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• The Ian Potter Centre Explores the Art of the Australian Gold Rush On-line
• The Butler Institute of American Art Hosts the 75th National Midyear Exhibition
• The PICTURE Art Foundation Opens An International Exhibition "On Being Human"
• The Taipa Houses Museum in Macau Presents Lim Khim Katy
• First International Art Fair Dedicated to Old Master Paintings to be Launched in Paris
• Robert De Niro Art Dealer - Leigh Morse - Found Guilty of Fraud
• Never Before Seen Photos of the Beatles' to Be Sold at Christie's
• The Chan Hampe Galleries at The Raffles Hotel Shows Works by Guan Wei
• Dallas Museum of Art to host "All the World’s a Stage ~ Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts"
• The World's Most Expensive Painting - Pablo Picasso's "Green Leaves, Nude and Bust" At Tate Modern
• The Arkansas Art Center Shows "The Impressionists and Their Influence"
• Martin Gropius Bau opens 'Sixty Years, Sixty Works ~ Art from the Republic of Germany'
• Dali ' Many Guises of Woman ' at the Salvador Dali Museum
• "Edgar Degas' World" at the National Gallery of Australia
• Brooklyn Museum to host Retrospective of Acclaimed Artists Gilbert & George
• Clark Art Institute to feature Henri deToulouse-Lautrec and Paris
• Charles O. Perry ~ Sculptor, Architect, Designer & Lecturer ~ His Artworks Known Worldwide, Dies at 81
• LACMA Receives Gift of Thomas Eakins’s 'Wrestlers'
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Ian Potter Centre Explores the Art of the Australian Gold Rush On-line Posted: 19 Jul 2011 10:54 PM PDT Melbourne.- The Ian Potter Centre at National Gallery of Victoria is hosting "Victorian Gold" an online exhibition of art from the Australian gold rush. Many of these works are on paper and easily damaged if put on display, by exhibiting them onine, they can be enjoyed by everyone. In the early 1850s, the newly-formed colony of Victoria was gripped by gold fever. Victoria's first official discovery of payable gold was made in June 1851 by James Esmond at Clunes. This was followed in July by a discovery by Louis John Michel and his party at Anderson's Creek, Warrandyte.The announcement of these discoveries sparked the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s and was to transform the colony from a small pastoral settlement into the commercial and cultural centre of Australia. In the first months of the rush, rich gold-fields were opened at Mount Alexander, Buninyong and Ballarat, Sandhurst, Beechworth and Yackandandah. Thousands of diggers flocked to these fields, following each new rush as it was announced. Initially they came from within Victoria and surrounding colonies, but as the news of the Victorian gold-fields spread, diggers arrived from Britain, Europe and America, all with the intention of making their fortunes. By the end of the gold rush decade, the population of Victoria had reached over 500,000 – a dramatic increase from 80,000 in 1851 – and over 25 million ounces of gold had been extracted from the Victorian fields, the equivalent of eleven billion dollars today. Over 150 years after the first official discoveries, Victorian Gold: The gold rush and its impact on cultural life celebrates this significant period in Victoria's history. Through three themes – Life on the gold-fields, Significant arrivals and A city's progress: Melbourne 1851–61 – the exhibition presents the work of artists of the gold-fields, surveys the contributions of these artists to the development of art in Victoria, and explores the growth of the City of Melbourne during the gold rush decade. The lure of wealth drew hundreds of thousands of diggers to the gold-fields of Victoria in the early 1850s. Many were tempted by stories of riches that could literally be picked up from the ground, or by reports of the ostentatious behaviour of those who had struck it rich. Optimistic diggers abandoned their families, professions and countries for the gold-fields and the prospect of a new life. Few sectors of the community were immune to the lure of gold. Among those who travelled to the Victorian gold-fields were professionally trained artists such as William Strutt, ST Gill, Eugène von Guérard, Edward Roper, Cuthbert Clarke and George Rowe. While each of these artists travelled to the fields to dig for gold, many also utilised their artistic skills to record aspects of life on the diggings. The gold-fields and their inhabitants provided a wealth of subject matter for these artists: from the hazardous journey to the fields, to the daily activities of the miner, and the busy social and commercial life of the gold settlements. Few aspects of life went unrecorded. The works produced during this time provide an invaluable record of Victoria's gold rush period, and the gold-fields and their inhabitants provided a wealth of subject matter for artists. Subjects were as diverse as the characters on the fields. They included the labour-intensive work of diggers, their recreational activities and the daily operations of the gold-fields settlements. Law and order on the fields was also featured; from depictions of the Commissioner's Camp, and the inspection of diggers' licences to conflicts which arose from the enforcement of laws. Themes beyond the gold-fields included the transportation of gold to the cities by mounted escorts as well as bushranging activities. Few aspects of life during the gold rush went unrecorded. During the gold rush decade, Victoria received unprecedented numbers of educated and professional immigrants, able to afford unassisted passage to Australia and eager to participate in life on the diggings. Among these new arrivals were trained artists, who, like many others, hoped to defer their careers and make their fortunes on the gold-fields of Victoria. These artists soon discovered that the lifestyle of the digger was not as easy, or as prosperous, as they had been led to believe. Lack of success on the gold-fields left many with little option but to return to Melbourne to seek work in their former professions – a task which was made more difficult by the concentration of trained artists who had settled in the city and the limited art market that existed in the mid-1850s. Significant arrivals presents the work of a small number of artists who travelled to the gold-fields of Victoria in the early 1850s and who, in various ways, were to contribute to the cultural life of the colony. Through the work of William Strutt, ST Gill, George Rowe, Eugène von Guérard and Nicholas Chevalier, Significant arrivals explores artistic themes beyond the gold-fields and the individual contributions of these artists to the development of art in Victoria. The City of Melbourne experienced great change and growth during Victoria's gold rush decade. The wealth generated by the Victorian gold-fields and the large number of immigrants attracted to these fields contributed to the growth of Melbourne from pastoral settlement to Australia's leading city by the mid-1850s. Buildings, roads and businesses were not all that developed in Melbourne during the gold rush: the cultural life of the city also expanded considerably. One of the most significant changes that occurred in Melbourne during this time was the increase in the number of professional artists practising in the city. This increase can, in part, be attributed to the return of many of the gold-fields artists to Melbourne after the first frenzied months of the gold rush. By the mid-1850s, Melbourne could boast the presence of several professional artists, including Nicholas Chevalier, Eugène von Guérard, Ludwig Becker, Charles Summers, Thomas Clark and Henry Burn. While such a concentration of skilled artists may have placed a strain on a limited art market, it ensured that Melbourne was a culturally dynamic city in which art was created, exhibited, reviewed and discussed. Within years, artistic societies and cultural institutions emerged and contributed to the further cultural growth of the city. The city's progress was recorded by many of the artists who resided in Melbourne and who contributed to its strengthening cultural status. The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. The main gallery is located in St Kilda Road, in the heart of the Melbourne Arts Precinct of Southbank, with a branch gallery at Federation Square. The St Kilda Road Gallery, designed by Sir Roy Grounds, opened in 1968 and was refubished and extended by Mario Bellini in 2003. In December 2003, the Ian Potter Centre at the NGV Australia at Federation Square, designed by LAB Architecture Studio opened to host the NGV's collection of Australian art. At the time that the gallery opened, Victoria was 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 65,000 works of art. The Ian Potter Centre at the NGV Australia is the world's first major gallery dedicated exclusively to Australian art. It is a spectacular showcase comprising over 20 galleries housed within a landmark architectural complex. NGV Australia presents the history of Australian art from the Colonial period and the Heidelberg School through to contemporary art, and includes photography, prints and drawings, fashion and textiles, decorative arts, and a suite of galleries dedicated to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. With special exhibitions and educational programs and new perspectives of the city through its glass matrix, NGV Australia is more than a great place to view art, a completely fresh approach that encourages people from all walks of life to enjoy the world of art. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au

The Butler Institute of American Art Hosts the 75th National Midyear Exhibition Posted: 19 Jul 2011 10:39 PM PDT Youngstown, OH.- Now on exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art are 100 works of art selected to be included in the 75th National Midyear Exhibition from over 1000 entries. This annual juried exhibition is open to artists over 18 years of age who reside within the United States and/or its territories, artists from 24 States are represented in the exhibition. The 2011 show has now been judged and visitors can the results for themselves. The exhibition runs through August 28th.

The PICTURE Art Foundation Opens An International Exhibition "On Being Human" Posted: 19 Jul 2011 10:24 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA.- With works by Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Norman Rockwell, James Tissot, James McNeill Whistler and Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Blessing, a bold vibrant oil painting by Shanye Huang, has been selected for inclusion in the crossing cultures and centuries international exhibition "On Being Human: Love, Faith, Shame, and Hope" presented by PICTURE Art Foundation. Huang's selection is especially significance, since he is the only Chinese-American artist, whose Blessing is one of the 130 works in all media by over 90 artists representing over 30 distinct cultures from 50 different countries across several centuries. "On Being Human" is on view till October 2011.

The Taipa Houses Museum in Macau Presents Lim Khim Katy Posted: 19 Jul 2011 09:30 PM PDT Macau.- The Taipa Houses Museum is pleased to present "Through the Eyes of Lim Khim Katy", an exhibition organised by Asia Fine Arts. On view are 21 new works by this cutting edge Vietnamese artist. This collection of 21 new works for this exhibition are her latest expression of life and are at the cutting edge Vietnamese contemporary art. The exhibition is on view from July 29th through September 11th, after which it will move to Asia Fine Arts' gallery in Shangai and be on view there from September 15th through October 16th.

First International Art Fair Dedicated to Old Master Paintings to be Launched in Paris Posted: 19 Jul 2011 09:15 PM PDT PARIS.- The first international art fair dedicated to Old Master paintings, will open to the public from Friday 4 to Tuesday 8 November 2011 at the renowned Palais de la Bourse, the former stock exchange located in the heart of the Paris art scene. This important new event was devised by ten leading Parisian paintings dealers who wish to share their passion for the field and to encourage the wider appreciation of paintings from the 14th to the mid 19th centuries. They have invited ten important international colleagues from London , Amsterdam , Zurich , Rome , Madrid and New York to join them in this showcase for excellence.

Robert De Niro Art Dealer - Leigh Morse - Found Guilty of Fraud Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:43 PM PDT New York, NY - Leigh Morse, the former director of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries and once an art dealer for actor Robert De Niro, was convicted in a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded the estates of artists including painter Stuart Davis. Morse, 55, was found guilty today by a New York jury of one count of scheming to defraud. She was found not guilty of a grand larceny count alleging the theft of $65,000 from De Niro, who testified at the trial in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan. The jury of eight men and four women reached a decision in its fifth day of deliberations. Morse, in a brief statement, said she was "deeply sorry" for the pain her clients had endured but maintained that she was unaware of any fraud.

Never Before Seen Photos of the Beatles' to Be Sold at Christie's Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:35 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- On July 20, Christie's will present The Beatles Illuminated: The Discovered Works of Mike Mitchell, a sale comprised of 50 lots of unpublished and never-before-seen photographs of the Beatles' first hysteria-inducing visits to America in 1964. Shot in black and white by photographer Mike Mitchell when he was just 18 years old, the images have been filed away for nearly fifty years. The complete rediscovered collection is expected to realize in the region of $100,000 plus.

The Chan Hampe Galleries at The Raffles Hotel Shows Works by Guan Wei Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:34 PM PDT Singapore.- The Chan Hampe Galleries at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore are pleased to present "Bird Island" a solo exhibition by Guan Wei from July 6th through August 6th. Award-winning Chinese/Australian artist Guan Wei will exhibit his newest series of paintings in this breathtaking solo exhibition of works exuding the artist's distinctive style. Guan Wei spent 20 years in Australia after the political unrest in the late '80s and recently returned to Beijing to set up a studio and reconnect with his homeland's artistic community. He took part in the Shanghai Biennale last year and is currently showing at the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal in Shenzhen. Following his graduation from the Department of Fine Arts at the Capital Normal University (Beijing, 1986), Guan worked as a painter and high school art teacher. In 1988, he was invited to organize an exhibition at the apartment of Nicholas Jose, the Cultural Counselor of the Australian Embassy in China at that time. In 1989, he was invited to partake in an artist residency program at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart, Australia. Guan subsequently became an Australian resident in 1993. Guan has exhibited widely. Some early international exhibitions include 'Silent Energy: New Art from China' (Modern Art Oxford, 1993) and 'Mao Goes Pop: China Post-1989' (Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993). More recent exhibitions include 'The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia' (Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 1999), the second and third Asia-Pacific Triennials (Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, 1996 and 1999) and the Gwangju Biennale entitled 'Man + Space' (Gwangju Biennale Hall, South Korea, 2000). Chan Hampe Galleries aims to create a platform for East-West cultural exchange by exhibiting and promoting contemporary art with a primary focus on Singaporean artistic practice. Since the gallery's inception by Angeline Chan in the Tanjong Pagar cultural district, opportunities have been provided to numerous emerging artists with the intention of developing their careers and advocating investment into the Singaporean visual arts community. With a second location in the esteemed Raffles Hotel and partnership with Benjamin Hampe, Chan Hampe Galleries will continue to exhibit a diverse range of Singaporean artists and introduce an international program in alignment with the highest professional gallery standards. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.chanhampegalleries.com

Dallas Museum of Art to host "All the World’s a Stage ~ Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts" Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:19 PM PDT DALLAS, TX.- The dynamic and historic connections between the visual and performing arts will be explored in two exhibitions—one focusing on contemporary artists and the other spanning multiple eras and cultures—at the Dallas Museum of Art. Drawn from the DMA's encyclopedic collections and special loans, the exhibitions will be presented in conjunction with this fall's historic opening of the new Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and the completion of the Dallas Arts District. The exhibition will also incorporate several theatrical tableaux in photography, including pieces by Cindy Sherman, Nic Nicosia, Matthew Barney, and Gregory Crewdson, among others. In these images, conventions of costume, character, and set are combined to create characters and scenarios often found on the stage. Performance/Art (October 8, 2009 – March 21, 2010) will focus on a select group of six contemporary artists from around the world who include elements of theater, opera, and performance in their work. A unique feature of the exhibition is a set of studies by Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca for his newly commissioned monumental curtain for The Winspear Opera House at the DCPA. All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts (August 30, 2009 – February 28, 2010) will showcase approximately 100 works from the DMA's expansive collection that celebrate and reference performance. Spanning 5,000 years of creativity from around the globe, these works will be presented in thematic groupings that explore relationships between visual and performing artists and the ways performers are represented and celebrated. "With these two exhibitions the DMA extends an exuberant welcome to our newest neighbor, the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, the opening of which further defines the Dallas Arts District's profile as one of the country's top cultural centers," said Bonnie Pitman, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. "Performance/Art and All the World's a Stage are each inspired as much by theater, music, dance, opera, and performance as by the visual arts, revealing creative ties between our institutions and respective disciplines." Performance/Art Encompassing painting, sculpture, video, and installation, Performance/Art will feature the work of six contemporary artists who have adapted elements and characteristics of theater, opera, and performance in his or her work, including Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, Canadian sculptor David Altmejd, Finnish video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila, British-Nigerian sculptor and media and installation artist Yinka Shonibare and the Dallas-based installation artists Tom Orr and Frances Bagley. "From Shonibare's haunting interpretation of Verdi, to Kuitca's images exploring architecture of theaters and his Dallas studies, Performance/Art invites audiences to intimately experience artwork which reinterprets our experience and expectations of performance," said Charles Wylie, The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, the exhibition's organizer. The exhibition highlights include studies by Kuitca for his commission for The Winspear Opera House at the DCPA, his first design for a stage curtain. Known for his evocative paintings and drawings, Kuitca deconstructs theater seating charts to examine public performance spaces. In a separate gallery, Shonibare's video "Un Ballo in Maschera" will explore overlapping African and European cultural identities through the lens of dance and opera. Shonibare's performers are dressed in 18th-century costumes fashioned from his signature colorful wax-print African cloth and enact a dazzling series of choreographed scenes the Guiseppe Verdi opera of the same name. Ahtila's haunting three-screen video Talo/The House will be installed much as a theater performance might look, though Ahtila's ingenious use of space allows her audience to become fully engaged with the sights and sounds of the video. Set in a northern Finnish forest, the work includes an interior monologue similar to a theatrical soliloquy and follows a character who beguilingly narrates her increasingly tenuous grip on reality. Performance/Art will also feature a new installation by Bagley and Orr commissioned especially for this exhibition. Based on their spectacular and powerful sets and costumes for the 2006 Dallas Opera production of Verdi's Nabucco, the work provides a tangible connection between the DMA and it new neighbor's history. Finally, David Altmejd's mesmerizing sculpture The Eye, a symmetrical, architectural piece with mirror as the primary medium, will be on view. This work was made while thinking of John Adams's recent opera Doctor Atomic, in which a grand architectural construction of mirrors flooded with light created a hypnotically and nearly overwhelming experiential environment. All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts Featuring approximately 100 works, All the World's a Stage will explore the human impulse for performance around the world and throughout time. The exhibition reveals ways in which performance has been created, transformed, and documented by visual artists working in concert with dancers, musicians, and actors to both shape and record their creative activities. The works in the exhibition will be grouped thematically into categories exploring why, how, and where performance takes place, and how performers are identified. Drawn from the DMA's encyclopedic collections, the works span 5,000 years and include instruments, masks, paintings, sculpture, and photography, as well as a group of important 20th-Century electronics used to present performance, including an early television, radio, and microphone. Among the highlights will be a group of Edward Degas' pastels of ballet dancers; Pablo Picasso's The Guitarist (1965), a late cubist portrait of a musician; and Romare Bearden's Soul Three (1968), an important collage work depicting a jazz trio. Other masterworks on view will be two rare kraters, or wine vessels, from Ancient Greece (fourth and sixth centuries B.C.), depicting the intersection between performance and myth derived from the rituals associated with religious worship, festivals, and prayer; an Egungun costume from the Yoruba of Nigeria; Shiva Nataraja, an 11th century sculpture from India, and an ancient American trumpet (c. 300-200 B.C.) from Paracas, Peru. The exhibition will also incorporate several theatrical tableaux in photography, including pieces by Cindy Sherman, Nic Nicosia, Matthew Barney, and Gregory Crewdson, among others. In these images, conventions of costume, character, and set are combined to create characters and scenarios often found on the stage. The exhibition was conceived and organized collaboratively by the DMA's curatorial staff, and the exhibition design will include a performance space within the galleries that will host a variety of live performances and films at special times throughout the exhibition, as well as video of interviews with Dallas-area performers. Visit the Dallas Museum of Art at :  http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/index.htm

The World's Most Expensive Painting - Pablo Picasso's "Green Leaves, Nude and Bust" At Tate Modern Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:18 PM PDT London (BBC).- The world's most expensive painting ever sold at auction is going on public show in the UK for the first time. "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1932 and based on his muse, Marie-Therese Walter. The painting became the most expensive in the world when it was auctioned in New York by Christies in 2010, selling for for $106.5m (£65.5m). As of Monday 7 March 2011, it can be seen on display at the Tate Modern in London. Tate director Nicholas Serota: "This is an outstanding painting by Picasso. I am delighted that through the generosity of the lender we are able to bring it to the British public for the first time."

The Arkansas Art Center Shows "The Impressionists and Their Influence" Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:17 PM PDT Little Rock, Arkansas.- The Arkansas Art Center is proud to present "The Impressionists and Their Influence" until June 26th. Organized in conjunction with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, this exhibition brings together beautiful paintings and intimate works on paper by such French artists as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, as well as works by major Post-Impressionist artists Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Paul Signac. In addition, the show features works by American artists, such as Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson, who fell under the influence of the Impressionists. Featuring more than 100 works from the collections of the renowned High Museum of Art, the Arkansas Arts Center, and private collections, The Impressionists and Their Influence is a splendid opportunity to explore the movement that became Impressionism.

Martin Gropius Bau opens 'Sixty Years, Sixty Works ~ Art from the Republic of Germany' Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:16 PM PDT BERLIN.- The exhibition Sixty Years, Sixty Works opened at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Organized for the anniversary of the ratification of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany, the exhibition recounts another history of the Republic: the developmental history of the visual arts, made possible by paragraph 5, article 3 of the constitution that guarantees the freedom of expression in art, science, research, and education. Curatorial team spokespersons Walter Smerling and Peter Iden point out: "The exhibition is also meant to provide an opportunity to reflect upon what's been created, especially against the background of Germany's specific history. On exhibition through 14 June, 2009.

Dali ' Many Guises of Woman ' at the Salvador Dali Museum Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:15 PM PDT St. Petersburg, FL - A selection of 70 works from the permanent collection (painting, drawing, watercolors, prints and objects) representative Dalí's various creations of the female image. The selected works help trace the progression of Dalí's depiction of women from his early student days - images of various women as models in academic studies - to a later period when Gala becomes his chief model and muse.

"Edgar Degas' World" at the National Gallery of Australia Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:14 PM PDT CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - Degas' world: the rage for change, a complementary exhibition to the international blockbuster Degas: master of French art, on exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia. The exhibition showcases Edgar Degas' contemporaries and the world that they inhabited, a world in the throes of social and economic change. Degas' World depicts the other side of Impressionism, one that explores the underbelly of Parisian life. On view through 22 March, 2009.

Brooklyn Museum to host Retrospective of Acclaimed Artists Gilbert & George Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:13 PM PDT BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum will be the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of art by the internationally acclaimed artists Gilbert & George. On view from October 3, 2008, through January 11, 2009, the exhibition comprises of more than ninety pictures produced since 1970, among them more than a dozen that will be seen only in the Brooklyn presentation.

Clark Art Institute to feature Henri deToulouse-Lautrec and Paris Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:12 PM PDT   WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Vibrant and racy Parisian nightlife of the late nineteenth century will be on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute this winter. Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris, an exhibition of over eighty remarkable oil paintings, posters, photographs, drawings, and lithographs, marks the first time in over fifteen years that the Clark will show nearly its entire extraordinary collection of works by the great French painter and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901). Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris will be on view February 1 through April 26, 2009.

Charles O. Perry ~ Sculptor, Architect, Designer & Lecturer ~ His Artworks Known Worldwide, Dies at 81 Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:11 PM PDT New York (New York Times). - Charles O. Perry, a sculptor who created dozens of mathematically inspired works for plazas and sculpture gardens throughout the United States and abroad and created "Continuum," the knotted black Moebius strip that stands in front of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, died on Tuesday 8th February 2011 at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut, he was 81. Mr. Perry was an architect working for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in San Francisco when he began making sculptural models at night in his garage. In 1964 his works were exhibited in a one-man show at the Hansen Gallery that sold out and earned him a commission from the city of Fresno.

LACMA Receives Gift of Thomas Eakins’s 'Wrestlers' Posted: 19 Jul 2011 08:10 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today the recent acquisition of Thomas Eakins's (1844 – 1916) large sporting painting, Wrestlers (1899).  The generous gift of Mrs. Cecile C. Bartman and The Cecile and Fred Bartman Foundation, Wrestlers is one of the last major subject paintings this great American realist created.  Viewed in the trajectory of Eakins's accomplishments, from his first student studies of the figure and early rowing pictures of the 1870s to his late boxing and wrestling paintings, Wrestlers stands as a superb summation of some of the most significant themes of the artist's career.

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