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• The Imperial War Museum in London Presents "Women War Artists"
• Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels Presents "Thomas Lerooy: X & Y"
• Edinburgh Printmakers Present 'An Informed Energy: Lithography & Prints'
• The 50th Anniversary of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's Flight into Space
• Guggenheim in Bilbao Displays The Luminous Interval ~ The D. Daskalopoulos Collection
• National Gallery opens Exhibition of Major Loans of Paintings by Paul Delaroche
• Frick hosts First Public Viewing of French Drawings from a Celebrated Dutch Collector
• Record Attendance Marks Opening of 14th American International Fine Art Fair
• State Historical Museum opens "The Year 1812 in the Paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin"
• Miami Art Museum features New Acquisitions of its Permanent Collection
• Kramersky Art Collection on View at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente
• Francesc Torres Retrospective opens at The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Barcelona
• Pioneering Artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg at Columbia Museum of Art
• MUMOK features " Mind Expanders: Performative Bodies / Utopian Architectures "
• Shipley Art Gallery displays 70 Years of Penguin Design
• Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein opens 'Modernism as a Ruin ~ An Archaeology of the Present'
• The Rosetta Stone
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Imperial War Museum in London Presents "Women War Artists" Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:31 PM PDT London.- Focusing on work by women war artists from the First World War to the Kosovo conflict, the "Women War Artists" exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London is on view from 9th April 2011 to 8th January 2012. The exhibition highlights the Museum's outstanding art collection as it explores artists' response to conflict, whether as eyewitnesses, participants, commentators or as officially commissioned recorders. Women War Artists illuminates both the constraints and possibilities offered to female artists in war time and offers a unique opportunity to revisit key moments in the last century of Britain's history of war and conflict, through a largely unexplored perspective. Featured artists will include Anna Airy, one of the first women officially commissioned during the First World War, Dame Laura Knight RA, Linda Kitson and Frauke Eigen. A book to accompany the exhibition has been published by Tate Publishing in association with the Museum and is now available online. In 1917 the Cabinet decided that a National War Museum should be set up to collect and display material relating to the Great War, which was then still being fought.  The interest taken by the Dominion governments led to the museum being given the title of Imperial War Museum. It was formally established by Act of Parliament in 1920 and a governing Board of Trustees appointed. The Museum was opened in the Crystal Palace by King George V on 9 June 1920. From 1924 to 1935 it was housed, under very difficult conditions, in two galleries adjoining the former Imperial Institute, South Kensington. On 7 July 1936 the Duke of York, shortly to become King George VI, reopened the Museum in its present home. The Museum was closed to the public from September 1940 to November 1946 and vulnerable collections were evacuated to stores outside London. Most of the exhibits survived the war, but a Short seaplane, which had flown at the Battle of Jutland, was shattered when a German bomb fell on the Naval Gallery on 31 January 1941 and some of the naval models were damaged by the blast. At the outset of the Second World War the Museum's terms of reference were enlarged to cover both world wars and they were again extended in 1953 to include all military operations in which Britain or the Commonwealth have been involved since August 1914. The building which accommodates the Imperial War Museum London was formerly the central portion of Bethlem Royal Hospital, or Bedlam, as it was commonly known. Designed by James Lewis, it was completed in 1815. Sidney Smith's dome was added in 1846 and contained the chapel. The east and west wings were demolished in the early 1930s to make room for the park which now surrounds the Museum. Bethlem Royal Hospital dates back to 1247, when Simon Fitz-Mary, a wealthy alderman and sheriff of London, founded the Priory of St Mary of Bethlehem on the site which is now part of Liverpool Street Station. In the fourteenth century the priory began to specialise in the care of the insane. In 1547 Henry VIII granted the hospital to the City of London. Bethlem was moved to a new building in Moorfields in 1676. Until 1770 there were no restrictions on visitors, and the patients, who were often manacled or chained to the walls, were a public attraction. Patients included Mary Nicholson who tried to assassinate George III in 1786, Jonathan Martin, committed in 1829 after setting fire to York Minster, the painters Richard Dadd and Louis Wain, famous for his cartoons of cats, Antonia White, author of 'Frost in May' and 'Beyond the Glass' and the architect A W N Pugin who designed the Houses of Parliament and St George's Roman Catholic Cathedral opposite the Museum.  Visit the museum's website at ... http://london.iwm.org.uk

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels Presents "Thomas Lerooy: X & Y" Posted: 12 Apr 2011 10:09 PM PDT Brussels.- X and Y are the symbols of interchangeability: X can stand for anything, as Y can stand for anything except what X stands for. In the XY coordinate system, the point where the horizontal x-axis and the vertical y-axis intersect is the point zero, the origin and in essence the Void from which Everything arises. X and Y are also the sex chromosomes that form the basis of life. The coming together of sperm and egg cell creates the female XX or male XY cells. "X & Y" is the title of the exhibition which Thomas Lerooy created for Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, which consists of an ensemble of five new drawings and a bronze sculpture. The exhibition is on view until May 14th 2011.

Edinburgh Printmakers Present 'An Informed Energy: Lithography & Prints' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:45 PM PDT Edinburgh.- The Edinburgh Printmakers presents 'An Informed Energy: Lithography and Prints from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico', on view until 21st May 2011. This world-class exhibition of works by leading international artists including Jim Dine, Kiki Smith and Lesley Dill, celebrates the diversity of the medium of lithography and the accomplishments of the renowned Tamarind Institute of New Mexico. Collaboration, between the artist and the master printer as well as between Tamarind and institutions worldwide, is at the heart of the Tamarind's programme and they have a long association with the Scottish art community.

The 50th Anniversary of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's Flight into Space Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:27 PM PDT STAR CITY, RUSSIA (AP).- It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. The 27-year-old cosmonaut's mission lasted just 108 minutes and was fraught with drama: a break in data transmission, glitches involving antennas, a retrorocket and the separation of modules. And there was an overarching question that science had yet to answer: What would weightlessness do to a human being?

Guggenheim in Bilbao Displays The Luminous Interval ~ The D. Daskalopoulos Collection Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT BILBAO, SPAIN - The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection on view from April 12 through September 11, 2011. This is the first large-scale presentation of one of the world's most significant private collections of contemporary art. Sponsored by Iberdrola and occupying the museum's second floor and part of the first, the exhibition features approximately 60 works by some 30 artists, encompassing a wide range of mediums with a special emphasis on sculpture and environmental installations. Grounded in an assembly of works dating from the 1980s and 1990s by eminent figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Paul McCarthy, Annette Messager, and Kiki Smith, but also foregrounding projects by younger talents, such as Paul Chan, Guyton\Walker, Nate Lowman, and Wangechi Mutu, the exhibition immerses visitors in a focused survey of some of the most salient artistic developments of the past few decades. The exhibition's title is derived from the writings of the Greek philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), whose thinking has been particularly influential for the collecting practices of Dimitris Daskalopoulos. Kazantzakis envisioned life as a "luminous interval" during which struggle and disintegration are necessary prerequisites to creative production and renewal. The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection explores this coexistence of hope and despair within the human condition, with a particular focus on concepts of alienation, trauma, corporeality, and cultural identity. The D.Daskalopoulos Collection reflects the tenor of the times, and many of the works in the exhibition confront both the crises and triumphs of contemporary life. While much of the art on view derives from or alludes to specific geopolitical or social contexts, Dimitris Daskalopoulos appreciates in this work its capacity to simultaneously broach universal themes, especially the unquestionable resilience of the human spirit. Sprawling room-size installations are a hallmark of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, and the presentation in Bilbao incorporates a significant number of ambitiously scaled works, such as Thomas Hirschhorn's tape-and-cardboard catacomb Cavemanman (2002), Annette Messager's heart-shaped Dependence/Independence (1995), Wangechi Mutu's baroque tableau of late capitalist excess Exhuming Gluttony (2006/11), and John Bock's hallucinatory multimedia landscape Palms (2007). These chaotic environments are balanced by an opposing formal trope of rigid enclosure and geometric containment, exemplified in sculptures such as Mona Hatoum's barricaded electrical cube Current Disturbance (1996), Kendell Geers's razor-mesh grid Akropolis Now (2004), and Damien Hirst's evacuated vitrine and grisly medicine cabinets, respectively entitled The Asthmatic Escaped (1992) and The Lovers (The Spontaneous Lovers) (The Committed Lovers) (The Detached Lovers) (The Compromising Lovers) (1991). Many of the works in the exhibition delve into prevailing narratives of national and cultural identity. Steve McQueen's poetic study of conflicts in the Congo and Iraq (Gravesend/Unexploded, 2007), Rivane Neuenschwander's vision of eroding continental borders (Contingent, 2008), and Nate Lowman's seductive depictions of offshore oil rigs (Oil Riggs, 2005), all comment either obliquely or directly on the conflicts surrounding the planet's natural resources. Kutluğ Ataman's Küba (2004) evokes a composite portrait of what constitutes a community by focusing on the inhabitants of a slum outside Istanbul, while Paul Pfeiffer's The Saints (2007) investigates the dynamics of the crowd through the restaging of an iconic international soccer game. Alexandros Psychoulis's Body Milk (2003) and Walid Raad/The Atlas Group's I Was Overcome by a Momentary Panic at the Thought that I Might Be Right (2004) present two very different abstracted depictions of the aftermaths of violence in the Middle East. Other groupings of works in the exhibition explore the most intimate aspects of individual identity, with a particular focus on the human body in varying states of repression, fecundity, and disintegration. In some cases, this is achieved through the creation of uncanny surrogates, such as Robert Gober's transfigured sinks, cribs, and baskets, or the cast negative space of Rachel Whiteread's studies of domestic experience. In others, including Smith's unflinching delineations of bodily functions or Marina Abramović's intimate, ritualistic encounter with a skeleton, a visceral sense of immediacy prevails. Yet another vein of corporeal renderings in the exhibition take an irreverently subversive approach to the subject, notably Paul McCarthy's dismembered Tomato Head (Burgundy) (1994) and Sarah Lucas's bathetically vanquished "bunny" in Bunny Gets Snookered #10 (1997). The list of artists included in the exhibition comprises: Marina Abramoviċ (b. 1946, Belgrade, Yugoslavia); Kutluğ Ataman (b. 1961, Istanbul); Matthew Barney (b. 1967, San Francisco); John Bock (b. 1965, Gribbohm, Germany); Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911, Paris; d. 2010, New York); Paul Chan (b. 1973, Hong Kong); Mark Dion (b. 1961, New Bedford, Mass.) and Robert Williams (b. 1960, Liverpool, U.K.); Kendell Geers (b. May 1968); Robert Gober (b. 1954, Wallingford, Conn.); Guyton\Walker (Wade Guyton: b. 1972, Hammond, Ind.; Kelley Walker: b. 1969, Columbus, Ga.); Mona Hatoum (b. 1952, Beirut, Lebanon); Thomas Hirschhorn (b. 1957, Bern, Switzerland); Damien Hirst (b. 1965, Bristol, U.K.); Mike Kelley (b. 1954, Detroit, Mich.); William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg); Martin Kippenberger (b. 1953, Dortmund, Germany; d. 1997, Vienna); Nate Lowman (b. 1979, Las Vegas); Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London); Paul McCarthy (b. 1945, Salt Lake City, Utah); Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London); Annette Messager (b. 1943, Berck-sur-Mer, France); Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi, Kenya); Rivane Neuenschwander (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil); Chris Ofili (b. 1968, Manchester, U.K.); Gabriel Orozco (b. 1962, Jalapa, Mexico); Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu); Alexandros Psychoulis (b. 1966, Volos, Greece); Walid Raad (b. 1967, Chbanieh, Lebanon); Kiki Smith (b. 1954, Nuremberg, Federal Republic of Germany [West Germany]); and Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963, London) Visit The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao at : http://www.guggenheim.org/bilbao

National Gallery opens Exhibition of Major Loans of Paintings by Paul Delaroche Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT LONDON.- The exhibition features seven major international loans of paintings by Delaroche including 'The Princes in the Tower', 1830 and 'Young Christian Martyr', 1854–5 (both Louvre), and 'Strafford on his way to Execution,' 1835 (private collection). Displayed alongside are Delaroche's expressive preparatory drawings for Lady Jane and a selection of comparative paintings and prints by his contemporaries, including Eugène Lami, Claude Jacquand and François-Marius Granet. On exhibition at the National Gallery, London through 23 May, 2010.

Frick hosts First Public Viewing of French Drawings from a Celebrated Dutch Collector Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- As its major fall exhibition, the Frick presents Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection, featuring more than sixty works on paper from the holdings of the Fondation Custodia, Paris. On view until January 10, 2010, it includes drawings and watercolors by well-known masters of the French School, including Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Edgar Degas, as well as by important figures who may be less familiar to the general public. This is the first public exhibition to focus on French eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works on paper from the holdings of Johannes Frederik Lugt (1884–1970), a remarkable self-taught art historian and noted collector. His name is well known to those in the field, and with his pioneering publications very much in use still, he continues to be cited today. Initially specializing in Dutch and Flemish drawings and prints from his native Netherlands, Lugt later began to acquire works from all over Western Europe, with a great strength developed in the area represented in this exhibition. In 1947, Lugt established the Fondation Custodia, Paris, to care for and to add to his collections; it now holds more than 7,000 drawings and 30,000 prints; as well as paintings, books, and artists' letters.

Record Attendance Marks Opening of 14th American International Fine Art Fair Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT PALM BEACH, FL.- International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) founders and AIFAF organizers David and Lee Ann Lester reported that a record 5,100 collectors attended the opening Vernissage honoring the Norton Museum of Art Tuesday evening at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Sales during the first day of the fair indicate that the US art economy is rebounding strongly – consistent with very strong auction sales in New York on Wednesday – where a Giacometti sculpture sold for a record $105 million – a new high for any work of art. The American International Fine Art Fair continues its run through February 8.

State Historical Museum opens "The Year 1812 in the Paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin" Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT MOSCOW.- The State Historical Museum opened the exhibition "The Year 1812 in the paintings by Vasily Vereshchagin", a gift given to the museum in 1812 by Emperor Nicholas II. Prior to the celebraton of the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812 the State Historical Museum has organized this exhibition of paintings made by the famous Russian painter of battle scenes, Vasily Vereshchagin. Twenty grandiose picturesque paintings chronicle the events from the Battle of Borodino to the flight of Napoleon from Russia.

Miami Art Museum features New Acquisitions of its Permanent Collection Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT MIAMI, FLORIDA -  A reinstallation showcasing both "old favorites" and new acquisitions from the permanent collection of Miami Art Museum opens to the public Friday. The reinstallation will be on view in MAM's Plaza-level gallery through November 2, 2008. In November 2004, Miami-Dade County voters overwhelmingly approved a bond that includes $100 million for the construction of a new home for MAM. MAM has selected Pritzker Prize and Royal Gold Medal-winning architects Herzog & de Meuron as designers of the Museum's new and expanded facility.

Kramersky Art Collection on View at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT SEGOVIA, SPAIN - The term "minimalisms" defines the New York private collection from which the exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente is drawn. The Kramarsky Collection is one of the most prestigious and active in the scene of American contemporary art, concentrating its interest on drawing as an independent artistic language. The collection consists of over 3000 works of art created from the mid-20th century to the present. While known for its strength in Minimalist drawings of the 1960s, the collection additionally features works that constitute Minimalism's contemporary legacy, as well as abstract works that are gesturally expressive in nature and intent.

Francesc Torres Retrospective opens at The Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Barcelona Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT BARCELONA, SPAIN - A pioneer of the language of installation art, Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) critically reflects on the diverse manifestations of culture, politics, memory and power through his multimedia installations, which give him a unique place in the art of the last few decades. The MACBA retrospective includes a selection of works carried out from the end of the sixties to the present with recent productions. Moreover, this exhibition features other unfamiliar or little known aspects of his work, such as the influence of poetic practice and, notably, the importance of drawing and of the work on image that links Torres to the language of painting.

Pioneering Artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg at Columbia Museum of Art Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT COLUMBIA, SC.- An installation of the work of pioneering Pop artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg opens at the Columbia Museum of Art on July 18 and runs through October 4. JJ/RR Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg: 20th Century Masters in the Collection, on view in the Museum's Gallery 15, includes 10 works on paper by the iconic artists. This installation, drawn from the work in the Columbia Museum of Art's collection, explores the visual relationship between these two artists and friends.

MUMOK features " Mind Expanders: Performative Bodies / Utopian Architectures " Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT VIENNA, AUSTRIA - "Mind Expanders" at MUMOK shows the connections between the social upheavals and the art forms of the 1960s and 1970s that were border transgressing and architecturally-influenced or performative in nature. The title is derived from Haus-Rucker-Co's seat object for two people which conjoins technology and body and stands as an example of the attempt to achieve an artistically radical redefinition of the social environment and interpersonal relationships.

Shipley Art Gallery displays 70 Years of Penguin Design Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT   Gateshead, UK -  An exciting exhibition celebrating 70 years of iconic Penguin book cover design is on show at the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead through 31 May, 2009. Drawing on material from the Penguin archives and the University of Bristol, and created in collaboration with the V&A Museum in London, the display will show how Penguin has responded to - and influenced - changing trends in British culture.

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein opens 'Modernism as a Ruin ~ An Archaeology of the Present' Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT Vaduz, Liechtenstein - The key project of modernism as of the early 20th century was the achievement of a society that would be more humane and contemporary. New residential forms were to be created and cities were to be totally different in appearance. The exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein asks what became of that utopia. The museum is bringing together contemporary architecture, specific forms of presentation, a welcoming atmosphere and varied public programmes. Our goal is for this focus on art and its meanings to be taken up as an inspirational challenge. On view 2 October until 17 January, 2010.

The Rosetta Stone Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT LONDON (REUTERS).- The head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said he plans to ask the British Museum to hand the Rosetta Stone over to his country. The ancient stone was the key to deciphering hieroglyphs on the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs and is one of six ancient relics that Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass said his country wants to recover from museums around the world. The 3-1/2 foot high Rosetta Stone was unearthed by Napoleon's army in 1799 and dates back to 196 BC. It became British property after Napoleon's defeat under the 1801 Treaty of Alexandria.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 12 Apr 2011 08:24 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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