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PEM Announces New And Up Coming Exhibitions

Perfect Imbalance, Exploring Chinese Aesthetics: Chinese culture is diverse, longstanding and ever-changing. Yet common ties unite. This exhibition offers an approach to understanding Chinese culture through a study and celebration of the aesthetics of Chinese art. Objects included reveal key aesthetic clues that define the art of China, and distinguish it from art produced by neighboring regions, or art made in China for the export market.

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Joseph Cornell: Navigating The Imagination

"Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination" is the first major retrospective of the artist's work in more than 26 years. Featuring 180 works, the PEM venue is the largest of this touring exhibition which includes the artist's finest box constructions, collages, dossiers, films and graphic designs from public and private collections--more than 30 on public view for the first time.

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Jake And Dinos Chapman Installation New Painting At Tate Liverpool

The Tate Liverpool exhibition Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People will constitute the most comprehensive overview of the Chapmans' work to date. As part of this survey, the exhibition will include the first and only complete showing of the newly finished project Painting for Pleasure and Profit: A piece of site-specific performance based body art in oil, canvas and wood (dimensions variable) 2006.

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LACMA Organizes First Major Exhibition Of Margaritte

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, the first major exhibition to explore the impact of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's (1898-1967) work on U.S. and European artists of the post-war generation.

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LACMA Collaborates With John Baldessari

With clouds on the floor and freeways on the ceiling, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's (LACMA) exhibition, Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, features a unique installation designed by conceptual artist John Baldessari.

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Picasso's Greatest Print

If one were to mark on a map all the places I have been, and connect them with a line, it might look something like a minotaur.

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Tate unites JMW Turner's great Rigi watercolours in an exhibition

Tate will bring together for the first time ever three of Turner's very greatest watercolour paintings, The Blue Rigi, The Dark Rigi and The Red Rigi, as part of a campaign to raise £4.95 million to save The Blue Rigi from going abroad. A temporary export bar has been placed on The Blue Rigi until 20 March 2007 by the Culture Minister, David Lammy. The exhibition at Tate Britain will be open from 22 January to 25 March 2007.

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Music Based On Angel Orensanz's Drawings Starts This Wednesday In New York

A one-hour film of the concert "Angel Orensanz. Dance of Fear" will be shown daily at the Foundation, starting December 6, 2006. This opening marks a significant development in the career of Angel Orensanz. "Angel Orensanz. Dance of Fear" was recently a huge concert success at the National Conservatory of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. In the film, we see Yan Leus conducting the Georgian National Orchestra in his own compositions to a rapturous audience.

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