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• The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ~ Denmark's Most Visited Art Museum ~ Greets Our Editor
• Matisse Retrospective at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Breaks Attendance Records
• Yale Center for British Art Celebrates Paul Mellon Centennial
• Hammer Museum Highlights Printed Series, 1500-2007
• Wexner Center for the Arts hosts "Andy Warhol / Other Voices, Other Rooms"
• Famed Collection of J. Irwin & Xenia S. Miller to be Offered at Christie's in London
• The Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum presents 'The Third Mind ~ American Artists Contemplate Asia'
• Wichita Art Museum to feature " Free at Last "
• Lehman Brothers Art Collection Yields Over US$2.2 Million at Freeman's
• Jake & Dinos Chapman ~ Memento Moronika ~ at Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover
• Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM) to Present a Weekend With Walton Ford
• Shakespeare To Tour Britain
• From Cranach to Monet : Masterpieces from the Pérez Simón Collection
• WAM to Re-Install Permanent Collection : Image of America
• The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) Benefit and Art Auction
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ~ Denmark's Most Visited Art Museum ~ Greets Our Editor Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:56 PM PST The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an international private museum with a considerable collection of superior modern art. It is the most visited art museum in Denmark. The name of the museum derives from the first owner of the property, Alexander Brun, who named the villa after his three wives, all named Louise. Situated 45 minutes outside Copenhagen, the museum opened in 1958. It was founded by Knud W. Jensen, who wanted to create a museum where Danes could see modern art, which until then had no special place in the Danish museums and show the interaction between visual art, architecture and the landscape. From the mid-60s on, Louisiana changed its approach from being a predominantly Danish museum to a museum with a renowned international collection. Its permanent collection includes more than 3700 works and is one of the largest in Scandinavia. It starts in the period after 1945 with artists like Picasso, Giacometti, Dubuffet, Yves Klein, Rauschenberg, Henry Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, Morris Louis, Jorn, Baselitz, Polke, Kiefer, and Per Kirkeby. Every year Louisiana offers 4-6 temporary exhibitions, presenting both great modernist artists and the latest international contemporary art. Throughout the years the museum has persisted in taking the international view as a premise for its exhibitions and Louisiana's status implies that the museum is able to attract future exhibitions and artists of a high standard available to only very few Scandinavian museums. Louisiana has become well known and recognized for what Knud W. Jensen called the sauna principle. He divided the exhibitions into 'hot' and 'cold' – the hot ones featured the artists that people knew and could recognize, the cold ones those they had never heard of, the 'difficult', often contemporary artists. The trick was to link the two so that people would be attracted to the city of Humlebæk by the popular exhibitions. It has never been Louisiana's goal to represent the whole chronological line through the art of the epoch. Louisiana's collection is characterized by concentrating on more compact groups of works and artists into which they offer the viewer deeper insights. This is especially true of artists like Giacometti and Asger Jorn, who are both represented by several very fine works – and it is also true of a number of artistic periods: European Nouveau Réalisme with Yves Klein, American Pop Art with Warhol and Lichtenstein, German art of the 1980s with Kiefer and Baselitz, as well as video art from the 1990s until today with important installations by, among others, Bill Viola and Gary Hill. Louisiana also displays a collection of Pre-Columbian art. Consisting of more than 400 objects, the collection was a donation from the Wessel-Bagge Foundation in 2001. The grounds around the museum houses a landscaped sculpture garden. It is made up by a plateau and the sloping terrain towards Øresund and is dominated by huge, ancient specimens trees and sweeping vistas of the sea. It contains works by such artists as Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Henri Laurens, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Miró and Henry Moore. The sculptures are either placed so that they can be viewed from within, in special sculpture yards or independently around the gardens, forming a synthesis with the lawns, the trees and the sea. There are also examples of site-specific art by such artists as Enzo Cucchi, Dani Karavan and George Trakas. Several times a week – in spring and autumn – Louisiana goes 'live'. Louisiana Live offers museum guests a series of engaging and highly interesting evenings that make the museum a cultural meeting-place. The Louisiana Café has one of Denmark's most beautiful panoramic views of the Øresund sound. Throughout the summer season, one can enjoy the food and the view outdoors from the Calder Patio. The museum is included in the Patricia Schultz book: "1,000 Places to See Before You Die." Website:_ www.louisiana.dk/ The Louisiana Museum on Modern Art is the forum for the first presentation in Scandinavia of American artist Walton Ford. The exhibition is opened from December 8th to March 6th 2011. His large-scale watercolours are melodramatic, powerful, and wondrous depictions of the way human civilization and our imagination has perceived and treated the animal world. Walton Ford is a brilliant artist in the classical sense and at the same time an impressive and truly contemporary storyteller. His large, masterful watercolours of animals are at once seducing and alarming – full of vivid colours, bizarre clues and surreal symbolism. Walton Ford paints watercolours populated with animals of all kinds: birds, fish, monkeys, oxen, tigers and lions, either consuming and fighting one another bestially or being mutilated by human beings in a grim, inscrutable yet beautiful universe. Everything in the artist's pictorial fables is painted with a wealth of details and accuracy that lures the viewer into a close study of almost every brush stroke. Stylistically, Walton Ford's animal tales recall classic naturalistic, zoological illustrations from a bygone age, executed with technical perfection; but on close examination they are far from the objectivity to which science aspires; rather, they are strangely horrifying representations, and sometimes with a humorous angle. . . Louisiana Museum has links between the exhibition activities and the development of the collections and the exhibitions often leave traces in the collection thanks to acquisitions or donations. The museum has gained a reputation of being in touch with the zeitgeist of the contemporary art world that draw in the crowds. The Lousiana Museum is a singular building designed with fundamental idea of joining architecture with art and nature. In 1958, architects Jørgen Bo and Wilhelm Wohlert were commissioned to design the museum taking as their point of departure the old patrician villa. Over the years they have been responsible for the ongoing expansion of the museum. The Louisiana today stands as a masterpiece of Danish modernist architecture. An architecture particularly famous for the way the new extensions have been added to the old main building all the way adapting to the beautiful park landscape with its trees, forest lake, lawns and the Øresund sound. In 1966 and 1971 the museum was gradually extended with the West Wing. Then in 1976 this was followed by the Concert Hall. In 1982 the South Wing was built, and for many years it housed the museum's own collection. The South Wing was built into the landscape to maintain Louisiana's 'low-lying' look. With construction of the East Wing, which was completed in 1992, the buildings of the museum have been linked in a kind of circle. In 1994 the Children's House was built; it helps children and the young to develop close ties with the museum. Outside the landscape windows of the Children's House lies the Lake Garden with its winding paths, steep slopes and architectural works by a number of international architects such as Ralph Erskine, Joseph Paul Kleihues, Aldo Rossi and Dominique Perrault. New stylistic elements have been introduced here and there, but the continuity has been retained. The Louisiana Museum is exhibiting the works of Anselm Kiefer until 9 January 2011. Kiefer is one of the post-war period's greatest and most famous German artists, and for many years he has enjoyed a central place in Louisiana's collection. This major exhibition features works from four decades from Kiefer's artistic voyage. This is the first major showing of this important artist in Scandinavia and at the same time forms a grand finale in Louisiana's showings of the post-war German 'gang of four': Polke, Richter, Baselitz and now Kiefer. A central theme of the exhibition is found in the artist's particular insistence on the relevance of grand narratives. Kiefer (born 1945) uses myths that to a considerable extent absorb classical material, but which must be called both the myths of the age and his own myths, often with a starting point in the artist's own traumatized nationality. The exhibition presents around 90 works ranging from the earliest years after the Academy of Art in Karlsruhe in 1969 and all the way up until today, showing brand new pictures by Kiefer, who in 2008 was honored with "Der Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels" (The Peace Prize of the German Booksellers), which was thus awarded for the first time to a visual artist. There are five loosely demarcated themes, each of which clarifies artistic concerns to which Kiefer's works offer central contributions: New Works, Landscape as Myth, World Time – Life Time, Iconoclasm and The Book. A brand new film about Anselm Kiefer with the title "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow" is shown in the museum cinema. The film is by Sophie Fiennes and was shown to great acclaim outside the competition at this year's Cannes Festival. The film documents Kiefer's working processes and can be experienced as a personal journey into the universe that Kiefer has built up since 2000 in the mountains in the south of France. Kiefer's works also form part of the educational museum's educational program. The Museum has a long history of cultural-historical exhibitions and of presenting large photo, design and architecture shows, and their publishing program produces exquisite catalogs to accompany their exhibitions. When Louisiana celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008, some of the artists who had exhibited at the museum were asked to design a print to be sold in support of Louisiana. A visit to this Dane jewel is a must for any art lover. 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.

Matisse Retrospective at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Breaks Attendance Records Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:55 PM PST MADRID.- Visiting an exhibition at night has become one of the best cultural alternatives to fight high temperatures that are registered during the day in Madrid, a bet that Matisse has multiplied by four the number of night visitors to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum compared to last year. The retrospective "Matisse 1917-1941", which is on view at the Thyssen until September 20, has conquered since its opening on June 9, more than 145,000 visitors, averaging 2,422 per day, according to data given to Spanish news agency EFE. The extended hours, from 7 pm to 11 pm, attracts more than 600 persons, which equals to 25 per cent of daily visits during July and August.

Yale Center for British Art Celebrates Paul Mellon Centennial Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:54 PM PST New Haven, CT - This spring the Yale Center for British Art celebrates its thirtieth anniversary and commemorates the centennial of the birth of its founder, Paul Mellon (1907–1999; Yale College Class of 1929), with the special exhibition, Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art.  Mr. Mellon was one of the greatest collectors and cultural philanthropists of the twentieth century.  His collection at the Yale Center is unquestionably the largest and most comprehensive representation of British art outside of the United Kingdom.  The exhibition will showcase nearly 250 treasures from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Center and will feature many works not often seen by the public. These include significant drawings and watercolors by William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J.M.W. Turner, as well as splendid rare books, manuscripts, maps, and atlases.  On Exhibition April 18–July 29, 2007.

Hammer Museum Highlights Printed Series, 1500-2007 Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:52 PM PST Los Angeles, CA – This exhibition examines the development of serial imagery in prints, from the early European Renaissance to the present day. Drawn primarily from the extensive collection of works on paper in the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, the exhibition is one in an ongoing series of exhibitions focusing on the Hammer Museum's permanent collections. On view March 23 – July 13, 2008.

Wexner Center for the Arts hosts "Andy Warhol / Other Voices, Other Rooms" Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:49 PM PST   COLUMBUS, OH - The Wexner Center's presentation of Andy Warhol : Other Voices, Other Rooms—the only U.S. installation of this show—will feature dynamic, multimedia, environments that immerse the viewer and offer a fresh look at the persona and practice of the celebrated Pop Art master. On view at the Wexner Center from September 13, 2008 through February 15, 2009, Other Voices, Other Rooms will showcase more than 700 works and items dating from 1949 to 1987, including films and TV programs, paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, wallpaper, installations, objects, seldom heard audio recordings, and extraordinary archival material—together focusing on concepts at the heart of Warhol's work: consumer culture, sexual identity, social transgression, and the eradication of distinctions between high and low culture. Giving equal weight to all media that Warhol used, the exhibition will shed new light on the cinematic sensibility that pervades his work.

Famed Collection of J. Irwin & Xenia S. Miller to be Offered at Christie's in London Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:48 PM PST LONDON - Christie's announces the consignment from the Collection of J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller to its 2008 season of sales at Christie's in London and New York. Leading the collection are seventeen works which will be offered at the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London on June 24, and represent the most important and valuable collection of Impressionist and Modern art ever offered by Christie's in Europe. The seventeen Impressionist and Modern works together are expected to realize in excess of £40 million / $80 million.

The Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum presents 'The Third Mind ~ American Artists Contemplate Asia' Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:46 PM PST NEW YORK, NY –  The Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum presents The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, an exhibition that illuminates the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literature, music, and philosophical concepts on American art. The exhibition features approximately 250 works by more than100 artists across a broad range of media—including painting, sculpture, video art, installations, works on paper, film, live performance, literary works, and ephemera—and draws from over 100 major museumand private collections in North America, Europe, and Japan. On exhibition to April 19, 2009.

Wichita Art Museum to feature " Free at Last " Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:45 PM PST WICHITA, KS - Thanks to the generosity of the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation, the Wichita Art Museum is pleased to announce that the panel exhibition Free At Last: A History of the Abolition of Slavery in America  will be on view March 14 through April 13, 2007. Through letters, documents, cartoons, photographs and broadsides from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this panel exhibition traces the history of the movement to abolish slavery from the framing of the Constitution to its abolition during the Civil War. It illuminates shades of opinion within the ranks of the famous and ordinary, free and enslaved, men and women to come to see slavery as incompatible with the ideals upon which our nation was founded.

Lehman Brothers Art Collection Yields Over US$2.2 Million at Freeman's Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:44 PM PST PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman's auctioneers sold the third part of the multi-million dollar art collection of the former global financial services firm Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LBHI) in Philadelphia for US$600,000. Bringing the total value of the collection to date, including parts one and two, sold at Freeman's in 2009, to over US$2.2 million. The sale, delayed by one week due to heavy snow, was unlike the previous two Lehman sales held at Freeman's. This auction, with no reserves, included over 60 lithographs and engravings, depicting nautical, sporting, and landscape themes, in conjunction with a select group of Audubon ornithological prints.

Jake & Dinos Chapman ~ Memento Moronika ~ at Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:42 PM PST   Hanover, Germany - With Jake and Dinos Chapman, the Kestnergesellschaft brings two of the most important British artists working today to Hanover along with a group of works never before shown. Emerging under the label of Young British Artists in the 1990's, the brothers' art is scandalous and provocative. Behind the shocking appearance on the surface, however, there is an intense engagement with themes of humanity and moral behaviour, particularly humankind's capacity for violence, barbarism and war. On exhibition 28 November through 1 March, 2009.

Provincetown Art Association & Museum (PAAM) to Present a Weekend With Walton Ford Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:41 PM PST Provincetown, MA - The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) and Norman Mailer Writers Colony (NMWC) announce two special events featuring the internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Walton Ford; both events are open to the public and proceeds will benefit both non-profit groups. First is a gathering and intimate dinner with the artist at the historic Norman Mailer Home on Saturday, August 15, 7:30pm. At $325, tickets include a signed copy of Ford's book, Pancha Tantra. The second event is a public presentation at PAAM on Sunday, August 16, 11am, during which this former Guggenheim Fellow discusses his creative journey and his artworks in an open forum.

Shakespeare To Tour Britain Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:38 PM PST LONDON.- One of the National Portrait Gallery's most important possessions - the 'Chandos' portrait of William Shakespeare - is to tour Britain for the first time since it was acquired by the Gallery as part of a major exhibition of writers' portraits. The Gallery's first acquisition in 1856, the 'Chandos' portrait is now considered the only representation of the writer that has any claim to have been painted from life. This follows groundbreaking analysis conducted by the Gallery as part of its 150th anniversary exhibition, Searching for Shakespeare in 2006.

From Cranach to Monet : Masterpieces from the Pérez Simón Collection Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:34 PM PST Madrid, Spain - The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum exhibits From Cranach to Monet. Masterpieces from the Pérez Simón Collection, the first public display of this important private Mexican collection.  A total of 57 paintings by some of the great names in the history of art – including Cranach, Rubens, Canaletto, Tiepolo, Goya, Corot, Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Pissarro, Renoir and Van Gogh – will provide visitors with an overview of what is considered one of the most significant private collections in Latin America...The Pérez Simón Collection.

WAM to Re-Install Permanent Collection : Image of America Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:28 PM PST WICHITA, KS - For two years, visitors to the Wichita Art Museum have seen A Collective Image of America: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Wichita Art Museum, including works such as Edward Hopper's Sunlight on Brownstones and Winslow Homer's In the Mowing.  The current installation will come down with the new arrangement opening Sunday, August 6.

The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) Benefit and Art Auction Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:25 PM PST New York City  - The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) will host re:FORM , an art auction and cocktail party benefit at Cheim & Read gallery in New York on Wednesday, September 3. re:FORM  will benefit DPA, the nation's leading organization promoting alternatives to the drug war that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.  re:FORM  represents the second installment in a groundbreaking partnership between the art world and the drug policy reform movement, following our first successful event in 2005.  DPA will honor three dear friends of the organization: Donald Baechler, Dr. Mathilde Krim, and Fred Tomaselli.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 09 Dec 2010 07:24 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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