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• The Magnificent Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam ~ Welcomes Our Editor
• The Scottish National Portrait Gallery to show 'Vanity Fair Portraits:Photographs 1913-2008'
• Braunstein/Quay Gallery features Ursula Schneider ~ The River
• Miami Art Museum shows Yinka Shonibare "A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman & Child"
• Epic India: Paintings by M.F. Husain at Peabody Essex Museum
• Visitor tears Picasso's 'The Actor.' How can the Met fix this masterpiece ?
• Sotheby's Auction for Kolkata Museum of Modern Art
• Charley & Edie Harper at the Cincinnati Art Museum
• Royal Academy of Arts to show Exhibition of Works that Transformed British Sculpture
• William Dyce Discovery
• Tacoma Art Museum Presents Frida Kahlo: 'Images of an Icon'
• Israel Museum Receives $1 Million to Established the Shpilman International Prize
• Pete Rose Portrait by Andy Warhol
• Charis Wilson, Edward Weston's Muse, Ex-Wife and Model, Dies at 95
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Magnificent Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam ~ Welcomes Our Editor Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:49 PM PST The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is the main art museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Rotterdam is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The museum began in 1847 with the collection of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847). The 1934 building, designed by town architect Ad Van der Steur, fits in with the classic typology of a museum building. The building's stately appearance, the elegant tower and the dignified staircase clearly show visitors that they are entering a place of significance. A home in which art is protected, screened and guarded. The interior confirms this feeling. In 1958 the collection of businessman Daniël George van Beuningen (1877–1955) was added to the museum, and the museum acquired its current name. The Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam has been built in several stages. Over the years, new wings have been added to the original 1935 brick building by Johan A.G. van der Steur, with its symmetrical frame of museum rooms around two courtyards. In 1972 the Boijmans museum was expanded for the first time, with a wing designed by architect Alexander Bodon. Bodon, in response to performance and installation art and the consequent need for an extensive exhibition area, built a large exhibition hall lit from above. It is a businesslike space whose dimensions mean it can easily be considered as a third - covered - courtyard. In 1991 Hubert-Jan Henket built what is called the Van Beuningen-De Vriese pavilion in high-tech style on the garden side of the museum. Flemish architects Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem were responsible for the further expansion of the museum in Rotterdam in 2000-2001. Visit Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and travel through the history of art, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Masterpieces by the likes of Bosch, Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Dalí represent a variety of art movements. Surprising interventions by contemporary artists serve to heighten the senses. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen shows old masters and modern art, applied arts and design. The museum owns one of the most important prints and drawings collections in the world.. It houses approximately 140,000 objects. In addition to the displays of the permanent collection, each year the museum organizes around 25 temporary exhibitions and numerous public activities. The museum attracts an average of 125,000 monthly visitors. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen aims to stimulate everyone's enjoyment of art and design in its collections and exhibitions by delivering a coherent programme. In addition to collecting and organising displays and exhibitions, research is an important aspect of the museum's activities. This research takes place largely behind closed doors, but its results must be made visible. The museum intends to provide an environment in which knowledge, beauty and innovative and controversial ideas are presented to their best advantage. For this reason, the Boijans Van Beuningen museum follows the developments of individual artists and designers over a longer period. The museum has an international profile. With its world-class collections, it has won a place among the top three art museums in the Netherlands. Through its collections, activities and knowledge, the museum provides challenging and meaningful experiences to museum visitors and many more via the web and other media. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen also functions as a meeting place and unifying element for the urban community in which many Rotterdammers – young and old, from north and south, rich and poor – come together and gain an insight into what previous generations have achieved. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is now eleven generations old. The twelfth and thirteenth generations are already actively taking possession of the museum. Visit the website at: http://www.boijmans.nl/ The Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam is famous for its beautiful collection of old and contemporary art. The museum is concerned with art and design that leaves a lasting impression. The museum opts for a broad and interdisciplinary set-up of the collections and exhibitions.The museum presents the work of many masters, including Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Christiaan Karel Appel and Willem de Kooning. The museum also shows applied arts from the 14th century onwards, as well as contemporary design. The exhibition program of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam is very varied. In addition to its permanent displays, the museum organizes alternating exhibitions, mainly of contemporary art. The Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum is a lively centre of art and culture. The museum takes you on a journey through the history of art, from the early middle ages through the 21st century, from Breughel's 'The Tower of Babel' and Rembrandt's 'Titus' to van Dalí's 'Lippenbank'. The Boijmans Van Beuningen musuem shows top-class pieces and manages some 126,000 objects. The amazing temporary exhibitions, the sculpture garden and the beautiful 1930s architecture make for hours of viewing pleasure in Rotterdam. This museum in Rotterdam devotes special attention to some of art history's highlights. The focus with respect to paintings is on Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Surrealists. Top drawings by Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti, Fra Bartolommeo (di Pagholo), Giambattista Piranesi, François Boucher and Paul Cézanne will be on display. In the presentation of implements, the Renaissance table culture and the abundant 17th-century bourgeoisie interiors, the modernistic design from the inter-bellum period and contemporary design appeal most to the imagination. Modern art started with Dutch Romanticism and ended with inter-bellum art. Highlights in this part of the circuit are French Impressionism and art on paper of circa 1900, with a special focus on the chimney piece by Gerrit Willem Dijsseldof that was acquired in 2007. Classic icons by Maurizio Cattelan, Rene Magritte and Oskar Kokoschka are combined with recent acquisitions by Yves Tanguy, Joseph Cornell and Max Beckmann. In addition to permanent presentations, the Rotterdam museum mounts spectacular changing exhibitions. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is a dynamic center for art and culture. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's collection is world-renowned. The museum has a permanent display of 3000 works, ranging from old masters to contemporary art and from medieval utensils to industrial design. The collections are displayed in the Van der Steur wing. Each year the museum lends 300 to 500 art works to exhibitions all over the world. These works are seen by more than 3 million people each year. Of the 140,000 objects in the collection, over the past 161 years more than 30,000 art works have been donated to the Boijmans Van Beuningen Foundation by more than 2630 individuals, mostly from Rotterdam. Many of these were people who wished to give something back to the city in which they prospered. Every day, dozens of collectors follow in their footsteps. In 2009 and 2010 exhibitions organised by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen were shown internationally in cities such as Wellington (New Zealand), Sydney, Paris, Leuven, Stockholm and London. The museum has a large international network and maintains ongoing relationships with many museums around the world. In its exhibitions programme and research, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen devotes a great deal of attention to talent from Rotterdam – past and present – and the context from which they have emerged. Artists and designers such as Jacques Jongert, Jaap Gidding, Hella Jongerius, Kees van Dongen, Wally Elenbaas, Daan van Golden, Joep van Lieshout and many emerging artists are represented in the City Collection and have been highlighted in exhibitions and publications based upon intensive art-historical research. Alongside the approximately 25 exhibitions per year in the museum, for the coming five years Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is developing a programme of international contemporary art exhibitions in the Submarine Wharf in the RDM complex. This is a partnership with the Port of Rotterdam, which has provided the necessary funding. Since its establishment, the museum's history had been shaped in a critical way by the activities of private collectors, two of whom have furnished the institution with its double-barreled name. The Utrecht-born lawyer F.J.O. Boijmans bequeathed his collection tot the City of Rotterdam in 1847, so laying the museum's foundations. In 1958 the museum acquired the collection of the shipping magnate D.G. van Beuningen, also a native of Utrecht. This was such a milestone that the museum's name was changed to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.In the post-war period the museum has had increasing funds to pursue its own acquisitions policy, but it continues to profit from the generosity of private collectors. In 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Van Beuningen-de Vriese endowed the museum with a vast collection of pre-industrial domestic artefacts and the museum has recently benefited from its partnership with H+F Patronage in acquiring an outstanding installation by the video artist Pipilotti Rist. A world-class exhibition to match the extraordinary artistic verve of Kees van Dongen will be presented until January 23rd. "All Eyes on Kees van Dongen" will showcase some eighty masterpieces by the renowned painter Kees van Dongen. No fewer than sixty paintings and a selection of drawings, ceramics, posters and photographs are being flown over from leading international collections especially for the exhibition. They are coming from as far afield as New York, Monaco, Geneva and Moscow. The next major exhibition is Hella Jongerius and her unique design products will be hung on the walls and arranged by colour, providing a wonderful insight into her practice as a designer. The exhibition features not only Jongerius's famous industrial products – such as the IKEA vases – but also unique experiments and countless sketch models. On view until February 13, 2011. 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, Germany, and now the Netherlands. 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 Scottish National Portrait Gallery to show 'Vanity Fair Portraits:Photographs 1913-2008' Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:48 PM PST Edinburgh, Scotland - The National Galleries of Scotland announces the largest ever sponsorship of an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Lloyds TSB Scotland will sponsor the Gallery's major summer exhibition, Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008, showcasing some of the greatest portrait photographs of the twentieth century, which were taken for, or published in, Vanity Fair magazine. On exhibition 14 June - 21 September 2008.

Braunstein/Quay Gallery features Ursula Schneider ~ The River Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:46 PM PST San Francisco, CA - The large-scale paintings by Ursula Schneider are based on her observations of the Hudson River, the architecture of the Indian Point Energy Center, a n uclear power plant in Buchanan, New York , and the intrusion of industrial barges on the 150%; font-family: river's serenity. On exhibition at Braunstein/Quay Gallery, 430 Clementina / San Francisco, CA 94103 from 25 June through 1 August, 2009. Reception Saturday, June 27, 2009, 3:00 - 5:00pm

Miami Art Museum shows Yinka Shonibare "A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman & Child" Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:45 PM PST   MIAMI, FL.- As part of its ongoing New Work series, Miami Art Museum presents Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child, a new installation created specifically for MAM. The site-specific work will explore Miami's role as a destination for both tourists and immigrants and as a symbol of freedom and promise. Shonibare's installation will premiere on October 31 and will remain on view in MAM's "New Work" gallery through January 18, 2009.

Epic India: Paintings by M.F. Husain at Peabody Essex Museum Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:43 PM PST SALEM, Mass.––The Peabody Essex Museum opens Epic India: Paintings by M.F. Husain –– an exhibition that focuses on the artist's 40-year fascination with India's greatest epic, the Mahabharata.  The show runs Nov. 4 through June 3, 2007, and is one of the few solo exhibitions held in this country for the painter many consider to be India's "greatest living artist." The Mahabharata's "captivating narrative, flawed and troubled heroes, philosophical and moral conundrums have been a force in the Indian subcontinent for more than 2,000 years," writes curator Susan Bean in the exhibition catalogue.  Maqbool Fida Husain was 56 years old when he first painted from the Mahabharata in the early seventies, and already enjoyed unrivaled celebrity as an artist in India with numerous awards, government recognition, important exhibitions, and public art commissions.  In 1971, Husain, published in New York by Harry Abrams, became the first international book on a living Indian artist.

Visitor tears Picasso's 'The Actor.' How can the Met fix this masterpiece ? Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:40 PM PST New York City - Art restorers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will soon begin repairs to a prominent Pablo Picasso painting damaged by a visitor last week in an unusual accident. A visitor attending a class at the museum last Friday lost her balance and fell into the canvas, creating a 6-inch tear in the lower right hand corner of "The Actor," a more than 6-foot tall painting depicting a pink-hued acrobat. The painting was immediately taken to the Met's paintings conservation department, where masterpieces are brought for cleaning, restoration, and in rare cases, repair, the museum said in a statement. Some reports put the painting's value at $130 million. Another Picasso picture from 1905, "Garcon à la Pipe," sold for $104.2 million at Sotheby's in 2004.

Sotheby's Auction for Kolkata Museum of Modern Art Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:39 PM PST   Kolkata, India - Kolkata will now have its own modern art museum. Auction giant Sotheby's will hold a benefit sale in New York to support the mega art project. The auction for the Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMOMA) will be held July 17. On sale will be modern and contemporary Indian art works. Important works including paintings, sculptures and photographs by Tyeb Mehta, Jehangir Sabavala, Somnath Hore, Sakti Burman, Ram Kumar, F.N Souza, Akbar Padamsee, Jogen Chowdhury, Ganesh Pyne, Arpita Singh, Rameshwar Broota, Paresh Maity, Subodh Gupta, Chintan Upadhyay, Baiju Parthan and Dayanita Singh among others will be part of the auction highlights.

Charley & Edie Harper at the Cincinnati Art Museum Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:37 PM PST CINCINNATI, OHIO – The whimsical art of one of Cincinnati's most respected and loved couples, Charley and Edie Harper, will be the subject of an exhibition later this summer at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Minimal Realism: Charley and Edie Harper, 1940–1960 will include 40 works by both artists. This exhibition will remain on view Aug. 18 through Oct. 21.

Royal Academy of Arts to show Exhibition of Works that Transformed British Sculpture Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:34 PM PST LONDON.- This October the Royal Academy of Arts will present an exhibition of works celebrating the radical change that transformed British sculpture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Over a period of 10 years (1905-1915), three outstanding young sculptors emerged; Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Eric Gill. This is the first time that the three artists have been shown together in this revolutionary context and many of the works have not been exhibited in London before.

William Dyce Discovery Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:33 PM PST LONDON.- A stunning William Dyce painting that has been lost for over a century is to be offered for sale at Sotheby's next week. The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel is expected to fetch between £100,000 – 150,000 when it is offered for sale in Sotheby's Victorian and Edwardian Art sale on Wednesday 15 July 2009. The painting illustrates the Biblical text 'Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice, and wept' - Rachel's father had tricked Jacob into working for him without payment on the understanding that he could marry Rachel. The work has been untraced since it was exhibited in the 1850s – first at the Royal Academy in 1850 and later at the Manchester Art Treasures exhibition in 1857. The discovery was made when an image of the work was sent to Sotheby's specialists who were later able to identify it as the original by a small part of torn label on the reverse that identified it as having been in the Manchester exhibition.

Tacoma Art Museum Presents Frida Kahlo: 'Images of an Icon' Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:28 PM PST Tacoma, WA – Tacoma Art Museum's exhibition Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon presents some sixty photographic portraits of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo taken throughout her life.  Beginning with childhood and ending with the image of Kahlo on her deathbed, these portraits bring into focus the painter, the patient, the wife, the daughter, the lover, and the friend.  The exhibition will be on view February 3 through June 10, 2007.

Israel Museum Receives $1 Million to Established the Shpilman International Prize Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:23 PM PST JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, today announced that it has established the Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography, which provides photographers and scholars with the support needed to pursue new ideas and work in the medium. The first of its kind, the prize is awarded for the creation of new rather than the recognition of previously completed work. It will be presented every two years to an artist or scholar who aims to expand the boundaries of the medium. Recipients will receive a cash prize of €30,000 ($45,000) to support the realization of new work, which will subsequently be published or exhibited by the Museum. The first Shpilman Prize recipient will be selected in August 2010.

Pete Rose Portrait by Andy Warhol Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:18 PM PST CINCINNATI, OHIO - This summer the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cincinnati Reds celebrate the great history of our city with an exclusive collaboration –the creation of a limited edition poster featuring a portrait of Pete Rose by American pop artist Andy Warhol. The poster will be unveiled to the public on Wednesday, July 30 at the Cincinnati Art Museum; all proceeds from the sales benefit the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Cincinnati Reds Community Fund.

Charis Wilson, Edward Weston's Muse, Ex-Wife and Model, Dies at 95 Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:18 PM PST SANTA CRUZ, CA (AP).- Charis Wilson, who inspired photographer Edward Weston during an 11 year relationship and posed for many of his pictures, has died. Wilson died Friday in Santa Cruz at the home of a close friend, her daughter Rachel Fern Harris said. Charis Wilson died in Santa Cruz, California, on November 20, 2009, at the age of 95.  She told her own story in "Through Another Lens:  My Years With Edward Weston" (co-written with Wendy Madar), and she figures importantly in various biographies of Edward Weston, including Ben Maddow's "Edward Weston: His Life."  But the book that remains a favorite is "California and the West," which features Weston's photographs and Wilson's prose, and not only because it includes the enchanting photo that he took at Lake Ediza.  The dog-eared copy that I scrutinized in childhood is still on my bookshelf, a relic of childhood and a source of pleasure and inspiration to this day. In that sense, Charis herself has survived her mortal death and survives as that enchanting young woman whose image was fixed on film more than 70 years ago.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 15 Jan 2011 08:17 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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