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• The "Historical Museum of the City of Vienna" ~ A Treasure In A City of Elegance
• Bruce Silverstein Gallery hosts Explosive Works by German Artist Martin Denker
• Neue Galerie Museum shows Oskar Kokoschka and Selections from the Permanent Collection
• Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the "Curious and Commonplace: European Popular Prints of the 1800s"
• Jonathan LeVine Gallery to Celebrate 5th Anniversary with a Group Exhibition
• The Morris Museum presents " The Abstract Expressionism of Grace Hartigan "
• Hammer Museum features "Nine Lives ~ Visionary Artists from L.A."
• The Frick Collection Announces European Painting Exhibition for 2010
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute show "Realism’s Edge"
• Leslie Fry to be featured at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art
• GERMAN 20TH-CENTURY SCULPTURE ON VIEW AT HARVARD’S BUSCH-REISINGER MUSEUM
• Drama Between Rembrandt and Caravaggio To Open
• First Major Exhibition in Armenia of Original Works by Artist Arshile Gorky
• IMAX Melbourne Museum to open "Van Gogh: Brush with Genius"
• 'Feline Impressions' at the Saint Louis Art Museum
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The "Historical Museum of the City of Vienna" ~ A Treasure In A City of Elegance Posted: 21 Mar 2011 10:07 PM PDT The Wien Museum has an exceptional position in the rich landscape of the Viennese museums, blending art and history through its collection of inestimable art treasures. The Wien Museum (from 1887 to 2003 known as the "Historical Museum of the City of Vienna") was originally housed in the Vienna town hall. Plans for a new building on Karlsplatz were first drawn up before 1914, but it was not until the 1950s that a purpose-built structure was created for the museum. The building was designed by Oswald Haerdtl, a former associate of Josef Hoffmann and architect of the Austrian pavilion at world exhibitions of the 1930's. The museum opened on 23 April 1959 as the first newly built museum of the Second Republic, and remained the only such for decades . After the interior courtyard was roofed over in 2000, the museum gained a multi-functional event facility and a café. Alongside the permanent collection, special exhibitions are held at regular intervals in the Haerdtl building. Wien Museum is a general-purpose, metropolitan museum with a wide range of collections and exhibitions – including the history of the city, art, fashion and everyday culture, from the very early settlements to the present day. Because of its general approach and interdisciplinary potential, it occupies a unique position among Vienna's museums. As well as the main building on Karlsplatz it encompasses many sites throughout the city, first and foremost the Hermesvilla in the Lainzer Tiergarten, the Römermuseum, the Clock Museum and the Musician Apartments (including the Beethoven, Haydn, Johann Strauss, Schubert and Mozart houses). Taking the city of Vienna as a model, it explores the general theme of social, cultural and urban change in comparison with other cities. The museum aims to address current topics and issues by looking at history and working with historical records. This is based on the conservation, research and permanent re-interpretation of the holdings and their significance in our lives today. Although Wien Museum is not primarily an art institution, it also deals with art and the conditions in which it is created. Artistic phenomena are placed in their social and cultural context and considered within a broader framework ("art plus" principle). However, the museum contains an impressive collection of art, in all forms. Visit the museum's website at … www.wienmuseum.at The Wien Museum possesses an art collection of remarkable quality, size and diversity including a significant painting and graphics collection of around 130,000 objects. The foundation for this was laid in 1894 when Prince Johannes II von und zu Liechtenstein made a gift of some high-quality pictures from the Biedermeier Period. Since then the museum has been collecting art in the areas of painting, graphic arts, sculpture, architecture and applied arts, objet d'art, installations, photography and video art. The time span represented in the collection stretches from the 14th century to the present day. Panel painting of the Middles Ages is represented, including an altar panel set by the Master of the Wiener Neustädter Altar, and European Renaissance painting with "Kaiserlicher Waldspaziergang vor dem Schloss Neugebäude ("Imperial Stroll through Forest outside Schloss Neugebäude") by Lucas van Valkenborch. In the area of Austrian Baroque and Classicism, the collection contains exemplary works by key artists such as Paul Troger, Johann Michael Rottmayr and Heinrich Friedrich Füger. With main works by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Peter Fendi and Friedrich von Amerling, the Wien Museum owns one of the most important collections of Viennese Biedermeier painting. In the graphic arts, the approximately 170 watercolours and drawings by Rudolf von Alt stand out. Historicism painting is represented among others by major works of Hans Makart, while works by Emil Jakob Schindler and Tina Blau represent the landscape depiction of Austrian Stimmungsrealismus (literally, Atmospheric Realism) around the end of the 19th century. Fin-de-siécle Art ("Vienna around 1900"), forms another focal point of the collection. Gustav Klimt's portrait of Emilie Flöge (1902) as well as 400 of his hand-drawings belong to the highlights, as do significant works by Egon Schiele ( including "Junge Mutter" (Young Mother") acquired in 2007), Carl Moll, Richard Gerstl and Max Kurzweil. In the area of artistic printed graphics, there is an outstanding collection of Wiener Werkstätte postcards and posters from the Secession. Among the most important works of the Inter-War Period are Oskar Kokoschka's "Wien vom Wilhelminenberg" ("Vienna from the Wilhelminen Mountain", 1931) and Herbert Boeckl's "Anatomie" ("Anatomy", 1931). One highlight from the area of post-1945 Art is Rudolf Hausner's "Arche des Odysseus" ("The Ark of Ulysses", 1948-1956), one of the main works of the Viennese School of Phantastischer Realismus (literally, Fantasy Realism). Examples of acquisitions in recent years are Xenia Hausner's portrait of Elfriede Jelinek ("Oh Wildnis") and Gerwald Rockenschaub's screen print on alucore, which shows St. Stephen's Cathedral (1999). The painting and graphics collection of the Wien Museum also houses large stocks of lesser known artists and so offers a broad overview of visual culture since the 14th century. The collection is continuously expanded with representative works of contemporary art. The Plastic Arts and Sculpture Collection of the Wien Museum comprises around 2,900 objects. Among the oldest art objects in the Wien Museum are the numerous original statues from St. Stephen's Cathedral dating from the 14th century, which originate from gifts made by the Prince Archbishop's Ordinariate. The core items of the Plastics Arts and Sculpture Collection date from the so-called Ringstrasse Epoch, sculptures commissioned for municipal construction works. Important sculptors such as Johannes Benk, Josef Gasser, Karl Kundmann and Viktor Tilgner were commissioned to carry out architectural sculptures. Of the 19th century sculptors, Kaspar Zumbusch, Karl Kundmann, and Viktor Tilgner are notably represented in the collection. In the area of 20th century Viennese sculpture, the works of Anton Hanak and his most famous apprentice Fritz Wotruba stand out. The Wien Museum possesses two figural works by this pioneer of modern sculpture in Austria and also a portrait bust of Robert Musil. Notions of sculpture in contemporary art are broadened by a complex of works by Hans Schabus acquired by the museum in 2004. Titled "A Further Attempt at a Room for 'Western'", this complex alludes to the sailing boat "forlorn" and the "Western" film genre among other references. The museums also contains significant collections of architectural documents and models, objects from Viennese arts and crafts, porcelain and ceramincs, furniture, photography and video artworks, including works by Leopold Kessler like "Reparatur" ("Repair") and "Freisprechanlage"("Intercom") as well as works of Hans Schabus. The Wien Museum's Archaeological collection comprises some 150,000 objects. These have been recovered over an extended period of time beginning with the city's reconstruction in the late 19th century. Three temporary exhibitions are currently on display at the Wien Museum. Until April 3rd 2011, "Window Shopping: A Photographic History of the Shop Window" takes a fascinating photographic journey through the history of shop window displays, from mere displays of the goods available inside, to brightly lit, constantly changing works of art, intended to seduce customers into the stores. Besides works by August Stauda, Emil Mayer, Martin Gerlach jun., Franz Hubmann, Barbara Pflaum, Lucca Chmel, Gerhard Trumler, Trude Lukacsek or Didi Sattmann, documents relating to historical window displays at Viennese department stores and shops such as Herzmansky, Gerngross or Palmers are on show. "Trude Fleischmann: A Self-Assured Eye", until 29th May 2011, presents a comprehensive exhibition of the photographer's work, focusing on her Vienna period from 1920 to 1938. A photographer of theatre stars, dancers and intellectuals, an artist whose portraits of contemporaries like Karl Kraus, Adolf Loos or Albert Einstein have become famous, and whose motion studies of nude dancers in the 1920s caused quite a sensation, Trude Fleischmann (1895–1900) without any doubt ranks among the greats of 20th century female photography. "Building St Stephen's: The Original Plans from the Middle Ages" until 21st August 2011 provides a rare chance to see the plans drawn up and used by architects during the 300 years that Vienna's cathedral took to build. No other Gothic cathedral building in Europe possesses a comparable number of plan outlines, carried out on parchment and paper, which have survived the centuries. The collection comprises 294 plan outlines, of which the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna owns 285, and the Wien Museum a further 9. These detailed drawings, used by the Cathedral master builders and stone masons, have been on the UNESCO list of world-heritage documents since 2005. These make up the core of the exhibition, including for example a fifteen-foot, highly detailed outline of the never-completed North Tower from the Wien Museum Collection. There is also a "discovery path" through the permanent exhibition stopping at numerous exhibits that relate to St. Stephen's Cathedral. Welcome to Vienna and its museum! 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

Bruce Silverstein Gallery hosts Explosive Works by German Artist Martin Denker Posted: 21 Mar 2011 10:05 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery is showing AbsoluteZero, the first New York solo show of the explosive works by 33-year-old German artist Martin Denker. Featuring nine large-scale pieces, interwoven and abstracted through the layering and morphing of manifold visual sources, AbsoluteZero expands the definition of the capabilities and expectations of photography. On view through 31 January, 2010.

Neue Galerie Museum shows Oskar Kokoschka and Selections from the Permanent Collection Posted: 21 Mar 2011 10:02 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Neue Galerie New York opened two exhibitions: "Focus: Oskar Kokoschka" and "Selections from the Permanent Collection." The "Focus" exhibition presents Kokoschka paintings and drawings from the Neue Galerie museum collection. The permanent collection show highlights several works that portray the social upheaval of Germany in the 1920s, offering strong echoes of the current economic and social crisis. Both will be on view through October 5, 2009.

Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the "Curious and Commonplace: European Popular Prints of the 1800s" Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:58 PM PDT Philadelphia, PA -  A magical machine transforms imperfect husbands into ideal spouses. A natural disaster competes with miraculous apparitions and serial murders to astonish the eye.  A two-and-a-half-foot-tall souvenir poster produced in the year of the Eiffel Tower's construction serves as both a game board and a celebration of the world-famous landmark.  The Philadelphia Museum of Art has joined these memorable images with dozens of other prints culled from its vast collection for Curious and Commonplace: European Popular Prints of the 1800s . . On view through August 24, 2008.

Jonathan LeVine Gallery to Celebrate 5th Anniversary with a Group Exhibition Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:55 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan LeVine Gallery will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a commemorative group exhibition featuring exceptional and exemplary new works by forty artists who are either currently represented by the gallery or who have exhibited at the gallery in the past five years. The exhibition will be on view from February 27 through March 27, 2010, and there will be an opening reception on Saturday, February 27, from 7—9pm.

The Morris Museum presents " The Abstract Expressionism of Grace Hartigan " Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:54 PM PDT MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum will present works by major American artist and New Jersey native Grace Hartigan in the exhibition Breaking Through: The Abstract Expressionism of Grace Hartigan. Hartigan (born in Newark in 1922) died at her home in Maryland on November 15, 2008. The Morris Museum's retrospective, consisting of 17 works, will be the first museum exhibition since her death. On exhibition 14 January through 12 April, 2009.

Hammer Museum features "Nine Lives ~ Visionary Artists from L.A." Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:51 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. is the fifth in the Hammer Museum's biannual invitational exhibition series highlighting work created in greater Los Angeles. Nine Lives features over 125 works, much of it new, by nine artists spanning four generations — Lisa Anne Auerbach, Julie Becker, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Irvin, Hirsch Perlman, Victoria Reynolds, Kaari Upson, Jeffrey Vallance, and Charlie White. The works include video, paintings, drawings, photography, textiles, and two new sculptural installations. As all of the artists live and work in L.A., Nine Lives embodies many of the psychic complexities and paradoxes of the city . . it is at once beautiful and frightening, refined and unruly. On view 8 March through 31 May, 2009.

The Frick Collection Announces European Painting Exhibition for 2010 Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:50 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announced the loan of nine European paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of Old Master pictures in the world, particularly of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery's bicentenary in 2011, presents an exciting opportunity to introduce American audiences to this institution's collection through nine of its greatest paintings. Indeed, this exceptional group of works, to be shown exclusively at the Frick from March 9 through May 30, 2010, includes signature masterpieces that seldom travel, many of which have not been on view in the United States in recent years, and, in some cases, never in New York City.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute show "Realism’s Edge" Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:48 PM PDT WILLIAMSTOWN , MA -   Images of everyday urban and rural life flourished in France during the 1860s and 1870s. The exhibition Realism's Edge at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute features a dozen etchings that exist on the edge of original and reproductive, real and inventive, sketchy and descriptive, while chronicling the romanticized worker and celebrating leisurely pursuits. Realism's Edge is on view through October 12th, 2009.

Leslie Fry to be featured at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:46 PM PDT Sarasota, FL - The exhibition's main metaphor is that of demolition paving the way for new construction. Leslie Fry uses trucks and tools as symbols of movement and constructive change. Combined with images of human and plant life, her work creates an allegory of growth. In the wake of decomposition comes new life. The bas-reliefs are reminiscent of archaeological artifacts, an aspect emphasized by their aged surfaces and crate-like framing. On view April 8 through May 2, 2009 at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art.

GERMAN 20TH-CENTURY SCULPTURE ON VIEW AT HARVARD’S BUSCH-REISINGER MUSEUM Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:44 PM PDT   Cambridge, MA - The Harvard University Art Museums present Making Myth Modern: Primordial Themes in German 20th-Century Sculpture, a tightly focused exhibition of seven sculptures by Franz von Stuck, Renée Sintenis, Max Beckmann, Gerhard Marcks, Bernard Schultze, and Joseph Beuys at the Busch-Reisinger Museum from through December 30, 2007. This exhibition brings together for the first time important sculptures from the Busch-Reisinger Museum's permanent collection and includes some of the foremost German artists from the turn of the century to the early 1980s.

Drama Between Rembrandt and Caravaggio To Open Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:38 PM PDT AMSTERDAM.-To mark the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006 the Van Gogh Museum presents an exhibition by the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum featuring a remarkable confrontation between the two geniuses of Baroque art: Rembrandt van Rijn and his Italian counterpart, Caravaggio. In this first exhibition to juxtapose works by these masters of chiaroscuro, over 25 monumental paintings from various international museums provide a visual spectacle with powerful images of love, emotion and passion.

First Major Exhibition in Armenia of Original Works by Artist Arshile Gorky Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:36 PM PDT YEREVAN, ARMENIA.- The Cafesjian Center for the Arts announced that the first major exhibition in Yerevan of original work by the American-Armenian artist Arshile Gorky will take place at the Center from November 8, 2009 through January 31, 2010. "Arshile Gorky: Selections from the Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection" will exhibit 16 drawings and 7 paintings by the man who would become known as the most monumental presence in American twentieth-century art. This is the first major exhibition of original work in Armenia by Arshile Gorky, an artist once described by a critic of the time as a "hero of Abstract Expressionism."

IMAX Melbourne Museum to open "Van Gogh: Brush with Genius" Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:35 PM PDT Melbourne, AU  - Van Gogh: Brush with Genius, set to be released at IMAX Melbourne Museum on 13 August, 2009. Filmed entirely in 15/70mm film on location in France and the Netherlands, Van Gogh: Brush with Genius captures the breathtaking landscapes and extraordinary colours of Van Gogh's most famous works with the stunning visual effects of IMAX technology. From the dazzling yellow of the artist's famous cornfields to the deep blue of his famous night sky, audiences will learn the story behind of some of the most important works in art history.

'Feline Impressions' at the Saint Louis Art Museum Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:32 PM PDT   Saint Louis, MO - The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the August 24 opening of Feline Impressions, an exhibition of eight fascinating works that explore the meanings some of the world's greatest printmakers have given to members of the feline family over the past five centuries.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 21 Mar 2011 09:31 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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