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• The Magnificent Bergen Art Museum In Norway Is Toured By Our Editor
• The Nationalmuseum to present Caspar David Friedrich ~ "Nature Animated"
• Yayoi Kusama at Haus der Kunst in Munich
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza hosts Lynn Davis' ~ Iceberg and Ancient Persia
• Haus der Kunst to feature William Eggleston's Retrospective of Photographs & Video
• Kunsthalle Helsinki presents Swedish Artist Karin Mamma Andersson Retrospective
• PHotoEspaña 2009 & Museu Berardo opens Exhibition by Photographer Cristóbal Hara
• La Fabrica Galeria in Madrid Opens Shows Solo by Shirin Neshat
• MoMA to host a Major Retrospective on the Artistry of Filmmaker Tim Burton
• Xenobia Bailey ~ Re-Possessed / Fiber Work ~ at The Fuller Craft Museum
• Moderna Museet hosts Paintings, Assemblages and Sculptures by Clay Ketter
• Lisa Sanditz: 'Flyover' on view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
• Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle
• The State Hermitage Museum honors Timur Novikov 50th Birthday
• Museum der Moderne in Salzburg shows Bill Viola / Nan Hoover ~ 'Some Times'
• Bellevue Arts Museum hosts John Grade: Disintegration, Sculpture through Landscape
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Magnificent Bergen Art Museum In Norway Is Toured By Our Editor Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:15 PM PST Bergen Art Museum (Bergen Kunstmuseum) was founded in 1825 by Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie. In its early years, the museum contained numerous art collections, including several works by the painter Johan Christian Dahl, cultural artifacts, and craftwork items. In 1931, the museum moved from its location in the Seminarium Fredericianum building near Bergen katedralskole, to a new building south-west of Lille Lungegårdsvann. This was the first dedicated museum building in Norway. The current natural history building was finished in 1865, and Bergen Museum moved in during 1866. The botanical garden was laid out between 1897 and 1899, and the cultural history department got its own building in 1927. The increasing research activity at the museum from the late 19th century and onwards led directly to the founding of the University of Bergen in 1948. Bergen Art Museum's permanent exhibitions are in Lysverket and Rasmus Meyer collection. These exhibits show art from the museum's own collections and are on view long periods of time. Basic exhibitions in Lysverket is a traditional historical-chronological review of the art history of early Renaissance to the present day. The presentation is supported by important works in the museum's collections, and thus focus on Norwegian art history. Works from the Stenersen collection are included in exhibitions in Lysverket. The Rasmus Meyer Collection is a special collection of the Bergen Art Museum, shown in a building constructed for this purpose in 1924. A visitor can experience the historic original interiors, and the golden age of Norwegian painting, with works by Edvard Munch, Christian Krogh and Harriet Backer among the highlights. In particular, the Bergen Art Museum is also home to an exceptional collection of international contemporary works, where the most prominent artists include Joan Miró, Johan Christian Dahl, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The Bergen Art Museum offers a broad range of educational programs and gives presentations of both permanent and temporary exhibitions to pre-school, elementary school and secondary school classes. Through The Cultural Rucksack program (a national scheme for professional art and culture in schools in Norway), the museum offers guided tours and art workshops by art historians and artists, which are adapted to the curriculum of the Norwegian school system. In recent years the museum has made a considerable investment in digital workshops with advanced computer programs. The aim of temporary exhibitions is to highlight the city's artistic diversity, and how a new generation of artists are present. The exhibition also makes the occasional swoop through the last forty years in the Bergen art. The participating artists are not necessarily from the area, expiations are open to a large variation in background and nationalities. Many of the works can be seen in the museum's permanent exhibitions where they are part of an art historical presentation. Also, the museum's temporary exhibitions regularly collect works from the collections, and other museums, and some works can be seen in the museum's interactive Internet service. The Bergen Art Museum has well crafted exhibit and educational facilities and programs designed to provide visitors of all ages with stimulating and inspiring art experiences. From 2007, the management of the collections is delegated to a new foundation - the consolidated large museum Art Museums in Bergen, Bergen Art Museum is now aligned with five museums. 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, Finland, Sweden, and now Norway. 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.

The Nationalmuseum to present Caspar David Friedrich ~ "Nature Animated" Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:14 PM PST Stockholm, Sweden - Caspar David Friedrich, the leading painter of the German Romantic era, is nowadays regarded as one of the greatest figures in the history of art. Nevertheless, he remains relatively unknown in Sweden outside art history circles. This October, Nationalmuseum will set out to change this by presenting Scandinavia's first monographic exhibition of works by Friedrich. In all, over 90 artworks will be on show, including some 40 paintings. In his paintings, Friedrich depicts the Romantic belief in an animated nature where the divine permeates everything. Nature Animated will be on show on the 2nd floor at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, from 2 October 2009 until 10 January 2010.

Yayoi Kusama at Haus der Kunst in Munich Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:12 PM PST Munich, Germany - Balloon sculptures of vinyl fill the Central Hall and create an arrangement of tent-like caves.  Two may be entered; another can only be viewed from outside, through small peepholes, much as in a peepshow itself.  The smaller balloon sculptures appear as echoes of the larger ones. Dark purple light shines onto the black dots and their pink background.  A video depicts the artist eating flowers.  Yayoi Kusama at Haus der Kunst. The exhibition is a production of Kusama Studio in cooperation with Franck Gautherot and Seung-duk Kim, Le Consortium in Dijon and Chris Dercon at Haus der Kunst.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza hosts Lynn Davis' ~ Iceberg and Ancient Persia Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:09 PM PST MADRID, SPAIN - Iceberg and Ancient Persia, two series created in 2000 and 2001 by the American photographer Lynn Davis, are the subject of the exhibition presented at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum as part of the 10th edition of the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, PHotoEspaña. Running to 29 July, the exhibition features 34 works: 18 from the series Iceberg and 16 from Ancient Persia. Lynn Davis (born Minneapolis, 1944) has been one of the key figures of American photography since the 1970s and her series Iceberg and Ancient Persia are among the most important within her recent output. Heir to a lengthy tradition of photographer/travelers that began in the 19th century and following in the footsteps of American landscape photography, Lynn Davis has traveled around America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Haus der Kunst to feature William Eggleston's Retrospective of Photographs & Video Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:06 PM PST Munich, Germany - William Eggleston's early photographs were black and white. In the 1960s he began to photograph in colour and - almost single-handedly - heralded in the era of fine art colour photography. A solo show at the MoMA in 1976 made him famous. Eggleston's snapshot aesthetic and his psychologising use of colour was still unusual at the time; in an annual review, the MoMA show was even called, "The most hated show of the year." Today Eggleston enjoys a cult status among younger generations of photographers and film directors. On exhibition at the Haus der Kunst from 20 February through 17 May, 2009.

Kunsthalle Helsinki presents Swedish Artist Karin Mamma Andersson Retrospective Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:03 PM PST HELSINKI, FINLAND - Kunsthalle Helsinki presents Mamma Andersson. Karin Mamma Andersson is one of the most renowned contemporary artists in Sweden. She had her international breakthrough in the Venice Biennale in 2003 and was awarded the prestigious Carnegie Art Award in 2006. The Helsinki Festival brings to the Kunsthalle the Karin Mamma Andersson retrospective arranged by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. The exhibition comprises approximately 50 paintings, most of them quite recent. This is the first time the artist's canon has been exhibited this extensively in Finland.

PHotoEspaña 2009 & Museu Berardo opens Exhibition by Photographer Cristóbal Hara Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:00 PM PST LISBON.- PhotoEspaña 2009 opens its doors this year with an anthological exhibition of a photographer who has been a privileged witness of the everyday life in Spanish villages. The exhibition, at Museu Colecção Berardo, includes about a hundred images of series like Village Lances, Vanitas or Against Nature, as well as photographs of recent production. Said Sérgio Mah . . "We began hosting exhibitions in Portugal last year. There's a certain interest in collaborating with PHotoEspaña, in this case at the Museu Berardo. It's a fantastic museum, one of the most important ones in Lisbon. I believe that working in the culture sector today means working within a network, and both countries benefit from this collaboration. I think the historical context of the Iberian Peninsula should be seen as a whole in cultural terms.

La Fabrica Galeria in Madrid Opens Shows Solo by Shirin Neshat Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:58 PM PST MADRID.- From February 4 and until March 20, La Fabrica Galeria presents the work by Shirin Neshat, who will show, at her first solo exhibition at La Fabrica Galeria, "Faezeh" (2008) and the serie "Games of Desire" (2009). Neshat's work engages the viewer through powerful images, sweeping scores, and evocations of human passions and desires, while examining the social tropes that both stratify and unite. Neshat pitches these dialectics of East/West, man/woman, and oppressor /oppressed, to such a degree that these seemingly immutable polarities become malleable locations for query.

MoMA to host a Major Retrospective on the Artistry of Filmmaker Tim Burton Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:56 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) will present a major exhibition exploring the full scale of renowned filmmaker Tim Burton's career, both as a director and concept artist for live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer. The exhibition will be on view from November 22, 2009, through April 26, 2010. Tracing the current of Burton's visual imagination—from his earliest childhood drawings through his mature work in film—the exhibition Tim Burton will bring together over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and includes an extensive film series spanning Burton's 27-year career. The exhibition explores how Burton has taken inspiration from sources in pop culture and reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering him an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics.

Xenobia Bailey ~ Re-Possessed / Fiber Work ~ at The Fuller Craft Museum Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:54 PM PST BROCKTON, MA - The Fuller Craft Museum presents Portions of the Re-Possessed: Fiber Work by Xenobia Bailey on exhibition in Fuller Craft Museum's Great Room August 2, 2008 through March 8, 2009. The exhibition will include large-scale wall mandalas, crocheted in vivid colors and patterns, made of cotton acrylic yarns and plastic pony beads.

Moderna Museet hosts Paintings, Assemblages and Sculptures by Clay Ketter Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:50 PM PST Malmo, Sweden - The artist Clay Ketter is one of Sweden's greatest US imports. He was born in 1961 in Connecticut and studied in New York, but has been living on the plains of Scania in southern Sweden for more than 20 years now. It was in Sweden he had his breakthrough in the mid-90s, with Wall Paintings, a sort of ready-made created with gypsum wallboards, with tape and spackle. Before then, he had worked as a carpenter and craftsman. His international career took off and he is currently featured with a solo exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York.

Lisa Sanditz: 'Flyover' on view at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:47 PM PST KANSAS CITY, MO — New York-based painter Lisa Sanditz creates exuberant and engaging landscapes that mix the homespun aesthetic of folk art with the calculated gestures of postmodernist painting and celebrates places the artist calls "underappreciated and underexplored."  Sanditz explores the dynamic between the natural and artificial experience of the environment in the exhibition Lisa Sanditz: Flyover, on view until January 7, 2007 at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri.  Sanditz is a visiting artist at the Kemper Museum, and this is her first solo museum exhibition.

Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:45 PM PST MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google is celebrating the 110th birthday of Rene Magritte by incorporating some of Magritte's masterpieces with the Google logo. Ever so often, Google does a "doodle", or a "decoration" they make to their logo. Over the years doodles have become one of the most beloved parts of Google. The doodle selection process aims to celebrate interesting events and anniversaries around the world that reflect Google's personality and love of innovation.

The State Hermitage Museum honors Timur Novikov 50th Birthday Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:42 PM PST St. Petersburg, Russia - The State Hermitage Museum announces the exhibition "Timur's Territory. St Petersburg – New York. To 50th anniversary of the birth of Timur Novikov", as a part of the "Hermitage 20/21" project. Timur Novikov (1958–2002) is considered to be the great representative of the modern Russian art. His works are to be held in the collections of the leading Russian and foreign museums, and are making the real rush at the most famous world auctions of late.  On view through 11 January, 2009.

Museum der Moderne in Salzburg shows Bill Viola / Nan Hoover ~ 'Some Times' Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:38 PM PST Salzburg, Austria - The Museum der Moderne opened the exhibit Bill Viola / Nan Hoover ~ "Some Times" through July 6. This exhibition presents films by the internationally renowned American video artist Bill Viola juxtaposed with photographs of the Berlin-based multimedia artist Nan Hoover. Both artists – though using completely different methods - examine speeds of experience and perception in their works. Blurring the borders between "outside" and "inside" thus refers to the sensation of time as a fundamental category of perception. Both artists present detailed observations of things which take on a life of their own, without obvious sensation and without action in the classic sense.

Bellevue Arts Museum hosts John Grade: Disintegration, Sculpture through Landscape Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:34 PM PST Bellevue, WA – Bellevue Arts Museum presents the exhibition Disintegration, Sculpture through Landscape by up-and-coming Seattle-based sculptor John Grade, on view August 26 through November 30, 2008. A traveler by nature, Grade's recent work investigates the effects of nature on man-made objects. Drawn from recent meditations on the coastlines and mountains of Washington State and the deserts and slot canyons of the Southwest, this solo exhibition features both sculptural objects and rich photographic documentation of 6 - 8 projects in various stages of development -- rudimentary, encrusted, engulfed and collapsed

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:33 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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