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• The Albright-Knox Art Gallery To Show Landmark New Media Exhibition
• The Tashkeel in Dubai Presents Joshua Watts' Mixed-Media Art
• Contemporary Wood Sculpture at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
• The New MAS Museum in Antwerp, Belgium Opens
• The Mana Contemporary Art Center in Jersey City Grand Opening
• Cheim & Read Presents Works of 'Fabric Drawings' by Louise Bourgeois
• "Polemically Small" Art by International Artists at Two California Venues
• Royal Academy's Famous Summer Exhibition Opens June 7th
• Moderna Museet presents Max Ernst ~ Dream and Revolution
• 'Scream Collection Part II' ~ Featuring; Buffet, Dali, Dine, Jones, Miro, and Vasarely in London
• Carnegie Museum of Art Presents Early 20th-Century of Abstract Art
• Van Gogh Museum hosts Stedelijk Museum with a Fauvists and Expressionists Show
• Cinematic Greats & Legends of the Silver Screen Arrive at Christie's London
• Maria Lassnig Exhibition at Lenbechaus Presents Over Forty Paintings
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to feature Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art
• Frey Norris Gallery Commemorates Leonora Carrington's 90th Year
• George S. Zimbel Retrospective Opens at Kowasa Gallery
• Royal Academy of Arts showcases Tristram Hillier, RA
• Exhibition by Michael Joo and Damien Hirst at Haunch of Venison in Berlin
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery To Show Landmark New Media Exhibition Posted: 13 May 2011 10:53 PM PDT Buffalo, NY.- "Videosphere: A New Generation" is the first-ever exhibition of works in new media drawn exclusively from the Gallery's Collection. Featuring twenty-six works by twenty-four artists, it highlights the Gallery's recent acquisition of new media works with various styles and approaches. The featured artists represent both emerging talent and pioneers in the field, including Cory Arcangel, Jeremy Blake, Phil Collins, Brody Condon, James Drake, Isaac Julien, Bruce Nauman, João Onofre, Kelly Richardson, and Peter Sarkisian, each working in video, film, computer animation, and/or the repurposing and modification of old technology. "Videosphere: A New Generation" will be on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo from July 1st through October 9th. Artists have been increasingly experimenting in new media since the late 1960s. According to Michael Rush in New Media in Art (2005), artists today "who employ these new media see themselves as part of the change and want to participate in it. They are excited by the possibilities of technology, not alienated by them."Television, film, and other pervasive forms of technology make up the everyday experiences of artists, just as they make up the experiences of viewers. While artworks using new media play a novel role within the greater context of art history, their presentation within the museum setting has grown more popular as technology has advanced. Given its resonance with artists of recent generations, this genre of work has become an increasingly integral component of strategies surrounding collections of contemporary art. Not since "Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Projection", organized in 1996 by Curator Marc Mayer, has the Albright-Knox Art Gallery hosted an exhibition that focuses on the power and influence of new media. "Videosphere: A New Generation", presented more than a decade after Being & Time, will debut several works that have not been installed since their acquisition into the Gallery's Collection. It affords a unique opportunity to present the work of each artist within the context of the work of their peers. En masse, the complex works presented in this exhibition refer to social, political, psychological, and environmental themes, and create compelling narratives that can only be realized through these varied, yet distinct, media. From performance as a poignant gesture or a mirror of contemporary societal commonalities, to grandiose filmic applications and animated fantasy worlds, these works are immersive and experiential, and will take each viewer on a powerful emotional journey. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is dedicated to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of contemporary and modern art. Founded officially in December 1862, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy is among the country's oldest public arts institutions, sharing that distinction with the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford; and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, among others. With Edward B. Green as its architect, the Greek revival structure that became the permanent home for the Albright Art Gallery was dedicated on May 31, 1905. During the middle years of the century, Seymour H. Knox, Jr., became the Gallery's most influential supporter, not only making possible the building of a new addition designed by Gordon Bunshaft, but also amassing a brilliant collection of artworks. The group of nearly seven hundred works collected during this time still represents the most intense period of growth for the Gallery's Collection, a result of Mr. Knox's daring spirit, discerning judgment, and the unique partnership and vision he shared with Director Gordon M. Smith. The new wing that was dedicated in 1962, one hundred years after the founding of the Academy, stands as a testament to Mr. Knox and his vision; his generosity was reflected in the institution's adoption of a new name, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The Gallery's nearly 150-year tradition of collecting, conserving, and exhibiting the art of its time has given rise to one of the world's most extraordinary art collections, including such renowned works as "La Toilette" by Pablo Picasso, "Carnival of Harlequin" by Joan Miró, "Gotham News" by Willem de Kooning and "The Liver is the Cock's Comb" by Arshile Gorky. The Gallery has continued to add cutting-edge contemporary art to its Collection, adding major works in recent years by such artists as Matthew Barney, Mark Bradford, Tara Donovan, Teresita Fernandez, Liam Gillick, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Jim Lambie, Catherine Opie, Jorge Pardo, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Philip Taaffe. Visiting the Gallery today promises unexpected surprises. Constantly changing installations and special exhibitions pair contemporary art with the masterworks of modernism, always inviting a reexamination of the old with the new in innovative and exciting ways. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.albrightknox.org

The Tashkeel in Dubai Presents Joshua Watts' Mixed-Media Art Posted: 13 May 2011 10:44 PM PDT Dubai.- The Tashkeel in Dubai is showing "Joshua Watts: Between The Lines" until 8th June. "Between the Lines" is an exploration of the many ways we can perceive the people and environs of the world around us each day. Just as light going through a prism becomes an entire spectrum, the ideas, contexts, and motivations embedded within our daily lives are always more than what they appear on the surface. To many of us, a photograph still represents the documentation of a single moment in time- a record of something from reality that was captured by the passive tool of the camera. However, the manipulation of this documentation (whether subtle or overt) leads us to question the very basis of these perceptions, examining them more closely. By altering, adding, and combining multiple facets within the picture's surface, Watts attempts to describe the countless ways in which a single image can be perceived. It is this conceptual space - that which exists between the lines of reality - that the artists finds the most interesting to explore.

Contemporary Wood Sculpture at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Posted: 13 May 2011 10:31 PM PDT Winston-Salem, NC.- The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem is showing "American Gothic: Aaron Spangler & Alison Elizabeth Taylor" until August 21st. This two-person exhibition mines the connotations of wood as a contemporary artistic medium in the dialogue between Minnesota-based Aaron Spangler and Alabama-born, Brooklyn-based Alison Elizabeth Taylor. Marrying folk traditions, craft techniques and subject matter spanning rural exodus to utopian dreams, these young artists propose a renovated portrait of the American heartland. With large, intricate reliefs carved out of slabs of basswood, Spangler creates darkly comic visions of post-apocalyptic ruin. A slightly more monotonous, seedy world plays out in the veneer "paintings" of Taylor, who breathes new life into the inlay technique known as marquetry. In the process, both artists translate venerable Renaissance techniques into a vehicle to document the changing face of society's fringes.

The New MAS Museum in Antwerp, Belgium Opens Posted: 13 May 2011 10:17 PM PDT ANTWERP (AP).- One of the world's great port cities has long been known for its heady mix of grit, refinement and bravado. On Friday, it had a museum to match. Built on the docks of a once-derelict neighborhood, the MAS Museum hosts homegrown treasures and those that tall ships brought in from around the globe for centuries. And the audacious, sandstone-and-glass tower has already turned into a 65-meter tall exclamation mark shows Antwerp has lost none of its swagger. "We are in a beautiful shrine," said MAS museum director Carl Depauw. "It has turned into an absolute icon for the city."

The Mana Contemporary Art Center in Jersey City Grand Opening Posted: 13 May 2011 09:57 PM PDT Jersey City, NJ - The Mana Contemporary Art Center is pleased to announce its Grand Opening on Sunday May 15th, 2011. In addition to being the new home of The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation and Trinkhalle Restaurant, the 125,000 square foot center brings together artist studios, performance and exhibition spaces, and cutting edge art storage facilities, all under one roof. With over 6,000 square feet of pristine exhibition space in the center, The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation will show a selection of works from their collection of contemporary art in the opening exhibition.

Cheim & Read Presents Works of 'Fabric Drawings' by Louise Bourgeois Posted: 13 May 2011 09:44 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read presents an exhibition of works in fabric by Louise Bourgeois. Dating from 2002 – 2010, Bourgeois's fabric "drawings" - assembled from discarded clothes, sheets, towels and similar material from her personal collection - became a central focus in the last decade of her life. Significant in their own right for their formal invention and beauty, the drawings constitute a parallel body of work to that of her fabric sculptures. The exhibition is on view from May 12th through June 25th.

"Polemically Small" Art by International Artists at Two California Venues Posted: 13 May 2011 08:58 PM PDT Beverley Hills, CA.- "Polemically Small" is a multi-venue exhibition curated by Edward Lucie-Smith, featuring 200 small works by artists from the UK, USA, Germany, Russia, Italy and Spain. The exhibition will be on view, split between the Garboushian Gallery (from May 21st until June 25th) and the Torrance Art Museum (May 28th, also until June 25th). This monumental undertaking is the first major curatorial undertaking by Lucie-Smith in North America. Finding the wall space for an encyclopedic survey of the international avant-garde, even if the works are small, is an undertaking in itself, but locating and delivering the work is another story entirely. In fact, the London-based Lucie-Smith went as far as to literally hand-pick and transport some of the works from Berlin himself, such extreme measures however are to be expected from a tireless advocate for contemporary art.

Royal Academy's Famous Summer Exhibition Opens June 7th Posted: 13 May 2011 08:57 PM PDT London.- An essential part of the London art calendar, The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing together a wide range of new and recent work by established, unknown and emerging artists. The exhibition will be on view at the Royal Academy in London from June 7th until August 15th. Royal Academicians Christopher Le Brun and Michael Craig-Martin will play significant roles in developing the main characteristics of this year's exhibition, whilst Piers Gough and Alan Stanton will shape the architecture room. This year the Selection Committee has agreed that there will be no theme. They have instead decided that Gallery 3 (the largest in the Academy and traditionally used for the display of work by Royal Academicians and Honorary RAs) will be hung in the style of a 'salon hang'. This will be a unique presentation of recent and new work of all sizes by both artists from open submission and from the Academicians. The aim is to exploit the grandeur of the Academy's principal room with a memorably dense and rich visual experience. Taking advantage of all available hanging space, paintings will be hung from the dado rail to the picture rail. The ambition of the Committee is that by the careful arrangement of the hang, each work will be properly seen and 'read' in its space, and that the cumulative effect - which will have echoes of Summer Exhibitions of past years - will be to infuse the gallery with life and energy, providing a central focus to the exhibition and contrasting dramatically with other more sparsely-hung rooms. This year the Architecture Room will be located in Gallery VI and the Architecture Members hanging this gallery, Piers Gough RA and Alan Stanton RA, are keen to receive modestly sized works in the usual media – models, drawings and high quality photographs. As in previous years, a major work of sculpture will be presented as part of the Summer Exhibition in the Annenberg Courtyard. Held annually since the Royal Academy's foundation in 1768, the Summer Exhibition is a unique celebratory showcase for art of all styles and media, encompassing paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, architectural models, film, and artist's books. Historically, the exhibition has also provided an opportunity for Royal Academicians, many of whom are internationally renowned, to show their work. Following long Academy tradition, the exhibition is curated by an annually rotating committee of Royal Academicians who are all practicing artists and architects. Any artist may enter work for selection - over 12,000 works are submitted for consideration every year and around 1200 are exhibited. The Academy works hard to encourage a diverse range of artists to enter and, as a result, well over 100 artists are included every year who have not previously exhibited in the Summer Exhibition. The show provides an unrivalled opportunity for exhibitors to sell their work and have it seen by the 200,000 visitors that the exhibition draws during its three-month run; all artists are strongly encouraged to enter work that is available for sale. Over £65,000 will be given in prizes; awards include The Charles Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work (£25,000), The Jack Goldhill Award for a sculpture (£10,000), The Hugh Casson Drawing Prize (£3,000), The British Institution Awards for students (4 prizes of £1000), The Rose Award for Photography (£1000), The Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist (£3,500) and the Bovis Lend Lease/Architects Journal Awards for Architecture (£15,000 in total). All exhibited works are eligible for the relevant prizes. The Summer Exhibition was first held in a warehouse on Pall Mall from 1769 to 1779. 136 paintings were exhibited in the 1769 Summer Exhibition, 672 in 1792, and 815 in 1805. The figure exceeded 1,000 in 1820 and reached 1,500 by 1845. In 1822 "Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Gazette after the Battle of Waterloo" by David Wilkie had to be roped off to prevent its being damaged by the 90,000 people who wanted to see it. This happened again in 1858 to protect "Derby Day" by William Powell Frith. J. M. W. Turner painted some of his late masterpieces, including "Rain, Steam and Speed — The Great Western Railway", in the Summer Exhibition itself. An onlooker recalled him 'standing very close up to the canvas, [he] appeared to paint with his eyes and nose as well as his hands'. John Everett Millais first exhibited "Christ in the House of his Parents" in the 1850 Summer Exhibition. The Times described it as 'plainly revolting' and Charles Dickens thought the Christ Child 'a hideous, wry-necked, blubbering, red-haired boy in a nightgown'. Visit the Royal Academy's website at ... http://www.royalacademy.org.uk

Moderna Museet presents Max Ernst ~ Dream and Revolution Posted: 13 May 2011 08:40 PM PDT   Stockholm, Sweden - Max Ernst is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, and a leading surrealist, Max Ernst continues to fascinate and inspire to this day. The exhibition is produced jointly with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, to which it will proceed in spring 2009. In conjunction with the exhibition an extensively illustrated catalogue will be published in Swedish, English and German, by Hatje Cantz Verlag. On view through 11 January, 2009.

'Scream Collection Part II' ~ Featuring; Buffet, Dali, Dine, Jones, Miro, and Vasarely in London Posted: 13 May 2011 08:39 PM PDT LONDON.- The collection features Spanish sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and painter Joan Miro, a key figure in the Surreailist movement. His exquisite 1960 etching with aquatint 'Grand Vent' are on display, as well as a 1974 lithograph Affice pour L'Exposition Miro, Louisiana'. Several iconic images by Salvador Dali are included, such as 'Port Ligat (Venus with Drawers)', a 1970 lithograph inspired by his 1936 sculpture 'Venus de Milo with Drawers', and a phallic cosmological 1974 print 'The Gelatinous Watches of Space Time'. A lithograph by American Pop Artist Jim Dine also uses the Venus de Milo as its inspiration, 'The Bather (Venus)' 2005, reinterprets the classical muse using primary colours and clothing her in a yellow basque.

Carnegie Museum of Art Presents Early 20th-Century of Abstract Art Posted: 13 May 2011 08:38 PM PDT PITTSBURGH, PA - Abstract Art before 1950: Watercolors, Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, an exhibition highlighting works by some of the abstract art movement's most famous and pioneering practitioners, will be on view in the Scaife Works on Paper gallery at Carnegie Museum of Art from June 13–October 18, 2008. The exhibition presents abstraction as one of the defining innovations of early 20th-century avant-garde art and will feature more than 80 watercolors, drawings, collages, prints, and photographs, mostly from the museum's collection. Many of the works are on display for the first time.

Van Gogh Museum hosts Stedelijk Museum with a Fauvists and Expressionists Show Posted: 13 May 2011 08:37 PM PDT AMSTERDAM - The Van Gogh Museum is hosting the Stedelijk Museum with the presentation Fauvists and Expressionists, on view through April 5, 2009. The Stedelijk's Fauvist and Expressionist collection dates from the directorship of Willem Sandberg (1948-1963). Sandberg was inspired to begin collecting in this field after the museum was given a large number of Van Gogh's works on long-term loan. Originally owned by members of Van Gogh's family, these works were entrusted to the Stedelijk Museum after the Second World War and remained in its safe keeping until the opening of the Van Gogh Museum in 1973.

Cinematic Greats & Legends of the Silver Screen Arrive at Christie's London Posted: 13 May 2011 08:36 PM PDT LONDON.- This November the movies are coming to Christie's South Kensington as a diverse selection of Vintage Film Posters and Film Memorabilia is offered encompassing all genres of cinema history from cult horror and sci-fi films to the icons of the silver screen. Including an extensive collection of vintage film posters, props, costumes, photographs and letters this sale is a must for all film buffs looking to pay homage to the greats of cinematic history. Screen sirens also feature in abundance as a selection of the properties of Greta Garbo and Marilyn Monroe are offered.

Maria Lassnig Exhibition at Lenbechaus Presents Over Forty Paintings Posted: 13 May 2011 08:35 PM PDT MUNICH.- For more than six decades, in her paintings and drawings Maria Lassnig has explored perceptions and representations of the inner sensations of the body. Lassnig, who was born in 1919 in Carinthia, Austria, already gave her early 1940s work the programmatic title of "bodyconsciousness drawings". Soon thereafter she visited Paris and came into contact with surrealism and art informel. Though her non-figurative geometrical work she quickly became the most important protagonist in abstract art in post-war Austria, but even in her abstract works she still focused on subjective sensations and emotions.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to feature Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art Posted: 13 May 2011 08:34 PM PDT BOSTON, MA.- Sixteen paintings by luminaries of modern Indian art will be featured in Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art, on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), from November 14, 2009–August 22, 2010. These vibrant Bharat Ratna—literally "Jewels of India"—are drawn from the renowned collection of Mr. and Mrs. Rajiv Jahangir Chaudhri, who have assembled some of the finest examples of post-Independence Indian art. The exhibition represents the first time that a significant number of works from this collection will be displayed publicly. It is also the first exhibition of modern Indian art at the MFA, and the first exhibition of Indian art at a major American museum in nearly 30 years.

Frey Norris Gallery Commemorates Leonora Carrington's 90th Year Posted: 13 May 2011 08:33 PM PDT   SAN FRANCISCO, CA. – Frey Norris Gallery presents "The Talismanic Lens," the result of a five year endeavor of collecting, studying and getting to know Leonora Carrington, one of the last surviving Surrealist artists and writers. It has been almost ten years since such a major collection of her work has been on display (her last solo exhibition in California was at the Mexican Museum in San Francisco in 1991). Our exhibition and its accompanying 54-page catalogue commemorate the 90th year since Carrington's birth and this nonagenarian plans to travel with her family to attend the exhibition opening.  On view through 30 March, 2008.

George S. Zimbel Retrospective Opens at Kowasa Gallery Posted: 13 May 2011 08:32 PM PDT BARCELONA, SPAIN - KOWASA gallery presents a retrospective show dedicated to the American-Canadian documentary photographer George S. ZIMBEL. Zimbel is a key figure of the last generation of authors faithful to the legacy of Photo-League, who in the fifties imbued their pictures with their personal commitment towards the people and the social landscapes they documented. The show offers the unique opportunity of discovering the work of an author who captured with his camera the energy and the spirit of the "era of innocence" before its imminent end with the Vietnam War.

Royal Academy of Arts showcases Tristram Hillier, RA Posted: 13 May 2011 08:31 PM PDT   London - The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of works by Royal Academician, Tristram Hillier. The exhibition will display a wide range of work from the 1920s to the early 1980s providing a rare opportunity to see examples of Hillier's paintings and preliminary drawings. It  coincides with the publication of Painter Pilgrim - The Art and Life of Tristram Hillier by Jenny Pery, the first biography of the artist. This extensively illustrated volume reproduces many of his most important works and re-establishes Hillier as one of the most significant English painters of his time.

Exhibition by Michael Joo and Damien Hirst at Haunch of Venison in Berlin Posted: 13 May 2011 08:30 PM PDT BERLIN.- Haunch of Venison Berlin presents 'Have You Ever Really Looked at the Sun?' a two person exhibition by American artist Michael Joo (b.1966) and British artist Damien Hirst (b.1965). Since gaining international attention after showing in the exhibition 'Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away' at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1995, Joo has employed a highly personal language in the creation of his art to express ideas about identity, nature and the body.The exhibition opens on 1 May and continues through 14 August 2010.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 13 May 2011 08:29 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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