Three American artists have been selected as the 1990 "Artists at Giverny," to live and work for six months in Giverny, France, at the estate of Claude Monet, the French Impressionist painter.
They are painter Nancy Friese of Danbury, Conn., and sculptors Cathy Ellen Stone of Sacramento, Calif., and Barbara Zucker of Burlington, Vt.The "Artists at Giverny" program is funded by Reader's Digest, which has announced that the 3-year-old program will be extended for a fourth year.
MOMA-ABRAMS BOOK DEAL
NEW YORK (AP) - The Museum of Modern Art and Harry N. Abrams Inc. announced that effective July 1, 1990, Abrams would be the distributor to bookstores and other bookselling establishments in the United States and Canada of exhibition catalogs and collection-based titles published by the museum.
Under this arrangement, Abrams will distribute approximately 70 backlist titles as well as future publications related to the museum's collections and exhibitions.
PRINTMAKING
WASHINGTON (AP) - "Provincetown and the Art of Printmaking" surveys the outpouring of creativity in the printmaking medium in this Massachusetts town since 1914.
The exhibit of 62 works by 59 artists opens June 30 at the Kirkpatrick Center Museum Complex in Oklahoma City, where it will be on view until Aug. 12. It's been organized by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum Inc., and it will travel to other cities under the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
The itinerary includes venues at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 8-Oct. 21; the Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, Nov. 29-Jan. 11, 1991; Oglebay Institute Mansion Museum, Wheeling, W.Va., Feb. 3-May 19, 1991; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, W.Va., June 22-Aug. 4, 1991; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Ga., Aug. 23-Oct. 6, 1991; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wis., Jan. 11-Feb. 23, 1992, and the Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Mich., March 14-April 26, 1992.
AYCOCK SCULPTURE
MOUNTAINVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - This season, in its 30th anniversary year, Storm King Art Center is presenting an exhibition of the works of the American sculptor Alice Aycock, through Oct. 31.
The exhibition, "Complex Visions: Sculpture and Drawings by Alice Aycock," consists of works which combine mystical ideas and futuristic science, mirrors and symbolism, with a special playful magic.
It features 11 sculptures in metal, wood, glass and concrete, many with moving parts, and 11 large-scale mixed media drawings. Four of the largest sculptures, including one belonging to the center's permanent collection, are installed outdoors. The rest of the works are in the center's galleries.
The renowned art center and museum occupies a 400-acre park in the Hudson Valley about 55 miles north of New York City and is devoted to post-1945 sculpture.