Irish Arts Lecture

Liam Kelly, senior lecturer of art and design at the University of Ulster, Ireland, will present a lecture titled "Northern Irish Art: Acts of Interrogation" at 3 p.m. Monday (March 5) in Room 119 of DeBartolo Hall at the University of Notre Dame.
The lecture, which is sponsored by the Keough Institute for Irish Studies, is free and open to the public.
Kelly, who earned his doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, is an expert on contemporary Irish art. He has served on the Visual Arts Committee of the Arts Council in Northern Ireland, and as vice president of the International Association of Art Critics in Paris.
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Picasso Pottery in London

Lord Attenborough will present his Picasso pottery collection in Leicester at the New Walk Museum and Gallery in July 2005. The collection was amassed over a 50 year period. It showcases familiar Picasso themes such as Mediterranean scenes, still life and bullfights.
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50 Years of Twombly

The enigmatically poetic oeuvre of one of the greatest living artists in America is celebrated in Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper, at the Whitney Museum of American Art from January 27 - May 8, 2005. Using a variety of materials and methods including paint, crayon, and collage.

Twombly continues to create a remarkably cohesive body of work that takes its inspiration from a vast array of sources, embracing everything from ancient mythology, epic poetry and the great battles of classical history to nature.
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Sculptor Anne Truitt Dies

For 40 years, Anne Truitt was a major figure in American art, famous for her graceful, richly painted minimalist sculptures of vertical blocks of wood. The blocks, standing 5 to 7 feet high, with coat after coat of acrylic paint, acquired a mesmerising, translucent visual intensity. Her rectangular sculptures were painted in subtle, precisely shaded colors set on slightly recessed bases and appear to hover just above the floor.

Her eyesight as a child was so poor when that until she got glasses, she didn't realize trees had individual leaves. She saw them as large masses of color and form. "I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form" she once wrote.
Truitt is in the permanent collections of many leading museums, including the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York.

Royal Art Supremo

Desmond Shawe-Taylor, director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London since 1996, has been appointed Surveyor of the Queen's pictures. Mr. Shawe-Taylor succeeds Christopher Lloyd, who is retiring in July. When he starts his new job in April, Mr. Shawe-Taylor will have curatorial responsibility for 7,000 oil paintings and 3,000 miniatures on display at the principal royal residences, which are all open to the public.
The new Queen's Galleries at Buckingham Palace, the Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh and the Drawings Gallery at Windsor Castle have exhibition programs showing different parts of the collection to the public.
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