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Today is 09/04/2010

06/10/2007 - 11/21/2007 www.labiennale.org/en/
Venice Biennale
The formal Biennale is based at a park the Giardini that houses 30 permanent national pavilions. The assignment of the permanent pavilions was largely dictated by the international politics of the 1930s and the Cold War. As a result a number of nationalities are represented who do not have a strong visual arts tradition. There is no single format to how each country manages their pavilion though in most cases they are dedicated to a presentation of a single artists work. The pavilion for Great Britain is always managed by the British Council while the United States assigns the responsibility to a public gallery. The Giardini includes a large exhibition hall that houses a themed exhibition curated by the Biennale's director.
Venice
Venice . Italy

08/25/2006 - 11/26/2006 www.lbma.org
Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
This exhibition looks critically at images made of and by African Americans and the role those images have played in fostering racial identity during a period of radical social change. In its exclusive west coast presentation, Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century features approximately 70 works in all media, including paintings, photographs, silhouette profiles, book frontispieces and popular prints. Curated by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of African American Studies at Harvard University, the exhibition looks critically at images of, and in many cases by, African Americans. Featured artists include Joshua Johnston, Ethan Allen Greenwood, William Matthew Prior, Moses Williams, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Gilbert Stuart, Raphaelle Peale and Susan Sedgewick, among many others.
Long Beach Museum of Art
Long Beach California

06/04/2006 - 09/14/2006 www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=exhibition&par1
The Architecture of Gee's Bend Quilts
The Architecture of Gee "s Bend Quilts features brilliant, bold, and dynamic quilts that are as much reminiscent of abstract paintings as of traditional American quilts. The group of 45 women who created these quilts spans four generations of the isolated, all-black community of Gee's Bend, Alabama. The 70 quilts in the exhibition provide a fascinating look at the work of 20th-century artists who lived and worked in solitude."
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston Texas

04/30/2004 - 09/24/2004 www.pmcaonline.org
Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar
"The exhibition will feature thirty-six objects, including mixed media sculptures, assemblages, collages and a collaborative installation created by tbe Saars. Twelve key works by each artist, representing the full chronological range and stylistic e'~olution of their oeuvre, v4/I be arranged according to overlapping themes thet underline the artists' family ties, multi-racial heritage and strong affinities to nature and African cultures. The works demonstrate a desire to reclaim the visual representation of African American women by exploring subjects including slavery, stereotypes of domestic labor and contentious historical images of the female body."
Pasadena Museum of California Art
Pasadena California

06/17/2006 - 10/22/2006 www.museumofglass.org
Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scott
This 30-year retrospective of 60 works created since 1970 includes sculpture, jewelry, prints, and textiles as well as videos and photographs of Scott's performance and installation work, making for an excellent overview of her varied and potent artistic career. Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scott is a visually dazzling and intellectually challenging retrospective of the work of an important American artist.
Museum of Glass
Tacoma Washington