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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculpture From China</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=29792</link>
			      <description>&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculpture From China&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Millennium Park&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial'&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date&lt;/strong&gt; 04.09.2009 - 10.11.2009 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time&lt;/strong&gt; 6:00am - 11:00pm &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location&lt;/strong&gt; Boeing Galleries &lt;/li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kicking off Millennium Park&amp;#39;s spring season, a large-scale exhibition, &lt;em&gt;A Conversation with Chicago: Contemporary Sculptures From China,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;opens&amp;nbsp;to the&amp;nbsp;public in the&amp;nbsp;Boeing Galleries.&amp;nbsp; Other&amp;nbsp;upcoming events&amp;nbsp;include the Music Without Borders concert series, the Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz concert series, the Grant Park Music Festival and the Family Fun Festival. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='margin: 0in 0in 0pt' class='MsoNormal'&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial'&gt;Discover why contemporary Chinese art has emerged as one of the fastest growing and most dynamic components of the international art scene with this exhibition of large-scale sculpture on view in the Boeing Galleries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src='http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs071/1101674564465/img/278.jpg?a=1102527173597' border='0' width='225' height='149' align='left' name='ACCOUNT.IMAGE.278' /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style='font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial'&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund </title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=18286</link>
			      <description>&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;&lt;em&gt;African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February 6-July 5, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;p align='left'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, this exhibition is the first to explore the legacy of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, created by the Chicago businessman and philanthropist to foster black leadership through the arts, literature, and scholarship. From 1928 to 1948, this fund awarded stipends to hundreds of prominent and emerging African Americans artists, writers, and scholars across such disciplines as history, sociology, literature, and the visual and performing arts. African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund presents the artistic and scholarly products of Rosenwald&amp;#39;s support, including more than fifty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by twenty-five Rosenwald fellows as well as a selection of documentary and archival materials. Artists include Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Marion Perkins, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff. This exhibition is organized for Spertus Museum by guest curator Daniel Schulman. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=25041</link>
			      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href='http://m1e.net/c?82090860-SVhopnVBG2xaE%403939609-.oWPtBpguMiFc'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Force for Change: &lt;br /&gt;African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='2'&gt;February 8 &amp;mdash; August 16, 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src='http://www.spertus.edu/pressroom/enews/images/Piper_Slow_Down_Freight_Train_190width.jpg' border='0' alt='Rose Piper - Slow Down Freight Train' width='190' height='238' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif' size='1'&gt;Rose Piper, &lt;em&gt;Slow Down Freight Train&lt;/em&gt;, 1946-47; Oil on canvas; Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; &amp;copy; 1946 Rose Piper&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Force for Change&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the first exhibition to explore the legacy of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, created in 1917 by the well-known Chicago businessman and philanthropist. The Rosenwald Fund&amp;rsquo;s Fellowship Program was designed to foster black leadership through the arts, literature, and scholarship. Between 1928 and 1948, it awarded stipends to hundreds of prominent and emerging African American artists, writers, and scholars across many disciplines. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Force for Change&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; presents the artistic products of Julius Rosenwald&amp;rsquo;s support with more than 60 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by 22 Rosenwald fellows, as well as an original short documentary film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The artists represented in the exhibition are among the foremost of their era, including Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Rose Piper, Augusta Savage, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, among others.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Postwar America </title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=27518</link>
			      <description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;&lt;font color='#9c9c9c'&gt;&lt;span class='eventtype'&gt;Exhibition:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span class='eventtitle'&gt;&lt;font size='5' color='#18529c'&gt;Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Postwar America&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;!-- End Event Title --&gt;&lt;!-- Begin Date Info --&gt;&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='2' cellpadding='0'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='eventlabel' align='right' valign='top'&gt;Dates: &lt;br /&gt;Time: &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='eventdata' valign='top'&gt;February 10th - August 9th &lt;br /&gt;Tuesday - Sunday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm, with extended evening hours Fridays until 9:00 pm. Closed on Mondays and major holidays. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='eventlabel' align='right' valign='top'&gt;Location: &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='eventdata' valign='top'&gt;New York &lt;br /&gt;Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, New York &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='eventlabel' align='right' valign='top'&gt;Cost: &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='eventdata' valign='top'&gt;$10; $7 for seniors and $5 for students with ID; free for members and persons under 16. Admission is free to all Friday 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='eventlabel' align='right' valign='top'&gt;Phone: &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='eventdata' valign='top'&gt;212-517-ASIA &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;!-- End Date Info --&gt;&lt;p class='eventdata'&gt;In honor of Sherman E. Lee (1918&amp;ndash;2008)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Explore the politics and influential relationships that led John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller to build a spectacular collection of Asian art. Exceptional pieces from Asia Society&amp;rsquo;s Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection are presented alongside objects acquired by their advisor, Sherman E. Lee, for the Cleveland Museum of Art. Curated by Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Curator for Traditional Asian Art, Asia Society, with Jacqueline Ganem and Daisy Yiyou Wang, Asia Society Museum Fellows. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image, right:&lt;br /&gt;Nyoirin Kannon (Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in the form of Chintamanichakra). Japan, Kamakura period, early 14th century. Cypress wood with pigment, gold powder, and cut gold leaf, H. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm). Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.205&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photo: Asia Society Museum&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class='eventdata'&gt;&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='125' align='left'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='115'&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.asiasociety.org/events/calendar.pl?event=18482&amp;amp;utm_source=digest&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_campaign=none'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.asiasociety.org/images/events/00/01/84/82/1979.205.jpg' border='0' width='115' height='146' align='left' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='10'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.asiasociety.org/images/eventsdigest/blank.gif' border='0' width='10' height='1' /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan='2' width='125' height='6'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.asiasociety.org/images/eventsdigest/blank.gif' border='0' width='1' height='6' /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=31139</link>
			      <description>&lt;h1&gt;Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;June 27, 2009&amp;mdash; September 13, 2009 &lt;p&gt;Bloch Building, Gallery L11&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Admission: Free &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh &lt;/em&gt;brings together approximately seventy photographs by the artist and activist, Fazal Sheikh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The exhibition, organized by Princeton University Art Museum and presented at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in a condensed version, unites two projects, &lt;em&gt;Moksha&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Ladli&lt;/em&gt;, which examine the lives of women in certain sectors of Indian society. &lt;em&gt;Moksha&lt;/em&gt; concerns dispossessed&amp;nbsp;widows in the holy city of Vrindavan, who live out their lives in devotion to Krishna, while &lt;em&gt;Ladli&lt;/em&gt; &amp;nbsp;examines the perilous effects of enduring prejudices against girls and young women in a changing, modern India. Pairing portraits with personal testimonies, Sheikh brings each of his subjects within the viewer&amp;rsquo;s moral reach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sheikh uses photography to create sustained portraits of communities around the world, addressing their beliefs and traditions as well as their political and economic problems. His powerful, thought-provoking work suggests an empathetic engagement with his subjects, and puts the viewer eye-to-eye with people unlikely to appear on the news except as anonymous products of circumstance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fazal Sheikh was born in New York in 1965 and graduated from Princeton University in 1987. In 2005 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation &amp;ldquo;genius&amp;rdquo; grant and &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=31471</link>
			      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beyond Golden Clouds: Japanese Screens from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Saint Louis Art Museum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 26&amp;ndash;September 27, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Regenstein Hall&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Overview:&lt;/strong&gt; Across the decorative surfaces of Japanese folding screens, the realities and imaginations of artists over hundreds of years have been charted with bright mineral pigments and precious gold and silver. More so than smaller painting formats, the screen is the canvas upon which artists have historically realized their most expansive visions, which is why they are so often career-defining masterpieces.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However varied the subjects portrayed and the painting styles adopted, there are unfortunately very few opportunities today to see large numbers of screens displayed together at once, and museum visitors must satisfy themselves with only one or two examples at a time. &lt;em&gt;Beyond Golden Clouds &lt;/em&gt;brings the scope of the significant permanent collections of Japanese screens at the Art Institute and the Saint Louis Art Museum to the public eye. The exhibition, which will be shown at both museums, will include a total of 32 works of art. During the week of August 10&amp;ndash;14, several works in the exhibition will be rotated out and replaced by others, offering the chance to experience the exhibition anew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beyond Golden Clouds &lt;/em&gt;celebrates the full range of the screen format, made possible by the collaboration of these two Midwestern museums. Unique among shows of Japanese screens in the past, this exhibition displays a range of works, dating from as early as the 16th century to the contemporary screens of the past decade. Screens of various media are featured, including traditional examples on paper and silk as well as screens made of stoneware (ceramic clay) and one that appears to be done in lacquer. The particular role of screens as functional works Kishi Ganku. Bamboo, 1829. Russell Tyson Purchase Fund income. of art, their characteristic materials and painting techniques, their development in Japan and collection in the West, and their influence on the art of other cultures are explored.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Highlights of the exhibition include a pair of screens depicting a bustling ink landscape by the 16th-century artist Sesson Shukei, the earliest work in the show. &lt;span style='font-style: italic'&gt;Willow Bridge and Waterwheel&lt;/span&gt; by Hasegawa Soya is a tour de force of the art of the folding screen produced during the format&amp;rsquo;s heyday in the 17th century. Kishi Ganku&amp;rsquo;s Bamboo of 1829 was likely set up around the perimeter of a room so that would-be literati would feel as if they were dwelling in an idyllic bamboo grove. Morita Shiryu&amp;rsquo;s 1969 screen &lt;span style='font-style: italic'&gt;Dragon Knows Dragon &lt;/span&gt;makes use of nontraditional materials; it is a calligraphic work wherein the characters appear in gold on a black surface that shines with the finish of lacquer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A beautiful catalogue accompanies the exhibition and is available in the Museum Shop. Featuring 130 color illustrations, the volume presents illuminating and engaging entries on each work of art along with essays by exhibition curator Janice Katz and other respected scholars.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Charting the Canyon: Photographs by Klett and Wolfe</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=29118</link>
			      <description>&lt;h2 align='center'&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;Charting the Canyon: Photographs by Klett and Wolfe&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 align='center'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Phoenix Art Museum&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 align='center'&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;Norton Photography Gallery &lt;br /&gt;March 21, 2009 &amp;ndash; July 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arizona&amp;#39;s Grand Canyon&amp;mdash;natural wonder, national park, tourist attraction, sacred land&amp;mdash;is perhaps the world&amp;#39;s best &amp;ldquo;photo op.&amp;rdquo; The collaborative photographic team of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe have set out to explore this celebrated place of dramatic beauty, and Phoenix Art Museum is proud to be the first to show a comprehensive look at their powerful, thoughtful, and playful approach to the Grand Canyon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drawn from two seasons of fieldwork, &lt;em&gt;Charting the Canyon&lt;/em&gt; will include about 30 photographs ranging from a modest 20 by 20&amp;ndash;inch print to a panorama nearly 10 feet wide. Mark Klett, a Regents Professor at Arizona State University, and Byron Wolfe, a former student of Klett&amp;rsquo;s who is now a Lantis&amp;rsquo; University Professor teaches at California State University at Chico, have been interested in rephotographing historic images since their collaboration began in 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now the pair combines their own color photographs with imagery by 19th-century photographer J. K. Hillers and artist William Holmes and by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, who worked at the Canyon in the early 20th century. Klett and Wolfe respond to the historic images and the Canyon itself, yielding artworks that reconsider an icon, challenge how we perceive the land, and bring a new perspective to its portrayals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Charting the Canyon&lt;/em&gt; offers visual delights: the humorous layering of a 19th-century drawing with contemporary photographic details, the extension of an Ansel Adams view into a serene panorama, and the illusion of three-dimensions with a stereopticon viewer built for the twenty-first century, among others to be discovered in this unique exhibition.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Elements of Photography </title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=31347</link>
			      <description>&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='650'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='header' width='320' align='left' valign='top' style='padding-left: 17px; padding-top: 10px'&gt;Elements of Photography&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class='greyHeader'&gt;&lt;font color='#333333'&gt;June 13 - October 4, 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='330' align='left' valign='bottom'&gt;&lt;!-- START EMAIL, PRINT OPTIONS TABLE --&gt;&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='150' align='left'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='15' align='left' valign='bottom'&gt;&lt;font color='#333333'&gt;&lt;img src='../images/print_page.gif' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='50' align='left' valign='bottom'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='javascript:void(printSpecial())'&gt;&lt;font color='#6c7479'&gt;print&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='15' align='left' valign='bottom'&gt;&lt;font color='#6c7479'&gt;&lt;img src='../images/email_page.gif' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width='70' align='left' valign='bottom'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='index.php' onclick='mail_pop(&amp;#39;../send_friend.php?the_url=http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=228&amp;#39;); return false;'&gt;&lt;font color='#6c7479'&gt;email&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;!-- END EMAIL, PRINT OPTIONS TABLE --&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan='2' align='left' valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class='content' align='left'&gt;&lt;div class='float-right'&gt;&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='400'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align='right' valign='middle' style='padding: 3px'&gt;&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align='center' valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href='#_self' onclick='LoadGallery(&amp;#39;GuideSlide&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;../exhib_images/Ekberg_089.jpg&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;SlideCaption&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Adam Ekberg, &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Aberration #8&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;, 2006. Collection of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Gift of Thomas Robertello Gallery&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;350&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;272&amp;#39;)'&gt;&lt;font color='#000000'&gt;1&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align='center' valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href='#_self' onclick='LoadGallery(&amp;#39;GuideSlide&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;../exhib_images/black.jpg&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;SlideCaption&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Hiroshi Sugimoto, &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;Time Exposed, 1991: Black Sea, Ozuluce&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt;, 1991. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Gift of Maremont Corporation by exchange. &amp;copy; Hiroshi Sugimoto. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery, New York&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;350&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;270&amp;#39;)'&gt;&lt;font color='#000000'&gt;2&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align='left' valign='top' style='border: #ffffff 5px solid' bgcolor='#ffffff'&gt;&lt;a href='index.php'&gt;&lt;img src='../exhib_images/Ekberg_089.jpg' border='0' width='350' height='272' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='smallBlackText' align='right' valign='top'&gt;&lt;div id='SlideCaption' align='right' style='float: right; padding: 2px'&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adam Ekberg, &lt;em&gt;Aberration #8&lt;/em&gt;, 2006. Collection of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Gift of Thomas Robertello Gallery&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class='top'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Elements of Photography&lt;/em&gt; presents photographic and video works from the MCA Collection&amp;nbsp;with a&amp;nbsp;focus on elemental materials of nature: light and water. Also the fundamental elements of traditional photography, the works included in the exhibition foreground the inherent relationship between the photographic process and the natural world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With these elements, artists like Hiroshi Sugimoto, Luisa Lambri, Walead Beshty, and Adam Ekberg create ephemeral works that explore the foundation of the photographic image: the play of light through half opened shutters; haunting seascapes reduced to&amp;nbsp;a gradation of&amp;nbsp;elemental material; and luminous circles of light formed by the interplay of sunlight and the camera&amp;#39;s lens. Bringing the natural world to near or complete abstraction, these photographs emphasize their own material composition. At the same time, they invite the viewer to reflect on themes inherent to photographic medium, such as the passage of time and the nature of perception. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exhibition is organized by MCA Curatorial Assistant Michael Green.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;&lt;font color='#333333'&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;&lt;font color='#333333'&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size='4'&gt;Elements of Photography&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='3' color='#333333'&gt;Museum of Contemporary Art&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='3' color='#333333'&gt;Chicago, Illinois&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;&lt;font face='Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif' color='#333333'&gt;June 13-October 4 &lt;/font&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face='Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif' color='#333333'&gt;Featuring&amp;nbsp;photography and video works from the MCA Collection by artists such as Adam Ekberg, Luisa Lambri, Melanie Schiff, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, this exhibition focuses on light and water, the fundamental elements of the traditional photographic process.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face='Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif' color='#333333'&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Embracing Our Differences</title>
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			      <description>&lt;div align='center'&gt;DEADLINE: Sun, January 10, 2010&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align='center' style='font-weight: bold'&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;Embracing Our Differences&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='abstract' align='right' style='display: none'&gt;&lt;a href='/' onclick='document.getElementById(&amp;#39;E2135&amp;#39;).style.display = &amp;#39;block&amp;#39;; document.getElementById(&amp;#39;B2135&amp;#39;).style.display = &amp;#39;none&amp;#39;; return false;'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id='E2135' class='details' style='display: block'&gt;Embracing Our Differences invites artists, photographers, professionals, amateurs, teachers and students to participate in its 7th annual visual art exhibit celebrating diversity. 45 artists will be selected for the exhibit. The Embracing Our Differences exhibit will be displayed throughout the month of April 2010 along Sarasota&amp;rsquo;s beautiful bayfront. Since 2004, the exhibit has been viewed by more than 550,000 visitors. A total of $3,000.00 in awards will be presented. Submission forms and more information is available at www.EmbracingOurDifferences.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact:Michael Shelton&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp; 941-928-0567&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href='http://www.embracingourdifferences.org/' target='_blank'&gt;www.EmbracingOurDifferences.org&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href='mailto:info@embracingourdifferences.org' target='_blank'&gt;info@embracingourdifferences.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic</title>
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			      <description>&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' align='center'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan='2' valign='top' style='border-bottom: #0000cc 1px solid'&gt;&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='5' width='100%'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face='franklin gothic book,franklin gothic,sans-serif' size='2'&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan='2' valign='top' style='border-bottom: #0000cc 1px solid'&gt;&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='5' width='100%'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;a name='articles_4'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face='verdana,helvetica,sans-serif' color='#000000'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font face='franklin gothic book,franklin gothic,sans-serif' size='4'&gt;Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;&lt;font face='verdana,helvetica,sans-serif' color='#000000'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blanton Museum of Art&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='50' align='right' style='float: right; margin-left: 5px'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face='verdana,helvetica,sans-serif' size='1' color='#000000'&gt;&lt;font face='franklin gothic book,franklin gothic,sans-serif' size='2'&gt;Art is mythic.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face='franklin gothic book,franklin gothic,sans-serif' size='2' color='#000000'&gt;Opening this month!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face='verdana,helvetica,sans-serif' size='1' color='#000000'&gt;&lt;font face='franklin gothic book,franklin gothic,sans-serif' size='2'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href='mhtml:{DF57E207-8C9B-40CF-B98D-36FA00813AF6}mid://00000063/!x-usc:http://blantonmuseum.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=IN4VjwBzAAQAAAG7AALh6w' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;em&gt;Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;June 21 - September 27, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Experience the first comprehensive exhibition in the U.S. of this 20th-century South American master. Highlighting over five decades of Matto&amp;#39;s paintings. sculptures, and works on paper, the exhibition examines the rise of modernist abstraction in South America and chronicles the artist&amp;#39;s lifelong quest to make mythic, spiritual, timeless art. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Ground Level Projects - Deb Sokolow</title>
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			      <description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'&gt;&lt;a href='http://m1e.net/c?82090860-4p52TpjRp3xdU%404122562-nxKSMKWAnC3Ig'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ground Level Projects&lt;br /&gt;Deb Sokolow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 30 &amp;mdash; July 19, 2009 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src='http://www.spertus.edu/pressroom/enews/images/Ground_Level_Project_Deb_Sokolow_300width.jpg' border='0' alt='Ground Level Project' width='300' height='227' /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This spring, Spertus Museum launches a dynamic new initiative called &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ground Level Projects&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a series of artist commissions for Spertus&amp;rsquo; glass-enclosed, street-level vestibule space. Engaging four artists over a year-long period, the project aims to foster creative encounters that investigate, challenge, and expand traditional perceptions of the Jewish experience. The resulting projects will be visible from the street, bridging the realms of public and private space and encouraging passers-by to enter into a meaningful and thought-provoking dialogue with the works on view as well as with Spertus. The commissions will be accessioned into Spertus Museum&amp;rsquo;s collection, enhancing its growing contemporary art holdings and reflecting its innovative exhibition program.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style='font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'&gt;A new work by Chicago-based artist &lt;strong&gt;Deb Sokolow&lt;/strong&gt; will be the first Ground Level Project. Sokolow&amp;rsquo;s imaginative narratives of hand-drawn texts and images are loosely based on her own personal experiences as well as media stories and films she finds compelling. Spinning off into numerous tangents in an attempt to uncover &amp;ldquo;truths,&amp;rdquo; these comic and often-paranoid ramblings lead viewers on a journey that rarely culminates in answers. Her large-scale drawing for Spertus is inspired by her family&amp;rsquo;s Chicago history (certain family documents are part of the Chicago Jewish Archives at Spertus) and the supposedly hidden stories behind objects in Spertus Museum&amp;rsquo;s Open Depot collection display. Sokolow has recently made site-specific works for the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City and the Van Abbemuseum in The Netherlands.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Inventing the Shuttlecocks</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=30115</link>
			      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.nelson-atkins.org/images/Exhibitions/Shuttlecocks.jpg' border='0' width='300' height='228' /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Inventing the Shuttlecocks&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;May 9, 2009&amp;mdash; August 16, 2009 &lt;p&gt;Location: Bloch Building, Gallery L8&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Free admission&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, &lt;em&gt;Shuttlecocks&lt;/em&gt; is a beloved icon for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and for Kansas City, but it wasn&amp;rsquo;t always so. When the husband-and-wife artist team, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, installed it in the Museum&amp;rsquo;s Kansas City Sculpture Park in 1994, &lt;em&gt;Shuttlecocks&lt;/em&gt; created quite a stir. Letters from those who loved its bright, fresh form and welcomed its challenge to the status quo appeared in the local media along with articles, letters to the editor, editorial cartoons and news reports charging that it was &amp;ldquo;not art&amp;rdquo; and calling it a &amp;ldquo;giant waste.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 15th anniversary exhibition of this remarkable work offers a rare opportunity to enter the artists&amp;rsquo; minds as they invented &lt;em&gt;Shuttlecocks&lt;/em&gt;. Assembled here are preparatory sketches, drawings, collages, and models that reveal Oldenburg&amp;rsquo;s and van Bruggen&amp;rsquo;s creative process &amp;ndash; their sources of inspiration, their lively process of freely associating ideas and images, their sophisticated manipulation of concepts and forms, and their involvement with the work from inception to fabrication to installation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr size='1' /&gt;&lt;p&gt;This exhibition is supported by the Campbell-Calvin Fund and Elizabeth C. Bonner Charitable Trust for exhibitions. Midwest Airlines is the official airline sponsor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image: Claes Oldenburg, American, b. 1929. Coosje van Bruggen, American, 1949-2009. &lt;em&gt;The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as a Net with Shuttlecocks&lt;/em&gt;, 1992. Graphite and pastel on paper. Gift of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, F94-16.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Luis Melendez-Master of the Spanish Still Life</title>
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			      <description>&lt;table border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='5' width='150' align='right' style='margin-left: 15px'&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width='150' valign='top'&gt;&lt;div class='RelatedInfoPage'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;!-- EXHIBITION COPY --&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='../fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=111627&amp;amp;image=23110&amp;amp;c='&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align='center'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size='3'&gt;Luis Melendez-Master of the Spanish Still Life&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;National Gallery of Art&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;May 17 - August 23, 2009&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align='center'&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Luis Mel&amp;eacute;ndez (1715&amp;ndash;1780) is now recognized as the premier still-life painter in 18th-century Spain, indeed one of the greatest in all of Europe, though his reputation had long been eclipsed by the achievements of his Spanish contemporary, Francisco Goya. After a precarious beginning to his career, Mel&amp;eacute;ndez received a royal commission in 1771 from the Prince of Asturias (later King Charles IV) to paint a series of still lifes depicting &amp;quot;the four Seasons of the Year, or more properly, the four Elements, with the aim of composing an amusing cabinet with every species of food produced by the Spanish climate.&amp;quot; He became an inventive and consummate painter of still-life arrangements, and in 2000 the National Gallery of Art proudly acquired &lt;em&gt;Still Life with Figs and Bread&lt;/em&gt; (c. 1770). This exquisite painting will be featured in an exhibition of some 30 canvases that showcase the master&amp;rsquo;s virtuoso talent for rendering everyday objects with exacting detail, marvelous effects of color and light, and subtle variations of texture. Paintings from the royal commission, including eight from the Museo del Prado in Spain, as well as works from other European collections, will be on view with related works from American collections. Several loans have never before been exhibited in public. Also on display will be period objects&amp;mdash;including an 18th-century cork wine cooler, Alcorc&amp;oacute;n pottery, a lusterware honey pot, and a copper chocolate pot&amp;mdash;like those represented in Mel&amp;eacute;ndez&amp;rsquo;s mesmerizing still lifes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - Miradas:  Mexican Art from the Bank of America Collection </title>
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			      <description>&lt;h1 style='font-size: 25px; margin: 0px; color: #f18740; font-family: arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px' align='center'&gt;&lt;a href='http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&amp;amp;cmd=track&amp;amp;j=257910416&amp;amp;u=2742093'&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org/enewsletter/images/miradas.gif' border='0' width='350' height='175' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p class='style91' align='center'&gt;&lt;span class='style13'&gt;The National Museum of Mexican Art Presents:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miradas:&amp;nbsp; Mexican Art from the Bank of America Collection&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='style92' align='center'&gt;January 23 &amp;ndash; August 30, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;1852 W. 19th Street, Chicago, IL&amp;nbsp; 60608&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='style92' align='center'&gt;&lt;font color='#990000'&gt;&lt;span class='style93'&gt;FREE Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 2008, 6:00 - 8:30 pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;For more information, please call 312-738-1503 or visit &lt;a href='http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&amp;amp;cmd=track&amp;amp;j=257910416&amp;amp;u=2742094'&gt;www.nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class='style10'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miradas:&amp;nbsp; Mexican Art from the Bank of America Collection,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; organized by the National Museum of Mexican Art in collaboration with Bank of America Corporation, is a unique exhibition of one of the most extensive corporate collections in the U.S. and takes a close look at the paintings, prints and photographs created over the past 80 years. The exhibition is curated by Ces&amp;aacute;reo Moreno, NMMA Chief Curator and examines and celebrates work by artists on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, to reveal a variety of cultural aspects as they emerged in the years after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Assembled here for the first time and expected to travel to other cities in the coming years, visitors to the &lt;em&gt;Miradas&lt;/em&gt; exhibition will have an opportunity to observe how many artists have been attracted to and inspired by Mexico&amp;rsquo;s ancient civilizations and modern theories alike. Drawn from Bank of America locations across the U.S., &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miradas&lt;/em&gt; includes&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;works by&lt;/strong&gt; many of the best known modern Mexican artists &amp;ndash; &lt;strong&gt;Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Gabriel Orozco, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Gunther Gerzso&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;ndash; as well as U.S. artists who worked in Mexico such as &lt;strong&gt;Edward Weston, Paul Strand and Harry Callahan.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - MULTIVERSE VIDEO PODCASTS</title>
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			      <description>&lt;em&gt;MULTIVERSE&lt;/em&gt; VIDEO PODCASTS &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5478987&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm#video'&gt;&lt;img class='p-image' src='http://www.nga.gov/webnews/2009/images/jan3.jpg' border='0' alt='Image: HOLIDAY SHOPPING ONLINE' width='120' height='110' align='left' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5478988&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/villarealinfo.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;Multiverse&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a site-specific LED sculpture by Leo Villareal, is currently on view in the Concourse walkway connecting the East and West Buildings. The installation, which includes approximately 41,000 LED (light-emitting diode) nodes controlled by custom-designed software, is Villareal&amp;#39;s largest and most complex work to date. Learn more about the artist&amp;#39;s programming method as well as his conceptual and technological inspiration in this three-part video podcast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5478989&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm#video'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/podcasts&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (video podcasts)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5478990&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/villarealinfo.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/villarealinfo.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Multiverse&lt;/em&gt; information)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - NEW AUDIO PODCAST PROGRAM: NGA NOTABLE LECTURES</title>
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			      <description>NEW AUDIO PODCAST PROGRAM: NGA NOTABLE LECTURES &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5478997&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/#audio'&gt;&lt;img class='p-image' src='http://www.nga.gov/webnews/2009/images/jan5.jpg' border='0' alt='Image: RECENT ACQUISITION: BITUMEN BY TERRY WINTERS' width='122' height='169' align='left' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;NGA Notable Lectures is a new audio podcast program of special Gallery talks by well-known curators, historians, and authors. Recordings of weekend lectures are made available on our Web site weekly; the first installation features Peter Schjeldahl, senior art critic at the &lt;em&gt;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt;. In this episode, Schjeldahl discusses his work, reads excerpts from his new book, and answers questions from the audience. Schjeldahl&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5478998&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://shop.nga.gov/nga/category.cgi?item=410000265819'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;Let&amp;#39;s See: Writings on Art from the New Yorker&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is also available for purchase from the online shop. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5478999&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/#audio'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/podcasts&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (podcasts)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5479000&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/programs/lectures'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/programs/lectures&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (weekend lectures)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5479001&amp;amp;m=628173&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://shop.nga.gov/nga/category.cgi?item=410000265819'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://shop.nga.gov/nga/category.cgi?item=410000265819&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (online shop)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - NEW EXHIBITION WEB FEATURE: HEAVEN ON EARTH</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=29270</link>
			      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NEW EXHIBITION WEB FEATURE: &lt;em&gt;HEAVEN ON EARTH: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=6170337&amp;amp;m=692043&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/heavenearthinfo.shtm' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img class='p-image' src='http://www.nga.gov/webnews/2009/images/apr1.jpg' border='0' alt='Image: NEW EXHIBITION WEB FEATURE: HEAVEN ON EARTH: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art' width='85' height='100' align='left' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Rare medieval manuscript illuminations, last exhibited in 1975, are now on view in a stunning installation, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=6170338&amp;amp;m=692043&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/heavenearthinfo.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. This exhibition offers the first in-depth look at these works of art, texts laboriously inscribed by hand on carefully prepared parchment made from the skin of sheep or calves. Our Web feature offers a slideshow of images from these luxurious books dating from the 12th to the 16th century.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=6170339&amp;amp;m=692043&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/heavenearthinfo.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;www.nga.gov/exhibitions/heavenearthinfo.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (exhibition information) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=6170340&amp;amp;m=692043&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2009/heaven/slideshow/index.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2009/heaven/slideshow/index.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Web feature)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - New Exhibition, Video, and Podcast: In the Tower: Philip Guston</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=26064</link>
			      <description>New Exhibition, Video, and Podcast: &lt;em&gt;In the Tower: Philip Guston&lt;/em&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735799&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm#audio'&gt;&lt;img class='p-image' src='http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/images/012709bs01.jpg' border='0' alt='Image: Philip Guston Audio' width='122' height='169' align='left' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735800&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/guston/guston.m4v'&gt;&lt;img class='p-image' src='http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/images/guston.jpg' border='0' alt='Image: Philip Guston Video' width='120' height='110' align='left' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;An exhibition, on view February 1 through September 13, 2009, of work by American artist Philip Guston (1913&amp;ndash;1980) launches a series of shows in the East Building Tower Gallery that will focus on developments in art since 1970. A video screened in the exhibition explores Guston&amp;#39;s life and the inspiration for his work. The artist is also discussed by Barbara Tempchin and Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art, in a Backstory podcast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735801&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/gustoninfo.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/gustoninfo.shtm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (exhibition information)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735802&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm#audio'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm#audio&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (audio podcast)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735803&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/guston/guston.m4v'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/nationalgallery/guston/guston.m4v&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (video)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - NEW EXHIBITION: EDOUARD MANET'S RAGPICKER</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=30938</link>
			      <description>&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEW EXHIBITION: EDOUARD MANET&amp;#39;S &lt;em&gt;RAGPICKER&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;National Gallery of Art &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align='center'&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 22, - September 7, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=6585016&amp;amp;m=736030&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/ragpickerinfo.shtm' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;img class='p-image' src='http://www.nga.gov/webnews/2009/images/jun10.jpg' border='0' alt='Image: NEW EXHIBITION: EDOUARD MANET&amp;#39;S RAGPICKER' width='85' height='100' align='left' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Norton Simon Museum and the National Gallery of Art have recently entered into a long-term arrangement whereby selected masterpieces from each collection will be lent to the other institution to hang temporarily with its permanent collection. The Norton Simon&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;Ragpicker&lt;/em&gt; and the National Gallery&amp;#39;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=6585017&amp;amp;m=736030&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=46637'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;Old Musician&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=6585018&amp;amp;m=736030&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?object=45878'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;Tragic Actor (Rouviere as Hamlet)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; are from a series of monumental figural compositions that Manet painted in the 1860s, inspired by the old masters, particularly 17th-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. On view in the West Building, Main Floor, Gallery 89.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=6585019&amp;amp;m=736030&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/ragpickerinfo.shtm' target='_blank'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/ragpickerinfo.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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			      <title>July 05th, 2009 - NEW ONLINE FEATURE: POMPEII AND THE ROMAN VILLA</title>
			      <link>http://www.fineartregistry.com/events/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=25241</link>
			      <description>&lt;p&gt;NEW ONLINE FEATURE: P&lt;em&gt;OMPEII AND THE ROMAN VILLA&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size='2'&gt;National Gallery of Art&lt;/font&gt;, October 19, 2008&amp;ndash;March 22, 2009&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;May 3&amp;ndash;October 4, 2009 - &lt;font size='2'&gt;Los Angeles Museum of Art&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735790&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/pompeii/'&gt;&lt;img class='p-image' src='http://www.nga.gov/webnews/2009/images/feb10.jpg' border='0' alt='Image: NEW ONLINE FEATURE: POMPEII AND THE ROMAN VILLA' width='85' height='100' align='left' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Developed in conjunction with the acclaimed exhibition &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735791&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/pompeiiinfo.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, our new &lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735792&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/pompeii/'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;Web feature&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; includes an overview of the exhibition&amp;mdash;which presents ancient sculptures, paintings, mosaics, and luxury arts from the Bay of Naples, a favorite retreat for vacationing emperors. Visitors may also explore a virtual Roman house from the first century BC and learn more about the exquisite objects found within. Our Web site also offers a video clip and a five-part audio podcast series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735793&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/pompeiiinfo.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/pompeiiinfo.shtm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (exhibition information)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735794&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/pompeii/'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/pompeii/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Web feature) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735795&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/podcasts/index.shtm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (podcasts)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=110122382&amp;amp;sid=5735796&amp;amp;m=650973&amp;amp;u=NGart&amp;amp;s=http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/pompeii/'&gt;&lt;font color='#666666'&gt;http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/pompeii/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Resources for Teachers and Students)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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