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From left, Amalia Dayan, Dominique Lévy, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Brett Gorvy at Rohatyns gallery, Salon 94 in Manhattan, Aug. 31, 2021. In an apparent effort to counter the increasing dominance of mega galleries, these four prominent dealers have made the unorthodox decision to consolidate under one roof. Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In one of the strongest signs yet that the art market will not look the same after the pandemic and in an apparent effort to counter the increasing dominance of megagalleries four prominent dealers have made the unorthodox decision to consolidate under one roof. Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, Amalia Dayan and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn in January will become LGDR, a consortium that will represent artists, organize exhibitions, advise collectors and broker auction sales. In joining forces, the foursome are betting they will be more effective together than separately at a time when the gallery sector has seen a 20% drop in sales (to an estimated $29.3 billion), and many small and midsize galleries are closing because of the high costs of operating. The partners, who are dissolving their existing businesses and merging into one entity, aim to offer a new model of one-stop shopping that would give artists and collectors the benefit of having four experie ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A worker sorts the ribs of a triceratops ahead of its assembling in a gallery where it is scheduled to be exhibited ahead of its auction sale at Drouot auction house in October. "Big John", the largest known triceratops, over 66 million years old and with an 8-metre long skeleton, is on display in Paris until 20 October, before an auction the following day at Hotel Drouot. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
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| LaiSun Keane opens an exhibition featuring works by Mary DeVincentis, Jackie Shatz, and Mary Tooley Parker | | The Met unveils Great Hall display of powerful ancient Maya stone monuments from the Republic of Guatemala | | Art Gallery of Ontario explores the complex history of the Caribbean in new major exhibition |
Mary DeVincentis, Red Rider, 2019. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.
BOSTON, MASS.- LaiSun Keane is presenting a three-person exhibition titled Harbinger featuring New York based artists Mary DeVincentis, Jackie Shatz, and Mary Tooley Parker on view from September 2 to October 17, 2021. The word harbinger is used here to signify what our hope for the future entails and reinforces one of our gallery missions - to provide a platform for contemporary art by women working in diverse mediums of art. We are immensely proud to launch our fall program with this exhibition. These veteran artists work with varied approaches to painting, sculpture and fiber art, and share commonalities in their approach to story telling which is informed by psychoanalysis, fantasy and reality. Mary DeVincentis grew up in an image-rich household full of art books and artwork. She learned to retrospect her inner space in paintings. Her experience studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism profoundly influenced her. In addition, so ... More | |
Portrait of a queen regent trampling a captive (Stela 24). Estela 24 de Naranjo-Sa'al, Petén, Guatemala. MUNAE 15213. Registro 1.1.1.11100. Courtesy Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it will unveil a new installation of two eighth-century Maya stone monuments, known as stelae, in its iconic Great Hall on September 2, 2021. The two massive stelaeboth significant long-term loans from the Republic of Guatemalafeature life-sized representations of influential Indigenous American rulers: a king, Kinich Yonal Ahk II (ca. A.D. 664729), and queen, Ix Wak Jalam Chan (Lady Six Sky) (ca. A.D. 670s741), one of the most powerful women known by name from the ancient Americas. The installation heralds the upcoming exhibition Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, which is scheduled to open in fall 2022 and will highlight Maya visual narratives featuring a cast of gods: sacred beings that are personified elements of the cosmos, nature, and agriculture. The Great Hall display is also the first in a ... More | |
Ebony G. Patterson. ...three kings weep..., 2018. three-channel digital colour video projection with sound, Running Time: 8 Minutes, 34 Seconds. Purchase, with funds from the Photography Curatorial Committee, 2020. © Ebony G. Patterson, courtesy Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. 2019/2469.
TORONTO.- A birthplace; a destination; a site of violent conquest, brutality and singular beauty the Caribbean is a region bound by numerous geographical, colonial and personal connections. This fall, the Art Gallery of Ontario invites visitors to immerse themselves in those complex histories, and the art they have inspired, in the major new exhibition Fragments of Epic Memory. Featuring a selection of images from the AGOs celebrated Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs, alongside new and celebrated works by modern and contemporary artists of Caribbean descent, the exhibition opened to AGO Members on Sept. 1, 2021. Annual Passholders and members of the public may visit beginning Sept. 4, 2021. Inspired by the writing of post-war Caribbean writers and poets such as Derek Walcott, Kamau ... More |
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| Jeffrey Gibson joins Stephen Friedman Gallery | | Julia Ciccarone wins Archibald Prize 2021 ANZ People's Choice award for poignant self-portrait | | Museum director elected new Estonian president |
Jeffrey Gibson. Photo by Brian Barlow. Copyright Jeffrey Gibson. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery announced representation of Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson. Gibson was born in 1972, Colorado, USA and he currently lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York. The artist combines intricate indigenous artisanal handcraft such as beadwork, leatherwork and quilting with narratives of contemporary resistance in protest slogans and song lyrics. This blend of confrontation and pageantry is reinforced by what Felicia Feaster describes as a sense of movement and performance as if these objects ... are costumes waiting for a dancer to inhabit them. The artist harnesses the power of such materials and techniques to activate overlooked narratives, while embracing the presence of historically marginalised identities. Gibson explains: I am drawn to these materials because they acknowledge the global world. Historically, beads often came from Italy, the Czech Rep ... More | |
Archibald Prize 2021 ANZ Peoples Choice award winner Julia Ciccarone The sea within (detail), oil on linen, © the artist. Photo: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins.
SYDNEY.- Two-time Archibald Prize finalist Julia Ciccarone has been awarded the 2021 ANZ Peoples Choice award for her self-portrait The sea within, painted at home during the 2020 Melbourne lockdown in response to radical changes affecting culture and nature. Based in Alphington, Victoria, the artist painted herself lying barefoot, with wet hair and clutching paint brushes in her hand, wrapped in a blanket from her childhood, and resting her head on a suitcase her father brought to Australia from Italy when he migrated in the 1950s. Speaking from home, once again in lockdown, Ciccarone said she is humbled and astounded to have received this years ANZ Peoples Choice award. When I painted this work, life was intense and overwhelming. Its hard to believe that we are still experiencing times of great uncertainty, more than a year on. I believe we share in a collective trauma. But the ocean which features large in my life and art is my healing ... More | |
Estonia's President Kersti Kaljulaid (C-L) and Estonia's President-elect Alar Karis stand in front of the Presidential Palace in Tallinn, Kadriorg in Tallinn, Estonia on August 31, 2021. RAIGO PAJULA / AFP.
TALLINN (AFP).- Estonia's parliament on Tuesday elected the head of the national museum as the country's new president -- the fifth since the restoration of independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Alar Karis, a biologist by training who also previously worked as state auditor, was the only candidate in the election and was put forward by the ruling Reform and Centre coalition. To win, a presidential candidate has to get a minimum of 68 votes -- a two-thirds majority in the 101-seat parliament. In the first round of voting on Monday, Karis got the support of 63 MPs and in the second round on Tuesday, 72. In a speech to parliament, Karis promised to be a "good partner to all the factions and political forces" as president, a largely ceremonial role. Karis, born in 1958, is a molecular geneticist and developmental biologist who studied in Britain, Estonia, Germany and the Netherlands and is a professor at Tartu University. ... More |
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| Historic London synagogue fights to stay out of the shadows | | Cooper Hewitt announces winners of the 2021 National Design Awards | | Meet the spotted skunks. They've been keeping a secret from us. |
Rabbi Shalom Morris, a former New Yorker, at the Bevis Marks Synagogue in the City of London on Aug. 26, 2021. Morris has overseen the synagogue, the oldest in Britain, for six years. Andrew Testa/The New York Times.
by Mark Landler
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rabbi Shalom Morris picked his way through a steel scaffold that construction workers were noisily dismantling as he showed a visitor around his 320-year-old synagogue, Bevis Marks. When the renovation is finished, there will be a new visitors center off the snug courtyard outside the building. But Morris was less preoccupied with his own construction project than two others for which developers are seeking approval next door. Both are office towers 20 and 48 stories, respectively and if they are built, he said, they would leave one of Londons most venerable houses of worship in near-permanent twilight. If this was next to St. Pauls Cathedral, it wouldnt happen, ... More | |
Studio-MLA, Dodger Stadium, Connecting People to People. Photo: Courtesy of Hunter Kerhart.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the winners of the 2021 National Design Awards. The 22nd class of winners were honored for design innovation and impact in nine categories. In October, National Design Month programming will highlight the work of the winners and celebrate the power of design in the everyday world. This years recipients are: Cheryl D. Miller, Design Visionary InVert Self-Shading Window by Doris Sung, Climate Action Colloqate Design, Emerging Designer Ross Barney Architects, Architecture and Interior Design Imaginary Forces, Communication Design Behnaz Farahi, Digital Design Becca McCharen-Tran, Fashion Design Studio-MLA, Landscape Architecture BioLite, Product Design First Lady Jill Biden serves as the Honorary Patron for this years National Design Awards. Established in 2000 as a project of the White House Millen ... More | |
A spotted skunk performing a handstand, used as a warning before spraying. The spotted skunks handstands earned them the nickname the acrobats of the skunk world. Jerry W. Dragoo via The New York Times.
by Jason Bittel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Black fur, white stripes, fanny full of foul-smelling liquid everybody can identify the striped skunk. But did you know these malodorous mammals have a number of smaller cousins marked by a pattern of black-and-white Rorschach blots? Theyre known as the spotted skunks, and they do something the stripeys cant. Spotted skunks perform a spread-eagled handstand before they spray you. I jokingly call them the acrobats of the skunk world, said Adam Ferguson, a small carnivore biologist at the Field Museum in Chicago. Now that youve met the spotted skunk, heres another important fact: There are more than one species, and ... More |
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| Meet 'Big John': World's biggest triceratops on sale in Paris | | Fire and Ice exhibition opens at Cummings Arts Center Connecticut College | | Rare horse paintings come to auction at Ewbank's, 33 years after artist Lionel Ellis's death |
A worker sorts the ribs of a triceratops ahead of its assembling in a gallery where it is scheduled to be exposed ahead of its auction sale at Drouot auction house in October. "Big John", the largest known triceratops, over 66 million years old and with an 8-metre long skeleton, is on display in Paris until 20 October, before an auction the following day at Hotel Drouot. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A Paris auction house will seek to sell in October the world's biggest known example of the dinosaur triceratops, known as "Big John", with the spectacular skeleton on show to the public beforehand, organisers said Tuesday. The triceratops is among the most distinctive of dinosaurs due to the three horns on its head -- one at the nose and two on the forehead -- that give the dinosaur its Latin name. "Big John" is the largest known surviving example, 66 million years old and with a skeleton some eight metres long. It will be on display starting October 18 at the Drouot auction house in Paris, where it will be offered by the specialist auctioneers ... More | |
Installation view.
NEW LONDON, CONN.- Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. Robert Frost Robert Frosts poem Fire and Ice aptly articulates the focus of the exhibition at Connecticut College: natures fragility in the face of untamed Capitalist growth and climate crisis. This venue is one of many across three continents to schedule events and exhibitions for 2021 under the aegis of the project: Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss. Given the magnitude of this global crisis, artists face a daunting dilemma: how to represent the damage unleashed by the extractive industriesoil spills, plastic pollution, global warming and rising seas, habitat loss and extinction, not to mention the unequal social impact of these disruptions. The surge of climate activism around the world has spurred visual artists to join the Ruckus. The global reach of the artists in the show speaks to the scope of visual activism: two of the artists grapple w ... More | |
Lionel Ellis (1903-1988), Portrait of a Woman in a White Hat. Oil on canvas 1939, signed and dated lower right. 58 x 49cm. Estimate £400-600.
WOKING.- Ewbanks are to offer a series of horse paintings from the estate of Lionel Ellis (1903-1988), the accomplished artist and Wimbledon School of Art tutor, at their September 16 Fine Art auction. The rare consignment consists of works unseen by the public since Ellis left them to his long-term partner, fellow artist Barbara Shaw, 33 years ago. She died recently and the proceeds will go to her chosen charity. Born in Plymouth, Devon, Ellis studied at Plymouth School of Art, 191822 and the Royal College of Art, 19224, where he obtained a Travelling Scholarship, moving on to Atelier Colarossi in Paris, and then Italy. As a painter, wood engraver, modeller and teacher, he specialised in portraits, flowers and horses, displaying a particular aptitude for capturing the pace and power of animals being put through their paces on the gallops. The pick of the ... More |
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Sacred Manjushri Figure Standing Sentinel in the Himalayas
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Human most of all: In Moscow, a theater stages 'Gorbachev'
MOSCOW (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In August 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow with his family from house arrest in Crimea after a KGB-managed anti-democracy coup had failed to depose him. Instead of joining hundreds of thousands of ecstatic Muscovites, who had gathered on the citys squares to celebrate his victory and theirs, Gorbachev went to a hospital with his wife, Raisa, who had suffered a stroke. This scene was pivotal for Russias recent history, and it is also central to Gorbachev, the latest hit production from the State Theater of Nations in Moscow, where despite the pandemic, shows continued to be performed live, though at limited capacity. I was not married to the country Russia or the Soviet Union, Gorbachev, who is now 90 and still lives in Moscow, wrote in his memoirs. I was ... More
A new photographic installation by Brian Griffiths and Frank Kent opens at Van Gogh House, London
LONDON.- Life and its most trivial particulars by Brian Griffiths and Frank Kent (4 September 18 December 2021) is the first in a new annual commissioning programme at Van Gogh House, which in 2021 marks 50 years since the building was found to be the London residence of the renowned Dutch artist. In the form of a photographic installation in every room, Life and its most trivial particulars responds to the accumulated histories and constructed realities of the now restored 3-storey Georgian building. Drawing on themes from Van Goghs life and work, the exhibition also reflects Griffiths and Kents own imaginings of the artist, his myth and legacy, informed by references from Van Goghs early works and evolving colour palette, Bob Laws Vincent and Gaugin chair sculptures and the writings of Charles Dickens; to a Japanese parasol, a drum ... More
Ailey II names a new artistic director
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ailey II, the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, has a new artistic director, Francesca Harper, the company announced Wednesday. Harper, a dancer, choreographer and director, whose career has spanned the worlds of ballet and Broadway, may not have danced with either Ailey company, but she is no stranger to the organization. Her mother, Denise Jefferson, directed the Ailey School from 1984 until her death in 2010. Harper didnt just attend dance classes at the school; she practically grew up there. Ive always admired how she navigated her career, sort of coming up as an Ailey baby but then charting her own course, said Robert Battle, the artistic director of the Ailey company, who with Bennett Rink, the executive director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, chose Harper for the ... More
Almodovar, Cruz unearth secrets at Venice Film Festival
VENICE (AFP).- Long-time collaborators Pedro Almodovar and Penelope Cruz took an unexpectedly political turn for the opening film at Venice on Wednesday, with a drama touching on the missing victims of Spain's civil war. Exploring blood ties and buried history, "Parallel Mothers" marks a departure into dark historical territory for the director, while still focusing on the themes of motherhood and female relationships that have been central to many of his films. Cruz described Almodovar as "my safety net" in a press conference ahead of their red carpet appearance in Venice. "He can ask me to do something that can really scare me but I know he will be there waiting to sustain me," she said, adding that she was grateful to the director for giving her "so many different, challenging characters". Cruz has appeared in seven of Almodovar's movies, including ... More
Opening this week: London's Latinx arts, performance & film festival CASA
LONDON.- Explore the best and latest of Latinx art, performance, culture, music and film when CASA Festival returns to venues across London for its 11th edition. Founded as a theatre festival in 2007, CASA expanded its remit to include multiple art forms, as well as becoming a commissioning body and a production house. Today, CASA is an internationally regarded showcase for some of the beautiful, challenging and unique work being made both in Latin America and by the UKs Latinx artists community. To date the festival has created and commissioned over 100 pieces of new work. At a time when travelling internationally is challenging, CASA facilitates artistic and cultural exchanges between Latin America and the UK, bringing to London all the innovation, passion, artistry and diversity that these artists have to offer. After a Covid-required hiatus ... More
Taymour Grahne Projects opens virtual exhibition of works by Jeanne Jalandoni
LONDON.- Taymour Grahne Projects is presenting Faraway Embrace, an online solo exhibition by NYC-based artist Jeanne Jalandoni, on view virtually. As a native New Yorker and second generation American who has never travelled to the Philippines, Jeanne Jalandoni always depended on her mothers oral stories, research, and childhood memories to map out her cultural identity. Jeannes mother would often tell stories about growing up on a farm in Pinamalayan, the carabaos that worked the fields, and the coconut trees her lolo taught himself how to plant. Fashion, as well as food, were important elements of these stories, which became Jeannes gateway to a foreign country and blurry ancestry. Jeanne admits growing up with the insecurity of not being seen as Filipino enough or American enough by others. In her artistic practice, combinations ... More
Incredibly rare & vintage Batman, Spider-Man, Superman comics up for sale
RUNNEMEDE, NJ.- Goldin, the leading marketplace for trading cards, collectibles and memorabilia, announces the opening of its Comic Book, Video Game and TCG Auction. The auction is the companys first to solely focus on collectibles beyond sports and features 250 rare and valuable video games, comic books and trading card game items. The auction features some of the rarest comic books in the world, including the 1940 D.C. Batman #1 comic (graded CGC 8.0), the first comic dedicated exclusively to The Dark Knight which features one of the most iconic covers from the Golden Age of comics. To say this comic is jam-packed with action would be an understatement, as it includes the first appearance of classic Batman villains the Joker and Catwoman. Also included in the auction is the iconic 1962 Marvel "Amazing Fantasy" #15 comic ... More
CHART reflects on a successful ninth edition with strong sales and a diverse programme
COPENHAGEN.- From 26 to 29 August, the ninth edition of CHART brought together artists, designers, galleries, curators, collectors and art enthusiasts in Copenhagen once more, for a celebration of the Nordic art scene. As the first fair in nearly one and a half years for most of the participating galleries, CHART marked a special moment in the art industry. With high sales, a strong audience turnout and a close partnership with Buffalo AKG Art Museum (US), CHART 2021 facilitated both a reunion of the arts community and the beginning of new collaborations and alliances. A diverse programme of talks by leading figures from the international art world and key artists complimented the fair, whilst the inauguration of CHARTs new Book Fair sought to reach out to all parts of the arts community. Despite current restrictions, CHART was ... More
Housatonic Museum of Art opens Jon Schueler abstract expressionism show
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.- The Housatonic Museum of Art announced the opening of a new exhibit, Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler Art and War, curated by Marissa Roth. The show will feature twenty-six paintings and selected writings by the esteemed, prolific American abstract expressionist that reflect his war experiences. The exhibition, which takes its title from a piece commemorating the disappearance of a plane belonging to his squadron, will open on September 2 and be on view through October 8, 2021. Curator Marissa Roth will offer a talk about the artists work on Thursday, September 2 at 6pm. Celebrated for his colorful, large-scale abstract paintings and pastoral compositions of nature, Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler Art and War is a landmark exhibition that encompasses one of the persistent motifs that Schueler infused into his paintings ... More
Reyes │ Finn opens an exhibition of new work by artist LaKela Brown
DETROIT, MICH.- Reyes | Finn is presenting Impressed, an exhibition of new work by Detroit-born, New York-based artist, LaKela Brown, on view September 2ndOctober 16th, 2021. In her second solo exhibition and fifth presentation with Reyes | Finn, the artist will unveil her largest plaster reliefs to dateproduced while in residence at Popps Packing (Detroit, MI)and debut a new series of embossed handmade paperworks, made in collaboration with acclaimed papermaking studio, Dieu Donné (Brooklyn, NY). The exhibition is grounded in Browns sculptural relief works, which collapse an expanse of cultural and personal memories into the intimate present. Though often compared to ancient art forms and methods of communication such as Egyptian hieroglyphic wall carvings or Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, Brown sees each work as a tender ... More
IBASHO opens a solo show of works by Toshio Shibata
ANTWERP.- IBASHO presents the second solo exhibition of the Japanese artist Toshio Shibata at the gallery. The works that are included in the exhibition reflect Shibatas career from 1996 til 2019. It also includes works from the two newest books Painting and Falling Water. Shibata started his career as a painter after having studied fine art in Japan. In 1976 he applied for a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Art in Gent, Belgium. A professor at the Academy asked Shibata to join the newly established photography class, which Shibata did. Already before choosing to study photography in Belgium, Shibata was attracted to photographic silkscreen printing and to the works of Pop Art artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol. During his time in Belgium and Europe Shibata got acquainted with the work of the influential ... More
Stars return for rejuvenated Venice film festival
VENICE (AFP).- The Venice Film Festival opened in style on Wednesday with Penelope Cruz the first of many stars to grace the Lido's red carpet, as cinephiles prepare for a spectacular line-up despite continued Covid restrictions. Held on the glitzy, beach-lined Lido, the world's oldest film festival is seen as an essential springboard for the Oscars, and is set to recover the glamour lost last year when the pandemic kept celebrities away. Hollywood is back in full force, with eagerly awaited sci-fi blockbuster "Dune" getting its world premiere on Friday, while Matt Damon and Ben Affleck -- with or without new/old squeeze Jennifer Lopez -- will be in town next week with "The Last Duel". But Venice can also boast the cream of the arthouse circuit, and opened with the latest from Spain's beloved auteur Pedro Almodovar. "Parallel Lives" sees him team with Cruz ... More
For music, a fall deluge of performances is beginning
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The summertime classical calendar tends to be light even under normal circumstances so during a lingering pandemic, it can seem almost nonexistent. But now comes the deluge, delta variant be damned. Over the past few days, New York audiences had the chance to catch live sets from two well-regarded groups presenting fresh repertoire. And those sets had connections to even more worthy ensembles debuting new material. On Saturday, the Attacca Quartet played a heavily amplified yet lovingly textured program for hundreds in Prospect Park, as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn festival. (Pop group San Fermin headlined the evening.) In a half-hour sprint that managed not to feel rushed, the group played excerpts from its July debut on the Sony Classical label: the dance music-suffused (but somehow not shticky) ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri Rousseau died September 02, 1910. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. In this image: Employees of the Grand Palais museum in Paris take Henri Rousseau's painting "Foret tropicale avec singes," (1910), away for packing Thursday June 22, 2006, for transportation to the U.S. for the "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" exhibit, the first all-Rousseau retrospective in two decades which opened Sunday, July 16, 2006, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington.
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