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• The Preus Photography Museum In Norway Is Toured By The AKN Editor
• Sorolla Museum Exhibition Explores the Dialogues Between Sorolla & Velázquez
• Over 708,000 Have Visited the PHotoEspaña 2010 Exhibitions
• National Gallery of Victoria announces Exhibition from the Stadel Collection
• Noted Artists Create Works Inspired by Met's New Opening Night Opera Production
• Hong Kong Museum of Art opens The Exhibition "Louis Vuitton : A Passion for Creation"
• The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to exhibit " Modernists in New Mexico "
• Powerhouse Museum to display From Earth to the Universe: Through the Depths of Space
• Installation of Spiders Weaving Stars by Tomas Saraceno in Italy
• NGV Features Photographers in the Circle of Alfred Stieglitz
• Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein opens 'Modernism as a Ruin ~ An Archaeology of the Present'
• Paintings by Melanie Daniel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• Shirana Shahbazi solos at The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery
• Fresno Metropolitan Museum to exhibit American Impressionist Anna Richards Brewster
• Miami Art Museum Presents ~ Disappearances, Shadows & Illusions
• Knoxville Museum of Art presents 'Josh Simpson ~ A Visionary Journey in Glass'
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Preus Photography Museum In Norway Is Toured By The AKN Editor Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:43 PM PST The Preus Museum is the national museum for photography in Norway and is situated in Horten. It was originally founded by the Preus family as a private museum, but the collection was acquired by the Norwegian government in 1995. In 2001, the museum moved to a former naval facility in Karljohansvern. The facilities have been adapted for museum use based on the work of architect Sverre Fehn. It is the National museum of photography, with a vast collection covering all aspects of the history of photography, Preus museum offers visitors many exciting experiences within the expanded field of photography: from the earliest technical and scientific experiments to contemporary photographic art that has pushed back the boundaries of what a photograph can be. The museum collection consists of Norwegian and international photographs, cameras and other artefacts illustrating the history of photography. The museum also incorporates a specialist photographic library. In 2005 the museum launched its own journal Om Fotografi (On Photography). In cooperation with the National Library of Norway, the museum is extending its Index of Photographers and Collections. The museum has defined its field of concern as the expanded field of photography. This implies that the museum approaches photography within the context of contemporary art and a broader visual culture. The museum library covers the prehistory and history of photography, photographic techniques, camera history and photography as art and documentation. The library holds some 25,000 titles, including annual publications and annually collected journals, catalogues and brochures. The extensive collection of journals encompasses 1,000 titles, of which 80 are regularly subscribed. More specifically, it means that in the future the museum will view photography in conjunction with moving pictures and new, digital technologies. A further consequence is that the museum will apply an inter-disciplinary perspective to the history of photography. The Preus Museum is one of the important collecting institutions for photography in the world and the most important in Norway. Website :_ http://www.preusmuseum.no/english/index.php The museum's unique collections consist of photographs, albums and images of various other types, cameras and other technical equipment, and a specialist library. The picture collection is broadly representative of the history of photography as described by Beaumont Newhall and Helmut Gernsheim. Especially well represented in the collection are the early history of photography from the 19th century, pictorialism as it developed in English and German speaking countries and among Norwegian camera clubs, and new objectivism and modernism as these developed. The primary focus of the Norwegian material was originally on early landscapes and portraits, together with considerable material from the realm of fashion/advertising and art photography. Over the past ten years, the collection has been expanded with many works by Norwegian photographers active in the field of art photography, as well as by professionals and amateurs working with documentary, advertising and portraits. The collection is also strengthened by the purchase of pivotal works by international contemporary artists working in the expanded field of photography. With its broad temporal and genre perspective, it goes without saying that the collection represents a significant number of processes that illustrate the historic development of photography: from daguerreotypes, autochromes and stereo photography through to contemporary color photography, and from early photo-mechanical techniques through to modern digital printing. The museum's extensive collection of cameras and other technical equipment both supplements the technical aspects of the history of photographic processes and tells the story of a major international industry built on the determination to create pictures: from the 18th century camera obscura to the daguerreotype camera, special cameras for microscopic, panoramic, stereoscopic photography, cameras for espionage, three-color pictures, portraits or travel; folding cameras and box cameras, single and dual lens reflex cameras, small image cameras and miniature cameras. The book collection encompasses literature from the 16th century through to today. The history of photography is told here in all its complexity by means of various focal themes such as chemistry, optics, art, technology, as well as through user manuals and textbooks. The collection also contains a large number of books with original photographs and seminal works about countless photographers, in addition to an extensive collection of journals including major titles such as Camera Work, Camera Notes and Life. There is also a large number of Scandinavian and European photography journals for both amateurs and professionals. The book collection functions as a library. 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.

Sorolla Museum Exhibition Explores the Dialogues Between Sorolla & Velázquez Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:22 PM PST MADRID.- The Ministry of Culture and the Sorolla Museum Foundation have organized the exhibition "Dialogues: Sorolla & Velázquez, which can be seen until January 24, 2010 at the Sorolla Museum in Madrid. Dialogues is an exhibition project that was born with the intent of reviewing the relationship between Sorolla with his great influence, Diego Velázquez. The exhibition includes eleven paintings made by Sorolla, Menipo by Velázquez plus three other reproductions Sorolla made in 1882 from paintings by Velázquez. The Dialogue between the two painters develops following three thematic views; Realism, Portraits, and Landscapes.

Over 708,000 Have Visited the PHotoEspaña 2010 Exhibitions Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:21 PM PST MADRID.- The final results of PHotoEspaña 2010 were made public yesterday morning in Madrid at a press conference given by Claude Bussac, director of PHotoEspaña. At the gathering, the press was provided with general statistics on attendance and participation in the 13th International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, which will come to a close on Sunday, 25 July. 708,000 people have visited the 69 exhibitions – 21 in the Official Section, 12 at other venues, 8 in OpenPHoto and 28 in the Off Festival – organised by PHotoEspaña 2010. Over 7,000 people participated in the numerous and varied activities organised by the festival.

National Gallery of Victoria announces Exhibition from the Stadel Collection Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:19 PM PST MELBOURNE, AU - Premier John Brumby announced a new blockbuster exhibition, "European Masters: Städel Museum 19th – 20th Centuries" will come to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2010 as part of the hugely successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. European Masters: Städel Museum 19th – 20th Centuries will be on at the NGV International, St Kilda Road from June 19 until October 10, 2010. Mr Brumby said the exhibition comprises more than 100 works from the internationally renowned Städel Museum in Germany by artists including Monet, Cézanne and Renoir, and is the first time this collection of works will be displayed outside Europe.

Noted Artists Create Works Inspired by Met's New Opening Night Opera Production Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:18 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Fourteen contemporary artists have created works about Mary Magdalene for Gallery Met, inspired by the company's new production of Puccini's Tosca, which opens the 2009-10 season on September 21. The exhibition Something about Mary features original works by Hugh Bush, Paul Chan, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, John Currin, Rachael Feinstein, Barnaby Furnas, Elizabeth Peyton, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Dana Schutz, Shahzia Sikander, Rudolf Stingel and Francesco Vezzoli. Artists Marlene Dumas and Kiki Smith are lending previously created works on the same subject. The exhibition opens on September 22 and runs through the end of January.

Hong Kong Museum of Art opens The Exhibition "Louis Vuitton : A Passion for Creation" Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:16 PM PST HONG KONG.- Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr. Henry Tang, at the opening ceremony of "Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation" exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art said, "During my visit to Paris last year, we reached an agreement with LVMH to bring the "Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation" Exhibition to Hong Kong. I am delighted to be here tonight for the opening ceremony." In a developing open-minded spirit, the Foundation was eager to invite 'emerging' Hong Kong artists to take part in this exhibition with the help of a young art critic and curator who lives in China.

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to exhibit " Modernists in New Mexico " Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:15 PM PST SANTA FE, NM - The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum presents an exhibition that includes a number of paintings designated as partial gifts to the Museum by an anonymous New Mexico collector. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is delighted to be able to exhibit this superb selection, which demonstrates the richly productive encounter between some of America 's most innovative twentieth-century painters and one of their favorite sources of inspiration – New Mexico . The exhibition includes works by various modern artists, most of whom arrived in the southwest after 1912, when New Mexico, which had been a territory, attained statehood: George Wesley Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Raymond Jonson, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and John Sloan. On exhibition 13 February through 10 May, 2009.

Powerhouse Museum to display From Earth to the Universe: Through the Depths of Space Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:12 PM PST SYDNEY, AU - The Powerhouse Museum will take visitors on a breathtaking journey through our galaxy and beyond with From Earth to the Universe, an exhibition featuring extraordinary astronomical images opening on 12 September, 2009. The exhibition showcases the beauty and mysteries of the Universe and reveals how the telescope has expanded our knowledge and vision since Italian scientist Galileo Galilei first turned his eye to one four hundred years ago. Comprising large-scale prints and giant projections, the images have been captured using modern telescopes, often carried on Earth-orbiting satellites and using techniques that Galileo could not have imagined.

Installation of Spiders Weaving Stars by Tomas Saraceno in Italy Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:10 PM PST CAMOGLI, ITALY - In the installation by Tomas Saraceno at the latest Venice Biennial, Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web, thousands of strands filled the room, forming an enormous web with bubble-vessels clustered inside. At Fondazione Pier Luigi e Natalina Remotti in Camogli, with the installation From Camogli to San Felipe, spiders weaving stars... curated by Francesca Pasini, Tomas Saraceno offers another view of the strategy of the spider and its capacity to cross enormous distances dangling on strands of silk.

NGV Features Photographers in the Circle of Alfred Stieglitz Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:09 PM PST Melbourne, VIC - Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a monumental figure in the history of twentieth century photography.  In the opening decades of the century, Stieglitz championed the cause of artistic photography with the Photo-Secession group, and went on to become an important and influential modernist photographer.  On exhibition 2 May - 28 September, 2008, at the National Gallery of Victoria ( NGV).

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein opens 'Modernism as a Ruin ~ An Archaeology of the Present' Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:07 PM PST Vaduz, Liechtenstein - The key project of modernism as of the early 20th century was the achievement of a society that would be more humane and contemporary. New residential forms were to be created and cities were to be totally different in appearance. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein asks what became of that utopia. The museum is bringing together contemporary architecture, specific forms of presentation, a welcoming atmosphere and varied public programmes. Our goal is for this focus on art and its meanings to be taken up as an inspirational challenge. On view 2 October until 17 January, 2010.

Paintings by Melanie Daniel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:06 PM PST TEL AVIV,ISRAEL - Evergreen, the new series of paintings by Melanie Daniel, reveals the culmination of the artist's interest in how people assimilate and camouflage themselves in their environments, combining a sense of strangeness with a sense of belonging. Daniel began painting after immigrating to Israel in 1995. For her photographic series Pleasantvale (2003), which links her early works with her current interest in the painting medium, Daniel returned to her hometown, Kelowna in British Columbia, to photograph a seniors' neighborhood built in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Its pastel-colored houses with manicured gardens, today standing in the heart of a rapidly sprawling city, look like the setting of an antiquated television show where time and modern worries stand still.

Shirana Shahbazi solos at The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:04 PM PST LONDON - Iranian-born, Zurich-based Shirana Shahbazi is the latest contemporary artist to be commissioned to make a new work for The Curve, the Barbican's free exhibition space. Shahbazi is creating an ambitious new installation that features a large mural painted directly on to the 80 metre long wall interspersed with some 30 photographs of differing scales.

Fresno Metropolitan Museum to exhibit American Impressionist Anna Richards Brewster Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:02 PM PST Fresno, CA - Anna Richards Brewster: American Impressionist is an examination of the struggles and triumphs of an American woman's career in art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Brewster (1870-1952) who, at the age of 20, won the prestigious Dodge Prize at the National Academy of Design for the best picture by a woman artist in 1890, continued her success throughout her life and forged the way for other women starting to break into the professional and academic spheres of the art world.

Miami Art Museum Presents ~ Disappearances, Shadows & Illusions Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:01 PM PST Miami, FL - Special installations by Miami artists, including Leyden Rodriquez-Casanova, Matt Schreiber and Tom Scicluna along with selections from local collectors and Miami Art Museum's growing permanent collection, will make up Disappearances, Shadows, and Illusions  in MAM's Upper Level Gallery, on view June 6-September 21, 2008 at the Miami Art Museum.

Knoxville Museum of Art presents 'Josh Simpson ~ A Visionary Journey in Glass' Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:47 PM PST   KNOXVILLE, TN - The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Josh Simpson: A Visionary Journey in Glass February 6-April 19, 2009. This major exhibition highlights three decades of achievements by one of America's most acclaimed glass artists. More than 100 works trace Simpson's journey from his early goblets and vessels to the spectacular multi-layered sculptures of the present.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 30 Nov 2010 07:46 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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