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• Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Jacket Up for Auction at Julien's Auctions
• Pablo Picasso's Original Vollard Prints on View at LewAllen Modern
• Jakub Julian Ziolkowski Solos at The Parasol unit Foundation
• Famous Chilean Painter Claudio Bravo Has Died at Age 74
• Christie's Sets Ilya Repin Record at the Russian Art Week Sales in London
• The Great Plains Art Museum Displays Prairie Portraits by Richard Schilling
• Katonah Museum of Art Exhibits Joseph Wheelwright's Tree Figures
• The Kunsthal Rotterdam Shows a Selection of Philip Akkerman's Unique Self-Portraits
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston to feature Scenes of Italy by Maurice B. Prendergast
• 'Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting' exhibition at The Royal Collection
• 'The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918' On View at the Mississippi Museum of Art
• Victoria & Albert Museum opens Art Objects from the Horace Walpole Collection
• Michael Hoppen Gallery Announces Exhibition by Fernand Fonssagrives
• The Tate Britain Re-stages William Blake's 1809 One-Man Exhibition
• MoMA New York Presents Impressions From South Africa ~ 100 Works By 30 Artists
• Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Presents A Retrospective Devoted to Jean-Léon Gérome
• Willie Cole and Hank Willis Thomas Explore Amistad Center's Extensive Collection of Art
• The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center opens Space Exploration Exhibit
• Photographer Lee Friedlander's New Book ~ "America by Car"
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Jacket Up for Auction at Julien's Auctions Posted: 06 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT Beverly Hills, CA -- Seems as though there's no shortage of historic Michael Jacksonmemorabilia to be sold on the auction block.  The late King of Pop's iconic red and black "Thriller" jacket, which he wears throughout that song's video, will be offered to the public during a two-day sale at Julien's Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills June 25 and 26. The jacket, which is autographed by MJ on the sleeve, is expected to fetch between $200,000 and $400,000 dollars at the sale.  A portion of the proceeds will go to the Shambala Preserve, where Michael's two Bengal tigers, Thriller and Sabu, have lived since he left Neverland Ranch in 2006. The jacket isn't the only MJ item offered for sale in this auction. One of his stage-worn fedoras is expected to bring two to four thousand bucks, while a wig he wore during the press conference where he announced his This Is It series of concerts, which never took place, is estimated to bring four to six thousand bucks.  An original signed sketch is estimated at two to three thousand dollars, and a glove Michael wore at the American Music Awards could bring from 20 to 30 thousand dollars. It's not just Michael Jackson memorabilia being offered at the sale, either. Among the 600 other items up for grabs are a denim jacket that Bruce Springsteen wore on the cover of Rolling Stonein 1984, U2's MTV Video Music Award for "With or Without You," sheet music from Madonna, a signed harmonica from Steven Tyler, and autographed items from Justin Bieberand Lady Gaga. Rare Andy Warholcollection of 10 postcard sized litho prints of Mick Jaggerwill be featured at the sale. The Music Icons sale also includes one of Eric Clapton's guitars, Frank Sinatra'spatent leather boots and his 1986 Jaguar, handwritten lyrics and a leather jacket from Johnny Cash, jackets and a guitar from Elvis Presley, a signed harmonica from Bob Dylan and nearly 600 other pieces of music memorabilia from Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, The Beatlesand others. The collection will be on view free to the public from June 13 to 25 at Julien's Auctions Galleryin Beverly Hills. Visit www.JuliensAuctions.com for more details.

Pablo Picasso's Original Vollard Prints on View at LewAllen Modern Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:35 PM PDT Santa Fe, NM.— The LewAllen Modern gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, "Pablo Picasso: Selections from La Suite Vollard", on view at the gallery's Railyard venue from June 10th through July 24th. This rigorously curated presentation of twenty-three original etchings and aquatints by one of Modernism's greatest agitators draws predominantly from the celebrated La Suite Vollard — a salient element of Picasso's (1881-1973) artistic achievement that is now recognized as one of the finest groups of prints produced in the 20th century.

Jakub Julian Ziolkowski Solos at The Parasol unit Foundation Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:42 PM PDT London - On June 8, Parasol unit foundation will preview a solo exhibition dedicated to the Polish artist Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. Ziolkowski's paintings are a wild hallucinatory journey into his strange and often frightening universe. Skeletons battle soldiers in murky swamps; towers of eyeballs goggle cartoonishly; flesh peels wetly off bare bones. Ziolkowski has an unflinching attitude to the corporeal: the body takes centre stage, at once defiled and dissected. On public view 9 June through 29 July.

Famous Chilean Painter Claudio Bravo Has Died at Age 74 Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:08 PM PDT TAROUDANT, MOROCCO.- He had the gift of perceiving reality and translate it onto the canvas, with its lights and shadows, to the extent that many called him "the master of light". Considered the most prestigious Chilean painter alive, Claudio Bravo moved to Southern Morocco 39 years ago, where he died Saturday night at age 74. Early reports indicated that his death had been caused by an attack of epilepsy, an illness that had been recently detected. But his friend and gallerist, Ana Maria Stagno, who manages the exhibition of his work in Chile, said Bravo suffered two heart attacks that caused his death.

Christie's Sets Ilya Repin Record at the Russian Art Week Sales in London Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:41 PM PDT LONDON - Christie's claimed a new auction record for Russian artist Ilya Repin on Monday when his 1875 canvas "A Parisian Cafe" fetched 4.5 million pounds ($7.4 million USD) at the start of Russian art week in London. The large-scale canvas, depicting a bustling cafe crowded with well-heeled customers, had been expected to fetch 3-5 million pounds and fetched one of the highest prices of any painting at a specialist Russian sale.

The Great Plains Art Museum Displays Prairie Portraits by Richard Schilling Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:28 PM PDT Lincoln, NE.- The Great Plains Art Museum proudly hosts "Portraits of the Prairie: The Land That Inspired Willa Cather" from June 3rd through September 15th. The exhibition features watercolor paintings and inks sketches by Richard Schilling, from his book of the same title published by University of Nebraska Press this Spring.

Katonah Museum of Art Exhibits Joseph Wheelwright's Tree Figures Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:27 PM PDT KATONAH, NY.- Nothing says summer like a leisurely afternoon in the garden. The Katonah Museum of Art's provides the perfect outdoor spot to eat lunch or escape for some peaceful moments beneath the magnificent 100-year-old Norway Spruce trees that stand sentry over the Sculpture Garden. On June 5, things got even more interesting as five of Joseph Wheelwright's giant anthropomorphic "Tree Figures" were introduced into the Garden and the South Lawn. The Sculpture Garden is open during regular Museum hours, Tuesday – Saturday, from 10am-5pm, and Sundays from 12-5pm. The Katonah Museum of Art is located at 134 Jay Street/Route 22 in Katonah.

The Kunsthal Rotterdam Shows a Selection of Philip Akkerman's Unique Self-Portraits Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:26 PM PDT Roterdam, NL.- The Kunsthal Rotterdam proudly presents "Akkermania", an exhibition illustrating the infinite variety to be found in the work of Dutch painter Philip Akkerman. In 1981, Akkerman decided to paint self-portraits, and over the last thirty years he has built up an oeuvre of almost three thousand paintings, no two of which are alike. With over four hundred pieces, this exhibition illustrates the incredible diversity of his work. The Kunsthal invited eleven different collectors to present their entire 'Akkerman Collections' in Akkermania. For the first time ever, visitors will be able to see Akkerman's intriguing oeuvre through the eyes of these collectors. "Akkermania" is on view until 26th June. As well as choosing to paint only self-portraits, Philip Akkerman has set himself an increasing number of constraints over the years. He only uses three formats for his portraits (27 x 25 cm, 40 x 34 cm and 50 x 43 cm), and after several unencumbered years, decided in 1985 to paint exclusively in oils and tempera on prepared panels using the techniques of the Old Masters. These fixed rules provide the artist with an interesting field of play; once the lines have been drawn, play can begin, because countless questions still remain. In 2007, Akkerman wrote the following to one of the collectors: "...The depiction of the skin, the importance of style, the origin and the conclusion of painting, are there any rules, how serious must or may a painting be, the importance of true likeness, of technique, chaos, uncertainty and doubt ... and much, much more, but most importantly who or what am I?" Many major collections, both in the Netherlands and further afield, include work by Philip Akkerman. The eleven collectors were asked to lend the Kunsthal every one of their Akkerman pieces, and every complete collection tells it own story. One collector buys a single painting every year while another purchases a chronological series in one go. With over 250 paintings, the Caldic Collection comprises the largest number of Akkerman self portraits and supplements their collection with a new painting every year. Other collectors such as Hauser & Wirth choose to purchase a single powerful series of portraits, whilst J. Zondt consistently opts for paintings that are 'strange' and divergent. "Akkermania" illustrates the infinite variety in the work of Philip Akkerman as seen through eleven pairs of eyes. The Kunsthal Rotterdam stages some 25 exhibitions a year. The Kunsthal presents culture in the widest sense of the word: old art, new art, design, photography - from elitist to popular. The Kunsthal frequently experiments with themes which in many cases provide the first impulse for an exhibition. This approach has resulted in an exciting and varied exhibition repertoire highlighting Impressionism, lingerie, Leonardo da Vinci, Blackfoot Indians, Jewels of the Orient, Pop-art. More than 3300 square metres of exhibition space are available in the striking building designed by Rotterdam architect Rem Koolhaas - a work of art in its own right, making a visit to the Kunsthal well worth your while. Visit the kunsthal's website at ... http://www.kunsthal.nl

Museum of Fine Arts Houston to feature Scenes of Italy by Maurice B. Prendergast Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:21 PM PDT HOUSTON.- Prendergast in Italy, the first exhibition devoted entirely to the watercolors, monotypes, and oil paintings by the American modern artist Maurice Prendergast, will open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on February 14, 2010. Featuring more than 60 views of Venice, Rome, Siena, and Capri, Prendergast in Italy also includes the artist´s personal sketchbooks, letters, photographs, and guidebooks from his two trips to Italy, in 1898 and 1911. Prendergast was born and raised in Boston but developed his mature style during early trips abroad to France (1891-1895) and Italy (1989-1989). Renowned for his paintings full of joie de vivre, the view of Italy that Prendergast presents was informed by European trends filtered through the eyes of an American artist and tourist encountering Venice for the first time. This exhibition demonstrates the advances of abstract color and form that put Prendergast on the cutting edge of American modernism.

'Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting' exhibition at The Royal Collection Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:20 PM PDT   LONDON - This first exhibition ever mounted of Flemish paintings in the Royal Collection brings together 51 works from the 15th to 17th centuries, including masterpieces by Hans Memling, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan Brueghel, Van Dyck and Rubens. By the 1550s the Netherlands enjoyed a level of wealth that remained unmatched in the West for centuries. The Eighty Years War with Spain, from 1568 to 1648, all but destroyed the region's infrastructure and creative industries. The paintings in the exhibition were produced in the Southern (Spanishruled) Netherlands during this period of extraordinary turbulence and its immediate aftermath, when peace was finally restored to the region.

'The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918' On View at the Mississippi Museum of Art Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:19 PM PDT Jackson, MS.- 'The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918', will be on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art through July 17, 2011. Visitors to this eleventh exhibition in 'The Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series' will learn about the cultural phenomenon known as Japonisme, through the presentation of more than 200 works of art from the 19th and early 20th centuries. First identified by French art critic Philippe Burty in 1872, Japonisme became a worldwide movement that deeply impacted the visual arts. The resulting influence of these pieces on the visual and decorative arts as well as architecture, music, theater, literature, graphic design, and even fashion was overwhelming and continues to this day. According to Mississippi Museum of Art Director Betsy Bradley, "The Museum has secured works from some of the most prestigious collections in France, Belgium, and throughout the United States. With the high caliber of' The Orient Expressed', we expect to host more visitors than any other exhibition the Museum has had previously."

Victoria & Albert Museum opens Art Objects from the Horace Walpole Collection Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:18 PM PDT LONDON.- A new V&A exhibition will examine Horace Walpole's extraordinary collection and evoke the magnificent interiors of his house Strawberry Hill, Britain's finest example of Georgian Gothic Revival architecture. Following extensive restoration by the Strawberry Hill Trust the house is set to reopen in 2010. The exhibition will bring together more than 250 works owned by Walpole and not seen together since 1842, when they were auctioned by his heir. It will show the breadth and significance of his collections ranging from paintings by Joshua Reynolds and Van Dyck to his unrivalled collection of portrait miniatures, from a pair of gloves that Walpole believed belonged to King James I to an Aztec mirror used by the Elizabethan magician and astrologer Dr Dee. On view through 4 July, 2010.

Michael Hoppen Gallery Announces Exhibition by Fernand Fonssagrives Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:17 PM PDT LONDON.- The Michael Hoppen gallery announced an exhibition of work by one of America's foremost fashion photographers Fernand Fonssagrives. Once the highest paid photographers in the world, he was ambivalent about the acclaim he received in his chosen field, preferring to remain anonymous. Little was written about him, even at the peak of his success. He was linked to the early 'Design Laboratory' classes of Alexey Brodovitch, and was a key member of the close knit group of photographers now celebrated as 'The New York School'. On view 14 January through 23 February, 2010.

The Tate Britain Re-stages William Blake's 1809 One-Man Exhibition Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:16 PM PDT LONDON - The Tate Britain unveiled the first display devoted to William Blake's only one-man exhibition, reuniting nine of the surviving works two hundred years after they went on display in May 1809. The original exhibition was Blake's most significant attempt to create a public reputation for himself as a painter and provided a vital insight into the artist's self-image and ambitions. A new edition of Blake's Descriptive Catalogue (1809) was published by Tate Publishing to coincide with the display.

MoMA New York Presents Impressions From South Africa ~ 100 Works By 30 Artists Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:15 PM PDT New York (BWW News Desk).- The exhibition Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, drawn entirely from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, brings together nearly 100 prints, posters, books, and wall stencils by approximately 30 artists and collectives from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that demonstrate the unusual reach, range, and impact of printmaking in South Africa during and after a period of political upheaval. From the earliest print, a 1965 linoleum cut by Azaria Mbatha, to screenprinted posters created during the height of the antiapartheid movement, to recent works by a younger generation that investigate a multiplicity of formats in the wake of apartheid, these works are striking examples of printed art as a tool for social, political, and personal expression. The exhibition is on view from March 23 to August 14, 2011. Among the artists included are Bitterkomix, Kudzanai Chiurai, Sandile Goje, William Kentridge, Senzeni Marasela, John Muafangejo, Cameron Platter, Claudette Schreuders, and Sue Williamson, with the majority of works and artists on view for the first time at MoMA and many for the first time within a U.S. museum. The exhibition Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now is organized by Judith B. Hecker, Assistant Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, at The Museum of Modern Art.

Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Presents A Retrospective Devoted to Jean-Léon Gérome Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:14 PM PDT Madrid, Spain -  A major retrospective of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) opened on 15th February 2011 at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, and can be seen until 22nd May 2011. Jean-Léon Gérôme was one of the most famous and commercially successful French painters of his day. In the course of his long career, he was the subject of bitter controversy and criticism, in particular for defending the genre conventions of the waning academic style painting, under attack by realists and impressionists. However, Gérôme not was so much an heir to the academic tradition as the creator of totally new pictorial worlds, based on iconographic subjects. Historical painting, painting stories, painting everything ~ that was Gérôme's great passion. He intrigued the public with historical values and constant interplay of genres, blended in an aesthetic of collage and rearrangement. His skill in creating images, in presenting an illusion of reality through artifice and subterfuge went hand in hand with perfectly finished paintings that were themselves, imperfect. As a very unorthodox academic painter, Gérôme knew how to represent history as a dramatic spectacle and, by creating particularly convincing images, could make the spectator an eyewitness to events ranging from classical antiquity to the latest news.

Willie Cole and Hank Willis Thomas Explore Amistad Center's Extensive Collection of Art Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:13 PM PDT HARTFORD, CT.- A new collaborative exhibition featuring the works of Willie Cole and Hank Willis Thomas, entitled Digging Deeper, will open this fall at The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art . Both Cole and Thomas were invited to explore The Amistad Center's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and archives which document the African American experience and respond with new works inspired by this rich source material. The show will also include additional objects from The Amistad Center's collection to highlight the common threads between historical characterizations of race and present-day conceptions of African American culture. Digging Deeper is on view from September 19, 2009 through April 4, 2010.

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center opens Space Exploration Exhibit Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:12 PM PDT COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center presents "NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration", through March 7, 2010, organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in cooperation with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. This exhibition has special relevance to the community given the large number of aerospace industries based here. Along with the many great works of art in this exhibition, the FAC has a tremendous line-up of ancillary programming from an innovative, site-specific video installation, to side exhibits by Colorado Springs legend Eric Bransby and Denver artists Monica Petty Aiello and Vance Kirkland as well as a film series, lectures, music, special Bemis classes and workshops and an educational interpretive space in the galleries.

Photographer Lee Friedlander's New Book ~ "America by Car" Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:11 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual "form" for making photographs. Driving across most of the country's 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country's eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century. This method allows for fascinating effects in foreshortening, and wonderfully telling juxtapositions in which steering wheels, dashboards and leatherette bump up against roadside bars, motels, churches, monuments, suspension bridges, landscapes and often Friedlander's own image, via sideview mirror shots.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:11 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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