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• Best Wishes For A Joyful New Year
• The Walt Disney Company to Acquire Marvel Entertainment for $ 4 Billion
• Rossi & Rossi Ltd shows New Works by Tibetan Artist Gade
• 'Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints' at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
• International Center of Photography (ICP) to Open Third Triennial of Photography and Video
• Highlight of Seattle Art Museum's Asian Art Masterpieces Will Tour Japan
• " Biographical Landscape " The Photography of Stephen Shore
• Aime Maeght and his Famous Artists opens at Royal Academy of the Arts
• Lowe Art Museum Showcases Two Photography Exhibits
• White Bird Gallery hosts Ken Grant ~ New Paintings
• Christie's New York Announces Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection
• World Record For Juan Gris at Christie's New York at $20.8 Million
• Allen Memorial Art Museum shows Out of Line: Drawings from the Permanent Collection
• Mickey Mouse Paintings Are Recovered
• Ketterer Kunst Munich Auction
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Best Wishes For A Joyful New Year Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:31 PM PST ANNOUNCEMENT: Our website was hacked and our servers were frozen for five days +. We have repaired the damage and we are back online with our daily publication. Sorry for the many emails that have bounced during the downtime that was beyond our control. Because of our downtime we are 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 a Happy Holiday Season !

The Walt Disney Company to Acquire Marvel Entertainment for $ 4 Billion Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:26 PM PST BURBANK, CA.- Building on its strategy of delivering quality branded content to people around the world, The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today. Under the terms of the agreement and based on the closing price of Disney on August 28, 2009, Marvel shareholders would receive a total of $30 per share in cash plus approximately 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own. At closing, the amount of cash and stock will be adjusted if necessary so that the total value of the Disney stock issued as merger consideration based on its trading value at that time is not less than 40% of the total merger consideration.

Rossi & Rossi Ltd shows New Works by Tibetan Artist Gade Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:24 PM PST   London- Making Gods ~ Gade, the fourth in a series of solo exhibitions devoted to contemporary Tibetan artists, will be staged by Rossi & Rossi at 16 Clifford Street, Mayfair, London W1, from Wednesday 3 December 2008 to Friday 16 January 2009.  A group of ten new works, a personal synthesis of traditional Tibetan painting with modern consumerism and pop culture, will be offered for prices from £9,000 to £26,000.

'Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints' at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:19 PM PST POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.-In the beginning of the twentieth century, Germany forged a vital, multifaceted movement in the arts that encompassed architecture, painting, printmaking, sculpture, poetry, prose, music, theater, and film. This pluralistic modern movement, Expressionism, was visionary and rebelled against the staid constraints of a German Empire society that retreated from the destitute populations crowding into industrialized cities. The touring exhibition Impassioned Images: German Expressionist Prints, to be seen August 22-October 26, 2008 at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, explores the visions of numerous artists who engaged their charged emotions with printmaking.

International Center of Photography (ICP) to Open Third Triennial of Photography and Video Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:17 PM PST NEW YORK, NY. - The International Center of Photography will present Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, a global survey of today's most exciting and innovative photography and video art. As ICP's signature exhibition—and the only one of its kind in America—this year's Triennial promises to be the most dynamic yet, featuring over 100 recent works by 34 artists from 18 countries. The newly released roster of artists includes such rising stars as Mickalene Thomas, Yto Barrada, Kimsooja, and Thorsten Brinkmann, as well as established artists such as Cindy Sherman, Stan Douglas, and Lorna Simpson. Dress Codes opens to the public on October 2, 2009, at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street), and remains on view through January 17, 2010.

Highlight of Seattle Art Museum's Asian Art Masterpieces Will Tour Japan Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:15 PM PST SEATTLE, WA.- Highlights of the Seattle Art Museum's (SAM's) renowned Asian art collection will tour to five major Japanese museums beginning this summer. Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art from the Seattle Art Museum opens July 25th at the Suntory Museum of Art in Tokyo and features nearly 100 of SAM's Asian art masterpieces including paintings, screens, sculpture, ceramics, stone, wood, lacquer and metal ware. In recent years, SAM has acquired contemporary Japanese, Chinese and Korean works.

" Biographical Landscape " The Photography of Stephen Shore Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:13 PM PST New York City - Stephen Shore emerged in the 1970s as one of the major exponents of color photography, shooting bleak yet lyrical scenes of the North American landscape. Documenting everyday settings and objects, from hotel swimming pools and televisions to parking lots, gas stations, and deserted roads, Shore exhibited an ability to transform commonplace surroundings into compelling works of art. Over 160 images will be on view in the exhibition.

Aime Maeght and his Famous Artists opens at Royal Academy of the Arts Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:11 PM PST   LONDON.-This October the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of works selected from the collections of the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. The exhibition tells the story of the remarkable role played in the history of twentieth-century art by Aimé Maeght, the outstanding art-dealer, exhibition-maker and publisher. With his wife Marguerite, Maeght founded the celebrated Galerie Maeght in Paris at the end of 1945. The gallery, which embodied an adventurous new spirit in post war Paris, opened with a show of Matisse's drawings, and in 1947 mounted the notorious 'Surréalisme en 1947' exhibition, organised by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp. During the years that followed, the gallery hosted significant exhibitions of the work of many artists, focusing particularly on Miró, Calder, Giacometti and Braque, who were most closely linked to the gallery and to the Maeght family.

Lowe Art Museum Showcases Two Photography Exhibits Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:09 PM PST Coral Gables, FL – From its inception, photography has enticed scientists, artists and amateurs alike. Whether used for capturing historical moments or as an art form, the lens has played a significant role in human life. To fulfill this innate sentiment, Through the Lens: Photography from the Permanent Collection will be on view through October 4, 2009 at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. Curated by Lowe Associate Director, Denise M. Gerson, the exhibition features 100 photographs from over a thousand photographic holdings. The collection, unique in South Florida, spans the development of the art form from earliest years of its invention around mid-19th century to the present. Genres include early travel and portraiture, landscape, international modernism, the world of celebrity, documentary, and contemporary idioms.

White Bird Gallery hosts Ken Grant ~ New Paintings Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:07 PM PST Cannon Beach. OR - Ken Grant's paintings capture unique moments in time whether it is the reality of changing light through a window, shadows cast from lone objects in otherwise empty rooms or surreal scenes contrived with wit and fantasy. Grant paints interiors of rooms, chairs, still life, and figurative works rendered in a highly refined style that resembles photo-realism. His formulated scenes hint at surrealism with the use of light and shadow as essential strengthening elements in his work. On exhibition 15 August through 30 September, 2009 at White Bird Gallery.

Christie's New York Announces Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:58 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, Christie's will present "Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts: The Collection" as a highlight of its major sales of Impressionist and Modern Art, American Paintings, and 20th Century Decorative Arts. Featuring over 175 exceptional items from the collections of fine art dealer Bernard Goldberg's New York gallery, highlights of the sales will include paintings, sculpture and works on paper by Jacques Lipchitz, Edward Steichen, Elie Nadelman, Marsden Hartley, and Guy Pène du Bois, among others, as well as 20th century decorative items by George Washington Maher, Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Samuel Yellin.

World Record For Juan Gris at Christie's New York at $20.8 Million Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:57 PM PST NEW YORK.- In its second Evening Sale of the week, Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, achieved $147 million for paintings and sculpture with top lots from Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Wassily Kandinsky commanding the highest prices. The sale follows Wednesday's Evening Sale of two single-owner collections, The Modern Age: The Hillman Family Collection and The Collection of Alice Lawrence. New world auction records were set for Cubist master Juan Gris, American artist Alice Neel, and for works on paper by Georges Seurat and René Magritte. The two Evening Sales at Christie's New York this week achieved a combined total of $194 million.

Allen Memorial Art Museum shows Out of Line: Drawings from the Permanent Collection Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:56 PM PST OBERLIN, OH.- This exhibition of drawings dating from 1900 to 2007 showcases the Allen Memorial Art Museum' s outstanding and highly diverse permanent collection. Included among over 125 stellar works are those by Close, De Chirico, De Kooning, Dine, Diebenkorn, Kandinsky, Klimt, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Pollock, Rauschenberg, and Wegman. Also highlighted are a selection of new acquisitions: a 1923 João Alves de Sá landscape (one of three drawings by this artist, the first Portuguese works to enter the AMAM's collection) from Oberlin Emeritus Professor of Music Theory Gil Miranda and his wife Sharon and an intricate work by Oberlin Professor John Pearson bequeathed by Marjorie and Anselm Talalay.

Mickey Mouse Paintings Are Recovered Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:55 PM PST   Rye, NY (AP news )- Two valuable Walt Disney Company watercolors depicting Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer's apprentice in the 1940 film "Fantasia" have been recovered 17 years after they vanished from a collection on loan to what was then the International Museum of Cartoon Art in Rye, N.Y., The Associated Press reported.

Ketterer Kunst Munich Auction Posted: 26 Dec 2010 06:53 PM PST Munich, Germany - Ketterer Kunst bids farewell to the Prinz Alfons Palais; late this year, Robert Ketterer, head of the firm, is opening a House for Art of his own at Neue Messe Munich. "Before that happens, on the occasion of the pre-sale viewings to be held from to 3 June in our rooms at 61Prinzregentenstrasse.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 26 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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