• February 7, 2008

    Date posted: February 7, 2008 Author: jolanta

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    International Top News

    Museum of the Moving Image Closing for Expansion

    The
    Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, will close on March 23
    for a $65 million reconstruction, and will reopen in late 2009 at
    double the size, the New York Times reports. The back wall will be
    demolished, the first floor will be transformed, and the structure will
    have a new three-story addition. A 262-seat theater, a 71-seat
    screening room, an education center, expanded gallery space, and a
    courtyard will be added. Groundbreaking for construction is scheduled
    for February 27. Museum members will have access to screenings and
    programs in all five boroughs during the construction. (Artinfo, February 7, 2008)
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    Bonhams Opens Canadian Headquarters

    Bonhams has announced it will open its Canadian headquarters in
    Toronto, one week after the company purchased a three-story property in
    New York’s IBM building on Madison Ave. Jack Kerr-Wilson, president of
    Bonhams Canada, said the building on Hazelton Ave. in Toronto’s art
    center "provides Bonhams with a superb new base that will allow us to
    display locally sourced art and antiques as well as traveling
    exhibitions of work being sold elsewhere in the world by Bonhams." The
    first sale at the new Canadian location, which is already open to
    clients, will take place in May. Bonhams will also hold its first sale
    in Paris on February 9 and its first sale in Dubai on March 3 and March
    4. (Artinfo, February 7, 2008)
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    Openings and Art Events on Friday, February 8

    New York:

    – The Third Annual WAGMAG Benefit Art Show at Front Room Gallery. www.wagmag.org

    – "Pins and Needles" at Thinkspace, www.thinkspacegallery.com
    – Amanda Besl, "She’s So Cosmogirl" at Lyons Wier & Ort Contem, www.lyonswiergallery.com
    – Kawasaki Shunsuke "Tongphar and Sunsets Corn" at NYCoo Gallery, www.nycoo.com
    – Joanna M. Wezyk at Tina Kim Gallery, www.tinakimgallery.com
    – "Feminine Continuity" at Raandesk Gallery, www.raandeskgallery.com
    – "Pop Subversion starring Robert Williams" at Ad Hoc, adhocart.org
    – Kim Jones "Year of the Rat" at Pierogi, www.pierogi2000.com

    National:

    – "Fatally Yours" at Crewest Gallery, Los Angeles, crewest.com
    – "California As Paradox: Imagined Commmunities" at Fort Gallery, San
    Francisco, www.fortgallery.com
    – Lyle Ashton Harris at SMOCA, Scottsdale, AZ, www.smoca.org
    – Emory Douglas at Babylon Falling, San Francisco, www.babylonfalling.com

    Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International

    – Utrecht Manifest, November 24, 2007–February 11, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    – Anima, February 1–9, Brussels, Belgium
    – Palm Beach | America’s International Fine Art & Antique Fair,
    February 1–10, West Palm Beach, Florida
    – Art Rotterdam, February 7–10, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    – Berlin International Film Festival, February 7–17, Berlin, Germany
    – International Festival Sarajevo, February 7–March 21, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
    – Art Innsbruck, February 8–11, Innsbruck, Austria
    – Miami National Antique Show + Sale, February 8–10, Miami, Florida
    – Pavillon of Arts and Design NY, February 8–11, New York, New York
    – Petersfield Antiques Fair, February 8–10, Petersfield, United Kingdom
    – The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show, February 8–10, San Francisco, California

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