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“Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction” will feature mid-20th century artists who were reinventing portraiture at a moment when almost everyone agreed that figuration was dead as a progressive art form. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has gathered more than 50 paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture from approximately 1945 to 1975 to demonstrate the innovations of American portraiture despite the vogue for abstraction. The exhibition opens April 18 and runs through Jan. 11, 2015.

The first garden was Eden -a setting of flowers and plants for the creation of our world and mankind. Ever since, we have cultivated gardens simply for their beauty or for the sustenance they provide as food. Flowers have served as inspiration for painters and poets from time immemorial. From the mundane to the exquisite, flowers enhance every facet of our lives. Their physical expression may be found in gardens and outdoor parties of every kind, from the humblest to the most elegant 18th-century fête champêtre.

Beginning today, 7 February, Hauser & Wirth is honored to present an extraordinary selection of works from the collection of Reinhard Onnasch.

Beginning 7 February, Hauser & Wirth is honored to present an extraordinary selection of works from the collection of Reinhard Onnasch. A celebration of Onnasch's longstanding passion for art and collecting, 'Re-View: Onnasch Collection' is curated by Paul Schimmel, celebrated post-war scholar and Partner of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. The exhibition focuses on the period between 1950 and 1970, decades when New York's cultural influence was unrivaled and some of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century were born. On view will be iconic examples of Pop Art, Fluxus, Color Field, Assemblage, Minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism.

Beginning 7 February, Hauser & Wirth is honored to present an extraordinary selection of works from the collection of Reinhard Onnasch. A celebration of Onnasch's longstanding passion for art and collecting, 'Re-View: Onnasch Collection' is curated by Paul Schimmel, celebrated post-war scholar and Partner of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. The exhibition focuses on the period between 1950 and 1970, decades when New York's cultural influence was unrivaled and some of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century were born. On view will be iconic examples of Pop Art, Fluxus, Color Field, Assemblage, Minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism.

The sixth annual Hamptons Take 2 Documentary Film Festival will showcase the screenings of 22 documentary films, 'all docs, all day,' for three days on tonight, December 6-8-all at The Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor.

Blue Mountain Gallery is pleased to announce our first national Juried Exhibition. Twenty five artists working in a range of styles and media have been selected by Andrea Wells, Director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Tibor de Nagy, founded in 1950, is situated at 57th Street on Fifth Avenue, where Ms Wells recently co-curated the widely reviewed exhibit Tibor de Nagy Gallery: Painters and Poets, andJane Freilicher: Painter Among Poets. The gallery represents two former Blue Mountain Gallery artists, Rudy Burckhardt and Trevor Winkfield, as well as Louisa Matthiasdottir, Nell Blaine, Fairfield Porter and Larry Rivers.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ Palm Beach Modern Auctions' (PBMA) November 2nd event will reveal just how broad the contemporary art category has become, with a refined selection of abstract expressionist, outsider and street art; mid-century furniture, and superb minimalist sculptures from the estate of New York artist Larry Mohr (1921-2013).

Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to announce a group exhibition of work by Lauren Bakoian, Joan LiPuma and Lawrence Webber. Comprised, as the title of the show suggests, of a group of artists who also work at the gallery, this exhibition will compliment the gallery's main program.

Planned to coincide with the Art Institute's major exhibition Picasso and Chicago, this presentation from the Department of Prints and Drawings is inspired by the modern master's love of poetry-Picasso was close friends with poets, including Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, Andre Breton, and Paul Eluard, and collaborated with them from his earliest days in Paris. Taking Picasso's passion as a jumping-off point, this collection of works on paper surveys the myriad ways visual artists have been inspired by or collaborated with poets in the 20th century.

East End artists will be in the spotlight at the 23rd Art Miami, anchor art fair for the city of Miami. Art Miami, the premiere international contemporary and modern art fair, has long been recognized for its high quality presentation of important artworks for the serious international collector. So, it is no surprise that many of the galleries participating will be including works by acclaimed artists from the East End of Long Island alongside such great artists of the 20th & 21st Centuries such as Picasso, Damien Hirst, Raoul Dufy, Chagall, Jean Michel Basquiat, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and scores more of the art world's most celebrated names. Last summer Art Miami presented the wildly successful inaugural Art Southampton that proved to be a game-changer on the Hamptons cultural landscape.

East End artists will be in the spotlight at the 23rd Art Miami, anchor art fair for the city of Miami. Art Miami, the premiere international contemporary and modern art fair, has long been recognized for its high quality presentation of important artworks for the serious international collector. So, it is no surprise that many of the galleries participating will be including works by acclaimed artists from the East End of Long Island alongside such great artists of the 20th & 21st Centuries such as Picasso, Damien Hirst, Raoul Dufy, Chagall, Jean Michel Basquiat, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and scores more of the art world's most celebrated names. Last summer Art Miami presented the wildly successful inaugural Art Southampton that proved to be a game-changer on the Hamptons cultural landscape.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center, America's pre-eminent New York-based non-profit organization, revealed the artist of the 50th New York Film Festival poster is Cindy Sherman. Throughout the past 49 years, a stellar line-up of artists commissioned their work for the New York Film Festival poster. Please find a complete list of artists below.

Exhibitions and programs to be coming to the Jewish Museum.

The decades following World War II were heady times for American art. This fall, Reynolda House Museum of American Art will be the final host to 'Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,' an exhibition that examines the complex nature of American art in the mid-twentieth century. The exhibition will open Oct. 7 and continue through Dec. 31, 2011.

The decades following World War II were heady times for American art. This fall, Reynolda House Museum of American Art will be the final host to 'Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,' an exhibition that examines the complex nature of American art in the mid-twentieth century. The exhibition will open tonight and continue through Dec. 31, 2011.

Art Kibbutz NYC announces a unique global project at the nexus of sound, spirit and technology.

Art Kibbutz NYC announces a unique global project at the nexus of sound, spirit and technology.