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• The Art Gallery of Ontario ~ The World’s Largest Collection Of Canadian Art ~ Plus International Masterpieces
• The Walker Art Gallery features 'The Rise of Women Artists'
• Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery to host ‘Obsession: Art from the Lodeveans Collection’
• Albertina Museum shows The Collection of Eberhard W. Kornfeld
• Brigham Young University Museum of Art shows "Mirror, Mirror on the Gallery Wall"
• Malaga’s Centre for Contemporary Art features Solo Exhibition by Eric Fischl
• Jim Lambie's Modern Sculpture
• The State Russian Museum presents Paintings by Alexander Timofeev
• Henry Coombes at Hammer Museum
• Works by Russian Masters and Fabergé to Be Offered at Christie's
• 44-cents Buys A Winslow Homer
• The John Jones Collection exhibits "Paperview" from Three Renowed Art Collections
• A Slap in the Face for the Art World
• CAPE TOWN'S MATTHEW HINDLEY AT 34 LONG
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Art Gallery of Ontario ~ The World’s Largest Collection Of Canadian Art ~ Plus International Masterpieces Posted: 11 Mar 2011 09:13 PM PST The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is located in Toronto's downtown Grange Park district. With almost 50,000 square meters of physical space, the AGO is the 10th largest art museum in North America. Its collection includes more than 70,000 works spanning the 1st century to the present-day. The museum was originally founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens, who incorporated the institution as the Art Museum of Toronto. The museum was renamed the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1919, and subsequently the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1966. The current location of the AGO dates to 1910, when the gallery was willed the estate known as the Grange, a historic Georgian manor built in 1817, upon the death of Goldwin Smith. In 1911, the museum leased lands to the south of the manor to the City of Toronto in perpetuity so as to create Grange Park. In 1920, the museum also allowed the Ontario College of Art to construct a building on the grounds. The museum's first formal exhibitions were opened in the Grange in 1913. In 1916, the museum decided to begin construction of a small portion of a planned new gallery building. Designed by Pearson and Darling in the Beaux-Arts style, excavation of the new facility began in 1916, and the first galleries opened in 1918. Expansion throughout the 20th century added various galleries, culminating in 1993, which left the AGO with 38,400 square meters of interior space. Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million (later increased to $276 million) redevelopment plan by Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB). Although Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, and as a child had lived in the same neighborhood as the AGO, the expansion of the gallery represented his first work in Canada. Gehry was commissioned to expand and revitalize the AGO, not to design a new building; as such, one of the challenges he faced was to unite the disparate areas of the building that had become a bit of a "hodgepodge" after six previous expansions dating back to the 1920s. Kenneth Thomson was a major benefactor of Transformation AGO, donating much of his art collection to the gallery as well as providing $50 million towards the renovation. Thomson died in 2006, two years before the project was complete. The AGO reopened in November 2008, with the transformation project having increased the art viewing space by approximately 50%. Notable elements of the expanded building include a new entrance aligned with the gallery's historic Walker Court and the Grange, and a new four-storey south wing, clad in glass and blue titanium, overlooking both the Grange and Grange Park. The most characteristic outward-facing element of the design however is a new glass and wood façade called the Galleria Italia (named in recognition of a $13 million contribution by 26 Italian-Canadian families). The completed expansion received wide acclaim, notably for the restraint of its design. As well as the galleries, AGO contains world-class conservation, research and education facilities as well as a restaurant, café, bar and museum shop. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.ago.net The Art Gallery of Ontario includes the world's largest collection of Canadian art, which depicts the development of Canada's heritage from pre-Confederation to the present. The Canadian Collection includes major works from 19th century Canadian artists, with a particular emphasis on the paintings of Cornelius Krieghoff, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, through strong holdings of the work of Tom Thomson, Lawren S. Harris, J.E.H. Macdonald, David Milne and James Wilson Morrice to significant paintings by post-war artists Paul-Emile Borduas and William Kurelek. The AGO has one of the finest collections of Inuit art in the world. The inaugural exhibition of Inuit art in the Samuel and Esther Sarick Gallery focuses on transformation, which occurs during the traditional spiritual practice of shamanism and when the ancient culture of the North came into contact with Southern newcomers. Over 500 sculptures are also exhibited in the Inuit Visible Storage Gallery on the concourse level. Almost 1,500 works (plus a further 1,000 projectile points) covering 11,000 years of history are on display in the AGO's Canadian galleries. The museum also has an impressive collection of European art, including the most important collection of Medieval and Renaissance decorative arts outside Europe and the United States, featuring major works by Tintoretto, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony van Dyck, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, and Frans Hals, and works by other renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Edgar Degas. In addition to these, the AGO also has one of the most significant collections of African and Oceanic art in North America, and a contemporary art collection illustrating the evolution of modern artistic movements in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including works by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Jenny Holzer. The AGO is home to the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre, which houses the largest public collection of works by this British sculptor. Moore's bronze work, Two Large Forms (1966–1969) greets visitors at the museum's north façade. The AGO also have significant collections of photographs and prints and drawings. A key component of the collection was newspaper tycoon, Ken Thomson's gift of his art collection, the most significant private art collection in Canada, which added 2,000 outstanding works, including signature works by Canadian artists from the 19th to mid-20th century, with some 300 works from the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. The collection also includes a remarkable 145 paintings by the 19th century artist Cornelius Krieghoff and 100 works by the early 20th century luminary David Milne, as well as key paintings by Paul Kane, Paul-Emile Borduas and William Kurelek. The gift also includes a compelling collection of 130 mainly British ship models from the 17th century through the Napoleonic era to the 20th century. About The Walter Trier Gallery - Devoted to the work of Walter Trier, this gallery features small rotating exhibitions of the artist's watercolours, drawings, paintings and sculpture along with satirical works on paper by other artists from the AGO collection. Walter Trier was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1890. He moved to Berlin at age 20 where he became known for his caricatures and childrens' book illustrations. Trier fled to England from Nazi Germany in 1936 and eventually immigrated to Canada in 1947. In Toronto he illustrated books and designed posters for Canada Packers Limited. He died in Collingwood, Ontario in 1951. In 1976 the AGO received a gift from the Trier-Fodor Foundation of over 1100 works by Trier and 345 folk toys. The gift was accompanied by an endowment to support the acquisition of humorous, satirical and illustrative art. Trier was born to a middle class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. In 1905, Trier entered the Industrial School of Fine and Applied Arts; he later moved to the Prague Academy. In 1906, he entered the Royal Academy, Munich, where he studied under Franz Stuck and Erwin Knirr. In 1910, Trier moved to Berlin where he spent most of his career. An anti-fascist, Trier's cartoons were bitterly opposed by the Nazis. In 1936 he emigrated to London. During the Second World War, Trier helped the Ministry of Information produce anti-Nazi leaflets and political propaganda. He and his wife became British citizens in 1947, the same year that they moved to Canada to be near their daughter, who had moved to Toronto with her husband in the late thirties. Among a number of exhibitions currently on show at the AGO, "Black Ice: David Blackwood - Prints of Newfoundland" until June 12th 2011 features one of Canada's leading printmakers and popular artists. This exhibition showcases some iconic works for the first time, revealing the richness of Blackwood's imagination and his working methods. Blackwood has been telling stories about Newfoundland in the form of epic visual narratives for 30 years. To bring this narrative to life, the exhibition will situate Blackwood's prints in time and space by looking at the history of Newfoundland and the people who settled there. Blackwood explores the timeless theme of the struggle for survival between humans and nature in one of the most exposed and hostile environments on earth. He depicts a town and a centuries-old way of life that has disappeared. "Paterson Ewen: Inspiration and/et Influence" until May 22nd 2011 showcases the work of this towering figure in the recent history of Canadian art. Since his death in 2002 there has not been a major showing of his work. When he made the transition from painting on canvas to painting on plywood in the early 1970s he seemed, to many who had followed his work, to have bridged an extraordinary divide: between painting and sculpture, and between representation of images and the actual process of making them. His work subsequently influenced and encouraged many artists – to experiment, to engage with personal subject matter and reintroduce representational appearances. This exhibition highlights the major works in the AGO's authoritative collection of Ewen's work, yet places this collection in a larger context, displaying, for the first time, works by Ewen alongside artwork by the artists and movements that influenced and encouraged him. "Where I was born… : A Photograph, a Clue, and the Discovery of Abel Boulineau", from March 5 to August 21, 2011 features the work of a completely unknown French photographer and his photographs of French regional life at the turn of the 20th century. The group of 1,702 gelatin silver printing out paper prints was acquired by the AGO as the work of Émile Fréchon but recent research has revealed the work to be by Abel Boulineau, a painter and teacher at the Association polytechnique in Paris, not known until now to have made photographs. It is unclear how or why Boulineau learned photography, but every summer from 1897 to 1916, he traveled through different regions of France taking photographs. Many of the photographs he made became the basis for paintings. He was drawn to similar subjects no matter where he traveled: to washerwomen and tradespeople, shopkeepers and children, markets and villages, as well as the landscape. Through a focused selection of more than 70 works in the AGO's Tanenbaum Gallery, visitors will find out how they came to be attributed to Boulineau and will discover Boulineau's gem-like photographs of the regions of Brittany, Aquitaine and the Rhône-Alps. On now until April 3, 2011 "Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts" brings to Canada for the first time more than 200 spectacular works of art created for India's great kings, including paintings, furniture, decorative arts, jewelry and even a custom made Rolls Royce. These magnificent objects chronicle the many aspects of royal life and celebrate a legacy of cultural patronage by generations of maharajas, both in India and in Europe. 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

The Walker Art Gallery features 'The Rise of Women Artists' Posted: 11 Mar 2011 09:12 PM PST LIVERPOOL - Works by some of history's most celebrated women artists are featured in this compelling new exhibition. 'The Rise of Women Artists' charts the progress made by female artists from the 16th century up to the present day. The Walker was ahead of its time in collecting works by women artists, a fact that is reflected in the scope and diversity of the works on display. On exhibition through 14 March, 2010 at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery to host ‘Obsession: Art from the Lodeveans Collection’ Posted: 11 Mar 2011 09:09 PM PST Leeds, UK - Challenging and thought-provoking new artworks from around the globe will be shown in a forthcoming exhibition at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. They are on loan from the prestigious Lodeveans Collection of international contemporary art, established in April 2006 by visionary father and son collectors, Stuart and John Evans. The exhibition, 'Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection,' runs from 22 September until 28 November 2009. Opening Reception: Tuesday, 22 September, 2009, 6-8pm. The Gallery is open Mon-Sat, 10-5pm, and admission is free.

Albertina Museum shows The Collection of Eberhard W. Kornfeld Posted: 11 Mar 2011 09:07 PM PST   Vienna, Austria - The Albertina Museum presents Routes Through Modern Art - From The Collection of Eberhard W. Kornfeld, on view through Fabruary 8, 2009. In honour of the 85th birthday of Swiss art dealer Eberhard W. Kornfeld, some 200 works from his remarkable private art collection are on exhibit at the Albertina. The auction house owner and art publisher is a distinguished expert on prints and the author of catalogues raisonnés on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Käthe Kollwitz and numerous other artists. Like the collection as a whole, the exhibition focuses on multifaceted selections of their works, as well as works by the collector's close friends Pablo Picasso, Sam Francis and Alberto Giacometti.

Brigham Young University Museum of Art shows "Mirror, Mirror on the Gallery Wall" Posted: 11 Mar 2011 09:05 PM PST PROVO, UT.- Portraits reflect more than a person's mirror image. They reveal—and sometimes conceal—certain aspects of a person's identity. While portrait artists play a role in creating that identity for some, many contemporary artists hold up a mirror to the process of identity creation itself—examining how people shape their identities and how they seek to change other people's perceptions about themselves. This exhibition will be on view in the Conway A. Ashton & Carl E. Jackman Gallery on the museum's lower level through Saturday, May 8, 2010. Admission is free.

Malaga’s Centre for Contemporary Art features Solo Exhibition by Eric Fischl Posted: 11 Mar 2011 09:04 PM PST MALAGA.- CAC Málaga – the city of Malaga's Centre for Contemporary Art – is presenting the first ever solo exhibition in a Spanish museum by Eric Fischl who, along with Alex Katz, is one of the most eminent American figurative painters of the second half of the 20th century. On show there will be large-format paintings and watercolours forming part of this New York artist's first art of bullfighting, created after he attended Ronda's Goyesque bullfight in 2007. Corrida in Ronda, the title of the exhibition curated by Fernando Francés, summarises the rich language of the artist's painting. There are two things about his works that are particularly outstanding and unique in contemporary painting: the use of backlighting to depict the toreadors' passes and the way he imbues them with an emotive charge. On view through 4 April, 2010.

Jim Lambie's Modern Sculpture Posted: 11 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PST Glasgow, Scotland - Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art has acquired a major piece of sculpture, Seven and Seven Is or Sunshine Bathed the Golden Glow by Turner-shortlisted artist Jim Lambie. The purchase of this vibrant and exciting work has been made possible by a £76,700 grant from independent charity The Art Fund. Seven and Seven Is was created for the 2008 Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts.

The State Russian Museum presents Paintings by Alexander Timofeev Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:59 PM PST St Petersburg, Russia - Alexander Timofeev was born into a family of artists in 1971, Leningrad. He studied at the art school attached to the Academy of Arts, then at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under Johannes Grützke. Since 1994 the artist has lived and worked mainly in Germany. Since 1996 he has actively contributed to the exhibitions in Germany. The exhibition will be on display till March 17, 2008.

Henry Coombes at Hammer Museum Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:57 PM PST Los Angeles, CA - Scottish artist Henry Coombes explores the tension between instinctual, natural impulses and the constraints of polite society. He presents viewers with seemingly idyllic scenarios that gradually delve into the deeper, darker inclinations of human nature. In two of his recent films—Laddy and the Lady (2005) and Gralloch (2007)—actors don animal costumes and the traditional sportsman attire of the British elite, playing out scenes at once amusing, disturbing, and surreal. Both films will be on view in the Hammer's Video Gallery marking Coombes' first exhibition in an American museum.

Works by Russian Masters and Fabergé to Be Offered at Christie's Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:55 PM PST LONDON.- Christie's mid-season Russian Art sale on 8 June will offer a strong section of more than 60 lots of Fabergé, including a private collection of 45 lots from a European Royal Family. Highlights of this fine and distinguished Royal collection include a two-colour gold-mounted nephrite table clock, with Henrik Wigström (estimate £80,000- 120,000) as well as a very rare miniature kovsh, which was supplied to the Imperial cabinet on 21 May 1909 and acquired by Emperor Nicholas II as a presentation gift (estimate: £8,000-12,000).

44-cents Buys A Winslow Homer Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:54 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP).- Two farm boys rest in a field, a quiet moment emblematic of 19th century rural America, brings nostalgia via a new 44-cent postage stamp was released Thursday. The commemorative stamp, is the latest in the Postal Service's American Treasures series, features Winslow Homer's 1874 painting "Boys in a Pasture," on display at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Homer's work largely focuses on landscapes and scenes of American life. First day of issue ceremonies for the stamp are being held at the American Philatelic Society Stamp Show 2010 in Richmond, Va.

The John Jones Collection exhibits "Paperview" from Three Renowed Art Collections Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:51 PM PST LONDON.- "Paperview" brings together works on paper from three renowned London based art collections, alongside a selection of emerging and established London based artists. At a time when many galleries are reducing their exhibition programmes, Paperview celebrates the humble medium of paper by bringing together works by 75 artists from around the world. The exhibition has been supported by John Jones to create an open discourse on both the passion and practicalities of collecting. In the current economic climate John Jones hopes to help galvanise the art market and inspire new collectors.

A Slap in the Face for the Art World Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:50 PM PST   LONDON - Phil Collins is slapping people in the name of art, the Guardian reports. The Turner Prize-nominated artist's project "You'll Never Work in This Town Again" features more than 100 photographs of prominent art world figures seconds after Collins has slapped them.

CAPE TOWN'S MATTHEW HINDLEY AT 34 LONG Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:49 PM PST Cape Town, SA - 34LONG, one of Cape Town's new generation of contemporary visual art galleries, holds the work of Matthew Hindley in high esteem.  A measure of their confidence in Matthew's art is the fact that they are hosting Before My Time, an exhibition of his recent works in their upstairs gallery simultaneously with LIMITED/unlimited, Takashi Murakami's first solo show in South Africa downstairs.  On exhibition 14 November – 9 December.  Hindley has been working in oils for some time now, having started his career with computer generated art work.  He loves paint, and he loves the history of paint.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 11 Mar 2011 08:48 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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