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• Marilyn Monroe "Subway" Dress Sells for $4.6 Million At Auction
• The Palestinian Art Academy Loaned a Pablo Picasso Masterpiece
• The Carmichael Gallery Displays Works by Banksy and Other Street Artists
• The American Folk Art Museum Presents a Retrospective of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
• World Monuments Fund Declares Sustainable Tourism Effort at the Alhambra
• The Everson Museum of Art Shows David MacDonald's African-Inspired Stoneware
• The Pinakothek der Moderne To Show Glass from the Gral Glasworks
• The Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art ~ Turkey’s First Contemporary Art Museum
• Works by Russian Masters and Fabergé to Be Offered at Christie's
• Michelangelo Pistoletto Presents Over One Hundred Works of Art at MAXXI In Rome
• The Morgan Library & Museum exhibit Acquisitions Since 2004
• Galleria dell'Accademia presents Robert Mapplethorpe ~ Perfection in Form
• Milwaukee Art Museum exhibits Jan Lievens ~ Out of Rembrandt's Shadow
• Lanning Gallery to show Legendary Pop Artist James Gill
• The National Gallery of Art features Philip Guston in a Focus Exhibition
• The 8th ARTSingapore is the Largest Contemporary Asian Art Fair
• 'From Vessel to Sculpture' at the Speed Art Museum
• Kunstmuseum Basel displays 101 Master Drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett
• Lost Franz Kafka Writings Resurface Are Now Trapped in Trial
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Marilyn Monroe "Subway" Dress Sells for $4.6 Million At Auction Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:51 PM PDT BEVERLY HILLS (REUTERS).- The pleated ivory dress that blew around Marilyn Monroe in an iconic scene from "The Seven Year Itch" sold for $4.6 million at a weekend auction of Hollywood costumes -- far exceeding its estimate. The so-called famous "subway" dress is perhaps the most recognizable in movie history. In Billy Wilder's 1955 movie, a passing train sent a draft through a grate as Monroe giddily stood above it proclaiming, "Isn't it delicious?"

The Palestinian Art Academy Loaned a Pablo Picasso Masterpiece Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:35 PM PDT RAMALLAH (AP).- A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank. Picasso's 1943 "Buste de Femme" is on loan from the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Holland. Organizers said they had to overcome a lack of reliable transport and several Israeli checkpoints along the way.

The Carmichael Gallery Displays Works by Banksy and Other Street Artists Posted: 20 Jun 2011 09:13 PM PDT Los Angeles.- The Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present "Playing Field", featuring original work from some of the best street artists around the world, including leading figures of the movement represented at the current Art In The Streets exhibition at MOCA Los Angeles. "Playing Field" includes original works from Banksy, Faile, Shepard Fairey, Sixeart, Os Gêmeos, Mark Jenkins, JR, KAWS, Barry McGee, José Parlá, Judith Supine, Swoon, Titi Freak and Dan Witz. "Playing Field" is on view at the gallery until August 9th.

The American Folk Art Museum Presents a Retrospective of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:55 PM PDT New York City.- The American Folk Art Museum is pleased to present "Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: 'Freelance Artist—Poet and Sculptor—Inovator—Arrow maker and Plant man—Bone artifacts constructor—Photographer and Architect—Philosopher'", on view at the museum until October 9th. The exhibition focuses on the formal leitmotifs of leaves and floral patterns as organizing principles in Von Bruenchenhein's multidisciplinary oeuvre. The exhibition highlights the evolution of these forms from the fabric and wallpaper featured in the early "pinup" photographs of the artist's wife, Marie, to hand-built ceramic flowers, vessels, and crowns. These ideas are further abstracted in vertical chicken- and turkey-bone towers and thrones and in paintings of spires, castles, and visionary buildings. The installation culminates with a book of drawings housed in a wallpaper-sample book and 34 rarely displayed ballpoint-pen drawings, unifying the two structural strands. Made in the early- to mid-1960s, those works range from studies of arabesque curves to architectural designs.

World Monuments Fund Declares Sustainable Tourism Effort at the Alhambra Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:54 PM PDT GRANADA, SPAIN - Patronato de la Alhambra, American Express, and World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced, at the Palace of Charles V at the Alhambra, an institutional partnership for the conservation of the site through a new program called "The Hidden Alhambra." "The Hidden Alhambra" is a sustainable tourism project supported by American Express and World Monuments Fund in the form of a donation of $200,000 through the American Express® Partners in Preservation program, in collaboration with World Monuments Fund.

The Everson Museum of Art Shows David MacDonald's African-Inspired Stoneware Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:37 PM PDT Syracuse, NY.- The Everson Museum of Art is pleased to present "The Power of Pattern: New Work by David MacDonald" from June 25th though September 18th. David MacDonald's artist statement reads, "The principle concern of my art is the articulation of the magnificence and nobility of the human spirit; a celebration of my African heritage." For more than four decades, David MacDonald has masterfully created richly patterned utilitarian objects from clay that have come to symbolize tremendous integrity and endurance. Despite the nation recognition MacDonald has earned for his superb work, he remains committed to, and most content when he is producing functional works of art in beautiful forms that will be touched, held, and most importantly used by people who will admire and appreciate their inherent beauty. This exhibition highlights the artist's vision of functional beauty through an extraordinary body of work–a labor of love–produced in the past year.

The Pinakothek der Moderne To Show Glass from the Gral Glasworks Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:36 PM PDT Munich.- The Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich presents "Gralglas 1930-1981: An Example of German Design" from July 1st through September 18th. Blazing light, mystical spirituality, magical allure, life-giving chalice – the 'Grail' is the stuff of many legends. And a Swabian family company claimed the German word 'Gral' for itself and used it as an expression of its fascination with the material of glass. For more than half a century, the Gral glassworks was one of the leading German glass manufacturers of the 20th century. With the support of one of the major Modernist glass artists, Wilhelm von Eiff, professor at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Stuttgart, the Gral glass workshops in Göppingen developed into one of the most advanced finishing plants for cutting and engraving until WWII. In keeping with the ideals of the Deutscher Werkbund and influenced by the modern style of Northern Europe, Gralglas evolved into a glassworks in its own right during the post-war period, by this time based in Dürnau. The high quality, plain objectivity, clear functionality and affordability of its glass products were a symbol of Gute Form (good design) – and were soon to be found in representative official residences of the still young Federal Republic of Germany. The standard and status of the Gral glassworks was roughly comparable internationally with the Daum glass company in France, Iittala in Finland, Orrefors in Sweden, Leerdam in the Netherlands, Riedel in Austria, Rosenthal in Germany and Venini in Italy, with which Gralglas was linked through the 'Group 21'. External industrial designers, artists and international glass specialists, including Hans Theo Baumann and Hartmut Esslinger, as well as Murano glass artists such as Livio Seguso, became responsible for Gral's new style. Apart from mass-produced everyday glassware, individual artistic pieces manufactured in in-house workshops from the end of the 1960s onwards testify to the high-quality design, the skill of the craftsmen and the delight in technical experimentation that strove to entice an ever greater power of expression from the material glass. Complemented by design drawings that widen our picture of the design process, selected pieces reflect the Gral glassworks' multifacetted richness in this first comprehensive retrospective: wafer-thin chalices and footed beakers, strict stereometry and unconstrained forms, lucid transparency and saturated coloured landscapes. The Pinakothek der Moderne is the modern art museum of Munich. Together with its two predecessors Alte Pinakothek and Neue Pinakothek, the Museum Brandhorst, the Antikensammlungen, the Glyptothek, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and the new joint building of the Ägyptisches Museum and the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, currently both scheduled to open in 2012, it forms part of Munich's "Kunstareal" (the "art district"). Since 1945, the collection, previously exhibited in the Haus der Kunst, has grown quickly by purchase, as well as donations by individuals and several foundations. Various art movements of the 20th century are represented in the collection, including Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, New Objectivity, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimal Art. The first floor of the west wing displays works of Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Umberto Boccioni, Robert Delaunay, Joan Miró and René Magritte as well as Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Kokoschka, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí and Francis Bacon. There are particularly comprehensive collections of works by Pablo Picasso and Max Beckmann. The museum also displays masterpieces of German Expressionism: representing painters of two early 20th century German artist groups, Die Brücke (The bridge) and Der Blaue Reiter (The blue rider), whose members included, among others, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde and Franz Marc, August Macke, Paul Klee, Alexej von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.pinakothek.de

The Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art ~ Turkey’s First Contemporary Art Museum Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:31 PM PDT Contemporary art may not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of Turkey, but for the last 25 years, the country has developed a thriving market and some spectacular artists. During the 1980s, the country opened up to western artistic influences and the social elite started to collect contemporary works. Auction houses, which had previously sold only antiques, carpets and traditional Turkish paintings, soon began catering to these collectors and in 1987, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts launched the Istanbul Biennale, a major international contemporary art event that today ranks with the biennials of Venice and São Paolo. But it was one young couple, Can and Sevda Elgiz, who in 2001 single-handedly changed the very structure of the Turkish art world and created a climate that would support contemporary artists within Turkey for the first time. With the help of curator Vasif Kortun, curator of the third Istanbul Biennale and already an internationally known figure at the time, they founded Proj4L and later the Museum Elgiz, the city's first museum for modern and contemporary art, with holdings from their own collection. Originally established as a gallery, and located in the Levent district of Istanbul, Proj4L evolved, while maintaining its mission to promote the development of contemporary art in Turkey. During its first 4 years many well-known contemporary Turkish artists of the day were presented to the world art stage at Proje4L, as they were given the chance to open their first exhibitions. The institution was also the first Turkish contemporary art space to house exhibitions of Turkish artists that were known internationally but not yet recognized in Turkey. Halil Altındere, Kutluğ Ataman, Hüseyin Çağlayan, Aydan Murtezaoğlu, Bülent Şangar, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Cengiz Çekil, Hale Tenger, Fikret Atay, Erinç Seymen, Cengiz Tekin, Haluk Akakçe and Leyla Gediz are only some of the artists whose works were shown in Proje4L between 2001-2005. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Charles Esche, Chris Dercon, Dan Cameron, Kari Immoen, Ayşe Erkmen, Francsco Bonami, Jerome Sans, Erden Kosova, Marta Kuzma, Ali Akay, Suhail Malik and Paolo Colombo all gave lectures and joined panel discussions at Proj4L. Maintaining high quality standards, the museum quickly gained an international reputation in a very short period and supported Turkish artists in the world-wide contemporary art scene. However, as new art institutions and museums bloomed in the Turkish art scene, the need for gallery space became less urgent and the Egliz was re-opened (at the same location) on the 25th of December, 2004 as a fully-fledged museum, under the name 'Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art' to host the Elgiz Collection. In 2011, while celebrating its 10th anniversary, the museum moved into a new, purpose-built structure designed by Dr Elgiz under Beybi Giz plaza, one of the many sky-scapers in Maslak business district of Istanbul. With over 2,000 square meters of space, the Elgiz Museum is an international standard museum with a world class collection of Turkish and international contemporary art. Aside from the main hall, reserved for displaying selections from the Elgiz Collection, there are two large temporary exhibition galleries (known as the 'Project Rooms' and generally used to promote young Turkish artists, often with their first solo exhibitions), an archive room, conference hall and cafe. Lectures and seminars are regularly held in the conference space by inviting International collectors to share their enthusiasm and their experiences in collecting art. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.proje4l.org

Works by Russian Masters and Fabergé to Be Offered at Christie's Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:30 PM PDT LONDON.- Christie's mid-season Russian Art sale on 8 June will offer a strong section of more than 60 lots of Fabergé, including a private collection of 45 lots from a European Royal Family. Highlights of this fine and distinguished Royal collection include a two-colour gold-mounted nephrite table clock, with Henrik Wigström (estimate £80,000- 120,000) as well as a very rare miniature kovsh, which was supplied to the Imperial cabinet on 21 May 1909 and acquired by Emperor Nicholas II as a presentation gift (estimate: £8,000-12,000).

Michelangelo Pistoletto Presents Over One Hundred Works of Art at MAXXI In Rome Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:29 PM PDT ROME.- Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956–1974 and Cittadellarte are the two exhibitions that MAXXI, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is devoting to the great Italian artist and will open to the public from March 4th to August 15th 2011. With more than 100 works on view coming from public and private, Italian and international collections, Michelangelo Pistoletto: Da Uno a Molti, 1956–1974 presents one of the most important living Italian artists, internationally recognised as a key figure in contemporary art, one of the founding members of the Arte Povera movement and a figure of reference to the younger generations. He was awarded a Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and considered in the United States as a forerunner of participatory artistic practices.

The Morgan Library & Museum exhibit Acquisitions Since 2004 Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:28 PM PDT New York, NY - "He's got to be stopped" was, you imagine, a phrase never far from the lips of J. P. Morgan's business partners. Morgan, they knew, was an addicted shopper. His drug of choice was art. And because his appetite was bottomless, his habit cost a lot. In 1901 he paid a Paris dealer $400,000 - a king's ransom at the time - for Raphael's "Colonna Madonna." Then, in a fit of impulse buying, he grabbed a Rubens portrait, a Titian "Holy Family" and an English hunting scene on his way out the door. And painting wasn't even his thing. What he really craved were exquisitely worked decorative objects, the more ornate the better. These he tended to collect in bulk: roomfuls of furniture, porcelains by the crate, and books by the dozens, the hundreds, the thousands, from hand-painted medieval manuscripts to modern deluxe editions.

Galleria dell'Accademia presents Robert Mapplethorpe ~ Perfection in Form Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:27 PM PDT Florence, Italy - "The most beautiful Mapplethorpe show I've ever seen," exclaimed Patti Smith at the grand opening for "Robert Mapplethorpe. Perfection in Form." Standing at the feet of Michelangelo's David, and flanked by Mapplethorpe's photographs of male nudes, Smith added, "This show is the realization of Robert's dream." Mapplethorpe's first muse and companion, Smith provided the spark for the exhibition. Visiting the museum in 2007 with Renaissance art historian Jonathan Nelson, she explained that Mapplethorpe adored Michelangelo. Nelson, together with Franca Falletti, director of the Galleria dell'Accademia, curated the exhibition dedicated to the internationally acclaimed American photographer on the twentieth anniversary of his death. At the opening, Michael Ward Stout –president of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation— proclaimed the exhibition "the most important event in Mapplethorpe's artistic life."

Milwaukee Art Museum exhibits Jan Lievens ~ Out of Rembrandt's Shadow Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:26 PM PDT   MILWAUKEE, WI - The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced that the Dutch master Jan Lievens used Rembrandt van Rijn as a model in four works painted over approximately six years between c. 1623 and 1628. Highlighting the close working relationship between the artists, three of the paintings can be seen in Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt's Shadow on exhibition through April 26, 2009 at the Museum.

Lanning Gallery to show Legendary Pop Artist James Gill Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:25 PM PDT   SEDONA, AZ -  The legend of James Gill began in the early sixties with the meteoric rise of this small-town Texan artist.  Gill would reach the heights of success and celebrity only to turn his back on it all; to seek an inner peace more lucrative to his soul than any facet of the material world.  The story begins again now as James Gill re-emerges - after more than three decades - stronger than ever, to reclaim his place in Contemporary Pop Art history.

The National Gallery of Art features Philip Guston in a Focus Exhibition Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:24 PM PDT   WASHINGTON, DC - A focus exhibition of works by American artist Philip Guston (1913–1980) at the National Gallery of Art inaugurates a new series of shows in the Tower Gallery of the East Building that center around developments in art since the 1970s. A dramatic and meditative space, the Tower is among the most elegant in the I.M. Pei building, which opened in 1978. On view February 1 through September 13, 2009, In the Tower: Philip Guston includes works drawn largely from the Gallery's own collection and features a six-minute film specially made for the exhibition.

The 8th ARTSingapore is the Largest Contemporary Asian Art Fair Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:23 PM PDT SINGAPORE - The most anticipated Asian contemporary art fair will be here once again to set the visual arts scene ablaze over five days from 10th to 13th October, 2008 at Suntec Singapore, International Convention and Exhibition Centre. About 110 art galleries from 16 countries will be showcasing US $30 million worth of artworks ranging from paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, photographs and digital art done, making this year's ARTSingapore event the biggest one to date. MF Global Singapore is ARTSingapore 2008 s presenting sponsor.

'From Vessel to Sculpture' at the Speed Art Museum Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:22 PM PDT Louisville, Kentucky - The Speed Art Museum is proud to present From Vessel to Sculpture: Ceramics at the Speed on display through June 24, 2007.  Admission is free to this exhibition An international survey of 20th- and 21st- century ceramics, objects presented in From Vessel to Sculpture range from production pieces to important contemporary sculptural works selected from the Speed's permanent collection.  Highlights of the exhibition include Awakened Man by Viola Frey and an iconoclastic 1954 Jim Leedy piece, Colorful Vessel.  In the late 1970s, Frey was among a contingent of California ceramists who began dramatically expanding the scale of their work.  Frey's monumental—but rarely heroic—figures came to define her work.  Awakened Man shares the detached gaze typical of Frey's sculptures.

Kunstmuseum Basel displays 101 Master Drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:21 PM PDT BASEL.- Covering a span of time from 1400 to the present, with approximately 60,000 drawings as well as 250,000 individual prints and books with original illustrations, the Kupferstichkabinett at the Kunstmuseum Basel belongs among the most important collections of this kind. Its origins can be traced to the Amerbach-Kabinett, the collection of Basel attorney Basilius Amerbach (15331591), from which large groups of drawings, predominantly by German and Upper Rhinish artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, derive. These definitively characterize the Basel collection in the realm of premodern art, and include the 300 drawings of the so-called Basler Goldschmiederisse [Basel goldsmiths' designs], 50 drawings by Hans Holbein the Elder, 200 by Hans Holbein the Younger, 150 by Urs Graf, 80 by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, and 50 by Hans Baldung Grien and his studio. The earliest drawing in the exhibition dates from around 1400. On exhibition 3 October through 24 January 2010.

Lost Franz Kafka Writings Resurface Are Now Trapped in Trial Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:20 PM PDT JERUSALEM (AP).- It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of the nightmarish visions created by the author himself. The papers, retrieved from bank vaults where they have sat untouched and unread for decades, could shed new light on one of literature's darkest figures. In the past week, the pages have been pulled from safety deposit boxes in Tel Aviv and Zurich, Switzerland, on the order of an Israeli court over the objections of two elderly women who claim to have inherited them from their mother.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 20 Jun 2011 08:19 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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