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• Architect Steven Holl's Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma ~ A Recent Landmark In Helsinki ~ Visited By AKN Editor
• James Ensor's Innovative and Profound Paintings on View at Musée d'Orsay
• MoMA features Latin American Art
• The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to explore "Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence"
• Monumental Sculptures by Manolo Valdés can be Seen on Broadway
• ' The Abstract Impulse ' at the National Academy
• Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosts Survey of Marcel Dzama's Outrageous Art
• Museo de Arte Moderno de México exhibits Remedios Varo
• Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark
• Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame shows Lola Alvarez Bravo Exhibition
• Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center features Solo Exhibition of Xiao Hui Wang
• Exhibition of Works of Art by Joan Antoni Toledo ~ A Founder of Equipo Cronica
• Sotheby's New York to Offer Mural by Rufino Tamayo ~ entitled 'America'
• Brian Gross Fine Art Opens Ed Moses' Airborne in San Francisco
• Danziger Projects Opens "The Art Fair is Present"
• Michael Werner Gallery Shows Jorg Immendorff's 1970s Maoist Paintings
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Architect Steven Holl's Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma ~ A Recent Landmark In Helsinki ~ Visited By AKN Editor Posted: 16 Nov 2010 07:54 PM PST The main entrance of the Kiasma features the Mannerheim statue beside the visitor brings a high glass covered hall. It creates the building's personality, which is toward the theater space and showrooms to find the way to simpler forms. A ramp leads to the lower lobby toward the museum's core. The design is based on ideas about the golden section, Zen-like peace, human scale. For example, the second and fourth layer of serialism, facilities, lines and details to take these starting points. All the technology, so security, air conditioning, as the exhibition, is hidden in wall structures. Kiasma is open from morning until late at night. The Museum offers exhibitions, interdisciplinary artistic projects, performance art, dance, music, media art and films. Kiasma's world is also made up of conversational interludes, encounters with artists, festivals, seminars, familiarization with the web, browsing in the bookstore, and workshop opportunities. Kiasma is an ensemble in continuous movement where performances and projects live, overlap and intertwine at different speeds. Its fine collections and large-scale exhibitions are showcased for a longer period of time while the shorter life-spans of smaller exhibitions and theatre pieces attest to a more rapid cycle. Kiasma lives also very much in the here and now, reacting and commenting on the events and phenomena of the day when the need arises, to astound its visitors. Even though Kiasma comes across as new, strange, and different in the beginning, it does not necessarily feel foreign. As a compass, the visitor is given various channels. One can familiarize oneself with Kiasma beforehand through the Internet. The Museum's entrance hall is a free zone where one can choose a specific area of interest from the panoply of Museum offerings with the aid of intranet and other guide material. With Kiasma, there is no single right way of seeing or experiencing. The most important thing is to provide space and possibilities for different thoughts, ideas, and fine art. The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma creation was planned to be ready for the 30 century. Website:_ http://www.kiasma.fi/ Moving to the Kiasma building marked a new beginning in a way museum. Now it was possible to carry out the dreams and aspirations, which was previously only dreamed: a versatile and level of domestic and foreign exhibition program, its own premises a collection of exhibitions, theater, artists' work the possibility of a museum, workshop, seminar room, museum pedagogy, emphasis on action, a broad-based information technology deployment, reading areas, internet terminals for public use , numerous events in and outside Kiasma, the active participation of urban youth events, and events, involvement in various productions as well as the museum's own magazine. Kiasma, a policy guideline was based on a new kind of cultural activity center, and visual thinking. The museum wants to be active in its activities, the living and the many voices and to act as a meeting point for citizens. This action, it has reached, in particular young people and visits from students. The latest indication of the Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art and the objective to create a lively meeting place for audiences is the Kiasma Stage. The museum's central location and easy approachability is certainly one explanation for the museum's prior expectations, crossed the large flow of visitors, but above all they tell us that has found its place at Kiasma in Helsinki and the Finnish cultural field. The "mirror room" by Charles Sandison on the fourth floor is a real gem: you can linger on there for ages watching words and phrases flowing on the walls and the ceiling around you and their reflection in the mirror floor under your feet (the idea is that "language is a mirror of the world"). The art of Eero Aarnio and Alvar Aalto are displayed among other noted Finish artists. Kiasma and its operation is a hot topic speaks to the audience and hopefully will continue. This museum fulfills the important function of contemporary culture, a forum and an advocate for modern art. ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to visit Museums and cultural sites in mainland China, Korea, Vietnam. Myanmar, Thailand (Siam), Singapore, Bali and mainland Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, Malaysia, Japan,Mongolia, Russia and now Finland. Because of the Editor's travel we will be posting many interesting articles from our archives, some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in your magazine during the past six plus (6+) years . . Enjoy.

James Ensor's Innovative and Profound Paintings on View at Musée d'Orsay Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:28 PM PST PARIS.- When presented at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels and at the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, the work of James Ensor (1860-1949) is that of a Belgian painter who is both innovative and tortured. Presented at the Musée d'Orsay, his original and profound paintings are those of a 19th-century artist situated between Naturalism and Modernity. Presented at the MoMA, his work fits brilliantly and naturally into the great avant-garde movements that are the forte of this museum. Furthermore, it was this powerful originality that Alfred Barr stressed in 1940, when he acclaimed the "Tribulations of St. Anthony", declaring that Ensor was, at the time he produced this painting in 1887, "the boldest living artist". On view Spring, 2010.

MoMA features Latin American Art Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:24 PM PST New York City - New York has been invigorated by a one-two punch of Latin American Modernism this season. The first blow was "The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art From the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection," at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University. Now the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA is weighing in with a similarly long-titled exhibition whose 250-plus pieces are here to stay: "New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections From a Decade of Acquisitions."

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to explore "Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence" Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:12 PM PST WILLIAMSTOWN, MA – The life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe have fascinated critics, scholars, and art lovers alike since she burst onto the New York art scene in the early 1900s. On June 7, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute adds a chapter to this story with the first exhibition to explore the role of the influential American modernist painter Arthur Dove as the key figure in O'Keeffe's development of abstraction as a means of artistic expression. Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence will feature 60 major oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and pastels spanning 1910 to the early 1940s. Among the seminal works on view will be O'Keeffe's Dark Abstraction (1924) and Jack-in-The Pulpit No. VI (1930), and Dove's Moon (1935) and Fog Horns (1929) . The Clark is the exclusive venue for this exhibition, which will be on view through September 7, 2009.

Monumental Sculptures by Manolo Valdés can be Seen on Broadway Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:11 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, The Broadway Mall Association, Marlborough Gallery, and the New York City Department of Transportation are pleased to announce a public exhibition of monumental sculptures by Spanish artist Manolo Valdés from May 20, 2010 through January 23, 2011. The exhibition will include sixteen bronze sculptures along Broadway from Columbus Circle to 166th Street. Each sculpture will include signage that displays mobile phone access numbers for an English and Spanish language audio tour with informative descriptions of the works.

' The Abstract Impulse ' at the National Academy Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:08 PM PST New York City - Abstraction has been the dominant artistic mode of the last fifty years and has recently received renewed interest from artists and scholars. For decades following the emergence of Abstract Expressionism, the National Academy had a capricious relationship with abstract art, often rejecting it, occasionally embracing it, and ultimately accepting it. While there are some New York School artists who never became Academicians, others exhibited in the Annual exhibitions and many were eventually elected to membership in the Academy. The Abstract Impulse Fifty Years of Abstraction at the National Academy, 1956–2006

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal hosts Survey of Marcel Dzama's Outrageous Art Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:06 PM PST MONTREAL.- While Vancouver and Toronto may have boasted the most vibrant art scenes in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, Winnipeg took over in the 2000s, spurred on by artist Marcel Dzama. He quickly carved out an international reputation for his unclassifiable, disconcerting art that reveals a fanciful, anachronistic world. Marcel Dzama – title (Of Many Turns), which offers a critical survey of his haunting yet outrageous work, is the largest solo exhibition of Dzama's art by a public gallery. It will be presented at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal from February 4 to April 25, 2010.

Museo de Arte Moderno de México exhibits Remedios Varo Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:03 PM PST MEXICO CITY - Four works of art that have never been seen made by Remedios Varo are on view at Mexico City's Museo de Arte Moderno de México (Museum of Modern Art), an exhibit that interprets the creations made by the artist on her centennial. The exhibit is titled Remedios Varo: Five Keys and is composed by 50 works of art made by the artist including the only known sculpture made by the artist, From Homo Rodans made during the 1940s with chicken, fish and turkey bones.

Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark Posted: 16 Nov 2010 06:00 PM PST San Diego, CA - A new exhibition organized by the San Diego Museum of Art presents the very first comprehensive examination of the relationship between the work of renowned surrealist Roberto Matta and his son, conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark.  Titled Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark, the exhibition explores how Matta-Clark's exposure to artistic circles of his father's generation influenced the direction that his art would take and how that played a role in the evolution of 1970s conceptual art.

Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame shows Lola Alvarez Bravo Exhibition Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:54 PM PST SOUTH BEND, IN - The Snite Museum of Art opens the photography exhibition Lola Alvarez Bravo that will be on display in the O'Shaughnessy West Gallery from January 25 until March 15, 2009. Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, has organized this traveling exhibition and produced the accompanying publications. Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907-1993) was a very important Mexican photographer whose career was overshadowed by her famous ex-husband, Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Long admired in her own country, her work is finally being recognized internationally.

Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center features Solo Exhibition of Xiao Hui Wang Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:46 PM PST Shanghai, China - Xiao Hui Wang is a photo artist who works in various mediums, including sculpture, video, and photography. As an author, she is known for her acclaimed autobiography 'My Visual Diary'. Her works have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and are collected by private and public institutions alike. Xiao Hui Wang's photographic works are at once intimate, sensorial, and complex. The artist, who herself endured a radical life-changing accident, brings to her works the essence of the soul, life and death, and the definition of the feminine. She uses her own life-changing experiences to feed a continuing process of paradox, of social perception, inner and outer beauty. Her life and work are a journey which have merited her to be considered by many the Frida Kahlo of China.

Exhibition of Works of Art by Joan Antoni Toledo ~ A Founder of Equipo Cronica Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:43 PM PST VALENCIA.- An exhibition that shows viewers the most intimate face of Valencian painter Joan Antoni Toledo, one of the founders in 1964 of the legendary Equipo Crónica, can be contemplated until October 12 in the municipal hall of the City of Valencia. The exhibition "Joan Antoni Toledo (1940-1995). Homenatge", which gathers approximately 100 works of art made by one of the most important protagonists of Spanish painting in the second half of the 20th century. Toledo's artisitic proposals have been a reference to Spanish artists ever since.

Sotheby's New York to Offer Mural by Rufino Tamayo ~ entitled 'America' Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:41 PM PST NEW YORK, NY - The November 18th Evening sale of Latin American Art at Sotheby's will feature Rufino Tamayo's impressive mural, entitled America (est. $7/9 million). A truly magnificent and aweinspiring mural, America was completed by Rufino Tamayo during an extraordinary five-month burst of production. Working at a feverish pace without assistants, Tamayo painted seven days a week to complete what was to be his most important mural. Today it is rightly hailed as one of his finest masterpieces, the crowning achievement of what was arguably his most glorious period. Of the five murals Tamayo executed in the United States, America is the only one currently held in private hands.

Brian Gross Fine Art Opens Ed Moses' Airborne in San Francisco Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:34 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Brian Gross Fine Art presents Airborne, an exhibition of works by renowned California painter Ed Moses. On view will be selected works from a 2007 series that explores atmosphere and abstraction. Lush applications of paint in light, airy hues lend the paintings an ephemeral quality suggestive of mountain air and meteorological phenomena. Seen as a group, they describe a dynamic, vaporous, and sensually charged environment. On view 1 July through 27 August.

Danziger Projects Opens "The Art Fair is Present" Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:30 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Starting off the summer program, Danziger Projects will present a group exhibition and installation titled "The Art Fair is Present". On one hand a playful reference to the just finished Marina Abramović retrospective at MoMA (titled "The Artist is Present") the exhibition is comprised of work exhibited by the gallery in recent art fairs mixed with new work by Jean-Philippe Delhomme commenting on the New York art world. On the other hand, the exhibition seriously calls into question the practice and convention of how art is viewed in galleries, how information is provided, how commerce is conducted, and what effect and to what extent communication (or the lack of) is a part of the process.

Michael Werner Gallery Shows Jorg Immendorff's 1970s Maoist Paintings Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:25 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.-Michael Werner Gallery presents an exhibition of Jörg Immendorff's Maoist Paintings from the early nineteen seventies. This historical exhibition is a rare occasion to see an important body of work by the late German artist. The exjibition Maoist Paintings - The Early Seventies is on view through 19 December 2009. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 16 Nov 2010 05:24 PM PST 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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