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• Tim Burton Major Retrospective Coming To LACMA In May
• Pioneering Abstract Impressionist Esteban Vincente at The Meadows Museum
• France's Rouen Museum Returns Mummified Maori Head to New Zealand
• Von Lintel Gallery Presents Exhibition of New Paintings by Tim Maguire
• Albert Einstein's Escape From Nazi Germany at Merseyside Maritime Museum Exhibition
• Highlights of Bonhams & Butterfields $1.6 Million Fine Prints Auction
• Museum of Fine Art Brings Sculpture to the Budapest City Boating Lake
• Alan Davie & Helen Baker Exhibit at Northumbria University Gallery
• The Georgia Museum of Art Shows Watercolors From the Permanent Collection
• Japan Society Gallery to Show Utagawa Kuniyoshi the Forerunner to Today's Manga Artists
• The Art of Architecture: Foster + Partners Opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center
• Enrico David exhibits at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
• Norton Simon Museum presents " Under the Influence: Art-Inspired Art "
• Famed cartoonist Arnold Roth Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame
• Whitney Museum Announces Exhibitions of Artists with Performative Actions
• Saatchi Gallery Launches Ad Campaign Offering Free Global Platform for Artists to Sell Art
• Wyndham Lewis Portraits Opens at The National Portrait Gallery in UK
• Brandywine River Museum to host Illustrations by Rockwell Kent
• The British Museum exhibition Explores the Legacy of Shah' Abbas
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Tim Burton Major Retrospective Coming To LACMA In May Posted: 09 May 2011 10:29 PM PDT Los Angeles.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will present "Tim Burton", a major retrospective exploring the full range of Tim Burton's creative work, both as a director of live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer. Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales, and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision. On view at LACMA from May 29th through October 31st, the exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. Many of these objects come from the artist's own archive, as well as from studio archives and private collections of Burton's collaborators. Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film. It brings together over seven hundred examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, photographs, moving image works, concept art, storyboards, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera from such films as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, and Beetlejuice, and from unrealized and little-known personal projects that reveal his talent as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer working in the spirit of Pop Surrealism. The gallery exhibition is accompanied by a complete retrospective of Burton's theatrical features and shorts, as well as a lavishly illustrated publication. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection extending from ancient times to the present. A museum of international stature as well as a vital part of Southern California, LACMA shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities that attract nearly a million visitors annually. Among the museum's special strengths are its holdings of Asian art, housed in part in the Bruce Goff-designed Pavilion for Japanese Art; Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco; and Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world. LACMA has its roots in the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, established in 1910 in Exposition Park. In 1961, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a separate, art-focused institution. In 1965, the fledgling institution opened to the public in its new Wilshire Boulevard location, with the permanent collection in the Ahmanson Building, special exhibitions in the Hammer Building, and the 600-seat Bing Theater for public programs. Over several decades, the campus and the collection have grown considerably. The Anderson Building (renamed the Art of the Americas building in 2007) opened in 1986 to house modern and contemporary art. In 1988, Bruce Goff's innovative Pavilion for Japanese Art opened at the east end of campus. In 1994, the museum acquired the May Company department store building at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, now known as LACMA West. Most recently, the Transformation project revitalized the western half of the campus with a collection of buildings designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. These include the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, a three-story 60,000 square foot space for the exhibition of postwar art that opened in 2008. In fall of 2010, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion opened to the public, providing the largest purpose-built, naturally lit, open-plan museum space in the world, with a rotating selection of major exhibitions. Ray's restaurant and Stark Bar opened in 2011, invigorating the central BP Pavilion near Chris Burden's iconic Urban Light. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.lacma.org

Pioneering Abstract Impressionist Esteban Vincente at The Meadows Museum Posted: 09 May 2011 10:07 PM PDT Dallas, Texas - Until July 31st, 80 lyrical collages and polychrome sculptures are on display at the Meadows Museum in Dallas as part of the exhibition "Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente". Vicente, a Spanish-born American painter, was a member of the first generation of New York Abstract Expressionists and a significant 20th century artist and teacher. Vicente participated in Meyer Schapiro and Clement Greenberg's landmark exhibition 'Talent 1950' and also helped to organize the seminal 9th Street show. The Meadows exhibition marks the first time Vicente's collages and sculptures have been paired together in a major exhibition. Vicente's collages, which he first began producing in 1949, provide an insightful connection when viewed alongside works on paper created by some of his contemporaries, including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

France's Rouen Museum Returns Mummified Maori Head to New Zealand Posted: 09 May 2011 09:53 PM PDT ROUEN, FRANCE (AP).- A French museum has returned the mummified and tattooed head of a Maori to New Zealand officials after spending 136 years in a Normandy museum, a belated gesture to restore dignity to the first of 16 such human heads once displayed as exotic curiosities. Representatives of New Zealand's native Maori people sang traditional songs during an elaborate ceremony at Rouen City Hall to hand over the head to New Zealand diplomats, the first to be returned from of a total of 16 in France. It isn't known whether the Rouen Museum's head belonged to a warrior or a slave.

Von Lintel Gallery Presents Exhibition of New Paintings by Tim Maguire Posted: 09 May 2011 09:28 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery present its fourth exhibition of new paintings by Australian artist Tim Maguire, on view from May 5 through June 4, 2011. Tim Maguire's large canvases are full of lush plant life—tightly cropped angles of multi-colored poppies in various stages of bloom and decay. Maguire's floral scenes are striking, yet for the artist the work is less about subject than the duality of process for which he is known.

Albert Einstein's Escape From Nazi Germany at Merseyside Maritime Museum Exhibition Posted: 09 May 2011 09:02 PM PDT LIVERPOOL.- Immigration documents relating to Albert Einstein's dramatic escape from Nazi Germany have been discovered and will go on show for the very first time at Merseyside Maritime Museum. Einstein, one of the most prominent figures of the last century, fled from his native Germany when Adolph Hitler came to power. The scientist, who was Jewish, arrived in England while a bounty had been put on his head by the Nazis who named him an enemy of the regime. UK Border Agency National Museum (Seized! The Border and Customs uncovered) is located in the basement of the Merseyside Maritime Museum at Albert Dock. The landing card is on display from Tuesday 10 May.  Visit : http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/

Highlights of Bonhams & Butterfields $1.6 Million Fine Prints Auction Posted: 09 May 2011 08:47 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- On May 3, 2011, Bonhams & Butterfields presented its $1.6-million Fine Prints auction, marked by strong surrealism sales: the exceptional $134,000 purchase of Salvador Dalí - La Divine Comédie, a complete signed portfolio of 100 color wood engravings from Dante Alighieri, L'Enfer, La Purgatoire, and Le Paradis, estimated at $50,000-70,000; and The Magic Flute, an After Marc Chagall, color lithograph on wove paper, estimated at $20,000-30,000 that sold for $42,700.

Museum of Fine Art Brings Sculpture to the Budapest City Boating Lake Posted: 09 May 2011 08:15 PM PDT Budapest.- The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest presents "Art on Lake" at the Budapest City Boating Lake from May 24th until September 4th. The summer exhibition on the City Park Boating Lake titled "Art on Lake" promises to be one of the most exciting artistic productions of the year. Over a period of three months the public will have the opportunity to see sculptures, most of which were especially made for this occasion by 25 noted artists from 14 EU countries at an exhibition organised by the Museum of Fine Arts set in this unusual venue.

Alan Davie & Helen Baker Exhibit at Northumbria University Gallery Posted: 09 May 2011 07:50 PM PDT Newcastle, Tyne & Wear - The Northumbria University Gallery and Baring Wing in Newcastle is to present concurrent exhibitions from two of the UK's best contemporary abstract painters. "Alan Davie: Boom Boom" and "Helen Baker: Red Rag" will both be on view from June 10th until July 22nd. Represented in many of the world's major museums and collections, the Scottish artist Alan Davie is one of the few British painters of the last fifty years to attain an international reputation on the scale of such Americans as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Paintings, brush drawings and gouaches are included in this exhibition of Davie's work as he improvises and develops primitivistic compositions in 'magic landscapes' as redolent of the esoteric mysteries of Caribbean religion as they are of the music of ancient Asian ritual. Helen Baker is a local artist, who has lived and worked in the North East of England for most of her life and is currently the Gallery Director for Gallery North at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University.

The Georgia Museum of Art Shows Watercolors From the Permanent Collection Posted: 09 May 2011 07:30 PM PDT Athens, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art presents "American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection" from May 14th until August 7th in the Lamar Dodd Gallery. This exhibition features American watercolors from the mid-19th century to the 1970s from the permanent collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. Paintings by Jasper Francis Cropsey, William Stanley Haseltine and Frederic Remington demonstrate the importance of the medium in American 19th-century art while American moderns Charles Burchfield, John Marin and Andrew Wyeth represent true masters of watercolor. Some American painters used the medium to create drawings or compositional studies, including Elaine de Kooning in her sketch of a sculpture in Paris. Others used it to make a final, finished product, emphasizing technique and enjoying its immediacy and spontaneity. "Palm Springs Chairs" (1975) by Robert Bechtle is a highly detailed and meticulously painted watercolor that has the feel of a vacation snapshot of a motel pool. The Georgia Museum of Art, on the campus of the University of Georgia, in Athens, is both an academic museum and, since 1982, the official art museum of the state of Georgia. The permanent collection consists of American paintings, primarily 19th- and 20th-century; American, European and Asian works on paper; the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings; and growing collections of southern decorative arts and Asian art. From the time it was opened to the public in 1948 in the basement of an old library on the university's historic North Campus, the museum has grown consistently both in the size of its collection and in the size of its facilities. Today the museum occupies a contemporary building in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on the university's burgeoning east campus. There, 79,000 square feet house more than 8,000 objects in the museum's permanent collection—a dramatic leap from the core of 100 paintings donated by the museum's founder, Alfred Heber Holbrook. Much of the museum's collection of American paintings was donated by Holbrook in memory of his first wife, Eva Underhill Holbrook. Included in this collection are works by such luminaries as Frank Weston Benson, William Merritt Chase, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence and Theodore Robinson. Over the years it has been impossible to separate the history of the museum from the story of Holbrook's generosity. In April 1996, the Georgia Museum of Art opened a new building on the East Campus of the university as part of the Performing and Visual Arts Complex, which also includes the School of Music, the Performing Arts Center, and, now, the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The new building allowed for larger and more ambitious exhibitions and a new emphasis on professional practices. The museum has become a leader, in particular, among university museums, and its educational programs have been the most tangible example of the balance it strives to achieve among state, local, and university audiences as it seeks to fulfill its trifold mission of teaching, research, and service. The Green Center also includes the Green Library, which greatly expanded the museum's library of art books and has served as a model for the archival aspects of the other centers. The Pierre Daura Center was established at the museum in 2002 with a gift from Martha Randolph Daura in honor of her father and joined the Green Center and the Jacob Burns Foundation Center, bringing its own extensive archives of Pierre Daura's papers. These three centers, plus the newly founded C. L. Morehead Jr. Center for the Study of American Art, make up four study centers that are a focus of the expanded and renovated building, facilitating research in the humanities and access to the museum's curators. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.georgiamuseum.org

Japan Society Gallery to Show Utagawa Kuniyoshi the Forerunner to Today's Manga Artists Posted: 09 May 2011 07:30 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Thrashing sea creatures, samurai warriors, and a giant, looming skeleton are among the distinguishing subjects of the brashest of Japan's Ukiyo-e masters, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, whose populist oeuvre is to be presented by Japan Society Gallery from March 12 to June 13, 2010. Fresh from its spring 2009 showing at London's Royal Academy of Arts, where it was the surprise smash hit of the season, Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection marks the first major exhibition of Kuniyoshi's work in the United States in nearly 30 years.

The Art of Architecture: Foster + Partners Opens at the Nasher Sculpture Center Posted: 09 May 2011 07:29 PM PDT DALLAS, TX.- Continuing its investigation of contemporary architecture, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas presents a retrospective of the work of Foster + Partners. Scheduled to coincide with the grand opening of the new, Foster-designed Winspear Opera House in the AT&T Center for Performing Arts, the exhibition explores Foster + Partners' major architectural achievements over the past four decades. On exhibition 26 September through 10 January, 2010.

Enrico David exhibits at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Posted: 09 May 2011 07:28 PM PDT LONDON - This autumn, the Institute of Contemporary Arts is staging the first major public exhibition by artist Enrico David. David will present work from the last five years, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures and vitrines as well as two large-scale installations – one of which is specially conceived for this show at the ICA. Over the last decade, Enrico David, Italian by birth but based in London, has quietly established a reputation as one of Britain's most original artists. This is the first exhibition that demonstrates ongoing strands within his work, which often features stylised figures staged within erotic or tragic-comic scenarios.

Norton Simon Museum presents " Under the Influence: Art-Inspired Art " Posted: 09 May 2011 07:27 PM PDT   PASADENA, CA - The Norton Simon Museum presents Under the Influence: Art-Inspired Art, an exhibition that looks at the ways artists have been inspired by and responded to the artworks of others. More than 45 objects from the Museum's permanent collection are examined through the lens of imitation and appropriation, bringing together rarely seen paintings, works on paper and sculpture from the late-15th through the 20th centuries.

Famed cartoonist Arnold Roth Inducted into Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame Posted: 09 May 2011 07:26 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Famed illustrator and cartoonist Arnold Roth, a 1950 graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts), is one of five inductees elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Roth's work has appeared regularly in nearly every major American magazine from Time to Sports Illustrated to The New Yorker for the past 50 years. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Roth and his wife Caroline reside in New York City. Contemporary illustrator Paul Davis and posthumous honorees Mario Cooper, Laurence Fellows and Herbert Morton Stoops were also inducted at a black-tie dinner at the Society's headquarters on Manhattan's Upper East Side on June 25.

Whitney Museum Announces Exhibitions of Artists with Performative Actions Posted: 09 May 2011 07:25 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Conceived as a two-part exhibition, Off the Wall brings together thirty performative actions by artists, in works made from 1946 to the present, and seven iconic performance works by Trisha Brown. The exhibition takes place at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the second-floor Mildred & Herbert Lee Galleries and the Kaufman Astoria Studios Film & Video Gallery, and extends beyond the Museum in the fall with Part 2's presentation of Brown's works, which includes the performance of Man Walking Down the Side of a Building on East 75th Street, on the outside of the Museum's Breuer building, and works performed in the Museum's Sculpture Court.

Saatchi Gallery Launches Ad Campaign Offering Free Global Platform for Artists to Sell Art Posted: 09 May 2011 07:24 PM PDT LONDON, ENGLAND - The Saatchi Gallery and Clear Channel Outdoor are launching a national outdoor poster campaign across the UK to help artists and people interested in buying art during the financial recession. Saatchi Online provides a free global platform for artists to show their work to an international audience and to sell it to collectors without the usual 50% commission taken by galleries. "Only the top 1,000 artists who sell at leading auctions and exhibit with leading dealers have much visibility. We hope this initiative will make the next decade easier for the great majority of world's artists," said Charles Saatchi.

Wyndham Lewis Portraits Opens at The National Portrait Gallery in UK Posted: 09 May 2011 07:23 PM PDT LONDON - An important new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, shows the striking portraits of the great British modernist artist and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), bringing together for the first time a unique visual record of some of the most important cultural figures of the first half of the twentieth century. On exhibition 3 July through 19 October, 2008.

Brandywine River Museum to host Illustrations by Rockwell Kent Posted: 09 May 2011 07:22 PM PDT CHADDS FORD, PA.- The unique vision of artist, adventurer and author Rockwell Kent will be on view at the Brandywine River Museum this fall in Intrepid and Inventive: Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. The exhibition features more than 80 drawings, wood engravings, lithographs and paintings inspired by his travels, including illustrations for books and magazines. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) traveled to remote locations in pursuit of personal challenges, recording his intrepid exploits in words and pictures and achieving celebrity status when they were published. He had a great influence on the art of his time and on later artists, including members of the Wyeth family.

The British Museum exhibition Explores the Legacy of Shah' Abbas Posted: 09 May 2011 07:21 PM PDT LONDON - The British Museum just opened the first major exhibition to explore the rule and legacy of Shah 'Abbas, one of the formative figures in the creation of modern Iran. Shah of Iran from 1587 – 1629 AD, he is remembered as one of the country's most influential kings and a great military leader, ruling Iran at a time of political renewal, when it succeeded in positioning itself as a world power with a sharply defined national identity. In association with The Iran Heritage Foundation, the exhibition will feature extraordinary loans, never before seen outside of Iran, alongside loans from Europe and the US. On view through 14 June, 2009.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 09 May 2011 07:21 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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