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• Our Editor Visits Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz ~ One Of The Most Important Museums of Modern & Contemporary Art in Austria
• Frida Kahlo " Roots " Sets $5.6 Million Record at Sotheby's
• PortugalArte 10 ~ A New Month-Long Bi-annual Art Exhibition
• Stuart Pearson Wright's 'I Remember You' at Riflemaker in London
• George Eastman House Camera Book Illustrates History of Photography
• Corcoran Gallery of Art to exhibit 'The American Evolution: A History Through Art'
• ARCOmadrid Honors J. Paul Getty Trust With A Collecting Award
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego exhibits 'Selections From the Collections'
• Museum Quality Photographs Featured at Swann Galleries' Auction
• Philbrook Museum and OU Receive Adkins Art Collection
• CONTEMPORARY GRAPHIC ARTS HOSTED AT VANDERBILT
• Museum of Monaco Launches Major Exhibition by Damien Hirst
• Alan Cristea Gallery announces First Major Retrospective of Bauhaus Artist Annie Albers
• Turkish Contemporary Art Offered at Sotheby's London 15 April
• Rare Imperial White Jade Double-Dragon Seal for Sale at Bonhams London
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Our Editor Visits Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz ~ One Of The Most Important Museums of Modern & Contemporary Art in Austria Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:47 PM PST From the Celtic for "located at the bend of the river" (also the root of Linz' Latin name "Lentia"), The Lentos Museum of Modern Art, which opened in May 2003, is among the most important museums of modern art in Austria. The clear and coherent structural design, created by the award winning Zurich architects Weber & Hofer, provides Linz with a museum of art of international status, positioned in the urban context. The internationally acclaimed 130 meter long building by the Zurich architects Weber & Hofer provides approximately 8400 m2 for use and is located directly on the Danube River between the Nibelungen Bridge and Brucknerhaus. The appearance of the building is remarkable for its transparent glass casing, attractively lit at night (when it slowly cycles through colour changes from red to blue). The visitor enters through the 60 m long, open air vestibule that appears cut out of the building. The ground floor contains the foyer, museum shop, cafe (with terraced area), the 250-seat auditorium, and the museum education hall. The upper floor houses eleven rooms covering 1800 m² for the permanent collection and a large special exhibition room of roughly 850 m², along with an art cabinet and a reading room, all of which benefit from the available natural light. The expansive basement houses two more exhibition rooms, the library, the depots, workshops, storage rooms and a study hall for graphic arts. As successor institution to the New Gallery of the City of Linz, the Lentos Kunstmuseum, which opened in 2003, is considered one of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in Austria. Starting from the collection holdings, which focus on masterpieces of European painting from the first half of the 20th century and a rich collection of graphic art and high quality photography, Lentos draws an arch from the classical historical art of the early 20th century to the most current art positions of today. Art as a medium for understanding the world, art as a catalyst for experiencing the individual reality of life, but also art as a means of probing social possibilities: these are key concepts that determine how the exhibition program and the broad-ranging events that enhance the program of the museum are conceived and communicated. Building on the collection of the Berlin art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt (1888-1965), the holdings have been richly expanded since 1953. The Collection consists of roughly 1,800 works of painting, sculpture and object art as well as over 17,000 works on paper, including 850 photographs. The earliest works in the museum are from the first half of the 19th century (C.D. Friedrich, J.B. Reiter) whilst the landscape and portrait painting of the 19th century is represented with masterpieces of German Romanticism, Austrian Biedermeier, Historicism, Atmospheric Impressionism and the Secessionism. Art - a means of life - this is what the Lentos invites the visitor to enjoy. Visit the museum's website at : http://www.lentos.at The collection of The Lentos Museum is filled with unique fine art. In the field of classical Modernism, Lentos has important paintings by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Corinth and Pechstein. From the inter-war period there are works of German and Austrian Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit (Carl Hofer, Franz Sedlacek, Albin Egger-Lienz,Müller and Modersohn-Becker). The period after 1945 is illustrated with works of international art, including paintings, sculptures and graphic works by Appel, Bayer, Nay, Warhol, Haring, Lassnig, Lüpertz, Rainer, Chillida, Cragg, Sean Scully, and Balkenhol. Highlights of the collection include meditative, abstract expressions of the 1980s and 1990s, the generation of the former "New Wild Ones" by Herbert Brandl, Hubert Scheibl, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Gunter Damisch and Otto Zitko, "Paradise" by the German "prince of painters" Markus Lüpertz or Sean Scully's "archangel Uriel". Figurative painting, is represented by the Swiss hyper-realist Franz Gertsch, whose girls on the beach are still enchanting, and by the "shock artist" Gottfried Helnwein. In addition to the outstanding graphic art collection with important compilations from Kubin to Pop Art, Lentos also has several hundred art-historically significant photographs (A. Rodtschenko, Man Ray, H. Bayer). The collection of sculptures, statues and objects of the Lentos Kunstmuseum includes about 450 exhibits. The earliest works are from the period of Austrian Expressionism. In addition to a bronze head by Egon Schiele (1916-1918) and the bronze sculpture Burning Man created in 1922 by Anton Hanák, there are examples of German Expressionism by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, which make up the historical foundation of the collection. An example of realistic post-war art in Austria is Alfred Hrdlicka's Gladiator (model: 1965, cast 1999). Plexiglas objects by Cornelius Kolig exemplify Pop Art tendencies in Austria. Many of the sculptures stem from the 1980s and 1990s, including works by Sepp Auer, Manfred Erjautz, Bruno Gironcoli, Manfred Wakolbinger and Erwin Wurm. International artists are represented by Stephan Balkenhol, Ernst Barlach, Michael Buthe, Anthony Caro, Amadeo Gabino, Jiri Kolar, and Tom Wesselmann in the collection. The graphic art holdings of the Lentos currently include some 10,000 exhibits. Starting from works of Impressionism, Expressionism and Secessionism (including Max Liebermann, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Käthe Kollwitz, Oskar Kokoschka), and trends of Neue Sachlichkeit (Franz Sedlacek, Karl Rössing, Joseph Binder, Rudolf Baschant), collection interests shifted beginning in the 1960s and even more so in the 1970s towards Abstract Expressionism (including Pierre Alechinsky, Hans Staudacher, Antoni Tápies) and cycles of etchings and lithographic series by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. The collection is continued with Pop Art (including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Jim Dine) and recent and contemporary trends in Austrian art (including Uli Aigner, Siegfried Anzinger, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Dietmar Brehm, Kurt Kappa Kocherscheidt, Maria Lassnig, Ulrike Lienbacher, Arnulf Rainer, Roman Scheidl and Othmar Zechyr). Alfred Hrdlicka's print graphic oeuvre, extensive graphic cycles by Alfred Kubin, Margret Bilger, Honoré Daumier, Karl Rossing and the Gugging artists (including Johann Hauser, Oswald Tschirtner, August Walla) are special focal points of the collection. The photo collection of the LENTOS Kunstmuseum currently includes about 1,100 exhibits. It focuses on historical photography, new objectivity, artist portraits, post-war photography affiliated with the "Magnum" photo agency and contemporary positions. The foundation of the collection includes historical photographs by Nadar, Lewis Carroll, Frederick H. Evans, John Jabez Edwin Mayall and Roger Fenton. The acquisition of so-called New Media - primarily analog and digital video - first began in the 2000s. The Collection holdings are consequently in development. New media works are a recent addition to the museum's collection portfolio, but have been acquired in recent years from international and Austrian artists, who have been presented in solo or thematic exhibitions. Two exhibitions are currently running at the Lentos. Siegfried Anzinger respospective (until 13th March 2011). Siegfried Anzinger is one of the most internationally acclaimed Austrian painters and artists and has already received the highest awards. Anziger is associated with Upper Austria and in particular with the Lentos, having held his an advance viewing of his first retrospective at the old Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz in 1986. The show at the Lentos provides a comprehensive insight into the varied work of the artist. In the center of the exhibition are recent paintings, drawings and sculptures, which are confronted with early examples of selected major works. Large canvases from the early works are presented as well as the first Austrian showing of works from 2009/2010 including paradise pictures, ranges of self-portraits, saints, cowboys and indians. In conjunction with the Belvedere in Vienna, the Lentos is also exhibiting: Valie Export ~ "Time and Countertime" (until 30th January 2011). The focus of both simultaneously planned exhibitions in the Belvedere and Lentos is on the work of the artist from the past 20 years, which consist primarily of large-scale installations. Based on these works, themes derive their content, have a formal relationship, or imply a substantive continuation from the artists earlier works. The development and advancement of artistic motifs, their semantic shifts, their character and their multitude of different media and diversity are able to be adequately presented in the Vienna and Linz facilities. Here, the autonomous exhibitions will complement the content and interlink with each other to make the Valie Export a multi-dimensional and multi-media space experience. The two exhibitions will present various strands, including work on injury and violence, the image of women and their fitting into, modification and conversion by architecture, town or countryside, but also to psychological states, as well as confusing worlds of perception and linguistic expressions. 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, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and now Austria. 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.

Frida Kahlo " Roots " Sets $5.6 Million Record at Sotheby's Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:46 PM PST New York City- May 24, 2006 – Sotheby's made auction history when a masterpiece by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (lot 6) sold for $5,616,000 to an anonymous bidder on the telephone, setting a new record for a Latin American work of art at auction and for the artist at auction.  Roots, 1943, oil on metal, one of the most beautifully detailed works from Kahlo's most celebrated period, had never before appeared on the public market.  The evening sale totaled $18,658,800, the highest total ever for a sale of Latin American Art at auction, far above its pre-sale estimate (est. $11.9/16.2 million*), and set records for a number of artists, including Francisco Zúñiga, Tomás Sánchez, Luis Tomasello and Edmund Darch Lewis, and also set a record for a Botero sculpture at auction and tied the record for Botero at auction.

PortugalArte 10 ~ A New Month-Long Bi-annual Art Exhibition Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:43 PM PST LISBON.- Portugal Arte 10 EDP, a new month-long bi-annual art exhibition, announces its inaugural edition to debut July 16, 2010 in Lisbon and the surrounding region. Conceived by Artistic Director Stefan Simchowitz and President Miguel Carvalho, Portugal Arte 10 EDP distinguishes itself from other international art events by creating a sense of public engagement with the greater art-world. Portugal Arte 10 EDP will feature a large and ambitious program of specially commissioned public sculpture projects and site-specific installations, alongside 8 curated group exhibitions, each addressing themes relevant to contemporary life. It will be spread across Lisbon and its surrounding regions, including city squares, walkways, beach territories, and historic interior spaces.

Stuart Pearson Wright's 'I Remember You' at Riflemaker in London Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:41 PM PST LONDON.- The work of Stuart Pearson Wright (b. Northampton 1975) reflects a search for lost identity. One of the first children born in the UK by artificial insemination the artist feels that the process has created an 'identity void' which his work attempts to deal with. Wright's new series of paintings at Riflemaker - shown alongside a film installation featuring Keira Knightley - explore and dispel the stereotypes of masculinity and femininity as depicted in films, books and comics; specifically in the stories and myths of the American West. Choosing portraiture in an era when it was not always seen as a legitimate part of contemporary art, and a winner the BP Portrait Award aged just 26, Wright has spent much of his career attempting to subvert traditional portrait painting. He distorts his subjects, employing his own features and those of his fiancée in meticulously painted and stylised characters set in pulpy, fictional situations.  On view until 26 June.

George Eastman House Camera Book Illustrates History of Photography Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:39 PM PST ROCHESTER, NY.- For the first time in the two centuries of photographic history, a book has been produced that celebrates both the camera and the art of the photograph — displaying images alongside the cameras that created them. George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film launches this month "Camera: The History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital" (Sterling Innovation, 2009, 368 pp., $45). The world's oldest museum of photography, Eastman House is home to a number of world-class collections, including the world's largest collection of camera technology.

Corcoran Gallery of Art to exhibit 'The American Evolution: A History Through Art' Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:36 PM PST WASHINGTON, D.C. — This spring, the long-awaited re-installation of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's world-renowned collection of American art will open in a special exhibition, The American Evolution: A History through Art.  A fresh look at the Corcoran's extensive American holdings, the exhibition showcases more than 200 objects in a wide range of media, dating from the colonial era to present day.  The American Evolution will open on March 1 and remain on view until July 27, 2008.

ARCOmadrid Honors J. Paul Getty Trust With A Collecting Award Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:33 PM PST MADRID.- For the 13th year running, the Amigos de ARCOmadrid Association granted its ARCOmadrid Collecting Awards. The prize-giving ceremony was held during the official cocktail reception-opening dinner of the International Contemporary Art Fair, offered by the Region and the City of Madrid at IFEMA North Conventions Centre. The winners of this year's awards are Carmen Buqueras de Riera and Emilio Pi & Helena Fernandino, who share the prize in the category of Spanish art collecting, and The J. Paul Getty Trust in the international collecting category.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego exhibits 'Selections From the Collections' Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:32 PM PST SAN DIEGO, CA - The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection at MCASD's La Jolla location. The exhibition, curated by Dr. Hugh M. Davies, MCASD's David C. Copley Director, features approximately 130 works from the Museum's collection acquired during the past 25 years. Including works by John Baldessari, John Currin, Robert Irwin, William Kentridge, Nathan Mabry, Yoshitomo Nara, Eleanor Antin, Martin Puryear, Lorna Simpson, Bill Viola, and Lisa Yuskavage, among others, the exhibition showcases the variety and depth of the Museum's collection. The exhibition will be on view through January 4, 2009.

Museum Quality Photographs Featured at Swann Galleries' Auction Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:30 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, May 20, Swann Galleries will conduct a two-part auction of Photographic Literature & Important Photographs that features many scarce and significant works—both individual photographic images and books. The auction will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 20 with Photographic Literature, and will continue at 2:00 p.m. with Important Photographs. The photographs and books will be on public exhibition at Swann Galleries Saturday, May 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Monday, May 17 through Wednesday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Philbrook Museum and OU Receive Adkins Art Collection Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:28 PM PST   TULSA, OK - Ted M. Riseling, Chairman of the Adkins foundation Board, announced today that the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma have been jointly selected to receive the Eugene B. Adkins collection of art. The joint partnership by Philbrook and OU was among many proposals submitted by leading museums across the country. The Adkins Collection, valued at approximately $50 million, is among the most important private collections in the nation of works by the Taos artists as well as Native American works of art.

CONTEMPORARY GRAPHIC ARTS HOSTED AT VANDERBILT Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:26 PM PST   NASHVILLE, TN - The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce its exhibition More Than One: New Contemporary Prints and Multiples from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Collection. This exhibition opens to the public Thursday, October 4, 2007. An opening reception, held in conjunction with Vanderbilt University's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities symposium Between Word and Image, will be held Thursday, October 25 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Gallery. The show will be on view through December 7, 2007.

Museum of Monaco Launches Major Exhibition by Damien Hirst Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:24 PM PST MONACO.- The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, which this year celebrates its centenary, opens its galleries to contemporary art for the first time, to present a major exhibition of works by celebrated British artist Damien Hirst. CORNUCOPIA is the title of the exhibition, which spans the last 15 years of the artist's career and comprises over 60 key works, including early paintings and sculptures. The exhibition is presented with the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. On view 02 April through 30 September, 2010.

Alan Cristea Gallery announces First Major Retrospective of Bauhaus Artist Annie Albers Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:21 PM PST LONDON.- The Alan Cristea Gallery will be presenting the first major retrospective of the prints of Bauhaus artist and designer Anni Albers from 18 March, 2010. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive survey of her graphic work to date and will include nearly every print she has made, alongside studies, photographs and source material loaned from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. The exhibition will be accompanied by the release of the catalogue raisonne of her prints - the first major monograph on this aspect of her work.

Turkish Contemporary Art Offered at Sotheby's London 15 April Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:17 PM PST LONDON.- After the success of Sotheby's inaugural auction of Turkish Contemporary Art in March 2009, which realized a total of £1.3 million and attracted bidders and buyers from across the globe, Sotheby's London announced that it will stage its second sale in this collecting category, on Thursday, 15 April, 2010. The forthcoming sale will present new and existing collectors with an opportunity to acquire important pieces from this exciting and expanding area of the art market by both modern masters and cutting-edge contemporary artists of Turkish origin.

Rare Imperial White Jade Double-Dragon Seal for Sale at Bonhams London Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:15 PM PST LONDON.- The wise words – 'Love your people as you would your own children' - on the seal of a Chinese Emperor who ruled a century ago were not enough to save his reign during the Boxer Rebellion around 1900. The Imperial white jade double-dragon seal is estimated to sell for £100,000 to £150,000 at Bonhams sale of Fine Chinese Art in New Bond Street on 5th November during Asian Art week in London. The rectangular seal is surmounted with a pair of dragons, each recumbent with bulging eyes and a scaly conjoined body arching over swirling clouds pierced with an aperture for attachment, the base carved with four characters reading 'Airen Ruzi' within a border of scrolling tendrils, the stone of a pale white tone with small areas of opaque inclusions. It is just four and a quarter inches long.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:14 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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