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• Tate Britain Presents 'The Vorticists ~ Manifesto for a Modern World'
• Louise Bourgeois's Sculpture "Maman" Coming To Fondation Beyeler Park
• Revolutionary Moments in 20th Century Graphic and Industrial Design at ICA
• The William J. Dane Fine Print Collection at the Newark Public Library
• The Museum of Florida Art Shows "Off the Page ~ Florida Book Art"
• The Yale Centre for British Art Goes On-line With a Major Assciated Exhibition
• The Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver To Show 'Flesh and Blood' Recent Work by Shary Boyle
• The Harris Gallery Shows Recent Cubist paintings by M.C. Harris
• The Jason McCoy Gallery brings Northern Light to New York
• Sotheby's London Offers the Greatest Collection of 20th-Century British Art
• One Of The USA's Leading and Most Comprehensive Art Museums ~ The Saint Louis Art Museum
• Renovated Albertinum Museum in Dresden Unites Past and Present
• 17 World Famous Museums Are Participating in Google's New Art Project
• SFMOMA will Become Home to Gap Founder's Contemporary Art Collection
• The Phillips Collection ~ 'Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film'
• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opens "Sleeping Under Stars" a Finley & Muse Project
• The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to exhibit " Modernists in New Mexico "
• Gagosian Gallery Announces Exclusive Representation of Photographer Richard Avedon
• Munich's Cultural Appeal Expands with New Brandhorst Museum
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Tate Britain Presents 'The Vorticists ~ Manifesto for a Modern World' Posted: 13 Jun 2011 10:18 PM PDT London.- Tate Britain presents a major exhibition about Vorticism, one of the truly avant-garde movements in British history. The revolutionary group of artists, the Vorticists, so-called by American poet Ezra Pound and led by the painter Wyndham Lewis, reacted against the culture of Edwardian England with a radical new aesthetic that embraced the maelstrom of the modern world. This exhibition celebrates the electrifying force and vitality of this movement by focusing on the period between 1914-18, using significant new research to examine the only two Vorticist exhibitions mounted in the lifetime of the group: one in London in 1915 and the other in New York in 1917. "The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World" is on view until Setpember 4th. Bringing together over 100 key Vorticist works including paintings, sculptures, photography, journals and literary ephemera, new light is shed on the internationalism of the movement, particularly its links to the American avant-garde. The focus on the two historic exhibitions in London and New York will show the importance of a transatlantic exchange of ideas in the origins and legacy of the Vorticists. Including seminal works such as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound 1914 and Wyndham Lewis's Workshop c 1914-15, it will highlight the important role of visionary collector John Quinn, who, together with Ezra Pound, facilitated the introduction of Vorticism to an American audience through the 1917 New York show at the Penguin Club. The exhibition will also highlight two other key presentations of the Vorticists' ideas. A section will be devoted to the group's ground-breaking journal 'BLAST No.1: Review of the Great English Vortex' from 1914 and 'BLAST War Number: review of the Great English Vortex' from 1915, showing its powerful design and literary contributions by, for example, T.S. Eliot and Ford Madox Ford. A further section reveals the rarely seen Vortographs of Alvin Langdon Coburn, claimed as the first abstract photographs, which were shown in the Camera Club in London in 1917. A pivotal modernist movement, Vorticism emerged in London in 1914, when the advent of French Cubism and Italian Futurism was having a profound impact on the English art scene. Absorbing elements from these, but also defining themselves against these foreign idioms, the Vorticists forged their own distinctive style combining machine-age forms and the energetic imagery suggested by a vortex. With self-proclaimed leader Wyndham Lewis, the group included sculptors Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Jacob Epstein and painters William Roberts, David Bomberg and Edward Wadsworth. The Vorticists were also distinctive for counting several female members in their ranks, among them Jessica Dismorr, Dorothy Shakespear and Helen Saunders. An important group of works by Saunders from the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at The University of Chicago will be included. Further highlights will include seminal Vorticist works such as the iconic sculpture, 'Rock Drill', 1913-15, by Jacob Epstein, the bold zig-zagging forms of 'The Mud Bath', 1914 by David Bomberg and 'The Crowd' by Wyndham Lewis from 1915. There will also be the rare chance to see international loans such as Wyndham Lewis's 'Architect with Green Tie' (1909) from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World is co-organised by Tate Britain with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The other three galleries are Tate Modern, also in London, Tate Liverpool, in the north-west, and Tate St Ives, in Cornwall, in the south-west. The entire Tate Collection is available online. Tate Britain is the world centre for the understanding and enjoyment of British art and works actively to promote interest in British art internationally. The displays at Tate Britain call on the greatest collection of British art in the world to present an unrivalled picture of the development of art in Britain from the time of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, to the present day. The Collection comprises the national collection of British art from the year 1500 to the present day, and international modern art. Some of the highlights of the Tate collection of British art include rich holdings of portraiture from the age of Queen Elizabeth I; of the work of William Hogarth, sometimes called the father of English painting; of the eighteenth-century portraitists Gainsborough and Reynolds; of the animal painter George Stubbs; of the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who revolutionised British art in the nineteenth century; and in the twentieth century of the work of Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Francis Bacon and the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s. The very latest contemporary art is presented through the Art Now programme and the annual Turner Prize exhibition. Special attention is given to three outstanding British artists from the Romantic age. William Blake and John Constable have dedicated spaces within the gallery, while the unique J. M. W. Turner Collection of about 300 paintings and many thousands of watercolours is housed in the specially built Clore Gallery. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.tate.org.uk/britain

Louise Bourgeois's Sculpture "Maman" Coming To Fondation Beyeler Park Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:58 PM PDT ZURICH.- Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most significant and influential artist personalities of our times. She would have celebrated her 100th birthday on December 25, 2011. To mark this occasion, the Fondation Beyeler is mounting an exhibition featuring a concentrated selection from her oeuvre. An advance highlight is the presentation of her renowned and largest spider sculpture Maman (1999) on Bundesplatz in Bern, Bürkliplatz in Zurich, and at a site in Geneva. Subsequently Maman will be on view during the exhibition in the Fondation Beyeler park in Riehen/Basel.

Revolutionary Moments in 20th Century Graphic and Industrial Design at ICA Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:38 PM PDT CHICAGO, IL.- Beginning around 1910, a group of vanguard artists working in Europe advanced the radical idea that art had a mandate to transform daily life, from silverware to postage stamps to buildings. This theory would eventually take hold in the wider world, where it merged enthusiastically with the demands of the industrial marketplace, the nascent mass media, and urban popular culture. This vibrant and critically important moment in east-central European modernism is comprehensively explored in Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life–a major exhibition on view at the Art Institute of Chicago (ICA) from June 11 through October 9. Focusing on six highly influential international artists. John Heartfield, Gustav Klutsis, El Lissitzky, Ladislav Sutnar, Karel Teige, and Piet Zwart –this exhibition features nearly 300 works from a landmark acquisition, including photography, photomontage, book and poster design, and household objects such as rare examples of porcelain and glassware. Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life is the first significant exhibition at the Art Institute to address any aspect of art east of Germany during the interwar decades.

The William J. Dane Fine Print Collection at the Newark Public Library Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:17 PM PDT NEWARK, NJ.- Building and maintaining a library collection is no easy task, and doubly difficult when collecting art such as fine prints, portfolios and artists' books. Libraries have modest acquisition budgets (if any at all) and can never acquire the works of top–name artists at the height of their fame or auction value. Considering the fact that the collections at the Newark Public Library include works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and others, people might well wonder how these valuable items arrived here in Newark. The answer is threefold: generous people donated their treasures, foundations and individuals donated funds, and librarians tried to collect ahead of the trends. Luckily for us, The Newark Public Library's former "Keeper of the Prints", William J. Dane, contributed in all three ways – and by doing so, inspired others to give. Exhibition on views until 25 June.

The Museum of Florida Art Shows "Off the Page ~ Florida Book Art" Posted: 13 Jun 2011 09:03 PM PDT DeLand, FL. The Museum of Florida Art presents "Off the Page: Florida Book Art", on view through October 30th. The exhibition is on display in the Dorothy Johnson Gallery on the upper floor. It features eight Florida book artists reconfiguring the traditional book into unique works of art, challenging the viewer's idea of what books are. The exhibition poses the question: What is an artist book? Is it a literary, sculptural, paper or mixed media work of art?

The Yale Centre for British Art Goes On-line With a Major Assciated Exhibition Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:42 PM PDT New Haven, CT.-  Earlier this year, the Yale Center for British Art, which houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside of the United Kingdom, made its extraordinary holdings available through a new online catalogue. The launch of the website was complemented by the exhibition "Connections". On view until September 11th, "Connections" mirrors the experience of the new online catalogue by drawing from across the Center's extraordinary collections. "Connections" includes more than two hundred paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, rare books, and manuscripts that are installed on the third floor in ten thematic, period, and monographic bays ranging from the early seventeenth to the early twentieth century.

The Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver To Show 'Flesh and Blood' Recent Work by Shary Boyle Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:27 PM PDT Vancouver, BC.- The Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to present "Flesh and Blood", a major touring exhibition of recent work by Canadian artist Shary Boyle. Through drawing, sculpture, painting, writing and performance Boyle creates installations that examine a range of psychological and emotional situations rooted in a fictional world. Her position is at once feminist yet poetic, located within dreamlike states. Tense with troubled emotions, possessing an expressive immediacy and poised between grace and strangeness, her portraits and 'genre scenes' read as allegories of the human condition.

The Harris Gallery Shows Recent Cubist paintings by M.C. Harris Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:12 PM PDT Healdsburg, CA.- The Harris Gallery presents recent cubist works by American artist M.C. Harris. Known for his modernist landscapes and Neo NABIS style works, the American painter M.C. Harris has recently produced a group of vibrant and energetic cubist inventions. The show wll run through August.

The Jason McCoy Gallery brings Northern Light to New York Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:11 PM PDT New York City.- The Jason McCoy Gallery is pleased to present Northern Light, an exhibition featuring a small selection of 19th Century, modern, and contemporary Northern European artists. Ranging from prints by Edvard Munch and a significant Romantic landscape painting by Johan Christian Dahl to photographs by Danish artist Trine Søndergaard and works by Norwegian painter Kenneth Blom and Berlin-based Erik Schmidt, "Northern Light" explores the distinct notions of mood and atmosphere that continue to characterize much of Scandinavian and Northern European art. The exhibition is on view at the Jason McCoy Gallery in New York through July 29th.

Sotheby's London Offers the Greatest Collection of 20th-Century British Art Posted: 13 Jun 2011 07:10 PM PDT LONDON.- Sotheby's London announced the sale of the greatest collection of 20th-Century British Art ever to come to the market: The Evill/Frost Collection, a stand-alone three-part sale which launches with an Evening Sale on Wednesday 15th. This incomparable collection comprises outstanding works of the highest calibre by Modern British masters including the most important – and largest – group of paintings by Stanley Spencer ever to come to the market, in addition to works by Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland, Edward Burra and Patrick Heron, amongst many others. The collection – which is estimated to fetch in excess of £12 million and comprises not only 20th-century British art but also furniture and porcelain. The paintings and sculptures, collected by Wilfrid Evill between 1925 and 1960 and then vigilantly maintained by Honor Frost, represent a window for the collectors of today to look into a past world, and the dispersal of this collection offers those same collectors opportunities that appear perhaps only once in a lifetime – to acquire the very best. The collection, aside from the Spencer's which have been loaned for Stanley Spencer retrospectives, has been largely hidden from view since the 1965 Wilfrid Evill Memorial exhibition at Brighton City Art Gallery . The assemblage demonstrates an unparalleled vision of the achievements and talent of some of the most accomplished British artists in the period just before and after World War II. Wilfrid Evill and Honor Frost A discreet but widely respected connoisseur, Wilfrid Evill was a collector with a remarkable understanding of contemporary art during the inter-war period and just after. His interest in and support for British artists at this time ensured the careers of some of our most celebrated artists. Evill's choices when he held a ten-year tenure as a buyer for the Contemporary Arts Society ensured the acquisition of masterpieces for museums and galleries throughout Britain. Wilfrid Evill was a London solicitor who represented several artists including Stanley Spencer, Lucian Freud and Graham Sutherland – along with a number of other notable names such as Evelyn Waugh – but he also represented trade unions. It was with Stanley Spencer that Evill struck up a particularly strong friendship and he eventually built up the most important private collection of Spencer's work. Evill's appreciation of and support for Spencer's work led him to acquire paintings directly after their exhibition, but he also pursued works that had been bought by other collectors, waiting a number of years until they appeared for sale on the market. Notable too are the large sums he paid for works he desired. In 1937 he paid £250 to secure Workmen in the House – a considerable amount to be spent on art at the time and significantly more money than he spent for on any other work in his collection for some years. For Lucian Freud's Boy on a Sofa, for example, he paid just £18 in 1944, the details of which were rigorously archived in his ledgers. No other private lender, beyond the artist himself, was more generous than he, as was seen for the 1955 Tate Gallery retrospective of Spencer. Similarly, bequests by Wilfrid Evill of important Spencer paintings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge immediately established their holding of the artist's work as one of the most significant outside London. When Evill died in 1963 he bequeathed his estate, together with his extraordinary collection of paintings and works of art, to his long-time ward Honor Frost. An only child, Honor lost both her parents when she was small, after which Evill took over responsibility for her upbringing and education. Both keenly intelligent, they developed over the years an extremely close relationship. A fascinating woman in her own right, Honor shared Evill's love of the arts: having studied at the Central School of Art in London, and the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, she went on to work as a designer for the Ballet Rambert and then became director of publications at the Tate Gallery, before becoming a marine archaeologist, for which she is renowned, pioneering its pursuit as a scientific discipline. Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959) The elements of narrative, personal experience and visionary presentation make Stanley Spencer one of the most important yet elusive British artists of the twentieth century, and he is represented in the Evill/Frost Collection by a group of works that offer an opportunity to rediscover and re-engage with the artist's life and vision. Executed in 1935, Workmen in the House (est. £1.5-2.5 million**) ranks among the most important works in Stanley Spencer's oeuvre. It has featured in virtually every publication on the artist, and indeed was chosen as the cover for the important 1955 Tate retrospective of the artist's work, as well as for Evill's memorial exhibition in 1965. It thus holds a position as one of the best known yet relatively little seen of Spencer's major paintings. One of his more accessible works of this period in Spencer's career, Workmen in the House refers to an incident at Chapel View, the house Spencer lived in whilst painting the Burghclere Chapel series. The everyday setting of a smoking kitchen range becomes a springboard for the artist which allows him to address a much wider range of topics, not least the element of intrusion and disturbance of the home environment that the visit of the workmen entails. As with much of Spencer's best work, one detailed memory leads to a wider remembrance, and in a letter of 1937 he outlined how this derived from the sense of excitement that he had experienced as a small boy when familiar rooms were redecorated and the furniture moved around. Not seen in public since the Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition of 1965, Patrick Heron's Table with Fishes, of 1954, is estimated at £250,000-350,000. This is a superb example of Heron's early style, drawing on the example of Braque's magisterial Atelier interiors, but employing a palette and manner entirely his own. The coloring of this painting is particularly striking, the blue, red and pink creating the space of the room, whilst the dense inky blackness of the night-time world beyond the window is remarkable. The thick handling of the paint offers a wonderful counterpoint to the delicacy of Heron's line, which winds beautifully across the image, giving enough detail to inform without ever showing too much. The guttering flame of the candle is a master-stroke, animating the entire composition with just the simplest and most minimal gesture. Spencer's Sunflower and Dog Worship, an important work of 1937, ranks among the most extreme manifestations of Spencer's notion of universal harmony. In it, Spencer envisages a heaven-like state of all-embracing love as the two central figures, a husband and wife enclosed within their garden walls with a number of dogs (emblematic in Spencer's work of the kind of untrammeled freedom mankind is seeking), enjoy a mystical state of joy, embracing and being embraced by huge sunflowers. Spencer's more complex, narrative works such as this were less readily appreciated by the wider collecting community of the time, yet Evill belonged to a small band of collectors who saw in works such as these the "real Spencer". Sir Hugh Walpole was another collector who shared Evill's appreciation of Spencer's work and he was quick to recognize the importance of this painting, purchasing it within just two hours of its exhibition in December 1937. Disappointed at having missed it, Evill was able to buy it from Walpole some seven years later for £100. It is now estimated at £1,000,000-1,500,000. Further Highlights of the Sale Beyond the uniquely large group of works by Spencer, the sale offers paintings, drawings, watercolors and sculptures; a selection which moves through generational boundaries, and highlights different phases of Evill's collecting. Starting with the major names of the inter-war period, such as Henry Moore, Edward Burra, and Graham Sutherland, together with Spencer, William Roberts and Paul Nash, his involvement with the Contemporary Art Society gave him access to a younger generation of artists working in the post-war period. These included the young Lucian Freud, John Craxton and Patrick Heron. A stunning example of Lucian Freud's early work Boy on a Sofa (est. £400,000-600,000), drawn in 1944, demonstrates the artist's exceptional ability as a draughtsman. A composition of wonderful simplicity, the direct presentation of the sitter (Billy Lumley) and his engagement with us as a viewer is nevertheless somewhat disarming, and the setting – using the worn chaise that appears in the seminal The Painter's Room of the same year – and the clothing appear oddly out of keeping with the youth and innocence of the sitter. Not seen in public since the Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition of 1965, Patrick Heron's Table with Fishes, of 1954, is estimated at £250,000-350,000. This is a superb example of Heron's early style, drawing on the example of Braque's magisterial Atelier interiors, but employing a palette and manner entirely his own. The coloring of this painting is particularly striking, the blue, red and pink creating the space of the room, whilst the dense inky blackness of the night-time world beyond the window is remarkable. The thick handling of the paint offers a wonderful counterpoint to the delicacy of Heron's line, which winds beautifully across the image, giving enough detail to inform without ever showing too much. The guttering flame of the candle is a master-stroke, animating the entire composition with just the simplest and most minimal gesture. Henry Moore's bronze, Rocking Chair No.3 was purchased by Evill in the 1950s for £150. One of an edition of 6 casts, this important piece now comes to auction with an estimate of £800,000-1,200,000. Moore's ability to combine realism and abstraction in his sculpture works here as a perfect vehicle for a sculpture that despite its scale has both a monumentality and a real tenderness. The theme of the mother and child was a central one for Moore throughout his career and this marvelously poised sculpture captivates by its understanding of the subject and his rendering of it into sculptural forms. A rigorously urban image of life on the streets, rife with style and shrewdly observed elements of character, Edward Burra's Zoot Suits, £250,000-350,000, depicts a group of men newly arrived in London from Jamaica on the SS Empire Windrush in 1948, and who are establishing themselves within the new urban culture that was burgeoning in London. The work recalls Burra's excitement on first visiting New York in 1933 when he was particularly drawn to the energy of the Harlem Renaissance and therefore draws a parallel between the artistic and social movements present in New York in the 1930s and those emerging in London in the 1940s. Furniture & Ceramics In addition to works of art, the sale will also include a selection of furniture and ceramics, a highlight of which is a Sèvres tea service contained within a kingwood parquetry carrying box (est. £10,000-15,000), formerly in the collection of the great actor, director and theatre manager David Garrick (1717-79). Garrick visited Paris three times and on his final visit in the autumn of 1764, returning from a European tour, he purchased this Sèvres service together with its fitted box. This illustrious owner and the high quality of the set by possibly the best 18th century porcelain manufactures would have delighted Evill and met the qualifying requirements of beauty and quality that were established for choosing objects for his collection.

One Of The USA's Leading and Most Comprehensive Art Museums ~ The Saint Louis Art Museum Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:52 PM PDT The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) began as the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Washington University in St. Louis. Originally housed in a building in downtown St. Louis, the Museum moved to its current home in Forest Park after the 1904 World's Fair. The Saint Louis Art Museum's building was designed by renowned American architect Cass Gilbert for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the World's Fair. Originally part of the Palace of Fine Arts, the Museum was the only building from the Fair designed to be a permanent structure, the "one material monument of the Exposition." It stands as a reminder of that defining event in the history of the city of St. Louis and the State of Missouri. In 1909 the museum separated from Washington University and was renamed the City Art Museum of Saint Louis. During the 1950s, the museum added an extension to include an auditorium for films, concerts and lectures. In 2005, noted British architect David Chipperfield was appointed to design a further expansion of the museum. Chipperfield has won some of Europe's most prestigious commissions, including the restoration of the Neues Museum and master plan for Museum Island in Berlin and the redesign of Venice's historic cemetery island, San Michele. He was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007 for the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany. His U.S. projects include the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa; the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center; and the Des Moines Central Library. The expansion will include more than 224,000 square feet (20,800 m2) of gallery space, including an underground garage, within the lease lines of the property. The expansion is expected to cost $125 million. The project officially broke ground in early 2010 and will be completed in 2012. The museum will remain open during construction. The museum's mission is to collect, present, interpret, and conserve works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures, to educate, inspire discovery, and elevate the human spirit and to preserve a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world. Through generations of public support and private benefaction, the Saint Louis Art Museum has assembled one of the finest comprehensive art collections in the country, totaling more than 32,000 works, and the museum is visited by more than half a million people every year. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.slam.org

Renovated Albertinum Museum in Dresden Unites Past and Present Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:51 PM PDT DRESDEN.- After thorough-going restoration and refurbishment, the new Albertinum now presents itself as a centre of art from the Romantic period to the present day. The new exhibition halls are shared by the Galerie Neue Meister and the Skulpturensammlung. The holdings of both museums, with paintings ranging from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter and sculptures ranging from Rodin to the 21st century, have an outstanding worldwide reputation. Huge glass-fronted display storerooms provide visitors with unprecedented insights into the internal workings of the museum and will open previously hidden works to view on a permanent basis. Within the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden the new Albertinum constitutes a bridge between the past and the future.

17 World Famous Museums Are Participating in Google's New Art Project Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:50 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, along with 16 other art museums from the United States, Europe, and Russia, is collaborating with Google on the Art Project, a website that enables users to discover and view more than 1,000 artworks online in extraordinary detail. The site launched today and can be explored at googleartproject.com. Over the last 18 months, Google worked with a range of museums, including four from the United States: MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, and the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington. The partnership involved taking a selection of extremely high resolution images of famous artworks, as well as collating more than 1,000 other images into one place. It also included capturing 360-degree tours of individual galleries using Street View "indoor" technology. With this unique project, anyone anywhere in the world will be able to learn about the history and artists behind a huge number of works, at the click of a mouse.

SFMOMA will Become Home to Gap Founder's Contemporary Art Collection Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:49 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Board Chair Charles Schwab and Director Neal Benezra today announced that the museum is developing a groundbreaking relationship with Doris and Donald Fisher that would provide the Fisher Collection—one of the world's leading collections of contemporary art—with a home at SFMOMA. The Fishers, who together founded Gap Inc. in 1969, have long envisioned keeping their collection intact for the public in their hometown of San Francisco. The Fisher Collection includes some 1,100 works by leading artists including Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Anselm Kiefer, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol, among many others.

The Phillips Collection ~ 'Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film' Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:48 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- The surprising exchange between American artists and the first filmmakers at the turn of the 20th century is the subject of a provocative exhibition on view at The Phillips Collection. Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film is the first exhibition to fully integrate cinema into the history of American art, rewriting traditional views of visual culture in the early 1900s. This critically acclaimed exhibition features a landmark installation of 46 flat-screen monitors playing 60 of the earliest films, juxtaposed with 85 paintings, illustrations, photographs, posters, and flipbooks from 1880-1910. By displaying these short films—by Thomas Alva Edison, the Lumière Brothers, and American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.—alongside works of similar subject matter by artists such as George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, and John Sloan, Moving Pictures reveals how the powerful relationship between film and the visual arts created a radically new vision  of modern life.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opens "Sleeping Under Stars" a Finley & Muse Project Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:47 PM PDT RIDGEFIELD, CT.- The collaborative team of Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse have based their first major project in the northeast on the sweep of over 200 years of Ridgefield, Connecticut's, history. The exhibition will debut on Sunday, January 31, 2010. The exhibition ends on June 6, 2010 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The exhibition, entitled Sleeping Under Stars, Living Under Satellites, explores different ways of keeping time and moving through space by presenting the wanderings of legendary historical figures from Ridgefield, Sarah Bishop and the Leatherman.

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to exhibit " Modernists in New Mexico " Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:46 PM PDT SANTA FE, NM - The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum presents an exhibition that includes a number of paintings designated as partial gifts to the Museum by an anonymous New Mexico collector. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is delighted to be able to exhibit this superb selection, which demonstrates the richly productive encounter between some of America 's most innovative twentieth-century painters and one of their favorite sources of inspiration – New Mexico . The exhibition includes works by various modern artists, most of whom arrived in the southwest after 1912, when New Mexico, which had been a territory, attained statehood: George Wesley Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, Raymond Jonson, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and John Sloan. On exhibition 13 February through 10 May, 2009.

Gagosian Gallery Announces Exclusive Representation of Photographer Richard Avedon Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:45 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announces the worldwide representation of Richard Avedon, in partnership with The Richard Avedon Foundation. Larry Gagosian comments, "Avedon is America's consummate modern photographer and one of the iconic artists from a generation which produced many extraordinary painters, sculptures, and photographers. We consider it a great privilege to represent one of the true masters of twentieth century art."

Munich's Cultural Appeal Expands with New Brandhorst Museum Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:44 PM PDT MUNICH, GERMANY - With the new Museum Brandhorst, the Kunstareal museum complex has gained a significant new addition. In conjunction with the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne, the multifaceted profile of modern and contemporary art has been expanded in an impressive manner. The Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection, with its important work complexes, will open to the public tomorrow in a fascinating building designed by Sauerbruch Hutton architects. Both, architecture and works, further emphasize the city's significant cultural importance and will trigger a far-reaching resonance.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 13 Jun 2011 06:43 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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