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• The Ukranian Museum in NYC Presents a Sviatoslav Hordynsky Retrospective
• The Hermitage Amsterdam Will Host Masterpieces by Vincent Van Gogh
• The Inaugural Art Newport Fair to be Held on $40M Purpose-Built Yacht
• The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Opens Two Exhibitions
• The Alan Klotz Gallery To Show Harvey Stein's Coney Island Photographs
• The Paul Kasmin Gallery Displays a Group Show in NYC
• The Herakleidon Museum Opens ~ "Contemporary View of Ancient Cultures"
• BBC Uploads 63,000 Paintings Online as It Launches "Your Paintings"
• The Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts Shows Courier & Ives Images of the American West
• "I Found it a Pigstye; I Turned it into a Palace" at The Fitzwilliam Museum
• Brainstem & Spinal Cord Images Hidden in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Fresco
• Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass
• "The Prints of Sean Scully" Exhibition at The Hyde Collection
• Raphael ~ Honored with Exhibition in his Hometown in Italy at the Ducal Palace
• Prominent Dealers Bring Art World to Second Annual Dallas Art Fair
• Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents Francisco Zuniga ~ Woman as Icon ~
• Gagosian Gallery announces Exhibition of New Bronze Sculptures by Cy Twombly
• Collection of Artwork by Swiss Artist Albert Anker to Sell at Hôtel des Ventes
• The RISD Museum of Art to display "The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver"
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Ukranian Museum in NYC Presents a Sviatoslav Hordynsky Retrospective Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:02 PM PDT New York City.— An exhibition of works by prominent Ukrainian-born artist Sviatoslav Hordynsky (1906-1993) is on display at The Ukrainian Museum in New York through November 6, 2011. "The Worlds of Sviatoslav Hordynsky" highlights Hordynsky's artistic achievements and also documents his contributions as scholar, poet, critic, translator, and cultural activist. Despite an affliction in his youth that left him permanently deaf, Hordynsky went on to lead an extraordinary life. In 1924, he entered the Oleksa Novakivsky Art School (Lviv, Ukraine), which figured prominently in his artistic development. Seeking inspiration abroad, he traveled to Paris, where he studied the great artworks at the Louvre, took art classes at the Académie Julian, and exhibited in salons whenever possible. In 1929 he was admitted to Léger's Académie Moderne. The result of his study with Fernand Léger was a profusion of book designs, posters, ex libris, and other graphic works that reflected his modernist tendencies and rank among his best works. Throughout his career, Hordynsky's devotion to his cultural heritage was a visible characteristic not only in much of his work, but also in his professional associations. After returning home, in 1931 Hordynsky was one of the founding members of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists, which became the center of Lviv's artistic life until the onset of World War II. Also in 1931 Hordynsky and his fellow artists brought from Paris an impressive collection of prints, drawings, watercolors, and paintings by prominent Parisian avant-gardists. In July of that year they opened the first exhibition of western avant-garde art in Lviv; it included works by world-renowned modernists such as Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Alexis Gritchenko (Oleksa Hryshchenko), and others. (Hordynsky's handwritten list of items brought from Paris is in the present exhibition, as is the catalogue of the 1931 exhibition.) Political currents in Eastern Europe during and after WWII forced Hordynsky to move West, where his early interest in Byzantine art led to a prolific career in creating sacred imagery for church interiors across the United States, Canada, and as far away as Australia. Hordynsky decorated more than 30 churches with iconostases, icons, and mosaics, thereby contributing to a major Byzantine revival. Together with other Ukrainian masters of the icon, like Petro Cholodny the Younger and Mychailo Osinchuk, he wrote an important new chapter in the continuous history of Ukrainian Byzantine church art. The works on display in The Worlds of Sviatoslav Hordynsky form a sweeping survey of Hordynsky's oeuvre. Drawn largely from private collections, they include his earliest sketches from art school in Ukraine, drawings, graphic works, oils, watercolors, pastel studies for church mosaics, and photographs of completed large-scale projects. Documents and photographs from his personal archives illustrate Hordynsky's activities in Paris and participation in exhibitions, as well as milestones in his life. Examples of Hordynsky's poetry, essays, and other literature complete this portrait of this remarkable artist and his contributions to the cultural world. The Ukrainian Museum acquires, preserves, and exhibits articles of artistic or historic significance to the rich cultural heritage of Ukrainian Americans; its collections include thousands of items of folk art, fine art, and archival material. At its founding in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women's League of America, the Museum was hailed as one of the finest achievements of Americans of Ukrainian descent; in the 35 years since then, and particularly in the five years since its move to a new, state-of-the-art building in Manhattan's vibrant East Village, it has become known as one of the most interesting and dynamic smaller museums in New York City. Each year, the Museum organizes several exhibitions, publishes a number of bilingual (English/Ukrainian) catalogues, and presents a wide range of public and educational programs, including concerts, films, lectures, courses, workshops, and much more. The Ukrainian Museum is the largest museum in the U.S. committed to acquiring, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting articles of artistic or historic significance to the rich cultural heritage of Ukrainians. At its founding in 1976 by the Ukrainian National Women's League of America, the Museum was hailed as one of the finest achievements of the Ukrainian American community. Today, its unparalleled array of folk art, exceptional collection of fine art, and extensive compendium of archival materials make it one of the most unique and dynamic museums in New York City, with broad appeal for diverse audiences. Each year, the Museum organizes several exhibitions, publishes accompanying bilingual catalogues, and conducts a wide range of public programming, frequently in collaboration with other museums, educational institutions, and cultural centers. In 2005 the Museum moved into a new, state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Manhattan's vibrant East Village. The building was designed by Ukrainian American architect George Sawicki of Sawicki Tarella Architecture + Design in New York City. It was funded by scores of generous donations made principally by the Ukrainian American community. The Museum's new home, which includes spacious galleries and facilities for public programming, allows it to mount more elaborate exhibitions, to accommodate more visitors, and to preserve and showcase its growing collections. The folk art collection, with more than 8,000 objects, is one of the most important collections outside of Ukraine. It features wedding and festive attire from various regions of Ukraine, ritual cloths (rushnyky) and kilims, and a broad selection of richly embroidered and woven textiles. This unique collection also includes ceramics, metalwork, and decorative wood-carved objects from the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, the Museum holds an impressive collection of pysanky, or Ukrainian Easter eggs. The fine arts collection consists of some 2,000 paintings, drawings, graphic works, and sculptures by noted Ukrainian artists who worked in Ukraine, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, primarily in the 20th century. It includes one of the most important collections of works by the well-known primitif artist Nikifor, probably the largest collection of paintings and watercolors by the artist and architect Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky, and nearly all the works created in the United States by the sculptor Mykhailo Chereshnovsky. The collection also features works by Alexander Archipenko, Alexis Gritchenko, Oleksa Nowakiwsky, Ivan Trush, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Mykhailo Moroz, Luboslaw Hutsaliuk, and Edward Kozak, among many others. The Museum's archives boast more than 30,000 items – photographs, documents, the personal correspondence of noted individuals, playbills, posters, flyers, and the like, all documenting the life, history, and cultural legacy of the Ukrainian people. The history of Ukrainian immigration to the United States, which dates back to the late 1800s, is chronicled in the Museum's rich collection of archival photographs. Among the Museum's archives are an impressive collection of 17th and 18th century maps; an extensive numismatic collection that includes a 9th century silver hryvnia, 16th century coins, and Ukrainian currency from the early 20th century to the present; and a philatelic collection with items from the first quarter of the 20th century to the present. The Museum offers a wide range of public programming throughout the year, including gallery talks, lectures, conferences, symposiums, concerts, and book presentations. Among the most popular offerings are workshops in traditional Ukrainian folk arts, such as embroidery, decorating pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs), Easter and Christmas holiday baking, and making traditional Christmas tree ornaments. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org

The Hermitage Amsterdam Will Host Masterpieces by Vincent Van Gogh Posted: 24 Jun 2011 09:46 PM PDT AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will begin renovation at the end of 2012 in order to ensure the condition of the building and the safety of the visitors in the long run, Axel Rüger, director of the museum, announced today. Masterpieces by Van Gogh, including approximately 75 paintings and a number of works on paper, will remain on view during the renovation: they will be presented in the Herenvleugel of the Hermitage Amsterdam as of October 2012. 'The Van Gogh Museum will undergo refurbishment during a period of six months as of the end of September 2012', Rüger said. 'In connection with this necessary renovation, due to sharpened legal requirements from the Dutch government, the Van Gogh Museum on the Museumplein will be closed from October 2012 through March 2013'.

The Inaugural Art Newport Fair to be Held on $40M Purpose-Built Yacht Posted: 24 Jun 2011 09:07 PM PDT Newport, RI.- The inaugural Art Newport Fair will be held aboard the 228-foot floating exhibition venue, SeaFair - America's Megayacht Venue from June 30th through September 5th. Art Newport will gather 28 international galleries from 7 countries across the globe including North America, Great Britain, France, The Bahamas and Israel. 102 artists will be featured in the 67-day fair. The carefully selected presentation will feature all forms of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on 20th and 21st century works. The dynamic ensemble will include fine art glass, photography, painting, mixed-medium, sculpture, jewelry and design.

The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Opens Two Exhibitions Posted: 24 Jun 2011 08:31 PM PDT Toronto.- The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to launch their summer exhibitions program featuring "This is Paradise/Place as State of Mind: The Cameron Public House and 1980's Toronto", and "This is Paradise/From the National Gallery of Canada Collection". "This Is Paradise" is the third in MOCCA's ongoing series that recall the rambunctious and fascinating history, evolution and context of contemporary culture in and around Toronto's Queen Street West scene. The exhibitions are on view from June 25th through August 21st.

The Alan Klotz Gallery To Show Harvey Stein's Coney Island Photographs Posted: 24 Jun 2011 08:15 PM PDT New York City.- The Alan Klotz Gallery is pleased to present "Harvey Stein: Coney Island 40 Years", an exhibition of Harvey Setein's photographs of Coney Island from 1970 to 2010, This exhibit coincides with the publication of "Coney Island 40 Years" (published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd). Harvey Stein has been a fixture on the New York photo scene for many years. He has photographed the city from every angle with every kind of camera, at every time of day and night.  Beyond these shores he has led photographic seminars and workshops all over the world. He's gone everywhere, and for the last 40 years he's been going to Coney Island, where New York City flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the end of Ocean Avenue, in Brooklyn. There is a particularly Brooklyn flavor to Coney Island, and it's not just the Nathan's hot dogs or the cloyingly sweet smell of cotton candy mixed in with the salt air, it's the beckoning path of the boardwalk, the signature architectural landmarks of the parachute jump, the Wonder Wheel and the Cyclone, but mostly it's the people who go there.

The Paul Kasmin Gallery Displays a Group Show in NYC Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:55 PM PDT New York City.- The Paul Kasmin Gallery is proud to present the exhibition "Pretty on the Inside", organized by Erik Parker and KAWS. This is the first time that the two artists have collaborated to organize an exhibition. Pretty on the Inside includes works in a range of media by seven American artists: Todd James, KAWS, Tony Matelli, Erik Parker, Joyce Pensato, Peter Saul, and Karl Wirsum. At first glance, these artworks challenge the viewer through their visual intensity, but upon closer inspection, they reveal an inner beauty. Many of the artists included make ironic or subversive works, hijacking the language of cartoons and comics to both celebrate and criticize contemporary culture. "Pretty on the Inside" is on view at the gallery until August 19th.

The Herakleidon Museum Opens ~ "Contemporary View of Ancient Cultures" Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:44 PM PDT Athens.- The Herakleidon Museum is proud to present a special exhibition "Contemporary View - Ancient Cultures" from June 25th through September 25th. The theme is inspired by ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean, however all the artworks were created by contemporary artists who live in the Netherlands. No less than 55 artists were asked to create one linocut each, inspired by the archaeological collection of the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, a joint project on the initiative of the Stichting Beeldende Kunst Amsterdam (Fine Arts Foundation).

BBC Uploads 63,000 Paintings Online as It Launches "Your Paintings" Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:25 PM PDT LONDON.- The BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) announced the launch of Your Paintings, a project to create a complete catalogue of every oil painting in the national collection, on a dedicated website. The UK holds in its galleries & civic buildings one of the largest collections of oil paintings in the world, a treasure trove of tens of thousands of individual works, including pieces by some of the world's leading artists, from world famous names such as Picasso to Rubens to unknown local painters.In all, the national collection amounts to some 200,000 works, held in 3,000 galleries, museums, libraries and public institutions all over the country, making it probably one of the largest and most diverse collections of paintings in the world.

The Michele & Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts Shows Courier & Ives Images of the American West Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:24 PM PDT Springfield, MA.- Currier & Ives images of the American West will be on view at the Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts from June 28th through January 29th, 2012 in the special exhibition "Imagining the Frontier:  Landscape and Hunting Scenes of the American West". Fascination with the Western frontier had a major influence on American art in the 19th century. Currier & Ives mass produced images that witnessed the great drama of Westward expansion, including the California gold rush, trappers and pioneers traveling to unknown territories, conflicts with Indians, buffalo hunting, fires on the prairie, and the building of the transcontinental railroad. Over 60 million buffalo once roamed the American plains. One 19th-century traveler noted that "the plains were black and appeared as in motion." The majority of the artists who worked for Currier & Ives never visited the Great Plains and had to rely on written accounts of the appearance of buffalo to create their designs. The result was that in some Currier & Ives prints, such as The Rocky Mountains, the buffalo look a bit like furry lions. By 1893, only 300 buffalo remained, and they were brought back from the edge of extinction only by continued conservation efforts over the last one hundred years. Images such as The Great West, with a steam train crossing a vast landscape, showed the expanse of the American frontier, a popular and saleable subject for Currier & Ives lithographs. The title helped to romanticize the idea of Westward expansion.  In 1870, they used the word "great" in as many as nine different titles. Through the use of this imagery Currier & Ives promoted the natural beauty of the American landscape and expressed pride in the country's expansion across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. In many cases, the prints represented the winning of the West as a triumph not of the white man over the wilderness but over the Native American. Today historians often criticize Currier & Ives for the blend of fantasy and reality in their images of the West. The Springfield Museums, located in the heart of downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, is comprised of five world-class museums; the Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts., the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, the Springfield Science Museum, the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum and the Museum of Springfield History. The Museums Association is proud to be home to the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden, a series of full–scale bronze sculptures of Dr. Seuss's whimsical creations, honoring the birthplace of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss. \ The Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts is one of the two Springfield Museums dedicated to fine and decorative arts. The Art Deco-style museum was erected in response to a bequest from Mr. & Mrs. James Philip Gray, who left their entire estate for the "selection, purchase, preservation, and exhibition of the most valuable, meritorious, artistic, and high class oil paintings obtainable," and for the construction of a museum to house them. The museum opened in 1934. The first floor of the museum is dedicated to American art ranging from "Portrait of Nymphas Marston" by John Singleton Copley to "Promenade on the Beach" by Winslow Homer to Contemporary glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. The American collection also includes the country's only permanent museum gallery dedicated to the lithographs of Currier & Ives. The second floor is a chronological tour of the museum's fine European art collection. Beginning in the Middle Ages with an intricate 15th-century, Hispano-Flemish Fuentes Retable (altarpiece), the galleries lead visitors through the Renaissance and subsequent centuries with fine paintings from Italy and France. The Dutch and Flemish collection is particularly strong. Familiar names in the Impressionism Gallery include Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro and Paul Gauguin. Traveling exhibitions can be found in the Wheeler Gallery. Performances, lectures and presentations are offered in the Davis Auditorium. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/

"I Found it a Pigstye; I Turned it into a Palace" at The Fitzwilliam Museum Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT CAMBRIDGE, UK - The Fitzwilliam Museum's most spectacular treasures are brought together for the first time in a major new exhibition celebrating one of the most dynamic periods in the Museum's history: the Directorship of Sir Sydney Cockerell from 1908 to 1937. 'I turned it into a palace': Sir Sydney Cockerell and The Fitzwilliam Museum explores the life and work of scholar, collector and Director Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962), who boasted that he found the Museum 'a pigstye' and 'turned it into a palace'. Cockerell's connoisseurship, ambition and innovation transformed not just the Fitzwilliam and its collections, but the display and interpretation of art in museums and galleries all over the world.

Brainstem & Spinal Cord Images Hidden in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Fresco Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:19 PM PDT BALTIMORE.- Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator, published in the May Neurosurgery, may explain long controversial and unusual features of one of the frescoes' figures.

Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT   LONDON - The National Gallery presents Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass, on view through 17 February 2008. This exhibition, the first of its kind at the National Gallery, sets out to demonstrate that the best stained glass from the Renaissance period fully reflected – and even rivaled – the latest developments in painting, while exploiting to the full the vibrant properties of light.

"The Prints of Sean Scully" Exhibition at The Hyde Collection Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:17 PM PDT   GLENS FALLS, NY.- The Hyde Collection opens The Prints of Sean Scully – an exhibition of the bold works of Irish-born, American painter. Sean Scully is an international artist best known for reviving abstract painting in the 1980s. Born in Dublin and now an American citizen, Scully has made prints in professional workshops in New York, Munich, Barcelona, and Tampere, Finland. The exhibition will be on display in The Hyde's Charles R. Wood gallery through November 2, 2008.

Raphael ~ Honored with Exhibition in his Hometown in Italy at the Ducal Palace Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT Urbino, Italy  - The city of Urbino (north of Italy) is remembering its most illustrious son, Renaissance painter Raphael, through a great exhibition that has gathered 40 of his works of art and another 40 by different artists of the time. The exhibition "Raphael and Urbino", organized by the Superintendency of Superintendency of Historical, Artistical and Ethno-Anthropological heritage for the Marche, was inaugurated on Saturday at the Ducal Palace in this small city, and pretends to put a value on the connection between Raphael and his place of origin.

Prominent Dealers Bring Art World to Second Annual Dallas Art Fair Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:15 PM PDT DALLAS, TX.- The second annual Dallas Art Fair presented by Veuve Clicquot will return to the city on Friday, February 5 through Sunday, February 7, 2010. A preview Gala will be held on Thursday evening, February 4, benefiting Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. From mid-morning to early evening over the three days of the fair, visitors may visit and purchase art from renowned art dealers and experts from across the United States and Great Britain. Celebrating modern and contemporary art, the 2010 Dallas Art Fair will showcase paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and photographs from post war artists represented by more than 50 prominent art dealers.

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents Francisco Zuniga ~ Woman as Icon ~ Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:14 PM PDT   Los Angeles, CA - Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles is presenting a formidable exhibition of works by the major Mexican 20th century artist and sculptor Francisco Zuniga (b. Costa Rica 1912 - d. Mexico 1998), opening on Saturday, September 29, and extending through Saturday, December 22, 2007. The exhibition, Francisco Zuniga: Woman as Icon, opens with a preview reception Saturday, September 29 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Ariel Zuniga, the artist's son and biographer, will be in attendance. A Major Exhibition of Zuniga Drawings and Sculpture .

Gagosian Gallery announces Exhibition of New Bronze Sculptures by Cy Twombly Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:13 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announced an exhibition of new bronze sculptures by Cy Twombly. This exhibition will coincide with the inauguration of Gagosian's Athens gallery with an exhibition of new paintings by Twombly entitled "Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves". Two major museum exhibitions, "Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000-2007' that inaugurated the new wing of The Art Institute of Chicago, and "Cy Twombly: Sensations of the Moment" at Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, run through October 2009. The sculpture exhibition on view from 15 August through 31 October, 2009.

Collection of Artwork by Swiss Artist Albert Anker to Sell at Hôtel des Ventes Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:12 PM PDT GENEVA.-The estate of Albert Anker's family will finally go under the hammer at the Geneva-based auctioneers on 9th March without reserve prices. This ensemble of over 55 never-before-seen drawings, sketches and watercolours by Albert Anker was recently discovered in a safe in Geneva. The collection will be sold alongside furniture and personal items and has been valued at 200'000 to 300'000 Swiss francs. According to the owner's last wishes, all sale proceeds will be donated to charitable organizations. Representatives of the Media will have the opportunity to discover this collection with a world preview press presentation on Wednesday 2nd March at 11 a.m. at Hôtel des Ventes. Auction value of the collection estimated at 200'000-300'000 Swiss francs.

The RISD Museum of Art to display "The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver" Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:11 PM PDT PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum of Art presents The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650, featuring 85 objects from the RISD Museum's outstanding collection of Renaissance and Baroque prints—until now unpublished and rarely viewed—as well as objects from major public institutions such as the National Gallery of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Visitors to the exhibition will receive a privileged view into this prized resource. Although most people see and even touch an engraving every day—US currency and many stamps are engraved on steel—few artists work in the medium today. In the Renaissance engraving was new, and one of the world's first reproducible art forms, full of possibility for the spread of designs of all types throughout Europe.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:11 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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