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• The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Shows the Early Works of David McCosh
• The Unknown Collection ~ Classics from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Highlights Ceramics in Recent Art Practice
• The Norton Simon Museum Exhibits Johannes Vermeer's "Woman with a Lute"
• Ryan O'Neal Sued Over Farrah Fawcett Portrait by Andy Warhol by University of Texas
• Photos by Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White on View at the Colby College Museum of Art
• George Herms & Other Artists Featured at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
• Indianapolis Museum of Art Opens ~ Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
• Russia to Celebrate 450th Anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow
• Work by Artist Louise Bourgeois on View for the First Time in Latin America
• International Center of Photography Surveys Elliott Erwitt's Career with Exhibition
• The National Gallery Prague (Czech Republic) Receives Our Editor ~ A Massive Art Collection Spread Over Various Locations Around Prague
• Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center shows Works Made by the Russian Avant-Gardes
• El Museo del Barrio opens "Retro-Active The Work of Rafael Ferrer"
• International Holocaust Conference Marking End of Czech EU Presidency this Friday
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza & Fundación Caja Madrid to Present the Shadow
• National Museum in Taiwan showcases 70 Works of Art by Vincent Van Gogh
• Masterpieces from Russia at the Royal Academy of Arts
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to exhibit J.W. Waterhouse ~ The Modern Pre-Raphaelite
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Shows the Early Works of David McCosh Posted: 10 Jul 2011 10:36 PM PDT Eugene, OR.- The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is proud to present the "Early Works of David McCosh". This is the first exhibition to focus on the early works of this prominent Northwest artist, the exhibition opens with a free, preview reception on Friday, July 22nd, at 6 p.m. and runs through September 4th in the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery. Curated by Danielle Knapp, JSMA McCosh fellow curator and a recent University of Oregon graduate with a Masters in Art History, the exhibition focuses specifically on works from 1923 to 1934 and includes works in several media from the beginning of McCosh's career. The UO InfoGraphics Lab has created custom programming on iPad stations which will allow visitors to access digital versions of McCosh's sketchbooks. "In reviewing his earliest artwork, it is possible to see the ways in which McCosh's observational skills developed and how his experiences in the Midwest, amidst the cultural forces of the 1930s, influenced his growth as an artist," says Knapp. The exhibition is primarily drawn from the JSMA's permanent collection and the UO Foundation's David John McCosh Memorial Collection, with additional important loans coming from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Wayne State University Art Collection, and private collectors. David McCosh (1903-1981) is perhaps best known for his post-1934 paintings, which reflected his close observations of nature and became increasingly abstract in his later years, and his WPA-era murals in Kelso, Washington; Beresford, South Dakota; and the Department of the Interior, Washington, DC. He was a highly respected and popular instructor at the University of Oregon from 1934-1970. Thirty years after his death, he continues to be recognized as one of Oregon's most significant painters of the twentieth century. McCosh left his hometown of Cedar Rapids, IA in 1923 to study at the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) where he took formal classes in cast and figure drawing, painting, etching, and lithography. In 1927, he received the AIC's John Quincy Adams Award for his painting "The Prodigal Son" and was able to spend eight months traveling in Europe, sketching and painting with his close friend, fellow AIC student Francis Chapin. "The Prodigal Son," a work which had never before been shown in Eugene, is on loan from the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and will be featured alongside McCosh's preparatory drawings. "McCosh excelled at capturing the quotidian charms of his immediate environment," says Knapp. "Whether it was a busy street in Chicago, quaint harbors on the coast of France, or Iowan farmlands, he delighted in this visual exploration of the people, places, and things around him." Throughout the late 1920s and early '30s, McCosh kept busy with commissions and gallery shows in Chicago and New York, participation in various artist residencies, and teaching opportunities at the AIC. Many of the artists with whom he worked in Iowa and Illinois were major players in early Chicago modernism and Midwest regionalism. In 1930, he met his future wife, New York-based painter Anne Kutka, when both were participating in the Tiffany Foundation's Artist Fellowship Program at Oyster Bay, Long Island. The following summer McCosh was hired to work in the lithography studio at the Woodstock Artist Colony, and in 1932 and '33 he taught at Grant Wood's Stone City summer residency. When the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a public work relief program under President Roosevelt's "New Deal", employed manual laborers by the thousands for conservation projects, McCosh was assigned to document workers at the CCC camp in Willow Springs, IL, for the Public Works of Art Project (a precursor to the Works Progress Administration). In the years leading up to their marriage in 1934, McCosh and Kutka kept up a rich correspondence that frequently discussed their struggles as emerging artists, their thoughts on contemporary exhibitions, and updates on mutual friends in the art world. "Delving into the personal letters, sketchbooks, and other primary documents contained in the David John McCosh Memorial Archive has been especially rewarding, because they provide insight into the historical backdrop for McCosh's artwork," says Knapp. "His extraordinary output of oil paintings, watercolors, lithographs, and sketches from between 1923 and 1934 illustrate his transition from student to teacher and his dual development as a painter and a lithographer." In 1934, McCosh accepted a teaching job at the University of Oregon, where his surroundings—the natural scenery, the evocative quality of the light, and the day-to-day life in Eugene—along with later sabbaticals in such diverse locations as the Washington coast and Mexico stimulated an important shift in his painting practices. Line and color ultimately replaced literal representation as the predominant compositional force in his work. After his retirement as professor emeritus in 1970, McCosh continued to live and paint in Eugene. He died in 1981. Also on view at the time of exhibition will be four oil paintings that represent the later developments in the McCosh's painting style, which were selected for exhibition in consultation with one of McCosh's former students and a member of the McCosh Advisory Committee, Portland artist Craig Cheshire. The University of Oregon's art museum opened its doors to the public on June 10, 1933. Designed by Ellis F. Lawrence, UO dean of the School of Architecture & Allied Arts (1914-1946), the museum was built to house the Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art—more than 3,000 objects given to the University by Gertrude Bass Warner in 1921 as a memorial to her late husband. The original collection primarily represented the cultures of China and Japan. Also included were works from Korea, Mongolia, Cambodia and Russia, as well as American and British pieces influenced by Asian art and culture. Prince Lucien Campbell, president of the university from 1902 to 1925, and Lawrence, championed the building of an art museum on the University of Oregon campus. President Campbell believed that a university should be a center for culture for the region it serves. With its elegant exterior brickwork, decorative moldings and iron grillwork, as well as the peaceful Prince Lucien Campbell Memorial Courtyard, the original museum building is one of the most distinctive architectural structures in Oregon. The museum is listed on the National Register for Historic Places. In the 1990s university leaders and museum board members launched the Museum Campaign. The UO's art museum broke ground for its long awaited and much anticipated project in October 2002. With its new name – Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art – in recognition of its major donor, the museum reopened in 2005. The design of the Chicago firm Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge reinvigorated the revered structure while respecting its historically important architectural elements and spaces. Today, significantly expanded gallery space allows the museum to host concurrent collections installations as well as changing exhibitions. Educational facilities now include a hands-on interactive discovery gallery and art-making studio. The museum also includes a café, museum store, as well as a lecture hall and reception hall that open onto outdoor courtyards. Visit the museum's website at  ... http://jsma.uoregon.edu

The Unknown Collection ~ Classics from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld Posted: 10 Jul 2011 10:24 PM PDT BIELEFELD.- Due to space restrictions, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld can rarely show its entire collection, although the relatively young collection — founded on classic modern art and expanded to include international contemporary art — is of indisputably high quality. The collection, comprised of approximately 500 paintings, 200 sculptures, and 4500 prints, features classic modern masterpieces by Max Beckmann, Alexej von Jawlensky, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Edvard Munch, Man Ray, and Emil Nolde, as well as Pop Art and Surrealism, masterpieces by Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz, while some of the international contemporary artists include Marlene Dumas, Jonathan Meese, and Gregor Schneider. Thanks to the extent of its collection, the Kunsthalle can provide visitors with a unique tour through twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Highlights Ceramics in Recent Art Practice Posted: 10 Jul 2011 09:35 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Highlighting the revived medium of ceramics, SFMOMA presents New Work: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova (July 8th through October 30th), an exhibition that pairs figurative ceramic sculpture by two contemporary artists who are infusing the medium's unassuming form with complex political and artistic references. Carneiro da Cunha lives and work in Brazil, and Kristalova is based in Sweden, but, despite very different cultural backgrounds, they work in a strikingly similar vein. Each artist draws on ceramics' association with childhood craft projects, making sculptures that conjure characters from fairy tales or comic books. The objects' distorted surfaces and rough glazing may suggest child's play, but these elements of simplicity and exuberance quickly yield to more serious concepts and darker visions. Crafting intentional imperfections into their work, Carneiro da Cunha and Kristalova subvert the assumed innocence of childlike expression and suggest history's dark potential to repeat itself if children (or adults) are told falsehoods about the simplistic nature of the world.

The Norton Simon Museum Exhibits Johannes Vermeer's "Woman with a Lute" Posted: 10 Jul 2011 09:07 PM PDT PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents the rare loan of Johannes Vermeer's "Woman with a Lute", ca. 1662–63, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. One of about 36 known works by the Dutch master, five of which make their home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the painting will be on view from July 8th through Sept. 26th, providing audiences with the extraordinary opportunity to see a work by Vermeer on the West Coast. Its presentation at the Norton Simon Museum marks the painting's first appearance in California.

Ryan O'Neal Sued Over Farrah Fawcett Portrait by Andy Warhol by University of Texas Posted: 10 Jul 2011 08:20 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas, July 10 (UPI) -The University of Texas has sued actor Ryan O'Neal on the grounds he won't turn over an Andy Warhol painting of Farrah Fawcett. The suit contends the late actress, a Texas alum, bequeathed the portrait to the school in her will and that O'Neal has, in effect, stolen it by keeping it after her death in 2009. Ryan O'Neal, the actor, is being sued by the University of Texas over a $30 million (£18.7 million) Andy Warhol portrait of his late partner Farrah Fawcett. "The Warhol portrait is an irreplaceable piece of art for which legal damages could not fully compensate," the lawsuit states.

Photos by Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White on View at the Colby College Museum of Art Posted: 10 Jul 2011 08:04 PM PDT WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art presents American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, on view from July 9th through October 2nd. In the 1930s, photographers pushed the genre of documentary photography to the forefront of public culture in the United States and onto the walls of newly opened museums and art galleries. That historic development receives new insight with this exhibition focusing exclusively on the work of American photographers Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White. Organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Colby Museum, the exhibition comes to Waterville after its display at the Amon Carter and the Art Institute of Chicago.

George Herms & Other Artists Featured at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Posted: 10 Jul 2011 07:43 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown) presents the work of legendary West Coast assemblage artist George Herms alongside the work of a younger generation of Los Angeles and New York artists, which is bringing new energy to the assemblage tradition. The exhibition features works from a circle of friends Herms found in Florence, as well as artists introduced to him by the exhibition curator, Neville Wakefield, including Rita Ackermann, Kathryn Andrews, Lizzi Bougatsos, Robert Branaman, Dan Colen, Leo Fitzpatrick, Elliott Hundley, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Ari Marcopoulos, Ryan McGinley, Melodie Mousset, Jack Pierson, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Agathe Snow, Ryan Trecartin, Kaari Upson, and Aaron Young. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) from July 10th through October 2nd.

Indianapolis Museum of Art Opens ~ Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria Posted: 10 Jul 2011 07:34 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- A landmark exhibition of African art, Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria presents a glimpse of the extraordinary accomplishments of the legendary royal city-state of the Yoruba people from the 12th-15th centuries. During this period, Ife (pronounced "EE-fay") was ruled by powerful sacred kings and queens, whose images are captured in stunningly naturalistic cast copper-alloy and terra-cotta heads and figures. The exhibition is on view in the Indianapolis Museum of Art from July 8th through January 16, 2012.

Russia to Celebrate 450th Anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow Posted: 10 Jul 2011 07:12 PM PDT MOSCOW - Russia will celebrate the 450th anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral by opening an exhibition dedicated to the so-called "holy fool" who gave his name to the soaring structure of bright-hued onion domes that is a quintessential image of Russia. The eccentrically devout St. Basil wore no clothes even during the harsh Russian winters and was one of the very few Muscovites who dared to lambaste tyrannical Czar Ivan the Terrible. Ivan, whose gory purges claimed tens of thousands of lives, feared St. Basil as "a seer of people's hearts and minds," according to one chronicle. He personally carried St. Basil's coffin to a grave right outside the Kremlin. The cathedral, constructed to commemorate Ivan's victory over Mongol rulers, was built on the burial site.

Work by Artist Louise Bourgeois on View for the First Time in Latin America Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:56 PM PDT SAO PAULO.- Tomie Ohtake Institute presents for the first time in Latin America the greatest exhibit of work by Louise Bourgeois: the return of the repressed, from July 8 to August 28. Bourgeois, one of the most well known artists of the 20th century, was born in Paris in 1911 and traveled and lived in the United States from 1938 until her final days in 2010. Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French pronunciation: [lwiz buʁʒwa]; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010), was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman. She is recognized today as the founder of confessional art

International Center of Photography Surveys Elliott Erwitt's Career with Exhibition Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:55 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- An eyewitness to history and a dreamer with a camera, Elliott Erwitt has made some of the most memorable photographs of the twentieth century. A substantial retrospective exhibition of his work, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best, is on view at the International Center of Photography (ICP) through August 28th. The exhibition includes more than 100 of Erwitt's favorite images, a selection of his documentary films produced over the past sixty years, as well as some previously unseen and unpublished prints from his early work. Born Elio Romano Erwitz to Russian Jewish émigrés in Paris in 1928, Erwitt spent his childhood in Italy, returned to France in 1938, and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1939. After moving to Los Angeles in 1941, Erwitt attended Hollywood High School and began working in a commercial darkroom processing photographs of movie stars. He studied filmmaking at the New School for Social Research in New York from 1949 to 1950, and worked as a documentary photographer on the Standard Oil Company project directed by Roy Stryker. After military service, Erwitt returned to New York, where he met Edward Steichen and Robert Capa, who became strong influences in his life. In 1953, he was invited by Capa to join Magnum Photos, and in 1955 he was included in Steichen's Family of Man exhibition. From early on, Erwitt set his own criteria for photographing. During the 1940s and 1950s, when many noted fine-art photographers followed established guidelines for exposure, focus, and composition, Erwitt developed his own ideas. With an incisive, humanistic sense of observation and a finely honed wit, he illuminated the small moments of life, even when covering major news events. "To me, photography is an art of observation," said Erwitt. "It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place . . . I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." Throughout six decades of making pictures, Erwitt has been recognized for his versatility. While famous for personal photographs of people and dogs and widely reproduced commercial imagery, Erwitt is also respected for his work as a photojournalist. Among the iconic moments he has captured with his camera are the Khrushchev-Nixon "Kitchen Debate" in 1959, and Jacqueline Kennedy, veiled and in distress at the funeral of her husband in 1963; his photograph of segregated water is a poignant reminder of the injustices of the Jim Crow South. Erwitt is also celebrated for portraits, including such distinguished subjects as Grace Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Kerouac, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, and Che Guevara. "Erwitt is noted for his offbeat sense of humor, combining gentle whimsy with ironic observation of everyday life. Often these works involve visual puns that make the viewer look twice, but they are always organized with great elegance and precision," said ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis, who organized the exhibition. Internationally renowned for his photographs, Erwitt is also a recognized filmmaker. His documentaries include Beauty Knows No Pain, Red, White and Blue Grass, and The Glassmakers of Herat. He has also produced seventeen comedies and satires for HBO. To date, he has authored more than twenty photography books, including Eastern Europe (1965), Photographs and Anti-Photographs (1972), Son of Bitch (1974), Personal Exposures (1988), Between the Sexes ( 1994), Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (2002), and Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (2009). Interpreting the power and evolution of photography, the International Center of Photography is a museum and school dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of photography. ICP creates programs of the highest quality to advance knowledge of the medium. These include exhibitions, collections, and education for the general public, members, students, and professionals in the field of photography. Photography occupies a vital and central place in contemporary culture; it reflects and influences social change, provides an historical record, is essential to visual communication and education, opens new opportunities for personal and aesthetic expression, has transformed popular culture, has revolutionized scientific research, and continually evolves to incorporate new technologies. Visit : http://www.icp.org/

The National Gallery Prague (Czech Republic) Receives Our Editor ~ A Massive Art Collection Spread Over Various Locations Around Prague Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:41 PM PDT The National Gallery in Prague in the Czech Republic comprises a number of different sites spread around the city. Originating in February 1796 when a group of prominent patriotically oriented Czech nobility, along with several scholars from among the enlightened bourgeoisie decided to form a corporation, named "The Patriotic Friends of Art" that could then establish two important institutions that were lacking in Prague: An Academy of Arts and a publicly accessible picture gallery. In 1918, the Picture Gallery of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Art turned into the central art collection of the new state of Czechoslovakia and ultimately the National Gallery. The Collection of Prints and Drawings (SGK) of the National Gallery in Prague, which is situated in Kinsky Palace in the Old Town Square, keeps some 320,000 prints and 60,000 drawings from the Middle Ages to the present. The National Gallery in Prague is also a research organization whose main purpose is to conduct basic and applied research and experimental development and to disseminate the results through scientific publications, exhibitions, educational programs, methodologies, or technological transfer. The National Gallery collects, records, stores, processes and provides public access to works of painting, sculpture and other graphic works as well as new media, both from domestic and famous foreign artists. With multiple individual galleries locations devoted to art from specific periods or regions, scattered around Prague, the National Gallery is colossal and it would take several days to visit every location. Two of the largest galleries are the Schwarzenberg Palace (near the castle) which contains much of the gallery's Czech Baroque collection, and the "Fair Trade Palace" (which is located a short distance from the city centre), which houses the gallery's modern and contemporary art collection. Visit the museum's website at: http://www.ngprague.cz

Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center shows Works Made by the Russian Avant-Gardes Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:40 PM PDT SAO PAULO.- Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center opened an exhibition of 123 works of art on loan from the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg. The show includes works by the Russian Avant-Gardes including Marc Chagal, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich. The Russian avant-garde reached its creative and popular height in the period between the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1932, at which point the ideas of the avant-garde clashed with the newly emerged state-sponsored direction of Socialist Realism.

El Museo del Barrio opens "Retro-Active The Work of Rafael Ferrer" Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:39 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio presents Retro/Active, The Work of Rafael Ferrer, the first solo exhibition in a museum to examine the breadth and depth of the artist's influential production over the last 55 years, will be on view June 8 – August 22, 2010. The travelling retrospective, curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio, includes approximately 100 works from the mid-1950s to the present in a vast variety of media including collage, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, and mixed-media. It is part of El Museo's FOCOS series, which highlights the work of mature, under-recognized, and groundbreaking artists.

International Holocaust Conference Marking End of Czech EU Presidency this Friday Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:38 PM PDT PRAGUE.- Held under the auspices of the Czech Prime Minister, Jan Fischer, President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Premysl Sobotka, Chairperson of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Miloslav Vlcek, and the former President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, the Holocaust Era Assets Conference will be held in Prague and Terezín, Czech Republic, on 26-30 June 2009, hosted by the Government of the Czech Republic in co-operation with the Forum 2000 Foundation, Documentation Centre of Property Transfers of Cultural Assets of WW II Victims, Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic, Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Memorial, and Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza & Fundación Caja Madrid to Present the Shadow Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:37 PM PDT MADRID - On view through 17 May 2009, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting The Shadow, the first major exhibition on the depiction of projected shadow in western art. It brings together around 140 works by more than 100 artists, including paintings, photographs and film projections. The exhibition aims to focus on and analyse the wide-ranging implications, issues and solutions relating to the depiction of shadow in art from the Renaissance to the present day.

National Museum in Taiwan showcases 70 Works of Art by Vincent Van Gogh Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:36 PM PDT TAIPEI, TAIWAN - An exhibition entitled Van Gogh: the Flaming Soul showcasing more than 70 drawings and 20 paintings by Vincent van Gogh from the Kröller-Müller Museum's collection opened at the National Museum of History in Taipei (Taiwan) in December. In preparation, a delegation from the Kröller-Müller Museum travelled to Taipei at the end of October to discuss the various aspects of an exhibition of this scale with those involved. Topics of discussion vary from transport, security, light and climate conditions to the design of the rooms and the content and appearance of the accompanying catalogue. The collection will be on display until March 28, 2010.

Masterpieces from Russia at the Royal Academy of Arts Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:35 PM PDT   LONDON - In January 2008, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition presenting modern masterpieces drawn from Russia's principal museum collections: the State Pushkin Museum and the State Tretyakov Museum in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Over 120 paintings by Russian and French artists working between 1870 and 1925 will be displayed together for the first time ever in the United Kingdom in an exhibition which surveys the main directions of modern art from Realism and Impressionism to Non-Objective painting. Works will include paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse together with those by Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to exhibit J.W. Waterhouse ~ The Modern Pre-Raphaelite Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:34 PM PDT MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will host the largest-ever retrospective of works by the celebrated British artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). J. W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite is the first large-scale monographic exhibition on Waterhouse's work since 1978 and the first to feature his entire artistic career. This retrospective features some eighty paintings that are among the finest and most spectacular of the artist's production, on loan from public and private collections in Australia, England, Ireland, Taiwan, the United States and Canada. It will also present many of the artist's attractive studies in oil, chalk and pencil. Several of these works have not been exhibited since Waterhouse's lifetime. The exhibition has been organized by the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands, with the collaboration of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition, which premiered at the Groninger Museum  and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be presented until February 7, 2010.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:33 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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