| Wishing You A Joyful Christmas Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:06 PM PST ANNOUNCEMENT: Our website was hacked and our servers were frozen for five days +. We have repaired the damage and we are back online with our daily publication. Sorry for the many emails that have bounced during the downtime that was beyond our control. Because of our downtime we are 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 a Happy Holiday Season ! |  |
| Richard Avedon’s Fashion Photographs Coming to Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:05 PM PST 
Detroit, MI - The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) celebrates fashion and photography with the work of Richard Avedon, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. On view Oct. 18, 2009 Through Jan. 17, 2010, Avedon Fashion Photographs 1944-2000 features 181 works, including many vintage prints, magazines, contact sheets and other archival material from the Avedon estate. "This exhibition not only surprises through the scope of Avedon's work in fashion photography," said Graham W. J. Beal, DIA director. "It also dramatically demonstrates what a radically innovative force he was in this field."  |
| Archaeological Team of the Warriors of Xi'an Wins 2010 Prince of Asturias Award Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:04 PM PST 
MADRID.- The Archaeological Team of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in Xi'an, 2010 Prince of Asturias Award Laureate for Social Sciences. The Jury for the Award announced its decision today in Oviedo. Considered one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century, the site of the terracotta warriors, also known as the warriors of Xi´an, is a rich source of information about the Chinese civilization. The nomination was put forward by Carlos Blasco Villa, Ambassador of Spain in China.
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| Fondation Beyeler exhibits Sarah Morris' ~ Black Beetle Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:03 PM PST ![artwork: Sarah Morris - Black Beetle [Origami], 2008 - Household gloss paint on wall - 23.66m x 3.84m Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel](http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2008/Sarah-Morris-2.jpg "artwork: Sarah Morris - Black Beetle [Origami], 2008 - Household gloss paint on wall - 23.66m x 3.84m Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel")
Basel, Switzerland - The Fondation Beyeler is presenting a project by the New York artist Sarah Morris (*1967) in its lower-level exhibition spaces. Morris has executed a new, very long mural ("Black Beetle," 23.7 x 3.8 meters) that reflects her interest in origami, a Japanese paper-folding technique that originated in China. The work is supplemented by selected paintings from her series "Capital" and "Rings," begun in 2001 and 2006. In addition, the Fondation plans a program of Morris's films on New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.  |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art to show Exhibition Based on the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:02 PM PST 
NEW YORK, NY.- The spring 2010 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first drawn exclusively from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition, on view from May 5 through August 15, 2010 (preceded on May 3 by The Costume Institute Gala Benefit), will explore developing perceptions of the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition will reveal how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sexual emancipation. "Gibson Girls" and "Screen Sirens" laid the foundation for today's American woman – a theme that will be explored in a video installation.  |
| SFMOMA Exhibits Modern Masterworks from the Elise S. Haas Collection Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:01 PM PST 
SAN FRANCISCO,CA - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the exhibit Modern Masterworks from the Elise S. Haas Collection. It would be hard to overestimate the significance of the Elise S. Haas collection for SFMOMA. Made up of some 35 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, this group of stunning early modernist works highlights especially the art of Henri Matisse and Henry Moore but also includes pieces by such luminaries as Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, and Barbara Hepworth.  |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibits Hans Burkhardt Painting "Burial of Gorky" Posted: 24 Dec 2010 06:00 PM PST 
Philadelphia, PA - When the artist, Hans Burkhardt (b. 1904 Basel, Switzerland - d. 1994 Los Angeles) left New York late in 1937, after nearly nine years of sharing Arshile Gorky's studio, he brought to Los Angeles the largest holdings of Gorky works by his friend and mentor, outside Gorky's own holdings. Burkhardt was the first to introduce Gorky's work to other artists and curators in L.A. and his collection was the subject of a number of Gorky museum exhibitions. Hans Burkhardt's "Burial of Gorky" is currently on view as part of the concurrent exhibition, "Arshile Gorky in Context" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 10, 2010.  |
| Lawrence Schiller to Present “America in the Sixties & Marilyn Monroe? Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:59 PM PST 
NEW YORK, NY - Legendary photographer, journalist and film director Lawrence Schiller will bring the Harrowing Sixties back to life when he opens an historic exhibit of his photography at Pop International Galleries on May 15. This is the first time the exhibit has been shown in the United States and will be open from May 15 through June. Images are available to collectors in limited editions, which have been reproduced as originally printed in color or silver gelatin and some select images in platinum.  |
| David Hockney's "Bigger Trees Near Warter" Gift Presented at Tate Britain Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:58 PM PST 
LONDON.- David Hockney gifted Bigger Trees near Warter 2007 to Tate in 2008. The oil painting, his largest ever, was made on fifty canvas panels and was executed outside, en plein air. Measuring 4.6 x 12.2 metres (15 x 40 feet), its subject is a typical Yorkshire landscape, west of Bridlington. The work was first exhibited in 2007 at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. David Hockney also presented Tate with two digital photographic renderings of the painting on paper sheets in the same dimensions as the oil. Focusing on the arrival of spring before trees have come into leaf, Bigger Trees near Warter features two copies, a mighty sycamore tree, buildings and a road curving to the left flanked by early flowering daffodils.
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| The Albertina exhibits Masterworks of Modern Art from The Batliner Collection Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:56 PM PST 
Vienna, Austria - Starting at the end of May, works from the Batliner Collection, which came to the Albertina as a permanent loan in 2007, will be shown in a new presentation occupying 3,000 square metres of space. French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, the Fauves, German Expressionism and the Russian avant-garde are represented by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The exhibition continues into the latter half of the 20th century with important late works by Picasso and paintings by Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon, and concludes with three leading contemporary artists, Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer.  |
| "Beatles to Bowie" shows 150 Photographs of the 1960's at the National Portrait Gallery in UK Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:55 PM PST 
LONDON.- A major photographic exhibition Beatles to Bowie: The 60s Exposed opens at the National Portrait Gallery, to herald the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the 1960s in 2010. Celebrating the leading pop music personalities and groups who helped create "Swinging London" in the 1960s, the exhibition will show how The Beatles and rivals such as the Rolling Stones and The Kinks set the musical agenda. Bringing together 150 photographs and 150 items of ephemera including record sleeves, illustrated sheet music and magazines, the exhibition will be arranged chronologically in ten sections covering each year of the decade. Sections of the exhibition will be devoted to the mini-invasion of US stars who moved to England to start their careers such as P J Proby, the Walker Brothers and later Jimi Hendrix.  |
| Three Generations of Wyeths Will Highlight Christie's American Art Sale Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:54 PM PST 
NEW YORK, NY.- Prominent private and institutional collections are the source for a stellar line-up of works to be offered at Christie's sale of Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture on December 2, 2009 in New York. Lead highlights of the sale include a significant and deeply personal work by the late Andrew Wyeth that has not been available on the market in nearly 50 years, and a celebrated series of paintings by family patriarch Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth that has never before been offered at auction. In all, over 135 exceptional works by the leading American masters of the 19th and 20th century will be offered, with expected totals in excess of $30 million.
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| New Zealand Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki Previews Robertson Gift Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:53 PM PST 
AUCKLAND, NZ - In May 2009 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki announced a promised gift of 15 works of art through its Foundation, including paintings by Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin and Mondrian – the largest gift ever made to an art museum in Australasia. The gift, from New York art collectors and philanthropists Julian and Josie Robertson, represents some of the major European artists of the modern era. Its cultural value places it among the most generous philanthropic acts in New Zealand history. Now, for the first time in New Zealand and for one week only, New Zealanders have the chance to see 5 of these works FREE as a sneak preview to the Robertson's Promised Gift.
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| Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art shows Yousuf Karsh ~ Portraits Posted: 24 Dec 2010 05:50 PM PST 
PROVIDENCE, RI - The RISD Museum of Art presents an exhibition which highlight portraits of artists. Yousuf Karsh: Portraits of Artists and Facing Artists: Twentieth Century Portraits from the Collection will showcase the work of the photographer Yousuf Karsh and other artists such as Andy Warhol, Lucien Freud, and Pablo Picasso. The exhibitions are presented in adjoining galleries and offer the visitor the opportunity to make connections between the various artists. On view through 23 August, 2009.
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