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• Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte de Ponce ~ The Largest Art Museum In The Caribbean
• Bonnefantenmuseum delivers 'Exile on Main St.' ~ Humour, exaggeration & anarchy in American Art
• Philip Pearlstein retrospective at The Montclair Art Museum
• Dale Chihuly Exhibition In 2010 will Dazzle Audiences at Cheekwood Museum of Art
• N.C. Museum of Art Presents ' Far from Home '
• The Dayton Art Institute’s 90th Anniversary Celebration shows Hello World!
• Museum S.M.A.K. opens Exhibitions by Raphael Buedts, Nick Ervinck and Selections from its Collection
• Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK) opens First Retrospective for Cy Twombly in Austria
• Museum Frieder Burda showcases 'The Emperors' Artists: From Dürer to Titian'
• The Kimbell Art Museum Hosts ~ Portraiture in the Age of Picasso
• Pioneering Artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg at Columbia Museum of Art
• Tyler Museum of Art offers Scenes from the American West ~ The Phelan Collection
• New York Historical Society presents 'Six Centuries of Watercolors & Drawings'
• Tenement Museum shows " Where am I Going if Not Towards You?" ~ A Public Art Installation
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte de Ponce ~ The Largest Art Museum In The Caribbean Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:32 PM PDT Founded in 1959 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) includes almost 5,200 works of art from Europe, Latin America, and Puerto Rico and is the largest art museum in the Caribbean. The museum owes its existence to one man, Luis A. Ferré (1904–2003), a native of Ponce, who conceived of the museum after his first trip to Europe in 1950. Ferré was a successful industrialist, philanthropist, and gifted pianist who served as governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1968 to 1972. Of his many accomplishments, he considered MAP to be the most important. With a limited budget and the advice of art historian Julius S. Held, a specialist on Rubens and professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University, and René Taylor, art and architecture enthusiast and professor at the University of Granada, Yale, and Columbia, Ferré compiled a collection of works of art based on their value instead of their popularity. He wanted the collection to impart a sense of discovery for scholars, artists, and especially the general public. On January 3, 1959, Ferré opened the museum in a small house at 70 Cristina Street in Ponce, at what is today the Centro Cultural de Ponce (Ponce Cultural Center). Some of those original paintings are still on display in the current museum. As time passed and the museum gained popularity, the space quickly became inadequate. Ferré then acquired a tract of land on Las Americas Avenue in Ponce to build the museum, and recruited architect Edward Durell Stone to design it. On April 23, 1964 the first stone was placed and the construction of the museum began. It was finished in 1965 and officially opened on December 28, 1965. Edward Durell Stone's impressive building earned the International Design Award of Honor of the American Institute of Architects in 1967. One of the main features of the museum is its hexagonal galleries, which allow natural light to pour through its corners bringing a unique illumination to them. The Durell Stone building has a total of 14 galleries, two gardens, and an amphitheater. The main entrance with its bifurcated staircases is another of the main features of the museum. However, due to the growth of the museum's collection, by 2004 the facilities were again in dire need of renovation and expansion. This led to the Renovation and Expansion project and a Capital Campaign to raise the necessary funds. The design of the new Annex building was entrusted to Luis A. Gutierrez Arquitectos PSC and the renovation and expansion of the Durell Stone Building to PRAR Arquitectura CSP and architect Brigida Hogan. The Museo de Arte de Ponce reopened on November 14th, 2010. The museum now enjoys a new 37,745 square feet building alongside the renovated Durell Stone building (with 40,000 square feet). Exhibition space has been increased by almost 50% and the museum now has facilities for workshops, seminars, cultural activities, and private functions to generate additional income. The museum's library and the Luis A. Ferre Historical Archive have also gained more space, as has the. Conservation Center. The Anton J. Konrad conservation center is located in an area of 3,420 square meters on the second floor of the new annex building. The Centre is the first conservation center established in Puerto Rico and has the dual purpose of preserving the museum's collections and rendering professional service to museums, historical societies, cultural institutions, private collectors, and local and international artists. These maintenance services include: consulting, needs assessment collections, study condition, restoration treatments, conferences and training opportunities. The museum also has a museum shop and restaurant. Visit the Museo de Arte de Ponce website at … www.museoarteponce.org Luis A. Ferré had a clear vision: to present a collection of Western art with fine works by artists from each of the major schools, Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, French, English, German, Austrian and American. He also wanted to honor and support the Puerto Rican artistic tradition from the eighteenth century to the present day. With only a limited budget for acquisitions, Ferré sought quality works, regardless of whether they were considered "fashionable" in the 1950's market. Since its beginnings, the Ponce Art Museum has received generous donations including, most significantly, 17 Renaissance and Baroque works from the collection of Samuel H. Kress in 1962. This important contribution was followed by other pre-Columbian and African art, art nouveau pieces of glass and Puerto Rican folk art collections. In addition to this donation, the museum has received donations from artists working in Puerto Rico, including from photographer Jack Delano, the Candina House collective and the painter and engraver Cuban Emilio Sanchez. Recently, acquisitions and donations have allowed the collection to grow considerably. Between 2005 and 2010, the museum received 722 objects, most dating from the 20th and 21st centuries. One recent addition to the collection now welcomes visitors at the main entrance of the museum, the 25 feet tall "Brushstrokes in Flight" by Roy Lichtenstein. The permanent collection consists of over 5,500 paintings, sculptures, decorative art items, ceramics, three-dimensional objects, photographs, prints, drawings, videos and installations of sound art. The art works cover 30 centuries (from 900 BC to the present) and from Europe, America, and Africa. Among the highlights are one of the most important pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western Hemisphere within one of the most significant collections of European art in Latin America. Some of the artists whose paintings and works are exhibited at the museum are Peter Paul Rubens, Lucas Cranach, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Eugène Delacroix, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones, among others. The main masterpiece of the museum is the "Flaming June", painted by Frederic Leighton. Ferré bought this piece for $6,000 in London, and it was his favorite. "The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon", the final masterpiece of Sir Edward Burne-Jones is another of the main masterpieces of the museum collection. The enormous painting was started in 1881 and left unfinished on the artist's death in 1898. Equally important is the Puerto Rican art collection, which ranges from the 18th century to the present day and includes great masters such as José Campeche, Francisco Oller, Miguel Pou, as well as the best contemporary talent such as Myrna Báez, Francisco Rodón, Antonio Martorell and Arnaldo Roche Rabell, among others. Two exhibitions are showing at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, until the 2nd of October 2011, "Julio Micheli - Beetles of Puerto Rico" provides a fascinating glimpse into the insect life of Puerto Rico, as seen through the eyes of this gifted Puerto Rican artist. These Micheli illustrations were made with graphite pencil in different gradations, on specially textured paper. The majority of the illustrations are based on specimens from the collection of the artist and his daughter, also an entomologist and professor. Over the past 30 years, Julio Micheli developed a passion for beetles, just as he has for his art. During his successful career, Micheli has divided his time between the beetles of Puerto Rico and his paintings and sculptures. This exhibition presents a beautiful intersection of his two passions. Micheli was a college professor for 33 years, where he taught courses in Oil, Acrylic and Watercolor Painting, Drawing, Fundamentals of Color and Design, Advertising Design, Serigraphy, Intaglio, Photography, Art History and Concepts of Modern Art. Julio Micheli has a vast portfolio in diverse media, his triptych "El Hechicero (The Sorcerer)" is part of the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce. "Encounters: Space, Time, and Experience" until the 2nd of October celebrates the completion of the extensive renovation and expansion of Museo de Arte de Ponce in 2010 by offering the opportunity to both celebrate the homecoming of the museum's collection (which had been split between temporary homes and with some of the best known pieces on loan) and see it with fresh eyes. For the inaugural exhibition, Museo de Arte de Ponce's curatorial and education team chose to focus on the permanent collection and to emphasize its variety and strengths. Large overview galleries flanked by intimate focus galleries allow the museum to present constellations of related subjects. The works of art on view are taken from the permanent collection and span thirty centuries, originating from Europe, the Americas, and Africa. "Encounters: Space, Time, and Experience" is split, with "Between Heaven and Earth," in the east wing of the first floor of the Edward Durell Stone building, exhibiting objects representing different belief systems as portrayed through biblical subjects, sacred and secular stories of love and loss, divine beings, and devotional and ritual objects. "Conversations with Nature," in the west wing, presents works inspired by the natural world, impressions of light and atmosphere, and the intersection of landscape and culture. The second floor of the museum features European painting and sculpture from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries organized around such themes as landscape, portraiture, mythology, concepts of beauty, and the transitory nature of life. In each gallery you will find a "counterpoint", a work of art made by an artist from another culture and time period, to inspire comparisons and connections across the ages and enhance understanding of the diverse ways artists see the world. 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

Bonnefantenmuseum delivers 'Exile on Main St.' ~ Humour, exaggeration & anarchy in American Art Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:18 PM PDT Maastricht, NL - February saw the opening of the exhibition Exile on Main St. Though the title comes from the famous double LP by the Rolling Stones, the exhibition concentrates on the work of nine North-American artists who have not yet reached the general public, despite the fact that they have been active for some time already. A continent with such a penchant for mainstream expression in all areas of culture will necessarily be confronted with a counter movement that questions the drive for success and puts it in perspective. On display through 16 August, 2009 at the Bonnefantenmuseum.

Philip Pearlstein retrospective at The Montclair Art Museum Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:16 PM PDT   Montclair, NJ - This exhibition, featuring 40 works by artist Philip Pearlstein, is the first retrospective in 25 years, since his 1983 survey at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The Montclair Art Museum's exhibition includes paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints that cover Pearlstein's art from 1940 through 2008. On exhibition through February 1, 2009.

Dale Chihuly Exhibition In 2010 will Dazzle Audiences at Cheekwood Museum of Art Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:12 PM PDT NASHVILLE, TN.- The highly acclaimed art of Dale Chihuly, exploring the visual relationship of glass and nature, will appear in the glorious setting of Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art opening May 25, 2010 and on display through October 31, 2010. The show, Chihuly at Cheekwood, features thousands of stunning, hand-blown glass sculptures on display throughout the botanical garden at Cheekwood, in various ponds and within the Museum of Art and Frist Learning Center. Chihuly's spectacular creations are found in more than 200 museums worldwide including : the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Garden exhibitions of his work have been mounted at the New York Botanical Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Atlanta Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanical Gardens.

N.C. Museum of Art Presents ' Far from Home ' Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:10 PM PDT RALEIGH, N.C.—The North Carolina Museum of Art opens Far from Home, an exhibition of 29 works of art that address the displacement of people and populations in the global community as they relocate for economic, political, educational, or familial reasons. Admission to the exhibition is free.  On view through July 13, 2008.

The Dayton Art Institute’s 90th Anniversary Celebration shows Hello World! Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:07 PM PDT DAYTON, OH.- As part of The Dayton Art Institute's 90th Anniversary celebration, Chief Curator Will South has organized Hello World! Rarely Seen Art from Our Collection, a show that brings together the museum's "hidden treasures": seldom seen, as well as some never before seen, works of art from out of the museum's vaults. The themes explored in Hello World! include faces and figures, how cultures decorate the world, landscapes (both real and imagined), and flight (of birds, of man, and of the imagination).  The exhibition runs through January 3, 2010, at The Dayton Art Institute.

Museum S.M.A.K. opens Exhibitions by Raphael Buedts, Nick Ervinck and Selections from its Collection Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:04 PM PDT GHENT, BELGIUM - Starting on 5th September 2009 the Museum S.M.A.K. will be holding three exhibitions, Raphaël Buedts, Nick Ervinck and a selection from the museum's collection. On display will be an overview of Raphaël Buedts' work, especially his sculptural work, as well as his drawings and paintings. They are something you have to get used to, these 'furniture objects' by Raphaël Buedts, which he compiled at the end of the seventies and in the eighties. They have been made from unusual materials, like discarded furniture, twigs, sheets of material, sticks and strips of wood.

Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK) opens First Retrospective for Cy Twombly in Austria Posted: 16 Mar 2011 09:00 PM PDT VIENNA, AUSTRIA - For the first time in Austria, MUMOK presents a retrospective of Cy Twombly's work. Twombly, one of the most important artists of his generation (b.1928), has been based in Italy since the late 1950s. His work diverged from the abstract expressionist tradition dominated by such figures as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. Twombly first gained recognition with large format, monumental paintings with gestural and often textual inscriptions. His works have been influenced by poetry and classical mythology but also by Mediterranean landscapes and lighting. The exhibition "weaves together" approximately 200 works from every period, bringing his much lesser known photographic work together for the first time with his paintings, sculpture and drawings. On view through 11 October, 2009.

Museum Frieder Burda showcases 'The Emperors' Artists: From Dürer to Titian' Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:57 PM PDT BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY - For the first time since its inauguration in 2004, old masters move into the Museum Frieder Burda. The light and spacious museum building, that has been designed by New York architect Richard Meier, will exhibit masterpieces of the Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna that have never been shown before in Germany. Under the title "The emperors' artists: from Dürer to Titian, from Rubens to Velazquez", the exhibition presents a wide cross-section of the royal collections amassed by the Habsburg dynasty, from emperor Maximilian I to Maria Theresa. From February 20, 2009 to June 14, 2009, approximately 70 paintings, seven large tapestries and 50 objects from the Habsburg treasury will be on display.

The Kimbell Art Museum Hosts ~ Portraiture in the Age of Picasso Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:55 PM PDT FORT WORTH, TX - From Vincent van Gogh to Pablo Picasso to David Hockney, the artistic giants of modern times have put people at the center of their art, reinventing the age-old traditions of portraiture in daring and provocative ways.  Telling this story for the first time, The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso is the most dazzling collection of modern portraits and self-portraits ever assembled—100 masterpieces of painting and sculpture from 75 collections across Europe and North America.  This spectacular exhibition is on view at the Kimbell Art Museum—its only U.S. venue—from June 17 to September 16, 2007.

Pioneering Artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg at Columbia Museum of Art Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:51 PM PDT COLUMBIA, SC.- An installation of the work of pioneering Pop artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg opens at the Columbia Museum of Art on July 18 and runs through October 4. JJ/RR Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg: 20th Century Masters in the Collection, on view in the Museum's Gallery 15, includes 10 works on paper by the iconic artists. This installation, drawn from the work in the Columbia Museum of Art's collection, explores the visual relationship between these two artists and friends.

Tyler Museum of Art offers Scenes from the American West ~ The Phelan Collection Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:50 PM PDT TYLER, TX - The Tyler Museum of Art (TMA) offers a panoramic view of the American experience west of the Mississippi – as seen through the eyes of the people who witnessed it take shape – in its next major exhibition, Scenes from the American West: The Phelan Collection. The exhibition, organized by the TMA, opens to the public Sunday, Feb. 22 and continues through May 17, 2009 in the Museum's North Gallery. Phelan himself will be on hand to offer brief remarks on his collection during a TMA members' preview and opening reception scheduled from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21st.

New York Historical Society presents 'Six Centuries of Watercolors & Drawings' Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:46 PM PDT   New York City - Although the Society harbors one of the earliest assembled public collections of drawings in the United States, the aesthetic richness and historical value of these assets are surprisingly little known. Attempting to share this vast trove with the public, the exhibition and its catalogue will feature highlights from the N-YHS collection—over 190 watercolors and drawings out of approximately 8,000 works, including rare sketchbooks and albums. The collection spans six centuries, from over 200 sixteenth-century avian watercolors and a Dutch view of New York City (1650), then know as New Amsterdam, to a complex view of the façade of St. Patrick's Cathedral captured from inside Rockefeller Center and representations of the World Trade Center before and after September 11, 2001. On view through 7 January, 2009.

Tenement Museum shows " Where am I Going if Not Towards You?" ~ A Public Art Installation Posted: 16 Mar 2011 08:45 PM PDT   New York, NY - Artists Katherine Jackson and Suchitra Van take over the windows of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to address the idea of journeys and transitions in the daily lives of immigrants. Through etched glass and photographs, this multi-perspective installation explores transitions: between languages, between cultures, between expectations and reality. On exhibition through 7 January, 2009 in the Tenement Windows art space.

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