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• Our Editor Views The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design In Oslo
• The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to show Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot in California
• Victoria Art Gallery Hosts a Keith Vaughan Retrospective
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Opens an Innovative Presentation of the Work of Joan Miro
• Brooklyn Museum Hosts Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism
• New Light-Filled Building Opens at North Carolina Museum of Art
• Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale in Paris Shows Leading 20th Century Artists
• Cincinnati Art Museum presents Major Exhibition of Jiří Anderle’s Prints
• De La Warr Pavilion exhibits " A Continuous Line ~ Ben Nicholson in England "
• Jules Dalou in England ~ Portraits of Womanhood at the Henry Moore Institute
• René Magritte Graphics at Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries
• ' Vincent van Gogh's Friendship in Letters and Paint ' at the Morgan Library
• National Gallery Innovative Art Project For Stroke Suvivors to Restore Creativity
• New Orleans Museum of Art presents "The Minds Eye ~ Without Subject Matter"
• Mark Anstee solos at Madder 139 Gallery
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Our Editor Views The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design In Oslo Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:58 PM PST The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Norwegian: Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design) in Oslo is the national museum of art of Norway. It was established on 1 July 2003 through a merger of the Norwegian Museum of Architecture, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery, and the National Touring Exhibitions. In 2003 the museum was established as a foundation, merging the former Norwegian Museum of Architecture, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art and National Gallery. A new director, Sune Nordgren, was appointed, and the work of restructuring the National Museum from four separate museums began. This entailed the creation of one, split-function organization with four different exhibition venues. In April 2005, most of the staff of the National Museum moved to a new administration building in Kristian Augusts, close to Tullinløkka. On the 1 July 2005 the National Touring Exhibitions, Norway became part of the National Museum. The aims of the new museum are to 'raise the level of knowledge about and commitment to the visual arts, architecture, the decorative arts and design, develop critical faculties, stimulate new perceptions, increased historical consciousness and tolerance of diversity'. The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design lends a number of works from the Collections to exhibitions in Norway and abroad. Artworks from the National Museum are also on loan to State buildings in Norway and abroad. The National Museum is a forward-looking and innovative arena for the experience of the visual arts. At the same time it should be a safeguard for many of the nation's art treasures. With this project the nation will have a unifying and worthy National Museum, which is well- exposed, extrovert and easily accessible. The overall concept holds rationality and possesses openness that gives great opportunity for the flexibility of the different functions. At the same time the building contains of dramatic and challenging room sequences in a unique and very modern building. The experience of the project should be characterized by the interaction and synergy between the sites' distinctiveness, the different parts of the project and the overall architectural expression. The museum emerges as Norway's national icon. Older and modern art is on show at the National Gallery, contemporary art at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The main emphasis of the collection is on Norwegian painting and sculpture from the 19th century. The museum also holds an extensive collection of drawings and prints by Norwegian and international artists. Highlights of the collection include major works by Edvard Munch, including The Scream. Other important artists include J.C. Dahl, Adolph Tidemand, Hans Gude, Harriet Backer and Christian Krohg. The collections from the 20th century illustrate the development of Norwegian fine art with reference to key works of Nordic and international art in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video and other media. Central to the collection of international contemporary art is Ilya Kabakov's permanent installation The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away (1988–1995).The National Museum holds, preserves, exhibits, and promotes public knowledge about, Norway's most extensive collections of art, architecture and design. It shows permanent exhibitions of works from its own collections and temporary exhibitions that incorporate works loaned from elsewhere. The Museum's exhibition venues in Oslo are the National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Museum – Architecture, and the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. Design and crafts are on show at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. The collection ranges from antique Greek vases and East Asian art objects through to the history of European design. It covers costume, fashion and textiles, furniture, silverware, glass, ceramics and other crafts. Among the collection's highlights are the Baldishol Tapestry, a unique woven Gobelin tapestry from the 12th century, the royal costume collection, and 18th century glass from Nøstetangen, Norway's first glass workshop. The Museum's programme also includes exhibitions that tour both within and beyond Norway's borders. The library of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design is one of the leading specialist libraries for art and art history in Norway. In addition to the book collection, it consists of magazines, exhibition catalogues and newspaper cuttings about Norwegian and international artists and exhibitions. Exhibitions based on the museum's collection of architects' archives, and is a collaboration with the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. 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 Santa Barbara Museum of Art to show Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot in California Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:43 PM PST Santa Barbara, CA - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was the most absorbing, respected, and influential landscape painter in France in the generation before Impressionism.   He was much beloved by his peers and collectors alike, and remains an important figure whose exploration of the light and poetry of the French and Italian landscape still resonates today.  The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is a privately funded, not-for-profit institution that presents internationally recognized collections and exhibitions and a broad array of cultural and educational activities as well as travel opportunities around the world.   On exhibition at The Santa Barbara Museum of Art from July 4th through October 11th, 2009.

Victoria Art Gallery Hosts a Keith Vaughan Retrospective Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:40 PM PST Bath, UK - Keith Vaughan (1912-77) was a leading member of the Neo-Romantic movement and one of Britain's greatest artists of the post-war era.  His work expressed his feelings about the male body, seen in relation to the landscape.  This major retrospective of Vaughan's work features over 60 oil paintings, gouaches, sketchbooks and journals.  His first museum exhibition for 26 years, it coincides with the 30th anniversary of his death by suicide.  On exhibit 3 February to 25 March 2007 at the Victoria Art Gallery.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Opens an Innovative Presentation of the Work of Joan Miro Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:37 PM PST MADRID - The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opened the exhibition Miró: Earth. It offers a totally innovative presentation of the work of Joan Miró that focuses on a recurrent concept in the artist's work: the earth. For the first time this theme will be the subject of a major monographic exhibition covering Miró's entire career from 1918, the year of his first solo exhibition, to his death in 1983. On view 17 June through 14 September, 2008.

Brooklyn Museum Hosts Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:34 PM PST Brooklyn, NY - Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, an exhibition of some forty paintings, including many of the finest examples of mid- and late- nineteenth- century French and American landscape in the Brooklyn Museum's collection, opens on February 3. Ranging in date from the 1850s to the early twentieth century, the works presented offer a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Frederick Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent.  On exhibition until 13 May, 2007.

New Light-Filled Building Opens at North Carolina Museum of Art Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:33 PM PST RALEIGH, NC (AP).- The North Carolina Museum of Art's new building marries light and white in a way that designers say shows off the works to their best advantage, leaving nothing to color visitors' view of the art. The 127,000-square-foot expansion opens to the public April 24, but reporters got to see the approximately 750 works in their new home on Tuesday. The lightness and airiness of the museum are meant to emphasize the art, yet are as important to the building as the works themselves. New York-based architects Thomas Phifer and Partners designed the building, using light in a way that designers say has never been seen in a museum. The design includes protective elements such as ultraviolet filters, louvers and three layers of curtains. Sensors tell shades to drop when the sunlight is too bright.

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale in Paris Shows Leading 20th Century Artists Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:31 PM PST PARIS - Sotheby's two-session sale of contemporary art, to be held in Paris on December 10th and 11th, has an overall estimate of €12-17 million and features 142 important works by leading 20th century artists. Several represent landmarks in their artists' careers or number among the handful of works by the artist still in private hands.

Cincinnati Art Museum presents Major Exhibition of Jiří Anderle’s Prints Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:27 PM PST CINCINNATI, OH - The Cincinnati Art Museum presents the first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of the work of esteemed living Czech artist Jiří Anderle. Working in spite of political oppression and censorship behind the iron curtain, Anderle has created a varied body of work that explores fundamental issues facing mankind. The exhibition Illusion and Reality: Prints by Jiří Anderle, organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and on view Sept. 27 through Jan. 4, 2009, features four decades of his gripping work.

De La Warr Pavilion exhibits " A Continuous Line ~ Ben Nicholson in England " Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:18 PM PST BEXHILL ON SEA, UK - De La Warr Pavilion presents "A Continuous Line - Ben Nicholson in England ", on view through January 4, 2009. Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the most radical British artists of the twentieth century and the leader of the modern movement in Britain between the wars. Most famous for his abstract paintings and reliefs of the 1930s, Nicholson began as a figurative painter and had a deep and enduring relationship with the English landscape.

Jules Dalou in England ~ Portraits of Womanhood at the Henry Moore Institute Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:14 PM PST LEEDS, UK.- The Henry Moore Institute presents Jules Dalou in England: Portraits of Womanhood (1871-1879), on view through February 22, 2009. The French sculptor Jules Dalou was Rodin's contemporary, and his works occupy key sites in Paris, such as the Place de la Nation. Despite Dalou's success in the public realm, he is relatively unknown. This study exhibition aims in part to rectify that, looking at Dalou's British period, when he was sent into exile for his left-wing connections and, ironically, found his niche among the English aristocracy.

René Magritte Graphics at Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:12 PM PST San Francisco, CA - Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries, Inc. is pleased to announce our major exhibition, René Magritte – The "Art" of Living: An Exhibition of his Graphic Works.  The Surrealist artist René Magritte created a limited number of prints due to the fact that he began printmaking eight years before his death in 1967.  Magritte's graphic works can be divided into three distinct categories: The first are works conceived by Magritte and drawn on the plate by the artist's own hand.  The second consists of works drawn on the plate with the help of the master printmaker George Visat, from an original composition submitted by Magritte exclusively for this purpose.

' Vincent van Gogh's Friendship in Letters and Paint ' at the Morgan Library Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:10 PM PST New York City - "My God, if only I had known this country at 25, instead of coming here at 35." That was Vincent van Gogh, freshly arrived in southern France, with its aromatic fields and star-spilling skies, in 1888. He was writing to his artist-friend Émile Bernard, 15 years his junior.

National Gallery Innovative Art Project For Stroke Suvivors to Restore Creativity Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:08 PM PST LONDON.- An innovative art project developed by the National Gallery is giving a group of stroke survivors the chance to get their creative juices flowing. Ageing Creatively is an outreach programme that aims to make it possible for people who may be isolated, vulnerable or unable to visit the Gallery independently, to access and enjoy the collection. During November, members of the Greenhill Aphasia Group took part in four outreach workshops at the Greenhill Centre in Newham. Aphasia is a difficulty speaking or understanding speech, reading or writing. It occurs following damage to the brain and is most common after a stroke.

New Orleans Museum of Art presents "The Minds Eye ~ Without Subject Matter" Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:06 PM PST NEW ORLEANS, LA.- From May 16 to October 11, 2009 the New Orleans Museum of Art presents a new exhibition of abstract paintings, prints and drawings, The Mind's Eye: Without Subject Matter, What Does the Artist See? Groups of pictures in the exhibition illustrate specific elements of the language of abstraction: stripes, spots, geometry, letterforms, patternmaking, biology, collage, gesture and space. The exhibition will be accompanied by corresponding quotes from the artists, as well as their critics and commentators.

Mark Anstee solos at Madder 139 Gallery Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:03 PM PST London - MADDER139 Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Mark Anstee. Invited to respond to the 250th anniversary of William Blake's birth, Anstee has chosen to convert the more familiar line of his characteristic figure drawing from ink pen to glass neon. On exhibition through 12 January, 2008.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:02 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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