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• 'Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters ~ The Cone Sisters of Baltimore' Premieres at the Jewish Museum in NYC
• New Catalogue to Explore Riches of National Gallery of Scotland's Collection of English Drawings
• The Musée d'Art Moderne Hosts Major Marc Desgrandchamps Retrospective
• A Collaboration between VIWA & Tomoaki Tarutani at the Karin Weber Gallery in Hong Kong
• The Grosvernor Vadehra Gallery Exhibits Dhruva Mistry's Bronzes
• The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realizes $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby's in Amsterdam
• Exhibition on Pioneer of Modern German Art ~ Max Liebermann in Bonn
• The Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv Shows "Shay Id Alony ~ Visions"
• "Marco Brambilla: The Dark Lining" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
• The Eclectic ~ Unconventional And Always Fascinating ~ San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
• René Magritte Graphics at Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries
• The Famous Ducks are Back! Duckomenta II ~ New Works Mimic the Masters
• The Frick features Iconic Masterpieces from London's Dulwich Picture Gallery
• "Rauschenberg Express" Hosted by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
• Hamburger Kunsthalle displays Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age
• Kunsthalle Tübingen opens Largest Retrospective on Mel Ramos
• Miami Art Museum Presents Self-Taught Miami Artist - Purvis Young
• Georg Baselitz from Duke Franz of Bavaria's Private Collection in Dresden
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

'Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters ~ The Cone Sisters of Baltimore' Premieres at the Jewish Museum in NYC Posted: 22 Apr 2011 12:10 AM PDT New York, NY.– Henri Matisse called them "my two Baltimore ladies." Their friend Gertrude Stein wrote a poem about them entitled "Two Women." The sisters Dr. Claribel Cone (1864-1929) and Miss Etta Cone (1870-1949) began buying art directly out of the Parisian studios of avant-garde artists in 1905. Although their taste for this radical art was little understood at the time, the Cones followed their passions and eventually amassed one of the world's greatest art collections. The Jewish Museum will present Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore, an exhibition of over 50 works from The Baltimore Museum of Art's internationally renowned Cone Collection, from May 6 through September 25. Paintings, sculptures and works on paper by such artists as Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gogh will be featured. Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters will focus on the remarkable vision of these two Jewish sisters from Baltimore and the personal relationships they formed with of-the-moment contemporary artists as they shaped their extraordinary collection. In addition to masterworks of French art, the exhibition will include textiles, decorative arts, arts of Asia and Africa, photographs, and archival materials to place the Cone sisters' remarkable story in the context of the exciting world of modern art and the artists who made history. Ten of the fine art works and all of the textiles and decorative arts have never been seen in New York City before. The exhibition is organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Following its New York showing, Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore will travel to the Vancouver Art Gallery (June 2 to September 23, 2012). Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters includes iconic paintings by Matisse such as "Standing Odalisque Reflected in a Mirror", "Interior, Flowers and Parakeets", "Large Reclining Nude", and "Striped Robe, Fruit, and Anemones". Pablo Picasso's Blue period "Woman with Bangs", as well as a Picasso sculpture and several of his early drawings are also on view. Other highlights include Gauguin's Tahitian masterpiece, "Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango)", Gustave Courbet's "The Shaded Stream at Le Puits Noir" and Camille Pissarro's "The Highway (La Côte du Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise)". Also on display are important paintings by Delacroix, Renoir, and van Gogh.  The story of the Cone sisters unfolds in the exhibition beginning with their German-Jewish social circle in Baltimore, where they first met Gertrude Stein and her brother, Leo. In the late 1890s and early 1900s, Claribel Cone held lively Saturday evening salons in their family's Baltimore home which the Steins attended as young adults. These gatherings attracted the cultural elite of Baltimore including musicians, artists, writers, and scientists. "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters" retraces the Cone sisters' travels, first to Italy and France, then around the world, and back to Paris where they purchased many outstanding works of art. They were among the earliest collectors to bring European modern art to the United States several years before the famed New York Armory Show of 1913. Their story will be brought to life through archival materials, including Etta's diary from her first trip to Italy where Leo Stein introduced her to Renaissance art, and Etta and Claribel's account books showing their passion for collecting not only art-of-the-moment, but jewelry, textiles, furniture, and other objects. Exhibition visitors will also be able to see excerpts from 'Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse', a 2003 film originally aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom. An interactive, touch-screen computer tour of the Cones' adjoining apartments in Baltimore will reveal how the sisters lived with their art and objects. As daughters of prosperous German-Jewish immigrants, the Cone sisters were well-educated and widely traveled. Generously supported financially by the successful Cone family textile business, Claribel and Etta made regular trips to Europe to purchase art. They often visited Gertrude Stein, who had become a celebrated avant-garde writer, and her brother Leo in Paris. Through them the Cone sisters became acquainted with a wide circle of artists, musicians, and writers who would influence their collecting. The Steins introduced them to Picasso and Matisse and the sisters became friends and patrons of both artists. Etta Cone met Matisse in 1905, and her initial purchase of several drawings marked the beginning of a life-long passion for his art. Among his first patrons, the Cone sisters collected Matisse's art throughout his entire career. The sisters also purchased over 100 works by Picasso, including an important group of prints and drawings from the artist's early years in Barcelona and Paris. They amassed an exceptional collection of approximately 3,000 objects, many of which were displayed in their Baltimore apartments. The highlight is a group of 500 works by Matisse, considered the largest and most significant in the world. The Cone sisters filled their adjoining apartments with cutting-edge art. In the late 1920s they began lending works from their collection to museums for temporary exhibitions. When Claribel died in 1929, she left her collection to Etta with a suggestion that it be donated upon Etta's death to The Baltimore Museum of Art, "if the spirit of appreciation of modern art in Baltimore should improve." From then on, Etta acquired art to fill out the collection as a public trust. She maintained Claribel's apartment, adding to the art on its walls, and filling it with fresh flowers daily. Etta was wooed by many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. When she died in 1949 she bequeathed the collection, and nearly $400,000 to construct a wing to house it, to The Baltimore Museum of Art. The Jewish Museum, one of the world's largest and most important institutions devoted to exploring the remarkable scope and diversity of Jewish culture, was founded in 1904 in the library of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where it was housed for more than four decades. In 1944, Frieda Schiff Warburg, widow of the prominent businessman and philanthropist, Felix Warburg, who had been a Seminary trustee, donated the family mansion at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street to the Seminary for use as the Museum. Located along New York's Museum Mile, this elegant former residence has been the home of the Museum since 1947. A sculpture court was installed alongside the Mansion in 1959, and the Albert A. List Building was added in 1963 to provide additional exhibition and program space. In 1989, a major expansion and renovation project was undertaken. Upon completion in June 1993, the expansion doubled the Museum's gallery space, created new space for educational programs, provided significant improvements in public amenities, and added a two-floor permanent exhibition called Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey. Today, The Jewish Museum's permanent collection, which has grown to more than 26,000 objects (including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, ethnographic material, archaeological artifacts, numismatics, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media materials) is the largest and most important of its kind in the world. The Jewish Museum regularly presents large temporary exhibitions of an interdisciplinary nature. Such exhibitions often employ a combination of art and artifacts interpreted through the lens of social history in order to explore important ideas and topics. For nearly a century, The Jewish Museum has illuminated the Jewish experience, both secular and religious, demonstrating the strength of Jewish identity and culture. Its unparalleled collection and unique exhibitions offer a wide range of opportunities for exploring multiple facets of the Jewish experience, past and present, and for educating current and future generations. It is a source of education, inspiration and shared human values for people of all cultures. Visit the museum's website at ... www.thejewishmuseum.org

New Catalogue to Explore Riches of National Gallery of Scotland's Collection of English Drawings Posted: 21 Apr 2011 11:08 PM PDT EDINBURGH.- The rich and diverse collection of English drawings and watercolours in the National Gallery of Scotland will be the subject of a beautifully designed and generously illustrated catalogue, to be published this summer. Featuring outstanding examples of work by the most celebrated British artists, such as William Blake, J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Gainsborough, the collection is surprisingly little known; this landmark catalogue will for the first time make its full scope and importance clear. English Drawings and Watercolours 1600-1900 - the first in a new series of authoritative and scholarly catalogues about the Scottish national collection - will become a key reference work for a wide range of enthusiasts for British art, including art historians, students, collectors, dealers, artists and picture researchers.

The Musée d'Art Moderne Hosts Major Marc Desgrandchamps Retrospective Posted: 21 Apr 2011 10:45 PM PDT Paris.- The Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris is devoting a solo exhibition to Marc Desgrandchamps, contemporary French painter from May 13th until September 4th. Consisting of forty large paintings and a large selection of works on paper (watercolors, drawings, collages, lithographs and wash), the exhibition traces the artist's works from 1987 until the present day and will be the largest retrospective of the artists work yet held. This retrospective is an opportunity to discover many new and paintings showcase works already present in many public and private collections. Easily recognizable by his evanescent figures, broken objects and undefined space, Desgrandchamps's work is primarily a visual experience. Despite their architectural compositions, the artist's paintings are comprise layers of differing opacity. Fluid colors that appear to be almost liquid and blurred contours combine to give forms an unlikely materiality. The figurative elements seem more juxtaposed than in communication with each other, as if suspended in the pictorial space. They establish doubt and questions in the viewer's mind, rather than provide any certainty.

A Collaboration between VIWA & Tomoaki Tarutani at the Karin Weber Gallery in Hong Kong Posted: 21 Apr 2011 09:54 PM PDT Hong Kong.- In the wake of the Japan earthquake and tsunami the world was in awe of the of the Japanese. Many said it was the root values of politeness and service to the greater good of society in their culture and national identity that helped them face such adversity with such resolve and order. And while these community values do exist, Japan is not simply about the group; the country is as much about the individual as it is the collective. A brief walk down the streets of Harajuku or Shibuya confirms this as you're brought face to face with the colorful characters of those trend-setting districts. Though unintended, it feels rather timely that from May 24th until June 14th the Karin Weber Gallery is showing the works of artists VIWA and Tomoaki Tarutani who represent this duality in modern Japanese culture.

The Grosvernor Vadehra Gallery Exhibits Dhruva Mistry's Bronzes Posted: 21 Apr 2011 09:38 PM PDT London.- The Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of bronze sculptures by Dhruva Mistry from the collection of Nigel Greenwood. These include important works that the artist made while living in London from 1987-1990. The exhibition will be on view from May 6th to May 20th. A few of Mistry's sculptures in this exhibition like Hanuman, Spatial Diagram 2, Woman 3 (Study for river), and Study for the Object are maquettes he made for larger public sculptures. Woman 3 is a study for one his most important large scale pieces called The River, which is located in Birmingham. This sculpture has been affectionately nicknamed 'Floozie in the Jacuzzi' by the locals. In this sculpture Mistry depicts a bold classical idealised form of a reclining female nude sitting in the middle of a large fountain. Whilst this is perhaps the most used form in sculpture, Mistry was able to add to some qualities to it that were truly his.

The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realizes $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby's in Amsterdam Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:43 PM PDT AMSTERDAM.- The sale of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realized a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 million. Presale interest had been huge and more than 500 clients had registered to bid in tonight's sale – either in person, by phone, online or by leaving absentee bids -- and the sale established sell-through rates of 95.4% by lot and 98.7% by value, set 43 new artist records and 25 benchmarks for artists new to auction. These notable results further build on the outstanding successes established by Sotheby's Amsterdam with the sale of the first part of the collection on 8 March 2010.

Exhibition on Pioneer of Modern German Art ~ Max Liebermann in Bonn Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:14 PM PDT BONN.- In cooperation with the Hamburg Kunsthalle, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany is showing a comprehensive retrospective on Max Liebermann (1847–1935). Max Liebermann plays an outstanding role in the history of art and culture in Germany. Not only his artistic oeuvre but also his cultural and political activities make him one of the leading pioneers of modern German painting. Max Liebermann's unique position between the end of 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century continues to have an impact on current developments in painting.

The Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv Shows "Shay Id Alony ~ Visions" Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:13 PM PDT Tel Aviv, Israel - The Braverman Gallery is proud to present "Shay Id Alony: Visions" from April 21st until June 2nd. Shay Id Alony's solo exhibition "Visions" is the culmination of his research into the personal-figurative-cultural connection between inner space and everyday life. Alony created a site-specific installation, in which he assembles a landscape of objects that allow an anonymous audience to create their own personal space within the distorted frame of the Gallery.  The viewer is able to wander through various interior spaces, moving between partial objects, hybridizations and facades, ultimately joining Alony's personal journey through his collection of images that represent his inner world. The pieces at "Visions" are strangely intimidating but at the same time nostalgically familiar.

"Marco Brambilla: The Dark Lining" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT Santa Monica, CA.- On Friday, December 3, 2010 the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) was proud be a part of the unveiling of the world's first-ever 3D art video by Marco Brambilla, "Evolution (Megaplex)". Now the museum welcomes him back for his first ever solo museum exhibition. Seven major time-based works from 1999 to the present go on show on May 21st, with the exhibition running until August 20th. "The Dark Lining", consists of complex video installations. Much of his work comprises found film footage edited, layered, and spliced to create compelling new narratives and stunning visual mosaics. With exquisite technical production and seamless editing, Brambilla's multi-layered tableaux of interconnecting images and looped video blend into an expansive landscape that forms his hallmark style. The exhibition at SMMoA will feature the premier of Evolution (Megaplex), 2010, a new large-scale 3D video collage, which displays the history of humankind through the lens of cinema. In this never before seen work, Brambilla combines hundreds of clips from genre films that re-enact historical moments as grand spectacle. This cacophony of images is looped and mapped into an infinite three-dimensional environment that scrolls horizontally across time. Evolution emphasizes conflicts through the ages, in a remix that seamlessly moves through past, present, and future, providing a satirical take on the bombast of the big-budget "epic." In a poignant work from 2002 titled "HalfLife", Brambilla juxtaposes surveillance footage of gamers playing the then-popular video game Counter-Strike with live-feed footage of the game they are playing. By placing the young men in the "cross-hairs" point-of-view while simultaneously capturing their virtual actions inside the game-world, Brambilla highlights the physical displacement and the psychological dislocation inherent in entering the digital world. "Cathedral", 2008, in which Brambilla filmed Christmas shoppers in a Canadian mall, exposes raw footage in a long and slow sequence of kaleidoscopic patterning.  The superimposed and multi-layered images transform the mall into a hallucinatory space.  Installed in a mirrored box, the video is brought into three dimensions further multiplying the images. Though it resembles an animated stained glass window, the work depicts commerce and conspicuous consumption, and the conflation of a "shoppers' paradise" with a literal place of worship. Brambilla's "Civilization (Megaplex)", 2008, is dense with imagery and depicts heaven, hell, and in-between, in an epic, almost Dante-esque style, set to an excerpt from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. His first 'video mural' integrates clips into an expansive landscape that continuously scrolls downward, starting with the fires of hell, progressing through to celestial reward. Other works in the exhibition include "Cyclorama", 1999, "Wall of Death", 2001, "Sync", 2005 and "Sea of Tranquility", 2006. The ambitious installation design of The Dark Lining will mirror Brambilla's complex visual arrangements where the viewer is led, almost transported, from singular, theater-like stations to open spaces where multiple works present themselves in layered concert with one another.  The exhibition at SMMoA is unique from previous installations as this will present multiple significant works from the last decade and illustrate Brambilla's artistic range and evolution.  The exhibition itself, therefore, will function as an artwork—one that is revealed with the audience's choreographed movement through a well-orchestrated and articulated space. Marco Brambilla studied film at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, and then worked in commercials and feature films, directing the successful 1993 science fiction film Demolition Man.  In 1998, he shifted his focus to video and photography projects as an artist and filmmaker.  His work has been exhibited internationally at such institutions as the Kunsthalle Bern, screened at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, and can be found in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the ARCO Foundation in Madrid, amongst others. Brambilla has been awarded both the Tiffany Comfort Foundation and Colbert Foundation awards for his video installations. He was born in Milan, Italy, and currently lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. Through its exhibitions, education, and outreach programs, the Santa Monica Museum of Art fosters diversity, innovation, and discovery in contemporary art on the local, national, and international stages. The Santa Monica Museum of Art was founded in 1984 by Abby Sher. Museum programming began when Thomas Rhoads took over as Executive Director in 1988. A decade later, SMMoA moved from its original location on Main Street to Bergamot Station, Southern California's largest art gallery and cultural complex. SMMoA devotes its exhibition spaces (the main gallery and two project rooms) to presenting and advancing the work of contemporary local, national, and international artists whose work merits sustained inquiry and recognition. Unique to the Westside of Los Angeles, Santa Monica Museum of Art is a risk-taking, noncollecting museum, whose exhibitions and programs reveal the vibrant, untold stories and pivotal moments in the history of contemporary art and culture. SMMoA supports the art of our time through exhibitions and related programs that embrace diverse aesthetic, cultural, and ideological perspectives. Our exhibitions and programs present innovative work by emerging and established artists; initiate and maintain artistic partnerships and collaborations; connect the visual arts to other systems of information and knowledge; and provide an opportunity for audiences to experience, understand, and enjoy contemporary visual culture. Visit the museum's website at ... http://smmoa.org

The Eclectic ~ Unconventional And Always Fascinating ~ San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art. SFMOMA was founded in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center. A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender, including The Flower Carrier (1935) by Diego Rivera, established the basis of the permanent collection. Bender donated more than 1,100 objects to SFMOMA during his lifetime and endowed the museum's first purchase fund. SFMOMA was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. The museum returned to its original Van Ness location in July, upon the signing of the United Nations Charter. The museum rose to international prominence in the 1970s and 80s under director Henry T. Hopkins, adding "Modern" to its title in 1975. Since 1967, SFMOMA has honored San Francisco Bay Area artists with its biennial SECA Art Award. In the 1980s SFMOMA took on an active special exhibitions program, both organizing and hosting traveling exhibitions. In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street, adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SoMa district. Swiss architect Mario Botta designed the new US$60 million facility which is now an iconic presence within the cityscape of San Francisco. Since it opened in 1995, the building has become a hub of the downtown South of Market (SoMa) area. The current five-story structure features a stepped and patterned brick facade topped by a soaring cylindrical turret. In Botta's signature style, the turret is finished in alternating bands of black and white stone and topped with a radial pattern of the same material. The rooftop Sculpture Garden opened in 2009. Visitors enter the 14,400-square-foot garden from a spectacular glassed-in bridge created by local architect Mark Jensen. Works on view include those by Ellsworth Kelly, Henry Moore, and Alexander Calder. Visitors can enjoy impressive views of the cityscape and take in lunch or coffee at the new Blue Bottle Coffee cafe. Since opening the new building the museum's collection has more than doubled in size and annual attendance has tripled to around a million visitors annually. The 225,000 square foot building is about to be expanded further, architecture firm Snøhetta having been commissioned to create a new extension to accommodate the ongoing growth of the museum's programs and audiences and to showcase the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art. The total projected budget for the expansion is $480 million and is expected to take approximately six years to complete. SFMOMA's Research Library was established in 1935 and contains extensive resources pertaining to modern and contemporary art, including books, periodicals, artists' files, and lecture recordings. SFMOMA also contains the Phyllis Wattis Theater, accommodating lectures, symposia, seminars, film presentations and performances and the Schwab Room, a multiple-use event space. The innovative Koret Visitor Education Center offers both drop-in access and scheduled programs and activities while the basement houses the museum's Library and Archives and the photography and graphic arts study area. The museum also houses a restaurant, Caffè Museo and museum shop. Visit the museum's re-designed website (which enables users to browse the museum's permanent collection) at … http://www.sfmoma.org

René Magritte Graphics at Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT San Francisco, CA - Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries, Inc. is pleased to announce our major exhibition, René Magritte – The "Art" of Living: An Exhibition of his Graphic Works.  The Surrealist artist René Magritte created a limited number of prints due to the fact that he began printmaking eight years before his death in 1967.  Magritte's graphic works can be divided into three distinct categories: The first are works conceived by Magritte and drawn on the plate by the artist's own hand.  The second consists of works drawn on the plate with the help of the master printmaker George Visat, from an original composition submitted by Magritte exclusively for this purpose.

The Famous Ducks are Back! Duckomenta II ~ New Works Mimic the Masters Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT NEWHARDENBERG, GERMANY- Despite all of the quacking going on about demographic decline: the ducks – all those Daisys and Donalds – are mulptiplying and Duckburg, at least, has grown considerably. Following the Neuhardenberg Museum exhibition in 2003, they travelled the world, were celebrated wherever they went and have now returned to their place of departure to show and astound their many new colleagues at Neuhardenberg with the many sensational things they found along the way. On view 14 March through 13 June, 2010.

The Frick features Iconic Masterpieces from London's Dulwich Picture Gallery Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT New York, NY - The Frick presents a special exhibition of loans from Dulwich Picture Gallery, one of the major collections of Old Master paintings in the world. Heralding the London museum's bicentenary in 2011, the exhibition will introduce American audiences to this institution's holdings and history through nine of its most important and best-loved works.Indeed, Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery, to be shown exclusively at the Frick from March 9 through May 30, 2010, includes signature works that seldom travel, many of which have not been on view in the United States in recent years, and, in some cases, never in New York City. Featured are Anthony Van Dyck's Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20; Nicolas Poussin's Nurture of Jupiter, c. 1636–37; Rembrandt van Rijn's Girl at a Window, 1645; Peter Lely's Nymphs by a Fountain, c. 1650; Gerrit Dou's Woman Playing a Clavichord, c. 1665; Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's Flower Girl, c. 1665; Jean-Antoine Watteau's Les Plaisirs du bal, c. 1717; Canaletto's Old Walton Bridge, 1754; and Thomas Gainsborough's Elizabeth and Mary Linley―The Linley Sisters, 1771–72. On view in the Oval Room and Garden Court, the exhibition is co-organized by Colin B. Bailey, Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection, and Xavier F. Salomon, Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery.

"Rauschenberg Express" Hosted by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT Madrid, Spain - Opening on 7 November at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is the 20th in the Museum's "Contexts of the Permanent Collection" series.  Entitled Rauschenberg.  Express, it is the first exhibition organized by the Museum to be devoted to a living artist.  The exhibition aims to document and reveal the process through which the American artist Robert Rauschenberg arrived at the technique of oil painting with ink serigraphy – one of his most important innovations – and the way this became the principal element of his style around 1963, the year that Express was painted.

Hamburger Kunsthalle displays Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT HAMBURG.- This exhibition on marine painting from the Golden Age of Dutch culture in the 17th century centres on spectacular works by the main representatives of the genre – Ludolf Backhuysen, Jan Porcellis, Willem van de Velde (the Elder and the Younger) and Simon de Vliegher. In addition to these impressive large-scale seascapes, the display includes paintings and drawings by all the leading marine painters of the time. To this day, these images evoke a sense of freedom, independence and adventure, but also a mood of contemplation and tranquillity. Curator of the exhibition: Prof. Dr. Martina Sitt. On view through 12 September.

Kunsthalle Tübingen opens Largest Retrospective on Mel Ramos Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT TUBINGEN.- The Kunsthalle Tübingen presents the largest Ramos exhibition in Germany and even Europe with 89 works on art on loan from around the world. This is the most comprehensive retrospective worldwide ever dedicated to the important American painter, Mel Ramos. Two anniversaries mark this occasion, namely, the 75th birthday of the artist and the over 50 year existence of the Pop Art movement of which Mel Ramos is a main representative. This comprehensive sweep of his life´s work, which is characterized by the subject of nude art, encompasses mainly paintings, but also preliminary sketches, sculptures, and lithographs. All phases from the late 1950´s to the present are represented by well-known major works.

Miami Art Museum Presents Self-Taught Miami Artist - Purvis Young Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum opens a new exhibition in the Focus Gallery section of its Permanent Collection installation, dedicated to works by the late Purvis Young. Focus Gallery: Purvis Young (July 30 - November 7, 2010) features a selection of Young's paintings from the museum's permanent collection that span the career of the celebrated, self-taught Miami painter who passed away in April of this year at the age of 67. Purvis Young's work reflects the condition experienced by residents of Miami's Overtown, the historic African American neighborhood that was transformed from a thriving community to an impoverished inner-city environment in the 1960's and 70's, when interstate 95 was erected. Against this backdrop, Young's work serves as inspiration for the capacity of the creative spirit to reclaim, transform, restore and renew.

Georg Baselitz from Duke Franz of Bavaria's Private Collection in Dresden Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:12 PM PDT Dresden, Germany - From 20th June until 25th August 2008 the Kupferstich-Kabinett (Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs) of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden will be holding an exhibition featuring a selection of around 120 prints by Georg Baselitz from the private collection of Duke Franz of Bavaria. The works on show, all of which were created in the two decades between 1963 and 1983, include single impressions, series and rare trial proofs, few of which has previously been on public display.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:11 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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