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OSLO, Norway, January 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- This year is the 150th anniversary of Edvard Munch's birth. Munch (1863-1944) is one of modernism's pioneers. The anniversary year will be celebrated with the largest ever Munch exhibition in Oslo, as well as a range of cultural events in Norway and other countries to celebrate Munch and his art. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130123/586299-a ) (Photo:...

NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed today in its entirety a judgment that Pryor Cashman obtained for its client in a significant and long-running art law dispute. The case, Bakalar v. Vavra, has been litigated for over seven years and involves the question of who owns a drawing by the artist Egon Schiele, known as Seated Woman With Bent Left Leg (Torso). The ownership dispute was between Pryor Cashman client David Bakalar, who...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Opening October 19, 2012, German Expressionism from the Detroit Institute of Arts will be on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries through February 10, 2013. Featuring paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the Detroit Institute of Arts' distinguished collection of German Expressionist art, the exhibition explores the full breadth of this artistic movement from 1905 to 1950 and includes...

LONDON, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bookmakers Bodog.co.uk estimate that the $80,000,000 price tag set by Sotheby's for tomorrow's auction of The Scream [http://sports.bodog.co.uk/specials/edvard-munch-scream-auction.htm ] will be smashed and go 4/6 that the painting goes for over $100,000,000. For those less optimistic its 11/10 that it will make less than $100,000,000 with the same firm. The current record for a painting at auction stands at just over $106,400, a...

NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The FLAG Art Foundation, an exhibition space for contemporary art, today announced two exhibitions: Richard Forster, a solo exhibition, and In Living Color, a group exhibition of 10 artists. The two exhibitions will be on view from January 21 through May 19, 2012. Richard ForsterRichard Forster produces highly detailed pencil drawings presented in series, three of which are included in this exhibition: pastoral nudes, seascapes and 24...

NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ana Tzarev Gallery is pleased to announce our newest exhibition, a very special collection by Ana Tzarev depicting scenes from the classic, time-honored fairytales known throughout Russia. (Photo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111207/NY17914</font> ) To honor her Slavic heritage and the profound influence it has had on her art, Ana Tzarev has followed in the tradition of renowned...

Settlement Is Believed to Mark First Time the National Gallery of Art Returns a Non-Holocaust Painting NEW YORK, May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A unique and unusual settlement regarding Chaim Soutine's iconic painting entitled Piece de Boeuf (Piece of Beef c. 1923) was approved last week by Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York. Pursuant to the settlement, the painting is being returned to the Shefner Family in resolution of litigation commenced against the National...

George Grosz's relatives are suing New York's Museum of Modern Art over three works the late painter left behind in Germany shortly before World War II. Grosz was an expressionist and Dadist painter who caricatured German society of the 1920s and 30s in harsh ink and watercolor paintings, satirizing war profiteers, politicians and the rising Nazi Party and its leader Adolf Hitler. Arrested several times, he fled to New York in 1932, where he lived until he died on a visit to Berlin in 1959...

Noted abstract expressionist painter Grace Hartigan has died of liver failure in Baltimore at the age of 86, her longtime dealer, Julian Weissman, says. The New York Times reported Hartigan had earned a reputation for her vividly colorful artistic works that often were labeled pop art for their inclusion of many popular culture images. But Hartigan never accepted that label for her works, saying the 1960s art movement did not truly capture the essence of painting, the Los Angeles Times...

By Jennifer Noyer For the Journal Ballet Pro Musica presented its second Albuquerque-based Chamber Music Ballet Festival, featuring this year Mexico's Compaia Nacional de Danza at the Hispanic Cultural Center. The idea is to forge a new marriage of dance and live music, deepening the relationship between the two art forms. Mexico's dancers were a delight to behold, especially in Mark Godden's "Reflections" to Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," and John Clifford's ballet to Felix Mendelssohn's...