

Largest Hendrix Exhibition Ever Featuring Iconic Images by a Who's Who of World-Renowned Rock Photographers Watercolours of Nineteenth-Century Rural Britain by Robert Hills and his Contemporaries to Open at The Fitzwilliam Whitechapel Gallery's Major Programme of Artists' Commissions, The Street, Presents Bernd Krauss Getty Images Gallery and Pinewood Present Capturing Film History in-the-MakingĢ008 Liverpool Cityscape: New Commission by Ben Johnson at the Walker Art Gallery The Disappeared, Exhibit Organized by North Dakota Museum of Art, Opens in Guatemala Three Million Euro for a New Digital Museum at Statens Museum for Kunst Yves Saint Laurent Exhibit Spanning 40 Years Opens at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Vernissage 2008: San Francisco Art Institute MFA Graduate Exhibit University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology Offers 50,000 Rewardįirst Photographs on Paper in Great-Britain (1840-1860) to Open at Musee D'OrsayĬhristie's Presents Most Valuable Latin American Sale in New York

Guggenheim in Bilbao Presents a Retrospective of the Works of Art Made by Juan Muñoz WestLicht Gallery Reconsiders Che Guevara in Photography Exhibit in Vienna The exhibit runs through May 24th at Fort Mason in San Francisco, Ca. Especially notable was Jody Medichs luscious and chaotic, The Bedroom on Grande also, the delightful miniature clay and bronze works of William Slavis. Eve Morgensterns haunting photos of abandoned and foreclosed homes, depicting uncertainty and loss Kelly Falzones, I think Ive been here before, (2004) and Undeniable Appeal of Fiction (2007). Aria Tudangers life sized ∻ear and Lisa Huffmans Label, Catalogue of Images dresses, shirts, pants with buttons, designer labels, washing instruction labels and price tags tacked, sewn, strung all over each piece, complete with a labeled Barbie dress. Crocketts figures seemed to be slightly levitating Rive Grandes paintings set in everyday scenes with dream like surreal qualities. In the current crop of graduates notable are Davie Crocketts painting, Wild Women Dont Get the Blues, reminiscent of Picassos 1905 Saltambique with his Harlequin figure so prevalent from that period. Offering photography in 1946 with Ansel Adams establishing the 1st fine art photography department at the school, in 1968 it also boasted of Annie Leibovitz. Art Institute expanded to include performance and conceptual art, graphic art, typography and political social documentary. In the 1950s SFAI was responsible for developing the Bay Area Figurative Group founded by painters Elmer Bischoff, David Park, Joan Brown and Frank Lobdell to name a few and the Funk Movement a fusion of abstract expressionist, figurative and jazz. Since the 1940s, its interest has been in educating artists who will become creative leaders in their respective fields.

The prestigious art institute, founded in 1871, is holding its annual MFA exhibit launching the careers of over 100 graduate students in various wideranging and innovative fields. Art Institute Master of Fine Arts graduates took over the massive Herbst Pavillion at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Ca., May 16th- 24th.
