Upon its completion in 1878, Jules Tavernier’s "Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California" was hailed in a San Francisco newspaper as “by far the most remarkable picture ever painted on the Pacific Coast.” The French-born artist’s painting now returns to California for the first time in more than 140 years as the central focus of the Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo exhibition at the de Young. The exhibition includes more than a dozen paintings, watercolors, prints, and photographs by Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) and puts forth a new interpretation of his career masterwork and his other compositions of the Western United States by offering a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, including those of Pomo cultural leaders and curators. Also on view are more than fifty historic and contemporary Pomo baskets and regalia pieces that celebrate the enduring artistry and resiliency of the Pomo artists over several generations and highlight their continued cultural presence in their homelands today.

The exhibition runs from December 18, 2021 - April 17, 2022 at the de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr., San Francisco, CA 94118.

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The exhibition "Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment", features approximately 80 works of art plus photographs and natural history specimens from the artists’ collections. This interdisciplinary project takes flight from the influential series of paintings The Gems of Brazil (1863-64) by Martin Johnson Heade, and expands outward to explore pollination in nature and ecology, cultural and artistic influence and exchange, and the interconnection between art and science extending from the nineteenth century to now.

The exhibition runs from November 20, 2021 - March 21, 2022 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, AR 72712.

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The 16th-century German artist Hans Holbein the Younger created portraits for a wide range of patrons, including scholars, statesmen, and courtiers, in Switzerland and England. Holbein’s drawings and paintings, enriched by inscriptions and evocative objects, offer richly detailed visual statements of personal identity. Explore the Renaissance culture of scholarship, self-definition, luxury, and wit in the first major presentation of Holbein’s art in the United States.

The exhibition runs from October 19, 2021 - January 9, 2022 at the Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90049.

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Due to the popularity and high attendance of the 15th ARC Salon Exhibition in Barcelona, the European Museum of Modern Art, (MEAM), has decided to expedite their normal packing process to allow the works in the show to remain on public view through the holidays! The show will be open to the public through January 8th, 2022.

Entries to the 16th ARC Salon Competition will be accepted from March 1 - June 16th, 2022.

The Southern Atelier is proud to present their apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2-fold course of study. In addition to traditional long term projects such as casts, master copies, portraits and figurative works, the apprenticeship curriculum highlights rigorous short, intermediate and long practice from the live model. This balanced approach develops hand eye coordination quickly and improves an artist's ability to see and capture life and movement dramatically while at the same time learning to finish works of art to the highest standards of excellence.

Spaces are limited to provide one-on-one instruction and detailed attention, so students can thrive in their study no matter their entry level. Throughout the apprenticeship program, students may also attend workshops at Southern Atelier given by visiting master artists from around the world. The Miano Apprenticeship is broken into trimester terms, for $3800 per term. Apprentices may benefit from having their own individual work area, teaching opportunities, public gallery representation, and a key to the Atelier studio, located in luminous Sarasota, Florida.

For application and enrollment information visit: Home | Southern Atelier (https://southernatelier.org/)

The Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens was inspired by the art and literature of classical antiquity. Presented amidst the antiquities collection at the Getty Villa, this exhibition juxtaposes the artist’s exhilarating drawings, oil sketches, and monumental paintings with rarely shown ancient objects, including exquisite gems owned by Rubens himself. Heroic nudes, fierce hunts, splendid military processions, and Bacchic revels attest to the artist’s extraordinary ability to translate an array of sources into new subjects.

The exhibition runs from November 10, 2021 - January 24, 2022 at the Getty Villa, Getty Villa Dr., Pallisades, CA 90272.

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The Master of Arts in Studio Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). The MA program consists of 30 credits of full-time study, entirely studio-based and completed over 3 summer sessions. Each summer session is 6 weeks in duration. Students may choose to complete all 3 summer sessions in person, or attend up to 2 out of the 3 summer sessions remotely. For those who study remotely, the required in-person session may take place at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, or at the academy’s campus in Florence, Italy.

The Florence Academy of Art is delighted to partner with Mandy Theis and School of Atelier Arts to offer this degree program. ​With its emphasis on classical methods, the course provides training in drawing and painting to art teachers seeking to use these skill-based techniques in their classrooms, and to anyone interested in learning how to make realistic artwork. Candidates are not expected to come into the program with high levels of technical skill. Instead, the program is designed to provide the knowledge and develop the skill set of candidates from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience.

For details visit www.florenceacademyofart.com

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Three hundred years ago, on 23 July 1721, Anna Dorothea Therbusch was born in Berlin, who would go on to become one of the most important women artists of the 18th century. To mark the tercentenary of her birth, in autumn of 2021 the Gemäldegalerie is honoring this extraordinary artist and forerunner of women’s emancipation with a focused special exhibition featuring key works from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s own collections.

The exhibition runs from December 3, 2021 - April 4, 2022 at the Gemäldegalerie, Matthäikirchplatz, Berlin 10785 Germany.

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For over 200 years, artists have been inspired to capture the beauty, violence, poetry, and transformative power of the sea in American life. Oceans play a key role in American society, and still today, the sea continues to inspire painters to capture its mystery and power.

In American Waters is a new exhibition in which marine painting is revealed to be so much more than ship portraits. Depicted by a diverse range of modern and historical artists, this exhbition presents the sea as an expansive way to reflect on American culture and environment, learn how coastal and maritime symbols moved inland across the United States, and consider what it means to be “in American waters.”

The exhibition runs from November 6, 2021 - January 31, 2022 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, AR 72712.

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The Alte Nationalgalerie is dedicating a long-overdue exhibition to the painter Johann Erdmann Hummel, an artist who, despite his historical significance, has long been neglected. Inventive reflections, nested spatial constructions and refined uses of light were some of Hummel’s key interests. The exhibition features some 45 paintings and 50 drawings by Hummel.

The exhibition runs from October 22, 2021 - February 20, 2022 at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodestrasse, Berlin 10178, Germany.

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Winter Enrollment Intensive Program - January 31, 2022
Summer Intake Intensive - April 12, 2022 - September 30, 2022 (with a 2 week break in August)

This course is a long and intensive program on portraiture. Composition studies, sketching practice, museum practice and artistic anatomy are also included in the curriculum. These subjects support and enhance deep comprehension of the complexities of portraiture. Students can choose from two major directions: drawing portraiture or painting portraiture. The course is recommended for both beginners and advanced painters, as the professor assists students both individually and in the group.

Course objectives include:

- Learning about the compositional arrangement of the canvas
- Understanding proportions of the big and small forms of the head
- Deepening anatomical analysis and its application in the drawing and painting process
- Refining details of the face (nose, eyes, lips and etc.)
- Developing a broader coloristic and tonal vision and elaborate implementation of all aspects
- Revealing physiological complexion of the model's character

Schedule: Monday to Friday (3 hours per day)

*Winter Enrollment Intensive Program is a One-Year program that contains the same amount of academic hours offered for one year in a shorter time frame. There are three evening classes included additionally in the curriculum weekly during the period of February - May.

Schedule: Monday to Friday (3 hours per day) plus 6 hours of evening courses weekly.

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Bozzetti are artist’s sketches. In oil or in drawing media, these small works often embody the grand idea of a composition – the generative moment. Bozzetti are an imaginative and beautiful part of the artist’s creative process. They can be compositional ideas, memory paintings, color studies or drawings.

ARC Approved Atelier Studio Incamminati will be exhibiting small works by faculty, alumni and students. This exhibition of “the art of the study” will spotlight how artists initiate or further investigate visual ideas as compelling works of art in their own right.

The exhibition runs from December 3, 2021 - January 14th with the Opening Reception on December 3, 2021 6-8pm EST at 1901 South 9th Street, 7th Floor, Bok Building, Philadelphia, PA 19148.

To RSVP, please email rsvp@studioincamminati.org.

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ARC Associate Living Master Svetlana Cameron is exhibiting at the National Pastel Society of Russia juried show. The exhibition is open from December 2 - 5, 2021 at the "Exposed" Art Center, 31 G Shabolovka St., Moscow, Russia.

Svetlana’s successful entries are two portraits done in her original mixed media drawing technique that involves the use of charcoal, sanguine and pastel pencils. The two sisters in these works chose to sit for their portraits in traditional Russian and Swiss dresses that represent the dual culture of their family.

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