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• Vancouver Art Gallery To Show 'The Colour of My Dreams ~ The Surrealist Revolution'
• The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute To Show "Pissarro's People"
• The New Turner Contemporary Art Galley Opened April 2011 in Margate, UK
• The Rodger LaPelle Gallery Shows "Octopus Lines" New Paintings by Martin Poole
• Winterthur Museum Acquires One of the Earliest Known American Depictions of the Easter Bunny
• Poland's Most Precious Painting, "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci to Travel
• IAP Fine Arts Exhibits "Chris Gollon ~ Love"
• "Conversations: Photographs From the Bank of America Collection" at MFA Boston
• Bonhams David Hockney Sale in London
• The Arkansas Art Center Shows "The Impressionists and Their Influence"
• Surrealist Wifredo Lam's Afro-Cuban Mythology Meets Salvador Dalí's Personal Myths
• Installation of Spiders Weaving Stars by Tomas Saraceno in Italy
• The October Gallery to Present Romuald Hazoumé's "Made in Porto-Novo"
• Knoxville Museum of Art presents 'Josh Simpson ~ A Visionary Journey in Glass'
• Irish Museum of Modern Art shows Spanish Artist Ferran Garcia Sevilla
• Kunsthaus Zurich Announces Programs to Celebrate 100th Anniversary
• 'Collection Highlights' of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
• Knoedler & Company Presents Conrad Marca-Relli / The New York Years
• A Blooming Blazing Show of Stars at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Vancouver Art Gallery To Show 'The Colour of My Dreams ~ The Surrealist Revolution' Posted: 20 Apr 2011 10:55 PM PDT Vancouver, Canada - 'The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art' is the most comprehensive exhibition of surrealist art ever presented in Canada. Included are outstanding works by Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy and other leading figures of Surrealism. Guest curator Dawn Ades, a renowned scholar and leading expert on the movement, has selected more than 300 works of art that underscore the radical sense of experimentation that contributed to the founding of Surrealism in the 1920s and resulted in a rich diversity of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and film in the ensuing decades. André Breton wrote the first Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924. With the ideas of Sigmund Freud as a major inspiration, Breton set out an approach to creativity that would free artists from what was seen as "false rationality" and tap directly into the unconscious mind and dreams. The exhibition will explore the themes of desire, androgyny, violence, transmutation and dream states that captured the imagination of Surrealist artists and were explored repeatedly over several decades. It will also highlight techniques invented by artists in the movement, including automatism, frottage, fumage and the surrealist object, an approach to sculpture in which several unrelated components, most often found objects, were joined together.On exhibit May 28 – September 25 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of one of the twentieth century's most important artistic movements, the exhibition also examines (for the first time) the passionate interest in the indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest by Surrealist artists such as Breton, Enrico Donati, Robert Lebel, Wolfgang Paalen and Kurt Seligmann. The exhibition reveals the formative influence of early silent cinema, in particular American films starring performers such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, on the development of surrealist film. This historic exhibition brings together loans from many of the world's foremost public and private collections including the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Musée du quai Branly and the Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Tate in London. This exhibition is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Dawn Ades. In its 79-year history, the Vancouver Art Gallery has expanded three times. Currently operating at and beyond capacity after nearly 30 years in the renovated former provincial courthouse building, the Gallery is now planning a new, purpose-built facility that will meet the community's needs for the next 50 years and beyond. Construction of the original Vancouver Art Gallery building began in March of 1931, funded by $130,000 raised by a group of art patrons led by Vancouver businessman Henry A. Stone. In 1951, the Vancouver Art Gallery at 1145 Georgia Street was expanded to three times it original size in order to accommodate 157 works by Emily Carr, willed by the artist to the province of British Columbia before her death in 1945. The Vancouver Art Gallery remained at 1145 Georgia Street until 1983, when it moved to its present location in the former provincial courthouse building bound by Georgia, Howe, Hornby and Robson Streets. The new Vancouver Art Gallery opened to the public in October 1983 in the retrofitted courthouse building with 41,400 square feet of exhibition space. The Vancouver Art Gallery's collection originated with few Canadian works and a strong emphasis on British historical painting. The Vancouver Art Gallery houses a number of major works by Canadian artists (in addition to the Emily Carr collection), including Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Jock Macdonald, J.W. Morrice, David Milne, Harold Town, Gershon Iskowitz and Jack Bush. The collection includes a number of works by some of Quebec's best known artists, including Theophile Hamel, Antoine Plamondon, Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, Paul-Emile Borduas, Guido Molinari, Jacques de Tonnancour, Claude Tousignant, Charles Gagnon, Yves Gaucher, Alfred Pellan and Jean-Paul Lemieux. The Gallery has acquired major works by Quebecois contemporaries such as Genviève Cadieux, Jana Sterbak, Jocelyne Alloucherie and Betty Goodwin. The Gallery's European historical collection includes Dutch paintings from the seventeenth century by Jan Anthoniszoon van Ravenstyn, Jan Wynants, Isaac van Ostade, Pieter Neeffs the Elder, Jacob Marrel, Jan van Huysum, Balthasar van der Ast, Ambrosium Bosschaert the Younger, Jan Josefsz van Goyen, Abraham Storck, Roelof de Vries, Willem van de Velde the Younger, Adriaen van der Kabel, Salomon van Ruysdael, Flemish-Cornelius de Heem, Roelandt Savery and a fine first edition of Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes' Disasters of War. Visit the museum's website at ... www.vanartgallery.bc.ca

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute To Show "Pissarro's People" Posted: 20 Apr 2011 10:12 PM PDT Williamstown, MA.- A new exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, "Pissarro's People" offers a fresh look at the Impressionist painter by examining his portraits, harvest scenes, and market views through the lens of his personal relationships, profound social and economic concerns, and anarchist beliefs. Based on new scholarship by curator and leading Pissarro scholar Richard R. Brettell, this visually stunning exhibition brings together some of the artist's most iconic figural works with lesser-known pictures from private and public collections from around the world. The exhibition will challenge our understanding of the father of Impressionism by focusing on Camille Pissarro's engagement with the human figure in a highly personal and poignant exploration of his humanism.

The New Turner Contemporary Art Galley Opened April 2011 in Margate, UK Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:52 PM PDT London (The Guardian).- "The sun is God." These are said to be the last words Joseph Mallord William Turner spoke from his London deathbed as the light streamed through his window. Not quite true: what the artist actually said, to his doctor, was "Go downstairs and get yourself a glass of sherry." The more famous phrase was an invention of Turner's friend, John Ruskin, the critic who made the artist a kind of demigod, championing his every brushstroke. Turner Contemporary, a brand-new public art gallery that opened on the seafront at Margate on April 16th 2011, glories in sunlight. It rises from the site of the lodging house where the artist enjoyed the ample favours of its landlady, Sophia Booth. It was from this north Kent beach, where the North Sea wrestles with the Thames Estuary, that Turner immortalised in oils and watercolours the sunlight and seascapes that would make him Britain's greatest painter.

The Rodger LaPelle Gallery Shows "Octopus Lines" New Paintings by Martin Poole Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:33 PM PDT Philadelphia, PA- For over 15 years The Rodger LaPelle Galleries has been proud to represent Martin Poole on a yearly basis.  This year we anticipate a particularly provocative feast of paintings.  'Octopus Lines', the shows headliner, gives the viewer a moment to reflect on the beauty of color and sharp contrast. The light shines on a girl's hair and passes through the flesh of the octopus tentacles. Pale green and vibrant red vie for our focus and toy with our expectations.  There is no apology for this odd subject mater. It merely is. With other pieces Poole unleashes a more vibrant, moving energy.

Winterthur Museum Acquires One of the Earliest Known American Depictions of the Easter Bunny Posted: 20 Apr 2011 09:16 PM PDT WINTERTHUR, DE - Winterthur Museum recently acquired one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, which was sold at Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown , Pennsylvania . Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of the Easter rabbit and colored eggs was brought to America by immigrants from southwestern Germany in the 1700s, and has become a favorite American tradition. This delightful image is attributed to schoolmaster Johann Conrad Gilbert (1734–1812), who emigrated from Germany in 1757 and ultimately settled in Berks County , Pennsylvania . He likely made the drawing as a gift for one of his students. A similar drawing, also attributed to Gilbert, is in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg.

Poland's Most Precious Painting, "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci to Travel Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:19 PM PDT WARSAW (AP).- It's finally been decided: Poland's most precious painting, "Lady with an Ermine" by Leonardo da Vinci, will be allowed to travel to Spain, Germany and Britain. Wednesday's decision came after almost a year of discussion by art experts and Poland's Culture Ministry about whether the 15th-century masterpiece should be allowed to leave the country. Last week, art conservationists warned it could be damaged in transit. Da Vinci painted the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani on a chestnut board around the year 1490. It has belonged to the Czartoryski family in Poland since the early 19th century.

IAP Fine Arts Exhibits "Chris Gollon ~ Love" Posted: 20 Apr 2011 08:18 PM PDT London.- Taking Tamsin Pickeral's recent book, "Chris Gollon: Humanity in Art", as a starting point, Gollon's latest work reflects on his 20-year journey as an artist. Pickeral's illuminating appraisal inspired the artist to pull everything together from the past, including scratching in, scumbling and techniques using printmakers' rollers and experiments with soft matt blacks in what is arguably Gollon's most experimental period to date. Gollon's expressly unique and imaginative approach to painting the human form is still present in these latest works, many addressing the subject of "LOVE" in its many forms, from friendship, to unconditional, unrequited or fulfilled. The exhibition opened from April 15th until June 15th 2011.

"Conversations: Photographs From the Bank of America Collection" at MFA Boston Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:12 PM PDT Boston, MA.- The art of conversation is explored in a new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA), to highlight visual dialogues among some of the most notable photographs of the 19th and 20th centuries. "Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection" features more than 100 images, drawn from thousands in the renowned Bank of America Collection. The exhibition, through June 19th, in the Lois and Michael Torf Gallery, is curated by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and is provided by the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program. MFA curators Anne Havinga, the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs, and Karen Haas.

Bonhams David Hockney Sale in London Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:32 PM PDT LONDON.- A rare signed proof copy of David Hockney's lithograph 'An Image of Celia' in the original frame hand painted by the artist is the star item in sale dedicated to Hockney's work at Bonhams in London on 20 April.

The Arkansas Art Center Shows "The Impressionists and Their Influence" Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT Little Rock, Arkansas.- The Arkansas Art Center is proud to present "The Impressionists and Their Influence" until June 26th. Organized in conjunction with the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, this exhibition brings together beautiful paintings and intimate works on paper by such French artists as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, as well as works by major Post-Impressionist artists Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Paul Signac. In addition, the show features works by American artists, such as Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson, who fell under the influence of the Impressionists. Featuring more than 100 works from the collections of the renowned High Museum of Art, the Arkansas Arts Center, and private collections, The Impressionists and Their Influence is a splendid opportunity to explore the movement that became Impressionism. In late 19th century Paris, a group of artists broke from long-standing tradition when they moved outdoors to paint. These artists, the Impressionists, captured the world around them in new ways creating colorful, light-filled scenes of carefree summer outings, riverbanks and seashores, private gardens, public parks, dance halls, cafés and the people who inhabited them. This exhibition brings together beautiful master paintings and intimate works on paper by French artists such as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, as well as works by major Post-Impressionist artists Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, Paul Signac and more. In addition, the show features works by American artists, such as Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson, who fell full sway under the influence of the Impressionists. Featuring more than 100 works from the collections of the renowned High Museum of Art, the Arkansas Arts Center and private collections, The Impressionists and Their Influence is a unique opportunity to explore the movement that became Impressionism. The Arkansas Arts Center is an art museum with a children's theatre and a studio school. Founded in 1960, its mission is to ensure that learning, inspiration and creative expression in the arts flourish throughout Arkansas, for people of all ages and backgrounds. The AAC realizes this mission by developing, preserving and exhibiting its outstanding permanent collection, offering a rich variety of art from other collections and presenting programs for the education and cultural benefit of the public. The seed for the Arkansas Arts Center was planted in 1914, when the Fine Arts Club of Arkansas was formed. Its membership formed the core of supporters and volunteers who later contributed to the creation of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1937 in Little Rock's MacArthur Park. Several key decisions at critical points in the Arts Center's history helped form the remarkable arts facility that exists today. In 1960, the museum was created by ordinance of the City of Little Rock and renamed the Arkansas Arts Center. By 1963, the museum had been enlarged to include 5 galleries, a 381-seat theater, 4 studio classrooms, sculpture courtyards and an art library. It offered temporary art exhibitions, community theater and a school of fine and performing arts. In 1971, the board selected drawings as the collection's primary concentration, recognizing that few museums were collecting unique works on paper. They believed, and rightly so, that the AAC could acquire such works with limited resources, excel in the area and make a unique contribution to the field. The quality and character of exhibitions was increased accordingly. In 1982, having completed an enlargement of the Museum School studios and collection storage and preparation areas in 1975, a new gallery at the main facility, the 3,200 sq. ft. Rockefeller Gallery, was built and in 1985 the AAC's Decorative Arts Museum (DAM) opened. This historic Greek Revival house had been bequeathed to the City for use by the AAC and was substantially renovated to serve as a gallery for the decorative arts. The DAM became the home of a growing collection of objects in craft media. Further expansion was carried out in 1989, when the 1,300 sq. ft. Strauss Gallery was added to the west side of the Rockefeller Gallery and 2000, when more than 30,000 square feet of space and renovation of 12,000 square feet of existing space was carried out as part of an ambitious expansion plan. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.arkarts.com

Surrealist Wifredo Lam's Afro-Cuban Mythology Meets Salvador Dalí's Personal Myths Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Two new exhibitions which opened at the Salvador Dalí Museum this fall highlight the diverse ways Western and non-Western mythology enlivened Surrealism. Wifredo Lam in North America is the first U.S. exhibit in over 30 years to feature works by Lam, the celebrated 20th century Cuban-born artist. This national traveling exhibition organized by the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University represents the major phases in Lam's career, with examples spanning from 1927 through 1985. The exhibit focuses on Lam's impact on the development of modern art in America, tracing the way in which he combined aspects of the European avant-garde with Afro-Cuban myths and art forms, leaving a legacy of intercultural dialogue that remains influential to this day.

Installation of Spiders Weaving Stars by Tomas Saraceno in Italy Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT CAMOGLI, ITALY - In the installation by Tomas Saraceno at the latest Venice Biennial, Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web, thousands of strands filled the room, forming an enormous web with bubble-vessels clustered inside. At Fondazione Pier Luigi e Natalina Remotti in Camogli, with the installation From Camogli to San Felipe, spiders weaving stars... curated by Francesca Pasini, Tomas Saraceno offers another view of the strategy of the spider and its capacity to cross enormous distances dangling on strands of silk.

The October Gallery to Present Romuald Hazoumé's "Made in Porto-Novo" Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT LONDON.- Romuald Hazoumé was born in 1962 in Porto Novo, in the Republic of Benin. Hazoumé's work first came to prominence in the U.K. with the inclusion of his witty, tongue-in-cheek "masks" in the Saatchi Gallery's "Out of Africa" show, in 1992. Since then his work has been widely shown in many of the major galleries and museums in Europe and beyond, including the British Museum, the Guggenheim, Bilbao, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, ICP, New York, the V&A Museum, London, etc. The stellar trajectory of Hazoumé's rise during these past fifteen years has catapulted him into the first rank of the international artistic community, marking him out as unique amongst other African contemporary artists. On view at The October Gallery from 15 October until 28 November, 2009.

Knoxville Museum of Art presents 'Josh Simpson ~ A Visionary Journey in Glass' Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT   KNOXVILLE, TN - The Knoxville Museum of Art presents Josh Simpson: A Visionary Journey in Glass February 6-April 19, 2009. This major exhibition highlights three decades of achievements by one of America's most acclaimed glass artists. More than 100 works trace Simpson's journey from his early goblets and vessels to the spectacular multi-layered sculptures of the present.

Irish Museum of Modern Art shows Spanish Artist Ferran Garcia Sevilla Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT DUBLIN.- An exhibition by Ferran Garcia Sevilla, a leading Spanish artist whose career has embraced many of the most influential art movements of the past 40 years, opened to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on 10 June 2010. Ferran Garcia Sevilla presents 42 paintings in the artist's characteristically eclectic style, which draws on influences as diverse as his travels in the Middle East, philosophy, Eastern cultures, comic books and urban graffiti. The exhibition comprises works from 1981 to date and includes well-known earlier works, alongside a group of more recent, previously unseen pieces, all illustrating the extraordinary visual richness of Garcia Sevilla's work.

Kunsthaus Zurich Announces Programs to Celebrate 100th Anniversary Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT ZURICH.- In 2010 the Kunsthaus Zürich will celebrate its hundredth anniversary. Switzerland's oldest combined collection and exhibition space opened its doors in Karl Moser's late Jugendstil museum building on the Heimplatz in 1910, and now, in honor of the centenary, the Kunsthaus will showcase its opulent collection, including many donations, and mount a major Picasso show in tribute to its tradition of key exhibitions. In 2015 the artistic idea of a dynamic museum for the 21st-century will become reality, and the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft's success story, which owes its inception in 1787 to the initiative of local burghers, will have been continued in a further exciting chapter – the Kunsthaus extension.

'Collection Highlights' of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT Chicago, IL - Collection Highlights, a survey of contemporary art from the MCA's unique perspective, charts our evolution as a major contemporary art institution over our 40-year history through many of the most significant works in the MCA Collection. Collection Highlights is presented in two parts—the first ending on February 3 and the second continuing through June 8, 2008 —and will be followed by another large-scale presentation of key works from the collection titled Artists in Depth, which opens in late June 2008.

Knoedler & Company Presents Conrad Marca-Relli / The New York Years Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Knoedler & Company presents the gallery's first exhibition of Conrad Marca-Relli (1913–2000), presented in association with Archivio Marca-Relli, Parma. The exhibition comprises twenty-two works, created in New York between 1945 and 1967. Knoedler's exhibition focuses on Marca-Relli's developments, during his New York period, in the medium of collage. In his essay for the catalogue, "Patchwork Paper Doll: The Early Work and Career of Conrad Marca-Relli," Jasper Sharp writes: Right from the outset Marca-Relli was drawn to the freedom, immediacy and room for accident that the medium afforded him. And he goes on to quote the artist, from an unpublished 1965 interview:

A Blooming Blazing Show of Stars at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:31 PM PDT New York City - Everything we know about the universe depends on a remarkably intimate and hard-won knowledge of how they shine, age and die. They have defined the night for generations, and provided our ancestors with the first hints of a regularity in nature that has haunted scientists and thinkers for thousands of years. This show, three years in the making, was written by Louise A. Gikow, a former writer for "Sesame Street," among many other things, as well as a co-writer of the Hayden's previous space production, "Cosmic Collisions." It was directed by the planetarium's director of astrovisualization, Carter Emmart, who studied geophysics before going into star shows. Robert Miller, a veteran composer for films and commercials, wrote the score.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:30 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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