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• The Pallant House Gallery Presents Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Masterpieces
• German Expressionist Max Pechstein's Retrospective Opens at the Ahlen Art Museum
• Fantastic Narratives in Contemporary Videos at Deutsche Guggenheim
• Bill Lowe Gallery Shows Thornton Dial ~ His Latest Work
• The BMW Art Car Collection on the Internet ~ Legendary Collection Virtual Video Tour
• Japan Art Association Announces 2011 Praemium Imperiale Laureates in London
• Contents from the House of Withnail's Uncle Monty to Be Sold at Christie's
• New Museum to Present First New York Survey of Works by Carsten Holler
• One Hundred Works by Fernando Botero on View at New Orleans Museum
• MoMA Features Pivotal Moments in Henri Matisse's Radical Invention
• Guggenheim in Bilbao Displays The Luminous Interval ~ The D. Daskalopoulos Collection
• National Gallery of Canada exhibits ~ The 1930's: The Making of The New Man
• The Louvre Launches Journey into the Imaginative World of the Italian Poet Ariosto
• Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) to show 'Dreams on Canvas'
• The Bruce Museum to Host Original Cartoon Artworks of Charles Addams
• New York State Museum opens Latin American Art from MoMA
• National Gallery of Victoria Acquires the John Brack Masterpiece ~ 'The Bar'
• Black & White Gallery to exhibit Artificial Realities ~ Erik Benson / Jan Dunning / Leigh Tarentino
• Indianapolis Museum of Art Presents ' Will Boys Be Boys? '
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Pallant House Gallery Presents Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Masterpieces Posted: 11 Jul 2011 10:49 PM PDT Chichester, UK.- The Pallant House Gallery is proud to present "Masterpieces from The Gelman Collection", on view until October 2nd. The two most famous artists to have come from Mexico, the lives of Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957) have attained a mythological status. This major touring exhibition, which comes to Chichester from Istanbul and Dublin, brings together works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera for the first time ever in the UK. Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán on the southern outskirts of Mexico City in 1907. Her father, Guillermo, was an atheist German immigrant photographer, her mother, Matilde, a fervent Catholic of mixed Spanish and Native American descent from Oaxaca. Frida' s mixed heritage was seen as the undercurrent for the prevailing theme of identity in her work, and her divided loyalties to Mexico and Europe. After contracting polio at the age of six, which left her convalescing at home for nine months, she then almost died at the age of 18, following a bus crash. It was at this point, in 1925, when she was again bedridden and isolated, that she began to paint. The defiant, unapologetic gaze of her self portraits asserts her right to exist, and her refusal to be a victim. The face is as passive as a religious icon, however the symbols in her work unmask fervent psychological undertones. Kahlo painted self portraits she said ' because I am so often alone, I am the person I know best.' Her continued ill-health following the accident, including several miscarriages, provided her with the anguish, disconnection and loneliness which compelled her to paint, as a way of quantifying her existence, re-affirming her position in the world, and cementing her identity as an artist. It left her pre-occupied with mortality and trapped in a battle between her body and mind. Her experiences also left Kahlo with a profound neediness, and desire for recognition, culminating in her life-long attachment to Rivera. She respected him and valued his opinion of her work enormously. She was Rivera' s protector and protected. He encouraged her to take great pride in being Mexican; she wore the traditional Tehuana costume, rebozo shawls, and braided her hair to please him, and continuously sought his approval and love, despite many infidelities on both sides (famously his affair with Kahlo' s sister Cristina, and her affair with Leon Trotsky.) Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato but brought up in Mexico City. Celebrated as the founding father of the Mexican Muralist Movement, he was a talented painter with a striking personality and a fondness for debate. In 1907 he went to Europe on a painting scholarship to Madrid, then settled in Paris where he was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Futurists. After seeking refuge in Spain during the First World War Rivera returned to Mexico and began working on monumental scale murals, incorporating elements of Cubism and Constructivism with a touch of Italian and Spanish classicism, and the colours of Mexican popular art. He was very political, a unionist who helped found the Mexican Communist Party. This greatly appealed to Kahlo, who herself as a student, one of the few women at her University, had been very political. Rivera's masterpieces, of a very grand scale, are undoubtedly the murals he painted in public buildings. Rivera deliberately chose this route, and it is therefore difficult to give his achievements proper credit in temporary exhibitions outside Mexico. Nevertheless, his easel paintings reveal to a larger extent his talent. In truth, Kahlo excelled as an artist thanks to the support, stimulation and tutelage of Rivera, who was the foremost Mexican painter of his generation. Kahlo and Rivera met in 1927, when she took some of her paintings to show him as he worked on a commission at the Ministry of Education. They married in 1929, her parents saying it was like the marriage between ' an elephant and a dove'. In the 1930's they spent four years in the United States where he worked on several large scale mural commissions in New York, Detroit and San Francisco. Walter Hussey, the Dean of Chichester Cathedral, left his personal collection to the city in 1977 with the condition that the collection be shown in Pallant House, a Grade 1 listed Queen Anne town house dating from 1712. Since 1919, the house had been used as Council offices and from 1979 a restoration programme began and preparations were made for it to open in 1982 as a unique combination of historic house and modern art gallery. In 1985 an independent trust, consisting of the Friends and representatives of the Council, was formed to manage the Gallery. Since then the collections and the Gallery's activities have expanded to the extent that it was decided a new building was needed in order for it to survive. The Gallery reopened Summer 2006 with a new wing and vastly improved facilities. Pallant House Gallery boasts one of the best collections of Modern British art in the UK. donated over the past thirty years, the collections tell the story of a number of individuals, all passionate collectors of art who generously donated their lifetimes' labours to the Gallery for the benefit of the public. Since Dean Walter Hussey's gift of works by Henry Moore, John Piper, Ceri Richards, Graham Sutherland and others that led to its inception in 1982, the Gallery has attracted the interest of other benefactors, most notably Charles Kearley and now Sir Colin St John Wilson. The core of this 'collection of collections' is Modern British art but other artworks figure such at the Bow Porcelain of the Geoffrey Freeman Collection. Each group of works has been formed by different impulses and lends its own character to the collection, making the experience of Pallant House Gallery engaging, insightful and unique. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.pallant.org.uk

German Expressionist Max Pechstein's Retrospective Opens at the Ahlen Art Museum Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:59 PM PDT AHLEN, GERMANY - Max Pechstein (1881-1955) is one of the pioneers of German Expressionism. The retrospective presents more than 130 paintings, drawings, prints, and works of applied arts by the "Expressionist by passion". In addition to important masterpieces by notable German and European museums and collections the show also displays less known aspects of Max Pechstein's art, for example the earliest painting dating from 1894, some of the rare works of applied arts, privately owned graphic that has never or seldom been on show, and outstanding pieces of his late work. The exhibition, on view from July 10th until November 1st, is completed by original documents and a documentary on the artist.

Fantastic Narratives in Contemporary Videos at Deutsche Guggenheim Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:43 PM PDT BERLIN.- Once Upon a Time focuses on how fantastic stories and modern fairytales are represented in video art today. Based on important video artworks from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collection, the exhibition Once Upon a Time investigates how contemporary artists adapt motives and narrative techniques from myths, fables, and fairy tales to mirror current social phenomena and events in recent history. On view at the Deutsche Guggenheim, in Berlin through 9th of October.

Bill Lowe Gallery Shows Thornton Dial ~ His Latest Work Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:23 PM PDT ATLANTA, GA.- Thornton Dial is widely regarded as the most important artist ever to arise from the Deep South and is ranked among the most significant in the world today. With a retrospective currently showing at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and recent reviews in Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Dial is arguably one of the most important African-American artists of the 20th century. Fueled by this chorus of critical acclaim, Bill Lowe Gallery presents Thornton Dial's latest series entitled "Disaster Areas" – an epic look at the destructive and regenerative forces of nature and how they impact our lives. Dial's work is a tribute to survivorship and the resiliency of the human spirit. On view through 27 August.

The BMW Art Car Collection on the Internet ~ Legendary Collection Virtual Video Tour Posted: 11 Jul 2011 09:05 PM PDT MUNICH.- Just in time to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the BMW Group's international cultural commitment, the legendary BMW Art Car Collection can now be seen for the first time within a virtual video tour on the Internet. For the first time, an extensive virtual overview of the origin, history and development of the collection is available on the Internet. In addition to extensive photographic material, a film has been devoted to every single one of the 17 "works of art on wheels", each of which was designed by an internationally well-known artist. Historic racing footage and artists' statements as well as renowned representatives from art and culture are to be seen.

Japan Art Association Announces 2011 Praemium Imperiale Laureates in London Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:49 PM PDT LONDON.- The 2011 winners of the prestigious Praemium Imperiale arts awards, announced today by the Japan Art Association in the ballroom of Claridge's Hotel in London, include Academy and Tony Award-winning actress Dame Judi Dench, New Media artist Bill Viola and former music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Seiji Ozawa. Carrying prizes of 15 million yen (approximately $182,000) each, the awards recognize lifetime achievement in the arts in categories not covered by the Nobel Prizes. The Japan Art Association also named The Royal Court Young Writers Programme and Southbank Sinfonia as the co-recipients of its annual Grant for Young Artists award. Each of the London-based groups will receive an award of 2.5 million yen (approximately $30,000). The grant is presented to groups or institutions that encourage the involvement of young people in the arts.

Contents from the House of Withnail's Uncle Monty to Be Sold at Christie's Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:32 PM PDT LONDON.- Paintings, furniture and furnishings which featured in the cult British film "Withnail and I" (1987) are to be auctioned at Christie's South Kensington saleroom on Sunday, 31 July 2011. West House was used as the filming location for Uncle Monty's townhouse in the film Withnail and I, and items including an early Victorian mahogany armchair, a pine library ladder, and a Victorian brass inkstand, form part of The Collection of Professor Bernard Nevill: Property from West House, Glebe Place – a collection of 227 lots, which is expected to realize in the region of £200,000.

New Museum to Present First New York Survey of Works by Carsten Holler Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:31 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- This autumn, the New Museum will present the first New York survey exhibition of the work of the artist Carsten Höller (b. 1961, Brussels, lives and works Stockholm). Over the past twenty years, Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and fun house, exploring such themes as safety, childhood, love, happiness, transportation, and the future. Höller left his early career as a scientist in 1994 to devote himself exclusively to art making, and his work is often reminiscent of research experiments. His pieces are designed to explore the limits of human sensorial perception and logic through carefully controlled participatory experiences. The New Museum's exhibition will include work produced over the past twenty years in an immersive, interactive installation choreographed in collaboration with the artist. Höller will actively engage the Museum's architecture, with each of the three main gallery floors and lobby of the building presenting a focused selection of pieces that demonstrate different visual or experiential dimensions of his work. Included will be Höller's signature stroboscopic light installations; disorienting architectural environments; a spinning mobile; a spectacular mirrored carousel; a sensory deprivation pool; and a number of smaller works installed throughout the entire building. The selected works emphasize the experimental quality of Höller's work and reveal the complex universe of one of the most significant European artists to emerge in the past twenty years. He came to prominence alongside a group of artists in the 1990s including Maurizio Cattelan, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Andrea Zittel who worked across disciplines to re-imagine the experience and the space of art. Höller stands out among this group for the manner in which his installations drew on the history and method of scientific experimentation to destabilize the viewer's perception of physical space and time. In providing this first opportunity for the public here to examine the full scope of Höller's artistic experiments, the exhibition follows in the New Museum's long tradition of introducing the most adventurous international artists to an American audience. "Carsten Höller: Experience" will be on view from October 26, 2011-January 15, 2012, and is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions. Carsten Höller's work is first and foremost concerned with altering our basic assumptions about what we see, feel, and understand as humans. Over the years, the artist has employed psychotropic drugs, flashing lights, and architectural alterations to overwhelm viewers with visual stimuli and challenge accepted self-perceptions. For example, the immersive installation Light Room (2008) uses a sequence of flashing lights to give the viewer the sensation that the space around them is rotating. Höller also has exhibited a variety of adapted amusement park rides, their speeds slowed until they move almost imperceptibly. His Mirror Carousel (2005) provides riders with a radically different physical experience than the traditional fairground merry-goround, while at the same time reflecting and illuminating the space surrounding it. In such works, Höller invites us to reconsider the meanings of play and participation. Höller's art has often taken the form of proposals for radical new ways of living. He has created sculptures and diagrams for visionary architecture and transportation alternatives like his renowned slide installations. These concepts may seem impossible in the present day, but suggest new models for the future. The artist's proposals and structures invite the viewer to re-imagine the social and sensorial possibilities of domestic space. During the 1990s, Höller collaborated with artist Rosemarie Trockel to create structures shared between humans and animals such as pigs, birds, and mosquitoes, calling into question hierarchies of species and the roles of the observer and the observed. Recently, Höller has invited viewers to share the exhibition space with a variety of creatures from reindeer to canaries to mice. At the New Museum, viewers will be encouraged to test a variety of sculptural experiences. In one of Höller's Psycho Tanks, visitors will float weightlessly on the surface of a sensory deprivation pool, providing a strange outof-body experience. In these scenarios, as inhis other work, Höller treats the viewer as the subject and audience for his radical and disorienting experiments. Carsten Holler is a Belgian artist who now lives in Sweden. Most of his work involves sculptures that require active participation from the viewer and which serve as a medium for him to explore various psychological themes. A casual glance at his work would definitely lead you to believe that he has a preoccupation with childhood, fun and games.

One Hundred Works by Fernando Botero on View at New Orleans Museum Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:21 PM PDT NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Museum of Art presents The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, the first major U.S retrospective of the artist's work in more than 30 years, from June 28 to September 21, 2008. Recognized as one of the most well-known and commercially successful artists to emerge from Latin America, the Colombia native now has his work exhibited and collected by major museums around the world, including the New Orleans Museum of Art.

MoMA Features Pivotal Moments in Henri Matisse's Radical Invention Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:20 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, a large-scale investigation into a pivotal moment in the career of Henri Matisse (1869–1954), presents an important reassessment of the artist's work between 1913 and 1917, revealing this period to be one of the most significant chapters in Matisse's evolution as an artist. On view from July 18 through October 11, 2010, at The Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition examines paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints made by the artist between his return to Paris from Morocco in 1913 to his departure for Nice in 1917. Over these five years, he developed his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works: paintings that are abstracted, often purged of descriptive detail, geometrically composed, and dominated by blacks and grays. Comprising nearly 110 of the artist's works, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 is the first exhibition devoted to this period, thoroughly exploring Matisse's working processes and the revolutionary experimentation of what he called his "methods of modern construction."

Guggenheim in Bilbao Displays The Luminous Interval ~ The D. Daskalopoulos Collection Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:19 PM PDT BILBAO, SPAIN - The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection on view from April 12 through September 11, 2011. This is the first large-scale presentation of one of the world's most significant private collections of contemporary art. Sponsored by Iberdrola and occupying the museum's second floor and part of the first, the exhibition features approximately 60 works by some 30 artists, encompassing a wide range of mediums with a special emphasis on sculpture and environmental installations. Grounded in an assembly of works dating from the 1980s and 1990s by eminent figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Paul McCarthy, Annette Messager, and Kiki Smith, but also foregrounding projects by younger talents, such as Paul Chan, Guyton\Walker, Nate Lowman, and Wangechi Mutu, the exhibition immerses visitors in a focused survey of some of the most salient artistic developments of the past few decades.

National Gallery of Canada exhibits ~ The 1930's: The Making of The New Man Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:18 PM PDT Ottawa, Canada - Power, pathos, beauty and destructive force are all words that characterize the National Gallery of Canada's (NGC) summer exhibition, The 1930's: The Making of "The New Man." Presented by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, this rich and thought-provoking exhibition comprises 206 works, created by some the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. It will be on view exclusively at the NGC until September 7, 2008.

The Louvre Launches Journey into the Imaginative World of the Italian Poet Ariosto Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:17 PM PDT PARIS - In February 2009, with a view to exploring fertile confrontations between art forms, the Louvre  Museum launches an unprecedented journey into the imaginative world of the illustrious Italian poet Ariosto. Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), a writer in service of the dukes of Este, published the first edition of Orlando furioso in Ferrara in 1516. This massive glorification of chivalry in all of its elements (nearly 40,000 verses) amply conveys the exuberance, grace and intellectual curiosity of the Italian Renaissance. With its magicians and enchanted forests, its fabulous battles, its extravagant knights and its troubling heroines, this work is a mother lode of images. Ariosto draws inspiration from traditions of courtly love and medieval romance, which he combines with other themes derived from Antiquity as well as literary and visual influences stemming from the culture of his time.

Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) to show 'Dreams on Canvas' Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:16 PM PDT Roslyn Harbor, NY - When it comes to movements in art absolutely nothing beats the drama and dynamism of the Surrealists.  Mining the recesses of the subconscious for its often bizarre and rarely rational imagery, Surrealism had it all: the fiery personalities and their brilliant technique through which a fantastic torrent of dreams, sex, humor and poetry flowed in an endless expression of passion and invention. Dreams on Canvas: Surrealism in Europe and America opens at Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) on Saturday, May 26 and continues on view through Sunday, August 12, 2007.

The Bruce Museum to Host Original Cartoon Artworks of Charles Addams Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:15 PM PDT GREENWICH, CT.- The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, presents approximately 40 framed, original cartoon artworks of Charles Addams, the beloved cartoonist of The New Yorker and creator of the characters known as the "The Addams Family." The exhibition Charles Addams: Cartoonist, on view from October 3, 2009 through January 24, 2010, is organized for the Bruce Museum by the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. The show provides a sampling of the creative wit and sometimes macabre but always lovable humor of Addams' oeuvre.

New York State Museum opens Latin American Art from MoMA Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:14 PM PDT ALBANY, NY – Latin American and Caribbean Art: Selected Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens at the New York State Museum. On view through October 13 in the Museum's West Gallery, the exhibition is the 19th installment of the Bank of America Great Art Exhibition and Education Program, which brings art from New York State's leading art museums to the State Museum. This also is the fourth exhibition in the Bank of America Great Art Series drawn from the Museum of Modern Art's collections.

National Gallery of Victoria Acquires the John Brack Masterpiece ~ 'The Bar' Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:13 PM PDT MELBOURNE, AU - The National Gallery of Victoria announced that the NGV has acquired John Brack's outstanding work, "The Bar", with support from the Victorian Government. The painting, which the NGV sought unsuccessfully to purchase at auction in 2006, was offered to the Gallery for acquisition by Tasmanian collector David Walsh, who purchased it at public auction. The bar is widely regarded as the companion painting to John Brack's Collins St., 5 p.m., one of the NGV's most popular works with the visiting public.

Black & White Gallery to exhibit Artificial Realities ~ Erik Benson / Jan Dunning / Leigh Tarentino Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:12 PM PDT New York City - BLACK & WHITE GALLERY is proud to present "Artificial Realities" from February 20th through March 28th, 2009. This exhibition brings together three engaging contemporary artists whose works although executed in highly individual and very distinctive manners convey common interest in exploring the relationships between built and natural environments.  Opening Reception: Friday, February 20th, 6-8pm.

Indianapolis Museum of Art Presents ' Will Boys Be Boys? ' Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:11 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Youth and adolescence have long been an obsession in American culture.  While much attention has been paid to issues related to female adolescence in recent contemporary art, as well as in the media and entertainment industries, male adolescence has received comparatively little attention.  IMA Indianapolis Museum of Art will present Will Boys Be Boys?  Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art starting Oct. 20, 2006.  The exhibition is the first museum survey of male adolescence.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 11 Jul 2011 08:10 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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