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• 'Views From the Inner Eye' at the Schneider Museum of Art
• fordPROJECT To Feature 'Summer Affair' a Group Show
• Colored Woodcuts From 19th Century Japan at the Benton Museum of Art
• The Pasadena Museum of California Art Hosts "Street Artists from Concrete to Canvas"
• The Luise Ross Gallery Shows How Good Art Come in Small Packages
• The La Lanta Gallery Presents Lu Jun's Digital Ink & Wash Photographs
• Frank Pictures Gallery Opens Paintings by Kelly Berg
• Hood Museum of Art Opens "American Art from the Huber Family Collection"
• Bollywood Cinema Showcards ~ Indian Film Art at the Royal Ontario Museum
• The Traditional Wallraf-Richartz Museum In Cologne, Germany Is Re-Visited By Our Editor
• 'An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art' at the New Britain Museum of American Art
• E.G. Bührle Collection of French Impressionism Plans to Move To Kunsthaus Zürich
• Arndt & Partner open Gilbert and George's Jack Freak Pictures in Berlin
• Martin Parr's Photographs of Social Behaviour on View at Studio Trisorio
• Erró - Prints at the Reykjavík Art Museum
• Walter Wick at Nassau County Museum of Art
• Cinematic Greats & Legends of the Silver Screen Arrive at Christie's London
• Largest Art Exhibition "Sculpture By The Sea" Arrives At A Western Australian Beach
• Park West Gallery Loses ~ Arts Registry Awarded $500,000 by Jury
• Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) to show Lawrence Weiner ~ 'As Far as the Eye can See'

'Views From the Inner Eye' at the Schneider Museum of Art Posted: 11 Jun 2011 10:10 PM PDT Ashland, OR.- The Schneider Museum of Art is proud to present "Views from the Inner Eye". Opening with a public reception on Thursday, June 16, 5-7pm, the Schneider Museum of Art will present "Views from the Inner Eye", their summer offering of three one-person exhibitions including, "Morris Graves: From the collection of the Vellutini Family", "Ellen Van Fleet: Barred Rock Bantams" and "M.R. Renjan: Reverberating Echoes". These shows will run through Friday, August 26th. All three shows are examples of the expressive tradition in the arts.  Each of the artists has created works that reflect their interior state of being; this is the source, the wellspring of their art.  Each seeks to give us a new way to look at and experience the world. Morris Graves (1910-2001) helped establish a place for visionary painting in the annals of twentieth-century American art.  Primarily a self-taught artist, Graves rejected the bravura aesthetic of the Abstract Expressionists, and the realist concerns of the Regionalists, in favor of a mystical art in which he sought to convey the inner soul of his subject.  Executed in a semi-abstract style that evoked the subtleties of traditional Chinese painting, Graves's work reflects his own transcendental inclinations coupled with the impact of East Asian philosophies. Graves lived the last four decades of his life in Loleta, along the northern California coast. During his years there he developed a lasting friendship with the Vellutini family (Ray, Dolores and their children Andrea and Joseph), and they in turn amassed a collection of works by their friend. All the works on view are now also members of the family, works they have lived and grown up with and viewed so often they 'can be seen in their sleep.'  But they have never kept the collection just to themselves. The Vellutini's have contributed works to collections and shows up and down the West Coast. And we are ever so grateful for their generosity in loaning a show to the Schneider Museum. Ellen Van Fleet is showing large, often collaged, abstract watercolors—many of them based on her observations of Barred Rock Bantams. But these are not merely illustrations of chickens.  As she states: "For over 30 I have been a visual artist following the threads of ideas through corridors opening and closing in the folds of my brain. I am stimulated by what catches my attention and what stimulates me I do; visually anyway. It has all been quite simple. There has been no other activity I do that has the snorty cavorting horse feeling that an unfolding work of art has. Art is using all that interesting accumulation of skill and Homo sapiens chance development, toward the possibility of expressing human visual mystery". M.R. Renjan is from Kerala state in India, and now teaches art in Delhi. While Renjan is no outsider to whatever is deemed 'modernism', the imaginative qualities that he frequently seems to project in his works are drawn from a still living cultural tradition, as reflected in Indian dance forms, especially those of Kerala. His images are of dramatic suspense, where the natural and the supernatural are engaged in a tête-à-tête. The works owe little to the appearance of observed reality. His predisposition towards envisioning the Pandora's box of the inner world is timely.  He manifests it as charged with the traces of the fabulous, a theatre of pregnant meanings, surprising possibilities, of strange specters and visitations. The Schneider Museum of Art is a result of a community campaign which was completed by a generous donation by Bill and Florence Schneider. In 1980 the Southern Oregon State College (now known as Southern Oregon University) development program, formulated by the SOSC Foundation, initiated the idea and the goal to establish an art museum and gallery on the SOSC campus. They felt it was time to bring a strong presence of the visual arts to the valley to complement the theatre and music programs that were already in existence. With support from the college the Foundation began the process to implement that program and formed the art museum committee. In 1982 the State Board of Higher Education authorized construction of a museum on campus, with funding to be provided by private donations. During this time benefits and fundraisers were held to raise money for the museum. In 1983 the Schneiders announced their major gift to the museum ensuring its completion. The State Board approved the naming of the museum for Samuel and May Schneider, parents of Bill Schneider, on July 22, 1983.  The Museum was designed by the late Will Martin, who was a Portland architect. Will Martin's architectural style was dedicated to the idea that man-made things should complement nature, even emulate it, but never compete with it. The museum opened its doors to the public in the fall of 1986. Over the next ten years the museum continued to grow and to flourish. In 1995 a second phase of construction was contemplated for the museum to add two new galleries and adequate office space for the staff. Funding was once again acquired from private donors, and the new wings of the museum opened in January 1997. The dream is now a reality. With the opening of SOU's Center for the Visual Arts, the Schneider Museum of Art, plays a central role in this exciting new complex bringing compelling and challenging exhibits to southern Oregon, along with a rich spectrum of programming that includes workshops, family days, lectures, performances, and concerts. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.sou.edu/sma/

fordPROJECT To Feature 'Summer Affair' a Group Show Posted: 11 Jun 2011 09:15 PM PDT New York City.- fordPROJECT announces the opening of "Summer Affair", a group exhibition featuring works by Alessandro Belgiojoso, Winston Chmielinski, Shin il Kim, Virginia Overton, Manuela Paz, Christopher Saunders, Stephen j. Shanabrook/Veronika Georgieva, and Zdravko Toic.  The exhibition takes place in the gallery's penthouse at 57 West 57th, recently restored and designed by architect Rafael de Cardenas for the fordPROJECT, from June 29th through August 10th.

Colored Woodcuts From 19th Century Japan at the Benton Museum of Art Posted: 11 Jun 2011 09:10 PM PDT Storrs, CT.- The Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut is currently showing "The Colored Woodcut in 19th-Century Japan: Edo and Osaka" until August 7th. The colored woodcut was ubiquitous in 19th-century Japan, and for Europeans a source of artistic influence and of pleasure in collecting them. The late 19th-century artistic influence of the woodcut lay in its disavowal of Western perspective, an ingrained facility for two-dimensional patterning, and an unwavering sense of coloration. The pleasure of collecting the color woodcuts in the late 19th and 20th centuries lay in a more profound interest in Asian arts, Chinese as well as Japanese, than had been expressed by the decoratively brilliant but very western Chinoiserie of the 18th century.

The Pasadena Museum of California Art Hosts "Street Artists from Concrete to Canvas" Posted: 11 Jun 2011 08:54 PM PDT Pasadena, CA.- The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is currently exhibiting the first museum exhibition that joins the work created by Los Angeles graffiti artists for a fine art context with their graffiti art made in the streets. Internationally renowned as one of the most fertile grounds for graffiti art, the City of Angels has its own idiosyncratic graffiti styles created from the innovative New York "wildstyle" that heralded the birth of graffiti as it is seen today, filtered through local influences such as gang writing styles that greatly predate the modern movement. "Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas" is on view at the museum until September 4th.

The Luise Ross Gallery Shows How Good Art Come in Small Packages Posted: 11 Jun 2011 08:39 PM PDT New York City.- The Luise Ross Gallery is proud to present "Small" a collection of artwork on an intimate scale. "Small" is on view at the gallery from June 16 through July 29th and illustrates a breadth of ideas, mediums and technique that come together in a surprising harmony to show the viewer that good things come in small packages.

The La Lanta Gallery Presents Lu Jun's Digital Ink & Wash Photographs Posted: 11 Jun 2011 08:28 PM PDT Bangkok.- The La Lanta Gallery is proud to present "How Far From Us" and exhibition by leading Chinese Arist, Lu Jun. With his name praised in several important art publications including Britain's Genuis list of top 100 International Artists, Chinese Photography, Art Magazine, Art Gallery, and Chinese Contemporary Artists 2009-2010 (to be released in 2011), Lu Jun's work is more than what the eyes can see. Lu Jun's work takes its cue from one of China's most well-known art forms -- traditional landscape painting -- but his process is wholly contemporary. His photography is "digital ink and wash".

Frank Pictures Gallery Opens Paintings by Kelly Berg Posted: 11 Jun 2011 08:04 PM PDT Santa Monica, CA.- Frank Pictures Gallery is delighted to present 'Subterranean', the paintings of Kelly Berg from Saturday June 11th to July 25th in the Project Room. Influenced by her childhood explorations of nature in her native Minnesotan wilderness as well as it's interaction with the human and technological world, Berg won a National Scholastic Art Portfolio Award in 2004. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2008. At The Rhode Island School of Design Kelly focused on figurative and landscape drawing and painting.

Hood Museum of Art Opens "American Art from the Huber Family Collection" Posted: 11 Jun 2011 08:03 PM PDT HANOVER, NH.- America at the turn of the twentieth century was characterized by dramatic social, cultural, and artistic change. The works in Embracing Elegance, 1885–1920: American Art from the Huber Family Collection represent a diversity of reactions to that change while generally featuring intimate, informal subjects captured in a personally expressive manner influenced variously by the Aesthetic movement, impressionism, urban realism, and postimpressionism. The exhibition features over thirty pastels, drawings, watercolors, and paintings by such leading artists of the period as Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Joseph DeCamp, Robert Henri, Lilla Cabot Perry, John Singer Sargent, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir. All of the works were collected over the past twenty-five years by Jack Huber, Dartmouth Class of 1963, and his wife, Russell. On exhibition through 4 September.

Bollywood Cinema Showcards ~ Indian Film Art at the Royal Ontario Museum Posted: 11 Jun 2011 08:02 PM PDT TORONTO.- The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the North American debut of Bollywood Cinema Showcards: Indian Film Art from the 1950s to the 1980s, a visual journey through the history of Bollywood advertising. Curated by Deepali Dewan for the ICC at the ROM in collaboration with the Hartwick Collection, Bollywood Cinema Showcards will be on view in the special exhibitions gallery on Level 3 of the Museum from June 11th to October 2nd. "Bollywood Cinema Showcards is a unique opportunity for visitors to see this rare collection of vintage cinematic art, bringing early Bollywood culture and design to life," said Janet Carding, ROM Director and CEO. "I'm delighted that the ROM is contributing in such as significant way to this year-long celebration of India in Canada and the Bollywood experience in Toronto surrounding the International Indian Film Academy Awards." Bollywood cinema is deeply rooted in the cultural traditions of the East, and has become a growing fascination among art, film and pop-culture enthusiasts across the West. ROM curator of South Asian Arts & Culture, Dr. Deepali Dewan, states, "This exhibition provides a rare opportunity to explore the evolution of a specific form of advertising associated with the Hindi commercial cinema centered around Mumbai. These showcards combine paint and photography and are a unique aspect of South Asian visual culture, following their equally as remarkable predecessors –Indian Painted Photographs. They were originally produced by local artists but usually thrown out at the end of a film's run. It is remarkable that this collection has survived at all." Bollywood Cinema Showcards embodies the quirky and colorful style of India's cinematic culture with a display of rare, vintage showcards—colorful hand painted photo collages commissioned to advertise the release of Bollywood films, originally exhibited in display cases outside cinema theatres. The exhibition features over 120 works, including 77 original showcards from the private collection of Angela Hartwick and a selection of posters, lobby cards and film booklets from the ROM's permanent collection. The installation will be organized chronologically, tracing the aesthetic and thematic evolution of Bollywood graphic design as seen in its advertising, from the years after India's independence in 1947 through the liberalization of India's economic policies in the early 1990s. The exhibition coincides with another North American debut—International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards in Toronto—providing an interesting historical context to modern day Indian cinema. Bollywood Cinema Showcards also contributes to the national celebration of 2011 as the Year of India in Canada, as designated by a bilateral treaty between India and Canada. Bollywood Hero Legacy Project To celebrate Bollywood Cinema Showcards, the ROM will install a 15 x 36-ft. billboard titled Bollywood Hero, a theme that focuses on the recurring role of the male hero in most Bollywood films. Commissioned specifically for the Museum from Suresh Sandal Arts, a studio in Bombay, India, the work of art will be installed in the Hyacinth Gloria Chen Court and will remain on view until October 2nd. Following the exhibition it will reside in the ROM's permanent collection. Visit the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) at : http://www.rom.on.ca/

The Traditional Wallraf-Richartz Museum In Cologne, Germany Is Re-Visited By Our Editor Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:40 PM PDT The Wallraf-Richartz Museum is one of the great traditional art galleries in Germany. It is located in Cologne, Germany and houses a collection of fine art from the medieval period to the early twentieth century. Part of its collection was used for the establishment of Museum Ludwig in 1976. The museum lies at the heart of the Old Town, within view of the cathedral, right next to the historical city hall. Virtually every school of style and historical period of European painting is also represented here, from the Dutch masters to the late Impressionists of France. The Cologne merchant Johann Heinrich Richartz (1795-1861), who gave his name to the museum, supported the first public museum building which was opened in 1861. After the destruction of the building in the Second World War the museum was housed in 1957 in a new building designed by Rudolf Schwarz and Josef Bernard. After a few years in a modern museum building, which from1986 housed both the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Museum Ludwig, at the beginning of 2001 the museum moved into a new building designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers. A "permanent loan" of numerous Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by the Swiss collector Gerard Corboud was made a short time later. The new building in the quarter between the town hall and Gürzenich stands on an important site in the history of art: In the Middle Ages this was the artistic centre of the cathedral city with the workshops of the goldsmiths and painters of Cologne. Once the museum moved into their modern new building in 2001 the name was changed for marketing purposes to: "Wallraf, The Museum." Visitors approaching the museum from the cathedral come up against a quiet façade of classical proportions, built on the basis of the ancient canons on a massive basalt base, marked with a series of windows. The facade is then developed toward the top as a blind wall with only a few panoramic windows all in a row in one corner. The smooth, clear upper wall, corresponding to the exhibition halls, is the result of geometric partitioning of the artistic work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Rectangular slabs of slate arranged in two parallel rows are repeated at intervals all over the tuff block of the complex, revealing to passers-by the names of the artists whose works are kept in that area. On the western side, the building is divided into three staggered towers echoing the church bell tower: they house offices and a multifunctional hall and are clearly separated from the museum block itself. The entrance immediately evident from outside, follows the path of the old medieval road where artist Stefan Lochner lived and on the underground floor.

'An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art' at the New Britain Museum of American Art Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:39 PM PDT New Britain, CT.- Until July 3rd 2011 the New Britain Museum of American Art's McKernan Gallery features 'An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art'. The exhibition is composed of works from the personal collection of Jonathan "Jack" Warner and his wife Susan Austin Warner and the collection of The Warner Foundation. Jack Warner started his private collection in the 1950s when he bought a series of prints by John James Audubon (1785-1851). Today the Warner Collection is one of the premiere collections of American art in the world. Warner's collection reflects his belief in learning American history through art and his passion for America.

E.G. Bührle Collection of French Impressionism Plans to Move To Kunsthaus Zürich Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:38 PM PDT ZURICH.- Today, 60 years after it first saw the light of day, Emil Bührle's is still one of the leading collections of 20th-century art. It focuses on French Impressionist painting, which has always enjoyed vivid interest in Switzerland and is also represented in the Kunsthaus Zürich's own collection. At the Bührle Collection's current home, however, in Zurich's Zollikerstrasse, the private collection had been seen annually by no more than 10,000 visitors before even those numbers dwindled to just a few hundred following the notorious robbery in February of 2008. The Kunsthaus, on the other hand, welcomes between 200,000 and 300,000 guests each year, eager to view its examples of French painting and of the schools that preceded and followed it.

Arndt & Partner open Gilbert and George's Jack Freak Pictures in Berlin Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:37 PM PDT BERLIN.- As the international tour of the last Gilbert & George retrospective (2007–2009) did not include Berlin, Arndt & Partner are now presenting a solo exhibition of the celebrity artist duo in its gallery rooms behind the Hamburger Bahnhof. It is the first Gilbert & George solo show in Berlin for 14 years. The exhibition features a selection of 20 large-scale pieces from the Jack Freak Pictures, the largest Gilbert & George group of pictures to date. The thrust of the content is given by the colors and shapes of the Union Jack flag that dominate the bulk of the pictures as well as the recurring motive of medals, emblems and trees. In the Jack Freak Pictures the artist duo explores aspects of nationhood and of the sentient individual in the nets of society. In his essay published in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition the British writer Michael Bracewell describes these pictures as "the most iconic, philosophically astute and visually violent works that Gilbert & George have ever created..." On view 16 June through 18 September, 2009.

Martin Parr's Photographs of Social Behaviour on View at Studio Trisorio Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:36 PM PDT NAPLES, ITALY - A solo exhibit of the works of photographer Martin Parr was inaugurated at Studio Trisorio in Naples, at via Riviera di Chiaia 215. Since the start of his career, Martin Parr has been fascinated with social behaviour, the manner in which people furnish their homes, the foods they choose to eat, the clothes they choose to wear and the places they choose to go on holiday. As he catalogued these everyday routines, his vision became increasing keen and ironic. On exhibition through 28 May, 2910.

Erró - Prints at the Reykjavík Art Museum Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:35 PM PDT Reykjavík, Iceland - Erró is a master narrator with images.  His works when viewed in series as he has created is somewhat like glancing through chapters of a colorful and complex story.  He combines cut-outs from cartoon strips, art history books, magazines, and postcards and makes new visual episodes that seize viewers one way or the other regardless of their interests, prior knowledge and cultural background.

Walter Wick at Nassau County Museum of Art Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:34 PM PDT   Roslyn Harbor, NY - Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic encompasses a three-dimensional installation by Walter Wick, the award-winning author and photographer of books for children who is noted for his interest in puzzles, games, science and illusions. The exhibition opens in the Second Floor Galleries of Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) on Sunday, February 17 and continues through Sunday, April 27. Also on view by the author of I Spy, Can You See What I See, A Drop of Water and Optical Tricks are photographs and drawings from his extraordinary volumes. This exhibition was organized by the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Cinematic Greats & Legends of the Silver Screen Arrive at Christie's London Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:33 PM PDT LONDON.- This November the movies are coming to Christie's South Kensington as a diverse selection of Vintage Film Posters and Film Memorabilia is offered encompassing all genres of cinema history from cult horror and sci-fi films to the icons of the silver screen. Including an extensive collection of vintage film posters, props, costumes, photographs and letters this sale is a must for all film buffs looking to pay homage to the greats of cinematic history. Screen sirens also feature in abundance as a selection of the properties of Greta Garbo and Marilyn Monroe are offered.

Largest Art Exhibition "Sculpture By The Sea" Arrives At A Western Australian Beach Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:32 PM PDT Perth, Western Australia (PerthNow).- Fat men walking, jugs with legs, camels, paper boats and Easter Island statues feature in this year's Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Perth's Cottesloe Beach. 83 local, national and international artists have contributed to this year's event which opened today. More than 140 thousand people are expected to check out what is Australia's largest free exhibition. All the artworks are for sale, with prices ranging up to $530,000. Founder David Handley is thrilled to include two pieces from renowned English sculptor Sir Anthony Caro. "Any museum in the world would be honoured to have these and it's great fun that we have them on the beach at Cottesloe," he says. Among the quirkier pieces is David Kenworthy's collection of bright plastic garbage bins that glow in the dark at night.

Park West Gallery Loses ~ Arts Registry Awarded $500,000 by Jury Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:31 PM PDT Detroit, MI - Southfield-based Park West Gallery took a $500,000 hit Wednesday in a legal brawl with a Phoenix-based Web site that said the gallery defrauded customers in art auctions aboard cruise ships."The verdict vindicates everything my client ever said about Park West," Farmington Hills lawyer Donald Payton said after a federal jury in Port Huron awarded $500,000 to Global Fine Arts Registry and its founder, Theresa Franks, for trademark violations involving registry Web sites.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) to show Lawrence Weiner ~ 'As Far as the Eye can See' Posted: 11 Jun 2011 07:30 PM PDT   LOS ANGELES, CA - The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) will open the exhibit Lawrence Weiner: As Far as the Eye can See on 13 April. The first major United States retrospective of the work of New York-based artist Lawrence Weiner (b.1942, Bronx, NY), one of the key figures associated with the emergence and foundations of conceptual art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner: As Far as the Eye Can See provides a comprehensive examination of Weiner's remarkable and cohesive oeuvre, assembling key selections and bodies of work from throughout his 40-year career.

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