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• J. Paul Getty Museum ~ A “Must-See” Museum With A Stunning Collections in Los Angeles
• Modern Russian Art Gaining Interest Despite Rocky Economics
• National Gallery of Canada Honors Daphne Odjig with First Solo Exhibtion
• Nassau County Museum of Art hosts ~ Latin American Art: Myth & Reality
• Fundación Juan March Hosts A Major Wyndham Lewis Exhibition
• Harvard Art Museum receives Major Gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer
• Morris Museum of Art to host "Deep Sea ~ Drawings by William O. Golding"
• The National Gallery of Denmark presents Graphic Works of Dutch Masters
• Fiona Tan to Represent the Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia
• 'Shibboleth', an art installation by Doris Salcedo . . to be Sealed at Tate Modern
• First American Exhibition of Drawings by Roni Horn at Hauser & Wirth
• "Presidents in Waiting" Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery Displays "Pet Shop Boys" Portraits
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

J. Paul Getty Museum ~ A “Must-See” Museum With A Stunning Collections in Los Angeles Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:34 PM PST The J. Paul Getty Museum is located within the Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, a campus for cultural institutions founded by oilman J. Paul Getty. The Center sits atop a hill, connected to a visitor's parking garage at the bottom by a three-car, cable-pulled tram. With more than 1.3 million visitors annually, the Getty Museum is one of the most visited art museums in the USA. It is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the second being the 'J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu', dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. The 'J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Centre' is the branch of the museum specializing in "pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs". Besides the Museum, the Center's buildings house the Getty Research Institute (GRI), the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the administrative offices of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which owns and operates the Center. The Center was designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Richard Meier and includes a central garden designed by artist Robert Irwin. GRI's separate building contains a research library with over 900,000 volumes and two million photographs of art and architecture. Originally, the Getty Museum started in J. Paul Getty's house located in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, when in 1954, he expanded the house with a museum wing. In the 1970's, Getty built a replica of an Italian villa on his property to better house his collection, which opened in 1974. After Getty's death in 1976, the entire property was turned over to the Getty Trust for museum purposes. However, the collection outgrew the site, which has since been renamed the Getty Villa, and management sought a location more accessible to Los Angeles. The purchase of the land upon which the Center is located (a campus of 24 acres on a site in the Santa Monica Mountains, surrounded by 600 acres kept in a natural state) was announced in 1983. The top of the hill is 900 feet (270 m) above Interstate 405, high enough that on a clear day it is possible to see not only the Los Angeles skyline but also the San Bernardino Mountains to the east as well as the Pacific Ocean to the west. The Center opened to the public on December 16, 1997. After the Center opened, the villa closed for extensive renovations, and reopened on January 28, 2006. The Center museum building consists of a three-level base building that is mostly closed to the public and provides staff workspace and storage areas. Five public, two-story towers on the base are called the North, East, South, West and the Exhibitions Pavilions. The Exhibitions Pavilion acts as the temporary residence for traveling art collections and the Foundation's artwork for which the permanent pavilions have no room. The permanent collection is displayed throughout the other four pavilions chronologically. The first-floor galleries in each pavilion house light-sensitive art, such as illuminated manuscripts, furniture, or photography. Computer-controlled skylights on the second floor galleries allow paintings to be displayed in natural light. The second floors are connected by a series of glass-enclosed bridges and open terraces, both of which offer views of the surrounding hillsides and central plaza. Sculpture is also on display at various points outside the buildings, including on various terraces and balconies. The lower level (the highest of the floors in the base) includes a public cafeteria, the terrace cafe, and the photography galleries. Visit The J. Paul Getty Museum at : www.getty.edu/museum/ It all started with the museum's namesake, J. Paul Getty, an oil executive and art collector who lived from 1892 until 1976. He founded the famous Getty Oil Company which eventually became Texaco. Getty began collecting art in 1930 and, upon his death, left his entire estate to the J. Paul Getty Museum Trust. Eventually, the trust grew to over $4.5 billion, a sum which has allowed the Trust to continue updating the Getty Museum art collection with some of the finest, most sought-after pieces of art in the world. One publication noted that the Getty Museum has about 25 times the budget of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Getty Museum specializes in Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, drawings, sculpture, manuscripts, furniture and photographs, split between the two California locations. Whilst the collection may lack the breadth of some longer-established museums, the depth and quality of the collection in those artistic areas that interested its founder more than compensate for any possible omissions. The works of European sculpture are a particular strength, and these are located throughout the museum's pavilions (and outside spaces) and include work from the Renaissance through to 1900. The oldest painting at the Getty dates from 1295 and the collection continues up to the early 1900s, including paintings by Masaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Pieter Breughel (both the elder and the younger), Rembrandt, Jan van Goyen, Jean-Baptiste Raguenet , Jean-Étienne Liotard, Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne. Amongst the highlights of the collection are Van Gogh's "Irises", "Rue Mosnier With Flags" by Manet and "La Promenade" by Renoir, Jacopo da Pontormo's "Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici" and a rare bronze sculpture of a male figure by the 16th-century Dutch artist Adriaen de Vries. J.M.W. Turner's "Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino", which the Getty Museum purchased at auction in 2010, should be joining these other masterpieces on display later in 2011. With extensive exhibition spaces available, the Getty Museum hosts a constantly changing series of temporary exhibitions. Currently (until 24th April 2011) the Getty Museum are presenting "Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road". In a career that spanned five decades, the photographer Felice Beato (1832–1909) covered a wide swath of East Asia. Following in the wake of Britain's vast colonial empire, he was among the primary photographers to provide images of newly opened countries such as India, China, Japan, Korea, and Burma. A pioneer war photographer, Beato recorded several conflicts: the Crimean War in 1855–56, the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny in 1858–59, the Second Opium War in 1860, and the American expedition to Korea in 1871. His photographs of battlefields, the first to show images of the dead, provided a new direction for that genre. Catering to a Western audience, Beato produced an exceptionally diverse oeuvre: topographical and architectural views, including panoramas, as well as portraits and costume studies of the countries he visited or in which he resided. Beato spent more than 20 years in Japan (1863–84), his longest residency in one country and the most prolific period of his career. Despite restrictions on foreigners, Beato was able to take numerous photographs, including the monumental sculpture of the Dai Bouts (Great Buddha), which had been the centerpiece of a temple that was destroyed by a typhoon. In 1871 Beato was the first to make photographic images of Korea. He was hired to document an American punitive expedition to Korea, Beato's images helped perpetuate the illusion of victory for this unsuccessful military campaign. After speculative ventures in Japan ruined him financially, Beato set off for new lands once more. He went first to Sudan to record the Anglo-Sudan War and finally settled in Burma in 1887. Beato quickly established himself as a photographer by traveling throughout Upper Burma documenting sites of interest. His landscapes, architectural views, and portrait studies offer a glimpse into Burmese life at the end of the 19th century. After a life of wandering, Beato returned to Italy, his birthplace, where he died in 1909. "Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road", is showing concurrently with "Photography From the New China", an exhibition featuring a selection of Chinese photographs produced since the 1990s, when People's Republic leader Deng Xiaoping introduced the current period of opening and reform. These two exhibitions create a powerful contrast between the nineteenth-century views of China and other parts of East Asia and the contemporary works. 8 other exhibitions can currently be seen at the Getty Centre, with a further 3 at the Getty Villa. Coming to the Getty "Spirit of an Age: Drawings from the Germanic World", 1770–1900 on exhibition March 29–June 19, 2011 Unveiling recent acquisitions that reflect a new area of the Museum's collection, this exhibition features about forty German and Austrian drawings and watercolors. The works reflect the profound changes—intellectual, social, and political—that the Germanic world underwent from about 1770 to 1900. Events such as the publication of the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the formal unification of Germany contributed to shaping the artist's world. Drawing captured the spirit of the age and evolved quite dramatically over the course of this period, which is rarely showcased by North American museums. The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts and to nurture critical seeing by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality. To fulfill its mission, the Museum continues to develop its collection through purchase and gifts, complementing its impact through special exhibitions, publications, educational programs developed for a wide range of audiences, and a related performing arts program. The Museum strives to provide its visitors with access to the most innovative research in the visual arts while they enjoy a unique experience in viewing works of art at our Getty Center and Getty Villa sites. While benefiting from the broader context of the Getty Trust, the Museum also extends the reach of its mission via the internet and through the regular exchange of works of art, staff, and expertise. The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. 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

Modern Russian Art Gaining Interest Despite Rocky Economics Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:31 PM PST NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- With hopes for recovery in fine art prices running high, attention is trained on second-tier markets such as Russian collecting for signs of renewal. Sotheby's conducts the season's first Russian art sales next week, led by a pair of important collections including one of 86 works by Ukrainian avant-garde artists being sold as a single lot. The auctions come on the heels of strong Asia Week sales at both Sotheby's and rival Christie's in New York, and last month's Hong Kong results, where salesrooms were filled to capacity, estimates were exceeded and records fell.

National Gallery of Canada Honors Daphne Odjig with First Solo Exhibtion Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:29 PM PST OTTAWA.- So groundbreaking was her work in the 60s and 70s, fellow artist and friend Norval Morrisseau called her "Picasso's grandmother." While Daphne Odjig's work does embrace Cubism at times, as can be seen in "L'amour fou", her colorful and playful homage to Picasso, Morrisseau's tongue-in-cheek nickname for her claims a rich pictorial tradition of color, line, rhythm and movement that long predates the art of the 20th.century. The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) proudly presents "The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig", the institution's first solo exhibition by a First Nations' female artist.

Nassau County Museum of Art hosts ~ Latin American Art: Myth & Reality Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:28 PM PST Roslyn Harbor, NY - Expressing rich, fascinating and complex concerns, Latin American art has moved to the forefront of the world of visual arts. This art—ranging stylistically from folk art to the avant-garde movements of Europe and North America—reflects the enormous diversity of Latin culture today. Latin artists such as Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell and Adriana Varejao have been at the intersection of politics, society and art, using their art to comment on the worlds that surround them and inspiring artists of all cultures. Latin American Art: Myth & Reality, opening at Nassau County Museum of Art on Sunday, August 26 and remaining on view through Sunday, November 4, looks at the diverse inspirations and traditions of Latin American art, particularly the pervasive themes of myth, nature, religion, animals and the mysteries of birth and death.

Fundación Juan March Hosts A Major Wyndham Lewis Exhibition Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:27 PM PST MADRID.- Wyndham Lewis could be described as a "single-handed avant-garde movement". An accomplished artist, Lewis found An accomplished ed Vorticism, the only English avant-garde movement, and was the author of more than 50 books. In addition he issued manifestoes, edited and published journals and was responsible for a fascinating and strikingly varied body of work that runs from his vorticist, Cubo-futurist and abstract compositions to his most refined portraits. A pioneer of abstraction, war artist, major portraitist, novelist, essayist, editor and critic, Wyndham Lewis is one of the key figures in European modernism of the first half of the 20th century.

Harvard Art Museum receives Major Gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:25 PM PST   Cambridge, MA - Harvard University announced that the Harvard Art Museum has received a gift of 31 major works of modern and contemporary art and $45 million from Harvard alumna Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former Harvard Art Museum curator, longtime supporter and friend of the museum and of Harvard, and wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer Jr. The modern works include important paintings and sculptures by Brancusi, Derain, Giacometti, Lipchitz, Miró, Modigliani, Picasso, Rosso, and Vuillard. The contemporary art includes major works by di Suvero, Heizer, Judd, Lichtenstein, Nauman, Newman, Oldenburg, Serra, Shapiro, and Tuttle. This gift represents one of the most significant donations of works of art ever received by the museum. The financial gift is the single largest donation in the history of the Harvard Art Museum.

Morris Museum of Art to host "Deep Sea ~ Drawings by William O. Golding" Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:24 PM PST AUGUSTA, GA.- Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding, an exhibition of twenty-nine remarkable maritime drawings by self-taught African-American artist William O. Golding (1874–1943), opens to the public December 12, at the Morris Museum of Art. Shanghaied from the Savannah waterfront when he was eight years old, William O. Golding chronicled his travels world-wide through drawings that he created near the end of his life while a patient at the U.S. Marine Hospital in Savannah. Between 1932 and 1939, he executed approximately sixty drawings, literally drawn from his memories of the ships on which he sailed and the ports he visited around the globe. Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding remains on display through March 14, 2010.

The National Gallery of Denmark presents Graphic Works of Dutch Masters Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:22 PM PST COPENHAGEN.- After becoming free from Spanish control, Haarlem grew in the 1580s into one of the leading artistic centers in the young Republic of the Netherlands. Central to this blossoming prosperity were artists such as Karel van Mander, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, and, not least of all, Hendrick Goltzius. Together they formed a study circle devoted to Haarlem Mannerism, as it became known. Their particular pictorial language was characterized by a strong awareness of style and cultivated elegance, not to mention a pursuit of an expression that prioritized artful ingenuity over naturalism. Their work depicted exaggeratedly brawny musclemen, violent drama, wild fantasy, and a rare richness of detail.

Fiona Tan to Represent the Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:21 PM PST VENICE.- New York-based Dutch curator Saskia Bos selected Fiona Tan to represent the Netherlands at the 53rd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Tan is working on a new audio-visual installation conceived especially for the presentation in Venice. Fiona Tan describes herself as 'a professional foreigner, whose identity is defined by that which I am not'. Her work will never be a straightforward search for truth or identity: she uses a variety of means to unravel processes of recollection and fill in story lines, sometimes using found footage with which to confront the observer with informal history.

'Shibboleth', an art installation by Doris Salcedo . . to be Sealed at Tate Modern Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:19 PM PST   LONDON - An art installation, made by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, is being filled in due to many injuries. This happens just six months after it was installed along the length of Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Tate Modern unveiled the latest commission in The Unilever Series six months ago. Shibboleth, by Doris Salcedo, was the first work to intervene with the fabric of the building. Dramatically breaking open the floor of the Turbine Hall, Salcedo had created a striking yet intricate subterranean sculpture that ran the length of the building. The work raised questions about the historic and current divisions that exist in society.

First American Exhibition of Drawings by Roni Horn at Hauser & Wirth Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:17 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Beginning May 7th, Hauser & Wirth New York will present the first exhibition in the United States ever devoted exclusively to the drawings of artist Roni Horn. The show will include six new, large-scale works never before shown publicly. Up to eight by ten feet in size, these astoundingly complex and ultimately enveloping pieces form a group the artist has titled 'Else.' The exhibition will remain on view through June 19th. The critic Paulo Herkenhoff wrote about Horn's drawings: "No matter how dismembered a drawing might be, it is held together by different stages of nearness."

"Presidents in Waiting" Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:15 PM PST WASHINGTON, DC - On Inauguration Day 2009, the National Portrait Gallery opened "Presidents in Waiting," an exhibition that focuses on the office of the vice presidency and the individuals who first served in that office and then later became president. It continues through Jan. 3, 2010. "The role of the vice presidency has been debated throughout the history of our country," said Martin E. Sullivan, director of the National Portrait Gallery. "'Presidents in Waiting' is a show that will be of interest to all who love the lore and legends of political history."

National Portrait Gallery Displays "Pet Shop Boys" Portraits Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:11 PM PST LONDON - In a new display of iconic photographic portraits and album covers tracing the band's inventive use of their public image, the National Portrait Gallery celebrates the long career of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe as Pet Shop Boys, the most successful duo in British pop history.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:10 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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