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New York, New York
“David Smith: A Centennial” sketches, 120 sculptures from artist’s, private collections
Any Top 5 list of the greatest American sculptors of all time has to include David Smith (1906-1965). He took the welded-steel constructions of Pablo Picasso and Julio González and pushed them in a new and utterly American direction. “David Smith: A Centennial,” a massive new exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum includes more than 120 sculptures from 1932 through 1965 as well as a selection of drawings and sketchbooks. The works have been drawn from the Smith estate as well as nearly 60 private and public collections.
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave., 212-423-3500, guggenheim.org
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Fort Worth, Texas
FOCUS: Adam Fuss Exhibit celebrates artist’s early fascination with world of nature
British artist Adam Fuss spent much of his early childhood exploring the outdoors, and it is this world his images of water droplets, butterfly chrysalises and children depict in “FOCUS: Adam Fuss,” an exhibit that runs March 5-
April 23 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The water droplet images are photograms, a cameraless process in which light and chemicals produce a unique image on photosensitive materials, while the pictures of
children are gelatin silver prints and the chrysalises are pigment prints. Admission is
$8 for adults; children under 12 are free.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., 817-738-9215, themodern.org
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Chicago, Illinois
“Light up the Night” illuminates river with free fireworks; offers music, LEGOs
To beat the winter blahs, Chicago’s Magnificent Mile is hosting free fireworks displays on Saturday nights through March 4. The first 1,000 visitors get complimentary holographic viewing glasses that transform the fireworks and the lights along the Magnificent Mile into a cascade of colored snowmen. There are also musical performances, tango lessons, LEGO model building and a fashion show. Activities start each Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in the
courtyard between the Chicago Tribune
Building and the Chicago River. Fireworks
begin at 6:30 p.m. and last about 10 minutes.
Pioneer Court, 401 N. Michigan Ave., 312-409-5560, themagnificentmile.com
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Vail, Colorado
Film Festival screens more than 70 films in four days; attracts celebs, powder hounds
This year’s Vail Film Festival, March 3-April 2, is expected to be as posh and splashy as 2005, when Luke Wilson and David Duchovny screened their directorial debuts. The opening-night party will be held at Donovan Pavilion on Gore Creek, with the filmmaker’s reception at Larkspur at the base of Golden Peak and the festival awards ceremony and party on-mountain at Vail’s Eagle’s Nest Marketplace. The celebrities attending haven’t been announced yet, but check around the hotels in the area that are offering special deals in conjunction with the event – you could be staying next door to someone famous. Vail Film Festival, 866-476-1092, vailfilmfestival.org
