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• National Museum of American Illustration Shows Norman Rockwell's America
• British Painter L. S. Lowry Record Set at Christie's in London
• Thomas Kegler's Paintings at the John Pence Gallery
• The Grand Palais in Paris Presents 'Odilon Redon ~ The Prince of Dreams'
• Erwin Olaf's Photo Interpretations of Classic Plays at Hasted Kraeutler Gallery
• Kristian von Hornsleth Art Car to be Auctioned by Bonhams
• Vierter Stock Berlin Shows Paintings & Installation by Maryna Baranovka
• Christie's NY to Offer Over 200 Lots for the Spring Sale of Antiquities
• British-Born Surrealist Painter Leonora Carrington Dies at Age 94 in Mexico City
• Experimental & Affordable Works of Art Shown at London Art Fair
• National Galleries of Scotland Explores the Theme of 'Dance'
• Rockwell Kent ~ 'This Is My Own' ~ at The New York State Museum
• Edouard Manet's The Boy with Cherries Visits Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts
• Pera Museum Welcomes Colombian Artist Fernando Botero to Istanbul
• The Akron Art Museum displays Edward Weston ~ Life Work
• Cézanne Masterpieces Return to Palazzo Strozzi
• Saatchi Gallery Launches Ad Campaign Offering Free Global Platform for Artists to Sell Art
• Boca Raton Museum Shows Selections from The Isadore And Kelly Friedman Bequest
• The Retrospective "Art Is Arp" is on View at The Arp Museum
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

National Museum of American Illustration Shows Norman Rockwell's America Posted: 26 May 2011 10:14 PM PDT Newport, Rhode Island.- After a record-breaking exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, England's oldest art museum renowned for their Old Master collection, on the occasion of their 200th anniversary, "Norman Rockwell's America" returns to the National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) for Newport's 2011 Summer Season, opening on May 28th and running through September 4th. The exhibition includes over 50 original works by Rockwell and gives viewers the unique opportunity to view his oeuvre alongside his mentors and peers from the Golden Age of American Illustration. Norman Rockwell was America's best-known and most beloved illustrator for over six decades of the 20th century. This exhibition allows viewers to see Rockwell's accomplished technique and craftsmanship while asserting his position as a great American artist/illustrator. He was a storyteller, a chronicler painting scenes that were folksy, often humorous and topical, and always compelling in their messages. These iconic images continue to resonate and find new audiences in the 21st century. Also on display as part of the NMAI's American Imagist Collection are works by Rockwell's mentors, contemporaries, and competitors, including: Steven Dohanos, John Falter, JC Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, NC Wyeth, and many others. Visitors are able to view a particular illustrator/artist's works in the context of his contemporaries, a unique experience that is not available elsewhere on such a scale. Judy Goffman Cutler, curator of the exhibition remarked: "Rockwell's images often served as a mirror of American life, reflecting not who we really were, so much as what we thought and felt – and what we subconsciously endeavored to become." Ms. Cutler is considered the "Doyenne of American Illustration," and a leading Rockwell expert; she is widely recognized for promoting his reputation internationally with her Rockwell exhibitions travelling throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Vernon Court, an adaptation of an early 18th century French chateau, was designed and built in 1898 for Mrs. Richard van Nest Gambrill of Peapack, New Jersey. Occupying one full block on historic Bellevue Avenue, Vernon Court was widely heralded as the most spectacular mansion of its kind in America. Author Barr Ferree wrote in American Estates and Gardens (1904) that Vernon Court was "one of the truly greatest estates in America... it has startling beauty and daring originality giving it high rank among the notable houses of America". It was compared with the White House, the Biltmore, The Breakers, and several other mansions as one of the ten greatest mansions in America. Vernon Court stands today as an incredible architectural monument and clearly remains one of the most significant structures in the nation. The late J. Carter Brown, Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art in Washington remarked in a 1999 letter to our founders, "Vernon Court has to be one of the very most beautiful in Newport, and its state of conservation should be a role model for everyone in the preservation field." The National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI) is a nonprofit independent, educational, and aesthetic organization located in Vernon Court. It is the first national museum devoted exclusively to illustration art, images created to be reproduced in books, periodicals, art prints, and advertisements. The NMAI's American Imagist Collection features paintings by Norman Rockwell, JC Leyendecker, Maxfield Parrish, NC Wyeth, and over 180 others – it is considered a national treasure of art and architecture. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.americanillustration.org

British Painter L. S. Lowry Record Set at Christie's in London Posted: 26 May 2011 10:13 PM PDT London - "The Football Match", painted by Lowry in 1949, had not been seen for nearly 20 years before Thursday's sale of 20th century British art.Several telephone bidders sent the price soaring beyond its high estimate of £4.5m before an unknown buyer secured the sale. The previous record for a Lowry at auction was £3.8m, set in 2007. The world's most popular sport proved its enduring appeal when a rare painting of a football match by L.S. Lowry was sold for £5.6m, including buyer's premium, at Christie's in London – a record for the British artist at auction.

Thomas Kegler's Paintings at the John Pence Gallery Posted: 26 May 2011 09:16 PM PDT San Francisco.- On Friday, June 10th, the John Pence Gallery is opening a show of recent paintings and drawing of Thomas Kegler. Thomas Kegler's solo exhibition will remain on view at the gallery through July 9th. There will be a reception for the artist and his family Friday 10th from six to eight P.M. This will mark a West Coast and national debut for the artist who was awarded a coveted Hudson River Fellowship last year.

The Grand Palais in Paris Presents 'Odilon Redon ~ The Prince of Dreams' Posted: 26 May 2011 09:07 PM PDT Paris.- In exhibition organised by the Grand Palais, the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Fabre, Montpellier, the Grand Palais, Galeries National in Paris Presents Odilon Redon: The Prince of Dreams. The exhibition is on view until 20 June, after which it transfers to the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, from 7 July to 16 October 2011. Although he was a contemporary of the Impressionists (he took part in the group's last exhibition in 1886), Odilon Redon (Bordeaux 1840 – Paris 1916) remains the champion of mystery and the subconscious in a period which focused on reality and objectivity.

Erwin Olaf's Photo Interpretations of Classic Plays at Hasted Kraeutler Gallery Posted: 26 May 2011 08:28 PM PDT New York.- The Hasted Kraeutler Gallery is pleased to present "De La Mar" a new series of photographs by Erwin Olaf based on eight classic plays and starring famous Dutch actors. The project was commissioned by the DeLaMar VandenEnde Foundation for the new De La Mar theater in Amsterdam. Erwin Olaf presents his interpretations of Angels in America, A Streetcar Named Desire, Amadeus, Cyrano, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Sunshine Boys, Waiting for Godot and Three Sisters. "Erwin Olaf: De La Mar" is on view at Hasted Kraeutler's West 24th Street gallery until July 1st.

Kristian von Hornsleth Art Car to be Auctioned by Bonhams Posted: 26 May 2011 08:10 PM PDT London.- A classic Morgan 4x4 sportscar, hand painted by the conceptual Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth, will be auctioned by Bonhams as part of its sale of Collectors' Motor Cars and Automobilia at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed on 1 July 2011. Launched on the Lord Mayor's Parade last year, it is the first in a series of only ten cars that the artist has painted. It has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £40,000 – 60,000.

Vierter Stock Berlin Shows Paintings & Installation by Maryna Baranovka Posted: 26 May 2011 08:09 PM PDT Berlin.- Vierter Stock Berlin is pleased to present "Maryna Baranovka's Room No. 25". In her latest exhibition, the artist, who originates from Kiev, will be showing both paintings and an installation. Each complements the other, forming a unit. "Maryna Baranovka's Room No. 25" will be on view at the Vierter Stock project and exhibition space in Schererstrasse from May 28th through June 18th.

Christie's NY to Offer Over 200 Lots for the Spring Sale of Antiquities Posted: 26 May 2011 07:57 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announces the sale of Antiquities on June 9, which will offer over 200 lots with a magnificent selection of Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Near Eastern works of art. Leading the sale is the de Clercq Pan and Hermaphrodite, a Roman marble group that depicts a struggle between the goat-legged god Pan and Hermaphrodite, who is portrayed with a sensuous female body but with the addition of male genitalia. The group was sculpted during the early Roman Imperial period, circa 1st century A.D., but is based on an original from the mid-2nd century B.C., when illustrations of the struggles between bestial forces and a nymph or Hermaphrodite were immensely popular.

British-Born Surrealist Painter Leonora Carrington Dies at Age 94 in Mexico City Posted: 26 May 2011 07:56 PM PDT Mexico City - Leonora Carrington, the Lancashire-born former debutante who eloped with Max Ernst and became one the greatest – and last surviving – female surrealist artists has died in hospital in Mexico City at the age of 94.Carrington was also part of a famous wave of artistic and political emigres who arrived in Mexico in the 1930s and '40s. In the male-dominated realm of surrealism, she was a member of a rare trio of Mexico-based female surrealists along with Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo. The artist, who had lived in Mexico since the 1940s, was the daughter of a textile magnate and was presented at court in the 1930s. But she became enthralled by surrealism as an art student and befriended many of the great artists of the 20th century, including Ernst, with whom she lived in France, Picasso, Dalí, Duchamp, Miró and Man Ray. She attended the wedding of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. During the second world war, when Ernst was interned by the Vichy regime, Carrington fled to Madrid, where she had a nervous breakdown and was briefly confined to an asylum, before being rescued by a Mexican diplomat, Renato Leduc, whom she married in Lisbon and with whom she moved to Mexico City. She subsequently married the Hungarian photographer Chiki Weisz, with whom she had two sons. In 1943, her work was chosen for an exhibition of significant women artists in New York, by Peggy Guggenheim, Ernst's new partner. Long considered a significant artist in Mexico, her work with its fantastic imaginary birds and animals and its strange hooded figures, was exhibited in London in 1991 and Chichester last year. One of her paintings, The Giantess, was sold at Christie's for $1.5m two years ago. She was awarded an OBE in 2000. Carrington's death was announced by the national council for culture and the arts in Mexico. She had been admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia. She got to know Picasso and Bunuel ("uncouth Spaniards"), Dali, Man Ray, Miro, Breton, Tanguy, Peret, Belmer, Arp and many others. With her wild, dark beauty she looked the perfect submissive "femme enfant", but she rejected the notion of being anyone's muse ("all that means is that you're someone else's object") and was quick to snap if anyone took her for granted. When Joan Miro gave her some money and told her to get him some cigarettes, she told him to "bloody well" get them himself. Dali won her approval by calling her "a most important woman artist", and her work was shown at exhibitions along with the work of Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, Eileen Agar and other women. Carrington was known for her haunting, dreamlike works that often focused on strange ritual-like scenes with birds, cats, unicorn-like creatures and other animals as onlookers or seeming participants. "She was the last great living surrealist," said longtime friend and poet Homero Aridjis. "She was a living legend." Friend and promoter Dr. Isaac Masri said she died Wednesday of old age, after being hospitalized. "She had a great life, and a dignified death, as well, without suffering," he said. Leonora Carrington's great patron was Edward James, who arranged her first solo show at Pierre Matisse's gallery in New York in 1947. By 1960 she was well known in Europe and Mexico, and that year a retrospective of her work was held at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. "She created mythical worlds in which magical beings and animals occupy the main stage, in which cobras merge with goats and blind crows become trees," the National Arts Council wrote, adding, "These were some of the images that sprang from a mind obsessed with portraying a reality that transcends what can be seen." She wrote magazine and newspaper articles, novels, essays and poems and made thousands of paintings, sculptures, collages and tapestries that were exhibited in Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo and many other artistic centers She became a Mexican citizen; she and Leduc divorced, and she married her second husband, the Hungarian-born writer-photographer Emerico "Chiki" Weisz, in 1946. They had two children, one of whom, Pablo, eventually became a painter in his own right. In Mexico, she befriended the poet and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, Frida Kahlo and her husband, the irascible muralist Diego Rivera, the late Spanish movie producer-director Luis Bunuel and many others. Carrington took her two sons and left Mexico in 1968 in protest against the army's Oct. 2 massacre of demonstrating university students, but returned a year later. In 1971, she went to Canada and Scotland to study Buddhism under a Tibetan monk in exile, then came back to Mexico City. She left again for New York after two earthquakes devastated the city in September 1985, and three years later moved to Chicago. She returned to Mexico a couple of years after that. The artist is survived by two sons, Gabriel and Pablo. Her body was taken to a Mexico City funeral home for viewing, and she was buried Thursday at the city's British cemetery.

Experimental & Affordable Works of Art Shown at London Art Fair Posted: 26 May 2011 07:40 PM PDT LONDON.- London Art Fair is the premier UK art fair for Modern British and Contemporary art. Now in its 22nd year, it features over 100 galleries presenting the great names of 20th Century British art and exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent. This year the section featured large scale installation, mixed media and video work, photography, limited edition prints and multiples and contemporary painting. This year London Art Fair also welcomed 176/Zabludowicz Collection Editions.

National Galleries of Scotland Explores the Theme of 'Dance' Posted: 26 May 2011 07:39 PM PDT EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland opens 'Dance', a vibrant exhibition which explores this fascinating theme through some of the most famous artworks in the national collection. Dance contrasts fourteen works of art of the very highest quality made in different periods, styles and media selected from both the National Gallery of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, as well as the ARTIST ROOMS collection jointly owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. This refreshingly different approach allows the visitor to discover the richness of a subject which has inspired artists since ancient times. On exhibition through 6 June, 2010.

Rockwell Kent ~ 'This Is My Own' ~ at The New York State Museum Posted: 26 May 2011 07:38 PM PDT   Plattsburgh, NY - Artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) once said that "art is no more than the shadow cast by a man's own stature." This exhibition of materials from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh chronicles the life of a great New Yorker and his work, which was born out of both remarkable personal experience and a deep sense of moral and political principle. On view through 5 July, 2009.

Edouard Manet's The Boy with Cherries Visits Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts Posted: 26 May 2011 07:37 PM PDT BILBAO,SPAIN - The Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts presented its 27th guest work, the piece is titled "Boy with Cherries" by Edouard Manet (París, 1832-1883). This is a simply composed portrait, but of great quality and shows the artist's expression. Manet was a fundamental figure in the transition between Realism and Impressionism. Manet knew how to introduce new themes and techniques which confronted him with academic art. The Guest Work is an original Bilbao Fine Arts Museum initiative designed to display remarkable works from other museums or collections to enhance their understanding of artists whose works are in the Museum collection or simply to introduce our public to artists not represented at the museum.

Pera Museum Welcomes Colombian Artist Fernando Botero to Istanbul Posted: 26 May 2011 07:36 PM PDT ISTANBUL.- Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum welcomed one of the most exceptional artists of the 21st century, Fernando Botero in İstanbul for the very first time with an exhibition comprising a selection of 64 works. Botero's art is not exclusively a narration or a representation, but brings with it the force of an inner vision, of his knocking on life's door. Protecting his Latin and Colombian identity, Botero has succeeded forming his own style nourished not only by folkloric elements but also by the works of grand masters, and has poured his rich inner world into his works with a sophisticated, humorous and wise approach. From acrobats to matadors, dancing people to naked lovers, cardinals to sad clowns and to musicians, the exhibition invites us to discover Botero's lyricism and his enchanting world.

The Akron Art Museum displays Edward Weston ~ Life Work Posted: 26 May 2011 07:35 PM PDT   AKRON, OHIO - Edward Weston: Life Work, on view at the Akron Art Museum January 31 – April 26, 2009, surveys the five-decade career of this American master through an outstanding grouping of over 100 vintage photographs. Astonishingly, all the works are from the collection of one couple, New York photography collectors Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. Weston, who was one of the greatest photographic printers of the 20th century, often reserved his choicest prints for family and close friends. Mattis and Hochberg managed to acquire many works – in fact, most of the prints in this exhibition – directly from members of the Weston family.

Cézanne Masterpieces Return to Palazzo Strozzi Posted: 26 May 2011 07:34 PM PDT Florence, Italy - Some of Cézanne's most important works return to Florence. About a century ago, they were an integral part of the collections found in the Florentine homes of two young collectors, Egisto Paolo Fabbri and Charles Loeser. The exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi is a unique occasion to admire side by side dozens of Cézanne's masterpieces, usually found scattered to the four corners of the earth.

Saatchi Gallery Launches Ad Campaign Offering Free Global Platform for Artists to Sell Art Posted: 26 May 2011 07:33 PM PDT LONDON, ENGLAND - The Saatchi Gallery and Clear Channel Outdoor are launching a national outdoor poster campaign across the UK to help artists and people interested in buying art during the financial recession. Saatchi Online provides a free global platform for artists to show their work to an international audience and to sell it to collectors without the usual 50% commission taken by galleries. "Only the top 1,000 artists who sell at leading auctions and exhibit with leading dealers have much visibility. We hope this initiative will make the next decade easier for the great majority of world's artists," said Charles Saatchi.

Boca Raton Museum Shows Selections from The Isadore And Kelly Friedman Bequest Posted: 26 May 2011 07:32 PM PDT Boca Raton, FL -  The Boca Raton Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of its Spring Exhibitions Ernest Trova Retrospective and Selections from the Isadore and Kelly Friedman Bequest on April 11, 2007. The exhibitions will be on display through June 3, 2007. More than 90 works from the Isadore and Kelly Friedman Bequest are presented in this exhibition. Never before seen together, the most treasured paintings and photographs from the Friedman Collection - including works by such 20th-century masters as Edward Hopper, Fernand Léger and Jean Dubuffet - will be seen side-by-side with works by Reginald Marsh, Larry Rivers and Roy Lichtenstein which held pride of place in the Friedmans' collection.

The Retrospective "Art Is Arp" is on View at The Arp Museum Posted: 26 May 2011 07:31 PM PDT Remagen, Germany - Marcel Duchamp's proclamation "For Arp, art is Arp" serves as the title for one of the most comprehensive retrospectives on Hans Jean Arp ever undertaken. The Arp Museum Bahnof Rolandseck is showing the exhibition "Art is Arp" with over 100 drawings, collages, sculptures, and reliefs as well as 80 texts, photographs, and documents through June 14, 2009. The show, which impressively highlights the most important development processes of Arp's world of forms and thoughts, has been organized in cooperation with the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain in Strasbourg and presents extraordinary loans from international museums, institutions, and private collections, among these being the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 26 May 2011 07:31 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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