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• Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, Germany ~ A Major Museum of Contemporary Art ~ Toured By Our Editor
• American International Fine Art Fair To Feature Rare Treasures
• ' An Incomplete World ' works from The UBS Art Collection
• Eugene Boudin Exhibition Honors the Centenary of National Gallery of Art
• CENTRAL EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY PREMIERES AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
• Francis Bacon's Artistic Career at the Palazzo Reale in Milan ~ A Full Overview
• Sotheby's Returns to Chatsworth with a Selling Exhibition of Modern & Contemporary Sculpture
• The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum shows Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, & Slevogt
• Ai Weiwei Presents New Works Especifically Made for Haus der Kunst in Munich
• Is It Art ? Damien Hirst shows Dead Meat-Doves-and Fishes
• Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosts Survey of Marcel Dzama's Outrageous Art
• Design Museum Celebrates Visionary Design from London's Creative Mavericks
• Olyvia Fine Art to exhibit Modern and Contemporary Drawings in London
• No Camera : The Photogram at Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, Germany ~ A Major Museum of Contemporary Art ~ Toured By Our Editor Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:36 PM PST The Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, Germany is one of the world's most important museums of contemporary art and, despite being a relative newcomer on the scene, has in the space of less than two decades established a firm place for itself in the international museum scene. Ever since MMK first opened in 1991, it has played a major part in the cultural and social life of the city. Its post-modern architecture is considered unique. The MMK Collection includes over 5,500 works of international art, ranging from the 1960s to the present. The works cover all the genres of modern and contemporary art, ranging from painting, sculpture, video and photography to light, sound and performance art. The MMK was founded in 1981. In 1983, there was an open competition held for proposals for the museum building. On May 17, 1983 Vienna-based architect Hans Hollein was awarded 1st Prize and commissioned to handle the project. MMK officially opened in June 1991. With his design for the museum Hans Hollein has accomplished an unusual architectural feat. He has succeeded in creating a triangular building which not only fits neatly into the triangular space available to him, but which is an experience to discover, and leaves a lasting impression on the visitor. The main entrance to the museum ensures a clear access point and linking the edifice to the city's ancient heart. The building is structured around a central hall that is suffused with natural light from above, and from which you can not only see but also reach all MMK's various rooms and floors. What makes the architecture so exciting is the relationship of the individual rooms to one another, their varying proportions, and the specific use of light in the building as a whole. MMK contains almost 40 exhibition rooms, and, owing to the particular shape of the building, they have been individually designed such that it is hard to compare them with customary museum rooms encountered elsewhere. The result is a marvelous balance of architecture and art. Visitors perceive the architecture thanks to the art, and vice versa. The exhibition area measures 4,150 sq.m. of which 1,472 sq.m. has natural light. The museum has also another building, the MMK Zollamt which is a satellite exhibition site and is located in a building directly opposite the museum that once was home to the City of Frankfurt's Main Customs Office. The building has been completely modernized and artistic positions by younger artists or "unknowns" have been presented here regularly since 2007. The majority of the MMK Collection is made up of the former Ströher Collection, which was acquired in 1981-82 by the City of Frankfurt, and was the main reason leading to the foundation of the MMK. The works acquired include superlative pieces by the leading lights of American Pop Art and Minimalism, like Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Dan Flavin, as well as leading German artists of the same era, such as Joseph Beuys, Blinky Palermo, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Franz Erhard Walther. Alongside these key currents in the art of the 1960s, the MMK Collection also covers art of the 1980s and 1990s. It boasts notable extensive groups of works by artists such as Rosemarie Trockel, Katharina Fritsch, Hanne Darboven, Andreas Slominski, Thomas Bayrle, Thomas Ruff, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Gerhard Richter, Bruce Nauman, Robert Gober, Sturtevant and many others. The MMK Collection includes leading works by international heavyweights such as Francis Alÿs, Martin Boyce, Tania Bruguera, Maurizio Cattelan, David Claerbout, Thomas Demand, Cerith Wyn Evans, Douglas Gordon, Aernout Mik, Teresa Margolles, De Rijke / De Rooij, Gregor Schneider, Santiago Sierra, to mention a few. "Young Art" is often acquired and in time they have become very valuable. The MMK's library contains approximately 48,000 volumes that include 30 current journals, international exhibition catalogs, and a broad range of different materials and reference works that can be consulted by the public. Visit website :_ www.mmk-frankfurt.de/ The MMK's collection is shown in seamless transition from the works of the 1960's to the ones of the present day. Alongside its mission to familiarize the general public with contemporary art, the MMK's other prime objective is the ongoing expansion of its Collection. Ever since the museum's inception, the MMK and its directors have been committed to pursuing both goals. The works of artist who have continually produced pieces for a long period (25 years) are displayed separately. Bernd and Hilla Becher's photo series stretching from 1961 to 1991 fills one room, while another contains On Kawara's Date Paintings, which also span a long period of time, from 1966 to 1991. The Gerhard Richter's 18.Oktober 1977 (October 18, 1977) cycle, occupies a place of honor in the collection. The museum has called this division the "Contemporary Bridgehead" and is subdivided into a middle-aged and a younger generation of artists. Works of the middle-aged generation represent a necessary foundation to this section, both as a counterpart to the »1960s bridgehead« and by serving to place the works of the younger generation in context. This foundation is continually built upon. This part of the collection consists of works by Anna and Bernhard Blume, Siah Armajani, Jeff Wall, Nam June Paik, Christian Boltanski, Rémy Zaugg, Peter Roehr, Charlotte Posenenske, Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, Lothar Baumgarten, Mario Merz, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Reiner Ruthenbeck and Ilya Kabakov. The younger generation artists include Julian Schnabel, Stephan Balkenhol, Francesco Clemente, Günther Förg, Bill Viola, Reinhard Mucha, Katharina Fritsch, Jochem Hendricks, Axel Kasseböhmer, Rosemarie Trockel, Thomas Ruff, and Manfred Stumpf. The MMK also has groups of works by Albert Oehlen, Herbert Hamak, Andreas Slominski, Udo Koch, Cecilia Edefalk, Miriam Cahn, Beat Streuli, Urs Breitenstein and Bernhard Härtter. One notable exception to this rule is provided by the kind of works which contain a multitude of smaller works or by the type of works that contain the notion of time, as is often the case with installations such as the ones of Paik, Viola and Turrell. These works are largely "self-explanatory". Since the opening exhibition in 1991 there have been 20 "Changes of Scenes" at the museum and they take place every six months. The MMK special temporary exhibitions complement the standing collection presentation, making for a permanent shift in perspective. Alongside the permanent collection and the special exhibitions there are the "Satellites", which are rooms allocated a specific function such as the Archive, the Children's Room and the Dornbracht Installation Projects. Currently the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst is showing until January 9th 2011 the exhibition "Fashion and Photography in the 90's", which demonstrates how the fashion scene reinvented itself through photography. A traveling retrospective, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres" will be exhibited from 29 January through 25 April, 2011. .The MMK is an obligatory stop for the devotees of Contemporary Art. 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, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and now Germany. 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.

American International Fine Art Fair To Feature Rare Treasures Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:06 PM PST PALM BEACH, FL.- Rare finds abound at The American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF), slated for February 3-8, 2010 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. The only American international art and antiques fair rated 5-stars by The Art Newspaper, AIFAF has established itself as a premier destination for sophisticated dealers and collectors. The fair has emerged as the most prestigious art and antique show in the United States and has been recognized as the "crown jewel" of American art fairs. As one of the world's leading sources for museum-quality paintings, sculpture, and antiques, AIFAF reflects traditional, modern and contemporary collecting trends. Eighty dealers from more than a dozen countries including Great Britain, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria convene in the tony enclave of the Palm Beaches to showcase their finest offerings, all strictly vetted.

' An Incomplete World ' works from The UBS Art Collection Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:04 PM PST Sydney, AU - 'An incomplete world' features paintings and photographs by leading international artists including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Sarah Morris, Damien Hirst, Andreas Gursky, Ed Ruscha, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman.  Selected from The UBS Art Collection, one of the finest international corporate art collections, An incomplete world will open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales before traveling to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. Exhibitions curated from the UBS collection have previously been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Modern, London.  On exhibition 19 May – 29 July 2007.

Eugene Boudin Exhibition Honors the Centenary of National Gallery of Art Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:03 PM PST WASHINGTON, DC – The art of French landscape painter Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) will get a rare showing in America, when Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art goes on view in the National Gallery of Art's March 25 through April 5, 2007.  The exhibition of approximately 40 paintings and works on paper will honor the centenary of the birth of Paul Mellon, the Gallery's founding president and the benefactor largely responsible for its Boudin collection, which is one of the largest and most distinguished in this country.  Proclaimed the "king of the skies" by Camille Corot, Boudin influenced a number of impressionist painters, most notably Claude Monet.

CENTRAL EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY PREMIERES AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:02 PM PST Washington, DC – The story of photography's extraordinary success and popularity in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland during a time of tremendous social and political upheaval, is presented in Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945, the first survey exhibition devoted exclusively to this phenomenon. Premiering at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 10 through September 3, 2007, the exhibition includes more than 150 photographs, books, and illustrated magazines from several dozen American and international collections, among them many on view in the United States for the first time.

Francis Bacon's Artistic Career at the Palazzo Reale in Milan ~ A Full Overview Posted: 15 Dec 2010 08:00 PM PST Milan, Italy - Francis Bacon is unanimously considered the last of the great 20th century masters, but his works have not been exhibited in Italy since 1993. Nonetheless, he was so accomplished at representing the universal unrest of his century that a wide-ranging public recognizes and appreciates his work.  The exhibition shows a collection of his works and its completeness and precision put it in the same light as other important international tributes to Francis Bacon. It covers the key phases of this great painter's exploration of his art, and provides an overall interpretation of his artistic career.

Sotheby's Returns to Chatsworth with a Selling Exhibition of Modern & Contemporary Sculpture Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:59 PM PST DERBYSHIRE, UK - This year, between Tuesday, 9 September and Sunday, 2 November 2008, Sotheby's will return to Chatsworth to stage Beyond Limits – a landmark selling exhibition of monumental modern and contemporary sculpture, now in its third year. Following the extraordinary success of last year's exhibition - at which almost all of the 22 pieces found a buyer, and which attracted more than 30,000 extra visitors to the garden at Chatsworth - Beyond Limits will once again showcase a broad range of work by many of today's leading international sculptors, as well as major pieces by homegrown UK talents.

The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum shows Landscapes by Liebermann, Corinth, & Slevogt Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:58 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.

Ai Weiwei Presents New Works Especifically Made for Haus der Kunst in Munich Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:53 PM PST MUNICH.- "How is it possible that such technical refinement and craftsmanship were able to develop and unfold in China under imperial tyranny? For me the Haus der Kunst, which was commissioned by Hitler for exhibitions of German art, provides the contextual and formal framework in which to examine this question." Ai Weiwei. The exhibition presents two new large-scale works created especially for the Haus der Kunst. Additionally the show brings together early photographs, films made since 2003, the documentation of the documenta 12 project, "Fairytale", as well as a selection of works made after 1997.  The exhibition's title "So Sorry" is directed at the new culture of apologizing with which politicians and managing boards react to the misguided developments in the financial markets and to other global crises.

Is It Art ? Damien Hirst shows Dead Meat-Doves-and Fishes Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:49 PM PST New York City - Never mind that the world financial markets are in turmoil. A rich artist and a clever developer will prove this weekend that excess endures. Mr. Damien Hirst at Lever House. The work, he says, references several modern artists. Mr. Hirst says the work, which is being purchased for Lever House's collection for $10 million, is an homage to Francis Bacon's "Painting," among others.

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosts Survey of Marcel Dzama's Outrageous Art Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:48 PM PST MONTREAL.- While Vancouver and Toronto may have boasted the most vibrant art scenes in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, Winnipeg took over in the 2000s, spurred on by artist Marcel Dzama. He quickly carved out an international reputation for his unclassifiable, disconcerting art that reveals a fanciful, anachronistic world. Marcel Dzama – title (Of Many Turns), which offers a critical survey of his haunting yet outrageous work, is the largest solo exhibition of Dzama's art by a public gallery. It will be presented at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal from February 4 to April 25, 2010.

Design Museum Celebrates Visionary Design from London's Creative Mavericks Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:43 PM PST LONDON.- Super Contemporary is the spirit of London design, past, present and future. The exhibition celebrates and examines the creative magnetism of London and its enduring reputation as a beacon of design. The Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to showcase 15 new commissions from London's most dynamic creatives to explore what it is that attracts the world's leading designers to study, work and live in the city. On exhibition 3 June through 4 October, 2009.

Olyvia Fine Art to exhibit Modern and Contemporary Drawings in London Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:41 PM PST LONDON.- Olyvia Kwok is to present an exhibition of exquisite drawings by modern and contemporary masters, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Christo, Alexander Calder and Keith Haring at her London gallery in October. "Black on Paper" heralds the expansion of Olyvia Oriental, a gallery specialising in contemporary Chinese and Asian art, into Western modern and contemporary art. To emphasize this extra dimension of the gallery, it will be re launched as Olyvia Fine Art. Whilst much less expensive than oil paintings, drawings can take the viewer closer to the mind and working methods of the artist, providing a stepping stone to collecting modern art.

No Camera : The Photogram at Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:38 PM PST Salzburg, Austria - As an experimental image falling between photography and graphic arts, the photogram has fascinated painters, filmmakers and photographers since the early 20th Century.  Directly working with the image-production process and an appearance that is reduced to pure light/dark have evolved into broad field of innovative solutions in the photographic process for artists of all generations over the last 90 years.  The immediately noticeable synchronicity of the present and projected object or procedure constitutes the specific character of generating photographic works without a camera.  Emerging from Dadaism and Surrealism, the photogram opened up a broad experimental field for the Avant Garde and provided a virulent stimulus for discussion of the medial image in the context of art.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 15 Dec 2010 07:37 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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