• November 29, 2007

    Date posted: November 29, 2007 Author: jolanta

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    Museum Location Threatened; Doubts of Pollock Paintings

    International Top News

    Museum Location Threatened

    Spanish art collector Baroness Carmen Thyssen threatened Wednesday to move the Thyssen museum to another part of Madrid to protest proposed building works on one of the city’s most emblematic streets. The baroness said a widening of Prado Boulevard to five lanes from three would damage the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, of which she is patron, and overwhelm visitors with traffic. (Artinfo, November 29, 2007)
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    Doubts of Pollock Paintings

    A forensic scientist is casting doubt on claims that a cache of recently found paintings was the work of Jackson Pollock, saying many of the pieces include materials available only after the famed abstract expressionist’s 1956 death, a newspaper reported Thursday. James Martin said at least one of the works was painted on a board produced no earlier than the late 1970s, The New York Times reported. Martin, a Williamstown, Mass.-based forensic expert who examined 24 of the 32 paintings at their owner’s request, made his remarks in a lecture Wednesday sponsored by the International Foundation for Art Research in Manhattan, the newspaper said. (Artinfo, November 29, 2007)
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    Openings and Art Events on Friday, November 30

    New York City:

    — Jim Shaw @  Metro Pictures  www.metropicturesgallery.com 
    — Tino Sehgal @  Marian Goodman  www.mariangoodman.com 
    — Molly Springfield, "The World is Full of Objects" @ Mireille Mosler Ltd.  www.mireillemoslerltd.com 
    — "Main Gallery: In Pursuit: Art On Dating," 6-8pm @ ISE Cultural Foundation  www.isefoundation.org 
    — Catherine Lee @ Galerie Lelong  www.galerielelong.com
    — Conrad Atkinson, 6-8pm @ Ronald Feldman Fine Arts  www.feldmangallery.com 
    — "The Office" @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery  www.tanyabonakdargallery.com 
               

    National:

    — "The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation" @ Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL  www.spertus.edu 
    — "Secret Observers of Legends and Muses," 5:30-8pm @ Coconut Grove Gallery & Interiors, Miami, FL 33133 United States  www.coconutgrovegallery.com
    — "On the Home Front," 6-9pm @ Leche-Vitrines Art Alliance, Ft. Lauderdale, FL  www.lechevitrinesart.com 
    — "Unseriously Serious," 6-9pm @ Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL  www.lindawarrengallery.com                                                    

    International:

    — "BLUR" @ Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany  www.arndt-partner.de 
    — Alberto Di Fabio, "Vortices" @  Gagosian Gallery, London, UK  www.gagosian.com

     

    Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International

    — PragueBiennale3, May 16 to Sept 16, Prague, Czech Republic
    — Edinburgh Art Festival, July 26 to Sept 2, Edinburgh, Scotland
    — Art Nocturne Knocke, Aug 4 to 15, Knokke–Heist, Belgium
    — DigiFestival, Aug 15 to Sept 15, Florence, Italy
    — Helsinki Festival, Aug 17 to Sept 2, Helsinki, Finland
    — Montreal World Film Festival, Aug 23 to Sept 3, Montreal, Canada
    — ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Aug 31 to Sept 30, Kuopio, Finland
    — The Mercosul Biennial, Sept 1 to Nov 17, Porto Alegre, Brasil
    — 10th Istanbul Bienniale, Sept 8 to Nov 9, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
    — Time–Based Art Festival, Sept 9 to 18, Portland, USA
    — The Athens Biennial, Sept 10 to Nov 18, Athens, Greece
    — 20/21 British Art Fair, Sept 11 to 16, 2007, London, UK
    — Bienniale de Lyon, Sept 17 to Jan 6, 2007, Lyon, France

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