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• The Oklahoma City Museum of Arts Shows New Deal Artworks From the Smithsonian Collection
• Major Late Works by Leland Bell at Lori Brookstein Fine Art in New York
• The Singapore Art Museum Shows "Negotiating Home, History and Nation:1991 - 2011"
• ARS 11 at KIASMA To Feature Africa and Contemporary Art
• Sony World Photography Awards Winners Showcased at Somerset House
• Major Exhibition of Huang Yong Ping at the Nottingham Contemporary
• Sotheby's to Sell Significant German Art From The Duerckheim Collection
• "Fluid Being" ~ Works by Shawki Youssef at the Green Art Gallery in Dubai
• Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali Photographs ~ Two American Icons
• The Metropolitan Museum Shows Sculptures by Renowned British Artist Anthony Caro
• Carnegie Museum of Art Shows ~ Rembrandt’s Great Subjects ~
• 'John Singer Sargent in Venice' at the Museo Correr
• Ronald Feldman Gallery shows New Works by Bruce Pearson
• Musée d'Orsay Revives Art Nouveau in a Major Exhibition in Paris
• The Morgan Library & Museum exhibit Acquisitions Since 2004
• Haggerty Museum of Art hosts ~ The Photography of Stephen Shore / 1969-1979
• Atlanta Botanical Garden & High Museum Partner for "Moore & Monet" Exhibitions
• "Ivor Abrahams ~ Mystery and Imagination" At the Royal Academy in London
• Over Ten Million Images from the LIFE'S Photo Archive to be Available on Google
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Oklahoma City Museum of Arts Shows New Deal Artworks From the Smithsonian Collection Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:28 PM PDT Oklahoma City.- The Oklahoma City Museum, of Arts presents "1934: A New Deal for Artists" from May 26th to August 21st. The exhibiton celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Public Works of Art Project by drawing on the Smithsonian American Art Museum's unparalleled collection of vibrant paintings created for the program. The 56 paintings in the exhibition are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time. George Gurney, deputy chief curator, organized the exhibition with Ann Prentice Wagner, independent curator. Federal officials in the 1930s understood how essential art was to sustaining America's spirit. During the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration created the Public Works of Art Project, which lasted only six months from mid-December 1933 to June 1934. The purpose of the program was to alleviate the distress of professional, unemployed American artists by paying them to produce artwork that could be used to embellish public buildings. The program was administered under the Treasury Department by art professionals in 16 different regions of the country. Artists from across the United States who participated in the program were encouraged to depict "the American Scene," but they were allowed to interpret this idea freely. They painted regional, recognizable subjects ranging from portraits to cityscapes and images of city life to landscapes and depictions of rural life that reminded the public of quintessential American values such as hard work, community, and optimism. These artworks, which were displayed in schools, libraries, post offices, museums, and government buildings, vividly capture the realities and ideals of Depression-era America. The exhibition is arranged into eight sections: "American People," "City Life," "Labor," "Industry," "Leisure," "The City," "The Country," and "Nature." Works from 13 of the 16 regions established by the Advisory Committee to the Treasury on Fine Arts are represented in the exhibition. The Public Works of Art Project employed artists from across the country including Ilya Bolotowsky, Lily Furedi, and Max Arthur Cohn in New York City; Harry Gottlieb and Douglass Crockwell in upstate New York; Herman Maril in Maryland; Gale Stockwell in Missouri; E. Dewey Albinson in Minnesota; E. Martin Hennings in New Mexico; and Millard Sheets in California. Ross Dickinson paints the confrontation between man and nature in his painting of southern California, Valley Farms (1934). He contrasts the verdant green, irrigated valley with the dry, reddish-brown hills, recalling the appeal of fertile California for many Midwestern farmers escaping the hopelessness of the Dust Bowl. Several artists chose to depict American ingenuity. Stadium lighting was still rare when Morris Kantor painted Baseball at Night (1934), which depicts a game at the Clarkstown Country Club's Sports Centre in West Nyack, N.Y. Ray Strong's panoramic Golden Gate Bridge (1934) pays homage to the engineering feats required to build the iconic San Francisco structure. Old Pennsylvania Farm in Winter (1934) by Arthur E. Cederquist features a prominent row of poles providing telephone service and possibly electricity, a rare modern amenity in rural America. The program was open to artists who were denied other opportunities, such as African Americans and Asian Americans. African American artists like Earle Richardson, who painted Employment of Negroes in Agriculture (1934), were welcomed, but only about 10 such artists were employed by the project. Richardson, who was a native New Yorker, chose to set his painting of quietly dignified workers in the South to make a broad statement about race. In the Seattle area, where Kenjiro Nomura lived, many Japanese Americans made a living as farmers, but they were subject to laws that prevented foreigners from owning land and other prejudices. Nomura's painting The Farm (1934) depicts a darker view of rural life with threatening clouds on the horizon. Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art serves over 125,000 visitors annually from all fifty states and over thirty foreign countries and hosts special exhibitions drawn from throughout the world. The Museum's collection covers a period of five centuries with strengths in American and European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and includes a comprehensive collection of glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. The Museum's Noble Theater is the region's premiere repertoire cinema, screening the finest international, independent, and classic films. Amenities include the Museum School, which offers classes for students of all ages as well as fall, winter, and summer art camps for youths; a teacher resource center; the Museum Store, Roof Terrace, and the Museum Cafe, whose cuisine is complemented by a full-service bar complete with cocktails, specialty coffees, and afternoon tea. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.okcmoa.com

Major Late Works by Leland Bell at Lori Brookstein Fine Art in New York Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:27 PM PDT New York City - Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to present a selection of major late works, along with supporting drawings and paintings, by Leland Bell. The exhibition is the first one-person show of Bell's work in the last ten years and the third since the artist's death in 1991. The exhibition will be on view at the Tenth Avenue gallery in New York until May 21st 2011. "Theme and Variation" is comprised of the work Bell made in his last years, from the early 1980s to 1991. Although four decades separate this group from his early embrace of abstraction, the late works reveal a significant debt to his Jane Street years. In essence, they are not a complete rejection of abstract painting, but rather a synthesis of the idealist lessons of modernist abstraction with the compositional structure of the classical figurative tradition.

The Singapore Art Museum Shows "Negotiating Home, History and Nation:1991 - 2011" Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:09 PM PDT Singapore.- The Singapore Art Museum (SAM) is proud to present 20 years of iconic Southeast Asian contemporary art with "Negotiating Home, History and Nation" a collaboration between guest curator Ms. Iola Lenzi, SAM director Mr. Tan Boon Hui and SAM curator Mr. Khairuddin Hori.  The exhibition will be on view until June 26th. The exhibition is a major survey of important works by 54 seminal practitioners in contemporary art, from six Southeast Asian countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, The Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia. Among the artists featured are Agus Suwage (Indonesia), Vasan Sitthiket (Thailand), Suzann Victor (Singapore), Wong Hoy Cheong (Malaysia), Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan (The Philippines) and Tran Luong (Vietnam).

ARS 11 at KIASMA To Feature Africa and Contemporary Art Posted: 26 Apr 2011 07:51 PM PDT HELSINKI.- The ARS 11 exhibition in Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki investigates Africa in contemporary art. The exhibition features some 300 works by a total of 30 artists. The Kiasma Theatre also has a programme of ARS events and performances. In addition to artists living in Africa, the show also features others who live outside the continent, artists of African descent as well as Western artists who address African issues in their work.

Sony World Photography Awards Winners Showcased at Somerset House Posted: 26 Apr 2011 07:22 PM PDT LONDON.- The Sony World Photography Awards Winners' Showcase is the flagship exhibition of the World Photography Festival. Showcase theme 'From Chaos into Order' mirrors the process by which we make sense of photographs in the world. All of the World Photography Organisation's Festival exhibitions run from April 26 through May 22, at the prestigious Somerset House, London.

Major Exhibition of Huang Yong Ping at the Nottingham Contemporary Posted: 26 Apr 2011 07:21 PM PDT Nottingham.UK - The Nottingham Contemporary is presenting a major exhibition of works by Huang Yong Ping until June 26th. Huang makes arresting (and often very large) sculptures. Many feature animals and architecture, in unexpected combinations. His sculptures act as allegories – they combine references that are topical and traditional, political and mythological. His work examines how cultures collide and transform as a result of massive political and economic forces – imperialism, for example, or rapid economic globalization. World religions are a theme in his work.

Sotheby's to Sell Significant German Art From The Duerckheim Collection Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:54 PM PDT LONDON.- Sotheby's announces that it will offer for sale The Duerckheim Collection, a collection of the most significant and defining German Art of the 1960s and 1970s ever to come to market, in the forthcoming Contemporary Art Auction Series in June. This collection represents a remarkably detailed and complete survey of major advancements in the recent history of European art and features the most important assemblage of 1960s paintings by Georg Baselitz in private hands; an outstanding history of Gerhard Richter's early Photo paintings; and notably rare and early works by Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo, Konrad Lueg, Jörg Immendorff and Eugen Schönebeck, among others. The offering is also particularly remarkable for the outstanding quality and exceptional condition of the individual pieces. Together, these works provide a very special anthology to an era of momentous change in Germany and the radical aesthetic and conceptual advancements that became so seminal in shaping the course of art history in the 20th century. These 59 artworks, which have not appeared on the market for over 30 years, are expected to realise in excess of £33 million and will be offered in the Contemporary Art Evening and Contemporary Art Day Auctions on Wednesday, June 29 and Thursday, June 30.

"Fluid Being" ~ Works by Shawki Youssef at the Green Art Gallery in Dubai Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:53 PM PDT Dubai.- The Green Art Gallery Dubai presents "Fluid Being" a solo show of new works by Lebanese artist Shawki Youssef from May 3rd until June 3rd. In his first solo exhibition in Dubai, Lebanese artist Shawki Youssef will present a series of new works reflecting his ongoing exploration of body representations within painting. The bodies articulated in the works with strong visual gestures act in a manner which transcends pure illustration, depicting rather, how psychological elements torment and manifest within the body itself. Roused with tension the bodies are intertwined in an embrace that simultaneously reflects the aggressively carnal and instinctual needs of man, and the delicate nature of his utterly exposed vulnerability.

Elvis Presley and Muhammad Ali Photographs ~ Two American Icons Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:35 PM PDT DOYLESTOWN, PA (AP).- In a culture saturated with celebrity magazines, paparazzi and red carpets, it's hard to imagine capturing an image of a young Elvis Presley alone on the sidewalk in New York. Or a picture of Muhammad Ali at play with neighborhood kids in a parking lot. No screaming fans, no camera flashes, no entourages. These unguarded moments are among dozens featured in "Ali and Elvis: American Icons," a pair of photography exhibits sharing gallery space through May 15 at the James A. Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pa., about 25 miles north of Philadelphia. This is the first time the exhibits have been displayed together.

The Metropolitan Museum Shows Sculptures by Renowned British Artist Anthony Caro Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last 60 years—will be featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening April 26. The installation will include a selection of sculpture in steel, painted and unpainted, spanning the artist's career to date and highlighting principal aspects of his long career: engagement with form in space, dialogue between sculpture and architecture, and creation of new, abstract analogies for the human figure and landscape. On view through 30 October. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first exhibition of steel sculpture by the artist, who lives and works in London. The large-scale works on view this summer will be Midday (1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York), After Summer (1968, Collection of Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto), Odalisque (1984, Metropolitan Museum), Blazon (1987-90, Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York and Annely Juda Fine Art, London), and End Up (2010, Collection of the artist, courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York). The installation will be situated in the Museum's dramatic, nearly 8,000-square-foot open-air space offering unparalleled views of Central Park and the New York City skyline. Anthony Caro on the Roof will be the 14th consecutive single-artist installation on the Cantor Roof Garden. "We are delighted to present the work of Anthony Caro, one of the leading sculptors of a generation that produced singularly great, monumental sculpture," commented Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. "The first two installations of the Roof Garden in 1987 and 1988 featured his work, and it is a real pleasure to welcome him back. The elegance and wit of the unexpected, delicately colored forms will look marvelous silhouetted against the undulating green carpet of Central Park." Anthony Caro earned an M.A. in engineering at Cambridge University, studied sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools in London, then worked as assistant to Henry Moore in the early 1950s. After his first visit to the United States in 1959, when he became acquainted with the work of painter Kenneth Noland and sculptor David Smith, he moved away from figurative art entirely. He made his first polychrome sculpture, Sculpture Seven, in 1961, and that same year exhibited the only sculpture (The Horse, 1961) in the New London Situation, an exhibition of "situation paintings" held at Marlborough New London Gallery. Caro came to public attention with an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1963, where he exhibited large, abstract, steel sculptures brightly painted and standing directly on the ground, so that viewers could approach and interact with the works from all sides; this represented a radical departure from the way sculpture had been presented in the past and was described by the artist as an attempt "to make sculpture more real." Caro's innovative work was complemented by his teaching at St. Martin's School of Art in London from 1953 to 1981, where he influenced a younger generation of British abstract sculptors including Phillip King, Bruce McLean, Barry Flanagan, Richard Long, and Gilbert and George. Caro often works in steel, but also in a diverse range of other materials, including bronze, silver, lead, stoneware, wood, and paper. Major exhibitions of his work have included retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), the Trajan Markets, Rome (1992), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (1995), Tate Britain, London (marking his 80th birthday in 2005), and three museums in Pas-de-Calais, France (2008), to accompany the opening of his Chapel of Light at Saint Jean-Baptiste Church in Bourbourg. He has been awarded many prizes, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997. He holds many honorary degrees from universities in the United Kingdom, United States, and Europe. He was knighted in 1987 and received the Order of Merit from the Queen in May 2000. Anthony Caro on the Roof is organized by Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman, and Anne L. Strauss, Associate Curator, both of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Visit:  http://www.metmuseum.org/

Carnegie Museum of Art Shows ~ Rembrandt’s Great Subjects ~ Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - In honor of Rembrandt's 400th birthday, an exceptional selection of the master's etchings will be on view at Carnegie Museum of Art from November 4, 2006 through February 11, 2007.   Rembrandt's Great Subjects: Prints from the Collection showcases 60 etchings from the museum's collection of the artist's work, displays his renowned printmaking skills, and examines some of his most famous motifs: self-portraiture, portraiture, religion, mythology, landscape, genre scenes, and figure studies.  Rembrandt's evolutionary portrayal of these themes is examined in great depth through the presentation of works from the 1630s, 1640s and 1650s—three fascinating decades from his long and illustrious career.

'John Singer Sargent in Venice' at the Museo Correr Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT VENICE, ITALY - Museo Correr presents Sargent and Venice, on view through July 22, 2007.  After "Turner and Venice", another show which charts a great artist's response to the city and its lagoon. Venice was, in fact, the place best loved by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the most important of American 'Impressionists', who was born in Florence and lived for most of his life in Europe.

Ronald Feldman Gallery shows New Works by Bruce Pearson Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT New York City - For his fifth exhibition at the Ronald Feldman Gallery, Bruce Pearson will exhibit new paintings and related drawings that are based on text which has been transformed to the point of near indecipherability. Constructed from large Styrofoam slabs and carved with a "hot" wire, the creviced wall reliefs depict camouflage-like patterns and intricate web designs.  The title of the work is both revealed and concealed within the work.  Pearson explores that pivotal point where form is pushed to abstraction but can still be recognized.  Information can be sensed and felt by deciphering the codes. On view through 18th April, 2009.

Musée d'Orsay Revives Art Nouveau in a Major Exhibition in Paris Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT PARIS.- Rejected and scorned in the decades following its brief flowering, Art Nouveau was spectacularly rehabilitated in the 1960s. This re-evaluation offers a particularly interesting interlude in the history of style in that many different areas were affected at the same time by this phenomenon: the history of art, the art market, contemporary creative work, particularly design and graphics. The exhibition aims to show how this rediscovery moved in various directions, and how it fitted into the spirit of the time. The great exhibitions in New York in 1959 (Art Nouveau. Art and Design at the Turn of the Century, The Museum of Modern Art) and in Paris in 1960 (Les Sources du XXe siècle. Les arts en Europe de 1884 à 1914, Musée national d'art moderne), that accorded Art Nouveau a place comparable with the other great artistic movements of the time – Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism and Cubism – were the first manifestations of this official recognition.

The Morgan Library & Museum exhibit Acquisitions Since 2004 Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT New York, NY - "He's got to be stopped" was, you imagine, a phrase never far from the lips of J. P. Morgan's business partners. Morgan, they knew, was an addicted shopper. His drug of choice was art. And because his appetite was bottomless, his habit cost a lot. In 1901 he paid a Paris dealer $400,000 - a king's ransom at the time - for Raphael's "Colonna Madonna." Then, in a fit of impulse buying, he grabbed a Rubens portrait, a Titian "Holy Family" and an English hunting scene on his way out the door. And painting wasn't even his thing. What he really craved were exquisitely worked decorative objects, the more ornate the better. These he tended to collect in bulk: roomfuls of furniture, porcelains by the crate, and books by the dozens, the hundreds, the thousands, from hand-painted medieval manuscripts to modern deluxe editions.

Haggerty Museum of Art hosts ~ The Photography of Stephen Shore / 1969-1979 Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University hosts Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969–1979, featuring over 100 prints. "Biographical Landscape" offers an opportunity to revisit the seminal works of Stephen Shore (b. 1947), one of the most prominent and influential American photographers to emerge in the last half-century. On view through 28 September, 2008.

Atlanta Botanical Garden & High Museum Partner for "Moore & Monet" Exhibitions Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT ATLANTA, GA.- This summer the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the High Museum of Art have joined together for a special "Moore & Monet" joint discounted-admission offer to "Moore in America: The Monumental Sculpture of Henry Moore" at the Garden and "Monet Water Lilies" at the High. The joint ticket also gives visitors access to other special exhibitions and collections at both venues. The offer will run through the closing of "Monet Water Liles" on August 23, 2009. The High Museum of Art will present an exhibition of four masterpieces by Claude Monet from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. The installation will feature MoMA's renowned 42-foot-wide triptych, "Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond," which is the largest "Water Lilies" painting in the U.S. The High's presentation of "Monet Water Lilies" launches a multi-year, multi-exhibition collaboration between the High and MoMA, with additional exhibitions currently under development for 2011 through 2013.

"Ivor Abrahams ~ Mystery and Imagination" At the Royal Academy in London Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT London.- "Ivor Abrahams: Mystery and Imagination - The 'Edgar Allan Poe' and 'Edmund Burke' Print Portfolios" at the Royal Academy from 30 March to 22 May 2011, brings together for the first time two pivotal print series by the sculptor Ivor Abrahams RA. Created more than thirty years ago in collaboration with master printers Chris Betambeau and Alan Cox respectively, the 'Edgar Allan Poe' (1976) and 'Edmund Burke' (1979) portfolios are superb examples of their kind from a period now recognised as a golden age of printmaking in Britain. The exhibition reveals in particular how Poe, the great technician of unified 'effect' in poetry and prose, who defined art as 'the reproduction of what the senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul' – and Burke, the great taxonomist of the Sublime and Beautiful, who first associated the emotive power of art with anticipations of pleasure and pain – took Abrahams on a parallel journey of discovery in relation to his own preoccupations as an artist, a journey that illuminated not only the work he had already done but, more importantly, what he had yet to do. The artist has been closely involved in the concept of this exhibition, sensing a need to re-visit these print series from his current standpoint, and to evaluate the continuity of his preoccupation with figure and ground. Until April 7th 2011, "Modern British Sculpture" at the Royal Academy allows Ivor Abrahams' works to be seen in the context of the trends in British sculpture at the time.

Over Ten Million Images from the LIFE'S Photo Archive to be Available on Google Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 PM PDT   NEW YORK, NY - Access to LIFE's Photo Archive -- over 10 million images in total -- will soon be available on a new hosted image service from Google, Time Inc. has announced. Ninety-seven percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public. The collection contains some of the most iconic images of the 20th century, including works from great photojournalists Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:34 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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