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• Norman Rockwell Museum Shows "The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios”
• The Jaguar E-Type ~ The World's Most Beautiful Car Celebrates it's 50th Birthday
• The Spencer Museum of Art Presents Splendor, Pageantry & Performance in Art
• New Digital Magazine "Adore Noir" Showcases the Work of Photographers
• The Michener Art Museum Celebrates the Work of History Painter William T. Trego
• Janet Rady Fine Art Presents "Breakfast in Tehran~Contemporary Iranian Women"
• The JAMAAT Art Gallery Shows A Group Show 'The Feminine Form"
• PINTA ~ The Latin American Art Show Comes to London
• Sotheby's in London Announces Impressionist & Modern Art Sale Highlights
• Schirn Kunsthalle Addresses the Complex World of Contemporary Art in "The Making of Art"
• Virginia Miller Galleries Debuts Nine Emerging Chinese Artists
• Albertina Museum shows The Collection of Eberhard W. Kornfeld
• Cantor Arts Center to exhibit 'Pop to Present ~ Art of the 1960's'
• Tate Modern Stages Free Arts Festival for Tenth Anniversary Celebrations
• Seventy Impressive Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein on View at Albertina
• Amon Carter Museum presents Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970
• DeCordova Museum Announces $1 Million Hamilton James Sculpture Park Acquisition Fund
• Paintings by Melanie Daniel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• A Stroll Through (Art) History ~ The Hudson River School Art Trail
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Norman Rockwell Museum Shows "The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios” Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:36 AM PDT Stockbridge, MA.- The Norman Rockwell Museum will present a weekend of star-studded events based around its new, interactive exhibition "'Ice Age" to the Digital Age: The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios," which looks at the artistry and technical genius of one of the world's leading animation studios. Blue Sky Studios is the creator of such blockbuster films as the "Ice Age" series; "Robots;" and the recent hit "Rio," which is the second highest grossing film released so far this year. The exhibition will be on view at the Museum from June 11th through October 31st. On Friday, June 10, the Museum will present an ICE/HOT Preview Party for "'Ice Age' to the Digital Age," from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Meet Chris Wedge, Blue Sky Studios' VP of Creative, who co-founded the company in 1987. Award-winning illustrator Peter de Sève, the lead character designer for Blue Sky Studios' "Ice Age" series, will be the guest of honor for this evening of cocktails; hors d'oeuvres; a raw bar; wine tasting; music from the Bossa Triba Quartet; and dessert at the Museum's historic Linwood House, which overlooks Norman Rockwell's Stockbridge studio and the Housatonic River. Members of Blue Sky Studios creative team will join Norman Rockwell Museum for the official exhibition opening of "'Ice Age' to the Digital Age," to be held on Saturday, June 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. Celebrate the art of animation with this first-ever look behind the scenes at Blue Sky Studios, where cutting-edge creativity and technique brings imaginative characters and stories to life. Commentary will be provided by Blue Sky Studios' VP of Creative Chris Wedge, and award-winning illustrator and "Ice Age" character designer Peter de Sève, starting at 6:30 p.m. Learn about the complex and exciting process of creating CG animated films, from initial concept to the big screen. The family friendly opening will include "Rio colada" snow cones, Blue Sky balloon sculptures, wine and caricatures courtesy of winetasting.com, as well as other ICE/HOT fun, party fare and libations. Go "behind the scenes" with a look at the world of digital animation with the artists of Blue Sky Studios, creators of the blockbuster films "Ice Age" (and its popular sequels), "Robots," and the recently released hit, "Rio." This first-ever exhibition brings art and technology together to explore how visual concepts are transformed into believable worlds for the big screen. Rarely-seen original character drawings, storyboards, and background paintings reflect the conceptual process, and a recreated sculpture studio will bring you face-to-face with Blue Sky's amazing sculptural maquettes. Interactive stations reveal how today's stunning computer generated imagery is built, from initial concept to finished frame. Blue Sky Studios is the Academy Award©-winning, feature CG animation studio behind the wildly successful Ice Age franchise.  Using their propriety rendering software, CGI Studio©, Blue Sky creates photo-realistic, high-resolution, computer-generated character animation and rendering to create timeless stories for children of all ages. Blue Sky is the studio behind "Ice Age" (2002), "Robots" (2005), "Ice Age: The Meltdown" (2006), "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" (2008), "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" (2009) and "Rio" (2011).  Blue Sky Studios is wholly owned by Twentieth Century Fox. Norman Rockwell Museum is the preeminent museum of American illustration art. Dedicated to art education and art appreciation inspired by the enduring legacy of Norman Rockwell, the Museum stewards the world's largest and most significant collection of Rockwell art, and presents the works of contemporary and past masters of illustration. The Museum's holdings include Rockwell's last studio, moved from its original location to the Museum grounds, and the Norman Rockwell Archives, a 200,000-object collection undergoing digital preservation through ProjectNORMAN, "A Save America's Treasures Project." The Museum is also home to the new Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the nation's first research institute devoted to the art of illustration. In 2008, Norman Rockwell Museum became the first-ever museum recipient of the National Humanities Medal, America's highest honor in the field. Founded in 1969 with the help of Norman and Molly Rockwell, Norman Rockwell Museum is dedicated to the enjoyment and study of Rockwell's work and his contributions to society, popular culture, and social commentary. The Museum, which is accredited by the American Association of Museums, is the most popular year-round cultural attraction in the Berkshires. The Museum houses the world's largest and most significant collection of Rockwell's work, including 574 original paintings and drawings. Rockwell lived in Stockbridge for the last 25 years of his life. Rockwell's Stockbridge studio, moved to the Museum site, is open to the public from May through October, and features original art materials, his library, furnishings, and personal items. The Museum also houses the Norman Rockwell Archives, a collection of more than 100,000 items, including working photographs, letters, personal calendars, fan mail, and business documents. Having spent its first 24 years at the Old Corner House on Stockbridge's Main Street, the Museum moved to its present location, a 36-acre site overlooking the Housatonic River Valley, in 1993. Internationally renowned architect Robert A. M. Stern designed the Museum gallery building. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.nrm.org

The Jaguar E-Type ~ The World's Most Beautiful Car Celebrates it's 50th Birthday Posted: 08 Jun 2011 12:08 AM PDT London.- The Jaguar E-Type (UK) or Jaguar XK-E (US) celebrates it's fiftieth birthday this year. Launched on the American market in March 1961, British buyers had to wait until July, before it was made available in right-hand drive for the domestic market. A great success for Jaguar, more than 70,000 E-Types were sold during its lifespan. In March 2008, the Jaguar E-Type ranked first in the Daily Telegraph list of the "100 most beautiful cars" of all time. In 2004, Sports Car International magazine placed the E-Type at number one on their list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s. The Museum of Modern Art in New York recognized the significance of the E-Type's design in 1996 by adding a blue roadster to its permanent design collection, one of only two automobiles to receive the distinction.

The Spencer Museum of Art Presents Splendor, Pageantry & Performance in Art Posted: 07 Jun 2011 11:41 PM PDT Lawrence, KS.- The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence presents "Pomp up the Jam: Splendor, Pageantry, and Performance in Art " from June 11th through September 4th. Pomp, pageantry, and splendor can have a broad range of socio-cultural meanings and take on many different forms. Rituals, processions, parades, and performances span nearly all cultures and these occasions tie the present to the legacies and traditions of the past, as well as to hopes and ambitions for the future. Artworks that record this pomp and performance through the eyes of both participants and spectators also serve to transform events, people and objects from the mundane into the splendid.

New Digital Magazine "Adore Noir" Showcases the Work of Photographers Posted: 07 Jun 2011 11:00 PM PDT VANCOUVER.- This Spring saw the launch of a highly anticipated digital magazine titled "Adore Noir". The PDF based magazine is dedicated to fine art black and white photography. Editor and publisher Chris Kovacs describes the magazine as "An amalgamation of classic and modern styles with everything in between." Chris then goes on to say "I created this magazine out of necessity to fill a much needed niche. I wanted to provide a stage on which to showcase the works of amazing artists that may have otherwise gone unnoticed"

The Michener Art Museum Celebrates the Work of History Painter William T. Trego Posted: 07 Jun 2011 10:14 PM PDT DOYLESTOWN, PA.- He was a painter who could barely hold a brush. He had to move his entire body to mix his colors. Yet William T. Trego (1858-1909) was a prize-winning artist with an international reputation, and his highly detailed and powerful battle scenes from the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War were widely exhibited and critically acclaimed during the late 19th century. Partially paralyzed as a child (most likely due to polio), Trego never experienced the horrors of war, but his uncanny ability to portray battle from the point of view of fighting men and horses was much admired.

Janet Rady Fine Art Presents "Breakfast in Tehran~Contemporary Iranian Women" Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:52 PM PDT London.- Janet Rady Fine Arts are pleased to present "Breakfast in Tehran: Contemporary Iranian Women" on exhibit from June 13th through June 26th. Breakfast in Tehran will be a chance to see a selection of drawings, collage, photography, video and printmaking from a group of new and established Iranian artists living in Iran and exhibiting in London together for the first time. Artists featured include, Azadeh Akhlaghi, Navid Azimi, Majid Koorang Beheshti, Taha Heydari, Khosro Khosravi, Azadeh Madani, Saba Masoumian, Kourosh Salehi, Atefe Samaei and Rozita Sharafjahan.

The JAMAAT Art Gallery Shows A Group Show 'The Feminine Form" Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:51 PM PDT Mumbai,India - The JAMAAT Art Gallery is proud to present "The Feminine Form", an exhibition of figurative paintings. "The Feminine Form" will be on view at their Mumbai gallery until mid-July. Featured will be works by Ajay De, Gautam Mukherii, Rajesh Srivastava, Samir Mondal, Shankar Kendale, Bharti Prajapati, Raja Segar, Rini Dhumal, Senaka Senanayake and Shiva Sanjari. The 10 artists hail from India, Sri Lanka and Iran and each paints in their own inimitable style.

PINTA ~ The Latin American Art Show Comes to London Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:24 PM PDT London.- Following a successful first year in London in 2010, PINTA, the Latin American Art Show is returns to Earls Court Exhibition Centre to present the very best modern and contemporary Latin American art. Launched in New York City in 2007, PINTA has become the annual meeting place for Latin American art. In June 2011, PINTA is returning to London with over fifty galleries from the Americas and Europe.

Sotheby's in London Announces Impressionist & Modern Art Sale Highlights Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:11 PM PDT LONDON.- Sotheby's London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, on Wednesday 22nd June, will offer a selection of works of exceptional quality and rarity, many of which have remained in private collections for decades and have never before appeared at auction. In addition to two exquisite works on one of René Magritte's most sought-after themes, L'Empire des lumières, a monumental Joan Miró and a rare painting by Paul Klee, the sale is led by one of the most important oils by Egon Schiele ever to come to the market, Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II), being sold by the Leopold Museum, Vienna, and estimated at £22-30 million / $36-50 million. Further important works include a lifetime cast of Alberto Giacometti's bronze Trois hommes qui marchent II (est. £10-15 million) - an instantly recognisable icon of Modern art which forms the genesis of L'Homme qui marche I (which fetched £65 million in February 2010 at Sotheby's and established a world record at the time for any work of art at auction) and Pablo Picasso's bold late painting Couple, le baiser, an uninhibited interpretation of the theme of lovers in a passionate embrace (est. £6–8 million). The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale is estimated to fetch a total in excess of £77 million. Egon Schiele's Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II) Painted in 1914, at the height of celebrated Austrian artist Egon Schiele's short career (he died in 1918 at the age of just 28), Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II) is one of the most impressive of the artist's few monumental cityscapes. The work comes to the auction market for the first time from the collection of the Leopold Museum in Vienna with an estimate of £22-30 million. The painting is loosely based on motifs drawn from Krumau, the town known to have inspired some of his greatest works. It was this town in Southern Bohemia in which Schiele's mother was born, and to which Schiele and his lover Valerie (Wally) Neuzil moved in 1911 in order to escape what they perceived as the claustrophobic atmosphere of Vienna. Having been acquired - in the year it was painted - by Schiele's friend and great patron Heinrich Böhler, Häuser mit bunter Wäsche (Vorstadt II) was subsequently sold by Böhler's widow in 1952 to Rudolf Leopold, founder of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, which is home to a pre-eminent collection of Austrian 20th-century art. Pablo Picasso's Couple, le baiser Representing a culmination of Pablo Picasso's exploration of lovers that preoccupied him between October and December 1969, Couple, le baiser (£6–8 million) moves beyond the latent eroticism and sense of tenderness embodied by his earlier works to a more uninhibited interpretation of the passionate encounter. With such an erotically charged work - understood to represent Picasso's wife Jacqueline Roque and the artist himself - Picasso channelled the concerns regarding his fading virility that preoccupied him at the advanced age of 88. The physical closeness of the lovers in the throes of an embrace, and the bright, lively palette that Picasso used to render the figures and the foliage that surrounds them in Couple, le baiser, belies the emotional profundity that these compositions held for him. Picasso takes the painter and model theme a step further in Couple, le baiser than in preceding works - there is no longer an easel separating the two figures; the erotic tension of earlier works is finally consummated as the painter and his muse become entangled in a forceful embrace. Furthermore, the couple has moved from the artist's studio into nature, emphasising their freedom and the almost primitive intensity of their act. The artist's granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, wrote of these late works, 'These are not embraces but wrestling matches the sexes have abandoned themselves to. The unleashing of sexual passions is total, a lack of inhibition stamped with bestiality, animality ...'. SCULPTURE Following the world record for any work of art at auction established at Sotheby's London, when Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme qui marche I fetched £65 million in February 2010, Sotheby's now offers Giacometti's extraordinary bronze Trois hommes qui marchent II (est. £10-15 million). The sculpture, which epitomises the artist's mature style and is one of his most iconic works, forms the genesis of L'Homme qui marche I. The image of Trois hommes qui marchent II first appeared in the margin of a letter that Giacometti wrote to his dealer, Pierre Matisse, depicting three men on a raised platform walking in different directions, and the present work is the second of two versions of the subject, with the figures grouped more closely together. Trois hommes qui marchent II – a lifetime cast – was created at the definitive point of Alberto Giacometti's career, at the end of the 1940s when he was producing career-defining bronzes featuring his signature attenuated figures. The present work depicts three men captured in mid-stride, each seemingly alone in a crowd, as they narrowly pass each other in disconnected paths. Occassionally, as in Trois hommes qui marchent II, Giacometti enhanced the patina of the sculpture to give the work a beautiful modulation of gold and amber highlights against the rich brown base-tone. A further work by Giacometti, the unique bronze Figure debout of circa 1950 (est. £300,000-400,000) comes to the market from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and will be sold, alongside Jean Arp's bronze Evocation d'une forme humaine lunaire spectrale, executed in 1950 and cast in 1957 (est. £800,000 – 1.2 million), to benefit the museum's Acquisitions Fund. IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST WORKS Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's masterly painting La Liseuse will be offered for sale for the first time in over 70 years (est. £5–8 million). Painted in 1889, the work is a major example of the insightful character of Toulouse-Lautrec's portraiture, as well as of his remarkably modern style. The artist himself held La Liseuse in great esteem, as demonstrated in his selection of the work, together with four other paintings, for the exhibition of Les XX held in Brussels in 1890. Writing to his grandmother, he said: 'At the end of January I'm going to carry the good work, or rather the good paintings, to Belgium…'. The subject of this intimate portrait is the artist's 18-year-old neighbour, Hélène Vary, whom he had known since childhood and proclaimed to be 'very beautiful', 'her Grecian profile is incomparable'. In 1888 and 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec executed three portraits of Hélène, and the present work is the most penetrating and personal in its projection of her inner life, tenderly capturing the model in the act of reading and exemplifying Lautrec's exploration of the expressive qualities of line and colour. The work was acquired by the distinguished Brussels collector Roger Janssen in 1939 and it has remained in the same family until now. Not seen at auction for nearly 70 years, Paul Signac's magnificent Pointillist harbour scene of 1913, Les Tours vertes, La Rochelle (est. £1.2-1.8 million) is one of the artist's earliest oil paintings of this French Atlantic port, with its characteristic medieval towers surrounding the busy harbour, a subject the artist returned to many times between 1911 and 1928. By the time Signac painted the work, he had developed his pointillist technique so that his dabs of paint had become larger, looser and more expressive than the more tightly spaced dots of his earlier compositions, and the individualised colour patches hold an expressiveness and freedom that characterised many of the artist's most accomplished works. MODERN HIGHLIGHTS Sensual, bold and ultra-stylised, Tamara de Lempicka's La Dormeuse (est. £2.2-£3.2 million) is a highly charged and suggestive depiction of a femme fatale in repose. Tamara de Lempicka's striking depictions of women have come to personify the age of Art Deco and in this tantalising work, painted in 1930, her model epitomises the ideal of early Hollywood glamour. Every curve of the figure's flesh is rendered with imperceptible brushstrokes. Her skin appears to be incandescent, as if she is bathed in silver moonlight and her hair glows with a metallic sheen. The subject of the sleeping woman was filled with erotic potential, and in this painting, Lempicka precedes Picasso's celebrated 1932 portraits of the sleeping Marie-Thérèse Walter by two years, creating perhaps one of the most intimate and unashamedly sensual renderings of the theme. Appearing for the first time at auction, Paul Klee's important oil and tempera on gesso on board, Stadtburg Kr. (est. £ 2-3 million) is a magnificent example of the artist's ability to blend architectural elements and geometric forms into a fantastic, dream-like composition. The present work was executed in 1932, shortly after Klee left the Bauhaus, where from 1920 he had worked as a Form master. Inspired by Bauhaus teaching, Klee's work became increasingly abstract and geometricised and on leaving the school he introduced a pointillist technique in his watercolours and oils. In this rare example, he replaced dots with small rectangular forms, combining them in a wonderfully poetic fashion. Klee commented in his diary as early as 1902: 'Everywhere I see only architecture, linear rhythms, planar rhythms,' and this sense of rhythm and movement is beautifully rendered in the present work. According to Klee's own analysis, he tried 'to achieve the greatest possible movement with the least possible means'. Having belonged to the important Basel collector Richard Doetsch-Benziger, who owned the painting for several decades, the work now comes to auction from a private Swiss collection where it has remained for the last 40 years. Painted in circa 1905/1906 at the height of Kees van Dongen's Fauve period, Le Clown (est. £1.8-£2.5 million) portrays the brightly lit pageantry of the Cirque Médrano on the Boulevard Rochechouart. Depicting a clown performing in a circus ring with a horse and rider in the distance, Van Dongen invests his composition with all the frenetic energy that the event demanded. This vibrant painting exemplifies the spirited colour palette and painterly freedom of Van Dongen's most successful compositions. For several decades Le Clown remained in Van Dongen's personal possession, until it was acquired by Lucile Martinais-Manguin, daughter of the painter Henri Manguin. Together with her husband André, Martinais-Manguin amassed an impressive collection of modern art and founded the Galerie de Paris, and the present work remained in her collection for more than 50 years. SURREALISM Sotheby's February 2011 series of sales demonstrated the high demand for supreme Surrealist works, with Salvador Dalí's Portrait de Paul Eluard selling fo £13 million, establishing a new record price for any Surrealist work of art sold at auction, and René Magritte's gouache Le Maître d'École selling for £2.5 million, achieving a new auction record for a work on paper. The forthcoming June 2011 sale presents a selection of great works by artists including Joan Miró, René Magritte and Max Ernst. Coinciding with the Tate Modern retrospective of Joan Miró, the artist's bold and powerful work Femme à la voix de rossignol dans la nuit of 1971 appears at auction for the first time (est. £4.5-6 million). The intensely colourful and pictorially commanding oil on canvas displays a broad swathe of red pigment draped down the centre of the composition like a matador's cape. Painted at a time when Miró was one of Spain's most renowned cultural figures, the work belongs to a series of monumental compositions that occupied Miró during this time (the present work measures 130 by 195cm). The compositions that Miró completed during this period demonstrate a level of expressive freedom, exuberance and confidence in his craft.

Schirn Kunsthalle Addresses the Complex World of Contemporary Art in "The Making of Art" Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:56 PM PDT FRANKFURT.- The exhibition The Making of Art offers a look at the web of relationships of contemporary art, where the triangle of the artwork, the artist, and the viewer has long since been expanded in many ways. Not infrequently, the relationships between artists, collectors, dealers, curators, and critics influence the content of the works; often this is also illustrated: In a large survey from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition presents the positions of artists such as John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Tracey Emin, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Ryan Gander, Peter Doig, Christian Jankowski, Louise Lawler, and Jonathan Monk, These artists reflect on an increasingly elaborate system, question the criteria of art, examine its methods and its institutions as sites, and shed light on the diverse connections and networks. With approximately 150 paintings, drawings, objects, installations, and videos, the exhibition addresses the complex system of the art world in the era of upheaval we are currently experiencing. On view through 30 August, 2009 at the Schirn Kunsthalle.

Virginia Miller Galleries Debuts Nine Emerging Chinese Artists Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:55 PM PDT   Coral Gables, FL - "Under the Radar: First Florida Exhibition—Nine Chinese Artists Interpret the Figure," the new exhibition at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in downtown Coral Gables, might as well be called "U.S. Debut of  Contemporary Chinese Artists."  It's the first show in the United States for eight of the nine artists, mostly in their 20s and 30s with only a handful of exhibitions in their biographies. "We thought it was the first U.S. show for all the artists until we found out that Lu Qi Ming was in two group exhibitions in New York and at the Smart Museum of the University of Chicago," says gallery owner Virginia Miller.

Albertina Museum shows The Collection of Eberhard W. Kornfeld Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:54 PM PDT   Vienna, Austria - The Albertina Museum presents Routes Through Modern Art - From The Collection of Eberhard W. Kornfeld, on view through Fabruary 8, 2009. In honour of the 85th birthday of Swiss art dealer Eberhard W. Kornfeld, some 200 works from his remarkable private art collection are on exhibit at the Albertina. The auction house owner and art publisher is a distinguished expert on prints and the author of catalogues raisonnés on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Käthe Kollwitz and numerous other artists. Like the collection as a whole, the exhibition focuses on multifaceted selections of their works, as well as works by the collector's close friends Pablo Picasso, Sam Francis and Alberto Giacometti.

Cantor Arts Center to exhibit 'Pop to Present ~ Art of the 1960's' Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:53 PM PDT   STANFORD, CA - The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces "Pop to Present," March 18-August 16, 2009, the third in a yearlong series of exhibitions highlighting the museum's acquisitions from the past decade. This lively selection of modern and contemporary works - in particular American art made since the 1960s - is built on pre-existing strengths, such as Bay Area painting, while the pursuit of new collecting arenas includes northern California ceramics and contemporary prints.

Tate Modern Stages Free Arts Festival for Tenth Anniversary Celebrations Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:52 PM PDT LONDON.- Tate Modern is ten years young on 12 May 2010. Over 45 million visitors have passed through the gallery's doors since it first opened to the public ten years ago. Tate Modern is the world's most visited gallery of modern art and is one of the UK's top three free tourist attractions. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Tate Modern will stage a major free arts festival, No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents, in the Turbine Hall from 14 through16 May 2010. Tate Modern has been a catalyst both for the transformation of public attitudes to the visual arts in the UK and for the regeneration of north Southwark. It has become synonymous with groundbreaking artist projects, such as the celebrated Unilever Series, innovative Collection displays, a critically acclaimed exhibition programme and a highly renowned film and live performance programme.

Seventy Impressive Drawings by Roy Lichtenstein on View at Albertina Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:51 PM PDT VIENNA, AUSTRIA - The 1960s marked a dramatic change of direction in the art of Roy Lichtenstein: while his earlier works consisted mainly of paintings of American history and the American West, in 1961 he turned to black-and-white drawings. Inspired by advertising and media illustrations as well as by comic strips, Lichtenstein created about seventy impressive black-and-white drawings between 1961 and 1968. These were completely new in terms of subject and style. In the same period, the artist also made numerous black-and-white paintings, whose subjects were very close to those of the drawings. The latter, however, are not to be understood as preparatory studies for the works on canvas; they much rather form a separate, individual group of artworks. The Albertina Museum presents the black-and-white drawings in conjunction with selected black-and-white paintings for the first time in this special exhibition. On view through 15 May, 2011.

Amon Carter Museum presents Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970 Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:50 PM PDT FORT WORTH , Texas—On September 19, 2009, the Amon Carter Museum presents Views and Visions: Prints of the American West, 1820–1970. The exhibition, on view through January 10, 2010, showcases approximately 120 prints and illustrated books from the museum's permanent collection. Admission is free. American artists saw and experienced the western frontier in different ways and with varied perspectives. This exhibition features prints from the past two centuries, representing a myriad views and visions of the American West.

DeCordova Museum Announces $1 Million Hamilton James Sculpture Park Acquisition Fund Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:49 PM PDT LINCOLN, MA.- Dennis Kois, Executive Director of the DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum, announced the creation of the Hamilton James Sculpture Park Acquisition Fund with a gift of one million dollars. Given by Tony James in honor of his late father Hamilton R. James, the grant consists of a one million dollar gift and a potential future gift of five hundred thousand dollars upon completion of a challenge for the acquisition or commission of seminal major works for DeCordova's Sculpture Park. This gift, the largest ever given specifically for the Park, recognizes the service and philanthropy of Hamilton R. James, a long-time supporter and former Trustee to the Museum. His widow, Waleska James, continues to be involved as a Museum Guide and member of DeCordova's Education Committee.

Paintings by Melanie Daniel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:48 PM PDT TEL AVIV,ISRAEL - Evergreen, the new series of paintings by Melanie Daniel, reveals the culmination of the artist's interest in how people assimilate and camouflage themselves in their environments, combining a sense of strangeness with a sense of belonging. Daniel began painting after immigrating to Israel in 1995. For her photographic series Pleasantvale (2003), which links her early works with her current interest in the painting medium, Daniel returned to her hometown, Kelowna in British Columbia, to photograph a seniors' neighborhood built in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Its pastel-colored houses with manicured gardens, today standing in the heart of a rapidly sprawling city, look like the setting of an antiquated television show where time and modern worries stand still.

A Stroll Through (Art) History ~ The Hudson River School Art Trail Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:47 PM PDT CATSKILL, NY.- Fifteen scenic miles in the Catskills between The Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana New York Historic Site (www.olana.org) couldn't be more beautiful. This stretch of history, known as The Hudson River School Art Trail, leads visitors to the sites that inspired America's first great landscape painters by mapping the sites that inspired works of art by Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher B. Durand, Jasper Cropsey, Sanford Gifford and other pioneering American artists.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:46 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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