Kamis, 05 Mei 2011

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"Masterworks: The Best of Hirschl & Adler" in New York City

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:51 PM PDT

artwork: Alfred Thompson Bricher - "In My Neighbor's Garden", 1883 - Oil on canvas - 24 1/8" x 44 1/4". Image courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Gallery, where it can be seen in "Masterworks: The Best of Hirschl & Adler" from May 5th until July 1st.

New York City.- In February of this year, Hirschl & Adler moved from a landmark townhouse on East 70th Street, where it had been housed for 33 years, to expanded quarters in The Crown Building, at the world-renowned crossroads of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. Now happily ensconced in its modern and spacious new home, Hirschl & Adler is thrilled to unveil its inaugural exhibition, Masterworks: The Best of Hirschl & Adler, a celebration of its past, present, and future. Masterworks opens Thursday, May 5, and runs through Friday, July 1.


artwork: George Caleb Bingham - "Wood-Boatmen on a River", 1854 - Oil on canvas - 29" x 36". Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Gallery, where it can be seen from May 5th until July 1st.
artwork: F. Scott Hess - "A Blight of Ancestors", 2009 Oil on aluminum - 23 1/2" x 17 3/4" Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler GalleryHighlighting the gallery's broad range of interests with examples of the highest caliber, Masterworks will include more than 100 works from the 18th to the 21st centuries, American and European, fine arts and decorative arts. On exhibit will be rare works by such American masters as John Singleton Copley, John James Audubon, Thomas Sully, George Caleb Bingham, Hiram Powers, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, George Bellows, and Joseph Stella; a selection of paintings by European artists, both Academic and Impressionist; and recent works by each of its contemporary artists, including Elizabeth Turk and John Moore. Rounding out the exhibition are outstanding examples of American furniture and other decorative arts from the Neo-Classical, Aesthetic, and Arts & Crafts periods.

A handful of works in the exhibition that are owned by Hirschl & Adler have never before been exhibited or offered for sale, and are being debuted at this celebratory moment. Included is a full-length Thomas Sully portrait of wealthy Providence, Rhode Island, merchant Cyrus Butler, painted in 1847, which prior to coming to Hirschl & Adler, had a single owner since the artist completed the work. Other superlative examples of their kind include one of the last major works by George Caleb Bingham remaining in private hands, Wood-Boatmen on a River, 1854; a full-length pastel portrait of Chilean socialite Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz, by Jacques-Emile Blanche from 1890; a rare watercolor by John James Audubon of a Long-haired Squirrel (about 1841-45) from North American Quadrupeds; and an exotic figure painting by Joseph Stella, Veiled Lady, that has descended in the family of Stella's dealer, Bernard Rabin, since the early 1930s.

One work by each of Hirschl & Adler Modern's represented contemporary artists will accompany the masterworks of the past. New pieces by John Moore, 2010 MacArthur Grant recipient Elizabeth Turk, Marc Trujillo, Diana Horowitz, Amy Weiskopf, Barbara Kassel, Jeffrey Ripple, Peter Poskas, III, David Ligare, F. Scott Hess, Randall Exon, Richard Maury, Harold Reddicliffe, Paul Rahilly, Frederick Brosen, Alexander Creswell, and Susan Van Campen illustrate Hirschl & Adler Modern's commitment to contemporary realist art at its highest level.

American furniture and decorative arts have become an important part of Hirschl & Adler's offerings since the gallery started handling such material in 1984. A large Center Table labeled by Charles-Honoré Lannuier, which is one of only two known by the maker, a choice collection of Greene & Greene furniture from the Pratt and Blacker Houses, and an extremely rare Chinese Export porcelain Covered "Toddy" Jug with a Portrait of George Washington, are just a few of the three-dimensional highlights which will accompany the riches of American and European fine arts in the exhibition.

artwork: Wilhelm Hunt Diederich - "Greyhounds", 1913 - Bronze - 41" x 68" Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Gallery, on view from May 5th until July 1st.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries was founded in 1952 by Norman S. Hirschl and Abraham M. Adler. In 1967 Stuart P. Feld joined the firm as a partner, and since 1982 has served as its President. Originally housed in the Marguery Hotel on Park Avenue, the gallery moved to a townhouse on East 67th Street in 1958, and in 1977 relocated to a handsome landmark townhouse at 21 East 70th Street. In February 2011, Hirschl & Adler moved to expanded quarters in The Crown Building at the world-reknowned crossroads of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, where the gallery continues to specialize in American and European paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries; American prints of all periods; and American decorative arts from 1810 to 1910. Its contemporary arm, Hirschl & Adler Modern, has developed a select group of established and emerging realist artists and also features American and European art from the Post-War period.

Each year, the gallery assembles about a dozen special exhibitions exploring historical and contemporary themes, or examining the work of individual artists, past and present. Most of these exhibitions are accompanied by scholarly catalogues and other publications. The gallery provides a wide range of services to its client base of private collectors, museums, architects, interior designers, art consultants, and other dealers. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.hirschlandadler.com

The Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Shows "Daniel Tamayo ~ Fables"

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:31 PM PDT

artwork: Daniel Tamayo - "Acrobatic Cosmology" - Acrylic on canvas - 41.5 x 36 cm. © the artist. On view in the "Daniel Tamayo: Fables" exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao until June 12th.

Bilbao, Spain - The Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao is presenting a solo exhibiton of recent works by contemporary Basque painter Daniel Tamayo. "Daniel Tamayo: Fables" is on view until June 12th. Daniel Tamayo (Bilbao, 1951) was one of the original group of students at the University of the Basque Country's Fine Arts Faculty, where he now teaches. Beginning his career in the late seventies, Tamayo was influenced by the Pop movement and several leading names in the contemporary Spanish art world, such as Luis Gordillo. What we might call his figurative code has been marked by a taste for geometric drawing, "objectual" form and intense colours in smooth, flat inks.


"Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists" at the Lyman Allyn Museum

Posted: 04 May 2011 10:09 PM PDT

artwork: Barkley L. Hendricks - "Ma Petite Kumquat", 1983 - Oil, acrylic, white gold and silver leaf on linen canvas. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC © the artist. On view at the Lyman Allyn Museum.

New London, CT.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announces their major spring exhibition, "Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists" on view through September 18.  The exhibition is curated by Barbara Zabel, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at Connecticut College. "Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists" features portraits by a broad range of artists and demonstrates the current vitality of the genre of portraiture.  Once considered retrograde, portraiture has recently assumed a central role in the art world.  Artists are increasingly turning to this genre to explore the multifaceted aspects of identity. The framework for the show is thematic: self portraiture, portraiture as a memorial or commemoration, portraiture as political statement, portraits addressing stages of life, and, finally, portraits of non-human subjects.


The Kunstmuseum Lucerne Honors "Max von Moos"

Posted: 04 May 2011 09:52 PM PDT

artwork: Max von Moos - "Petrified Dancers", circa 1936 - Tempera and oil on masonite - 69 x 52 cm.- Collection of the Kunstmuseum Luzern © Peter Thali, Luzern. On view in an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Lucerne until July 31st.

Lucerne, Switzerland.- The Kunstmuseum Lucerne is currently showing a unique view of local artist Max von Moos in the exhibition "Max von Moos: Seen by Peter Roesch, Christian Kathriner and Rober Estermann", which can be seen until July 31st. Lucerne artist Max von Moos (1903–1979) shaped the art scene of Central Switzerland for almost half a century. With his unique body of work he left traces both as an artist and as a committed and charismatic teacher at Lucerne School of Arts and Crafts. The collection of Museum of Art Lucerne holds almost 100 of his works, which form the basis of this slightly unusual presentation.


The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Opens New Alumni Gallery

Posted: 04 May 2011 09:51 PM PDT

artwork: Eliza Auth - "Popham Beach in Winter", 2008 - Oil on Canvas - 24" x 36" - Image Courtesy of the Alumni Sales Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts © the artist. On view in the PAFA exhibition "Water As The Source", on view through July 23.

Philadelphia, PA - The new Alumni Sales Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) presents "Water As The Source", on view April 29 - July 23, a group exhibition of works by Eliza Auth, Pat Boyer, James Brantley, Joe Danciger, Fred Danziger, Joann Doneen, Carolyn Hesse, Whitney Knapp, Zach Martin, Peter Schnore and Robin Tedesco. Focusing on the study and interpretation of water as a source of inspiration, the exhibition includes a range of media and styles, from Doneen's delicate shoreline paintings, seen from an aerial perspective, Danziger's work inspired by the rich life in tidal pools, Knapp's interest in the effect of atmospheric relationships on the water's surface, to Eliza Auth and James Brantley's expression of silence and solitude through contrasting color palettes.


Koons, Warhol and Other Contemporary Artists In Sotheby's Major Sale on May 10th

Posted: 04 May 2011 09:35 PM PDT

artwork: Mark Tansey - "Shades", 2001 - Oil on canvas - 84" x 108". Image courtesy of Sotheby's. To be auctioned in Sotheby's New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 10 May 2011. Estimate $3/4 million.

New York City.- Sotheby's 10 May 2011 Contemporary Art Evening Auction will be led by Jeff Koons' iconic "Pink Panther", one of the most important works by the artist ever to have appeared at auction, and Andy Warhol's "Sixteen Jackies", an extraordinarily rare declaration of the twin pedestals on which Warhol's artistic genius rest: universal public icons and serial imagery (ests. $20/30 million each*). The auction also includes major works by many of the leading artists of the 20th and 21st centuries including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucio Fontana, Roy Lichtenstein, and Willem de Kooning among others. The sale follows the two volume evening sale of Property from the Collection of Allan Stone the previous day. All the works will be on view from 6 May with select highlights on exhibition from 29 April.


Watercolour & Oil Paintings of "Weizhi Zhang" at Art Beatus in Vancouver

Posted: 04 May 2011 09:17 PM PDT

artwork: Weizhi Zhang - "Prince Gong's Palace Garden, Beijing Qian Hai Xi Jie No. 17", 2008 - Watercolor - 38 x 52 cm. Image courtesy of Art Beatus, © the artist. On view at the "Gates: Spirit of a City - Watercolour and Oil Paintings of Weizhi Zhang" exhibition at Art Beatus in Vancouver until June 24th.

Vancouver,Canada - Art Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd. is pleased to present, "Gates: Spirit of a City" featuring watercolour and oil paintings by "Weizhi Zhang".  As part of China's urbanization, many historical courtyard gates, old city walls, and hutongs have been rapidly replaced by high-rise buildings and facilities in Beijing. The destruction of the historical, cultural and artistic element to these sites provoked artist, Weizhi Zhang to paint a series of the old gates, preserving his homeland's culture and Chinese history while capturing his memories of Old Beijing. The collection of works will remain on show until June 24th.


The Peninsula Fine Arts Center to Show The Art of Philip Koch

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:21 PM PDT


Newport News, VA.- The travelling exhibition "Unbroken Thread: Nature Paintings and the American Imagination. The Art of Philip Koch" will open at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Virginia on July 23rd, where it can be seen until October 2nd. The idea for this nationally traveling exhibition was first proposed by the art historian Eva J. Allen, Ph.D. an art historian from the University of Maryland University College where the exhibit debuted in 2008. Koch, a former abstract painter, became attracted to the long romantic tradition of American  landscape painting that began in the 19th century with artists such as John F. Kensett and Sanford Gifford, members of the Hudson River School. Their echo can be felt in later artists like Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Rockwell Kent. All were important sources for Koch.


The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art To Host Thilo Frank's Installation

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:04 PM PDT

artwork: Thilo Frank - "The Phoenix is Closer Than it Appears" (interior view), 2010 - Installation - 4 x 4 x 8 metres. Image courtesy © the artist. On view at the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark from June 3rd until September 25th.

Aalborg, Denmark.- "The Phoenix is Closer Than it Appears", on view at the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg from June 3rd until September 25th, features the work of  2011 of German artist Thilo Frank. The poetic installation "The Phoenix is closer than it appears" by Thilo Frank consists of a cube measuring 4 x 4 x 8 meters. This cube is covered with mirrors both outside and inside. When you enter the cube's interior, you find yourself standing in a space of infinite reflections in which there is a swing hanging down from the ceiling. Take a turn in the swing in a room in which the only reference point is yourself – in infinite perspectives.


The National Gallery of Art In Washington DC shows "The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms"

Posted: 04 May 2011 08:03 PM PDT

artwork: John Taylor Arms - "Stockholm", 1940 - Etching and aquatint on laid paper - Plate 19.37 x 34.29 cm. Collection of the National Gallery of Art, on view in The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms" at the NGA from May 8 to November 27.

Washington DC.- The astonishing dexterity and passion for detail of American printmaker John Taylor Arms (1887–1953) is revealed in the first exhibition of his works at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. On view in the West Building from May 8 to November 27, "The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms" features some 60 prints, drawings, and copperplates that span the artist's career, from his early New York series to his finest images of cathedrals. "While some American artists of the period (such as John Sloan and Edward Hopper) advocated a gritty realism and others (including John Marin and Stuart Davis) explored the possibilities offered by modernist abstraction, John Taylor Arms paid homage to the past," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art, Washington. "We are delighted to present these works from our collection paired with promised gifts as well as with other works on loan."


artwork: John Taylor Arms - "Le penseur de Notre Dame" 1923 - Etching in black on blue-green F.G. Head & Co. handmade laid paper - Plate 32.1 x 25.8 cm. Collection of the National Gallery of Art.Born in Washington, DC, Arms began his career as an architect in New York, but by 1919 he had dedicated himself solely to printmaking. He adapted the meticulous drafting skills required for his architectural practice to the execution of finely wrought prints. Arms devoted many years of European travel and study to rendering architecture and is best known for his print series based on particular places or subjects, including gargoyles, French churches, New York, England, and Italy. Organized thematically, The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms features selections from his major series of prints along with independently conceived works. Gothic art and architecture stirred the imagination of Arms, whose earliest Gothic subjects were stone gargoyles that he admired while traveling in France. They are seen in "Guardians of the Spire" (1921) and "A Devil of Notre Dame" (1929). Not all of his prints depict Gothic subjects, but all reflect the spirit of an artist whose intense devotion to craftsmanship echoed an association with medieval artisans. Arms would often share his own creative process through technical demonstrations and lectures, and numerous works in the exhibition offer insight into his practice. Drawings and tracings are juxtaposed with associated prints that not only reveal his masterful handling of line but also document the intricate and painstaking craft Arms employed.

Arms began his New York Series in 1916, when he was still a practicing architect in the city, and he continued to work on it after his return from WW I. The series reflects his rapid development as a draftsman, moving from a loose, sketchy style to the polished refinement for which he became known. For subjects he gravitated toward structures whose style and ornamentation were expressions of Gothic revival, such as the Woolworth Building and the Brooklyn Bridge, seen in "An American Cathedral" (1921) and "The Gates of the City" (1922). A frequent visitor to France, Arms undertook the ambitious plan to document the country's churches and cathedrals. He worked on the series for nearly 30 years, from 1924 to 1953, producing a total of 55 prints. They represent some of the largest and most dramatic images of his career, such as "Lace in Stone, Rouen Cathedral" (1927), as well as some of the tiniest and most intimate, as in the miniature Black and White, Trébrivan (1953). Between 1925 and 1935, Arms made a series of etchings of subjects he observed during his trips to Italy. With its medieval buildings and variations on Gothic architecture, Venice provided ample inspiration, and Arms' enthusiasm for the city sparked some of the most successful works of his career, including "Venetian Mirror" (1935). The prints in the English Series were created between 1937 and 1952. They focus on rural settings and feature picturesque villages and parish churches, as in the church seen in Lavenham, England (1939).

A sailor during World War I, Arms retained a great love of the sea and ships. His suite of four etchings depicting naval warships was commissioned by the Bureau of Ships in Washington and sold on navy bases during and after World War II. "Destroyers in Wet Basin" (1943) features the USS Radnor, USS Quick, and USS Mervine in the construction pool of the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in South Kearny, New Jersey. At the time of the artist's death in October 1953, the copper etching plate "La Trinité," Vendôme was a work in progress. According to Arms' records, he spent nearly 220 hours scratching the design through an acid-resistant hardground with a fine-gauge sewing needle set into a wooden handle. Although the image was catalogued as the final work in the artist's French Church Series, no prints from the plate have been discovered to date.

artwork: John Taylor Arms - "Destroyers in Wet Basin", 1943 - Etching on paper - Plate 25.1 x 44 cm. Collection of the National Gallery of Art, on view from May 8 to November 27.\\

Arms' studio guest book is also on view. It was signed by such visitors as Helen Keller and the artists Reginald Marsh and F. Luis Mora. The book includes many drawings. Among those being
shown are a cartoon figure by Robert Lawson; a sketch of George Washington pointing to John Taylor Arms by Kerr Eby; and Samuel Chamberlain's drawing of buildings and wine bottles. Prints by Chamberlain, Eby, and Gerald Geerlings, who also signed the guest book, are exhibited as well.

Now visited by more than 4.5 million people annually, the National Gallery of Art is now one of the world's leading art museums. The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. Since its inception, the mission of the National Gallery of Art has been to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. The original West Building, designed by John Russell Pope (architect of the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives), is a neoclassical marble masterpiece with a domed rotunda over a colonnaded fountain and high-ceilinged corridors leading to delightful garden courts. At its completion in 1941, the building was the largest marble structure in the world. The paintings and works of sculpture given by Andrew Mellon have formed a nucleus of high quality around which the collections have grown. Mr. Mellon's hope that the newly created National Gallery would attract gifts from other collectors was soon realized in the form of major donations of art from Samuel H. Kress, Rush H. Kress, Joseph Widener, Chester Dale, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch as well as individual gifts from hundreds of other donors. The modern East Building, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect I. M. Pei and opened in 1978, is composed of two adjoining triangles with glass walls and lofty tetrahedron skylights. The pink Tennessee marble from which both buildings were constructed was taken from the same quarry and forms an architectural link between the two structures. The East Building provided an additional 56,100 m2 of floor space and accommodated the Gallery's growing collections and expanded exhibition schedule as well as housing an advanced research center, administrative offices, a great library, and a burgeoning collection of drawings and prints. The two buildings are linked by an underground concourse featuring sculptor Leo Villareal's computer-programmed digital light project "Multiverse". On May 23, 1999 the Gallery opened an outdoor sculpture garden located in the 6.1-acre block adjacent to the West Building at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W. The garden provides an informal, yet elegant setting for works of modern and contemporary sculpture. The National Gallery of Art contains three museum shops, three cafes and a bar as well as the Library, a major national art research center serving the Gallery's staff, members of the Center for Advanced Study, visiting scholars, and serious adult researchers. Visit the museum's thorough website at .. http://www.nga.gov








ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art shows " Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg"

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:53 PM PDT

artwork: Tobias Rehberger (ca. 1945-present)  - Oranges from Eden , 2006 - Oil on canvas - Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

Karlsruhe, Germany - The Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) has been a partner of the ZKM | Karlsruhe for many years. As an expansion of this partnership, the Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg has, additionally, collaborated with the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art since 2005. In the context of this cooperation, the collection will be honored in 2009 with a major exhibition on the ground floor of the museum. On exhibition through 18 October, 2009.

Salvador Dalí Exhibition Huge Success at The National Gallery of Victoria

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:52 PM PDT

artwork: Salvador Dalí - Liquid Desire was the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Salvador Dalí ever to be staged in Australia and was exclusive to the National Gallery of Victoria.

MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria yesterday closed its doors on the second most attended Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition. Over 330,000 people attended the Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire exhibition by the time the NGV closed the doors on Sunday 4 October. Salvador Dalí : Liquid Desire was the sixth exhibition in the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the NGV and the second most popular, after The Impressionists in 2004, attended by 371,000.

" EAT ART " Exhibition opens at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:51 PM PDT

artwork: Sonja Alhäuser - Emsrausch , 2006 - Butter sculpture, Meeresfrüchte, diverse Lebensmittel, Überwachungskamera, Miniaturaquarelle - Foto: Carsten Gliese, Köln / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009

DUSSELDORF.- Eat Art, a term coined by Daniel Spoerri for art made with and involving food, has its institutionalized origins in Düsseldorf. Two years after opening his restaurant at the Burgplatz, the Swiss artist founded the Eat Art Gallery in 1970 and inspired numerous artists to produce various editions made of edible materials and food wastes. The exhibition "Eating the Universe" — a title created in the 1970's by Peter Kubelka, former professor for Film and Cooking at the Frankfurt Städelschule, for a TV-show about cooking as an artistic genre — takes generous stock of the phenomena from today's perspective and traces the original character of eat art from its origins until today. On exhibition through 28 February, 2010.

BLT Gallery Features "A Series of Monotypes" by Françoise Gilot

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:50 PM PDT

artwork: Francoise Gilot - "Intermezzo", 2009 - Mix-Media, ink on paper base, 30" x 44"- Copyrighted by the artist, Francoise Gilot.

New York, New York - Françoise Gilot is one of the premiere high modernists still working today, and with the recent death of Louise Bourgeois, we are endlessly confronted with the reality of the disappearance of artists whom obtain a truly historical awareness. Gilot's position is especially unique, as recounted in her memoir Life with Picasso, published in 1964, and more recently, Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art, in 1990. Gilot garnered her own symbolic stature as a painter demonstrating the formalistic language developed in part by her associations to the most influential painters of the 20th century. On view from June 17 through August 15, 2010

"Mixed Use Manhattan" ~ Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:49 PM PDT

artwork: Helen Levitt - New York, 1972 (kids with laundry) , 16 x 20 inches, C-print. - Private Collection

MADRID.- Mixed Use Manhattan, the title of this exhibition, refers to land-use zoning – specifically, to neighbourhoods or individual buildings in which a combination of commercial and residential functions is permitted. In the early 1970s, rezoning of parts of Lower Manhattan legalized a de facto situation in which artists had long appropriated loft spaces in partially de-industrialized areas as both studio and living quarters. This had generated a nascent art community which soon spawned facilities to meet the expanding needs of its inhabitants, from local restaurants to artist-run galleries and performance spaces. The efflorescence of the downtown art scene in the 1970s started to transform Lower Manhattan from an area of abandoned and derelict buildings, razed blocks, and a wasted waterfront into an increasingly vital terrain for vanguard activity. By mid-decade, SoHo, the area's epicentre, had become not only a mecca for artists and art galleries but a rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood. On view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía through 27 September.

The Eye of the Collector ~ The Jewish Vision of Sigmund R. Balka at the Tyler Museum of Art

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:48 PM PDT

artwork: Irving Amen - Many Children Dwell in My Father's House, n.d. - Color woodcut, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches

TYLER, TX - A panoramic view of a cultural identity spread across a broad canvas of history is the focus as the Tyler Museum of Art opens its next major exhibition, The Eye of the Collector: The Jewish Vision of Sigmund R. Balka. Celebrating more than five decades of collecting and study by celebrated attorney and civic activist Sigmund Ronell Balka of New York, the exhibition continues through Aug. 10.

Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center shows Works Made by the Russian Avant-Gardes

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:47 PM PDT

artwork: Liubov Popova - "Air+Man+Space", 1912 - Image coutesy of The Art Appreciation Foundation

SAO PAULO.- Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center opened an exhibition of 123 works of art on loan from the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg. The show includes works by the Russian Avant-Gardes including Marc Chagal, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich. The Russian avant-garde reached its creative and popular height in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1932, at which point the ideas of the avant-garde clashed with the newly emerged state-sponsored direction of Socialist Realism.

Savannah College of Art showcases Famous Works on Paper

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:46 PM PDT

artwork: Salvador Dali - Soft Watches Half Asleep - Original color lithograph with original etching on BFK rives - 18 1/2 x 22 inches, 1971

SAVANNAH, GA - World-class works on paper by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro will be on display and available for purchase at the Savannah College of Art and Design during the "Modern Masters" exhibition, held Sept. 2nd through 22nd  at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St., Savannah.  An opening reception and printmaking demonstration will be held in the gallery Sept. 4, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

The National Gallery of Denmark presents Graphic Works of Dutch Masters

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:45 PM PDT

artwork: Jan Harmensz Muller (1571 - 1628) - Cain Killing Abel - The Royal Collection of Prints and Drawings, c. 1589

COPENHAGEN.- After becoming free from Spanish control, Haarlem grew in the 1580s into one of the leading artistic centers in the young Republic of the Netherlands. Central to this blossoming prosperity were artists such as Karel van Mander, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, and, not least of all, Hendrick Goltzius. Together they formed a study circle devoted to Haarlem Mannerism, as it became known. Their particular pictorial language was characterized by a strong awareness of style and cultivated elegance, not to mention a pursuit of an expression that prioritized artful ingenuity over naturalism. Their work depicted exaggeratedly brawny musclemen, violent drama, wild fantasy, and a rare richness of detail.

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Posted: 04 May 2011 07:45 PM PDT

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