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CHICAGO—The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago announces its 42nd season of presenting diverse international, national and regional contemporary dance. All performances take place at The Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Subscriptions and single tickets go on sale July 7at The Dance Center, 312-369-8330 and online at colum.edu/dancecenterpresents.

THIRTEEN's American Masters series teams up with Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns to co-produce a new documentary about American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in honor of its 75th anniversary.

NEW YORK, NY - The next exhibition in the acclaimed Quin Arts series, an increasingly popular program curated by DK Johnston of The Arts Fund and presented at the Quin hotel on 57th Street and Sixth Avenue, is titled 'Figurative Destruction,' featuring the work of renowned German artist Wulf Treu. On view to the public from May 15 through June 15, the exhibition launches with an artist salon hosted by Wulf Treu on May 14, coinciding with the Frieze New York Art Fair on Randall's Island. Figurative Destruction features dramatic large format oil paintings on canvas, mixed media works on wood, and a video art wall installation highlighting the artist's neon works. For the first time, Treu will also present studies on paper from his body of work in sculpture, painting, and mixed media. These studies will be grouped into five stories, each containing four original oil, pastel, pencil and watercolor works, affording collectors and guests a special opportunity to acquire Treu's work at an unprecedented price point. Framed with offset primary colors, each piece is signed, dated and embossed by the artist.

In conjunction with the Jewish Museum's exhibition, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, on view through September 20, 2015, the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Cooper Union are co-presenting a series of programs from May to July.

The first ever exhibition solely to consist of portraits by Alberto Giacometti is to open at the National Portrait Gallery this autumn, it was announced today, hours after a sculpture of the Swiss artist sold for millions of dollars at an auction in New York, making him the world's most highly prized modern sculptor.

NEW YORK, NY - The next exhibition in the acclaimed Quin Arts series, an increasingly popular program curated by DK Johnston of The Arts Fund and presented at the Quin hotel on 57th Street and Sixth Avenue, is titled 'Figurative Destruction,' featuring the work of renowned German artist Wulf Treu. On view to the public from May 15 through June 15, the exhibition launches with an artist salon hosted by Wulf Treu on May 14, coinciding with the Frieze New York Art Fair on Randall's Island. Figurative Destruction features dramatic large format oil paintings on canvas, mixed media works on wood, and a video art wall installation highlighting the artist's neon works. For the first time, Treu will also present studies on paper from his body of work in sculpture, painting, and mixed media. These studies will be grouped into five stories, each containing four original oil, pastel, pencil and watercolor works, affording collectors and guests a special opportunity to acquire Treu's work at an unprecedented price point. Framed with offset primary colors, each piece is signed, dated and embossed by the artist.

School of Visual Arts (SVA) announces this year's 26th Dusty Film & Animation Festival awards presenters.

Andy Warhol: Portraits March 4—June 21, 2015 One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Andy Warhol was at the forefront of the Pop Art movement and known for his brightly colored images. This exhibition examines Warhol's fascination with celebrity culture and the “world famous,” featuring nearly 200 screen print paintings, drawings, videos, paintings and photographs from his student days in the 1940s to the New Wave-era 1980s. Also on view will be an installation of Warhol's reflective Silver Clouds, helium-filled metalized balloons.

In conjunction with the Jewish Museum's exhibition, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, on view from May 1 through September 20, 2015, the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Cooper Union are co-presenting a series of programs from May to July.

Artists Debbie Carfagno and Michael Enns, both former Master Printers for Andy Warhol, will be demonstrating and discussing the silkscreen process used by Warhol. These remarkable artists worked in the Warhol studio from 1977 until his death in 1987 and will share fascinating anecdotes from the Warhol era.

THIRTEEN's American Masters series teams up with Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns to co-produce a new documentary about American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in honor of its 75th anniversary.  

THIRTEEN's American Masters series teams up with Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns to co-produce a new documentary about American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in honor of its 75th anniversary.

Longhouse Projects is pleased to present a special project by Mitsuko Miwa. On view will be Beyond the Hill, a large-scale painting from 1988, and works from three of her recent series: Bugaboo, Statue and Column.

This month to commemorate Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Memorial Day, over 600 public television stations throughout the country will begin broadcasting War for Guam, the latest production by Columbia University faculty member, award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar, Frances Negrón-Muntaner. 

This spring, mid-century culture can be found in museums across New York City in exhibitions focused on art, design, advertising, television, and popular culture from the 1950s and '60s. This nostalgia for mid-century culture has captivated the public interest through television shows like Mad Men and a recent resurgence of design from the era. In celebration, five museums are partnering on Mid-Century May NYC, offering a special culture pass for the month of May. Priced at only $30, the ticket grants month-long access to all five participating museums - Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Jewish Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Museum of the City of New York, and Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Longhouse Projects is pleased to present a special project by Mitsuko Miwa. On view will be Beyond the Hill, a large-scale painting from 1988, and works from three of her recent series: Bugaboo, Statue and Column.