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• "From New York to Corrymore ~ Robert Henri and Ireland" on view at the Mint Museum
• The Inaugural artMRKT Fair in San Francisco Takes Place in May
• Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer Exhibit at the Laura Russo Gallery
• Haunch of Venison Announces New Locations for Its Galleries in London and New York
• Selections From The Roy R. Neuberger Collection On View
• Lanning Gallery Shows "Gregory Deane: Contemporary Energy" in Sedona, AZ
• The Art of the Automobile: Masterpieces of the Ralph Lauren Collection on View
• Nazi Records of Art Looting Located and Documented in New Survey
• Baltimore Museum of Art to Explore Cézanne's Influence on American Art
• Picasso on Paper: Drawings and Prints (1899-1967) at The Santa Barbara Museum of Art
• Forgotten British Painter Featured in New Exhibition at the National Gallery
• Hans Bellmer ~ Engineer of the Erotic ~ at Pinakothek der Moderne
• Mint Museum of Craft + Design to display ~ ' Ornament as Art '
• Ashcan School Art exhibited in New York City
• Carmichael Gallery to exhibit Dan Baldwin ~ "Disillusion"
• Metropolitan Museum of Art to show "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915"
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to host Chaotic Harmony ~ Contemporary Korean Photography
• Tom Otterness exhibit to Inaugurate Marlborough Chelsea
• Hallie Ford Museum of Art hosts a Michael Dailey Retrospective
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

"From New York to Corrymore ~ Robert Henri and Ireland" on view at the Mint Museum Posted: 01 May 2011 10:06 PM PDT Charlotte, NC.- "From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland" is on view at the Mint Museum Uptown Brand Galleries from May 7th until August 7th. This is the first exhibition to examine this iconic American artist's work focused on the Irish landscape and people, particularly children, created between the time of his first trip to Ireland in 1913 and his last trip there in 1928. Henri has long been celebrated as a pivotal figure in early 20th century American art due to his important work as a teacher and as the leader of The Eight. Henri's Irish portraits constitute his largest focused body of work, and often depict the same sitters year after year. These paintings offer a unique and fascinating window onto the genre about which Henri felt most  strongly—portraiture—and also chart his experiments with paint handling and color theories over time. He wrote that the time spent in Ireland was extremely valuable to him (it was the only other place besides New York where he purchased a residence), for only there was he able to focus on his painting without the distractions of life in New York. It is not surprising, then, that the periods Henri spent in Ireland were among his most prolific, and the paintings produced there among his most accomplished. Just before his death, Henri composed a list of his most important paintings; many of the works on this list were his Irish subjects. Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio to Theresa Gatewood Cozad of Malden, Virginia and John Jackson Cozad, a gambler and real estate developer. Henri's father founded the towns of Cozaddale, Ohio and Cozad, Nebraska. In October 1882, Henri's father became embroiled in a dispute with a rancher, Alfred Pearson, over the right to pasture cattle on land claimed by the family. When the dispute turned physical, Cozad shot Pearson fatally with a pistol. Cozad was eventually cleared of wrongdoing, but the mood of the town turned against him. He fled to Denver, Colorado, and the rest of the family followed shortly afterwards. In order to disassociate themselves from the scandal, family members changed their names. In 1883, the family moved to New York City, then to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where the young artist completed his first paintings. In 1886, Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz. In 1888, he traveled to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, where he studied under William-Adolphe Bouguereau and embraced Impressionism. With time, he was admitted into the École des Beaux Arts. He visited Brittany and Italy during this period. By the end of 1891, he returned to Philadelphia, studying under Robert Vonnoh at the Academy. In 1892, he began teaching at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. In Philadelphia, Henri began to attract a group of followers who met in his studio to discuss art and culture, including several illustrators for the Philadelphia Press newspaper who would become known as the 'Philadelphia Four': William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John French Sloan. The gatherings became known as the "Charcoal Club", featuring life drawing and readings in the social philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Émile Zola, and Henry David Thoreau. By 1895, Henri had come to reconsider Impressionism, calling it a "new academicism". For several years, he divided his time between Philadelphia and Paris. In 1898 he married Linda Craige, a student from his private art class. The couple spent the next two years on an extended honeymoon in France, during which time the French government purchased his painting, La Neige ("The Snow"), to be displayed in the Musée du Luxembourg. He began teaching at the New York School of Art in 1902, where his students included Joseph Stella, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, George Bellows, Norman Raeben, Louis D. Fancher, and Stuart Davis. In 1905, Henri's wife Linda, long in poor health, died. In 1906, he was elected to the National Academy of Design, but when painters in his circle were rejected for the Academy's 1907 exhibition, he accused fellow jurors of bias and walked off the jury, resolving to organize a show of his own. He would later refer to the Academy as "a cemetery of art". In February 1908, Henri organized a landmark show entitled "The Eight" (after the eight painters displaying their works) at the Macbeth Gallery in New York. Besides his own works and those produced by the "Philadelphia Four" (who had followed Henri to New York by this time), there were paintings by Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, and Arthur B. Davies. These painters and this exhibition would become associated with the Ashcan School, although the content of the show was diverse and that term was not coined until 1934. Henri was at the heart of the group who led the depiction of the tough, exuberant city. Having spurned academic painting and Impressionism as an art of mere surfaces, Henri wanted art to be akin to journalism, and, 'for paint to be as real as mud, as the clods of horseshit and snow that froze on Broadway in the winter.' Looking at Henri's Salome of 1909 the critic Robert Hughes observed: "Her long legs thrust out with strutting sexual arrogance, and glint through the over-brushed back veil. It has far more oomph than hundreds of virginal, genteel muses, painted by American academics. He has given it urgency with slashing brush marks and strong tonal contrasts. He's learned from Winslow Homer, from Édouard Manet, and from the vulgarity of Frans Hals." In May 1908, he married 22-year old Irish-born Marjorie Organ. In 1910, Henri organized the Exhibition of Independent Artists, a no-jury, no-prize show modeled after the Salon des Independants in France. Works were hung alphabetically to emphasize the egalitarian philosophy. Walt Kuhn, who took part in this show, would come to play a key role in the Armory Show, an exhibition mounted in 1913 that introduced many American viewers to avant-garde European art. Five of Henri's paintings were included in the Armory Show. Henri admired anarchist and Mother Earth publisher Emma Goldman, and taught from 1911 at the Modern School. Goldman, who later sat for a portrait by Henri, described him as "an anarchist in his conception of art and its relation to life". From 1915 to 1927 he was a popular and influential teacher at the Art Students League of New York. His ideas on art were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (Philadelphia, 1923). Henri's other students include George Bellows, Arnold Franz Brasz, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Lillian Cotton, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In the spring of 1929 Henri was chosen as one of the top three living American artists by the Arts Council of New York. Henri died of cancer in the summer of 1929. He was honored with a memorial exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1931 The Mint Museum in Charolotte, North Carolina is housed in two separate buildings. The Mint Museum Uptown houses the internationally-renowned Mint Museum of Craft + Design, as well as outstanding collections of American, contemporary, and European art. Designed by Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston, the five-story, 145,000-square-foot facility combines inspiring architecture with groundbreaking exhibitions to provide visitors with unparalleled educational and cultural experiences. Located in the heart of Charlotte's burgeoning uptown, the Mint Museum Uptown is an integral part of the Levine Center for the Arts, a cultural campus that includes the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, the Knight Theater, and the Duke Energy Center, and features a range of visitor amenities, including a 240-seat Auditorium, Family Gallery, studios, Café, and Museum Shop. Housed in what was the original branch of the United States Mint, the Mint Museum Randolph opened in 1936 in Charlotte'shistoric Eastover neighborhood as the first art museum in North Carolina. Today the Mint features collections that span more than 4,500 years of human creativity from all over the world. Intimate galleries invite visitors to engage with the art of the ancient Americas, ceramics and decorative arts, historic costume and fashionable dress, and European, African, and Asian art, among other collections. Resources include a reference library with over 15,000 volumes, a theater featuring lectures and performances, and a Museum Shop offering merchandise that complements both the permanent collection and special exhibitions. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.mintmuseum.org

The Inaugural artMRKT Fair in San Francisco Takes Place in May Posted: 01 May 2011 10:05 PM PDT San Franciscio.- artMRKT is pleased to announce its inaugural show at the Concourse Exhibition Center in downtown San Francisco from May 19th to 22nd. With galleries representing both contemporary and historically significant work, artMRKT is proud to present a selection of highly relevant and engaging programs from the bay area and around the world. artMRKT is a partnership between Jeffery Wainhause, Max Fishko and the dealers they work with. artMRKT is a new kind of company. With a dedication to improve the art world and a wealth of production experience, they look to provide dealers and collectors with the highest level of service.

Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer Exhibit at the Laura Russo Gallery Posted: 01 May 2011 09:45 PM PDT Portland OR.- The Laura Russo Gallery is pleased to present new works by Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer under the title "Oregon Landmarks" from May 5th to 28th. Iconic Portland artist Tom Cramer is widely known for his public murals, painted cars, totems, opera sets and costumes, and recent exhibitions of exquisitely carved, intricate wall reliefs inspired in part by recent travels to the major temples of India. His work is included in museum collections (Portland Art Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Boise Art Museum among others), corporate collections (Microsoft, Harsch Investment Corp., numerous law firms) and many private collections. Cramer is an instructor at PNCA (Pacific Nortwest College of Art), the institution from which he graduated in 1982. Cramer also spent time at the Pratt Institute in NYC in the mid-1980's. His work has been included in several Oregon Biennial exhibitions and many other survey shows.

Haunch of Venison Announces New Locations for Its Galleries in London and New York Posted: 01 May 2011 08:22 PM PDT LONDON.- Haunch of Venison London and Haunch of Venison New York announced that both galleries will move their respective locations. The London gallery will move back to its original location at Haunch of Venison Yard in September following an extensive renovation of the gallery while the New York gallery will move to 550 West 21st Street in Chelsea, leaving its current Rockefeller Center premises. Leading architect Annabelle Selldorf will redesign both spaces.

Selections From The Roy R. Neuberger Collection On View Posted: 01 May 2011 08:08 PM PDT Purchase, NY - The works of art included in this exhibition are selections from Roy R. Neuberger's (American, 1903-2010) generous gift to Purchase College, State University of New York, which helped to establish the Neuberger Museum of Art. The exhibition sheds light on the aesthetic and social commitments of leading American artists in the middle of the twentieth century. Exhibition on view perpetual with art changing.

Lanning Gallery Shows "Gregory Deane: Contemporary Energy" in Sedona, AZ Posted: 01 May 2011 08:07 PM PDT Sedona, AZ.- Lanning Gallery is pleased to announce a return visit by artist Gregory Deane. The exhibition "Gregory Deane: Contemporary Energy" runs through May 15th opening with an artist's reception during Sedona's "1st Friday Gallery Tour" May 6th from 5-8 pm. Deane's genius is evident in every canvas: these are not simple paintings easily defined, though each can be appreciated simply as a burst of immediate emotional impact or, conversely, as a work to be intellectually investigated. "I want clients to take the works personally," Deane says. To him, it is the viewer's response that completes the artistic act of creation.

The Art of the Automobile: Masterpieces of the Ralph Lauren Collection on View Posted: 01 May 2011 07:23 PM PDT PARIS.- Among the major car collections in the world, there is one that stands out more than any other as synonymous with excellence: that of iconic American fashion designer Ralph Lauren. A selection of the most prestigious sports cars from the 1930s to present day is on view for the first time in Europe at Paris' Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Seventeen outstanding cars, chosen by curator Rodolphe Rapetti, and put on display by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, outline the main phases of European automobile history. With this collection, Ralph Lauren shows that the automobile is a major art form created by the industry's biggest names: Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Porsche and of course, Ferrari, the high point of this unique collection.

Nazi Records of Art Looting Located and Documented in New Survey Posted: 01 May 2011 07:22 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- -- In response to complaints from the art world of the difficulty and expense in viewing the scattered and complex records needed to ascertain whether an artwork was looted, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has initiated and supported a series of interlocking projects that provide greater access to and information about the records of the main Nazi agency responsible for looting cultural valuables in Nazi-occupied countries. Original Nazi files of the looting of hundreds of thousands of art, books, archives, and other cultural valuables have now been located and documented in the latest project to make accessible the Nazis' own records of their plunder. "Smaller museums and individual art dealers in particular often do not have the resources and personnel to do the research necessary to establish the provenance of art objects they have. We are making it easier for them to carry out their professional and moral obligation to identify objects that may have been looted in the Holocaust," said Julius Berman, Chairman of the Claims Conference's Board of Directors. Reconstructing the Record of Nazi Cultural Plunder: A Survey of the Dispersed Archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) has been published online at www.iisg.nl/publications/errsurvey. The detail with which the ERR – the special operational task force headed by Adolf Hitler's ideological henchman Alfred Rosenberg -- documented the art, archives, books, and Judaica it plundered has proved essential for recovery efforts. However, after WWII, original ERR documents were scattered and today are found in 29 repositories in 9 countries. This survey documents the current locations of all ERR records, details their contents, and provides links to online sources. The survey was written by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, the preeminent expert on WWII displaced archives. It was funded and assisted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) and published by the International Institute for Social History, whose own massive Amsterdam and Paris library and archival collections were plundered by the ERR, and whose building on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam was used for the ERR headquarters in the Netherlands. The Survey also describes considerable documentation regarding the subsequent fate, postwar retrieval, and restitution of the ERR loot. In October 2010, the Claims Conference launched the website, Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume: www.errproject.org/jeudepaume. This searchable database of the looting of more than 20,000 individual art objects from Jews in France and Belgium showed that at least half the objects were not restituted to their original owners. The Claims Conference, working with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, now presents each of the original ERR registration cards for over 20,000 art objects in electronic form, listing Nazi ERR code numbers, artwork titles, artists, and detailed descriptions of each work. Many entries include photos of the artworks or objects as well as a scan of the original Nazi record. The database can be searched by owner, artist, or collection, or a combination of criteria. Links are provided in the just-published Survey to 140,000 pages of ERR documents that went online in Kyiv in 2010. The Claims Conference arranged for the documents, held by state archives in Ukraine, to be imaged and adapted for the Internet. Many documents describe individual items. Others list the number of crates from specific museums or libraries, detailing their origin, date of plunder, and where they were stored or relocated by the Nazis. The records held by the Ukrainian State Archives since 1945 (in secret before 1990) is the largest collection of ERR documents in the world and is at http://err.tsdavo.org.ua. Another major related group of ERR records is on the website of the Federal Archives of Germany, also assisted by Claims Conference sponsorship of digitization, at http://startext.net-build.de:8080/barch/MidosaSEARCH/NS30/index.htm and http://startext.net-build.de:8080/barch/MidosaSEARCH/B323-5209_Version_online/index.htm. Additional digital contributions are expected soon that will provide improved access to a major component of the record of wartime cultural plunder and retrieval. In 2006, the Claims Conference carried out a survey of U.S. art museums that showed the difficulties that institutions were having in doing provenance research on their collections, difficulties that are not unique to the United States. The online publication of the Survey and of masses of ERR documents held in various countries should go far in alleviating such problems. Even greater improvements in this regard can be expected with the establishment this coming May of the International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property under the leadership of the National Archives of the United States, in which the Claims Conference is participating. Information regarding the Claims Conference/WJRO Looted Jewish Art and Cultural Property Initiative and the 2006 survey of U.S. museums may be found at www.claimscon.org/art. BACKGROUND INFORMATION The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is most pleased to sponsor the electronic publication of Reconstructing the Record of Nazi Cultural Plunder: A Survey and Preliminary Guide to the Dispersed Archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and to have assisted in some of its preparation. Compiled by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, the preeminent expert on archives displaced as a result of World War II, this work promises to be of great use to historians, archivists, provenance researchers, museum curators, art dealers, and the heirs of families and communities that were plundered. Dedicated since 1951 to providing a measure of justice for Jewish victims of Nazism, the Claims Conference has always been concerned with the restitution of plundered artworks, religious artifacts, archives, libraries, and other cultural property. But restitution efforts in this area have in the past yielded far fewer results than have efforts to restitute non-cultural assets such as immovable property and bank accounts, insurance policies, and other financial holdings. The reasons for this lack of progress include the ease of transporting artworks and books across international borders, the lack of public records documenting original ownership, the difficulty of tracing art transactions through the decades, and in some countries, the lack of government commitment to restitution, appropriate legislation, or a central authority to arbitrate claims. At the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets in 1998, attention turned to the importance of archival records in understanding the plunder of art and other cultural property by the Nazis and their allies. Subsequently at a seminar presentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000, Patricia Grimsted made an appeal for a virtual compendium of the widely dispersed records of one of the most important Nazi cultural looting agencies, the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR). This idea was discussed with interest by delegates from many countries later in October of that year at the Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust-Era Looted Cultural Assets. During the next few years, Dr. Grimsted continued to uncover the locations of the scattered ERR files and completed an article on patterns of ERR library and archival plunder during World War II, as well as articles on the postwar fate of the ERR's loot and its documentation. At the same time, the Claims Conference and the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) began a comprehensive program to assist the further restitution of Jewish-owned art and cultural property lost and plundered during the Holocaust. Although a number of countries have compiled lists of cultural losses, there has been no large-scale attempt to determine the full scope of cultural property seized by the specific agencies of the Nazis and their allies that has not been restituted. Instead, the focus has been on checking the provenance of museum collections and on claims made by individual survivors and heirs of owners. But more often than not families and communities do not have full knowledge of what was taken from them. Art dealers, major collectors, and institutions may have kept lists of artworks or catalogs of libraries and archives prior to World War II, but often such lists and catalogs – like their owners – did not survive the Holocaust, and in any event, the vast majority of the millions of persons who were robbed had no such lists or catalogs. We therefore decided to try to reconstruct the historical-archival record so as 1) to develop listings of what was plundered by the Nazis and their allies; 2) to assemble listings of cultural property known to have been restituted; and thereby 3) to produce net listings of outstanding items of cultural property that have yet to be returned. In consultation with Dr. Grimsted, the Claims Conference therefore undertook to support three major activities in regard to the records of the ERR. The first is the online publication of the current survey and preliminary guide. The second is the ongoing imaging of the ERR files located in Kyiv, Moscow, Vilnius, Berlin, Koblenz, Amsterdam, Paris, New York, and Washington with a view to making the ERR records generally available. And the third is the joint creation with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum of a Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume that brings together in searchable form documentation, including photographs, of the over 20,000 major art objects that the ERR confiscated from Jews in Paris, in other parts of France and parts of Belgium and brought for processing to the Jeu de Paume in the Tuileries Gardens. These three activities should prove to be very helpful to the field of provenance research that has developed so greatly in the art world – but also in regard to libraries and Judaica - over the past decade or so. Indeed, in some respects these three activities taken as a whole may constitute a paradigm shift for the field. Instead of looking at collections in museums today, at lists of objects being sought by claimants, or at lists of objects found after World War II, the aim is to reconstruct the original record of what was seized and from whom by bringing together what remains of the detailed records that the Nazis – in this case specifically the ERR - kept of their looting. This approach should prove helpful not only in the restitution of Jewish cultural property but also in the identification of the losses by non-Jewish institutions and families. In particular in its activities on the Eastern Front, the ERR necessarily had different priorities and different patterns of plunder than in Western Europe, since the only small private or Jewish-held collections were found in western areas annexed to the USSR in 1939. As a result, unlike France, the ERR plundered cultural items primarily from Soviet state institutions. Countries such as Russia and Ukraine that are seeking the return of their cultural property often lack knowledge of what was taken from where by which Nazi agency and what was returned after the War. In June 2009, forty-seven countries along with relevant non-governmental organizations participated in the Holocaust Era Assets Conference held in Prague and agreed to the Terezin Declaration, which calls for international cooperation in provenance research and the restitution of cultural property. This Survey of the Dispersed Archives of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) directly relates to the goals of the Terezin Declaration and such international cooperation, and Dr. Grimsted appropriately presented the project at the Prague Conference. The importance of this Survey goes well beyond its relevance to provenance research and the restitution of cultural property, however. In its allocation grants to institutions in research and education, the Claims Conference has for many years been the principal supporter of Holocaust-related archival work. The importance of this Survey is equally in its relevance to the restitution of history.

Baltimore Museum of Art to Explore Cézanne's Influence on American Art Posted: 01 May 2011 07:20 PM PDT BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art's new exhibition, Cézanne and American Modernism, brings together 16 dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and portraits by the French master with more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by artists such as Max Weber, Alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden Hartley to show Cézanne's profound impact on American artists at the beginning of the 20th-century. Along with the BMA's two great Cézanne paintings, "Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry" and "Bathers", the exhibition showcases outstanding works from public and private collections throughout the U.S., including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This nationally traveling exhibition is a special ticketed event that includes complimentary audio tours for both adults and kids. "Cézanne and American Modernism" is co-organized by the Montclair Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art and is on view in Baltimore February 14 through May 23, 2010.

Picasso on Paper: Drawings and Prints (1899-1967) at The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Posted: 01 May 2011 07:19 PM PDT   Santa Barbara, CA - By any reckoning, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the most important figures and influential artists in the last 100 years. In September, a handsome selection of 25 works by this influential artist will grace the walls of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in the exhibition Picasso on Paper: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (1899-1967). While Picasso may be a household name, what may be less obvious is that SBMA owns an impressive collection of works by the artist that represent the entirety of his career. Picasso on Paper includes drawings and prints that span 68 years of Picasso's activity, ranging in media and subjects: portraits, classical legends, fantasies, some still-life and even the reworking of old master images. On view 6 September through 7 December, 2008.

Forgotten British Painter Featured in New Exhibition at the National Gallery Posted: 01 May 2011 07:18 PM PDT LONDON.-Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862–1927) is one of the most distinctive yet elusive British painters of the early 20th century. This will be the first exhibition of his work to be shown in the United Kingdom for over 30 years.The four central paintings on display are the summation of Cayley Robinson's artistic ambition. Executed between 1916 and 1920, his masterpiece, 'Acts of Mercy', comprises four large-scale allegorical works commissioned to adorn the new Middlesex Hospital, rebuilt between 1928 and 1935. Combining modernity with tradition to remarkable effect, the artist emulates the spiritual integrity and methods of the Old Masters he encountered in the National Gallery. On view through 17 October at The National Gallery.

Hans Bellmer ~ Engineer of the Erotic ~ at Pinakothek der Moderne Posted: 01 May 2011 07:17 PM PDT Munich, Germany - Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) is one of the most important and, at the same time, least known of the German Surrealists.  To this day, his oeuvre remains surrounded by mystery and taboos.  The retrospective in the Pinakothek der Moderne is the first exhibition for over a quarter of a century in Germany to be dedicated to Bellmer's work and was originally organized by the Centre Pompidou, Paris.  It assembles numerous and hitherto unknown drawings from museums and private collections, photographs, paintings, unpublished note pads and sketch books as well as some sculptural objects, among them »La poupée« (»The doll«).

Mint Museum of Craft + Design to display ~ ' Ornament as Art ' Posted: 01 May 2011 07:16 PM PDT CHARLOTTE, N.C.   − Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection places contemporary jewelry within a larger framework of 20th and 21st century art. Opening at the Mint Museum of Craft + Design this fall, the exhibition showcases a broad array of national and international works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's celebrated Helen Williams Drutt Collection of contemporary jewelry. On view 16 August through 4 January, 2009.

Ashcan School Art exhibited in New York City Posted: 01 May 2011 07:15 PM PDT New York City - The painters of the Ashcan School just wanted to have fun. They chronicled the lives of poor city dwellers, but they were neither social critics nor reformers. Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan and other early-20th-century American realists identified with the group were high-spirited fellows who prided themselves on fielding a baseball team that regularly defeated those of the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League.

Carmichael Gallery to exhibit Dan Baldwin ~ "Disillusion" Posted: 01 May 2011 07:14 PM PDT West Hollywood, CA - Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by English artist Dan Baldwin. This is Baldwin's debut US solo exhibition and his first with Carmichael Gallery. Fifteen paintings, four ceramic vases and an exclusive, limited edition print compose Disillusion, Baldwin's most mature and provocative body of work to date. His portrayal of a fantastic cosmos in which pop cultural icons, myths and symbolic imagery collide presents a heightened yet informed criticism of contemporary life. Baldwin began this work immediately following Dead Innocent, his successful solo exhibition at Forster Gallery, London, in September, 2008. Opening reception: Thursday, September 10, 2009. On exhibition 10 September through 1 October, 2009.

Metropolitan Museum of Art to show "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915" Posted: 01 May 2011 07:13 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- From the decade before the Revolutionary War to the eve of World War I, many of America's most revered artists captured the temperament of their respective eras on canvas. They recorded and defined in their finest paintings the emerging character of Americans as individuals, citizens, and members of ever-widening communities. Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall, American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 will bring together for the first time more than 100 of these iconic works that tell compelling stories of life's tasks and pleasures. The first overview of the subject in more than 35 years, the exhibition includes loans from leading museums and private lenders—and many paintings from the Metropolitan's own distinguished collection. On view 12 October through 24 January, 2010.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to host Chaotic Harmony ~ Contemporary Korean Photography Posted: 01 May 2011 07:12 PM PDT HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will present Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, the most comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Korean photography to ever be shown in the United States. Organized by Anne Wilkes Tucker, The Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the MFAH, and Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Chaotic Harmony features large scale photographs by 40 Korean artists, many of who have never before exhibited in international museum exhibitions and whose work will be on view in the United States for the first time in this show. At the MFAH, the works will be on display from October 18, 2009 through January 3, 2010, presenting a fascinating window onto the vital and constantly evolving country, Korea.

Tom Otterness exhibit to Inaugurate Marlborough Chelsea Posted: 01 May 2011 07:11 PM PDT   New York City - Mr. Pierre Levai, President of Marlborough Gallery, is pleased to announce that Marlborough Chelsea will open at the new Chelsea Arts Tower, 545 West 25th Street, on Thursday, October 4, 2007 with exhibitions by sculptor Tom Otterness and painter Steven Charles. The exhibitions will continue through Saturday, November 3, 2007.

Hallie Ford Museum of Art hosts a Michael Dailey Retrospective Posted: 01 May 2011 07:11 PM PDT Salem, OR - A major retrospective exhibition of work by Michael Dailey, a Seattle painter and influential professor emeritus at the University of Washington, opens June 7 and continues through Aug. 31 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. "Michael Dailey: Color, Light, Time, and Place" was organized by museum Director John Olbrantz and features 20 paintings and 24 works on paper spanning a 45-year period. Works have been selected from public and private collections throughout the region.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 01 May 2011 07:11 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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