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• The Frick Collection ~ The Best Private Art Museum In New York
• Pop Art from the Collection of IVAM on View at Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent
• Palazzo Strozzi features 'Painting Light~The Hidden Techniques of the Impressionists'
• The Film Forum to Premiere Tamra Davis's Film of Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Krannert Art Museum to Present the Works of Reverend Howard Finster
• Getty Museum Acquires L' Entrée au Jardin Turc by Louis Léopold Boilly
• Exhibition Inspires Play ~ EN PLEIN AIR ~ at the Florence Griswold Museum
• The Little Known Barnes Foundation Museum
• Russian Photographer Yevgeny Khaldei Retrospective at The Martin Gropius Bau
• Gallery of Pablo Picasso's Guernica at the Reina Sofia Museum to Get Complete Overhaul
• Office for Contemporary Art in Norway shows "Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?"
• New Traveling Exhibition Shows Elvis before He was "The King of Rock 'n' Roll"
• Sotheby's NYC to sell Masterpieces by Puerto Rican Painters
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Frick Collection ~ The Best Private Art Museum In New York Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:46 PM PDT The Frick Collection is a not-for-profit educational institution originally founded by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist. In 1913, construction began on Henry Frick's New York mansion at Seventieth Street and Fifth Avenue, designed by Carrère and Hastings to accommodate Mr. Frick's paintings and other art objects. The house cost $5,000,000, but from its inception, took into account Mr. Frick's intention to leave his house and his art collection to the public. Mr. Frick died in 1919 and in his will, left the house and all of the works of art in it together with the furnishings ("subject to occupancy by Mrs. Frick during her lifetime") to become a gallery called The Frick Collection. He provided an endowment of $15,000,000 to be used for the maintenance of the Collection and for improvements and additions. After Mrs. Frick's death in 1931, family and trustees of The Frick Collection began the transformation of the Fifth Avenue residence into a museum and commissioned John Russell Pope to make additions to the original house, including two galleries (the Oval Room and East Gallery), a combination lecture hall and music room, and the enclosed courtyard. In December 1935 The Frick Collection opened to the public. In 1977, a garden on Seventieth Street to the east of the Collection was designed by Russell Page, to be seen from the street and from the pavilion added at the same time to accommodate increasing attendance at the museum. This new Reception Hall was designed by Harry van Dyke, John Barrington Bayley, and G. Frederick Poehler. Two additional galleries were opened on the lower level of the pavilion to house temporary exhibitions. The nearby Frick Art Reference Library was founded in 1920 to serve "adults with a serious interest in art," among them scholars, art professionals, collectors, and students. The Library's book and photograph research collections relate chiefly to paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from the fourth to the mid-twentieth centuries by European and American artists. Known internationally for its rich holdings of auction and exhibition catalogs, the Library is a leading site for collecting and provenance research. Archival materials and special collections augment the research collections with documents pertaining to the history of collecting art in America and of Henry Clay Frick's collecting in particular. The Frick Collection developed the "Art of Observation" training course, initially for medical students, but now used by police, security and defense personnel throughout the USA. Using works of art to train students in observation techniques proved so effective that enquiries were received from as far as way as London's Metropolitan Police Force. Visit the museum's website at … www.frick.org Chief among Henry Frick's bequests, which also included sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts such as furniture, porcelains, enamels, rugs and silver, were one hundred thirty-one paintings. Forty-seven additional paintings have been acquired over the years by the Trustees and the Frick Collection now has a permanent collection of more than 1,100 works of art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. The paintings in the Frick Collection include works by Hans Holbein, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Bellini, El Greco, Titian, Diego Velazquez, Frans Hals, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Johannes Vermeer, Francois Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony van Dyck, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Claude Lorrain, Francisco Goya, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James McNeill Whistler, Francesco Laurana, Jean-Antoine Houdon, John Constable, Edgar Degas, and Severo Calzetta da Ravenna. Vermeer's "Mistress and Maid", the last painting Mr. Frick bought, is one of three pictures by that artist in the Collection, while Piero della Francesca's image of St. John the Evangelist, dominating the Enamel Room, is the only large painting by Piero in the United States. Most of the sculpture purchased by Mr. Frick for the Collection was from the Italian Renaissance. Notable in the Collection are works by Vecchietta, Laurana, Francesco da Sangallo, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Riccio, and Severo da Ravenna. French sculpture includes the Lemoyne Garden Vase for the interior courtyard and remarkable works by Coysevox, Houdon, and Clodion. A number of splendid early North European sculptures are also in the Collection, above all the bust of the Duke of Alba by Jonghelinck, the Multscher reliquary bust, and bronzes traditionally ascribed to Adriaen de Vries and Hubert Gerhard. The collection also includes the furniture in the house, typical of a grand New York residence at the beginning of the twentieth century, covers a variety of periods and places of origin including, French works of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, some English pieces in the Library and Dining Room and in the bedrooms, and furniture especially designed and made for the house by the architect or interior designer. The collection contains Oriental porcelain dating from the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties and embracing a range of types including blue and white, famille verte, famille noire, and famille rose. French porcelain pieces include remarkable examples of Vincennes and Sèvres soft-past porcelains of the eighteenth century, as well as a rare sixteenth century ewer of Saint-Porchaire earthenware. The thirty-one exceptionally fine drawings in The Frick Collection are by such masters as Pisanello, Altdorfer, Rubens, Claude, Rembrandt, Greuze, Gainsborough, Goya, Ingres, Corot, and Whistler. Included in the impressive group of fifty-nine prints are four superb impressions by Dürer, three engravings by Van Dyck, eleven of Rembrandt's most celebrated etchings and drypoints, thirteen of Meryon's pivotal Etchings of Paris, twelve Whistler prints comprising the First Venice Set, and twelve eighteenth-century English reproductive portrait prints. The Limoges enamels in the collection reveal the broad range of applications to which this brilliant but delicate medium was applied in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France from secular objects such as portraits, a casket, and tableware - to objects of religious association, such as devotional images and triptychs. The impressive collection of textiles includes, most notably, two magnificent carpets from the court of the Mughal emperors and two tapestries with scenes from the story of Don Quixote by Peter van den Hecke. In 1999, the holdings of The Frick Collection were substantially expanded by the bequest of twenty-five clocks and fourteen watches from the estate of the celebrated New York collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey. This small but exceptionally fine collection, illustrates both the stylistic and the technical development of clocks and watches from about 1500 to 1830. Several special exhibitions are scheduled annually at the Frick Collection. Currently visitors can see "Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections", which runs from February 15, through May 15, 2011. Of the five paintings from the Frick's permanent collection, four were acquired by Henry Clay Frick between 1899 and 1919, and the fifth by the trustees in 1943 from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan. Three of these works are unquestionable masterpieces by the artist, "Nicolaes Ruts", "The Polish Rider", and the "Self-Portrait" of 1658. Two of the paintings ("Portrait of a Young Artist" and "Old Woman with a Book") were acquired by Frick as Rembrandts but are today attributed to artists in his entourage. This will be the first time that all five paintings have been united in a monographic display. A selection of etchings and drawings by Rembrandt acquired by Henry Clay Frick at the end of his life is also featured. These works on paper, part of the founding bequest and therefore unavailable for loan, are rarely on display. A loan exhibition of 66 works on paper by Rembrandt and his school from the collection of Frits Lugt, now housed in the Fondation Custodia, Paris, will be displayed alongside the Frick's own pieces. Eighteen drawings by the artist as well as a group of his prints will be accompanied by 36 master drawings by his most prominent pupils and students, including Ferdinand Bol, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Carel Fabritius, Govaert Flinck, Jan Lievens, and Nicolaes Maes. Among the exhibitions scheduled for later in 2011 is "In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert", from May 22, 2011, through August 28, 2011, which presents this painting from the collection along with the findings of a recent detailed technical examination by the Department of Paintings Conservation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette" from June 8, 2011, through September 11, 2011 will present some of the rare surviving pieces of furniture from the craze for "a la Turc" or Turkish style, that swept through French high society in the late 18th century. "Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition", from October 4, 2011, through January 8, 2012, will look at the dazzling development of Picasso's drawings, from the precocious academic exercises of his youth in the 1890s to the virtuoso classical works of the early 1920s. Through a selection of more than fifty works at each venue, the presentation will examine the artist's stylistic experiments and techniques in this roughly thirty-year period, which begins and ends in a classical mode and encompasses the radical innovations of Cubism and collage. The show (which opens at the Frick in the fall of 2011 and moves on to the National Gallery of Art in February of 2012) will demonstrate how drawing served as an essential means of invention and discovery in Picasso's multifaceted art, while its centrality in his vast oeuvre connects him deeply with the grand tradition of European masters. 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

Pop Art from the Collection of IVAM on View at Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:41 PM PDT TORRENT, SPAIN - The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) presents in Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent, "Pop Art of the Collecció L'IVAM al 'EMAT" curated by the Director of the IVAM, Consuelo Ciscar and Javier Ferrer director EMAT, which will be displayed from June 18 to August 2, 2009. The exhibition brings together over forty works of different techniques and media including paintings, photography, works on paper and sculptures. The many artists who are included in this exhibit are figures representative of this trend that emerged in the United Kingdom, but reached its full dimension in United States. These include: Hervé Telémaque, Equipo Crónica, Eduardo Arroyo, John Baldessari, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Darío Villalba, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Lindner and Valerio Adami.

Palazzo Strozzi features 'Painting Light~The Hidden Techniques of the Impressionists' Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:39 PM PDT Florence, Italy - An exhibition of major works by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters reveals the secrets behind some of the world's best-loved paintings.  Painting Light: The hidden techniques of the Impressionists is being staged at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence through 28 September 2008.  The exhibition comprises over sixty works including masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Caillebotte and Signac which are shown alongside such evocative objects as one of Monet's palettes as well as technological images of the pictures themselves.

The Film Forum to Premiere Tamra Davis's Film of Jean-Michel Basquiat Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:36 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD, opening Wednesday, July 21. Filmmaker Tamra Davis charts the meteoric rise and fall of her late friend, the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, born in 1960. In the crime-ridden New York City of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with "rock star status."

Krannert Art Museum to Present the Works of Reverend Howard Finster Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:34 PM PDT CHAMPAIGN, IL.- Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion will present Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster. A self-proclaimed "Man of Visions," Finster was one of America's most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, producing over 46,000 pieces of art before his death in 2001. Born in rural Alabama in 1916, Finster went on to become a preacher, tent revivalist, and "master of 22 different trades" before building his roadside tribute to inventors, the Plant Farm Museum. Later dubbed "Paradise Garden" by Esquire magazine, this rock- and junk-encrusted wonderland was the focus of Finster's life work. On view 29 January through 28 March, 2010.

Getty Museum Acquires L' Entrée au Jardin Turc by Louis Léopold Boilly Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:32 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of L'Entrée au Jardin Turc (The Entrance to the Turkish Garden) by Louis Léopold Boilly, one of the few important paintings by the artist still in private hands. Crisply painted in glowing colors and teeming with anecdotal detail, Boilly's picture transports viewers to the heart of Napoleonic Paris, outside the entrance to the city's most celebrated café, the Jardin Turc. Located in the Marais at 28, boulevard du Temple, the establishment offered its middle-class clientele pleasures once reserved for the aristocracy. Founded in 1780, the Jardin Turc comprised an elegant garden, restaurant, and café housed in a series of tented pavilions whose crescent finials and oriental decor reflected an eighteenth-century taste for turquerie.

Exhibition Inspires Play ~ EN PLEIN AIR ~ at the Florence Griswold Museum Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:29 PM PDT OLD LYME, CT - EN PLEIN AIR—Impressions of Painting in Giverny & Old Lyme is a new play created especially for the Florence Griswold Museum by actor Christopher Eaves.EN PLEIN AIR premieres Wednesday, June 25 and continues through Saturday, June 28.

The Little Known Barnes Foundation Museum Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:25 PM PDT Merion, PA - Dr. Albert Barnes established the Barnes Foundation in 1922 to "promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts" and horticulture. The Foundation carries out its mission through teaching, research, and other programs related to its Art Department and Arboretum, as well as through public access to the Gallery which houses its main collection of paintings, sculpture, and other works of art. The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to "promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts." Located in a twelve-acre arboretum, the Foundation is home to one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings.

Russian Photographer Yevgeny Khaldei Retrospective at The Martin Gropius Bau Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:22 PM PDT BERLIN - The first major retrospective devoted to the Russian photographer, Yevgeny Khaldei, opens in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin on 9 May 2008. Khaldei, the Russian Robert Capa, provided extensive photographic coverage of the Second World War, the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Some of his images are world-famous and have become icons in the history of photography. Khaldei is known primarily for his spectacular documentary photos of the Second World War and the staged hoisting of the red flag of the Soviet Union on the top of the Reichstag building in Berlin in 1945, but also for the photos he took at the Potsdam Conference and during the Nuremberg Trials.

Gallery of Pablo Picasso's Guernica at the Reina Sofia Museum to Get Complete Overhaul Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:20 PM PDT Madrid, Spain - Guernica, Pablo Picasso's 1937 large anti-war painting, has been given a new illumination and will be repositioned at Madrid's Reina Sofia museum of modern art. The museum is also trying to recreate the atmosphere of the 1937 Paris Universal Exposition where the Guernica was first seen, with other art works and an anti-war movie that were shown at the Spanish pavilion, a miniature model of which is included in the display.

Office for Contemporary Art in Norway shows "Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?" Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:15 PM PDT   OSLO.- 'Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?' is a research project that consists of three platforms – an exhibition, a programme of public events and a publication – examining the juncture of the political and the erotic through the work of artists produced predominantly in the context of the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 70s. Part of Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) Verksted series, the exhibition and public programme are the result of an extensive research project about the international perception of Scandinavia during the 1950s, 60s and 70s as a utopic region of socialism and sexual freedom.

New Traveling Exhibition Shows Elvis before He was "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:12 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- Photojournalist Alfred Wertheimer was hired by RCA Victor in 1956 to shoot promotional images of a recently signed 21-year-old recording artist, Elvis Presley. Wertheimer's instincts to "tag along" with the artist after the assignment and the resulting images provide us today with a look at Elvis before he exploded onto the scene and became one of the most exciting performers of his time. "Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer," a new Smithsonian traveling exhibition, presents 56 of these striking images and will debut at The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles Jan. 8, 2009, Elvis's 75th birthday.

Sotheby's NYC to sell Masterpieces by Puerto Rican Painters Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:07 PM PDT   NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's fall sales will feature two rare masterpieces by Puerto Rico's most acclaimed eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists, José Campeche y Jordan (1751-1809) and Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833-1917). On the afternoon of November 12, Sotheby's London will offer Oller's epic painting La Batalla de Treviño (Est.$340 / 380,000) as part of The Spanish Sale, and on the evening of November 18, Sotheby's New York, as part of the Latin American Art Sale, will offer a fine example of one of Campeche's most beloved religious subjects, La Virgen de la Merced (Est. $150 / 200,000).

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 19 Mar 2011 10:06 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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