieglitz Circle c 1910

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Stieglitz Group, c. 1910. From left to right: Paul Haviland, Abraham Walkowitz, Katharine Rhoades, Agnes Meyer, Emmeline Stieglitz, Alfred Stieglitz, J.B. Kerfoot, and John Marin.

save the date June 2nd 5:30-7:30pm @ ICP

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Greetings all, Above is the invitation for our FREE Educators’ Open House. It’s a fantastic opportunity for our colleagues and peers to receive a tour of our new exhibitions and hear from our curators. Please pass this along to anyone you think would be interested, as we would like to spread the word as much as possible. Also, if you have contacts that you would like me to reach out to, please forward their information to me. We’re looking forward to another successful Open House! Details: FREE! Educators’ Open House Tuesday, June 2, 2009 5:30-7:30 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street Upcoming Museum Exhibitions: Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000 David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945 John Wood: Quiet Protest Many cheers, Wendy Wendy Jimenez Coordinator of Community Programs International Center of Photography 1114 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 212-857-0005 grouptours@icp.org

Save the date June 9th 6-9pm

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http://www.museummilefestival.org/ See you there

Another Interesting blog I found while searching the internet about Infos on Hopper...

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Times Square, May 25, 2009 To check the post concerning Hopper: follow the link: http://www.walkingoffthebigapple.com/2009/02/light-in-edward-hopper-sunny-side-of.html Sounds like a very interesting blog about NEW YORK....... its description is: Welcome to New York Welcome to Walking Off the Big Apple, the literary, arts-minded, occasionally financial and sometimes totally fanciful strolling guide to New York. Explore the self-guided themed walks listed below (a few open onto special supplementary pages), enjoy the images, read a variety of comments on New York and New Yorkers, and stroll the 680 or so posts in the back pages. Feel free to leave a comment or ask a question.

For INFO: Invitation from ..Gilles and Louda..

I've never been to any of the salon party but that sounds exciting. Unfortunately, I will be driving my daughter to the Airport, on her way to France...Maybee see you next time and do not hesitate to comment if you go.. Here is below their invitation: Welcome dear friends, Join us for our next salon party! This month's salon will feature: - Flamenco dance performance by Lia Ochoa!(http://www.liaochoa.com) - Live flamenco guitar from Andalusia's Ricardo Garcia! (http://www.flamencoflow.com) - Poetry Reading by Alberto Dutesco! (http://www.dutescoart.com) Also, we will hold a random drawing to win an original Gilles Larrain photographic print! This 8x10 print, pictured below, is printed on Ilford paper from film negative, and signed by Gilles Larrain. It is one of a Series of six, a $400 collector's value: There is a $30 door fee. Guests enjoy food and an open wine bar all > night long, at: Gilles Larrain Studio Thursday May28th from 6-10 PM 95 Gran

RDV a LYON ce 29 MAI

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Emplettes Gourmandes du Village des Créateurs le 29 mai Rendez-vous le vendredi 29 mai pour les Emplettes Gourmandes du Village des Créateurs. Une ambiance végétale et florale flottera dans l'air du Passage Thiaffait ce jour là. L'occasion de découvrir ou re-découvrir l'émulsion des ateliers-boutiques des créateurs dans une ambiance festive et conviviale ! Vendredi 29 mai de 12h à 21h Village des Créateurs Passage Thiaffait 19 rue René Leynaud Lyon 1er

What to do In AIX en provence this summer?

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Musée Granet and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux show "The Picasso/Cézanne Exhibition" Monday, 25 May 2009 02:50 AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FRANCE - The Picasso / Cézanne exhibition focuses on the subtle links between these two giants in art: the direct influence of the force of the “father of modern art” on the young artist arriving in France in 1900, or the mature musings of the man who liked to say I live with Cézanne? Even if it is not flagrant in his work, Cézanne was much admired by Picasso and often in his thoughts: Cézanne! He was like a father to us all. On exhibition at the Musée Granet from 25th May through 27th September, 2009. After Cézanne in Provence (2006), the Communauté du pays d’Aix, the Musée Granet and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux are again partners in the organisation of an exhibition in Provence, at the foot of Mont Sainte Victoire. A tutelary figure that Cézanne approached step-by-step throughout his lifetime, but which Picasso embraced energeticall

Performances?Allan Kaprow?

MARGARET LENG TAN PERFORMS CAGE–KAPROW-FLUXUS at The Emily Harvey Foundation Wed, May 27 at 8 pm 537 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10012 ADMISSION FREE Prince Street stop on the R train, Broadway Lafayette on the F, Bleecker Street on the 6 line First public performance of Music by Allan Kaprow. A performance score by the father of Happenings, created in John Cage’s class at the New School for Social Research in 1957. The celebrated avant garde pianist and toy piano virtuoso, MARGARET LENG TAN, performs CAGE-KAPROW-FLUXUS at the The Emily Harvey Foundation on Wed, May 27 at 8 pm. Recognized as the pre-eminent interpreter of John Cage's music, Ms. Tan will present a sneak preview of her upcoming performance at the 53rd Venice Biennale's opening celebrations in June. The program begins with her homage to Nam June Paik, Toy Piano Drag, followed by three groundbreaking works by Cage and pieces by Fluxus pioneers, Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins. Ms. Tan also honors another Flu

About "the Alfred Stieglitz Collection" on view at the FISK Museum

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Spring Showers, New York,1900 Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was at the center of the American avant-garde and great changes in American art during the first half of the 20th century. From the 1890s to the 1940s, Stieglitz was arguably the most influential figure associated with modern art in the United States. America’s first great art photographer, he almost single-handedly established photography as a fine art, developed an audience for modern art, and financially supported and promoted many of America’s earliest modern artists through three very influential galleries he operated. Stieglitz founded and edited two influential photography magazines and assembled the first great collection of modern art in the United States, which consisted of more than 800 objects, not including his own photographs. He was also first in America to promote an appreciation of traditional African artifacts as works of art, not primitive curiosities. Stieglitzwas the impresario of the modern art movement in

any plans for June 6th Evening 6-8 pm ?

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just opened @ the Whitney: CLAES OLDENBURG

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Claes Oldenburg at the Whitney Museum, where two exhibitions of his work are on view. reviewed a few days ago in the NEW YORK TIMES.....check the article for more infos http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/arts/design/17kino.html?_r=1&ref=design UNTIL SEPTEMBER 6th 2009.......

today and tomorrow.. @ the BRUCE Museum..

see post earlier in the week......

Again Charles Demuth......with the text published on the Met Website

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The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928 Charles Demuth (American, 1883–1935) Oil on cardboard 35 1/2 x 30 in. (90.2 x 76.2 cm) Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949 (49.59.1) Born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Charles Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia intermittently between 1905 and 1908. It was in Philadelphia that the artist first met the American poet and physician William Carlos Williams, the subject of this painting. Demuth was a versatile artist and tailored his style to suit his subject matter. His delicate watercolors of fruits and flowers are lyrical evocations of nature, while his paintings of the modern urban and industrial landscape, on the other hand, are tightly controlled, hard, and exact. Aptly called Precisionist, these works show the influence of European Cubism and Futurism, but their sense of scale and directness of expression seem entirely American. The Figure 5 in Gold is one of a series of eight abstract portraits of friends that

Did I already mention Charles Demuth?

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At the Metropolitan Museum.......they have several paintings from Charles Demuth...this one ,being not,maybe the most well known.. Machinery, 1920 Charles Demuth (American, 1883–1935) Tempera and pencil on cardboard 24 x 19 7/8 in. (60.9 x 50 cm) Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949 (49.59.2)

MEET THE ARTIST: MIREILLE VAUTIER

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MEET THE ARTIST: MIREILLE VAUTIER FRIDAY JUNE 5TH rsvp Laurence Neron-Bancel : ellemny@aol.com BEFORE HER NEXT SHOW: .........(more infos soon) consult her website: http://www.mireillevautier.com/ please find below the infos published for the last show: Meticulous handiwork, unlikely medium — artist Mireille Vautier aestheticizes plastic bags as only American Beauty’s Ricky Fitts has done before her. Her embroidered works are up at Brooklyn’s Safe-T-Gallery through March 23 2008. —Rachel Wolff http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/03/artist_mireille_vautier.html

About Painting Number 5 by Marsden Hartley

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Painting, Number 5, 1914-15 Oil on canvas, 39 1/2 x 31 3/4 in. (100.3 x 80.6 cm) Gift of an anonymous donor 58.65 Looking for the meaning of the red cross, I found that the coat of arms for Freiburg im Breisgau (a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest. ) is the following: Could it be ...that Marsden Hartley ..in love with KARL VON FREYBURG ....thought of this coat of arms as a way of saying: this is a portrait is of karl without writing the initials KVF (as he did in other paintings..)....A SUIVRE<<<<<<,,

About Carl ANDRE

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Carl Andre Twenty-Ninth Copper Cardinal 1975 Yes of course...On view at the ..WHITNEY Museum of American Art..........

About Marsden Hartley

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[Marsden Hartley], ca. 1915 / Alfred Stieglitz, photographer. Photographic print : 1 item : photocopy ; image is 24 x 19 cm. on paper 29 x 26 cm. G. Alan Chidsey papers, 1920-1979. Archives of American Art. Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting showed a focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms, and his unique style has been described by critic Sadakichi Hartmann as "an extreme and up-to-date impressionism" and "emerging modernism that evolved through Impressionism". (Gerdts 291)

SATURDAY...Annual Outdoor Crafts Festival.

The 24th Annual Outdoor Crafts Festival takes place on the grounds of the Bruce Museum and features juried exhibitors specializing in ceramics, jewelry, wood, wearable and decorative fiber, metalwork, leather, paper arts and glass, all available for purchase. Over eighty artisans gather together to share their unique talents and crafts at a nationally recognized event that attracts thousands of visitors each year. The Outdoor Crafts Festival also includes fun and educational activities for children, international cuisine, acoustic musicians, and dance performances. Admission to the Outdoor Crafts Festival is free from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. each day. Admission from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. is free to members, $8 for non-members, and free for children under five, and it includes all Festival activities, plus admission to the Bruce Museum galleries, which are open to the public during Festival hours.

1913 ARMORY SHOW

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Back to the Whitney and the exceptional collection of American Art..Let's talk about an historic event THE 1913 ARMORY SHOW Take a look at the poster announcing the event and you get an idea about who was there! Duchamp, Matisse are the best remembered because they caused almost a revolution....

WHAT A DAY,..........

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STILL GOING ON ON SATURDAY.......... LOTS OF FUN!!!!!!!!!!