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• Sotheby’s London Announce Sale of South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art
• The 38th Beverly Hills Art Show at Beverly Gardens May 21 & 22
• Camera Work Gallery in Berlin Opens Comprehensive Herb Ritts Exhibition
• Kent Williams Solos at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles
• Rare Photographs of Warhol & Robert Indiana Displayed at San Francisco Fine Art Fair
• Carlos Nadal's Fauvist Paintings at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
• The Vernon Public Gallery Shows David Newkirk's Contemporary Paintings
• Hayward Gallery Opens the First Major London Exhibition of Artist Tracey Emin
• Industry & Technology Explored in Two Exhibitions at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
• National Gallery opens Exhibition of Major Loans of Paintings by Paul Delaroche
• Artist Almagul Menlibayeva Solos at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
• Nationalmuseum Rubens Paintings Loaned to Munich in Exchange for 20 Masterpieces
• The Museum of Arts and Design opens "Dead or Alive"
• Lyons Wier Gallery Exhibits Amanda Besl and Jazz-minh Moore
• A Taste of Harlem Featured At Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
• Groundbreaking Woodcut Motion Picture at Vanderbilt
• Cranbrook Academy of Art to Create Experiential Environment for AXA Art Lounge
• The Corrigan Gallery Presents ~ "Celebration" ~ Works by Richard Hagerty
• Exhibition by Fashion Photographer Helmut Newton opens at Museum für Fotografie
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Sotheby’s London Announce Sale of South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art Posted: 17 May 2011 10:10 PM PDT LONDON.- Sotheby's London announce its sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art to take place on the 31st May 2011. Comprised of 62 lots, several with unprecedented provenance, the auction is expected to fetch in excess of £2.8 million. Highlighting the sale will be works by Sayed Haider Raza. His Bindu is an important 1985 work and is one of the earliest large depictions of the Bindu by the artist. Raza's preoccupation with nature is apparent in his use of primary colours to highlight the elements of nature; red, blue, yellow, white and black respectively represent fire, water, wind, earth and the sun. It is estimated at £400,000-600,000. Another important work by Raza from his Paris period is Rue des Fossés St Jaques, an oil on canvas estimated at £300,000-500,000. Raza and his wife, the painter Janine Mongillat, were friends of the current owner's family and they rented a studio from them at Rue des Fossés St Jaques. Painted a year after Raza was awarded the 'Prix de la Critique', this painting depicts the view from the studio window and represents an important early phase in Raza's career where he abandons the confines of traditional watercolour and takes on oil developing a unique idiom where space and colour seem to feed into one another. In 1958, the painting was photographed with the artist by Henri Cartier Bresson. Maqbool Fida Husain's The Sixth Seal, estimated at £400,000-500,000, exemplifies the eclectic balance between Husain's cubist modern style of painting and Indian traditional sensibility and subject matter. This work, which was formerly in the Collection of Chester and Davida Herwitz , incorporates so many of the artist's most recognisable themes and symbols. Traditional forms of ancient Indian miniatures, sculptures, dance and folk art manifest themselves in one painting. The painting is made up of six vignettes a compositional device used by the artist in a number of his early works from the late 1950s and early 1960s. This work is published in Bartholomew and Kapur's seminal book on Husain and was exhibited at Oxford's Museum of Modern Art's India: Myth and Reality, Aspects of Modern Indian art in 1982. Illustrated is Jehangir Sabavala's oil on canvas The Tree, which is estimated at £65,000-75,000. This painting is part of the Tungabhadra landscapes that were painted in 1965 following a visit by the Sabavalas to South India. The artist was moved by the ruins at Hampi and in particular by the starkness of the artificial lake in the Tungabhadra river, at the border between Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. A further highlight is Manjit Bawa's Untitled estimated at £100,000-150,000. Manjit's subjects are often inspired by ancient iconography and myths but his primary concern was not with the narrative of the works but with their spatial and chromatic relationships. The artist's use of colour was grounded in his formal training as a silk-screen printer and his study of Rajput and Pahari miniature paintings. The simplicity of line and form is contrasted by the subtle graduation of colour and the artist's use of chiaroscuro. His figures possess a plasticity; sculptural in form yet suspended weightlessly in a space that is void of time and context. The sale will also include Subodh Gupta's Hungry God, estimated at £300,000-400,000. Subodh Gupta's monumental sculpture Hungry God, which in 2010 was exhibited at SESC Pompéia's Urban Manners 2, Contemporary Artists from India in Sao Paulo, is composed of a wavelike mass of stainless steel pans, milk pails and tiffins. These steel utensils have now become iconic symbols of Gupta's work. The artist uses these domestic household objects to comment on the underlying social and economic tensions that arise from India's progressive modernisation. These objects represent familiar features of Indian life which continue to transcend the conflicts between urban and rural existence; wealth and poverty; the religious and the vernacular. The auction will also feature Subodh Gupta's Untitled, estimated at £120,000-180,000, which was exhibited in The Empire Strikes Back Indian Art Today show at London's Saatchi Gallery in 2010. Gupta's preoccupation with ready-made objects from India transcends the boundaries of the mediums with which he works in. In this painting, stainless steel and copper-bottomed pots, pans and tiffins occupy a position of importance. Immaculately painted, these objects are revered by the artist and suggest an air of ambition and prosperity, congruent with India's flourishing economy. The photorealistic detail of these pots are starkly contrasted with the abstract, minimalistic background. They hang seductively in the foreground, alluding to the complex and evolving aspect of consumerism in India. Two early oils by Francis Newton Souza's Untitled, estimated at 25,000-35,000, is an oil on board dated 1954. The sale will also include Francis Newton Souza's Untitled, an oil on board, estimated at £35,000-45,000. Acquired directly from the artist by the writer and poet Stephen Spender, both these works are property from the Estate of Sir Stephen and Lady Spender

The 38th Beverly Hills Art Show at Beverly Gardens May 21 & 22 Posted: 17 May 2011 09:33 PM PDT Beverly Hills, CA.- The 38th Beverly Hills Art Show - Affaire in the Gardens - returns to Beverly Gardens from May 21st to 22nd. The city's largest public art event features thousands of artworks, artist demonstrations, a special exhibit, wine garden, art tours, and live music. Spanning four blocks, this free public art event features two hundred and fifty artists from around the United States that will showcase an upscale, yet affordable, array of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints. Vetted to ensure quality, a team of professionals, including curators, art academics, and critics combed through more than 500 artist applications to select a roster of emerging and established artists that are both respected and exceptional.

Camera Work Gallery in Berlin Opens Comprehensive Herb Ritts Exhibition Posted: 17 May 2011 08:28 PM PDT BERLIN.- Camera Work presents photographs from Herb Ritts, on view from May 14 through July 02, 2011. More than 50 photographs give a comprehensive insight into the work of Herb Ritts, who passed away in 2002. All of the exhibited photographs were developed during the artist's lifetime. In the 1980s and the 1990s, the autodidact worked together with nearly every superstar. Among the exhibited portraits one can find names such as Madonna, Mick Jagger, Dustin Hoffman, David Bowie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Cindy Crawford.

Kent Williams Solos at Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles Posted: 17 May 2011 08:27 PM PDT Los Angeles.- Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present Convergence, a solo exhibition by artist Kent Williams from May 21st until June 18th. When fighting is no longer an option, one surrenders, come what may. One must create a connective trust with him or herself alone and plunge hand-in-hand into an unknown so vast, any and everything is possible. It is a trust that is at once both a finale and an introduction. In his exhibition of paintings and drawings, Kent Williams promises that to surrender is not necessarily to give up, and he rewards those who are either hopeless enough, or courageous enough, to submit with a private and sinking comfort inside the eye of the storm. The reassurance he offers is that there is a bridge between the before and after, and it is here; here is now.

Rare Photographs of Warhol & Robert Indiana Displayed at San Francisco Fine Art Fair Posted: 17 May 2011 08:15 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- American fine art photographer William John Kennedy's exhibition of newly published photographs of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana debuted during Art Basel/Miami Beach 2010 to rave reviews. Believed to be the only such images in existence, the photographs capture the two artists and their soon-to-be iconic works at the seminal point of their careers and the birth of the Pop art movement.

Carlos Nadal's Fauvist Paintings at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery Posted: 17 May 2011 07:34 PM PDT Leeds, UK - The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds are pleased to present "Carlos Nadal: Paintings in Yorkshire Collections" from June 7th until Auguist 20th. The exhibition contains a fascinating collection of paintings by Carlos Nadal (1917-1998). The Catalan artist was one of the last 'Fauvist' artists with connections to Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Georges Braque and other major European artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition brings together over 40 paintings and drawings in Yorkshire collections. A range of his favourite subjects will be selected, from rolling green landscapes, lively beach scenes, bold still life and figure studies, or ornate civic buildings – all in executed in his characteristically bold colours, wild brushstrokes and naïve style.

The Vernon Public Gallery Shows David Newkirk's Contemporary Paintings Posted: 17 May 2011 07:06 PM PDT North Okanagan, B.C.- The Vernon Public Art Gallery will show "David Newkirk: Fault Lines and Fantasies" from May 26th through July 28th. David Newkirk's body of paintings titled "Fault Lines and Fantasies" addresses the issues surrounding the discourse about the viability of contemporary painting. During the last few years, Newkirk has been developing conceptual strategies that reflect his interest in the construction of images that are informed by various approaches to art making, and specifically the contemporary painting practices that explore the possibilities of a synthesis of representational renderings and geometric and organic abstraction. The images examine the correlation of representation and abstraction conceptually, while the actual execution is based on a tension between elements at once defying order and predictability.

Hayward Gallery Opens the First Major London Exhibition of Artist Tracey Emin Posted: 17 May 2011 07:05 PM PDT LONDON.- The Hayward Gallery unveils TRACEY EMIN: LOVE IS WHAT YOU WANT, the first major survey in London of the work of one of the UK's most renowned and celebrated artists. The exhibition features key works from all periods of the artist's career, including seldom-seen early works and more recent large-scale installations as well as a new series of outdoor sculptures created especially for the Hayward. The exhibition, supported by Louis Vuitton, is on show from 18 May to 29 August 2011, and is a highlight of Southbank Centre's celebration of the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Festival of Britain with MasterCard.

Industry & Technology Explored in Two Exhibitions at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Posted: 17 May 2011 07:04 PM PDT Madison, WI.- Two new exhibitions at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art present works from the museum's permanent collection that explore impacts of industry and technology. "Picturing Technology: Land and Machine" opens on May 21st in MMoCA's main galleries, while "The Industrial Modern" opens a week later on May 28th in the State Street Gallery. Both exhibitions will run through the summer, "Land and Machine" until August 21st and "The Industrial Modern" until September 4th. From the invention of the wheel to industrialization to the digital age, new technologies have been associated with intellectual and cultural advances. And yet throughout the ages, there have been reactions against technology — movements that oppose the advances of science and innovation in favor of more natural lifestyles. "In Picturing Technology: Land and Machine", MMoCA's curator of exhibitions, Jane Simon, explores artists' reactions to technology in the rural environment. With drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints by nearly 40 artists, the exhibition demonstrates responses to technology ranging from alarm to disdain to enthusiasm. The photographs of O. Winston Link, for example, reveal the contemporary viewer's nostalgia for older technologies. Link's images of locomotives in hinterland America address our collective mythology of westward expansion and prosperity. Likewise, a series of nine photographs by Archie Lieberman demonstrate how technology has transformed our relationship to landscape, agriculture, and animals. Lieberman's images of rural life show the realities of farming life, as with a photograph of Margaret Dunbar and her daughter using bottles to feed hungry calves. Rather than separating the farmers from their calves, this technological innovation appears to enhance their tie. Forced Bloom 4 (2006), by Alyson Shotz, is one of several works in the exhibition that utilize or address capabilities of digital technology. Recent computer programs have allowed information and the storage of information to mushroom, triggering both positive and negative associations. By presenting viewers with "loaded images" that spark both kinds of reactions, the exhibition raises questions about the role and value of technology in our lives. Picturing Technology also presents works by Thomas Arndt, Warrington Colescott, Jim Dine, Vernon Fisher, and Claes Oldenburg, among others. The Industrial Modern explores artists' conflicted responses to industry, labor, and the urban environment from the middle of the nineteenth century to contemporary times. In doing so, the exhibition explores the tensions inherent in the "culture of progress." Starting in the eighteenth century, the enormous energy of the Industrial Revolution began to transform the physical, economic, and socio-political landscapes of both Europe and the United States. The changes—including urbanization, mechanization, and regimented labor—coincided with a growing interest among western artists in accurately representing the rhythms and realities of everyday life. Focusing on workers and strikers, factories and machines, skyscrapers and city centers, bridges and railroads, docks and shipyards—the shapes of steel, steam, concrete, and human labor—artworks in The Industrial Modern explore scenes previously deemed unworthy of serious artistic representation. William Gropper, for example, a committed left-wing radical, infused his works with a socio-political message, championing the cause of the exploited worker and highlighting the social injustices characteristic of the modern industrial age. In contrast, Donna Dennis eschews reference to human presence, focusing instead on the dingy interior of a vacant subway station. Light from three stark bulbs illuminates the impressive vernacular architecture, while simultaneously calling attention to the emptiness of the cavernous space and hinting at themes of desolation and urban alienation. The Industrial Modern also presents drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints by William Klein, Louis Lozowick, Samuel L. Margolies, Joseph Pennell, and Ben Shahn, among many others. The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is a nonprofit, independent organization that exists to exhibit, collect, preserve, and interpret modern and contemporary art. After a distinguished 105-year history in borrowed and refurbished spaces, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art opened to the public on April 23, 2006, in a new facility within the Overture Center for the Arts. Designed by world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli, the museum's exhilarating facility offers 51,500 square feet of space for the study, presentation, and conservation of modern and contemporary art, as well as a 7,100-square-foot rooftop sculpture garden. Public amenities include spacious galleries, a 230-seat lecture hall, a children's classroom, a new-media gallery, and a study center for drawings, prints, and photographs. Like the rest of Overture Center, the facility was made possible by the extraordinary generosity of W. Jerome Frautschi, a long-time friend of the museum. The museum's collection traces its origins to a major gift from Rudolph and Louise Langer in 1968. Through donations and museum purchases, the collection has grown to become an important community resource. Works span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and include paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, and drawings. Romare Bearden, Deborah Butterfield, John Steuart Curry, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Cindy Sherman are among the many esteemed artists represented in the collection. Exhibitions are the cornerstone of MMoCA's public programs and have featured many of the most respected artists of the last century, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, Sol LeWitt, George Segal, Jim Dine, Rodney Graham, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and John Wilde. The main galleries, located on the second floor, host the museum's major exhibitions. The Henry Street Gallery presents exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection while the State Street Gallery offers a changing roster of exhibitions and installations. MMoCA's rooftop sculpture garden presents major works on a rotating basis in an illuminated garden setting. Visit the museum's website at ... http://mmoca.org

National Gallery opens Exhibition of Major Loans of Paintings by Paul Delaroche Posted: 17 May 2011 06:51 PM PDT LONDON.- The exhibition features seven major international loans of paintings by Delaroche including 'The Princes in the Tower', 1830 and 'Young Christian Martyr', 1854–5 (both Louvre), and 'Strafford on his way to Execution,' 1835 (private collection). Displayed alongside are Delaroche's expressive preparatory drawings for Lady Jane and a selection of comparative paintings and prints by his contemporaries, including Eugène Lami, Claude Jacquand and François-Marius Granet. On exhibition at the National Gallery, London through 23 May, 2010.

Artist Almagul Menlibayeva Solos at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Posted: 17 May 2011 06:50 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents 'Transoxiana Dreams', Kazakh artist Almagul Menlibayeva's fourth solo exhibition at the gallery from March 24 through May 14, 2011. Menlibayeva films mythological narratives placed and staged in the vast landscape of her native Kazakhstan ravaged by 60 years of Soviet occupation. She leads her audience to the brutally changed region of the Aral Sea where its indigenous people live in the Aralkum, the desert of a once thriving region now entirely devoid of water due to radical Soviet irrigation politics.

Nationalmuseum Rubens Paintings Loaned to Munich in Exchange for 20 Masterpieces Posted: 17 May 2011 06:49 PM PDT STOCKHOLM.- In a one-off exchange this fall, two of Sweden's largest and most famous baroque paintings have been taken to Munich to star in a major exhibition of works by Peter Paul Rubens, the 17th-century Flemish master. In return, Nationalmuseum will receive 20 spectacular paintings from Munich next spring. The exhibition compares works by Rubens and Van Dyck, highlighting the relationship between them and the unparalleled influence of these two masters on Flemish painting in their day. These will go on show alongside other works in Nationalmuseum's Rubens & Van Dyck exhibition, opening 25 February 2010.

The Museum of Arts and Design opens "Dead or Alive" Posted: 17 May 2011 06:48 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.-The Museum of Arts and Design opens Dead or Alive, an exhibition showcasing the work of more than 30 international artists who use organic and once-living materials—such as insects, feathers, shells, bones, silkworm cocoons, plant materials, and fur. Dead or Alive, on view until October 24, 2010, features new site-specific installations and recent work by contemporary artists from around the world, including Jennifer Angus, Nick Cave, Tessa Farmer, Tim Hawkinson, Jochem Hendricks, Damien Hirst, Alastair Mackie, Kate MccGwire, Susie MacMurray, Shen Shaomin, and Levi van Veluw among others. The exhibition is organized by the Museum's Chief Curator David Revere McFadden and Curator Lowery Sims with Assistant Curator Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane.

Lyons Wier Gallery Exhibits Amanda Besl and Jazz-minh Moore Posted: 17 May 2011 06:47 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Amanda Besl's most recent body of work entitled "Riding Lessons" straddles the strong bond between adolescent girls and their equine obsessions. Her subjects are at the cusp of adulthood and precariously place themselves between adolescence and burgeoning self-awareness. Besl's work examines these seemingly simple narratives with playful yet menacing undertones. Exhibition on view from 25 May through 20 June.

A Taste of Harlem Featured At Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Posted: 17 May 2011 06:46 PM PDT   Montgomery, AL — Experience the vitality and energy sparked by the jazz, blues, art, and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts September 15 through November 18 during the exhibition of William H. Johnson's World on Paper. Johnson expressed Harlem's blues and jazz culture in many of his paintings, featuring bold compositions and bright colors. His works are recognized today as a major achievement of African-American expression.

Groundbreaking Woodcut Motion Picture at Vanderbilt Posted: 17 May 2011 06:45 PM PDT NASHVILLE, TN - The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and the Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University are pleased to announce the exhibition, Jay Bolotin: The Jackleg Testament. The two galleries will present the film and print work of Jay Bolotin,a prolific writer, composer, performer, set designer, visual artist, and now filmmaker. Sarratt Cinema will screen Bolotin's film (running time: 67 minutes)Beginning Friday, February 23, the film will be shown in the Fine Arts Gallery concurrently with the print exhibition. On View through 22 March, 2007.

Cranbrook Academy of Art to Create Experiential Environment for AXA Art Lounge Posted: 17 May 2011 06:44 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- AXA Art, the worlds leading fine art insurance specialist and Cranbrook Academy of Art announced a creative collaboration. Under the terms of the relationship, AXA Art has commissioned the prestigious art academy to conceptualize, design and create a 21st-century experiential environment to be installed in the AXA Art lounge at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. The space will serve as a respite, where the company will host its collector clients and guests in attendance at the fair. The Cranbrook design-build team, lead by four of the Academy's s artists-in-residence, includes Beverly Fishman, Elliott Earls, William Massie, and Heather McGill. AXA Art requested that they use 'The Thrill of Creating' as inspiration and consider modernity, functionality and innovation while transforming the lounge space.

The Corrigan Gallery Presents ~ "Celebration" ~ Works by Richard Hagerty Posted: 17 May 2011 06:43 PM PDT CHARLESTON, SC - The Corrigan Gallery presents #147;Celebration," a show of works by Richard Hagerty opening May 15, 2008 with a reception from 5pm to 8:00pm at 62 Queen Street, Charleston. The work will hang through June 15. This special show is also the Piccolo Spoleto Invitational show observing Hagerty's status as the commissioned official poster artist for the 30th Piccolo Spoleto Festival. His work recalls that of Dali, Bosch, Brueghel, Kandinsky, Miro, Klee and Chagall.

Exhibition by Fashion Photographer Helmut Newton opens at Museum für Fotografie Posted: 17 May 2011 06:42 PM PDT   BERLIN, GERMANY - After the great success of the exhibition "A gun for hire" at the Helmut Newton Foundation in 2005 with Newton's fashion photos from the last 20 years the current show "Helmut Newton: Fired" focuses on his editorial work for fashion magazines of the 1960's and 1970's like Elle, Queen, French Vogue, Nova or Marie Claire.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 17 May 2011 06:42 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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