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• The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan 'Round-Up' Of Fine Art
• New Exhibition at Auburn University Museum Explores Prints by Edvard Munch
• Minerva Teichert’s ‘Pageants in Paint’ at BYU Museum of Art
• Gibbes Museum of Art to Feature Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection
• Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art to open at Kunstalle Wein
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to feature Walker Evans’s Eclectic Picture Postcard Collection
• Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Presents Guillaume Bijl
• Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum in Münster Celebrates with Miró Exhibition
• Joslyn Art Museum Features Albert Paley - Contemporary American Sculptor
• Glory Days by Sergey Bratkov Opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur
• Mount Holyoke College Art Museum shows Docent's Choice
• Library of Congress to discuss "Setting the President’s Table"
• Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum exhibits Jonathan Green
• Henri Cartier-Bresson Special LA Photo Exhibit
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan 'Round-Up' Of Fine Art Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:53 PM PDT The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas. The new building was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, the 2007 winner of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. The Dallas Museum of Art collection is made up of more than 28,000 objects, dating from the third millennium BC to the present day. The museum's library contains over 50,000 volumes available to curators and the general public. The Dallas Museum of Art's history began with the establishment in 1903 of the Dallas Art Association, which initially exhibited paintings in the Dallas Public Library. The Museum's collections started growing from that moment on, and it soon became necessary to find a permanent home. The museum, renamed the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1932, relocated to a new art deco facility within Fair Park in 1936, on the occasion of the Texas Centennial Exposition. This new facility was designed by a consortium of Dallas architects in consultation with Paul Cret of Philadelphia. In 1943 Jerry Bywaters became the director of the DMFA and under his tenure, impressionist, abstract, and contemporary masterpieces were acquired and the Texas identity of the museum was emphasized. In 1963 the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts merged with the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art. The permanent collections of the two museums were then housed within the DMFA facility, which suddenly held significant works by Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Gerald Murphy, and Francis Bacon. By the late 1970s, the greatly enlarged permanent collection and the ambitious exhibition program fostered a need for a new museum facility. The museum moved once again, to its current venue, at the northern edge of the city's business district (the now designated Dallas Arts District). The $54 million dollar facility, designed by New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, gave the museum a new 370,000-square-foot facility when it opened in January 1984 (the museum's Sculpture Garden opened a year before in October 1983). At the same time the name was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1985 the new decorative arts wing, built to house 1,400 objects from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, opened. In 1991, construction began on the addition of the Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. When this opened in 1993 the museum gained an extra 140,000 square feet. In 2003, the Dallas Museum of Art marked its 100th birthday on January 19, and celebrated by remaining open for 100 continuous hours with 45,000 visitors in attendance. The museum collects, preserves, presents, and interprets works of art of the highest quality from diverse cultures and many centuries, including contemporary. As well as its galleries and library, the Dallas Museum of Art contains a café, museum shop and a unique 12,000-square-foot learning environment, the Center for Creative Connections. Visit the museum's website at … www.dallasmuseumofart.org The Dallas Museum of Art's collections include more than 24,000 works of art from around the world ranging from ancient to modern times. The collection of ancient Mediterranean art includes Cycladic, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Apulian objects. The museum's collections of South Asian art range from Gandharan Buddhist art of the 2nd to 4th centuries AD to the arts of the Mughal Empire in India from the 15th to the 19th century. Highlights include a 12th century bronze Shiva Nataraja and a 10th century sandstone representation of the god Vishnu as the boar-headed Varaha. Objects in the museum's highly regarded African collection come from West and Central Africa.The objects date primarily from the 16th to the 20th centuries, although the earliest object is a Nok terracotta bust from Nigeria that dates from somewhere between 200 BC to 200 AD. The museum's significant collection of European art starts in the 16th century. Some of the earlier works include paintings by Giulio Cesare Procaccini ("Ecce Homo"), Pietro Paolini ("Bacchic Concert"), and Nicolas Mignard ("The Shepherd Faustulus Bringing Romulus & Remus to His Wife"). Art of the 18th century is represented by artists like Canaletto ("A View from the Fondamenta Nuova"), Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre ("The Abduction of Europa"), and Claude-Joseph Vernet ("Mountain Landscape with Approaching Storm"). The 19th and 20th century collection of European art also stands out. Among significant works in this collection are "Fox in the Snow" by Gustave Courbet, "The Seine at Lavacourt" by Claude Monet, "I Raro te Oviri" by Paul Gauguin, "Beginning of the World" by Constantin Brâncuşi, "Interior", and "Les Marroniers ou le Vitrail" by Edouard Vuillard. The collection of works by Piet Mondrian is also particularly noteworthy (with works like "The Windmill", "Self-Portrait", and "Place de la Concorde"). In 1985 the Dallas Museum of Art received a one-of-a-kind gift from Wendy Reves in honor of her late husband, Emery Reves. The Reves collection is housed in an elaborate 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m²) reproduction of the couple' home in France, Villa La Pausa (originally created for Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel), where the works were originally displayed. Among the 1,400 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper Emery Reves had collected are works from leading impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist artists, including Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent van Gogh. Another part of the Reves wing is devoted to decorative arts and includes Chinese export porcelain, European furniture, Oriental and European carpets, iron, bronze, and silver work, antique European glass, and rare books. The Dallas Museum of Art has significant holdings of ancient American art. The collection covers more than three millennia, displaying sculptures, prints, terracotta, and gold objects. Works in the ancient American collection span 3,000 years and represent twelve countries. Highlights include ceramics from the southwestern United States, ceramics and stone sculpture from Mexico and Guatemala, gold from Panama, Colombia, and Peru, textiles and ceramics from Peru and the Head of the god Tlaloc (Mexico, 14th-16th century). The American art collection includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the United States, Mexico, and Canada from the colonial period to World War II. Among the highlights of the collection are "Duck Island" by Childe Hassam, "Lighthouse Hill" by Edward Hopper, "That Gentleman" by Andrew Wyeth, "Bare Tree Trunks with Snow" by Georgia O'Keeffe and "Razor" and "Watch" by Gerald Murphy. One of the most beautiful pieces in the collection is "The Icebergs" by Frederic Edwin Church. This painting had long been referred to as a lost masterpiece. The painting was given to the museum in 1979 by Norma and Lamar Hunt. The Dallas Museum of Art also has one of the most thorough collections of Texas art. This is in great part thanks to Jerry Bywaters, director of the DMA from to 1943 to 1964, who was also one of the Dallas Nine, an influential group of Texas artists. In addition to paintings by Bywaters, the DMA has great works by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, Julian Onderdonk, Alexandre Hogue, David Bates, Dorothy Austin, Michael Owen, and Olin Herman Travis. The Museum's growing collections are the foundation for a broad range of special exhibitions organized by the DMA -- from nationally traveling shows such as Thomas Struth and Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century to focused exhibitions such as the recent Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg and the upcoming Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. From its establishment in 1903 as the Dallas Art Association, one of the Museum's missions was to collect and exhibit the work of living artists. However, it was only with the 1950 acquisition of Jackson Pollock's "Cathedral" that the collection really started. Every important artistic trend since 1945 is represented in the Dallas Museum of Art's vast collection of contemporary art, from abstract expressionism to pop and op Art, and from minimalism, and conceptualism to installation art, assemblage, and video art. The collection is now the largest in the world outside of specialist modern and contemporary art museums. Contemporary artists within the collection whose reputations are well established include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Smithson. Among photographers represented in the collection are Cindy Sherman, Nic Nicosia, Thomas Struth, and Lynn Davis. When the current Museum facility opened in the mid-1980s, several artists were commissioned to create site-specific works especially for the Dallas Museum of Art: Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Richard Fleischner, and Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen. In recent years, the museum has shown a strong interest in collecting the work of contemporary German artists such as Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, and Anselm Kiefer, while simultaneously collecting works by young contemporary artists. Amongst the highlights of the collections are Jakson Pollock's "Cathedral", Steve Wolfe's "Untitled (Piano Music for Erik Satie)", John Chamberlain's "Dancing Duke" and Alan Saret's "Deep Forest Green Dispersion". The museum's collection of works on paper, includes photographic works from the earliest pioneers, such as Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq through to Cindy Sherman. Temporary exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art reflect the breadth of its collections and its educational role. Currently on view is "Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement" (until May 8, 2011). This exhibition offers the first comprehensive examination of the life and work of the recognized patriarch of the American Arts & Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore Stickley as a business leader and design proselytizer, whose body of work included furnishings, architectural and interior designs, and related imagery that became synonymous with the movement that was at its height between approximately 1880 and 1910. This exhibition will include over 100 works produced by Stickley's designers and workshops, including furniture, metalwork, lighting, and textiles, along with drawings and related designs. Also featured in the exhibition is a re-creation of Stickley's seminal model dining room from his 1903 Syracuse Arts & Crafts exhibition. "Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Porfolio" (until July 17th 2011), features sixteen works drawn from a rare example of a portfolio within the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1910 Frank Lloyd Wright and Berlin publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued 'Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright (Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright)', a portfolio of one hundred stylishly rendered lithographs of plans, details, and perspective views produced by the architect and his assistants. Including defining works such as the architect's Oak Park home and studio, Unity Temple, and the Larkin Company Administration Building, among other projects, this portfolio served as the first and most important publication of Wright's innovative Prairie school creations and an inspiration for European and American architects in the decades to follow. This is a rare opportunity for the public to see these design illustrations from a pivotal time in Wright's career. A third design exhibitiojn, "Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present" is on show until 29th January 2012, and features more recent design works. Including over thirty works drawn largely from the Museum's collections dating from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition reveals the transformation of ideology and forms that have shaped international design of the last half century. From the technological and formal ideals of modernism to the influence of the handmade object, the works reflect increasingly complex and vibrant relationships between concepts of function, aesthetics, and material expression. Featured are designs by Raymond Loewy, Verner Panton, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass, Robert Venturi, Donald Judd, Zaha Hadid, Louise Campbell, and Fernando and Humberto Campana. In the Center for Creative Connextions, "Encountering Space" runs until August 31st 2011 and presents works of art from the Museum collections and asks visitors to consider how space is used to invite engagement, raise questions, and create meaning. As viewers begin to encounter works of art this way, they are no longer passive observers but active participants. Until April 17th 2011, the museum is offering visitors the opportunity to see "2011 Young Masters Exhibition", selected works created by Advanced Placement® Studio Art, Art History, and Music Theory students participating in the O'Donnell Foundation's AP Fine Arts Incentive Program™ in the Concourse beginning February 26.

New Exhibition at Auburn University Museum Explores Prints by Edvard Munch Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:52 PM PDT AUBURN, AL.- The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art (JCSM) at Auburn University presents a new exhibition, Prints by Edvard Munch, on view from Feb. 5–April 30 in the Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth Gallery. Edvard Munch, a Norwegian artist who lived from 1863 to 1944 is world renowned for his evocative depictions of universal human emotions and experiences––love, attraction, separation and death. His widely reproduced painting, "The Scream", captures in expressive brushwork the anxious psyche of modern man, overwhelmed by his perceptions of a cruel or indifferent world. Art changes lives. Our mandate within the larger mission of Auburn University is to preserve, enhance, research and interpret the collections entrusted to us. Through the presentation of compelling exhibitions and programming to our diverse audiences, we foster the transformative power of art.

Minerva Teichert’s ‘Pageants in Paint’ at BYU Museum of Art Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:49 PM PDT   PROVO, Utah - When Minerva Teichert attended art school in Chicago and New York in the early 1900s, mural paintings and theatrical pageants were dynamic components of American popular culture. Teichert embraced these popular art forms and used the visual language they provided to tell the stories of her religious heritage and the American West. Initial research for the exhibition was funded by the Brigham Young University Women's Research Institute. Admission to the exhibition is free of charge.

Gibbes Museum of Art to Feature Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:48 PM PDT Charleston, South Carolina – The Gibbes Museum of Art will present the exclusive exhibition Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection in the Main Gallery from April 30 through August 22, 2010.  Selected from the private collection of prominent art enthusiasts Esther and James Ferguson, this exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by significant twentieth-century artists such as Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and Christo.

Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art to open at Kunstalle Wein Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:46 PM PDT   Vienna, Austria - The highlight of fall 2008 will be a major exhibition : "With Western Motel. Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art, we will present one of the most important representatives of American twentieth century art in Austria for the first time," says Director Gerald Matt, of Kunstalle Wein. Edward Hopper's works continue to describe the state of today's world, his cinematographic view providing the starting point for narrative inventions and imaginations in space and time. On exhibition 3 October 2008 through 15 February 2009.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art to feature Walker Evans’s Eclectic Picture Postcard Collection Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:45 PM PDT New York City - Nine thousand picture postcards amassed by American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975) are among the fascinating works in The Walker Evans Archive, acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1994. Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard, to be presented at the Museum from February 3 through May 25, 2009, will be a dynamic installation of hundreds of these postcards from Evans's collection, which he built and refined over the course of 60 years.

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Presents Guillaume Bijl Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:43 PM PDT GHENT, BELGIUM - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst presents Guillaume Bijl, on view through June 7, 2008. Since the end of the seventies Guillaume Bijl (b. Antwerp, 1946) has explored the boundaries separating art and social reality. His inspiration comes from the everyday reality that surrounds him. Much of his work is based on banal, even trivial elements. Bijl wrenches reality out of its everyday context and places it in a setting that is both neutral and unexpected. This forces the spectator to approach this 'placed' reality from a completely new angle. The emphasis shifts from him being a participant in reality to an observer standing on the sidelines of this same reality.

Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum in Münster Celebrates with Miró Exhibition Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:42 PM PDT MUNSTER, GERMANY - It will be a time to celebrate at the Pablo Picasso Graphics Museum in Münster in 2010. Germany's only Picasso Museum will be ten years old. To mark the event, the Museum will be presenting three huge special exhibitions, on Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. The exhibition 'Joan Miro - Die Farbe seiner Traeume' (Joan Miro - The color of his dreams), running from 05 March to 06 June, 2010

Joslyn Art Museum Features Albert Paley - Contemporary American Sculptor Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:40 PM PDT OMAHA, NE.- Joslyn Art Museum's contemporary galleries is an exhibition celebrating Albert Paley's diverse and significant body of work, his virtuosity as a monumental sculptor, and the completion and dedication of Odyssey, Paley's gateway into Iowa on Interstate 80 at S. 24th Street in Council Bluffs, Iowa, near the Missouri River border with neighboring Omaha. Odyssey was commissioned by the Iowa West Foundation as part of their nationally acclaimed Public Art Initiative. Albert Paley: Celebrating a Contemporary American Sculptor, on view through September 26 at the Joslyn.

Glory Days by Sergey Bratkov Opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:38 PM PDT WINTERTHUR, SWITZERLAND - Five years on from our retrospective exhibition of Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov (in 2003) the Fotomuseum Winterthur now presents another leading Russian-Ukrainian artist of the next generation: Sergey Bratkov (born 1960). The exhibition includes some 130 works, giving a deep insight into Bratkov's photographic oeuvre since 1990. Socially critical, politically motivated and yet with a lyrical edge, his photographs are a direct and at times unsparing portrayal of everyday life since the collapse of the Soviet Union.  On view through 24 August, 2008.

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum shows Docent's Choice Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:37 PM PDT   South Hadley, MA - What is it that makes comparing two works of art so powerful? What do we see when we examine things side by side that we don't see when we look at objects individually? The docents of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum set about answering that question during the fall of 2007 and the exhibition Side By Side, on view at the Museum from March 4 to June 1, is the result of their investigations. The opening reception is scheduled for March 13 at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.

Library of Congress to discuss "Setting the President’s Table" Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:35 PM PDT   Washington, DC - The purchase and use of White House china provides a window into the importance and style of entertaining by U.S. presidents and their First Ladies,  and it will provide the public with a lot to dish about, too, as in the cases of Mary Todd Lincoln and Nancy Reagan. Christina Keyser, an assistant curator at Mount Vernon, will discuss "Setting the President's Table" at the Library of Congress at noon on Thursday, Jan. 15, in Room 139 on the first floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C.

Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum exhibits Jonathan Green Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:33 PM PDT Myrtle Beach, SC - The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum will offer an in-depth tour of the works of noted South Carolina artist Jonathan Green at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 29.  The tour will be led by Museum docent Chuck Lichy and is free and open to the public. Green's works are part of the Museum's current exhibit Jonathan Green: The Artist & The Collector, which includes 31 paintings by Mr. Green, along with 40 works from his private art collection.

Henri Cartier-Bresson Special LA Photo Exhibit Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:31 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, taking place January 19-23 at the Los Angeles Convention Center will debut a special exhibit of never before seen works by master photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Titled "Rarely / Unseen" the exhibit is curated by Peter Fetterman, owner of Peter Fetterman Gallery and will feature more than 35 photographs that have never been printed before. Fetterman, a former colleague of Cartier-Bresson, encouraged the artist to print a selection of unreleased images including photographs of Queen Charlotte's Ball and the Bolshoi Ballet. This private collection of less familiar gems, amassed over a twenty-year period, will be on display for the first time throughout the duration of the Los Angeles Art Show. A 2006 documentary based on Cartier-Bresson titled "The Impassioned Eye" will run in conjunction with the exhibit.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 27 Mar 2011 09:30 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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