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Greetings from The Rye Arts Center! The Rye Arts Center presents . . . Cosmic Pizza Night This family event takes place on Tuesday, February 3rd from 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Recommended for ages 10 and up. The night's events include a walk through the exhibition Heavens Above: Photographs of the Universe from the Hubble Space Telescope. Docents will explore the artistic and scientific aspects of the images. Dr. Gail Roman, Ph.D., art historian and Linda Goldstein, arts educator, will lead an interactive discussion of the visual impact of the astral images on view. Jim Pelgrift, former President of the Discovery Museum and Planetarium, and Charlie Gibson, President of the Amateur Astronomers, of Westchester will conduct the science session. RSVP for Cosmic Pizza Night is recommended. The cost is $8.00 per person. For information: Call 914-967-0700 x 33 This program is made possible, in part, by Meg and Raoul Rodriguez . Laurie and Rob Platek and Westchester Arts Council with funds from West...

Message from Stuart Yankell In October and November of 2008, I worked on location in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I had the opportunity to paint live dancers in the Plaza Dorrego in the sunlight and to draw and photograph dozens of Milongas (Tango clubs) throughout the city by night. Having started over 50 original drawings and paintings as well as thousands of digital images, the trip has revealed a new understanding of the depth and richness of the Tango tradition. Many of the completed works can now be viewed on my site (click on the title) in the Buenos Aires Collection as well as the Available Works sections. Wishing you a joyous 2009 with much health and success! Stuart Yankell Yankell Fine Arts 105 Birch Avenue Bala Cynwyd,PA 19004

£750,000 in charity auction Modern art comes of age with a sweep of Putin's brush He may have had help, but the Russian PM's painting is stylish and witty for an amateur work.........read more by clicking on the title

The sculptor Charles Long shone in last year's Whitney Biennial, with beautifully pale and elongated pieces inspired by heron droppings. His new body of work, consisting of spindly frameworks studded with irregularly shaped pods, may be even more wondrously abject. Stand in one corner, then walk in a circuit around the gallery and watch the lopsided grids of these five tall objects sinuously interweave with one another. The surfaces—whether smooth steel armatures or rough, bulging plaster—have been delicately painted in muted pinks, greens, dirty oranges, and other adulterated hues. In one sculpture, pencil-thin crosshatches of gray steel cascade past the clotted appendages of what could be a mummified squid; across the gallery, an attenuated salmon-colored blob has been sloppily pressed up against an uneven grill slathered with drippy green paint. Bludgeoning old-school surrealism with ascetic minimalism, Long offers us intimations of flesh harried by geometry. (Tanya Bonakdar, 52...

Basel, Switzerland - The 40th edition of Art Basel takes place in the museum-rich city of Basel, Switzerland from June 10 through June 14, 2009. As the world’s premier art show, Art Basel is the annual meeting place of the international art world. This year’s 300 exhibiting galleries from all over the world were selected from a record number of more than 1,100 applications and will be showing works by over 2,500 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

CharlElie Couture, New York-photos-grafs Exposition du 12 mars au 25 avril 2009 Vernissage le mercredi 11 mars à partir de 18h 38 rue ste croix de la bretonnerie paris 75004 tél + 33 (0) 1 42 72 09 10 fax + 33 (0)1 42 72 02 20 info@baudoin-lebon.com

i've met Alexis Duque when he was opening his Studio during Harlem open house Week End. I appreciated his work which I was able to see again at the latin American Fair, held last fall. And now he has a solo Show, @ Praxis, a very well known gallery for Latin A merican Art. So take the opportunity and visit his show Opening is Thursday Feb 5th between 6-8pm on 73rd Street.....more infos : Click on the title.