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• The Longmont Museum to Show "John James Audubon: American Artist & Naturalist"
• The Annual Photomonth in Krakow Showcases Unique Contemporary Photography
• "Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
• The Grey Art Gallery in New York Shows Four Centuries of French Drawings
• Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Shows Works From the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art
• Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's Artworks at Columbus Museum of Art
• The LOOP Videoart Fair Comes to Barcelona in May
• Gil Elvgren's 'Gay Nymph' Sets Record $286,000 at Heritage Auctions
• The 54th Venice Biennale & International Art Exhibition Opens June 4th
• 'The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918' On View at the Mississippi Museum of Art
• Brooklyn Museum to show Major Exhibition of Impressionist Paintings by Gustave Caillebotte
• LACMA Features First Los Angeles Exhibition of Thomas Eakins Since 1927
• Luxuries from China's Forbidden City to Travel to the United States
• A Collector's Eye ~ "Cranach to Pissarro" Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool
• Lowe Art Museum to feature a Charles Biederman Retrospective
• Large-Scale Wall Installation by the Artist Chitra Ganesh at P.S. 1
• National Gallery Of Art Major Exhibition ~ 'The Forest Of Fontainebleau'
• French Masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum on View in Budapest
• The California Museum opens Exhibition of Extraordinary Costumes from Film & Television
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Longmont Museum to Show "John James Audubon: American Artist & Naturalist" Posted: 12 May 2011 08:42 PM PDT Longmont, CO.- The Longmont Museum is proud to present an exhibition of 64 prints from Audubon's first edition "The Birds of America", plus four large animal prints from his later Imperial Quadrupeds edition and prints from later editions and several of Audubon's contemporaries. This exhibition also features several original oil paintings by Audubon, as well as personal belongings such as the silver cup presented to his engraver upon completion of the publication of volume two of "The Birds of America." The Longmont Museum will be showing "John J. Audubon: American Artist and Naturalist" from June 4 through September 18. This nationally traveling exhibition presents a selection of rare and valuable Audubon works of art and artifacts. The exhibit includes original Audubon oil paintings, letters, rare books, photographs, personal items and over sixty of the original hand colored  Double Elephant Folio engravings from "The Birds of America", selected from the collection and archives of the John James Audubon Museum, Henderson, Kentucky. After Colorado, the exhibition can be seen at it's final stop, the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama in october. John James Audubon (1785-1851) is known today for his remarkable work "The Birds of America". He led a complex life, starting as the illegitimate child of a French sea captain in what is now Haiti, traveling to France and then to Pennsylvania to start anew after the French revolution, and embarking on a lifelong study of birds and other animals that would eventually bring him fame and fortune. A chance encounter with ornithologist Alexander Wilson in 1810 led Audubon to embark on a vast project, a life-sized color folio of all the birds of North America. His project would take 28 years to come to fruition. He spent 16 years studying and drawing birds, pioneering a lifelike portrayal of them, unlike the stiff and awkward bird portraits of his contemporaries. Unable to find a publisher in the U.S., he traveled to England, and after a strike halted work at his first engraver, began a partnership with the English engraver Robert Havell Jr. In June of 1838, his magnum opus, "The Birds of America," was published to wide acclaim. Audubon's "The Birds of America" is a remarkable artistic and printing achievement. The completed first edition consists of four volumes containing 435 individual hand-colored plates showing 1,065 birds. Each volume weighed 50 pounds, and fewer than 200 sets were produced originally. Audubon's legacy is remarkable. By drawing attention to the majesty of the birds and mammals of North America, he inspired a conservation movement. The Audubon Society was founded in his honor, and his name remains synonymous with conservation and bird preservation to this day. The Longmont Museum was founded in 1936 as part of the St. Vrain Historical Society. In 1940, the first exhibits opened to the public in the carriage house at the Callahan House. The Museum soon outgrew that space, and, in 1954, moved to the basement of the Memorial Building in Roosevelt Park. In 1954, the Pioneer Museum was informally separated from the St. Vrain Historical Society. This change was made official with the incorporation of the Longmont Museum, Inc., on October 4, 1961. In 1970, the Museum changed from a private, nonprofit organization to a department of the City of Longmont. Shortly after that, the Museum moved again, this time to a converted Sorenson garage at 3rd and Kimbark. The new space opened its doors on September 13, 1970. In 1973, the garage was torn down and the Museum moved to a converted City warehouse and garage at 375 Kimbark Street. In November 1999, Longmont voters approved $5 million in a bond issue to build a new museum and cultural center. The bond issue was approved by over 77 percent of voters. The Longmont Museum & Cultural Center was further enhanced by an anonymous $1 million gift. Now located at 400 Quail Road, just east of Main Street in south Longmont, the Longmont Museum & Cultural Center invites visitors to come and see their regularly changing exhibits, experience their education programs, and enjoy the views from the Longs Peak Room tower. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.ci.longmont.co.us/museum

The Annual Photomonth in Krakow Showcases Unique Contemporary Photography Posted: 12 May 2011 08:21 PM PDT Krakow, Poland.- This year's Photomonth Festival in Krakow, which runs from May 13th until June 12th is full of innovation, the peak of which is the presence of guest curators Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. At their initiative, the festival invited dozens of writers and artists who, playing with identity, have together created biographies of fictitious artists and their works. In response to this somewhat differently structured Main Festival Programme, the accompanying publication has also changed: this year we haven't put together a traditional catalogue or album which commemorates all the Festival's exhibitions. Their place has been taken by a separate book which presents the literary side of this year's Photomonth. It presents the full biographies of the Aliases, written by well-known artists and writers, allowing Festival participants to learn about the stories and personalities of the imaginary artists, and perhaps also enabling them to guess the true creators of the works on display.

"Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Posted: 12 May 2011 07:47 PM PDT Ann Arbor, MI.- "Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art from July 16th to october 23rd will present works by 41 leading printmakers from contemporary China to showcase the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed this long-established art form in recent years. The exhibition will feature 114 works by such artists as Xu Bing, Kang Ning, Song Yuanwen, Chen Qi, He Kun, and Fang Limin, as well as many other accomplished printmakers. Curated by Dr. Xiaobing Tang, Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan and organized by UMMA with the assistance and cooperation of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China, this exhibition-the largest examination of contemporary Chinese prints in the US since 2000-will provide an important framework for understanding both contemporary art from China and contemporary Chinese society.

The Grey Art Gallery in New York Shows Four Centuries of French Drawings Posted: 12 May 2011 07:38 PM PDT New York, NY.- New York University's Grey Art Gallery is pleased to present "Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art" until  July 14th. Organized by The Blanton, and comprising fifty-eight works drawn primarily from the museum's Suida-Manning Collection, the exhibition explores the expressive and technical range of French drawing through preliminary sketches, compositional studies, figure studies, and finished drawings from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Among the artists included are Jacques Callot, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Théodore Rousseau, Jean-Louis Forain, and Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Shows Works From the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art Posted: 12 May 2011 07:26 PM PDT Liechtenstein.- The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein will show a thematic exhibition of selected works from the collection of the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art Zurich. The exhibition, called "Theatre of the World: The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art Collection", confronts works by artists since the 1990s with works by masters of Concept Art, Arte Povera and Minimal Art. The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art opened in Zurich in 1996 and is an important facet of the cultural works programme financed by the Migros retailing group. Its professional collecting activities extend back to the 1970's and it now owns an outstanding collection including numerous internationally renowned artists. The current refurbishment of the Löwenbräu building in Zurich gave those responsible at the museum the idea of inviting other museums to curate an exhibition featuring works from the collection and show these in a larger context. On view from May 27th until September 4th.

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's Artworks at Columbus Museum of Art Posted: 12 May 2011 07:10 PM PDT Columbus, OH.- The Columbus Museum of Art presents "Street Talk and Spiritual Matters: Aminah's Mt. Vernon Avenue" from  May 20th through September 4th. This exhibition explores two related aspects of Aminah Robinson's work: her documentation of the Mt. Vernon Avenue community where she grew up and her depictions of women who personify the African-American spirituals she heard emanating from area churches and radios in the neighborhood. "The work in this exhibition pulsates with Aminah's drive to document and remember," said Carole Genshaft, CMA adjunct curator of education.

The LOOP Videoart Fair Comes to Barcelona in May Posted: 12 May 2011 06:51 PM PDT Barcelona.-  The 9th annual LOOP Fair, dedicated exclusively to the promotion of video art and film takes place May 19 - 21 at the Hotel Catalonia in Ramblas, Barcelona. LOOP is the annual meeting point in Barcelona for video art lovers from around the world, and takes the form of a festival, fair and associated conferences. The LOOP Festival present works of 800 artists to 200,000 visitors in over 100 locations, from important museums to restaurants and shops across Barcelona. During two weeks LOOP acts like a showcase of curated exhibitions, important video art collections, renowned universities and international festivals.

Gil Elvgren's 'Gay Nymph' Sets Record $286,000 at Heritage Auctions Posted: 12 May 2011 06:31 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The power and depth of the Charles Martignette Collection of Illustration Art continued to exert its influence on May 4 in the form of Gil Elvgren's Gay Nymph, 1947, which brought $286,800 - a World's Record price for the artist - against a $60,000+ pre-auction estimate-in Heritage Auctions' $3.409+ million Signature(r) New York Illustration Art event at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion. All prices include 19.5% Buyer's Premium.

The 54th Venice Biennale & International Art Exhibition Opens June 4th Posted: 12 May 2011 06:30 PM PDT Venice.- The 54th International Art Exhibition, with the title of "ILLUMInazioni (ILLUMInations)", directed by Bice Curiger and organized by la Biennale di Venezia under the presidency of Paolo Baratta, will be opening on Friday, June 3rd, and will be accessible to the public from Saturday, June 4th to November 27th in the Giardini and the Arsenale. The preview will take place on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Bice Curiger is an art historian, critic and curator of international exhibitions. Her curatorial activity at Kunsthaus Zurich parallels her important work in the publishing sector. In 1984, she cofounded the prestigious art magazine "Parkett", of which she is editor-in-chief. She has been publishing director of London Tate Gallery magazine "Tate etc" since 2004. The exhibition "ILLUMInazioni" will be laid out in the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, forming a single itinerary, featuring 82 artists from all over the world, including 32 young artists born after 1975, as well as 32 women artists. The director asked four participating artists to create "parapavilions", architectural and sculptural structures erected in the Giardini and the Arsenale to house the works of other artists. As usual, the Exhibition will be paralleled by 89 National Participations, a record for the Art Biennale, housed in the historical Pavilions in the Giardini, in the Arsenale, as well as in other locations around the city. The Padiglione Italia in the Arsenale, organized by the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities together with PaBAAC – General Direction for landscape, fine arts, architecture and contemporary art, will be curated by Vittorio Sgarbi. The countries that will be participating for the first time will be Andorra, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Haiti. Other countries will be participating after a long period of absence: India (1982), Congo (1968), Iraq (1990), Zimbabwe (1990), South Africa (1995), Costa Rica (1993, afterwards with IILA), Cuba (1995, afterwards with IILA). More than 40 Collateral Events will be arranged by international organizations and institutions, which will set up their exhibitions and initiatives in various locations around the city on the occasion of the Biennale. Biennale Sessions is a programme addressed at institutions, operating in the field of research and education in the domain of arts or similar. The objective is to promote the Exhibition visit among groups of at least 50 students and teachers, who will be given support to organize their trip and stay. They will also be given the possibility to organize seminars in venues we offer them free of charge. We have contacted more than 2,000 international institutions so far, who have been invited to take part in the programme. Meetings on Art stands for a number of meetings and seminars with artists, curators, philosophers and theologians scheduled in the month of June and early in autumn. As Paolo Baratta explains, the purpose of both these projects is to "confirm the role played by la Biennale di Venezia as an institution open to knowledge and to the spirit of research". Educational activity is also planned for 2011, addressing individuals as well as groups of students belonging to schools (regardless of any level and kind), universities and academies of fine arts, professionals, companies, experts, art lovers and families alike. Such initiatives, guided by selected operators trained by la Biennale di Venezia, aim at actively involving participants, and are divided into Guided visits and Lab Activities. The 54th Exhibition opening and award ceremony will be taking place on Friday, June 3rd in the Giardini, with the presentation of the official awards by the International Jury. Visit the biennale's website at  ... http://www.labiennale.org

'The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918' On View at the Mississippi Museum of Art Posted: 12 May 2011 06:23 PM PDT Jackson, MS.- 'The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918', will be on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art through July 17, 2011. Visitors to this eleventh exhibition in 'The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series' will learn about the cultural phenomenon known as Japonisme, through the presentation of more than 200 works of art from the 19th and early 20th centuries. First identified by French art critic Philippe Burty in 1872, Japonisme became a worldwide movement that deeply impacted the visual arts. The resulting influence of these pieces on the visual and decorative arts as well as architecture, music, theater, literature, graphic design, and even fashion was overwhelming and continues to this day. According to Mississippi Museum of Art Director Betsy Bradley, "The Museum has secured works from some of the most prestigious collections in France, Belgium, and throughout the United States. With the high caliber of' The Orient Expressed', we expect to host more visitors than any other exhibition the Museum has had previously."

Brooklyn Museum to show Major Exhibition of Impressionist Paintings by Gustave Caillebotte Posted: 12 May 2011 06:22 PM PDT   BROOKLYN, NY - The first major showing of the work of the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) to be presented in New York in more than thirty years will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum March 27 through July 5, 2009. In 1977, the Museum was a venue for the landmark exhibition that introduced the artist to the American public.

LACMA Features First Los Angeles Exhibition of Thomas Eakins Since 1927 Posted: 12 May 2011 06:21 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins, on view from July 25 to October 17, 2010. Organized exclusively for LACMA by Ilene Susan Fort, the museum's Gail and John Liebes Curator of American Art, the exhibition celebrates the museum's acquisition of Eakins's last great sporting painting, Wrestlers (1899)—one of the single most important American paintings acquired in the history of LACMA. Featuring around 60 oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, photographs, and sculpture by the great American master, the exhibition will serve as a rare opportunity to examine for the first time the entire range of sporting images by this iconic American artist.

Luxuries from China's Forbidden City to Travel to the United States Posted: 12 May 2011 06:20 PM PDT BEIJING (AP).- Deep in a long-forgotten corner of the Forbidden City and up a twisting stairway are four sets of twin doors, shut for more than eight decades. They reveal rare sweeping views to the north, south, east and west above the golden-tiled rooftops of the imperial palace. The surrounding walls silence the passing tour groups. On the horizon, modern high-rises are softened by the Beijing smog. The view from this private corner has hardly changed since the Chinese emperor Qianlong designed this courtyard for his retirement more than 200 years ago. But now a collection of thrones, large-scale paintings and decor of one of China's most powerful leaders is leaving the country for the first time. In September, the $1.5 million exhibition arrives in the U.S. for a tour that will show a more intimate side of a country often defined by vastness and control. The exhibit will also travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

A Collector's Eye ~ "Cranach to Pissarro" Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool Posted: 12 May 2011 06:17 PM PDT LIVERPOOL,UK - "A Collector's Eye: Cranach to Pissarro" is a unique exhibition of paintings from a stunning private collection. Running from Friday 18 February to Sunday 15 May 2011 at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, A Collector's Eye: Cranach to Pissarro exhibits five centuries of art and 64 works ranging from tender 15th-century devotional images to 19th-century French Impressionist landscapes. Old Master artists Rubens, El Greco, Delacroix and Cranach are included alongside Impressionists such as Pissarro and Sisley. Free admission to the gallery and all exhibitions and events.

Lowe Art Museum to feature a Charles Biederman Retrospective Posted: 12 May 2011 06:16 PM PDT Miami, FL - Charles Biederman: An American Idealist, a touring exhibition organized by the Frederick Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota will be on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, from November 22, 2008 through January 18, 2009.  The exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of the life and work of  Charles Biederman (1906-2004), an acclaimed American modernist, important in the Constructivist movement, who pioneered new directions in geometric abstract art. The exhibition features a broad array of paintings and sculptures created during a prolific and influential artistic career.

Large-Scale Wall Installation by the Artist Chitra Ganesh at P.S. 1 Posted: 12 May 2011 06:15 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- P.S.1 presents a large-scale wall installation by the artist Chitra Ganesh, for the second installment of the new series "On-site" which continues P.S.1's long standing tradition of commissioning site-specific, wall based projects. Ganesh's new wall piece, The Silhouette Returns (2009), was put on view in the P.S.1 lobby this October 1, 2009 and will continue through April 5, 2010. Chitra Ganesh creates wall installations, paintings, drawings, photographs, and animations that make use of an expansive visual vocabulary that ranges from Bollywood films, comics and graphic novels, to iconic feminist imagery.

National Gallery Of Art Major Exhibition ~ 'The Forest Of Fontainebleau' Posted: 12 May 2011 06:14 PM PDT   WASHINGTON, DC - The quiet but significant revolution that was launched by artists working outdoors in 19th-century France is explored through some 100 paintings, pastels, and photographs as well as artist and tourist ephemera assembled for the exhibition In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet at the National Gallery of Art, East Building, through June 8, 2008. The exhibition is organized in six sections.

French Masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum on View in Budapest Posted: 12 May 2011 06:13 PM PDT BUDAPEST.- In its exhibition the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts will display selected masterpieces from the uniquely wealthy collection of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. The fifty-five works in the exhibition provide an overview of French painting from the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The show runs until the middle of April and will greet visitors with prominent works of Impressionism, Symbolism from the last decade of the nineteenth century, and the first avant-garde movements bearing the stamp of the Fauves and the Cubists. The period is conjured up through masterpieces by Courbet, Corot, Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Lorrain, Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso and others.

The California Museum opens Exhibition of Extraordinary Costumes from Film & Television Posted: 12 May 2011 06:12 PM PDT SACRAMENTO, CA.- The California Museum, the institution that hosted Sacramento's highly popular Lincoln exhibition, is switching out the historical exhibition and making way for something fantastically orbital. On October 3rd through 10th of January, 2010, the general public will be able to visit Out of this World: Extraordinary Costumes from Film and Television, an exhibition highlighting Hollywood's most memorable science fiction and fantasy costumes. Only in California would you find an exhibit dedicated to Elizabeth Taylor next to an exhibit on Ansel Adams because they both spent the majority of their lives making history in this state.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 12 May 2011 06:11 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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