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• The AKN Server is Undergoing Maintenance for 24 Hours Or Less
• Art Gallery of South Australia presents "Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art"
• LACMA ACQUIRES MAJOR COLLECTION OF MODERN ART
• Groninger Museum opens Major Exhibition of German Expressionism
• Studio Museum Harlem hosts Kehinde Wiley's The World Stage: Africa Lagos~Dakar
• Sprengel Museum Hannover opens ~ 'The Beauty of a Fragile World'
• Brooklyn Museum to Exhibit a New Generation of Feminist Video Artists
• Actor Robert de Niro Jr., Presents Robert de Niro Sr., The Painter at BBK in Bilbao
• Herbert Bayer Endowment for Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute show "Realism’s Edge"
• Bedford Museum Exhibits Acquired Dora Carrington Drawing
• Nasher Museum of Art presents The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections
• Tracey Emin, Mat Collishaw and Paula Rego Ehibit at Foundling Museum
• The Spencer Museum of Art shows A Forest of Gestures / Tsui Kuang-Yu
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The AKN Server is Undergoing Maintenance for 24 Hours Or Less Posted: 12 Jan 2011 06:00 PM PST ANNOUCEMENT: Art Knowledge News will be taking a One Day break during a 24 hour, or less, period required for maintenance of our equipment. For today we will be posting from our archives some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in our magazine during the past six (6) years...   ...SEE BELOW

Art Gallery of South Australia presents "Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art" Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:53 PM PST Adelaide, Australia - Exclusive to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art explores the way in which European artists since the Renaissance have represented the landscape according to three different ideologies: the ideal, the romantic and the realistic. Through superb oil paintings, sculptures, watercolours, prints, drawings and photographs from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, visitors to this exhibition experience the emotive powers, serenity and poetry of nature. On exhibition through 6 September, 2009.

LACMA ACQUIRES MAJOR COLLECTION OF MODERN ART Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:50 PM PST Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced the acquisition of a major collection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by leading modern artists that will significantly transform the museum's collection of twentieth-century art. The fractional and promised gift of 130 works is remarkable for its concentration on the leading figures of modern art and for individual objects that in many cases represent LACMA's first major work by that artist.

Groninger Museum opens Major Exhibition of German Expressionism Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:47 PM PST GRONINGEN.- From 13 December 2009 to 11 April 2010, the Groninger Museum will present the highlights from the collection of the Brücke Museum in Berlin. The exhibition, which will be held in the Ploeg Pavilion, will display 150 works, including paintings, drawings, prints and figures by the Brücke members Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt- Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Cuno Amiet and Otto Mueller.

Studio Museum Harlem hosts Kehinde Wiley's The World Stage: Africa Lagos~Dakar Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:45 PM PST NEW YORK CITY -  The Studio Museum in Harlem is proud to present The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar, our first-ever solo exhibition of the work of Kehinde Wiley, a former artist in residence (2001–02). The exhibition features ten new paintings from Wiley's multinational "World Stage" series, a global extension of his signature examinations of power and portraiture. On exhibition through 26 October , 2008.

Sprengel Museum Hannover opens ~ 'The Beauty of a Fragile World' Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:42 PM PST HANNOVER, GERMANY - Franz Marc, August Macke  and Robert Delaunay: In a unique gathering of extraordinary paintings and works on paper, the Sprengel Museum Hannover will show the exhibition "Marc, Macke und Delaunay. The Beauty of a Fragile World (1910–1914)" from 29 March through 19 July 2009. And whilst each of the three artists held the works of the others in high esteem, they all developed their own individual approach and style.

Brooklyn Museum to Exhibit a New Generation of Feminist Video Artists Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:38 PM PST BROOKLYN, NY - Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video presents recent videos by a new generation of feminist video artists. The exhibition title Reflections on the Electric Mirror is taken from an eponymous essay written in the 1970s by artist/filmmaker Lynn Hershman, examining the links between television and video art. This exhibition will be on view in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, May 1, 2009 through January 10, 2010.

Actor Robert de Niro Jr., Presents Robert de Niro Sr., The Painter at BBK in Bilbao Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:35 PM PST BILBAO, SPAIN - The actor Robert de Niro opened an exhibition containing 25 paintings made by his father at BBK in Bilbao. The exhibition has been curated by Martine Soria and will be on view through September 27. Grounded in European antecedents, specifically French, but unmistakably American in style, the paintings of Robert De Niro, Sr., represent one of the foremost achievements in painterly representation. De Niro's efforts to reconcile the real with the abstract through the use of brilliant draftsmanship, bold, Fauvist-inspired colors, and confident, gestural brushwork stand as one of the great achievements in postwar twentieth-century American painting.

Herbert Bayer Endowment for Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:30 PM PST Austria - Thanks to the latest generous bequest by Herbert Bayer's recently deceased widow Joella to the Lentos Museum of Modern Art Linz comprising 50 works – paintings, sculptures, drawings and posters – the Linz Museum is now the proud owner of 130 works by this internationally renowned artist.  This is the largest and most important Bayer collection in any Austrian museum. Taking all aspects of his wide-ranging oeuvre into account, one must judge Herbert Bayer – alongside Alfred Kubin – the most significant artist of the 20th century from Upper Austria (he was born in Haag am Hausruck in 1900).  He trained at the Bauhaus, where he later taught, and his international carrier took him from Linz via Germany to the USA, where he died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1985.  In the United States Bayer took an influential place among leading designers and landscapers, while also setting new standards there as a painter, photographer and sculptor.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute show "Realism’s Edge" Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:27 PM PST WILLIAMSTOWN , MA -   Images of everyday urban and rural life flourished in France during the 1860s and 1870s. The exhibition Realism's Edge at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute features a dozen etchings that exist on the edge of original and reproductive, real and inventive, sketchy and descriptive, while chronicling the romanticized worker and celebrating leisurely pursuits. Realism's Edge is on view through October 12th, 2009.

Bedford Museum Exhibits Acquired Dora Carrington Drawing Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:25 PM PST LONDON.- Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum has acquired an important topographical drawing by celebrated artist Dora Carrington (1893 – 1932), who attended Bedford High School as a child. Bedford Market (1911) was acquired at auction for £17,290, of which Art Fund members gave £5,763, the V&A / MLA Purchase Grant Fund contributed £5,544 and the Trustees of the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery gave the remainder. It is the only known work by Carrington that takes Bedford as its subject and is a rare depiction of her early life in the town.

Nasher Museum of Art presents The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:23 PM PST   DURHAM, NC - Nearly a century ago, the Bloomsbury group took hold of the cultural imagination, their name becoming synonymous with wit, intelligence, political activism and avant-garde art and literature in the Anglo-American world. "Bloomsbury", named for a then slightly disreputable neighborhood surrounding the University of London, was centered on writers such as Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and Clive Bell; economist John Maynard Keynes; artists Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington; and other notable personalities who circulated in their orbit including E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell and Wyndham Lewis.

Tracey Emin, Mat Collishaw and Paula Rego Ehibit at Foundling Museum Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:21 PM PST LONDON.- Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego are to show new and related works at the Foundling Museum in London throughout its eighteenth-century interiors as well as outside spaces. All of the works link to the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children, and its themes of childhood and separation. The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, bronzes and installations throughout the Museum as well as external spaces. On exhibition through 9 May, 2010.

The Spencer Museum of Art shows A Forest of Gestures / Tsui Kuang-Yu Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:19 PM PST Lawrence, KS - The Invisible Cities series reveals the often times hidden pedestrian perspective of cities through interruptions of comical—even slightly absurdist—extremes that ultimately manage to soften or even dismiss the brutality of cities. In Sealevel Leaker  the seemingly innocuous movement of walking becomes an active determinant. Spewing water in all directions, Tsui not only manages to augment his bodily presence but he also leaves a fleeting trace of his walk, mapping the unencumbered individual onto the rigid grid of the city. On view through 14 February, 2010.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 12 Jan 2011 05:18 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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