Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum

OBJECT OF DEVOTION: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum” presents sixty beautifully-carved alabaster panels and free-standing figures that were displayed in the homes, chapels, and churches of both aristocratic and non-aristocratic Christians in the 15th and 16th centuries. 

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FROM MICHELANGELO TO ANNIBALE CARRACCI Premiers at the Frick Art & Historical Center, PA
Thursday, May 01, 2008

Bartolomeo Passerotti, Male Head Turned to the Left

Alexandria, VA – Art Services International is pleased to announce an exhibition of seventy superb sixteenth-century Italian drawings -- "From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci: A Century of Italian Drawings from the Prado"-- from one of the world’s premier art institutions, the Prado Museum in Madrid. Marking the first time that most of these extraordinary works have appeared beyond the walls of the Prado Museum, this exhibition explores the working methods of the most important artists active in Italy during a time of unprecedented artistic patronage. Focusing on examples from Mannerism to the early Baroque period (1520-1620), the works have been selected by Guest Curator, Nicholas Turner, formerly of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Museum, and a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque drawings.  

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FASHIONING KIMONO is AN EXHIBIT WORTH A ROAD TRIP
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The New York Sun highlights the Philadelphia Museum of Art's presentation of "Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan" as a top pick in their "Exhibits Worth A Road Trip" feature in the Paper's May 19, 2008 Travel section. 

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The Society of the Four Arts Deems FERNANDO BOTERO
a Tremendous Success!
Friday, March 14, 2008

Fernando Botero, Hand, Private Collection

"The Baroque World of FERNANDO BOTERO" ended its triumphant run at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida on February 24, 2008.  Deemed a tremendous success by the Museum staff, the exhibition's final attendance figures are a testament to the show's popularity with the Palm Beach community. 

 


 

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The New York Times Recommends MURAQQA'
as a CHOICE SHOW AROUND THE COUNTRY
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The New York Times recommends "MURAQQA': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin" as one of their CHOICE SHOWS ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY in the March 12, 2008 Special Museums Section. A Black Buck on a Tether,A painting from an unidentified albumartist unknown, c. 1640, colored pigments and gold on paper, Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin

 

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Art Services International unveils *NEW* Website
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Art Services International (ASI) is pleased to announce its new website -- ASIexhibitions.org -- specifically designed to highlight the organization’s extensive program of traveling art exhibitions, and provide increased benefits to its expanding constituency. ASI, a non-profit educational institution based in Alexandria, Virginia, organizes and circulates fine art exhibitions of the highest quality to museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad.

“I am delighted with our new website, which incorporates state-of-the-art technology in our ongoing effort to better serve our museum clients and the public,” said Lynn Rogerson, Director and CEO of ASI ...

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Fashioning Kimono premieres at the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- April 26
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Woman's Kimono; Late Taisho-early Showa period, 1920s-1930s; machine-spun pangee silk, plain weave, stencil-printed warp and weft threads; The Montgomery Collection, Lugano Soon to launch,  Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan, highlights kimono of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The 97 kimono in this exhibition portray two important facets: they represent one of the most dynamic periods in the history of Japan's national costume, and they also depict the last historical era of the "living kimono"-when kimono was being worn by the large majority of the populace. But the kimono never lost its appeal; it remained the dominant dress form from the early 20th century until the 1940's, as it took on, little by little, a more formal meaning.  In the minds of the Japanese at this time, the kimono symbolized Japan before the war.  The exhibition includes formal, semi-formal, and casual kimono, haori jackets, and undergarments worn by men, women, and children.  The kimono are drawn from the Montgomery Collection in Lugano, Switzerland, and are featured along with a selection of period photographs on loan from the International Hokusai Research Centre in Milan. 
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Imperial Mughal Albums premieres at the Sackler Gallery
Washington, DC -- May 3
Saturday, December 22, 2007
To open in May: Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, an exhibition of 86 superb Mughal-dynasty album folios, (pages) is drawn from one of the finest and most respected collections of its kind in the world—the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Ireland.  The albums made in the years 1600–1657 for the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan, encompass some of the most remarkable of all historical depictions of individuals and the world around them.  The Mughal dynasty ruled India for more than three centuries, but the period of greatest artistic production for individual paintings was that of these two great emperors.  The albums of paintings and calligraphy (called muraqqa’ in Persian) that they assembled now serve as a window to understanding the history and culture of this pivotal period of Indian history. 
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Botero Exhibition a Huge Success in Oklahoma City
Sunday, December 09, 2007
  "The Baroque World of Fernando Botero" made its latest stop at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.  The show -- which ran from September 15-December 9, 2007 -- was hailed as a huge success by the Museum.  Please click "Read More" to view photographs from the Museum's Members' Preview event held on September 12th! 

 

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Retrospective Botero exhibit at museum is a must see!
Monday, September 24, 2007

Fernando Botero, "First Lady, " 1989, oil on canvas, Private LenderNewsOK, a publication from Oklahoma, provides an exciting review of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art's latest exhibit,  The Baroque World of Fernando BoteroThe author describes several of the highlights of the show, which includes paintings, drawings and sculptures from Fernando Botero's private collection.

 

 

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Oklahoma City Museum of Art Brings Botero Back after 12 years
Friday, September 14, 2007
Fernando Botero, "Horse," 2000, Bronze, Private Collection"Twelve Years after Fernando Botero's colossal sculptures captured the imagination of Oklahomians, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is bringing back a selection of the Columbian artist's larger-than-life works."
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Scholar for ASI's newest exhibition to lecture in UK
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Panel of the Ascension, late 15th century, alabaster, courtesy of the Victoria and Albert MuseumFergus Cannan, sculpture scholar and catalogue author for ASI’s up-coming exhibition, Medieval Alabasters from the Victoria and Albert Museum, will be lecturing at Gloucester Cathedral in October.  His presentation will concentrate on the Iconography of Kingship in Alabaster,  focusing on the tombs of Robert the Bruce and King Edward II.  He will also be formally announcing the important up-coming US tour "Medieval Alabasters from the Victoria and Albert Museum", to launch in fall of 2010 (bookings available).

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Botero Exhibit to Open at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Fernando Botero, "After Velazques," 2005, oil on canvas, Private CollectionAn article in the Times Record News, Whichita Falls Online, announces the opening of The Baroque World of Fernando Botero.
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Botero Retrospective at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Monday, August 27, 2007

Fernando Botero, "Smoking Woman," 1987, bronze,  Private CollectionOklahoma City, OK – The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is pleased to present The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, opening September 13 through December 2, 2007. This retrospective exhibition, drawn from the collection of the artist and assembled over the last fifty years, has been organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. The exhibition’s 100 paintings, sculptures, and drawings were selected by Dr. John Sillevis, curator of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.

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A Major Review of Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
 Art Services International has assembled the biggest American showing of Pre-Raphaelite work in recent memory from the collection of the Delaware Art Museum.   Bend Weekly, a newspaper from Bend, Oregon,  published a major review of Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum at its final venue, the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park.
John Everett Millais, [1829-1896] "The Waterfall" (also called Running Water, Landscape Study of a Waterfall, A Study, and Background for a Portrait of John Ruskin) 1853, oil on panel, courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum
 

 
 
 
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San Antonio Launch of Botero Show Attracts Record Attendance!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Fernando Botero, private collectionClick on the "read more" link below to view the reception for The Baroque World of Fernando Botero in San Antonio, Texas. More than 2,000 people people viewed the exhibition on opening day, May 25!
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Countdown to The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
 
San Antonio, one of the country's most distinctive cultural centers, with a deep, enduring pride in Hispanic arts and artists, will be the first U.S. stop on a long-anticipated retrospective exhibition entitled The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, which features Botero's paintings, prints and sculptures from the artist's personal collection.
Fernando Botero in his studio

 
 
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The Chronicle Review praises The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
Friday, February 16, 2007

Fernando Botero, "Man on Horseback," 2002, chalk on paper, Private CollectionThe Chronicle Review published a review of The Baroque World of Fernando Botero titled "Good and Big."  The author attempts to define the source of Botero's fascination, describing him as "an artist of contradiction."


 

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Saint Louis photos of Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Installation Photo of "Waking Dreams:The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum," 2007, Saint Louis Art MuseumA selection of photos of the Saint Louis Art Museum installation of Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum.
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Art Services International Selects Prospect Technologies
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Washington, DC - Art Services International (ASI) has selected Prospect Technologies to create a new e-business Web site to support its extensive art exhibition operations. ASI, an Alexandria, Virginia based non-profit educational institution, organizes and circulates fine art exhibitions of the highest quality to museums and galleries in the United States and abroad.

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