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• The Worcester Art Museum Presents the 'Debut of the Modern French Woman'
• The Museum of Glass Presents New Work by Mildred Howard
• Vancouver Art Gallery Exhibition Highlights the Surrealist Aspect of Indigenous Art
• National Gallery of Art Displays Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre"
• The New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Shows Images of War & Peace
• The Carnegie Museum of Art Presents Architectural Explorations
• Sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings at Sotheby's Paris
• The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Presents Sigmund Abeles' Drawings
• George Grosz Heirs File Suit Against MoMA for Artworks Unlawfully Taken During Nazi Era
• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents William Kentridge ~ Five Themes a Survey
• Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig to host ~ Carte Blanche III
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents "Art of Two Germanys"
• "Yoko Ono ~ Between the Sky & My Head" Exhibition Featured at Kunsthalle Bielefeld
• "Art Rebel" Both in Fine Art & Music ~ Performed for F.D. R. at The White House
• The Nationalmuseum to present Caspar David Friedrich ~ "Nature Animated"
• Rarely Seen Pablo Picasso Could Fetch $80 Million at Christie's Auction
• Williams College Museum of Art to show Alec Soth ~ NIAGARA
• The Boca Raton Museum Of Art displays 75+ Works By Andrew Stevovich
• Julien's Auctions to Offer Property from the Collection of Barbra Streisand
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Worcester Art Museum Presents the 'Debut of the Modern French Woman' Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:40 PM PDT Worcester, MA.- The Worcester Art Museum is pleased to present "Leisure, pleasure and the Debut of the Modern French Woman", a selection of prints and drawings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that illustrate an overall shift in the depiction of women in France. Stereotypically seen in pastoral, aristocratic settings, French women in eighteenth century art are typically portrayed as virtuous role models or dangerous coquettes. However, less than a century later, though depictions such as these still remain, women are portrayed with greater influence economically and socially, and with greater intellectual and emotional depth. The exhibition features works by Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, James Tissot, Paul Gauguin, Philibert-Louis Debucourt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Mary Cassatt along with other major artists from both centuries. "Leisure, pleasure and the Debut of the Modern French Woman" is on view at the museum until September 11th. The Worcester Art Museum, also known by its acronym WAM, houses over 35,000 works of art dating from antiquity to the present day, representing cultures from all over the world. The WAM opened in 1898 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is the second largest art museum in New England. In September 1896 Stephen Salisbury III and a group of his friends gathered together to created the Art Museum Corporation. Salisbury then gave a tract of land, on what was once the Salisbury farm (now fronting Salisbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts), as well as $100,000 USD to build an art museum. The museum was designed by Steven Earl, a Worcester architect, and formally opened in 1898. The museum's collection at this point consisted largely of plaster casts of "antique and Renaissance" sculptures as well as a selection of 5,000 Japanese prints, drawings, and books, willed to the museum from John Chandler Bancroft, son of John Bancroft. In 1905, Stephen Salisbury died and left the "bulk" of his five million dollar estate to the Art museum. The Worcester Art Museum continued to grow and slowly gathered a world class art collection. The WAM became the first museum in the United States to purchase works by Claude Monet as well as Paul Gauguin. The museum was also the first institution to transport a medieval building, the chapter house, from Europe and install it in America. Between 1932 and 1939, the Worcester Art Museum joined a consortium of museums and institutions to sponsor expeditions to the archaeological sites where the city of Antioch once stood. This group of museums, including Princeton University, the musée du Louvre, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and Harvard University's affiliate Dumbarton Oaks, discovered hundreds of intricate floor mosaics. the Antioch mosiacs as they are now known, were split up amongst the institutions The WAM received many mosiacs including the Worcester Hunt which now is installed in the Renaissance Court's floor. Beginning in the 1990s the WAM began renovating all of its galleries. Beginning with the European galleries and then the Chinese Decorative Arts Gallery, the museum then moved onto its Early American Galleries, and Art Since the Mid-20th Century Galleries. The Art Since the Mid-20th Century galleries had been closed for about a decade before they were reopened as part of this program. The renovation of there two galleries cost $85,000USD and included new flooring, lighting, wall refinishing, and some conservation work. In addition to the Roman mosaic-laden Renaissance court and French chapter house, strengths of the permanent collection include collections of European and North American painting, prints, photographs, and drawings; Asian art; Greek and Roman sculpture and mosaics; and Contemporary art. European paintings include some fine Flemish Renaissance paintings, an El Greco, a Rembrandt, and a room of impressionist and 20th century works by the likes of Monet, Matisse, Renoir, Gauguin, and Kandinsky. The American painting collection includes works by Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, William Morris Hunt, Elizabeth Goodridge, among others. In the 20th century gallery, the Museum displays works by Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Joan Mitchell. In 1901, John Chandler Bancroft, a wealthy Bostonian, bequeathed more than 3,000 Japanese prints. The Bancroft collection spans the history of woodcut printmaking in Japan, with particular strength in rare, early images from the late 17th and 18th centuries. Salisbury's estate donation included many portraits commissioned by his family, as well as sculpture, furniture, and silver. These works, by artists such as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Crawford, and Samuel F.B. Morse and the craftsmen Paul Revere, Edward Winslow, and Nathanial Hurd, constituted the nucleus of the American collections. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.worcesterart.org

The Museum of Glass Presents New Work by Mildred Howard Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:27 PM PDT Tacoma, WA.- The Museum of Glass is pleased to present "Parenthetically Speaking: It's Only a Figure of Speech", a new collection of work by San Francisco-based artist Mildred Howard. Comprising more than 40 glass punctuation marks, proofreading symbols and musical notes, the exhibition will open on July 2nd and remain on view through April 29th 2012. Howard began working on the series while she was an artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School in 2010. Her inspiration came from 'At the End', a poem by Howard's friend and Peabody Award winner Quincy Troupe. Both the poem and the exhibition reference punctuation as a metaphor for the passage of time. "Life is a series of questions," comments Howard. "As soon as you answer one, you're on to the next." Howard continued to create objects for the exhibition during a Visiting Artist residency at the Museum of Glass in January, 2011.

Vancouver Art Gallery Exhibition Highlights the Surrealist Aspect of Indigenous Art Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:15 PM PDT VANCOUVER, BC.- It is said that when Surrealist André Breton first saw an indigenous mask from the Pacific Northwest , he called it "more surreal than the Surrealists." During the 1930s and 40s, Breton and many of his Surrealist colleagues were intrigued and became avid collectors of this art and, in some cases, visitors to British Columbia and Alaska. For the first time in an exhibition, The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art brings to light the Surrealists' fascination with First Nations art. The Surrealists' passion for Pacific Northwest First Nations art began in New York , where many artists fled as Europe slid from the First World War into fascism and a new conflict. Surrealists were drawn to the 'authentic' quality, inventiveness of form and visual brilliance of First Nations art. Some of the movement's members collected, wrote about and even exhibited their own work alongside First Nations art from British Columbia and Alaska .

National Gallery of Art Displays Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" Posted: 28 Jun 2011 10:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- The renowned painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831–1833) by American inventor Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872) has been recently conserved and is now on view in a focus exhibition at the National Gallery of Art near the East Garden Court of the West Building. On loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art from June 25, through July 8, 2012, the painting depicts masterpieces from the Louvre's collection that Morse "reinstalled" in one of that museum's grandest galleries, the Salon Carré. A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" was previously on view at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, from March 1 through June 12.

The New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Shows Images of War & Peace Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:51 PM PDT Leicester, UK.- The New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester is proud to present "Spirits of War to Hands of Peace", on view at the museum until July 24th. This new and exciting exhibition exploring the horrors of war and the power of peace. The exhibition showcases paintings, works on paper and sculptures by artists who have visualised war and conflict and their often hard-won opposites, peace and harmony. The exhibition includes, de Loutherbourg who brings the Crusades to life in his bold composition of Richard I and Saladin locked in combat, German soldier turned painter Johannes Koelz, in his giant anti-war painting 'Thou Shalt Not Kill', first shown to great acclaim at the museum in 2001.

The Carnegie Museum of Art Presents Architectural Explorations Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:39 PM PDT Pittsburgh, PA.- The Carnegie Museum of Art is pleased to present "Architectural Explorations" a selection of drawings, models, photographs, rare books, games, and other material made between the 1780s and the present. taken from the Heinz Architectural Center collection, which encompasses the full range of architectural representation, from roughly sketched concepts to carefully detailed models, and from the handmade to the digitally rendered. "Architectural Explorations" is on view at the museum until August 12th.

Sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings at Sotheby's Paris Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:18 PM PDT PARIS.- The final sale of the season at Sotheby's Paris, devoted to Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings, yielded €7.6m – the highest total for a sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings by Sotheby's France to date, including three world records. Pierre Etienne, Head of the Old Master Paintings & Drawings Department, observed that 'Today's sale included many rediscovered or market-fresh works from 17th and 18th century France, consigned from European private collections like the prestigious House of Bourbon or the former Hôtel Biron. The results obtained reflect the vitality of the market for Old Master pictures which, for quality works, remains dynamic and international; international connoisseurs have no hesitation in competing for high-level works that have been carefully selected for provenance, condition and artistic quality.'

The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Presents Sigmund Abeles' Drawings Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:17 PM PDT Kalamazoo, MI.- The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts is pleased to present "Drawn to the Figure: Sigmund Abeles", on view from July 2nd through August 27th. The expressive and psychological aspects of the figure, human and animal, have long intrigued nationally recognized artist Sigmund Abeles. The artist believes that mastery of drawing--from life as well as memory and imagination--is necessary to create convincing visual expressions of what he observes, senses, and dreams. After a long university teaching career, he now works full-time in his NYC and upstate New York studios. Abeles' work can be found in the collections of major American museums. Sigmund Abeles was born 1934 in New York City and raised in South Carolina.  He is an artist whose work deals with the expressive and psychological aspects of the human figure (and animals); an art focused on the entire life cycle. Drawing informs all his work. He works in pastels, oils, the graphic media, and sculpture.  Currently, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, after 27 years of teaching, he is working full-time in his NYC and upstate New York studio.  Recipient of numerous grants and awards, a National Academician; Abeles work is in the collections  of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Philadelphia Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others.  Coastal Carolina University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2000. A major one-artist exhibition was at Thomas Williams Fine Arts, London, UK in 2000. The Pastel Society of America made him their Hall of Fame Honoree for 2004 and was awarded their Degas Pastel Society Award in 2006.  He is represented by The Old Print Shop, NYC, Hampton III Gallery, Greenville, SC and Cherly Newby Fine Arts, Pawley's Island, S.C.  "From Whence I Came" a retrospective was held at the Burroughs-Chapin Museum of Art in Myrtle Beach, SC, his hometown, in 2007. "Passionate Lives, Passionate Lines", dual solo exhibits open in May  at The Park Row Gallery and The Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham NY.  He is included in Humanity, One Hundred Years of Figurative Art at the ACA Gallery in NYC. In 1924, the Kalamazoo Chapter of the American Federation of the Arts incorporated as the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts to present classes and establish legal responsibility for the ownership of art objects and the solicitation of funds. The mission of these active artists and art patrons was to encourage the creation and appreciation of art. Small budgets and membership numbers characterized the early years. Staffed primarily with volunteers, the KIA developed distinguished exhibitions and art classes while located in a house loaned by the Kalamazoo Board of Education. In 1947 the KIA gained a permanent home when it purchased and a renovated a Victorian mansion at 421 West South Street. In the 1930s and 40s, distinguished guest lecturers such as Diego Rivera, Thomas Hart Benton, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier challenged and informed local audiences about the contemporary art world. An eclectic schedule of exhibitions included work by Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, Japanese prints and ceramics, African Art, Dutch old masters, and even an international kite collection that became a traveling exhibition. Annual juried competitions and exhibitions by local artists and students helped promote and encourage both new and established artists. In 1961, the KIA built a new facility, the Gilmore Art Center at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts at its current location. The Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill design was based on architect Mies vander Rohe's plan for a museum in a small city, and illustrated the International style: glass walls, slab construction, exposed columns. With new exhibition areas and storage space, the KIA was able to actively build its collection for the first time. The building included exhibitions galleries, an art library, auditorium, sculpture garden, studio classrooms, and office space as well. In 1988, the KIA developed a new logo, and became known simply as the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. In 1994, the KIA began a $14.5 million capital and endowment campaign which resulted in building expansion and renovation designed by the Boston architectural firm of Ann Beha Associates. The addition increased the facility size by nearly 40% to 72,000 square feet. Highlights include a two-story lobby gallery, new auditorium, classrooms, and galleries, gallery shop, art library and an interactive gallery for children of all ages. In 2006, the Art School was named the Kirk Newman Art School to recognize the artist and former Art School director who contributed so much to its development. Today over 100,000 visitors each year enjoy exciting temporary exhibitions, an outstanding permanent collection of nearly 4,000 works, programs, and events at the KIA. Nearly 3,000 students enroll annually in Kirk Newman Art School classes. The collection, originally developed to complement the KIA's art school, focuses on American painting, sculpture and ceramics, American and European works on paper from the 16th century onwards, photography and American art, from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century portraiture and landscape painting to modern and contemporary abstraction and figurative works, is the strength of the KIA's permanent collection. Significant works by Alexander Calder, William Merritt Chase, Dale Chihuly, Richard Diebenkorn, Janet Fish, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline and Andy Warhol are part of the collection. In recent years, the collection has been expanded to include Oceanic objects, Pre-Columbian gold and ceramics, African art and East Asian art. visit the museum's website at ... http://www.kiarts.org

George Grosz Heirs File Suit Against MoMA for Artworks Unlawfully Taken During Nazi Era Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:10 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY - The heirs of George Grosz, a famous Weimar period artist and relentless critic of the Nazis and German military establishment, filed suit in New York on Friday, April 10, 2009 against the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for refusing to return three artworks created by Grosz and left behind by him when he fled Germany in 1933 to avoid Nazi threats against his life. The artworks, Portrait of the Poet Max Herrmann-Neisse, Self-Portrait with Model, and Republican Automatons, were left behind in Germany with his Galerist Alfred Flechtheim. Eventually Flechtheim was also forced to flee Germany due to Nazi persecution and the artworks were lost after Flechtheim's death.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents William Kentridge ~ Five Themes a Survey Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:09 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents William Kentridge: Five Themes, a comprehensive survey of the artist's career, featuring more than 120 works in a range of mediums—animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, and books—on view from February 24 to May 17, 2010. Kentridge (South African, b. 1955) has earned international acclaim for his interdisciplinary practice, which mingles the fields of visual art, film, and theater. Known for engaging with the social and political landscape of his homeland, South Africa, he has produced a body of work that explores colonial oppression and social conflict, loss and reconciliation, and the ephemeral nature of both personal and cultural memory. The exhibition underscores the inter-relatedness of his mediums and disciplines through the presentation of five primary themes that cut across Kentridge's artistic output. William Kentridge: Five Themes, which follows a chronological progression, comprises works created over the last three decades and features new developments, revealing as never before the full arc of his distinguished career.

Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig to host ~ Carte Blanche III Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:08 PM PDT Leipzig, Germany - From 2008 to early 2010, the GfZK is dedicated to the topic of private commitment to art. Eleven private individuals and companies have been invited to present their activities in the form of exhibitions. Those involved are given 'carte blanche', i.e. it is left entirely up to them how they interpret the assignment and with which curators they want to work. In return, they cover all the costs arising from their projects.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents "Art of Two Germanys" Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:07 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures (on view January 25 to April 19, 2009), the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the range of art created during the Cold War. Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures continues LACMA's tradition of thematic explorations of twentieth century German art in its political, social, and historical contexts and is co-curated by LACMA's Stephanie Barron and Eckhart Gillen of Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH.

"Yoko Ono ~ Between the Sky & My Head" Exhibition Featured at Kunsthalle Bielefeld Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:06 PM PDT BIELEFELD, GERMANY -Yoko Ono, born in 1933 in Tokyo, is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Art. In 1952, she became one of the first women in Japan to study philosophy. In 1953 she took composition courses at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, and studied creative writing at Harvard. In the mid-1950s, Yoko Ono lived in New York City, where she knew John Cage, and many other artists and composers. In 1960, she rented a loft on Chambers Street, and together with La Monte Young, organized a series of concerts, attended not only by young musicians and artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Fluxus founder George Maciunas, but also by Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, and Isamu Noguchi.

"Art Rebel" Both in Fine Art & Music ~ Performed for F.D. R. at The White House Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:05 PM PDT North Bend, WA – Famed violist Emanuel Vardi, whose life story encompasses nearly a century of politics, art and music, passed away at his North Bend home in Washington State, on January 29th at age 95. Born April 21, 1915 in Jerusalem, the family came to the United States in 1920. Vardi was accepted to New York's   renowned Juilliard School when he was only 12 years old.  He went on to be considered one of the greatest violists of the 20th century.  He had a long concert career; worked in early television; and as a conductor, producer and arranger. As an artist, his music-themed works gained an international following. "He was truly a most unique individual - musically and artistically - and he had a dose of 'rebel' in him, so he was always trying new things," said Lenore Vardi, his wife of 26 years. In 1942, Vardi was named Recitalist of the Year by New York's music critics.  He is one of only two violists in the world to have given a solo recital at Carnegie Hall.

The Nationalmuseum to present Caspar David Friedrich ~ "Nature Animated" Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:04 PM PDT Stockholm, Sweden - Caspar David Friedrich, the leading painter of the German Romantic era, is nowadays regarded as one of the greatest figures in the history of art. Nevertheless, he remains relatively unknown in Sweden outside art history circles. This October, Nationalmuseum will set out to change this by presenting Scandinavia's first monographic exhibition of works by Friedrich. In all, over 90 artworks will be on show, including some 40 paintings. In his paintings, Friedrich depicts the Romantic belief in an animated nature where the divine permeates everything. Nature Animated will be on show on the 2nd floor at Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, from 2 October 2009 until 10 January 2010.

Rarely Seen Pablo Picasso Could Fetch $80 Million at Christie's Auction Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:03 PM PDT NEW YORK (REUTERS).- One of the most valuable private art collections ever offered at auction, led by an $80 million Picasso, will be sold in May in a sign that the art market might soon flirt with the record levels seen before the financial crisis struck in 2008. The sale of more than 50 works at Christie's from the estate of Mrs. Sidney Brody, a Los Angeles philanthropist who died in November, is conservatively estimated to sell for more than $150 million. It is one of two prestigious collections being handled by Christie's. The other collection includes 100 works owned by late best-selling writer and director, Michael Crichton.

Williams College Museum of Art to show Alec Soth ~ NIAGARA Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:02 PM PDT Williamstown, Mass.– The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) announces a year of programs and exhibitions that explore the idea of art and landscape. Landscape can be described as topography, sustainer of life, site of conservation activism, cultural icon, metaphor, and object of awe and spiritual reverence. WCMA kicks off this thematic year with two complementary exhibitions that explore Niagara Falls: Alec Soth: NIAGARA, beginning October 10, and A Strong Impression: William Morris Hunt's Niagara, beginning October 17. On Thursday, October 29 at 5:00 pm, a Season Premiere Party will celebrate the opening of these fall exhibitions and will also feature a conversation between exhibition curator Kathryn Price and Williams College professors Marc Gotlieb and Michael Lewis about different views of Niagara Falls. This is a free event and all are invited to attend.

The Boca Raton Museum Of Art displays 75+ Works By Andrew Stevovich Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:01 PM PDT BOCA RATON, FL.- Who is the mysterious figure at the center of Boca Raton Museum of Art's new exhibition, Andrew Stevovich: The Truth About Lola? Andrew Stevovich (born in Austria in 1948-) may consider himself to be an abstract painter more concerned with meticulous composition than with narrative, but don't tell that to the highly figurative characters appearing on his canvases. The deadpan paintings, with their frozen moments of social interactions, are set in the contemporary world, though their crisp design, brilliant color and precise surfaces recall the early Italian Renaissance masters from Giotto to Botticelli. The show opened March 17, 2009. The exhibition will run through May 31, 2009.

Julien's Auctions to Offer Property from the Collection of Barbra Streisand Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:00 PM PDT BEVERLY HILLS, CA. -  Julien's Auctions to offer property from the Collection of Barbra Streisand, the multi-award-winning international star, in a live and online auction at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. on October 17th and 18th. All proceeds from this auction will benefit the Streisand Foundation, founded more than two decades ago by Barbra Streisand the actress/singer/director/composer/activist/philanthropist to aid humanitarian causes worldwide. Exhibitions will be created by WRJ Design Associates who have designed exhibitions for The Estate of Katharine Hepburn, The Estate of Johnny Cash, The Collection of Cher and recently The Collection of Michael Jackson.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:30 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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