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• Global Tour of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor Announced by Christie's
• Sir Terence Conran Makes Major Gift to the Design Museum in London
• The Asia Society Museum Shows Ai Weiwei’s New York Photographs
• The ASU Art Museum Presents "By Myself and With My Friends" Video Art
• Francis Bacon Sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Sale
• The Whitney Museum of American Art Presents a Major Lyonel Feininger Retrospective
• Edward Hopper : Major Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art
• The National Gallery of Art exhibition of Venetian Renaissance Sculptor Tullio Lombardo
• SFMOMA SHOWCASES PICASSO AND AMERICAN ART
• Ori Gersht's Films & Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
• The De la Warr Pavilion Showcases Major Art Innovators
• Fifty Million Years of the Evolution of the Horse
• Exhibition Inspires Play ~ EN PLEIN AIR ~ at the Florence Griswold Museum
• Louvre Opens a Major Retrospective of the Great Renaissance Master ~ Andrea Mantegna
• Tate Liverpool to Unveil New Commissions by Rineke Dijkstra
• Musée du Luxembourg opens a Louis Comfort Tiffany Monographic Exhibition
• Joslyn Art Museum Features Albert Paley - Contemporary American Sculptor
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Global Tour of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor Announced by Christie's Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:36 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the official dates for a landmark series of public exhibitions and special events leading up to the sale of the collection of Elizabeth Taylor, the celebrated film star, fashion icon, and humanitarian. In tribute to this amazing woman and her legions of fans worldwide, Christie's has arranged for an international, three-month tour of highlights from her expansive collection that starts in September 2011 and includes stops in Moscow, London, Los Angeles, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, and Hong Kong. The tour will culminate in New York in early December with a special ten-day, museum-quality exhibition of Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry, fashion, accessories, decorative arts and memorabilia, followed by four consecutive days of auctions. For this pivotal event, slated for December 3 to December 16, 2011, Christie's New York will devote its entire Rockefeller Center gallery space to the public exhibition and sales, which are expected to draw several thousand visitors each day. Marc Porter, Chairman and President of Christie's Americas, noted: "Christie's is honored to have been entrusted with this important role in celebrating the extraordinary life and legacy of Elizabeth Taylor. The global tour and exhibition of her collection at Christie's will be a window into the world of a true icon, a rare woman who was at once an international film and fashion star, loving mother, successful businesswoman, and generous humanitarian. This collection of her many cherished possessions will bring us closer to the essence of Elizabeth Taylor's unique spirit, and promises to inspire admiration, delight, and at times, sheer wonder, in all who come to see it." In keeping with Elizabeth Taylor's life-long devotion to humanitarian causes, Christie's is pleased to announce that a portion of the monies generated by exhibition admissions, events and publications related to the sales will be donated to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF). Founded in 1991, ETAF provides funding to AIDS service organizations throughout the world to assist those living with HIV and AIDS. The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor • Public Exhibition: The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor December 3 – 12, 2011 • The Legendary Jewels, Evening Sale December 13, 2011 • Jewelry (Sessions II & III) December 14, 2011 • The Icon and her Haute Couture, Evening Sale December 14, 2011 • Fashion and Accessories (Sessions II, III & IV) December 15, 2011 • Fine and Decorative Art & Film Memorabilia, including costumes December 16, 2011 • Impressionist & Modern Art February 2012, Christie's London

Sir Terence Conran Makes Major Gift to the Design Museum in London Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:35 PM PDT LONDON.- The Trustees of the Design Museum announced today a major gift by Sir Terence Conran towards the museum's new development project. This will help to create the world's leading museum of contemporary design and architecture in London. Sir Terence Conran's donation consists of a cash gift of £7.5m and the value of the sale of the lease of the current Design Museum building at Shad Thames valued in the region of £10m. This gift will bring Terence Conran and the Conran Foundation's support for the museum, and its predecessor, the Boilerhouse over the last 30 years to £50m. The Design Museum plans to relocate from its current home at Shad Thames to the former Commonwealth Institute building, giving it three times more space in which to show a wider range of exhibitions, showcase its world-class collection and extend its learning programme.

The Asia Society Museum Shows Ai Weiwei’s New York Photographs Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:34 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society Museum presents an exhibition of 227 photographs taken by Ai Weiwei, capturing the history, culture, and atmosphere of New York City from his unique perspective. The exhibition marks the first time Ai Weiwei's New York Photographs series is being shown outside of China. Before Ai Weiwei became internationally recognized as an artist and activist, he lived in a tiny apartment in New York's East Village, and was a prominent member of a community of expatriate Chinese artists and intellectuals in the neighborhood's then burgeoning avant-garde scene. Throughout those years, from 1983 to 1993, the artist used his camera to document his life and work, his surroundings, and the atmosphere of the time.

The ASU Art Museum Presents "By Myself and With My Friends" Video Art Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:15 PM PDT Tempe, AZ.- The Arizona State University Art Museum is pleased to present "By Myself and With my Friends" a selection of video art works, on view from July 2nd through August 27th. The exhibition will feature works by Krista Birnbaum, Donna Conlon, Rivane Neuenschwander and Sergio Neuenschwander, Connie Samaras and Corinna Schnitt. We spend time by ourselves; we spend time with others. We are aware that these two circumstances differ greatly. Time alone can be a period of comfort and reflection — or of nervousness and despair. It can be a time of rejuvenating our bodies, peaceful silences, an opportunity to become one with ourselves or perhaps engage in an act of individual creativity. But alone time can also be filled with boredom, fidgetiness and a restless mind that wanders in uncomfortable directions.

Francis Bacon Sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Sale Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:36 PM PDT LONDON.- A painting by Irish-born artist Francis Bacon sold for 18.0 million pounds ($28.7 million) on Tuesday, the second highest price paid for a work of art at a Christie's post-war and contemporary auction in London. Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992), was an Anglo-Irish figurative painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery.  Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began painting during his early 20's and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s. Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs.

The Whitney Museum of American Art Presents a Major Lyonel Feininger Retrospective Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:35 PM PDT New York City.- The Whitney Museum of American Artis proud to present "Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of the World" from June 30th through October 16th. "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World" is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where it will be exhibited in 2012. The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated monograph with a feature essay that provides a broad overview of Feininger's career, tracing his relationships with movements and organizations that defined the development of modern art, including Cubism, the Blaue Reiter, the Blue Four, the Bauhaus, and Black Mountain College. Additional essays focus on Feininger's comics, his photographs, his musical compositions, and his reputation in Germany. Born and raised in New York, Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) moved at the age of sixteen to Germany, where he became one of the leading practitioners of German Expressionism and the Bauhaus. In the late 1930s, when the Nazi campaign against modern art forced him to flee back to New York after an absence of fifty years, his marriage of abstraction and recognizable imagery made him a beloved artist in the United States. Long acknowledged as a major figure of the Bauhaus, Feininger is renowned for his romantic, crystalline paintings of architecture and seascapes. Less well known are the whimsical aspects of his work: his pioneering Chicago Sunday Tribune comic strips; his figurative, Expressionist compositions; his photographs; and his miniature hand-carved wooden figures and buildings, known as 'City at the Edge of the World'. This retrospective is the first in Feininger's native country in more than forty-five years, and the first ever to include the full breadth of his art. Feininger was one of the very few fine artists also to draw comic strips as a cartoonist. His short-lived Chicago Tribune comic strips, The Kin-der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World, were noted for their fey humor and graphic experimentation. Feininger also had intermittent activity as a pianist and composer, with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant. His son, Andreas Feininger, became famous as a photographer of New York City. As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collection—arguably the finest holding of twentieth-century American art in the world—is the Museum's key resource. The Museum's signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country's leading survey of the most recent developments in American art. Innovation has been a hallmark of the Whitney since its beginnings. It was the first museum dedicated to the work of living American artists and the first New York museum to present a major exhibition of a video artist (Nam June Paikin 1982). Such figures as Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, and Cindy Sherman were given their first museum retrospectives by the Whitney. The Museum has consistently purchased works within the year they were created, often well before the artists became broadly recognized. The Whitney was the first museum to take its exhibitions and programming beyond its walls by establishing corporate-funded branch facilities, and the first museum to undertake a program of collection-sharing (with the San Jose Museum of Art) in order to increase access to its renowned collection. The Whitney's collection— comprising more than 19,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and new media by more than 2,900 artists—contains some of the most significant and exciting work created by artists in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Visit the museum's website at ... http://whitney.org

Edward Hopper : Major Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC - Edward Hopper marks the first time in more than 25 years that a comprehensive exhibition of this great artist's work has been seen in American museums outside New York and is the most complete survey of his career ever presented in Washington. The exhibition of 96 paintings and works on paper focuses on the period of the artist's great achievements—from about 1925 to mid century—when he produced such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), and Nighthawks (1942).

The National Gallery of Art exhibition of Venetian Renaissance Sculptor Tullio Lombardo Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:19 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- In the first exhibition dedicated to Venetian Renaissance sculptor Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455–1532), his romantic approach to portraiture is revealed in four of his greatest marble carvings, which are joined by eight related works from his closest circle. On view at the National Gallery of Art's Italian galleries in the West Building from July 4 through November 1, 2009, An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture celebrates the artist's pioneering talent. Although groundbreaking, Tullio's double-portrait busts drew on various ancient sources, including Roman funerary reliefs and cameo portraits, and expressive figures from the Hellenistic Greek world, with supple flesh and parted lips. In addition, Tullio seems to have been aware of northern European double portraits in painting and prints.

SFMOMA SHOWCASES PICASSO AND AMERICAN ART Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT San Francisco, CA - The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the exhibition Picasso and American Art.  The exhibition examines the fundamental role that Pablo Picasso's artwork played in the development of American art during the 20th century.  Beginning with the artist Max Weber, who developed a friendship with Picasso in the early 1900s, many American artists came to both acknowledge Picasso as the central figure of the modern movements and define their own artistic achievements through the absorption, critique, or rejection of his example.  While unmistakably pervasive during the first half of the last century, Picasso's catalytic influence continued to be of great importance in the second half, sparking some of the most searching work from our most significant artists.  On exhibition until 28 May, 2007.

Ori Gersht's Films & Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:17 PM PDT Santa Barbara, CA.- The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents "Ori Gersht: Lost in Time", the artists first solo exhibition in the Western U.S. from May 20th until September 4th. Ori Gersht depicts scenes of natural beauty that perceptively disguise and reveal a history of violence.  Bringing together for the first time the artist's trilogy of films and related works based on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century European still-life painting, and two new series based on Japanese history, "Ori Gersht: Lost in Time" represents five years of recent work. This exhibition of more than 28 works marks the artist's first solo museum exhibition in the Western United States, and is accompanied by his first museum catalogue produced in the United States.

The De la Warr Pavilion Showcases Major Art Innovators Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT EAST SUSSEX., UK - This spectacular exhibition comprises drawings, prints and experimental films, and explores the recurring tension between figuration and abstraction throughout the 20th century and the ways by which ideas and concepts evolve. Presented non-chronologically, it encompasses movements such as Russian Constructivism, Futurism and Vorticism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and comprises works by key artists, as well as works of artists who have been sidelined in the mainstream of art history. The exhibition will be on view at De la Warr Pavilion through June 13, 2010.

Fifty Million Years of the Evolution of the Horse Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:15 PM PDT New York City - The American Museum of Natural History today announced a major new exhibition, The Horse, opening May 17, 2008 and remaining on view through January 4, 2009. The Horse will examine the powerful and continuing relationship between horses and humans and explore the origins of the horse family, extending back more than 50 million years.

Exhibition Inspires Play ~ EN PLEIN AIR ~ at the Florence Griswold Museum Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:14 PM PDT OLD LYME, CT - EN PLEIN AIR—Impressions of Painting in Giverny & Old Lyme is a new play created especially for the Florence Griswold Museum by actor Christopher Eaves.EN PLEIN AIR premieres Wednesday, June 25 and continues through Saturday, June 28.

Louvre Opens a Major Retrospective of the Great Renaissance Master ~ Andrea Mantegna Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:13 PM PDT   PARIS - Drawing on its remarkable collection of Andrea Mantegna's ( 1431-1506 ) paintings (by far the largest outside Italy), completed by exceptional loans from other French and international collections, the Louvre has mounted France's first major retrospective of this foremost Renaissance artist. The exhibition endeavours to trace the main stages of Mantegna's career, through works in different techniques. It recalls the influences that marked his production and how rapidly his reputation spread. The Louvre's major retrospective of the work of one of great masters of the Italian Renaissance: Andrea Mantegna. On exhibition 26th September through 5th January, 2009.

Tate Liverpool to Unveil New Commissions by Rineke Dijkstra Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:12 PM PDT LIVERPOOL.- In April 2010 Tate Liverpool will unveil new commissions by acclaimed Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying features two Liverpool-based video works never seen before in the UK. The works were borne out of the artist's residence at Tate Liverpool during the European Capital of Culture 2008 exhibition The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space; a groundbreaking project inspired by ideas and proposals from people across the city. Dijkstra has had a long and fruitful relationship with Liverpool, using its residents as sitters for her photography and video works for over 15 years. She explains that she is drawn to the culture of storytelling and the unwavering friendliness of the people of the city.

Musée du Luxembourg opens a Louis Comfort Tiffany Monographic Exhibition Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:11 PM PDT PARIS.- The Musée du Luxembourg is hosting the first monographic exhibition ever devoted in France to the famous American creator Louis Comfort Tiffany, a show conceived by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition brings together some 160 works (stained-glass windows, vases, lamps, objects, jewels and mosaics, drawings, watercolours and photographs), to reveal Tiffany's outstanding contribution to the glass industry as well as to decorative arts in general. On exhibition 16 September until 17 January, 2010.

Joslyn Art Museum Features Albert Paley - Contemporary American Sculptor Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:10 PM PDT OMAHA, NE.- Joslyn Art Museum's contemporary galleries is an exhibition celebrating Albert Paley's diverse and significant body of work, his virtuosity as a monumental sculptor, and the completion and dedication of Odyssey, Paley's gateway into Iowa on Interstate 80 at S. 24th Street in Council Bluffs, Iowa, near the Missouri River border with neighboring Omaha. Odyssey was commissioned by the Iowa West Foundation as part of their nationally acclaimed Public Art Initiative. Albert Paley: Celebrating a Contemporary American Sculptor, on view through September 26 at the Joslyn.

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