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• San Diego Museum of Art To Host “From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection”
• The Gallerie David in Bielefeld Presents "Thomas Schiela ~ From Near and Far"
• Vandals Damage Divisive Photo by Andres Serrano at French Exhibit
• "Landscapes from Monet to Hockney" at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art
• Retrospective Exhibition Spanning Over 44 Years of Work by Antonio Segui at Nohra Haime Gallery
• Sotheby's NY to Hold Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in May
• The Kunstverein Hamburg Shows the Works Of Evelyne Axelle
• Faggionato Fine Art in London Presents an Exhibition by Tarka Kings
• "William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague" at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
• Royal Collection Presents Exhibition of 42 Paintings of Dutch 17th-Century Art
• Gemeentemuseum opens Masterpieces of Victorian Art For the First Time in the Netherlands
• Museo del Prado Joaquín Sorolla Exhibition Breaks a Ten Year Old Attendance Record
• Boston College McMullen Museum of Art Hosts Premier Belgian Art
• DELAWARE ART MUSEUM HOSTS ' THE RETURN OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITES '
• Princeton University Art Museum Exhibits German Artist Ernst Barlach
• The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art to host Marc Leuthold Retrospective
• The Agora Gallery features Eric Robin ~ 'In Reverie of Form'
• Norman Rockwell Museum to exhibit Major American Artists at Work
• MoMA Publishes Richard Benson's ~ "The Printed Picture"
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

San Diego Museum of Art To Host “From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection” Posted: 20 Apr 2011 12:22 AM PDT San Diego, CA.- From July 9th through October 3rd 2011, the San Diego Museum of Art is proud to be the only U.S. museum to show "From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection". This spectacular survey of Spanish art from the 16th century to the 1970s will feature 64 works drawn from one of the world's finest private collections From the golden age of Charles V and on through the modern period, this exhibition showcases such acclaimed masters of the Spanish school as El Greco, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso, Dalí and Miró. Spanning four centuries, this selection of works by some of the world's most celebrated artists illustrates a splendid chapter in the history of Spanish art. Visitors to the exhibition will also be invited to discover dazzling artists little-known in the U.S., such as the Romantic Manuel Barrón y Carrillo, or the Modernist Romero de Torres. This exhibition proposes new perspectives on the story of Spanish art, considered both thematically and historically. An outstanding selection of old master paintings will  underscore the importance of religious piety and royal patronage from the 16th to the 18th century, including Jusepe de Ribera's sensational Saint Jerome, Bartolomé Murillo's sublime Immaculate Conception, and Francisco de Goya's masterful Doña María Teresa de Vallabriga y Rozas. The struggle between tradition and modernity will be considered from the late-18th to the 20th century, featuring six works by Salvador Dalí, among them his monumental Ascension of Christ, and the diptych Gala's Christ, painted for his wife and muse in 1978. Monuments of painting, the masterpieces assembled for this exhibition are also a testament to a preeminent collector's enduring passion. A native of Asturias, Spain, Juan Antonio Pérez Simón has made Mexico City his home. It is also home to his collection, begun in the 1970s, which now ranks among the greatest in the world. From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection, a choice selection from the outstanding works that comprise this stellar collection,premiered in Paris, at the Musée Jacquemart-André, before traveling to the Musée national des beaux-arts in Québec City. The San Diego Museum of Art's mission is to collect, preserve, interpret and display the finest works of art that men and women have created throughout time for the benefit of the broadest conceivable audience. The inspiration for a permanent public art gallery in San Diego can be traced to the Panama-California International Exposition, held in Balboa Park during 1915-1916.  The Exposition, which was organized to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and to promote San Diego as a seaport, also showcased San Diego as a growing cultural center. Planning for the new museum began in 1922 when local business and civic leader, Appleton S. Bridges (1849-1929), offered to fund the construction of a permanent structure to house a municipal art collection. A prominent site on the north side of Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama was secured and construction got underway in April 1924. Bridges hired one of San Diego's leading architects at the time, William Templeton Johnson (1877-1950), to design and construct the new art gallery. The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego officially opened its doors on February 28, 1926, at which time ownership and maintenance of the building was transferred to the City of San Diego. The Museum underwent an important period of expansion, in terms of both its collections and gallery space from 1955 until 1979. The completion in 1966 of the west wing doubled the space of Bridges' original structure and additional gallery space was added with the completion of the Gildred-Parker-Grant (east) wing in 1974. In 1978, Trustees changed the name of the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego to The San Diego Museum of Art in recognition of the Museum's status as a repository for applied and decorative arts in addition to the fine arts of painting and sculpture. The San Diego Museum of Art provides a rich and diverse cultural experience for 350,000 visitors annually. Located in the heart of beautiful Balboa Park, the Museum's nationally renowned collections include Spanish and Italian old masters, South Asian paintings, and 19th and 20th century American paintings and sculptures. The Museum regularly features major exhibitions of art from around the world, as well as an extensive year-round schedule supporting cultural and educational programs for children and adults. At The San Diego Museum of Art, exhibition text is always in English and Spanish. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.sdmart.org

The Gallerie David in Bielefeld Presents "Thomas Schiela ~ From Near and Far" Posted: 20 Apr 2011 12:06 AM PDT Bielefeld,Germany - "Thomas Schiela: From near and Far" is a new exhibition of the German artist's large scale watercolor paintings at the Gallerie David in Bielefeld from April 30th through May 27th 2011. A wall with a Thomas Schiela painting becomes an adventure. Its vast and usually photo-realistic quality pulls the viewer into a world that is at once very familiar and utterly scary. For Thomas Schielas' works are witnesses to life in all its detail. With a camera, he goes, as he says, "on photo-safaris", later selecting the images that he will work up as large-scale watercolor paintings. Each requiring painstaking hard work and virtuoso attention to detail.

Vandals Damage Divisive Photo by Andres Serrano at French Exhibit Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:52 PM PDT PARIS .- Police questioned witnesses on Monday in their search for a man who took a hammer to a controversial photograph of a crucifix bathed in urine at an art exhibition in an Avignon private museum. The modern art museum, the Collection Lambert, in southern France, said an assailant destroyed the photograph by American artist Andres Serrano, "Immersion (Piss Christ)" on Sunday and apparently accidentally damaged another of the artist's works while struggling with a guard. It was not immediately clear whether the assailant was part of a demonstration a day earlier by a right-wing group denouncing the 1987 photograph as blasphemous and demanding its removal from the exhibition, entitled "I Believe in Miracles."

"Landscapes from Monet to Hockney" at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:35 PM PDT Las Vegas, NV.- The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art (BGFA) proudly presents "A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney" from Arpil 16th 2011 through January 2012. Through a juxtaposition of images, "A Sense of Place" presents more than 30 artworks ranging from paintings, photographs and a video installation that contrast and compare both approach and expressionism in art. The exhibit showcases landscapes by artists including Claude Monet, Marc Chagall, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo, Vik Muniz and many others. From Monet's impressionistic haystacks painted in 1885 to Muniz's carefully rendered pigment prints created in 2006, precise representational paintings are placed alongside austere abstract works in order to reveal how landscape has been portrayed by artists throughout history.

Retrospective Exhibition Spanning Over 44 Years of Work by Antonio Segui at Nohra Haime Gallery Posted: 19 Apr 2011 11:23 PM PDT New York.- From April 27th through June 10th, the Nohra Haime Gallery is showing a major retrospective of works by Antonio Segui. Antonio Segui's fascination with the city, its people and its movement has been a part of his work for the past three decades. The artist, in a pre-computer age, has created a vocabulary now being explored by a new generation of artists through comics and Manga. Often described as the painter of cities, Segui pulls inspiration from the modern-day man - urban, fast-paced and intense. Noticeably repeated throughout many of Seguis compositions is the automaton, his version of the "everyman", the faceless passerby and the anonymous being that serves as a fleeting thought.

Sotheby's NY to Hold Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in May Posted: 19 Apr 2011 10:14 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 3 May 2011 in New York will offer an impressive range of paintings and sculpture from across the period. A spectacular group of 10 paintings by Pablo Picasso will be led by Femmes lisant (Deux personnages), a striking portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter from 1934 (est. $25/35 million*). Impressionist, Expressionist and Surrealist paintings and sculpture will feature works by iconic artists including Paul Gauguin, Alexej von Jawlensky, Claude Monet and René Magritte, among many others. Works from both the Evening and Day Sales will be on view in Sotheby's York Avenue galleries beginning 29 April, alongside highlights from the Contemporary Art Evening Auction.

The Kunstverein Hamburg Shows the Works Of Evelyne Axelle Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:43 PM PDT Hamburg.- The Kunstverein Hamburg presents "Evelyn Axelle: The World is Round" until June 13th. Evelyne Axell (1935-1972) was an actress and newsreader, an icon in the French-speaking world, and for many, her beauty made her a sex symbol. But in 1963 she brought her film and television career to an end, reversing roles to become a painter. A key figure in Belgian pop art, she is among the artists whose work is just emerging from the shadow cast by male pop heroes for reassessment, for instance in the exhibitions "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958—1968" at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia last winter or "Power Up—Female Pop Art" at the Kunsthalle in Vienna, as well in recent publications.

Faggionato Fine Art in London Presents an Exhibition by Tarka Kings Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:36 PM PDT London.- Faggionato Fine Art is delighted to present "Lingua Franca", an exhibition of new works by Tarka Kings from 6 May - 3 June 2011. The show marks a new direction in Kings' practice, comprising a series of highly-worked largescale drawings that begin with a single scene or image and progress into a formal exploration of mark-making and patterning. Comprising subtle tonal shifts achieved through intensely detailed textures, the drawings embody a balance between restraint and emotion. Figureless scenes are imbued with tension through finely wrought surfaces, contrasts in medium and fragments of text. "Lingua Franca" refers to the polyglot creole spoken on the Mediterranean trading routes, a unifying language derived from multiple sources.

"William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague" at the Winnipeg Art Gallery Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:18 PM PDT Winnipeg, Canada - The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is hosting "William Brymner: Artist, Teacher, Colleague" from 14 May until 21 August. The exhibition explores a number of intriguing questions about the artist. How did an artist from a small Scottish town become a major influence on important Canadian artists like A.Y. Jackson, Maurice Cullen, and James Wilson Morrice? How did he become the core of a creative milieu that made Montreal the undisputed hub of Canadian art in the first decade of the 20th century? And what were his ties to the WAG? This exhibition is organized and toured by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen's University, Kingston, with the co-operation of Power Corporation of Canada and a contribution from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.

Royal Collection Presents Exhibition of 42 Paintings of Dutch 17th-Century Art Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT LONDON.- This exhibition of 42 paintings draws on the Royal Collection's rich holdings of Dutch 17th-century art and landscapes, including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van der Heyden, Anthony van Dyck and Meyndert Hobbema. By the 17th century, landscape painting was well established as a distinct art form and one in which Netherlandish artists excelled. The fine detail and meticulous finish of Dutch pictures appealed to British taste, and 34 of the works in the exhibition were acquired by the future George IV between 1809 and 1820. On view from April 15 through October 9, 2011. The ability of Dutch artists to depict mood and emotion through landscape and the subject-matter drawn from everyday life influenced the great British painters John Constable and JMW Turner. Constable admired the 'acres of sky expressed' in Ruisdael's Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream, and on seeing a seascape by Willem van de Velde the Younger, Turner remarked, 'Ah! That made me a painter'. At the conclusion of the Eighty Years War with Spain, the newly formed United Provinces of the north gained independence from the Spanish-controlled south. With a sense of national optimism came the rapid expansion of Dutch cities and towns. Civic pride manifested itself in the building of town halls and churches, and in paintings such as Jan van der Heyden's minutely observed The Town of Veere with the Groote Kerk. A programme of land reclamation saw the northern peninsular of the United Provinces grow by a third between 1590 and 1650. Outdoor Merrymaking by Jan Miense Molenaer shows a typical Dutch 'polder' (reclaimed field) surrounded by a drainage ditch, dyke and windmills. Between 1610 and 1630 a 'tonal' school of landscape painting emerged in Haarlem. It created a style that sought to convey through subtle transitions of colour the atmospheric effects of water, land and sky. In A River Landscape with Sailing Boats, Salomon van Ruysdael skilfully evokes the mood of dawn over the estuary through the blending of colour and texture. The thinly painted areas allow the grain of the wood to suggest ripples in the water. The Royal Collection contains an outstanding group of works by Aelbert Cuyp, the most poetic of all Dutch landscape artists. Cuyp painted both recognisable views around Dordrecht and landscapes of his imagination, such as A Page with Two Horses. All are imbued with an extraordinary luminosity and spectrum of light. The earliest painting in the group, Cows in a Pasture beside a River, before Ruins, may have been intended as a celebration of the end of war and the anticipated benefits of peace. As protectors of the land, sand dunes became a symbol of Dutch national pride. They are recurring motifs in landscape painting, either as the setting for seaside pastimes, as in Adriaen van de Velde's Figures on the Coast at Scheveningen, or as the temporary home of hunters and soldiers, as in Paulus Potter's Two Sportsmen outside an Inn. In A Hilly Landscape with a Hawking Party, Jan Wijnants exploits the decorative forms of twisting paths, broken fences and the rutted mud of the track. The artist may have been influenced by landscape decoration on contemporary Delftware or on Chinese porcelain imported by the Dutch East India Company. As the foundation of trade and empire, the sea was the most important force in Dutch life. Ships were built in unprecedented quantities – around 40,000 vessels during the 17th century. The 'Great Fishery', as the herring trade was called, directly or indirectly employed one fifth of the population. The importance of the sea is reflected in the large number of marine artists active at this time. In The Royal Escape in a Breeze and A Calm: A States Yacht under sail Close to the Shore, Willem van de Velde the Younger skilfully depicts the changing effects of light and air, the direction of the sun and wind, and the behaviour of boats under different weather conditions. While many Dutch painters found inspiration in their immediate surroundings, others, such as Karel du Jardin, Nicolaes Berchem and Cornelis van Poelenburgh, travelled to Italy in pursuit of the mountainous vistas and golden light. Since the early 16th century there had been a colony of northern artists in a small quarter of Rome immediately inside the Porta del Popolo. Figures before a Locanda by Johannes Lingelbach is set in the street where the artist lived and, rather than idealising the city, gives a realistic account of the squalor of low-life Rome. Karel du Jardin's A Herdsman with an Ox, an Ass, and Sheep in the Campagna places its subject against the backdrop of the Roman countryside suffused with southern light, but the painting's muted palette and careful observation remain typically Dutch. Aelbert Cuyp never ventured to the Mediterranean, but saw Italy through the works of his contemporaries. In his Evening Landscape with Figures and Sheep, the distinctly Dutch terrain is bathed in the warm colours and soft tones of Italy. Visit the Royal Collection in London at : http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/

Gemeentemuseum opens Masterpieces of Victorian Art For the First Time in the Netherlands Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT THE HAGUE, NL - "Flaming June", the glorious canvas painted by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) in around 1895, and five fabulous pictures by Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) are the highlights of an extraordinary exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag from 4 July to 20 September 2009. These masterpieces of Victorian art come from the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico and have never previously been exhibited in the Netherlands. The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag was built by architect H.P. Berlage in 1935. Visitors love the building itself, and the collections are so vast, that you can spend a whole day here. The museum, for instance, has the largest collection of works by Piet Mondriaan in the world.

Museo del Prado Joaquín Sorolla Exhibition Breaks a Ten Year Old Attendance Record Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT MADRID.- The Museo del Prado has broken a ten year old attendance record with its Sorolla exhibition. More than 450,000 persons visited the exhibition which closed last Sunday. The director of the Museo del Prado, Miguel Zugaza, made the informaion public today saying that this exhibition was visited by more persons than others held in previous years. Incuding Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, El Greco, Zurbarán and Goya museum exhibitions.

Boston College McMullen Museum of Art Hosts Premier Belgian Art Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT CHESTNUT HILL, MA – The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College presents A New Key : Modern Belgian Art from the Simon Collection. The exhibition is on view  through July 22, 2007, and comprises 53 works of art, most in their first North American display. This is also the first time that this selection of works has been displayed together as a group. The Simon Collection, housed in London and France, is the finest collection of modern Belgian art outside Belgium.Simon This exhibition includes important paintings by René Magritte, James Ensor, Frits van den Berghe, Paul Delvaux, Theo van Rysselberghe, Emile Claus, Leon Spilliaert, Gustave de Smet and Constant Permeke, among others.

DELAWARE ART MUSEUM HOSTS ' THE RETURN OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITES ' Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT   Wilmington, DE - The Delaware Art Museum is pleased to announce The Return of the Pre-Raphaelites, as America's largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art comes home to Wilmington following an international tour. A series of celebrations will herald the return, including a Family Festival on September 23, which is when the Pre-Raphaelite collection goes on view to the public. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (P.R.B.) was the name chosen by seven young men who gathered together in London in 1848, united by a shared distrust for the Royal Academy, the sanctioned art institution of the day.

Princeton University Art Museum Exhibits German Artist Ernst Barlach Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum presents Myth and Modernity: Ernst Barlach's Images of the Nibelungen and Faust, on view from through June 7, 2009. The exhibition conveys the versatility and narrative power of the German sculptor, printmaker, and playwright Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) through several of the artist's sculptures, as well as woodcuts depicting the Walpurgis Night scene in Goethe's Faust and drawings illustrating the climatic end of the medieval epic of the Nibelungen.

The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art to host Marc Leuthold Retrospective Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT SEDALIA, MISSOURI—The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art on the campus of State Fair Community College will mount a mid-career retrospective for artist Marc Leuthold Feb. 6 through April 25, 2010.The artist will give a public lecture at 2 p.m. Feb. 6 in the Stauffacher Center for the Fine Arts on campus followed by an opening reception until 4 p.m. in the museum. The exhibition, Marc Leuthold, Sculpture, 1995-2010, surveys the artist's signature ceramic sculpture produced during the past 15 years. Museum Director Thomas Piché, Jr., curated the exhibition, which is accompanied by an illustrated catalog.

The Agora Gallery features Eric Robin ~ 'In Reverie of Form' Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT NEW YORK , NY - The Agora Gallery (530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, 10001) is proud to present Eric Robin in our upcoming exhibition In Reverie of Form. Scheduled to run from January 6th through January 27th, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Eric Robin's soulful portraiture. Robin's work has been exhibited in Belgium, France and the United States.

Norman Rockwell Museum to exhibit Major American Artists at Work Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT STOCKBRIDGE, MA.- The interplay between artists and their studios will be the subject of a major exhibition opening this winter at Norman Rockwell Museum. On view from February 7 through May 25, 2009, Artists in Their Studios will present a behind-the-scenes view into the lives of over 75 noted American artists through hundreds of rarely-exhibited photographs and primary source materials from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.

MoMA Publishes Richard Benson's ~ "The Printed Picture" Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 PM PDT   NEW YORK CITY - The ability to make and distribute identical copies of a single picture has played a vital role in human society and culture. "The Printed Picture" (308 pages; 326 color ills; $60.00, hardcover, October 2008) is a highly original and accessible history of the endlessly evolving technology of multiple images, from the Renaissance woodblock to today's fast-paced digital innovations. Also titled The Printed Picture, the exhibition will be on view in The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries of MoMA on the third floor from October 17, 2008, through May 2009.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 19 Apr 2011 09:02 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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