• January 4, 2008

    Date posted: January 4, 2008 Author: jolanta
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    International Top News

    Van Gogh’s Sketchbook? 

    A small sketchbook believed to have belonged to Vincent van Gogh has
    surfaced in Athens, Greece. The book contains intricate drawings of
    figures from The Potato Eaters and Portrait of Pere Tanguy. Doreta
    Peppa, the daughter of a Greek resistance fighter, has been trying to
    authenticate the book since she found it in her basement two years ago.
    It is believed to have been looted by Nazis during their occupation of
    Greece in World War II. A letter Peppa’s father left with the book says
    that resistance fighters seized it from the Nazis as they left Athens
    in 1944. (Artinfo, January 4, 2008) www.artinfo.com

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    College Art Association Awards

    The College Art Association has announced its 2008 Awards for
    Distinction. The eleven annual awards recognize "outstanding member
    achievements and reaffirm CAA’s mission to encourage the highest
    standards of scholarship, practice, and teaching in the arts."
    Recipients include Robert L. Herbert,who took the Distinguished
    Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art; Yoko Ono, who won the
    Distinguished Body of Work Award; and Sylvia Sleigh, who was awarded
    the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement. The awards
    will be presented during CAA’s 96th Annual Conference on February 21 in
    Dallas. (Artinfo, January 4, 2008) www.artinfo.com


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    Openings and Art Events on Saturday, January 5,

    New York:

    – WE ARE FRIENDS art opening, www.danielstgeorge.com
    – Sam McPheeters + Neil Burke, “Human Hair” @ Cinders Gallery, www.cindersgallery.com
    – Dr. Sketchy’s @ The Lucky Cat, www.drsketchy.com
    – "Celebrating the Human Spirit: Traditions and Imagination", Mo Suo’s
    Burial Ceremony presented by Quintet of Americas @ Flushing Library
    – Matt Bollinger "The Hypnotism" @ Plane Space
    – Urania Fasoulidou, Adele Roder, Kerstin Bratsch "When You See Me
    Again It Won’t Be Me" @ Smith-Stewart Gallery
    – Oleg Petrenko, Ludmila Skripkina "Charting the Soviet Union:
    1989-1991" @ Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
    – Guy Ben-Ner "Stealing Beauty & I’d give it to you if I could but
    I borrowed it" @ Postmasters Gallery
    – Scott Sherk, Gerald Wolfe @ Kim Foster Gallery
    – Massimo Bartolini, Dario Robleto, Cornelia Parker "3 Rooms" @ D’Amelio Terras
    – "Open studio: Emcee C.M." @ CUE Art Foundation
    – Don Porcella "Are We There Yet?" @ Stux Gallery
    – Mark Schubert "BungleBlown" @ Monya Rowe Gallery
    – "Target First Saturdays: A Hot Winter’s Night" @ Brooklyn Museum

    National:

    – Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales, “Burning At Both Ends” @ Corey
    Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, www.coreyhelfordgallery.com
    – “We’re In This Together” @ Brown Bear Gallery, San Francisco
    – “Materia Prima” @ Chez Poulet Gallery, San Francisco, chezpoulet.wordpress.com

    Openings and Art Events on Sunday, January 6 

    New York:

    – "Haitian Freedom and Liberty" @ Queens Museum of Art
    – "MetLife Foundation presents First Sundays for Families" at Queens Museum of Art

    National:

    – Marvin A. Dalander (Alameda) @ C’era Una Volta, San Francisco, www.ceraunavolta.us

    Openings and Art Events on Monday, January 7

    New York:

    – "Soft Errs" a temporary sound installation @ LMAKprojects (chelsea)

    Art Fair and Biennial Reminders from Art Fairs International

    – Lyon Biennial, Sept 17, 2007 to Jan 6, 2008, Lyon, France
    – International Miniprint Finland, November 16, 2007–February 3, 2008, Lahti, Finland
    – Utrecht Manifest, November 24, 2007–February 11, 2008, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    – Palm Springs International Film Festival, January 3–14, 2008, Palm
    Springs, California

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