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• Our Editor Tours The Alvar Aalto Museum In Finland ~ The "Father Of Modernism"
• N.C. Museum of Art presents ' Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism '
• Williams College Museum of Art Presents Kota Ezawa
• Famous Names in Contemporary Art Featured at ARCOmadrid_ 2010
• British Museum presents First Exhibition to Examine the Aztec Emperor, Moctezuma II
• The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum shows Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, & Slevogt
• Corcoran Gallery of Art opened at The Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona
• Monet in Normandy at The Cleveland Museum of Art
• Arkansas Arts Center to Feature Mexican Art Since 1910
• Super Rich Collectors Ready to Spend Again at Auctions of Rare Art
• Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art hosts Christopher Wool Exhibition
• Matthias Geiger solos at SF Camerawork
• The FEMSA Collection, a Continental Vision at NHCC
• Renoir On View at National Gallery of Ireland
• The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hosts Jane Hammond ~ 'Paper Work'
• Tehran Museum Collection
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Our Editor Tours The Alvar Aalto Museum In Finland ~ The "Father Of Modernism" Posted: 17 Nov 2010 08:40 PM PST Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (1898-1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the nordic countries. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century. The Alvar Aalto Museum is sited on a slope leading down towards Lake Jyväsjärvi. Alvar Aalto's design for the museum building was completed in 1973. The building, together with that of the Museum of Central Finland (Alvar Aalto design1961) form a centre of culture in the immediate vicinity of the University of Jyväskylä. Both the museum buildings are representative of Aalto's 'white period', but they differ in their external appearance and scale from other public buildings of the same period. The decade that separates the design of the buildings can be seen particularly in the elevations; the rectangular shaped façade of the Museum of Central Finland rising up out of the slope is a reflection of the geometric practicality of Functionalism, while the Alvar Aalto Museum is more closed in, but at the same time more free in its form. Above a high, white-painted concrete plinth, the elevations of the Alvar Aalto Museum are clad in light-colored ceramic tiles named 'Halla', the Finnish word for 'Frost', and made by the famous Finnish porcelain manufacturers, Arabia. The vertical bands of baton-shaped, glazed tiles divide up the rampart-like elevations to form a relief that gives a strong effect of depth when the surface is washed with light. The rampart-like quality is emphasized by the vertical battens on the roof windows of the exhibition galleries, which cause the roof lights to merge into the façade when looked at from a certain angle. The entrance façade has no windows apart from a few tiny openings close to the doors. The surface of the massive doors is copper and there is a hint of marble on the left-hand side of the doorway. The roofscape is dominated by the east-facing roof lights.The Alvar Aalto Museum has a total area of 2550 m2 and a volume of about 8550 m3. Alvar Aalto's career spans the changes in style from (Nordic Classicism) to purist International StyleModernism to a more personal, synthetic and idiosyncratic Modernism. Aalto's wide field of design activity ranges from the large scale of city planning and architecture to interior design, furniture and glassware design and painting. It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland. He also has a few well known buildings in the USA, Canada, Italy, France and the Essen Opera House in Germany. Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale "sculptural" experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms. These experiments also led to a number of patents: for example, he invented a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture in 1932. His experimental method had been influenced by his meetings with various members of the Bauhaus design school, especially László Moholy-Nagy, whom he first met in 1930. Aalto's furniture was exhibited in London in 1935, to great critical acclaim, and to cope with the consumer demand Aalto, together with his wife Aino, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl founded the company Artek that same year. Aalto glassware is manufactured by Littala. "God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.". . . Alvar Aalto ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to visit Museums and cultural sites in mainland China, Korea, Vietnam. Myanmar, Thailand (Siam), Singapore, Bali and mainland Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, Malaysia, Japan,Mongolia, Russia and now Finland. Because of the Editor's travel we will be posting many interesting articles from our archives, some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in your magazine during the past six plus (6+) years . . Enjoy.

N.C. Museum of Art presents ' Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism ' Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:54 PM PST   RALEIGH, N.C. - On October 21, 2007, the North Carolina Museum of Art opens Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, an exhibition of forty paintings, including many superb examples of mid- and late- nineteenth- century French and American landscape. Ranging in date from the 1850s to the early twentieth century, the exhibition offers a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Claude Monet and Gustave Courbet and their most significant American followers including Frederick Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent.

Williams College Museum of Art Presents Kota Ezawa Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:52 PM PST Williamstown, MA – The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents Kota Ezawa: Re-Animating History.  The installation, on view in WCMA's Media Field Gallery, places three, single-channel animated works by Japanese-German artist Kota Ezawa side by side: The Simpson Verdict (2002); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2005); and Lennon, Sontag, Beuys (2004).  The artist will discuss his work at the museum on Tuesday, May 8 at 4:00 pm. All are invited to attend. The exhibition can be visited until 10 June, 2007.

Famous Names in Contemporary Art Featured at ARCOmadrid_ 2010 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:51 PM PST MADRID.- Once again, ARCOmadrid_ 2010, the International Contemporary Art Fair, offers a unique opportunity to see work by major names in the contemporary art world. Many of the top artists, those heading the art market rankings, will have work on show at the art fair in Madrid, making it a unique chance to catch some true master pieces of our time. From the grandmasters of the avant-gardes such as Picasso, Miró, Gargallo, Vieira da Silva or Duchamp, to more recent arrivals to international stardom like Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor or Paul Morrison; not forgetting seminal names from the second half of the 20th century, like Andy Warhol, Lucio Fontana or Thomas Schütte. The best art from recent decades is on view – and on sale – at ARCOmadrid.

British Museum presents First Exhibition to Examine the Aztec Emperor, Moctezuma II Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:49 PM PST LONDON.- Completing its series of exhibitions exploring power and empire, the British Museum focuses on the last elected Aztec Emperor, Moctezuma II. Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler is the first exhibition to examine the semi-mythical status of Moctezuma and his legacy today. Loans of iconic material from Mexico and Europe will be displayed, most for the first time in this country. The exhibition anticipates the anniversaries in 2010 of the Independence of Mexico (1810) and of the Mexican Revolution (1910). Moctezuma (reigned 1502-1520) inherited and then consolidated Aztec control over a politically complex empire that by the early 16th century stretched from the shores of Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. On view 24 September, 2009 through 24 January, 2010.

The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum shows Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, & Slevogt Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:48 PM PST COLOGNE.- Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt: three names that are representative of German impressionism. Three artists whose creative works captivate a broad public. Three masters who are united by one great passion: landscape painting. It is to this passion that the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum is devoting its very own special exhibition in summer 2010. Under the title "Liebermann, Corinth, Slevogt – The Landscapes" the museum shall be exhibiting around 90 works of these three German impressionists. On view 30 April through 1 August, 2010.

Corcoran Gallery of Art opened at The Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:45 PM PST BARCELONA, SPAIN - The Joan Miró Foundation is presenting "American Modernism", an exhibition sponsored by BBVA and selected by Sarah Newman, Sarah Cash and Philip Brookman, curators at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and by Martina Millà, programmes and projects coordinator at the Foundation. The show is an invitation to explore the complex emergence of modern art in the United States through more than 100 works by American artists from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century from the Corcoran Gallery of Art collection.

Monet in Normandy at The Cleveland Museum of Art Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:42 PM PST Cleveland Ohio - The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is thrilled to announce the opening of Monet in Normandy, a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the intimate relationship between Claude Monet and the stunning landscape of Normandy, on view February 18 through May 20, 2007, at CMA.  Organized by The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the North Carolina Museum of Art, Monet in Normandy is the first scholarly exhibition to examine Monet's lifelong attachment to this unique region of France.

Arkansas Arts Center to Feature Mexican Art Since 1910 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:41 PM PST LITTLE ROCK, AR.- In conjunction with a city-wide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, the Arkansas Arts Center will present the exhibition A Century of Revolution: Mexican Art since 1910 September 1 through November 21, 2010. A Century of Revolution is organized by the Arkansas Arts Center and curated by Sarah Holian.

Super Rich Collectors Ready to Spend Again at Auctions of Rare Art Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:39 PM PST NEW YORK, (REUTERS).- Fueled by international collectors and Wall Street investors reaping soaring profits, the beaten-down art market appears poised for a remarkable comeback after an 18-month stumble. Rare buying opportunities to buy works by such modern masters as Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko will spur stiff competition and hefty spending by deep-pocketed collectors at the critical spring sales hosted by auction powerhouses Sotheby's and Christie's, art experts predict. "You're going to see records set," said Baird Ryan, managing director of the private financial and consulting services firm Art Capital Group.

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art hosts Christopher Wool Exhibition Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:38 PM PST   PORTO, PORTUGAL - Christopher Wool is a highly esteemed painter belonging to the middle generation who has explored since the 1980s, in new and unprecedented ways, fundamental concerns of painting: relations between the picture plane and the shapes applied to it; colour contrasts between black and white; the painterly and the graphic; the unique and the reproduced. His exhibition at Serralves traces the migration of abstract imagery through different media of representation, namely free-flowing painting and silkscreened print. On view through 25 March, 2009 at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.

Matthias Geiger solos at SF Camerawork Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:36 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO, CA – This fall, SF Camerawork presents three new exhibitions of contemporary photography and new visual media including There is always a machine between us, an interactive and evolving exhibit of work by cultural producers around the world who use the Internet as source and inspiration; Tide, a solo exhibition of the work of Matthias Geiger, and the biennial show of work by the winners of the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography.

The FEMSA Collection, a Continental Vision at NHCC Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:30 PM PST Albuquerque, NM - The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) announces the opening of the traveling exhibition Colección FEMSA, una mirada continental.  Dr. Karen Cordero, Exhibition Curator and Professor in the Art History Department of the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City; and Lic. Rosa María Rodríguez Garza, FEMSA's Cultural Programs Coordinator, present this major exhibition. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, August 13, 2006.

Renoir On View at National Gallery of Ireland Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:28 PM PST DUBLIN, IRELAND - The National Gallery of Ireland has placed on view its recent acquisition, 'Young Woman in White Reading ' by French nineteenth-century master, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). The painting, which is the first Renoir to enter the collection, was purchased at auction, at Sotheby's Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art in New York (November 2007).

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hosts Jane Hammond ~ 'Paper Work' Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:25 PM PST Detroit, MI - The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hosts the special exhibition Jane Hammond: Paper Work . The exhibition features Hammond's unique works on paper made over the last 15 years from a myriad of techniques and materials, along with prints and books. All of the objects rely on the artist's "vocabulary" of 276 borrowed images which she has manipulated endlessly to produce visually rich and mentally stimulating compositions that provoke thought, feeling, and new meaning about interaction and communication. Zany and mysterious, the works are flat and three-dimensional, large and small, painted and drawn, photographed, and printed.

Tehran Museum Collection Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:24 PM PST THERAN.-  The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts is one of the most important museums of Asian modern arts. The museum was inaugurated in 1978 in Tehran and after 30 years, this museum's treasures are being publicly exhibited for the second time. Four years ago, in the period of Khatami's presidency in Iran and in the last days of the so called "reforms period", the treasures were exhibited on the walls of 9 galleries for the first time. The treasures of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts is one of the richest eastern modern treasures of the world which can be considered as the most important Asian museum of the world's contemporary arts.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 17 Nov 2010 07:23 PM PST This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

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