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• Please Excuse Our 24 Hour Delay For Maintenance
• Major Pablo Picasso Exhibit Opens at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow
• Cézanne Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th Anniversary
• Chaïm Soutine and Modernism at the Kunstmuseum Basel
• Masterpieces from World's Museums at Hermitage
• LACMA ACQUIRES MAJOR COLLECTION OF MODERN ART
• Joslyn Art Museum Presents Masterpieces from NOMA
• Sotheby’s Sale of Surrealist Art in February
• Art Forum Berlin the International Fair for Contemporary Art
• The Feminine Mystique: Portraits of and by Women
• Ben Lewis Investigates the Rise and Fall of the Contemporary Art Market
• 220,0000 Blockbuster ' Monet to Dalí ' at Vancouver Art Gallery
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Please Excuse Our 24 Hour Delay For Maintenance Posted: 21 Feb 2011 09:43 PM PST ANNOUNCEMENT: Art Knowledge News will be taking a One Day break during a 24 hour, or less, period required for maintenance of our equipment. We are 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 also publishing current art news articles on the left hand side under RECENT NEWS .. Enjoy

Major Pablo Picasso Exhibit Opens at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:17 PM PST MOSCOW, (REUTERS).- Russia's influence on Pablo Picasso was celebrated at a new Moscow exhibit on the Spanish painter, sculptor and co-founder of the Cubism movement. Picasso paintings of bulging-eyed women and sculptures bearing his trademark triangular noses feature in a 240-piece collection of works by one of most prolific and dominant artists of the 20th century. The largest Picasso exhibit on Russian soil in over 50 years opened on Friday and it was the Russian influence on Picasso -- by way of his Russian wife and access to her world -- that excited those in the marble halls of Moscow's Pushkin Museum near the Kremlin, which is housing the exhibit.

Cézanne Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th Anniversary Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:15 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.

Chaïm Soutine and Modernism at the Kunstmuseum Basel Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:13 PM PST BASEL - The Kunstmuseum Basel opened the exhibit Chaim Soutine and Modernism through July 6. In comparison to the much more renowned work of friends and contemporaries, such as Amedeo Modigliani or Marc Chagall, Chaïm Soutine's oeuvre still has an aura of discovery. In a representative survey at the Kunstmuseum Basel, a reassessment of Soutine's position as a painter will be presented within the framework of the complex fabric of movements that marks 20th-century art.

Masterpieces from World's Museums at Hermitage Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:10 PM PST SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.-The State Hermitage Museum presents Masterpieces from the World's Museums in the Hermitage. Three paintings by Max Ernst from the Art Collection of Northern Rhine-Westphalia (Düsseldorf). The paintings Carmagnole of Love (1926), After Us - Motherhood (1927), and Landscape with Sprouting Grain (1936) are on loan from the Art Collection of Northern Rhine-Westphalia in Dusseldorf. . This is the second exhibition of Max Ernst in the Hermitage.

LACMA ACQUIRES MAJOR COLLECTION OF MODERN ART Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:01 PM PST Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced the acquisition of a major collection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by leading modern artists that will significantly transform the museum's collection of twentieth-century art. The fractional and promised gift of 130 works is remarkable for its concentration on the leading figures of modern art and for individual objects that in many cases represent LACMA's first major work by that artist.

Joslyn Art Museum Presents Masterpieces from NOMA Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:00 PM PST Omaha, NE – Arguably the most important art museum in the American South, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is sharing 89 of its finest works of European and American art from a 300-year period spanning four centuries — works that survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that ensued — for this rare exhibition opportunity. Spared from the Storm comprises some of NOMA's most prized works from the 17th through mid 20th century. Among them are paintings and sculpture by François Boucher, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Gauguin, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, and Giambattista Tiepolo. Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art will open at Joslyn Art Museum on June 16 and continue through October 21.

Sotheby’s Sale of Surrealist Art in February Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:57 PM PST LONDON - Sotheby's sale of Surrealist Art on the evening of Monday, February 5, 2007 will include 21 works that are together estimated to realise more than £9 million, making this one of the biggest such sales ever staged.  All the masters in the field are represented, among them René Magritte, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst, Paul Delvaux, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, André Masson and Matta.

Art Forum Berlin the International Fair for Contemporary Art Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:56 PM PST   Berlin - ART FORUM BERLIN - the international fair for contemporary art presents for the 13th time a magnificent selection of galleries from Berlin, as well as national and international galleries, and opens its doors to collectors and lovers of contemporary art. In recent years, the constant growth of the fair's profile, and the focus on contemporary art, has enabled ART FORUM BERLIN to become Germany's leading art fair. Open from 30 October through 3 November, 2008.

The Feminine Mystique: Portraits of and by Women Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:53 PM PST Kansas City, MO - This installation, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art features the faces of 16 engaging subjects.  The installation includes works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period that revolutionized the place of women in society.

Ben Lewis Investigates the Rise and Fall of the Contemporary Art Market Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:50 PM PST LONDON.- The contemporary art boom is now over, but between 2003 and Autumn 2008 the world witnessed a craze for collecting contemporary art unprecedented in history. During the last frenzied year of this boom, art critic and film-maker Ben Lewis followed the contemporary art market, traveling to art fairs, auctions, museums, and the offices and homes of billionaire art collectors,, interviewing dealers, auctioneers, gallery-owners, art market analysts and art collectors, trying to find out the reasons behind this historic phenomenon.

220,0000 Blockbuster ' Monet to Dalí ' at Vancouver Art Gallery Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:48 PM PST   VANCOUVER, BC. - The most successful exhibition in the Vancouver Art Gallery's history, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art closed Sunday, September 16th with a record day's attendance of more than 7600 visitors, bringing the total number of people to see the blockbuster exhibition to more than 220,0000. The previous record attendance for an exhibition at the Gallery was in 2002, when 95,000 people viewed the summer exhibition Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 21 Feb 2011 07:47 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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