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Fragile Wonders of China's Earth at Birmingham Museum
LONDON.- Throughout 2008, Birmingham City Council’s Museum and Art Gallery will be celebrating the vibrant art and culture of China by showing a series of diverse exhibitions. All will have their only UK showing in Birmingham. The programme of exhibitions and events is part of the national China Now festival that has been organised to coincide with the Beijing Olympics. There will be numerous Chinese art and craft demonstrations taking place at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, as well as further China Festival events taking place in the city.



Last Week News

May 6, 2008

Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Salutes Power of "Superheroes" Imagery in Fashion

Miller Brittain Retrospective at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Danish Sculptor Oivind Nygard Exhibits at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen

Sotheby's New York to Hold Sale of Latin American Art on May 29 and 30

Frances Stark: A Torment of Follies at the Secession in Vienna

Guillaume Bijl Separates Art and Social Reality at SMAK

Full Overview of Francis Bacon's Artistic Career at Palazzo Reale in Milan

Major Getty Exhibition Explores August Sander's Collective Portrait of Pre-World War II German Society

La Batalla de Treviño will be offered for sale at Sotheby's London in The Spanish Sale

Franklin Kelly to Become Deputy Director and Chief Curator of National Gallery of Art in October 2008

Exceptional Group of Drawings, Prints, and Rare Illustrated Books at the National Gallery

Lee Mingwei's Gernika in Sand on view at the Queensland Art Gallery

Peter Hutton Film Retrospective Opens at Museum of Modern Art in New York

Dots, Pulses and Loops at the National Gallery of Canada

Futurism and After: David Burliuk, 1882-1967 at The Winnipeg Art Gallery

Masters of 20th-Century Traditional Chinese Painting from the Collections of the National Gallery in Prague

AXA Art and Art Basel Continue and Expand their Relationship

May 5, 2008

Moderna Museet in Stockholm Presents Time & Place: Milano-Torino 1958-1968

MoMA Explores The Work of Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko in Exhibition

Kamen Stoyanov: At Arm's Length at Museum Moderner Kunst

Lawrence Schiller to Present Sixty Iconic Photographs of the Sixties

Jack Whitten; Sincerely, John Head; and Michael Gibson at The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Presents Guillaume Bijl

Sotheby's Annual Sale of Indian Art in London Realises GBP 4.2 Million

Getty Exhibition Explores the Visual Representations of Christ in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Joe Fafard's Running Horses Sculpture Inspires Patrons' $650,000 Gift to National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Shanghai Kaleidoscope Opens at The Royal Ontario Museum

May 4, 2008

Abstractions of Rigid Forms by Piet Mondrian Exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum

Art Now: Alan Michael Presents New Paintings at Tate Britain

Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International, includes Works by 40 Artists from 17 Countries

Google Teams Up with Leading Artists to Create New Themes for iGoogle

Sotheby's to Offer Important Old Master Paintings from Rau Collection

European Prints and Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art

Jewish Museum Milwaukee Opens Celebrating the Continuum of Jewish Heritage

Monumental Stone Cross, the First on Display in a U.S. Museum, on Special Loan to Metropolitan Museum

American Impressionism from Regional Collections at The Muskegon Museum of Art

Keith Haring Foundation Announces Events to Celebrate Haring's 50th Anniversary

May 3, 2008

First Major U.S. Exhibition in 20 Years for Abstract Expressionism at The Jewish Museum

Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Sotheby's New York to Offer Edward Hicks' The Peaceable Kingdom with the Leopard of Serenity

Goya's Paintings Travel Around Madrid for the Celebration of the 2nd of May

Whitney Museum of American Art to Present Polaroids: by Robert Mapplethorpe

Daniel Crooks, Jae Hoon Lee and Grant Stevens at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane

Bryan Adams Unveils Hear the World Ambassadors Photo Exhibit

Muraqqa': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin at Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Art Institute of Chicago Announces Major Contemporary Acquisitions

Graffiti Artist Banksy has turned a South London Tunnel into a Half-Mile Long Exhibition

May 2, 2008

World's Longest Bridge over the Sea Opens in China Connecting Shanghai with Ningbo

Whitney Museum Unveils Design by Renzo Piano for New Downtown Building

Christie's Sale of International and Contemporary Art in Dubai Reaches New Heights Realising $20 Million

New Landscape Works by Mary-Austin Klein: Collective Amnesia at Metro Gallery in Los Angeles

Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series Reunited for a Limited Time at the Phillips Collection

Print Lovers at 30: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving Honors the Nelson-Atkins Print Society

First Contemporary Art Exhibition Exploring Parades and Street Pageantry To Open at IMA

The Elms Lesters Painting Rooms Present The Adam and Ron Show

291: Photographers in the circle of Alfred Stieglitz at the National Gallery of Art of Victoria

Peter Henry Emerson and American Naturalistic Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Max Neuhaus: Circumscription Drawings and a New Sound Installation

May 1, 2008

Oskar Kokoschka Exhibit Exile and New Home 1934 to 1980 at the Albertina in Austria

Photographer Sheila Pree Bright's Young Americans to Premiere at High Museum of Art

An Exhibit of Eight Master Works of Art Selected by Dallas Museum of Art Educators to Open

Never Before Seen in Public Personal Photos of John Lennon to be Auctioned at Christie's

Glenn Brown Exhibits Paintings at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

National Portrait Gallery Reveals Shakespeares's Man of Sonnets Hidden in Painting of his Wife

Persian Gulf Incubator by Swiss Artist Marco Poloni at Fotohof in Salzburg

Moon in Reflection: The art of Kim Hoa Tram at the National Gallery of Victoria

Museum of Modern Art in New York Screens Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone

Herblock's Presidents: Puncturing Pomposity Opens at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

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1.- Jackson Pollock work "Number 19, 1948" sells for record $58.4 million at Christie's

2.- Exhibition of nude photography around 1900 on view at Berlin's Photography Museum

3.- Belize City officials say ancient thirty-meter high Mayan pyramid razed for road fill

4.- Hidden drawings from Nazi concentration camp on display at Jewish Museum in Berlin

5.- Records fall at Sotheby's contemporary art auction; Barnett Newman painting sells for $43.84M

6.- Death mask of Napoleon to be auctioned at Bonhams' Book, Map and Manuscript sale

7.- New Yorkers unnerved by neighbor's voyeuristic photos on view at Julie Saul Gallery

8.- Rare Vincent Van Gogh sketchbook copies up for unprecedented sale at museum store and online

9.- Leonardo DiCaprio environmental art auction at Christie's New York tops $38 million

10.- Hong Kong cries fowl as giant rubber duck by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman deflates
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