BERLIN (REUTERS).- Banksy, the secretive British artist whose work has appeared on city streets around the world, said on Sunday he hoped his documentary film “Exit Through The Gift Shop” will raise the standing of urban art. But the anonymous graffiti artist with a cult following said in a shadowy video message to audiences at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday before the screening of his film that it was possible it could have the complete opposite effect.
 
“I guess my ambition was to make a film that would do for graffiti art what ‘The Karate Kid’ did for martial arts — a film that would get every schoolkid in the world picking up a spray can and having a go,” Banksy said of his first film. “As it turns out, I think we might have a film that does for street art what ‘Jaws’ did for waterskiing.”
 
Banksy’s voice was altered and his face concealed, as in the documentary….

 
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Secretive Urban Artist Banksy Shows Film in Berlin Film Festival

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LOS ANGELES, CA.- Following a worldwide search, the Board of Trustees of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), announced today it has voted unanimously to appoint Jeffrey Deitch as the museum’s new director, effective June 1. Deitch [DIEtsch], 57, is one of New York’s leading gallerists, specializing in modern and contemporary art, and he has a 30-year career as an independent curator who has produced innovative exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world. As an art advisor to some of the world’s leading institutional and private collectors, he has helped build a number of major international contemporary art collections……

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MOCA Board of Trustees Names New York Gallerist Jeffrey Deitch as Museum Director

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PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA, has established itself among U.S. and international art collectors as one of the nation’s premier galleries with shows by Monet, Rauschenberg and diverse, up-and-coming young artists. Today it announces a world-class Picasso exhibition that will survey the master’s paintings, drawings and sculptures from several of his major periods, including Cubism, and will highlight an important private collection of 80 pieces….

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Major Picasso Exhibition Featuring Unique Paintings at Heather James Fine Art

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LONDON.- This autumn, the Hayward Gallery presents a major retrospective of Ed Ruscha’s paintings, in celebration of his 50-year career. Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential artists at work today and this exhibition traces the development of his paintings across five decades, from his contributions to Pop Art in the early 1960s to his paintings comprising words and phrases and his explorations of iconic American landscapes.

Detail of Ed Ruscha's Back of Hollywood

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Major Retrospective of Ed Ruscha’s Paintings at the Hayward Gallery

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NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announced the loan of nine European paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of Old Master pictures in the world, particularly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in 2011, presents an exciting opportunity to introduce American audiences to this institution’s collection through nine of its greatest paintings.

Canaletto painting to be shown at the Frick

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Frick Collection Announces European Painting Exhibition for 2010

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NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum , announced today that Carmen Giménez has been named Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, a position formerly held by the late Robert Rosenblum from 1996 to 2006. Ms. Giménez, who has been Curator of Twientieth-Century Art since 1989, will assume her new expanded position immediately. “We are thrilled that Carmen will take on this important curatorial role at the Guggenheim,” said Armstrong. “Carmen has an exceptional eye and a wealth of knowledge.

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Carmen Giménez Named Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Guggenheim

Since I’m in San Francisco this weekend, I thought I’d pass on this selection from regular favorite ArtDaily about the next show to open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From September 12 through December 20, 2009, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will present two exhibitions organized by Lisa Sutcliffe, SFMOMA’s assistant curator of photography: The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography and Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea. The exhibitions feature pictures from SFMOMA’s extensive collection of postwar Japanese photography, one of the most highly regarded in the country, and from the museum’s growing collection of contemporary photographs from China, Japan, and Korea. The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography, the museums’ first survey of postwar Japanese pictures, will include nearly a hundred works from the 1960s through the 1990s, as well as a number of rare books and magazines.

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SFMOMA Features Two Exhibitions of Extraordinary Asian Photography

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