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• Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder on View at Alte Pinakothek in Munich
• Axelle Fine Arts in New York To Celebrate the Works of Fabienne Delacroix
• The Cafesjian Center for the Arts Displays Exhibitions of Contemporary Glass Sculpture
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow Hosts 'Riverside' by Patricia Cain
• PINTA Announces Its 2nd Latin American Art Show in London
• "Gail Roberts: Entanglement" at the Luis de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles
• Gagosian Gallery Presents Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'amour fou In NYC
• Fundación Mapfre in Madrid to host "Impressionism: A Modern Renaissance"
• The Getty Villa opens Jim Dine ~ Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets)
• Art by Indigenous Women of Australia To Open at the Hood Museum
• Nassau County Museum of Art Showcases "Metamorphosis" by Rona Pondick
• National Gallery of Canada Honors Daphne Odjig with First Solo Exhibtion
• Edward Burtynsky "OIL" Photographic Exhibition at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery
• Kresge Art Museum Goes for the "Bold" with New Summer Exhibition
• Brooklyn Museum to Exhibit a New Generation of Feminist Video Artists
• Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art at the Getty Museum
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder on View at Alte Pinakothek in Munich Posted: 14 Apr 2011 09:46 PM PDT MUNICH.- The third exhibition to mark the Alte Pinakothek's 175th anniversary comprises 30 selected paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) from the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen's extensive holdings. It is the first Cranach exhibition in the Alte Pinakothek. The exhibition is on display from April 14 and runs until July 17, 2011. The title "Cranach in Bavaria" encompasses biographical and art-historical aspects as well as those related to the history of the collection and museum policies. The Wittenberg painter was born on the border of present-day Bavaria in 1472 and became famous under the name of his place of birth, Kronach, in Upper Franconia. His first large altarpiece, "The Crucifixion" of 1503 in the Alte Pinakothek, was most probably painted for a Bavarian monastery. When the painting was added to the elector of Bavaria's gallery in 1804, the Cranach collection there was already of considerable age, the first paintings for Munich having been acquired back in the 16th century. The holdings that were substantially expanded in the early 19th century now include more than 100 paintings by Cranach, by artists from his workshop, from his circle and his successors. Of these, 81 are displayed at six different places in the Free State of Bavaria. The exhibition presents a cross-section of these holdings and touches on a number of questions that are the focus of reseach today. The 30 exhibited paintings include the five oldest works in the collection, documented as already being in Munich and Schleißheim in the 16th/17th century: "Golden Age", the life-sized "Lucretia", "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery", "The Israelites Crossing the Red Sea" and "The Sacrifice of Abraham". Later acquisitions are also represented pars pro toto. Examples of the broad range of subjects produced in paintings from Cranach's workshop – from the Old Testament to scenes from Antiquity and mythology, popular during the Renaissance, as well as humorous presentations of the "unequal couple" – are on show, and the subject of serial production and the variation of motifs addressed. "Cranach in Bavaria" also illustrates the decentralised deployment of artworks owned by the Free State in an exemplary fashion. This is not a modern-day invention but something that was introduced more than 200 years ago with a tightly-knit network of branch galleries that still exists today. On the occasion of the Alte Pinakothek's anniversary, it is the exhibition's conscious intention to draw attention to the fact that the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen's treasures are not just concentrated in Munich, but that a trip to Aschaffenburg, Bamberg, Kronach, Nuremberg and Regensburg is well worth its while. Alte Pinakothek....One of the foremost painting collections of the world. Here, masterpieces of European art from the 13th to 18th century come together - over 1,800 paintings from the Middle Ages to the Rococo. Open daily from 10 am to 6 pm except Mon.  Visit : http://www.pinakothek.de/alte-pinakothek/

Axelle Fine Arts in New York To Celebrate the Works of Fabienne Delacroix Posted: 14 Apr 2011 09:45 PM PDT New York.- Axelle Fine Arts are pleased to announce a reception for Fabienne Delacroix on April 30th 2011. Fabienne Delacroix' work portrays the French Belle Epoque, the years of the late 19th and very early 20th century, during an economic, artistic and technological boom that filled society with creativity and optimism. Delacroix uses this time period as a backdrop for her intimate scenes of family life and for sometimes grand presentations of a crowd in motion through architectural and industrial panoramas of this golden era. Fabienne grew up playing, learning and working in the studio of her father Michel Delacroix, the world's most famous French naïf artist.

The Cafesjian Center for the Arts Displays Exhibitions of Contemporary Glass Sculpture Posted: 14 Apr 2011 09:29 PM PDT Yereman (Armenia).- The Cafesjian Center for the Artsis currently presenting 2 exhibitions of stunning contemporary glass. "Henrik Nikoyan: Visions" opened in March at the Sasuntsi Garden Gallery of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts, "New selections from the Gerard L. CafesjianCollection", featuring works by an international array of glass artists, including Czech Ivan Mareš, Jaromír Rybák, Pavel Trnka, Vlastimil Beranek,Milan Handl, American John Kuhnand Herb Babcock, Slovakian artist Ján Zoricák, and Swedish Bertil Vallienopened on April 1st.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow Hosts 'Riverside' by Patricia Cain Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:48 PM PDT Glasgow.- A unique and often revealing study of the construction of the Zaha Hadid designed Riverside Museum will open at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on April 15. 'Drawing (on) Riverside' by Patricia Cain features around 100 works, forming a powerful body of work from an award winning artist who explores the development of the £74million museum in drawing, painting and sculpture highlighting the different phases of construction. It features many new works and runs until 14 August 2011. Patricia Cain has become a familiar figure on the site of Glasgow's new transport museum and her work based on the project has already won the prestigious Threadneedle Prize and the Aspect Prize. Construction on the Riverside Museum began in late 2007 and it will open to the public on June 21 2011. Councillor George Redmond, Chair of Glasgow Life said: "Anyone who sees the works Patricia Cain has been creating that are based on Riverside will be astonished by her unique vision and the detail she has captured of Britain's most exciting museum project.

PINTA Announces Its 2nd Latin American Art Show in London Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:16 PM PDT LONDON.- Following a successful first year in London in 2010, PINTA, the Latin American Art Show is returning to Earls Court Exhibition Centre this June 6th - 9th to present the very best in modern and contemporary Latin American art. Launched in New York City in 2007, PINTA has become the annual meeting place for Latin American Art. In June 2011, PINTA will bring to London over fifty galleries from the Americas and Europe including Guillermo de Osma Galería and Distrito 4 from Madrid; Maddox Arts from London; Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte from Buenos Aires; LucIa de la Puente from Peru, Galería Enrique Guerrero from Mexico, Galeria Nara Roesler from São Paulo, Aninat Isabel from Santiago, Chile and Durban Segnini and Sammer Gallery from Miami.

"Gail Roberts: Entanglement" at the Luis de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:15 PM PDT Los Angeles.- Luis De Jesus Gallery is very pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Gail Roberts, entitled "Entanglement" on view from April 16 through May 28, 2011. This will be Gail Robert's second solo exhibition with the gallery. An artists' reception will be held on Saturday, April 16th, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. In Gail Roberts's new paintings, images of birds' nests are paired with books, titles and passages of text, creating a vehicle for inquiry and commentary into the artist's reflections on nature, culture, and man's temporal existence. The paintings are a further investigation of themes that she has explored in different ways throughout her 35-year career as a painter. Books and, in particular, classic literature, came into focus several years ago when she created a series of paintings that referenced the accumulation of objects in her personal life — memorials to the amassing of material items that illuminate and reassess what is valued and what is discarded.

Gagosian Gallery Presents Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'amour fou In NYC Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:41 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Following the critical and popular success of Picasso: Mosqueteros in New York in 2009 and Picasso: The Mediterranean Years in London in 2010, Gagosian Gallery presents the next chapter in an ongoing exploration of Picasso's principal themes. Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L'amour fou brings together the paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints inspired by one of Picasso's most ideal models and enduring passions. The exhibition is curated by the eminent Picasso biographer, John Richardson, together with Marie-Thérèse's granddaughter, art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso, who is currently preparing a catalogue raisonné of Picasso's sculptures. The exhibition is on view from April 14 through June 25, 2011. You have an interesting face. I would like to do your portrait. I have a feeling we will do great things together.. . .Pablo Picasso In 1927, on a street in Paris, Picasso encountered the unassuming girl, just shy of eighteen years old, who would become his lover and one of modern art's most famous muses. "I am Picasso" he announced. The name meant nothing to Marie-Thérèse so he took her to a bookshop to show her a monograph of his paintings and asked if he could see her again. Flattered and curious, she agreed, and thus began a secret love affair that would establish Marie-Thérèse as the primary inspiration for Picasso's most daring aesthetic experiments in the decade to come. More than any other woman that Picasso desired and painted, Marie-Thérèse, with her statuesque body and strong, pure profile, fueled his imagination with a luminous dream of youth. Although her first appearances in his work were veiled references with her initials forming spare linear compositions, such as in the earliest work in the exhibition, Guitare à la main blanche (1927), the arrival of the blond goddess's likeness in his art announced a new love in his life. In portrayals, Picasso would stretch her robust athletic form to new extremes, metamorphosing her in endlessly inventive ways. She became the catalyst for some of his most exceptional work, from groundbreaking paintings to an inspired return to sculpture in the 1930s, according her an almost mythic stature and earning her immortality as an art historical subject. Yet her true identity remained a secret from even Picasso's closest friends. Even after Marie-Thérèse bore their daughter Maya in 1935, Picasso would continue to divide his time between his professional life as the most famous artist in the world, and his secret family life, spending Thursdays and weekends with her and Maya and amassing a trove of love letters and snapshots exchanged while they were apart. The exhibition spans the years 1927 to 1940 and includes several works never before seen in the United States. The curators have assembled the group of more than eighty works to show a rarely articulated range of Marie-Thérèse's influence within Picasso's imagery, beyond recent headline-grabbing portraits. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with a new biographical essay by John Richardson, and Diana Widmaier Picasso's revelatory essay exploring Picasso's portraiture, which includes dozens of never before published photographs of Marie-Thérèse from the family archives. Elizabeth Cowling, Professor Emeritus of History of Art at Edinburgh University and co-curator of the historic exhibition "Matisse Picasso" (2002-03), has contributed an essay that examines the dissemination of images of Picasso's sculptures through the art journals of the period. To show Picasso's work in a downtown contemporary art gallery creates a context that evokes the original challenges that his art presented in his own time while celebrating its enduring significance in our own. Under the direction of Valentina Castellani and installed in a dynamic transformation of the 21st Street gallery by architect Annabelle Selldorf, this unprecedented exhibition of the period reveals Picasso's secret muse and his l'amour fou Marie-Thérèse in a dramatic new light. Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain in 1881 and died in France in 1973. Recent exhibitions of his work include "Picasso: Tradition and the Avant-Garde," Museo Nacional del Prado and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2006); "Picasso and American Art" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006) traveling to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2007); "Picasso et les Maîtres," Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (2008-09); "Picasso: Challenging the Past," National Gallery London (2009) and "Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum", New York (2010). Visit Gagosian Gallery at : http://www.gagosian.com/

Fundación Mapfre in Madrid to host "Impressionism: A Modern Renaissance" Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT MADRID - From 14 January through 22 April 2010 Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, will present a major exhibition, including more than ninety paintings from the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, which will show Impressionism in a startling new light. The exhibition will include celebrated works by the great artists of Impressionism, Manet, Monet, Degas, Cézanne and more, but it will set these in the context of the myriad other currents of French art at the time. These range from the traditional painting of the state-controlled official Salon, to the often arcane Symbolism of Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau. Seeing the exhibition in Madrid, in close proximity to the Prado, visitors will also be made aware of the relationship of Impressionism to Spanish art, through the influence of Velazquez and Goya.

The Getty Villa opens Jim Dine ~ Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets) Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT   LOS ANGELES, CA - When artist Jim Dine first saw three sculptures in the Getty Museum's antiquities collection—the life-size group Poet as Orpheus with Two Sirens (about 350–300 B.C.), Statuette of a Dancer (300–200 B.C.) and Statuette of a Dancer Playing the Lyre (200 –100 B.C.) . . he had an emotional connection with the Greek terracotta figures. Inspired by the beauty of their form and the dynamism of their poses, Dine retreated to his studio in Walla Walla, Washington, and envisioned his own interpretation of the poet and the dancers.

Art by Indigenous Women of Australia To Open at the Hood Museum Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT HANOVER, N.H. — The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents Dreaming Their Way: Australian Aboriginal Women Painters, a groundbreaking exhibition of paintings by thirty-three indigenous female artists from across the Australian continent.  On view October 7–December 10, 2006, Dreaming Their Way is the first-ever exhibition of its kind in the United States.

Nassau County Museum of Art Showcases "Metamorphosis" by Rona Pondick Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT Roslyn Harbor, New York - Sculptural work by Rona Pondick, fusing human and natural forms in provocative ways, are on view in Metamorphosis: Rona Pondick, at Nassau County Museum of Art's Contemporary Gallery through May 23, 2010 (the exhibition opened on March 13, 2010). Rona Pondick blends traditional sculptural methods with the latest 3-D computer technology to produce powerful sculptural objects that morph human, animal and plant forms.

National Gallery of Canada Honors Daphne Odjig with First Solo Exhibtion Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT OTTAWA.- So groundbreaking was her work in the 60s and 70s, fellow artist and friend Norval Morrisseau called her "Picasso's grandmother." While Daphne Odjig's work does embrace Cubism at times, as can be seen in "L'amour fou", her colorful and playful homage to Picasso, Morrisseau's tongue-in-cheek nickname for her claims a rich pictorial tradition of color, line, rhythm and movement that long predates the art of the 20th.century. The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) proudly presents "The Drawings and Paintings of Daphne Odjig", the institution's first solo exhibition by a First Nations' female artist.

Edward Burtynsky "OIL" Photographic Exhibition at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT New York, NY - HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER is pleased to announce the exclusive representation of Edward Burtynsky in the United States. HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER opens with "Edward Burtynsky: Oil". The exhibition runs until November 28, 2009.  "Oil" consists of a series of large format color images made over the last 12 years. Burtynsky's obsession with oil began in 1997, when he identified oil as a key building block of the last century - politically, economically and socially - on a global scale. He has tracked this controversial, valuable and increasingly scarce resource from extraction to production to consumption. His obsession with oil has taken him from oil fields to expressways, from Western Canada to Los Angeles to the Middle East.

Kresge Art Museum Goes for the "Bold" with New Summer Exhibition Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT EAST LANSING, MI.- Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University presents the summer exhibition EyePoppers: Big & Bold from the Kresge Art Museum Collection, featuring 31 large scale paintings and sculpture from the museum collection. The exhibition is on view May 1 through July 30, 2010. The family-friendly opening reception was on Sunday, May 2, 2010 coincided with the Lansing area First Sunday Gallery Walk. This exhibition celebrates art of the past half-century: Pure abstraction, Op and Geometric art, and Color Field paintings. Acquired through gifts and acquisitions over the fifty-year history of the Kresge Art Museum , they follow the major stylistic trends during this time.

Brooklyn Museum to Exhibit a New Generation of Feminist Video Artists Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT BROOKLYN, NY - Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video presents recent videos by a new generation of feminist video artists. The exhibition title Reflections on the Electric Mirror is taken from an eponymous essay written in the 1970s by artist/filmmaker Lynn Hershman, examining the links between television and video art. This exhibition will be on view in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, May 1, 2009 through January 10, 2010.

Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art at the Getty Museum Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT   LOS ANGELES, CA - Rare examples of decorative works of gold and silver, armor, carved ivories, enamels, sculpture, paintings and illuminated manuscripts from the 3rd through the 16th centuries will be on view in Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, October 30, 2007 – January 20, 2008, providing an unprecedented opportunity for West Coast audiences to view these extraordinary objects outside of Cleveland.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 14 Apr 2011 07:39 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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