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• The Tate Britain to Feature "John Martin ~ Apocalypse"
• The Pasadena Museum of California Art Shows Roland Reiss' Miniature Tableaux
• Photoworks by American artist John Chamberlain at Steven Kasher Gallery
• The Gothenburg Art Museum Shows a Retrospective of Jan Lööf
• Eighteen New Paintings by Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough Chelsea
• The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts Presents Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artists
• Ludwig Museum in Budapest Exhibition Highlights Photorealism
• The University of Wyoming Art Museum Shows Eliot Porter's Photography
• Ringling Art Museum Celebrates The Amazing American Circus Poster Exhibition
• Our Editor Tours The Reina Sofia in Madrid ~ Home Of Pablo Picasso's Famous "Guernica"
• Museum Ludwig Shows Paintings, Sculptures & Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego exhibits 'Selections From the Collections'
• The Hyatt Regency in London Hosts an Exhibition of Sir Peter Blake's Prints
• London Art Fair Opens 22nd Edition of Modern British Art
• Modernista ~ Gaudi and his Contemporaries in Modern Day Barcelona
• Photographs from the Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson on View at Modernism
• "Beatles to Bowie" shows 150 Photographs of the 1960's at the National Portrait Gallery in UK
• Martin Parr's Photographs of Social Behaviour on View at Studio Trisorio
• Palace of Versailles exhibits Xavier Veilhan's Contemporary Sculptures
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Tate Britain to Feature "John Martin ~ Apocalypse" Posted: 16 Sep 2011 10:27 PM PDT London.- "John Martin: Apocalypse" at Tate Britain will chart the rise, fall and resurrection of a unique artistic reputation. Trained as a coach-painter in the North of England, Martin went on to create some of the nineteenth-century's most widely exhibited works of art. The exhibition will showcase the full range of his most important oil paintings, including "Belshazzar's Feast" 1820 (on loan from a private collection and not seen in public for over 20 years) and "The Great Day of His Wrath" 1851-3, which toured the world after his death, thrilling audiences from New York to Sydney with their painstaking detail and epic sense of scale and drama. His iconic mezzotint illustrations for The Bible and Milton's Paradise Lost will also be on display, alongside his brilliant landscape watercolours. Martin's profound scientific interests will be shown in his pioneering illustrations of dinosaurs, based on the latest fossil discoveries, and in his unrealised but visionary engineering projects, including plans for the embankment of the Thames and a metropolitan railway for London. "John Martin: Apocalypse" will be on view from September 21st through January 15th 2012. John Martin was born in July 1789, at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham in Northumberland, the 4th son of Fenwick Martin, a one time fencing master. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a dispute over wages the indentures were canceled, and he was placed instead under Bonifacio Musso, an Italian artist, father of the enamel painter Charles Muss. With his master, Martin moved from Newcastle to London in 1806, where he married at the age of nineteen, and supported himself by giving drawing lessons, and by painting in watercolours, and on china and glass. Martin began to supplement his income by painting in oils, some landscapes, but more usually grand biblical themes inspired by the Old Testament. He was heavily influenced by his childhood experiences. His landscapes have the ruggedness of the Northumberland crags, while vast apocalyptic canvasses, like 'The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah' show his intimate familiarity with the forges and ironworks of the Tyne Valley as well as the words of the Old testament. His timing could not have been better. In the years of the Regency from 1812 onwards there was a fashion for such 'sublime' paintings, encouraged by the publications of travellers returning from the Grand Tour or the Middle East with exotic tales of places like Ur and Babylon, Pompeii and Alexandria. Martin's break came at the end of a season at the Royal Academy, where his first great biblical canvas 'Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion' had been hung – and ignored. He brought it home, only to find there a visiting card from William Manning MP, a governor of the Bank of England. Manning wanted to buy it from him. Such influential patronage propelled Martin's career onto a major stage though he was never, to his disgust, elected to the Royal Academy. This promising career was interrupted though, by the death of his father, mother, grandmother and young son – all in a single year. Another distraction was his brother, William, who frequently asked him to draw up plans for his inventions, and whom he always indulged with help and money. In 1818, on the back of the sale of the 'Fall of Babylon' for more than £1000, he finally rid himself of debt and bought a house in Marylebone, where he came into contact with a wide range of artists, writers, scientists and Whig nobility. His triumph was 'Belshazzar's Feast', of which he boasted beforehand, "it shall make more noise than any picture ever did before... only don't tell anyone I said so." Five thousand people paid to see it. It was later, in a superb historical irony, nearly ruined when the carriage in which it was being transported was struck by a train at a level crossing near Oswestry in 1841, with John Martin himself on the footplate, Isambard Kingdom Brunel ran a train at 90 mph to disprove Stephenson's theory that locomotives could not go faster than horses. In private Martin was passionate, a devotee of chess, swordsmanship and javelin-throwing as well as being a radical who won a reputation for hissing at the National Anthem in public. Nevertheless, he was courted by royalty and presented with several gold medals, one of them from the Russian Tsar Nicholas, on whom a visit to Wallsend colliery on Tyneside had made an unforgettable impression: 'My God,' he had cried, 'it is like the mouth of Hell.' Martin became the official historical painter to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg who later became the first King of Belgium, where he constructed Europe's first major railway. Leopold was the godfather of Martin's son Leopold, and endowed Martin with one of Belgium's first knighthoods, the Order of Leopold. Martin frequently had early morning visits from another Saxe-Coburg, Prince Albert, who would engage him in banter from his horse, Martin standing in the doorway still in his dressing gown, at seven o'clock in the morning. Martin, and his highly intelligent wife Susan were warm and affectionate friends to many, but he was also a passionate defender of deism, evolution (before Darwin) and rationality. Georges Cuvier, the great French naturalist, became an admirer of Martin's, and he increasingly enjoyed the company of scientists, artists and writers – Dickens, Faraday and Turner among them. He began to experiment with mezzotint technology, and as a result was commissioned to produce 24 engravings for a new edition of Paradise Lost – perhaps the definitive illustrations of Milton's masterpiece. Politically his sympathies were radical and among his friends were counted William Godwin, the ageing reformed revolutionist, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley; and John Hunt, co-founder of The Examiner. Much Victorian railway architecture was copied from his motifs, including his friend Brunel's Clifton suspension bridge. Martin's engineering plans for London which included a circular connecting railway, though they failed to be built in his lifetime, all came to fruition later. This would have pleased him inordinately – he admitted he would rather have been an engineer than painter. John Martin died on the Isle of Man in 1854. He is buried in Kirk Braddon cemetery. Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The other three galleries are Tate Modern, also in London, Tate Liverpool, in the north-west, and Tate St Ives, in Cornwall, in the south-west. The entire Tate Collection is available online. Tate Britain is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art and works actively to promote interest in British art internationally. The displays at Tate Britain call on the greatest collection of British art in the world to present an unrivalled picture of the development of art in Britain from the time of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, to the present day. The Collection comprises the national collection of British art from the year 1500 to the present day, and international modern art. Some of the highlights of the Tate collection of British art include rich holdings of portraiture from the age of Queen Elizabeth I; of the work of William Hogarth, sometimes called the father of English painting; of the eighteenth-century portraitists Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds; of the animal painter George Stubbs; of the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who revolutionised British art in the nineteenth century; and in the twentieth century of the work of Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Francis Bacon and the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s. The very latest contemporary art is presented through the Art Now programme and the annual Turner Prize exhibition. Special attention is given to three outstanding British artists from the Romantic age. William Blake and John Constable have dedicated spaces within the gallery, while the unique J. M. W. Turner Collection of about 300 paintings and many thousands of watercolours is housed in the specially built Clore Gallery. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.tate.org.uk/britain

The Pasadena Museum of California Art Shows Roland Reiss' Miniature Tableaux Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:30 PM PDT Pasadena, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art is proud to present "Roland Reiss: Personal Politics Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s", on view from September 18th through January 8th 2012. Roland Reiss has been called one of Southern California's "key living artists," one who "has pushed the envelope of art" continually over the past five decades. Recent exhibitions have highlighted his influence as a painter, sculptor and teacher. In the 1960's Reiss began work on a series of miniature sculpture tableaux. These have been described as being "among his most famous and groundbreaking works." These small-scale sculptures explored the nature of American values and life style during the 70's and 80's with prophetic implications for the present moment. They probe the social and psychological aspects of everyday experience ranging from panic to pleasure. Based on semiotics, "clues and cues" become cultural signifiers revealing unexpected meaning. The museum will be showing 24 of these miniatures along with a major life size installation of a fabricated living room titled "The Castle of Perseverance." The exhibition was curated by Kate Johnson and is sponsored by the Pasadena Museum of California Art.

Photoworks by American artist John Chamberlain at Steven Kasher Gallery Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:29 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery exhibits a new body of work by the great American artist John Chamberlain. John Chamberlain: Pictures presents nine monumental photoworks, comprised of multiple eight-foot-high stretched canvas panels, each panel hosting a highly-processed and colorized panoramic photograph by the artist. Created in 2010-11, Pictures is Chamberlain's most candid, autobiographical, and intimate body of work to date. Departing from his sculptures in medium and imagery, these new works on canvas continue the artist's use of color and composition that infuse his art with extreme energy and power. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication: John Chamberlain: Pictures (SteidlKasher, Gottingen, 2011), text by Carlo McCormick.

The Gothenburg Art Museum Shows a Retrospective of Jan Lööf Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:07 PM PDT Gothenburg, Sweden The Gothenburg Art Museum's major autumn venture in 2011 is a solo exhibition by the Swedish artist Jan Lööf. "Jan Lööf - Bildmakaren" will be on view at the museum from September 17th through to January 22nd 2012. The exhibition is the first major retrospective of this multifaceted artist who for decades has provided us with a number of exciting photo stories, comics and film productions. Jan Lööf is one of Sweden's foremost cartoonists and their now  classic series Felix (1967-1973) and Ville (1975 -1976) inspired an entire  generation of cartoonists, but it is perhaps above all by their children's books as he became known to the general public.

Eighteen New Paintings by Vincent Desiderio at Marlborough Chelsea Posted: 16 Sep 2011 09:07 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- Marlborough Chelsea presents an exhibition of new work by Vincent Desiderio. Featuring eighteen new paintings in oil and mixed media, this is Desiderio's seventh exhibition with Marlborough Gallery. The show will be on view through October 15th. Vincent Desiderio's new work revels in the uninhibited toughness of paint. He exploits this toughness to underscore the absolute presence of the work in all its unapologetic materiality. As such this work demonstrates the unique capacity of painting to anchor the viewer in a tangible present tense of viewing, while inducing a trance of speculation regarding, among other things, the nature of illusion.

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts Presents Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artists Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:46 PM PDT Brooklyn, New York. The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) is proud to present the highly anticipated international exhibition entitled, "Saying No: Reconciling Spirituality and Resistance in Indigenous Australian Art", curated by Bindi Cole, on view until October 30th. This is the first international group exhibition of this kind to debut in New York City and the United States. The show will feature an array of works in a variety of media from a group of contemporary, indigenous, Australian-based artists. The word "No" does not exist in the majority of the over 200 Australian Aboriginal languages, and where it does exist, this powerful word is reserved for the elders and is used with great care and ceremony.

Ludwig Museum in Budapest Exhibition Highlights Photorealism Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:22 PM PDT BUDAPEST.- Photorealism came into its own at the end of the 1960s, arising from the challenge posed by photographic depiction to realist painting, and is mostly associated with well-known American and Western European artists and their works. The Budapest Ludwig Museum exhibition expands the scope of earlier shows in Vienna (MUMOK, 2010) and Aachen (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, 2011), both of which included materials from the Ludwig's collection. Our exhibition offers new approaches to similar Central- and Eastern European tendencies by virtue of a complex interpretation of Cold War realism. The exhibition has been realised in collaboration with: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen

The University of Wyoming Art Museum Shows Eliot Porter's Photography Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:07 PM PDT Laramie, WY.- The Univrsity of Wyoming Art Museum is pleased to present "The West of Eliot Porter: Images of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah" on view at the museum until December 22nd. Eliot Porter (American, 1901-1990) created a new way of viewing the world by introducing color to landscape photography, which today has become commonplace.  Porter began working in color in 1939, long before his fellow photographers accepted the medium. Trained as a chemical engineer and a medical doctor, Porter began his career in photography in the early 1930s by making black-and-white prints in his spare time while working as a bacteriologist and teaching at Harvard University. It was around this time that his brother, Fairfield Porter, a realist artist and art critic, introduced him to photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz. Offering guidance, Stieglitz began to critique Porter's black-and-white photographs and in 1938 exhibited Porter's work in his New York gallery, An American Place.

Ringling Art Museum Celebrates The Amazing American Circus Poster Exhibition Posted: 16 Sep 2011 08:06 PM PDT Sarasota, FL.- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is pleased to present "The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company", on view at the museum from September 17th through January 29th 2012. Organized jointly by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, this exhibition showcases colorful exotic animals, amazing performers, delightful clowns, and more in 80 brilliantly, boldly bombastic lithographs. Celebrating the museum's fascinating circus heritage and the unrivaled artistry of circus posters produced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this spectacular collection presents one of America's oldest forms of advertising and explores the impact of a medium that built national brand recognition and delivered new ideas, faraway places and exotic people directly to the hometowns of everyday Americans across the nation. The circus spent more money for advertising than on any other component of its operation, and the circus poster was the most important part of its advertising effort. At the turn of the twentieth century, the arrival of the circus was an eagerly anticipated event. The poster was the basic marketing tool for circus entrepreneurs who were quick to take advantage of advances in color lithography. The threefold task of the poster was selling the circus, date, and feature available for a single day. Rural towns and cities were saturated with colorful bombastic lithographic images advertising the circus as it moved from coast to coast. Originally acquired by the Cincinnati Art Museum as historical documents, the circus posters bring back to life the golden years of this American form of entertainment at the birth of outdoor advertising. The circus advertising--from small posters showing clowns and bearded ladies, to immense billboards pasted on the sides of barns in which aerial feats and new technology exploded into the landscape—were the messengers and are now the record of the transformative world. Strobridge's custom designed posters delivered the rare and exotic, extremes of human and animal potential, new technologies, gender differences, animalized humans, and humanized animals, attractions that audiences were not likely to see anywhere else. At a time when museums were few and far between, the flamboyant Strobridge circus poster stands were museums without walls and the poster designs laid the groundwork for future generations of graphic designers. By the late nineteenth century, Cincinnati became the third largest printing center in the country. The forerunner company, E.C. Middleton, was formed in 1847. In 1854, Hines Strobridge joined the company and in 1867 the company became Strobridge & Company. In 1880, the company changed its name to the Strobridge Lithographing Company and decided to specialize in show printing for the circus and theater. By 1884, the business was so successful that the company moved to a larger printing plant on Canal, now Central Parkway in Cincinnati's Over the Rhine. By the time of the Great Depression, demand for circus and theater posters diminished and the company turned to commercial billboard advertising. In the mind of circus aficionados, however, no printer's work ever surpassed that of Strobridge Lithography Company of Cincinnati. John Ringling, one of the five original circus kings of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was blessed with entrepreneurial genius and through his success with the circus and other investments, became quite wealthy. In 1911, John (1866-1936) and his wife, Mable (1875-1929) purchased 20 acres of waterfront property in Sarasota, Florida. The couple's first project in Sarasota was the splendid Venetian Gothic mansion Cà d'Zan, built between 1924 and 1926 for a then staggering sum of $1.5 million. In the spirit of America's wealthiest Gilded Age industrialists, John Ringling gradually acquired a significant art collection, including paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Velàzquez, Poussin, van Dyck and other Baroque masters, as well as rare antiquities from Cyprus. He built a palace for his treasures in a 21-gallery Museum of Art on his Sarasota property. The Florentine style building emulates the Uffizi Gallery and was specifically designed to house his collection of European paintings and art objects. The Ringlings had accumulated a treasure trove of objects, the result of many trips to Europe while searching for new circus acts. For years they acquired columns, architectural details and many fine art pieces. The result is a museum with a courtyard filled with bronze replicas of Greek and Roman sculpture, including a bronze cast of Michelangelo's David. John Ringling bequeathed his art collection, mansion and estate to the people of the State of Florida at the time of his death in 1936. By the late 1990s, the decay from deferred maintenance had reached a critical point. The Cà d'Zan mansion was falling apart, the roof of the Museum of Art leaked, and the building completed in 1957 to house the Historic Asolo Theater was condemned. The future of the Ringling Estate was uncertain. In 2000, Ringling's original $1.2 million endowment had hardly grown to $2 million. Governance was transferred from the State of Florida's Department of State to Florida State University establishing the Ringling estate as one of the largest museum/university complexes in the nation. As part of the University, the Museum has experienced a rebirth. In 2002, when $42.9 million was provided through the State for new buildings, it came with a condition that the Ringling board raise $50 million in endowment within five years. Impossible as the task then seemed, more than $55 million was donated or pledged by 2007. The transformation that culminated in 2007 restored all the existing buildings and expanded the Estate with four new buildings on the Museum's Master Plan: the Tibbals Learning Center, the John M. McKay Visitors Pavilion – housing the Historic Asolo Theater, the Education/Conservation Building and the Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing. The Museum's financial footing was also secured with the beginnings of a healthy endowment. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.ringling.org

Our Editor Tours The Reina Sofia in Madrid ~ Home Of Pablo Picasso's Famous "Guernica" Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:49 PM PDT The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, along with the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza forms the Madrid "golden triangle" of art museums. The Reina Sofia was originally built to house the city's hospital between 1776 and 1781 from plans by the architect Francisco Sabatini. For the next 200 years, numerous additions and renovations were made and the hospital building narrowly escaped demolition several times. However, a Royal Decree in 1977 declared it to be a National Historic Monument. Plans to turn the building into a new modern and contemporary art museum were drawn up and Architect Antonio Fernández Alba was commissioned to oversee the renovation. The Reina Sofia Art Center opened in April 1986, initially providing temporary exhibition galleries on the lower two floors only. Finishing touches were added by architects José Luis Iñíguez de Onzoño and Antonio Vázquez de Castro, along with the striking steel and glass external elevators, which gave the building its contemporary look. On 10 September 1992, their Majesties King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia (after whom the museum is named) inaugurated the Permanent Collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the building and collection were fully opened to the public. In 2005, a spectacular extension, designed by Pritzker-prize winning architect Jean Nouvel was officially opened. Nouvel's design created new annexes and linked the old building with the new by forming a plaza in between the buildings containing the towering sculpture "Paintbrush" by Roy Lichtenstein. The new Nouvel buildings greatly increased the overall floor space by 60% (and the display space by 50%) giving the museum 84,048 square meters, including a 450 seat auditorium, temporary exhibition rooms, a friendly bar, restaurant, library and the museum shop. In addition to its exhibition functions, The Reina Sofía is dedicated to conserving and restoring fine art as well as undertaking research and maintenance that ensure proper conservation. To facilitate these activities, the museum has a modern chemical analysis laboratory, a photography research lab, infrared reflectography and x-ray diagnostics capabilities. The museum Library, which is open to the public, hosts an extensive collection of works from 1900 to today, as well as some nineteenth-century works. Currently, the Library is undertaking a project to digitalize documents that are of particular interest to the public. The permanent collection of the Reina Sofia came from the former Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo (MEAC), supplemented by new acquisitions and transfers from other museums, including amongst other works, and rather contentiously, the arrival of Pablo Picasso's world-famous work, "Guernica" from the Prado. Picasso has stipulated that the work could only return to Spain after democracy was restored, and that once in Spain, it should reside in the Prado. The Reina Sofia is mainly dedicated to Spanish art including excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Along with the MACBA in Barcelona, the Reina Sofia now gives Spain world-class museums of modern and contemporary art to rival the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Tate Modern in London and Museum of Modern Art in New York. Visit the museum's website at: http://www.museoreinasofia.es The permanent collection is displayed on 2 floors, the 2nd and the 4th. On the second floor, art up to 1945 is displayed under the heading of "The advent of the twentieth century - utopias and conflicts (1900-1945)". This begins with a selection of works that look at the origins of Modernism in Spanish art, placing together artistic currents from different parts of Spain - Basque painters such as Ignacio Zuloaga, Dario de Regoyos and Juan de Echevarría, Catalan Modernists such as Santiago Rusiñol, Isidre Nonell and Ramon Casas. Next is the first Avant-Garde Room, with pieces by the Uruguayan Joaquín Torres García and other artists who worked in Spain, such as Francis Picabia, and the Delaunays (Robert and Sonia), followed by a room dedicated to Juan Gris, including his celebrated "Guitar in Front of the Sea" and "The Open Window". Then comes the major draw for most visitors: the Picasso Rooms, with "Guernica" in the centre, but also including "Woman in Blue" amongst other works. Joan Miró, Julio González and Salvador Dalí have rooms of their own. Miró works include "Man with a Pipe", "Portrait II" and "Femme Et Oiseau Dans La Nuit". Paintings by the Dali include, "Landscapes at Cadaqués", "The Great Masturbator", "The Endless Enigma", "Self Portrait" and "The Enigma of Hitler". Other rooms focus on international Surrealism (Max Ernst and Renee Magritte), Luis Buñuel and Spanish art of the 1930s. Additional works of art include the imaginative oil creation of "Toros" (Tauromaquia) by Benjamín Palencia, the welded copper sheets that make up "Etude de Prophète" by Pablo Gargallo, the seductive shades of blue in "Belomancie" by Ives Tanguy, José Solana's "The Gathering at the Café del Pombo" and works by international artists such as Francis Bacon's "Reclining Figure", and a serene sculpture by Henry Moore. Under the title of "The war is over? Art for a Divided World (1945-1968)", the 4th floor centers on contemporary artists work since 1945, starting with figurative art and the beginnings of abstraction in Spain, taking in Antoni Tàpies, Manuel Hernández Mompó, Jorge "Oteiza" Enbil, Pablo Palazuelo and Equipo 57. Providing an international context, there are also works by Francis Bacon, Henry Moore and Lucio Fontana, alongside Antonio Saura and Eduardo Chillida. Later rooms feature Pop Art, figurative work by Eduardo Arroyo and Minimalism, with pieces by Ellsworth Kelly and Dan Flavin. Amongst the highlights on the fourth floor are "Sequeros" by Lucio Munoz, "Composición" by Jose Guerrero García and "Sin título" by Pablo Pier Calzolari. A third permanent exhibition area is in an annex, under the title of "Paradigm Shift". This contains works from the 1960s and 70s, from Spanish artists (including Luis Gordillo) and others (including Barnett Newman and Philip Guston) who struggled against what they perceived to be the conventions of the time. Until March 27th 2011, the Reina Sofia is exhibiting a retrospective (and the first exhibition to be held in Spain) of the photographic works of Jean-Luc Mylayne under the title "Jean-Luc Mylayne - Traces of Heaven in the hands of time". Mylayne photographs common birds, species like the robin or sparrow, in their natural habitats, places where the human impact on the landscape is evident, as arable land, gardens or parks. However, ornithological considerations are not the main object of his work. Rather, his approach is more inventive and original, combining a significant conceptual, formal wit with the infinite patience required to get the perfect image. His photographs have a universal sense, reflecting the artists concerns over the cycle of life and death, decline and erosion of natural resources, and the fundamental interdependence of the elements that make up each individual biotype. Born in Marquette, France, in 1946 Jean-Luc Mylayne has lived and worked throughout the world since 1976, when he decided to devote himself to photography, with his partner and collaborator, Mylène Mylayne. With his degree in philosophy, Mylayne decided early to focus on the medium of photography rather than painting or poetry, an art form for which he also feels great attraction. He has previously had solo exhibitions in institutions like the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (2009), the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2008), the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe and Gladstone Gallery, New York (2004). This is just one of the seven temporary exhibitions that the Reina Sofia is able, with its vast gallery spaces, to display.

Museum Ludwig Shows Paintings, Sculptures & Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:48 PM PDT COLOGNE.- The halftone dots used by Pop maestro Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) are world famous. Taking motifs from the realms of comics and consumerism, Lichtenstein made paintings by piecing together dots and colored surfaces. But a very different side of his work can be discovered at this exhibition in Museum Ludwig . Around 100 exhibits, chiefly large-scale paintings along with a number of sculptures and drawings, reveal his fascinating explorations of style through the history of art – from Expressionism and Futurism to Bauhaus and Art Deco. Lichtenstein even appropriated works by his artist heroes - Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian and even Dali - and interpreted them in an often ironic and cryptic manner using his own visual language. On view through 3 October, 2010.

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego exhibits 'Selections From the Collections' Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:47 PM PDT SAN DIEGO, CA - The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection at MCASD's La Jolla location. The exhibition, curated by Dr. Hugh M. Davies, MCASD's David C. Copley Director, features approximately 130 works from the Museum's collection acquired during the past 25 years. Including works by John Baldessari, John Currin, Robert Irwin, William Kentridge, Nathan Mabry, Yoshitomo Nara, Eleanor Antin, Martin Puryear, Lorna Simpson, Bill Viola, and Lisa Yuskavage, among others, the exhibition showcases the variety and depth of the Museum's collection. The exhibition will be on view through January 4, 2009.

The Hyatt Regency in London Hosts an Exhibition of Sir Peter Blake's Prints Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:46 PM PDT London.- The Hyatt Regency London (The Churchill) at 30 Portman Square will host an exhibition of prints by the Godfather of British Pop Art, Sir Peter Blake. Organised by Candlestar, the exhibition will run until September. "Peter Blake – In Print" is the sixth exhibition Candlestar has produced in partnership with the luxury five-star hotel Hyatt Regency London, the main hotel partner to Frieze Art Fair, and is the first time Candlestar has focussed on the work of a single artist during its Hyatt series. Sir Peter Blake is best known for his limited edition prints and the design of the sleeve for The Beatles album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This show is a series of snapshots of the prodigious body of print works that Sir Peter has made over a career that has spanned nearly six decades.

London Art Fair Opens 22nd Edition of Modern British Art Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:45 PM PDT LONDON.- London Art Fair is the premier UK art fair for Modern British and Contemporary art. Now in its 22nd year, it features over 100 galleries presenting the great names of 20th Century British art and exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent. Now in its 6th year, the Art Projects section expands into a new space with 25 projects featuring emerging artists and new work. Established as one of the most exciting sections of the Fair, Art Projects encompasses solo and curated group displays and large scale installation from an exciting forum of international galleries.

Modernista ~ Gaudi and his Contemporaries in Modern Day Barcelona Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:44 PM PDT GLASGOW.- Modernista: Gaudí and his Contemporaries in Modern Day Barcelona, a personal photographic essay by Michael Thomas Jones, will open in The Lighthouse building, Glasgow, on November 14, 2009 running until February 28, 2010. Commissioned in the context of Scotland's developing cultural links with Catalonia and marking the centenary of Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art, the exhibition and associated publication are a personal response to Modernisme and how the architecture now sits within the context of 21st century Barcelona. The project documents work by Antoni Gaudí i Cornet along with buildings by Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

Photographs from the Collection of Robert Flynn Johnson on View at Modernism Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:43 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - Modernism presents a wonderful and intriguing selection of photographs from the private collection of Robert Flynn Johnson. Robert Flynn Johnson is emeritus faculty in the Printmaking department. He is the curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, a position he has held since 1975. This exhibition coincides with the publication of his second book on vernacular photography, The Face in the Lens: Anonymous Photographs (University of California Press).

"Beatles to Bowie" shows 150 Photographs of the 1960's at the National Portrait Gallery in UK Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:42 PM PDT LONDON.- A major photographic exhibition Beatles to Bowie: The 60s Exposed opens at the National Portrait Gallery, to herald the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the 1960s in 2010. Celebrating the leading pop music personalities and groups who helped create "Swinging London" in the 1960s, the exhibition will show how The Beatles and rivals such as the Rolling Stones and The Kinks set the musical agenda. Bringing together 150 photographs and 150 items of ephemera including record sleeves, illustrated sheet music and magazines, the exhibition will be arranged chronologically in ten sections covering each year of the decade. Sections of the exhibition will be devoted to the mini-invasion of US stars who moved to England to start their careers such as P J Proby, the Walker Brothers and later Jimi Hendrix.

Martin Parr's Photographs of Social Behaviour on View at Studio Trisorio Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:41 PM PDT NAPLES, ITALY - A solo exhibit of the works of photographer Martin Parr was inaugurated at Studio Trisorio in Naples, at via Riviera di Chiaia 215. Since the start of his career, Martin Parr has been fascinated with social behaviour, the manner in which people furnish their homes, the foods they choose to eat, the clothes they choose to wear and the places they choose to go on holiday. As he catalogued these everyday routines, his vision became increasing keen and ironic. On exhibition through 28 May, 2910.

Palace of Versailles exhibits Xavier Veilhan's Contemporary Sculptures Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:40 PM PDT PARIS.- How can works of art fit into an architectural complex and a landscape as symbolic as Versailles? As a good artist who cares about perspectives and systems of constructing representations, Xavier Veilhan has taken the liberty of staging a new painting in Louis XIV's perfect setting, a fluid, dynamic trajectory focusing on relationships between scales, balances and observation points. The Coach :  The brazenly purple coach sits in the main courtyard, where its familiar shape is distorted by the dynamic wave, a veritable flash on the famous paving stones. When it speeds up, this strange carriage plays with references to Marey's or Muybridgde's late 19th-century photographic experiments breaking down movement. When the Grand Century meets modernity, the gallop turns into a coloured optical force. On view 13 September through 13 December, 2009.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 16 Sep 2011 07:39 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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