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• KAdE Hires Design Firm for Three-Dimensional Setting to Show Porcelain
• Harn Museum of Art Presents A Retrospective of Jerry Uelsmann's Photography
• The Bowes Museum Shows Fantin-Latour and the Impressionists
• The National Gallery of Slovenia Opens a Luigi Spazzapan Retrospective
• Sotheby's to Offer A Most Seductive Painting in British Art at Old Masters Sale
• The Lönnström Art Museum Hosts a Major Review of Danish 20th Century Art
• Pekin Fine Arts Presents "Spiritual / Material" a Group Show
• Divers Find New Treasure from Famed Nuestra Senora de Atocha Shipwreck
• Exhibition of Helmut Newton's Photos at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston
• London Fields Gallery Launches with "Hackney Hoard" Exhibition
• The Guild Gallery in Mumbai Hosts Video & Animation Film Festival
• The Sammlung Essl at Klosterneuberg ~ Austria′s Biggest Private Collection of Contemporary Art ~ Toured By AKN Editor
• Neo Rauch solos at David Zwirner, Chelsea
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art displays Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Mural
• Georgia O'Keeffe Draws Thousands of Art Lovers to Northern New Mexico
• Barnaby Furnas opens ~ All At Once ~ at Stuart Shave/Modern Art
• Matisse, Picasso, & Modern Art in Paris ~ The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the VMFA and UVAM
• Hammer Museum exhibits 'Between Earth and Heaven ~ The Architecture of John Lautner'
• Museum of Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico shows Leopoldo Maler's "Intoxications"
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

KAdE Hires Design Firm for Three-Dimensional Setting to Show Porcelain Posted: 04 Jul 2011 10:22 PM PDT AMERSFOORT.- In the Netherlands, Meissen porcelain is often regarded as 'high-class kitsch'. Its sumptuous, often narrative style of decoration puts it at odds with the minimalistic and conceptual traditions of Modernism. In this exhibition, KAdE seeks to challenge this prejudice and focus attention on the great sculptural, artistic and technical strengths of Meissen. KAdE commissioned the Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (SO – IL) architectural office to design an ideal contemporary three-dimensional setting in which to present the porcelain. In response, SO – IL has designed 32 modern, geometrically shaped showcases in bright colours and with 'pointed tops'. As well as showing off the fifty-plus Meissen objects to best advantage, these vitrines are autonomous works in their own right. As Florian Idenburg of SO – IL explains, "We wanted to come up with a strategy to help visitors 'take a fresh look' at Meissen so that they could understand the pieces in a new way. By using the vitrine to 'upset' conventional ways of looking at the works, we force viewers to redefine their relationship with them. Through the organisation of colour, form and material, we seek to reduce the objectness of the individual pieces in order to generate a more fluid and visceral perception. It is about a transition from object to experience, and the power of architecture to act as a mediator in that process." The porcelain in the exhibition has been drawn from a number of sources, including the Von Klemperer collection, the Meissen factory collection and various private collections in England and Germany. Von Klemperer collection Gustav von Klemperer was a Dresden-based Jewish banker and collector who owned one of the finest pre-war collections of Meissen in private hands. It included over 800 items, mostly dating from the 18th century. During the Second World War, his collection was confiscated by the Nazis, crated up and stored in the hills outside Dresden. When Dresden was bombed by the allies in 1945, the entire collection had just been brought in to the city from the hills to the west. Acting against orders, the truck driver decided to leave his vehicle overnight in the courtyard of the royal palace. The devastating bombing raid of that night reduced the building to ruins. The post-war Communist regime left the ruin untouched. In 1951, a labourer discovered the battered cases of porcelain among the rubble. It quickly became clear that they contained the Von Klemperer collection (or part of it). Following the reunification of Germany in 1991, 83 pieces were returned to Von Klemperer's heirs. They donated 63 of them to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) for inclusion in the institution's renowned porcelain collection; the rest were auctioned off by Christie's. A few years ago, further items from the Von Klemperer collection were discovered in the SKD depots. The pieces were returned to the family and auctioned off in 2010 by Bonham's Fine European Ceramics in London. Although almost all the items in the auction had been damaged by the bombing (many seriously so), they sold for extraordinarily high sums. The exhibition at KAdE will feature a number of them, including a 'Temple of Minerva' table decoration (c. 1747), the figure of a Turk (c. 1745) and a nodding pagoda (c. 1745). The exhibition also includes pieces from the Meissen factory collection which were produced in the 19th or 20th century but based on 18th-century models. Among these are various Commedia dell'arte figures (Brighella, Gondoliere, Arlecchino, Beltramo and Avvocato).

Harn Museum of Art Presents A Retrospective of Jerry Uelsmann's Photography Posted: 04 Jul 2011 09:40 PM PDT GAINESVILLE, FL.- The first critical retrospective of American photographer Jerry Uelsmann's work opened at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida on June 14, 2011. Uelsmann, known for his iconic, surreal style and his innovative composite printing techniques, has spent more than 50 years challenging and advocating for the acceptance of photography as an experimental art form. The Mind's Eye: 50 Years of Photography by Jerry Uelsmann, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts features 89 works from every phase of the artist's wide-ranging career, including a selection of rare pieces that have never before been on public view. Additional works from the artist's collection are on view only during this leg of the exhibition, open through September 11th.

The Bowes Museum Shows Fantin-Latour and the Impressionists Posted: 04 Jul 2011 09:25 PM PDT Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK - The Bowes Museum is pleased to present "Painting Flowers: Fantin-Latour and the Impressionists", on view at the museum until October 9th. Flower power is the theme running through the first large scale show in Britain to celebrate the still life paintings of Henri Fantin-Latour. Although the artist's name might not be the first to trip off everyone's tongue when reflecting on 19th Century greats, he was nevertheless up there with the finest, including Édouard Manet, who was a witness at his wedding, and Whistler, who introduced him to London's artistic and intellectual society.

The National Gallery of Slovenia Opens a Luigi Spazzapan Retrospective Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:24 PM PDT Ljubljana, Slovenia.- The National Gallery of Slovenia is proud to present a Luigi Spazzapan retrospective, drawn from the works donated to the museum by the artist's daughter, Mrs Nuša Lapajne. "Luigi Spazzapan 1889-1958: Donation by Nuša Lapajne" will be on view at the museum until August. Luigi Spazzapan is one of those Slovenian artists of the 20th century who have shared their cultural identity on the western border of Slovenia. If he could capitalize on his multicultural origins, that same multiculturality left intolerable gaps in his biography after his death because of the particular circumstances of his turbulent life. Just as the track of his Slovenian pre-history was lost in the new environment, audiences in Slovenia have had no knowledge about his work after his move to Turin.

Sotheby's to Offer A Most Seductive Painting in British Art at Old Masters Sale Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:23 PM PDT LONDON.- Possibly the most seductive image in British art, this ravishing portrait was recorded as; "Nell Gwin naked leaning on a bed, with her Child by Sr Peter Lilly. This picture was painted at the express command of K. Charles 2d nay he came to Sr Peter Lillys house to see it painted when she was naked on purpose. afterwards this picture was at Court. where the Duke of Buckingham took it from (when K. James went away,) as may others did the like." These words were written by George Vertue in 1723 when he visited Buckingham House to see the collection of the courtier, John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. The presence in the Royal Collection of such a fascinating picture was confirmed by the publication in 1758 of the Catalogue of... Pictures... belonging to King James the Second, where reference is made under no. 305 to such a picture being artfully concealed – "By Danckers and Sir Peter Lely. The sliding piece before Madame Gwynn's picture naked, with a cupid." The portrait was probably still at Buckingham House in 1746, as 'a naked Lady and son, Lely' is recorded in an inventory of that year.

The Lönnström Art Museum Hosts a Major Review of Danish 20th Century Art Posted: 04 Jul 2011 08:06 PM PDT Raumu, Finland.- "King of Kings", a major review of Danish 20th-century art, opened at the Lönnström Art Museum. Highlighting turning points in modern art and society from the 1910s to the 1960s, the exhibition presents a review of stylistic movements and events in visual art. The focal points are expressionism and surrealism, both of them important art movements in Finland and Denmark, and both equally beloved by Scandinavian audiences. The featured artists include two great names of north European modernism, Asger Jorn and Sonja Mancoba, and the greatest figures in Danish art history Wilhelm Freddie, Harald Giersing, Sigurd Swane, Jens Søndergaard, Svend Wiig Hansen and JF Willumsen. The exhibition has work by 27 artists: paintings, sculptures and prints. A sculpture by Astrid Noack is mounted in the museum yard. "King of Kings" remains on view until September 11th.

Pekin Fine Arts Presents "Spiritual / Material" a Group Show Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:48 PM PDT Pekin, China - Pekin Fine Arts is proud to present "Spiritual/Material" a group show that asks"What constitutes 'popular taste'?" Perhaps this simple question can be the starting point for more meaningful conversation, and art production and art consumption need not be hijacked by the world of wealth and luxury. How can art function both within and outside the art market? "Spiritual/Material" is on view at the gallery until August 29th.Today, the spectacular developments in the art market over-shadow all other issues related to art - making, artists' practice and even art exhibit viewing. How do we overcome – and resist - the terrific, seductive, and magnetic pull of the art market? Pekin Fine Arts hope it is obvious: The art market price of a work is never the filter or prism through which we view – and judge - artistic output.

Divers Find New Treasure from Famed Nuestra Senora de Atocha Shipwreck Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:47 PM PDT KEY WEST, FL- Divers in the Florida Keys have recovered a large emerald ring and two silver spoons believed to come from Nuestra Senora de Atocha, a shipwrecked Spanish galleon that has already yielded one of the greatest treasures ever recovered from the sea. Employees of Mel Fisher's Treasure, the salvage company that has worked the shipwreck site since 1969, believe the latest haul signals they are close to finding the sterncastle, a key missing portion of the ship. "The sterncastle is where the clergy and elite were with their personal items," said Sean Fisher, spokesman for the family business and grandson of its late founder, Mel Fisher.

Exhibition of Helmut Newton's Photos at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:29 PM PDT HOUSTON, TX (AP).- An exhibit of works by world-renowned fashion photographer Helmut Newton opened Sunday in Houston includes all of the photographs from his first three books. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston said in a news release that "Helmut Newton: White Women, Sleepless Nights, Big Nudes" is the first large-scale U.S. exhibition of Newton's work. The exhibit takes its name from the titles of the first three books: "White Women" from 1976, "Sleepless Nights" from 1978 and "Big Nudes" from 1982.

London Fields Gallery Launches with "Hackney Hoard" Exhibition Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:29 PM PDT LONDON.- Coinciding with their summer launch, GALERIE8 will be opening their permanent space with the exhibition Hackney Hoard, 22nd July – 28th August, 2011. The exhibition is an inquiry into the value and status placed on contemporary art and the role it plays in society, regardless of its literal monetary value in terms of the materials from which it is made. For this project, GALERIE8 will be working with artists Adam Dant, Gavin Turk, Terry Castle, LE GUN artists, Annabel Tilley, Matthew Killick and the Last Tuesday Society. On the 12th July 2007, whilst re-landscaping their back garden, four residents of Hackney, East London , unearthed eighty mystery gold coins.

The Guild Gallery in Mumbai Hosts Video & Animation Film Festival Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:12 PM PDT Mumbai.- The Guild Gallery is pleased to present a Video and Animation Film Festival (VAF @ The Guild, 2011), a first of its kind project in Mumbai. Curated by Delhi based curator and critic, JohnyML, this project revolves around the new concepts of video and animation film making in the contemporary art world. The project will be on view until July 15th. Aditi Chitre, Iram Ghurfan, Gigi Scaria, Kavita Singh Kale, K.M.Madhusudhanan, Neha Thakar, Pooja Iranna, Riyas Komu, Samia Singh, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Srinivas Bhakta and Vidya Kamat are the participating artists.  As it is an ongoing project more artists will be featured in the coming sessions. As an exhibition strategy, VAF @ The Guild uses both the plasma screens and projection systems to exhibit the video and animation films. These works will be shown in loop and after a week of the project's commencement, the videos and artists may change as more artists and their works will add on. "With the collapsing boundaries between different art genres more and more interdisciplinary practices get space and appreciation in the field of visual arts as a part of the general cultural production. The galleries today are aware of this fact and they have started facilitating such works of art and projects. However, in India exclusive video and animation projects are not still in vogue. VAF @ The Guild is one of such pioneering efforts to showcase the videos and animation films of the eminent as well as emerging artists of India," observes JohnyML, the curator of the project who was also incidentally the initiator and curator of Video Wednesdays @ Gallery Espace, the first ever year long video art exhibition in 2008-09. Internationally videos have been around in the mainstream visual culture for a long time now. However of late animation films as a genre of video making is gaining ground and a lot of young emerging artists especially with training in art/design/technology are experimenting and coming up with new genre of works. By bringing video and animations on the same platform, The Guild hopes to open up new dialogues. While Samia Singh, Iram Ghurfan, Aditi Chitre and Srinivas Bhakta invest their energies purely in the creation of animation shorts and movies, and also attempt to cut the barriers that exist between the mainstream gallery oriented art practice and the commercial use of such talents in the field of advertisement and publicity, artists like Kavita Singh Kale move between these two realms with equal verve by producing advertisements, animation movies, paintings and sculptural installations. Academically trained in painting and graphics art, K.M.Madhusudhanan is an internationally acclaimed film maker and the national award winner for the best film (Bioscope- 2009). His short films and videos are highly acclaimed all over the world and his works have been showcased in MoMA and most other major international film festivals. Gigi Scaria is one of the participants in the Indian Pavillion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011. His work titled 'the Elevator from the Subcontinent' has been hailed as one of the happening works in the ongoing Venice Biennale. Gigi is known for his paintings, sculptures, videos, digital works and carefully crafted sculptural installations that include video as a major component in them. Pooja Iranna and Vidya Kamat have been directing their energies towards articulating the liminal spaces of the city. While Pooja takes architecture as a point of departure, Vidya looks at the anthropological and mythological implications of the women's existence and identity as a focal point of her works. Their videos also have caught the attention of the art world.Neha Thakar plays with the idea of tangible and intangible; visible and invisible properties of the materials like water, ice, smell, gas etc. The ice, which is the solid form of water, turns in to water and finally to its origin through the process of natural exhaustion.  Actor Naseeruddin Shah stares out of a single-shot video frame while a poem scrolls across:"I have to conclude my lord…… that you tricked me to serve you." in Riyas Komu's 13 minute video. The Guild Art Gallery represents emerging and established contemporary artists and works for the long term development of each artist's career, presenting their works in international galleries and museums as well as placing works in collections. The Gallery has a dynamic program that stimulates observation, discourse which help to reflect and represent the complexity of contemporary culture. The expanded new space allows for a diversity of aesthetic expressions including films, lectures, conversations, residencies, workshops and other educational initiatives. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.guildindia.com

The Sammlung Essl at Klosterneuberg ~ Austria′s Biggest Private Collection of Contemporary Art ~ Toured By AKN Editor Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:11 PM PDT A short journey from Vienna, in the town of Klosterneuburg, is the Essl Collection Museum, which occupies its very own purpose-built art museum by the Danube. It houses Austria′s biggest private collection of contemporary art. Art collecting powerhouse couple, Agnes and Karlheinz Essl (Karlheinz Essl is the founder of bauMax, a chain of do-it-yourself and garden centres) believe that "art enriches life and releases innovative forces," the two have always sought to collect challenging works. The collection was originally meant to be housed in the 'MuseumsQuartier' in Vienna, but after a long - and typically Austrian - argument about the architecture of the museum it was built in Klosterneuburg, where they live and where bauMax has its headquarters. The striking building was designed by the award-winning Austrian architect Heinz Tesar and when it opened in 1999, the Essls could now display a collection that boasted the likes of Damien Hirst, Paul McCarthy, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Bill Viola, Tony Oursler and Jonathan Meese. Visitors enter the Exhibition Building of the Essl Collection through an entrance pavilion in the southern part of the building. From the entrance hall and the light-flooded stair hall that extends freely over all five storeys one reaches the first floor with its inner courtyard, lawn and water basin. This floor also contains the lobby, the entrance to the library, the galleries and the exhibition hall. On the mezzanine floor, a spacious studio is used for the numerous events and activities of the educational program. The six large storage rooms on the ground floor with a total floor space of 2,500 sq. meters are supplemented by additional rooms devoted to conservation, workshops, technical equipment and the administration of the artworks in the storage rooms. The seven galleries which are located on the west side contain the permanent display of the Essl Collection. They each have different dimensions and are lit through their three meter high skylights. The east-facing Exhibition Hall receives its daylight from the windows along one side and is visually linked to the corridor on the floor below that leads to the art storage rooms. The Rotunda connects the Exhibition Hall with the "Large Hall" on the floor above. Adjacent to it is the Lecture Hall, where lectures, special events and music performances are held. The Rotunda connects the Exhibition Hall with the Large Hall. It has been intentionally left empty and is filled only with the sounds of specifically conceived sound installations by various composers. The "Large Hall", where the sculptures and installations are displayed is lit by windows along one side as well as by skylights. The hall is covered by an 820 sq. meter roof that is shaped like a wave. Adjacent to the "Large Hall" are the Café and the museum shop.

Neo Rauch solos at David Zwirner, Chelsea Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:10 PM PDT New York City - David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by German painter Neo Rauch. In 2007, Rauch was the subject of a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which then traveled to the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl, Germany.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art displays Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Mural Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:09 PM PDT Tel Aviv, Israel - The two massive panels of this mural were made especially for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by the American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. This artist has become famous for his painting style that mimics the graphics and printing techniques of cheap comics. But a recurring theme in his work has been art itself. In fact Lichtenstein has said that a contemporary artist need seach no further than the history of art for new topics to adapt and rework in their own style. Now on permanent display.

Georgia O'Keeffe Draws Thousands of Art Lovers to Northern New Mexico Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:08 PM PDT GHOST RANCH, NM.- Sandstone cliffs rise from the desert floor in layers of orange, pink and yellow, limited only by the expansive blue sky that pushes down on the sprawling northern New Mexico ranch from above. Save for a few birds chirping and a breeze whistling through cedar trees, it's quiet here. It was O'Keeffe, the American modernist painter, who found a way to transport the light, colors and shapes of the cliffs and clay hills around Ghost Ranch and nearby Abiquiu to canvas for the rest of the world to see. This is Georgia O'Keeffe Country — remote, solitary and breathtaking.

Barnaby Furnas opens ~ All At Once ~ at Stuart Shave/Modern Art Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:07 PM PDT LONDON - Stuart Shave/Modern Art is pleased to present American artist Barnaby Furnas' second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will present new and unseen paintings made during the last two years, including works from Furnas' ongoing Rock Concerts, Effigies  and Flood  series. On exhibition 27 June through 27 July, 2008. Furnas' uses the physical action of painting to hold the world in freeze-frame, dissecting the visual and performative landscapes he captures. Using these frozen images to read like film stills of speed Furnas creates complex spatial abstractions, often on an epic scale.

Matisse, Picasso, & Modern Art in Paris ~ The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the VMFA and UVAM Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:06 PM PDT CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - The University of Virginia Art Museum presents Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Virginia Art Museum. This exhibition reunites works of art that were given in 1947 as bequests to two Virginia institutions, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and the University of Virginia. The selection of 88 works from the Jones collections at VMFA and the U.Va. Art Museum includes masterpieces of modern French art from the years 1904–1946.  On view 30 January through 24 April, 2009.

Hammer Museum exhibits 'Between Earth and Heaven ~ The Architecture of John Lautner' Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:05 PM PDT LOS ANGELES.- John Lautner (1911-94), one of the most important and influential architects of the twentieth century, had a remarkable career spanning nearly six decades. Residing and working in Los Angeles during much of that time, his designs are known for their radical innovation with specific attention to materiality, space and a consciousness of the natural environment. The Hammer Museum brings John Lautner's legacy and creative process by presenting the first major exhibition survey of his work: Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner, on view through October 12, 2008.

Museum of Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico shows Leopoldo Maler's "Intoxications" Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:04 PM PDT SAN JUAN, PR - Leopoldo Maler's artistic career, launched in 1964, spans the troubled times of Late Modernity while resorting to those processes by which art objects and interventions are defined today: installation, expanded painting, film, theater, perfomance… each of which languages, submitted to relentless experimentation, seeks to spell out the metaphors and rituals we live by. Intoxications brings together his milestones and pioneering works in a sort of retrospective, in as much as, according to Maler, "every exposed work already belongs to the artist's past." The idea of the toxic merges the excess implied by any work of art, with that state of extreme lucidity which transforms artistic vision into an object exposed in the open field of public experience. Thus, from its very title, the artist warns us about the nature of his ways of doing, and about the effect he hopes to achieve on his audience.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 04 Jul 2011 07:04 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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