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• Our Editor Views Many Of Max Ernst Masterpieces at The Max Ernst Museum Brühl, Germany
• New Saatchi Gallery Opens at Duke of York's HQ Building, Chelsea
• Heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Reach Settlement Agreements
• "Passion for Art" 35th Anniversary of the Essl Museum Collection
• Fort Worth Community Arts Center exhibits Grayson Harper
• Hirshhorn Museum presents Major Retrospective of Louise Bourgeois
• The Dayton Art Institute’s 90th Anniversary Celebration shows Hello World!
• Reina Sofia Museum Completes Reorganization of the Museum’s Priceless Collection
• Royal Academy of Arts hosts The London Original Print Fair
• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) features Discrete Installations by Aernout Mik
• The New Jersey State Museum features Mel Leipzig ~ Selected Works
• Von Lintel Gallery Showcases Solo Exhibition of New Paintings by Valerie Jaudon
• Djanogly Art Gallery exhibits 'The American Scene ~ From Hopper to Pollock'
• Dallas Museum of Art Celebrates Performance in the Visual Arts : All the World's a Stage
• UB Anderson Gallery Presents John Hultberg: Vanishing Point
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Our Editor Views Many Of Max Ernst Masterpieces at The Max Ernst Museum Brühl, Germany Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:16 PM PST The Max Ernst Museum Brühl of LVR is the world's first and only museum that is the work of this seminal artist and world citizen Max Ernst (1891-1976) dedicated. It shows an overview of the extensive work of the Dadaists and Surrealists, whose imagery - as with almost any other artist of the 20th Century - are distinguished by astonishing creativity and inspiring genius. Max Ernst not only created a large number of paintings, collages, graphics, sculptures and assemblages, and his boundless creativity was reflected in numerous books, artist portfolios and poems. In his world of images we encounter poetic landscapes, fantastic compositions and bizarre creatures whose powers of invention and clever wit and fascinating at the same time and cause confusion in the viewer inexorably lead an effeminate wake of the suggestion. The painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet Max Ernst is one of the most important representatives of the Dadaism and Surrealism. Early in his life he breaks with conventional painting and turns towards the use of indirect techniques such as over-paintings, collage, frottage (rubbing technique), grattage (scrapping technique) and decalcomania (tracing technique with oil colours). These techniques serve the systematic survey of the realms „Beyond Painting" (Max Ernst). By exploiting his hallucinatory capabilities Max Ernst reinterprets objects and structures of his environment to then fix his visionary perception of the world. The alienation of the ordinary as well as the irritating orchestration of the inexplicable and the dreamlike are consistently broken up by irony and humor in his many works of art. During the summer of 1934, German-born artist Max Ernst executed a mural for the Dancing Mascotte, the bar at Zürich's Corso Theatre. One of the largest painted works of the artist's seven-decade career, Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie (Petals and Garden of Nymph Ancolie) adorned a wall of the popular nightspot in Zurich. Based on an illustration found in a Victorian-era botanical encyclopedia, the surrealist imagery features a dancing bird-like figure emerging from a lush backdrop of red and gold flower petals. This amazing huge nightclub mural has been full restored and on display until March, 2011. The Max Ernst Museum Brühl of LVR also presents five major works by Max Ernst from the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, makes for a whole year under the "collection on display in the change." The Menil Collection is one of the world's largest private art collections. Given the Menil's preeminent Ernst holdings – the result of a lifelong friendship between the artist and John and Dominque de Menil – the Houston museum was the ideal venue for the debut of the fully restored Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie. The de Menils met the artist for the first time, in Paris, in 1934 – the year Ernst completed the Given the Menil's preeminent Ernst holdings – the result of a lifelong friendship between the artist and John and Dominque de Menil – the Houston museum is the ideal venue for the debut of the fully restored Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie. The de Menils met the artist for the first time, in Paris, in 1934 – the year Ernst completed the Given the Menil's preeminent Ernst holdings – the result of a lifelong friendship between the artist and John and Dominque de Menil – the Houston museum is the ideal venue for the debut of the fully restored Pétales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie. The de Menils met the artist for the first time, in Paris, in 1934 – the year Ernst completed the Zürich mural. The building complex is a combination of old and new: far from the palace of Augustus, with its castle park stands the classical three wings of the 19th Century, which was extended by a centrally inserted glass pavilion and a "floating" entrance plateau and supplemented in the basement with additional exhibition and meeting rooms.For four years, the conversion work continued by the Cologne architect Thomas van den Valentyn and Seyed Mohammad Oreyzi. The restoration of the heritage-listed building was there a main idea, visited but also the young Max Ernst that "Brühler pavilion, a picnic area, in 1844, so at the same time, the construction of the railway line between Cologne and Bonn, as a further attraction of the recreation area Brühl built. For the realization of the project, the existing building with the requirements of a museum and the aesthetic standards of contemporary architecture to agree harmoniously, received the Max Ernst Museum awarded "exemplary building in North Rhine-Westphalia". Since 1 July 2007 is the Max Ernst Museum to the Museum Association of the Rhineland Regional Council. Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism. He was born in Brühl, near Cologne, the third of nine children of a middle-class Catholic family. His father Philipp Ernst was a teacher of the deaf and dumb and an amateur painter. Ernst visited asylums and became fascinated with the art of the mentally ill patients; he also started painting this year, producing sketches in the garden of the Brühl castle and portraits of his sister and himself. In 1911 Ernst befriended August Macke and joined his Die Rheinischen Expressionisten group of artists, deciding to become an artist. In 1912 he visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where works by Pablo Picasso and post-Impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin profoundly influenced his approach to art. His own work is exhibited the same year together with that of the Das Junge Rheinland group, at Galerie Feldman in Cologne, and then in several group exhibitions in 1913. In 1914 Ernst met Hans Arp in Cologne. The two soon became friends and their relationship lasted for fifty years. Next year Ernst visited Paul Klee in Munich and studied paintings by Giorgio de Chirico, which left a deep impression on him. The same year, inspired partly by de Chirico and partly by studying mail-order catalogues, teaching-aide manuals, and similar sources, he produced his first collages (notably a portfolio of lithographs), a technique which will come to dominate his artistic pursuits in the years to come.Constantly experimenting, in 1925 he invented a graphic art technique called frottage which uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images. He also created another technique called 'grattage' in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. He uses this technique in his famous painting 'Forest and Dove' (as shown at the Tate Modern). Along with other artists and friends (Marcel Duchamp and Marc Chagall) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Ernst helped inspire the development of abstract expressionism. Ernst died on 1 April 1976, 1 day before his birthday, in Paris. 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, Denmark and now Germany. 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.

New Saatchi Gallery Opens at Duke of York's HQ Building, Chelsea Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:14 PM PST LONDON - The Saatchi Gallery is set to re-open in the 70,000 sq. ft. Duke of York HQ building on King's Road, Chelsea on October 9 2008 with an exhibition dedicated to new art from China. The new Gallery will also include a dedicated space for Saatchi Online artists to exhibit and sell their work commission free. The space will feature a rotating selection of artists chosen from Saatchi Online Magazine's weekly critics' picks.

Heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Reach Settlement Agreements Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:13 PM PST WASHINGTON, DC.- The heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy are pleased to announce that they have reached a Settlement Agreement with the Trustees of The Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation resolving their ownership claim to the painting The Absinthe Drinker (Angel Fernandez de Soto) (1903) by Pablo Picasso. The terms of the Settlement Agreement are confidential in their entirety. The heirs now relinquish any and all claims of title to this painting. The Mendelssohn heirs settled other matters in 2009 with the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

"Passion for Art" 35th Anniversary of the Essl Museum Collection Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:12 PM PST Vienna, Austria - To mark the 35th anniversary of their collection, Agnes and Karlheinz Essl are presenting the unique jubilee show "PASSION FOR ART".  From more than 6,000 art works, curator Karlheinz Essl has selected more than 400 works by 160 internationally renowned artists – ranging from major works held in the collection to new acquisitions never before displayed.  Both exhibition venues, the Essl Museum and the Schömer-Haus, will be used for the exhibition, with a total of 4500 m² of exhibition space.  This makes the exhibition the largest since the inauguration of the Essl Museum in November 1999.  On exhibition until 28 August, 2007.

Fort Worth Community Arts Center exhibits Grayson Harper Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:10 PM PST   Fort Worth, Texas - Grayson Harper's images range from a sublime mysterious road at night to a painting of a dead soldier in a pine box he calls Home for Christmas. His figures eerily remind you of someone you know or recognize. The Patriots shows four people sitting in a wading pool in the front yard of a modest looking house, each waving a miniature American flag. Is that John Kerry in the pool? The Peaceable Kingdom also breeds familiarity in its characters. People who know the artist are sure he is depicted in The Bus Station.

Hirshhorn Museum presents Major Retrospective of Louise Bourgeois Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:09 PM PST WASHINGTON, DC - The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden will present a major retrospective of the works of Louise Bourgeois from Feb. 26 through May 17. Bourgeois, a leading figure in 20th century art, was born in Paris in 1911 and has lived in New York since 1938. The exhibition will fill the museum's second-level galleries with over 120 works, primarily sculptural pieces, along with paintings and drawings. The last venue on a five-city world tour, the presentation at the Hirshhorn has been expanded to include five more major sculptures. Among them is the large "Crouching Spider" (2003). The nearly nine-foot-tall bronze-and-steel spider has already been installed outside the museum's entrance, acting as an imposing greeter.

The Dayton Art Institute’s 90th Anniversary Celebration shows Hello World! Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:07 PM PST DAYTON, OH.- As part of The Dayton Art Institute's 90th Anniversary celebration, Chief Curator Will South has organized Hello World! Rarely Seen Art from Our Collection, a show that brings together the museum's "hidden treasures": seldom seen, as well as some never before seen, works of art from out of the museum's vaults. The themes explored in Hello World! include faces and figures, how cultures decorate the world, landscapes (both real and imagined), and flight (of birds, of man, and of the imagination).  The exhibition runs through January 3, 2010, at The Dayton Art Institute.

Reina Sofia Museum Completes Reorganization of the Museum’s Priceless Collection Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:06 PM PST MADRID.- "The story we propose is more like The Thousand and One Nights than War and Peace". With this graphic example the head of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia referred to the reorganization of the museum's collection which will open to the public today. One and a half years after starting his job at the museum of contemporary art, Manuel Borja-Villel, has made a complete turn around and now the museum's collection shows modern art in a new way and starts off with works made by There will no longer be a linear exhibition of works of art, by date, creator and theme, but what there will be is a scheme where relations and connections will allow us to see movies made by Buster Keaton and Luis Buñuel together with the works made by Goya, Solana and Picasso and also African art, which so inspired the artist from Malaga.

Royal Academy of Arts hosts The London Original Print Fair Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:04 PM PST LONDON - The London Original Print Fair, the longest-running specialist print fair in the world, will be celebrating twenty-three years at the Royal Academy of Arts. Once again, the Fair is larger than ever and covers all periods of printmaking from the early woodcuts of Dürer and his contemporaries to the graphic work of contemporary masters such as David Hockney and Damien Hirst. The London Original Print Fair brings together over 40 expert dealers, all of whom have their own stock of wonderful prints which will be for sale at the Fair.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) features Discrete Installations by Aernout Mik Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:02 PM PST New York City - This exhibition presents a series of discrete installations by Aernout Mik (Dutch, b. 1962), placed in both non-gallery and gallery spaces throughout the Museum. Aernout Mik—whose work encompasses motion picture, sculpture, architecture, performance, and social commentary—interrogates the nature of reality and subverts the traditional relationship between viewer and viewed. The exhibition includes eight time-based works, including Mik's earliest 16mm film Fluff (1996), shown on television monitors in several locations. On exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art through 27 July, 2009.

The New Jersey State Museum features Mel Leipzig ~ Selected Works Posted: 28 Dec 2010 09:01 PM PST TRENTON, NJ.- Artist As Curator and Mel Leipzig: Selected Works by Trenton-based painter Mel Leipzig, are now on display at the New Jersey State Museum through September 6, 2009. Visitors may watch the artist at work while he creates a new painting on the Museum's campus. Mr. Leipzig will be painting en plein air (in the open air) continuing through the end of May. He will be on - site, weather permitting, on Wednesdays and Saturdays from noon to 4 pm.

Von Lintel Gallery Showcases Solo Exhibition of New Paintings by Valerie Jaudon Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:58 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents Sight Reading, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Valerie Jaudon. Valerie Jaudon's new paintings feature bars and bands of white paint, either placed against a raw linen ground or seemingly incised into a solid white field. Short and concise figures blend with long, complex compound shapes. The asymmetric construction of the paintings sets up a reading that is programmed but non-logical – one that leads the eye in unexpected ways across and through the canvas. Disjunction and dissonance meet with resolution and completion. On view through 17 April.

Djanogly Art Gallery exhibits 'The American Scene ~ From Hopper to Pollock' Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:56 PM PST NOTTINGHAM, UK.- Djanogly Art Gallery presents The American Scene - From Hopper to Pollock, on view through April 19, 2009. The American Scene: From Hopper to Pollock features spectacular images of American society and culture made during a period of great social and political change from the early 1900s to 1960 and charts the emergence of a consciously American subject matter and artistic identity in the twentieth century.

Dallas Museum of Art Celebrates Performance in the Visual Arts : All the World's a Stage Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:54 PM PST DALLAS, TX.- All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts, the Dallas Museum of Art exhibition opening on August 30, 2009, will showcase a fresh look at the Museum's collections in an interactive installation to commemorate the opening of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and the completion of the Dallas Arts District. Nearly 125 works spanning 2,600 years of human creativity, including paintings, sculptures, photography, and objects from around the world, will illustrate how dance, music, and theater performance is an essential human instinct.

UB Anderson Gallery Presents John Hultberg: Vanishing Point Posted: 28 Dec 2010 08:52 PM PST Buffalo, NY – John Hultberg: Vanishing Point, an exhibition at UB Anderson Gallery highlighting 21 paintings and 14 graphic works from the university's permanent collection, opens to the public in the first floor gallery on Friday, July 14 until 15 October, 2006. John Hultberg (1922-2005), belonged to the generation of artists known for abstract expressionism—a style, or attitude, which valued individuality and freedom of expression in contrast to the social realism of previous decades.  Hultberg made his mark with dramatic, often dark, landscapes and interiors interspersed with recognizable imagery and grounded by an obvious horizon line.  His paintings and prints take viewers through a vortex into compartmentalized apocalyptic and alien lands (often inhabited by demons or otherworldly beings), where occasional uncluttered expanses create windows into the unknown.

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