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• The New National Museum of Monaco Shows Mark Dion's "Mysterious Seas" Exhibition
• Masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Reaches $29.2 Million at Sotheby's NY
• The MUDAM Displays Landscape Inspired Works from it's Collection
• The ArtPadSF Contemporary Art Fair Comes to San Francisco
• Kirkland Museum in Denver Highlights The Modernist Clashes of the 1940s
• "Native Life in the Americas" at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
• The New York Public Art Premiere of Jaume Plensa
• Knoedler & Company Presents The Paintings by Conrad Marca-Relli
• Smithsonian Scientists Find Rainforests Arose When Plants Solved Plumbing Problem
• The Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg Features Boris Grigoriev Retrospective
• The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts ~ Superb Collection Of Canadian Artworks ~ Visited By 5 Million Annually
• Florence Griswold Museum hosts 'Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France'
• Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art features 'Spirit Red' a gift of Rennard Strickland
• Major Painting by American Artist Philip Evergood is Acquired by VMFA
• Pinakothek der Moderne hosts Masterdrawings from The Morgan Library & Museum
• Missoula Art Museum (MAM) to present Mary Ann Papanek-Miller
• French Photographer Willy Ronis - His Poetics of Personal Engagement
• Grand Palais in Paris to Show Warhol's Wide World Portraits
• Philbrook Museum and OU Receive Adkins Art Collection
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The New National Museum of Monaco Shows Mark Dion's "Mysterious Seas" Exhibition Posted: 05 May 2011 11:01 PM PDT Monaco.- The Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (NMNM - The New National Museum of Monaco) is showing "Oceanomania: Memories of Mysterious Seas", a project by Mark Dion until September 30th at the Villa Paloma (one of the museum's two sites within the city state). Continuing his investigations as a naturalist, archaeologist and traveler, Mark Dion explores the American collections of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco to create a monumental collection of curiosities, and plunges into the collections of the New National Museum of Monaco (NMNM) to create a large-scale intervention. Mark Dion's installation at the Villa Paloma brings together works by 20 artists including the monumental series 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' by Bernard Buffet and works by Matthew Barney, Ashley Bickerton, David Brooks, David Casini, Michel Camia, Peter Coffin, Marcel Dzama, Katharina Fritsch, Klara Hobza Isola and Norzi, Pam Longobardi, Jean Painlevé, James Prosek, Man Ray, Alexis Rockman, Allan Sekula, Xaviera Simmons, Lawrence Tixador and Abraham Pointcheval and Rosemarie Trockel. In addition, Dion's installation includes an eclectic collection of works of art, related to the sea (including two rarely seen paintings of the Bay of Monaco by Claude Monet), from the collections of NMNM alongside objects from the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. 'Oceanomania' is jointly curated by NMNM and the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. Two significant and conflicting maritime events form the conceptual framework of this project. They are the Census of Marine Life, recently completed (2010), and the explosion of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon. The first involved 2,700 scientists from 80 nations, who for 10 years studied the diversity, distribution and abundance of life in the oceans. It resulted in the identification of 6,000 new species, of which only 1500 have been described so far. The Census of Marine Life has also highlighted the fact that the oceans are richer, more connected and more affected than imagined.The second, the explosion of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon has caused the flow of 4.9 million barrels of crude oil into the sea in the Gulf of Mexico, producing a kill zone of 210 square kilometers and causing untold damage to the marine life. The consequences should still be felt for decades to come. In his exhibition, Dion examines our perception of the ocean. It challenges our sense of wonder at its great diversity and our sadness over the destruction. It's looks at the evolution of our fascination with the sea in time and space, design, literature and art, and reveals how the strange and wonderful have continuously inspired the research and creation Art. Blurring the boundaries between natural history, art and science, the work of Mark Dion focuses on the topics such as archeology, ecology and environmental protection. Dion has held major exhibitions at Oakland Museum of California (2011), EMSCHERKUNST, Germany (2010), Prefectural Museum Ancient Arles, Arles (2010), Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2009), Natural History Museum, London (2007), Square Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Nîmes (2007), Miami Art Museum (2006), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2003), and Tate Modern, London (1999). Dion has also created many permanent outdoor installations such as "Ship in a Bottle", a public commission for the Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Enhancement Project, California (2011), "Vertical Garden" at Tooley Street, London (2009), and "Neukom Vivarium" for the Olympic Sculpture Park commissioned by Seattle Art Museum (2006). He is represented by the gallery In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc Paris and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York, Galerie Christian Nagel in Berlin, Georg Kargl Vienna and Galerie für Landschaftskunst Hamburg. Mark Dion lives and works in New York and Pennsylvania. Monaco's Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opened in 2010 and is located in two stunning venues, the Villa Paloma and the Villa Sauber. With a focus on modern, contemporary works of art, these completely re-designed venues present two expositions annually per venue and spotlight the cultural, historic and artistic virtues of Principality. The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco is open daily from 10:00am to 6:0pm. Entry is free to all under the age of 26. The Villa Paloma is one of the finest mansions in the Principality and was originally built around 1913 for an American, Edward N. Dickerson. After passing through numerous hands (and being severely damaged during World War II), the villa was bought by the State of Monaco in 1995 and became part of the new museum in 2008. The garden is the jewel of the Villa, and the museum took great care to preserve it as an Italian garden balcony overlooking the city and the sea, retaining the existing vegetation and creating links with the Princess Antoinette Park and the Museum of Anthropology. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.nmnm.mc/

Masterpiece by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Reaches $29.2 Million at Sotheby's NY Posted: 05 May 2011 11:00 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- A masterpiece by Victorian artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema set another incredible price at Sotheby's New York today in the sale of 19th Century European Art. Two determined phone bidders held a steady competition for The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra: 41 BC for over eight minutes, driving the final price to a remarkable $29,202,500–nearly six times the pre-sale high estimate of $5 million. This marks the highest auction price of the week in New York , and follows the $35.9 million record for the artist established at Sotheby's last November by "The Finding of Moses".

The MUDAM Displays Landscape Inspired Works from it's Collection Posted: 05 May 2011 10:37 PM PDT Luxembourg.- "Walking Through .... MUDAM Collection" on view at the MUDAM in Luxembourg until June 11th, features works from the museum's collection that have been inspired, in one form or another, by landscape. Looking at the landscape, the attentive walker jots things down in his notebook, outlines the first features of a composition, sketches this oddity and that, in some way taking the physical and metaphorical measure of the expanse that spreads out before his eyes; his memory is formed in that split second. The exhibition "Walking Through… " conjures up this relation to space, as well as to time. Through the works of more than some 20 artists, all with different activities, the plurality and wealth of the relationship between artists and landscape are outlined.

The ArtPadSF Contemporary Art Fair Comes to San Francisco Posted: 05 May 2011 08:46 PM PDT San Francisco.- Joining the triumvirate of art fairs opening in San Francisco, CA. this May 19–22, ArtPadSF, an independent hotel-based art fair focusing on emerging and contemporary galleries and artists from the Bay Area and beyond, will debut at San Francisco's legendary Phoenix Hotel. In announcing the 2011 exhibiting galleries and programming schedule, ArtPadSF Director, Maria Jenson notes, "The Phoenix is the quintessential place to launch an independent art fair. It's an oasis located in a San Francisco neighborhood that's on the edge, and for many artists, collectors and enthusiasts, exploring the areas just outside of our comfort zones or what we recognize as familiar, is often the most invigorating way to find hidden treasures.

Kirkland Museum in Denver Highlights The Modernist Clashes of the 1940s Posted: 05 May 2011 08:33 PM PDT Denver, CO.- The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art in Denver presents "15 Colorado Artists: Breaking With tradition" from May 6th to July 31st. Original artwork of the founding members of this modernist group, some from their first exhibit launched in December of 1948, will be on view. Never-before-seen vintage photos of the artists and reproductions of the newspapers where much of the modernist debate in Denver was hashed out will also be displayed. Those who led the modernist charge in 1948 (and who are featured in the exhibition) include  Don Allen, John Billmyer, Marion Buchan, Mina Conant, Eo Kirchner, Moritz Krieg, Duard Marshall, Louise Ronnebeck, William Sanderson, Paul K. Smith, J. Richard Sorby, Frank Vavra and Vance Kirkland, in whose former home the Kirkland Museum is based. Curators Hugh Grant and Deborah Wadsworth will publish articles in a book that will accompany the exhibition.

"Native Life in the Americas" at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Posted: 05 May 2011 08:01 PM PDT CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Tozzer Library present a new exhibition, Native Life in the Americas: Artists' Views. The exhibition opens today, May 4, 2011, in Tozzer Library and will remain on view through February 28, 2012. Native Life in the Americas: Artists' Views showcases the work of important though not well-known artists who focused on Native American life and culture. But many lesser known artists who portrayed Native American life and culture also deserve attention.

The New York Public Art Premiere of Jaume Plensa Posted: 05 May 2011 07:40 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art presents the New York public art premiere of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa, featuring a new monumental, site-specific sculpture for Madison Square Park. Plensa's Echo marks the single largest monolithic work of art presented in the 7-year history of Mad. Sq. Art, on view May 5 through mid- August 2011.

Knoedler & Company Presents The Paintings by Conrad Marca-Relli Posted: 05 May 2011 07:06 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Conrad Marca-Relli's life and career were restlessly peripatetic—he moved back and forth between Europe and the United States, with homes at various times in New York City, East Hampton, Rome, Paris, Ibiza, and Parma—even for a time living on a houseboat on the Seine. In addition, his frequent travels included two trips to Mexico (in 1940 and 1952), where the geometric abstract quality of the white adobe architecture, seen in intensely contrasting light and shadow, proved extremely influential on his cityscapes, as well as his evolving work in collage.

Smithsonian Scientists Find Rainforests Arose When Plants Solved Plumbing Problem Posted: 05 May 2011 06:59 PM PDT WASHINGTON, D.C.- A team of scientists, including several from the Smithsonian Institution, discovered that leaves of flowering plants in the world's first rainforests had more veins per unit area than leaves ever had before. They suggest that this increased the amount of water available to the leaves, making it possible for plants to capture more carbon and grow larger. A better plumbing system may also have radically altered water and carbon movement through forests, driving environmental change.

The Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg Features Boris Grigoriev Retrospective Posted: 05 May 2011 06:47 PM PDT St. Petersburg.- The Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg presents a solo show of works by Boris Grigoriev until August 15th. Boris Grigoryev was one of the most well-known Russian artists of the first half of the 20th century, and the exhibition includes more than 150 paintings and graphic works from the Russian Museum's collection as well as from private collections in Russia and abroad. This is the first major retrospective of Grigoriev's work to be held in Russia. Grigoriev emigrated in 1919 and later worked in Western Europe, Latin America and the United States of America. Boris Grigoriev gained international fame for his paintings and graphic portraits of famous men in early twentieth century Russian culture (among them Maxim Gorky, Shalyapin, Meyerhold and Rachmaninov) marked by the shrewdness and depth of delineation. The special part of the exhibition presents the works from the Raseya series that were created in the revolutionary years and revealed the artist's complicated reflections on the fate of the Russian World. The unique drawings, created in the 1910's-20's give an opportunity to appreciate completeness and perfection of the form in the expressive and versatile images. The exhibition is supplemented by a multimedia film devoted to the basic works by Boris Grigoryev. Boris Grigoriev was born in Rybinsk on 11 July 1886 and studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907.  he went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg under Aleksandr Kiselyov, Dmitry Kardovsky and Abram Arkhipov from 1907 to 1912. He began exhibiting his work in 1909 as a member of Union of Impressionists group, and became a member of the World of Art movement in 1913. At that time he also was interesting in literature, writing the novel "Young Rays". Grigoriev lived for a time in Paris, where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In Paris he was strongly influenced by Paul Cézanne. After his return to Saint Petersburg in 1913 he became part of the Bohemian scene and was close to many artists and writers of the time, such as Sergey Sudeykin, Velimir Khlebnikov and the poet Anna Akhmatova, often painting their portraits. Grigoriev was also interested in the Russian countryside, its peasants and village life. From 1916 to 1918 he created a series of paintings and graphic works depicting the poverty and strength of the Russian peasantry and village life. From 1919, Grigoriev travelled and lived abroad in many countries including Finland, Germany, France, USA, Central and South America where he painted and also composed poetry. Grigoriev died in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1939. The Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg is a unique depository of artistic treasures, a leading restoration center, an authoritative institute of academic research, a major educational center and the nucleus of a network of national museums of art. The Russian Museum collection contains about 400,000 exhibits. The main complex of museum buildings (the Mikhailovsky Palace and Benois Wing) houses the permanent exhibition of the Russian Museum, tracing the entire history of Russian art from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. The museum collection embraces all forms, genres, schools and movements of art. The Russian Museum holds many exhibitions both in Russia and abroad. The Museum holds more than 50 temporary exhibitions and organizes more than 10 in other cities and abroad annually. Catalogues, albums and booklets made by museum researchers accompany many exhibitions. Over the past twenty years, the museum complex has grown to include the Stroganov Palace, St Michael's (Engineers) Castle and the Marble Palace. The complex also includes the Mikhailovsky Gardens, Engineering Gardens, Summer Garden (including the Summer Palace) and the House of Peter the Great. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.rusmuseum.ru

The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts ~ Superb Collection Of Canadian Artworks ~ Visited By 5 Million Annually Posted: 05 May 2011 06:40 PM PDT The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, started life in 1860 as the Art Association of Montreal. At that time there was no school of art and no museum, nor even any venue at which exhibitions could be mounted. But Montreal was the most important city in British North America at the time, it was the cradle of the Canadian industrial revolution, the hub of waterway, maritime, and railway transport, and the seat of the country's great financial institutions. However, with few funds and a collection that relied on loans to mount even the most basic exhibition, it took a while to develop anything significant. In 1877 Montreal merchant Benaiah Gibb bequeathed the Art Association a plot of land, a sum of money to be used to build a museum, and a modest collection of European paintings and sculptures which formed the nub of the institution's permanent collection. Located in the business quarter of the city, the Art Gallery inaugurated in 1879 was the first building in Canada to be specifically designed to house a collection of works of art. Every year, the Art Association organized two major events in the gallery, an exhibition of works lent by its members and a Spring Exhibition, devoted to living Canadian artists. From the 1880s, the Art Association regularly purchased works exhibited at the Spring Exhibition, and also works produced by the best students at its school of art, thus building up the foundations of its collection of Canadian art. Various bequests to the museum in the 1990s and early 1900s allowed the collection to grow substantially and after considering extending the existing museum in 1909, the members of the Art Association's council decided instead to buy a site on Sherbrooke Street, in the heart of the very smart 'Square Mile' district (later known as the 'Golden Square Mile') where they built a museum consistent with their aspirations. In line with the wishes of the Art Association's council, the new museum, designed by the architects Edward and William S. Maxwell, was sober and imposing in appearance. It had façades in white marble, a high portico with colonnade, a monumental staircase, and discreet decoration in low relief. The building comprised several large exhibition-rooms with overhead lighting, a lecture-hall, a library, and the art-school studios. The new museum opened in December 1912 and in the following year it welcomed some 50,000 visitors. The institution eventually adopted a name that encompassed all the collections, and in 1948 it became the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The 1991 Riopelle retrospective was the first exhibition to be held in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' new annex, a major expansion project on the south side of Sherbrooke Street, facing the original building. To design it, the museum called upon the renowned international architect Moshe Safdie, creator of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec. In a colorful history, the museum was the subject of Canada's largest art-theft, when in 1972, fifty or so works by, amongst others, Rubens, Rembrandt, Corot, and Delacroix, were stolen and never recovered . From those first 50,000 visitors in 1912, numbers have now risen to well over 5,000,000 every year. Visit the museum's website at … www.mbam.qc.ca

Florence Griswold Museum hosts 'Impressionist Giverny: American Painters in France' Posted: 05 May 2011 06:39 PM PDT OLD LYME, CT - The Florence Griswold Museum is the first venue for Impressionist Giverny: Americans Painters in France, 1885–1915, an exhibition of over fifty works organized by the Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny. The exhibition tells the story of the expatriate colony founded by American artists in the village of Impressionist master Claude Monet. Attracted by the presence of the Impressionist master Claude Monet, who settled in Giverny in 1883, an international community of artists flocked there from the late 1880s through World War I. More than 70% were Americans. On exhibition through 27 July, 2008.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art features 'Spirit Red' a gift of Rennard Strickland Posted: 05 May 2011 06:38 PM PDT NORMAN, OK.- Art appreciation takes many forms, but for Rennard Strickland, collecting art has become a lifelong legacy. Over five decades, he has acquired more than 100 paintings, baskets, pottery, textiles and sculpture, representing some of the most acclaimed artists of the 20th century. Strickland, who is of Osage and Cherokee heritage, served as curator of Native American art at OU's art museum in the early 1990s. In 2007, he announced that he wished to give his remarkable collection to the museum in memory of his mother, Adell Tucker Strickland. Highlights from his collection, which he recently gave to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, will go on display in a new exhibition June 4, 2009.

Major Painting by American Artist Philip Evergood is Acquired by VMFA Posted: 05 May 2011 06:37 PM PDT RICHMOND, VA.- American artist Philip Evergood's 1936 oil on canvas "Street Corner" is among many significant works acquired recently by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VMFA,  in preparation for its grand opening May 1. The painting is the first major Depression-era Urban Realist canvas to enter the collection and was painted in the same year VMFA opened its doors. Also added to the collection is Italian artist Pio Fedi's plaster study for "The Sacrifice of Polyxena," circa 1885; "Mirror with Three-light Sconce," an American work dating from circa 1800-1820; and an array of additional American, European, Asian and African works.

Pinakothek der Moderne hosts Masterdrawings from The Morgan Library & Museum Posted: 05 May 2011 06:36 PM PDT Munich, Germany - One hundred of the finest examples of draftsmanship from the permanent collection of The Morgan Library & Museum are on view at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. This exhibition has provided an exciting opportunity for the Morgan to collaborate with one of the foremost European collections of works on paper, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich, and to share the treasures of its collection with a wider public in one of the cultural capitals of Europe. On view through 3 January, 2009.

Missoula Art Museum (MAM) to present Mary Ann Papanek-Miller Posted: 05 May 2011 06:35 PM PDT   Missoula, MT - Missoula Art Museum (MAM) is honored to present A Snowman Cares for our Memory of Water: Mary Ann Papanek-Miller which celebrates the work of this highly accomplished artist. The work in this exhibition utilizes line and a variety of mixed media processes with a strong vocabulary of painting. A deep spiritual attitude is revealed in this work as Papanek- Miller studies the philosophical nature of time and the conflict of popular culture clashing with a concern for the earth. On view 6 March through 13 June, 2009.

French Photographer Willy Ronis - His Poetics of Personal Engagement Posted: 05 May 2011 06:34 PM PDT PARIS.- Marking the centenary of his birth and approaching the anniversary of his death, this exhibition of the work of Willy Ronis (1910–2009), jointly organised by Jeu de Paume and the Monnaie de Paris with the contribution of the Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, is not just a homage to one of the most internationally famous French photographers, whose images have been distributed by the Rapho agency since 1950; it also sets out to reveal previously unknown aspects of his work. Bodies and emotions, environments, gestures and actions come together here in a visual sequence in which 21st-century viewers may not so much identify or empathise as experience the fascination of a poetics founded on personal engagement.

Grand Palais in Paris to Show Warhol's Wide World Portraits Posted: 05 May 2011 06:33 PM PDT PARIS - In 1962, Andy Warhol painted the portraits of Marilyn Monroe and her rival Liz Taylor, reinterpreted the Mona Lisa and Elvis Presley. From 1967 until his death in 1987, he produced commissioned portraits of dozens of personalities, famous or obscure, creating a world fascinated by appearances, a vertiginous flattering mirror. He revived a neglected genre, applying new codes which deeply marked the history of portraiture.

Philbrook Museum and OU Receive Adkins Art Collection Posted: 05 May 2011 06:32 PM PDT   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.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 05 May 2011 06:32 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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