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• The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art In Budapest, Hungary ~ A Modern Palace Of Fabulous Art
• Sorolla Museum Exhibition Explores the Dialogues Between Sorolla & Velázquez
• National Trust & Royal Academy of Arts Collaborate on New Public Art Commission
• Mauritshuis Museum To Host Rubens & Brueghel - A Working Friendship
• University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) opens “The Lens of Impressionism"
• The Slater Museum Loans ' Dying Gaul '
• French Masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum on View in Budapest
• Kunsthaus Zürich shows ‘Rodin’ ~ A Retrospective
• Katrin Bellinger of Colnaghi to Show Drawings at Le Salon de Dessin
• ANTIQUARIES IN BRITAIN, 1707 – 2007 AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
• Getty Museum to display the 'Chimaera of Arezzo' as a Long-term Cultural Collaboration
• Alika Cooper solos at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art Acquires Six Prime Works
• ' Forms of Resistance ' at the Van Abbemuseum
• Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao exhibits ~ Pioneers of Photography
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art In Budapest, Hungary ~ A Modern Palace Of Fabulous Art Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:53 PM PST The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, Hungary, was the first Ludwig Museum to be established in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1989 the art-collecting couple, Irene and Peter Ludwig, made a contract with the Hungarian state and established this contemporary fine-art museum with 72 works of their own pieces of art. In 1991 they added a further 195 pieces, expanding the collection which can be seen at the Palace of Arts, and which is continually being added to. The Palace of the Arts opened in 2005 and it accommodates the most diverse branches of the arts, with facilities incorporating the most advanced theater, museum, and acoustic technologies. The spectacular building occupies an area of more than 10,000 m2 at the Pest side of the Lágymányosi Bridge, adjacent to the National Theatre, the first pillar of the Millennium City Centre being built on the site. The main objective of the architects – Zoboki, Demeter and Associates – was that the multi-functional building should present a coherent whole when viewed from the outside. The exterior presents a simple, clear aspect with large expanses of glass, and almost devoid of decorative elements. Inside, the building is laid out into broad, clearly-arranged internal spaces. The outer surfaces are of "dead" material – concrete, glass and Süttő limestone, while inside, an enormous undulating main wall, clad mainly in walnut, creates a warm, friendly atmosphere. The building's principal visual feature is the imposing lobby, which connects the three main sections: the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, the Festival Theatre, and the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art. Its design and size are optimal for a lovely and educational trip through contemporary international and Eastern European art. The Béla Bartók National Concert Hall is the largest section of the building. With an audience capacity of 1700, the concert hall ranks among the best of the world in terms of acoustics, having been built by Artec of New York in association with Hungarian engineers. The fabulous acoustic system is coupled with a high-tech audio-visual system which can serve the needs of any visiting production at world standard. The queen of musical instruments, the great organ, was installed in spring 2006. The concert hall is home to the National Philharmonic and its Orchestra, Choir, and Music Library. The Festival Theatre occupies the east wing of the complex. It seats an audience of 452, and its stage technology is of equal standard to that of the concert hall. The theatre hosts visiting companies and is home to the National Dance Theatre. The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, formerly accommodated in Buda Castle, takes up the whole side of the building facing the Danube. In addition to the exhibition halls, the Museum wing incorporates the Glass Hall, the events hall of the Palace of the Arts, and an expandable lecture and projection hall. The Museum has a gross floor area of 12,000 m2. The flooring in the exhibition halls is bamboo, and illumination of art works is largely by natural light, supplemented by a system of concealed light sources. In line with international standards, the humidity is constantly monitored and controlled, and adjusted to suit each exhibition's particular needs. Visit the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art website: http:www.ludwigmuseum.hu Its continuously growing collection gives an overview of international art since 1950 and of Hungarian art from the 1960's to recent days. It displays masterworks of modern and contemporary art in its permanent collection, focused on American pop art (Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, etc.) and on Eastern and Central European art. The museum's collection also has a valuable classic and contemporary avant-garde Russian collection. The Ludwig collection of some 800 works by Picasso is one of the largest collection in the world and from this collection three significant paintings from his late period are in Budapest. Budapest is the ideal place to reflect on the role of art and politics, and the Ludwig Museum, in its permanent collection exhibition, showcases the intersection of contemporary art and politics. The collection reflects on the social and political utopias, mines cultural memory and explores the limits of creativity in public spaces, and above all, the complex role that the artist plays in society. These reflections are especially fraught with complex questions in the former eastern bloc, as any history of art will be wrapped up with questions of censorship, propaganda and authorship. The different conceptual bases for art due to the repressive political climate mean that certain "apolitical" forms, such as abstract art, took on a political cast during the Cold War. In this case, abstraction became a negation of the systematic ideals of Eastern Europe and a form of rebellious expression. The exhibition rescues many works which had been obscured by political pressures to shed new light on them for both localand international visitors. This wonderful permanentexhibition collected artwork from about fifty artists both from Hungary and various corners of the Eastern and Western European world. In its most recent and current exhibitions, the thematic approach is the strongest principle defining the selection of works from the Museum's collection. Instead of displaying the well-known highlights, the exhibition intends to focus on newer works, and endeavours to acquaint the wider public with them. Among them are recent acquisitions on display for the first time in the context of the Museum, in part from Hungarian artists (including István Csákány, Tamás Kaszás, Ádám Kokesch, Csaba Nemes). Some of the works are well-known pieces from the international scene (e.g., the works of Harun Farocki, Zbigniew Libera, Simon Starling, Mladen Stilinović, Bálint Szombathy, Goran Trbuljak). The works are not arranged according to an art historical categorisation or a chronological principle, but in a way which enables us to highlight some other (thematic or formal) aspect of the works. Some of these connections might seem banal or trivial at times, but they rather serve to provide the visitors with starting points for the formations of new meanings (Ferenc Ficzek, Zsigmond Károlyi, Stanislav Kolíbal, Timm Ulrichs, etc.). The exhibitions aim to "rescue" these works form a traditional and rigid art historical system that is often capable of showing only a fraction of the connections and correspondences of the works. For this reason, the exhibition strongly relies on the visitors' active participation, invited to mobilize and make use of their own experience and knowledge in the reception and interpretation of the works, thus enabled to enter into a more personalized relationship with them. Following on the Ludwig Museum's exhibition, New Acquisitions – Rarely Seen Works (2009), Kind of Change, immediate upcoming exhibitions will focus on the display of recently acquired works of art. These exhibitions can be considered a complete whole together with the rearranged permanent exhibition, Unmistakable Sentences (2010), where many of the newly acquired works have been on view. The majority of the works of art that have been acquired by the museum during the last couple of years are embedded in the texture of the recent past of East-Central Europe and that of its ever-changing present, where questions of artistic forms and existence, and of historically determined artistic products have been constantly and painfully raised. Some these upcoming exhibitions are: Sing! - Mladen Stilinović Retrospective (April 22, 2011 - July 03, 2011), a retrospective exhibition that brings together the main installations, collages, photographs and art books of the most important neo-avant-garde artists in the former Yugoslavia; László Moholy-Nagy - The Art of Light (June 10, 2011 - September 25, 2011). In this exhibition, the exceptionally diverse artistic and media-theoretical activity of László Moholy-Nagy, key figure of modernist art, is arranged around the motif of light. The selection includes 200 paintings, black and white and colour photographs and graphic drafts from the period after 1922, concurrent with his development of the genre of photogram and his influential pedagogical and art theoretical activity at the Bauhaus; and Rita Ackermann (November 18, 2011 - February 05, 2012), in this exhibition, the atmosphere of the late 1980s and the 1990s means a crucial factor in the development of the art of Rita Ackermann, who started her studies as a painter in Hungary before leaving for New York where she lives and works today. After several prominent galleries and group exhibitions worldwide her works will be on display as a part of the Ludwig Museum's solo exhibition series. 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

Sorolla Museum Exhibition Explores the Dialogues Between Sorolla & Velázquez Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:52 PM PST MADRID.- The Ministry of Culture and the Sorolla Museum Foundation have organized the exhibition "Dialogues: Sorolla & Velázquez, which can be seen until January 24, 2010 at the Sorolla Museum in Madrid. Dialogues is an exhibition project that was born with the intent of reviewing the relationship between Sorolla with his great influence, Diego Velázquez. The exhibition includes eleven paintings made by Sorolla, Menipo by Velázquez plus three other reproductions Sorolla made in 1882 from paintings by Velázquez. The Dialogue between the two painters develops following three thematic views; Realism, Portraits, and Landscapes.

National Trust & Royal Academy of Arts Collaborate on New Public Art Commission Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:51 PM PST LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts and the National Trust today announced a major new public art commission to go on display on the façade of the Royal Academy's 6 Burlington Gardens as part of the forthcoming exhibition GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a changing world, which opens on 3 December 2009. The commission represents the first collaboration between these two major cultural organisations and, at the end of the London exhibition in 2010, the work will tour selected National Trust properties. CO2 morrow, a spectacular 8 metre diameter artwork by artists Marcos Lutyens and Alessandro Marianantoni, is inspired by a zeolite, a molecule that scrubs carbon dioxide from pollution sources.

Mauritshuis Museum To Host Rubens & Brueghel - A Working Friendship Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:48 PM PST The Hague, NL - In the fall of 2006 the Mauritshuis Museum will present the exhibition Rubens & Brueghel – a working friendship devoted to the remarkable collaboration between the celebrated painters.  Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder.  Combining forces, these leading Antwerp artists produced some phenomenal paintings in which Rubens painted the figures and Brueghel the landscape with flowers and animals.  Along with twelve joint efforts by Rubens and Brueghel, works for which they teamed up with other contemporaries will also be displayed (for example, Brueghel with Hendrick de Clerck, Rubens with Frans Snijders).

University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) opens “The Lens of Impressionism" Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:47 PM PST Ann Arbor, Mich - The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) announces it will present a landmark exhibition of rare works of art and important new scholarship brought together to explore the provocative relationship between photography and painting along the Normandy coast in mid-19th-century France. Organized by UMMA, "The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850–1874" will be on view in Ann Arbor October 10, 2009 through January 3, 2010 and will travel to the Dallas Museum of Art in 2010.

The Slater Museum Loans ' Dying Gaul ' Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:45 PM PST   Norwich, CT - The Slater Memorial Museum was recently featured in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review because of its loans to the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art. In addition, the Slater anticipates equal recognition in California when it loans it 120-year-old full-scale plaster cast of The Dying Gaul. The Carnegie's exhibition, entitled On A Grand Scale, opens September 28 and commemorates that museum's centennial anniversary of its remarkable cast collection.

French Masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum on View in Budapest Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:42 PM PST BUDAPEST.- In its exhibition the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts will display selected masterpieces from the uniquely wealthy collection of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The fifty-five works in the exhibition provide an overview of French painting from the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The show runs until the middle of April and will greet visitors with prominent works of Impressionism, Symbolism from the last decade of the nineteenth century, and the first avant-garde movements bearing the stamp of the Fauves and the Cubists. The period is conjured up through masterpieces by Courbet, Corot, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Lorrain, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso and others.

Kunsthaus Zürich shows ‘Rodin’ ~ A Retrospective Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:39 PM PST Zurich, Switzerland - In the late 19th century Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) revolutionized sculpture. On exhibition until 13 May 2007,  Kunsthaus Zürich is showing a retrospective comprising almost 160 bronzes, works in plaster, and drawings – including such renowned pieces as 'The Kiss' and 'The Thinker', but also rarely seen marble sculptures such as 'The Earth and the Moon'. Rodin was one of the first artists who elevated fragmentation to an artistic principle. When the wider public first saw his work exhibited in Paris in 1889, there was as much astonishment at his dynamic treatment of sculptural surfaces as there was at the fragmentation of the human form and the absence of plinths. The natural, uncontrived postures of his late figures were entirely at odds with the prevailing sculptural ideals that were still in thrall to the traditionally 'acceptable' poses. The innovative, uneven, furrowed surfaces of his forms, so unsettling to the contemporary eye, resulted from Rodin's unique working of the figure's bones, muscles and nerves, which in turn led to a very particular interplay of areas of light and shade.

Katrin Bellinger of Colnaghi to Show Drawings at Le Salon de Dessin Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:37 PM PST LONDON.-Katrin Bellinger, celebrating twenty-five years as a respected dealer in Master Drawings in Munich and at Colnaghi in London, will present an important group of drawings at Le Salon du dessin at the Palais de la Bourse, Place de la Bourse, Paris, to Monday, March 23, 2010. This major event attracts museum curators, collectors and lovers of drawings to Paris to meet the top dealers in the field.Katrin's group of some thirty drawings will focus mainly on works by French and Italian artists, most of which come from two private collections and have not been seen on the market for over 30 years. Some of the best-loved French 17th and 18th century painters will be represented. A black chalk drawing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), a pupil of Boucher, will be shown in Paris, which illustrates Ariosto's 16th century epic poem, Orlando Furioso: Sacripante is Foiled while Attempting to Ravish Angela, one of 176 known drawings from the series.

ANTIQUARIES IN BRITAIN, 1707 – 2007 AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:36 PM PST   LONDON - Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707 – 2007 will explore the work and achievement of the Society of Antiquaries of London over the past three hundred years since its foundation in the early eighteenth century to the present day. The exhibition, which will consist of 190 works, will showcase for the first time treasures from Britain's oldest Learned Society concerned with the study of the past. On exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts 15 September – 2 December 2007.

Getty Museum to display the 'Chimaera of Arezzo' as a Long-term Cultural Collaboration Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:35 PM PST LOS ANGELES, CA - Dr. Michael Brand, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum announced a long-term collaboration between the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The exhibit dedicated to the Chimaera di Arezzo is the first in a series of cultural projects with the Getty, in which the Italian government is beginning a path analogous with that completed with other U.S. museums. The collaboration with the Getty is certainly the most ambitious among these, as it foresees not only great exhibits but also the restoration of archaeological finds belonging to Italian heritage, as made clear by the Getty's leadership.

Alika Cooper solos at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:32 PM PST   San Francisco, CA - Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present new paintings and works on paper by the Oakland-based artist Alika Cooper. Cooper's new exhibition merges two seemingly disparate bodies of work. The show combines a series of portraits depicting Hollywood actresses with a series of rural landscapes. The portraits are intense, psychological, and difficult. Working with film stills taken from American movies released between 1950 and 1980, Cooper takes a "hyper-glamorized" image of femininity, and renders it grotesque. The landscapes, meanwhile, Cooper describes as landscapes of poverty. Poverty, she notes, is considered "ugly," an aesthetic judgment that also contains implicit judgments of value and morality. On exhibition July 19 - August 30, 2007.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Acquires Six Prime Works Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:31 PM PST LOS ANGELES, CA.- This weekend was the museum's 25th annual Collectors Committee event, in which a group of generous donors pool their resources to purchase works for LACMA's collection. Curators from nearly every department present artworks they'd like to see added to the permanent collection, giving short presentations on the objects' background and also temporarily installing the works in one of our galleries. After careful consideration, the Collectors Committee members—there were about 160 this year—come together for a gala dinner and vote on which artworks to acquire. The voting is over when the pool of funds is exhausted.

' Forms of Resistance ' at the Van Abbemuseum Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:30 PM PST   Eindhoven, The Netherlands - On 22 September, the Van Abbemuseum will open its doors to the extensive and investigative exhibition about the convergence of art and life. Forms of Resistance departs from four historical moments: the French Commune in 1871, the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Prague Spring in May 1968 and our world after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Based on these benchmarks and showing works by such artists as Manet, Courbet, Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Malevich, Miralles, Haacke, Johannesson, Gran Fury, Leonard, Ressler and Superflex, this exhibition shows how art can be critical of politics and a symbol of the desire for revolution.

Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao exhibits ~ Pioneers of Photography Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:26 PM PST BILBAO, SPAIN - The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao opens an exhibit featuring the Ordóñez-Falcón Collection. which includes the pioneers of photography ranging from the years 1845-1930.  One of the most important collections of photography in the world in private hands, the Ordóñez-Falcón collection comprises more than 1.500 works from different times, with a broad range of tendencies and techniques, by the leading authors in the history of photography.  On view through 14 September, 2008.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 04 Mar 2011 08:25 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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