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• The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art Welcomes Our Editor
• The Great Kings of India to Hold Court at the Art Gallery of Ontario
• Pobeda Gallery Presents Survey of Last 10 Years of Alexandra Catiere's Career
• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Shows Odilon Redon
• Work by Marguerite and William Zorach at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
• International Center of Photography to host Alan B. Stone and the "Senses of Place"
• The National Portrait Gallery opens Groundbreaking Exhibition of Portraits by Gerhard Richter
• The Frick Collection opens James Abbott McNeill Whistler ~ Portraits, Pastels, Prints
• Major Exhibition of Arcimboldo at The Luxembourg Museum in Paris
• The Museum of Arts and Design opens "Dead or Alive"
• Royal Academy of Arts Collection Displays Major Works Given by Early Members
• International Center of Photography (ICP) to Exhibit of the Work by Reclusive Artist Miroslav Tichy
• Museum of Arts & Design will exhibit 'Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary'
• The British Museum opens 'The Intimate Portrait' ~ Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels
• I.M. Pei Suzhou Museum Opens in China
• Museo Picasso Málaga Opens Sophie Taeuber-Arp Retrospective
• Collectors' Evening Secures New Acquisitions for the High Museum of Art
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art Welcomes Our Editor Posted: 01 Dec 2010 06:22 PM PST The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is a private art museum founded in October 9, 1993. Located in Oslo, Norway the museum is based on an exquisite collection of international contemporary art. The collections main focus is the American appropriation artists from the 1980s, but it is currently developing towards the international contemporary art scene, with artists like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson and Cai Guo-Qiang. At the museum one can find a Jeff Koons' gigantic piece of kitsch in fragile, gilt porcelain – a sculpture portraying the pop star Michael Jackson with his favorite chimpanzee, Bubbles. The museum gives 6-7 temporary exhibitions each year. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is very much an international museum of high quality. The museum collaborates with international institutions, and produces exhibitions that travels worldwide. The museum is also very much preoccupied with relations between the museum and the public, and have recently been able to offer free admission. The museum is working towards new communication structures with information via mobile telephone and highly trained museum guides. The museum collection was originally based on a private collection that goes back thirty years, and has significantly developed with the many changes in modern/contemporary art. There has been an interest in German Abstract Expressionism, English modern painting, and the "Young British Artists" to mention a few areas. Presently the collection is orientated towards the young American art scene. It also encompasses works pertaining to the steadily increasing global art community. The main areas of curatorial expertise in the museum are art from the 1960s to the present, including American and European pop-art, post-modern appropriation art of the 1980's and international contemporary art. Much needed additional space will be provided by 2012 when the museum moves into two new buildings designed by Renzo Piano that will be located in a sculpture park also designed by Piano. The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art should be on every art lover's radar screen. Website: _ www.afmuseet.no/ The Astrup Fearnley Collection is vast and expanding. For the next two years, its works will go on a temporary rotating display within the museum. The concept of rotation enables them to work with the collection as a whole but not at the same time. It presents a way to create constellations of works 'on the move', and facilitates surprising and unique assemblages of art across a large, diverse conceptual and thematic spectrum. Famous artists like Allora & Calzadilla, Frank Benson, Cao Fei, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Shilpa Gupta, Guyton Walker, Damien Hirst, Anselm Kiefer, Ann Lislegaard, Liu Wei, Bjarne Melgaard, and Yang Fudong can be found in their permanent collection. The museum has confirmed its position as an important institution for the presentation of contemporary art, both through mounting prestigious exhibitions, but also through the large holdings of Norwegian and international contemporary art, which include the greatest names in the international arena of art. The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is an independent part of the Astrup Fearnley building complex, which covers approximately one half of a city block. Designed by LPO architects and designers, the museum opened in the autumn of 1993 and encloses an area of about 4500 sqm.The main entrance is marked with monumentally large steel doors; when the doors are open, one can see from a great distance that the museum is open. The exhibition spaces cover two floors. The height of the galleries varies from 3,5 to 10,5 meters. In the design of the gallery spaces, emphasis is upon the rooms expressing humility in relation to the artworks; simultaneously they provide the works with a beautiful and functional frame. Emphasis is also laid upon the entryway and exhibition spaces being airy and pleasant to move about in. The floor-design provides great flexibility for temporary constructions and installations. The choice of materials expresses quality but with limited means—here the artworks are the main focus. The concrete wall, like a circular movement in the museum, establishes a powerful but nevertheless subdued backdrop; the stairway to the main gallery, formed in steel with steps of smoked oak, shows an unambiguous connection between the floors that is greatly admired by visitors. 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 Great Kings of India to Hold Court at the Art Gallery of Ontario Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:33 PM PST TORONTO.- This fall the Art Gallery of Ontario opens its doors to the magnificent world of India's great kings. Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts, organized in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, will make its sole Canadian stop at the AGO, with a members-only preview starting November 17 and public viewing from November 20, 2010 to February 27, 2011. The exhibition features over 200 opulent objects, including paintings, tapestry, thrones, weapons, and jewels, most on view in North America for the first time.

Pobeda Gallery Presents Survey of Last 10 Years of Alexandra Catiere's Career Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:31 PM PST MOSCOW.- Alexandra Catiere was born in 1978 in Minsk, Belarus. She fell in love with photograhy while studying at Minsk state linguistic university. In 2003, under the influence of her art guru, famous soviet artist Yuriy Kuper, she moved to New York where she completed a certificate program at the International Center of Photography. After graduating from ICP, she worked for a year in the studio of an internationally renowned photographer Irving Penn.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Shows Odilon Redon Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:28 PM PST Frankfurt, Germany - The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is planning a comprehensive exhibition devoted to the work of the French artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916).  The aim of this representative selection of drawings, prints, pastels, and paintings from public and private collections – particularly from France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States – is to update public perception of this artist, one of the great precursors of Modernism.  Under this point of view Odilon Redon can maybe be compared with Paul Cézanne in many respects. On exhibition 27 January – 29 April 2007.

Work by Marguerite and William Zorach at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:27 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents its first solo exhibition featuring the work of Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) and William Zorach (1887-1966). On view through August 13, this exhibition consists of a selection of watercolors by each. The six 1915 watercolors by Marguerite Zorach were completed during a summer excursion in 1915 to the White Mountains hamlet of Randolph, New Hampshire. A noticeable feature in these works is the attention to detail, everything from the furniture in the rooms to the patterning of the wallpaper and the design of the rugs. In general the works display the modernist conventions of simplification of form and dramatic flattening of perspective. Later Zorach turned five of the six original watercolors into a set of hand-watercolored transfer lithographs.

International Center of Photography to host Alan B. Stone and the "Senses of Place" Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:25 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- On view at the International Center of Photography, ICP,  from January 29 through May 9, 2010, Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place explores photography's unique ability to revive one's sense of connection to the past, and considers some of the many meanings associated with "place." Guest curator David Deitcher presents the work of the little-known Montreal-based photographer Alan B. Stone (1928–1992) as a case study that considers some of the ways in which people experience, use, and are affected by photographs. This intimate installation of around 75 photographs, newspaper clippings, and small magazines proceeds from the assumption that one knows one's past in part through pictures, through identifying with photographs that relate to one's lived experience.

The National Portrait Gallery opens Groundbreaking Exhibition of Portraits by Gerhard Richter Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:24 PM PST LONDON - A groundbreaking exhibition devoted to one of the greatest living painters opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 26 February through 31 May, 2009. Gerhard Richter Portraits is the first major exhibition to show a selection of Richter's portraits across the entire span of his career. Richter is widely regarded as one of the world's leading contemporary artists, a complex figure whose work from the early 1960s has moved between photographically derived figurative imagery and brightly coloured abstract painting.

The Frick Collection opens James Abbott McNeill Whistler ~ Portraits, Pastels, Prints Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:22 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection presents a focus exhibition dedicated to the colorful and often controversial artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903). The Frick's ensemble of four full-length portraits by Whistler will be displayed in the museum's Oval Room alongside his evocative seascape, Symphony in Grey and Green: The Ocean (1866). The presentation will include a Cabinet installation of fifteen pastels and etchings from his Venetian sojourn of 1879–80. These works show Whistler's command of three distinct media and demonstrate his concern for the harmony of form, color, and composition. Whistler's oeuvre clearly had a special appeal for Henry Clay Frick, who acquired more works by this artist than by any other. On exhibition 2 June through 23 August, 2009.

Major Exhibition of Arcimboldo at The Luxembourg Museum in Paris Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:20 PM PST PARIS, FRANCE - The greatest exhibition dedicated to Arcimboldo (1526-1593) in twenty years opened at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. Arcimboldo is an icon of the surreal artists for his portraits made of vegetables, fruit, or animals. During his life-time he was praised and made a nobleman by the Habsburgs, but after his death he was forgotten for four centuries and rediscovered by the surreal artists. The exhibition will be on view through January 13, 2008.

The Museum of Arts and Design opens "Dead or Alive" Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:13 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.-The Museum of Arts and Design opens Dead or Alive, an exhibition showcasing the work of more than 30 international artists who use organic and once-living materials—such as insects, feathers, shells, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and fur. Dead or Alive, on view until October 24, 2010, features new site-specific installations and recent work by contemporary artists from around the world, including Jennifer Angus, Nick Cave, Tessa Farmer, Tim Hawkinson, Jochem Hendricks, Damien Hirst, Alastair Mackie, Kate MccGwire, Susie MacMurray, Shen Shaomin, and Levi van Veluw among others. The exhibition is organized by the Museum's Chief Curator David Revere McFadden and Curator Lowery Sims with Assistant Curator Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane.

Royal Academy of Arts Collection Displays Major Works Given by Early Members Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:10 PM PST LONDON - History painting was regarded as the pinnacle of High Art and strongly promoted by Sir Joshua Reynolds above other genres such as portraiture, landscape and still life. This new display includes major works given by early Members of the Royal Academy of Arts to the Collection including biblical subjects by Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley and John Francis Rigaud, as well as Henry Fuseli's fantastical Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent. On exhibition through 29 November, 2009.

International Center of Photography (ICP) to Exhibit of the Work by Reclusive Artist Miroslav Tichy Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:09 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- The first North American museum exhibition of the photography of the mysterious and reclusive Czech artist Miroslav Tichý will be on view at the International Center of Photography from January 29 through May 9, 2010. Now in his eighties, Tichý is a stubbornly eccentric artist, noted as much for his makeshift cardboard cameras as for his haunting and distorted images of women and landscapes, many of them taken surreptitiously. The ICP exhibition, organized by ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis, includes a number of Tichý's homemade cameras as well as approximately 100 of his photographs. Buxbaum's 2004 documentary film, Miroslav Tichý: Tarzan Retired, will run continuously in the gallery.

Museum of Arts & Design will exhibit 'Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary' Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:06 PM PST NEW YORK CITY - The Museum of Arts & Design will inaugurate its new home at Columbus Circle with Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, a special thematic exhibition featuring 40 contemporary artists from 17 countries who transform discarded, commonplace, or valueless objects into extraordinary works of art. On view from September 2008 through March 2009, Second Lives includes new commissions and site-specific installations, created from gun triggers, spools of thread, tires, hypodermic needles, dog tags, old eyeglasses, and telephone books, among other manufactured and mass-produced objects.

The British Museum opens 'The Intimate Portrait' ~ Drawings, Miniatures and Pastels Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:04 PM PST LONDON - The first ever major UK exhibition to examine a fascinating but relatively unknown aspect of British portraiture opens at the British Museum. The Intimate Portrait will explore the period between the 1730s and the 1830s – the heyday of British portraiture – when some of the country's greatest artists produced beautifully worked portraits in pencil, chalks, watercolours and pastels that were often exhibited, sold and displayed as finished works of art. On exhibition 5 March through 31 May, 2009.

I.M. Pei Suzhou Museum Opens in China Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:02 PM PST   UZHOU, China - For I. M. Pei, the sprawling white stucco museum that opened to great fanfare here this weekend is both a possible swan song and a second chance.  On Saturday, the first day the Suzhou Museum was open to the public, visitors took in the garden area, which includes an artificial pond. The only other building he has ever designed in mainland China, a luxury hotel completed in Beijing in 1982, was a disappointment that he says was rescued only by its beautiful setting in the woods.  "I was saved by the trees," he said ruefully in an interview Saturday afternoon.

Museo Picasso Málaga Opens Sophie Taeuber-Arp Retrospective Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:58 PM PST MALAGA, SPAIN - In 1915, Sophie Taeuber and Jean Arp met for the first time, in Zurich . They met quite by chance, and Arp, who was later to become her husband and collaborator, was fascinated by this "serene and amiable" woman, who lived her life "like a character from a Book of Hours, studious both at work and in sleep". At this time, Taeuber was a teacher at the city's School of Arts and Crafts and an outstanding pupil of the expressive dance classes run by Hungarian choreographer Rudolf Laban and the revolutionary dancer Mary Wigman. From the Surrealist Hugnet to the Dada poet Huelsenbeck, from painter and filmmaker Richter to performer Emmy Hennings, and other artists such as Kandinsky himself, the members of the Avant-garde movement spoke of Taeuber with astonishment and admiration. On view 19 October through 24 January, 2010 at the Museo Picasso Málaga.

Collectors' Evening Secures New Acquisitions for the High Museum of Art Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:57 PM PST ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art hosted its first ever Collectors' Evening on Saturday, January 30. The participants at the event voted to secure four new acquisitions for the museum, including a collection of twenty photographs from the "Robert F Kennedy Funeral Train Rediscovered" portfolio by Paul Fusco; the painting "Thiogo Oliveira do Rosario Rozendo" by Kehinde Wiley; an African art sculpture titled "Ntadi;" and a round-back chair and table from the "Sketch Furniture" series by Front Design.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:56 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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