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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Thursday, September 6, 2012

The Life Line, 1884. Winslow Homer, American, 1836 - 1910. Oil on canvas, 28 5/8 x 44 3/4 inches (72.7 x 113.7 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, The George W. Elkins Collection, 1924.

Philadelphia Museum of Art Presents Winslow Homer's Depictions of Maritime Catastrophe and Rescue
ArtfixDaily Staff - September 5th, 2012 23:14

While living in a tiny fishing village in England in 1881-82, the American artist Winslow Homer was profoundly moved by the sight of a shipwreck that would focus his imagination on the power and peril of the sea.

Tomás Saraceno, Vik Muniz and Don Byron are among MIT’s eight visiting artists.

Tomás Saraceno is Inaugural Visiting Artist in newly established MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology
Release Date: 06 September 2012
Tomás Saraceno, the artist acclaimed for his utopian Cloud City, a navigable, multi-level structure of interconnected modules currently installed on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, has been selected as the inaugural visiting artist for the newly established MIT Center for ...

L to R: Kim Martindale, Scott Diament & Rob Samuels

Kim Martindale Partners with the Palm Beach Show Group in the LA Art Show
Release Date: 05 September 2012
Kim Martindale, the 17-year general manager of the LA Art Show has formed a partnership with the Palm Beach Show Group, which recently purchased the long-running show from the Fine Art Dealers Association. “I’m thrilled with how much the LA Art Show has grown over the years. I wanted to ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Iconic Vitruvian Man Recast as Monumental 21st Century Sculpture
Release Date: 03 September 2012
A monumental sculpture that translates one of the world’s most famous drawings – Leonardo da Vinci’s Renaissance masterpiece, Vitruvian Man – into stainless steel will be installed and available for public viewing beginning August 30, 2012 in Enterprise Corporate Park in Shelton, ...

Featured Event

	KIYOSHI NAKAGAMI: EPIPHANY September 6 - October 13, 2012 Galerie Richard presents the artist's debut solo show in the U.S. New York, New York Read more

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	A 35TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION - REVISITING RIMPA: DESIGN, FUNCTION, AND THE ART OF NAKAMURA TAKUO Release Date: 05 September 2012 This autumn marks the thirty-fifth year Joan B Mirviss LTD has been a leader in the field of Japanese fine art. In celebration of this momentous occasion, we are pleased to present the first of several remarkable exhibitions. This September, Joan B Mirviss LTD will present the ... Read more

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