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• The Stein's Collect: Matisse, Picasso and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Metropolitan Museum Feb 23 - June 3, 2012.

  In 1905, Leo Stein saw his first Picasso drawing at a furniture store. He bought 2 large paintings by the artist soon afterward. That Fall, Leo and Gertrude, to become the most famous collecting brother and sister of the 20th century, bought Matisse's Woman with Hat - 1905. The American, Leo Stein, then living in France with his sister Gertrude, wrote a friend of his recent purchases, "My recent accessions are unfortunately by people you never have heard of so there is no use trying to describe them. He had purchased "a work that had made everybody laugh plus 2 pictures by a young Spaniard named Picasso whom I consider a genius of great magnitude."

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  Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions on 3.24.2012

• Cindy Sherman Unmasked

  That tantalizing sense of mystery and uneasiness are similar emotions viewers feel when they see one of Ms. Sherman's elliptical photographs. Over the course of her remarkable 35-year career she has transformed herself into hundreds of different...

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  Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions on 2.25.2012

• MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE TO OPEN IN ISRAEL

  In 2003 UNESCO declared that the city of Tel Aviv was a world cultural heritage site, owing over 4,000 Bauhaus buildings which are spread over the city.

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  Posted In: Museums on 1.14.2012

• VERED'S ART MKT RECAP Picasso's Drawings: 1890 - 1921 - Reinventing Tradition.

  Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition at The Frick Museum. 1 East 70th Street New York October 4, 2011, through January 8, 2012 www.Frick.org or 212 288 0700. [ co-organized with the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC where it will be exhibited January 29-May 6, 2012 ]

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  Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Events on 10.10.2011

• Louise Nevelson Exhibition at the Farnsworth Art Museum runs through December 31st of this year.

  Louise Nevelson is rightly recognized as one of America's most important sculptors of the twentieth century and one of the most significant women artists the nation has produced, but few people know that she grew up in the small coastal village of Rockland, Maine.

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  Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Events on 4.3.2011

• Armory Arts Week Comes to NYC March 3 - 6, 2011

  Check out the Armory Arts week site to see what's happening all over New York City. Browse links for information on concurrent art fairs like Scope, Pulse, Volta, Fountain and The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory or see what's happening at the museums and galleries.

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  Posted In: Museums, Lifestyle, Art Fairs, Art Events on 2.26.2011

• Ab Ex NY: Rethinking the Display of the Permanent Collection at MoMA

  Substantial Abstract Expressionist exhibition takes over the 4th floor of MoMA through April 25th.

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  Posted In: Museums, Exhibitions on 2.7.2011

• Google teams with international museums to zoom in on art

  Using its Street View technology, the internet giant will allow people to virtually visit galleries and view works at gigapixel resolution.

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  Posted In: Technology, Museums on 2.3.2011