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• The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Opens "The Record: Contemporary Art & Vinyl"
• Ginny Gray Gallery To Host New Works by Theo Booth
• The WWA Gallery in Culver City Highlights the Work of 6 Artists
• Bert Green Fine Art Shows "Randall Cabe: Revealed Secrets: New Paintings"
• Copy of 14th-Century Hebrew Manuscript Acquired by Nelson-Atkins Museum
• The Pace Gallery Displays Sculptures from 1982 to 2008 by John Chamberlain
• Ethel Carrick & E Phillips Fox's Artistic Marriage Reviewed at the Queensland Art Gallery
• 'Vladimir Tretchikoff: The People's Painter' at the The Iziko Museum S.A. National Gallery
• The Demuth Museum to Showcase "Vaudeville!" Exhibition
• Never Seen Works of Art by Milton Avery at Knoedler & Company
• ClampArt Hosts Jill Greenberg's : Monkey Portraits
• Mount Holyoke College Art Museum shows Docent's Choice
• "The Blessed Angelico ~ The Dawn of the Renaissance" opens at Palazzo dei Caffarelli
• U.S. Philanthropist Gives Modern Art to Cuban Museum
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art features Soviet Art between Trotsky and Stalin, 1926-1936
• Library of Congress Acquires Charles Randall Dean Print Collection
• SFMOMA Exhibits Modern Masterworks from the Elise S. Haas Collection
• Olyvia Fine Art to exhibit Modern and Contemporary Drawings in London
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Opens "The Record: Contemporary Art & Vinyl" Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:39 PM PDT BOSTON, MA.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opens The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record's transformative power from the 1960s to the present. Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, sound work, video and performance, The Record combines contemporary art with outsider art, audio with visual, and fine art with popular culture. On view at the ICA from April 15 through Sept. 5, the exhibition features 99 works by 33 artists, including Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Laurie Anderson, Christian Marclay and Carrie Mae Weems. The Record was organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and is accompanied by a 240-page color catalogue. "In today's era of digital, downloadable music, the vinyl record—powerfully marked with history and nostalgia—has become a meaningful vehicle of expression for visual artists," says Jill Medvedow, director of the ICA. "The Record presents some of the best, rarest and most unexpected examples of artists whose work has been influenced by music and vinyl. We are thrilled to present this exhibition in Boston, giving art and music lovers alike the opportunity to discover, or re-discover, the tremendous artistic response the record has inspired." "For many contemporary artists, the vinyl record looms large, taking on a significance that moves well beyond the medium's traditional use, and thoroughly into a space of innovative artistic production," says Senior Curator Jenelle Porter, who coordinated the exhibition for the ICA. "In the hands of visual artists, the vinyl record is used as a metaphor, archive, artifact, icon, or portrait. The exhibition explores the impact of the record on both art and popular culture and the ways in which vinyl has been manipulated, preserved and transformed through art." The exhibition includes a broad range of works, such as a hybrid violin and record player, Viophonograph, a seminal work by Laurie Anderson; David Byrne's original life-sized Polaroid photomontage used for the cover of the 1978 Talking Heads album More Songs About Buildings and Food; a monumental column of vinyl records by William Cordova; and an important early work by Dario Robleto, who transformed Billie Holiday records in an alchemic process to create hand-painted buttons. Works by Christian Marclay, who has made art with records for 30 years, include his early and rarely seen Recycled Records as well as his most recent record video, Looking for Love. Accompanying the exhibition is Cover to Cover—an installation featuring 7 listening stations designed by 9 artists and musicians who each curated a crate of 20 albums. Each artist's theme and "story' can be discovered by thumbing through bins containing original albums, examining the covers and playing the records. Visitors will peruse the crates and with headphones listen to records on record players. Visit: http://www.icaboston.org/

Ginny Gray Gallery To Host New Works by Theo Booth Posted: 15 Apr 2011 09:20 PM PDT London.- Barcelona-based artist Theo Booth celebrates jazz age glamour, playful sensuality and the romantic and escapist possibilities of travel in his evocative and widely collected original paintings. A new exhibition of Theo's work begins with a Private View at the Ginny Gray Gallery in Buckingham from 5.30pm to 7.30pm on the evening of Saturday April 23rd. The exhibition will then run until May 30th.  St George's Day (Saturday April 23rd) has been specifically chosen for the Private View because St George is the patron saint of both England and Catalonia, where Theo is now based.

The WWA Gallery in Culver City Highlights the Work of 6 Artists Posted: 15 Apr 2011 08:51 PM PDT Culver City, CA.- New growth in a barren land is the theme of "Lilacs Out of the Dead Land" at the WWA Gallery in Culver City until May 7th 2011. Featuring works by Paul Torres, Casey Weldon, Richard J Frost, Sinae Park, Lily Mae Martin, and Dylan Sisson, "Lilacs Out of the Dead Land" unites six unique artists and visions in one show and exposes a fresh new field of talent not to be missed. "Lilacs Out of the Dead Land", a line taken from the T.S. Elliot poem, The Waste Land, evokes the imagery of new growth in an otherwise barren world, which is how the works of the contributing artists should be viewed. In an art world that can at times appear as a wasteland of creativity and freshness, these six artists are cultivating their own unique styles, which seek to move the conversation forward, not simply blend into the background.

Bert Green Fine Art Shows "Randall Cabe: Revealed Secrets: New Paintings" Posted: 15 Apr 2011 07:49 PM PDT Los Angeles.- Until April 27th, Bert Green Fine Art is showing "Randall Cabe: Revealed Secrets: New Paintings" at their gallery in Los Angeles. This is their second solo exhibition of the works of Randall Cabe, a Los Angeles-based painter, college art professor, scholar, and member of the exclusive Pharmaka painter's group. Cabe has a singular focus on the female figure. Heroic in scope despite their intimate size, these paintings celebrate woman, while revealing the artist's ultimate surrender to the power of women to render him defenseless.

Copy of 14th-Century Hebrew Manuscript Acquired by Nelson-Atkins Museum Posted: 15 Apr 2011 07:35 PM PDT KANSAS CITY, MO.- A rare copy of the Barcelona Haggadah edition, which was printed in 1992 in London through a special project with the British Museum and is the only copy in a four-state region, has been acquired by the Spencer Art Reference Library of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. The funding to acquire the work was given by longtime Museum supporters Sybil and Norman Kahn in memory of Thomas W. Levitt, a former two-term chairman of the Nelson-Atkins Society of Fellows.

The Pace Gallery Displays Sculptures from 1982 to 2008 by John Chamberlain Posted: 15 Apr 2011 07:05 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of sculptures by John Chamberlain from 1982 to 2008, on view from April 15 through June 11, 2011. Chamberlain has been the subject of thirteen solo exhibitions at The Pace Gallery since 1963, as well as the seminal exhibition De Kooning and Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation, which explored the affinities between the muscular and gestural styles of the two Abstract Expressionists working across generations and mediums.

Ethel Carrick & E Phillips Fox's Artistic Marriage Reviewed at the Queensland Art Gallery Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:46 PM PDT BRISBANE, AU - The story of one of Australian art's most significant marriages is told for the first time in a new exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery. The personal artistic union of Ethel Carrick & E Phillips Fox, two of Australia's most significant late impressionist painters, are celebrated in a major exhibition from April 16 to August 7, 2011. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said 'Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox' would includes more than 100 paintings, and give a fresh view of both artists' careers, telling their stories jointly for the first time in a major institution.

'Vladimir Tretchikoff: The People's Painter' at the The Iziko Museum S.A. National Gallery Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT Cape Town, SA - The Iziko Museums are presenting 'Vladimir Tretchikoff: The People's Painter' at the S.A. National Gallery in Cape Town from 26 May 2011. While Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913-2006) is undoubtedly one of South Africa's most controversial artists, much maligned in the 1960's and onwards by members of the established arts community, there can be no doubt that he has become a cultural icon and remains a favorite artist to many South Africans. Despite this, there has been almost no serious assessment of Tretchikoffs legacy. In his heyday Tretchikoff's exhibitions drew record audiences at his home and abroad and he was considered to be one of the richest artists, with earnings comparable to Picasso. He pioneered the idea of selling affordable copies of his works, enabling working class people to own art which they proudly displayed above their mantelpieces. This retrospective exhibition aims to examine Tretchikoff anew and place him in contemporary perspective. Many iconic works such as the Chinese Girl and The Dying Swan will be on display. Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff was the youngest of eight children in a wealthy family in Petropavl, an industrial city in Siberia. Upon the Russian Revolution in 1917, the family abandoned their property and fled to Harbin, a city in China with a large Russian presence. Tretchikoff worked as a scene painter at the city's Russian opera house, and studied at the Manchurian College until the age of 16. This explains why much of his later work is designed to be seen from a distance with an inherent theatricality. A year previously, he was commissioned to paint portraits for the boardroom of the Chinese-Eastern Railway, and with the money from this commission he joined the community of Shanghai Russians. In Shanghai, Tretchikoff worked as an art director and illustrator for Mercury Press, an American-owned advertising and publishing company. At the same time, he contributed cartoons to local Russian and English-language magazines. He met and married Natalie Telpougoff, a fellow Russian emigré. The couple moved to Singapore, where Tretchikoff opened an art school and worked for the Straits Times. International recognition came in 1937 when he was commissioned by the head of IBM, Thomas Watson, to represent Malaya in an exhibition of international art for which he produced the painting 'The Last Divers'. When the Second World War spread to the Pacific in 1940, Tretchikoff became a propaganda artist working for the British Ministry of Information. In February 1942, Tretchikoff was on board a ship evacuating ministry personnel to South Africa. The ship was bombed by the Japanese, and the 42 survivors rowed first to Sumatra, which they found was already occupied by the Japanese Army. They then rowed to Java, which took 19 days, only to find that it too was occupied. Tretchikoff spent the rest of the war in a Japanese prison camp (where he spent three months in solitary confinement for protesting that as a Russian citizen he ought not to be imprisoned), and then on parole in Batavia, (now Jakarta), where he worked with a Javanese dance troupe. Here he met Leonora Schmidt-Salomonson (Lenka) who became his lover and one of his most famous models. In 1946 he was reunited with his wife and their daughter Mimi in South Africa (they had been successfully evacuated on an earlier boat). He quickly became famous in South Africa thanks to a book that collected his portraits of Oriental women and pictures of flowers, and held successful exhibitions in Cape Town and Johannesburg. His fame spread to the United States, where the Rosicrucians of San Jose invited him to launch an American tour. Around 19,000 people saw his show in Los Angeles and 51,000 in San Francisco. In Seattle, a rival show which included Picasso and Rothko sold fewer tickets, to Tretchikoff's satisfaction. A million Americans finally saw his paintings, which then went on to Canada with equal success. This was followed by a large exhibition in 1961 at Harrods in London where he decided that the Harrod's art gallery was too small. He requested and was granted the privilege of having his exhibition in the ground-floor exhibition space. About 205,000 people attended the exhibition and one of his British admirers, Leslie Rigall, bought ten paintings and designed his new house in Windsor Great Park around them. His famous "Chinese Girl", a 1950 painting featuring an Eastern model with blue-green skin, is one of the best selling prints of all time. Prints of the painting became widespread during the 1960s and 1970s, and the painting was featured in various plays and television programmes: the original set of Alfie, with a drawn moustache in one episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus and an episode of Doctor Who. Other popular paintings of oriental figures were Miss Wong and Balinese Girl. He said of British prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Markova, who sat for The Dying Swan, that she was his most stimulating sitter. 'Iziko' is an isiXhosa word, meaning "a hearth". Since the hearth of a typical African homestead usually occupies the central space, Iziko symbolizes both a hub of cultural activity, and a central place for gathering together South Africa's diverse heritage. The Iziko Museums of Cape Town include the Iziko South African National Gallery, South Africa's premier art museum, housing outstanding collections of South African, British, French, Dutch, Flemish and wider African art. With a permanent collection of almost 10,000 items, selections from the Permanent Collection change regularly to enable the museum to have a full program of temporary exhibitions of paintings, works on paper, photography, sculpture, beadwork, textiles and architecture. These provide insight into the extraordinary range of aesthetic production in South Africa, the African continent and further afield. From an initial bequest of 45 paintings presented in 1871 by Thomas Butterworth Bayley, the collection of the Iziko South African National Gallery has grown to one of international stature, encompassing substantial holdings of South African, African and Western European art. The richness of the foreign collection is almost entirely due to the munificence of the early patrons of the Gallery. The main building, designed by Clelland & Mullins (Public Works Department) and F K Kendall, was completed in 1930, with funds from the Government, the City Council and the Hyman Liberman Estate. Since then various improvements have been made to the building, including the introduction of climate control and an upgraded lighting system in 1991. The art collections library provides an extensive art research and reference resource covering South African and international art, with books, journals, exhibition catalogues, sales/auction catalogues, newspaper clippings since 1904, artist files and art boxes, pamphlets, DVDs, CDs and videos. In line with museum policy, the Library develops projects to make its resources available to as many people in the community as possible. As well as the National Gallery itself, art from the Michaelis Collection (which also forms part of the Art Division of Iziko Museums of Cape Town) is housed in the Old Town House on Greenmarket Square, built in 1755 in Cape Rococo style. Donated by Sir Max Michaelis in 1914, it comprises a world-renowned collection of Netherlandish art from the 17th century, including paintings and works on paper by Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Jacob Ruisdael, Anthony van Dyck and Rembrandt. The historic Rust en Vreugd house contains the William Fehr donation of works of art on paper (watercolours, prints and drawings), whilst paintings from the same donation are displayed at the Castle of Good Hope. Visit the museums websites at … http://www.iziko.org.za/iziko/izihome.html

The Demuth Museum to Showcase "Vaudeville!" Exhibition Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT Lancaster, PA – The Demuth Museum's annual Invitational exhibition showcases the work of contemporary artists from Lancaster and the surrounding region who have been invited to exhibit new works based on a theme inspired by the art of Charles Demuth (1883-1935). This year's exhibition takes its theme from Charles Demuth's intense interest in vaudeville performances and circus performers. Demuth created imaginative watercolor works inspired by the vaudeville performances he would see right here in Lancaster at the Colonial Theater, Capitol Theater and Hippodrome Theater on North Queen Street. On view 6 February though 28 February, 2010.

Never Seen Works of Art by Milton Avery at Knoedler & Company Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Knoedler & Company presents, in cooperation with the artist's family and the Milton Avery Trust, Milton Avery: Industrial Revelations, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper (including both watercolors and gouaches) depicting the urban and industrial landscape of the 1920s and 1930s, most painted in and around New York City. A relatively little-known body of work, from the early years of Avery's mature career, many of the paintings and works on paper in this exhibition have never been previously exhibited. On exhibition through 1 May, 2010.

ClampArt Hosts Jill Greenberg's : Monkey Portraits Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT New York City - ClampArt is pleased to announce "Monkey Portraits" by Jill Greenberg, the artist's first solo show in New York City.  The exhibition coincides with the release of the Greenberg's wonderful monograph of the same title from Bulfinch Press.  On exhibition October 12th – November 11th, 2006.

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum shows Docent's Choice Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT South Hadley, MA - What is it that makes comparing two works of art so powerful? What do we see when we examine things side by side that we don't see when we look at objects individually? The docents of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum set about answering that question during the fall of 2007 and the exhibition Side By Side, on view at the Museum from March 4 to June 1, is the result of their investigations. The opening reception is scheduled for March 13 at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.

"The Blessed Angelico ~ The Dawn of the Renaissance" opens at Palazzo dei Caffarelli Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT ROME - Palazzo dei Caffarelli presents today The Blessed Angelico - The Dawn of the Renaissance, on view through July 5, 2009. The largest exhibition to be entirely dedicated to "the Blessed Angelico", as he is often known in Italy, since the monographic staged in the Vatican and Florence in 1955 (part of the centennial celebrations at the time). The Blessed Angelico and the Dawn of the Renaissance" exhibition will include several works being displayed in public for the first time, including the Triptych from the Corsini Gallery in Rome and a panel from the altarpiece in the Bosco ai Frati Convent.

U.S. Philanthropist Gives Modern Art to Cuban Museum Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT PARIS - An American-born philanthropist and curator has donated 120 works of modern art, including pieces by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and Marcel Duchamp, to Cuba's National Museum of Fine Art. Gilbert Brownstone, 69, is based in France and says he admires Cuba because it has advanced the culture of its people. "I think I can help in this fight," he said in an interview with Agence France-Presse. "I will continue buying and donating works from the collection to the Cuban people."

Moscow Museum of Modern Art features Soviet Art between Trotsky and Stalin, 1926-1936 Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT MOSCOW - "Struggling for the Banner" is the first major presentation of the period of "new leftist" art in the USSR, and especially that from the period of the "cultural revolution" (1928-1932), when the struggle against the passive, contemplative, purely aesthetic, and formal side of art reached its apogee. However, this art is not only anti-bourgeois in terms of theme. Instead, its aesthetic often comes surprisingly close to that of the political art of our own age. Many of the works in the exhibition have never been shown to the public before: monumental paintings, photomontages, photographs, graphic reproductions, posters, mass action sculpture projects, and films make for around 250 works by more than 100 authors. On exhibition June 18 through July 4, 2009 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Library of Congress Acquires Charles Randall Dean Print Collection Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT Washington, DC - The Library of Congress has acquired an exceptional collection of American Abstract Expressionist prints from the 1940's to 1960's, now available through the Library's Prints and Photographs Division.The Charles Randall Dean Collection of 125 prints includes exquisite and often rare impressions by such artists as James Budd Dixon, Sonia Gechtoff, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, James Kelly, Lee Krasner, Frank Lobdell and Hedda Sterne.

SFMOMA Exhibits Modern Masterworks from the Elise S. Haas Collection Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT 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.

Olyvia Fine Art to exhibit Modern and Contemporary Drawings in London Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:45 PM PDT 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.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 15 Apr 2011 06:44 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.

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