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• The National Gallery Prague (Czech Republic) Receives Our Editor ~ A Massive Art Collection Spread Over Various Locations Around Prague
• MoMA Features Pivotal Moments in Henri Matisse's Radical Invention
• Delaware Art Museum Hosts " ICONS & IDOLS "
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to showcase Seven Rembrandts
• Bruce Museum exhibits ~ Climate Change: From Snowball Earth to Global Warming
• The Dulwich Picture Gallery hosts a Saul Steinberg Retrospective
• Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts displays American Impressionism: Paintings from the Phillips Collection
• Major Survey of Anselm Kiefer's Works at SFMOMA
• Art Now Follows The Money . . At Sea
• Cantor Arts Center to exhibit 'Pop to Present ~ Art of the 1960's'
• The Jewish Museum exhibits "Reclaimed ~ Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker"
• Groninger Museum features Armand Bouten (1893-1965) : Art Makes Itself
• Luhring Augustine show New Work by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
• First Major Exhibition in Armenia of Original Works by Artist Arshile Gorky
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The National Gallery Prague (Czech Republic) Receives Our Editor ~ A Massive Art Collection Spread Over Various Locations Around Prague Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:22 PM PST The National Gallery in Prague in the Czech Republic comprises a number of different sites spread around the city. Originating in February 1796 when a group of prominent patriotically oriented Czech nobility, along with several scholars from among the enlightened bourgeoisie decided to form a corporation, named "The Patriotic Friends of Art" that could then establish two important institutions that were lacking in Prague: An Academy of Arts and a publicly accessible picture gallery. In 1918, the Picture Gallery of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art turned into the central art collection of the new state of Czechoslovakia and ultimately the National Gallery. The Collection of Prints and Drawings (SGK) of the National Gallery in Prague, which is situated in Kinsky Palace in the Old Town Square, keeps some 320,000 prints and 60,000 drawings from the Middle Ages to the present. The National Gallery in Prague is also a research organization whose main purpose is to conduct basic and applied research and experimental development and to disseminate the results through scientific publications, exhibitions, educational programs, methodologies, or technological transfer. The National Gallery collects, records, stores, processes and provides public access to works of painting, sculpture and other graphic works as well as new media, both from domestic and famous foreign artists. With multiple individual galleries locations devoted to art from specific periods or regions, scattered around Prague, the National Gallery is colossal and it would take several days to visit every location. Two of the largest galleries are the Schwarzenberg Palace (near the castle) which contains much of the gallery's Czech Baroque collection, and the "Fair Trade Palace" (which is located a short distance from the city centre), which houses the gallery's modern and contemporary art collection. Visit the museum's website at: http://www.ngprague.cz Entirely renovated, this gigantic Renaissance Palace located on Hradčanské Square (in front of the Prague Castle), adorned with "diamond point" sgraffitti, is worth a visit in itself. Its spacious rooms are bathed in light under sculpted wooden ceilings or beautiful vaulted frescoes, and the windows reveal unique panoramic views of the Petřín park, the ochre roofs of the Malá Strana and the Castle Square. The Palace was built between 1545 and 1576 for Count Jan Lobkowicz the Younger. Designed by the Italian master builder Agostino Galli, the palace is one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture in Prague. Opened on March 28, 2008, the new permanent exhibition of Czech Baroque art in the Schwarzenberg Palace on Hradčany Square supplements the unique selection of exhibitions of art collections dating from different periods staged in the area of Prague Castle. Monumental stone sculptures welcome visitors when they enter the building, including the renowned stone sculptures by Matthias Bernhard Braun from the attic of the Clam-Gallas Palace in Prague (1714-1716) and the two Angels from the hermitage near Lysá nad Labem, accompanied by the Moor figures from the gate of Kounice Castle, created by Maximilian Brokof. Three interconnected rooms on the ground floor present an exhibition conceived according to traditional chronology and showing the stylistic periods of the Early, High and Late Baroque. Adjoining space shows the best-quality surviving examples of everyday workshop practice in art studios of the time, particularly those of the 18th century. The main galleries on the 1st and 2nd floors of the palace contain paintings presented chronology by stylistic cycles, spanning the time from the Late Renaissance, as represented by the works of artists active at the Prague court of Emperor Rudolf II, to the final waning of Baroque culture in the late 18th century. The collection includes all the great names of local fine arts of the 17th-18th centuries, with the emphasis on key figures including paintings by Hans von Aachen, Bartholomaeus Spranger, Roelant Savery, Michael Willmann, Johann Christoph Liška, Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, Anton Kern, Johann Peter Molitor, and Norbert Grund. The world of late Renaissance collections – cabinets of arts and curiosities – is recalled in a partial reconstruction of just such a collection with characteristic examples of small pictures and sculptures, and samples of the crafts of the period. The most important figures of Baroque painting in Bohemia – Karel Škréta and Peter Brandl – have intentionally been allocated prestigious spaces which do justice to the qualities of both the collections, considered the gems of the Gallery's Collection of Old Masters. One of the rooms on the 1st floor also presents in deliberate confrontation the portraits by Peter Brandl, and those by Johann Kupecký. Both painters explored similar (French and Dutch) sources of inspiration found in European portraiture. Painting collections of 18th-century artists are accompanied by carefully selected samples of small-size carving of destinctive character, coming from the Prague studios of Franz Ignaz Weiss, Karl Joseph Hiernle, Johann Anton Quitainer, and Ignaz Franz Platzer, installed in modern glass cases with perfect lighting. Exhibitions are regularly held at the the Schwartzenberg Palace, the next being a collection of works by Roelandt Savery, court painter of Emperor Rudolf II, which opens on 12 June 2011. The Czech art collection in the Schwartzenberg Palace is supplemented by the collections shown in the Sternberg Palace and Prgue Castle Gallery. The Sternberg Palace permanently houses the collection of old European Baroque Art, including paintings by El Greco, Rembrandt (portrait Scholar in his Study 1634) and Rubens. The gallery's proudest possession is Albrecht Durer's Feast of the Rose Garlands (1506). Other works include Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Jan Gossaert and the Brueghels, both father and son. The Chinese cabinet and and two fine Spanish works, El Greco's Head of Christ and a portrait by Goya of Don Miguel de Lardizabal. Italian renaissance works are represented by Andrea dells Robbia, Sebastiano del Piombo and Pietro delta Francesca. The Prague Castle Picture holds a vast collection of works of art gathered during and after the reign of Rudolf II, a big lover of art, who made Prague the cultural centre of Europe in his time. The permanent exhibition at the Prague Castle Picture Gallery offers the best 107 paintings and 3 statues selected from over 4,300 works of art in possession of Prague Castle. The oldest works in the collection come from the time of Rudolf II's, even though only a few of them remained. The exhibition shows paintings collected during the centuries. Among the artists, whose works are on display in the Prague Castle Picture Gallery, belong Adriaen de Vries (a copy of a bust of Rudolf II), Titian (The Toilet of a Young Lady), Rubens (The Assembly of the Olympic Gods), Guido Reni (The Centaur Nessus Abducting Deianeira), Master Theodoric, Paolo Veronese, Czech Baroque artists Jan Kupecky and Petr Brandl, and many others. Art of the 20th and 21 century, is displayed on three floors of the Trade Fair "Palace". Works by some of the world's best known artists of the last two centuries including Delacroix, Monet ("Two Women among the Flowers"), Renoir, Degas, Gauguin ("Flight"), Van Gogh ("Green Rye"), Cézanne, Matisse, Schiele, Klimt, Munch, Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Pablo Picasso is represented by quite a few contrasting paintings, ranging from an impressive, primitivist Self Portrait, dating from 1907, to Clarinet (1911), a classic example of analytic Cubism. There are also works by Vlaminck, Derain, Braque, Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Fernand Leger, Marie Laurencin and Albert Marquet. The collection also includes sculptures from Rodin and Henri Laurens. Over 2,000 exhibits, varying from architecture, furniture, fashion, design, photographs, and paintings, are on show on a 13,500 square meter area. Until 27th March, the Trade Fair Palace is showing a selection of drawings by John Štursa (1880 -1925). Also on view are the finalists of the National Gallery's "333" competition for young artists. Other galleries included under the National Gallery umbrella include the Museum of Czech Cubism at the "house of the Black Madonna", focussing on the years 1910-1919, ie the most important stage of Cubism in the Czech lands. Painting is represented by works by Emil Filla, Bohumil Kubišta, Vincent Beneš, Josef Čapek, Antonín Procházka, Václav Spala, John Zrzavý, Otakar Nejedly and Otakar Kubin, with sculptures by Otto Gutfreund. The National Gallery's collection of Asian art is housed in the Zbraslav Chateau, The Monastery of St. George gallery shows 19th century Czech works, while the Monastery of St. Agnes gallery show medieval Bohemian art. 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 , Austria, and now The 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, Austria and now The Czech Republic. 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. 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.

MoMA Features Pivotal Moments in Henri Matisse's Radical Invention Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:18 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917, a large-scale investigation into a pivotal moment in the career of Henri Matisse (1869–1954), presents an important reassessment of the artist's work between 1913 and 1917, revealing this period to be one of the most significant chapters in Matisse's evolution as an artist. On view from July 18 through October 11, 2010, at The Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition examines paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints made by the artist between his return to Paris from Morocco in 1913 to his departure for Nice in 1917. Over these five years, he developed his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works: paintings that are abstracted, often purged of descriptive detail, geometrically composed, and dominated by blacks and grays. Comprising nearly 110 of the artist's works, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 is the first exhibition devoted to this period, thoroughly exploring Matisse's working processes and the revolutionary experimentation of what he called his "methods of modern construction."

Delaware Art Museum Hosts " ICONS & IDOLS " Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:16 PM PST Wilmington, DE - The Delaware Art Museum presents Icons & Idols: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Arts, 1960–1995, an exhibition of the work of Jack Mitchell on view August 5 through October 1, 2006.  During the second half of the 20th century, Mitchell photographed many of America's finest actors, directors, writers, artists, composers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers in his New York studio.  His subjects have all attained iconic status in their respective fields.  This exhibition features more than 130 black and white photographs, which include such celebrities as Jack Nicholson, Alfred Hitchcock, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, Neil Diamond, Rudolf Nureyev, and Merce Cunningham. "We are thrilled to display Jack Mitchell's work," said Danielle Rice, Executive Director of the Delaware Art Museum.  "His photographs are visually stunning and emotionally compelling.  They capture both the public image of these remarkable superstars while also revealing the private individuals we may never otherwise see."

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to showcase Seven Rembrandts Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:14 PM PST HARTFORD, CT.- Seven of Rembrandt's most expressive portraits will be on view in a new exhibition, entitled Rembrandt's People, opening this fall at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The exhibition will feature Rembrandt's powerful figure paintings, which are hailed as his greatest artistic achievement. Borrowed from leading museums in both America and Canada and two private collections, Rembrandt's People will bring the first authentic Rembrandt paintings to Hartford in almost 70 years. The exhibition will showcase works from throughout the artist's career, including his iconic Self Portrait from 1659. Rembrandt's People opens October 10, 2009 and is on view through January 24, 2010.

Bruce Museum exhibits ~ Climate Change: From Snowball Earth to Global Warming Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:13 PM PST GREENWICH, CT - Hot deserts, soggy rainforests, arctic tundra and temperate forests – these are a few climatic regions spread across our planet. Unlike weather, which is chaotic and difficult to predict on a daily basis, climate is the expected weather for an area averaged over time. But climate is not static and itself changes with time. The new exhibition Climate Change: From Snowball Earth to Global Warming explores our planet's history of climate shifts, explains some of the causes, and highlights the challenges and responses to current global warming.  On view 28 June through 9 November, 2008 at the Bruce Museum.

The Dulwich Picture Gallery hosts a Saul Steinberg Retrospective Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:11 PM PST LONDON.- From The New Yorker to cartography, from greeting cards to gallery art, the comic genius of modernism unmasks the 20th century. Saul Steinberg (1914 - 1999), an American artist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades, is the subject of Dulwich Picture Gallery's latest winter exhibition. It's a retrospective which features more than a hundred drawings, collages and sculptural assemblages by the artist whom many regard as not only a comic genius but among the greatest draftsmen of the modern era. This exhibition is the first full scale review of his career. On exhibition through 15 February, 2009.

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts displays American Impressionism: Paintings from the Phillips Collection Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:09 PM PST Montgomery, AL -  Since the late 19th century, Americans have always had a fascination with Impressionism, a French-born style of painting depicting landscapes and scenes of life using natural light and virtuoso brushwork. The Phillips Collection, America's first Museum of Modern Art, which began in the Washington, D.C. home of Ducan Phillips in 1921, helped raise awareness and appreciation for artists and their works with its broad representation of impressionist paintings, both French and American.

Major Survey of Anselm Kiefer's Works at SFMOMA Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:07 PM PST San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth from October 20, 2006, to January 21, 2007.  The first North American survey of this influential contemporary German artist's oeuvre in 20 years, this traveling exhibition brings together more than 50 major works, many of which have never before been seen in the United States.  Organized by Michael Auping, chief curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth completes its international tour in San Francisco in a presentation overseen by SFMOMA Curator of Painting and Sculpture Janet Bishop.

Art Now Follows The Money . . At Sea Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:01 PM PST Greenwich, CT - Strolling through the galleries on the SeaFair's Grand Luxe, a lavish new yacht selling fine art, antiques and jewelry, Deborah and Chuck Royce looked at paintings by Marc Chagall and Fernando Botero and were "seriously distracted," Ms. Royce said, by a glittery butterfly pin of colored gemstones.

Cantor Arts Center to exhibit 'Pop to Present ~ Art of the 1960's' Posted: 31 Jan 2011 09:01 PM PST   STANFORD, CA - The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces "Pop to Present," March 18-August 16, 2009, the third in a yearlong series of exhibitions highlighting the museum's acquisitions from the past decade. This lively selection of modern and contemporary works - in particular American art made since the 1960s - is built on pre-existing strengths, such as Bay Area painting, while the pursuit of new collecting arenas includes northern California ceramics and contemporary prints.

The Jewish Museum exhibits "Reclaimed ~ Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker" Posted: 31 Jan 2011 08:59 PM PST NEW YORK, NY - The Jewish Museum presents an exhibition of rarely-seen Old Master paintings entitled Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker from March 15 through August 2, 2009. Reclaimed reveals the extraordinary legacy of Jacques Goudstikker, a preeminent art dealer in Amsterdam, whose vast collection of masterpieces fell victim, and was almost lost forever, to the Nazi practice of looting cultural properties. In 2006, after years of working with a team of art historians and legal experts, Goudstikker's family successfully reclaimed 200 of his paintings from the Dutch government – one of the largest claims to Nazi-looted art ever resolved.

Groninger Museum features Armand Bouten (1893-1965) : Art Makes Itself Posted: 31 Jan 2011 08:57 PM PST GRONINGER, NL - Armand Bouten was born in Venlo in 1893. At the age of 21 he moved to Amsterdam, where he studied at the State Art Teachers' Training College (Rijks Normaalschool voor Tekenonderwijs). He married Hanny Korevaar in 1922; they went to southern Europe on honeymoon. They lived in turn in Paris, Budapest, and Brussels, and for shorter periods in Amsterdam and The Hague. Completely penniless, they returned to the Netherlands in 1953, and lived out their lives in solitude in Amsterdam.

Luhring Augustine show New Work by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller Posted: 31 Jan 2011 08:54 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine presents an exhibition of new work by the collaborative team Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. This marks Cardiff and Miller's third solo exhibition at the gallery. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are internationally recognized for their immersive multimedia works. Incorporating dramatic audio tracks into their visually striking installations, the artists create engaging and transcendent multisensory experiences which draw the viewer into ambiguous and unsettling narratives. Their works address grand themes such as time, voyeurism, dreams, and mystery. Providing only fragments of information, the completion of the storylines, images and thoughts are left to be formed in the minds of the individual viewers.

First Major Exhibition in Armenia of Original Works by Artist Arshile Gorky Posted: 31 Jan 2011 08:52 PM PST YEREVAN, ARMENIA.- The Cafesjian Center for the Arts announced that the first major exhibition in Yerevan of original work by the American-Armenian artist Arshile Gorky will take place at the Center from November 8, 2009 through January 31, 2010. "Arshile Gorky: Selections from the Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection" will exhibit 16 drawings and 7 paintings by the man who would become known as the most monumental presence in American twentieth-century art. This is the first major exhibition of original work in Armenia by Arshile Gorky, an artist once described by a critic of the time as a "hero of Abstract Expressionism."

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 31 Jan 2011 08:51 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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