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This fall the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer a variety of exciting public programming in conjunction with the exhibition 30 Americans. Highlights include Artist's Perspective lectures by Hank Willis Thomas and Nina Chanel Abney, two of the artists featured in 30 Americans. Also, in partnership with Vanderbilt University's Office of Community, Neighborhood, and Government Relations, the Frist Center will host a special three-part lunch and lecture series presented by Vanderbilt professors and guest panelists. Titled 'Food for Thought: Visualizing America through Art by African American Artists and Norman Rockwell,' the series will explore issues such as the U.S. civil rights movement and how historical events have shaped visual as well as social culture.

For almost four decades, Jean Paul Gaultier has shaped the look of contemporary fashion with his avant-garde creations and cutting-edge designs. The Brooklyn Museum will be the only East Coast venue for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first international exhibition of this celebrated French couturier's work. On view in Brooklyn from October 25, 2013, through February 23, 2014, this spectacular overview of Gaultier's extensive oeuvre will include exclusive material not exhibited in previous venues of the tour, such as pieces from his recent haute couture and ready-to-wear collections and stage costumes worn by Beyoncé.

Award-winning photographer and conceptual artist Laurie Simmons and her daughter, Lena Dunham, best known for writing, directing, producing, and acting in the HBO program Girls, will be honored at the eleventh annual Women in the Arts luncheon on Thursday, November 14, 2013. This is the first time the benefit will jointly honor two recipients--a mother-daughter pair. Proceeds from the event will benefit the many educational and artistic programs offered by the Brooklyn Museum and its Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present 30 Americans, an exhibition surveying works by many of the nation's leading African American artists working since the mid-1970s. Often provocative and challenging, the exhibition explores how artists relate their own sense of self to ideas within history, popular culture and contemporary mass media central to American society. 30 Americans will be on view in the Center's Ingram Gallery from Oct. 11, 2013 through Jan. 12, 2014.

Amphibian Stage Productions today announced an additional offering in its National Theatre Live screening series for 2013, presented in association with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Amidst a stellar lineup of established Broadway legends and stars such as Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Sutton Foster, Christine Ebersole, and Chita Rivera; The Art House in Provincetown will shine its spotlight on a Cape Cod born-and-bred talent Brandon Cordeiro who will appear on Aug. 19th at 9:30 in For One Night Only.

The 20th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit took place on July 27, 2013 at the The Watermill Center in Water Mill, NY. Beginning at 6pm, the evening included cocktails provided by Bacardi USA, a silent auction, performances, art installations, dinner, dancing, and a live auction hosted by auctioneer Simon de Pury. The master of ceremonies for the evening was Alan Cumming. Scroll down for photos from the event!

Under the title ART, TWO POINTS. Barcelona lives contemporary art, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and the Obra Social 'la Caixa' (“la Caixa” Welfare Projects) present the first exhibition jointly organised and displayed at the same time in both headquarters. For the first time in Barcelona, the high quality of one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the South of Europe, bringing together more than 6,000 works, is presented. The merging of these collections has made it possible to create a new account that questions our recent past and places us in a better position to understand contemporariness. Art, dos punts is a broad selection of the collections of both institutions that explores the concept of modernity and its relationship with the avant-garde within the context of our history. The exhibition links MACBA's galleries, where the different episodes of the modern era in Barcelona are revisited from the point of view of contemporary art, with those of CaixaForum, where the interests of the post-modern generation are echoed. In a new global context, the visitor experiences the fragility and disenchantment resulting from the loss of the utopias that fought for freedom, as it appears in the art works of the 1980s and 1990s. Art, dos punts gathers 400 works by 125 artists such as Ignasi Aballí, John Bock, Joseph Beuys, Joan Brossa, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Tony Cragg, Pep Duran, Öyvind Fahlström, Lucio Fontana, Richard Hamilton, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Paul Klee, Jannis Kounellis, Muntadas, Juan Muñoz, Gerhard Richter, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth and Jeff Wall, among others.

In How is Jack Goldstein?, presented by The Jewish Museum tonight, June 25 at 6:30 pm, artists John Baldessari and R. H. Quaytman will share their reflections and impressions of Jack Goldstein in an intergenerational dialogue moderated by Jens Hoffmann, the Museum's Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Public Programs. As Jack Goldstein's instructor at CalArts in the early 1970s, John Baldessari greatly informed the late artist's work. R. H. Quaytman continues the tradition of appropriation and mechanical reproduction that was a key part of Goldstein's oeuvre. This program is part of Dialogue and Discourse, conversations at The Jewish Museum featuring artists and scholars exploring global perspectives on topics related to current exhibitions and is offered in conjunction with the exhibition, Jack Goldstein × 10,000, on view through September 29, 2013.

In How is Jack Goldstein?, presented by The Jewish Museum on Tuesday, June 25 at 6:30 pm, artists John Baldessari and R. H. Quaytman will share their reflections and impressions of Jack Goldstein in an intergenerational dialogue moderated by Jens Hoffmann, the Museum's Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Public Programs. As Jack Goldstein's instructor at CalArts in the early 1970s, John Baldessari greatly informed the late artist's work. R. H. Quaytman continues the tradition of appropriation and mechanical reproduction that was a key part of Goldstein's oeuvre. This program is part of Dialogue and Discourse, conversations at The Jewish Museum featuring artists and scholars exploring global perspectives on topics related to current exhibitions and is offered in conjunction with the exhibition, Jack Goldstein × 10,000, on view through September 29, 2013.

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This week's featured art exhibition is 'Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion' soon to be on view at the Seattle Art Museum.

Beginning May 10, 2013, The Jewish Museum in New York will present Jack Goldstein x 10,000, the first American museum retrospective devoted to the work of Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein (1945-2003). This comprehensive exhibition brings to light Goldstein's important legacy, revealing his central position in the Pictures Generation of artists of the 1970s and 80s. The impressive range of the artist's imagination will be explored through Goldstein's influential films and paintings as well as his pioneering sound recordings, installations, and writings. Ten years after his untimely death in 2003, Goldstein's work is exerting fresh influence, especially among younger artists. With Jack Goldstein x 10,000, The Jewish Museum provides audiences who may not be familiar with his work an in-depth understanding of an extraordinary art innovator.

Academy Award winning actress, Natalie Portman, wore Anna Hu Haute Joaillerie exclusively to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

Narcissister is You, the first solo exhibition by performance artist Narcissister, explores the possibilities of identification through the act of self-reflection and self-love. The exhibition runs now through February 10, 2013, Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 6 p.m. There will be a live performance at envoy enterprises, 87 Rivington St. on Saturday, February 9th from to 9 p.m.

Beginning on March 15, 2013, The Jewish Museum will present As it were ... So to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom. Artist Barbara Bloom has devoted her career to questioning the ways we perceive and value objects. With a light touch and subtle wit, she divines the meanings encoded in the things with which we surround ourselves. The Jewish Museum invited Bloom to create an installation drawn from its 25,000 works of ceremonial, decorative, and fine art. Her presentation sets a selection of over 270 pieces in unconventional contexts, and offers visitors new ways to view the Museum and its holdings. As it were ... So to speak: A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom will be on view through August 4, 2013.

The Jewish Museum Announces Spring 2013 Exhibition Schedule

Fisher Landau Center for Art presents 'Nancy Dwyer: Paintings & Sculpture, 1982-2012', curated by Nicholas Arbatsky, on view today, January 18 - April 7, 2013.