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• Our Editor Tours The Renowned Vigeland Sculpture Park & Museum in Oslo
• I LIKE AMERICA : Fictions of the Wild West at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
• Belfast Exposed Photography hosts 2MOVE: Ireland
• Collector Julia Stoschek Exhibits Her Collection at The Deichtorhallen
• THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM’S MARITIME ART COLLECTION ON VIEW
• Kimbell Art Museum acquires A View of Venice by Richard Parkes Bonington
• Museum of Art Lucerne hosts German Painting from the Berg Collection
• Maria Lassnig Exhibition at Lenbechaus Presents Over Forty Paintings
• Zentrum Paul Klee hosts 'Genesis the Art of Creation'
• The Contemporary Art of Flânerie at Neuberger Museum of Art
• Sotheby's New York Sale of American Paintings to be Held in December
• June Kelly shows Stan Brodsky
• Heckscher Museum Shows Survey of Arthur Dove Watercolors
• Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents American Impressionist Paintings
• "A Collector’s Eye on Paul Klee" at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern
• Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Exhibits Cleveland Museum Treasures
• Hamburger Kunsthalle features Survey of Stephan von Huene's Work
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Our Editor Tours The Renowned Vigeland Sculpture Park & Museum in Oslo Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:47 PM PST The Vigeland Museum & Sculpture Park (Norwegian: Vigeland-museet, often called Vigelandsmuseet) is a renowned museum in Oslo, Norway. Its history began in 1919 when noted sculptor Gustav Vigeland made an offer to Oslo Municipality to donate his works sometime in the future. Vigeland's total body of works consisted not only of sculptures, but also woodcuts, drawings, sketches and photographs as well as letters, other writings and a personal library. In return, Vigeland wanted an atelier. The atelier could be rebuilt as a museum after his death. Even Vigeland's flat on the third floor is now preserved as a part of the museum. The building of the would-be museum commenced in 1921, as soon as a contract between Vigeland and Oslo had been formalized. The architects were Lorentz Harboe Ree and Carl Buch, and the style was neo-classic. In 1923 Vigeland moved in, one year before the middle part and northern wing were completed. The southern wing was completed in 1930. The atelier was used by both Vigeland and other artists. Vigeland died in 1943, during the hard economic times of World War II. The building was opened as a public museum in 1947, partially thanks to budget surplus from the municipal cinema company Oslo Kinematografer. The museum and vast park is still owned by Oslo municipality, and the current museum director is Jarle Strømodden. Immediately north of the museum is the more famous Vigeland Sculpture Park—which showcases Vigeland's larger statues and sculptures—and the Frogner Park. At present the museum has approximately 1,600 sculptures, 420 woodcuts and 12,000 drawings, in addition to a collection of the artist's notebooks, several thousand letters and his large library and collection of photographs. The Vigeland Museum is the only sculpture museum in Oslo, and one of few places where students and others may encounter three dimensional art. By way of workshops and guided tours the museum focuses upon this aspect, at the same time as the tell the story behind Gustav Vigeland's unique works of art. The Frogner Park with the Vigeland Sculpture Park is a large green area about 10 minutes by subway from the city center. In addition to being a wonderful green recreational area, it is also decorated with hundreds of sculptures by the Norwegian artist Gustav Vigeland. The Vigeland Park covers an area of 80 acres. The 212 sculptures are all modeled in full size by Gustav Vigeland. He also designed the architectural setting and the layout of the grounds. The sculptures are placed on an 850 metre long axis divided into 5 main units: Main Entrance, The Bridge with the children´s playground, The Fountain, The Monolith Plateau and The Wheel of Life. The Vigeland Park includes a great number of Gustav Vigeland's works. Here are 212 sculptures in bronze and granite and several wrought iron gates. Vigeland modeled all his sculptures in full size without any assistance of pupils or other artists. The carving in stone and the casting in bronze were left to a number of talented craftsmen. Vigeland also designed the architectural setting and the layout of the grounds with their far stretching lawns and long straight avenues bordered with maple trees. The construction of the park lasted for a number of years. The area west of the ponds was in 1924 given to Vigeland for the construction of the Fountain, the Monolith and the many granite groups at the Monolith plateau. Around 1930 the sculpture park was enlarged eastwards, into the older Frogner Park, to include a new bridge decorated with sculptures and a unique main entrance in granite and wrought iron. Vigeland did not live to see the completed park. The majority of the sculptures and the architectural elements was not installed until about 1950. The municipality of Oslo was the main contributor to the realization of the Vigeland Park. However, a number of private persons and companies gave generous financial support, so that the capital of Norway could get a park to which there is no equal in the whole world. There is a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere here, and if your children wants to climb the statues, nobody will even bother to look twice at you. There is also the Vigeland Museum. 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.

I LIKE AMERICA : Fictions of the Wild West at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:41 PM PST Frankfurt, Germany - Beginning around 1825, a wave of enthusiasm for the American Wild West arose in German-speaking Europe. Set into motion primarily by the translation of James Fenimore Cooper's The Leatherstocking Tales it was further encouraged by both the performances of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" in Germany and Austria and, of course, Karl May's books.

Belfast Exposed Photography hosts 2MOVE: Ireland Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:38 PM PST Belfast, Ireland - 2MOVE: Ireland presents an exciting range of video work by international artists exploring the connections between video, mobility, migratory culture and our contemporary world. 2MOVE: Ireland is part of a wider international touring project 2MOVE curated by internationally renowned cultural theorist and critic Mieke Bal and art historian Miguel Hernández-Navarro. On exhibition 3 May - 2 June, 2008.

Collector Julia Stoschek Exhibits Her Collection at The Deichtorhallen Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:36 PM PST HAMBURG.- For the first time world-wide, the Julia Stoschek Collection has gone on show in a museum context and outside the private home of the collector in Düsseldorf. Across a total space of over 2,000 sq. m. works by over 50 artists from this very young private collection is on display in the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. The exhibition title of "I want to see how you see" is taken from the work of the same name by Pipilotti Rist (2003). The exhibition focuses on pieces on film and video, as is the case for the entire Julia Stoschek Collection. They are rounded out by sculptures (e.g., by Nandipha Mntambo), photographic works (e.g., by Thomas Demand, Taryn Simon, Thomas Ruff) and installations (e.g., by Jeppe Hein).

THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM’S MARITIME ART COLLECTION ON VIEW Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:35 PM PST SALEM, MA - Sketched at Sea features never before seen works from the Peabody Essex Museum's maritime art collection—a selection of more than 60 marine sketchbooks, drawings, paintings, and other works from the mid-18th to early-20th centuries.  While the men and women who created these works came from a variety of backgrounds—travelers, mariners, and professional artists—they all shared in the experience of using the sea as a source of inspiration.  Sketched at Sea at the Peabody Essex Museum through Jan. 6, 2008.

Kimbell Art Museum acquires A View of Venice by Richard Parkes Bonington Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:33 PM PST FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum has added to its collection an exquisite oil sketch by the British artist Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828), "The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Toward the Rialto", painted on the spot in 1826. Its purchase was announced today by the Kimbell's director, Dr. Eric M. Lee.  "The opportunity to acquire one of Bonington's beautiful oil sketches of Venice is extremely rare. Only eight are known, four of which were already in museum collections before the present one was acquired by the Kimbell. This is an exciting acquisition for us, from both aesthetic and art-historical points of view, and we know it will give great pleasure to our visitors." Dr. Lee commented.

Museum of Art Lucerne hosts German Painting from the Berg Collection Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:28 PM PST Lucerne, Switzerland - The Museum of Art Lucerne has selected 120 works by German artists from the Berg Collection are being shown in the Museum of Art Lucerne under the title, borrowed from a painting by Karl Hödicke, 'Fireworks over Alexanderplatz'. The exhibition principally includes paintings, but also some works on paper and a small number of sculptures. The chief interest lies in the resurrection of figurative expressionist painting from 1968 onwards. Alongside this there are smaller groups of works by artistic predecessors from classic modern art and Informel.

Maria Lassnig Exhibition at Lenbechaus Presents Over Forty Paintings Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:26 PM PST MUNICH.- For more than six decades, in her paintings and drawings Maria Lassnig has explored perceptions and representations of the inner sensations of the body. Lassnig, who was born in 1919 in Carinthia, Austria, already gave her early 1940s work the programmatic title of "bodyconsciousness drawings". Soon thereafter she visited Paris and came into contact with surrealism and art informel. Though her non-figurative geometrical work she quickly became the most important protagonist in abstract art in post-war Austria, but even in her abstract works she still focused on subjective sensations and emotions.

Zentrum Paul Klee hosts 'Genesis the Art of Creation' Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:21 PM PST Bern, Switzerland - By way of overture to the series of exhibitions scheduled for 2008, the Zentrum Paul Klee is presenting Genesis – The art of creation, an exhibition that explores the parallels between the production of a work of art and scientific research. The exhibition adopts Klee's notion of Genesis as a starting point, indulges in some boundary crossing and explores – through works by artists of international renown and scientific objects – the methodological and aesthetic kinships between art's avant-gardists and the life sciences.

The Contemporary Art of Flânerie at Neuberger Museum of Art Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:18 PM PST PURCHASE, NY - Performance art, where an artist's conception takes place before a live audience and the creator of the art and the performer are often the same person, has been an important part of the contemporary art scene for over fifty years. Generally a challenge to orthodox art forms and cultural norms, many of the works can be outspoken and controversial, but they can also be entertaining.

Sotheby's New York Sale of American Paintings to be Held in December Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:17 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 3 December 2009 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction includes a number of major paintings and sculptures almost entirely unknown to the market, many of which have been in private collections for the last several decades. Among the highlights of the sculpture on offer is Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Amor Caritas (est. $150/200,000). Saint-Gaudens first exhibited the life-size plaster of Amor Caritas to great fanfare at the Paris Salon of 1898. Works from the sale will be exhibited at Sotheby's New York galleries beginning November 28.

June Kelly shows Stan Brodsky Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:15 PM PST New York City - An exhibition of colorful, evocative new abstract paintings by Stan Brodsky —vibrant improvisations of landscapes inspired by the artist's world travels — will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 591 Broadway, on Friday, May 9th.  The works will remain on view through June 10th, 2008. The exhibition coincides with a comprehensive retrospective of Brodsky's paintings from 1951 to 2006 now being shown at the Hofstra University Museum through June 6.

Heckscher Museum Shows Survey of Arthur Dove Watercolors Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:13 PM PST Huntington, New York – The Heckscher Museum of Art will present an important exhibition of watercolors by Arthur Dove from July 11 through September 3, 2006.  Organized by the Alexandre Gallery, located at 41 East 57th Street in Manhattan, in association with the Heckscher Museum of Art, "Arthur Dove Watercolors" offers a comprehensive survey of the best examples of the artist's watercolors from 1930 through the mid-1940s, with particular emphasis on his works from the mid-1930s through the early 1940s. Long regarded as a pioneer of American Modernism, Dove first explored the medium of watercolor on Long Island – down New York Avenue in Halesite – where he lived for nine years with his life companion and second wife, the artist Helen Torr.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents American Impressionist Paintings Posted: 29 Nov 2010 06:10 PM PST Washington, DC - "An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection," on view from Nov. 3 through Feb. 4, 2007, presents iconic works by some of America's most talented and cherished artists.  These selected paintings are from Marie and Hugh Halff's collection, one of the finest private collections of late 19th- and early 20th-century American art.  The exhibition is the first time this remarkable collection has been on display in Washington, D.C. "An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection" is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

"A Collector’s Eye on Paul Klee" at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern Posted: 29 Nov 2010 05:55 PM PST Bern, Switzerland - For the first time in the history of its existence, the Zentrum Paul Klee presents a private collection of works by Paul Klee. The important works in question number twenty seven, which the Japanese collector Kazumasa Katsuta has acquired and built up from a diverse range of locations around the world over the past three decades. The starting point for the exhibition entitled "A Collector's Eye on Paul Klee" is accordingly one based entirely on subjective preferences and the subjective quality consciousness of a single collector. On view through 8 February, 2009.

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Exhibits Cleveland Museum Treasures Posted: 29 Nov 2010 05:54 PM PST MUNICH, GERMANY - The Cleveland Museum of Art is currently in the process of erecting a further extension and renovating the existing buildings.  This offered the unique opportunity to display one of the most significant collections of the museum at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich.  The museum's holdings of Western art from the third through to the 16th centuries have been a particular strength from the opening of the first building in 1916. They rank today among the most important in the United States.  Artistic quality, rather than documentary or historical significance, has always been the guiding principle of acquisition.  All works were donated or financed by private sponsors.

Hamburger Kunsthalle features Survey of Stephan von Huene's Work Posted: 29 Nov 2010 05:50 PM PST HAMBURG.- The artist Stephan von Huene (1932–2000) famous for his construction of intriguing sound sculptures, was also an exceptionally draughtsman. The exhibition The Song of the Line for the first time offers a survey of the entire oeuvre of his drawings. Drawings in pen and pencil that von Huene produced in California in the 1960s are evidence of the artist's familiarity with the work of Pablo Picasso as well as with the sculptures of the native North American Kwakiutl tribes and the cartoon drawing of the Disney empire. The figures in von Huene's early, consummately executed drawings throw open a pan-erotic cosmos of imagery replete with allusions to the mythological pictorial traditions of a wide range of cultures and eras. On view through 6 June.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 29 Nov 2010 05:49 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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