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Join us for our Final First Friday Friday, December 4th, 5:30-8:00pm (We're not renewing our lease.) To Our Good Friends and Valued Clients: This Friday, December 4th, will mark our last First Friday...we will be closing the gallery on Christmas Eve for the final time. While we're certainly saddened to close this chapter in our lives, we recognize that, at this point in time, owning a bricks and mortar retail gallery is a difficult proposition at best. When the opportunity came to not renew our lease, we took it. There is, happily, good news to all of this. First, Ironwood Gallery will continue to exist in cyberspace. We will be opening an online store in the next few months which will feature work from some of our existing artists, and some exciting new artists. And, as for the future of the gallery, who knows? We might consider opening another storefront, just in a different (and warmer) location. Finally, for us, the best news of all is our relationship with Brookfield Cra...

Tim Burton. Untitled (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories). 1982–84. Pen and ink, marker, and colored pencil on paper, 10 x 9" (25.4 x 22.9 cm). Private collection. © 2009 Tim Burton Tim Burton November 22, 2009-April 26, 2010 "One of the great creative geniuses of the big screen gets his due" —Time Out New York MoMA explores the extraordinarily inventive world of Tim Burton with an exhibition of some 700 works—from drawings, paintings, and photographs to costumes, puppets, and cinematic ephemera—that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. In the theaters, a complete film retrospective presents classics, cult favorites, and recent blockbuster hits, including Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Sweeney Todd. Pour lire en francais a propos de cette expo: check French Morning News :::: http://frenchmorning.com/ny/2009/11/19/le-monde-macabre-et-merveilleux-de-tim-burton/

Come to BWAC’s, 2nd Annual Support Living Artists for the Holidays Sale. More like a gallery opening than Christmas shopping. Painting, sculpture, prints, photos and every kind of craft will be on sale from forty artists and craftsmen, many for less than $99. Opening Sunday, Nov 22, 11-6PM, as part of Brooklyn’s 2nd Annual smART Gallery Hop – a chance to view over 20 galleries in the area via free Hop ON and OFF shuttle buses. For more information about smart Hop, go to www.visitbrooklyn.org or call 718 802-3846. The sale continues on Nov 28 and 29, Dec 5 and 6, 11-4PM. The BWAC Gallery is located at 499 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, across from Fairway and down the block from IKEA. Get directions at www.bwac.org .

Friday, Nov. 20th, 5 pm - 9 pm opening, market & cocktail Saturday, Nov. 21st, 4 pm - 8 pm marketwww.accueilnewyork.org The association Accueil New York welcomes you to the 3rd edition of the “Atelier des Anysés”. This event presents the art and design work of French artists living in New York City. 10% of sale proceeds will go to L’Entraide Française. Cash & checks only. Free Admission 380 Lenox Avenue #PH-D, NY, NY 10027 entrance on 129th, subway stop 125th st. 2 & 3 trains and 5 & 6 trains + 10 mn walk or crosstown bus M101 to Lenox avenue. atelierdesanyses.canalblog.com www.entraidefrancaisenyc.com

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Exhibition The Great Masters of Lithography: Vintage Posters of Calder, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, and Others Friday, November 6–Saturday, December 12, 2009 FIAF Gallery Presented in partnership with Galerie Mourlot New York The FIAF Gallery is pleased to present a collection of original color lithographs of works by great modern artists including Calder, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, and Picasso. During the twentieth century, a group of celebrated artists rediscovered the largely unexplored art form of lithography thanks to the Atelier Mourlot, a Parisian printshop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family. The Atelier Mourlot originally specialized in the printing of wallpaper, but was transformed when the founder‘s grandson, Fernand Mourlot, invited a number of 20th-century artists to explore the complexities of fine art printing. Fernand encouraged the painters to work directly on lithographic stones in order to create original artworks that could then be ex...

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New York, NY - Jean Miotte was born in 1926. He came of artistic age in war torn Europe in the decade after World War II, when non-figurative, gestural abstraction was emerging on both sides of the Atlantic as the dominant language in contemporary art. The embrace of abstraction was not simply a formal issue: it was literally a change in the realm of meaning and value. With social and political institutions discredited as enablers of nothing but chaos, the artist as creator and painting, by and in itself, now seemed more potent, more capable of moral meaning than the external realities of landscape, politics and society. On view through 30 December, 2009. Source and for More information http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-11-22-22-30-29-the-chesea-art-museum-presents-jean-miotte-spirit-of-defiance.html

Barbara Nessim The Model Project NOVEMBER 11 – DECEMBER 5, 2009 DFN Gallery is pleased to present The Model Project by Barbara Nessim, featuring large-scale digital collages printed on aluminum panels. Since the beginning of her career, Barbara Nessim has been using art to challenge traditional values in society. During the Women’s Movement of the late 60s and early 70s, her art reflected the questions surrounding the accepted roles for women. The Model Project continues her examination of traditional thinking, focusing on the ideas surrounding society’s perception of beauty. This series began in 2008 with a fashion photo shoot and interactions between a model, a photographer, and an artist. The artist and the photographer each perceived the model differently. By deconstructing and reassembling the visual elements of a typical high-end fashion photo shoot, Nessim reexamines current concepts of beauty. Lips, hair, breasts, and legs are recombined with jewelry and clothes in jarring c...

The printer, Friedrich Biel, also known as Fadrique de Basilea, was active in Burgos, Spain, from 1485 to 1517. One of his most important surviving books is the earliest known edition of the Comedia de Calisto y Melibea, more commonly called La Celestina. The Hispanic Society’s copy of La Celestina had been in the collection of John Pierpont Morgan who, in 1909, loaned the volume to Archer M. Huntington, founder of the Hispanic Society of America, who wished to publish a facsimile of the work. Upon the publication of the facsimile, Morgan gave the precious incunable as a gift to Huntington. The Burgos edition has been the subject of an intense scholarly debate, much of it focused on the date of printing. Some scholars consider the edition to have been printed in 1499, as the printer’s device states, while others believe the edition to have been printed later, in 1501–1502. Gallery talk: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 11:00 am Ms. Vanessa Pintado Assistant Librarian Ricardo Hernández Head...

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NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the auction Magnificent Tiffany featuring Property from the Gluck Collection will be held as part of its 20th-Century Decorative Art & Design sales on December 8, 2009. On February 17, 1979, Christie's held the landmark sale Magnificent Tiffany Featuring The Gluck Collection, the first major Tiffany offering at auction. The sale was an unparalleled success. It was the first time a Tiffany lamp commanded more than $100,000, with the "Cob Web" lamp selling for a then-remarkable $150,000. The Gluck Collection set the bar for future sales in the category. More than 30 years later, Christie's will offer ten additional pieces from this legendary collection. Source: http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-11-20-22-51-13-christies-to-sell-extraordinary-tiffany-lamps-from-the-famous-gluck-collection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+artknowledge+%28Art+Knowledge+News+-+Keeping+You+in+Touch+with+the+Wor...

Latin American ArtSale N08595 18 & 19 Nov 09, New York Exhibition: VIEWING New York Sat, 14 Nov 09, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PMSun, 15 Nov 09, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PMMon, 16 Nov 09, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PMTue, 17 Nov 09, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PMWed, 18 Nov 09, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM AuctionLocation: New York Session 1: Wed, 18 Nov 09, 7:00 PMSession 2: Thu, 19 Nov 09, 10:00 AM Sotheby’s November Latin American Art sale celebrates the 30th anniversary of auctions in this field. The first Latin American Art Sale was pioneered by Sotheby’s in 1979 in conjunction with the Center for Inter-American Relations (now the Americas Society). Sotheby’s is proud to continue this innovative tradition with a sale that highlights one of the most lyrical surrealist paintings by Roberto Matta – Endless Nudes, accompanied by other great surrealist works by Leonora Carrington and Rufino Tamayo. The pioneering non-figurative tradition in Latin American Art is epitomized by Diego Rivera’s stunning cubist Naturaleza Muerta en Óvalo a...

Allo! Below are a few things I have coming up. On November 21st Collective Gallery 173-171 "Favorite Pieces" will open.Its a great group of artists and hope to see you there. I have work featured on Art In Brooklyn online..see link below... http://artinbrooklyn.com/ And should you be in Miami this year check out the new work from China at C. Emerson Fine Arts at Aqua Miami. I sadly will not be able to make it this year as we are moving within Brooklyn at that time. I send my best. Leah www.leahoates.com 909 Central Avenue St. Petersburg, Florida 33705 (727)898-6068 http://www.c-emersonfinearts.com C. EMERSON PRESENTS A THOUGHT PROVOKING EXHIBIT FOR AQUA ART MIAMI ST. PETERSBURG/ MIAMI – C. Emerson Fine Arts proudly presents a group exhibit of drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture for Aqua Art Miami. The exhibition will include works by 10 artist of international reputation: Gary Baseman, Kyan Bishop, Clayton Chandler, Rocky Grimes, Patrick Lindhardt, Le...

Check the website http://www.riverdaleartcenter.com/ for more information JUST OPENED...in NEW JERSEY...ALL THE BEST........ Founder and President of the Riverdale Art Center, Patricia Watson is both a historian and a sculptor. Dr. Watson is a principal of the Business History Group consulting firm, serving as Vice President and Creative Director since 1989. She received her B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University, specializing in the history of medicine and medical anthropology. She is a writer/producer/creative director for print, Web, exhibit and video/DVD productions. Patricia A. Watson, Ph.D. She has worked extensively on HIV/AIDS and conducted fieldwork for projects in Botswana, Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. She is the editor of The Front Line in the War on HIV/AIDS in Botswana: Case Studies from the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP). Other publications inclu...

Source NY TIMES The Bauhaus, the German school of art, architecture, and design that was open for a mere fourteen years, closed 76 years ago, introduced the word sleek to our design vocabulary, and changed the way we think about daily-use items from cantilevered chairs (good) to piles of old magazines (bad). The Bauhaus was famously clutter-averse, teaching acolytes to discard the unnecessary, champion the streamlined and the utilitarian, and design always with mass production in mind. Two exhibits opening next week make the school’s continuing impact clear. At the Museum of Modern Art, “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” (opening November 8) is filled with objects and furniture (as well as painting and architecture) as clean, functional, and striking as anything on the market today, by names that still resonate: Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Josef Albers. Uptown at the Museum of the City of New York, “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” (opening November 1...