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• Albrecht Dürer's Fame Examined at the National Gallery of Scotland
• Bonhams Offers Two Hidden Self Portraits by L.S. Lowry and Alfred Munnings
• Retrospective of the Most Controversial Paparazzo of the 20th Century Opens in PHotoEspaña
• The Cantor Arts Center Presents Book Arts from the Stanford Library Collection
• The Weatherspooon Art Museum Shows Edo Period Japanese Actor Prints
• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Under Construction Agrees To Independent Monitors
• The Arlington Museum of Art Shows Works By Husband and Wife Lee & Carol Bowman
• United Kingdom's Royal Academy of Arts Gives Artist Ai Weiwei Honorary Title
• François Pinault Presents a New Exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in Venice
• The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art Shows Nebraska's Artist ~ Dale Nichols
• Springfield Museum of Fine Arts to Exhibit Japanese Prints
• Gagosian Gallery Presents Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'amour fou In NYC
• The Bass Museum shows 'The Sacred and Sublime: Renaissance & Baroque'
• Baltimore Museum of Art debuts Comprehensive Survey of Austrian Artist Franz West
• Fifty Million Years of the Evolution of the Horse
• Josh Faught "While the Light Lasts" at Lisa Cooley, NY
• David Prentice 'London Cityscapes' at the John Davies Gallery, UK
• Museo del Prado presents "The Company of Captain Reijnier Reael"
• National Portrait Gallery Announces Exhibition Devoted to Camille Silvy
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Albrecht Dürer's Fame Examined at the National Gallery of Scotland Posted: 02 Jun 2011 11:52 PM PDT Edinburgh.- This summer the National Gallery of Scotland will present a unique display that will examine the work of the 16th century German artist Albrecht Dürer and his enduring influence, spanning five centuries. "Dürer's Fame" will showcase a selection of his magnificent prints from the Galleries' collection, together with contemporary and later copies of his work. These objects will be augmented by a selection of illicit imitations and surprising tributes, including a 21st century tattoo. "Dürer's Fame" can be seen from 9th June through 11th October. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was the most  important artist of the Northern Renaissance and is one of the most celebrated artists of all time. He excelled as a painter and draughtsman, but it was his skill as a printmaker that spread his fame across Europe. The printmaking process allowed for multiple copies of his work to be produced which could easily be sold and distributed.  This accessibility, combined with his technical brilliance and highly individual style, made him a much admired and imitated artist. The display will include many of Dürer's famous prints, most of which have not been shown in Edinburgh since 1971, like his iconic "Melancholy", "Saint Jerome in his Study" and "Knight, Death and the Devil". To demonstrate the extent of his impact, 'Dürer's Fame' will also display famous examples by Italian and Netherlandish artists alongside the original works. This will include Marcantonio Raimondi's "The Circumcision of Christ (from The Life of the Virgin)" and Johan Wierix's "Melencolia" of 1602. In addition this exhibition will include works by the Scottish artists John Runciman (1744-1768/69) and William Bell Scott (1811-1890), whose response to Dürer's art is less well known. , was inspired by Dürer's woodcut of the same subject. Whilst Scott's painting, of 1854, imagines Dürer seeking inspiration on the balcony of his house in Nuremberg, highlighting his romanticized reputation in the 19th century. The display will conclude by considering Dürer's continuing relevance in the 21st century.  An example of work from an installation which filled a Nuremberg square with 7,000 plastic hares in 2003, and a poster of German handball star Pascal Hens sporting a tattoo based on Dürer's "Study of Praying Hands" will demonstrate the artist's enduring influence today. The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. The building, which was designed by William Henry Playfair, first opened to the public in 1859. The National Gallery shares the Mound with the Royal Scottish Academy Building. In 1912 both were remodelled by William Thomas Oldrieve. When it re-opened, the gallery concentrated on building its permanent collection of Scottish and European art for the nation. The research facilities at the National Gallery include the Prints and Drawings Collection of over 30,000 works on paper, from the early Renaissance to the late nineteenth century; and the reference-only Research Library, which is open to the general public. The Research Library covers the period from 1300 to 1900 and holds approximately 50,000 volumes of books, journals, slides, and microfiches, as well as some archival material relating to the collections, exhibitions and history of the National Gallery. The Weston Link, an underground interconnection between the two buildings and the final phase of the Playfair Project, opened August 2004. This contains a lecture theatre, education area, shop, restaurant and an interactive, touch-screen IT Gallery showing the collections of the National Galleries. Between the two buildings is a modern square, affording views of Edinburgh Castle and Princes Street. Together, the National Galleries of Scotland (which include The National Gallery of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and The Dean Gallery) look after one of the world's finest collections of Western art ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day. At the heart of the National Gallery's collection is a group of paintings transferred from the Royal Scottish Academy Building. This includes masterpieces by Jacopo Bassano, Van Dyck and Giambattista Tiepolo.  The holdings also include the National Collection of Scottish art. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.nationalgalleries.org

Bonhams Offers Two Hidden Self Portraits by L.S. Lowry and Alfred Munnings Posted: 02 Jun 2011 10:42 PM PDT LONDON.- On the 29th June, Bonhams will include two paintings that include self portraits by L.S Lowry and Alfred Munnings in the 20th Century British Art sale in New Bond Street. "Group of People with the Artist" is estimated to sell for £100,000 -150,000 and was executed in the same year as L.S. Lowry staged his seventh one-man show in London. By this time (1961) Lowry's artistic reputation was already formidable with many of his regular collectors attempting to buy his works prior to the official opening. He had begun to move away from his ambitious and complex industrial landscapes and focus more on people.

Retrospective of the Most Controversial Paparazzo of the 20th Century Opens in PHotoEspaña Posted: 02 Jun 2011 10:23 PM PDT MADRID.- PHotoEspaña and Loewe organize Paparazzo Extraordinaire!, a retrospective exhibition with over 100 photographs of the paparazzo most famous and controversial of the twentieth century. Ron Galella did not invent the word paparazzo, but he did personalize it, redefining the relationship between the film star and photographer. For over 30 years, he photographed public figures in private moments, which led to his being sued by Jackie Kennedy and threatened by Marlon Brando.

The Cantor Arts Center Presents Book Arts from the Stanford Library Collection Posted: 02 Jun 2011 10:22 PM PDT Stanford, CA.-  The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents "The Art of the Book in California: Five Contemporary Presses" from June 1st through August 28th. The exhibition features the "new book," as defined by contemporary art practices, successful experiments with media, and innovative structures in book production. The exhibition presents works by Foolscap Press (Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence G. Van Velzer) of Santa Cruz; Moving Parts Press (Felicia Rice) of Santa Cruz; Ninja Press (Carolee Campbell) of Sherman Oaks; Peter Koch Printers (Peter Rutledge Koch) of Berkeley; and Turkey Press (Harry and Sandra Reese) of Isla Vista.  Each press is unique, and each produces books and related art with a rich variety of content and media, often in collaboration with other artists and writers and often incorporating their own writing and art practices.

The Weatherspooon Art Museum Shows Edo Period Japanese Actor Prints Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:43 PM PDT Greensboro, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is pleased to present the exhibition "Encore! Japanese Actor Prints from the Permanent Collection". The show examines the subject of Kabuki and Noh actor prints from the Edo period (1603-1868) and will be on view through August 7th. Artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries tapped into the enthusiasm for Kabuki and Noh theater with a wide range of imagery that catered to the experiences and desires of its fans. Dramatic compositions and colorful designs effectively captured and transmitted the theatrical experience long after the performance ended.

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Under Construction Agrees To Independent Monitors Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:09 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The leadership of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation supports the appointment by the Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as an independent monitor, which is an essential component of safeguarding workers' rights and ensuring that the contractors and sub-contractors working on the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi construction site comply with UAE labor laws and TDIC's Employment Practices Policy.

The Arlington Museum of Art Shows Works By Husband and Wife Lee & Carol Bowman Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:08 PM PDT Arlington, TX.- The Arlington Museum of Art is pleased to present "Bowman & Bowman: Experiments in Visual Metaphors" in the mezzanine galleries until July 31st. Partners in life and in art, Lee and Carol Bowman present a variegated show of 50 experimental paintings that include watercolor, collage and mixed media. Rich in color and innovative style, their paintings have a spontaneity and freshness that evoke thoughtful and sometimes humorous metaphorical meaning. Much of their art employs a poured paint technique that incorporates solarization and application of a variety of media and collage.

United Kingdom's Royal Academy of Arts Gives Artist Ai Weiwei Honorary Title Posted: 02 Jun 2011 08:30 PM PDT LONDON - Britain's Royal Academy has made detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei an honorary member alongside Danish painter Per Kirkeby, the prestigious London art institution said on Wednesday. The title of Honorary Academician goes to artists not living in Britain, and they do not take part in the governance of the Royal Academy. The 80 full Academicians, who are all practicing artists, vote in up to two new honorary members each year.

François Pinault Presents a New Exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in Venice Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:57 PM PDT VENICE.- The exhibitions In Praise of Doubt at Punta della Dogana, and The World belongs to You at Palazzo Grassi mark the 5 year anniversary of the opening of Palazzo Grassi by François Pinault and the Mayor of Venice in April 2006. It also marks the beginning of a new phase of programming for François Pinault Foundation's Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.

The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art Shows Nebraska's Artist ~ Dale Nichols Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:56 PM PDT David City, NE.- "Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism" a major retrospective exhibition will be available to a national audience over the next fourteen months at museums in Nebraska, Georgia, and Alabama. Curated by the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, Nebraska, this exhibition displays a body of work by internationally known painter Dale Nichols. Nichols became famous for his Americana scenes of Midwestern homesteads with picturesque red barns and white snow. These have become the prized works on which Nichols built his career and from which contemporary collectors have built their collections.  However, there is much more to the story of Dale Nichols. "Transcending Regionalism" gives credit to these commemorative artworks and events and describes how these early works explain Nichols' exploration of style. The exhibition can be seen at the Bone Creek museum of Agrarian Art until November 18th. Paintings dating from 1935 to 1972 establish Nichols not only as the fourth regionalist in a line of great artists, such as Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, but one who transcended the confines of the genre to achieve universal success in art.  This exhibition represents Nichols' years on the farm in Nebraska and manifests those memories in a variety of styles and places. Nichols held firm to his Midwestern roots while he traveled the world in search of adventure and truth. After the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, "Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism" will travel to the Georgia Art Museum (December 17th to February 27, 2012) and then the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (March 17- June 17, 2012). Dale Nichols (1904–1995), also published under his full name, Dale William Nichols, was an American visual artist whose works included illustrations, paintings, lithographs, and wood carvings. He is best known for his work as a rural landscape painter. Nichols' work is often classified with that of other regional American landscape artists, including Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. Nichols was born on July 13, 1904 in the small town of David City, Nebraska, and began his career as an artist while studying at The Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, IL. He spent the greater part of the 1920s and 1930s in Chicago, later becoming the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. Nichols would then take a position in 1943 as the Art Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Upon leaving his post at Britannica, Nichols spent the remainder of his life traveling, splitting the majority of his time between Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska, and Guatemala. He died in Sedona, Arizona on October 19, 1995, at age 91. In September 1939, Nichols' was featured in Time Magazine. Said one Time reviewer in that issue, "Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes." More recently, his art was published on postcards sold by the United States Postal Service in 1995. Three of Nichols' paintings are now listed in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Museum of Nebraska Art features four of his large oil paintings, along with four lithographs, and four sketches. Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art is the only museum in North America devoted exclusively to Agrarian Art.  The museum is located in David City, Nebraska, boyhood home of Dale Nichols, one of America's foremost agrarian artists.  Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art is a non-profit organization supported by charitable gifts. The museum sponsors art education programs including lectures and workshops by renowned agrarian artists exhibiting at the museum.  The museum features nationally known artists and also holds exhibits Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art has a short history but is building an impressive track record. In 2007, Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art began as a group of art enthusiasts who were looking for a way to expand art exposure in the Butler County community. The museum is located in David City, Nebraska, the boyhood home of nationally known artist, Dale Nichols. Four paintings by Nichols were commissioned for the city bank over three decades ago and this arts group had the opportunity to acquire and preserve them. The acquisition of these artworks by Dale Nichols inspired the inception of an art museum; a place for these artworks to be preserved and displayed and vitally provide a place for viewing and appreciation of art in the community. The museum has been built through the creative and insightful vision of the members of the current Board of Directors. A great need was identified to raise awareness of ever changing agricultural landscape through the rarely recognized agrarian artists, who have preserved a heritage rooted in the land. The museum has continued to grow and present high quality artworks with a strong educational impact about this subject. Visit the museum's website at ... www.bonecreek.org

Springfield Museum of Fine Arts to Exhibit Japanese Prints Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:41 PM PDT SPRINGFIELD - Japanese Woodblock prints inspired by animals both real and imagined will be on view at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts from March 4-September 7, 2008, in the exhibition Curious Creatures: Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection.  Woodblock prints were made by printing an image carved into the surface of a wooden block onto a sheet of paper. It was common to use several carved wood blocks, one for each color, to achieve the final image.

Gagosian Gallery Presents Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'amour fou In NYC Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:40 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Following the critical and popular success of Picasso: Mosqueteros in New York in 2009 and Picasso: The Mediterranean Years in London in 2010, Gagosian Gallery presents the next chapter in an ongoing exploration of Picasso's principal themes. Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L'amour fou brings together the paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints inspired by one of Picasso's most ideal models and enduring passions. The exhibition is curated by the eminent Picasso biographer, John Richardson, together with Marie-Thérèse's granddaughter, art historian Diana Widmaier Picasso, who is currently preparing a catalogue raisonné of Picasso's sculptures. The exhibition is on view from April 14 through June 25, 2011.

The Bass Museum shows 'The Sacred and Sublime: Renaissance & Baroque' Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:39 PM PDT   MIAMI BEACH, FL –The Bass Museum is known for important examples of Northern European Renaissance and Baroque art.  Works on view in this ongoing exhibition span two centuries and include religious paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Gerard Seghers (1591-1651), Marcellus Koffermans (active 1549-1579) and Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562-1638).  Secular yet sublime works include the museum's 16th century tapestry masterpiece The Salute before the Tournament and the major Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680) painting of Venus and Adonis.

Baltimore Museum of Art debuts Comprehensive Survey of Austrian Artist Franz West Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:38 PM PDT   BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art has organized the first comprehensive survey in the United States of Franz West, an internationally acclaimed Austrian artist whose singular vision has resulted in one of the most remarkable bodies of work produced since the 1960s. On view at the BMA October 12, 2008 – January 4, 2009, Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972-2008 includes 117 objects that reflect West's extraordinary innovations in sculpture, design, and on paper—ranging from early interactive works from the 1970s to two enormous brightly colored objects created for this exhibition.

Fifty Million Years of the Evolution of the Horse Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:37 PM PDT New York City - The American Museum of Natural History today announced a major new exhibition, The Horse, opening May 17, 2008 and remaining on view through January 4, 2009. The Horse will examine the powerful and continuing relationship between horses and humans and explore the origins of the horse family, extending back more than 50 million years.

Josh Faught "While the Light Lasts" at Lisa Cooley, NY Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:36 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Lisa Cooley presents work by Josh Faught in his first solo exhibition with the gallery, "While the Light Lasts". The exhibition opens on Friday, January 8th and runs until February 14, 2010. A reception for the artist will be held on January 8th, from 6 until 8 pm. The sculptures presented in "While the Light Lasts", a title borrowed from a 1924 Agatha Christie story, combine fibers, collage, sculpture, and painting. They depict a vibrant, interior, subjective life in conflict with banal, quotidian drudgery.

David Prentice 'London Cityscapes' at the John Davies Gallery, UK Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:35 PM PDT Moreton-in-Marsh, UK - David Prentice: City Paintings is the title of a small exhibition of magnificent large canvases depicting the City of London as viewed from the top of King's Reach Tower. The show runs from April 19th – May 10th at John Davies' new 3,000 sq. ft. gallery located in Moreton-in-Marsh, the Cotswolds. Landmarks in the paintings include The London Eye, Swiss Re Tower (The Gurkin), St Paul's, and Tower Bridge, to name a few.

Museo del Prado presents "The Company of Captain Reijnier Reael" Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:34 PM PDT MADRID.- "Just to see that painting would make the journey to Amsterdam worthwhile," wrote Vincent van Gogh in 1885, after having seen this work in the Rijksmuseum. He particularly liked the "orange banner in the left corner", he had "seldom seen a more divinely beautiful figure". The painting that caused such a sensation was the group portrait of the crossbowmen's militia under Captain Reijnier Reael, painted by Frans Hals and Pieter Codde in 1633 - 1637. From Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. On loan from the city of Amsterdam.

National Portrait Gallery Announces Exhibition Devoted to Camille Silvy Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:33 PM PDT LONDON.- The first retrospective exhibition of work by Camille Silvy, one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century, will open at the National Portrait Gallery this summer. Marking the centenary of Silvy's death, "Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 - 1910", will include over a hundred objects, many of which have not been exhibited since 1860. The portraits on display offer a unique glimpse into nineteenth-century Paris and Victorian London through the eyes of one of photography's greatest innovators. This exhibition is being organised by the Jeu de Paume, Paris, in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London. On display 15 July through 24 October, 2010.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 02 Jun 2011 07:33 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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