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• The Film "CAMERAMAN" Celebrates the Career of Legendary Cinematographer Jack Cardiff
• Art Gallery of Ontario Shows Canadian Artist Kathleen Munn Exhibition
• The Richmond Art Gallery To Host Four Canadian Artists Working With Fibre
• New Exhibition at the Smart Museum Examines the Human Form in Contemporary Art
• Off the Wall Gallery in Cardiff Shows Martyn Jones' Abstract Paintings
• Canadian Sculptor Evan Penny Opens at Kunsthalle Tübingen
• Classic Photographs Sold at Swann Galleries' Auction in New York
• The Museo Correr Features Julian Schnabel ~ 'Architecture of Seeing'
• The Westmoreland Museum of American Art Shows Works by the Artist Faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology
• The Uffizi Gallery In Florence ~ The Finest Collection Of Renaissance Art In The World
• The London Original Print Fair To Celebrate 25th Anniversary
• Groninger Museum retrospective of Works by Artist John William Waterhouse
• Chicago's MCA to show 'Buckminster Fuller ~ Starting with the Universe'
• Tourcoing Fine Arts Museum (MUba) to Celebrate the 100th birthday of Eugène Leroy
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents India ~ Contemporary Photography & Video Art
• GENRE PAINTINGS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY of ARTS
• Museum of Contemporary Art Screens Classic Italian Films that Changed the World of Cinema
• MCA launches third biennial focusing on Contemporary Australian Art
• Adam Aaronson ~ Glass Artist ~ at ZeST Gallery
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Film "CAMERAMAN" Celebrates the Career of Legendary Cinematographer Jack Cardiff Posted: 04 Jun 2011 10:17 PM PDT LONDON.- Modus Operandi Films and High Point Media Group presents CAMERAMAN: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff. Celebrating the remarkable nine decade career of legendary cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, who provided the canvas for classics like The Red Shoes and The African Queen. Jack Cardiff's career spanned an incredible nine of moving picture's first ten decades and his work behind the camera altered the look of films forever through his use of Technicolor photography. Craig McCall's passionate film about the legendary cinematographer reveals a unique figure in British and international cinema.

Art Gallery of Ontario Shows Canadian Artist Kathleen Munn Exhibition Posted: 04 Jun 2011 10:16 PM PDT TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) opened a unique exhibition featuring Canadian artist Kathleen Munn, on view until August 28. The Passion of Kathleen Munn features nearly 40 works by Munn, including her highly regarded Passion Series drawings, as well as paintings and prints. In addition, the exhibition is supported by archival material from the AGO's collection, including sketches, notebooks, diagrams, collages and a custom-made light box.

The Richmond Art Gallery To Host Four Canadian Artists Working With Fibre Posted: 04 Jun 2011 09:16 PM PDT Richmond, BC.- The Richmond Art Gallery presents "Fibred Optics" a group exhibition of works by four Canadian artists. "Fibred Optics" features four artists whose work incorporates natural and synthetic fibres, old and new technologies, and methodologies from the world of craft and contemporary art. Produced through laborious processes of knotting, stitching, and weaving, the work in this exhibition invites viewers to contemplate the ways in which multi-sensory information can be sutured and layered to produce meaning about the worlds we inhabit. Each artist uses fibre — a three-dimensional, quotidian material — to produce and transmit individual and collective narratives that are at once coherent and fragmented, visible and invisible. "Fibred Optics" opens on June 23rd and remains on view through August 28th.

New Exhibition at the Smart Museum Examines the Human Form in Contemporary Art Posted: 04 Jun 2011 09:01 PM PDT Chicago.- The University of Chicago's Smart Museum of Art presents "Go Figure", a new exhibition that examines the human form in contemporary art. Covering the last sixty years, and encompassing figurative work that includes invented personae and idealized forms as well as portraits of real people, the exhibition features pivotal works from nine exceptional artists: Nick Cave, Leon Golub, Yun-Fei Ji, Kerry James Marshall, Christina Ramberg, Martín Ramírez, Ravinder Reddy, Clare Rojas, and Sylvia Sleigh.

Off the Wall Gallery in Cardiff Shows Martyn Jones' Abstract Paintings Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:46 PM PDT Cardiff, Wales.- The Off the Wall Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of work by Martyn Jones. During 2008, Jones staged his first major US solo show 'Overland' at the Robert Steele Gallery. Following the success of 'Overland', a second solo show 'Atelier' was held in 2010. Jones' work has been exhibited widely in U.K., Europe and U.S.A. including the National Gallery of Wales and Wales International Centre, Chrysler Building, New York. His paintings continue to be sought after by numerous public and private collectors. Martyn Jones' solo exhibition will be on view at Off the Wall until July 5th.

Canadian Sculptor Evan Penny Opens at Kunsthalle Tübingen Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:45 PM PDT TUEBINGEN, GERMANY - Evan Penny's sculptures portray human bodies in their true colors and down to the last hair, with all of their wrinkles and characteristic features. His figures, to which he skillfully applies layers of silicone and pigments and implants with real hair, have an extremely sensuous presence. And yet their artificiality is obvious. Alienation techniques such as compressions, stretching, distortions, or color errors cause them to be reminiscent of features of photography, television, or digital image editing. What evolves are anamorphic sculptures that grow out of two-dimensionality, three-dimensional portraits that come across as being flawed process-color prints, or even distorted sculptures that advance into the fourth dimension of time. On exhibition through 4 September.

Classic Photographs Sold at Swann Galleries' Auction in New York Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:04 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries' May 19 auction of Important Photobooks and Photographs featured classic 20th-century images by celebrated photographers as well as desirable portfolios of their work. The sale's top lot was the André Kertész portfolio A Hungarian Memory, which contained 15 silver print photographs of the artist's homeland, from 1914 to 1923, printed in 1980. It was one of 100 numbered copies and seven artist's proofs and sold for an auction record of $48,000.

The Museo Correr Features Julian Schnabel ~ 'Architecture of Seeing' Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:03 PM PDT VENICE.- The Museo Correr in Venice presents a major exhibition dedicated to Julian Schnabel, the famed New York artist and eclectic creative spirit. The exhibition is on view from 4 June to 27 November. The show "Julian Schnabel. Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of Seeing" is produced and organized by Arthemisia Group in collaboration with Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and staged thanks to the key contribution of Maybach, the event's main sponsor, and BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas.

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art Shows Works by the Artist Faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology Posted: 04 Jun 2011 08:03 PM PDT Greensburg, PA.- The Westmoreland Museum of American Art is pleased to present "They Practice What They Teach: Artist Faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology", on view at the museum until September 4th. Featuring a number of artists who taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, this exhibition brings together a number of diverse artists, whose only link was their dedication to teaching the next generation of artists at the Institute. Edmund Ashe, Clarence Carter, Esther Topp Edmonds, Balcomb Greene, Robert Gwathmey, Roy Hilton, Alexander Kostellow, Robert Lepper, Norwood MacGilvary, Wilfred Readio, Samuel Rosenberg, Raymond Simboli, Russell Twiggs and Everett Warner were among the artists who dedicated a portion of their artistic careers to teaching in the College of Fine Art at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). Organized by The Westmoreland, this exhibition of 60 objects highlights the work of these artists while giving insight into their influence as teachers on the next generation of prominent artists in Pittsburgh. The mission of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art is to enrich a growing public through innovative and collaborative approaches to the collection, preservation and presentation of American art. The Westmoreland Museum of American Art was established in 1949 at the bequest of Mary Marchand Woods, a long time resident of Greensburg interested in the arts. This visionary founder bequeathed her entire estate in order for the Museum facility to be built in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 35 miles east of Pittsburgh. In 1959, the Museum opened its doors to the public, and its focus became the collection and exhibition of American and southwestern Pennsylvania art. Over the past fifty years, the Museum has assembled a collection of works by significant American artists, concentrating on the mid-18th through the mid-20th centuries, including works by Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer among other preeminent American artists. The Museum has also become known as the repository for works by southwestern Pennsylvania artists, including artists of the Scalp Level School, holding many exhibitions and publishing several books on the subject since 1981. This interest caught the attention of noted art historian William Gerdts who observed in his encyclopedic 1998 book, Art Across America, that the Museum "pioneered regional investigations." In 1993, after making great strides in developing a significant collection, the Museum adopted a long-range plan to address the visitors' experience and asserted itself as a vital, forward-thinking institution, engaged with its community. This led to a capital campaign, launched in 1997, which provided for a much-needed Museum renovation. The Museum reopened in 1999 with six improved galleries, improved educational facilities and visitors' amenities, and a larger endowment for the future. The Museum has organized many important exhibitions over the years, including 'All That is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School' in 1997, and 'American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting' in 2006, both of which allowed the public to see works from one of the most comprehensive private collections of this genre; and both shows traveled extensively throughout the United States: Spirit of a Community: The Photographs of Charles "Teenie" Harris in 2001, which brought the street photography of this important African American photographer to the public as fine art prints for the first time and gained national media attention; and in 2007, Made in Pennsylvania: A Folk Art Tradition, an exhibition that brought together for the first time almost 400 significant examples of folk art, drew 22% of its attendance from outside the state and had a $700,000 economic impact on the southwestern Pennsylvania region. In addition, Born of Fire: The Valley of Work, an exhibition focusing on the art, music and history of Pittsburgh's Big Steel Era, debuted at The Westmoreland in June 2006 before making its European debut in Oberhausen, Germany in February 2007. Born of Fire is scheduled to tour Europe through 2010. The Westmoreland is known for its many award-winning, curriculum-based educational programs, which have reached thousands of students in the region and have received both state and federal funding. The innovative programs utilize the Museum's collection to teach students in grades Kindergarten through high school about art and history. The Museum is a recognized leader in the social enterprise movement in southwestern Pennsylvania. Through our retail and product development initiatives and traveling exhibitions, annual unrestricted earned income has increased six fold, thereby significantly increasing our self-sustainability. The Westmoreland's Fiftieth Anniversary in 2009 was an opportunity for the entire community to both celebrate the Museum's accomplishments and to help plan for its future. Intensive community planning sessions have set the stage for the Museum's next fifty years, including an expansion of the building to accommodate more galleries, educational facilities and public gathering places as well as securing the resources needed to continue to serve the community well into the future. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.wmuseumaa.org

The Uffizi Gallery In Florence ~ The Finest Collection Of Renaissance Art In The World Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:51 PM PDT The Uffizi Palace is one of the most loved monuments in Florence and contains the world's leading collection of renaissance art. Originally commissioned by Cosimo I, Duke of Florence and the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, the Uffizi was designed by Giorgio Vasari in the middle of the 16th century. The intention of Cosimo I was to build a palace that could host the thirteen administrative and judicial Magistrature or Uffizi, from which the palace would take its name. Vasari was also responsible for the building, five years later, of an overhead corridor passing above Ponte Vecchio and the Church of Santa Felicità, to link the Uffizi to the Pitti Palace, the new residence of the Medici family, and which provides stunning views of the palace courtyard and Arno river. The building has an unusual and singular horseshoe shape, which opens towards the Arno River. The two floors of the building, rise above a pillared portico that runs along the whole length of the palace. The portico niches contain statues of Florentine dignitaries and artists from the middle Ages to the 19th century. It was Francesco I de' Medici, Cosimo I's son, who first created an art Gallery on the second floor of the Palazzo degli Uffizi to entertain himself, during his walks, with the collection of paintings, sculptures and arrases belonging to the Medici family. The key point in the history of the Uffizi came in 1737, when the last Medici heiress, Anna Maria Luisa moved to France and signed an agreement that all the Medici artworks were not to be removed from Florence. The gallery had been open to visitors by request since the sixteenth century, and in 1765 it was officially opened to the public. Over the years, the Uffizi has survived wartime bombing, flooding in 1966 and 2007 and a terrorist car bombing (attributed to the Sicilian Mafia) in 1993 which damaged some frescoes in the Niobe room beyond repair. In addition to its galleries, the Uffizi contains teaching facilities, an art restoration laboratory, photographic studio and research center. Rennovations are currently under way on parts of the building, under the "New Uffizi" project. When completed these will increase the gallery space, allow more of the collection to be put on public display and reduce the overcrowding caused by almost 2 million visitors every year. Visit the Uffizi's website at … http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/uffizi/

The London Original Print Fair To Celebrate 25th Anniversary Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:50 PM PDT LONDON.- Spring 2010 sees the return of the longest running print fair in the world, the London Original Print Fair, 29 April – 3 May 2010. The 25th Fair will take place in the main galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly. It will be the largest ever, with some 60 exhibitors including new participants from America and a specialist in Japanese prints. Dealers, Print Workshops and Publishers come from France, Germany, Ireland and America as well as Britain. In 2009 attendance rose from 6,000 to 10,000 and strong sales were reported in all areas, old master, modern and contemporary.

Groninger Museum retrospective of Works by Artist John William Waterhouse Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:48 PM PDT   GRONINGER, NL - The Groninger Museum presents the largest-ever retrospective of works by the world-famous British artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Many splendid paintings and drawings have been borrowed from locations as far afield as Australia, England, Ireland, Taiwan and Canada. The exhibition has been organized in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Canada. On exhibition through 3 May, 2009.

Chicago's MCA to show 'Buckminster Fuller ~ Starting with the Universe' Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:47 PM PDT   CHICAGO, IL.- This spring, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents 'Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe', the first major American exhibition in decades devoted to the visionary mind and work of Buckminster Fuller, and the most inclusive show to date of Fuller's work. On view from March 14 to June 21, 2009, the show is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art with the cooperation of the Fuller family.

Tourcoing Fine Arts Museum (MUba) to Celebrate the 100th birthday of Eugène Leroy Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:46 PM PDT STRASBOURG, FRANCE - The Tourcoing Fine Arts Museum (MUba) celebrates the 100th birthday of Eugène Leroy by presenting 150 masterpieces from public and private collections from around the world. Thanks to the exceptional donation made by Eugène Jean and Jean-Jacques Leroy, the MUba Fine Arts Museum, Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing bears witness to the importance of the painter today, both through the work and the personality of Eugène Leroy. The MUba has now become the global reference point for the painter. Opens 10 October, 2010.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents India ~ Contemporary Photography & Video Art Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:45 PM PDT   MINNEAPOLIS, MN - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts presents the first major North American exhibition devoted to contemporary photography and video art in India. "India: Public Places, Private Spaces" features more than one hundred works from twenty-eight artists exploring the lives of India's people. The exhibition reveals the highly personal viewpoints found in this country of more than a billion people. This exhibition had its debut at the Newark Museum in New Jersey. On exhibition 26 October through 18 January, 2009.

GENRE PAINTINGS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY of ARTS Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:44 PM PDT   LONDON - This new display in the John Madejski Fine Rooms at the Royal Academy of Arts is a social commentary exploring the rich variety of paintings that reflect common themes of life from the 18th to 20th centuries. The exhibition consists of 34 pieces from the Academy's own collection – most of which are Academicians' Diploma Works and represent everyday life dating back to the 1770s. On exhibition until 7 December, 2008.

Museum of Contemporary Art Screens Classic Italian Films that Changed the World of Cinema Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:43 PM PDT CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, screens classic Italian films that changed the world of cinema January 7-31, 2010. The selected films resonate with the political, familial, and design themes of the "Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008" exhibition. Italics, a ground-breaking exhibition devoted to contemporary Italian art and creativity, presents work that embraces classical roots yet breaks away from traditions. The 'Italics Film Series' presents rare 35mm prints of highly acclaimed films made between 1970 and 1981; significant years during Italy's social transformation.

MCA launches third biennial focusing on Contemporary Australian Art Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:42 PM PDT   Sydney, Australia - The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) presents Cross Currents: Focus on contemporary Australian art as part of its spring season exhibition program. Guest curated by John Stringer, Cross Currents is the third in a biennial exhibition series at the MCA focussing on mid-career Australian artists.

Adam Aaronson ~ Glass Artist ~ at ZeST Gallery Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:41 PM PDT   LONDON - ZeST Gallery, London's top destination for contemporary glass art, is showcasing new work by celebrated British glass artist Adam Aaronson. The pieces in this solo show illustrate Adam's versatility as an artist and technical skill as a maker through his new body of work entitled 'Slices'. On exhibition 25 Octiber until 25 November.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 04 Jun 2011 07:40 PM PDT This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

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