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• The Tel Aviv Art Museum ~ The World’s Finest Collection Of Israeli Art & International Fine Art
• Huis Marseille Explores 'Infatuations' That Affect Both Photographers and Curators
• PAFA Acquires Works by Mark Bradford, Philip Evergood, & Lilly Martin Spencer
• Amon Carter Museum Exhibits Prestige Private Collection of African-American Art
• SFMOMA SHOWCASES PICASSO AND AMERICAN ART
• MoMA to Show Fassbinder's Visionary Science-Fiction Thriller
• The Signapore Biennale Returns To Showcase The Best In Contemporary Art
• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to host Weeklong Run of DJ Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation"
• Fort Worth Community Arts Center exhibits Grayson Harper
• Julie Mehretu ~ New Drawings at the Kresge Art Museum
• Singapore Art Museum shows Exhibition of Mexican Modern Paintings
• The Andy Warhol Museum Presents ~ The Art of Glenn Kaino
• Baer Ridgway Exhibitions opens Cassandra C. Jones: 'Send Me A Link'
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Tel Aviv Art Museum ~ The World’s Finest Collection Of Israeli Art & International Fine Art Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:47 PM PDT The Tel Aviv Art Museum is Israel's leading museum of modern and contemporary art as well as being home to one of the world's largest collections of Israeli art and a fine selection of Old Masters. Since its founding in 1932, the Museum has served as one of Tel Aviv's major cultural hubs, displaying a vibrant mix of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions in a wide variety of fields. Each year, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art welcomes more than 750,000 visitors annualy. Situated in an impressive architectural complex, the Museum is an integral part of the city's major cultural center (the Golda Meir Cultural and Art Center) home to the Israeli Opera and the Cameri Theater. In addition to its collections, the Museum presents performances of music and dance, film, and lecture series on philosophy and art. The fully computerized art library and its Documentation Center for Art in Israel serve over 15,000 students, scholars and curators each year. The library subscribes to the major art journals and receives the latest catalogues of exhibitions of Israeli art, modern and contemporary art, photography, design and architecture. It is the most comprehensive reference center in the Middle East. The Museum's original building on Rothschild Boulevard was donated by Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, who gave his home over to the city to be officially transformed into the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1932. It was at this building that Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art opened in 1959 and was fully renovated in 1989 with funds provided by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation and the Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo. The museum moved to its current location on King Saul Avenue in 1971. Another wing was added in 1999 and a sculpture garden was established. Each week some 1,500 children, youth and adults from all walks of life attend classes in painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, video and computer art, and printmaking at the Museum's Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center. The Museum announced, in 2002, a competition for the design of a new building of about 22,000 square meters, enabled by a donation from Herta and Paul Amir. The design competition was won by the Preston Scott Cohen (head of the Harvard University Graduate School of Architecture). His horizontal "radiator" model is currently under construction and due for completion in late 2011. This new wing is simultaneously linear and multi-layered. A vertical "light fall" drains the building's vertical dimension, orientates the visitor, unites all spaces around it, leads from one level to another, and brings natural light to the building's lower level. The building's exterior envelope, an extended "folding" surface that breaks at disparate-angled modules, is a dynamic ornament made of 430 polished cement panels manufactured on location. The Tel Aviv Museum's Art Library serves as a research center for thousands of students, scholars, art critics, authors and curators from Israel and abroad. Known for its comprehensive collection of books, the library is often the sole resource in Israel for background information on modern and contemporary art and design. The museum also contains museum shops and a restaurant. Visit the Tel Aviv Art Museum's website at … http://www.tamuseum.com The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is Israel's leading museum of modern and contemporary art, and home to one of the world's largest collections of Israeli art. A large part of the Museum's permanent collections (consisting of over 23,000 items) has been generously donated by artists, art patrons and benefactors. The holdings are also complemented and enriched by numerous works and collections entrusted to the Museum, which serve as a testimony to the extraordinary international support this institution receives from dedicated collectors and friends around the world. The collection of modern and contemporary art encompasses works by leading pioneers of Modernism and a representative selection of the diverse postwar and contemporary trends that developed in Europe and the United States. Most major art movements of the late 19th through the mid-20th century are highlighted in the Moshe and Sara Mayer Collection, the Mizne-Blumental Collection, and the Simon and Marie Jaglom Collection. These collections include masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Bonnard, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Klimt, Mondrian, Modigliani, Braque and Miró, as well as fine works by Léger and Picasso representing different periods in their art. Important works of Surrealism and Abstract art characterize the significant donation by Peggy Guggenheim in the 1950s with masterpieces by Tanguy, Masson and Nicholson. Of particular note are works representing the beginnings of American Abstract Expressionism, among them paintings by Jackson Pollock. A sculpture collection donated by Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch spans the late 19th century through the 1980s and includes works by Arp, Giacometti, Moore and Calder. Together with works by Jacques Lipchitz, given by the Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation, they have significantly enriched the Museum's holdings of modern sculpture. Various trends in Geometrical Abstract art from Russian Constructivism through Minimalism are well represented in the important donation of the Riklis Collection of the McCrory Corporation. Postwar European trends such as Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus and Arte Povera, as well as contemporary art by leading artists such as Boetti, Cucchi, and Paladino, constitute the core of the collection donated by Vera and Arturo Schwarz. Among numerous pieces of European and American art, emblematic works by Francis Bacon and David Salle highlight the gift made to the Museum by Susan and Anton Roland-Rosenberg. The Museum's major assets also include a group of early and unique works by Alexander Archipenko, a selection of paintings by Marc Chagall illustrating the variety of his styles, as well as a large mural in the Museum lobby, which was especially conceived and executed by Roy Lichtenstein as a gift to the Museum. The Museum is home to one of the most comprehensive collections of Israeli art in the world. This unique collection traces the development of Israeli art from its beginnings and through the 1920s – when the Modernist style of painting in Israel emerged, to contemporary Israeli art. Israeli artists have been particularly concerned with questions of identity and conflict. They explore topics as varied as local landscapes and Mediterranean light, Jewish tradition and its complex attitude toward figurative art, and socio-political as well as urban issues: local versus universal, periphery versus center, or east versus west dialectics. Recently, Israeli artists have become much more present on the international art scene. Often, the Museum has served as a springboard for these artists, by showcasing solo exhibitions accompanied by extensive catalogues and by acquiring some of their major art works. Over the years, the Museum collection of Israeli art has been steadily enlarged through generous gifts from artists, benefactors and acquisition funds, such as the Recanati Fund, the Ettinger-Gilman Fund, the Lily Richmond Fund, the Uzi Zucker Fund, the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation, the Rappaport Prize, the Isracard Foundation and the support of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. The Department of Old Masters was established (as an independent department) in 1988. The Museum's Old Masters Collection, which includes about 150 paintings and sculptures and some 50 works on loan, is presented in six galleries: four galleries in the Museum's main building, and two galleries dedicated to decorative art at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion. The Museum's Old Masters Collection specializes in 16th to 18th century Italian art and 16th to 17th century Flemish and Dutch art, with paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Honthorst, Teniers, Van Goyen, Canaletto, Rigaud and Reynolds. Works by 19th century Jewish artists are also included, among them, Maurycy Gottlieb and Jozef Israëls. Recently, the Danek and Jadzia Gertner Collection of decorative art has enriched the Department's collections. Works of Meissen porcelain and glassware by Emile Gallé are currently on display at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion in the Danek and Jadzia Gertner Galleries. Helena Rubinsteins' Miniature Rooms is also part of the Department. The Department of Drawings and Prints houses a collection of 25 thousand works on paper including sketches, drawings, prints, artists' books, and illustrated books of artists from all periods, with a special emphasis on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An important and unique component of the collection is the assemblage of drawings and prints representing early twentieth century German Expressionism. The Dr. Karl Schwarz Collection, the Goeritz Collection, and the Hermann Struck Collection which were donated to the Tel Aviv Museum in its early years led to the donation of another important collection, that of Avraham Horodisch from Amsterdam, a collector and publisher of prints from Germany in the 1920s. An important unit of the collection consists of 150 prints by the renowned Norwegian artist Edvard Munch donated in 1986 by Charles and Evelyn Kramer of New York. The Munch Collection at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as one of the largest collections in the world of prints by this artist, offers a representative selection of Munch's graphic work including etchings, lithographs, and colored woodcuts, with the earliest of them created in Berlin (1894-95) through to prints made in his last years. An additional component of the collection consists of 300 prints and books by Surrealist artists which were also donated by Charles and Evelyn Kramer of New York in 1990. This collection directs attention to the close collaboration between the artists, writers, and poets who created in the spirit of Surrealism. The Museum's photography collection was begun in 1977 with Israeli photographer Micha Bar Am, and encompasses important pictures of the Middle East taken by 19th and early 20th century European photographers, such as Francis Frith and Félix Bonfils, and a collection of rare glass negatives of E.M. Lilien donated by the Schocken family; works by American photojournalists W. Eugene Smith and Weegee, donated by Michael S. Sachs; as well as photographs by Robert Capa donated by Cornelia and Edith Capa, and other international Modernist and Post-Modernist artists. A collection of Soviet photography from the 1930s to 1970s was donated by Howard Schickler and David LaFaille and an anonymous donor. Courtesy of the Marc Rich Foundation for Education, Cultura and Welfare, the Department has a strong representation of works by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Thanks to donations by Michaela and Leon Constantiner, who initiated the Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, the representation of contemporary Israeli photography in the collection has been growing steadily, now including works by internationally renowned photographers Adi Nes, Pavel Wolberg and Barry Frydlender. The exhibitions of the Department of Design and Architecture are cutting edge. In the Department's collection are included works that represent a prospectus of solo exhibitions and thematic exhibitions that were held in the Department, among them: Gaetano Pesce, Ron Arad, Chanan de-Lange, Charles and Ray Eames, Enzo Mari, Konstantin Grcic, Hella Jongerius, Ron Gilad, Yaacov Kaufman, Tal Gur, Ayala Tzarfati, Fernando and Huberto Campanga, Esther Knobel, and Irit Abba. The Tel Aviv Art Museum hosts more than twenty temporary exhibitions every year, focused both on local and international artists. Amongst the exhibitions currently on show is "More than Canvas", until 27 October 2011 features a fascinating collection of works, showing the diverse range of materials that artists have worked on. It includes works on paper, canvas, wood, leaves glass and computer screens and shows that any surface can serve as support for a painting on which color, lines and forms merge into one whole. This interactive exhibition exposes children and adults to works of art executed on traditional as well as other kinds of support: traffic lights, leaves, stones, walls and the body. Children will have an opportunity to actually feel the various kinds of supports, in order to better understand how the material of the support affects the choice of medium and technique. "Neo-Expressionist Painting From Berlin – Gift of Susan and Martin Sanders" (until 27 March 2011) is held in honor of the generous gift of Susan and Martin Sanders, New York, to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, that includes important works by some of the prominent Neo-Expressionist artists active in Berlin during the 1970s and 1980s: Karl Horst Hödicke, Rainer Fetting, Salomé, Helmut Middendorf and Peter Chevalier. Their works represent interesting aspects of the "back to painting" trend that had swept over the centers of the western world, in Europe and the USA, as a backlash to the minimal and conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. The Neo-Expressionist artists reacted to their complex reality in West Berlin in the shadow of the Cold War, through sensuous, tactile painting that assimilated the colorful intensity and formal elements of German Expressionism of early 20th century and of American Abstract Expressionism. The fresh and lively aesthetic approach of these paintings was characterized by large formats, bold color, narrative, upfront exposure of the self, provocativity, seductiveness and assimilation of images outside the realm of art. "Avi Ganor: RealityTrauma" opens on March 19th 2011. Artist Avi Ganor has been involved in photography since 1975. A Science Studies graduate at the Technion, he studied Business Management at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Pratt Institute, New York; and Digital Media Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. He has taught at the Departments of Photography and of Visual Communication at Bezalel, Jerusalem, and held solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum in 1985 and The Israel Museum in 1990. Alongside his photographic work, Ganor researches theoretical aspects of the medium. His works deal with the necessity of using forced metaphors, and the fluid moderation of the relationships between actuality and physical existence, between trauma and reality. The exhibition presents some 30 works from the series "RealityTrauma" (2003–2010), in direct "close to home" documentary diary style, through an allegorical poetic observation of both concepts and their conversion into a third, unified concept into which they collapse. In their reductive manner, the works offer a way to deal with horror as the concept of trauma escapes an appropriate interpretation, whether literal or visual. Beyond description, they seek to represent the indefinable, conducting a complex, tortuous discourse with the medium and with the way various genres deal with representation. 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

Huis Marseille Explores 'Infatuations' That Affect Both Photographers and Curators Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:45 PM PDT AMSTERDAM.- This exhibition is based on the idea of 'infatuations' that can affect both photographers and exhibition curators. People often suppose that museums make choices as objectively as possible, but actually this is far from the truth. Just as an artist may feel physically and emotionally attracted to a particular subject, the collector or curator might also have a 'crush' on a certain work. The term 'the infatuated camera' comes from the title of a 1971 film by Ed van der Elsken, De Verliefde Camera, a compilation of travel clips previously filmed by him. This exhibition has been assembled in a similar way; photographs and film rushes from the present day contrast with excerpts and impressions from the previous century. Works have been seemingly casually arranged according to summery themes: hanging out, taking strolls, the intense experience of landscape, laid-back portraits in the park, or travel and being in transit.

PAFA Acquires Works by Mark Bradford, Philip Evergood, & Lilly Martin Spencer Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:43 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) recently acquired the following three works: Mark Bradford's Untitled (Dementia), 2009; Philip Evergood's "Mine Disaster", 1933/37; and Lilly Martin Spencer's "Mother and Child" by the Hearth, 1867. Mark Bradford is internationally recognized as a leading artist of his generation. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship Genius Grant, Bucksbaum Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Major exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, 27th São Paolo Biennial, Carnegie International, and a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2007. Bradford's work incorporates strong environmental, social, and political themes as well as Minimalist, Abstract Expressionist, and Conceptual elements.

Amon Carter Museum Exhibits Prestige Private Collection of African-American Art Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:41 PM PDT FORT WORTH, TX.- The works of more than 50 African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years of this century will be on view at the Amon Carter Museum from June 6 through August 23, 2009, in the special exhibition The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper. The Kelley collection is one of the most esteemed private collections of African-American art, and the special exhibition features more than 90 works on paper by artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Alison Saar and Charles White. Admission to all special exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum is free.

SFMOMA SHOWCASES PICASSO AND AMERICAN ART Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:39 PM PDT San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the exhibition Picasso and American Art.  The exhibition examines the fundamental role that Pablo Picasso's artwork played in the development of American art during the 20th century.  Beginning with the artist Max Weber, who developed a friendship with Picasso in the early 1900s, many American artists came to both acknowledge Picasso as the central figure of the modern movements and define their own artistic achievements through the absorption, critique, or rejection of his example.  While unmistakably pervasive during the first half of the last century, Picasso's catalytic influence continued to be of great importance in the second half, sparking some of the most searching work from our most significant artists.  On exhibition until 28 May, 2007.

MoMA to Show Fassbinder's Visionary Science-Fiction Thriller Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:37 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- 'World on a Wire' (1973), written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German, 1945–1982) and based on the novel Simulacron-3 by American author Daniel F. Galouve, will have a weeklong run at MoMA, from April 14 through April 19, 2010. Originally made for German television in 1973, Fassbinder's revolutionary adaptation has only been shown in America once before, in 1997, as part of a comprehensive Fassbinder retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art.

The Signapore Biennale Returns To Showcase The Best In Contemporary Art Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:35 PM PDT Singapore (The Korea Times).- From March 13th through May 15th, the Singapore Biennale 2011, organized by the Singapore Art Museum, will kick off throughout the city state, drawing tens of thousands art-loving visitors from all over the world. The Biennale was established in 2006 as Singapore's premier platform for international dialogue in contemporary art, placing the nation's artists within a global context and fostering productive collaborations with the international arts community. Featuring 60 artists from 30 countries.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to host Weeklong Run of DJ Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation" Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:30 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, a weeklong run of composer, multimedia artist, and writer Paul D. Miller's (a.k.a DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid) film Rebirth of a Nation (2008), a deconstruction and remix of D.W. Griffith's highly controversial but landmark The Birth of a Nation (1915), from June 22 through 28, 2009. As one of the critical repositories of the work of D.W. Griffith, MoMA will provide audiences the opportunity to experience Miller's reworking of this American masterwork in the context of the original with two screenings of MoMA's print of The Birth of a Nation on June 25 and June 27.

Fort Worth Community Arts Center exhibits Grayson Harper Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:28 PM PDT   Fort Worth, Texas - Grayson Harper's images range from a sublime mysterious road at night to a painting of a dead soldier in a pine box he calls Home for Christmas. His figures eerily remind you of someone you know or recognize. The Patriots shows four people sitting in a wading pool in the front yard of a modest looking house, each waving a miniature American flag. Is that John Kerry in the pool? The Peaceable Kingdom also breeds familiarity in its characters. People who know the artist are sure he is depicted in The Bus Station.

Julie Mehretu ~ New Drawings at the Kresge Art Museum Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:24 PM PDT   EAST LANSING, MI.- The Department of Art & Art History at Michigan State University announced the visit of world-renowned artist Julie Mehretu. Mehretu will discuss her work in a public lecture on Tuesday, February, 5 at 7:00 p.m. in room 118 of the Psychology Building. Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu spent much of her childhood in East Lansing where her father is on the MSU faculty. Her work has been featured internationally including at the Whitney Biennial and Carnegie Internal and is currently on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Singapore Art Museum shows Exhibition of Mexican Modern Paintings Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:20 PM PDT SINGAPORE.- The Singapore Art Museum and the Embassy of Mexico proudly presents "Camino a la Modernidad, The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Painting". The exhibition examines the myriad artistic languages that constitute the formation of Mexican modernism. Camino a la Modernidad, "The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Painting" is the largest Mexican art exhibition ever held in Singapore and Southeast Asia. "Camino a la Modernidad: The Path to Modernity: Mexican Modern Painting" is on show at the Singapore Art Museum from 15 November 2009 to 3 January 2010.

The Andy Warhol Museum Presents ~ The Art of Glenn Kaino Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:18 PM PDT PITTSBURGH, PA - The Andy Warhol Museum opens the new exhibition Transformer: The Work of Glenn Kaino. The exhibition,  opens on May 3 and will be on view through August 31, 2008. Glenn Kaino, a Los Angeles-born and based artist, creates large-scale, mixed-media and kinetic sculptures which reflect his strategy of using unexpected formal changes and shifts of meaning to destabilize the viewer's understanding of the familiar objects. The resulting artworks make reference to cultural history, political consciousness, quantum physics and contradiction.

Baer Ridgway Exhibitions opens Cassandra C. Jones: 'Send Me A Link' Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:15 PM PDT San Francisco, CA - Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is pleased to present 'Send Me a Link', a solo exhibition of new works by Cassandra C. Jones. From a vast collection of found and hunted photographs, Jones has produced a series of collages and video loops that draw connections between how we create, communicate with and consume photography in today's "Remix Culture". Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1st, 2009, 4-7 PM, on view 1 August through 5 September, 2009.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:14 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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