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• The National Gallery of Canada In Ottawa ~ Renowned Museum For Audiences of All Ages
• Metropolitan Museum of Art opens Whimsical & Fantastical Victorian Photocollages
• Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest hosts " Ferdinand Hodler: A Symbolist Vision Exhibition "
• Van Gogh's Cypresses & The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-Remy at Yale University Art Gallery
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Hosts First Major Exhibition of Jan van Huysum
• Stadel Museum shows "The Magic of Things" ~ Still Life Painting 1500-1800
• Expressionist Works from MMoCA's Permanent Collection on View
• Retrospective of Work by Camille Silvy at National Portrait Gallery
• The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal Presents Runa Islam
• The Great Kings of India to Hold Court at the Art Gallery of Ontario
• The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria shows "Turning Our World Upside Down"
• Invisible NYC Hosts A Solo Exhibit by Kara Collier-Ibanez
• Japanese Paintings of the Kano & Tosa Schools
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The National Gallery of Canada In Ottawa ~ Renowned Museum For Audiences of All Ages Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:14 PM PST The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa Ontario, is one of the world's most respected art institutions, renowned for its exceptional collections, revered for its scholarship, and applauded for its unique ability to engage audiences of all ages and all levels of artistic knowledge. The National Gallery of Canada strives to provide Canadians with a sense of identity with and pride in Canada's rich visual-arts heritage. The story of the National Gallery began in the late 19th-century with a simple dream, that Canadians should have a national gallery to call their own. It would be a place to showcase Canadian art, to preserve, study and teach about this vast nation's cultural heritage and to acquire magnificent works from around the world. It would expose Canadians to great art from all periods and in all its manifestations, paintings, photographs, sculptures and more. The Gallery was first formed in 1880 by Canada's Governor General John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, and, in 1882, moved into its first home on Parliament Hill in the same building as the Supreme Court. In 1911, the Gallery moved to the Victoria Memorial Museum, now the home of the Canadian Museum of Nature. In 1962, the Gallery moved again, to a rather nondescript office building on Elgin Street. Finally, after 108 years of presenting art in facilities designed for purposes other than art, the National Gallery of Canada celebrated the opening of its current building in 1988, an exquisite granite and glass structure designed by Israeli-born, Canadian architect Moshe Safdie. The new building's opening, combined with a major Degas exhibition, drew a record crowd of over 930,000 visitors. The museum is a grand, light-filled structure of glass and granite, in which visitors can find a cloistered garden courtyard, a glass-bottomed pool, and a reconstructed 19th-century chapel. Throughout its history, the National Gallery of Canada has continued growing and is now the largest visual arts museum in the country. As well as its main building, the National Gallery of Canada is responsible for the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP), which officially opened in its specially designed building on Rideau Street in 1992. Housed mostly below street level in the former site of an old Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel under Confederation Square, between the Chateau Laurier Hotel and the Rideau Canal locks, the $16.5 million building boasts state-of-the-art galleries, a research centre, a museum shop, archival storage, a video room, and a small theatre. Architect Michael Lundhom ensured the attention of passers-by with his design of a concrete and glass entrance (echoing the Colonnade of the National Gallery) that opens onto Wellington Street. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.gallery.ca/ Today, the National Gallery of Canada is renowned for its exceptional collections: 38,000 works of art, as well as 145,000 images held within the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. The National Gallery is best known for its collection of Canadian art, arranged chronologically as well as regionally, the collection covers everything from thousand year old aboriginal art to the most recent contemporary works. The artistic works of Canada's aboriginal peoples predate and then parallel works by European and other immigrants, providing a picture of how the two artistic traditions have coexisted. Highlights of the collection include the most important collection of paintings by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven including "The Jack Pine" by Tom Thomson, "The Red Maple" by A.Y. Jackson, "North Shore Lake Superior" by Lawren S. Harris and "The Solemn Land" by J.E.H. MacDonald. The art of Quebec is represented with paintings, sculptures and silver commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church from such artists as François Baillairgé to commissioned portraits by William Berczy and Antoine Plamondon. Juxtaposed are landscapes and genre paintings by Cornelius Krieghoff and dramatic history paintings by Joseph Légaré. The arts of the Atlantic colonies and Upper Canada include the splendid portraits of Haligonians by Robert Field, the storm tossed ships by John O'Brien, the painted Croscup room from Karsdale, Nova Scotia, the urban views of Robert Whale and Aboriginal portraits by Paul Kane. In the Water Court sculptures by such artists as Alfred Laliberté, Henri Hébert, Frances Loring, Florence Wyle and Elizabeth Wyn Wood are prominently displayed. Galleries are devoted to the work of painters associated with Montreal's Beaver Hall Group (1920-1921) and to the socially engaged paintings of the 1930s by such artists as Paraskeva Clark, Carl Schaefer and Miller Brittain. The diversity of artistic production in the 1950s and 1960s is evident in the paintings by Jean-Paul Riopelle, members of Montreal's Plasticiens, Toronto's Painters XI, Saskatchewan's Regina Five and in the innovative directions explored by the artists of Vancouver displayed with paintings by Alex Colville, Jean Paul Lemieux, E.J. Hughes and William Kurelek. More recent native American artworks include works by Norval Morrisseau ("Copper Thunderbird", also known as the "Picasso of the North"). The International galleries integrate painting, sculpture and decorative arts ranging in date from the early fourteenth to the late twentieth century. The Medieval and Renaissance rooms include masterworks by Simone Martini, Piero di Cosimo, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Baldung Grien, Quentin Matsys, Lorenzo Lotto, and Bronzino. The seventeenth century is represented by many of the greatest masters including El Greco, Rubens, Rembrandt, Annibale Carracci, Bernini, Guercino, Veronese, Poussin and Puget. The eighteenth-century collections include splendid Venetian views by Canaletto, Bellotto and Guardi, fine genre scenes by Chardin, and West's celebrated The Death of General Wolfe. Early nineteenth-century highlights include a life-sized marble Dancer by Canova, as well as landscapes by Constable, Turner and Corot. In the second half of the nineteenth century the French school is especially well-represented by the likes of Daumier, Rousseau, Boudin, Pissarro, Monet, Degas, Cézanne and Gauguin, as well as the Dutchman van Gogh, whose greatest works were made in France. Twentieth-century symbolism is represented by Ensor and Klimt; Fauvism by Vlaminck, Derain, Braque and van Dongen. There are early and late Cubist paintings by Braque and Picasso respectively, as well as cubist-inspired works by Popova, Lipchitz and Léger. Other modernist strains include the Futurism of Severini and Epstein, and the radical anti-representational art of Duchamp, El Lissitzky and Mondrian. Surrealism is represented by Dalí, Magritte, and Cornell. Varieties of mid-century modernism are seen in the British artists Nicholson, Nash and Bacon, as well as by artists working in America such as Gorky, Bourgeois, Calder, Still and Pollock. American art of the 1960s is extremely well-represented by practitioners of Pop art (Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal) and Minimalism (Judd, Andre, Flavin), and also by the late abstraction of Barnett Newman, whose Voice of Fire caused a sensation when purchased in 1989. The National Gallery also includes major collections of contemporary art, Asian art, prints and drawings and photographs (contemporary photographs are housed in the associated Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography). Two major sculptures from their own collection form the National Gallery's ongoing exhibitions. "Cell (The Last Climb)" is one of Louise Bourgeois' last large scale sculptures, completed 2 years before her death in 2010 and is on display in the museum. Roxy Paine's "One Hundred Foot Line" is on display at Nepean Point (just outside the museum). From a series of tree sculptures called Dendroids that has earned American artist Roxy Paine significant international acclaim in recent years, this is the tallest of Paine's Dendroids to date at 30.5 meters high and the stainless steel sculpture presents a meandering tree trunk that has lost not only its leaves but all of its branches. Temporary exhibitions include a retrospective featuring around 50 works, covering three decades, by Wanda Koop, under the title "On the Edge of Experience" (until 15th May 2011). The exhibition illustrates the Winnipeg artist's ongoing take on how technology impacts nature by drawing together not only her large plywood paintings from the 1980s with her more recent work, but by restaging past exhibitions in miniature and even recreating the artist's own studio. Throughout her career, Wanda Koop has become known for creating environments with her paintings to allow her works to play off the space where they are viewed. Through the use of detailed scale models, visitors to the exhibition will be able to experience 16 of these previous signature installations, which could not otherwise have been simultaneously restaged at the National Gallery of Canada. "On the Edge of Experience" will also recreate a life-sized room based on Wanda Koop's working studio, complete with drawings, notebooks, piles of post-it notes and other items that have served to inspire the artist's creative process over the years. This exhibition, co-organized with the Winnipeg Art Gallery, promises to give visitors a compelling viewing of the last 25 years of this artist's 40-year career by having works from a variety of different series, or bodies of work, shown together for the first time. Other exhibitions include "19th Century British Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada" (until 17th April 2011), "Alex Colville: The Formative Years, 1938-1942" (until 29th April 2011), "Che Bella Linea: Italian Master Prints, 1500-1650" (until 17th April 2011), "It Is What It Is. Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art" (until 24th April) and Roxy Paine's "Painting Manufacture Unit", a complex mechanical art-making machine that dispenses paint every hour to produce an abstract painting every four weeks (until 27th March 2011). 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

Metropolitan Museum of Art opens Whimsical & Fantastical Victorian Photocollages Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:13 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- In the 1860s and 1870s, long before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic Victorian women were experimenting with photocollage. Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 9, 2010, is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon. Whimsical and fantastical Victorian photocollages, created using a combination of watercolor drawings and cut-and-pasted photographs, reveal the educated minds as well as accomplished hands of their makers.

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest hosts " Ferdinand Hodler: A Symbolist Vision Exhibition " Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:12 PM PST BUDAPEST,HUNGARY - Budapest hosts an exhibition of the works of the Swiss symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler for the first time. The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts-Budapest displays some 170 canvases and drawings that present an overall picture of the artist's oeuvre who was active at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. An exhibition on Hodler equaling the scale of the one staged by the Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum in Berne was last organized in Switzerland twenty-five years ago. No other Western European artist had had an oeuvre exhibition as comprehensive as the one on Hodler in the history of Hungarian museums.

Van Gogh's Cypresses & The Starry Night: Visions of Saint-Remy at Yale University Art Gallery Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:10 PM PST NEW HAVEN, CT.- The Yale University Art Gallery exhibits side by side two of Vincent van Gogh's most renowned paintings, Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and The Starry Night (Museum of Modern Art, New York). Completed in June 1889, during his yearlong confinement at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, in southern France, these two paintings exemplify the work of this modern master at the height of his creativity.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Hosts First Major Exhibition of Jan van Huysum Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:08 PM PST Houston, TX - The Temptations of Flora: Jan van Huysum (1682-1749), the first large- scale exhibition devoted to Jan van Huysum's work, opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Sunday, February 18.  Van Huysum is renowned for the tremendous realism with which he painted elaborate floral and fruit arrangements, and was said to be the most highly paid Dutch artist of all time.  The exhibition is organized by the Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and is on view at the MFAH's Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main Street, through May 20, 2007.

Stadel Museum shows "The Magic of Things" ~ Still Life Painting 1500-1800 Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:06 PM PST   Frankfurt, Germany - Assembling the superb holdings of the Städel Museum, the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, and the Kunstmuseum Basel, the exhibition unfolds a spectrum of still life painting in the Netherlands and Germany from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries with more than ninety masterpieces by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Willem Kalf, Rachel Ruysch, Abraham Mignon, Georg Flegel, Jan Soreau, Gottfried von Wedigh, and Sebastian Stosskopf. This offers a panorama of the genre's different varieties from prosaic pieces of the early seventeenth century to later works depicting things of splendor, from banquet still lifes to sumptuous bouquets and picturesque animal still lifes.

Expressionist Works from MMoCA's Permanent Collection on View Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:04 PM PST MADISON, WI.- The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) presents 'An Art of Inner Necessity' : Expressionist Works from MMoCA's Permanent Collection in the museum's Henry Street Gallery from July 19, 2008, through July 19, 2009. An Art of Inner Necessity examines the expressionist tradition in modern and contemporary art through paintings and works on paper from the permanent collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

Retrospective of Work by Camille Silvy at National Portrait Gallery Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:02 PM PST LONDON.- The first retrospective exhibition of work by Camille Silvy, one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century, will open at the National Portrait Gallery this summer. Marking the centenary of Silvy's death, Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 – 1910, includes over a hundred objects, many of which have not been exhibited since 1860. The portraits on display offer a unique glimpse into nineteenth-century Paris and Victorian London through the eyes of one of photography's greatest innovators.  On view 15 July through 24 October.

The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal Presents Runa Islam Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:01 PM PST MONTREAL.- A rising star on the contemporary art scene, British artist Runa Islam gained an international reputation with her participation in the 2005 Venice Biennale and her nomination for the 2008 Turner Prize. This new exhibition is a coproduction of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. It comprises five film installations by the artist, including the world premiere of Magical Consciousness, 2010, a shared commission by the two museums. The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal presents Runa Islam from May 21 to September 6, 2010.

The Great Kings of India to Hold Court at the Art Gallery of Ontario Posted: 23 Feb 2011 08:00 PM PST TORONTO.- This fall the Art Gallery of Ontario opens its doors to the magnificent world of India's great kings. Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts, organized in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, will make its sole Canadian stop at the AGO, with a members-only preview starting November 17 and public viewing from November 20, 2010 to February 27, 2011. The exhibition features over 200 opulent objects, including paintings, tapestry, thrones, weapons, and jewels, most on view in North America for the first time.

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria shows "Turning Our World Upside Down" Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:58 PM PST VICTORIA, BC - The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is one of the cheekiest traveling exhibits Victoria is likely to experience. It's a nudge, nudge, wink, wink exchange between artists and viewers, prompting us to think and re-think our unwitting acceptance of norms and order in the Western world. World Upside Down opened Friday, June 5 with a collection of work by contemporary artists who challenge our ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and art itself. It's a world where the symbolic order of things is turned on its head. On view through August 30th, 2009.

Invisible NYC Hosts A Solo Exhibit by Kara Collier-Ibanez Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:56 PM PST New York City - Invisible NYC is proud to host a solo-exhibit of new photographs by Kara Collier-Ibanez.      A native New Yorker, born in the late 70's and raised in downtown Manhattan, Ms. Ibanez is an award winning poet whose other many talents include fashion design and photography.   She currently lives and works in Manhattan's Lower East Side.      Her photography has been included in numerous exhibits in New York City as well as published in such magazines as "Z!ink" For her exhibit at Invisible NYC, Ms. Ibanez uses photography to present a contemporary New York City take on 17th century Dutch paintings of daily life.

Japanese Paintings of the Kano & Tosa Schools Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:55 PM PST VICTORIA, BC, CANADA.-The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria presents Japanese Paintings of the Kano & Tosa Schools. This exhibition focuses on the two traditional Japanese painting schools of Tosa and Kano, which both formed in the Muromachi period (1392-1573). The Tosa School was patronized by the Imperial Court who were largely figureheads with little power during the shogunate periods. This school used the traditional yamoto-e style to portray scenes from Japanese classics and poetry.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 23 Feb 2011 07:54 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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