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• The Bröhan Museum in Berlin Highlights the Epochs of Art Nouveau & Art Deco ~ Toured By Our Editor
• The National Gallery of Canada features "The 1930s ~ The Making of "The New Man"
• The Museum of Modern Art in Vienna shows ' Bad Painting / Good Art '
• Tate Modern to show First Major Museum Display of Street Art
• Jewels by Suzanne Syz hosted by Hauser & Wirth
• Servey Shutov Retrospective at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
• Tate Modern presents 'UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980's'
• Sotheby's Amsterdam to offer 1950s North European Avant-Garde Art
• Ambika P3 announces Exhibition by Greco-Italian Artist Jannis Kounellis
• Tate Modern to feature " Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism "
• Martin Gropius Bau Offers a Contemporary Look at Islamic Visual Expression
• Museum of Modern Art Sixth Annual Premiere Brazil ! Festival presents New Brazilian Cinema
• State Russian Museum features Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné
• The Wellcome Collection ~ A $60 Mil Jigsaw Puzzle Museum
• Tatyana Nazarenko at the State Russian Museum
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Bröhan Museum in Berlin Highlights the Epochs of Art Nouveau & Art Deco ~ Toured By Our Editor Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:45 PM PST The Bröhan Museum in Berlin is a specialist and epoch museum with international orientation, displaying objects d'art from the periods Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism (1889 -1939). In addition the arts and crafts, some pieces from visual art genres are on display here. Furniture, table settings, vases, pictures, carpets and sculptures are joined together in room ensembles by way of chosen pieces of glass, ceramics, porcelain, silver and metal work in combination with furniture, carpets and lighting as well as prints and painting. Authentic impressions of living spaces during the art nouveau, art deco and functionalism period are thereby created. The collection illustrates the equal value of each area of artistic production. Focal points of the Bröhan Museum are works by French and Belgian art nouveau designers, representatives of the German and Scandinavian art nouveau era, and ensembles of French art deco. The Bröhan-Museum houses an exceptionally rich collection of porcelain from distinguished manufactures (KPM Berlin, Royal Copenhagen, Meissen, Nymphenburg, Sèvres etc.) as well as pieces of metal and glass works from the most important artists and designers of the time including early industrial design.The museum also houses an extensive collection of metal and glass objects, ceramics, silver, furniture, carpets, graphic art and paintings by important artists of these epochs. The collection has two areas of primary interest: decorative arts and painting. Specialist exhibitions focusing on specific topics or artists are held several times a year.The exhibitions includes prominent examples from the work of the following artists and producers: Precious glass by Emille Gallé and Joh. Loetz Wwe, furniture by Eugène Gaillard, Hector Guimard, Louis Majorelle, Bruno Paul, Richard Riemerschmid, Peter Behrens, Joseph Maria Olbrich, examples of Art Deco in the metal works of Edgar Brandt, furniture ensembles by Jaques-Emile Ruhlmann, silver by jean Puiforcat, Paris, and Georg Jensen, Copenhagen, as well as Art Nouveau fayence from the Bohemian Amphora works. The picture collection of the Bröhan Museum places particular emphasis on the Berlin Secession. Important collections of paintings by Hans Baluschek, Karl Hagemeister and Willy Jaeckel are complemented by works of Walter Leistikow, Franz Skarbina, Lesser Ury and others. To mark the 25th anniversary of the museum in December 1998, paintings and drawings were shown in a newly decorated picture gallery on the first floor. The Bröhan-Museum bears the name of its founder, Karl H. Bröhan, who donated his private collection to the city of Berlin on occasion of his 60th birthday. From 1966 onwards, he continuously built up his collection and made it public in a villa in Dahlem since 1973. On October 14th, 1983, the collection moved to its present site, a late classicistic barracks within the Charlottenburg Palace ensemble. 1994, the Bröhan-Museum became a state museum. Due to the international significance of its collection, the Bröhan-Museum takes an important place within the Berlin museum landscape as well as beyond the national borders. Not to be missed are the porcelain collection and a room dedicated entirely to the work of Belgian Art Nouveau artist Henry van de Velde. On the 3d floor a cabinet is dedicated to the Belgian Art Nouveau artist Henry van de Velde and another to the Vienna Secession artist Josef Hoffmann. Important designers of serial production of the period 1889-1939 are represented with exemplary works: Friedrich Adler, Albin Müller, Peter Behrens, Christopher Dresser, Jan Eisenloeffel, Hermann Gretsch, Archibald Knox, Trude Petri, Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Amongst the collection highlights are designer objects originating from the French and Belgian Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles and the more northern German and Scandinavian Jugendstil. The Bröhan Museum is located opposite Schloss Charlottenburg, which is one of the "must sees" on any visit to Berlin. 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.

The National Gallery of Canada features "The 1930s ~ The Making of "The New Man" Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:44 PM PST   Ottawa, Canada - The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man" exhibition, on view at the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition, which has already attracted more than 50,000 visitors, has been well received by both critics and public. While the 1930s are known above all for the political upheavals that led to World War II, this decade merits being examined from another viewpoint. A North American exclusive, the exhibition The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man" brings together over 200 extraordinary works that explore the seminal link between art and biology.

The Museum of Modern Art in Vienna shows ' Bad Painting / Good Art ' Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:42 PM PST   Vienna, Austria - The Museum of Modern Art in Vienna shows "Bad painting" is the critique of painting expressed with its own most essential means: Many of the most important painters of the 20th century like Francis Picabia, René Magritte, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, Neil Jenney, Georg Baselitz, Albert Oehlen or Julian Schnabel radically called their medium into question using different strategies of incorrect, faulty, ugly or angry painting in order to open up new possibilities for the medium. Using prominent works by 21 artists, the exhibition presents "bad painting" as a phenomenon which opens a new and differentiated perspective on the history of painting since the beginning of modernism which today still influences contemporary discourse.

Tate Modern to show First Major Museum Display of Street Art Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:41 PM PST   LONDON - In the first commission to use the iconic river façade of Tate Modern, the gallery will present the work of six internationally acclaimed artists, whose work is intricately linked to the urban environment. Street Art at Tate Modern, sponsored by Nissan QASHQAI, and is the first major public museum display of Street Art in London. On exhibition 23 May – 25 August 2008.

Jewels by Suzanne Syz hosted by Hauser & Wirth Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:40 PM PST London - Hosted by Hauser & Wirth, the first presentation in the UK devoted to the magical and witty jewellery of the successful and innovative Swiss designer Suzanne Syz, will take place at the gallery of Hauser & Wirth, 3-5 Swallow Street, London W1 (just off Piccadilly) from Thursday 7 June to Friday 22 June 2007.  Born in Zurich and educated in Paris, Suzanne Syz moved to New York in the early 1980s where she married and raised her two children.  She returned to Geneva in the mid-1990s and began designing jewellery, initially because she wanted to create pieces for herself that she could not find anywhere else.  By 2000 she had established a chic jewellery salon in Geneva and before long her list of clients included Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Floria von Hessen, Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis and Archduchess Francesca von Habsburg, who were attracted to Syz's sense of glamour as well as fun.

Servey Shutov Retrospective at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:39 PM PST   Moscow, Russia - Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) presents «Unavoidable and Unnecessary» – an immense personal retrospective exhibition of works by Servey Shutov. During more than 30 years of his creative career, Sergey Shutov (born in 1955, Potsdam) – painter, sculptor, graphic artist, photographer and author of installations – became famous in all areas of mainstream and underground art of Soviet times and today's Russia. On exhibition through 18 January, 2009.

Tate Modern presents 'UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980's' Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:33 PM PST LONDON - A new display at Tate Modern, UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980s, will offer an opportunity to re-appraise Neo-Expressionist painting a quarter of a century after its emergence. Drawing on the collections of UBS and Tate, Paintings from the 1980s, will bring together eleven large-scale works by the key international painters who were at the forefront of this new form of figurative painting. On exhibition 12 November 2008 through 13 April 2009.

Sotheby's Amsterdam to offer 1950s North European Avant-Garde Art Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:31 PM PST   AMSTERDAM, NL - On December 3, 2008, Sotheby's Amsterdam will devote a special section of its Modern and Contemporary Art sale to CoBrA and the North European Avant Garde from the 1950s The young group of Northern European post-war artists that called themselves CoBrA (acronym for Copenhagen Brussels Amsterdam) in 1948, are nowadays considered the key representatives of a colorful and volatile expressionistic style. They are in fact one of a series of key movements in the unpredictable artistic developments that mark the mid 20th century in our region. Key figures of CoBrA are the Dutch artists Karel Appel, Corneille, Constant and Asger Jorn from Denmark.

Ambika P3 announces Exhibition by Greco-Italian Artist Jannis Kounellis Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:30 PM PST LONDON.- Greco-Italian artist Jannis Kounellis, a key figure in international contemporary art for over forty years, will create major new works, especially conceived for Ambika P3. Using the unique characteristics offered by the spaces of Ambika P3 as his canvas, this major new exhibition, presented by Sprovieri Gallery, will be the first solo presentation by Kounellis in a public London space since the Whitechapel Art Gallery exhibition in 1982. Starting his career as a painter, Kounellis still describes his practice as painting. His first paintings were exactly the size of one of the walls in his house. Physical space then became his canvas and in this respect the actual making of his works also becomes something of a performance, in which the space is articulated by the placing of the objects within it. It is no surprise therefore that Kounellis works only within carefully selected spaces.

Tate Modern to feature " Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism " Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:20 PM PST   LONDON - Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism will explore the work of Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Liubov Popova (1889-1924) from 1917 to 1929. Arguably two of the Russian avant-garde's most influential and important artists, they were integral to the stylistic and theoretical underpinning of Russian Constructivism. They rejected the idea of 'art for art's sake' in favour of art as a practice directed towards social objectives. On exhibition 12 February through 17 May, 2009 at the Tate Modern.

Martin Gropius Bau Offers a Contemporary Look at Islamic Visual Expression Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:19 PM PST BERLIN.- The exhibition shows selected precious objects of classical Islamic art as well as significant works by 20th-century and contemporary artists, most of whom have an Islamic background. The 250-odd works on display offer a contemporary look at Islamic forms of visual expression. Laid out on an associative basis into 18 "theme rooms", the exhibition provides a venue for encounters between East and West, classical and contemporary artworks, Islam and Modernism. Over 50 contemporary artists from such places as Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, Damascus, Teheran, Jerusalem, Paris, London and New York will be taking part in the exhibition. Their work will be displayed alongside classical works of Persian, Indian, Arab and Ottoman art. On view through 18 January, 2010.

Museum of Modern Art Sixth Annual Premiere Brazil ! Festival presents New Brazilian Cinema Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:15 PM PST NEW YORK CITY - The Museum of Modern Art presents Premiere Brazil!, its sixth annual exhibition of contemporary Brazilian cinema, July 17 through 31, 2008. A collaboration between MoMA and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, this series introduces New York audiences to original films by both new and established Brazilian filmmakers. The 10 feature and documentary films comprising this year's selection demonstrate the vitality and depth of contemporary Brazilian filmmaking, ranging from Marcos Jorge's Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (2007), a comic fable that also serves as a gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival, to Cao Guimarães' Andarilho (Drifter) (2007), a story of three lonely drifters, the second installment in Guimarães' ambitious trilogy on solitude. As in previous years, Premiere Brazil! also includes a rich variety of vibrant films about Brazilian music and musicians, including the international premiere of The Mystery of Samba and the world premiere of The Man Who Bottled Clouds, director Lirio Ferreira's engrossing portrait of popular songwriter Humberto Teixeira. Most filmmakers will be present to introduce the first screenings of their films.

State Russian Museum features Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:15 PM PST St. Petersburg, Russia - The State Russian Museum opens the exhibition of Vladimir Baranoff-Rossiné in the Benois Wing of the Mikhailovsky Palace. The exhibition comprises circa 60 works of art from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Volsk Regional Museum of the Saratov Region, Alexander Radishchev State Art Museum in Saratov, Tambov Regional Picture Gallery, Davitson International S.A. company (Switzerland), collections of V. Tsarenkov (Paris), M. Mkrticheva (Moscow), A. Tselovalnikov (Moscow).

The Wellcome Collection ~ A $60 Mil Jigsaw Puzzle Museum Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:13 PM PST LONDON — The classical facade of the Wellcome Collection here makes it seem as if this museum, which opened last June, were going to treat medical history the way the nearby British Museum treats Greek and Near Eastern civilizations, with an ordered, carefully annotated display of marvels and antiquities. But it doesn't take long before that notion is thoroughly overturned. Perhaps it happens when you watch the famous 1929 Surrealist film ("Un Chien Andalou" ) made by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, in which an eyeball is slit by a razor. Or perhaps it is when you come upon a fragment of skin from the dissected body of the 19th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

Tatyana Nazarenko at the State Russian Museum Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:12 PM PST Saint Petersburg, Russia - The State Russian Museum opens the "Fading Reality" exhibition of Tatyana Nazarenko in the Marble Palace.  The exhibition comprises more than 60 works of art.  The exhibition presents the works of Tatyana Nazarenko, one of the brightest and most expressive artists of the turn of the 20th-21st centuries.  The artist's oeuvre reflects the realization of the most important tendencies of modern realistic art, which, in their turn, have constantly provoked her to look for some new expressive means.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 29 Dec 2010 08:11 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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