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• NH Galeria Presents Takashi Murakami Limited Edition Prints
• The Akron Art Museum Shows "Flora" ~ Photography from the Last 100 Years
• Peninsula Fine Arts Center Presents The Virginia Landscape on Paper
• Art San Diego 2011: Contemporary Art Fair Announces Exhibitors
• Four Historic Merchant Ships are Featured on New United States Postage Stamps
• Queensland Art Gallery To Show Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Decisive Moments"
• 16 New Galleries Unveiled in Transformation at the National Museum of Scotland
• The Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft Opens Two New Exhibitions
• Statue Placed in Suburban Saint Louis Honors Rock & Roll Legend Chuck Berry
• The Hofstra University Museum Presents "Body Mapping"
• Phillips Collection to Display Masterworks from The Allen Memorial Art Museum
• Acclaimed Artist and Filmmaker Gerry Fox Exhibits at Eleven Fine Art
• Saint Louis Art Museum to show " Action / Abstraction " 1940-1976
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art exhibits Avant-garde Renaissance of Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov
• Couturier Gallery to Display Unique "World Maps"
• Renowned Impressionism Collection Returns Home to Art Institute of Chicago
• The Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Shows "Daniel Tamayo ~ Fables"
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza surveys the Dutch Painter Pieter Jansz. Saenredam
• Art Gallery of South Australia presents "Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art"
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

NH Galeria Presents Takashi Murakami Limited Edition Prints Posted: 29 Jul 2011 10:19 PM PDT Cartagena, Colombia.- NH Galeria is proud to present "Takashi Murakami: Flowers, Nirvana and Kakai Kiki", an exhibition comprised of eleven limited edition prints, numbered and signed by the leading Japanese contemporary artist, will be on view at NH Galeria through August 21st.  Characterized by their ambiguous  and sarcastic composition,  Murakami's prints are  influenced by traditional Japanese art,  as well as  anime and  manga - contemporary forms of  Japanese  animation and comics  - and American pop art. With his signature "Superflat" style distinguished  by flat planes of color and  graphic images, Murakami blurs the lines between high and low culture. His scenes, composed of  winking bright  flowers and his iconic ficticious characters, Mr. Dob, Mr. Pointy and Kaikai Kiki,  reflect upon the emptiness and lack of emotion  in contemporary Japanese society. The frivolity of the otaku obsessed culture and lifestyle, Japanese consumerism, and sexual fetishism are some recurring themes in his work. Born in 1962 in Tokyo, Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he received a doctorate of Nihonga (traditional Japanese art). In 1996, he founded the Hirogan factory which later evolved into KaikaiKiki Co., and art Production Company that operates in many fields. Murakami's work covers a broad range of art forms, including painting, sculpture, industrial design, anime, fashion and other media and merchandise in popular culture. His work has been shown extensively in group exhibitions around the world, and in one-person exhibitions at leading institutions including The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, La Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, the Guggenheim  Museum,  Bilbao,  the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and most recently at the Château de Versalles, Île-de-France. NH Galeria opened its doors in the historic old town in Cartagena, Colombia,  on Februray 2011. The gallery specializes in international contemporary art. Since its inception, the gallery has exhibited a selected group of established and emerging international contemporary artists whose diverse practices include painting, drawing, sculpture, video and photography. The gallery also specializes in the resale of select  works of art from the 20th century. NH Galeria is the Colombian partner of the Nohra Haime Gallery in New York. The Nohra Haime Gallery was originally founded in 1981. Its principal focus is on the representation of an international group of contemporary artists whose diverse practices include painting, drawing, sculpture, video and photography. The program includes historical artists as well as established artists and new voices. The gallery is also known for organizing historically significant group exhibitions. Since its founding, the gallery has also specilized in the resale of select works of art from the 20th century including Latin American Art. The Nohra Haime gallery is located at 730  Fifth Avenue, New York. The gallery is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.nohrahaimegallery.com

The Akron Art Museum Shows "Flora" ~ Photography from the Last 100 Years Posted: 29 Jul 2011 09:33 PM PDT Akron, Ohio.- The Akron Art Museum presents "Flora", featuring works by photographers from the early 20th century to present day, Flora will be on view July 26th through October 23rd at the Akron Art Museum in the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery. Flora includes the Akron debut of recent acquisitions by artists including Imogen Cunningham, Martha Madigan and Northeast Ohio artists Douglas Lucak, Judith McMillan, J. Dwight Palmer, P.J. Rogers and Stephen Tomasko.Flowers have proven to be irresistible subjects for painters and sculptors through the ages and, from the early days of photography, for photographers.

Peninsula Fine Arts Center Presents The Virginia Landscape on Paper Posted: 29 Jul 2011 09:32 PM PDT Newport News, VA.- The Peninsula Fine Arts Center is proud to present "The Virginia Landscape: Works on Paper", on view at the center from July 23rd through October 2nd. This exhibition, curated in-house by Michael Preble, presents the work of eleven artists who show various approaches to the diverse Virginia landscape and its inspirations.  Says Preble, "The Virginia landscape offers an impressive range – from the mountains to the sea, from farms and woodlands to towns and cityscapes. This exhibition offers a dynamic diversity while focusing on works on paper – paintings, drawings and prints. Traditional pictorial imagery – lyrical and poetic – are included, as are works that are 'Virginia inspired' and in a more contemporary vein."

Art San Diego 2011: Contemporary Art Fair Announces Exhibitors Posted: 29 Jul 2011 09:02 PM PDT SAN DIEGO, C.A.- The third edition of ART SAN DIEGO Contemporary Art Fair, which will take place September 1 – 4, 2011 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, offers a blend of leading and emerging international galleries alongside focused solo-artist exhibitions by Spotlight Artists and contemporary furniture designers. ART SAN DIEGO also provides a strong focus on the city and culture of San Diego, through Art Labs. These combined events create an opportunity to showcase the diversity of San Diego's artistic community.

Four Historic Merchant Ships are Featured on New United States Postage Stamps Posted: 29 Jul 2011 08:51 PM PDT WASHINGTON, D.C.- In an era of modern airplanes it's easy to forget how much the United States depends on merchant ships — and always has. A new set of postage stamps is honoring their tradition. On sale starting Thursday, the four Forever US postage stamps were released in ceremonies at Kings Point, N.Y., home of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. "The men and women who built and sailed the ships depicted in these four postal stamps have buoyed our prosperity, liberty and way of life," David T. Matsuda, head of the U.S. Maritime Administration, said in a statement. "Their sacrifice is worthy of remembrance, as they continue to be an integral part of America's economy and national security."

Queensland Art Gallery To Show Henri Cartier-Bresson's "Decisive Moments" Posted: 29 Jul 2011 07:13 PM PDT QUEENSLAND, AU - Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), the French photographer who redefined both photojournalism and his craft as an art form, will be celebrated in a major exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery from August 27th to November 27th. Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World‟ would feature work from throughout the renowned photographer‟s extraordinary career, which spanned over 70 years. "Cartier-Bresson‟s photography is exceptional for capturing "the decisive moment", an illustration of action, emotion and an entire story through the single frame of the camera lens,‟ Mr Ellwood said.

16 New Galleries Unveiled in Transformation at the National Museum of Scotland Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:27 PM PDT EDINBURGH. - The National Museum of Scotland opened to the public on 29 July revealing a £47.4 million transformation which has created one of the world's great museums presenting the sciences, humanities and culture, all under one roof. National Museums Scotland has completed a highly ambitious redevelopment returning a listed Victorian building to its original glory, creating spectacular new public spaces and revealing the wonderful collections. The centerpiece of a 15-year Masterplan, the project has taken just over three years to complete with fundraising efforts exceeding target by almost £1 million.

The Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft Opens Two New Exhibitions Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:02 PM PDT Louisville, KY.- The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is pleased to present two new exhibtions, "Moving Forward, Circling Back: Celebrating 50 Years of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen" and "Kentucky Biennial II: KMAC Artist Members' Show". Both shows open on July 30th and remain on view until October 15th. KMAC, which will host an opening reception for these exhibitions on Thursday, August 11, will also offer for sale an exclusive exhibition catalog detailing the artists and works in "Moving Forward, Circling Back: Celebrating 50 Years of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen."

Statue Placed in Suburban Saint Louis Honors Rock & Roll Legend Chuck Berry Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:01 PM PDT UNIVERSITY CITY, MO. - The image is timeless Americana: Chuck Berry hunched over, ready to launch into his famous Duck Walk, picking his Gibson guitar and wailing a song. It's the image captured in the statue of the man considered by many to be the father of rock and roll, dedicated Friday in the University City Loop area of suburban St. Louis. An energizing and eclectic entertainment and shopping district, The Loop offers six blocks of exhilarating retail, restaurants, live music, café culture, and even a Walk-Of-Fame. A century ago at this location, streetcars from downtown "looped around" to return to the city, which gave the area its name. That movement and momentum continue today, as The Loop expands into the City of St. Louis with the exciting new growth and development that have made it a St Louis destination.

The Hofstra University Museum Presents "Body Mapping" Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:00 PM PDT Hempstead, NY.- The Hofstra University Museum is proud to present "Body Mapping", in the Hofstra University Museum's Emily Lowe Gallery. The exhibition features works by four contemporary artists, Tina Blondell, Giedre Montvila, K.C. (Kaethe) Kauffman, and Eileen Senner.  In the exhibit, each artist draws upon cultural and societal issues about body image incorporating traditions such as Mehndi and ta moko practices of superimposing interlacing spiral markings on painted portraits. The exhibition, organized through Katharine T. Carter & Associates, commemorates the opening of the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University and includes works of oil painting, near photorealistic representation, superimposition on portraiture, and pigment on skin recorded by photographs that themselves become painted surfaces. "The human body has captured the creative imagination of artists through the centuries. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo studied the human form with a scientific eye," said Executive Director of the Hofstra University Museum Beth E. Levinthal. "The artists featured in this exhibition continue this centuries' old fascination with the human form incorporating inventive new approaches to this enduring subject matter. We are most pleased to present Body Mapping as the new Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University welcomes its inaugural class." The Hofstra University Museum has been awarded the highest honor a museum can receive, continued accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM). Approximately 4% of museums nationwide have earned this distinguished recognition. Accreditation certifies that the Hofstra University Museum operates according to professional standards, manages its collections responsibly and provides quality service to the public. Hofstra University is a dynamic private institution of higher education where more than 12,000 full and part-time students choose from undergraduate and graduate offerings in liberal arts and sciences, business, engineering, communication, education, health and human services, honors studies, a School of Law and the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. The Hofstra University Museum is dedicated to furthering the understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts. It helps people make deep and long-lasting connections to individual works of art as well as the varied cultures from which they originate. Through its collections and exhibitions, its sculpture gardens and its interpretative programs, the Museum is committed to being a vital partner in the educational, pedagogical, and cultural life of Hofstra University students, faculty and staff, as well as residents of the greater New York metropolitan region. It strives to achieve this mission by adherence to the highest professional standards in the collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation of works of art. The Hofstra University Museum will continue to evolve as a vital cultural and educational center for Hofstra University, Long Island, and the New York metropolitan region. Dynamic and intellectually stimulating exhibitions and programs, along with opportunities to study the permanent collection, in an improved museum environment, will serve as the impetus for rich and varied explorations that enhance knowledge and the experience of art. The museum's collection contains approximately 5,000 works of art in varied media dating from the ancient to the contemporary, and includes American artists of the 19th and 20th centuries along with Asian, Oceanic, African and Pre-Columbian art. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.hofstra.edu/Community/museum/index.html

Phillips Collection to Display Masterworks from The Allen Memorial Art Museum Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- Illustrating its unconventional approach to displaying art, The Phillips Collection will present loosely themed groupings of some of its own masterworks with 25 masterpieces from Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum. Half of the 24 paintings and one sculpture on loan from the Allen are old masters, dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries. They include rare works by painters of the British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish schools. The other Allen pieces are important modern works of the 19th and 20th centuries. Oberlin extended the opportunity to display some of its treasures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to the Phillips while the Allen is closed for renovations. Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Phillips, opens September 11, 2010, and runs through January 16, 2011. Side by Side highlights defining features of The Phillips Collection: displays that combine works of different periods, nationalities, and styles, and constant rearrangement of the collection to reveal new affinities between works of art. This approach started with its founder, Duncan Phillips (1866–1966), who viewed the history of art as a continuing series of conversations between artists and works. "Duncan Phillips was interested in showing modern art's historical roots," says Phillips Director Dorothy Kosinski. "That is why he bought an El Greco, a Goya, and a Giorgione. Early on, he hoped to have examples of work by several other old masters, including Rubens, who is represented in this selection from Oberlin. Having these truly wonderful works from Oberlin is a special opportunity to expand the context of our own collection and modern art in general." The Allen's Rubens, The Finding of Erichthonius (1632–33), illustrating a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses, will be shown with the Phillips's radiant and enchanting Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–81), Pierre-Auguste Renoir's great impressionist summary of modern life. Renoir is known to have copied works by Peter Paul Rubens, and in the second half of his career, when Renoir turned away from impressionism, he again looked to Rubens for inspiration. Other works in this part of the exhibition are by artists in The Phillips Collection who frequented the Louvre and copied works of art in it, including Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, and Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix. Other highlights among the old masters in Side by Side include one of the most important examples of northern baroque painting in the United States, Hendrick ter Bruggen's Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (1625); The Fountain of Life, a superb 16th-century painting probably painted in Spain after a work by Jan van Eyck; and Joseph Wright of Derby's night scene Dovedale by Moonlight (c. 1784–85). Oberlin's modern holdings include works by Alberto Giacometti, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, and Mark Rothko. Landscape is a strong suit at the Phillips, and many works on loan from the Allen play to this strength. Several, like Wright's, show the world at night: Giuseppe Cesari's The Agony in the Garden (Christ on the Mount of Olives) (1597–98) and Pier Francesco Mola's Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep (1645–55). Christ's angelic vision illuminates Cesari's painting, but in the paintings by Mola and Wright, the light source is the moon. These nocturnal scenes find numerous echoes in The Phillips Collection, where silvery moonlight gleams in paintings such as Arthur Dove's Me and the Moon (1937) and George Inness's Moonlight, Tarpon Springs (1892). Joseph Mallord William Turner's shimmering View of Venice: The Ducal Palace, Dogana and Part of San Giorgio (1841) is one of the outstanding landscape offerings from Oberlin. Like his rival John Constable, represented in The Phillips Collection by On the River Stour (1834–37), Turner had a powerful effect on modern landscape painting. Claude Monet, an artist who was profoundly influenced by him, is represented in the Allen's works by Garden of the Princess, Louvre (1867). Painted from a window at the Louvre, with a high vantage point, and a distinctive vertical format, the painting is one of the artist's first views of the city. In a spatially complex composition, looking across an empty expanse of garden, the artist shows a bustling, tree-lined embankment of the Seine, a slice of river, and a cityscape beyond. The painting represents a much earlier stage in Monet's development than The Road to Vétheuil (1879) and Val-Saint-Nicholas, near Dieppe (Morning) (1897), owned by the Phillips. Among other modern landscapes on view in Side by Side, Paul Cézanne's Viaduct at L'Estaque (1882) from the Allen adds another dimension to the rich imagery of the south of France, represented at the Phillips by strong holdings of landscapes by Pierre Bonnard, Cézanne, and Vincent van Gogh, among others. A display of portraits will include one of the most dramatic works in the exhibition, the Allen's Self-Portrait as a Soldier (1915), by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Kirchner painted himself in the uniform of his artillery regiment, his eyes vacant and without pupils, a cigarette dangling from his lips, and his right hand horrifyingly amputated. Painted when Kirchner was recuperating from illness and unfit for active duty, this searing portrait expresses the artist's terror in the face of war. The Phillips's uncompromising Cézanne self-portrait of 1878–80 will hang nearby as will Oberlin's Michiel Sweerts's Self-Portrait (1656). Historic New York school works from the Allen will hang immediately outside the Rothko Room: Mark Rothko's The Syrian Bull, Adolph Gottlieb's The Rape of Persephone, and Barnett Newman's Onement IV. In 1943, The Syrian Bull and The Rape of Persephone were exhibited at the Third Annual Exhibition of Modern Painters and Sculptors. In response, Edward Alden Jewell from the New York Times used these paintings to criticize the incomprehensibility of recent modern art. Within five days, Gottlieb, Rothko, and Newman wrote a challenge to Jewell that in turn set the aesthetic and cultural themes for the New York school. Visit The Phillips Collection at : http://www.phillipscollection.org/

Acclaimed Artist and Filmmaker Gerry Fox Exhibits at Eleven Fine Art Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:51 PM PDT BERLIN.- For his first exhibition at Eleven Fine Art, acclaimed artist and filmmaker Gerry Fox will realize a brand new series of video works based on 19th century paintings. While in Venice making a large-scale installation about this contemporary city last year, Fox came across a series of works by famous painters including Turner, Sargent, Manet, Monet and Renoir all featuring gondolas in the city's canals. He set out to recreate these paintings on the highest quality 35 mm film, bringing them to life as cinematic tableaux.

Saint Louis Art Museum to show " Action / Abstraction " 1940-1976 Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:50 PM PDT Saint Louis, MO - The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the October 19 opening of Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976, the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to re-examine Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed. Prior to traveling to St. Louis, Action/Abstraction opened May 4 at The Jewish Museum in New York. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., is the exhibition's third and final venue.

Moscow Museum of Modern Art exhibits Avant-garde Renaissance of Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:49 PM PDT MOSCOW.- As an institution, the art museum accumulates a large amount of powerful energy from various dynamic and creative spirits, which it then shares with the audience. Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov reveal the secret life of an imaginary museum hidden from the viewer's eye. Renaissance, avant-garde and mass- media images are synthesized in the monumental paintings created for this project. The texture of large canvases and the smell of oil are still regarded as essential attributes of the Old Masters, which refer to the heritage of Raphael, Tintoretto, Durer, Veronese, daVinci, Titian, Rembrandt and many other great masters.

Couturier Gallery to Display Unique "World Maps" Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:48 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA - Maps are often deceptive, disguising more than meets the eye and manipulated for socio-political purposes.  Couturier Gallery is pleased to present World Maps,  a group exhibition including the work of four artists well known for their cartographic works: Kim Abeles,  Irene Dubrovsky,  Joyce Kozloff  and Ibrahim Miranda.  The maps of these artists reveal truths frequently obfuscated in mapping history. The works in the show examine social and political histories, issues of location and dislocation, identities, as well as chronicling historical and contemporary issues. This mixed-media show will open June 12th (and continue through July 17th ).  The opening artists' reception will take place Saturday, June 12th, 6-8 pm.

Renowned Impressionism Collection Returns Home to Art Institute of Chicago Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:47 PM PDT   CHICAGO, IL.- Just in time for the 2008 holiday season, the Art Institute of Chicago's famed Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection will be fully reinstalled in 11 newly renovated and expanded galleries by December 19, 2008. Masterpieces by artists such as Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Vincent van Gogh --many of which were loaned to the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas, and enjoyed by approximately 170,000 visitors there during a four-month stay--have returned to Chicago.

The Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Shows "Daniel Tamayo ~ Fables" Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:46 PM PDT Bilbao, Spain - The Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao is presenting a solo exhibiton of recent works by contemporary Basque painter Daniel Tamayo. "Daniel Tamayo: Fables" is on view until June 12th. Daniel Tamayo (Bilbao, 1951) was one of the original group of students at the University of the Basque Country's Fine Arts Faculty, where he now teaches. Beginning his career in the late seventies, Tamayo was influenced by the Pop movement and several leading names in the contemporary Spanish art world, such as Luis Gordillo. What we might call his figurative code has been marked by a taste for geometric drawing, "objectual" form and intense colours in smooth, flat inks.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza surveys the Dutch Painter Pieter Jansz. Saenredam Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:45 PM PDT MADRID.- November 11 marks the opening of the exhibition devoted to the Dutch painter Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597-1665). Through the exhibition, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will be offering an overview of the work of this artist, one of the leading names of 17th-century Dutch painting in a survey that will include some of his finest compositions. Saenredam was a pioneering figure in his use of detailed preparatory sketches and perspectival measurements made at first-hand, and he devoted almost his entire career to the depiction of interior and exterior architectural views. As a result, and according to his biographer Cornelis de Bie, Saenredam was "the first architectural portraitist".

Art Gallery of South Australia presents "Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art" Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:44 PM PDT Adelaide, Australia - Exclusive to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art explores the way in which European artists since the Renaissance have represented the landscape according to three different ideologies: the ideal, the romantic and the realistic. Through superb oil paintings, sculptures, watercolours, prints, drawings and photographs from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, visitors to this exhibition experience the emotive powers, serenity and poetry of nature. On exhibition through 6 September, 2009.

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