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• Our AKN Editor Enjoys The Ordrupgaard Museum In Denmark & The Zaha Hadid Architecture Design
• Solo of Recent Film Work by Ryan Trecartin on View at MOCA
• Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art will show Highly Regarded Korean Artist Kimsooja
• ART HK 10 ~ Hong Kong International Art Fair ~ Its Third Year
• The Albright-Knox Art Gallery hosts 'Works on Paper: The Natalie & Irving Forman Collection'
• MCA launches third biennial focusing on Contemporary Australian Art
• Cranbrook Academy of Art to Create Experiential Environment for AXA Art Lounge
• National Gallery of Victoria to Present the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
• Kitty Kantilla Retrospective at Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Friedrich Kunath Creates a Salon-Like Installation at the Hammer Museum
• MoMA Hosts Intimate Installation Featuring Sculptures by Lee Bontecou
• Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery hosts Tony Clark
• Second Nature ~ The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer Museum
• Nam June Paik ~ Late Pioneer Video Artist ~ Opens at The James Cohan Gallery
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Our AKN Editor Enjoys The Ordrupgaard Museum In Denmark & The Zaha Hadid Architecture Design Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:52 PM PST The Ordrupgaard is a state-owned art museum located near Copenhagen. The museum houses one of Northern Europe's most considerable collections of Danish and French art from the19th and beginning of the 20th century. Ordrupgaard was founded 1916-1918 by former Hafnia Insurance managing director, Wilhelm Hansen (1868-1936) and his wife Henny. Hansen obtained many of the collection's pieces in the early 20th century, and it is displayed in its original setting in what was his mansion. Hansen knew lots of artists, often travelled to Paris and gathered a significant French impressionists collection. He was a visionary and set out to create a collection with up to twelve works by each of the most important artists, ranging from Corot to Cézanne. With its manageable scope, the collection provides a coherent overview of early modernist art. Hansen was keen to familiarize Danes with French art, and, ever since its inauguration, the veiled by woods country mansion was opened for visitors once a week. In 1951, after his widow died, it became known that the mansion, its English-style park and the entire art collection would be left to the Danish state on one condition - it had to be turned into a museum. Ordrupgaard would had continue its existence as a little-known countryside museum, if the Danish Ministry of Culture had not launched an international design competition for construction of its extension in 2001. The Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid won it and transformed the museum into the world-renowned destination. The extension opened on 30 August 2005, and with its special architectural style it adds an extra dimension to Ordrupgaard. The extension measures 1,950 sq.m. has improved the space, climate and security conditions so that Ordrupgaard is now able to present special international level exhibitions. The extension is constructed in glass and black lava concrete joined together to form a deconstructivistic and organic body. The museum was originally built as a three-winged trellised country mansion in the neo-classical style. The gallery which houses the French collection is connected to the main building by a small conservatory. Additionally a porter's lodge, a driver's residence (now demolished) and a coach house (named "Lavendelhuset"/ The Lavender House) were erected. A shed and a small half-timbered summerhouse comprise the rest of the original buildings on the estate. The Park at Ordrupgaard is laid out in the English style with a smaller French inspired rose garden, originally adorned with a ceramic fountain by Jean Gauguin. From 1941 to 1942 furniture designer Finn Juhl designed and furnished his own house next door to Ordrupgaard. The house is one of the first functionalistic one-family houses in Denmark. Here Finn Juhl lived until his death in 1989. Finn Juhl's widow Hanne Wilhelm Hansen left the house and it's interior unchanged. On 3rd of April 2008 the house opened as a separate, additional part of Ordrupgaard Art Museum, thanks to a private donation. The museum café offers good international cuisine, while trees and wooden flowers seem like a live and vibrant painting behind its vast windows. Website: www.ordrupgaard.dk/ The Ordrupgaard has three different permanent exhibitions: the Danish Fine Arts Collection, the French Fine Arts Collection and the Collection of Furniture and Handicrafts. Wilhelm Hansen established his collection of Danish art covering the19th to the beginning of the 20th century during the period of 1892 to 1916. The Danish Golden Age is comprehensively represented by the works of C.V. Eckersberg, Christian Købke, Johan Thomas Lundbye, P.C. Skovgaard and Wilhelm Marstrand. The main part of the collection shows Wilhelm Hansen's interest for contemporary art with works by artists such as: L.A. Ring, Vilhelm Hammershøi and Theodor Philipsen, not forgetting the Fynbo Painters Johannes Larsen, Fritz Syberg and Peter Hansen, Wilhelm Hansen's childhood friend. During the 1st World War, Wilhelm Hansen focused his interest on French art. From 1916 to 1918 he purchased French paintings, pastels, drawings and sculptures laying the foundation for the French Fine Arts Collection. His first purchases were paintings by Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir. Wilhelm Hansen's main focus was on French Impressionism. However to put Impressionism into perspective, his collection also comprised the genres immediately preceding and following. Therefore Ordrupgaard is able to show paintings by Eugène Delacroix, representing Romanticism, Théodore Rousseau the Barbizon-school, Gustave Courbet Realism, Édouard Manet Modernism and Paul Gauguin Symbolism, following the advice of the French art critic Théodore Duret (1838-1927). Parallel to Wilhelm Hansen's interest in Danish and French art was his interest for furniture and handicrafts. He was especially interested in ceramics, chandeliers and furniture executed by Thorvald Bindesbøll (1846-1908). One of the treasures of Ordrupgaard is the famous painting by Edgar Degas, "The Bellelli Family". Degas' group composition was an amazing development of old the methods used by his predecessors, drawing on the centuries-old tradition of figurative painting and combining them with the artistic investigations and insights which came following Impressionism, from Seurat to early Mondrian. The personages shown in the Family Portrait (the author's original title) are Degas' aunt Laura Belleli together with her daughters Giovanna and Giulia and her husband Gennaro. She has just returned from the funeral of her father, Ilera Degas. The Ordrupgaard will be showing until January 23rd 2011 the exhibition "Encountering Japan. Degas, Monet, Gauguin…" that gives examples of how the Impressionist were inspired by Japanese wood cuts. The exhibition tells the story of this significant encounter between East and West. Ordrupgaard will present more than 150 wood cuts and show how the Japanese influence is expressed in works of artists such as Manet, Degas, Morisot and Gauguin etc. from the collection of the museum. The Ordrupgaard connects French and Danish Fine Arts with exceptional style. 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.

Solo of Recent Film Work by Ryan Trecartin on View at MOCA Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:45 PM PST LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents Any Ever, the American premiere of artist Ryan Trecartin's 2007–10 body of work through October 17, 2010, at MOCA Pacific Design Center. The entire exhibition space is devoted to the non-sequential series of seven movies produced over the past three years with collaborator Lizzie Fitch and contributors ranging from friends and artists to working child actors and reality television performers. Any Ever, shot in Miami, is structurally conceived as a diptych consisting of a trilogy, Trill-ogy Comp (2009), and a quartet, Re'Search Wait'S (2009–10). The seven movies are interconnected spatially via networked viewing rooms and an ambient soundscape, and materially by characters, semblances of plot, and recurring formal motifs.

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art will show Highly Regarded Korean Artist Kimsooja Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:36 PM PST GATESHEAD, UK - Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art presents the first UK solo show by the highly regarded Korean artist Kimsooja. The exhibition, located in Baltic's largest gallery space on Level 4, will consist of two projected works A Needle Woman and A Laundry Woman-Yamuna River , India.  Kimsooja's work combines performance, video, and installation, addressing issues of the displaced self. Kimsooja brings together a conceptual, logical, and structural investigation of performance through immobility that inverts the notion of the artist as the predominant actor. The exhibition opens on Monday 5 October 2009.

ART HK 10 ~ Hong Kong International Art Fair ~ Its Third Year Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:26 PM PST HONG KONG.- Back for its third year, ART HK 10 – Hong Kong International Art Fair will take place from 27 – 30 May 2010 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Sponsored by Deutsche Bank, ART HK 10 is delighted to present the strongest exhibitor line-up for an art fair in Asia to date, affirming its position as the leading art fair in Asia. The Fair will feature diverse solo presentations from a number of the world's most respected contemporary artists. Highlights so far include Chinese artist Liu Ye for Sperone Westwater, Japanese artists Yoshitomo Nara for Marianne Boesky, Aya Takano for Emmanuel Perrotin and the acclaimed Glasgow artist Jim Lambie for The Modern Institute.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery hosts 'Works on Paper: The Natalie & Irving Forman Collection' Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:24 PM PST BUFFALO, NY - Over the past few years the nationally regarded private collection of abstract art, including paintings, sculpture, and works on paper owned by Natalie and Irving Forman of Santa Fe, New Mexico has been gifted to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In 2005 the Gallery exhibited many of the paintings and sculptures. This year's exhibition will present an intimate look at more than 130 works on paper by 40 artists including Stuart Arends, John Beech, Erika Blumenfeld, Rudolf de Crignis, Marcia Hafif, Winston Roeth, and Mark di Suvero.

MCA launches third biennial focusing on Contemporary Australian Art Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:21 PM PST   Sydney, Australia - The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) presents Cross Currents: Focus on contemporary Australian art as part of its spring season exhibition program. Guest curated by John Stringer, Cross Currents is the third in a biennial exhibition series at the MCA focussing on mid-career Australian artists.

Cranbrook Academy of Art to Create Experiential Environment for AXA Art Lounge Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:20 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- AXA Art, the worlds leading fine art insurance specialist and Cranbrook Academy of Art announced a creative collaboration. Under the terms of the relationship, AXA Art has commissioned the prestigious art academy to conceptualize, design and create a 21st-century experiential environment to be installed in the AXA Art lounge at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. The space will serve as a respite, where the company will host its collector clients and guests in attendance at the fair. The Cranbrook design-build team, lead by four of the Academy's s artists-in-residence, includes Beverly Fishman, Elliott Earls, William Massie, and Heather McGill. AXA Art requested that they use 'The Thrill of Creating' as inspiration and consider modernity, functionality and innovation while transforming the lounge space.

National Gallery of Victoria to Present the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:18 PM PST MELBOURNE.- Opening in September, the National Gallery of Victoria will present the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, a triennial exhibition and award that celebrates the ongoing achievement of some of Australia's most distinguished contemporary artists. This will be the sixth and final award in the series. The 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award will be on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square from 17 September 2009 until 7 February 2010. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is open 10am-5pm, closed Mondays. Admission to this exhibition is free.

Kitty Kantilla Retrospective at Art Gallery of New South Wales Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:16 PM PST SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Kitty Kantilla, on view December 7 through January 20, 2008. Kitty Kantilla was one of Australia's most remarkable Indigenous artists, celebrated for her innovation, unique style and mastery of a range of mediums. The breadth and beauty of her work will be unveiled in the major retrospective exhibition Kitty Kantilla at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Friedrich Kunath Creates a Salon-Like Installation at the Hammer Museum Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:15 PM PST LOS ANGELES, CA.- Like a favorite poem, Friedrich Kunath's works poignantly yet playfully distill the fundamentals of human emotion—desire, loneliness, and anxiety—creating comically tragic scenes in which human beings try to find their way in the world. Employing an impressive range of mediums—drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and neon—Kunath continuously takes up such subjects as the solitary being in nature, the ebb and flow of time, the emotional poignancy of nature, and relationships and the heartbreak they can create.

MoMA Hosts Intimate Installation Featuring Sculptures by Lee Bontecou Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:13 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Featuring three sculptures and more than a dozen works on paper by American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931), this intimate installation spans four decades of the artist's career, from 1958 to 1998. Known for her richly evocative forms that conjure biological, geological, and technological motifs, Bontecou has described "the natural world and its wonders and horrors" as a central preoccupation of her career. Among the earliest works presented are large drawings made of velvety soot and wall-mounted sculptures composed of salvaged canvas stitched to elaborate welded steel armatures. The centerpiece of the installation—on view in this building for the first time—is a recently acquired suspended sculpture that was one of the highlights of the artist's 2004 retrospective at MoMA QNS. On view 21 April through 30 August.

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery hosts Tony Clark Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:11 PM PST Sydney, Australia - Prix de Rome marks the first time Tony Clark has created an exhibition based entirely upon figures.  Maintaining his overriding interest in the dialogue between art and architecture, Clark examines various architectural embellishments including several putti.  Their isolated heads slide towards the abstractions of Clark's earlier Jasperware paintings based on Wedgewood designs.  Also included are a series of paintings based on the figures on the Portland Vase (a first century BC Roman cameo glass vase, which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers in the 18th century and since).  On exhibition (7 Feb–1 Mar).

Second Nature ~ The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer Museum Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:08 PM PST Los Angeles, CA – Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer Museum is the first public presentation of sculpture from the extraordinary gift made by Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson to the Hammer Museum in 2007, when Valentine joined the Museum's Board of Overseers. The Valentine-Adelson Collection comprises more than 50 sculptures by 29 Los Angeles artists, made from 1995 to the present. The exhibition will be presented a selection of work from The Valentine-Adelson Collection and will be mounted in the Hammer's permanent collection galleries. It is curated by Douglas Fogle, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Hammer in association with Hammer Curator Ali Subotnick. On view July 19 – October 6, 2009.

Nam June Paik ~ Late Pioneer Video Artist ~ Opens at The James Cohan Gallery Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:06 PM PST NEW YORK, NY - James Cohan Gallery presents an exhibition of important works by the late pioneer of video art, Nam June Paik running through May 30. The exhibition consists of a number of works dating from 1972 to 1994, among them are Paik's robot sculptures, live feed installations and other video sculptures. Commonly hailed as the father of video art, Nam June Paik asserted in 1965 that the television cathode-ray tube would someday replace the canvas.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 12 Dec 2010 06:05 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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