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Artists Wanted's Annual Photography Competition: EXPOSURE

You are invited to participate in Artists Wanted's annual photography competition: EXPOSURE. Our goal is simple - to find amazing photographic talents and expose them to the world in the most potent way possible. Rewards and benefits will be given to all who participate.
One Grand Prize winner will be awarded a Manhattan gallery reception, international publicity and their choice of $10,000 cash or 1 year living rent free in a $1.2 million dollar apartment provided by The Edge in New York City.

Your Deadline is Monday, May 31st.
Send us your best work now at:
www.artistswanted.org

Our panel of judges including acclaimed photographer & filmmaker Lauren Greenfield, New York Times Photo Editor Maura Foley, MoMA Curator Nora Lawrence and JPG Magazine Founders Derek Powazek & Heather Powazek Champ, will choose one photographer for the Grand Prize:

• $10,000 cash or 1-year FREE living at a $1.2 million apartment at The Edge in New York City
• A Manhattan gallery reception
• Airfare & shipping to and from New York City for the event
• International publicity

The public will also cast their vote and the highest rated portfolio will receive the People's Choice Award:

• $2,000 in cash
• A Manhattan gallery reception
• Airfare & shipping to and from New York City for the event

All participants will receive:
An online portfolio searchable by gallerists, press and commercial buyers; A free digital subscription to JPG Magazine; $100 in discounts and credits from Zipcar.com; and discounts and freebies from our generous sponsors.

American Women on the March

By SUZY MENKES

NEW YORK — With noble heads held high and plain, determined faces, the women are on the march. They come from dead center, from the left and the right, an enfolding army in hazy black-and-white film footage, with a single message painted on a banner: Mr. President — How long must women wait for liberty? >

This frisson of emotion is followed by a foot-tapping surge of freedom: figures in shimmy dresses with bobbed and crimped hair twinkling with crystals, jazz music and a graphic cityscape overhead.

“American Women: Fashioning a National Identity” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum is the story of how the heiresses to robber baron fortunes, dressed in bustled European ball gowns, morphed into sparky, sporty Gibson girls. Having won the battle for suffrage and planted the seeds of feminism, they matured from flapper to screen siren. Stars such as Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Rita Hayworth, camping it up in old movies, make this a show with a Hollywood ending.

Except that a final, digitalized room brings the story into the 21st century, with rotating projections of influential women from Serena Williams to Michelle Obama.

“What was compelling was not the women — but their collective identities,” said Andrew Bolton, the exhibition’s curator. His task was to display historic pieces from 1890-1940 that the Met has received from the Brooklyn Museum, founded half a century earlier than the Costume Institute. Brooklyn is staging a parallel show of its master works.

The gala, set for Monday night and to be led by Anna Wintour of Vogue, Oprah Winfrey and Patrick Robinson, a chief of design at Gap, the event’s major sponsor, was intended as an action-packed, celebrity-filled event. From the hot air balloon suggesting a madcap sporty world to the yellow tulips spilling from white jugs on tables with wicker chairs, this was down-home simplicity (give or take the white piano destined to accompany the hip performer Lady Gaga.)

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Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art:Part of the “American Women: Fashioning a National Identity” at at New York’s Metropolitan Museum.

Picasso Painting Sets World Record

By: Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A 1932 Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress has sold for $106.5 million, a world record price for any work of art at auction. "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," which had a pre-sale estimate of between $70 million and $90 million, was sold at Christie's auction house on Tuesday evening to an unidentified telephone bidder. There were nine minutes of bidding involving eight clients in the sale room and on the phone, Christie's said. At $88 million, two bidders remained. The final bid was $95 million, but the buyer's premium took the sale price to $106.5 million. Conor Jordan, head of impressionist and modern art for Christie's New York, said he was "ecstatic with the results." "Tonight's spectacular results showed the great confidence in the marketplace and the enthusiasm with which it welcomes top quality works," he said. The striking work of Picasso's muse and mistress Marie-Therese Walter has been exhibited ... More