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• Our AKN Editor Greatly Enjoyed A Guided Tour Of The ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum In Denmark
• Royal Ontario Museum shows Isabella Rossellini's Playful Short Film "Green Porno"
• Norton Simon Museum presents " Under the Influence: Art-Inspired Art "
• Jeu da Paume to Open Exhibition of Photographs by Lisette Model
• Denver Art Museum Presents " Artisans & Kings:Treasures from the Louvre "
• Corrigan Gallery Presents ' Storytellers: John Hull and Manning Williams '
• Hospital Radiologists Analyze Brooklyn Museum's Mummies and Make Discovery
• Kunsthaus Zurich Announces Programs to Celebrate 100th Anniversary
• Christie's New York Announces Americana Week 2010
• The Baroque Art of Italy in the Royal Collection opens in November
• Nazif Topçuoglu / Turkish Photographer
• The Getty Center to host 'Sur le Motif ~ Painting in Nature Around 1800'
• MoMA presents Sigalit Landau Installation
• Robert Birmelin Drawings at The Art Museum, MSU
• Sotheby's sells a 3 ¼ inch limestone treasure...for $57.1 Million
• Centro Cultural de Caixa Girona opens Infant Exhibit from The Montserrat Museum
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Our AKN Editor Greatly Enjoyed A Guided Tour Of The ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum In Denmark Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:38 PM PST ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, in Aarhus, Denmark is one of the largest art museums in northern Europe, 10 floors high with a total of 17,700 m². The museum opened on 7 April 2004 after a construction process that started with Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen winning the design competition in 1997. The name ARoS is the Old Danish name of the city Aarhus, while the capitalized letters of the name hint at the Latin word for art, namely ars. It is the ambition of ARoS to create and develop an international art museum in Aarhus to be known and appreciated both nationally and internationally as an innovative and attractive art museum with a high degree of artistic experience. The museum is divided into three different permanent collections: The Danish "Golden Age" 1770–1900, Danish Modernism 1900–1960 and Contemporary Art. The ARos also includes The 9 Spaces, a specific use "gallery in progress" of installation art, where 1 or 2 rooms are done by guest artists each year. The use of the number 9 refers to Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and the 9 circles of hell. The rooms are painted black to contrast with the bright white exterior. The roof terrace substitutes for the divine light as if you descended from hell. In this way the whole museum is part of the travel from hell to heaven. This movement is emphasized by the grand spiral staircase in the main 'museum streetscape'. With thousands of square meters spanning the ten levels the museum now has ample space to showcase its extensive collection of 2,100 paintings, 400 sculptures and installations, 200 art videos and over 7,000 drawings, photos and graphics: a collection that ahead of the inauguration was enhanced by the addition of works by international artists such as Bill Viola, Tony Oursler, Carsten Höller, Miwa Yanagi and James Turrell. In large measure, a donation of DKK 40m by New Carlsberg Foundation over a ten-year period enabled the purchase of these works. Besides finishing The 9 Spaces, and many future exhibits ARoS extended the museum with "Your Rainbow Panorama" by Ólafur Elíasson (see image below ). Situated on the roof, it is a circular skywalk in the colors of the rainbow, the gives a very unique panorama of the city of Aarhus. ARoS has featured some prominent changing exhibitions inspired, curated or made by the likes of Bjørn Nørgaard, Ingvar Cronhammar, architect Frank Gehry, Paul McCarthy, Robert Rauschenberg, Michael Kvium, H.C. Andersen, and Wim Wenders. The first of these exhibitions presented a series of main works by pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. As many other modern art galleries and museums ARoS also plays great tribute to architects and their works having hosted several architecture themed exhibitions. Website: _ www.aros.dk/ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum's collection of paintings and sculptures from the 18th and 19th centuries is the largest in Denmark outside Copenhagen. The collection of art from the Danish "Golden Age" in particular is one of the finest in the country. The collection is located in Gallery I at the top of the building – provides two gallery trails that bring visitors into close contact with major works from the museum's comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures dating from the period 1770-1930. The first trail traces the development of Danish art from N.A. Abildgaard at the close of the 1700s through Vilhelm Hammershøi and J.F. Willumsen at around 1900: a trajectory that includes "Golden Age" paintings by C.W. Eckersberg, Johan Thomas Lundbye, Christen Købke, P.C. Skovgaard among many others as well as works representative of National Romanticism and late Romanticism. French Salon art from Mønsted's Collection leads on to Naturalism, P.S. Krøyer and the Skagen School. The selection of nineteenth century works is rounded off by a series of realist works by Frants Henningsen, among others. Classical modernism from 1900-1930 is the theme of the gallery's second trail. Here visitors encounter notable works by early modernists such as Karl Isakson,Edvard Weie, Harald Giersing and Olaf Rude. The collection of contemporary art at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum reflects the international thrust of the modern age. Gallery II – the middle gallery – shows works from the museum's collection of Danish and international art dating from the period 1930–1980. The collection of artworks from these highly consequential 50 years concentrates on a succession of pillars in twentieth century art. The groundbreaking experiments of 1930s' surrealism led to the formation of two international schools – Cobra with Asger Jorn as its leading light and that of "concrete art" pioneered by Richard Mortensen and Robert Jacobsen. Both movements are represented in the gallery. Separate rooms are dedicated to the two luminaries of post-war expressivism – Svend Wiig Hansen and Mogens Andersen. The 1960s saw the total subversion of the concept of art through the emergence of experimental movements such as Pop Art, Fluxus and the Danish Eks-school. Trailblazing works by Andy Warhol, Arthur Køpcke and Bjørn Nørgaard occupy a prominent position in the gallery, as does the museum's Per Kirkeby collection, which is the most comprehensive Kirkeby collection in the world. The museum's gallery for contemporary art shows Danish and international art from 1980 to the present day. The collection ranges from the Danish "Neue Wilden" of the 1980s to the 1990s' experiments with the new mediums of photography, video and installation art. The Gallery is home to works by a spectrum of artists – both Danish and international – who, as established figures on the international art scene, enable us to take the pulse of art today. The West Gallery with its almost 400 square meters hosts three to four temporary exhibitions annually as well as a number of informal presentations of particular art projects. The exhibition space highlights new media – photography, video and installation art. The exhibitions focus on both young, experimental art and established artists. As is the case with the other exhibitions in the museum, the west gallery presents art of high, international quality. ARoS is currently exhibiting the work of Christian Lemmerz - "GHOST", through March 6th 2011, a revolutionary artist who employs a wide range of materials, such as marble, paper, wire, meat, fat, and margarine. Lemmerz has created a large body of art that fascinates even as it repels, brushing against or transgressing taboos and incarnating the darker sides of human nature in artistic form. With the exhibition 'Ghost', the largest solo exhibition of the works Christian Lemmerz yet staged, ARoS wishes to celebrate an artist who has continually renewed his artistic idiom over the course of the last 25 years. Employing a wide range of materials, such as marble, paper, wire, meat, fat, and margarine, Christian Lemmerz has created a large body of art that fascinates even as it repels, brushing against or transgressing taboos and incarnating the darker sides of human nature in artistic form. From his original point of departure in the experimental art scene of the 1980's, e.g. at Værkstedet Værst, Christian Lemmerz has evolved to become a master of classical arts. With his marble sculptures he has inscribed himself in a sculptural tradition with roots going back to the immortal masters of Antiquity, the Renaissance, and neo-classicism. In 2009 his endeavors were recognized when he was awarded the Thorvaldsen Medal, the most prestigious accolade any Danish sculptor can receive. Over the course of two years, ARoS has worked closely with Christian Lemmerz on setting up the comprehensive exhibition, which features his large-scale, painstakingly crafted marble and bronze sculptures as the central works. 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, Norway and now Denmark. 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.

Royal Ontario Museum shows Isabella Rossellini's Playful Short Film "Green Porno" Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:37 PM PST TORONTO.- The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Green Porno: Scandalous Sea, an art installation and series of short films written by and starring internationally-renowned actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini. Presented in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival®: Future Projections, these two- to four-minute films, three of which receive their world premieres, illustrate in a humourously entertaining yet scientifically accurate portrayal the reproductive habits and ecological challenges of marine life. A variety of intricate and oversized paper sculptures and colourful costumes created for the Green Porno series accompanies the films.

Norton Simon Museum presents " Under the Influence: Art-Inspired Art " Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:35 PM PST   PASADENA, CA - The Norton Simon Museum presents Under the Influence: Art-Inspired Art, an exhibition that looks at the ways artists have been inspired by and responded to the artworks of others. More than 45 objects from the Museum's permanent collection are examined through the lens of imitation and appropriation, bringing together rarely seen paintings, works on paper and sculpture from the late-15th through the 20th centuries.

Jeu da Paume to Open Exhibition of Photographs by Lisette Model Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:34 PM PST PARIS.- If Lisette Model took up photography as a way of earning a living, it is also true that she always fought for her own subjects, rather than simply carry out the assignments given by editors. She believed that for a photograph to be successful its subject had to be something that "hits you in the stomach." This could be something familiar or something unfamiliar. For Model, the camera was an instrument for probing the world, a way of capturing aspects of a permanently changing reality that otherwise we would fail to see.

Denver Art Museum Presents " Artisans & Kings:Treasures from the Louvre " Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:33 PM PST   DENVER, CO - The Denver Art Museum (DAM) hosts Artisans and Kings: Selected Treasures from the Louvre, presented by Accenture, bringing masterpieces from one of the world's most renowned museums to the western United States for the first time. Organized by the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition will feature more than 125 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts representing works from the reigns of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI. On view October 6, 2007—January 6, 2008.

Corrigan Gallery Presents ' Storytellers: John Hull and Manning Williams ' Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:32 PM PST CHARLESTON, SC - The Corrigan Gallery will present the first duo show of works by Charleston's own Manning Williams and John Hull, the new head of the studio art department at the College of Charleston. Storytellers: John Hull and Manning Williams opens in April with a reception from 5 pm to 8:00 pm on Friday, April 4, 2008 at 62 Queen Street, Charleston. The show will hang from April 2 – May 11. This is the first group of new paintings by Williams in several years and Hull's first gallery drawing show.

Hospital Radiologists Analyze Brooklyn Museum's Mummies and Make Discovery Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:30 PM PST BROOKLYN, NY.- Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection underwent computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island yesterday. Hospital spokeswoman Michelle Pinto said to MSNBC that the testing enables radiologists to learn about the bones and skeletal system of the mummies in extraordinary detail, without having to do invasive or damaging procedures. However, it's the type of news no patient wants to hear and no doctor wants to deliver. So the radiologist looks over the scans, then might say, in a firm but sympathetic voice: "I'm sorry, sir, but by the look of these images it appears nearly all of your organs have been removed. Moreover, you've been dead for thousands of years".

Kunsthaus Zurich Announces Programs to Celebrate 100th Anniversary Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:29 PM PST ZURICH.- In 2010 the Kunsthaus Zürich will celebrate its hundredth anniversary. Switzerland's oldest combined collection and exhibition space opened its doors in Karl Moser's late Jugendstil museum building on the Heimplatz in 1910, and now, in honor of the centenary, the Kunsthaus will showcase its opulent collection, including many donations, and mount a major Picasso show in tribute to its tradition of key exhibitions. In 2015 the artistic idea of a dynamic museum for the 21st-century will become reality, and the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft's success story, which owes its inception in 1787 to the initiative of local burghers, will have been continued in a further exciting chapter – the Kunsthaus extension.

Christie's New York Announces Americana Week 2010 Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:28 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced details of Americana Week 2010, a series of public viewings and sales devoted to fine and rare examples of American artistry and craftsmanship. Included in the week are sales of Important American Silver (January 21), Important American Folk Art, Furniture, and Decorative Arts (January 22), and Chinese Export Art (January 25). With over 450 lots, including a number of rare survivals from the 18th and 19th-century and many items never before offered at auction, the Americana series of sales are expected to achieve a combined total in excess of $4 million.

The Baroque Art of Italy in the Royal Collection opens in November Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:26 PM PST   LONDON.- The drama of the Baroque comes to Edinburgh in part two of The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection. The 31 paintings and 43 drawings selected for the exhibition reflect the great stylistic diversity of the period, which gave birth to the powerful realism of Caravaggio, the revolutionary naturalism of the Carracci and the cool classicism of Poussin and Domenichino. Highlights of the exhibition include two works by Caravaggio, The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew and Boy Peeling Fruit, both previously thought to be copies of lost originals. Recent research by Royal Collection curators and conservators has resulted in the re-attribution of these paintings, which are now generally recognised by experts as by the master himself.

Nazif Topçuoglu / Turkish Photographer Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:25 PM PST   UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS - Flatland Gallery presents Nazif Topçuoglu 'Lamentations', on view through April 12, 2008. The world of Turkish photographer Nazif Topçuoglu is a prohibited place where well-groomed high school girls in miniskirts perform adult fantasies with unusual props such as books, compass and microscopes.

The Getty Center to host 'Sur le Motif ~ Painting in Nature Around 1800' Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:24 PM PST   Los Angeles, CA - Considered a minor genre for centuries, landscape painting was revolutionized in the 19th century—rising in both public and critical esteem—with the achievements of Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau and the Barbizon School, and, in the latter part of the century, the Impressionists. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, September 23, 2008 through March 8, 2009, Sur le Motif: Painting in Nature around 1800 draws mostly from the Getty's own collection of extraordinary European landscape paintings, as well as from those of neighboring institutions and private collections, to demonstrate the core practice of painting outdoors as it developed during the late 1700s and early 1800s.

MoMA presents Sigalit Landau Installation Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:22 PM PST NEW YORK CITY - For Projects 87: Sigalit Landau, The Museum of Modern Art presents Cycle Spun (2007), a three-channel video installation that was recently acquired for the collection, by artist Sigalit Landau (b. Israel, 1969). The videos—DeadSee (2005), Barbed Hula (2000), and Day Done (2007)—each depict a performative act of spinning or circular motion, set against a landscape in Landau's native Israel. The works can be viewed as either a triptych or a trilogy shown simultaneously. On view through July 28, 2008, the exhibition is part of the Museum's ongoing Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series and is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator, Department of Media.

Robert Birmelin Drawings at The Art Museum, MSU Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:21 PM PST EAST LANSING, MI –– The Art Museum at Michigan State University will exhibit Robert Birmelin Drawings in the Works on Paper Gallery from October 17 through November 4, 2007.

Sotheby's sells a 3 ¼ inch limestone treasure...for $57.1 Million Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:19 PM PST   New York, NY, – On December 5th, in a packed salesroom at Sotheby's, The Guennol Lioness, one of the last known masterworks from the dawn of civilization remaining in private hands, sold for a remarkable $57,161,000, a record for any sculpture at auction. That outstanding price also eclipsed the previous record for an Antiquity at auction and more than tripled the pre-sale high estimate of $18 million, and set a new record for an antiquity at auction.

Centro Cultural de Caixa Girona opens Infant Exhibit from The Montserrat Museum Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:17 PM PST MADRID - The fact that the Montserrat Museum could present a monographic exhibition, of great artistic interest, titled "Infants", indicate that it's holdings are important and that the theme of children had great resonance in Catalonian art during the 19th and 20th centuries. There are many commissioned portraits, in which the author is compromised to guess the enigma of the feeling that a child hides and to make an artistic rendering. But in no way, can these commissioned works of art be inferior to the others.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:16 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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