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• Europe’s Leading Art Exhibition And Event Center ~ The Martin Gropius Bau In Berlin
• 'Carlo Cardazzo: A New Vision for Art' at Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice
• Musée Jacquemart-André to Show "Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection”
• The British Museum presents " The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock "
• MOLAA Announces A Landmark Exhibition of Landscapes by David Alfaro Siqueiros
• Princeton University Art Museum Exhibits German Artist Ernst Barlach
• Bowers Museum hosts Major Retrospective by Latin American Artist Fernando Botero
• World-Renowned Sculptors Unite to Honor Major Philanthropists
• Lost Footage of "Metropolis" 1927 Film By Fritz Lang Is Found
• Fotomuseum Winterthur displays the "Jedermann Collection"
• 20/21 International Art Fair at Royal College of Art
• Prints & Photographs Bring More than $2.7-Million at Bonhams & Butterfields
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery To Show Modern Masters
• Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle
• Art collides with science at THE NOYES MUSEUM OF ART
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Europe’s Leading Art Exhibition And Event Center ~ The Martin Gropius Bau In Berlin Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:59 PM PDT The Martin Gropius Bau (Martin Gropius building, or MGB) is considered one of Berlin's most magnificent buildings with its combined classical and Renaissance features. A short walk from Potsdamer Platz, it doubles as one of Europe's top international exhibition and event venues. With a constant flow of half a million visitors per year and over 20 large art photography and cultural exhibitions, the MGB is an established Berlin cultural institution. First inaugurated in 1881 as a Museum for the Applied Arts, the building was designed by Martin Gropius, great uncle of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement and Heino Schmieden. After World War I, the building housed the Museum of Pre and Early History and the East Asian Art Collection. Damaged, like most Berlin buildings during World War II and not deemed worthy of preservation, the building was almost demolished to make way for an urban motorway were it not for the intervention of Walter Gropius. Given protected heritage site status in 1966, its reconstruction and restoration only began in 1978 when it was also renamed Martin Gropius Bau. After reconstruction of the exterior by Winnetou Kampmann, it reopened in 1981 as an exhibition venue, remaining directly adjacent to the Berlin Wall until 1990 and accessible only via a rear entrance as the main doorway remained unusuable because of its proximity to the Wall. After German reunification and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, a further spate of restoration and alteration was necessary and the Federal Government commissioned architects Hilmer, Sattler and Albrecht to carry out the work. Completed in 2000, the works included air conditioning and the redesigning of the north entrance as the main entrance to the building. Today the Martin Gropius Bau building is the central venue for the Berliner Festspiele and its partners – the 50 year old umbrella cultural institution which runs many of Berlin's international festivals and cultural events including the Musikfest Berlin, the International Literature Festival and JazzFest Berlin. The Gropius Bau hosts over 20 large art, photography and cultural exhibitions every year. Among the building's special features are its vast exhibition and reception spaces. These include the 300m north vestibule with a glass dome, the 600m Atrium on the ground floor with a surrounding gallery where vast functions for up to 750 guests can be held. Other facilities are conference rooms and a 200-seat cinema. Just off the central Foyer area on the ground floor are the Café and Bookshop. In the high-ceilinged café meals and refreshments are available and in the warmer months food is served in the garden at the back of the building. Visit the MGB website at … http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell/festivals/11_gropiusbau/mgb_start.php The exhibition program at the Martin Gropius Bau merges contemporary arts and culture with a stunning setting. It is located directly adjacent to a stretch of the Berlin Wall which stood here until 1990 and next to the Topography of Terror (an open-air exhibition documenting the site around today's Niederkirchner Strasse and Wilhelm Strasse where the headquarters of the main institutions of the Nazi terror apparatus were located). Sensational exhibitions such as 'Art Spiegelman: Kisses From New York' (2003), Stanley Kubrick (2005), 'Egypt's Sunken Treasures' (2006), 'Rebecca Horn: Drawings, Sculptures, Installations, Films 1964-2006' (2006/2007), 'Man Ray: Unconcerned But Not Indifferent' (2008), 'Bauhaus' and "Futurism" (2009), or the Mexico Exhibitions. 'Frida Kahlo: Retrospective' and 'Teotihuacan: Mexico's Mysterious Pyramid City' (2010) have made the Martin-Gropius-Bau one of the leading international exhibition centers. Unusual thematic exhibitions on cultural history, often with spectacular archaeological finds and latest research results, with the fields of contemporary art and photography are the main pillars of the program of the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Outstanding artist biographies also focus on how current positions. Museums around the world, government institutions and private lenders to open it - usually the first and often only time - their treasuries and send their most important works on the trip to Berlin to be exhibited at the Martin Gropius Bau. Currently on show (until May 29 2011) at the Martin Gropius Bau is "Compass: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art in New York". In 2004, 212 modern works of art from New York triggered a veritable rush to the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The "MoMA in Berlin" became a legendary artistic happening, with over 1.2 million visitors and the longest line ever in front of a museum. The 'Compass' exhibition in Berlin offers viewers an extraordinary selection of modern art drawings from the collection of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, which was acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 2005. The collection consists of nearly 2600 contemporary works on paper, which were created by over 600 artists. The collection was initiated during the 1950s and was completed in 2005. It therefore represents practically all of the major manifestations that took place in this media over the course of five entire decades. Many prominent 20th-century artists are represented, including Lee Bontecou, Joseph Beuys, Jasper Jones, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, Edward Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, Martin Kippenberger , Elisabeth Peyton, Christian Holstad, John Currin, Kai Althoff, Arturo Herrera, Lucy McKenzie, Nick Mauss, Mona Hatoun, Amelie Wulff, Seb Patane, Sherrie Levine, Paulina Olowska and Paul McCarthy. The exhibition title Compass refers to the collection's ambition to cover and discover geographically distinct artistic centres (through the navigational compass), as well as its attention to modes of making the compass as a drafting tool. The collection reflects two trends: the representational and the abstract shape, minimal and conceptual approaches between 1950 and 2005. The diverse exhibition program of the Martin Gropius Bau, developed in collaboration with partners such as the National Museums in Berlin, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, and the German Historical Museum, every year hostover 600,000 visitors. Future exhibitions at the MGB include 'When the Curtain Falls: The Photographs of Margarita Broich" from 18 March to 30 May 2011. As an actress, Margarita Broich is one of the greats, however, she is not as well known as a photographer. For the first time the Martin-Gropius-Bau presents a group of works by Margarita Broich, including more than 60 portraits of artists, including Ben Becker, Kate Winslet, Veronica Ferres, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Christoph Schlingensief, Thomas Quasthoff and more. Margarita Broich was born 1960 in Neuwied, studied photo design in Dortmund and worked as a theater photographer at the Bochum Schauspielhaus under Claus Peymann, before she studied acting at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Since then, she has appeared in numerous German-language theater and television productions, working with directors such as Claus Peymann, Robert Wilson and Christoph Schlingensief. André Kertész – Photographs' from June 11th to September 11th 2011 will present a major retrospective of over 300 examples of this Hungarian born photographers work. With images such as "swimmer under water" (1917), "Chez Mondrian" (1926) or "Fork" (1929) Kertész earned a permanent place in the photographic history of the 20th Century. It's not only his outstanding formal compositions that earned him great respect, but the inspired surreal poetry with which he recorded seemingly simple things and situations. His innovative photographic sense inspired many of his colleagues and successors, Brassaï trained with him and Henri Cartier-Bresson was influenced by him. Later in the year, from 26th August to 24th October 2011, the MGB will present the first ever German retrospective of the works of the world famous Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849). More than 350 loans, mostly from Japan, will feature in this exhibition. Seiji Nagata, the most important Japanese expert on the work of Hokusai, curated the exhibition, which can only be seen in Berlin, where it will form part of the "150 years of friendship between Germany and Japan" celebrations. 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

'Carlo Cardazzo: A New Vision for Art' at Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:58 PM PDT VENICE - In this 60th anniversary year of Peggy Guggenheim's collection in Venice, her museum will host an exhibition dedicated to a major figure in Italian and international art of the mid 20th century: Carlo Cardazzo (1908-1963), a Venetian whose centenary is this year and who shared with Peggy Guggenheim his passion for contemporary art. Carlo Cardazzo. A New Vision for Art, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, is the first exhibition to be devoted exclusively to this enterprising, even volcanic figure: patron, publisher, collector, and dealer. Cardazzo, through the multiplicity of his activities, the originality of his way of navigating the art world and his methods of promoting it, reached a new public, in part through his galleries, and in part through novel cultural strategies. . THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION TURNS 30 YEARS January 1–December 31, 2010.

Musée Jacquemart-André to Show "Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection” Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:57 PM PDT PARIS.- For the first time ever, the Musée Jacquemart-André presents a group of paintings never before exhibited in France. The exhibition brings together works from different periods and various artistic movements, offering a fascinating aesthetic and artistic journey. Displaying these works side by side reveals the continuities and breaks with tradition that have marked the evolution of Spanish art. On exhibition 12 March through 1 August, 2010.

The British Museum presents " The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock " Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:56 PM PDT LONDON - The American Scene, at The British Museum,  features spectacular images of American society and culture made during a period of great social and political change from the early 1900s to 1960. Featuring 147 works by 74 artists, the exhibition includes the work of John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Josef Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. This is the first exhibition in the UK to cover prints from this period for over a quarter of a century, and aims to introduce a new audience to some of the most memorable images of American art when a consciously American subject matter and artistic identity were emerging.

MOLAA Announces A Landmark Exhibition of Landscapes by David Alfaro Siqueiros Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:55 PM PDT LONG BEACH, CA.- The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) joins the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, in presenting Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter. This exhibition reveals the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a major landscape painter. The significance of the collaboration between MOLAA and the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil has been recognized by the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles who has made this exhibition an official part of its Mexico 2010 celebration which commemorates Mexico's Bicentennial of Independence and the Centennial of its Revolution. "It is a privilege to celebrate Mexico's Bicentennial with an exhibition of this caliber which reveals a lesser known side of one the great Mexican masters of 20th-century art," said Richard P. Townsend, President and CEO of MOLAA. "We are especially pleased to show a number of Siqueiros' most important landscape paintings."

Princeton University Art Museum Exhibits German Artist Ernst Barlach Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:53 PM PDT PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum presents Myth and Modernity: Ernst Barlach's Images of the Nibelungen and Faust, on view from through June 7, 2009. The exhibition conveys the versatility and narrative power of the German sculptor, printmaker, and playwright Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) through several of the artist's sculptures, as well as woodcuts depicting the Walpurgis Night scene in Goethe's Faust and drawings illustrating the climatic end of the medieval epic of the Nibelungen.

Bowers Museum hosts Major Retrospective by Latin American Artist Fernando Botero Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:52 PM PDT SANTA ANA, CA.- For the first time in 30 years, world-renowned artist Fernando Botero unveils an exhibition in California when The Baroque World of Fernando Botero opened at Bowers Museum. The exhibition, which remains on view at Bowers Museum through December 6, 2009, in the Janice Frey Smith and Robert Gumbiner Galleries, includes a selection of recent sculptures never before shown in North America.Recognized worldwide for his unique style of voluminous forms and sensuous figures, Botero's work takes on religion, politics, and history with a critical and comical approach.

World-Renowned Sculptors Unite to Honor Major Philanthropists Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:51 PM PDT GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- In just 15 years, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park has established a permanent sculpture collection of international acclaim built by two philanthropists who collected solely for public enrichment and enjoyment. The world's most renowned sculptors working today have united to present an exclusive group exhibition honoring the organization's namesakes. "Sculptors Celebrate the Legacy of Fred and Lena Meijer" will be on display through January 2, 2011. The exhibition features works by 26 of the most important artists working today including iconic masters Magdalena Abakanowicz , Louise Bourgeois, Mark di Suvero and Claes Oldenburg; internationally heralded sculptors Jonathan Borofsky, Deborah Butterfield, Antony Gormley, David Nash and Jaume Plensa; as well as emerging talents like Laura Ford and Sophie Ryder.

Lost Footage of "Metropolis" 1927 Film By Fritz Lang Is Found Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:47 PM PDT BERLIN - The Pablo Ducrós Hicken Film Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina has found in its archives a copy of the movie "Metropolis" directed in 1927 by Fritz Lang, with lost footage. The silent film was one of the most expensive ones (around $200 million dollars) and was cut heavily to make it more accessible. It was initially thought as a movie that would last two and a half hours. The footage that was found will add around 25 minutes to the film, but there will still be around five minutes missing.

Fotomuseum Winterthur displays the "Jedermann Collection" Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:45 PM PDT   Zurich, Switzerland - Last year, the Fotomuseum Winterthur acquired the high-calibre American "Jedermann Collection", which comprises 177 works by 62 artists with a total of 340 photographs. The list of artists reads like a "Who's Who" of contemporary art and photography. The main part of the collection is focused on the conceptual photography of the 1960s and 70s, with works by Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gordon Matta-Clark, Sigmar Polke, Sol LeWitt and many others. A second part comprises the media-reflecting, post-modern photography of the 1980s with works by Barbara Bloom, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and many others.

20/21 International Art Fair at Royal College of Art Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:44 PM PDT LONDON.- The 20|21 International Art Fair will take place at the Royal College of Art, in Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 17 - 20 February 2011. The fair features modern and contemporary art from the UK but has a significant number of dealers who specialize in work from China, India, Japan, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine. However, art from a whole host of other countries will also be on show. Artists include Matisse, Miró, Picasso and Chagall (all works on paper), urban art from the States, plus British 20th- century favorites such as Henry Moore, David Hockney, Mary Fedden et al, together with many emerging and less well known artists who work will be there to be discovered and enjoyed.

Prints & Photographs Bring More than $2.7-Million at Bonhams & Butterfields Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:42 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA -Prints and Photographs from estates, trusts, and private and institutional collections brought more than $2.7-million at Bonhams & Butterfields on May 20-21, 2008, during the two-day auction simulcast to salesrooms in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. "Interest in the fine prints and fine photographs auctions was extremely strong with enthusiasm for Old Master works through to the contemporary, showing a robust market for this material," said Judith Eurich, Director of Prints and Photographs at Bonhams.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery To Show Modern Masters Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:41 PM PDT BUFFALO, NY.- The work of four modernist masters and early twentieth-century pioneers of abstraction: — Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, and Sonia Delaunay — are explored in a new exhibition which opened at the The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, on January 21, 2011. The exhibition, organized by Albright-Knox Curator Heather Pesanti and Curatorial Assistant Ilana Chlebowski and drawn from the Gallery's Collection, features more than seventy objects in a variety of media, including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, spanning decades of each artist's career. By following the transitions and shifts of these four masters' works from one style or movement to the next, viewers have the opportunity to explore the creative development of each of the artists, and forge connections between them.

Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:40 PM PDT MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google is celebrating the 110th birthday of Rene Magritte by incorporating some of Magritte's masterpieces with the Google logo. Ever so often, Google does a "doodle", or a "decoration" they make to their logo. Over the years doodles have become one of the most beloved parts of Google. The doodle selection process aims to celebrate interesting events and anniversaries around the world that reflect Google's personality and love of innovation.

Art collides with science at THE NOYES MUSEUM OF ART Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:38 PM PDT OCEANVILLE, N.J. – The exhibition "Form and Function: Mathematics and Beyond Contemporary Art" opens at The Noyes Museum of Art continues through January 7, 2007.  At its core, "Form and Function" applies mathematical concepts to visual art.  Numerical coordinates, the binary system, Pi and the Pythagorean Theorem are schematics upon which the paintings and installations are based. Featured contemporary artists Sol LeWitt, John Sims, Mark Pomilio and Steve Gwom are all involved in creating work based on open cubic structures, diverse mathematical systems and digital processes.  LeWitt, the senior artist and mentor to the other three artists in this exhibit, is known for his innovative work in drawing.  His past work as a sculptor was based on open cubic structures, but recently he has experimented with computer generated systems to create colorful and beguiling work. Gwom, Pomilio and Sims are following in the footsteps of LeWitt by creating paintings and installations based on diverse mathematical concepts and digital processes.  Through a conceptual process, Gwon uses numbers to denote time and space, turning their transient nature into a visual document.  These documents take the form of grids on graph paper in which he organizes numbers, circles, squares and lines to create rectangular or curved patterns.  In some instances, Gwon incorporates the color progression of the spectrum in his graphic time capsules.  Pomilio conveys conceptual relationships through mathematics.  His repetition of geometric forms derived from the binary system alludes to the proliferation of cells as theorized in life sciences.  Sims embraces the essence of mathematics and applies it within the context of visual art and symbolism.  For Sims, math serves as a tool to address issues, convey ideas and analyze the world around us.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 15 Mar 2011 10:37 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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