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• The Houston Center for Photography Hosts its 29th Juried Membership Exhibition
• The Detroit Institute of Arts Presents "It's a Zoo in Here!"
• The Rijksmuseum Shows ~ Rembrandt and Degas ~ Portraits of Two Young Artists
• The Long Beach Museum of Art Presents 200 of Ray Turner's Portraits
• The Harris Museum & Art Gallery Presents a Summertime Exhibition
• The Prado Museum Opens " Rome: Nature and the Ideal Landscapes 1600-1650"
• The National Gallery to exhibit " PICASSO ~ Challenging The Past "
• Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective at Queensland Art Gallery
• Shelburne Museum hosts a Major Mary Cassatt Exhibit
• THE WALTERS PRESENTS ~ UNTAMED: THE ART OF ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE
• Tate Modern Announces First Major Gauguin Exhibition in Fifty Years
• László Moholy-Nagy Exhibition Is Part of PHotoEspaña 2010 Festival
• The Austin Museum of Art presents " Modern Art / Modern Lives / Then + Now "
• Tate Liverpool presents "Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today"
• Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibits Hans Burkhardt Painting "Burial of Gorky"
• Saint Louis Art Museum opens 'Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty'
• Andy Goldsworthy Exhibition at Galerie Lelong in New York
• Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts opens 'The Light Project' in Saint Louis
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Houston Center for Photography Hosts its 29th Juried Membership Exhibition Posted: 04 Jul 2011 01:27 AM PDT Houston, TX.- The Houston Center for Photography is proud to announce its 29th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition and this year's participants. Juror Ariel Shanberg selected 30 artist from over 200 entries. Mr. Shanberg will give remarks about the selections on Friday, July 8 beginning at 5:30 p.m. prior to the opening reception from 6 - 8 p.m. Artist Talks with a group of this year's participating artists will be held on Saturday, July 9 beginning at 2 p.m. The exhibition of the selected artists works will be on view in the center from July 8th through August 21st. One of HCP's most diverse exhibitions of the year, the Annual Juried Membership exhibition highlights the photographs of its national and international members. HCP's members have been an integral part of its mission since 1981. "The 30 photographers featured in this year's installment of the Houston Center for Photography's Members exhibition have seduced me. Each in their own right, through their own visual language and strategies, through their elocution of their subject matter...made me look longer and deeper into their images, and meditate on the themes and concerns in their work. In successfully grabbing a hold of me, they never fully let go, remaining inscribed on the mind and in the heart, and having instilled new perspectives and fresh understanding.  What binds [them] together, is what I infer as their fervent belief in the power of images, their adherence to the craft of image making, and their strident (and successful) desire to connect with the viewer's mind and heart. It has been a joy to encounter such images and I hope they will impart on you a similar thrilling sense of discovery and encourage you to let them grab a hold of you – you'll be glad they did." The Houston Center for Photography brings together a community of people interested in photography and lens-based work.  HCP is always free and open to the public. Founded in 1981, HCP is a nonprofit organization offering year-round exhibitions, workshops, publications, outreach programs, lectures, classes, and home to an on-site library housing more than 2,500 books on photography as well as a state of the art digital darkroom. HCP's mission is to increase society's understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture. HCP strives to encourage artists, build audiences, stimulate dialogue, and promote inquiry about photography and related media through education, exhibitions, publications, fellowship programs, and community collaboration. Founded in 1981 as a visual artists' organization, Houston Center for Photography is a model nonprofit organization with a budget of approximately $500,000. It is the only visual artists' organization in the South and Southwest with a paid professional staff, offering year-round programs and services devoted exclusively to photography and related media. HCP also conforms to the kunsthalle tradition of a professionally managed, permanent institution that exhibits but does not collect works of art. HCP began as a member-run cooperative and was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1982. The organization is membership-based, with constituents residing all over the world. Government and foundation grants, membership fees, workshop tuition, and sales from its award-winning critical journal, SPOT, and various exhibition publications help to support programming. HCP continues to increase its earned income capacity through annual auctions, anniversary celebrations and summer print sales. In the 28 years since its establishment, HCP has come to be seen as a model for small nonprofit arts organizations, receiving support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Houston Arts Alliance (formerly Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County), Houston Endowment, the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, United Way Kids' Way, and the Wortham Foundation, among others.  HCP is governed by an ethnically diverse 24-member board which includes business professionals, physicians, lawyers, educators, photographers and gallery owners. Additional guidance is provided by a 30-member advisory council comprised of collectors, curators, educators, and photographic artists. The organization has grown to include a staff of seven, which is assisted by several interns each semester and hundreds of volunteers. Located in Houston's museum district, HCP opened a new 1500 sq. ft. Learning Center in 2006 and expanded its educational programming by 400% annually. HCP now conducts over 275 classes each year. A full-time Education Coordinator was hired to manage the Learning Center and develop additional opportunities for lifelong learning. The renovation and expansion project also included enhancement of HCP's three galleries, improvements to the newly named John Cleary Library (housing over 2,500 volumes of photography-related books and journals) and development of photo critique, and film/video screening area. The Learning Center features nine digital workstations and peripherals for digital imaging, scanning and printing. HCP has sought to broaden its outreach among Houston's diverse communities through exhibitions and programming through the vehicle of community collaboration with institutions such as University of Houston's Visual Studies Program, The World Affairs Council, Aurora Picture Show, FotoFest, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Project Row Houses, and Houston. It's Worth It. HCP strives to inspire new generations of photographers through its Collaborations outreach program, which since 2002 has brought together high school students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to create work in collaboration and curate an exhibition. PictureThis is an additional educational outreach program run by HCP, helping pediatric patients from the Children's Hospital at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Children's Hospital to create work about living with cancer and present it to the community. Photographer Peter Brown, a founding member and current HCP advisory council member said, "We have shown work from some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, and we have shown the work of many emerging photographers who have gone on to great artistic success. And we have had show after show of cutting edge work that has helped to define the state of photography, both regionally and nationally. We teach, we put out a great magazine called SPOT, we show work at HCP and elsewhere, and we are still a center for the photographic life in Houston." Visit the center's website at ... http://hcponline.org

The Detroit Institute of Arts Presents "It's a Zoo in Here!" Posted: 03 Jul 2011 11:56 PM PDT Detroit, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts is proud to present "It's a Zoo in Here! Prints and Drawings of Animals" until September 25th. Herds of cattle and strings of ponies as well as pods of dolphins, ostentations of peacocks and lounges of lizards are just some of the subjects of more than 150 prints and drawings selected from the DIA collection to form this exhibition. Regardless of culture and despite centuries of time, artists of all generations are united in their portrayals of animals in a multitude of activities and roles.

The Rijksmuseum Shows ~ Rembrandt and Degas ~ Portraits of Two Young Artists Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:42 PM PDT AMSTERDAM.- Although it is well known that the famous French impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was inspired by Rembrandt, the forthcoming exhibition is the first actually devoted to Rembrandt's influence on Degas. This summer, the Rijksmuseum presents a series of self-portraits of the two artists when they were young. Rarely displayed together, the Degas self-portraits originate from internationally renowned collections such as those at The Metropolitan Museum in New York, The National Gallery of Art in Washington and The Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

The Long Beach Museum of Art Presents 200 of Ray Turner's Portraits Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:21 PM PDT Long Beach, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art is pleased to present "Ray Turner: Population, Good Man/Bad Man", on view at the museum until September 11th. This exhibition, consisting of paintings, monotypes, and sculptures, will be installed on the entire first floor of the Museum Pavilion. Population is a unique gathering of over 200 portraits of Southern California residents painted over the past four years by Pasadena artist Ray Turner. Ray has spent the spring of 2011 painting dozens of individuals to represent the rich, diverse community of Long Beach, including elected officials, philanthropists, artists and a host of Long Beach citizens encountered in our everyday lives. Turner has focused his career on the human face with the objective of creating a narrative between the viewer and the subject. Turner paints his subjects after carefully studying the multiple photographs he has taken with a concentration on their essence as opposed to their features.

The Harris Museum & Art Gallery Presents a Summertime Exhibition Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:20 PM PDT Preston, UK.- The Harris Museum & Art Gallery is proud to present "Holidays", on view at the museum until September 3rd. Summertime hits the Harris with Holidays, a colourful free art exhibition for all the family to enjoy. The exhibition takes a fond look at our popular holiday pastimes – through paintings and historical objects you can see people enjoying a day at the fair or fête, a retreat to the countryside, relaxing at home, or having fun at the coast.The exhibition features a wonderful selection of paintings, prints, drawings, postcards and objects drawn from the Harris' collection of 19th and 20th century art. Featured artists include Laura Knight, Alfred Munnings, Louis Wain, Arthur Rackham and Thérèse Lessore.

The Prado Museum Opens " Rome: Nature and the Ideal Landscapes 1600-1650" Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:19 PM PDT MADRID.- Featuring more than 100 works, the exhibition Rome: Nature and the Ideal. Landscapes 1600-1650 will be exhibited at the Museo del Prado after its showing at the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition project is one of the most ambitious to be undertaken by the Prado, which has worked closely with the Musée du Louvre. Works have been loaned from fifty different sources in order to offer the most important selection of landscape of this period to be exhibited to date. This important group of works will also analyse the evolution of the genre from its first flowering to its maturity through figures of the stature of Velázquez, Claude Lorraine and Poussin. On view 5 July through 25 September. Until the late 16th century, landscape was considered a minor artistic genre by art theoreticians and was on occasions treated as a speciality confined to the painters who had moved from northern Europe to Italy. Various different traditions co-existed in Rome, together constituting the most important trends within this genre in the 16th century, namely the archaeological landscapes of Polidoro da Caravaggio and Raphael and the more naturalistic, poetic canvases of Giorgione and Titian, whose works some of the great Roman collectors were proud to display. It was Annibale Carracci who developed the prototype of the harmoniously structured landscape of a kind that came to be described as "classical" by the end of the 17th century. Carracci's example was developed by his Bolognese followers including Domenichino and Francesco Albani, who further enhanced the genre with literary references. In addition, Paul Bril formulated new typologies such as the marine landscape, genre scenes of fishermen and topographically accurate landscapes. As a result, Bril and other artists from Antwerp such as Jan Brueghel and Sebastian Vrancx updated the 16th -century Antwerp tradition of landscape through contact with the natural environment of Italy. Another important factor in the development of the genre was the presence of the German painter Adam Elsheimer in Rome from 1610 to 1620. Elsheimer introduced small figures and other elements such as literary references into his landscapes, which have a dramatic tension normally associated with history painting. His enthusiasm for atmospheric effects and different types of light constituted an important precedent for the naturalist landscape painting of Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Cornelis van Poelenburgh and Filippo Napoletano, who in turn inspired artists such as Carlo Saraceni and Orazio Gentileschi, all present in the exhibition with key works from their respective oeuvres. Within the exhibition the two sections devoted to Claude Lorraine and Nicolas Poussin are particularly important. Both were outstanding representatives of the genre and their works marked the transition of landscape painting from that of a minor genre to a prestigious and widely acknowledged one with particular characteristics that defined its uniqueness. Alongside their works are paintings by other French artists such as Jean Lemaire, who rapidly became sought after on the art market for his views with classical ruins, and Gaspard Dughet, whose proto-romantic visions would be extremely influential for later landscape painters such as Courbet. The two venues in which Rome. Nature and the Ideal will be held (Galeries nationales du Grand Palais and the Museo del Prado) will present an almost identical version of the exhibition with regard to its content aside from the drawings, which will vary significantly for conservation reasons. Overall, the principal difference lies in the inclusion in the Madrid version of the exhibition of a section that focuses on Philip IV's commission of a large series of landscapes for the decoration of the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid. The project involved the participation of the leading artists resident in Rome between 1635 and 1640, whose influence would be crucial for the future development of the genre. Visit the Museo del Prado at : http://www.museodelprado.es/en/

The National Gallery to exhibit " PICASSO ~ Challenging The Past " Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:11 PM PDT LONDON - The National Gallery's first exhibition dedicated to Pablo Picasso reveals how the greatest artist of the 20th century pitted himself against the great European painting tradition. Seizing on the signature themes, techniques and artistic concerns of painters such as Velázquez, Rembrandt and Cézanne, Picasso transformed the art of the past into 'something else entirely', creating audacious paintings of his own. Sometimes his 'quotations' from the past were direct, at other times more allusive and, occasionally, full of parody and irreverence. On exhibition 25 February through 7 June, 2009.

Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective at Queensland Art Gallery Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:10 PM PDT Brisbane, Australia - Sidney Nolan's first major retrospective since his death presents an opportunity to unravel something of the artist's enigma and understand his achievement throughout an entire career. He is best known for his various series, inspired by landscapes, myths or historical events. His output was prolific, ranging across various techniques and media. This retrospective features critical phases from the St Kilda and Wimmera themes through to the first 'Ned Kelly' series.  On view at the Queensland Art Gallery through 28 September, 2008.

Shelburne Museum hosts a Major Mary Cassatt Exhibit Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:09 PM PDT SHELBURNE, VT - Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family features more than 60 works by Cassatt and Edgar Degas, many of which are on loan from private collections and museums including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Cassatt's signature monumental mother-and-child works figure prominently in the exhibit. Little known family portraits and Cassatt's personal correspondence add fresh insight into the artist's world.

THE WALTERS PRESENTS ~ UNTAMED: THE ART OF ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:08 PM PDT Baltimore, MD - The Walters Art Museum has organized an exhibition of over 160 works devoted to French artist Antoine-Louis Barye (1796–1875), the foremost animal sculptor or animalier of the 19th century.  On view Feb. 11–May 6, 2007, this exhibition will be the first in recent times to emphasize the full range of Barye's production, including not only his well-known bronze sculptures but also his oil paintings, watercolors and sketches.  These pieces are drawn primarily from the Walters' Barye collection, which rivals the Louvre both in scope and significance.  These artworks will reveal the breadth of his subjects from game animals and mythological creatures to animal combat scenes and the human form.  Auguste Rodin was an early pupil, and Barye's work was a source of inspiration to Henri Matisse and Paul Cézanne.  The Walters Art Museum will be circulating an exhibition of highlights from its renowned holdings of Barye's works to The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla. from June 1 to Sept. 2, 2007.

Tate Modern Announces First Major Gauguin Exhibition in Fifty Years Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:07 PM PDT LONDON.- Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the late nineteenth century. Remarkably, this is the first major exhibition in London to be devoted to his work in over half a century. Opening at Tate Modern on 30 September 2010, Gauguin: Maker of Myth will trace the artist's unique approach to storytelling. Bringing together over 100 works from public and private collections from around the world, the exhibition will take a fresh and compelling look at this master of modern art.

László Moholy-Nagy Exhibition Is Part of PHotoEspaña 2010 Festival Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:06 PM PDT MADRID.- A new production which takes a look at the multi-disciplinary work of Moholy-Nagy, focusing on his period of development of his fundamental aesthetic theory: the art of light Over 200 works, including paintings, black and white and colour photography, films and graphic designs which reflect the vital importance of the artist for 20th century art. László Moholy-Nagy is one of the great figures of modernity, a fundamental artist whose theoretical contribution developed in parallel to his artistic and teaching activity. Moholy-Nagy was born László Weisz to a Jewish-Hungarian family in 1895.

The Austin Museum of Art presents " Modern Art / Modern Lives / Then + Now " Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:05 PM PDT AUSTIN, TX.- The Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) presents Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now. This two-part exhibition, organized by the Austin Museum of Art, draws from AMOA's permanent collection and local collections to explore how modern and contemporary artists merge art and life. It focuses on two distinct periods and areas: the start of modern art in the late 19th and early 20th century in Europe, and the late 20th and early 21st century from diverse cultures and art centers around the world. On exhibit 30 August through 7 December, 2008.

Tate Liverpool presents "Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today" Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:04 PM PDT LIVERPOOL - At a time of unprecedented interest in the role of colour in graphic design, fashion and interior design, Tate Liverpool will be presenting Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today. The exhibition looks at the moment in twentieth-century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as 'readymade' rather than as scientific or expressive. The exhibition has been created by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool. On exhibition 29 May through 13 September, 2009.

Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibits Hans Burkhardt Painting "Burial of Gorky" Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:03 PM PDT Philadelphia, PA - When the artist, Hans Burkhardt (b. 1904 Basel, Switzerland - d. 1994 Los Angeles) left New York late in 1937, after nearly nine years of sharing Arshile Gorky's studio, he brought to Los Angeles the largest holdings of Gorky works by his friend and mentor, outside Gorky's own holdings. Burkhardt was the first to introduce Gorky's work to other artists and curators in L.A. and his collection was the subject of a number of Gorky museum exhibitions. Hans Burkhardt's "Burial of Gorky" is currently on view as part of the concurrent exhibition, "Arshile Gorky in Context" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 10, 2010.

Saint Louis Art Museum opens 'Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty' Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:02 PM PDT Saint Louis, MO - Power and Glory: Court Arts of China's Ming Dynasty is a landmark exhibition, as it is the first to showcase a full spectrum of extraordinary works made during the reign of an imperial house that ruled China from 1368 to 1644. A representative range of architectural fragments, archaeological materials, and decorative arts are featured in the exhibition, as well as paintings; ceramics; jade, gold and silver jewelry; metalwork; lacquer-ware; textiles; musical instruments; and woodblock printing. Many of the works have never been shown in the United States before. On view 22 February through 17 May,2009.

Andy Goldsworthy Exhibition at Galerie Lelong in New York Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:01 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- In a major departure from his usual practice of working in the rural landscape, Andy Goldsworthy presents photographs, sculpture and videos made exclusively in New York City. In New York Dirt Water Light, Goldsworthy's subjects include debris, passersby, and the interplay of natural and artificial light—demonstrating the artist's broad, compelling understanding of nature. The exhibition at Galerie Lelong includes nine photographic suites, a triptych of "rain shadow" videos, and a sculptural installation made of dirt collected from the city streets. On view through 19 June.

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts opens 'The Light Project' in Saint Louis Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT St.Louis, MO - The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts announces The Light Project, a series of outdoor light installations presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, Dan Flavin: Constructed Light.  This project is headed by the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, in collaboration with contemporary art curators from the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and White Flag Projects. The initiative is motivated by the Pulitzer's commitment to the arts and interest in social and urban revitalization, beginning with its own Grand Center neighborhood in midtown St. Louis. The Light Project will illuminate the area surrounding the block of Washington Boulevard where the Pulitzer is located.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 03 Jul 2011 10:00 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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