February 8, 2008

The
British photographer Tim Hetherington won the World Press Photo
competition, one of the most prestigious awards for photojournalists,
for his image of an exhausted U.S. soldier after a fire-fight with
Afghanistan, the Associated Press reports. Hetherington took the
photograph for Vanity Fair. "This image shows the exhaustion of a man
and the exhaustion of a nation," said jury chairman Gary Knight. The
judges awarded first, second and third prizes in 20 categories, with
two honorable mentions. Getty Images won the most, with five awards. (Artinfo, February 8, 2008)
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Two
Picasso paintings worth about $4.5 million total have been stolen from
a museum in eastern Switzerland, Agence France-Presse reports. The
thieves set off a security alarm Wednesday evening as they left with
the oil paintings Tete de Cheval from 1962 and Verre et pichet from
1944, but other details surrounding the theft are still fuzzy. The
museum, located in Pfaeffikon, is offering an unspecified award for the
safe return of the works. (Artinfo, February 8, 2008)
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New York:

– "’Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe’ and Other Dreams" at Kim Foster Gallery, www.kimfostergallery.com 
– "NEW PHOTO – Ten Years" at  Carolina Nitsch Gallery, www.carolinanitsch.com
– Jen DeNike "Thirteen" at Smith-Stewart Gallery, www.smith-stewart.com
– Ruth Root at Andrew Kreps, andrewkreps.com

National:

– "Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945" at Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee, WI, www.mam.org
– "Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle",
"TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art" at High
Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, www.high.org
– "Impressionists by the Sea" at  Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art,
Hartford, CT, www.wadsworthatheneum.org
– "Cutting Edge: Rodrigo Aguilera" at Art Rouge, Miami, FL, www.artrouge.com
– "Connection" at BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA, becagallery.typepad.com

International:

– Janis Avotins at  Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany, www.johnen-schoettle.de
– "Caro Suerkemper: Unschuld in tausend Nöten" at display, Saxony,
Germany, www.display-leipzig.com 
– "Visions of Unity" at Galleri Pingvin, Oslo, Norway, www.ekatherinas.com

Openings and Art Events on Sunday, February 10

National:

–
"Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the
Shey Collection" at  Harn Museum Of Art, Gainesville, FL,
www.harn.ufl.edu 
– J. M. W. Turner at  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, dallasmuseumofart.org
– "The Lining of Forgetting: Internal & External Memory in Art" at 
The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, weatherspoon.uncg.edu
– "The Lovers’ Ritual" at Gallery W13, Los Angeles, www.galleryw13.com
– "An Invention Without a Future: Greatest Hits of PXL THIS" at YBCA,
San Francisco, www.ybca.org