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• The Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA) New York City ~ The Most Influential Museum Of Modern Art In The World
• The Delaware Art Museum presents " This Is War ! "
• Vancouver Art Gallery to feature Expanding Horizons: The American & Canadian Landscape 1860-1918
• American Watercolor Society Exhibition on View at D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art opens "The Matrix Effect"
• A Stroll Through (Art) History ~ The Hudson River School Art Trail
• Americas Society Showing Work by Argentine Artist Marta Minujín
• 'The Architect's Brother' at The Johnson Museum
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to present 'The Photographs of Homer Page'
• Lyman Allyn Art Museum Celebrates 75th Anniversary Year
• The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) Benefit and Art Auction
• Birmingham Museum of Art opens New Gallery Reflecting African-American Experience
• ~ SHINY ~ a Dazzling Exhibition at Wexner Center for the Arts
• Sargent Painting Chosen for National Endowment for the Humanities 'Picturing America'
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA) New York City ~ The Most Influential Museum Of Modern Art In The World Posted: 18 Feb 2011 09:37 PM PST The Museum of Modern Art (stylized MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world. The museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview in modern and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design, drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, film, and electronic media. MoMA's library and archives hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. When The Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1929, its founding Director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., intended the Museum to be dedicated to helping people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, and that it might provide New York with "the greatest museum of modern art in the world." The public's response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, and over the course of the next ten years, the Museum moved three times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 finally opened the doors of the building it still occupies in midtown Manhattan. 1951 the Grace Rainey Rogers Annex, designed by Philip Johnson (winner of the inaugural Pritzker Prize for architecture) opened beside the original building and MoMA later expanded into neighbouring buildings that it acquired. In 1984, a major renovation designed by famous Argentinian archiect Cesar Pelli doubled the Museum's gallery space, enhanced visitor facilities and added a residential tower above the museum. On May 21, 2002 the museum closed for extensive rebuilding works, the largest and most ambitious building project in its history. This project nearly doubled the space for MoMA's exhibitions and programs. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new MoMA features 640,000 square feet of new and redesigned space and opened to the public on November 20, 2004. The Peggy and David Rockefeller Building on the western portion of the site houses the main exhibition galleries, and The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Building, containing classrooms, auditoriums, teacher training workshops, and the Museum's expanded Library and Archives subsequently in November 2006. These two buildings frame the enlarged Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Visit The Museum of Modern Art / MoMA at : www.moma.org/ The rich and varied collection of The Museum of Modern Art constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views into modern art in the world. From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include over 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills, and MoMA's Library and Archives, the premier research facilities of their kind in the world, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The collection houses a number of important and familiar works including; "The Dance I", "The Plum Blossoms" and "View of Notre-Dame" by Henri Matisse, "The City Rises" by Umberto Boccioni, "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali, "Broadway Boogie Woogie" by Piet Mondrian, "Paintin" by Francis Bacon, "Starry Night" and "The Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background" by Vincent van Gogh, "The Sleeping Gypsy" and "The Dram" by Henri Rousseau, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Pablo Picasso, "Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, "Te aa no areois" (The Seed of the Areoi) by Paul Gauguin, the "Water Lilies" triptych by Claude Monet, "The Bather" by Paul Cézanne, "Vir Heroicus Sublimis" and "Broken Obelisk" by Barnett Newman"Flag" by Jasper Johns, "Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale" by Max Ernst and "Suprematist Composition: White on White" by Kazimir Malevich. It also holds works by a wide range of influential European and American artists including Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Walker Evans, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Dorothea Lange, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, Stanley Spencer, David Smith, Frank Stella, and hundreds of others. MoMA developed a world-renowned art photography collection, first under Edward Steichen and then John Szarkowski, which included photos by Todd Webb, as well as an important film collection under The Museum of Modern Art Department of Film and Video. The film collection owns prints of many familiar feature-length movies, including Citizen Kane and Vertigo, but the department's holdings also contain many less-traditional pieces, including Andy Warhol's "eight-hour Empire" and Chris Cunningham's music video for Björk's "All Is Full of Love". MoMA also has an important design collection, which includes works from such legendary designers as Paul László, the Eameses, Isamu Noguchi, and George Nelson. The design collection also contains many industrial and manufactured pieces, ranging from a self-aligning ball bearing to an entire Bell 47D1 helicopter. Amongst approximately 20 temporary exhibitions currently on view at MoMA, "Abstract Expressionist New York" (until 25th April 2011) is the largest. More than sixty years after the critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term "Abstract Expressionism" to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. Over the years the name has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as diverse as Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner and David Smith. Beginning in the 1940s, works by these artists began to enter the Museum's collection and continued throughout the second half of the last century, producing a collection of Abstract Expressionist art of unrivaled breadth and depth. Drawn entirely from the Museum's vast holdings, "Abstract Expressionist New York" underscores the achievements of a generation that catapulted New York City to the center of the international art world during the 1950s, and left as its legacy some of the twentieth century's greatest masterpieces. Galleries on the fourth floor present Abstract Expressionist paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, films, and archival materials in a display subtitled "The Big Picture", marking the first time in the history of the new Museum building that a full floor has been devoted to a single theme. The exhibition continues on the floors below, where focused shows ("Rock Paper Scissors" in the second-floor Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, and "Ideas Not Theories" in the third-floor Drawings Galleries) reveal distinct facets of the movement as it developed in diverse mediums, adding to a historical overview of the era and giving a sense of its great depth and complexity. "Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914" is on view until 6th June 2011. Sometime between October and December 1912, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) made a guitar. Cobbled together from cardboard, paper, string, and wire, materials that he cut, folded, threaded, and glued, Picasso's silent instrument resembled no sculpture ever seen before. In 1914 the artist revisited his fragile papery construction in a more fixed and durable sheet metal form. These two Guitar sculptures, both gifts from the artist to MoMA, bracket an incandescent period of material and structural experimentation in Picasso's work. "Picasso: Guitars 1912–1914" explores this breakthrough moment in 20th-century art, and the Guitars' place within it. Bringing together some 70 closely connected collages, constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings, and photographs assembled from over 30 public and private collections worldwide, this exhibition offers fresh insight into Picasso's cross-disciplinary process in the years immediately preceding World War I. "On to Pop" ( until April 25, 2011) highlights the use of everyday objects in Pop Art. In 1955 the influential critic Clement Greenberg published the essay, "American-Type Painting," hailing the anti-mimetic and monumental canvases of Abstract Expressionist artists as the most advanced form of painting then practiced. That same year, the twenty-five-year-old artist Jasper Johns painted an American flag, a familiar, iconic emblem. Rendered in wax encaustic and augmented with collage, the work's tactile, painterly surface and allover compositional structure engaged the visual language of Abstract Expressionism while pointing in a new direction. "On to Pop" features familiar objects and images we encounter in our daily lives. In addition to a flag, there are stockings, comics, and movie stars—in works by Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and others. Collectively these artists came to define American Pop art, a very different kind of "American-type" painting, which by the late 1960s had eclipsed Abstract Expressionism's dominance on the New York scene. ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to visit Museums and cultural sites worldwide, and they are featured on our Home Page (center). 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 . . and we are publishing current art news articles on the left hand side under RECENT NEWS .. Enjoy

The Delaware Art Museum presents " This Is War ! " Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:42 PM PST Wilmington, DE - The Delaware Art Museum presents This Is War !, an exhibition of over 40 war-themed illustrations and posters on view May 10, 2008 – August 10, 2008, in the Brock J. Vinton Galleries.  Due to the depth of the Delaware Art Museum's illustration collections through the 1940s, the Museum is able to provide a wide array of artists' interpretations of war.  The images in this exhibition focus on the Revolutionary War, Civil War, First World War, and Second World War, and the works are divided into these four groups.

Vancouver Art Gallery to feature Expanding Horizons: The American & Canadian Landscape 1860-1918 Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:41 PM PST VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery will present the first exhibition to compare the extraordinary work of American and Canadian landscape artists during the formative days of each nation. Beginning with the American Civil War and ending with the conclusion of the First World War, Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918 presents some of North America 's greatest artworks from a time when each country was aggressively extending their boundaries westward. On view from October 17, 2009 to January 17, 2010, the exhibition, organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, includes more than 175 of the most celebrated examples of landscape painting and photography from this decisive period selected from outstanding international public and private collections.

American Watercolor Society Exhibition on View at D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:40 PM PST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts will host the American Watercolor Society 142nd Annual International Exhibition  through May 23 at The Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Each year since 1867, the American Watercolor Society (AWS) has hosted a juried exhibition of outstanding watercolors by artist members of the organization.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art opens "The Matrix Effect" Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:39 PM PST HARTFORD, CT.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's groundbreaking MATRIX program marks its much anticipated resurgence this month in a new exhibition entitled The Matrix Effect. Curated by Patricia Hickson, the museum's new Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, the exhibition reviews the rich history of the MATRIX program as a primer to the series' full launch this January. The Matrix Effect is on view July 25, 2009 through January 3, 2010. The renowned MATRIX series, a changing exhibition of contemporary art, is a continuation of the Wadsworth's legacy of presenting the work of living artists, an artistic tradition that extends from Thomas Cole and Frederic Church to Salvador Dalí and into the present day.

A Stroll Through (Art) History ~ The Hudson River School Art Trail Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:37 PM PST CATSKILL, NY.- Fifteen scenic miles in the Catskills between The Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana New York Historic Site (www.olana.org) couldn't be more beautiful. This stretch of history, known as The Hudson River School Art Trail, leads visitors to the sites that inspired America's first great landscape painters by mapping the sites that inspired works of art by Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher B. Durand, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Gifford and other pioneering American artists.

Americas Society Showing Work by Argentine Artist Marta Minujín Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:36 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Americas Society presents Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs, an exhibition that revisits an earlier project by Argentine artist Marta Minujín, held in 1968 at the Americas Society, known then as the Center for Inter American Relations (CIAR). The project, called Minucode, explored social codes in four groups of leading figures in the arts, business, fashion and politics. Minujín collected social data through a series of cocktail parties attended by people who responded to a series of questionnaires the artist posted in the press.

'The Architect's Brother' at The Johnson Museum Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:34 PM PST Ithaca, NY- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents The Architect's Brother, on view from March 25 to June 11, 2006. Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison work together on an innovative approach to picture making that draws upon the use of the paper negative and collage to construct stories of healing and restoration amid landscapes scarred by technology and overuse.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to present 'The Photographs of Homer Page' Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:32 PM PST   KANSAS CITY, MO - Homer Page, a brilliant but nearly forgotten photographic talent, will be reintroduced to the public when The Photographs of Homer Page: The Guggenheim Year, New York, 1949-50 opens February 14 through June 7 at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The exhibition of rare vintage black-and-white prints will focus on the innovative work he produced in New York in 1949 and 1950, funded by a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

Lyman Allyn Art Museum Celebrates 75th Anniversary Year Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:28 PM PST New London, CT - Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces a new exhibition Hidden Treasures: Celebrating 75 Years on view through July 15, 2007.  Mounted to commemorate the 75th Anniversary, this exhibit will feature highlights from the permanent collection and tell the story of the history of collecting at the Museum since it opened in 1932.  Such treasures as Winslow Homer's painted tile The Shepherdess and a one-of-kind Tiffany glass goblet are on display.  The objects in Hidden Treasures: Celebrating 75 Years celebrate the donor as well as the actual object given to the museum.  It is through the generosity of its supporters that Lyman Allyn Art Museum has been able to develop such a remarkable collection of art from many periods of art history.

The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) Benefit and Art Auction Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:27 PM PST New York City  - The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) will host re:FORM , an art auction and cocktail party benefit at Cheim & Read gallery in New York on Wednesday, September 3. re:FORM  will benefit DPA, the nation's leading organization promoting alternatives to the drug war that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.  re:FORM  represents the second installment in a groundbreaking partnership between the art world and the drug policy reform movement, following our first successful event in 2005.  DPA will honor three dear friends of the organization: Donald Baechler, Dr. Mathilde Krim, and Fred Tomaselli.

Birmingham Museum of Art opens New Gallery Reflecting African-American Experience Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:27 PM PST BIRMINGHAM, AL.- The Birmingham Museum of Art opens on August 30, 2009, a gallery dedicated to the work of African-American artists. One of the few in the U.S., the gallery will reflect the depth of the Museum's permanent collection, highlight new acquisitions, and feature traveling exhibitions as well as works on loan from other institutions and private collections rarely seen by the general public. The Museum's curators of African, Contemporary, and American art will collaborate on installations to rotate on a quarterly basis. African-American art will continue to be shown in the Contemporary, American, and Folk Art galleries of the Museum.

~ SHINY ~ a Dazzling Exhibition at Wexner Center for the Arts Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:25 PM PST Columbus, OH — The exuberant exhibition Shiny, featuring 13 (literally) shiny works by nine artists, opens this fall at the Wexner Center.  Shiny offers a playful and insightful look at the culture's love of luxury, love of spectacle, and, of course, love of shiny things.  Organized by the Wexner Center, it will be on view September 16–December 31, 2006.

Sargent Painting Chosen for National Endowment for the Humanities 'Picturing America' Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:23 PM PST PITTSBURGH, PA - 'Picturing America', a new education program from the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association, has been designed to help teach American History to students in grades K–12 through the study and understanding of masterpiece works by American artists. Included in the 40 works chosen for the initiative is Carnegie Museum of Art's Portrait of a Boy, 1890, by John Singer Sargent, on view in the museum's Scaife Galleries.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 18 Feb 2011 06:22 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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