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• The National Gallery of Victoria Presents the Greatest Viennese Artists of the Early 20th Century
• The David Richard Contemporary Gallery To Show Southern California Paintings From the 1970's
• "The Art of the Chopper" ~ Motorcycle Masterpieces Roll into Union Station Kansas City
• The Guggenheim Bilbao Opens Painterly Abstraction ~ Selections From Their Collection
• The Arizona State University Art Museum Presents "Words of Art"
• The North Carolina Museum of Art Displays Contemporary African American Art
• The Space Gallery in Denver Presents "Art of the Real"
• Kavachnina Contemporary Presents a Photographic Exhibition
• The Quest Gallery Shows Nigel Hall's Sculpture and Drawings
• The Fine Art Society Celebrates the Centenary of the Camden Town Group
• Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico Presents René Magritte Exhibition
• The Whitney Museum Presents an Exhibition Exploring Lucinda Child's Legendary Dance
• Juan Soriano exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• BELLINI, GIORGIONE, TITIAN at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Caixa Forum In Barcelona presents "Palladio ~ The Architect (1508-1580)" Exhibition
• The Bonnefantenmuseum shows Retrospective of Elizabeth Peyton's Oeuvre
• "Neither Coming Nor Going" ~ Zhang Huan's Solo Show at PaceWildenstein
• Kunsthalle Bielefeld Revisits the 80s with Exhibition from Bischofberger Collection
• 'Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock & Roll Since 1967' at MCA
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The National Gallery of Victoria Presents the Greatest Viennese Artists of the Early 20th Century Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:22 PM PDT Melbourne, AU - The National Galley of Victoria is proud to present the eighth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, "Vienna: Art & Design - Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos" will bring together an outstanding collection of almost 240 works by the greatest Viennese artists of the early 20th Century. Vienna: Art & Design will come exclusively to the National Gallery of Victoria from two of Vienna's most important museums - The Belvedere Museum and Wien Museum (Vienna Museum) along with works from private lenders and public institutions from all over the world. Visitors will be delighted by the beauty and richness of the works in this extraordinary and comprehensive exhibition, which are on display in Australia for the very first time. This dazzling exhibition will showcase an exquisite selection of furniture, decorative arts, jewellery, paintings and textiles by Vienna's most famous designers, architects and artists in the period 1890 to 1928. "Vienna: Art & Design - Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos" will be on view until October 9th. This exhibition will explore modernism, individualism, the rise of the Secession movement and the creation of a new style concentrating on the use of colour and design. "Vienna: Art & Design" reappraises the golden age of Viennese art and design, tracing its roots from architect Otto Wagner's vision for a modern Vienna. The exhibition will include spectacular paintings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, a fascinating collection of decorative arts including fabulous jewellery by Josef Hoffmann, a remarkable selection of architectural drawings by Otto Wagner, the magnificent designs of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop) as well as sensational works by Richard Gerstl, Koloman Moser and Oskar Kokoschka among many others. Exclusive to Melbourne, "Vienna: Art & Design" will only be shown at the National Gallery of Victoria. It will be the first time that an exhibition of this size and scale focusing on the exquisite design of Vienna will be shown in the southern hemisphere. Stylish, provocative, timeless and unforgettable – the world had seen nothing like Vienna in 1900. In Vienna, at the dawn of the 20th century, life attained a new pinnacle of intelligence, elegance and daring. The unravelling of the vast and conservative Austro-Hungarian Empire created an atmosphere of endless potential. Private life became public spectacle, necessitating a radical reshaping of all aspects of life in the modern metropolis. Living became an art form and art fuelled life with high-octane intensity. Cabarets, coffee houses and nightclubs like the Kabaret Fledermaus (designed by Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte) teamed with intellectual ideas and artistic abandon. Pandemonium often attended the difficult birth of genius. Gustav Mahler's innovative symphonies outraged conservative critics, while whistles and catcalls were to greet Arnold Schoenberg's equally provocative compositions. Scandalous allure and trance-like iridescence radiated from the elegant women immortalised by the paintings of Gustav Klimt. Supple and sleek, and outrageously chic, contemporary design explored bold new forms for every conceivable object of daily use, laying the foundations of the modern industrial look. Defining sexual fragmentation and erotic obsession for a new millennium, Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, and changed humanity's psyche forever. As if in response, Egon Schiele and his courageous models explored human sexuality with an unparalleled and startling frankness. Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter, best known for his paintings of the female form and his prominent use of gold. Klimt's portraits are all iconic works because of their extreme rarity – although he was widely sought after as a portraitist, Klimt only rarely agreed to take on portrait commissions. The exhibition includes four of Klimt's most famous female portraits: two of these are of Viennese society patronesses, Fritza Riedler and Hermine Gallia; and two depict Klimt's close friends Emilie Flöge and Johanna Staude. Klimt's "Portrait of Hermine Gallia" has a very special relationship to the NGV. The painting originally hung in Hermine Gallia's apartment in Vienna's Fourth District, the interior decoration of which was undertaken by Josef Hoffmann in 1913; and the majority of Hoffmann's furnishings for the Gallia apartment now form part of the NGV Collection. Emilie Flöge, who ran a fashionable women's clothing store which was decorated by the Wiener Werkstätte, was Klimt's closest female companion throughout the majority of his life. Klimt's stunning Fritza Riedler 1906 displays a formal beauty and sumptuous patterning. Vienna: Art & Design will feature a dozen works by Klimt including paintings, drawings and a facsimile of the Beethoven Frieze. Egon Schiele (1890–1918) studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts in 1906, where Gustav Klimt had previously studied. In 1907, Schiele met Klimt who went on to be a mentor for the artist, purchasing his drawings and introducing him to the Wiener Werkstätte.  Schiele later became known for his angular, stick-like portraits of himself and others which explored the human form's essential animality and sexuality. In addition to striking portraits, self-portraits, and erotic studies, the exhibition includes two of Schiele's remarkable paintings of sunflowers.  It  will also display several of the city scapes that Schiele painted around 1911, after he moved temporarily to his mother's home town of Krumau in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). Schiele's depictions of this medieval city are brooding and moody, refecting the influence of the Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff. After exhibiting 50 works in the Secession's 49th exhibition held in 1918, Egon Schiele died in this same year of Spanish Influenza, at the early age of 28. His mentor Gustav Klimt died in the same year. Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Otto Wagner, graduating in 1895 and becoming one of the founding members of the Secession group in 1897. Together with Koloman Moser, Hoffmann left the Secession group in 1903 to form the Wiener Werkstätte. Hoffmann undertook numerous architectural commissions for the Wiener Werkstätte whilst also working as an interior decorator and designer. His wide range of designs for interiors, everyday utensils, and decorative objects culminated in his adoption of the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art. The greatest example of this was the Palais Stoclet in Brussels, the mansion which Hoffmann designed and the Wiener Werkstätte decorated, furnished and equipped throughout. This exhibition will feature a fascinating range of the decorative arts and furniture designed by Hoffmann from his earliest to his latest designs. Adolf Loos, as a stark opponent to the idea of the total work of art and the Viennese Secessionists nevertheless ranks as one of the most important leaders of the modern movement in architecture in the early 20th century. Loos' impact on Viennese modernism was manifested through his architecture, interior designs and significant body of controversial writings on the philosophy of modern day living and interior design. Adolf Loos' interiors were fine examples of austere understatement, almost totally free of embellishment. He privileged natural materials including timber and marble, carefully balancing proportions and, above all, practical design. "Vienna: Art & Design" will feature works from Loos' Langer apartment, showcasing the strong juxtapositions between the two major designers of the period: Loos and Hoffmann. This year the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is celebrating its 150th anniversary year, a major milestone in the history of Australia's first public art gallery. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. When the gallery first opened in 1861, Victoria had been an independent colony for just ten years, but in the wake of the Victorian gold rush, it was easily the richest part of Australia, and Melbourne the largest city. Generous gifts from wealthy citizens, notably industrialist Alfred Felton, made it possible for the National Gallery to start purchasing large collections of overseas works from both old and modern masters. It currently holds over 67,000 prime works of art. In 1959, the commission to design a new gallery and cultural centre was awarded to the architectural firm Grounds Romberg Boyd. In 1962, Roy Grounds split from his partners Frederick Romberg and Robin Boyd, retained the commission, and designed the gallery at 180 St Kilda Road (now known as NGV International). The building was completed in December 1967 and opened on 20 August 1968. A new gallery space, The Ian Potter Centre, in Federation Square opened in 2003 and houses the Australian art collection. Grounds' building just south of the Yarra River now houses the international collection. It reopened in December 2003 after four years of renovations by architect Mario Bellini. The gallery's name has caused some confusion over the years, as Victoria is not, and never has been a nation, but a state of Australia, and there is also the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra. However, the NGV was founded some 40 years before the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia, when Victoria was a self-governing British colony and the name alludes to that period, when Victoria was a discrete political entity. It was also established more than a century before the National Gallery in Canberra. According to former Victorian Premier Steve Bracks, "We won't be renaming the National Gallery of Victoria. It has a great tradition. It is the biggest and best gallery in the country and it's one of the biggest and best in the world." A famous event in the history of the gallery was the theft of the Pablo Picasso painting "The Weeping Woman" in 1986 by a person or group who identified themselves as the "Australian Cultural Terrorists". The group took the painting to protest the perceived poor treatment of the arts by the state government of the time and sought as a ransom the establishment of an art prize for young artists. The painting was returned in a railway locker a week later. Visit the museum's website at : http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/

The David Richard Contemporary Gallery To Show Southern California Paintings From the 1970's Posted: 18 Jun 2011 10:13 PM PDT Santa Fe.- David Richard Contemporary is pleased to present "Southern California Painting, 1970s: Painting Per Se", the first of four exhibitions the gallery will present over the next two years that will take an in-depth look at various aspects of Southern California painting during the 1970s — a period now being reassessed as an historically important time in California and the rest of the US. In Southern California, the 1970s saw several tendencies emerge from the "Cool School," including Pop, hard-edge abstraction, "Fetish Finish" craze and the "Light and Space" movement, all continuing from the '60s, and a range of artmaking that included hyper-realism, painterly figuration, gestural abstraction, and "material" abstraction.

"The Art of the Chopper" ~ Motorcycle Masterpieces Roll into Union Station Kansas City Posted: 18 Jun 2011 09:47 PM PDT Kansas City, MO.- Dubbed "one of the most amazing motorcycle exhibitions ever presented", the "Art of the Chopper" is coming to Union Station in Kansas City from June 24th through September 25th. Based on the best-selling books 'Art of the Chopper' and 'Art of the Chopper II' by photographer and curator Tom Zimberoff, this first-of-its-kind exhibition includes 30 "rolling sculptures" along with portraits of the builder/artists and information about the science and art behind these machines.

The Guggenheim Bilbao Opens Painterly Abstraction ~ Selections From Their Collection Posted: 18 Jun 2011 09:19 PM PDT Bilbao, Spain - The Guggenheim Bilbao is please to present "Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections', on view until January 8th 2012. Through selected works from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, this exhibition explores major trends in U.S. and European painting in the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition features approximately 80 works by more than 60 international artists, including Karel Appel, Alberto Burri, Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly, Piero Manzoni, Jackson Pollock, Antoni Tàpies, and Victor Vasarely, among others. This singular overview of two decades of art reveals the striking affinities among artists working continents apart, in a period of rapid creative development.

The Arizona State University Art Museum Presents "Words of Art" Posted: 18 Jun 2011 08:52 PM PDT Tempe, AZ.- The Arizona State University Art Museum is pleased to present its 12th Annual Summer Family Exhibition, "Words of Art: Selections from the ASU Art Museum Collection". "Words of Art" will show how the written word is teamed up with a variety of visual arts. Hands-on activities throughout the exhibition inspire children through reading, writing and, of course, art. "Words of Art: Selections from the ASU Art Museum Collection" is on view through September 3rd.

The North Carolina Museum of Art Displays Contemporary African American Art Posted: 18 Jun 2011 08:09 PM PDT Raleigh, NC.— The North Carolina Museum of Art is proud to present "30 Americans", an exhibition of work by many significant contemporary African American artists, in its Meymandi Exhibition Gallery in East Building until September 4th. Organized by the internationally known Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition features 75 works of art from the last three decades and includes painting,drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and mixed-media installations. 30 Americans brings together both established and emerging artists whose work explores issues of race, gender, identity, history, and popular culture.

The Space Gallery in Denver Presents "Art of the Real" Posted: 18 Jun 2011 08:08 PM PDT Denver, CO.- "Art of the Real" at the Space Gallery in Denver will present an exploration of the boundaries of modern contemporary art by presenting the work of nine artists with varying artistic visions and working in a diversity of mediums. Each artist's work, however, holds in common a minimalist approach - applying fundamental elements of color, line, value, rhythm, and texture, light and shadow - with an inherent complexity emerging from its apparent simplicity. The exhibition will be on view from June 16th through July 16th.

Kavachnina Contemporary Presents a Photographic Exhibition Posted: 18 Jun 2011 08:07 PM PDT Miami, FL.- "I Was There", a photographic exhibition by four Spanish artists is currently on view at Kavachnina Contemporary. The photographers, David Palacin, Pepe Moran, Rafaela Rodriguez and Estela Garcia were selected by Salustiano, the curator for this photo exhibition. Salustiano, a Spanish artist known widely by his portraits painted in a technically perfect red which look more like velvet than a canvas, is a master that shows his subjects in enigmatic acts of looking. "I Was There" is on view through  August 1st.

The Quest Gallery Shows Nigel Hall's Sculpture and Drawings Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:35 PM PDT Bath, England.- The Quest Gallery is proud to present "Nigel Hall: Sculptures and Drawings From Four Decades", on view at the gallery until August 6th. Nigel Hall RA has worked on sculptures and spatial structures since the 1960s, as well as creating single and multi-coloured drawings. His work reflects his fascination with how geometry can be discerned in landscape. Exploring space and a sense of placement has been integral to his work. Shadows, line, mass and void play an equal role, as well as changes of aspects from altered viewpoints. He is inspired by the silence and vastness of spaces such as the Mojave Desert and the Swiss Alps.

The Fine Art Society Celebrates the Centenary of the Camden Town Group Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:34 PM PDT London.- The Fine Art Society is pleased to present "The Camden Town Group Centenary Exhibition", on view through July 14th. Led by Walter Sickert the Camden Town Group was at the forefront of modern art in Britain in the years running up to the First World War. The artists took as their subject matter the everyday lives of ordinary Londoners and the glitter and grime of the modern city itself. Painted in the dry, crusty paint and pulsating Post-Impressionist colour harmonies of Spencer Gore, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner and Robert Bevan, or the darker, sleeker Old Master tones of Walter Sickert the Camden Town Group introduced new modes of painting to Britain, inspired by the work of Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Edgar Degas. The Fine Art Society's exhibition will be the only one to mark the Centenary of the Group's founding (the first exhibition of the Group opened at the Carfax Gallery in June 1911). Works for sale with be accompanied by a small number of loans. The exhibition makes a special focus of such artists to demonstrate the continuity and wider flowering of Camden Town style in a much greater circle than just the original members, something which has not been visible in previous shows. As a formation the Camden Town Group were short-lived and staged only three collective shows of their work before reconstituting themselves as the much bigger and more diverse London Group in 1913. But they were enormously influential and breaking with tradition and they represented the beginning of modern art in Britain. Their work is vernacular and sympathetic, taking subjects from everyday London life and human experience whether beautiful or banal with which we can still empathise today. The outmoded ideals of Academic art were replaced with direct observation of life as it was really lived, but painted in a highly innovative way. Post-Impressionism was still virtually unknown in Britain and the colourists of the Camden Town Group – principally Spencer Gore, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner, Robert Bevan, Malcolm Drummond and William Ratcliffe – took up and adapted this style in canvases painted in pulsating colour harmonies of soft mauves and pinks and greens using broken touches of dry crusty paint. This was in contrast to Walter Sickert who employed a richer, darker, Venetian Old Master palette in his paintings but nevertheless followed modern French principles by painting the effects of light, whether it be the last glow of afternoon sunlight as the sun slips behind the rooftops of Dieppe in "St Jacques" or the thin daylight penetrating a North London bedroom in "Seated Woman, Mornington Crescent". Sickert had spent considerable periods living in France and had direct knowledge of French practice through his friendship with Impressionist painters such as Degas, whose example he was able to pass on to younger member of the Camden Town Group. They were able also to gather theories of Impressionist painting from another slightly older member, Lucien Pissarro, who was a direct link through his father Camille Pissarro to French innovations still largely unknown in London. The decision to form the Camden Town Group was taken over a slightly boozy supper held one Saturday in Gatti's restaurant in Regent Street in April 1911. 'We had indulged in a good dinner', Charles Ginner recalled ,'with abundance of wine to wash it down'. As they emerged outside, with characteristic theatricality and a perceptive sense of moment, Sickert announced 'We have just made history!' Sickert, Gore, Gilman, Bevan and Ginner had gathered to plot the creation of a new exhibiting society that would showcase the progressive modern painting they were developing. In large part it was a reaction to the creeping conservatism of the New English Art Club that had started to refuse their work and to stifle innovation. It was their aim, Ginner recalled, to gather 'a group which was to hold within a fixed and limited circle  those painters whom [we] considered to be the best and most promising of the day'. There were eventually sixteen  elected members. The Fine Art Society is an art dealership with two premises, one in New Bond Street, London (held since 1876, given a new entrance in 1881 by Edward William Godwin, and fully refurbished in 2004-05, with a New Gallery created for contemporary work) and the other in Edinburgh (Bourne Fine Art, established 1978). It was formed in 1876. Its speciality is British art and design from 1600 to the present (with the Edinburgh premises specialising in Scottish art of this period). Historically, the Society is best known as a pioneer in the idea of the one-man exhibition, most famously that of Whistler's Venetian etchings in 1883. Living exhibitors at the London premises have included John Singer Sargent, Frank Brangwyn, Walter Sickert, Lamorna Birch, Walter Crane, George Washington Lambert, Joseph Southall, Arthur Wardle, Norman Wilkinson, George Spencer Watson, Violet Lindsay and Richard Caton Woodville. Memorial exhibitions have included one to Lady Alma Tadema in 1910. The Society also puts on shows and fairs in New York, Dubai, Maastricht, Hong Kong and London. Its chairmen have included Angus Grossart. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.faslondon.com

Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico Presents René Magritte Exhibition Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:19 PM PDT MEXICO CITY.-The Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes is presenting the exhibition about the Belgian painter René Magritte to be held from March 17 through July 11, 2010. The main purpose is to display for the first time in Latin America the work of such a unique artist.Being a landmark in the heart of Mexico City, the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes has been standing since 1934 as the greatest forum of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA) housing the celebrated masterworks of the muralists —Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo.

The Whitney Museum Presents an Exhibition Exploring Lucinda Child's Legendary Dance Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:18 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- A legendary collaboration between Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, the iconic performance work Dance is the subject of a special exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, featuring an archival performance video and various related materials by the three artists, in its fifth-floor galleries throughout the summer. The installation has been organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney's Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator. In 1979, Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass invited Sol LeWitt to collaborate with them on a new work titled Dance, commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The project brought the minimalist language of the three artists into a tightly structured dialogue. Glass's musical score formed the framework for Childs's choreography, to which LeWitt responded by creating a 35mm black-and-white film of the dancers performing passages selected from each of three dances.

Juan Soriano exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:17 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA, PA - The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935-1950, the first exhibition to focus on the artist's early years in Guadalajara and Mexico City and the first to be seen at a major U.S. museum. Juan Soriano (1920-2006) is one of modern Mexico's especially intriguing artists. His work draws upon regional traditions as well as Cubism and Surrealism to create a distinctly romantic, representational style. This focused exhibition is guest curated by Edward J. Sullivan, Professor of Art History at New York University, where he also serves as Dean of Humanities.

BELLINI, GIORGIONE, TITIAN at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:16 PM PDT Vienna, Austria - During the first thirty years of the 16th century Venetian painting experienced a remarkable upswing characterized by constant innovations and extraordinary achievements.  During these three decades the pioneer of early Renaissance painting, Giovanni Bellini, completed his final works.  The highly innovative Giorgione, who died young, executed his whole oeuvre.  And the greatest Venetian painter of the century, Titian, reached his prime and set out on an international career that was to take him far beyond the confines of the city.  Besides these three great masters Venice was home to numerous other, hardly less important painters, members of both the older and the younger generation.  Cima da Conegliano, Marco Basiati and Vincenzo Catera belonged to the older generation or continued to paint in the traditional manner.  Lorenzo Lotto - born in Venice but more interested in Northern painting than his contemporaries - painted his highly idiosyncratic works, comprising both hyper-realistic and lyrical-poetic elements.

Caixa Forum In Barcelona presents "Palladio ~ The Architect (1508-1580)" Exhibition Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:15 PM PDT BARCELONA.- Caixa Forum in Barcelona presents Palladio, The Architect (1508-1580), on view through September 6, 2009. Palladio was not only one of the greatest Italian architects; he was also a practitioner whose work has continued to resonate down five centuries. Active in Vicenza, Venice and the Veneto region, he crafted a new architectural language derived from classical sources yet shaped to fulfill the functional demands and aesthetic aspirations of his own age. His impressive oeuvre includes public buildings and churches; however, it was his town palaces and country villas that influenced subsequent generations of European and American architects. Large-scale models, computer animations, original drawings, books and paintings will present the full range of this exceptional architect's output and his legacy, demonstrating why Palladio's name has been synonymous with architecture for 500 years.

The Bonnefantenmuseum shows Retrospective of Elizabeth Peyton's Oeuvre Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:14 PM PDT MAASTRICHT, NL - The Bonnefantenmuseum will be presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of Elizabeth Peyton's oeuvre on the European mainland, which comprises over 90 works (paintings, watercolors, drawings and lithos) from the past 18 years (1991-2009). From her first portraits of 19th-century heroes to her more recent works, peopled with friends from the world of music, fashion and literature, Elizabeth Peyton has presented herself as a contemporary 'painter of modern life', in the words of Charles Baudelaire. Peyton's miniature portraits capture the spirit of the times in an artistic language that unmistakably reflects late 20th-century urban sensitivity. On view through 21 March, 2010.

"Neither Coming Nor Going" ~ Zhang Huan's Solo Show at PaceWildenstein Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:13 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Following the critically-acclaimed September premiere of 'Semele', a new production of George Frideric Handel's opera directed and designed by Zhang Huan and presented to audiences at The National Opera of Belgium in Brussels (scheduled to tour China in 2010), the artist is the subject of his second solo exhibition at PaceWildenstein. "Neither Coming Nor Going" is on view at 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, through January 30, 2010. Representing the artist's continuing investigation of humanity through tradition, historical associations, and personal experiences, "Neither Coming Nor Going" features a monumental ash Buddha, Rulai (2008-2009), measuring 18' 1/2" x 14' 10" x 10' 11-1/2",as well as a series of unique large-scale works on paper made in 2006-2008.

Kunsthalle Bielefeld Revisits the 80s with Exhibition from Bischofberger Collection Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:12 PM PDT BIELEFELD, GERMANY - "Of course, the 1980s was an important period in art history—something that we are just beginning to realize. It is only now that we are really starting to understand the beauty, power, and special aspects of these paintings. This kind of art juggles a great deal, all at once, being oriented toward a variety of things. Many artists referred to earlier epochs, not merely to so-called Modernism alone. Suddenly, there were long traditions again. Minimalism and Conceptual art foresaw that painting would come to an end at some point, so from this viewpoint, it was quite astonishing for something like this to happen around 1980." The exhibition 'The 80s Revisited' will run from 21 March to 20 June 2010.

'Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock & Roll Since 1967' at MCA Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:11 PM PDT Chicago, IL - Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 examines the dynamic relationship between rock music and contemporary visual art, a relationship that crosses continents, generations, and cultures. On exhibition through January 6, 2008.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 18 Jun 2011 05:11 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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