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• The Leeds Art Gallery Presents "Artist Rooms ~ Damien Hirst"
• The Newark Museum Shows "Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul"
• KM Fine Arts Displays a Summer of American Masters With Robert Indiana
• The Ellen Noël Art Museum Opens "Expressions of Character"
• Rodin Museum Gardens & Landscape Blooms After Three-Year Rejuvenation
• Masterworks by Major Pop Art Artists on Sale at Artnet Auctions
• The Smithsonian American Art Museum Opens “The Great American Hall of Wonders”
• New Installation in the Autry's Romance Gallery Shows "An Unspoiled Space"
• The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK) ~ The Largest Museum for Modern & Contemporary Art in Vienna ~ Is Toured By AKN Editor
• Exhibition Of Andy Warhol's Cars At The Montclair Art Museum In New Jersey
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens Monographic Exhibition Devoted to Henri Fantin-Latour
• Fenimore Art Museum presents a Retrospective ~ Earl Cunningham's "America"
• The Art Institute of Chicago (ICA) exhibits " A Case for Wine "
• Noyes Museum of Art presents 'Awakenings ~ Art & Healing'
• Latin America: A Theme Auction to be Held at Phillips de Pury & Company in NY
• Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Presents a New Body of Work by Emile Clark
• Nine Museums on the National Mall Now Have Mobile Device Services for Visitors
• The Smithsonian to open New Exhibition Hall Devoted to Human Origins
• Photographs and Paintings by Colleen Hennessy
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Leeds Art Gallery Presents "Artist Rooms ~ Damien Hirst" Posted: 16 Jul 2011 12:58 AM PDT Leeds, UK.- "Artist Rooms: Damien Hirst", the national programme of contemporary art on tour with the Art Fund, expands into two further rooms when it goes on show at Leeds Art Gallery from July 15th to October 30th. Significant additional loans include an installation in one room devoted to the legendary Pharmacy restaurant project in London's Notting Hill. Hirst's art was embedded in the experience this restaurant offered diners and imbibers - from branding, to all aspects of its interior design – when it opened its doors in 1998 only to close in 2003. The contents of the restaurant were dispersed through a Sotheby's sale, itself the stuff of legend, and elements are brought together in Leeds for the first time for a Gallery exhibition. Pharmacy was in actuality an embodiment of many of Hirst's key ideas as everyday experience. The five works that make up "Artist Rooms" trace these iconic ideas through a series of key works from the early 90s through to 2006, including 'Away from the Flock' (1994 ) ,one of his signature vitrine pieces of animals suspended in formaldehyde, a large cabinet piece 'Trinity – Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology' (2000), 'Monument to the Living and the Dead' (2006) a large 'butterfly' painting and a spot painting from 1994. Further loans from private collections include 'Anatomy of an Angel', carved from Cararra marble, and 'He Tried to Internalise Everything' from the Arts Council Collection. A Poison Painting diptych from Hirst's 2010 'Poison' series brings the 'Artist Room' up to date. 'Artist Rooms' is jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d'Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments. 'Artist Rooms on Tour with the Art Fund' is devised to enable this far-reaching collection to reach and inspire new audiences across the country, particularly young people. Alongside the 'Artist Rooms' show in Leeds, 'A Series of Artworks Carefully Arranged', will be shown as a parallel exhibition curated by Visual Communication students from Leeds College of Art. The exhibition has been drawn from works from the Gallery's permanent collection  that reflect the themes of 'boundaries and intrusions' that the students have identified in Hirst's work. Leeds Art Gallery has been described as 'Probably the best collection of  twentieth century British art outside London' (John Russell Taylor, The Times). Leeds Art Gallery is a newly re-furbished creative and lively gallery in the heart of Leeds on The Headrow in Leeds' Cultural Quater. Offering displays of Leeds' Stunning collections as well as a dynamic programme of changing exhibition, Leeds Art Gallery is an innovative and exciting place to visit for people of all ages and tastes! At Leeds Art Gallery you can see a rich variety of art on display from Leeds' impressive collections. See nationally acclaimed prints, watercolours, paintings, sculptures, photography, and contemporary art. Wander between rooms and see well-known artists from our region, such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Atkinson Grimshaw, Jacob Kramer, as well as work by a range of contemporary artists including Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Georgina Starr, Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley and Francis Bacon. Recently benefiting from £1.5m investment, the gallery has had a major re-hang of its paintings and sculptures as well as adding a new multi media exhibition gallery, a new floor and exposing for the first time in many years, the beautifully decorated Victorian Tiled Hall which links the art gallery to Leeds Central Library. Leeds Art Gallery is home to a world of treasures and contains items by famous artists such as Rodin, Henry Moore, Jacob Kramer and Dame Barbara Hepworth, as well as work by less-known and newly emerging artists. In 1997 the collection was designated by the government as of national importance. The internationally acclaimed collection of works on paper features Turner, Cotman, Cozens and Girtin. The Gallery has always tried to support the work of living artists. Early gifts included Lady Butler's Scotland Forever. The enduringly popular Leeds artist, Atkinson Grimshaw, is represented by numerous evocative, moonlit scenes. French pictures include celebrated works by Derain and Alfred Sisley. The Art Gallery continues to collect contemporary art. Recent acquisitions include works by Bill Woodrow, Paula Rego, Mark Wallinger, Stephen Willats, Alison Wilding and Bridget Riley. Through the generous support of the Henry Moore Foundation, the Gallery has bought many important sculptures and can boast a modern sculpture collection second only to that of the Tate. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery

The Newark Museum Shows "Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul" Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:57 PM PDT Newark, NJ.- The Newark Museum is proud to present "Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul", survey of modern and contemporary Cuban artists that explores the rich cultural roots of Cuban art. This exhibition consists of more than fifty objects, including paintings, works on paper, photographs, sculpture, installations, and audio works by 22 artists. "Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul" features such major figures in Cuban art as Wifredo Lam, Manuel Mendive, Jose Bedia and Sandra Ramos. "Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul" is on view at the museum until August 14th. After Newark, the exhibition is tentatively scheduled to travel to two additional venues: the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City and the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

KM Fine Arts Displays a Summer of American Masters With Robert Indiana Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:12 PM PDT Chicago, IL.-  KM Fine Arts is pleased to announce an exhibition of artworks from some of the most notable artists who played a key role in the transformation of American art in the socially and politically complex climate of the postwar era. Using the movements of Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop the exhibition samples the multivalent, and sometimes contradictory, modes of artistic production that arose on that artscene and still influence artists today. Abstract Expressionism would give way to "Neo-Dada", often considered a transitional phase into Pop Art. "A Summer of American Masters With Robert Indiana" is on view at the gallery until September 30th.

The Ellen Noël Art Museum Opens "Expressions of Character" Posted: 15 Jul 2011 11:11 PM PDT Odessa, TX.- The Ellen Noël Art Museum is pleased to present "Expressions of Character" an exhibition of fine portraiture paintings and drawings on loan from regional collectors. The exhibition includes works produced in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, and pencil. These studies of individuals seek to reveal the unique personality and character of the sitter. "Expressions of Character" will be on display at the museum from July 15th through August 28th. The exhibition features both 20th and 21st century portraits.

Rodin Museum Gardens & Landscape Blooms After Three-Year Rejuvenation Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:46 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA, PA .- A gloriously rejuvenated garden landscape surrounding the Rodin Museum was unveiled today by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which administers the Rodin Museum and Gardens; the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, completing a three-year collaboration that revitalizes the site's extraordinary harmony of art and nature. Leaders of the city's cultural and philanthropic communities celebrated the rebirth of the Rodin Museum and Gardens' grounds and toured the courtyard and exterior gardens, which now enhance the entire block between 21st and 22nd Streets on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Bastille Day was chosen as the date on which to celebrate in order to honor French sculptor Auguste Rodin as well as Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber, the original designers of the museum building, landscape, and Parkway.

Masterworks by Major Pop Art Artists on Sale at Artnet Auctions Posted: 15 Jul 2011 10:36 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Artnet Auctions presents "Masterworks by Pop Artists," a selection of important Pop paintings, prints, and sculptures by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Rauschenberg, and other top Pop artists. A highlight of the sale, an extremely rare Andy Warhol painting in brilliant tones of blue and green entitled Flowers, 1978, 22 x 22 inches, is expected to fetch between US$1,100,000–1,500,000. In a private collection since 1995, it is one of only four Flowers paintings from this period recorded by The Andy Warhol Foundation archive.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum Opens “The Great American Hall of Wonders” Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:52 PM PDT WASHINGTON, D.C.- The exhibition "The Great American Hall of Wonders" examines the 19th-century American belief that the people of the United States shared a special genius for innovation. It explores this belief through works of art, mechanical inventions and scientific discoveries, and captures the excitement of citizens who defined their nation as a "Great Experiment" sustained by the inventive energies of Americans in every walk of life. "The Great American Hall of Wonders" will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from July 15 through Jan. 8, 2012. The museum is the only venue for the exhibition, which is organized by Claire Perry, an independent curator who specializes in 19th-century American cultural history. Until 2008, Perry was curator of American art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.

New Installation in the Autry's Romance Gallery Shows "An Unspoiled Space" Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:51 PM PDT Los Angeles. - The Autry National Center is pleased to present "An Unspoiled Space: The West in the Eyes of Early 20th-Century Artists". This ongoing exhibitions is the result of the reconfiguration of part of its Romance Gallery to prominently feature Western art from the early twentieth century. Focused on the unique, regional landscapes of the desert Southwest and coastal California, this installation explores the people and places that artists were drawn to as they sought to redefine the West by looking at who, what, and where artists chose to paint following the close of the historical frontier. An ongoing exhibition. Artists often saw life in the West in terms of its differences from the Eastern cities where they had previously lived. Whereas city life often left a person—as D. H. Lawrence put it—feeling "dead, dark, and buried," the Southwest seemed to possess an uplifting visual aesthetic that enhanced daily living. Many believed that Pueblo Indian culture was driven by an innate artistic spirit, and their paintings of Native people reflect this belief. While Indian life preoccupied many artists in New Mexico, blossoming resort communities from Santa Fe to Southern California also became subjects. In Southern California, some artists documented the burgeoning social scene of Los Angeles, from the docks of San Pedro to the downtown plaza, whereas others celebrated the unspoiled beauty of the coast. As they created images that touted the visual landscapes and cultural life of these Western destinations, they promoted ideas about place that remain embedded within their modern identity. In addition to the landscape of the West, artists were fascinated by its people. The Pueblo Indians and Hispanic families of Northern New Mexico were represented in individual portraits as the visual personification of their respective geographical settings. By focusing on Native and Hispanic cultures as immersed in traditions of craftsmanship, artists believed they were capturing values lost in the quest for industrial progress. The quest for a life spent in harmony with nature also fueled creative production across Southern California, where artists' groups from La Jolla to the Bay Area created a supportive environment for art. Unlike their counterparts in New Mexico, however, California painters often overlooked the Native population in favor of a more exclusive focus on the private gardens and ocean resorts in works of landscapes and leisure that conveyed the relaxed, stylish qualities that California continues to export to the world. The Autry National Center of the American West is an intercultural center and museum in Los Angeles, California that celebrates the diversity and history of the American West through three important institutions: the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of the American West, and the Institute for the Study of the American West. The Autry's mission is to explore the experiences and perceptions of the diverse peoples of the American West, connecting the past with the present to inform our shared future. All of the exhibitions, public programs, K-12 educational services and publications are designed to further this mission. Located at the Museum of the American West, the Wells Fargo Theater is also part of the center. The Southwest Museum's 238,000-piece collection of Native American art is one of the most significant and representative of its kind in the United States, second only to the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. Comprising 14,000 baskets, 10,000 ceramic items, 6,300 textiles and weavings, and more than 1,100 pieces of jewelry, the collection represents indigenous peoples from Alaska to South America, with an emphasis on cultures from California and the Southwestern United States. The Southwest Museum was founded in 1907 and is the oldest museum in Los Angeles. The Museum of the American West was established in 1988 by Gene Autry (as "Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum") to explore and share the comprehensive story of the American West and the multiple cultures, perspectives, traditions, and experiences–real and imagined–that make the West significant. Its collection is composed of 21,000 paintings, sculptures, costumes, textiles, firearms, tools, toys, musical instruments, and other objects. The Institute for the Study of the American West is a research and publishing enterprise that produces and supports scholarly work in Western history and the arts. In 2002, the Women of the West Museum of Colorado merged with the Institute, infusing the Autry's focus with a scholarly and educational emphasis on gender issues and women's experiences in the American West. Visit the center's website at ... http://theautry.org

The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK) ~ The Largest Museum for Modern & Contemporary Art in Vienna ~ Is Toured By AKN Editor Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:40 PM PDT The MUMOK (Museum für Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien) is Austria's largest and most significant museum for contemporary art. First opened in 1962 as the Museum of the 20th Century in the Schweizergarten park, the MUMOK is now at its third address and with its third name (regularly moving to accommodate its expanding collection). The foundation of the museum in its current form was laid when the Ludwig Foundation was created in 1981, about half of the art collection owned by Peter and Irene Ludwig was transferred to the new foundation, augmented by a further, large donation in 1991. The need for space to display these works ultimately led the foundation to absorb the old Museum of the 20th Century and move to a larger site. Since 2001, it has been housed in a futuristic cube designed by architects Ortner & Ortner, right in the heart of Vienna's famous 'Museumsquartier' providing 4,950 square meters of exhibition space for the main works of the collection of modern and contemporary art. The building appears as a dark, closed block, its roof curving down low on the edges. It is monolithically clad in anthracite grey basalt lava on the façades and roof surfaces: thus it is clearly set apart from its surroundings and seems to emerge from the ground as though rising from the deep. The museum's collection is displayed on three levels of exhibition space in a series of presentations which change every year. A ten-meter wide outdoor stairway leads to the entrance plateau four meters above the courtyard level. Inside, a hall lit from above divides all of the levels into two differently proportioned groups of rooms. The entrance is on the third of the five levels, with two main exhibition levels above and two below. On one side of the access hall, five 5-meter-high, pillar-free exhibition areas measuring about 700 square meters each are stacked above each other. These areas can be flexibly subdivided. On the other side, there are more intimate rooms measuring 250 square meters each. Here the ceilings are 3.50 meters high. The various levels are connected by footbridges. The upper exhibition hall receives natural light through a large opening in the curved ceiling. The other slit-like openings and the panorama window in the uppermost floor give visitors a view to the outside and help provide a sense of orientation. The museum aims to preserve, enlarge, analyze, and make available to the public its collection of artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries, by serving as collection site, archive, research institution, and exhibition venue. A key concern is to contribute to the debate on contemporary art, and for this reason the Museum organizes events and discussions designed to raise awareness for new and experimental art, as well as to convey information on recent art history and theory. Visit the museum's website at : http://www.mumok.at MUMOK's commitment to both history and the present and its museological, scientific and educational mission demands its profound engagement in the collection, research and communication of international artworks of modernism, the recent past, and the the present. With its emphasis on Pop Art and Photorealism, taken from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme, taken from the Hahn Collection, and Viennese Actionism, MUMOK offers a unique blend of art focusing on society and reality as well as of performative art of the 20th century. MUMOK communicates the social relevance of art by illustrating the changes in art perception and their causes, both historical and contemporary. With reference to the present, MUMOK participates in the socio-political discourse and opposes tendencies which challenge the freedom of art and cultural policy. The collection spans from the Cubist, Futurist, and Surrealist works of classical modernism to Pop Art, Fluxus, and Nouveau Realism from the 1960s and 1970s. The early 20th century is represented with paintings and sculptures by masters Like Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti. The collection includes important works of Pop Art by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as well as definitive examples of Fluxus, and conceptual art, In recent years, the collection has been expanded with present-day film, video, photo and graphic art. In total, the MUMOK collection contains around 9,700 works: paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, graphic works, photos, videos, films, architectural models and furniture from the first half of the 20th century. The collection of Classic Modernism contains the most important movements and artists of the heroic years of modernism right up to the abstract and expressive tendencies of the post World War II period. Expressionism (Richard Gerstl, Oskar Kokoschka, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff), Cubism and Futurism (Henri Laurens, Giacomo Balla), constructive tendencies, Bauhaus (Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee) are represented as are important works from the areas of Dada and Surrealism (Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Max Ernst, René Magritte). Amongst the pioneering works of modernism to be found are André Derain's Cowering Figure and František Kupka's Nocturne, two of the earliest examples of conscious abstraction. The great 'lone warriors' who were committed to the human figure such as Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon are represented with outstanding works and form an antipole to the abstractionists of the 50's (Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Morris Louis, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni). Nouveau Réalisme is one of the focal points of the Hahn collection which was acquired by MUMOK in 1978, and the collection includes important works by Arman, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely and Jacques de la Villeglé. César, Mimmo Rotella, Georg Baselitz, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Gérard Deschamps and Christo. Equally important in the collection are works from the Fluxus movement (including Yoko Ono's 'to Hammer a Nail', which, depending on source, may have been the work that introduced her to John Lennon). Alongside numerous important works of Viennese Actionism the museum also holds extensive documentation in the MUMOK's archive of actionism. A younger generation of artists is showcased in the 'MUMOKFactory', a separate exhibition space with a cinema, where the emphasis is on experimental media and performance art and several exhibition levels are used for special exhibitions. The MUMOK is currently showing Hyper Real: The Passion of the Real in Painting and Photography (until13 February 2011). Focussing on photo realism, Super Realism, Radical Realism, New Realism, and Hyper Realism, this exhibition explores, through approximately 250 works, this important chapter in international art history. At the end of the 1960s in the USA a group of painters stepped out of the shadows of Abstract Expressionism and turned towards the tradition of painterly realism. However, in doing so they also exaggerated the illusionism that had been handed down from the 1920s and 1930s. These painters translated unspectacular templates such as snapshots, amateur photos and newspaper clippings, often using slide projections, into large-format images, the photographic image was used either as a verbatim model or it could be 'corrected' as Chuck Close did in his portraits by placing different photos next to each other in order to give each segment of the picture its own focal point and, in a complex work process, turning photography into painting. Starting from the MUMOK's own extensive collection of 40 works, the exhibition places the museum's holdings in the context of the realisms and investigates the concepts behind a painting genre that addresses the subject matter of city, streets, automobiles and the American way of life through works by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle, Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close, Don Eddy and Tom Wesselmann. Besides the focus on America, European artists like Gerhard Richter, Domenico Gnoli, Olivier Jean and Richard Hamilton are represented to show the rapid spread of realistic tendencies. Time and again the Photorealists emphasised the importance of Pop Art to their work and some of this is shown at the start of the exhibition before the presentation of the main protagonists such as Richard Estes, Ralph Goings or Don Eddy. The interaction between painting and photography is also shown through the presence of important international works by Jeff Wall, Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.

Exhibition Of Andy Warhol's Cars At The Montclair Art Museum In New Jersey Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:39 PM PDT Montclair, New Jersey (New York Times).- Long before BMW commissioned him to paint an art car, Andy Warhol had translated an abiding fascination with automobiles into work. A new show through June 19th 2011 at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey includes some 40 works and other items on the exhibition theme, "Warhol and Cars." The show's linchpin is a Warhol painting owned by the institution, "Twelve Cadillacs," which depicts a dozen repeated views of the front of a 1963 Fleetwood 60 Special. To Warhol, the Cadillac was as iconic as Mickey Mouse, Marilyn Monroe, the Campbell's soup can or the Coca-Cola bottle. The painting was one of several automotive-themed Warhol works published in the November 1962 edition of Harper's Bazaar, when the magazine commissioned Warhol to produce a visual commentary on the automobile.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens Monographic Exhibition Devoted to Henri Fantin-Latour Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:38 PM PDT MADRID.- The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is presenting Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), the first major monographic exhibition to be devoted in Spain to this French painter. It has been organized in conjunction with the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, where it can be seen this summer. The exhibition features a comprehensive selection from the artist's oeuvre comprising 70 paintings, drawings and prints loaned from museums and institutions around the world. Using a chronological arrangement that follows Fantin-Latour's career through the second half of the 19th century, the exhibition includes some of his most famous paintings, among them group portraits of family members and friends, interiors with figures and realist still lifes, as well as allegorical and musical fantasies. On exhibition 29 September through 10 January, 2010.

Fenimore Art Museum presents a Retrospective ~ Earl Cunningham's "America" Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:37 PM PDT COOPERSTOWN, NY - The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, presents Earl Cunningham's America, an exhibition featuring the paintings of one of the premier folk artists of the 20th century, Earl Cunningham (1893-1977). The exhibition and the fully illustrated catalog trace the story of Cunningham's life and place his work in the context of the folk art revival that brought Edward Hicks, Grandma Moses, Horace Pippin and other folk masters to national attention. This national traveling exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., will be on view through December 31, 2008.

The Art Institute of Chicago (ICA) exhibits " A Case for Wine " Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:36 PM PDT CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago presents A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today, opening on July 11, 2009, in the museum's Regenstein Hall, marking the first time a fine arts museum has explored art through the vine. On view until September 20, 2009, this major exhibition features more than 400 objects drawn from the Art Institute's extensive encyclopedic collection, in addition to loans from other cultural institutions and private collections. The Art Institute is the sole venue for A Case for Wine. Exhibition of Hundreds of Objects Trace the History of Wine and its Consumption.

Noyes Museum of Art presents 'Awakenings ~ Art & Healing' Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:35 PM PDT OCEANVILLE, N.J. – The Noyes Museum of Art presents Awakenings: Art & Healing, an exhibition of contemporary Outsider Art through November 2, 2008. Awakenings explores the power of art as a tool for healing, hope and communication for people with mental and physical challenges. The featured artists are associated with Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI) in New York City, an organization that is devoted to using professional artists to reach individuals in group residences and treatment programs for chronically mentally ill adults.

Latin America: A Theme Auction to be Held at Phillips de Pury & Company in NY Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:34 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company presents LATIN AMERICA, a theme auction offering a cross section of quality works of contemporary art, design and photographs for sale on October 3rd at the company's Chelsea galleries in New York. Building on the success of our established core auctions, the theme sales are a new global program which will commence with the first theme auction NOW: Art of the 21st Century in London on September 26, 2009 (viewing date start on the 19th of September).

Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Presents a New Body of Work by Emile Clark Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:33 PM PDT BROOKLYN, NY.- A series of lush, fluid watercolor and graphite amalgamations of flora and fauna are at the heart of My Garden Pets, a major new installation by New York-based artist Emilie Clark at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden (BBG). In the exhibition—on view from March 6 through May 23, 2010 as a featured presentation of BBG's 2010 Centennial Celebration—Clark explores the work of the 19th-century American naturalist, Mary Treat, and the concept of 'the beneficial insect.' To create this body of work, Clark spent four months on site at the Garden as its first artist-in-residence, researching in its libraries and talking to BBG horticulturalists, scientists, and other staff members.

Nine Museums on the National Mall Now Have Mobile Device Services for Visitors Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- Until recently, visitors to Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., faced an unexpected challenge: they could not use their cell phones unless they were near a window or door. The solid construction of the Smithsonian's historic buildings made it nearly impossible for cell phone signals to penetrate the walls. The 100-year-old National Museum of Natural History, for example, has granite-faced walls that are nearly three feet thick.

The Smithsonian to open New Exhibition Hall Devoted to Human Origins Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- A new exhibition hall dedicated to the discovery and understanding of human origins will open next year at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Based on decades of cutting-edge research by Smithsonian scientists, the David H. Koch (pronounced "coke") Hall of Human Origins will premiere March 17, 2010, which also marks the 100-year anniversary of the museum's official opening on the National Mall. The $20.7 million exhibition hall will be complemented by ongoing human origins research and education programs, which are all key components of the museum's broader initiative, "Human Origins: What Does It Mean to Be Human?" The initiative focuses on the epic story of human evolution and how the defining characteristics of the species have evolved over 6 million years as its ancestors adapted to a changing world.

Photographs and Paintings by Colleen Hennessy Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:30 PM PDT   Denver, CO - The galleries of the Bannock Arts Building honor women as we enter the holiday season, with two extraordinary shows. The Camera Obscura Gallery features Phil Borges: Women Empowered, and Wilson Adams Gallery is proud to present Colleen Hennessy's visual journal, Catrachas: Women and Children of Honduras. On exhibit through 3 November, 2007.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:29 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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