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• The World Famous Albertina Museum in Vienna Delights Our AKN Editor
• Art & Love in Renaissance Italy on View at the Kimbell Art Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art Hosts Major Collection of Edo-Period Japanese Art
• Cézanne Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th Anniversary
• Explosive Artist Cai Guo - Qiang opens Major Retrospective at Guggenheim in Bilbao
• Brooklyn Museum to Display Site-Specific Installation by Artist Kiki Smith
• Swiss conceptual artist John Armleder to "take-over" The Rose Art Museum
• New Museum organizes first Elizabeth Peyton Survey
• Tria Gallery to present Frank Olt ~ Selected Works
• Mireille Mosler, Ltd. hosts "Surveillance from the Doll House"
• Freer and Sackler Galleries Launch Web Site for World War II Provenance Project
• Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art hosts Christopher Wool Exhibition
• DesignPhiladelphia & Please Touch Museum Invite "Design of the Dollhouse of Your Dreams
• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts displays 'Manifest Destination' by David Opdyke
• Sol LeWitt in Memoriam at MCA Chicago
• Cindy Sherman Retrospective at Kunsthaus Bregenz
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The World Famous Albertina Museum in Vienna Delights Our AKN Editor Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:30 PM PST The Albertina is one of the most visited museums in Austria and a highlight for Vienna-travelers. The name Albertina was established in 1921. In March 1945, the Albertina was heavily damaged by bomb attacks. The Albertina was completely refurbished and modernized from 1998 to 2003, but the graphics collection did not reopen until 2008. The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 68,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings. Apart from the graphics collection the museum has recently acquired on permanent loan two significant collections of Impressionist and early 20th century art, some of which will be on permanent display. The museum also houses temporary exhibitions.The Albertina in Vienna is one of the most important art collections in the world. Since 1805 it has been founded in one of the most magnificent neoclassical palaces in Europe: the Palais Albertina. To safeguard the unity of their distinguished collection in perpetuity, the Batliners set up the Herbert and Rita Batliner Art Foundation, which transferred the artworks to the Albertina as a permanent loan. Together with works from the Swiss collection of Eva and Mathias Forberg, which is also on permanent loan to the Albertina, around 100 works from the Batliner Collection are on display at the Albertina in a permanent new exhibition that traces the development from Impressionism to modern art. Since May 2009, the Albertina has been presenting a permanent exhibition from its own holdings. This has become possible through the transfer of the Batliner Collection to the Albertina in 2007. Outstanding works by Paul Klee from the Carl Djerassi Collection and major works from the collection of Eva and Mathias Forberg complete the new presentation, which is additionally rounded off by exhibits from other collections handed over to the Albertina. The permanent exhibition spans the most fascinating chapters from more than 130 years of art history, from Impressionism to the most recent present. Paintings by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Miró, Klee, Kandinsky, Chagall, and other masters offer a survey of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, the Fauves, Expressionism, and the Russian avant-garde. With late works by Picasso and exhibits by Rothko and Bacon, the exhibition leads over to the second half of the twentieth century, before it ends with works by contemporary artists such as Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter. Although the Albertina is a state museum, it is particularly fortunate because it gets a larger proportion of its budget from the private sector than other museums in Austria. The museum's original collection was started during the 18th century by duke Albert of Saxen-Teschen (after whom the museum has been named), together with Genoan count Giacomo Durazzo, who was at the time the Venetian ambassador to Austria. In Giacomo Durazzo's words, the purpose of the museum is to "gather a collection for later generations that serves a higher meaning than any other purpose: education and the strength of morality, distinguishing this collection from all others". The Albertina is a must see for any art lover visiting Vienna. View website at : http://www.albertina.at The Albertina in Vienna is one of the most important art collections in the world. Since 1805 it has been located in one of the most magnificent neoclassical palaces in Europe: the Palais Albertina. The name comes from the collection's founder Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen (1738-1822). The Batliner Collection is augmented by works from the Forberg Collection in Switzerland, which was also transferred to the Albertina on permanent loan. Herbert and Rita Batliner began collecting art nearly half a century ago. Due to their close friendship with the legendary art dealer Ernst Beyeler, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting formed a cornerstone of the collection from the very beginning, along with the work of; Edgar Degas, Two dancers, around 1905; Alberto Giacometti. Exceptional works by Monet such as The Water-Lily Pond, Edgar Degas' Two Dancers, or Cézanne's Arc-Tal and Mont Sainte-Victoire landscapes attest to the couple's passion for French art; Picasso became an additional focal point. Today he is represented in the collection with over 40 works, including ten paintings and numerous drawings and one-of-a-kind ceramics. In the course of his travels, Herbert Batliner gained familiarity with Russian avant-garde art. He and his wife were inspired by the works they saw in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, to build their own fine collection of Russian avant-garde art from 1905-35. The focus of their acquisitions was on Marc Chagall, but they also sought out works by Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova und Mikhail Larionow. The collection also includes a major work by Kazimir Malevich, painted as a defiant memory image immediately following the artist's release from a Stalinist prison. Special Collections and Archives : including; around 360 sketchbooks, predominantly by Austrian and German artists of the 19th and 20th century, including precious examples of works by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka; around 300 miniature works, including precious masterpieces by Jean Baptiste Isabey, Friedrich Heinrich Füger and Moritz Michael Daffinger; roughly 24,000 posters and poster designs from between 1870 and the present. Prime of place must be accorded the numerous posters made by artists in the early days of poster art. Worth a particular mention are the works by Alfons Maria Mucha, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Josef Hoffmann, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele; the collection of historic sheets, comprises several hundred graphic art prints from the 16th to the 19th century, documents historic events and personalities of Europe, with a focus gravitating towards Vienna; illustarted books, cimelia and portfolios, including masterpieces ranging from examples of early book art to large-scale, exclusive portfolios of contemporary art; and the archives devoted to individual artists. Current exhibitions include William Kentridge - "Five Themes" and Roy Lichtenstein - "Black & White" until May, 2011. A major "Blue Rider" exhibition opens 4 February featuring the works of August Macke, Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and other artists of Blue Rider fame. 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, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and now Austria. 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.

Art & Love in Renaissance Italy on View at the Kimbell Art Museum Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:28 PM PST FORT WORTH, TX - The Kimbell Art Museum presents Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, a fascinating exploration of art objects made to celebrate milestones in the lives of men and women in Renaissance Italy—betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child. It will be on view from March 15 to June 14, 2009. Jointly organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Kimbell (its exclusive venues), this exhibition is curated by Andrea Bayer, a curator in the department of European paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Nancy E. Edwards, curator of European art and head of academic services at the Kimbell Art Museum.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Hosts Major Collection of Edo-Period Japanese Art Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:26 PM PST Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents The Age of Imagination: Japanese Art, 1615-1868, from the Price Collection, featuring more than 100 of the finest paintings from the Japanese Edo period (1615–1868), through September 14, 2008. Collectors Etsuko and Joe Price have had a longstanding relationship with LACMA, partially funding the museum's Pavilion for Japanese Art, built in 1988 to house many of the screens and scrolls they promised or have had on long-term loan to the museum.

Cézanne Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th Anniversary Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:23 PM PST London - The Courtauld Gallery holds the finest group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain.  As the culmination of The Courtauld Institute of Art's 75th anniversary, the Gallery is showing the entire collection together for the first time.  The importance of the collection lies not only in its exceptionally high quality but also in its wide range, with seminal paintings, drawings and watercolours from the major periods of the artist's long career. The Courtauld Cézannes, on view from 26 June to 5 October 2008, will be the first opportunity to enjoy this extraordinary collection in its entirety.

Explosive Artist Cai Guo - Qiang opens Major Retrospective at Guggenheim in Bilbao Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:21 PM PST Bilbao, Spain - The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents 'Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want To Believe', an exhibition that presents the full spectrum of the artist's multimedia art in all its conceptual complexity. The exhibition comes to Bilbao after its success at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where it became the most visited visual art show in the Museum's history and at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, where it was part of the cultural program for the 2008 Olympic Games. Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally recognized as an artist, curator, and creator of large-scale explosion events, who has been active in exhibitions, biennales, and public celebrations around the world for the last twenty years. This comprehensive retrospective is the Guggenheim Museums first solo show devoted to a Chinese-born artist. On view from March 17th to September 6th, 2009.

Brooklyn Museum to Display Site-Specific Installation by Artist Kiki Smith Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:19 PM PST BROOKLYN, NY.- Kiki Smith: Sojourn, a major site-specific installation that explores the ideas of creative inspiration and the cycle of life in relation to women artists, will be on view February 5 through September 12, 2010, in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The exhibition will draw from a variety of work by Kiki Smith in a range of media including cast objects, unique sculpture, and works on paper. The artist will also incorporate her work into two of the Brooklyn Museum's eighteenth-century period rooms in the nearby Decorative Arts galleries.

Swiss conceptual artist John Armleder to "take-over" The Rose Art Museum Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:17 PM PST WALTHAM, Mass. – This spring, Swiss artist John Armleder will take over the entire Rose Art Museum with a visual explosion of sprawling installations. Starting on April 26, the Rose will feature an extensive exhibition of Armleder's multi-layered work that covers the fields of art, design and pop culture. The exhibition will take over all 10,000 square feet of exhibition space in the museum, and will include large and vibrant multi-media installations made from scaffolding, wall-paintings, disco light ball installations, pour and puddle paintings, mesmerizing fluorescent light installations, Furniture Sculptures, scatter pieces and much more.

New Museum organizes first Elizabeth Peyton Survey Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:15 PM PST NEW YORK CITY - The New Museum announced that it will present the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton's work, including paintings, drawings, and prints. " Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton" premieres at the New Museum and will be on view from October 8, 2008 through January 11, 2009, and will then travel to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; and the Bonnefantenmuseum, in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Tria Gallery to present Frank Olt ~ Selected Works Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:13 PM PST New York City - Tria Gallery is presenting our next exhibition of selected works by Frank Olt: abstract works that cross over between a variety of media and unusual processes encompassing elements in linen, wood, ceramic, linen, encaustic, and oil. Aspects of wrapping, built out from finely constructed surfaces, ingeniously worked through repeated applications, scrapings, abrasions, and re-applications of pigment, define an oeuvre which is without direct comparison. The aesthetic sources are rooted in a love for abstract traditions of the New York School. On view 2 April through 9 May, 2009.

Mireille Mosler, Ltd. hosts "Surveillance from the Doll House" Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:06 PM PST New York City - Mireille Mosler, Ltd. is pleased to announce Surveillance from the Doll House , an exhibition that challenges notions of identity and the inanimate through a convergence of drawing and puppet animation by five consummate female artists. Each distinctive and sundry video brings variations on the inanimate, corporal, or theoretical assumption of identity in a world of shifting gender roles .  While the show will include artists at different stages of their careers as well as different aesthetic and conceptual approaches, all works will share a fascination in the tactile, emotional or political manipulation of their characters.  On view through 23 May, 2009.

Freer and Sackler Galleries Launch Web Site for World War II Provenance Project Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:04 PM PST WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have launched a Web site that allows public access to research being conducted as part of the galleries' World War II Era Provenance Research Project. The site is part of a long-term provenance effort at the Freer and Sackler galleries, which together hold one of the nation's largest and most important collections of Asian art. The goal of the project is to identify and clarify the ownership history for works of art in the collections that might have been unlawfully taken by the Nazis during the World War II era and to make this information available to the public.

Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art hosts Christopher Wool Exhibition Posted: 19 Jan 2011 08:52 PM PST   PORTO, PORTUGAL - Christopher Wool is a highly esteemed painter belonging to the middle generation who has explored since the 1980s, in new and unprecedented ways, fundamental concerns of painting: relations between the picture plane and the shapes applied to it; colour contrasts between black and white; the painterly and the graphic; the unique and the reproduced. His exhibition at Serralves traces the migration of abstract imagery through different media of representation, namely free-flowing painting and silkscreened print. On view through 25 March, 2009 at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.

DesignPhiladelphia & Please Touch Museum Invite "Design of the Dollhouse of Your Dreams Posted: 19 Jan 2011 08:44 PM PST PHILADELPHIA, PA. -  Please Touch Museum, the Children's Museum of Philadelphia, is partnering with DesignPhiladelphia on a unique city-wide project bringing together artists, architects, children and their caregivers, designers and students. "Design the Dollhouse of Your Dreams" lets participants unleash their inner Frank Lloyd Wright or Frank Gehry by creating their own version of the ideal dollhouse. Selected entrants will be notified the week of August 17th.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts displays 'Manifest Destination' by David Opdyke Posted: 19 Jan 2011 08:41 PM PST New York City - Ronald Feldman Fine Arts is pleased to announce Manifest Destination, an exhibition of recent sculptures and drawings by David Opdyke. A self-proclaimed "NPR junkie," Opdyke deftly engages a wide range of contemporary themes with subtle humor and controlled chaos. On exhibition from 6 September through 11 October, 2008.

Sol LeWitt in Memoriam at MCA Chicago Posted: 19 Jan 2011 08:39 PM PST CHICAGO, IL - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, presents Sol LeWitt in Memoriam, on view through August 5, 2007.  In memory of the artist Sol LeWitt, the MCA is presenting a special exhibition of his work that includes a sequence from One-, Two-, Three-, and Four-Part Combinations of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Left and Right Bands of Color (1993-94), which represents his more recent, colorful style, and a selection of lithographs from Suite of 16 in Color (1971) that shows a progression of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal marks in black, yellow, blue, and red which represents his more spare style of the 1970s.  The exhibition includes photographic documentation of LeWitt tracing his long history with the MCA, including major exhibitions in 1979 and 2000, along with a selection of his artists' books.

Cindy Sherman Retrospective at Kunsthaus Bregenz Posted: 19 Jan 2011 08:33 PM PST Bregenz, Austria - Ever since her first works some thirty years ago, Cindy Sherman has herself been pretty much the sole model for her elaborately staged images.  In each series, she has used costumes, make-up, props and even prostheses to turn herself into the personas that she photographs in the studio.  The result is a major body of work, and one of the first in the field of contemporary visual art, along with Jeff Wall's, to be wholly photographic. Funny, grating, sometimes brutal, the figures in this gallery of figures explore cultural and social stereotypes and their representation in the media, from magazine centerfolds to advertisements, films and classical painting.  What emerges through these images is a subtle analysis of individual identity, both the fantasies that it generates and the forces that shape it.  This immersion in the uncertain, conflictual zones where individual identity struggles with the collective imaginary, stereotypes and issues of symbolic power, can be either playful or – when it touches on horror and repulsion, on the decay and dismembering of the body – very dark.

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