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"Click Chic" At The SVA
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Click Chic: The Fine Art of Fashion Photography," an exhibition documenting the vitality of fashion photography as a vehicle for creative expression, formal experimentation and social commentary. On view will be nearly 50 images by six emerging and established photographers based in New York who have created distinctive bodies of work in fashion: Roderick Angle, Guy Aroch, Maki Kawakita, Ryan Michael Kelly, Chiun-Kai Shih and Sarah Silver.
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Summer Breeze Brings Scope Hamptons
Returning for its third year to the East End, Scope Hamptons will transform the 20,000 square-foot East Hampton Studios into a world-class art fair and destination-location for seasoned and novel collectors. With over 60 international established and emerging contemporary galleries from over 20 countries, Scope presents a full schedule of special events, performances and screenings, alongside museum-quality programming, creating what has become "The Hamptons Weekend of Art."
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Enjoy "Life´s Pleasures" At The Frist Center
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will open "Life’s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists’ Brush with Leisure, 1895–1925" Friday, August 3, 2007 in the Upper-Level Galleries. Featuring more than 70 paintings by artists including Ashcan school leader Robert Henri, George Bellows, George Luks, Everett Shinn and John Sloan, the exhibition provides a refreshing look at the work of a major American artistic movement.
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A "Sea Of Art" At Art Bodensee
Work and holiday at the same time – such is the motto of the fifty galleries that are currently preparing flat out for the 7th art bodensee exhibition. For in Dornbirn, from 26 to 29 July, the exhibition site will be transformed into a sea of drawings, paintings, video art and sculptures.
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Royal Impressionists
"Impressionists by the Sea" explores 19th-century representations of the northern coastline of France. The exhibition, which consists of sixty paintings, explores the origins and development of the scenes of the newly fashionable seaside from the early 1860s to the early 1870s, in the work of Eugène Boudin, Manet and Monet. It looks at beach scenes of the 1880s, in which the Impressionists, notably Monet, turned their backs on the depictions of people and used their new painting techniques to capture the effects of weather and light on the coastline.
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Sothebys To Auction The Best Private Collection Of Turner Watercolours
Sotheby’s announces that on Wednesday, July 4, 2007, it will offer for sale one of the finest collections of watercolours by Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A., (1775-1851) to have come to the market in living memory. Britain’s greatest watercolourist, Turner now enjoys an international reputation – something that has driven prices to ever-higher levels in recent years.
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