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• Please Excuse Our 24 Hour Delay For Maintenance
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to Screen Robert Adanto's Latest Films
• "Jan Gossaert's Renaissance" Exhibited at the National Gallery in London
• MoMA Presents an Exhibition of the Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of James Ensor
• The Centre Pompidou Dedicates An Exhibition to Women: elles-at-centrepompidou
• Gallery Brown shows John Lurie's "The Invention of Animals"
• Cal State Fullerton Art Gallery to show Art Nouveau & the Female Figure
• The Art Institute of Chicago (ICA) exhibits " A Case for Wine "
• Mexican Authorities Analyze Buying House in Acapulco Where Diego Rivera Painted 5 Murals
• artnet Auctions Launches 'Faces & Figures' Famous Photographs Sale
• The Serpentine Gallery presents Richard Hamilton ~ Modern Moral Matters
• National Gallery of Victoria announces Exhibition from the Stadel Collection
• Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to exhibit 'The Deluded eye ~ Five centuries of deception'
• Yeshiva University Museum features "I of the Storm: Michael Hafftka, Recent Work"
• The Baltic Centre ~ A Superb International Exhibition Centre ~ A Major Venue For Contemporary Art
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Please Excuse Our 24 Hour Delay For Maintenance Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:04 PM PDT ANNOUNCEMENT: Art Knowledge News will be taking a One Day break during a 24 hour, or less, period required for maintenance of our equipment. We are posting many interesting articles from our archives, some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in your magazine during the past six plus (6+) years . . and we are also publishing current art news articles on the left hand side under RECENT NEWS .. Enjoy

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to Screen Robert Adanto's Latest Films Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:51 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Robert Adanto's new documentary Pearls on the Ocean Floor features interviews with some of the most highly regarded Iranian female artists living and working in and outside the Islamic Republic, including Shadi Ghadirian, Shirin Neshat, Parastou Forouhar, Haleh Anvari, Sara Rahbar, Leila Pazooki, Afshan Ketabchi, Malekeh Nayiny, Bahar Sabzevari, Afsoon, Gohar Dashti, and Negar Ahkami. The film is screening Sunday, June 13th at 2:00pm in conjunction with Taravat Talepasand: Drawings , curated by Thien Lam. The ubiquitous images of security forces cracking down on demonstrators in Iran garnered global media attention throughout the last twelve months. Last June all eyes were on the Islamic Republic of Iran as its citizens took to the streets to protest the results of a disputed election. Thirty years after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, a proud nation once again stood at a crossroads. The Green movement, built of a courageous populace seeking justice from an entrenched and imploding regime, continues to seek change in Iran, despite shockingly brutal government forces. As acclaimed artist-activist Shirin Neshat so aptly put it, "This is not an ideological war, like it was for those who demonstrated during the Islamic revolution of 1979, it is simply a loud and clear cry for basic human rights: freedom, democracy and justice… The silver lining — if there's any — is that Iranians inside and outside of Iran have been united and mobilized. If this energy is suppressed, will we ever find the strength and hope to come back together as a nation to fight for democracy again?" Recent events have revealed a story that has been eclipsed during the last thirty years of Iran's history. There is no better time than the present to examine this fascinating nation and no better approach than through the visual imagery of female artists. It is women who have collectively bore the brunt of an oppressive regime and the bias of a western media that has repeatedly constructed one-dimensional images portraying them as humorless, repressed, second-class citizens in black chadors. Robert Adanto's Pearls on the Ocean Floor challenges this stereotype and caricature obscuring the vibrant and robust culture in Iran and its diaspora. Professor Hamid Dabashi recently wrote, "a much more patient reading of the visual and performing arts of this generation is needed before we know what in the world it is doing." Indeed, as the younger generation invents a new identity for the 21st century, replacing the religious ideology and revolutionary fervor of the state's credo, contradictions abound. Photographer Shadi Ghadirian explains that her work "touches upon our struggle to hold on to our parents' and grandparents' traditional values and practices while experiencing the benefits of modernity without getting caught up in its vices… Change is an inevitable process," she says. Facing issues of identity, gender, and social restrictions, the artists featured in "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" speak with a compelling quiet reserve and a striking boldness. Their work reveals encounters between religion and secular modernity, change and tradition, contemporary life and history. These brave women know now more than ever that their voices must be heard and their people understood. Through their words and their art, the real Iran will be discovered and this important historical moment has been documented. Robert Adanto's debut feature-length documentary film, The Rising Tide, explored China's meteoric march toward the future through the work of some of the Middle Kingdom's most talented photographers and video artists, including Wang Qingsong, Cao Fei, Xu Zhen, Yang Yong, Chen Qiulin and O Zhang. Shot in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen in the summer of 2006, this unflinching and incisive study captures the confusion and ambiguity that characterize the new China. "An often surprising and thought-provoking documentary," wrote WICN's Mark Lynch, "The rest of us better make an effort to grasp what their work is about, or get out of the way. An "eye-opener" in every sense of the word, if you are an artist, curator or art teacher be sure to catch this film."

"Jan Gossaert's Renaissance" Exhibited at the National Gallery in London Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:49 PM PDT London.- Jan Gossaert, a native of Flanders (active 1503; died 1532), was one of the most startling and accomplished artists of the Northern Renaissance. 'Jan Gossaert's Renaissance' is the first exhibition dedicated to the artist for over 40 years, and is on show at the NG London until 30th May 2011. The exhibition presents the results of a complete re-examination of his work, including new technical discoveries. Working for wealthy and extravagant members of the Burgundian court in the Low Countries in the first three decades of the 16th century, Gossaert was especially noted for his sensuous nudes painted to evoke the sheen of marble and his stunning illusionistic portraits in which he plays intriguing spatial games. The first northern artist to draw directly from antiquity in Italy (during a visit to Rome in 1508–9), Gossaert was a peerless exponent of the illusionistic properties of oil paint as practised by his countrymen from Jan van Eyck onwards.

MoMA Presents an Exhibition of the Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of James Ensor Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:45 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents James Ensor—the first exhibition at an American institution to feature the full range of his media in over 30 years— James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late nineteenth century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early twentieth. In both respects, he has influenced generations of later artists. Approximately 120 of Ensor's paintings, drawings, and prints are included in the exhibition, most of which date from the artist's creative peak, 1880 to the mid-1890s. On exhibition from June 28 through September 21, 2009.

The Centre Pompidou Dedicates An Exhibition to Women: elles-at-centrepompidou Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:41 PM PDT PARIS - The new hang of the permanent collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne is to be entirely devoted to modern and contemporary women artists – the first time such a thing will have been done by a national museum of art. The exhibition, drawing on one of the world's greatest collections of modern and contemporary art, the largest in Europe, represents a vigorous affirmation of the Museum's commitment to women artists of every nationality, across all the disciplines, returning them to their rightful place at the centre of the modern and contemporary art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Gallery Brown shows John Lurie's "The Invention of Animals" Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:37 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA - Beginning on June 26 and continuing for the following six weeks, Gallery Brown (based in Los Angeles) will be exhibiting the large-scale limited edition artwork of John Lurie, musician, director, actor and artist in "The Invention of Animals." Stylistically primitive, yet completely modern, Lurie's work presents his musings in a new, interpretive storytelling manner – managing to be haunting, poignant as well as humorous.  His imagery may be playful, but his approach and use of materials is serious.  The work impresses on an abstract level, especially in the crisp line, the textural use of translucent washes, and the unusual and engaging color relationships Lurie employs. On view June 26, 2010 through August 7, 2010.

Cal State Fullerton Art Gallery to show Art Nouveau & the Female Figure Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:36 PM PDT FULLERTON, CA.- Redefining the Line: Art Nouveau & the Female Figure features the graphic design, illustration and installation work of international contemporary artists : Pomme Chan, Deanne Cheuk, Naja Conrad-Hansen, Aya Kato, Pandarosa, Marguerite Sauvage, Alberto Seveso, Sonya Suhariyan, Yoshi Tajima and Eveline Tarunadjaja. Redefining the Line investigates the influence of historical Art Nouveau on contemporary artists and exhibits work by artists who use both traditional and digital media.

The Art Institute of Chicago (ICA) exhibits " A Case for Wine " Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:35 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.

Mexican Authorities Analyze Buying House in Acapulco Where Diego Rivera Painted 5 Murals Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:32 PM PDT ACAPULCO.- Mexican authorities are analyzing the purchase of a house with a view to the sea in Acapulco, which is owned by the heirs of collector Dolores Olmedo. The house has walls where Diego Rivera painted five murals. "It is a house located in an extraordinary place in Acapulco, with marvelous murals, by Diego Rivera, which have been restored by experts from the Restoration Center at the Museum of Fine Arts", Fernando Serrano Migallón from CONACULTA said to news agency EFE.

artnet Auctions Launches 'Faces & Figures' Famous Photographs Sale Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:29 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- From November 10 through19 artnet Auctions is featuring Faces & Figures, a special sale of 375 photographs by 185 renowned modern & contemporary artists. The works offered in the sale celebrate the human form as seen through the lens of some of the greatest photographers of our time. The auction includes portraits of some of the most unforgettable faces of the 20th-21st-century by legendary photographers including Howell Conant, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ron Gallella, Yousuf Karsh and Bert Stern. Stern is perhaps best known for his luminous portraits of Marilyn Monroe. The auction features ten photographs of a flirtatious Monroe taken just weeks before the actress' death in what is now known as the "Last Sitting" (estimates: $4,500-$5,500 each).

The Serpentine Gallery presents Richard Hamilton ~ Modern Moral Matters Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:25 PM PDT LONDON.- To start its 40th anniversary year, the Serpentine Gallery presents Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters, a solo exhibition by one of the world's most respected living artists. This will be the first major presentation of Hamilton's work in London since 1992 and will include several new works created especially for the Serpentine Gallery exhibition. Richard Hamilton has embraced many different media since the 1950s, including painting, printmaking, installation, typography and industrial design. This major exhibition will reassess the nature of the British artist's pioneering contribution, focusing on Hamilton's political, or 'protest', works. On view 3 March through 25 April, 2010.

National Gallery of Victoria announces Exhibition from the Stadel Collection Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:21 PM PDT MELBOURNE, AU - Premier John Brumby announced a new blockbuster exhibition, "European Masters: Städel Museum 19th – 20th Centuries" will come to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2010 as part of the hugely successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. European Masters: Städel Museum 19th – 20th Centuries will be on at the NGV International, St Kilda Road from June 19 until October 10, 2010. Mr Brumby said the exhibition comprises more than 100 works from the internationally renowned Städel Museum in Germany by artists including Monet, Cézanne and Renoir, and is the first time this collection of works will be displayed outside Europe.

Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to exhibit 'The Deluded eye ~ Five centuries of deception' Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:17 PM PDT   Stockholm, Sweden - People do not usually like being deceived. But there are exceptions. As, for example, when we perceive something as real and three-dimensional though it is actually fictitious and flat. This autumn, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm will open a major exhibition devoted to the playful art of deceiving the eye - trompe -l'oeil. Visitors will confront some 150 works of art in different techniques chosen from five centuries and including large-scale contemporary works. See and be deceived! The exhibition will run from 25 September 2008 until 11 January 2009.

Yeshiva University Museum features "I of the Storm: Michael Hafftka, Recent Work" Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:12 PM PDT New York City -  After more than 30 years of portraying the human figure with a neo-expressionist style, Michael Hafftka turns to his Jewish heritage for subject matter and inspiration in his new exhibition, "I of the Storm: Michael Hafftka, Recent Work," at the Yeshiva University Museum. Frequently compared to the painters Soutine, Goya and Rouault, Hafftka here makes use of mystical images, biblical themes and the Hebrew alphabet in watercolors and oils.  The exhibition runs through August 30, 2009. Gallery Talk: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 1:00 pm

The Baltic Centre ~ A Superb International Exhibition Centre ~ A Major Venue For Contemporary Art Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:29 PM PDT Housed in a landmark industrial building on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, UK, the Baltic Centre is a major international centre for contemporary art. The Baltic itself has no permanent collection, providing instead an ever-changing calendar of exhibitions and events that give a unique and compelling insight into contemporary artistic practice. Baltic's dynamic, diverse and international program ranges from blockbuster exhibitions to innovative new work and projects created by artists working within the local community. The Baltic was founded with funding from The National Lottery through Arts Council England, Gateshead Council, Northern Rock Foundation, the European Regional Development Fund and One NorthEast, and receives continued support from Arts Council England and Gateshead Council. The notion of Baltic began in 1991 when Northern Arts (now Arts Council England North East) announced its ambition to achieve 'major new capital facilities for the Contemporary Visual Arts in Central Tyneside'. The Baltic Flour Mill was closed in 1981. Dominic Williams of Ellis Williams Architects won an architectural competition in the mid-1990s to convert the old mill building into a centre for art. Construction began in 1998, and only the south and north facades of the original 1950s building were retained. A new structure consisting of six main floors and three mezzanines was secured between the facades which contain 3, 000 square meters of arts space (four galleries and a flexible performance space), artists' studios, cinema/lecture space, shop, a library and archive for the study of contemporary art and the Rooftop Restaurant on Level 6 (providing stunning views over the River Tyne). An additional two-story structure: The Riverside Building, was constructed to the west of the main building, providing the main entrance into BALTIC, which looks out across Baltic Square and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. After ten years in the planning and a capital investment of £50m, BALTIC opened to the public at midnight on Saturday 13 July 2002. The inaugural exhibition, 'B.OPEN', featured work by Chris Burden, Carsten Holler, Julian Opie, Jaume Plensa and Jane & Louise Wilson, and attracted over 45,000 visitors in the first week. Since then the Baltic has presented over 40 exhibitions and welcomed more than 3 million visitors. As well as contemporary art exhibitions, the Baltic also offers a range of spaces for hire, and can accommodate a wide range of events, from meetings and workshops to banquets and conferences. Since opening in July 2002 the Baltic has hosted a range of high profile events including The Channel 4 Stirling Prize 2002, Audi Young Designer of the Year Competition Final 2002-2005, University of Northumbria final year fashion show 2003, BBC Question Time and Prime Minister's Newsnight. Even though BALTIC opened to the public in July 2002, the first exhibition which was seen on the site of the building was "Tarantantara" by Anish Kapoor in 1999. "Tarantantara" formed part of 'B4B', the Baltic's pre-opening series of exhibitions and events. A site-specific installation by Anish Kapoor, "Tarantanrara" was commissioned specially for the site before the construction of the new building began. Over 50m long and 25m wide, the work filled the shell of the Baltic Flour Mills and was in-situ for eight weeks and seen by over 16,000 people. In 2011 the Baltic is to be the venue for the Turner Prize, this would be the first time the event has been held outside of a London or Liverpool Tate in its 25 years, a major exhibition from 21 October 2011 to 8 January 2012 will coincide with the final stages of the competition and the winning artist will be announced at a celebratory event at BALTIC in December 2011. Visit the Baltic's website at … http://www.balticmill.com The Baltic currently have 2 related exhibitions of work by British painter George Shaw. "Payne's Grey" is an intimate presentation in the Baltic's Level 2 gallery showcasing a strand of George Shaw's practice that has never been seen before. Fourteen watercolors, named after the peculiar shade of their creation, provide a new take on Shaw's familiar subject matter. Describing the works, Shaw said; "Once I started painting skies in Payne's Grey and following Constable's dictum that the sky was like the tuning fork for the tone of the painting, I began to simply allow the whole world to be sky coloured. And like the worst fears of Chicken Licken the sky did fall in - and the painted world became Payne's Grey." A more major retrospective of George Shaw's works is exhibited in "The Sly and Unseen Day: George Shaw". This major exhibition brings together some forty paintings from 1996 to the present day. Within a practice that has encompassed drawing, video-making, performance and writing, Shaw is best known for his expansive body of painting. Based upon photographs taken of and around his childhood home on the Tile Hill Estate, Coventry, Shaw's landscapes are at once familiar and unnerving. Unassuming buildings, patches of woodland, pubs, his school, the park, and the arbitrary details of urban infrastructure deposited by town planners, are the cast of a series of paintings ongoing since the mid-1990s. Shaw's landscapes are at once familiar and unnerving. Painted exclusively in 'Humbrol' enamel, the material of choice for teenage model-makers, Shaw's subject matter brings about associations of domesticity, folk art and nostalgia for a lost childhood and adolescence. Yet, as "The Sly and Unseen Day" reveals, Shaw's art quickly moves beyond the autobiography it first suggests. His jarring, atmospheric paintings become peculiar records of 'Englishness' and are suggestive of a different state of mind. Even his more tranquil paintings, for example "Scenes from the Passion: Pig Wood" and "Scenes from the Passion: The Way Home" (both painted in 1999), included within the exhibition, retain a peculiar tension. As the exhibition progresses we see Shaw take an investigative journey, typically making something out of nothing, as beauty is found in the mundane. The 'Ash Wednesday' series (2004-5) depicts the estate hour-by-hour on a single day. Other paintings, such as 'The Age of Bullshit' 2010 (a demolished pub) and 'The Assumption' 2010 (the local school), offer a curious record of British social and class life. Shaw's painting 'Scenes from the Passion: The First Day of the Holidays' 2003, can be seen on a large-scale banner on the North face of BALTIC's exterior building for the duration of the exhibition. Both George Shaw exhibitions run concurrently through May 15th at the Baltic. "Jesper Just: The Nameless Spectacle", also from February 18th to May 15th features the New York-based Danish artist Jesper Just's short films. These films have the formal qualities and gloss of Hollywood productions while resisting their narrative conventions. His lavish visual language, overlapping musical, literary and cinematic references deliver a framework onto which the viewer can attach personal memory. Despite its often highly charged emotional content, Just's work is ambiguous, uncertain and never reaches the moment of 'closure'. The exhibition at the Baltic is Just's first in a public gallery in the UK and includes three works: , "A "No Man Is An Island", 2003 (video); Vicious Undertow" 2007, and new work "Sirens of Chrome" 2010. "Lindsay Seers: It Has To Be This Way 2" (until 12th June 2011) explores the complexities and uncertainties of history and memory. The installation resumes the story of the disappearance of the artist's stepsister, Christine Parkes. Presented on a circular screen within a structure derived from forts on the West African Gold Coast, Christine's stepmother narrates her tale while the film retraces her travels through West Africa. The complex and unsettling story takes the viewer on a journey that navigates the occult, the subconscious and the fragmentation of personal memory. 'I was her mother but she was never my daughter and now she has gone missing, I can honestly say that I never loved her.' This sentence, which opens the film at the heart of "It Has To Be This Way 2", crystallizes the ambiguities, the contradictions and the play between past and present which constantly reshape our memories. Memory of the past illuminates our present actions and experiences. Lindsay Seers' work explores the complexities and shifts at play in any understanding of past and present. She begins with an exploration of the image; a recurring interest into the act of photography, the workings of the lens and the apparatus of the camera. She develops narratives from her family life, engaging chance, the occult and the subconscious to restage periods from her own history and the histories of her parents and siblings. Throughout its short history, the Baltic has become famous for the quality of the exhibitions it has hosted. A major retrospective of Anselm Kiefer's work ended in January 2011. This exhibition, the largest of the artist's in the UK for many years, spanned forty years of his work. Major paintings were presented over two floors of the Baltic's galleries, alongside the monumental installation "Palmsonntag". In 2009, "Yoko Ono: Between the Sky and my Head" highlighted works from a career spanning nearly 50 years with two floors dedicated to works from the 1950s to the present. A 2007 exhibition of work by Beryl Cook divided art critics, who could not decide whether her (very popular) self-taught paintings of people going about their daily activities deserved space in an art gallery. "Package Holiday by Monica Studer and Christoph van den Berg in 2005 gave visitors the chance to have themselves photographed in the fictitious and digitally-created Gleissenhorn mountain region. In 2004, the Baltic presented a large selection of recent and new paintings by Elizabeth Magill. "Domain Field; Allotment; Body, Fruit, Earth" in 2003 was an extensive solo exhibition by Antony Gormley, creator of the North East landmark 'Angel of the North' which included a major new commission plus existing works. Also in 2003, "Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam" was the first major show in the UK of the Cobra movement and presented works by 20 artists, including paintings and drawings by key figures of the movement Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Constant, Asger Jorn and Carl-Henning Pederson, alongside a selection of film, publications and manifestos. As part of B.OPEN, the Baltic's inaugural exhibition, Julian Opie was commissioned to make new work for both inside and outside of the building. Julian Opie adorned the Level 2 art space and Level 5 Viewing Box, as well as the two glass boxes outside the Baltic on each side of the Millennium Bridge, with outlines of human bodies. these figures, represented in Opie's distinctive graphic style as simple silhouettes in black vinyl (one male, one female) were positioned opposite one another and sometimes together on the gallery walls and surfaces on Levels 2 and 5 as well as on opposite banks of the River Tyne. Other exhibitions have featured local North East, British and international artists (often featuring works with a distinct 'North East' tone to their works, such as Chris Burden's scale model of the Tyne Bridge in Meccano or Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's photographs of industrial wreckage on North Eastern beaches).

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