Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art...

---

• The Eclectic ~ Unconventional And Always Fascinating ~ San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
• Heckscher Museum Identity Crisis in Art
• The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Acquires "Etude Pour 'Le Miel est Plus Douce que la Sang" For $6,518,830 US Dollars
• Blanton Museum hosts a Survey of New and Recent Work by Teresita Fernandez
• Yousuf Karsh 100 " A Biography In Images " to open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Art Gallery of South Australia presents "Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art"
• "The Broad" Coming To L.A.
• Ekundayo solos at Thinkspace Gallery
• Reynolda House Museum Only Venue to Host "American Impressions"
• Julie & Edward J. Minskoff Art Collection Acquires Jonathan Prince Sculpture
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag Hosts The Bouwfonds Art Collection
• Fiona Tan to Represent the Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia
• Gagosian Gallery Presents a Major New Work by Takashi Murakam
• Christie's Latin American Art Sales
• PAINTER + POET
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Eclectic ~ Unconventional And Always Fascinating ~ San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:54 PM PDT The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art. SFMOMA was founded in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center. A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender, including The Flower Carrier (1935) by Diego Rivera, established the basis of the permanent collection. Bender donated more than 1,100 objects to SFMOMA during his lifetime and endowed the museum's first purchase fund. SFMOMA was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. The museum returned to its original Van Ness location in July, upon the signing of the United Nations Charter. The museum rose to international prominence in the 1970s and 80s under director Henry T. Hopkins, adding "Modern" to its title in 1975. Since 1967, SFMOMA has honored San Francisco Bay Area artists with its biennial SECA Art Award. In the 1980s SFMOMA took on an active special exhibitions program, both organizing and hosting traveling exhibitions. In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street, adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SoMa district. Swiss architect Mario Botta designed the new US$60 million facility which is now an iconic presence within the cityscape of San Francisco. Since it opened in 1995, the building has become a hub of the downtown South of Market (SoMa) area. The current five-story structure features a stepped and patterned brick facade topped by a soaring cylindrical turret. In Botta's signature style, the turret is finished in alternating bands of black and white stone and topped with a radial pattern of the same material. The rooftop Sculpture Garden opened in 2009. Visitors enter the 14,400-square-foot garden from a spectacular glassed-in bridge created by local architect Mark Jensen. Works on view include those by Ellsworth Kelly, Henry Moore, and Alexander Calder. Visitors can enjoy impressive views of the cityscape and take in lunch or coffee at the new Blue Bottle Coffee cafe. Since opening the new building the museum's collection has more than doubled in size and annual attendance has tripled to around a million visitors annually. The 225,000 square foot building is about to be expanded further, architecture firm Snøhetta having been commissioned to create a new extension to accommodate the ongoing growth of the museum's programs and audiences and to showcase the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art. The total projected budget for the expansion is $480 million and is expected to take approximately six years to complete. SFMOMA's Research Library was established in 1935 and contains extensive resources pertaining to modern and contemporary art, including books, periodicals, artists' files, and lecture recordings. SFMOMA also contains the Phyllis Wattis Theater, accommodating lectures, symposia, seminars, film presentations and performances and the Schwab Room, a multiple-use event space. The innovative Koret Visitor Education Center offers both drop-in access and scheduled programs and activities while the basement houses the museum's Library and Archives and the photography and graphic arts study area. The museum also houses a restaurant, Caffè Museo and museum shop. Visit the museum's re-designed website (which enables users to browse the museum's permanent collection) at … http://www.sfmoma.org SFMOMA has a long history of excellence in exhibiting and collecting the foremost artists and designers of our time. From its inception in 1935, SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted to modern and contemporary art and has consistently championed the most innovative and challenging art of its time. The internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art includes more than 26,000 works and continues to grow. With strong holdings in photography, painting and sculpture, architecture and design, and media arts, SFMOMA strives to present key examples of Modernism as well as more recent works that reflect a variety of artistic developments occurring regionally, nationally, and around the world. SFMOMA's painting and sculpture collection comprises more than 7,000 works created between 1900 and the present. It features important examples of movements ranging from Fauvism and Cubism to Pop art and Minimalism, with exceptional strength in Abstract Expressionism, Conceptualism, German Expressionism, and the art of California. In addition, the department has committed itself to collecting particular artists' work in depth. These key figures include Robert Rauschenberg, Clyfford Still, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Frank Stella, Doris Salcedo, and Philip Guston. Highlights on display include Henri Matisse ("Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat)"), Constantin Brancusi ("La Negresse Blonde (The Blond Negress)"), Georges Braque ("Violin and Candlestick"), Marcel Duchamp ("Fountain"), Jasper Johns ("Land's End"), Frida Kahlo ("Frieda and Diego Rivera"), René Magritte ("Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values)"), Franz Marc ("Gebirge (Mountains)"), Agnes Martin ("Falling Blue"), Giorgio Morandi ("Natura morta (Still Life)"), Jackson Pollock ("Guardians of the Secret") and Robert Rauschenberg ("Collection" (formerly "Untitled")). In 2009 the museum gained a custodial relationship for the important contemporary art collection of Doris and Donald Fisher of 'The Gap'. The Fisher Collection includes some 1,100 works from artists such as Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Anselm Kiefer, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol, among many others. The collection will be on loan to SFMOMA for a period of 100 years. In February 2011, the acquisition of 195 new works was announced, including paintings from Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon. The works will be permanently displayed along with the Fisher collection upon the museum's expansion, slated to be completed in 2016. One of the first museums to recognize photography as a legitimate art form, SFMOMA has been collecting and exhibiting photographs since 1935. Tracing the development of the medium from its invention in the 1830s to the present day, our photography collection comprises more than 14,000 pictures and is particularly well regarded for its concentrations of photographs related to California and the West, the European Avant-Garde, and American Modernism. Other areas of strength include Japanese photography, landscape photography, and a growing 19th-century collection. Dedicated to the examination of visual culture in all its forms, the department is notable for its active interest in collecting and exhibiting vernacular photography (anonymous snapshots), documentary evidence, and other photographic images never intended to be viewed as art. In addition to a full program of special exhibitions, the museum organizes 'Picturing Modernity: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection', an ongoing presentation that reveals the medium's transformation from a scientific invention into one of the most prevalent art forms of the modern era. Throughout its history, SFMOMA has provoked and participated in discussions about architecture and design via exhibitions, publications, and public programs. An impressive number of design and architecture exhibitions were presented at the museum before 1983, when the Architecture and Design Department was formally established. The department collects historical and contemporary works of architecture, furniture design, product design, and graphic design, as well as works of art that address these design disciplines. In the late 1990s the collection began to develop concentrations in several areas, including experimental architecture and typography, Bay Area design, modern furniture, and installation architecture. Today the Architecture and Design Department's holdings include the conference room from Charles and Ray Eames's design studio; furniture by the late Japanese designer Shiro Kuramata; drawings, models by the experimental architect Lebbeus Woods and works by important Bay Area designers, including Bernard Maybeck, Timothy Pflueger, William Wurster, John Dickinson, Jennifer Morla, and Jack Stauffacher. Amongst the highlights on display are Ron Arad "AYOR (At Your Own Risk)", Tobias Wong "Ju$t Another Rich Kid Coke Spoon 01", Mauro Restiffe "Empossamento #9 (Inauguration #9)", Lebbeus Woods "Photon Kite", and Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa "Tea and Coffee Tower". SFMOMA has been a leader in the presentation, collection, and preservation of media art since the early 1970s. The Department of Media Arts, established in 1987, was among the first of its kind in the United States and today encompasses the diversity of time-based media installations, including video, film, slide, sound, computer-based, and online works. Reflecting the history of technological and conceptual developments in art, the collection ranges from work by early practitioners such as Vito Acconci, Dara Birnbaum, Peter Campus, Dan Graham, Gary Hill, Nam June Paik and Steina Vasulka, to more contemporary pieces by Eija-Lisa Ahtila, Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe and Steve McQueen. In recent years the Media Arts Department has commissioned important video installations from Christian Marclay, Pipilotti Rist, and Sylvie Blocher, among others. Works by Bay Area artists, including Jim Campbell, Bill Fontana, Howard Fried, Doug Hall, Paul Kos, and Alan Rath, are one ongoing focus of our collection and provide a context for understanding the region as a historic center for experimental media. Amongst the exhibitions currently on view at SFMOMA, "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870" (until April 17, 2011) investigates the shifting boundaries between seeing and spying, the private act and the public image, challenging us to consider how the camera has transformed the very nature of looking. Bringing together historical and contemporary photographs, films, and video works by both unknown photographers and internationally renowned artists, this provocative exhibition examines some of the camera's most unsettling uses, including pornography, surveillance, stalking, and witnessing violence. 'Exposed' poses compelling and urgent questions about who is looking at whom, and why. Also until 17th April, 2011, "How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now" explores the visual culture of wine and its stunning transformation over the last three decades. Designed in collaboration with renowned architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the exhibition combines historical artifacts, architectural models, design objects, newly commissioned artworks, and enticing installations, including a "smell wall," to probe many aspects of wine culture, among them the globalization of wine, concepts of terroir, wine in popular media, and new strategies in label, glassware, and winery design. An ongoing exhibition, "Selected Histories: 20th Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection" is an installation of works from SFMOMA's painting and sculpture collection, conceived as a series of chapters that illuminate key moments and themes in the art of the 20th century. By presenting a range of conversations among varied works, the exhibition explores the many narratives the museum's collection can suggest about the history of modern art. A grand atrium staircase draws visitors from the ground floor up to four levels of skylit galleries. The second floor houses selections from the painting and sculpture collection and provides space for the architecture and design program. A series of more intimate galleries on the third floor are devoted to photography, while the more airy environs of the top two floors accommodate special temporary exhibitions, media arts, and large-scale contemporary art from their collection. ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to visit Museums and cultural sites worldwide, and they are featured on our Home Page (center). 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 . . and we are publishing current art news articles on the left hand side under RECENT NEWS .. Enjoy

Heckscher Museum Identity Crisis in Art Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:22 PM PDT HUNTINGTON, NY .- The Heckscher Museum of Art presents Identity Crisis: Authenticity, Attribution and Appropriation. This exceptional exhibition which opened on January 15, 2011 and runs through March 27, 2011, explores issues relating to the artistic use of other artists' styles and images in historical and contemporary works. Historically popular artists had followers, imitators and forgers, while more recent artists openly adopt well-known images and styles to comment on originality, authorship and culture. This exhibition presents old master and nineteenth-century works from The Heckscher Museum Permanent Collection, providing a framework for connoisseurship issues, such as authenticity and attribution. Artists to be considered include Canaletto, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Desire-Gustave Courbet, and George Inness, among others.

The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Acquires "Etude Pour 'Le Miel est Plus Douce que la Sang" For $6,518,830 US Dollars Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:20 PM PDT FIGUERES, SPAIN - The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí announce that it has acquired the work by Salvador Dalí : Étude pour 'Le miel est plus douce que la sang', ("Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood") at the auction which took place at Christie's London, on February, 9th, 2011 at 10pm, for a final price of £4,073,250 ( $6,518,830 US Dollars ).The work, lot 106 of the auction catalogue, an oil on wood from 1926-1927 representing one the first surrealist works of the artist, is a complete study for the painting of 1927 "Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood". One of the very first of Dalí's Surreal paintings, Study for Honey is Sweeter than Blood is a landmark work that, along with Little Ashes (Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid) and Apparatus and Hand (Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida) represents Dalí's first mature articulation of the neurotic dream-like imagery for which he is best known.

Blanton Museum hosts a Survey of New and Recent Work by Teresita Fernandez Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:15 PM PDT AUSTIN, TX.- This fall, the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents the exhibition, Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape, a survey of new and recent works by this internationally acclaimed artist. Organized by the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (USFCAM) and curated by David Louis Norr, chief curator, USF Institute for Research in Art, in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will be on view from November 1, 2009 to January 3, 2010. Visitors to Blind Landscape will actually move through one of Fernández' works as they enter the museum—Stacked Waters, the breathtaking installation currently on view in the Blanton's Rapoport Atrium.

Yousuf Karsh 100 " A Biography In Images " to open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:13 PM PDT BOSTON, MA - The legacy of Yousuf Karsh. . the man behind the lens of some of the 20th century's most famous photographic portraits is illuminated as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), presents Karsh 100: A Biography in Images. The exhibition of more than 100 works celebrating the 100th anniversary of Karsh's birth (1908) presents his iconic portraits of the era's most illustrious faces alongside rarely seen earlier photographs and little-known work. Karsh 100 will be on view September 23, 2008, through January 19, 2009, in the Rabb Gallery at the MFA. This exhibition is generously supported by the Government of Canada through the Consulate General of Canada in Boston.

Art Gallery of South Australia presents "Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art" Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:10 PM PDT 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.

"The Broad" Coming To L.A. Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:05 PM PDT LOS ANGELES.- Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad and architect Elizabeth Diller today unveiled the designs of The Broad Art Foundation, a contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by world-renowned architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the three-story museum features a unique porous honeycomb "veil" that wraps the building and is visible through an expansive, top floor sky-lit gallery that will be home to great works of contemporary art drawn from the 2,000-piece Broad Collections. The Broads also announced a 12-member board of governors and the inaugural programming for the contemporary art museum, to be called "The Broad." The total cost to construct the museum and parking garage will exceed $130 million.

Ekundayo solos at Thinkspace Gallery Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:03 PM PDT   Los Angeles, CA - Ekundayo solos at Thinkspace. Ekundayo was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1983 and raised there until the age of five at which point he left with his father to travel around the United States. After his father passed away in 1994 he found an escape through graffiti and hasn't looked back or stopped painting since. Among Ekundayo's many influences are Arthur Rackham, Nicoli Fechin, Toulouse Lautrec, Lucien Freud, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Gustave Klimt, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Sergio Toppi and Alan E. Cober; to name just a few. Ekundayo studied Illustration at Art Center College of Art and Design in Pasadena.

Reynolda House Museum Only Venue to Host "American Impressions" Posted: 13 Mar 2011 08:01 PM PDT   WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host "American Impressions: Selections from the National Academy Museum"  The exhibition features 32 masterworks of American Impressionism from the National Academy Museum in New York complemented by four masterworks from the Reynolda House collection. On view February 28 through June 28, 2009. Reynolda House is the only venue outside of the National Academy Museum to host the exhibition, which is organized by the National Academy Museum, New York.

Julie & Edward J. Minskoff Art Collection Acquires Jonathan Prince Sculpture Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:59 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan Prince, a sculptor whose recent works were the subject of a solo exhibition at Cynthia-Reeves in Chelsea, has placed a key sculpture, Light Box, in the noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art of Julie and Edward J. Minskoff. Mr. Minskoff, President of Edward J. Minskoff Equities, Inc., a New York-based real estate acquisition and development company, creates buildings that are widely acclaimed as art forms themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Minskoff generously display much of their art collection in public view throughout their buildings.

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag Hosts The Bouwfonds Art Collection Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:51 PM PDT Den Haag, Netherlands - Bouwfonds has been collecting works of art for the last 30 years and now owns one of the foremost corporate art collections in the Netherlands.  The exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum will concentrate on acquisitions of the last ten years.  It will include works by artists of the caliber of Steven Aalders, Ricardo Brey, Tony Cragg, René Daniëls, Joris Geurts, Juan Muñoz, Jan Roeland, JCJ Vanderheyden, Carel Visser and Co Westerik. On exhibit until 17 December, 2006.

Fiona Tan to Represent the Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:47 PM PDT VENICE.- New York-based Dutch curator Saskia Bos selected Fiona Tan to represent the Netherlands at the 53rd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Tan is working on a new audio-visual installation conceived especially for the presentation in Venice. Fiona Tan describes herself as 'a professional foreigner, whose identity is defined by that which I am not'. Her work will never be a straightforward search for truth or identity: she uses a variety of means to unravel processes of recollection and fill in story lines, sometimes using found footage with which to confront the observer with informal history.

Gagosian Gallery Presents a Major New Work by Takashi Murakam Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:45 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- In his distinctive "Superflat" style, which employs highly refined classical Japanese painting techniques to depict a super-charged mix of Pop, animé and otaku content within a flattened representational picture-plane, Murakami moves freely within an ever-expanding field of aesthetic issues and cultural inspirations. Parallel to the familiar utopian and dystopian themes that feature masses of smiling flowers, elaborate scenes of toonish apocalypse, and the ever-morphing cult figures of DOB, Mr. Pointy, Kaikai and Kiki, he recollects and revitalizes narratives of transcendence and enlightenment, often involving outsider-savants. Mining religious and secular subjects favored by the so-called Japanese "eccentrics" or non-conformist artists of the Early Modern era commonly considered to be counterpart to the Western Romantic tradition, Murakami situates himself within their legacy of bold and lively individualism in a manner that is entirely his own and of his time.  On view at Gagsosian Gallery through 24th October, 2009.

Christie's Latin American Art Sales Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:43 PM PDT   New York City - Christie's two-day sales of Latin American Art totaled $14,150,963/ £9,433,975/ €11,230,923, and was 70% sold by lot. Combined with the $33.8 million fetched in the Spring auctions, Christie's grand total for Latin American Art in 2008 is $48,012,313, representing the second highest annual total for Christie's.

PAINTER + POET Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:41 PM PDT BOSTON, MA.- The Boston Athenæum presents "PAINTER + POET: George Nama and Charles Simic" Feb. 10 through April 10, 2010, in the Athenæum's Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery, located at 10 ½ Beacon Street on Beacon Hill near the State House. This new exhibition, the result of a collaboration that began several years ago between the two artists, features a selection of Nama's recent etchings, sculptures, gouaches, and artist's books that have been inspired by and give visual illumination to Simic's poetry. It is curated by David Dearinger, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 13 Mar 2011 07:40 PM PDT 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.

You are subscribed to email updates from Art News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610