FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 5, 2008
Contact: Holly Baxter, (415) 350-5595

Baxter & Cook Art Advisors selected to represent The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama.

San Francisco, CA- Baxter & Cook Art Advisors were chosen by the Committee of 100 for Tibet and The Dalai Lama Foundation as sales agents for the artwork exhibited in The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, currently on view at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco through March 16th, 2008. Baxter & Cook will place the artwork with private and corporate collections over the next two years.
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama is a multi-media art exhibition that brings together 88 respected artists representing 30 countries. The exhibition has been shown in Los Angeles and New York and will travel to Tokyo, Japan and other venues around the world for several years.  Many of the artists have created new work for the exhibition in a wide variety of media, including photography, painting, textiles, animation, and sculpture, video, and installation works.  Artists with work in the exhibition include Bill Viola, El Anatsui, Richard Avedon, Christo, Guy Buffet, Chuck Close, Marina Abramovic, Herb Ritts, and Anish Kapoor.  The Missing Peace iscollaboration between the Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation. The artists, both established and emerging, were selected because their work addresses themes that are embodied by the Dalai Lama: compassion, peace, unity of all things, impermanence, spirituality, belief systems, community, and people in exile, non-violence, happiness, and tolerance.
Purchase of artwork in The Missing Peace Project accomplishes the following:

• Provides financial support to assist the exhibition as it travels from city to city.
• Enables the exhibition and the messages of peace by His Holiness to reach many more people in the world.
• Provides a strong presence and recognition of the exiled Tibetan community and the Tibetan cause within Tibet.
• Provides a platform for the two non-profit co-sponsoring organizations – the Committee of 100 for Tibet www.c100tibet.org and The Dalai Lama Foundation www.dalailamafoundation.org
• Conveys the idea of a more peaceful world as envisioned by the Dalai Lama, who fully supports and is actively engaged in The Missing Peace Project

                
Located in San Francisco, Baxter and Cook Art Advisors assist private collectors and corporations in forming sophisticated collections of contemporary artwork. Baxter & Cook utilize galleries, auction houses and work directly with artists world-wide to acquire artwork for our clients. As San Francisco’s premier art authority, Baxter and Cook offer a full range of services that include research, presentation, procurement, shipping, framing, installation, site-specific commissions, curatorial services as well as exhibition design and installation. For further information regarding the purchase of artwork from The Missing Peace Project please contact Holly Baxter or Jana Cook at info@baxterandcook.com.  Artwork from The Missing Peace Project is viewable on the web at http://www.baxterandcook.com.