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• Major Paintings by Jules Olitski on View at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
• The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Opens "Shout Freedom! Photo League Selections"
• The Carmichael Gallery in Culver City Presents Works by 5 New York Artists
• Retrospective of Brazilian Artist Anna Maria Maiolino at Malmo Konsthal
• The VEGAS Gallery in London Shows Booke de Vries Phoenix-Like Art
• Landscapes of Chinese Contemporary Art Opens at Kunstmuseum Lucerne
• Avant-Garde Artist Christo Coetzee on Show at the University of Pretoria
• Gardens of Islamic Delight On View In The Bronx
• Nassau County Museum of Art Opens Richard Avedon ~ Photographer of Influence
• The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon Highlights Works From Its Collection
• Salvador Dalí's Mustache Finds New Home on a Delta Plane
• National Gallery of Victoria to show European Masters from the Stadel Museum
• Peter Blake ~ A Retrospective ~ at Tate Liverpool
• Christie's Auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art Expected to Realise in Excess of £20 million
• Ludwig Museum in Budapest Celebrates Keith Haring with an Exhibition
• High Museum of Art Announces Acquisition of Four Major Works of Art
• The Agora Gallery features Eric Robin ~ 'In Reverie of Form'
• BA-CA KUNSTFORUM HOSTS 'EROS in MODERN ART'
• The Royal Academy of Arts presents The Splendours Byzantium 330-1453
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Major Paintings by Jules Olitski on View at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Posted: 21 May 2011 10:46 PM PDT KANSAS CITY, MO.- The exhibition Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski draws together more than thirty significant paintings from public and private collections and highlights important periods and themes from Olitski's career. This is the first overview of the artist's paintings since his death in 2007. On view May 20 – August 28, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition then travels in 2012 to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas; the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; and the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. The exhibition was organized by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by art historians E. A. Carmean Jr., Alison de Lima Greene, and Karen Wilkin. Jules Olitski (1922–2007) first received international acclaim as a Color Field painter and continued to experiment with techniques and processes throughout his career. Together, the exhibition's works span five decades of Olitski's creative output. The exhibition's curators have organized the exhibition in groupings of Stain paintings, Spray paintings, Baroque paintings, High Baroque paintings, and the artist's Late paintings. Olitski's signature Color Field paintings, including the Kemper Museum's Prince Patutszky Pleasures (1962), were created in the late 1950s and 1960s and feature bold colors and flat graphic shapes. This was a pivotal time for Olitski. He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1958, and his works attracted the attention of influential art critic Clement Greenberg, who championed the artist's work for decades. In 1963, he began teaching at Bennington College in Vermont where he became close friends with fellow Color Field painter Kenneth Noland as well as artists David Smith, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Anthony Caro. The artists often exchanged ideas and visited each other's studios and exhibitions. Later in the 1960s, Olitski wanted to create a sense of weightless and suspended color. He began using a spray gun to apply paint to his canvases and created his large-scale Spray paintings. In 1966, Olitski represented the United States in the 33rd Venice Biennale along with artists Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, and Ellsworth Kelly. Remaining faithful to abstraction throughout his career, Olitski explored textures with iridescent colors in the 1970s and 1980s and at times used mops, brooms, and mitts to apply paint. In the last decade of his life, "the artist expressed an almost unbridled sense of freedom and drama, at once timeless, lurid, and perhaps even audacious," notes Kemper Museum Director Rachael Blackburn Cozad in the exhibition's catalogue. Jules Olitski was born in 1922 in the Ukraine as Jevel Demikovsky. It was after he and his family immigrated to the United States in 1926 and his mother remarried that he changed his name to Jules Olitsky, which later evolved into Jules Olitski. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and then studied art in Paris on the GI Bill between 1949 and 1951 at the Ossip Zadkine School and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Olitski later earned a B.A. and an M.A. in art education from New York University. After teaching for many years first at C. W. Post College on Long Island, NY, and then at Bennington College, Olitski devoted himself fully to painting, printmaking, and sculpture at his studio in Vermont and later in Bear Island, New Hampshire, and Islamorada, Florida. In 1967, he was awarded the Corcoran Gold Medal and William A. Clark Award at the 30th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painters at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The Corcoran then organized a major exhibition of his works that also traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Art, and in 1973, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston organized a retrospective that traveled to the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art in Buffalo, NY, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY. Since then, his works have been included in hundreds of exhibitions and may be found in collections around the world from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to Florence's Uffizi Portrait Gallery. Visit the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art at : http://www.kemperart.org/

The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Opens "Shout Freedom! Photo League Selections" Posted: 21 May 2011 09:35 PM PDT Cedar Rapids, Iowa.— The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (CRMA) presents "Shout Freedom! Photo League Selections from the Columbus Museum of Art". On view from May 21st through  September 4th, "Shout Freedom!" comprises fifty-five photographs by forty-seven photographers who were active in the Photo League, including Berenice Abbott, Sid Grossman, Lisette Model, W. Eugene Smith, Aaron Siskind, and Weegee. The Photo League chronicled turbulent chapters in our history,  from the Great Depression to the World War II to the Cold War. "Shout Freedom!" acknowledges the importance of the League's contribution to our broadening understanding of the twentieth-century American experience. "These photographs are stunning pictorial records and visual stories from our history, as well as striking works whose messages transcend the written record," said Catherine Evans, Chief Curator, Columbus Museum of Art. "Their immediacy resonates today as a potent voice that alerts us to the present by evoking the past."

The Carmichael Gallery in Culver City Presents Works by 5 New York Artists Posted: 21 May 2011 08:30 PM PDT Culver City, CA.- The Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present "Breach of Privacy" a group exhibition featuring works by Yasmine Chatila, Hilo Chen, Adam Krueger, Alyssa Monks and Jaclyn Santos, five New York-based artists whose creative practices span a disparate range of media, yet coalesce to represent compelling explorations of voyeurism in its shifting states of ecstasy, release and isolation. Via exhilarating photorealistic oils, hauntingly subtractive mixed media works and raw black and white photography, each artist fashions his or her own unique voyeuristic allegory, some oblique, others candid, but all bound by a bittersweet philosophical thread that delves far deeper than that which is externally revealed in each of "Privacy", on view from May 21st through June 11th.

Retrospective of Brazilian Artist Anna Maria Maiolino at Malmo Konsthal Posted: 21 May 2011 08:15 PM PDT MALMO.- Malmö Konsthall presents the first major European retrospective of Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942). Maiolino's complex works have developed through a variety of media: poetry, woodcuts, photography, film, performance, sculpture, installation and, above all, drawing. The wide spectrum of subjects, interests and attitudes that underlies her work does not follow a linear development, either in the work itself or in time. Rather, through the diversity of her work, she creates a web where themes and attitudes intertwine while meanings slip between one work and another. The exhibition is on view from May 21 through August 21.

The VEGAS Gallery in London Shows Booke de Vries Phoenix-Like Art Posted: 21 May 2011 07:59 PM PDT London.- The VEGAS Gallery is delighted to present "Fire, Works" Bouke de Vries first solo show with the gallery, showcasing new works in which De Vries continues to examine the contradictions surrounds the perception of perfection. "Fire, Works" is on view until July 2nd. Created deliberately in extreme fire conditions, the most traumatic event in the history of these objects is taken as a new starting point for the exhibition and instead of it causing them to be discarded, it triggers a new chapter in their story as, phoenix-like, they rise transformed to live again.

Landscapes of Chinese Contemporary Art Opens at Kunstmuseum Lucerne Posted: 21 May 2011 07:58 PM PDT LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND - Kunstmuseum Lucerne presents Shanshui - Poetry without Sound? Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art - Works from Sigg Collection, on view from May 21st through October 2nd. The exhibition is curated by Ai Weiwei, Peter Fischer and Uli Sigg. The Museum of Art Lucerne is the ideal place for this exhibition. Over the years, and as the "home museum" of Canton Lucerne based collectors Uli and Rita Sigg, it has regularly included individual Chinese artists in its exhibitions.

Avant-Garde Artist Christo Coetzee on Show at the University of Pretoria Posted: 21 May 2011 07:41 PM PDT Pretoria, SA - The University of Pretoriais showing a retrospective of the controversial avant-garde South African artist Christo Coetzeeuntil July 31st. This extraordinary exhibition of 64 of his works is on view in the Edoardo Villa Museum, Old Merensky Building on the main campus of the University. In 2000 Christo Coetzee bequeathed his entire collection to the University of Pretoria. This temporary exhibition showcases some of the greatest works of Christo Coetzee in the collection of the University of Pretoria, as well as some of his best personal works recently acquired from his home in Tulbach. Also represented in the exhibition will be the artworks of his late wife, Ferrie Binge-Coetzee who was tragically killed in a fire in 2010.

Gardens of Islamic Delight On View In The Bronx Posted: 21 May 2011 07:19 PM PDT Bronx, New York - You would hardly expect the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx to have reproduced the sensations of that 14th-century palace complex in Granada, Spain, in its exhibition opening on Saturday, "Spanish Paradise: Gardens of the Alhambra." What point could there have been in trying to replicate the heavens depicted on the ceiling of the Hall of Ambassadors, its wooden pieces inlaid with mother-of-pearl stars? Or to imitate the "Escalera del Agua" — the staircase in the palace gardens whose hand rails have carved channels in which currents of water flow, so that as you descend under overhanging trees you feel immersed in a rushing stream? The exhibition catalog tells us that the garden designer Russell Page called the staircase "the best thing in gardening that I know anywhere in the world."

Nassau County Museum of Art Opens Richard Avedon ~ Photographer of Influence Posted: 21 May 2011 07:19 PM PDT ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence, on view at Nassau County Museum of Art from May 21st through September 4th, showcases more than 50 photographs by the legendary artist. The exhibition celebrates Avedon's storied career in which he embraced the worlds of both magazine and museum, pioneering a vision of photography as a two-sided mirror that reflects both the subject and the photographer. Richard Avedon: Photographer of Influence was organized by the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona with the cooperation of The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York. The installation of the exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art will run alongside a presentation of fashion and photography in film.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Lisbon Highlights Works From Its Collection Posted: 21 May 2011 07:18 PM PDT Lisbon.- The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado in Lisbon is presenting "Other Perspectives" focussing on works from the permanent colleciton until December 11th. The "Other Perspectives" project aims to promote a comprehensive reflection on the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, and simultaneously to provide a panoramic and wide-ranging view of Portuguese artistic production in a chronological arc beginning with Romanticism (1850-1880) and ending with the Contemporary Period of the Twenty-first Century. The exhibited works result from invitations sent to the most renowned Portuguese art historians, curators and artists who were asked to choose a piece of art from the Museum's collection which is representative of each particular decade. The sequential exhibitions will be accompanied by a text and an informal debate about each chosen piece which will be held on the 18th of every month. At the end of the series, all of the pieces from this programme will be exhibited and published in a catalogue which brings together the images and texts produced by the various authors, and which will remain as a record and testimony of a diverse and wide-ranging view of Portuguese art from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period. The National Museum of Contemporary Art is to be a national reference, featuring the leading collection of Portuguese Art from the second half of the nineteenth century until the present. With a collection of more than 5000 species, covering the wide field of painting, sculpture, design, photography and new media, including the seminal works of the major movements of this period, the museum manifests its commitment and accomplishes its vital functions by preserving, documenting and unfolding the most important national collection of art of the nineteenth and modernism, while continuously questioning contemporary art by monitoring production and by establishing qualified, consistent and representative collections allowing the construction of a critical memory of national contemporary art. The permanent exhibition is periodically renewed, according to a work of historical and critical research, witch contributes to reevaluate and exploit some of the most paradigmatic works or artistic moments of Portuguese art and allows the museum to pursue a policy of enlarging its collection, through acquisitions, bequests and donations, filling historic gaps in some areas of the permanent collection, expanding its meanings or bringing new contributions to a rereading of a particular period or work of an artist, to remain at the forefront of its field. The National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado's collection crosses the history of Portuguese art from the second half of the 19th century until today, constituting a compulsory point of reference for those interested in its study. The start of the collection is marked by the emergence of Romanticism, in the mid-19th century. Artists such as Tomás da Anunciação and Cristino da Silva convey the romantic spirit through colossal landscapes, rustic and vibrant settings and twilight background lighting. Animalism and portraiture, whose greatest exponents were Anunciação and Luiz de Menezes, complete the romantic themes. The portrait in Miguel Ângelo Lupi's work has also been reconsidered from a realistic perspective. A moment of renewal was experienced with the introduction, by Silva Porto and Marques de Oliveira, of research into the possibilities of natural light, updating the understanding of nature and the way it had been approached pictorially. The landscape rendered as observed was the main area of experimentation in Naturalism, alongside the portrait, which finds its finest expression in the work of António Ramalho and, above all, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro. Introducing new artistic elements, the Symbolism of António Carneiro and Sousa Lopes marks the transition to the 20th century, which began with a brief but striking outburst of avant-gardism, best exemplified by the work of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, the near unique work of Santa Rita and the Orphism of Eduardo Viana. Other courses of renewal were defined by the Expressionism of Mário Eloy in the 1920s and the Dimensionism and Surrealism that António Pedro developed in the 1930s, establishing a link to the later young surrealists of the 1940s. Alongside these innovative studies, Portuguese Modernism, defined by an 'indispensable balance' consistent with the 'politics of the spirit' of António Ferro, was being developed by a group of artists. Thus, Almada Negreiros, Dordio Gomes, Abel Manta, Bernardo Marques, Carlos Botelho and Viana and Eloy themselves, and the sculptors Canto da Maia, Diogo de Macedo and Francisco Franco based their research on a classicism that took its fundamental references from Cezánne's volumetric organisation and the work of Picasso's classic period. Political concerns remained outside artistic expression until the Neo-realism of the 1940s, when a group of artists, amongst whom Manuel Filipe and Júlio Pomar stand out, gave social critique a formal shape through expressive distortion. At the same time, Surrealism developed, which re-updated the artistic discourse through experimentation and chance in the production processes. António Dacosta, Marcelino Vespeira, Fernando Lemos, Fernando de Azevedo, Jorge Vieira and Mário Cesariny were the movement's main protagonists. Abstract Art, introduced in 1944 by Fernando Lanhas, completes this panorama. Lanhas worked alone until Jorge Vieira in sculpture and Nadir Afonso and Joaquim Rodrigo in painting also developed an interest in abstraction. The 60s and 70s consolidated a break, in artistic terms, from the updating of pressuppositions and methods. The avantgarde spirit was reclaimed and the artists and trends that concerned them multiplied, ranging from New Figuration in the works of Paula Rego and Joaquim Rodrigo, to the New Abstraction that objectifies the painting of Jorge Pinheiro, the experimentation on the object conducted by several members of the KWY group, in particular Lourdes Castro and René Bértholo, the adaptation of Pop Art to the Portuguese context by Sá Nogueira, the examination of issues of perception by Noronha da Costa and Jorge Martins, the research into signs by António Sena and João Vieira, and the pressuposition-bound work of the externally dominant Land Art and Post-conceptual movement, amongst whom Alberto Carneiro, Helena Almeida and Julião Sarmento stand out. The return to painting, to the forms and to the expressionism experienced in the 80s, as well as other internationally pregnant issues relating to the image and its identity, are represented in the collection through the work of the decade's foremost artists: Júlia Ventura, José Pedro Croft, Julião Sarmento, Jorge Molder, Pedro Cabrita Reis and Rui Sanches. Authorship, deviation and similarity are the themes expressed in the work of João Penalva, who, along with the romanticism of Rui Chafes and the critical conscience of the Homeostético group, makes the transition to the 90s, marked by different but consuming concerns (Ângela Ferreira, João Tabarra, Miguel Palma, Augusto Alves da Silva), in establishing a reflexive dialogue with politically, socially and culturally compromised statements. In a constant process of updating, the collection contains examples of very recently produced work by artists at the forefront of 21st century art, such as Alexandre Estrela, João Onofre and João Pedro Vale. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.museudochiado-ipmuseus.pt

Salvador Dalí's Mustache Finds New Home on a Delta Plane Posted: 21 May 2011 07:11 PM PDT ATLANTA, GA.- In celebration of the High Museum's new exhibition, "Dalí: The Late Work," Delta has decked out a 757 plane with a Salvador Dalí-esque mustache. The plane, which went into service yesterday, will fly domestically. The High invites travelers who spot or ride on the plane to share their experience on the museum's Facebook page and on Twitter. Delta Air Lines is the Official Airline of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

National Gallery of Victoria to show European Masters from the Stadel Museum Posted: 21 May 2011 07:10 PM PDT MELBOURNE, AU - Premier John Brumby today announced a new blockbuster exhibition, European Masters: Städel Collection 19th – 20th Centuries will come to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2010 as part of the hugely successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. Mr Brumby said the exhibition comprises more than 100 works from the internationally renowned Städel Museum in Germany by artists including Monet, Cézanne and Renoir, and is the first time this collection of works will be displayed outside Europe. European Masters: Städel Collection 19th – 20th Centuries will be on at the NGV International, St Kilda Road from 19 June until 10 October 2010

Peter Blake ~ A Retrospective ~ at Tate Liverpool Posted: 21 May 2011 07:09 PM PDT Liverpool, UK - Tate Liverpool presents a major retrospective exhibition of paintings by Peter Blake, the largest since his Tate Gallery exhibition in 1983. A highly influential and original artist, Blake is often described as the godfather of British Pop art. The Tate Liverpool exhibition will survey his rich and diverse oeuvre, presenting familiar works alongside other rarely-seen ones. This exhibition will focus on Blake's two-dimensional work and in particular painting, from the 1950s to the present day. On exhibition through 23 September, 2007.

Christie's Auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art Expected to Realise in Excess of £20 million Posted: 21 May 2011 07:08 PM PDT LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place at Christie's on 30 June 2009 and will offer 41 lots including exceptional and significant works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. The first auction to take place under the direction of Francis Outred who joined the company in January 2009 as International Director and Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art for Christie's in Europe, both the pre-sale exhibition and sale will take place at King Street from 27 to 30 June. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £20 million.

Ludwig Museum in Budapest Celebrates Keith Haring with an Exhibition Posted: 21 May 2011 07:07 PM PDT Budapest, Hungary - Keith Haring, having died of AIDS at the age of 31, would be 50 years old in 2008. His anniversary is going to be celebrated with several exhibitions and events all over the world. The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest contributes to the celebration with a unique exhibition organized in co-operation with the Keith Haring Foundation in New York. It will be the first time that such a comprehensive overview on his oeuvre is exhibited in Hungary, which is fascinatingly rich and multifaceted, although it embraces merely a decade.

High Museum of Art Announces Acquisition of Four Major Works of Art Posted: 21 May 2011 07:06 PM PDT Atlanta, GA - The High Museum of Art recently acquired four major works for its permanent collection, including the pastel "Mother and Child," by Mary Cassatt; the oil painting "Snowscape with Cows, Montfoucault," by Camille Pissarro; the oil painting "The Breakfast," by Pierre Bonnard; and the painting on paper "Villa les Écluses, St. Jacut, Brittany," by Édouard Vuillard. The new acquisitions were purchased from the estate of longtime Atlanta resident Kathryn Welch Hartzog.

The Agora Gallery features Eric Robin ~ 'In Reverie of Form' Posted: 21 May 2011 07:05 PM PDT NEW YORK , NY - The Agora Gallery (530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, 10001) is proud to present Eric Robin in our upcoming exhibition In Reverie of Form. Scheduled to run from January 6th through January 27th, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Eric Robin's soulful portraiture. Robin's work has been exhibited in Belgium, France and the United States.

BA-CA KUNSTFORUM HOSTS 'EROS in MODERN ART' Posted: 21 May 2011 07:04 PM PDT Vienna, Austria - BA-CA Kunstforum presents Eros in Modern Art, on view through July 22, 2007.  The encounter with all forms and varieties of Eros – love, passion and lust, desire, union and secret longings – has always been and still is one of the basic impulses for artistic inspiration.  The BA-CA Kunstforum is now addressing this theme with an exciting exhibition.  More than 200 works by prominent artists from the late nineteenth century until the present day give striking and immediate expression to the fascination exercised on artists by the theme of eroticism.  But the exhibition is not confined solely to the subject of the human body and portrayal of the act of love. The concept far more involves works that address the erotic sphere of temptation and union, desire and fantasy, dream and the subconscious, in a multitude of forms.

The Royal Academy of Arts presents The Splendours Byzantium 330-1453 Posted: 21 May 2011 07:03 PM PDT LONDON - From October 2008, the Royal Academy of Arts will host a ground-breaking exhibition devoted to Byzantium. Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, the exhibition will comprise around 300 objects including icons, detached wall paintings, micro-mosaics, ivories, enamels plus gold and silver metalwork. Some of the works have never been displayed in public before. Byzantium 330–1453 will include great works from the San Marco Treasury in Venice and rare items from collections across Europe, the USA, Russia, Ukraine and Egypt.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 21 May 2011 07:03 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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