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• The Gerdarsafn Art Museum in Kópavogur Shows a major Barbara Árnason Retrospective
• Barry Friedman Ltd Presents "Michael Glancy ~ Infinite Obsessions"
• Spring Show in New York City Offers Diverse Array of Treasures
• "Andrew Rogers: Time and Space" on View at the 18th Street Arts Center
• The Immensely Successful Singapore Biennale Runs Until 15th May
• Photographer Jim Goldberg Wins Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2011
• The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Shows Work by John Alexander & Walter Anderson
• Gagosian Gallery Announces Exclusive Representation of Photographer Richard Avedon
• Seattle City Council Approve Plans For a Dale Chihuly Museum
• Kunsthistorisches Museum exhibits 'The Myth of Antiquity' in Vienna
• Red Grooms Exhibition Showcased at Bryn Mawr College
• Rijksmuseum to Host the First Survey of Winter Landscapes by Hendrick Avercamp
• Researchers Find "Holy Grail" of Audubon's First Published Illustration
• The Brooklyn Museum Announces A Major Fashion Exhibition
• Chazen Museum of Art displays Mannerism in Italy & the Low Countries
• Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park shows An Exclusive Exhibition by Michele Oka Doner
• The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec
• Anne Frank's Full Diary on Display at the House Where She Wrote It
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Gerdarsafn Art Museum in Kópavogur Shows a major Barbara Árnason Retrospective Posted: 27 Apr 2011 10:26 PM PDT Kópavogur, Iceland.- On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the biirth of artist Barbara Árnason (1911-1975), a major retrospective of her work opened at the Gerdarsafn Art Museum in Kópavogur. The popularity and importance of this English-born artist to the development of twentieth century art in Iceland was demonstrated when the exhibition was opened by the country's President, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The exhibition will remain on view until 5 June. Over 250 works by the artist are on display including Christmas cards, other illustrations, prints, watercolors and textile work made from Icelandic wool as well as numerous illustrated books. Many of the works on show are privately owned and have never before been shown in public. The ground floor of the Gerdarsafns Art Museum shows works illustrating how Barbara Árnason laid the foundation for Icelandic art prints and why she is now considered among the pioneers in the field in the country. Árnason's watercolor work is well represented, with the first floor exhibition gallery showing a selection from early works painted on her first visits to Iceland to her famous paintings of children and animals. Árnason's works with wool, which blended art and fashion (and which she regularly exhibited at Paris fashion shows) have the museum's east gallery to themselves. Barbara Árnason was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, one of identical twins (her sister, Ursula Moray Williams, went on to become a well-known children's author and illustrator), both her parents were teachers. Brought up by governesses, by the age of nine both children had written and illustrated their own books for the family to enjoy. She and her sister both studied at Winchester College of Art, though Ursula left after a year to concentrate on her writing, Barbara continued her studies and subsequently attended the Royal College of Art in London. Initially working in wood block prints, Barbara became an illustrator after graduating. Shortly after that, she was asked to illustrate a series of books retelling the Icelandic sagas, which sparked her interest in Iceland. She traveled to Iceland in 1936 where she met sculptor and painter Magnús Á. Árnason. They married in 1937 and that same year she moved to Iceland. For the rest of her life, Barbara remained based in Iceland (though making numerous trips to Mexico, another country that she developed an affinity for), where she produced a vast catalogue of work in multiple mediums, from wood block prints to textiles (which attracted interest from Pierre Cardin). The town of Kópavogur (a short distance to the south of Reykjavik) established a culture fund and began collecting art works on the occasion of its tenth anniversary in 1965. Kópavogur Art Museum-Gerðarsafn opened in 1994 in an impressive building designed by the architect Benjamín Magnússon. Gerðarsafn is a progressive art museum collecting and exhibiting modern and contemporary art. The museum is dedicated to the memory of (and named after) the sculptor and stained-glass artist Gerður Helgadóttir (a pioneer of three dimensional abstract art and architectural stained glass in Iceland. She died prematurely in 1975 at the age of 47). Her works constitute the most important part of the museum's collection.  Gerðarsafn hosts around 20 exhibitions annually, displaying works by Icelandic and foreign artists alike.  There are three exhibition halls in the museum. Two on the upper floor with overhead lighting; while the third, a multi-purpose hall, is on the lower floor. The museum also has a bright and cozy café with a beautiful view. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.gerdarsafn.is

Barry Friedman Ltd Presents "Michael Glancy ~ Infinite Obsessions" Posted: 27 Apr 2011 09:29 PM PDT New York.- Barry Friedman Ltd. is pleased to present, "Infinite Obsessions", a solo exhibition of glass and metal sculptures by the contemporary American artist Michael Glancy. This will be Glancy's first solo show in almost five years and his largest to date, including more than 35 new works. Accompanying the show, and covering the last 15 years of the artist's work, is a 228-page, full-color book published by Arnoldsche Art Book Publishers, Germany and Barry Friedman Ltd, featuring an interview by Tina Oldknow, Curator of Modern Glass at the Corning Museum of Glass. The catalogue will be available through the gallery for $75.00. The exhibition will open with a reception for the artist on Thursday May 5, 2011 from 6:00-8:00pm, and will be on view through July 15, 2011.

Spring Show in New York City Offers Diverse Array of Treasures Posted: 27 Apr 2011 08:59 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Decisions, decisions. When the Spring Show NYC, opens its doors on April 28 to May 2 at the Park Avenue Armory, a diverse array of fine and decorative arts from 65 members of the Art and Antique Dealers League of America will greet collectors and art aficionados of all tastes. From ancient artifacts to fine furniture to modern masterworks on canvas and mid-century decorative arts, fairgoers can count on finding a stellar piece to suit their style. Budding enthusiasts are also welcomed with a selection of exceptional and accessibly-priced items. Most importantly, all works on display have been carefully vetted for authenticity in accordance with the strict standards of the AADLA. Here we present a brief survey of some of the show's most extraordinary pieces, spanning more than 2500 years in age.

"Andrew Rogers: Time and Space" on View at the 18th Street Arts Center Posted: 27 Apr 2011 08:45 PM PDT Santa Monica, CA.- From May 7 through 28 May , the 18th Street Arts Center will present "Andrew Rogers: Time and Space", a selection of 68 large-scale photographs of Rogers's ground-breaking outdoor art project. The exhibition will showcase aerial and satellite photographs of 47 sculptures created over a period of 13 years, making it the first time these images will be publicly displayed together. Also on view will be a looped, 40-minute film that documents the artist's extraordinary process. Rogers has spent the last 13 years engaging over 6,700 people in 13 countries on seven continents to create stone sculptures in deserts, fjords, gorges, national parks and on mountainous slopes. By building structures with local significance, and providing sustaining support to maintain the mammoth artworks, Rogers engages the communities where his works are created.

The Immensely Successful Singapore Biennale Runs Until 15th May Posted: 27 Apr 2011 08:25 PM PDT Singapore.- Featuring 60 artists from 30 countries, the third Singapore Biennale, titled 'Open House', opened to the public on 13th March and continues until 15th May. Over half of the artists are creating new commissions or premiering new works. 'Open House' is presented across four exhibition venues, each with their own particular character, that draw upon emblematic spaces in Singapore: Housing Development Board flats (Singapore Art Museum and 8Q), shopping centres and night markets (National Museum of Singapore), and international air and sea ports (Old Kallang Airport). Major art works at Marina Bay will amplify individual experience in the city. The Biennale was established in 2006 as Singapore's premier platform for international dialogue in contemporary art, placing the nation's artists within a global context and fostering productive collaborations with the international arts community.

Photographer Jim Goldberg Wins Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2011 Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:32 PM PDT LONDON.- Jim Goldberg (b.1953, USA) has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, which marks the 15th year of the Prize and the 40th anniversary of The Photographers' Gallery. The prize was announced on Tuesday 26 April 2011 when the broadcaster and critic Miranda Sawyer presented the £30,000 award at a special ceremony. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011 is organised by The Photographers' Gallery. This year, while the Gallery undergoes extensive redevelopment works to transform its gallery space, which will reopen later this year, the Prize is displayed at Ambika P3, University of Westminster until 1 May 2011.

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Shows Work by John Alexander & Walter Anderson Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:31 PM PDT New Orleans.- The work of Southern artists is often infused with a deep sense of place and time. Whether inspired by the small-town of the artist's birth, the land, the waters, be it river, lake or sea, the music, the people or even the animals, that sense of place shows up in subtle, surprising or literal ways, unique to each artist. "One World, Two Artists" will attempt to show how the Gulf Coast was a shared source of inspiration to two native artists: John Alexander and Walter Anderson. The "One World, Two Artists: John Alexander and Walter Anderson" exhibition is currently on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and remains open until mid-July.

Gagosian Gallery Announces Exclusive Representation of Photographer Richard Avedon Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:05 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announces the worldwide representation of Richard Avedon, in partnership with The Richard Avedon Foundation. Larry Gagosian comments, "Avedon is America's consummate modern photographer and one of the iconic artists from a generation which produced many extraordinary painters, sculptures, and photographers. We consider it a great privilege to represent one of the true masters of twentieth century art."

Seattle City Council Approve Plans For a Dale Chihuly Museum Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT Seattle, WA - The Seattle City Council has unanimously approved the lease for a planned Dale Chihuly glass art museum and garden at the former Fun Forest amusement site at Seattle Center. Under the agreement, Center Art LLC.,  a subsidiary created by the Space Needle's owners, will develop, construct and operate an exhibition hall and art garden in the former Fun Forest site. Center Art will pay for the project and  will donate $1 million for the development of a children's play area north of the monorail, according to a City Council news release. The past 16 months of negotiations have shown that good public process can lead to good public policy," said Council member Sally Bagshaw, chair of the Parks and Seattle Center Committee, in a news release. "Seattle will have another world class attraction and Seattle Center will be further invigorated through art, music and a creative new family play space." Center Art plans to open the new exhibition hall to coincide with a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World's Fair on April 21, 2012. After a public process began in March 2010,  nine proposals for development of the former Fun Forest site were reviewed. Three public meetings were held and in September 2010, an advisory panel made up of  Century 21 Committee members recommended Center Art LLC's proposal, according to a news release. The lease agreement with Center Art LLC specifies that the base rent would be $350,000 a year.  Seattle Center would also get a cut of the glass exhibit's net sales after the fifth year. The project also includes enhancing 39,000 square feet of "public walkways and landscaping around the exhibition site and a community partnership program with a focus on arts and education." Born in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly was introduced to glass while studying interior design at the University of Washington. After graduating in 1965, Chihuly enrolled in the first glass program in the country, at the University of Wisconsin. He continued his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he later established the glass program and taught for more than a decade. In 1968, after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, he went to work at the Venini glass factory in Venice. There he observed the team approach to blowing glass, which is critical to the way he works today. In 1971, Chihuly cofounded Pilchuck Glass School in Washington State. With this international glass center, Chihuly has led the avant-garde in the development of glass as a fine art. His work is included in more than 200 hundred museum collections worldwide. He has been the recipient of many awards, including ten honorary doctorates and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Chihuly has created more than a dozen well-known series of works, among them Cylinders and Baskets in the 1970s; Seaforms, Macchia, Venetians, and Persians in the 1980s; Niijima Floats and Chandeliers in the 1990s; and Fiori in the 2000s. He is also celebrated for large architectural installations. In 1986, he was honored with a solo exhibition, Dale Chihuly objets de verre, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, in Paris. In 1995, he began Chihuly Over Venice, for which he created sculptures at glass factories in Finland, Ireland, and Mexico, then installed them over the canals and piazzas of Venice. In 1999, Chihuly mounted a challenging exhibition, Chihuly in the Light of Jerusalem; more than 1 million visitors attended the Tower of David Museum to view his installations. In 2001, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London curated the exhibition Chihuly at the V&A. Chihuly's lifelong affinity for glasshouses has grown into a series of exhibitions within botanical settings. His Garden Cycle began in 2001 at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. Chihuly exhibited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, near London, in 2005. Other major exhibition venues include the de Young Museum in San Francisco, in 2008, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, in 2011. Visit the artist's website at ... www.chihuly.com

Kunsthistorisches Museum exhibits 'The Myth of Antiquity' in Vienna Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT   VIENNA - The protagonists of classical myths – heroes, mortals, gods and demi-gods – are deeply embedded in our collective memory and have lost nothing of their power to fascinate. Neither the invasion of the barbarians in Late Antiquity nor Christianity could fully uproot the memory of the pagan ancient world, with the Renaissance proudly rediscovering classical civilization. Their myths came to life again in the Renaissance and baroque paintings and frescoes that decorated sumptuous princely palaces. On view December 4, 2008 till March 1, 2009.

Red Grooms Exhibition Showcased at Bryn Mawr College Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT BRYN MAWR, Pa. – Bryn Mawr College's spring exhibition Old Masters and Modern Muses: Red Grooms's Portraits of Artists, 1957-2009 will showcase more than 30 works of art by prominent American artist Red Grooms. The exhibition will feature drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures, spanning five decades of Grooms' career, and include a number of recent works that have never been exhibited before. Old Masters and Modern Muses will be on view in Bryn Mawr's Canaday Library through June 5, Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m., and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue and related programming. This exhibition is free and open to the public.

Rijksmuseum to Host the First Survey of Winter Landscapes by Hendrick Avercamp Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT AMSTERDAM, NL - The Rijksmuseum presents the first exhibition devoted to Hendrick Avercamp, the foremost painter of Dutch winter landscapes in the 17th century. Avercamp was the first Dutch artist to specialise in paintings of winter landscapes featuring people enjoying the ice. Some 400 years on, our image of life in the harsh winters of the Golden Age is still dominated by Avercamp's ice scenes with their splendid narrative details of couples skating, children pelting each other with snowballs and unwary individuals falling through the ice. In addition to twenty of his finest paintings, the exhibition features twenty-five of his best drawings from museums and private collections throughout the world. Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age runs from 20 November 2009 to 15 February 2010 at the Rijksmuseum. It will then appear at the National Gallery of Art in Washington from 21 March to 5 July 2010.

Researchers Find "Holy Grail" of Audubon's First Published Illustration Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (REUTERS).- Researchers have found the first published illustration by John James Audubon, America's most famous bird artist, ending decades of searching for the prized but elusive work. Audubon had made two references to the illustration in his diaries, but it had never been seen until it was found on a sheet of sample images produced in 1824 by a New Jersey engraver who specialized in illustrations for banknotes. Eric Newman, a numismatic, or currency, historian working with Robert Peck, a senior fellow with Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences who had spent the last decade looking for the long-lost illustration, discovered it.

The Brooklyn Museum Announces A Major Fashion Exhibition Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT BROOKLYN, NY.- A major exhibition celebrating the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection and the unique collection-sharing partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from May 7 through August 1, 2010. "American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection" will include some 85 masterworks from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and mark the first time in more than two decades that a large-scale survey drawn from the Brooklyn Museum's pre-eminent collection will be on public view. The exhibition opening will be preceded by a special preview on April 22 at the Brooklyn Ball.

Chazen Museum of Art displays Mannerism in Italy & the Low Countries Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT   Madison, WI - The Chazen Museum of Art is pleased to present an exhibition of mannerist works, mostly engravings, drawn primarily from its permanent collection. During the fifteenth-century Renaissance, classical antiquity was big news. Artists followed discoveries of Greek and Roman sculpture and visited Rome to see the great antiquities collections, copying and perfecting the techniques and subject matter of the classical models.

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park shows An Exclusive Exhibition by Michele Oka Doner Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, one of the nation's most significant sculpture and botanic experiences, is hosting an exclusive exhibition by American artist Michele Oka Doner. Among the most versatile artists working today, Oka Doner is widely celebrated for her exquisitely beautiful public commissions as well as sculpture, prints, jewelry and functional objects that are now found in public and private collections throughout the world. Spirit and Form: Michele Oka Doner and the Natural World will be on display January 29 through May 9, 2010.

The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT   PORTLAND, OR - This landmark exhibition, appearing exclusively at the Portland Art Museum February 2 through May 11, 2008, explores the complex image of the dancer in the work of three artists intrigued by various manifestations of dance in fin-de-siècle Paris: Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). The Dancer presents an international roster of more than 110 works of art, including rarely seen paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculptures from collections in Europe and the United States.

Anne Frank's Full Diary on Display at the House Where She Wrote It Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (AP).- Nearly all of Anne Frank's diary went on display for the first time at the Dutch house where she wrote it during the two years the Jewish teenager was in hiding from the Nazis. The notebooks and pages that comprise the World War II diary have been moved into the Anne Frank House museum to mark 50 years since it opened its doors to the public. Dutch Queen Beatrix opened the exhibition, then attended a commemoration at the 17th century Western Church a few dozen steps from museum.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 27 Apr 2011 07:04 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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