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UPDATED  for March 2010

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Ruling to be Appealed – A judge in Italy has ruled that the J. Paul Getty Museum must return the Statue of a Victorious Youth, often called the Getty Bronze—bought for the Getty collection in 1977—because they had “not acted in good faith.” The Getty feels the court’s order is flawed both procedurally and substantively, will appeal and vigorously defend its legal ownership of the statue.

Oops! – An important painting by Pablo Picasso was accidentally damaged at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC recently when a visitor attending a class lost her balance. A 6” tear in The Actor (1904-5) is expected to be unobtrusive after repair, and the painting will be displayed in the forthcoming exhibition Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art among some 250 works on view from April 27 – Aug. 1.

NEA News – The President’s FY2011 budget request to Congress includes $161.3 million for the NEA, which is the same level requested last year. This proposed budget maintains the NEA’s areas of grant making, and it also includes $5 million in proposed “Our Town” funding in recognition of the role that the arts can play in economic revitalization and in creating livable, sustainable communities. Visit www.nea.gov/grants  for info and to apply.

Auction News – At Sotheby’s, a world record was set for a work of art at auction when Giacometti’s Walking Man I sold for $104.3 million; the highest price for a Gustav Klimt landscape at auction, Church in Cassone, was realized at $43.2 million; and the Contemporary Art Sale was headlined by Willem De Kooning’s Untitled XIV, which sold for $6.2 million. Christie’s has announced the 2010 inaugural green auction, “A Bid to Save the Earth.” This charity auction will take place at the Rockefeller Center location on April 22 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Proceeds will be divided among four leading not-for-profit environmental organizations that have programming across 150 countries and all seven continents.

USPS News – The U. S. Postal Service has commemorated the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games with the issuance of a stamp featuring an illustration of a snowboarder. Illustrator Steve McCracken captured the thrill of Olympic sports in his portrayal of an airborne snowboarder against the backdrop of a snow-capped mountain.

March - Celebrate Youth Art Month, National Craft Month, Women’s History Month...and the arrival of spring!

 

Art Opportunities & Events

Schedules sometimes change, so call ahead!

GRAPHAIDS ART & DIGITAL SUPPLIES TO BE THE RETAILER PARTNER FOR THE 6TH ANNUAL LEARNING & PRODUCT EXPO: ART! PASADENA.
Fishback/Gruen, LLC is pleased to announce that Graphaids Art & Digital Supplies will be the retailer partner for the 6th Annual Learning & Product Expo: Art! Pasadena. The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic and The Pastel Journal, published by F + W Media will continue to be the magazine sponsors of the expo. Learning & Product Expo: Art! Pasadena will take place October 22-24, 2010 at the Pasadena Conference Center and adjacent Pavilion.

Graphaids, owned by the Festa family, has five locations in the Greater Los Angeles area: Culver City, West Los Angeles, Westchester, Agoura Hills, and their newest location, Long Beach. Graphaids will actively promote the expo throughout the year to its extensive customer base. “We are thrilled to be a part of this event that serves the local community of artists in Los Angeles.” said Chip Festa.

The Lisle expo is cancelled for 2010. Learning & Product Expo: Art! took place from 2007-2009 at the Hickory Ridge Marriott in the western suburbs of Chicago in Lisle, IL.

Exhibit information and deadlines for Pasadena will be available soon.

For more information, contact:
Irene Gruen ,Partner
Fishback/Gruen, LLC
Tel: 310-463-4948
E-mail: Irene@FishbackGruen.com
Or Gail Fishback,Partner
Fishback/Gruen, LLC
Tel: 917-435-2838
E-mail: Gail@FishbackGruen.com

National Gallery of Art, Washington – Teen Studio—Drawing: Surrealism, March 13. This five-hour workshop includes gallery visits, group conversations, art instruction and open studio time to experiment with materials and techniques and create a work of art. Free to teens in grades 9-12, but pre-registration is required. 202.842.6252; teens@nga.gov .

The Art Institute of Chicago – Teen Workshop—Animated Art, March 13. 500 Ways of Looking at Modern – Visit the galleries for inspiration to create your own animated short using technology and traditional art materials. Learn about a variety of stop-motion animation techniques. Ages 13-19; fee and reservations required. 312.857.7142; teens@artic.edu .

Denver Art Museum – Spring Break: Embrace!, March 27 – April 4. This week of fun is inspired by the Embrace! exhibition, closing April 4. See what happens when you let 17 artists take over the museum with spray paint, old clothes, swing sets, pillows and other wacky things! Free with admission; kids under 18 free. 720.913.0048. www.denverartmuseum.org.
 
The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL – Dali Family Fun Saturdays – Dilly dally with Dali with fun games, puzzles and craft activities that educate and encourage family interaction. Free with museum admission. www.thedali.org .

The Armory Show – March 4-7, Piers 92 and 94, Twelfth Ave. at 55th St., New York City – This show is devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries and artists galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week. British artist Susan Collis was commissioned to produce limited edition artworks in honor of the show. 212.645.6440; www.thearmoryshow.com .

The International Vintage Poster Fair – March 19-21 – Chicago Cultural Center – This fair is devoted exclusively to original vintage posters from more than 25 international dealers. It also features special theme exhibitions and poster collecting lectures, while offering over 10,000 original vintage posters for exhibit and sale. 1.800.856.8069; www.posterfair.com .

22nd Annual Art in Bloom – March 24-28, New Orleans Museum of Art – This five-day event showcases more than 100 exhibitors that create inspirational floral designs, sculptures and sceneries in over a dozen categories. www.noma.org .

The Sewell C. Biggs Winterthur Furniture Forum, Winterthur, DE — March 25-26 - Nature in Furniture, Furniture in Nature examines the interplay of nature and furniture. Discover an explosion of naturalistic details on historic objects and watch contemporary craftsmen re-create motifs that decorated early furniture. www.winterthur.org/calendar .

Philagrafika 2010 – Philadelphia, PA – Through April 11 -This first presentation of what will become a recurring event celebrates the role of print in contemporary artistic practice. Involving more than 300 artists at more than 80 venues throughout the city, this art exposition includes exhibitions, public programs and events. A guidebook and map are available online. www.philagrafika2010.org

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. – The NGA Sculpture Garden ice-skating season has begun and continues through mid-March, weather permitting.  Located on the National Mall at 7^th St. and Constitution Ave. NW, the ice rink is a favorite destination, attracting thousands of visitors each year.  Enjoy a truly unique experience skating in the nation’s capital surrounded by the architecture of national museums and monuments, winter flora and views of large-scale sculptures by renowned modern and contemporary artists. Admission fee.

The World Ice Art Championships are a month-long event that involves more than 70 teams from all over the world. The competitions and the accompanying Kids Park attract more than 100 ice artists and approximately 45,000 visitors. The park is open Feb. 20 through March 28. Sculptors work from Feb. 20 – March 5 and all finished sculptures can be viewed March 6-13. www.icealaska.com
 

—During the past year more than 80,000 visitors have attended the Brooklyn Museum’s (NY) Target First Saturdays, a free evening of art and entertainment that takes place from 5-11 p.m. the first Saturday of each month, except September.  Featured are a wide range of public programs that can include films, gallery talks, dance performances, hands-on art-making projects and live music.  The evenings feature a 9 p.m. dance party to the music of a different DJ or live band every month.  www.brooklynmuseum.org.

Exhibitions

Exhibition: On view at the Detroit Institute of Arts is Government Support for the Arts: WPA Prints from the 1930s. Featured are around 100 prints created under the Federal Art Project, where artists created editions of original prints in all mediums, but lithographs, woodcuts, linoleum cuts and wood engravings dominate the media on view in this exhibition. Also, just outside the prints exhibition is a painting by John Sloan, Fourteenth Street at Sixth Avenue, completed in 1934 for the Public Works of Art Project.

Alexander Calder:  A Balancing Act is at the Seattle Art Museum through April 11.  From miniature maquettes, works on paper and jewelry to monumental sculptures and one of the artist’s largest mobiles, this exhibition offers viewers a sense of the range of the artist’s work from 1927 through the mid-1970s.  More than 40 original works of art trace the development and amazing creativity of this master sculptor

Disney Studio Exhibition
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio through March 14. This major exhibition features more than 600 original artworks that shaped legendary animated features including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. There are also themed rooms showcasing artwork related to specific animated features and film clips that demonstrate how individual sketches and paintings lead to a finished celluloid masterpiece and more. www.noma.org .


New NGAKids Interactive
Photo Op is a two-part interactive program that explores digital photography and digital photo editing techniques. Young children will enjoy taking snapshots with a virtual camera and transforming their pictures with easy-to-use editing tools, while more advanced users can create complex artistic compositions by layering, applying filters and experimenting with various photographic settings, special effects and blends. This Art Zone interactive is suitable for all ages. www.nga.gov/kids/zone/photoop.htm .

Dallas, TX – Nasher Sculpture Center – Highlights from the Nasher Collection, through Sept.6, includes approximately 100 works installed in indoor galleries and the sculpture garden.  View masterworks by artists such as Rodin, Matisse, Giacometti, Arp, Ernst, Miro, Lichtenstein, Judd, Lewitt, and David Smith, among others.  A special feature is the inclusion of Isaac Witkin’s Volution (1964), on loan for a year.  Summer offerings at the Nasher also include movies, concerts, tours and fine cuisine.  When you purchase a $35 Summer Family Pass, you can enjoy free admission for the entire family all summer.  214.242.5100; www.nashersculpturecenter.org.

New York, NY – Museum of Modern Art – Sculpture in Color, this summer’s installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture.  Highlights include works by Ellsworth Kelly, Anthony Caro and Franz West in addition to those by Guimard, Calder, Giacometti, Picasso and others. 212.708.9400. www.moma.org.

Mountainville, NY – Storm King Art Center – Storm King Wavefield is the largest site-specific earthwork created to date by acclaimed artist and environmentalist Maya Lin.  Occupying an 11-acre site, the work comprises seven rows—each over 300 feet long—of carefully scaled undulating hills that give the appearance of ocean waves.  845.534.3115. www.stormking.org.

Because events are subject to change, please call ahead or confirm whenever possible.

Art Competitions/Call for Entries

Knight Arts Challenge – Under this $60 million initiative, $20 million is committed over five years as challenge grants to fund innovative ideas in the arts benefiting Miami-Dade and Broward counties in FL. The challenge is open to nonprofits, companies and individuals of all nationalities. Application deadline is March 15; Full proposal deadline is May 14. www.knightarts.org

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - Open Call for Applications: Workspace 2010-2011 Studio Residency Program for Emerging Visual Artists and Writers – Workspace is a 9-month studio residency program for emerging visual artists and writers focused on the creative process. Residents receive free studio space in Lower Manhattan for nine months, a modest one-time stipend, access to a community of peers, meetings and studio visits with arts and literary professionals and exposure to new audiences. In-Office Deadline: March 25, 5PM. www.lmcc.net

Colored Pencil Society of America – 18th Annual International Exhibition, 7/22-8/20/10. This competition is open to living artists 18 years or older. Media must be 100% colored pencil, two-dimensional on a single surface and completed after 3/31/07. Numerous monetary awards and the CIPPY Best of Show award will be presented. Deadline: March 31. www.cpsa.org .

Craft Festival Opportunities If you are an artist or craftsperson who may be interested in exhibiting and selling your work at a Sugarloaf Crafts Festival, visit the “Become an Exhibitor” section of their web site at www.sugarloaffest.com.  All exhibitors are jury-selected based on the uniqueness and creativity of their design, the quality of their craftsmanship and the “sell-ability” of their work to discriminating festival guests.  Space is available for artists working in ceramic/pottery, fiber/fashion, furniture/home accessories, home décor, jewelry (fall shows only), leather, metal, blown and stained glass, photography/fine art, sculpture, clothing/fiber, stone and wood.  Shows are held from the Mid-Atlantic to New England areas.

“Made Fresh Monthly” Teen Art Competition The Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC) has launched a new opportunity for teen artists to gain exposure.  Made Fresh Monthly is a themed, web-based art competition for high school artists who work in any medium.  Each month WACTAC will provide a theme (February:  People; March:  Rhythm and Motion; April:  Epic; May:  Dystopia; June:  Color) and select a winning artwork that best exemplifies the theme.  All submissions will be posted on the art gallery section of http://teens.walkerart.org/#tac.

 Monthly winners will receive a $25 Best Buy gift card and will be automatically eligible for the grand prize:  Freshest of Made Fresh Award, a $100 Best Buy gift card.

All submissions must be sent digitally.  Send digital files of artwork with the artist’s name, age, high school, address, title and a brief description of the piece to madefreshmonthly@gmail.com.  Files must be less than 5 MB; videos must be less than 2 minutes.  Limit one submission per month.  All entries must be received by the last Monday of the corresponding month.  Check out http://teens.walkerart.org/#tac for more information.

3Internships – NGA – The National Gallery of Art welcomed 20 graduate students and recent bachelor’s degree recipients to participate in its 2009 summer internship program.  Interns from 12 different states, one U.S. Territory and two countries (Canada and China) received paid professional museum training during this nine-week full-time program.  Interns are chosen based on a strong interest in museum work, outstanding academic achievement and letters of recommendation, among other relevant criteria.  Information about the summer internship program, as well as other Gallery internships and fellowships, is available at www.nga.gov/education/interned.htm or by calling 202-842-6257.

American Art Clay Company’s Open Design Challenge will showcase Friendly Plastic Designer Sticks and Pellets. The challenge is open to all ages with cash prizes and awards given in four categories that require use of at least 50% Friendly Plastic in each entry. All entries will be showcased in a gallery online at www.amaco.com  and at the Craft & Hobby Association Show (CHA) in Anaheim, CA, in January 2010. All winners will receive an etched crystal award, a check for $100, plus a check for $100 to the charity of their choice.
 

Calling All Artists
The ARC Gallery & Educational Foundation, one of the oldest cooperative galleries in the nation and located in Chicago, IL, is looking for proposals by cutting edge artists for group shows, solo exhibitions, and installation work. All art in all media by all artists is welcome. Work is reviewed via slides and on CDs or Web sites. E-mail arcgallery@yahoo.com or call 312-451-4268.

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