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• One Of The USA's Leading and Most Comprehensive Art Museums ~ The Saint Louis Art Museum
• Gustav Klimt ~ Swingers in Vienna Art Hall Highlight Provocative Masterpiece
• Museum of Modern Art to host a Panel Discussion on Salvador Dali and New York
• Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) Exhibits ~ Narrative Figuration Paris ~
• The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Jane South ~ "Shifting Structures"
• The Delaware Art Museum presents " This Is War ! "
• Randy Wray Solos at Black & White Gallery
• American Illustration at Dahesh Museum
• Lilian Garcia-Roig solos at Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden
• George Krevsky Gallery Opens Exhibition from the Estate of Gordon Cook
• Three American Artists Exhibit their Works at James Cohan Gallery in Shanghai
• Brevard Art Museum
• Haughton International Fairs to Celebrate the 21st "International" in New York
• Steven Salzman ~ 186,000 Miles Per Second ~ at Frank Pictures Gallery
• Victor Kord at June Kelly Gallery
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

One Of The USA's Leading and Most Comprehensive Art Museums ~ The Saint Louis Art Museum Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:45 PM PDT The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) began as the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Washington University in St. Louis. Originally housed in a building in downtown St. Louis, the Museum moved to its current home in Forest Park after the 1904 World's Fair. The Saint Louis Art Museum's building was designed by renowned American architect Cass Gilbert for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the World's Fair. Originally part of the Palace of Fine Arts, the Museum was the only building from the Fair designed to be a permanent structure, the "one material monument of the Exposition." It stands as a reminder of that defining event in the history of the city of St. Louis and the State of Missouri. In 1909 the museum separated from Washington University and was renamed the City Art Museum of Saint Louis. During the 1950s, the museum added an extension to include an auditorium for films, concerts and lectures. In 2005, noted British architect David Chipperfield was appointed to design a further expansion of the museum. Chipperfield has won some of Europe's most prestigious commissions, including the restoration of the Neues Museum and master plan for Museum Island in Berlin and the redesign of Venice's historic cemetery island, San Michele. He was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007 for the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany. His U.S. projects include the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa; the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center; and the Des Moines Central Library. The expansion will include more than 224,000 square feet (20,800 m2) of gallery space, including an underground garage, within the lease lines of the property. The expansion is expected to cost $125 million. The project officially broke ground in early 2010 and will be completed in 2012. The museum will remain open during construction. The museum's mission is to collect, present, interpret, and conserve works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures, to educate, inspire discovery, and elevate the human spirit and to preserve a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world. Through generations of public support and private benefaction, the Saint Louis Art Museum has assembled one of the finest comprehensive art collections in the country, totaling more than 32,000 works, and the museum is visited by more than half a million people every year. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.slam.org The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums with collections of artworks that include those of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes, and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art. The American art collection features masterworks of paintings and sculpture from Colonial portraiture through modernist and abstract art of the first half of the 20th century. The Museum's American holdings reflect the nation's longstanding fascination with landscape and include Hudson River School paintings by Jasper Cropsey, Thomas Cole, and John Frederick Kensett, as well as scenes of the Western frontier. The local landscape is well represented in the work of Missouri artists Henry Lewis, Charles Ferdinand Wimar, and George Caleb Bingham. The Election Series, illustrating three stages of the Missouri electoral process, is one of the highlights of the Museum's paintings by Bingham. The collection also includes major works by the late nineteenth-century artists Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh as well as Impressionist compositions by Henry Ossawa Tanner, Childe Hassam, and John Henry Twachtman. Important twentieth-century work by Georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley, and Philip Guston is also presented. The Collection of European Art to 1800 includes exceptional examples of art made across the continent of Europe and the British isles from the seventh through the eighteenth centuries. The earliest pieces in the collection are a pair of toga pins made in Spain in the seventh century. Other examples from the medieval period include enamels and metalwork; architectural fragments; stone, wood and ivory sculpture; manuscript illuminations; and stained glass. The Museum's medieval holdings are strongest in French and German Romanesque (c.1050–c.1200) and Gothic (c.1200–c.1500) art. Highlights include a French St. Christopher, a superb alabaster Madonna, an exquisite head of St. Roch, and a German gilded Christ of exceptional quality.The collection of paintings and sculpture comprises work made in Europe between 1300 and 1800. Highlights include a late Titian masterpiece (1570–76) left in his studio at his death; a marble Pan made in Michelangelo's workshop in the 1530s; one of only 37 known works by the baroque master Bartolomeo Manfredi painted around 1615; a copper painting made in 1612 by Artemisia Gentileschi; an important Neo-Classical narrative painting by François-André Vincent exhibited in 1785; and a stunning portrait by Hans Holbein depicting the wife of King Henry VIII's comptroller of 1527. The Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs houses more than 13,000 works of art on paper. There are approximately 8,500 prints, 3,000 photographs, and 1,500 drawings, watercolors, and collages from a wide range of periods and cultures. The department has particular strengths in art from Western Europe and the United States. It is internationally known for its German works on paper, and houses the largest public collection of Max Beckmann's prints in the world. The print collection also has impressive holdings by Albrecht Dürer, Max Klinger, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jacques Callot. The collection of drawings features significant works by George Caleb Bingham, Edgar Degas, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The photography collection is strong in 20th century American with large holdings of works by Edward Curtis, Paul Strand, Andreas Feininger, and Moneta Sleet Jr. The Museum's collection of Modern art is one of the largest and most distinguished components of its holdings, spanning more than 150 years of European painting and sculpture. Among the highlights from the 19th century are paintings by Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edouard Manet, and Paul Cézanne as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh. The 20th century holdings include the largest public collection of paintings by Max Beckmann in the world. Many of these and numerous works by German Expressionist artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, and Wassily Kandinsky were part of a significant bequest by St. Louis collector Morton D. May. Also in the Modern collection are signature works by Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Henry Moore, as well as notable paintings by Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Amadeo Modigliani. The Contemporary collection spans the post-war period to today. The department has particular strengths in American painting and sculpture from Abstract Expressionism through Minimalism. Highlights from the 1950s and 1960s include works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, and Ellsworth Kelly. Also from the mid-twentieth century are significant examples by Pop artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg. Internationally known for German art from the 1970s and 1980s, the collection houses signature works by Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer, and Gerhard Richter. Acquisitions of art made in the past two decades, including video, mixed media, and installation, reflect the growing dynamism and international nature of contemporary art. Since 2000 the Contemporary department has acquired over ninety works by artists such as Glenn Ligon, Thomas Scheibitz, Rivane Neuenschwander, El Anatsui, and Julie Mehretu. The Saint Louis Art Museum also has major collections of ancient art including works from the Egyptian, Near Eastern, and Classical civilizations, mainly Greek and Roman, African art, Oceanic art, Pre Columbian and American Indian art, Asian art from across the vast continent of Asia, with particular strengths in the arts of East Asia and decorative Arts and Design featuring European and American furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, arms and armor, architectural elements and period rooms. The Saint Louis Art Museum hosts a constantly changing program of temporary exhibitions, highlighting works from their collections or major travelling exhibitions. Currently on display is "Glimpsing History through Art: Selections from the Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese Prints", which features Japanese works from the collection. Until April 10th 2011, this exhibition features selected highlights from the Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese Prints. The Lowenhaupts generously donated their entire collection of 1,357 Japanese prints and related works of art to the Museum in 2010. The collection includes works of art from the Meiji period (1868–1912), focusing on color woodblock prints that depict scenes from the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). Both conflicts were fought and won by a rapidly modernizing Japan over its neighbors China and Russia. "Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea" until April 10th 2011, brings together over 90 works, many never before seen in the United States, to offer exciting insights into the culture of the ancient Maya. Surrounded by the sea and dependent on the life-giving power of rain and clouds, the ancient Maya created fantastic objects imbued with the symbolic power of water. This exhibition presents four thematic sections: Water and Cosmos; Creatures of the Fiery Pool; Navigating the Cosmos; and Birth to Rebirth, that explore the different ways Maya artists represented water, from setting religious narratives in watery domains to using shells and other exotic materials acquired through coastal trade networks. Internationally renowned artist William Kentridge received a Dean's Medal from Washington University's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts this March. To celebrate, the Saint Louis Art Museum will present his work in two related exhibitions, one of film, the other of prints. Kentridge works fluidly between the realms of drawing, printmaking, animation, and theater. His imaginative visual narratives interweave personal, artistic, and political themes. "Visual Musing: Prints by William Kentridge" and "William Kentridge: Two Films" can both be seen until May 22nd 2011. These exhibitions bring together 44 works from two recent series of prints by Kentridge, Thinking Aloud (2004) and Nose (2007–2009). Both bodies of work blend his own visual iconography with that of stories from literature and theater. Composed of his expressive and richly layered marks, the prints demonstrate his mastery of intaglio processes. Kentridge's works reveal a lively sense of improvisation and the unexpected unfolding of metaphorical associations. Alongside these the Saint Louis Art Museum is offering two short animated films, 'Weighing...and Wanting' (1998) and 'Journey to the Moon' (2003). In both films, Kentridge investigates two ongoing themes in his art: the political and the personal.

Gustav Klimt ~ Swingers in Vienna Art Hall Highlight Provocative Masterpiece Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:44 PM PDT VIENNA, Austria — In the name of art, an Austrian landmark is encouraging visitors to confront their sexual inhibitions by having them walk through a swingers club to reach one of Gustav Klimt's masterpieces. The Secession - a world-renowned venue for contemporary art in downtown Vienna - has temporarily incorporated a sex club named "Element6" as part of a project by Swiss artist Christoph Buechel. The swingers are not there during the day, but their mattresses, erotic pictures, bar and whirlpool are.

Museum of Modern Art to host a Panel Discussion on Salvador Dali and New York Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:43 PM PDT New York City - Salvador Dalí first arrived in New York in 1934 and immediately became a flamboyant part of the city's life and art scene. Engaging with the artists and celebrities who helped create the spirit of the city at the time, Dalí pursued his interests in art and commerce, the urban streets, and friendships with members of polite society and those in the rebellious underground. This program brings together scholars and filmmakers who address the impact of Dalí's diverse activities on his work and on the New York artistic community.

Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM) Exhibits ~ Narrative Figuration Paris ~ Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:42 PM PDT VALENCIA, SPAIN - Narrative Figuration was never proclaimed as a movement as such. It grew out of the initiative of art critic Gérald Gassiot-Talabot and artists Bernard Rancillac and Hervé Télémaque who worked together in July 1964 to set up the exhibition "Mythologies quotidiennes" at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. Over these years, Narrative Figuration set itself apart from the social neutrality of the Paris school and the formalism of American Pop Art and denounced all forms of alienation in contemporary life.

The Knoxville Museum of Art Presents Jane South ~ "Shifting Structures" Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:41 PM PDT Knoxville, TN – The Knoxville Museum of Art, KMA,  presents Jane South: Shifting Structures from August 7 through November 7, 2010.  South has achieved international attention for her innovative mixed-media constructions that blur the lines between drawing, sculpture, installation art, and architecture.  Born in Manchester, England, she draws inspiration from the industrial urban character of her hometown and of her adopted home in Brooklyn, New York, where she has resided since 1989.

The Delaware Art Museum presents " This Is War ! " Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:40 PM PDT Wilmington, DE - The Delaware Art Museum presents This Is War !, an exhibition of over 40 war-themed illustrations and posters on view May 10, 2008 – August 10, 2008, in the Brock J. Vinton Galleries.  Due to the depth of the Delaware Art Museum's illustration collections through the 1940s, the Museum is able to provide a wide array of artists' interpretations of war.  The images in this exhibition focus on the Revolutionary War, Civil War, First World War, and Second World War, and the works are divided into these four groups.

Randy Wray Solos at Black & White Gallery Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:38 PM PDT New York City - Black & White Gallery is pleased to announce a solo show of recent works by Randy Wray at the gallery's Chelsea space from April 27 to June 2.  The sculptures, paintings, and drawings in Randy Wray's exhibition Chapter and Verse, take a variety of approaches to the subject of Faith.  Diverse styles, materials, and perspectives converge to form a kind of psychic cubism.  The resulting manifestations possess a formal intensity that transcends conventional notions of beauty.  By skillfully joining ambiguous forms with images of webs, crosses, and the American flag, the artist achieves works rife with symbolic interpretations, often of a Southern Gothic flavor.

American Illustration at Dahesh Museum Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:37 PM PDT New York, NY—The Dahesh Museum of Art launches its second decade with Stories to Tell: Masterworks from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, an exhibition that opens a bold and imaginative new avenue of exploration within its mission to reappraise the role of academic art in 19th- and early 20th-century visual culture. Stories to Tell features 90 masterworks drawn from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, one of the most important private holdings of original oil paintings, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings by the most sought-after illustrator-celebrities of American illustration's "golden age" (ca. 1880s -1930s). The exhibition features works by Dean Cornwell, Harvey Dunn, James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, J.C. Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Norman Rockwell, Mead Schaeffer, Jessie Willcox Smith, and N.C. Wyeth, as well as many other lesser-known but talented illustrators whose stylistic innovations are considered groundbreaking to this day. On exhibition 14 Feb to 21 May, 2006. Until now, no museum exhibition has investigated how these still-beloved pictures demonstrate the lingering influence of European academic subjects, styles, and compositional strategies—traditions which the Dahesh Museum of Art has examined continuously since it opened in 1995.

Lilian Garcia-Roig solos at Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:36 PM PDT   Dallas, TX - In "Autumn Spectacles" Cuban American artist Lilian Garcia-Roig shows over 30 paintings that resulted from a fall sabbatical from Florida State University.  She yearned to work in a bolder palette and in a bigger scale than her fall teaching schedule permits, and used the sabbatical time to travel widely.  She returned to Texas to paint for the first time in ten years. On exhibition January 23 through February 28, 2009. Reception:  Friday, January 23, 2009, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Admission free.

George Krevsky Gallery Opens Exhibition from the Estate of Gordon Cook Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:34 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The George Krevsky Gallery announced that they have been selected to represent the estate of Gordon Cook. A well respected Bay Area Figurative artist, Cook was a close friend and peer of Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff, Manuel Neri, and Wayne Thiebaud, before his untimely death in 1985. Born in Chicago, Cook earned a BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1950, before moving to San Francisco in 1951. Two major shows have been scheduled in March which are the first solo exhibitions of the artist's work in several years. The First entitled, "Gordon Cook: Paintings, Works on Paper, and Sculpture," opens at the George Krevsky Gallery, Thursday, March 4, 2010, and continues through May 1, 2010. The second entitled, "Gordon Cook: A Retrospective," opens at the Bolinas Museum on Saturday, March 13, 2010, and continues through April 25, 2010, curated by Barbara Janeff.

Three American Artists Exhibit their Works at James Cohan Gallery in Shanghai Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:32 PM PDT SHANGHAI.- James Cohan Gallery presents its fall exhibition Young Americans: Trenton Doyle Hancock, Erick Swenson, and Alison Elizabeth Taylor. The exhibition features the work of three prominent gallery artists whose works are becoming highly regarded in the United States and Europe. All three of these young artist use narrative in their works, each one to a unique and stunning effect. This exhibition marks their Chinese debut.

Brevard Art Museum Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:31 PM PDT   MELBOURNE, FL –  Three landscape painters bring their distinctive point of view together in the exhibition A Mysterious Clarity  on view at the Brevard Art Museum through January 4, 2009.

Haughton International Fairs to Celebrate the 21st "International" in New York Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:29 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show, Brian and Anna Haughton's flagship fair launched in 1989, will again bring together many of the top dealers in the world from October 16th-22nd at the Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City. Optimism and confidence prevail among the sixty-five exhibitors this year despite global economic concerns. "Quality sells," comments Brian Haughton, who organizes the fair and exhibits as well. "The fair's enduring strength is validation that the market for quality is strong and resilient. We are delighted that the IFAADS remains in a leadership position as the top international platform in America today."

Steven Salzman ~ 186,000 Miles Per Second ~ at Frank Pictures Gallery Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:27 PM PDT Santa Monica, CA - Steven Salzman's exhibition, 186,000 Miles Per Second, his second painting show in Los Angeles, opens at Frank Pictures Gallery in Santa Monica's prestigious Bergamot Station Art Center on April 15.  Salzman's painting is an exploration of the process of perception that presents interactions of light, color and space in clear, unified configurations of stripes and stars.  The iridescent interference acrylic paints that he uses have an intrinsic complexity in their ability to change color as a result of external lighting and viewer movement allowing for multiple views occupying the same space.

Victor Kord at June Kelly Gallery Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:25 PM PDT   New York City - The June Kelly Gallery opens its fall season with an exhibition of paintings by Victor Kord entitled Algorithm and Blues - new work that teems with provocative color, form and imagery. Kord's paintings will be on view at the gallery, through September 30.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 23 Mar 2011 11:24 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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