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• The Lillehammer Art Museum In Norway ~ Chosen Museum Of The Year ~ Toured By Our Editor
• Israel Museum Looking for Owners & Restitution of Art Stolen in France
• Cuban-American Jorge Pardo to Exhibit at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Eugene Boudin Exhibition Honors the Centenary of National Gallery of Art
• Alphonse Maria Mucha Was Honored With a Google Doodle
• Exceptional Impressionist Show at the Lady Lever Art Gallery
• Museum Tinguely Displays Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in New Exhibition
• Google Announces Planned Documentation of Iraqi Museum Treasures
• Norton Simon Museum announces Loan of Painting by Ingres from the Frick Collection
• Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids at Northwestern University's Block Museum
• Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Wins Case Against Self-Named Dalí Museum in Berlin
• New Zealand Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki Previews Robertson Gift
• Arne Quinze Builds a New Installation on a Bridge in Rouen
• International Design Museum Munich presents The Schoonhoven Silver Award 2009
• MUMOK features " Mind Expanders: Performative Bodies / Utopian Architectures "
• Amon Carter Museum Displays Recent Acquisitions
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Lillehammer Art Museum In Norway ~ Chosen Museum Of The Year ~ Toured By Our Editor Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:27 PM PST The Lillehammer Art Museum in Norway was chosen as museum of the year in 2008. This is the first time an art museum has received this award. The Lillehammer Art Museum, two hours outside of Oslo, features Norwegian visual art from the early 1800s to the present day. Established as a private foundation in 1994, the Lillehammer's permanent collections include historical and contemporary paintings and sculptures of such artists as Hans Gude, J. C. Dahl, Adolph Tidemand, Eilif Peterssen, Christian Krogh and Edvard Munch. Temporary exhibitions include contemporary international art. Local Lillehammer painters including Kristen Holbø, Thorvald Erichsen and Lars Jorde are well represented in the collection. The museum offers guided tours (in English) everyday. The foundation Lillehammer Art Museum was established April 1 1994. The foundation is a further development of the 67-years-old institution Lillehammer City Collection of Paintings. The museum also holds temporary exhibitions of Norwegian and international art. Lillehammer Art Museum is considered one of the country's most important and representative works from the year 1820-1950. The core of the museum's collection was generously donated by two private collectors: In 1921 the merchant and local patriot Einar Lunde donated over 150 paintings to the city of Lillehammer, and in 1958, antique dealer Oscar Johannessen from Oslo gave his collection of paintings from the 1800s to the institution. In course of the last years the collection has been strengthened by a number of substantial donations and by acquisitions mainly focused on contemporary art. In 2008 art collector Jon Dobloug gave parts of his collection of Norwegian contemporary art to the museum. The collection contains 189 works of art, and has the title "Jon Dobloug's collection". The museum is one of the nation's leading art museums, and houses a collection consisting of approx. 3400 works. The museum also organizes six separate exhibitions a year, featuring both historical art and modern art. Through the government-sponsored art programme The Cultural Rucksack, the museum also offers cultural and art workshops. The unique museum building was drawn by the architectural firm Snøhetta in connection with the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer. The museum's Art Garden was designed by the artist Bård Breivik and connects the old building and the new building together. It uses rocks and water as the main themes. In connection with Bård Breivik exhibition in 1992/1993 Breivik said the following in the exhibition catalog: "The water has its own life, a river never in straight lines. Where it can, looking for water to go under overpasses through the terrain, or on the plains flowing rivers meander. The whorls that occur in the river free water for foreign objects and provide the new oxygen and freshness. Besides, it is a sensual tension between the soft, pliant water and the hard stone that gives both visual and audio experiences that encourage play with water so young children do when they find a pond." The museum buildings would become the first major project the Snøhetta firm realized. A sleek, modernist buildings totaling 5,100 square meters was opened to the public. Snøhetta experimented with some of its formative ideas in this project, exploring the relationships between immediate conditions and broader contexts, and the resonances between a cultural institution's contents and its wider audience. Snøhetta has since evolved to become a major international architectural firm, which has noted buildings throughout the world. Their style can be described as humane modernism. A characteristic is a relatively low buildings, attuned to nature and the environment. Examples of signal building was designed by Snøhetta is the Library of Alexandria and the Norwegian Opera. Snøhetta is about to erect a building at Ground Zero in New York and recently won the competition to a new building to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Company has received numerous international awards and accolades. Exhibition on view through 9 January, 2011 is "Edvard MUNCH by Andy Warhol" featuring Warhol's silk-screen typical variations of some of Munch's famous artworks. 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.

Israel Museum Looking for Owners & Restitution of Art Stolen in France Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:15 PM PST JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, presents Looking for Owners: Custody, Research, and Restitution of Art Stolen in France during World War II, an exhibition tracing the story of works of art looted by Nazi forces in France during the Second World War. Organized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Direction des musées de France and the Réunion des musées nationaux, in collaboration with The Israel Museum, this landmark exhibition draws from the collection of works of art in France known as Musées Nationaux Récupération (MNR).

Cuban-American Jorge Pardo to Exhibit at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:13 PM PST DUBLIN.- The Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo, widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation, returns to the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) with his first major solo exhibition in Ireland on Wednesday 17 February 2010. Jorge Pardo is a challenging retrospective that uses the architecture of the Museum to embrace the world of swiftly changing technology and question how art can be innovative and relevant in the 21st century. The exhibition, which follows the artist's notable participation in the group exhibition .all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae at IMMA in 2006, comprises a single work in the form of photomural wallpaper covering the walls of the entire East Wing Galleries. The exhibition continues until 3 May 2010. Admission is free.

Eugene Boudin Exhibition Honors the Centenary of National Gallery of Art Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:11 PM PST WASHINGTON, DC – The art of French landscape painter Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) will get a rare showing in America, when Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art goes on view in the National Gallery of Art's March 25 through April 5, 2007.  The exhibition of approximately 40 paintings and works on paper will honor the centenary of the birth of Paul Mellon, the Gallery's founding president and the benefactor largely responsible for its Boudin collection, which is one of the largest and most distinguished in this country.  Proclaimed the "king of the skies" by Camille Corot, Boudin influenced a number of impressionist painters, most notably Claude Monet.

Alphonse Maria Mucha Was Honored With a Google Doodle Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:10 PM PST Art Knowledge News -Alphonse Maria Mucha, (July 24, 1860- July 14, 1939), was an incredibly talented Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist whose 150th birthday is being celebrated today with a gift from Google: a Google Doodle. Mucha was most known for his distinct style of paintings, illustrations, advertisements, and designs; mostly of women. See his Google Doodle below.

Exceptional Impressionist Show at the Lady Lever Art Gallery Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:08 PM PST LIVERPOOL, UK - Renoir, Monet, Vuillard, Degas,  and Rodin are amongst some of the artists to be featured in a significant new exhibition for 2009 at the Lady Lever Art Gallery. In an international exchange made possible by the generous loan of works from the Nationalmuseum Stockholm, French Impressionists will run from 20 February to 31 May at the Port Sunlight Gallery famed for its own extensive collection of British Art.

Museum Tinguely Displays Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in New Exhibition Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:07 PM PST BASEL.- The Museum Tinguely in Basel and Kunsthaus Graz are co organising an exhibition that addresses the subjects of "Artificial Intelligence" and "Robotics". The title Robot Dreams is borrowed from a short story of the same name by Isaac Asimov, a biochemist and extraordinarily prolific writer of science fiction, in which Elvex, a robot, has to be destroyed because he has a dream in which he plans a revolt and starts to disregard the Three Laws that are intended to keep him subservient to humans. On exhibition 9 June through 12 September.

Google Announces Planned Documentation of Iraqi Museum Treasures Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:01 PM PST BAGHDAD (AP).- Google is documenting Iraq's National Museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced. The museum was ransacked in the chaotic aftermath of Saddam Hussein's ouster in April 2003, and only reopened to visitors early this year. Schmidt, who toured the museum with U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill on Tuesday, said it was important for the world to see Iraq's rich heritage and contribution to world culture. "The history of the beginning of — literally — civilization is made right here and is preserved here in this museum," Schmidt said at a ceremony attended by Iraqi officials.

Norton Simon Museum announces Loan of Painting by Ingres from the Frick Collection Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:01 PM PST PASADENA, CA. - The Norton Simon Museum will present a special installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New York. This portrait of the comtesse, a young woman known as Louise, Princess de Broglie, is the first loan from the Frick in an art exchange program between the venerable New York institution and the Norton Simon foundations. This captivating, large-scale work has never before traveled to California. Two related preparatory drawings from the Frick's collections will accompany the work.

Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroids at Northwestern University's Block Museum Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:00 PM PST   EVANSTON, IL - Largely unknown work by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe are on view at the Chicago area this winter in a major exhibitions at Northwestern University's Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. "Polaroids: Mapplethorpe," on view in the Block Museum's Alsdorf Gallery January 13 to April 5, 2009, explores Robert Mapplethorpe's creative development through his use of instant photography. Mapplethorpe (1946–89) emerged in the late 1970s as one of the most celebrated and controversial photographers of his time.

Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Wins Case Against Self-Named Dalí Museum in Berlin Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:58 PM PST BARCELONA.- In early 2009, the German company Dalí-Museum Berlin GmbH announced the opening, in February 2009 on Berlin's Leipziger Platz, of a show entitled "DALÍ - DIE AUSSTELLUNG" (DALÍ - THE EXHIBITION) displaying graphic works and sculptures attributed to Salvador Dalí. The presentation of this eminently commercial exhibition of mainly serial works gave rise to confusion, mainly on account of the use of the definite article ("THE exhibition") which appeared to indicate a special, unique official event. The company name and its presence on Internet under the domain names www.dalimuseum.de and www.dali-museum.de infringed the registered brand names of the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation ("Museo Dalí - Dalí Museum" among others).

New Zealand Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki Previews Robertson Gift Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:57 PM PST AUCKLAND, NZ - In May 2009 Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki announced a promised gift of 15 works of art through its Foundation, including paintings by Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin and Mondrian – the largest gift ever made to an art museum in Australasia. The gift, from New York art collectors and philanthropists Julian and Josie Robertson, represents some of the major European artists of the modern era. Its cultural value places it among the most generous philanthropic acts in New Zealand history. Now, for the first time in New Zealand and for one week only, New Zealanders have the chance to see 5 of these works FREE as a sneak preview to the Robertson's Promised Gift.

Arne Quinze Builds a New Installation on a Bridge in Rouen Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:56 PM PST ROUEN, FRANCE - For the festival Rouen Impressionnée, the city of Rouen asked Arne Quinze to create an installation, Camille, on the Boieldieu bridge in the center of Rouen. This installation (metal, concrete, fluorescent paint and wood) is going to be 120 meters long, between 6 and 20 meters high and contains 45 kilometres of wood. Eighteen concrete foots carry the weight of the installation, which weights 110 ton in total. The model for Camille is exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in Rouen.

International Design Museum Munich presents The Schoonhoven Silver Award 2009 Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:55 PM PST MUNICH.- "Poetry in Silver" is the motto of this year's 4th Schoonhoven Silver Award, which Japanese artist Hiroshi Suzuki won. Given its especially strict selection criteria the competition, which was first launched in 2002, has become a forum for leading silversmith artists from all over the world. The Jury admitted 51 of the 135 applicants to the competition including participants from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea and the United States. Of those admitted 47 submitted objects from the broad spectrum between free and applied art.

MUMOK features " Mind Expanders: Performative Bodies / Utopian Architectures " Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:54 PM PST VIENNA, AUSTRIA - "Mind Expanders" at MUMOK shows the connections between the social upheavals and the art forms of the 1960s and 1970s that were border transgressing and architecturally-influenced or performative in nature. The title is derived from Haus-Rucker-Co's seat object for two people which conjoins technology and body and stands as an example of the attempt to achieve an artistically radical redefinition of the social environment and interpersonal relationships.

Amon Carter Museum Displays Recent Acquisitions Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:53 PM PST   FORT WORTH, Texas - Amon Carter Museum Director Ron Tyler announced today the acquisition of two 20th century American works: a bronze sculpture entitled The Team by Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973) and a painting entitled White and Gray, no. 256  by Jean Xceron (1890–1967). Both works can be seen in the museum's painting and sculpture galleries.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:52 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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