Los Angeless, Calif - Back by popular demand after the sold out show in 2002, the ultimate disco dance party, Disco Fever 3, returns to the Hollywood Bowl featuring the legendary Kool & The Gang, joined by CHIC with 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, Nile Rodgers, and the ever-popular Village People. The show also features fan favorites including disco karaoke and special disco dancers onstage throughout the show. on Sunday, September 27, at 7:00 pm is an addition to the already stellar Hollywood Bowl 2009 summer season. Tickets go on sale Saturday, July 11, at 10 a.m.

Special guest disco diva superstars include Thelma Houston (“Don’t Leave Me This Way,” “Saturday Night, Sunday Morning,” “If It’s The Last Thing I Do,” “You Used To Hold Me So Tight”); Yvonne Elliman (“If I Can’t Have You,” “Love Me,” “Hello Stranger,” “Love Pains”) and Maxine Nightingale (“Right Back Where We Started From,” “Love Hit Me,” “Lead Me On”).

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Berlin, Germany - The exhibition "Dream Images" from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection can be seen at the New National Gallery from June 17 to November 22. This special exhibition covers more than 150 works of modern classics from renowned artists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. The show is supplemented by selected single works from the National Gallery's own collection as well as by historic portraits by famous photographers such as Brassaï, Man Ray, and Arnold Newman.

The East of England shakes up the visual art world this summer with an exhilarating range of international artists from Louise Bourgeois and Marc Quinn to Mariano Pensotti and Matthew Darbyshire, in a celebration of contemporary visual art. Contemporary Art Norwich (CAN09), delivered for the first time by Norfolk & Norwich Festival, will stage exhibitions, performances, residencies, commissions, site specific, large-scale live art events and urban interventions. CAN09 launches on 11 July with the opening of the highly acclaimed EASTinternational 2009 and runs throughout the summer bringing over 100 artists from across Europe and the world to Norwich. The seven CAN09 partners are Norfolk & Norwich Festival, EASTinternational, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich Arts Centre, OUTPOST Gallery and Norfolk Contemporary Art Society. Supported by Arts Council England East, Norwich City Council and Norwich University College of the Arts. To find out more visit www.nnfestival.org.uk/Contemporary-Art-Norwich Dates: July 11 to - August 31, 2009

At last, Carlos Acosta returns to the London Coliseum with an entirely new version of his Olivier Award-winning show. Featuring dance stars from The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, The Bolshoi Ballet and Ballet Nacional de Cuba, this is the London dance event of Summer 2009. An extraordinary highlight will be a reprise of one of ballet's most unforgettable recent performances: Carlos dancing to the Pas de deux from Spartacus with the Bolshoi's Nina Kaptsova. There are only 5 performances and tickets are available from only £15

The Cast: Carlos Acosta, Florencia Chinellato - Hamburg Ballet, Amilcar Moret - Hamburg Ballet, Begona Cao - English National Ballet, Arionel Vargas - English National Ballet, Roberta Marquez - The Royal Ballet, Steven McRae - The Royal Ballet, Nina Kaptsova - The Bolshoi Ballet, Miguel Altunaga - Rambert Dance Company, Veronica Corveas - Ballet Nacional de Cuba . Further information, use this link . . .

Los Angeles, Calif - The Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2009 Hollywood Bowl Season opens with all - Prokofiev concert, featuring Oscar-winning film Peter and the Wolf, Bowl debut of Ukrainian Conductor Kirill Karabits, and fireworks - First Week Lineup Includes Performances by Pianist Vladimir Feltsman in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Joshua Bell in Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. Dates: July 7th and 9th at 8:00 p.m.

NEW YORK, March 6, 2009—The Museum of Modern Art presents Monet’s Water Lilies, an installation that will, for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004, feature the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include a mural-sized triptych (Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c. 1920) and a single panel painting of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated on his property in Giverny, France (Water Lilies, c. 1920), as well as The Japanese Footbridge (c. 1920-22) and Agapanthus (1918-19), depicting the majestic plants in the pond’s vicinity. These works have long held a special status with the Museum’s audiences and, much like the MoMA's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, these paintings provide a modern oasis in the center of midtown Manhattan. These works will be complemented by a few loans of closely related paintings. The exhibition, on view from September 13, 2009, to March 29, 2010, in the Special Exhibitions Gallery on the second floor, is organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art.

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London, England - June 30, 2009 It is with great regret that The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair and Grosvenor House announce that The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair will no longer be
continued.

For 75 years the hotel and the art and antiques trade have enjoyed a happy and productive relationship, but it has been decided in consultation with the British Antique Dealers’ Association and The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair Executive Committee that the Fair is no longer financially viable. The closure of this muchloved fair, however, presents an opportunity for the trade to mount a new event commensurate with maintaining London as the centre of the art market.

"It has been a privilege for Grosvenor House to host the Art & Antiques Fair for so long and I am delighted we were able to celebrate its 75th anniversary together", said Anthony Stewart-Moore, General Manager of the hotel, "I would like to pay tribute to Simon Phillips and the Executive Committee of the Fair as well as its longstanding Director, Alison Vaissière and her organising team for working so hard for so many years to produce one of the finest art and antiques fairs in the world.”

Simon Phillips, Chairman of the Fair, said that the 2009 event had been a great success and commented: “It is a great disappointment to me that The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair has come to an end. I quite understand that it no longer makes financial sense to continue the Fair. It has been a very long and happy partnership but most great events have a lifespan and a Diamond Anniversary is a fitting point on which to end on a positive note.“

The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair was launched in September 1934 to great acclaim. It was a groundbreaking event setting the standards that all others strived to follow. The final Fair – an acknowledged success - was held in June 2009.

Brussels, Belgium - Launched 2006 within the framework of the Fashion and Design year, the Design September festival brings together fifty events concerned with design. Furniture, objects, industrial products, graphic design, architecture: the spectrum of applications of this industrial discipline is enormous. And it affects a broad public. For the fourth consecutive year, a crowd of associations, institutions and other independent organisations have tuned up their violins to offer, between 10 September and 2 October 2009, a rich and varied programme: exhibitions, conferences, private showings, film screenings, debates, visits to designers’ studios, flea market, city tours, pecha kucha, and so on.

While championing its special features and giving preference to Belgian players, Design September is wide open to the international dimension. This year once again the festival will be able to take pride in inviting a broad panel of internationally recognised designers: Tom Dixon, Front Design, Mathieu Lehanneur and BarberOsgerby will thus take over from Ron Arad, Patrick Jouin, David Trubridge, the Bouroullecs, Alberto Meda, the 5.5 Designers, Brendan McFarlane, Maarten Baas, Jurgen Bey and Ora Ito. Moreover, this year for the first time Design September is organising an international colloquium on packaging design and European awards for design and innovation.

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Vienna, Austria - As the leading auction house in the German-speaking world, the Dorotheum maintains a consistent strategy of internationalisation and as a result has achieved a double-figure percentage increase in sales. The development of international contacts – a further representative office was opened in Rome as recently as the spring of 2009 – has paid off for the Dorotheum: in the first half of the year auction sales rose by a double-figure percentage compared to the previous year.

At the beginning of April the Dorotheum shone with Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings – both subject areas which are becoming increasingly important. The prodigious price of 306,300 Euros was paid by an art collector for “Die Milde Gabe” (“The Charitable Gift”), painted in oil on wood by the most distinguished of the Austrian Biedermeier artists, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. As a result of these successes, this autumn the Dorotheum will be in a position to offer an excellent collection of Biedermeier paintings including pictures by Waldmüller and Gauermann.

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London, England - A unique exhibition of portraits from The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh will be hosted by The Fleming Collection this autumn. More than 40 paintings and photographs from the Gallery’s permanent collection will go on show from 15 September to 19 December 2009. It will be a rare opportunity to see a selection of Scotland’s finest examples of portraiture, many of which have never been on show in London before.

The exhibition, curated by James Holloway, Director of The Scottish National Portrait Gallery,
will include portraits of some of Scotland’s most famous historical figures such as Mary
Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Rennie MacIntosh and Robert Louis
Stevenson. It will also show some of Scotland’s contemporary personalities such as Gordon
Brown, the actor Ewan MacGregor, and the author J.K. Rowling.

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