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• "Paris: Life & Luxury" Brings 18th Century French Elegance to the Getty Center
• The Fleming Collection to Open a New Gallery In London
• The Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort in the Netherlands Hosts Works by Ansel Krut
• "Leilani Bustamante ~ Disintegration" at the Fuse Gallery in NY
• "Early Work by Andrew Wyeth, 1939 - 1969" at the Flint Institute of Arts
• The Charles Riva Collection Exhibits Selected Works by Paul McCarthy
• Michael Alan Solos at Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert in NY
• The Mint Museum to Celebrate Romare Bearden with Major Retrospective
• The Blanton Museum in Texas Shows "About Face ~ Portraiture as Subject"
• Van Gogh Masterpiece Travels to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
• Heist-proof museums? U.S. Buildings Aided by Design, Location & Security
• Art Gallery of Hamilton to feature " Inspirational ~ the Collection of H. S. Southam "
• John Alexander Retrospective at Smithsonian American Art Museum
• The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibits Canada's First Truly Avant-Garde Art Movement
• " Op Art Revisited " exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents 'New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper & Mikhael Subotzky'
• Exhibition of Dutch Painting at the Art Gallery of Hamilton
• Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art exhibits Modern Russian Photography
• Riflemaker in Soho to feature Alice Anderson's "Time Reversal"
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

"Paris: Life & Luxury" Brings 18th Century French Elegance to the Getty Center Posted: 28 Apr 2011 11:17 PM PDT Los Angeles.- The nation of France, and its capital city of Paris in particular, held a special status in European culture during the 18th century. The upper echelons of societies throughout Europe were predominantly Francophiles— imitating French fashions of dress and furniture in their daily lives. On view in the Exhibitions Pavilion at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, April 26 through August 7, "Paris: Life & Luxury" re-imagines, through art and material culture, the complex and nuanced lifestyle of elite 18th century Parisians who made their city the fashionable and cultural epicenter of Europe. Inspired by the Getty Museum's extensive French decorative arts collection and the correspondingly strong holdings of French illustrated books in the Getty Research Institute, Paris: Life & Luxury will provide a rich cultural and historical experience that closely mirrors daily life in 18th century France. Bringing together approximately 160 objects, roughly half of which will be on loan from twenty-six museums and private collections around the world, the exhibition will include a wide range of paintings, sculpture, applied arts, drawings, metalwork, furniture, architectural fittings, lighting and hearth fixtures, scientific and musical instruments, clocks and watches, textiles and dress, books, and maps. David Bomford, acting director of the J. Paul Getty Museum said, "Paris: Life & Luxury will transport visitors back to Paris in the mid-1700s. More than celebrating the period or perpetuating the mythology of its charm and gallantry, this exhibition re-imagines the varied and complex range of values and practices of the city's elite within a rich material context." Charissa Bremer-David, curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the exhibition's co-curator added, "The exhibition will be a rich and deep sensory experience, engaging the viewer's initial attention with the compelling visual appeal of superlative and virtuoso works of art. From this breadth and diversity, visitors will learn generally about the contributions of the French, and in particular the Parisian, to the visual and performing arts, language, literature, history, science, and even culinary arts during this time period—in short, about their major contribution to the humanities at large." Following a structure based on the traditional visual allegories of the Four Times of Day, the objects in the exhibition are grouped according to their associations with common activities as pursued in the chronology of a single day, from morning to night. As such, objects of diverse mediums are juxtaposed, as they would have been within an 18th century Parisian domestic setting, regardless of modern museological or academic categories. Through constellations of art and related artifacts, the exhibition follows the conventional activities in the cycle of a Parisian day, such as dressing, writing, collecting, eating, and evening entertainment—allowing visitors to envision the activities and accessories of quotidian life, in order to find resonances with their own daily lives. The exhibition is on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles from April 26 through August 7, before traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, where it will be on view from September 18 through December 10. The Center sits atop a hill in Brentwood, California, connected to a visitor's parking garage at the bottom by a three-car, cable-pulled tram. With more than 1.3 million visitors annually, the Getty Museum is one of the most visited art museums in the USA. The 'J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Centre' is the branch of the museum specializing in "pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs". Besides the Museum, the Center's buildings house the Getty Research Institute (GRI), the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the administrative offices of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which owns and operates the Center. The Center was designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Richard Meier and includes a central garden designed by artist Robert Irwin. GRI's separate building contains a research library with over 900,000 volumes and two million photographs of art and architecture. The Center opened to the public on December 16, 1997. The Center museum building consists of a three-level base building that is mostly closed to the public and provides staff workspace and storage areas. Five public, two-story towers on the base are called the North, East, South, West and the Exhibitions Pavilions. The Exhibitions Pavilion acts as the temporary residence for traveling art collections and the Foundation's artwork for which the permanent pavilions have no room. The permanent collection is displayed throughout the other four pavilions chronologically. The first-floor galleries in each pavilion house light-sensitive art, such as illuminated manuscripts, furniture, or photography. Computer-controlled skylights on the second floor galleries allow paintings to be displayed in natural light. The second floors are connected by a series of glass-enclosed bridges and open terraces, both of which offer views of the surrounding hillsides and central plaza. Sculpture is also on display at various points outside the buildings, including on various terraces and balconies. The lower level (the highest of the floors in the base) includes a public cafeteria, the terrace cafe, and the photography galleries. Visit The J. Paul Getty Museum at : www.getty.edu/museum/

The Fleming Collection to Open a New Gallery In London Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:53 PM PDT LONDON.- A new upstairs gallery is to be opened by The Fleming Collection, which has become an embassy for Scottish art in London, enabling it to show rotating displays of major works from its permanent holdings. The new space, above The Fleming Collection's existing gallery at 13 Berkeley Street, London W1, will be formally launched at a reception on Tuesday 10 May and open to the public from Friday 10 June.

The Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort in the Netherlands Hosts Works by Ansel Krut Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:39 PM PDT Amersfoort, Netherlands.- From 28 May to 28 August, the Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort in the Netherlands will be presenting a solo exhibition of works by Ansel Krut. South African-born artist Ansel Krut (b. 1959) produces painting and drawings full of resonances of the great artistic movements of the 20th century. At first glance, his work may seem to fall into the category of 'a good imitation in a familiar Cubist or Futurist style' but a second glance immediately banishes any such prejudice.

"Leilani Bustamante ~ Disintegration" at the Fuse Gallery in NY Posted: 28 Apr 2011 09:15 PM PDT New York, NY -  "Disintegration," artwork by Leilani Bustamante runs April 30 through May 28, at Fuse Gallery in New York. The opening reception, on Saturday, April 30th, from 7 to 10 pm, is free and open to the public. Worth and value established by societal implications results in the hunt for "ideal beauty".  Leilani Bustamante provokes this common delusion by exposing and accentuating the natural asperity of flesh.

"Early Work by Andrew Wyeth, 1939 - 1969" at the Flint Institute of Arts Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:57 PM PDT Flint, MI.- The Flint Institute of Arts presents "Something Waits Beneath it - Early Work by Andrew Wyeth, 1939 - 1969" from May 7th until August 7th. Twenty-year-old Andrew Wyeth won national recognition for his 1937 exhibition of watercolors at New York's Macbeth Galleries. In 1943, critics called him a "magic realist," recognizing the often hard-to-define emotional nuances of his precisely rendered paintings. For over 60 years, in watercolor, tempera and drybrush, Wyeth has portrayed the places and moods of eastern Pennsylvania and coastal Maine. This group of early works is replete with the artist's imagery of weathered architecture, subtleties of landscape and light and unexpected viewpoints.

The Charles Riva Collection Exhibits Selected Works by Paul McCarthy Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:21 PM PDT BRUSSELS.- Charles Riva Collection presents an exhibition of Selected Works by Paul McCarthy from 1993 to 2009, rarely shown in Brussels. Paul McCarthy's (1945) career, spanning over forty years of production, can at once be summarized as chaotic, grotesque, and provocative. His work stems from an adolescence in American popular culture saturated with corn syrup, ketchup, and coca cola, childrens' toys and Disney - materials and references which act as sweetened and cheapened metaphors for the very most basic elements of human life: sweat, blood, sex, desire, feces.

Michael Alan Solos at Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert in NY Posted: 28 Apr 2011 08:20 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert present their second solo exhibition of Michael Alan. The exhibition is on view from April 28th through June 23rd. Collapsible Anatomy is a celebration of the universal condition: beauty, delicacy, strength and change. Assembling unusual and unique visual connections, it's an exclamation of life at its strongest and most vulnerable state. This exhibition examines our deceptive frailty by exploring the relationship between emotional states and the physical body: how our feelings are reflected by our forms.

The Mint Museum to Celebrate Romare Bearden with Major Retrospective Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:49 PM PDT CHARLOTTE, N.C.- This fall, The Mint Museum presents a major retrospective of the work of Romare Bearden (1911-1988), widely regarded as one of America's most pre-eminent African American artists and foremost collagists, as well as a noted writer and musician. The exhibition Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections surveys 50 years of the artist's work, from his early abstract paintings to the influential collages that dominated his later body of work. Opening on the centennial of Bearden's birth, the exhibition will be on view at the Mint Museum Uptown (at Levine Center for the Arts, 500 South Tryon Street) from 2 September 2011 – 8 January 2012.

The Blanton Museum in Texas Shows "About Face ~ Portraiture as Subject" Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:48 PM PDT Austin, Texas - From April 30 through September 4, "About Face: Portraiture as Subject" will be on view at the Blantom Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin. "About Face: Portraiture as Subject" is a unique exhibition organized by The Blanton, featuring 35 portraits in diverse mediums from antiquity to today. Drawn mostly from The Blanton's notable collection, along with several choice loaned objects, the exhibition includes works by artists known for their probing investigations of the genre, such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, John Singer Sargent, Diego Rivera, Sir Jacob Epstein, Antonio Berni, Alice Neel, Chuck Close, Robert Henri, Andy Warhol, Yasumasa Morimura, Oscar Muñoz, and Kehinde Wiley. Annette DiMeo Carlozzzi, Blanton deputy director for Art and Programs remarks, "Just as we are fascinated with faces, so too have artists explored portraits as subject matter since ancient times. From a Roman bust to a contemporary video portrait, from allegorical attributes of rank and privilege to penetrating psychological studies, About Face examines how personality and aspects of character are portrayed in art. The variations in approach are considerable and invite visitors to ask: Who are these people? What does the artist want us to know about them? How does this portrait disclose insights about both its subject and its maker?" Historical and contemporary notions of portraiture are considered throughout several intimate groupings in the exhibition. Two galleries offer a traditional overview of the subject, with works in multiple mediums and styles ranging from bronze and oil (Sir Jacob Epstein's unaffected sculptural bust of entertainer Daisy Dunn and John Singer Sargent's painted portrayal of the patrician Madame Belleroche) to two paintings based on photographs: Andy Warhol's iconic Pop image of the late Farrah Fawcett and Jim Torok's meticulous likeness of fellow artist Michael Smith. Another section highlights self-portraits and the ways in which artists reveal themselves. A diminutive Rembrandt etching and an expressive lithograph by Diego Rivera offer straightforward yet emotionally resonant representations of the artists' faces, while lush photographs by Nicola Constantino and Yasumasa Morimura exemplify the contemporary performative practice of role-playing. A grouping of recent works by Chuck Close, Byron Kim, Oscar Muñoz and others explores how facets of character, rendered abstractly, complicate individuality, sometimes questioning the facts of appearance and identity. Oliver Herring's Patrick, for example, a favorite work of Blanton visitors though rarely on public view, comprises many hundreds of studied photographic details reassembled to form a pensive, fully three-dimensional figure. A fourth section of the exhibition examines portraits such as Dürer's Erasmus of Rotterdam and Antonio Berni's Retrato de Ramona, in which sitters are identified and characteriz The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the foremost university art museums in the country, and has the largest and most comprehensive collection of art in Central Texas. The Blanton's collection comprises over 17,000 works of art in a variety of mediums, with particular depth in Western European art from the fourteenth through twentieth centuries and modern and contemporary art of the Americas. Through the collecting of art, preserving it in optimal condition, and creatively displaying and interpreting these objects, The Blanton serves as an intellectual and social portal connecting the university and the rest of the world through visual art and culture. The art museum of The University of Texas at Austin was born of a generous gift from an unexpected source. In 1927 Archer M. Huntington, a New Yorker and the son of railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, donated four thousand acres of land in Galveston, Texas, to the university with instructions that it "be dedicated to the support of an art museum." The proceeds from the eventual sale of that land created an endowment for museum operations and provided a portion of the cost for the construction in 1963 of a new building for the art department of the university, including some gallery space that was formally named the University Art Museum. All told, the Blanton collection today numbers more than 17,000 works. the museum takes enormous pride in the great depth they have achieved by concentrating their collecting efforts on works from specific periods, movements, and artists. The long-held vision of a new museum building became a reality with the groundbreaking for a new facility in October 2003. The new complex, designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects, is comprised of the Mari and James A. Michener Gallery Building, a 124,000-square-foot space that houses the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions; the 56,000-square-foot Edgar A. Smith Building features a café, museum shop, classrooms, auditorium, and offices; and a 145,000-square-foot public plaza and garden designed by Peter Walker and Partners. As the only art museum in Austin with a permanent collection of substantial range and depth, the Blanton has embraced a mission of serving as a "cultural gateway" between the university and the community. Visit the museum's website at ... http://blantonmuseum.org

Van Gogh Masterpiece Travels to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:41 PM PDT BOSTON, MA.- Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but for Vincent van Gogh, it was a means of self education for the artist in the 1880s, who copied numerous works by Jean-François Millet to teach himself how to draw and paint. The visual dialogue that ensued between master and student is the focus of Visiting Masterpieces, an ongoing series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), which showcases great art from museums and private collections around the world within the context of the MFA's encyclopedic collection. To inaugurate the series, the Museum welcomes van Gogh's "The Sower" (1888), on loan from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, to Boston for juxtaposition with the work that inspired it, Millet's The Sower (1850), one of the MFA's celebrated masterpieces. The paintings, which have never before been seen together in Boston, will be on view from May 11 to August 8 in the Impressionist Gallery.

Heist-proof museums? U.S. Buildings Aided by Design, Location & Security Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:40 PM PDT Washington, DC - Last week's $123 million heist of cubist and post-impressionist works at the Paris Museum of Modern Art continues a rash of painting pilferage in Europe over the past decade, with sensational headlines vaulting across the Atlantic. Van Goghs vanish in Amsterdam in 2002! "The Scream" swiped in Oslo in '04! Picassos purloined in Paris in '07 and '09! Art crime is at least a $6 billion global business. So, at the risk of tempting fate, one wonders: Why not more theaft here in the U.S.?

Art Gallery of Hamilton to feature " Inspirational ~ the Collection of H. S. Southam " Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:39 PM PDT   Hamilton, Ont. - Newspaper publisher Harry Stevenson Southam (1875-1954) was recognized as one of Canada's foremost collectors of art in the 1930s and 1940s. His home in Ottawa was filled with modern European and Canadian paintings that were often requested for major exhibitions. As Chairman of the National Gallery of Canada Board of Trustees for almost twenty years, he helped shape the national collection and foster an appreciation of new Canadian art. Southam Collection on view 17 January through 3 May, 2009. Curated by Alicia Boutilier

John Alexander Retrospective at Smithsonian American Art Museum Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:38 PM PDT Washington, DC - John Alexander (b. 1945) is internationally renowned for his paintings and drawings, which convey humor, rage robust appreciation of the human and natural world. "John Alexander: A Retrospective," on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from Dec. 21 through March 16, 2008, is the first full-scale examination of the artist's three-decade career.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibits Canada's First Truly Avant-Garde Art Movement Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:37 PM PDT BUFFALO, NY.- Guest curated by Roald Nasgaard, Professor of Art History at Florida State University, this exhibition includes sixty works of art, as well as photographs, books, and other ephemera documenting the history of the Automatiste, Canada's first truly avant-garde art movement. Organized by the Varley Art Gallery in Unionville, Ontario, this landmark exhibition will represent the first extensive retrospective of the work of this group of Canadian abstract artists to be shown in the United States. On view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery from 19 March through 30 May , 2010.

" Op Art Revisited " exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:36 PM PDT BUFFALO, NY - Organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery Associate Curator Holly E. Hughes, the exhibition includes 43 paintings and sculptures from artists central to the Op Art or Optical Art movement, such as Josef Albers, Richard Anuskiewicz, Bridget Riley, Julian Stanczak, and Victor Vasarely. Through the use of parallel lines, concentric circles and electric colors, these artists manipulated depth, perspective, space, and color to create an "optical illusion."

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents 'New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper & Mikhael Subotzky' Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:35 PM PDT NEW YORK CITY - The Museum of Modern Art presents New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky, the latest installment of its annual fall showcase of significant recent work in contemporary photography. New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, and will be on view from September 10, 2008, through January 5, 2009.

Exhibition of Dutch Painting at the Art Gallery of Hamilton Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:34 PM PDT HAMILTON, ON., CANADA - Nature Observed spotlights the Gallery's collection of Dutch paintings, which for many years have constituted a modestly-sized yet excellent component of the institution's European holdings. Several of the works came to the Art Gallery of Hamilton as offerings from historic AGH patrons, among them John Penman, Muriel Bostwick, Margaret Galbreaith, and Ruth McCuaig. Still others were purchases made respectively in the 1960s and '80s through the generosity of the Gallery's Women's Committee and Volunteer Committee (the new name for the Women's Committee in 1977).

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art exhibits Modern Russian Photography Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:33 PM PDT   NORMAN, OK.- In 1992, just months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a handful of Russian photographers began documenting life after communism for a new independent newspaper, the Moscow Times. Their photographs come to life in a new exhibition opened Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. "Reflections: Russian Photographs 1992-2002", on display through Jan. 4, 2009, are part of a larger schedule of Russian-themed programming at the museum.

Riflemaker in Soho to feature Alice Anderson's "Time Reversal" Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:32 PM PDT LONDON.- The French/Algerian artist Alice Anderson (b.1976) will fill Riflemaker in Soho with thousands of metres of hair as part of an installation, including film, sculptures and photographs, based on fictional childhood memories from 1 March 2010. Anderson considers time, or more particularly the way that time shapes itself, to be her most significant working material. For her, memories can be described as reconstructions, often distorted to the extent that each becomes a creation or fiction itself. She views memory as the 'master of fiction', whereby the passage of time may lead to a remembrance being more akin to fiction than fact.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 28 Apr 2011 07:32 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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