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Events for 02/28/2010

Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness [More Info]
10/03/2009 to 09/05/2010

The quest for human rights and the search for personal fulfillment, as proposed in the 1776 American Declaration of Independence, provide the starting point for this upcoming international exhibition curated by Roger Manley. Works by the last surviving descendant of the Tsars of Russia, Iroquois Indians, French Revolutionaries, illegal immigrants, Algerian War veterans, Guantánamo Bay detainees, Holocaust survivors, incarcerated prisoners, African-American civil rights activists and Iraqi doctors are among the 50 visionary artists to be featured. Renaldo Kuhler’s vast imaginary country of Rocaterrania, Tilden Stone’s masterful Furnitures of Secrets, and Duncan Laurie’s Purr Generator (a “happiness machine”) are among the numerous works that will never have been shown publicly before. "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" is the 15th thematic mega-exhibition produced by the American Visionary Art Museum – America's official national museum for self-taught, intuitive artistry – and runs until September 5, 2010. Regular Admission.

The Christmas Story exhibit at the Walters Art Museum
12/03/2009 to 02/28/2010

"The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts" draws on the Walters holdings and in an anonymous private collection.

The Cornaro Missal [More Info]
12/06/2009 at 10:00 AM to 02/28/2010 at 05:00 PM

In the early 16th century, Cardinal Patriarch Marco Cornaro commissioned the famous illuminated manuscript that has become known as the Cornaro Missal. A missal is a book containing all of the prayers and responses to celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year. In the early 1600s, the missal was bound in a Roman binding of elaborately tooled leather in a French fanfare-style design. A masterpiece of Italian Renaissance art by an anonymous artist from northern Italy, the missal was later acquired by the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family. Seized by the Nazis on the eve of World War II, the missal was returned to the Rothschilds.

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