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• The Schirn Kunsthalle Shows a Comprehensive Solo Exhibition of Francesco Clemente
• The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Exhibits "Van Gogh & Roulin"
• Boris Krasnov's Giant Russian Dolls at Afimall City in Moscow
• Peninsula Fine Arts Center Shows Gloria Coker Solo Exhibition
• Dutch National Rijksmuseum Museum Renovation in Full Swing ~ to Reopen in 2013
• The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Opens the First International Exhibition Devoted to Jean Paul Gaultier
• The New Mexico Museum of Art Shows The Prints of Gustave Baumann
• SCOPE Basel 2011 Returns with Its Cutting Edge Contemporary Art
• ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe Celebrates 'Car Culture'
• The Irvine Museum Shows Works by California's Bohemian Club Painters
• Images from Final Roll of Kodachrome Donated to George Eastman House
• The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan 'Round-Up' Of Fine Art
• Loss of Control: Crossing the Boundaries to Art from Félicien Rops to the Present
• Tate Liverpool to display Sculpture from the Tate Collection
• Radford U. Art Museum Show
• International Group Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Portraits & Still Lifes by Vera Mercer at Kommunale Galerie in Berlin
• Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt Celebrates 25th Anniversary With An Exhibition of "Surreal Objects ~ Three Dimensional Works From Dali to Man Ray"
• The Fundacion Juan March opens 'Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990'
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Schirn Kunsthalle Shows a Comprehensive Solo Exhibition of Francesco Clemente Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:34 PM PDT Frankfurt.- The Schirn Kunsthalle is pleased to present a comprehensive solo exhibition, with monumental works by the Italian painter Francesco Clemente. "Francisco Clemente: Palimpsest" is on view now and remains on exhibit through September 4th. Francesco Clemente, born in 1952 in Naples, has pioneered an extraordinary pictorial language that draws on a variety of timeless symbols, myths, cultures, and philosophies. Frequently charged with eroticism, his oeuvre also has a profound religious quality. The variety of mediums which he employs and the subject matter of his work are deeply informed by Clemente's nomadic artistic life. Since the 1970s he has continually travelled between Italy and India, adding New York City to his preferred places of residency since 1980. This exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle is the first comprehensive showing of his paintings and drawings in Germany in more than a quarter century. The exhibition brings together some forty works made between 1978 and 2011. Taking as its starting point Clemente's early works on paper, the show also includes both large format paintings and more recent, spectacular monumental watercolours. Conceptualized in close cooperation with the artist, the exhibition brings to light for the first time the close resemblance of Clemente's aesthetic to the manner in which references are actualized in a palimpsest: effacement, partial erasure, and superimposition of writing surfaces. In so doing it reveals a concern at the centre of his oeuvre: Clemente's conviction in his role as an artist as a kind of universal witness of consciousness. Realized in a variety of media such as pastel, fresco, oil, gouache and watercolor, Clemente's work interweaves traditional likenesses and narratives with more personal motifs and stories. In his paintings forms and lines seem to emerge and recede forming multilayered records of experience. This aesthetic is quite similar to the technique of the palimpsest, employed in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Applied on used scrolls of parchment, it involved scraping, erasing and washing the older manuscripts to yield a clean sheet for reuse, although in fact traces of the original texts often remained visible. The similarity of his method of working to a palimpsest is far from coincidental. Instead such a technique points back to the origins of his artistic inclinations. As Clemente recently put it: "The original impulse in my life as an artist was to write and to break from writing into image." His concern with language was already evident at the young age of twelve, when a collection of his poems, Castelli di Sabbia was published. Thereafter he studied Greek and Latin in high school, before moving to Rome in 1970, where he increasingly came to believe that art was the "last oral tradition alive in the West." It was then that he first saw it as his task to make work that had a political consciousness was the call of the day. Since then he has single-mindedly pursued giving form to images that might help bring about an increased awareness of the need to break with established  notion of Self in order to expand awareness. It was this goal and his deep interest in philosophy and spirituality that led Clemente to India for the first time in 1973. He would spend more than half of the 1970s, at irregular intervals, particularly in the southern city of Madras on the east coast, present-day Chennai. He lived a simple life with actress Alba Primiceri, whom he met in 1974 and married soon after. It wasn't long before he had set up a studio, begun to collaborate with local artists and exchange ideas with members of the Theosophical Society there. In the late 1970s art critics increasingly linked his work the so-called "Italian Transavantgarde." Although the "group," which also included painters Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi and Mimmo Paladino, attracted a great deal of international attention, Clemente soon disassociated his work from theirs. Clemente visited New York for the first time in 1980. Soon after arriving he not only began to collaborate with such writers as Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley, but the contemporary composer Morton Feldman. In 1981 – at the same time the so-called death of painting was being fervently proclaimed – Clemente decided to explore even more intensively the possibilities of this medium. Part of this activity resulted in his collaborations with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. His non-conventional techniques of painting as well as his openness to collaborating with other artists contributed to Clemente rapidly becoming a rising star of the international art scene. His works were exhibited both at documenta 7 in Kassel (1982) and the Venice Biennial (1988, 1993 and 1995). Solo shows were held at such renowned institutions as the Nationalgalerie Berlin (1984), Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover (1984/85), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1994), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999), and MADRE Museum, Naples (2009). The exhibition "Francesco Clemente. Palimpsest" at Schirn Kunsthalle is divided into three distinct gallery spaces. The first section is dedicated to three monumental watercolors, collectively entitled "A History of the Heart in Three Rainbows" (2009), each measuring over 18 meters long and 185 centimeters high. With their scroll-like format and fluid, metamorphosing forms, the works, appear to be almost natural, powerful palimpsests of the human spirit – landscapes, as it were, of spiritual evolution. These large format watercolors, composed of constantly changing layers of color, evoke various states of consciousness, which ebb away only to then take on new dimensions. For the second gallery space the artist has created a series of large, semi-abstract photographic images transformed into a kind of "wallpaper." Applied directly to the walls of the Schirn rotunda and extending more than fourteen meters in length, it features fragments of letters, objects, works and snapshots from his Broadway studio in New York City. This "wallpaper" evokes the poetic and culturally eclectic context from which Clemente's art continues to emerge. In the third and last gallery space visitors encounter some thirty of Clemente's key works from 1978 to 2011. More or less installed chronologically, they unfold as a kind of painted palimpsest. At once epigrammatic and expansive, these works attest to the artists' continual processing of visual information in which some forms survive, while others die out. Following the September 11, 2001 attack on the Twin Towers in New York City, a site just a few blocks from Clemente's studio, he increasingly felt the urgency to continue making art that might help building bridges between people and worlds. Such works as "For an History of Women" (2009) and "Camouflage Paradise" (2010) push even further to the limit the possibilities of using "contemplative languages still alive in spite of the onslaught perpetrated by industrial society." Their expanding and contracting sequential like forms, articulate to his growing conviction in his role as an artist as a kind of universal witness of consciousness. Far more than a mere collagist, over the past 40 years Clemente has been steadily pioneering a new kind of history painting with a quiet, yet insistent mediative power. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is one of Germany's most renowned exhibition institutions. Since its founding in 1986, the Schirn has mounted approximately 180 exhibitions, including major survey shows devoted to the Vienna Jugendstil, Expressionism, Dada, and Surrealism, to women Impressionists, to subjects such as "shopping — a century of art and consumer culture," the visual art of the Stalin era, new Romanticism in contemporary art, and the influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Large solo exhibitions have featured artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Julian Schnabel, James Ensor, James Lee Byars, Yves Klein, Peter Doig, Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, and Georges Seurat. And artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Ayse Erkmen, Carsten Nicolai, Jan De Cock, Jonathan Meese, John Bock, Michael Sailstorfer, Terence Koh, Aleksandra Mir, Eberhard Havekost, and Mike Bouchet have developed new exhibitions for the Schirn. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt showcases highly charged themes and topical aspects of artists' oeuvres with an incisive voice and from a contemporary standpoint. As a site of discoveries, the Schirn offers its visitors an original, sensory exhibition experience as well as active participation in cultural discourse. Visit the kunsthalle's website at ... http://www.schirn.de

The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Exhibits "Van Gogh & Roulin" Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:33 PM PDT Rotterdam. - The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen offers a rare opportunity to see Vincent van Gogh's portraits of Joseph Roulin and his son Armand Roulin reunited. The paintings will be on view in the same gallery until September 4th. 'Unutterably luminous and consoling', is how Van Gogh described those portraits he thought the best. That is how he had experienced the old masters and that is what he aspired to himself. In the exhibition "Van Gogh & Roulin", one of the masterpieces from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Van Gogh's Portrait of Armand Roulin, will be temporarily reunited with the portrait of Armand's father Joseph Roulin, the postmaster whom Vincent Van Gogh befriended.

Boris Krasnov's Giant Russian Dolls at Afimall City in Moscow Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:56 PM PDT Moscow.- Moscow is currently hosting an exhibition of giant Russian Dolls, designed by scenographer Boris Krasnov. Ranging in height from 6-13m (19-42ft), each matryoshka (to give it its Russian name) repeats the shape of the famous and beloved Russian nesting dolls - a symbol of Russian culture. The dolls were created for, and represented Russia at the Russian National Exhibition in Paris in 2010. the dolls are curently on view at the Afimall City complex in Moscow.

Peninsula Fine Arts Center Shows Gloria Coker Solo Exhibition Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:55 PM PDT Newport News, VA.- Peninsula Fine Arts Center presents the artwork of Gloria Coker in "Joie de Vivre", an exhibition opening June 18th and continuing through July 10th. A "Meet the Artist" reception from 2 to 4 pm, Sunday, June 19th is free and open to the public. Recognition for her artistic achievements is impressive. An article about her work has appeared in American Artist Watercolor. Her art has appeared on posters and brochure covers for Hampton Bay Days, Norfolk's Harborfest and both the Virginia and the Buffalo symphonies.

Dutch National Rijksmuseum Museum Renovation in Full Swing ~ to Reopen in 2013 Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:24 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (AP).- Rembrandt's "Night Watch" and other famed works by Dutch masters will return to their permanent home by 2013, as a radical decade-long renovation of the national Rijksmuseum nears completion. A sneak preview showed the 19th-century museum both modernized and closer to its original plan. Its red-brick exterior, reminiscent of a fairy-tale castle, remains intact. Inside, maze-like corridors have been scrapped in favor of large spaces and high ceilings, with a central "gallery of honor" restored to its initial appearance, evoking the vault of a gothic cathedral.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Opens the First International Exhibition Devoted to Jean Paul Gaultier Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:53 PM PDT Montreal.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is proud to have developed and produced the first international exhibition devoted to the celebrated couturier Jean Paul Gaultier. "The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk" will be on view at the museum from June 17th through October 2nd. Gaultier launched his first prêt-à-porter collection in 1976 and founded his own couture house in 1997. Dubbed fashion's enfant terrible by the press from the time of his first runway shows in the 1970s, Jean Paul Gaultier is indisputably one of the most important fashion designers of recent decades.

The New Mexico Museum of Art Shows The Prints of Gustave Baumann Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:38 PM PDT Santa Fe, NM - The New Mexico Museum of Art is presenting two exhibitions this summer celebrating Gustave Baumann, his prodigious creativity, and his love for New Mexico. On view through September 2nd in the Governor's Gallery at the New Mexico State Capitol is "Gustave Baumann: Painter, Printmaker, and Puppeteer", and opening July 1st at the New Mexico Museum of Art is "The Prints of Gustave Baumann". Both exhibitions were curated by Merry Scully, curator of the Governor's Gallery. "The Prints of Gustave Baumann", will remain on display at the museum until December. Gustave Baumann lived in Santa Fe until his death in 1971. Many of Baumann's most popular prints depict the Southwestern landscape and regional traditions of his beloved New Mexico.

SCOPE Basel 2011 Returns with Its Cutting Edge Contemporary Art Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:30 PM PDT BASEL.- SCOPE, the art show that has established its name by curating cutting edge contemporary art from around the world, proudly returns to Basel for the fifth year. Running concurrent with Art Basel for the next three years, SCOPE returns to its high profile venue in historic Kaserne just blocks from Art Basel 42. Located in the heart of the city, SCOPE Basel's new home, a pavilion offering over 5,000 m², will provide the real opportunity for gallerists, collectors, curators, artists, critics and art lovers alike to experience a view of the contemporary art market available nowhere else. The fair opens to Press and VIP's on Wednesday, June 15 with the FirstView benefit.

ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe Celebrates 'Car Culture' Posted: 16 Jun 2011 08:29 PM PDT KARLSRUHE, GERMANY - The technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries facilitate new forms of independence from place. With Media of Mobility, the exhibition "CAR CULTURE" takes up the theme of mobility in a twofold sense: the material mobility of the body, cars and machines, stands juxtaposed to the immaterial mobility of signals, telegraphy, television, radio, telephone and Internet. The exhibiton 'CAR CULTURE Media of technology', is on exhibit from 18 June  until 08 January 2012 at ZMK.

The Irvine Museum Shows Works by California's Bohemian Club Painters Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:46 PM PDT Irvine, CA.- The Irvine Museum is pleased to present "California Rhapsody" from June 18th through November 3rd. The artists in this exhibition were all early members of the remarkable Bohemian club. In 1872, a number of San Francisco painters, writers, musicians and actors joined together as a group and formed the Bohemian Club. The club began to thrive. In April 1874, Henry Edwards, president of the Bohemian Club, reported that this "association of talent, which from small beginnings has, in the brief space of two years, made for itself a shining mark upon the literary and artistic records not only of California, but of America at large."

Images from Final Roll of Kodachrome Donated to George Eastman House Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:45 PM PDT ROCHESTER, NY.- When Kodak announced in 2009 it would no longer produce Kodachrome film, company officials announced two ways the famed film would be celebrated: 1) National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry would be given the last roll off the Kodak production line and 2) the images from that historic roll would be donated to the archives at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. McCurry today donated photographs from that final role to George Eastman House during a press conference in the museum. Eastman House will present a display of projected images beginning July 9 and will mount an international tour of the photographs in 2012. McCurry's historic journey took him in 2010 to his hometown of New York City to western India and finally to Parsons, Kansas. That final stop was to the last lab in existence to process Kodachrome, which would close at the end of 2010, but not before developing his precious roll. "I don't think there's ever been, in the history of photography, a better film, a better way to actually look at the world than with Kodachrome," McCurry said. "This was the only way I shot for decades." McCurry spoke at Eastman House , sharing the 31 photographs he captured from the 36-frame roll – some frames were duplicate images -- and telling stories of his travels and his fears the roll would be harmed by airport security scanners. He and Eastman House officials also talked about the celebration of Kodachrome, a color film process that lasted longer than any other. "We celebrate Kodachrome at George Eastman House," said Dr. Anthony Bannon, the Ron and Donna Fielding Director. "It was the world's first commercially successful color film, extolled since the Great Depression for its sharpness, archival durability, and vibrant yet realistic hues." The subjects he shot on the last roll include Robert DeNiro and photographer Elliott Erwitt, plus unknown people in various parks in New York City; McCurry in his hotel room in Parsons awaiting film processing; and in India – where McCurry noted "color is important culturally" and where he used Kodachrome's magic to subtly render contrast and color harmony in depictions of Bollywood luminaries in Mumbai and the Rubari tribe in Rajasthan on the verge of extinction. "I thought, 'What better way to honor the memory of Kodachrome than to try and photograph iconic places and people?' It's in (my) DNA to want to tell stories where the action is, that shed light on the human condition," McCurry said. He planned the trip, which he calls "a six-week odyssey," for nine months. A crew from the National Geographic Channel followed him on his journey. That special has not aired yet in the United States but debuted this spring on European television. Kodachrome was produced for 74 years, from 1935 to 2009, in a wide variety of formats, including 35mm slide film and 8mm movie film. McCurry used Kodachrome for his well-known 1984 portrait of Sharbat Gula, the "Afghan Girl," for National Geographic magazine. It also was used in 1953 for the official moving footage of the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. Kodachrome is appreciated in the archival and professional market for its dark-storage longevity, with colors remaining intact for decades. As digital photography reduced the demand for all varieties of film in the first decade of the 21st century, Kodachrome sales also declined. On June 22, 2009, Kodak announced the end of Kodachrome production. Kodachrome was invented in the early 1930s by two professional musicians, Leopold Godowsky Jr. and Leopold Mannes. A known comment in relation to these two men is "Kodachrome was made by God and Man." Godowsky's early papers are held in the archives at Eastman House, as are many varieties of Kodachrome film in original boxes from several decades as well as moving footage, slides, and photographs, including the documentation of Sir Edmund Hillary's history ascent of Mt. Everest. "It's definitely the end of an era," he said of Kodachrome. "It has such a wonderful color palette...a poetic look, not particularly garish or cartoonish, but wonderful, true colors that were vibrant, but true to what you were shooting. It was the gold standard of imagery." About Kodachrome Kodachrome was the first commercially successful color film. Kodachrome was the trademarked brand name of a type of color reversal film manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company from 1935 to 2009. It used a subtractive method -- in contrast to earlier additive "screenplate" methods such as autochrome and Dufaycolor -- and remained the oldest brand of color film. Kodachrome film was manufactured for 74 years in various formats to suit still and motion picture cameras, including 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm for movies and 35mm, 120, 110, 126, 828 and large format for still photography. For many years it was used for professional color photography, especially for images intended for publication in print media. The film was sold with processing included in the purchase price except in the United States, where a 1954 legal ruling ended that practice. Kodachrome was first sold in 1935 as 16 mm movie film. In 1936 it was made available in 8 mm movie film, and slide film in both 35mm and 828 formats. Kodachrome would eventually be produced in a wide variety of film formats including 120 and 4x5, and in ISO/ASA values ranging from 8 to 200. Each of these formats was discontinued one by one through the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. Unlike transparency and negative color films with dye couplers incorporated into the emulsion layers, Kodachrome had none. The dye couplers were added during processing. Without couplers, the emulsion layers were thinner, causing less light scattering and allowing the film to record a sharper image. A Kodachrome slide is discernible by an easily-visible relief image on the emulsion side of the film. Kodachrome had a dynamic range of around eight stops. Kodachrome required complex processing that could not practicably be carried out by amateurs. After labs around the world closed, Kodak subcontracted in recent years the processing work to Dwayne's Photo, an independent facility in Kansas, which was the world's last Kodachrome pressing facility. Dwayne's announced in late 2010 that it would process all Kodachrome rolls received at the lab by Dec, 30, 2010, after which further processing would cease. Due to high demand, the processing continued into January 2011, and then the world's last K-14 processing machine was taken out of service. Proof of its affect on popular culture, Kodachrome was the subject of Paul Simon's song "Kodachrome," and Kodachrome Basin State Park in Utah was named for it, becoming the only park named for a brand of film.

The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan 'Round-Up' Of Fine Art Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:22 PM PDT The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas. The new building was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, the 2007 winner of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. The Dallas Museum of Art collection is made up of more than 28,000 objects, dating from the third millennium BC to the present day. The museum's library contains over 50,000 volumes available to curators and the general public. The Dallas Museum of Art's history began with the establishment in 1903 of the Dallas Art Association, which initially exhibited paintings in the Dallas Public Library. The Museum's collections started growing from that moment on, and it soon became necessary to find a permanent home. The museum, renamed the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1932, relocated to a new art deco facility within Fair Park in 1936, on the occasion of the Texas Centennial Exposition. This new facility was designed by a consortium of Dallas architects in consultation with Paul Cret of Philadelphia. In 1943 Jerry Bywaters became the director of the DMFA and under his tenure, impressionist, abstract, and contemporary masterpieces were acquired and the Texas identity of the museum was emphasized. In 1963 the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts merged with the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art. The permanent collections of the two museums were then housed within the DMFA facility, which suddenly held significant works by Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Gerald Murphy, and Francis Bacon. By the late 1970s, the greatly enlarged permanent collection and the ambitious exhibition program fostered a need for a new museum facility. The museum moved once again, to its current venue, at the northern edge of the city's business district (the now designated Dallas Arts District). The $54 million dollar facility, designed by New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, gave the museum a new 370,000-square-foot facility when it opened in January 1984 (the museum's Sculpture Garden opened a year before in October 1983). At the same time the name was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1985 the new decorative arts wing, built to house 1,400 objects from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, opened. In 1991, construction began on the addition of the Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. When this opened in 1993 the museum gained an extra 140,000 square feet. In 2003, the Dallas Museum of Art marked its 100th birthday on January 19, and celebrated by remaining open for 100 continuous hours with 45,000 visitors in attendance. The museum collects, preserves, presents, and interprets works of art of the highest quality from diverse cultures and many centuries, including contemporary. As well as its galleries and library, the Dallas Museum of Art contains a café, museum shop and a unique 12,000-square-foot learning environment, the Center for Creative Connections. Visit the museum's website at … www.dallasmuseumofart.org

Loss of Control: Crossing the Boundaries to Art from Félicien Rops to the Present Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:21 PM PDT HERFORD, GERMANY.- In his extensive farewell exhibition at the Marta Herford Museum, founding director Jan Hoet presents a multiplicity of artistic perspectives and aspects on the theme of loss of control: "Loss of Control: Crossing the boundaries to art from Félicien Rops to the present. Obsession, sexuality, madness and death – the continuing exchange between art and life is the theme of the exhibition LOSS OF CONTROL.  After an eight-year engagement as the inspirational founding director of the Marta Herford museum, Jan Hoet is saying farewell with a show comprising over 400 works. All the pieces speak about the artistic search for authentic means of expression above and beyond societal norms, and convey in unprecedented depth the varying aspects of loss of control, boundary crossing, and madness.

Tate Liverpool to display Sculpture from the Tate Collection Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT Liverpool, UK - - Leading cultural figures from different disciplines will be bringing their own unique vision to bear on sculpture from the Tate Collection for DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, sponsored by DLA Piper. Transforming the first and second floor galleries are artist Michael Craig-Martin; designer Wayne Hemingway and his son Jack; and artist, director and writer Tim Etchells. From 1 May 2009 the co-curators present dedicated displays of sculpture which have been selected in conjunction with Tate Liverpool curators. The displays feature masterpieces from the Tate Collection by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, alongside recent acquisitions of contemporary art by Sarah Lucas, Jim Lambie and Terence Koh, among others.

Radford U. Art Museum Show Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:19 PM PDT RADFORD, VA.- Community leaders and officials from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and Radford University gathered on Thursday evening, Jan. 20, for a preview event celebrating the opening of "Van Gogh, Lichtenstein, Whistler: Masterpieces of World Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," an exhibition commemorating the museum's 75th anniversary. Supported by Altria Group, the special exhibition is open to the public and is featured in the Radford University Art Museum, located in the Covington Center for Visual and Performing Arts, from Jan. 21 - March 4, 2011. Admission is free.

International Group Exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT Dublin, Ireland - An exhibition by 20 leading international artists based on the physical and conceptual processes involved in making and exhibiting art opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 30 November 2006.  All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae comprises works in a wide variety of media by such cutting-edge artists as Doug Aitken, Douglas Gordon, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Carsten Höller and Sarah Lucas, many being shown for the first time in Ireland.  All of the artists involved have participated in researching and developing the exhibition, whose title is an anagram of the Irish and English for "new galleries", the building in which it is being held.  The exhibition is curated by the French artist Philippe Parreno, director of the recent much-acclaimed film on the French soccer star Zinedine Zidane, and Rachael Thomas, Head of Exhibitions at IMMA.

Portraits & Still Lifes by Vera Mercer at Kommunale Galerie in Berlin Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:17 PM PDT BERLIN.- The photographic work of Vera Mercer has remained relatively unknown until now. Born in 1936 in Berlin as Vera Mertz, she received Swiss citizenship following her marriage in 1958 to Daniel Spoerri.  In the same year, the couple moved to Paris, where they became part of an artistic avant-garde that would become known as the "Nouveaux Réalistes". In the following years, Vera Mercer, who was trained in modern dance and a self-taught photographer, portrayed visual artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Robert Filliou, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely as well as Daniel Spoerri time and again. Mercer's friendship with Swiss painter and sculptor Eva Aeppli, who was Tinguely's partner in the early 1960s, led to a systematic, decades-long documentation of Aeppli's work, two publications as well as the founding of a small Eva Aeppli-Museum including her "Garden of the Zodiac" in Omaha, Nebraska. According to Mercer, no other artist has influenced her more than Aeppli.

Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt Celebrates 25th Anniversary With An Exhibition of "Surreal Objects ~ Three Dimensional Works From Dali to Man Ray" Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT Frankfurt, Germany -  "Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an autopsy table" – this famous description by the poet Comte de Lautréamont captures a central dimension of Surrealist art theory. The interplay of opposites and the shift of reality that hints at the unconscious and dreamlike particularly manifest themselves in the Surrealists' strange and bizarre objects and sculptures. On the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, the Schirn presents an exhibition that focuses exclusively on the Surrealists' three-dimensional production which has never been on display in its full range before. Comprising about 180 works by 51 artists, the show with its international loans, on exhibit from February 11 until May 29, 2011, will include items by both very popular artists like Duchamp, Magritte, Dalí, Picasso, and Man Ray, and many others whose astounding and fascinating achievements still wait to be discovered by a wider public. Many of the three-dimensional works from the Surrealist period from 1925 to 1945 do not strike us as historical at all today, but rather present themselves as surprisingly fresh and contemporary.

The Fundacion Juan March opens 'Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990' Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:15 PM PDT   MADRID - The Fundacion Juan March in Madrid presents today Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990. Imagine a place where the dream of a modern utopia actually existed. A place with no distinctions between high and mass culture. Imagine contemporary artists working in a world in which, officially, there was neither an art market nor galleries, neither critics nor collectors, neither art publications nor any institutions other than those of the State. A world without an audience. On view until 1 November, 2008.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:15 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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