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• The Rosenbach Museum & Library Presents Musical Influences on Maurice Sendak
• Institute of Contemporary Arts Hosts Pablo Bronstein's Building-Wide Exhibition
• The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Celebrates Wolf Family Art Donations
• The Wolverhampton Art Gallery Shows the Visual Language of Heavy Metal
• The Walters Art Museum To Show "Setting Sail: Drawings of the Sea"
• The Chester Beatty Library Presents The Art Books of Henri Matisse
• Gagosian Gallery Shows Paintings & Works on Paper by Cecily Brown
• Two New World Monuments Fund Conservation Projects Announced in Paris
• The Stephen Bulger Gallery Shows Sarah Anne Johnson's Arctic Photographs
• Now in Its 243rd Year ~ The Royal Academy of Arts Opens Annual Summer Exhibition
• WAR AND DISCONTENT ~ AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
• More Than 450,000 Visitors See 'Picasso and The Masters' at the Grand Palais
• Knopf Publishes "Painting Below Zero" by Pop Artist James Rosenquist
• Julie & Edward J. Minskoff Art Collection Acquires Jonathan Prince Sculpture
• French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) presents Peter Knapp
• 'Deadly and Brutal' Film Posters from Ghana at The International Design Museum Munich
• "The Antidote" at Claire Oliver features Works by Seven Artists
• The Louvre exhibits Picasso/Delacroix ~ 'Women of Algiers in Their Apartment'
• The Japan Society Gallery showcases Rare Japanese Tin-Toy Vehicle Replicas
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Rosenbach Museum & Library Presents Musical Influences on Maurice Sendak Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:41 PM PDT Philadelphia,PA.- The Rosenbach Museum & Library is pleased to present "Grace Notes: A Sendakian Rhapsody" on display until August 7th. "Music inspires grace…I don't want a book to be just a book, I want it to suggest something as beautiful as Mozart," Maurice Sendak reflected in 2007.  This multimedia exhibition uses 30 objects from the Rosenbach's Sendak collection to reflect the range of musical influences on the author's work and invites visitors to make connections of their own. Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents Sarah (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker. He decided to become an illustrator after viewing the Walt Disney film Fantasia at the age of twelve; however, his love of books came at an early age when he developed health problems and was confined to his bed. One of his first professional commissions was to create window displays for the toy store F.A.O. Schwarz. His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook titled Atomics for the Millions by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff. He spent much of the 1950s working as an artist for children's books, before beginning to write his own stories. Sendak gained international acclaim after writing and illustrating 'Where the Wild Things Are', although the book's depictions of fanged monsters concerned some parents when it was first released, as his characters were somewhat grotesque in appearance. Sendak's seeming attraction to the forbidden or nightmarish aspects of children's fantasy have made him a subject of controversy. The monsters in the book were actually based on relatives who would come to weekly dinners. Because of their broken English and odd mannerisms, they were the perfect basis for the monsters in Sendak's book. His book 'In the Night Kitchen', first published in 1970, has often been subjected to censorship for its drawings of a young boy prancing naked through the story. The book has been challenged in several American states including Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Texas. Sendak was an early member of the National Board of Advisors of the Children's Television Workshop during the development stages of the television series Sesame Street. He also wrote and designed an animated sequence for the series, 'Bumble Ardy', based on his own book, and with Jim Henson as the voice of Bumble Ardy. Sendak produced an animated television production based on his work titled 'Really Rosie', featuring the voice of Carole King, which was broadcast in 1975. He adapted his book Where the Wild Things Are for the stage in 1979. Additionally, he has designed sets for many operas and ballets, including the award-winning (1983) Pacific Northwest Ballet production of Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker', Houston Grand Opera's productions of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' (1981) and Humperdinck's 'Hansel and Gretel' (1997), Los Angeles County Music Center's 1990 production of Mozart's 'Idomeneo', and the New York City Opera's 1981 production of 'The Cunning Little Vixen'. In the 1990s, Sendak approached playwright Tony Kushner to write a new English version of the Czech composer Hans Krása's children's opera 'Brundibar'. Kushner wrote the text for Sendak's illustrated book of the same name, published in 2003. The book was named one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Illustrated Books of 2003. In 2003, Chicago Opera Theatre produced Sendak and Kushner's adaptation of 'Brundibar'. In 2005, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, in collaboration with Yale Repertory Theatre and Broadway's New Victory Theater, produced a substantially reworked version of the Sendak-Kushner adaptation. Sendak chose the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, PA to be the repository for his work in the early 1970s thanks to shared literary and collecting interests. His collection of nearly 10,000 works of art, manuscripts, books and ephemera, has been the subject of many exhibitions at the Rosenbach, seen by visitors of all ages. The Rosenbach Museum & Library is home to a collection of nearly 400,000 rare books, manuscripts, and fine and decorative art objects, including some of the best-known literary and historical objects in the world, the Rosenbach serves everyone from schoolchildren and families to scholars and casual visitors from around the corner and around the globe. The Rosenbach's 1860s townhouse and garden provide an intimate setting for the brothers' collections of rare books, manuscripts, furniture, silver, paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture. The house is located in the heart of the Rittenhouse-Fitler historic district in Center City Philadelphia. Museum visitors enjoy regular exhibitions drawn from the Rosenbach's impressive holdings. Selections from some of the best-known collections are always on view, including the manuscript for 'Ulysses' by James Joyce, original drawings by children's book author/illustrator Maurice Sendak, and the papers of Modernist poet Marianne Moore. In the years since its founding, the Rosenbach collections have continued to grow. The decorative and fine arts collections are rich and varied, ranging from Egyptian sculpture and English furniture to American portraiture. Highlights of these collections include a fine mid-18th century Philadelphia tall chest, silver by Hester Bateman and Myer Myers, a portrait by painter Thomas Sully of 19th century civic leader Rebecca Gratz, and the largest collection of oil-on-metal portrait miniatures in the United States. The Rosenbach preserves a nearly unparalleled rare book and manuscript collection, with particular strength in American and British literature and history. Exhibitions, programs, and research with this collection have focused on Colonial American history, African American history, children's literature, book arts and technology, gay and lesbian literature, early Modernism, and much more. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.rosenbach.org

Institute of Contemporary Arts Hosts Pablo Bronstein's Building-Wide Exhibition Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:20 PM PDT LONDON.- Pablo Bronstein signals a new era in the history of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) with Sketches for Regency Living, a groundbreaking exhibition in which, for the first time, an individual artist is invited to work across the entire ICA building—Nash House on The Mall—introducing major architectural interventions and choreographing extraordinary art and ballet performances from 9 June to 25 September.

The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Celebrates Wolf Family Art Donations Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:45 PM PDT Johnstown, PA. The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Johnstown is pleased to announce its latest exhibition, "A Celebration of the Wolf Family Donations to the Permanent Collection, 1986-2006". The exhibition features some of the SAMA Permanent Collection's benchmark works, donated by one of the Museum's most benevolent family patrons. On view until August 26th, the exhibition includes more than 40 works in media such as painting, lithography, folk art, drawing and photography.

The Wolverhampton Art Gallery Shows the Visual Language of Heavy Metal Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:30 PM PDT Wolverhampton, England.- The Wolverhampton Art Gallery takes part in the West Midlands multi-disciplinary festival "Home of Metal", representing the visual response of artists on the theme of metal. The gallery will be presenting two new exhibitions, "You Should be Living" is a contemporary group show which explores artistic responses to heavy metal music, whilst Chris Coekin's photography focuses on the industrial backdrop which inspired the music now synonymous with the Black Country and Birmingham in his exhibition Manufactory. "You Should be Living: The Visual Language of Heavy Metal" is on view from June 8th through September 17th, "Manufactory by Chris Coekin" from June 18th through October 1st.

The Walters Art Museum To Show "Setting Sail: Drawings of the Sea" Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:17 PM PDT Baltimore, MD.- The Walters Art Museum is pleased to present "Setting Sail: Drawings of the Sea from the Walters' Collection", on view from June 18th through September 11th. "Setting Sail" features drawings, paintings, and prints of ships, sailors and the sea from the permanent collection of the Walters. The sea, and the men and women who make their living from it, have provided subjects for art from ancient times until the present day.

The Chester Beatty Library Presents The Art Books of Henri Matisse Posted: 08 Jun 2011 08:06 PM PDT DUBLIN.- The Chester Beatty Library and Bank of America Merrill Lynch present this exciting exhibition of the art books of Henri Matisse, marking the first public display of these works in Europe. The exhibition features four of Matisse's most artistically significant books, including the famous 'Jazz', on loan from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection. On view through 25 September.

Gagosian Gallery Shows Paintings & Works on Paper by Cecily Brown Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:35 PM PDT LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Cecily Brown, on view from June 8th until July 29th, 2011. Drawing broad inspiration from many forbears, from Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Breughel the Elder, and James Ensor to the abstractions of Arshile Gorky and Philip Guston, Brown brings to the conventions of a traditionally male-dominated history an assertive and, at times, ribald femininity. Revisiting scenes from popular culture as well as Old Master imagery, she creates a personal vision that transcends classical notions of genre and narrative.

Two New World Monuments Fund Conservation Projects Announced in Paris Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:34 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- World Monuments Fund announced today two new projects: the conservation of the choir of the renowned Albi Cathedral in France and of the Salon Rico in the Medina Al-Zahra in Cordoba, Spain. Bertrand du Vignaud, President of World Monuments Fund Europe, stated: "We are pleased to announce today two new initiatives in Europe: the conservation of the exceptional choir of Albi Cathedral, a masterpiece of Gothic art and architecture, and of the Salon Rico in the Medina Al-Zahra, famous for its remarkable Moorish reliefs. The conservation of the choir in Albi Cathedral and of the Salon Rico will result in even greater appreciation of the importance of these sites by art enthusiasts around the world."

The Stephen Bulger Gallery Shows Sarah Anne Johnson's Arctic Photographs Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT Toronto.- The Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present "Sarah Anne Johnson: Arctic Wonderland" on view from June 16th through July 16th. During October 2009, Sarah Anne Johnson (b. Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1976) participated in an artist's residency on board a double masted schooner in the Norwegian territory of the Arctic Circle. Each of the twelve days at sea the group visited a different site on land, ranging from untouched vistas of pure landscape to abandoned mining camps. The photographs she took have become the basis for her new body of work entitled "Arctic Wonderland".

Now in Its 243rd Year ~ The Royal Academy of Arts Opens Annual Summer Exhibition Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:03 PM PDT LONDON.- The Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition is the world's largest open submission contemporary art show. Now in its 243rd year, this exhibition continues the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film. This year's co-ordinator is Royal Academician Christopher Le Brun. Playing a significant role is Michael Craig-Martin RA who is curating one of the largest galleries. The Architecture Room is curated by Piers Gough RA and Alan Stanton RA. The exhibition runs from Jun 07 2011 until Aug 15 2011. One of the founding principles of the Royal Academy of Arts was to 'mount an annual exhibition open to all artists of distinguished merit' to finance the training of young artists in the RA Schools. This has been held every year without interruption since 1769 and continues to play a significant part in raising funds to finance the students. The Royal Academy receives no public funding so all those who support the Summer Exhibition by submitting work, visiting it and through purchases contribute to supporting artists of the future. The largest space in the Royal Academy features a new approach to a traditional "salon hang". This includes a mix of open submission works as well as artworks by Royal Academicians. A dense and rich visual experience is created through the presentation of works hung from dado rail to picture rail. Works on display include a large canvas by the Danish painter Per Kirkeby and Keith Tyson's apocalyptic painting Deep Impact. The Summer Exhibition attracts a high volume of entrants each year with over 12,000 entries received this year from 27 countries. The majority of works are for sale, offering visitors an unrivalled opportunity to purchase original artwork by high profile and up-and-coming artists. Michael Craig-Martin's curated room features works by newly elected and established Royal Academicians including Tacita Dean, Gary Hume, Allen Jones, Cornelia Parker, Jenny Saville and Alison Wilding. Craig-Martin has also curated the Wohl Central Hall which greets visitors on arrival with a celebration of photography. For the first time these walls are hung solely with the work of artists who use photographic media including an image by Cindy Sherman Hon RA. Following on from last year's successful BBC TWO Culture Show Special on the Summer Exhibition, the Royal Academy of Arts is working with the BBC once more. The programme will be broadcast on 16 June, 7pm. MEMORIAL ARTIST Ben Levene RA (1938 – 2010), was born Gerald Philip Levene in 1938. He won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art in 1956 and became a visiting lecturer and tutor at the Camberwell School of Art and Royal Academy Schools. He exhibited works annually in the Summer Exhibition from 1974 onwards. His works are held in public collections including the Government Art Collection, Guildhall Art Gallery, Southampton Art Gallery and the Chantrey Bequest. Levene was elected painter Royal Academician in 1986 and lived and worked in London. ANNENBERG COURTYARD 'Coloring Book' by Jeff Koons (b.1955) will occupy the Royal Academy's Annenberg Courtyard. The colourful piece reflects Koons interest in society's obsession with infantilism and youth. Jeff Koons was elected Honorary Royal Academician in 2010. Jeff Koons' sculpture is the latest installation in the RA's programme of Sculpture in the Courtyard and follows on from Barry Flanagan's posthumous 2010 display of three hares; 'Hare and Bell' 1988, 'Nijinski Hare' 1996 and 'Large Left-Handed Drummer' 2006, Bryan Kneale's 'Triton III' (2009), Sir Anthony Caro's 'Promenade' (2008), the Chapman's 'The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, but not the Mineral Rights' (2007), Anselm Kiefer's 'Jericho' (2007), Rodin's 'Gates of Hell' (2006) and Damien Hirst's 'Virgin Mother' (2006). PRIZES Each year, the Summer Exhibition recognises artists of exceptional merit, awarding a total of £70,000 prize money donated by commercial sponsors. Established in 1978, the Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award is, at £25,000, one of the largest and most prestigious art prizes in Britain. Previous winners include: Yinka Shonibare (2010), Jeff Koons (2008), Gavin Turk (2007), Jake and Dinos Chapman (2003), Alan Charlton (2002), Marc Quinn (2001), Gerard Hemsworth (2000) and David Hockney (1999).

WAR AND DISCONTENT ~ AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:38 PM PDT BOSTON, MA - War and Discontent at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) brings together three historical masterpieces inspired by political events from the MFA's collection, along with more recent objects by contemporary artists whose art reflects the time in which we live.  The 20 works included in this exhibition span a variety of media––by artists ranging from Edouard Manet and Pablo Picasso to Chris Burden, Andy Warhol and Phil Collins.  In addition to objects from the MFA's collection, examples from The Broad Art Foundation along with loans from private collections comprise this exhibition.  As part of a new educational initiative, the wall text written by MFA curators will be accompanied by labels written by the MFA's Teen Arts Council––a group of teenagers engaged in a year-long apprenticeship––that reflect their personal perspectives about each work.  Organized by Cheryl Brutvan, the Robert L., Enid L. and Bruce A. Beal Curator of Contemporary Art, War and Discontent will be on view in the MFA's Foster Gallery from April 10 through August 5, 2007.

More Than 450,000 Visitors See 'Picasso and The Masters' at the Grand Palais Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:37 PM PDT PARIS - The Picasso and The Masters exhibition will open 72 straight hours due to its closing. From January 30 to February 2, the exhibition will not close at all. Since the exhibition opened on October 6, there have been more than 450,000 visitors to the exhibition taking place at the Grand Palais. It is impossible to make reservations to the normal exhibition hours and one can go without a reservation but will have to wait in queue between one and two hours. The oppression felt by the virtuoso youth, who never drew as a child does but was immediately confronted with Michelangelo and Raphael, long nourished a subversive urge which drove him into the most radical formal innovations, Cubism, and to the foundation of modern art.

Knopf Publishes "Painting Below Zero" by Pop Artist James Rosenquist Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:36 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors. A skilled traditional painter, he avoided the stencils and silk screens of Warhol and Lichtenstein. His vast canvases full of brilliant, surreally juxtaposed images would influence both many of his contemporaries and younger generations, as well as revolutionize twentieth-century painting.

Julie & Edward J. Minskoff Art Collection Acquires Jonathan Prince Sculpture Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:35 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Jonathan Prince, a sculptor whose recent works were the subject of a solo exhibition at Cynthia-Reeves in Chelsea, has placed a key sculpture, Light Box, in the noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art of Julie and Edward J. Minskoff. Mr. Minskoff, President of Edward J. Minskoff Equities, Inc., a New York-based real estate acquisition and development company, creates buildings that are widely acclaimed as art forms themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Minskoff generously display much of their art collection in public view throughout their buildings.

French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) presents Peter Knapp Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:34 PM PDT   New York City - The French Institute Alliance Française presents Peter Knapp: La Passion des images an exhibition of photographs by the versatile graphic designer and photographer Peter Knapp, on view May 8 - June 4, 2008. Curated by Gabriel Bauret, this exhibition comes directly from La Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris where it was on exhibit mid-January through March of this year.

'Deadly and Brutal' Film Posters from Ghana at The International Design Museum Munich Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:33 PM PDT MUNICH.- Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents 'Deadly and Brutal' film posters from Ghana, on view until June 26, 2011. Graphic design from West Africa: Ever since the 1980s, hand-painted posters have advertised Nollywood and locally-made action movies or family dramas in Ghana, not to mention the Hollywood blockbusters and martial arts films from the Far East. The posters originate from the Dr. Wolfgang Stäbler Collection, Rosenheim.

"The Antidote" at Claire Oliver features Works by Seven Artists Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:32 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- In the 160 years since French painter Paul Delaroche proclaimed "from today painting is dead", many scholars and critics of art have echoed his sentiments. As each new concept or movement in the visual arts comes to the fore, judgment is passed on all that came before it. In Delaroche' time, the advent of photography changed the usefulness of painting as documentation, in the 20th century, modernist painting transitioned paint from a representational two dimensional medium to art grounded in codes rather than images. In our contemporary culture of instant access and short attention spans, painting has once again reinvented itself.

The Louvre exhibits Picasso/Delacroix ~ 'Women of Algiers in Their Apartment' Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:31 PM PDT PARIS.- Coinciding with the major exhibition "Picasso and his Masters" held at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, the Louvre (Denon Room) plays host to around 20 painted and graphic variations on Delacroix's masterpiece, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (1834), executed by Picasso in 1954-55. In tandem, the Musée d'Orsay presents a series of variations on Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass). Throughout his career, from his academic training to the last years of his life, via the Cubist revolution and his neoclassical period, Picasso drew on paintings of the past.

The Japan Society Gallery showcases Rare Japanese Tin-Toy Vehicle Replicas Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:30 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- A Japanese toy designer took a discarded tin can in 1945 and hammered it into the shape of a U.S. Army jeep. Just inches in length, crudely painted by hand, and powered by nothing more than an elastic band, Matsuzō Kosuge's jeep spawned a huge automotive industry--in miniature. From July 9 to August 16, 2009, Japan Society Gallery trains a spotlight on tin-toy vehicles manufactured in Japan in the decades following World War II. "Replicating the automotive styling of Detroit's 'golden age' down to the tiniest fin, these pint-sized vehicles helped repurpose Japan's manufacturing sector from munitions to peacetime production," says Joe Earle, Director, Japan Society Gallery. "They also salved a pent-up thirst for glamour and beauty in the then impoverished country, as well as in the newly affluent United States."

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:29 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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