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• Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) ~ Best Of Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art
• Crime and Punishment Explored in Exhibition at Musée d'Orsay in Paris
• "The Blessed Angelico ~ The Dawn of the Renaissance" opens at Palazzo dei Caffarelli
• Christie's NY To Offer 4 Bloch-Bauer Klimt Masterpieces
• Photographs by Lalla Essaydi on View at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
• Edvard Munch ~ The Decorative Projects ~ at The NMWA
• Alfred Kubin ~ Drawings, 1897-1909 displayed at the Museum Neue Galerie New York
• Hans Baldung Grien 'The Lust of Witches' at Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
• French Masters' " DÉJÀ VU? " at The Walters Art Museum
• Haughton International Fairs to Celebrate the 21st "International" in New York
• The Hyde Collection shows Old Master Prints from the Collection of Tobin Sparling
• Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing Exhibit at Shanghart Gallery
• Judge Rules In Favor of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Regarding Oskar Kokoschka Nudes
• Henri Matisse ~ People, Masks, Models Exhibition ~ at Staatsgalerie Sttutgart
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) ~ Best Of Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:25 PM PST With an impressive unique permanent collection and a continuous stream of new and exciting temporary exhibitions, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) should be at the top of the list for art lovers visiting Argentina's capital. The museum was created by the Eduardo F. Constantini Foundation as a not-for-profit museum to display (and build on) the collection donated by Eduardo F. Constantini. Since its founding in 2001, The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires has dedicated itself to the preservation, dissemination, and integration of modern and contemporary Latin American art worldwide. Fundación Costantini, in its dedication to 20th century Latin American art, owns a unique collection that includes the principal tendencies and movements that characterize the region's art in all its mediums, bringing together paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, collages, photographs, installations and artists' objects from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. Located on the tranquil and historic Avenida Figueroa Alcorta in Palermo, Buenos Aires, and close to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the MALBA building was constructed to blend in with its surroundings and encourage a natural interaction between its visitors and the art it showcases. Designed by renowned local architects AFT (Atelman, Fourcade & Tapia), the stunning building provides an airy and luminescent environment, with sectional yet fluid gallery spaces. Visitors seamlessly transition from one period or style of art to the next, the lighting changing throughout the building to best suit the art on display. The mission of the MALBA is to stimulate interest in and knowledge of Latin American art. To achieve this, the museum maintains a dynamic cultural center which serves to constantly highlight and expose the collection, a program of high-quality temporary exhibitions and a library of Latin American films (shown in the museum's theatre Tuesday through Saturday). MALBA also hosts meetings, classes, lectures and seminars with authors and artists. The museum's terrace restaurant and cafe is very highly regarded. Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2011, the MALBA is already visited by almost 1.5 million people every year. Visit the museum's website at ... www.malba.org.ar Starting from a selection of over 200 works of art from the private collector Eduardo Consantini, MALBA's permanent collection spans from the start of the twentieth century to the present day. The artwork moves from the social and political art of the 1930s, to the surrealism of the 1940s and 50s, the conceptual, minimalist, and pop art of the 1960s and 1970s, and culminates with the contemporary. Paintings, sculptures, photography, prints, drawings, installations and objects by 78 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela are all featured. The collection of works by the Argentine painter Antonio Berni is particularly noteworthy: from "Manifestacion" (1934), a social realist scene of twisted faces protesting for work and bread, to the eclectic sculpture "Devoración o la pesadilla de Ramona" (1965), which depicts Berni's famous and fictional prostitute Ramona, thigh-high clad legs up and flailing while being devoured by a crocodile. With the breadth of Berni's work at MALBA, the visitor gets a strong sense of the artist's aesthetic and politics throughout his career, and the same can be said for the other artists, including famous artists such as, Antonio Berni, Pedro Figari, Frida Kahlo, Cândido Portinari, Diego Rivera, and Antonio Segui. By restricting his collection to Latin American artists and then selecting the best of their works, Consantini was able to provide an amazingly comprehensive collection. Throughout the 20th century, Latin American artists traveled to Europe and were influenced by the various avant-garde movements of the time. They became involved with Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism, while actively participating in related exhibitions and debates in cities such as Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Florence, and Milan. During the 1920s, many of these Latin American artists returned to their home countries, and as protagonists within their national art scenes, they lead different battles between the traditional and the "new". Xul Solar's "Neocriollism", Tarsila do Amaral's "Anthropophagia", as well as Rafael Barradas' and Joaquín Torres-García's "Vibrationism and Constructive Universalism" are a few key examples of those avant-garde movements typical of Latin America. During the 1930s, the field of action was oriented towards an alignment between art and politics on both a regional and international level. From the murals of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, to the paintings of Cândido Portinari, the painters discussed and proposed different relationships between art and the social context. The artists, through their collective works, militancy and debate give rise to varying forms of Social Realism, Nativism, Nouveau Réalisme, and Critical Art, mostly through painting and the graphic arts. Photography, cinema, and events in the contemporary press relating to political instability were the factual sources for visual production. Magic and fantasy have always featured strongly in Latin American artists work, to stimulate the emergence of the subconscious they resort to techniques that evoke unusual effects and uncontrollable processes, like photomontage, collage, frottage, decoupage or sgraffiato. Antonio Berni, Juan Battle Planas, Maria Martins, Cícero Dias, Roberto Matta, Frida Kahlo, Agustín Lazo, and Wilfredo Lam display through their works the diverse effects of these techniques, as well as the meeting place of popular traditions and the cultivated artistic repertoire that circulated in the region. Contemporary art from the second half of the twentieth century, when artists experimented with different mediums and styles is represented through works by Antonio Seguí, León Ferrari, Liliana Porter, Víctor Grippo, Waltércio Caldas y Gego, Alejandro Otero, Antonio Berni, Jorge de la Vega, Julio Le Parc, Abraham Palatnik, Antonio Dias, Fernando Botero, Nelson Leirner, Rubens Gerchman, Mira Schendel, Hélio Oiticica, and Lygia Clark. The 'resurrection' of painting at the end of the twentieth century is shown through works by two of its key proponents, the Argentine Guillermo Kuitca and Cuban José Bedia. Until December 2011 "Intervention 6. Pablo Reinoso. Enredamaderas" is the sixth exhibition in a series at the MALBA to highlight local and regional artists either from the collection or through specially commissioned pieces. On this occasion, the piece is 'Enredamaderas', by Pablo Reinoso (Buenos Aires, 1955), part of a series of spaghetti-like sculptures. A bench, located on the second floor gallery starts the process, its rails continuing beyond the end of the seating area and growing organically over a parapet and down the wall (where they intertwine and twist to create strange drawings) before eventually joining a second bench in a first floor gallery. "Enredamaderas" uses what Reinoso calls a "plant strategy" which is "to imagine a timber with its own life, growing, looking for the light or taking root everywhere it needs to," he says. Accustomed to changes of direction, Reinoso shows that the function and form are not obvious things. Mixing the activities of both sculptor and designer, reinterpreting furniture and taking on new paradigms, Reinoso has produced a work that immediately makes the viewer smile, but provokes deeper considerations about form, function and art in everyday design and the built and natural environments. The MALBA is also exhibiting 44 of its most recent acquisitions until April 2011. The 44 works featured, including drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, objects, publications and video, from artists Sergio Avello (with the special project of the acquisition of esplanade Volume), Adriana Bustos, Alejandro Cesarco, Nicola Costantino, Guillermo Deisler, Facundo De Zuviría, Lucio Dorr, Alberto Goldenstein, Victor Grippo, Graciela Hasper, Magdalena Jitrik, Sameer Makarius, Liliana Maresca, Matilde Marín, José Carlos Martinat, Juan Mele, Liliana Porter, Miguel Rothschild, Omar Schiliro, Rosana Schoijett, Alejandra Seeber and Horacio Zabala. In the past seven years, the purchase program has allowed the museum to add more than 300 works by leading exponents of modern and contemporary art locally and regionally. 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

Crime and Punishment Explored in Exhibition at Musée d'Orsay in Paris Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:23 PM PST PARIS.- On 30 September 1981, the French Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Robert Badinter, successfully brought about the abolition of the death penalty in France. It had taken two hundred years of discussion to reach this point: from 1791, when Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau addressed the Constituent Assembly and called for the abolition of capital punishment. From 1791 to 1981, from the French Revolution to the present day, there had been two hundred years of passionate debate about the sense and the value of a penalty which, having once depended on the omnipotence of a god or on a king's absolute power - tempered by grace – would now only be meted out, in the philosophy of the Enlightenment, by man, and man alone. But can man be the judge of his fellow man's actions?

"The Blessed Angelico ~ The Dawn of the Renaissance" opens at Palazzo dei Caffarelli Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:22 PM PST ROME - Palazzo dei Caffarelli presents today The Blessed Angelico - The Dawn of the Renaissance, on view through July 5, 2009. The largest exhibition to be entirely dedicated to "the Blessed Angelico", as he is often known in Italy, since the monographic staged in the Vatican and Florence in 1955 (part of the centennial celebrations at the time). The Blessed Angelico and the Dawn of the Renaissance" exhibition will include several works being displayed in public for the first time, including the Triptych from the Corsini Gallery in Rome and a panel from the altarpiece in the Bosco ai Frati Convent.

Christie's NY To Offer 4 Bloch-Bauer Klimt Masterpieces Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:21 PM PST New York City – Christie's President Marc Porter announced that Christie's has been selected to advise the heirs of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer on the sale of four of the five legendary Klimts recently restituted to the family.  The fifth painting, Klimt's golden masterwork Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I, was recently purchased by The Neue Galerie New York through the efforts of its cofounder, philanthropist Ronald Lauder, in a transaction in which Christie's assisted Mr. Lauder and the Neue Galerie.  All five works were exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in January this year before moving to the Neue Galerie in July, where they will remain exhibited together until September 18.

Photographs by Lalla Essaydi on View at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:17 PM PST NEW BRUNSWICK.- Born in Morocco into a conservative Muslim family and educated in Europe and the United States, Lalla Essaydi is poised at the intersection of two cultures. She is one of several contemporary Islamic women artists whose subjects are informed by feminist perspectives and personal experience. Her work has garnered increasing acclaim in Europe and America; in 2011 she will be the subject of a mid-career survey at the North Carolina Museum of Art. On exhibition through 6 June, 2010.

Edvard Munch ~ The Decorative Projects ~ at The NMWA Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:15 PM PST   Tokyo, Japan - The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch has been featured in a number of exhibitions in Japan, where his works on the theme of "the scream of the human soul" and its aspects in love and death, joy and despair are extremely popular. Among his works, Munch named the Frieze of Life series as his pivotal oeuvre.

Alfred Kubin ~ Drawings, 1897-1909 displayed at the Museum Neue Galerie New York Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:13 PM PST NEW YORK CITY - The Neue Galerie New York opens the exhibition "Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909," featuring more than 100 works on paper by the Austrian artist. This is the first major museum exhibition of his work ever held in the United States, and it focuses on his macabre early drawings, watercolors, and lithographs. It will be on view at the Museum Neue Galerie through January 26, 2009. The exhibition is organized by Annegret Hoberg, curator of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich.

Hans Baldung Grien 'The Lust of Witches' at Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:11 PM PST Frankfurt, Germany - There are several drawings and prints by German Renaissance artist Hans Baldung Grien dedicated to the imaginary world of witchcraft.  But only one single panel painting exists, in which Baldung treated this topic: his "Two Witches" in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, dated 1523, is not only unique in Baldung's oeuvre – for roughly a century it remains the only representation of witchcraft in a monumental and public or at least semi-public format.  On exhibition 23 February until 13 May, 2007.

French Masters' " DÉJÀ VU? " at The Walters Art Museum Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:10 PM PST   Baltimore, MD - The Walters Art Museum presents Déjà Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces, an unprecedented international loan exhibition exploring the significance of artistic repetition through the art of 11 celebrated 19th- and 20th-century French painters. On view through Jan. 1, 2008, this exhibition includes 76 paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures.

Haughton International Fairs to Celebrate the 21st "International" in New York Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:08 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show, Brian and Anna Haughton's flagship fair launched in 1989, will again bring together many of the top dealers in the world from October 16th-22nd at the Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City. Optimism and confidence prevail among the sixty-five exhibitors this year despite global economic concerns. "Quality sells," comments Brian Haughton, who organizes the fair and exhibits as well. "The fair's enduring strength is validation that the market for quality is strong and resilient. We are delighted that the IFAADS remains in a leadership position as the top international platform in America today."

The Hyde Collection shows Old Master Prints from the Collection of Tobin Sparling Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:06 PM PST GLEN FALLS, NY - The Hyde Collection opened an exhibition of its most recent acquisition – Old Master prints from the collection of Tobin Sparling, a South Glens Falls native. Late last year, Sparling donated nearly thirty prints in memory of his parents, Leon H. and Marie Buttlar Sparling. The exhibition, titled Old Master Prints from the Sparling Family Collection, is on display in the Hoopes Gallery at the Museum through May 25th, 2009.Ten etchings, seventeen engravings, and two wood cuts from the donated works are included in the exhibition in addition to two prints on loan from the donor.

Ji Wenyu & Zhu Weibing Exhibit at Shanghart Gallery Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:02 PM PST Shanghai, China - "Here, the Scene is Better" features new oil paintings by Ji Wenyu and 'softsculptures' (textile sculptures) Ji Wenyu created together with his artist wife Zhu Weibing in the last few years.  It is the first time several of their sculptures will be presented to the public.  Noted for his meticulous pop style since the mid to late 1990s, Ji Wenyu focuses in his paintings on the depiction of everyday element she sees around him.  His canvas is often filled crowdedly with ordinary people or a particular vulgar life scene.  He is a keen observer of the contradictions, 'funny encounters' and problems occurring during the development of his home town Shanghai from a Chinese city to an international megalopolis and the modernization and internationalization of China in general.

Judge Rules In Favor of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Regarding Oskar Kokoschka Nudes Posted: 06 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PST BOSTON, MA.-United States District Judge Rya Zobel (District of Massachusetts) ruled that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is entitled to retain ownership of Oskar Kokoschka's painting Two Nudes (Lovers) (painted about 1913). The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the MFA on January 22, 2008, in response to a request for restitution of the painting made by Dr. Claudia Seger-Thomschitz. In its January 2008 filing, the MFA asserted its rightful ownership of the painting, bequeathed to the Museum by Sarah Reed Blodgett in 1973. Dr. Seger-Thomschitz of Austria claims to be the heir of a son of Dr. Oskar Reichel. Dr. Reichel, a Jewish doctor and art collector in Vienna, purchased the painting from the artist in 1914 or 1915 and sold the work in 1939 to, Otto Kallir, a Viennese art dealer (who was then living in Paris). Based on exhaustive provenance research, the Museum concluded that the 1939 transaction was valid.

Henri Matisse ~ People, Masks, Models Exhibition ~ at Staatsgalerie Sttutgart Posted: 06 Mar 2011 08:58 PM PST STUTTGART, GERMANY - Staatsgalerie Sttutgart presents today the first world exhibition dedicated to portraits by Henri Matisse, with a total of 110 works of art. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, and drawings that will allow us to understand how he created the human face from a personal aspect and know his works from unexpected angles, according to museum director Sean Rainbird. The exhibition is titled "People, Masks, Models," and will be on view through January 11, 2009.

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