• November 15, 2007

    Date posted: November 15, 2007 Author: jolanta

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    A Picturesque and Pricey Virgin; Germany Funds Jewish Museum

    International Top News

    A Picturesque and Pricey Virgin

    The earliest known portrait of Elizabeth I is expected to fetch up to £1 million ($2 million) at a Sotheby’s auction November 22, the Daily Telegraph reports. The portrait from the early 1560s shows the "Virgin Queen" at about 30 years old and has never been seen by the public. Painted by Steven van der Meulen, it is described as the most important portrait of the queen to come to the market. (Artinfo, November 15, 2007)
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    Germany Funds Jewish Museum

    Germany has donated 7.3 million dollars (5 million euros) to help build a new Jewish history museum in the Polish capital Warsaw, home to Europe’s largest Jewish community before the Holocaust. "In this way, the federal government wants to make a new contribution to redressing the immeasurable suffering inflicted in the name of the Germans upon the Jews in this country, and thus upon Poland as a whole," said German Ambassador Michael Gerdts at a ceremony in Warsaw. (Artinfo, November 15, 2007)
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    Openings and Art Events on Friday, November 16

    New York City:

    — "Air Kissing," 7-9pm @ Momenta Art www.momentaart.org  
    — "Hunter MFA Open Studio," 6-10pm @ Hunter College MFA Building 
    — "Ground Breaking," 6-9pm @ Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery  www.lyonswierortt.com  
    — Park, Sejin "Golden Age," 6pm @ Arario Gallery  www.arariogallery.com   
    — Igor Gorsky, "Abstract Terribilitá, Paintings" @ Westwood Gallery  www.westwoodgallery.com  
    — Wayne Ensrud @ Westwood Gallery  www.westwoodgallery.com    
    — Brad Brown @ Larissa Goldston Gallery  www.larissagoldston.com  
    — "Urban Habitats in Transition" @ Kentler International Drawing Space  www.kentlergallery.org  
    — "Pinta Art Fair" @ Metropolitan Pavilion  www.ceciliadetorres.com  
    — "Arno Minkkinen: Self-Portraits from Four Decades," 6-9pm @ Barry Friedman, Ltd.
    — "Looking Back: The 2nd White Columns Annual" @ White Columns  www.whitecolumns.org  
    — "SNÖFRID at // PERFORMA 07" World Premiere, performance, 8-11pm @ Smith-Stewart Gallery  www.smith-stewart.com
    — Huma Bhabha, Matthew Day Jackson @ Peter Blum  www.peterblumgallery.com  
    — Renee Radell, Igor Gorsky @ Westwood Gallery  www.westwoodgallery.com  
    — "New Visual Language" @ hpgrp gallery  www.hpgrpgallery.com  
    — K. Laxma Goud, "Retrospective – 40 Years," 6-9pm @ Aicon Gallery  www.aicongallery.com  
    — Alain Badiou, "Some Remarks Concerning Marcel Duchamp," lecture, 7pm @ Tilton Gallery  www.jacktiltongallery.com                    

    National:

    — Adrià Julià, "A Means of Passing the Time," 7-9pm @ LAXArt, Los Angeles, CA  www.laxart.org  
    — "Day," 6-9pm @ Jamali Fine Art, LLC, South Naples, FL  www.jamali.com  
    — "Asian Textiles and the Grammar of Ornament: Design in the Victorian Age" @ The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI  www.risdmuseum.org  
    — Mark Wallinger, "The Human Figure in Motion" @ Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL  www.donaldyoung.com  
    — Jonathan Shahn, "Imaginary Portraits," 5-8pm @ The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ  www.noyesmuseum.org  
    — "LA Meets SF," 6pm @ Timbuk2 Store, San Francisco, CA  www.timbuk2.com/tb2/cms/store.htm  
    — Cannelle Tanc & Frederic Vincent, 6pm @ Ampersand, San Francisco, California  www.ampersandintlarts.com  
    — "Secession Art And Design: Fall Reception," 6:30pm @ Secession Art and Design, San Francisco, CA  www.secessionartanddesign.com 
    — "So It Goes," 7pm @ Tart, San Francisco, CA  tartsf.com  
    — "PLAySPACE Gallery Benefit Auction," 7pm @ PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA  www.cca.edu/academics/graduate/gradgallery.php                                                    

    International:

    — Brian Wilson, "If Everyone Had An Ocean" @ CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Aquitane, France
    — Stefan Thiel @ Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland  www.mai36.com  
    — Naoki Ishikawa, "Polar" @ SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc., Tokyo, Japan
    — "Chinese Contemporary Art" @ Asia Fine Art, Hong Kong, China   www.asia-fineart.com  
    — "Difference•Diversity—New Era Young Artists-Invitation Exhibition" @ Shin Hwa Gallery, Hong Kong, China  www.shinhwagallery.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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