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Book Presentation

"Los Angeles: Portrait of a City" Fundraiser and Book Release Party in Hollywood Hosted by Diane Keaton and Benedikt Taschen

November 19, 2009
6671 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028, United States

Diane Keaton and Benedikt Taschen, along with Fendi and Vanity Fair, will be hosting a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Conservancy from 7pm-9pm at the historic "Crossroads Of The World" building to celebrate the release of an amazing photographic tribute to the City of Angels entitled "Los Angeles: Portrait Of A City". The $70 admission price includes a signed copy of the book "Los Angeles: Portrait of a City" by Jim Heimann, which Kevin Starr, and David L. Ulin also contributed to, published by TASCHEN. Guests will enjoy cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, guided tours of historic Cross Roads of the World (until 8pm), and more! Special thanks to Planet illogica and Little Dom's. Proceeds will directly benefit the Conservancy.

Details and Ticket Information are provided in the link below: http://www.laconservancy.org/events/events_taschen.php4
Book Presentation

"Magic 1400s-1950s Book" Talk and Signing at the Magic Castle in Hollywood

November 18, 2009
The Magic Castle, 7001 Franklin Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States

Members of the famous "Magic Castle" in Hollywood, CA will have a chance to hear about the production of TASCHEN's new book Magic: 1400's-1950s at the Peller Theatre from 8:00pm-10:00pm. The books authors Jim Steinmeyer and Mike Caveney as well as TASCHEN editor Noel Daniel will be presenting a slideshow as well as giving a brief talk about the making of the book. A book signing will take place shortly following the talk, books will be available for purchase.
Exhibition

Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity

November 08, 2009 - January 25, 2010
MoMA, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019, Tel.: (212) 708-9400, United States

The exhibition gathers over four hundred works that reflect the broad range of the school’s productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting, and sculpture, many of which have never before been exhibited in the United States.
Exhibition

Caravaggio: The Supper at Emmaus

October 10, 2009 - January 31, 2010
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60603-6404, United States

This is an extremely rare opportunity to view firsthand one of the most highly regarded paintings by one of the most influential Western artists of all time. There are very few paintings by Caravaggio in American museums, and none that can rival this painting in its immediate impact. The Supper at Emmaus, painted in 1601 for a Roman nobleman, comes from the outset of a new, mature phase of the master’s career in which he treated great religious subjects with uncompromising realism, while at the same time employing his trademark contrasts of light and dark to great dramatic effect. In this revelatory image, two of Christ’s disciples have just recognized that the stranger at their table is none other than Christ himself, reappearing to them after his death and Resurrection.
Book Presentation

Kevan Reagan to sign and launch "Alex Steinweiss, Inventor of the Modern Album Cover" at TASCHEN Store Beverly Hills

November 18, 2009
TASCHEN Store Beverly Hills, 354 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, Tel: 310.274.4300, United States

The TASCHEN Store Beverly Hills will host author Kevin Reagan on December 3rd from 7-9pm, as he signs copies of his new remarkable graphic design collector's edition book "Alex Steinweiss, Inventor of the Modern Album Cover". This will be the official launch party for the book and the first TASCHEN collector's edition event that the TASCHEN Store Beverly Hills will do this year.

Alex Steinweiss invented the album cover as we know it, and created a new graphic art form. In 1940, as Columbia Records’ young new art director, he pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company took a chance, and within months its record sales increased by over 800 per cent. His covers for Columbia—combining bold typography with modern, elegant illustrations—took the industry by storm and revolutionized the way records were sold.

This tome includes essays by three-time Grammy Award-winning art director/designer Kevin Reagan and graphic design historian Steven Heller; Steinweiss’ personal recollections from an epic career; and extensive ephemera from the Steinweiss archive, most of it never before published.

Kevin Reagan is a triple Grammy Award-winning art director, also honored by the AIGA, Print, and Communication Arts. As former art director of Geffen, MCA, and Maverick, he designed packages for Madonna, Beck, Sonic Youth and many others.

This event is free and open to the public. Space will be limited however, so please rsvp to Store-Beverly(at)taschen.com to ensure your admittance.
Exhibition

Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius

October 06, 2009 - February 21, 2010
High Museum of Art; 1280 Peachtree Street N.E; Atlanta, Georgia 30309, United States

Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius will feature approximately 50 works, including more than 20 sketches and studies by Leonardo, some of which will be on view in the United States for the first time.Through an examination of the sculpture that Leonardo studied, the drawings he created for his own sculptural projects (the majority of which were never realized) and his interactions with other Renaissance sculptors, the exhibition sheds new light on Leonardo's seminal role in the development of Renaissance sculpture and the work of artists who followed him.
Exhibition

Alias Man Ray

November 15, 2009 - March 14, 2010
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New York NY 10128, Tel: 212.423.3200, United States

Alias Man Ray presents a fresh look at the diversity of Man Ray's body of work, examining it in the context of his lifelong cover-up of his Russian-Jewish immigrant past and his suppression of his background.
Exhibition

Matisse: The Thousand and One Nights

November 21, 2009 - January 24, 2010
Carnegie Museum of Art; 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080, United States

Matisse was 81 when he created the colorful and exuberant The Thousand and One Nights of 1950, with its fanciful magic lamps, dancing plant forms, and hearts. The design of this work was inspired by Scheherazade, the narrator of the Arabian Nights, a centuries-old Middle Eastern epic tale. The large paper cutout in the museum’s collection is a visitor favorite, but because of its fragile nature it can only be on view for a limited time.
Exhibition

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction

September 17, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art; 945 Madison Ave New York, NY 10021, United States

The exhibition includes more than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by O'Keeffe as well as selected examples of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographic portrait series of O’Keeffe. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by the organizers, excerpts from the recently unsealed Stieglitz-O’Keeffe correspondence, and a contextual chronology of O'Keeffe's art and life.
Exhibition

Paul Kasmin Gallery To Open New Walton Ford Exhibition

November 12, 2009 - December 23, 2009
Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Ave., New York, NY 10001, Tel: 212.563.4474 Fax: 212.563.4494, United States

As a follow up to the successful 2008 Walton Ford Exhibition, The Paul Kasmin Gallery, will present Walton Ford's newest works starting November 12th running through until December 23rd. For information regarding the exhibition please contact the gallery directly at inquiry(at)paulkasmingallery.com

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