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• Masterpiece Landscapes at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg
• Photographs by Thomas Hoepker & Daniel Biskup at the German Historical Museum
• Collection of Edward P. Evans to Lead Sotheby's Auction in New York
• Bert Green Fine Art Shows New Paintings by Scott Siedman
• Malmö Konsthall and Lunds Konsthall Jointly Show a Poul Gernes Retrospective
• ART HK ~ The Hong Kong International Art Fair 26th to 29th May
• Multidisciplinary Works by Mai-Thu Perret at the Aargauer Kunsthaus
• Artist Marta Minujin Builds a "Tower of Babel" in Buenos Aires
• International Museum Day to be Celebrated Around May 18th
• New Works by David Salle at The Maureen Paley Gallery in London
• International Center of Photography (ICP) to Open Third Triennial of Photography and Video
• Walton Ford to Show His Brilliant ‘Bestiarium’ in Europe for the First Time
• The Museo del Prado opens First Monographic Exhibition on Juan Bautista Maíno
• NYU's Bronfman Center Gallery features "Einstein on Witherspoon Street"
• Kevin Bubriski Named Visiting Artist Fellow at the Peabody Museum
• Rare Audubon Bird Book Sold For $11.5m
• Spectacular French Bronzes on View at Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Katonah Museum of Art hosts Walt Whitman and American Art
• Ullens Center for Contemporary Art opens "8 Key Figures of China's New Generation of Artists"
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Masterpiece Landscapes at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg Posted: 14 May 2011 09:21 PM PDT Strasbourg.- The Museum of Fine Arts Strasbourg and the Galerie Heitz (City Gallery), both located in the historic Palais Rohan jointly present the exhibition "A Taste of Nature" until the 15th of August. The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts brings together a collection of paintings and graphic works (prints and drawings), chosen from among the finest pieces from the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings. About eighty graphic works, all from the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art are presented at Galerie Heitz. The works exhibited emphasize dialogue between nature and Man (whether man is the artist or the viewer): the exaltation of the feelings of attraction to the picturesque and the idealized landscape and the journey from observation to subjective vision. The exhibition is intended as a journey through the history of European landscape art extending from the Romantic period to the middle of the twentieth century, with masterpieces by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Arthur Sisley, Claude Monet and Paul Signac all on view. Alongside these painters, a host of less well-known works It aims to highlight key works from the collections of museums in Strasbourg, where possible featuring the landscape of the region. By bringing together for the first time, works that are not usually displayed in the same location, resonances between the works can be seen. Some eighty paintings are exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts by themes, allowing for unprecedented confrontations. The themes are, 'The Window', 'Characters in Nature', 'Water', 'The City'. 'The Campaign' and 'The Tree'. The exhibition is accompanied by a selection of films and a series of lectures, and is thematically linked with the major exhibition held in conjunction with the Museum Unterlinden in Colmar, entitled "The picturesque Alsace. The invention of a landscape 1770 - 1870". The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of Strasbourg, located in the Alsace region of France. The museum is housed in the first and second floors of the baroque Palais Rohan since 1898. The museum displays works by non-Upper Rhenish artists from between the 14th century and 1871 and by Upper Rhenish artist from between 1681 and 1871. The museum owns almost 1,000 works, of which around 250 are on permanent display. The old masters from the upper-Rhenish area until 1681 are exhibited in the neighboring Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame.The first municipal art collection of the city of Strasbourg was the result of the French Revolution, and was a consequence of the expropriation of churches and cloisters. Through the years, the collection, which was founded in 1801, grew by private donations, as well as government loans from the inventory of the Louvre. On August 24, 1870, the museum, which was housed in the Aubette on Place Kléber, was set on fire by Prussian artillery fire and completely destroyed. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War, it was resolved to re-establish the museum, and the imperial art historian Wilhelm von Bode was commissioned with the task in 1889. In 1890, the museum was launched and was re-stocked since that time by acquisitions and gifts. In 1931 under the leadership of Hans Haug (1890-1965), the collection of medieval art and upper-Rhenish painting (Konrad Witz, Hans Baldung, Sebastian Stoskopff) was transferred to the newly-founded Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame. The collection of modern art went to the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg). On August 13, 1947, fire destroyed part of the re-established collection, including works of Francesco Guardi, Thomas de Keyser, Antonio del Pollaiolo and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Visit the Strasbourg museums website at ... http://www.musees-strasbourg.org

Photographs by Thomas Hoepker & Daniel Biskup at the German Historical Museum Posted: 14 May 2011 08:49 PM PDT BERLIN.- For the first time the German Historical Museum presents a selection of largely unknown photographs from the work of the two photo journalists that has never before been shown in this form. The exhibition is a two-part display with around 280 pictures by the West German photographers Thomas Hoepker and Daniel Biskup. The exhibition is on view from May 11th through October 3rd.

Collection of Edward P. Evans to Lead Sotheby's Auction in New York Posted: 14 May 2011 08:26 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The 19 May auction of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture at Sotheby's New York will be led by important works from the Collection of Edward P. Evans. A well-known member of the equine community, Mr. Evans's collection features a range of 19th- and 20th-century paintings, with a particular emphasis on American Impressionism and the Ashcan School, and is highlighted by paintings from artists including Childe Hassam, George Bellows, William Glackens and William Merritt Chase as well as sculpture by Frederic Remington and Herbert Haseltine. Works from the Collection will be on exhibition along with the full sale at Sotheby's York Avenue galleries beginning 14 May.

Bert Green Fine Art Shows New Paintings by Scott Siedman Posted: 14 May 2011 07:09 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA - Bert Green Fine Art announces their fifth solo exhibition of the works of Scott Siedman, a Los Angeles-based fine art painter, and film and stage set designer. Siedman possesses a remarkable ability to "channel" painting styles through the ages, and fuses with that his particular personal penchants for eroticism and political statement. The result is a definitive style of his own. His imagery is confrontational and forceful, pointed and sexual. On exhibition through June 4th.

Malmö Konsthall and Lunds Konsthall Jointly Show a Poul Gernes Retrospective Posted: 14 May 2011 07:08 PM PDT Malmö, Sweden.- From 21st May until 21st August, the Malmö Konsthall and Lunds Konsthall in cooperation with Deichtorhallen Hamburg present a major retrospective of work by Poul Gernes.The painter, sculptor and filmmaker Poul Gernes (1925-1996) is considered among the most influential of Scandinavian artists. He constantly sought to link art to life by means of color and design. In the 50 years Poul Gernes was active he had numerous exhibitions and shaped the face of more than 150 buildings in Denmark.

ART HK ~ The Hong Kong International Art Fair 26th to 29th May Posted: 14 May 2011 06:57 PM PDT Hong Kong.- ART HK 11, Asia's preeminent Art Fair and one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the international art calendar returns to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, where 260 galleries from 38 countries will come together to offer the largest display of contemporary art ever seen in Hong Kong. From 26th to the 29th of May, ART HK 11 will present works from modern masters such as Pablo Picasso through to important contemporary artists such as Takashi Murakami and Damien Hirst, offering visitors the opportunity to immerse themselves in the very best and most extensive showcase of modern and contemporary art in Asia.

Multidisciplinary Works by Mai-Thu Perret at the Aargauer Kunsthaus Posted: 14 May 2011 06:56 PM PDT Aarau, Switzerland.- The Aargauer Kunsthaus presents "Mai-Thu Perret: The Adding Machine" from May 14th through July 31st. Mai-Thu Perret (b. 1976) has drawn considerable attention nationally and internationally for her multidisciplinary work that comprises sculpture, installation, painting, video and text-based art with a wide-ranging frame of reference underlying it. Of central importance within this reference frame are avant-garde movements of the 20th century and utopian concepts of life. Titled "The Adding Machine", the solo exhibition mounted by the Aargauer Kunsthaus highlights the multifaceted approach of Mai-Thu Perret's artistic practice. "The Adding Machine", Mai-Thu Perret's most comprehensive exhibition in Europe to date, is organized jointly with the MAGASIN – Centre National d'Art Contemporain in Grenoble, France, where a modified version of the exhibition will be on view in the fall of 2012.

Artist Marta Minujin Builds a "Tower of Babel" in Buenos Aires Posted: 14 May 2011 06:55 PM PDT BUENOS AIRES (Reuters).- A spiraling tower made from thousands of books in dozens of languages is the latest landmark to dot the skyline of Buenos Aires, named the World Book Capital this year. Called the Tower of Babel, the 82-foot (25-meter) high installation by Argentine artist Marta Minujin is made from 30,000 bricks, donated by readers, libraries, and more than 50 embassies.

International Museum Day to be Celebrated Around May 18th Posted: 14 May 2011 06:35 PM PDT Miami - On and around 18th May museums worldwide will celebrate International Museum Day. First established in 1977 by the International Council of Museums, more than 30,000 museums in around 100 countries now hold special activities to mark this occasion. In 2011, the theme of International Museum Day is "Museum and Memory". Through the objects they store, museums collect stories and convey the memory of our communities. These objects are the expressions of our natural and cultural heritage. Many of them are fragile, some endangered and they need special care and conservation. International Museum Day will be an occasion for visitors to discover and rediscover individual and collective memory.

New Works by David Salle at The Maureen Paley Gallery in London Posted: 14 May 2011 06:34 PM PDT London.- The Maureen Paley Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by David Salle. This will be his first exhibition at the gallery and his first solo show in London since 2003. "David Salle: New Works" will be on exhibit at the Maureen Paley Gallery from May 26th until July 17th. Salle helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide including the Whitney Biennial, Documenta, the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie International, and most recently The Pictures Generation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Solo exhibitions of his work have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; and the Guggenheim Bilbao. His work is in the permanent collections of numerous museums in America, Europe and Asia. As a painter whose work comes out of a tradition of installation and performance, Salle is a long-time collaborator with choreographer Karole Armitage, designing sets and costumes for many of her ballets and operas. Their collaborations have been staged at Metropolitan Opera, the Joyce Theater, Paris Opera, Opéra Comique, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and La Fenice among others. Salle received a Guggenheim fellowship for theatre design in 1986 and in 1995 directed the feature film Search & Destroy starring Griffin Dunne and Christopher Walken. Salle has also contributed essays, reviews and commentary to Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Bomb, Modern Painters, and the Paris Review as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and anthologies. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The gallery programme began in 1984 in a Victorian terraced house in London's East End. Initially named Interim Art the gallery changed its name to Maureen Paley in 2004 as a celebration of its 20th anniversary. Since September 1999 the gallery has been situated in its present location in Herald Street, Bethnal Green. Maureen Paley was one of the first to present contemporary art in London's East End and has been a pioneer of the current scene promoting and showing art from the USA and continental Europe as well as launching new talent from the UK. Gallery artists include Turner prize winners Wolfgang Tillmans, 2000, and Gillian Wearing, 1997, and Turner Prize nominees Liam Gillick, 2002, and Rebecca Warren, 2006 as well as Beck's Futures 2004 and Baloise Art Prize 2003 winner Saskia Olde Wolbers. Also represented are up and coming artists Anne Hardy, Lars Laumann, Daria Martin, Seb Patane, Donald Urquhart and Banks Violette together with Michael Krebber, Stephen Prina, and James Welling. The estate of Keith Arnatt has recently been added to the gallery's roster. All of the gallery artists have exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Maureen Paley, the gallery's founder and director, was born in New York, studied at Sarah Lawrence College, and graduated from Brown University before coming to the UK in 1977 where she completed her Masters at The Royal College of Art from 1978-80. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://maureenpaley.com

International Center of Photography (ICP) to Open Third Triennial of Photography and Video Posted: 14 May 2011 06:20 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY. - The International Center of Photography will present Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, a global survey of today's most exciting and innovative photography and video art. As ICP's signature exhibition—and the only one of its kind in America—this year's Triennial promises to be the most dynamic yet, featuring over 100 recent works by 34 artists from 18 countries. The newly released roster of artists includes such rising stars as Mickalene Thomas, Yto Barrada, Kimsooja, and Thorsten Brinkmann, as well as established artists such as Cindy Sherman, Stan Douglas, and Lorna Simpson. Dress Codes opens to the public on October 2, 2009, at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street), and remains on view through January 17, 2010.

Walton Ford to Show His Brilliant ‘Bestiarium’ in Europe for the First Time Posted: 14 May 2011 06:19 PM PDT BERLIN.-A troop of monkeys celebrate a feast, a panther wanders across a snowy Alpine landscape and a pack of white wolves surround a buffalo dripping blood in a manicured French garden. At first glance Walton Ford's large-scale animal watercolour paintings evoke prints by French and British colonial-era illustrators from the 19th century. After closer examination however, they reveal a pictorial universe of complex and disturbing allusions. The various tigers, lions, birds and primates that populate the life-size pictures appear as vivacious protagonists locked in allegorical struggles. The resulting combination of historical fact, natural history inquiry and surreal imaginings give rise to Walton Ford's brilliant 'Bestiarium'.

The Museo del Prado opens First Monographic Exhibition on Juan Bautista Maíno Posted: 14 May 2011 06:18 PM PDT MADRID.- This October the Museo del Prado is presenting the first monographic exhibition on Juan Bautista Maíno, one of the most original but least known figures within Spanish painting of the first half of the 17th century. For the first time the exhibition, sponsored by the Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado, will bring together almost all the artist's known works, together with seven previously unknown ones and others by Spanish and Italian painters that will help to set Maíno's paintings in an international and Spanish context. On view 20 October through 17 January, 2010 at The Prado.

NYU's Bronfman Center Gallery features "Einstein on Witherspoon Street" Posted: 14 May 2011 06:17 PM PDT New York City - New York University 's Bronfman Center Gallery is delighted to present Einstein on Witherspoon Street: Expressions for Social Justice. Inspired by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor's Einstein on Race and Racism (Rutgers University Press, 2005), Einstein on Witherspoon Street: Expressions for Social Justice celebrates the Einstein overlooked by biographers – the passionate, outspoken activist who relentlessly railed against injustice. Opening Reception: Thursday, March 26th, 7-9pm. On view March 26th thrpough June 14th  2009.

Kevin Bubriski Named Visiting Artist Fellow at the Peabody Museum Posted: 14 May 2011 06:16 PM PDT CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Kevin Bubriski first began photographing Nepal in 1975, when he was stationed there as a Peace Corps water engineer. In the decades that followed he continued to shoot in Nepal, creating a large documentary record of the country. With the Robert Gardner Visiting Artist Fellowship, Bubriski will continue his photographic documentation of Nepal's Karnali Zone this year and then be in residence preparing his material for publication. He describes that history as an "evolution from an exotic destination for overland European travelers in the 1970s, political turmoil and strict monarchic rule in the 1970s and 1980s, democracy movement of 1990, the ten-year civil war from 1996 to 2006, to the current precarious peace."

Rare Audubon Bird Book Sold For $11.5m Posted: 14 May 2011 06:15 PM PDT London - A magnificent, rare, copy of John James Audubon's "Birds of America" early- 19th-century  sold  at Sotheby's for 7.3 million pounds ($11.5 million), a record for any printed work.  The 4-volume, "double elephant folio" work was estimated was estimated at 6 million pounds at Sotheby's but fiery enthusiasm from collectors bidding on the phones and in the room drove the price rapidly well beyond pre-sale expectations. The work was bought by London-based art dealer Michael Tollemache. Its price exceeded the $8.8 million paid in March 2000 by Sheikh Saud al-Thani of Qatar at Christie's International for another copy. The Audubon at Sotheby's was part of the sale of Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh. John James Audubon's "Birds of America" is a rare blend of art, natural history and craftsmanship, unique enough to be the world's most expensive book. Only 119 copies are confirmed to exist, of which 108 are in libraries, universities, and museums. The book contains 1,000 life-sized illustrations of almost 500 breeds and comes from the collection of late Lord Hesketh. It took wildlife artist John James Audubon 12 years to complete his study. The collection of 435 hand-coloured prints, made from engravings of Audubon's illustrations, measures more than 90 cm. by 60 cm. because Audubon wanted to paint the birds life size. Audubon was part frontiersman, part artist, and possessed a rare, almost unequaled ability to observe, catalog and paint the birds he observed in the wild. Experts say the book he produced is unmatched in its beauty and also of considerable scientific value, justifying its stratospheric cost.

Spectacular French Bronzes on View at Metropolitan Museum of Art Posted: 14 May 2011 06:14 PM PDT New York City - Beginning in the 16th century, a tradition of bronze sculpture developed in France that was influenced by achievements of the Italian Renaissance, while manifesting its own distinct refinement and force.  Even though French bronzes were among the glories of royal châteaux, including Versailles, and were collected eagerly by connoisseurs, they have received relatively little scrutiny from scholars.  Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, brings together a large number of spectacular bronzes and is the first exhibition to address this subject in 40 years.  On exhibition 24 Februay through 24 May, 2009.

Katonah Museum of Art hosts Walt Whitman and American Art Posted: 14 May 2011 06:13 PM PDT KATONAH, NY.- The Katonah Museum of Art is presenting Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era through January 24, 2010. Through excerpts of Whitman's writing paired with some of the most important artworks of the mid-nineteenth century, "Bold, Cautious, True" creates an authentic window to America's social and art history, with a poignant view of its bloodiest war. The exhibition includes a handsome 180-page hardcover catalogue written by Kevin Sharp, Director of the Dixon. On exhibition through 24 January, 2010.

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art opens "8 Key Figures of China's New Generation of Artists" Posted: 14 May 2011 06:12 PM PDT BEIJING.- The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presents "Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China's New Generation of Artists", a groundbreaking exhibition showcasing a comprehensive look at the future of contemporary art in China. The exhibition will gather an exciting group of emerging and mid-career artists working throughout China today: Cao Fei, Chu Yun, Liu Wei, MadeIn, Qiu Zhijie, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Yang Fudong and Zheng Guogu. On exhibition from 17 November through 28 Febuary, 2010.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 14 May 2011 06:12 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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