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NEW YORK - Dorothea Tanning, a leading Surrealist painter of the 1930s whose path had led her from the small town of Galesburg, Ill., to a whirlwind life in the international art world, died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 101. Her death was confirmed by Mimi Johnson, a niece. Married for 30 years to Surrealist painter and sculptor Max Ernst, Ms. Tanning became well known in her own right for her vivid renderings of dream imagery. Much later in life, after she had reached 80, she gained a different kind of attention when she began to...

John Tiffany, the celebrated British director of the current Broadway hit "Once," will return to the American Repertory Theater next year to stage "The Glass Menagerie," making it the first Tennessee Williams production ever by the Cambridge theater. The ART's 2012-13 subscription season will also include Taylor Mac's Obie Award-winning multimedia piece "The Lily's Revenge," an encore engagement of Banana Bag and Bodice's "Beo-wulf — A Thousand Years of Baggage," and the previously announced "Pippin" and "Marie Antoinette.

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a post-Impressionist French painter who bridged the gap between the Impressionism of the 19th century and the Cubist style of the 20th century. Although not famous in his lifetime, Cézanne is now considered one of the most important and influential painters in modern art history. Both Matisse and Picasso called him "the father of us all. " Art Institute of Chicago: Paul Cézanne www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=468 As this Art Institute of Chicago biography reveals, Cézanne "was a shy man who adopted a deliberately crude, rustic manner to...

The following was submitted by Anthony David Salon: What: Come meet K-9 Havoc and enjoy an evening of art and photography by Anthony Vitale and Nicole Vecchi, to benefit Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog, Inc. an independent, all-volunteer, non-profit organization, that Supports Massachusetts Police Dogs by helping provide essential equipment, especially bulletproof K9 vests. The exhibit will be up through the end of May. When: April 25, 7-9 pm  Where: Anthony David Salon, 120 Cambridge St, Burlington, MA. 781 272-0002.

Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo The following was submitted by the Peabody Essex Museum: The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces the endowment of its executive director position by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, long-time PEM supporters and world-renowned collectors of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art. Dan L. Monroe and his successors will be known as The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum, effective immediately.

LOS ANGELES — James N. Wood, president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who also worked for 25 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, has died. He was 69. Mr. Wood was found in his Los Angeles home late Friday. He died of natural causes, Mark Siegel, who chairs the Getty’s board of trustees, said in a statement Saturday. Siegel paid tribute to Mr. Wood’s accomplishments during his three years at the Getty Trust, including his focus on increasing collaboration among the trust’s museum, foundation, and research and conservation...

The following was submitted by Anthony David Salon: What: Come meet K-9 Havoc and enjoy an evening of art and photography by Anthony Vitale and Nicole Vecchi, to benefit Massachusetts Vest-a-Dog, Inc. an independent, all-volunteer, non-profit organization, that Supports Massachusetts Police Dogs by helping provide essential equipment, especially bulletproof K9 vests. The exhibit will be up through the end of May. When: April 25, 7-9 pm  Where: Anthony David Salon, 120 Cambridge St, Burlington, MA. 781...

The American Repertory Theater held its annual Valentine's gala - "ART Ever After" - with a fairy tale-themed party at the Castle at the Park Plaza. Guests included "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" star Phillip Boykin, who surprised the crowd with an impromptu performance of "Old Man River," accompanied by "Wicked" composer Stephen Schwartz, who played a set of his own music as well. (Schwartz played something from "Pippin" and then announced that he and ART artistic director Diane Paulus are hoping to work together, leading some to wonder if it might be a revival of "Pippin.

NEW YORK -- Clement Meadmore, a sculptor best known for his massive steel structures in abstract shapes, has died. He was 76. Mr. Meadmore died Tuesday of complications from Parkinson's disease, said Peter Rose, a New York art dealer who represented him. Often painted black and sometimes measuring more than 20 feet tall and 40 feet wide, Mr. Meadmore's structures combined elements of minimalism and abstract expressionism. They are displayed on the campuses of Columbia and Princeton Universities and are in the collections of the...

NEW YORK -- Elise Asher, a poet and painter who was known for her ability to mix verse with illustration, died from complications of a broken hip March 7 in her home, The New York Times reported yesterday. She was 92. Ms. Asher was the wife of Stanley Kunitz, former poet laureate of the United States. Her abstractionist work consisted of poetry rendered on canvas with oil or acrylics on Plexiglas. In other works, she described objects into poetic verse. Ms. Asher began showing her pieces in 1953 with a one-woman show and then a poetry collection, "The Meandering Absolute," in...

The American Repertory Theater held its annual Valentine's gala - "ART Ever After" - with a fairy tale-themed party at the Castle at the Park Plaza. Guests included "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" star Phillip Boykin, who surprised the crowd with an impromptu performance of "Old Man River," accompanied by "Wicked" composer Stephen Schwartz, who played a set of his own music as well. (Schwartz played something from "Pippin" and then announced that he and ART artistic director Diane Paulus are hoping to work together, leading some to wonder if it might be a revival of "Pippin.

NEW YORK - Dorothea Tanning, a leading Surrealist painter of the 1930s whose path had led her from the small town of Galesburg, Ill., to a whirlwind life in the international art world, died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 101. Her death was confirmed by Mimi Johnson, a niece. Married for 30 years to Surrealist painter and sculptor Max Ernst, Ms. Tanning became well known in her own right for her vivid renderings of dream imagery. Much later in life, after she had reached 80, she gained a different...

Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo The following was submitted by the Peabody Essex Museum: The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces the endowment of its executive director position by Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, long-time PEM supporters and world-renowned collectors of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art. Dan L. Monroe and his successors will be known as The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum, effective immediately.

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) was a post-Impressionist French painter who bridged the gap between the Impressionism of the 19th century and the Cubist style of the 20th century. Although not famous in his lifetime, Cézanne is now considered one of the most important and influential painters in modern art history. Both Matisse and Picasso called him "the father of us all. " Art Institute of Chicago: Paul Cézanne www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=468 As this Art Institute of Chicago biography reveals, Cézanne "was a shy man who adopted a...

SPACES: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth At: the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown. Through Sept. 5. 413-458-2303, www.clarkart.edu WILLIAMSTOWN - Photography has a love-hate relationship with the space-time continuum (don't we all?). Time, which the camera arrests, gives photography its raison d'être. Space eludes it. Two dimensions, no matter how hard they try, can never do the work of three. The height and width of a photographic image can at best provide only a simulacrum of the height,...

The Clark Art Institute has received two gifts worth a combined $4.5 million that will be used to endow a pair of critical jobs at the museum, freeing museum funds for other purposes. Officials said a $2.5 million gift from Robert and Martha Berman Lipp of New York City will fund the position of senior curator. Proceeds from the $2 million gift from Sylvia and Leonard Marx of Greenwich, Conn., will fund the position of director of collections and exhibitions at the Williamstown institute.

John Tiffany, the celebrated British director of the current Broadway hit "Once," will return to the American Repertory Theater next year to stage "The Glass Menagerie," making it the first Tennessee Williams production ever by the Cambridge theater. The ART's 2012-13 subscription season will also include Taylor Mac's Obie Award-winning multimedia piece "The Lily's Revenge," an encore engagement of Banana Bag and Bodice's "Beo-wulf — A Thousand Years of Baggage," and the previously announced "Pippin" and "Marie Antoinette.

NEW YORK -- Benny Andrews, a painter and teacher whose work drew on memories of his childhood in the segregated South, died of cancer Friday at his home in Brooklyn, his wife, Nene Humphrey, said yesterday. Mr. Andrews painted socially conscious works that addressed issues including the civil rights movement, the Holocaust, and the forced relocation of American Indians. Even in an era dominated by abstract art, he exhibited his work in galleries and won awards and prizes, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974.

WILLIAMSTOWN — “This being a tourist is exhausting,’’ said Bettye Wehrli. And I had to agree. It’s day four of a jam-packed tour, The Best of Massachusetts Art: Boston and the Berkshires. I’m tagging along with the Naperville Community Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago, a group with endless enthusiasm and stamina whose itinerary includes visiting nine museums, two historic homes, and one gallery in five days, squeezing in as much art appreciation as possible.

LOS ANGELES — James N. Wood, president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who also worked for 25 years at the Art Institute of Chicago, has died. He was 69. Mr. Wood was found in his Los Angeles home late Friday. He died of natural causes, Mark Siegel, who chairs the Getty’s board of trustees, said in a statement Saturday. Siegel paid tribute to Mr. Wood’s accomplishments during his three years at the Getty Trust, including his focus on increasing collaboration among the trust’s museum, foundation, and research and...