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• The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) ~ The Finest Art Collection In South America
• ' Velázquez’s Fables ' at the Museo del Prado
• Red Grooms Exhibition Showcased at Bryn Mawr College
• Colombian Museum Hosts Largest Exhibition Ever in Latin America of Andy Warhol's Works
• Camille Pissarro is Among Works Offered By Jerusalem's Matsart Auction
• Ateneum Museum Picasso Exhibition
• Pavilion of Art & Design London to Field World's Most Prominent Dealers
• 'LIFE AS A LEGEND: MARILYN MONROE' at BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART
• Bill Viola Presents "Emergence" at the Galleria dell'Accademia
• Micaela Gallery to Feature "Marvin Lipofsky: 1969 - 2009" a Solo Exhibition of Sculpture
• Saint Louis Art Museum shows 'Action/Abstraction ~ Pollock, de Kooning & American Art'
• Carnegie Museum of Art presents 'Laboratory of Architecture / Fernando Romero'
• Cynthia Eardley Sculptures at Ceres Gallery
• New Michelangelo volume of Photographs for Readers With Deep Pockets
• Tomer Aluf, David Hornung, and Vithya Truong at Flowers in New York
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) ~ The Finest Art Collection In South America Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:51 PM PDT The São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) is located on Paulista Avenue in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It's well-known for its current home in a 1968 concrete and glass structure designed by Lina Bo Bardi, the main body of the building is supported by two lateral beams over a 74 meter freestanding space. The building is considered a landmark and a symbol of modern Brazilian architecture. MASP is internationally recognized for its collection of Western art, considered the finest in Latin America and indeed, the entire Southern Hemisphere. It also houses an impressive collection of Brazilian art, prints and drawings, as well as smaller collections of African and Asian art, antiquities, decorative arts, and others, amounting to almost 15,000 pieces. MASP also has one of the largest art libraries of the country. The museum's history started in the 1940s. Assis Chateaubriand, founder and owner of Diários Associados ("Associated Dailies"), the largest media and press conglomerate of Brazil at the time, launched a campaign, with the bold intent of acquiring masterpieces to form an art collection of international standard in Brazil. Originally, he intended to locate the museum in Rio de Janeiro, but chose São Paulo where he believed it would be easier to gather the necessary funds, since the city was booming. At the same time, the European art market had been deeply influenced by World War II, making it possible to acquire fine artworks for reasonable prices. Chateaubriand recruited Pietro Maria Bardi, an Italian professor, critic and art dealer, to help him create a "Museum of Classical and Modern Art". The museum was inaugurated and opened to the public on October 2, 1947, displaying the first acquisitions, including canvases by Picasso and Rembrandt on the first floor of the Associated Dailies headquarters. In the 1950s the museum expanded, creating the Institute of Contemporary Art (offering workshops of engraving, drawing, painting, sculpture, dance and industrial design), the Publicity School (presently the 'Superior School of Propaganda and Marketing'), organizing debates about cinema and literature and creating a youth orchestra and a ballet company. Alongside the educational program, the museum expanded its collections and began to organize travelling exhibitions from the collection. Between 1953 and 1957, a selection of 100 masterpieces of the museum's collection traveled throughout European museums, such as Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris) and the Tate Gallery (London). In 1957, the collection was displayed in the United States, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and in the Toledo Museum of Art. The following year, the museum's holdings were presented in other Brazilian institutions, such as the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, in Rio de Janeiro. These exhibitions served to gain publicity for the fledgling museum, increasing attendance and providing funds for further expansion of the collection. It soon became clear that the museum needed its own, much larger site, and in the 1950s plans were drawn up to move into a purpose-built gallery on a site donated by the city council and Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi (wife of Pietro Maria Bardi) was commissioned to design the new building. The construction is considered to be unique worldwide for its peculiarity: the main body of the building stands on four lateral supporting pillars, creating a void underneath the building. Built between 1956 and 1968, the new museum was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The museum building has 13,000 sq. meters of floor space spread on five levels, including the permanent and temporary exhibition rooms, library, photo gallery, film gallery, video gallery, two auditoriums, restaurant, a store, workshop rooms, administrative offices and restoration facilities. More than 60,000 visitors a month make the MASP the most visited museum in São Paulo. Visit MASP's website at … http://masp.art.br The collection contains almost 10,000 pieces, mostly of Western art from the fourth century BC to today. The collections of French and Italian artworks are particularly strong. Italian artists are represented by Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Perugino, Piero di Cosimo, Guido Reni and Guercino. Notable French works include paintings by François Clouet, Poussin, Jean-Marc Nattier, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. MASP also has the complete collection of 73 sculptures by Edgar Degas as well as three of the artist's paintings. Spanish Art is represented by El Greco, Francisco Goya and Diego Velazquez with British Artists include works from Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, George Romney and J. M. W. Turner, among others (including a Winston Churchill oil painting "The Blue Room, Trent Park"). Among the works by Flemish, Dutch and German artists which are on show are paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, Memling, Cranach, Quentin Matsys, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck and Jan van Dornicke. American artworks in the collection include pieces by Torres Garcia, Diego Rivera, Siqueiros, Alexander Calder and among many Brazilian artists, including Frans Post, Victor Meirelles de Lima, Nicolas Antoine Taunay, Tarsila do Amaral, Nicola Antonio Facchinetti, Candido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Anita Malfatti, Lasar Segall, Almeida Junior, Victor Brecheret and Flavio de Carvalho. Modern and contemporary works include paintings and drawings by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Modigliani, Matisse, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Andy Warhol and Jim Dine. MASP also have small but significant collections of African and Asian arts. The core collection also includes archaeological artifacts (Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman and pre-Colombian American), sculptures (including Rodin bronzes, pieces by Ernesto di Fiori and Victor Brecheret among others), drawings, prints, photographs, majolica (Italian pottery), as well as tapestries, clothing and design. MASP have a large program of temporary exhibitions, featuring both works from their own collection and loan items. Amongst the former, a special exhibition of sculpture from the collection under the title "Fashionable Obsessions: Sculpture from the MASP Collection" (until March 27th 2011) features 50 works by masters of three-dimensional art from the 19th century to the present day (and a pair of Tang-dynasty Chinese terracotta warriors). Among works by Renoir, Degas, Brecheret, Felicia Leirner, Alexander Calder, Bruno Giorgi, Rodin, Arcangelo Ianelli, Duke Lee, Jim Dine and others, particular highlights include "Greta Garbo" by Ernesto de Fiori, "Venus" by Pierre Renoir, "14 year old dancer" by Edgar Degas, "Birds" by Wesley Duke Lee and "Winged Bicho" by Emanuel Araújo. Until May 1st 2011, "Brzilian Papers: The Art of Printmaking" features a selection of over 120 works by masters of the different techniques of engraving. "The Art of Printmaking" collects works by Volpi, Tarsila, Babinski, Samico, Manny Araujo, Gruber, Garden, Segall, Grassmann, Valentine, Hudinilson, Leirner and many others from the MASP collection. These works illustrate the history of printmaking in Brazil. An ongoing exhibitions "Gods and Madonas – The Art of the Sacred" features 40 works from the 14th to 19th centuries, including Andrea Mantegna's "St. Jerome in the Wilderness", on display for the first time since undergoing restoraration. Besides the museum, MASP is a cultural center that provides various activities to the public as an art school, workshops, dance performances, music and theater, lectures and debates, courses for teachers, among many other activities held throughout the year. Among the sculptures stand out the marbles of the Greek goddess Higéia the fourth century BC and the collection of 73 sculptures by Degas, which can only be seen fully in the MASP, the Metropolitan Museum in New York or the Museum D'Orsay in Paris . Collections of prints, photographs, drawings, archeology, majolica, tapestries and European decorative arts, plus a large collection of kitsch pieces, are also part of the museum. The museum has broadened its collection through donations from individuals and partnerships with companies and institutions. Since 1990, it is considered essential to the exchange and partnership between museums in the world, is to upgrade skills or to restore our works. Responsibilities of the Department of Conservation and Restoration. The Department of Conservation and Restoration of MASP conservation, preservation and restoration of works belonging to the museum, as well as assist in the conservation area for temporary exhibitions from other museums or institutions. Whereas the museum's works are stored, displayed and transported in accordance with international museums, the department of conservation and restoration develops an important role in preventive conservation, treatment and safety of the collection. The mission of MASP is to "encourage, promote and sustain, by all means at its disposal, the arts in general and in particular the visual arts, promoting the development and cultural improvement of the Brazilian people" 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

' Velázquez’s Fables ' at the Museo del Prado Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:51 PM PDT Madrid, Spain - As part of its inaugural programme marking the opening of the new extension, the Museo del Prado is presenting the exhibition Velázquez' Fables, the first to offer an in-depth analysis of this aspect of the artist's work as a painter of narratives. The exhibition brings together 27 works by the artist in addition to 24 by 17 other artists with the aim of revealing the context in which the artist executed some of his most important paintings. Among the works by Velázquez to be seen in the exhibition are 12 loans.

Red Grooms Exhibition Showcased at Bryn Mawr College Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:49 PM PDT BRYN MAWR, Pa. – Bryn Mawr College's spring exhibition Old Masters and Modern Muses: Red Grooms's Portraits of Artists, 1957-2009 will showcase more than 30 works of art by prominent American artist Red Grooms. The exhibition will feature drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures, spanning five decades of Grooms' career, and include a number of recent works that have never been exhibited before. Old Masters and Modern Muses will be on view in Bryn Mawr's Canaday Library through June 5, Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m., and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue and related programming. This exhibition is free and open to the public.

Colombian Museum Hosts Largest Exhibition Ever in Latin America of Andy Warhol's Works Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:49 PM PDT BOGOTA, COLUMBIA - The exhibition, organized by Museo de Arte del Banco de la República in conjunction with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, offers a complete panorama of the work of this fertile artist and it is the largest exhibition ever organized in a Latin American museum. The list of works of art comprises 26 paintings, 57 silk screens, 39 photographs and 2 installations ('Silver Clouds' and 'Cow wallpaper'). Fourteen of his films will also be screened at the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño. Andy Warhol, "Mr. America" explores all aspects and periods from this multi-facetic production from this artist, with a particular emphasis in the period between 1961 and 1968. On exhibition 18 June through 21 September, 2009.

Camille Pissarro is Among Works Offered By Jerusalem's Matsart Auction Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:47 PM PDT JERUSALEM.- Fine works of art, the likes that have yet to be offered for auction in Israel are arriving these days to Jerusalem. The parade includes the likes of Camille Pissarro (accompanied by his 4 sons, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall and Abraham Mintchine. These and 294 others will be auctioned by Matsart at the King David Hotel on June 30.

Ateneum Museum Picasso Exhibition Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:46 PM PDT HELSINKI, FINLAND - In mid-September, the Ateneum Art Museum will open an exhibition of Pablo Picasso's art, and advance tickets went on sale on Monday the16th of  March. The tickets are only available from the Finnish National Gallery web shop at www.shop.fng.fi. This advance sale of exhibition tickets is a pilot project for Ateneum, and tickets are at first available for October and November.

Pavilion of Art & Design London to Field World's Most Prominent Dealers Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:45 PM PDT LONDON.- Now in its third year, the Pavilion of Art & Design London – an expansion of DesignArt London – makes an impressive return to Berkeley Square from 14 to 18 October with the participation of 45 of the world's most prominent dealers in the fields of Modern Art, Decorative Arts and Design from 1860 to the present. The strong presence of international exhibitors combined with a high concentration of London‐based galleries this year makes it the largest and ever‐expanding event of its kind to take place during Frieze week. Galleries from Paris, London, Brussels, Milan, New York, Barcelona and Geneva will bring to the capital the most coveted and iconic design, jewellery, decorative art and fine art pieces, showcased in a rigorously curated and sophisticated setting for an anticipated audience of 25,000 visitors.

'LIFE AS A LEGEND: MARILYN MONROE' at BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:44 PM PDT Boca Raton, FL - The Boca Raton Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of Special Exhibitions Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe; Graham Flint: Portrait of America, Images from the Gigapxl™ Project and Yozo Hamaguchi: Father of the Modern Mezzotint.  The exhibitions will be on display through April 1, 2007.  Yozo Hamaguchi will be on display through February 18, 2007.

Bill Viola Presents "Emergence" at the Galleria dell'Accademia Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:43 PM PDT FLORENCE, ITALY - The Galleria dell'Accademia will present the restored Pietà da Palestrina, the marble group sculpture attributed to Michelangelo and exhibited in the Tribune of the David. On this occasion at 10.00 p.m. in the Tribune of the David the Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence proposes the video Emergence (2002) by Bill Viola in the presence of the artist himself. This event intends to suggest a meditation on the theme of the Pietà, a central theme in the life and work of Michelangelo starting from his youth (St. Peter's Pietà), and then repeatedly in later age (the Bandinelli Pietà intended for his own tomb, and the Rondanini Pietà).

Micaela Gallery to Feature "Marvin Lipofsky: 1969 - 2009" a Solo Exhibition of Sculpture Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:42 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Marvin Lipofsky's use of glass as a gestural artistic material helped to reinvent a centuries-old craft tradition as a Modernist art form. His sculptures crystallize a lifetime of travel and material investigation, as well as the sumptuous colors of the natural landscape, the visceral forms of the body, and the alchemical processes of manipulating blown glass. As an artist, educator, and inveterate traveler, Lipofsky has been an inspirational force throughout the international glass community for more than four decades.

Saint Louis Art Museum shows 'Action/Abstraction ~ Pollock, de Kooning & American Art' Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:40 PM PDT   Saint Louis, MO - The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the October 19 opening of "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976", the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to re-examine Abstract Expressionism and the movements that followed.  Prior to traveling to St. Louis, Action/Abstraction opened at The Jewish Museum in New York. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., is the exhibition's third and final venue.  On view in Saint Louis October 19th through January 11th, 2009.

Carnegie Museum of Art presents 'Laboratory of Architecture / Fernando Romero' Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:39 PM PDT   Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - The first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Fernando Romero and his Mexico City–based practice, LAR (Laboratory of Architecture), will be on view in the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, February 28 through May 31, 2009. Organized by Raymund Ryan, Carnegie Museum of Art curator of architecture, Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero presents innovative designs for two dozen projects together with large-scale photographs and analysis of Mexico City that help to situate the work in context.

Cynthia Eardley Sculptures at Ceres Gallery Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:38 PM PDT   New York City - Through interpretation of human form and the psychological complexity of human facial expression and gesture, these hand-modeled sculptures convey, in part,  a convergence of beauty and tragedy, pleasure and pain. In the pastel colors of a bright sunny day, the young woman of "Witness"--a grown-up Alice--depicts that instant when, in response to unspeakable tragedy, a line is drawn and our lives start over.   The abrupt end of a certain kind of innocence, permeated by a sense of unreality. Similarly, the "Broken Man" responds to the disembodied, small white hands that  offer--what?-- a chance to be whole again? an end to his misery?

New Michelangelo volume of Photographs for Readers With Deep Pockets Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:37 PM PDT BOLOGNA, Italy — The gala presentation of "Michelangelo: La Dotta Mano" ("Michelangelo: The Wise Hand"), a volume of photographs of this Renaissance master's sculptures, may well have been the most lavish book debut in history. This is no ordinary book, starting with its retail price of 100,000 euros, or around $155,000, at Friday's exchange rate. Included in the price of what its publishers are calling "the most beautiful book in the world" is a sleek black case, its own stand and a 500-year guarantee.

Tomer Aluf, David Hornung, and Vithya Truong at Flowers in New York Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:35 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Flowers New York gallery presents an exhibition of three extraordinary artists, Tomer Aluf, David Hornung, and Vithya Truong. The show will run from June 30th through July 31st 2010. The US business relocated in 2003 from LA to New York on Madison Avenue, and then in 2009 moved to West 20th street in Chelsea. Flowers has participated regularly in art fairs internationally. The programme in both the UK and US comprises all media by established and emerging artists.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:34 PM PDT 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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