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• First Film by Alfred Hitchcock Found the New Zealand Film Archive
• The Jamaat Gallery Presents New Works by Tulika Ladsariya
• New Book on the Rich Story of Fragonard's Masterpiece ~ "Progress of Love"
• Galerie Thaddeus Ropac Shows New Works by Anselm Kiefer
• New Exhibitions at the Evansville Museum of Arts
• The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts Shows Robert Blair: Paintings and Drawings
• Retrospective of Marc Riboud 's Photographic Work at Young Gallery in Brussels
• The Corey Helford Gallery Presents Two Solo Shows by David Stoupakis & Tom Bagshaw
• Statue of the scribe Heti, Giza, Westfriedhof, Mastaba - Collection of the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Germany
• The National Gallery Of Art In Washington D.C. ~ A US Treasure Of European & American Art That Attracts 4.5 Million Visitors Annually
• Roy Lichtenstein - Posters at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
• The Frist Center to display Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
• National Galleries of Scotland announces Overview of Surrealist Movement
• Savannah College of Art showcases Famous Works on Paper
• Salvador Dali Foundation Presents Recently Acquired Paintings Made in the 1920s
• Delaware Art Museum presents "Gifted ~ Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection"
• The National Gallery of Art features Philip Guston in a Focus Exhibition
• LACMA Launches Image Library Expanding Online Access to Museum's Collection
• National Gallery of Art Acquires Leo Villareal's Major Installation "Multiverse"
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

First Film by Alfred Hitchcock Found the New Zealand Film Archive Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:34 PM PDT WELLINGTON, NZ - After a world-wide search, a large part of The White Shadow (1923), thought to be the earliest surviving feature by Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990), the celebrated master of suspense has been found in New Zealand - just in time for the filmmaker's 112th birthday. A wild, atmospheric melodrama starring Betty Compson in a dual role as twin sisters, one angelic and the other "without a soul," the lost film turned up among the cache of unidentified American nitrate prints safeguarded for the last 23 years by the New Zealand Film Archive. So far, only the first three reels of the six-reel feature have been found; no other copy is known to exist. The White Shadow was among the many silent-era movies salvaged by New Zealand projectionist and collector Jack Murtagh. After his death in 1989, the highly flammable nitrate prints were sent to the Film Archive for safekeeping by Tony Osborne, the collector's grandson. The Hitchcock film is just one of the treasures uncovered, including John Ford's Upstream, which owe their survival to Murtagh's passion for early cinema. Reflecting on his grandfather's passion Tony Osborne says, "From boyhood, my grandfather was an avid collector– be it films, stamps, coins or whatever. He was known, internationally, as having one of the largest collection of cigarette cards and people would travel from all over the world to view his collection. Some would view him as rather eccentric. He would be quietly amused by all the attention now generated by these important film discoveries." Like Upstream, the surviving reels of Hitchcock's The White Shadow will be preserved at Park Road Post Production in Wellington. Black and white duplicate negatives will be struck from the original nitrate material and colour prints made which will replicate the tints used in the original print. "It's exciting to work on the preservation of yet another historically significant film here at Park Road and we feel privileged to be involved in such an important project", says Head of Laboratory, Brian Scadden. "This is one of the most significant developments in memory for scholars, critics, and admirers of Hitchcock's extraordinary body of work," said David Sterritt, Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics and author of The Films of Alfred Hitchcock. "At just 24 years old, Alfred Hitchcock wrote the film's scenario, designed the sets, edited the footage, and served as assistant director to Graham Cutts, whose professional jealousy toward the gifted upstart made the job all the more challenging. Hitchcock's own directorial debut came only two years later. These first three reels of The White Shadow—more than half the film—offer a priceless opportunity to study his visual and narrative ideas when they were first taking shape." In addition to the preservation work on The White Shadow and Upstream carried out in New Zealand, many other titles for preservation have been identified amongst the latest find. They include the early Technicolor film The Love Charm (1928), early narratives from pioneering woman directors Muriel Ostriche and Alice Guy, a 1920 dance demonstration by ballerina-choreographer Albertina Rasch, a tantalizing fragment from the Keystone Kops' lost slapstick comedy In the Clutches of the Gang (1914), and a number of other shorts and newsreel stories long unavailable in the United States. The 'lost' films will be preserved over the next three years in partnership with the US National Film Preservation Foundation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art and UCLA Film & Television Archive and made available in the United States. Copies of the films will also be publicly available in New Zealand. Many will be viewable on the NFPF Web site. Plans for a re-premiere screening will be announced soon. An additional print of The White Shadow will be presented to the British Film Institute in honor of its Hitchcock rescue project. The New Zealand Film Archive / Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua, which this year celebrates its 30th birthday, preserves and protects New Zealand's moving image history, housing over 150,000 titles spanning feature films, documentaries, short films, home movies, newsreels, TV programmes and advertisements. Because the archive only has the funding to restore its country's vintage films, experts couldn't spend much time with the American releases (though "White Shadow" was a British film it was released in the U.S. in 1924 by Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises). Selznick's son, producer David O. Selznick, would bring Hitchcock to America 15 years later to make "Rebecca."

The Jamaat Gallery Presents New Works by Tulika Ladsariya Posted: 03 Aug 2011 10:22 PM PDT Mumbai.- The Jamaat Gallery is proud to present "Tulika Ladsariya: Lofty Assimilations". The exhibition is on view at the gallery in Apollo Bunder, Mumbai from August 5th through September 12th. In this exhibition, Tulika Ladsariya examines two severe influences – city construction and environmental impact – which at once represent the pinnacle and the nadir of human activity. Adopting the principle that inspiration is best found in one's own surroundings, Tulika Ladsariya's work is inspired by the contrasts and extremes of urban cities - how they are constructed, who constructs them, how inhabitants react to them and how they affect the natural environment. The influence of the urban landscapes of Mumbai, London and Chicago - the three major cities where the artist has spent significant years of her life - form the basis of her images and work.

New Book on the Rich Story of Fragonard's Masterpiece ~ "Progress of Love" Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:53 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Progress of Love is one of the great painted ensembles of French eighteenth century art and is considered to be the artist's masterpiece. For more than seventy-five years, the panels have been a highlight of The Frick Collection. Colin B. Bailey's keenly awaited and beautifully illustrated book published in September by the museum in association with D. Giles Limited provides an invaluable and engaging resource on the sequence and meaning of the panels in the series. It explores the history of the work from its conception in France to its rediscovery by two great American collectors more than one hundred years later and tells the fascinating story of how the group of canvases found a permanent home in the New York City mansion of Henry Clay Frick, where the museum's visitors enjoy them today.

Galerie Thaddeus Ropac Shows New Works by Anselm Kiefer Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:08 PM PDT Salzburg, Austria.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is proud to show a new set of works by Anselm Kiefer. Under the title "Alkahest", Kiefer has collected a series of monumental canvases, sculptures and small paintings, all related to basic processes of alchemy. In these works, the mountains become a place of translocation and dissolution of matter, focusing on the correlation between water and stone. Here, the alchemical transmutation of matter always symbolises an inner transformation. The exhibition will be held in the HALLE (Vilniusstrasse 13), a venue specially designed for large-scale exhibits, and in the gallery's premises at Mirabellplatz 2. "Alkahest" is on view until September 24th.

New Exhibitions at the Evansville Museum of Arts Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:38 PM PDT Evansville, IN.- The Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science presents two late-summer exhibitions. On view now, and remaining open until September 18th, is "Working Together", the 18th consecutive year the the museum has hosted the annual juried exhibition for regional artists. Juror for this year's competition is Becky Alley, Exhibitions and Programs Director for the Lexington Art League in Lexington, Kentucky. Alley earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Washington University in 2000, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Kansas in 2005. Before joining the LAL staff in January 2010, Alley was the Director of University Galleries at Murray State University for nearly four years. She has organized over 100 shows and has curated several major projects. She has also exhibited her artwork in several galleries across the United States as well as in South Korea and China, and most recently had a solo exhibition titled Count at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.

The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts Shows Robert Blair: Paintings and Drawings Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:17 PM PDT New Castle, PA.- The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts is proud to present "Robert Blair: paintings and Drawings" on view until September 24th. Some 52 rarely seen paintings and drawings provide an extraordinary glimpse into Blair's experience as a paratrooper in the 17th and 82nd Airborne Divisions during World War II and his later association and friendship with Charles Burchfield who praised Blair in his journals as one of the only young students whose work he would like to see more of. The first body of work to be featured at the Hoyt was completed during the Battle of the Bulge, the bloody offensive by the Germans that almost split the Allied Armies in two. Blair received approval from his Colonel to document the disturbing and even horrific scenes of both German and US attacks, provided it did not interfere with his duties.

Retrospective of Marc Riboud 's Photographic Work at Young Gallery in Brussels Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:16 PM PDT BRUSSELS.- Young Gallery presents, for the first time in Belgium, a retrospective of the Marc Riboud 's photographic work. Born in Lyon, France, Marc Riboud went to high school there and made his first picture in 1937 using his father's Vest Pocket Kodak camera. He was active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945, then studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale from 1945 to 1948. Until 1951 Riboud worked as an engineer in Lyon factories, but took a week-long picture-taking vacation, inspiring him to become a photographer. He moved to Paris where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and David Seymour, the founders of Magnum Photos. By 1953 he was a member of the organization. His ability to capture fleeting moments in life through powerful compositions was already apparent, and this skill was to serve him well for decades to come.

The Corey Helford Gallery Presents Two Solo Shows by David Stoupakis & Tom Bagshaw Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:58 PM PDT Culver City, CA.-  The Corey Helford Gallery is proud to present standout double solo exhibitions by New York painter David Stoupakis and UK digital artist Tom Bagshaw. "David Stoupakis: Walking Within These Shadows" and "Tom Bagshaw: Beautiful Imperfections" are on view at the gallery from August 6th through August 27th, with an opening Reception on Saturday, August 6th from 7-10pm. Returning to the gallery for his third solo exhibition entitled "Walking Within These Shadows", Stoupakis reveals a more personal side to his work — exploring life, death and the unknown. Stoupakis is internationally recognized for his clever narratives and haunting imagery that portray the darker side of childhood innocence and fairytales. However, his new body of work adopts a more serious tone, departing from the playful themes he is known for.

Statue of the scribe Heti, Giza, Westfriedhof, Mastaba - Collection of the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Germany Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:57 PM PDT BALTIMORE, MD.- The Walters Art Museum announced a signed memorandum of cooperation with the Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany. An official delegation from Hildesheim, one of the oldest and most popular cities in Northern Germany, visited Baltimore to participate in a series of meetings at the Walters from July 29 through Aug. 1. The talks culminated in the Mayor and Director of the City of Hildesheim Kurt Machens and Walters Director Gary Vikan signing an agreement that includes: exhibition exchanges; professional development opportunities for museum employees, including staff exchanges; the long-term loans of art; and discussions of museum best practices. "The Walters is pleased to participate in this cultural exchange with the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum," said Vikan. "I believe that there is much to be learned from our museum colleagues around the world. This agreement will benefit our two museums and give visitors the chance to see wonderful art that they would not otherwise have the chance to experience." "I was deeply impressed with the Walters Art Museum when I visited several years ago," said Machens. "The Walters has an excellent international reputation as a trend-setting U.S. museum, and the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum will greatly benefit from this cooperative arrangement." One example of a future shared exhibition includes Secrets of the Universe: The Egyptian Book of the Faiyum, which will be on view at both the Walters and at the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum. This major exhibition of ancient Egyptian art and artifacts will illustrate how the universe was created, how it functions and what the Egyptians did to sustain it. Regine Schulz, current Walters curator of ancient art and director of international curatorial relations, will be the new director of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum starting in Sept 2011. Schulz was elected to the Executive Council of the International Council of Museums at the triennial meeting in Shanghai last November and was formerly the chairperson of the International Committee of Egyptology. The Walters Art Museum preserves and develops in the public trust a distinguished collection of world art from antiquity to the 20th century. In 1931, the museum's founding benefactor, Henry Walters, bequeathed the core collection to the City of Baltimore "for the benefit of the public." Since its opening, the Walters has been a national leader in scholarship, conservation, and education.  Visit : www.thewalters.org/

The National Gallery Of Art In Washington D.C. ~ A US Treasure Of European & American Art That Attracts 4.5 Million Visitors Annually Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:40 PM PDT Now visited by more than 4.5 million people annually, the National Gallery of Art is now one of the world's leading art museums. The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. Since its inception, the mission of the National Gallery of Art has been to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. The original West Building, designed by John Russell Pope (architect of the Jefferson Memorial and the National Archives), is a neoclassical marble masterpiece with a domed rotunda over a colonnaded fountain and high-ceilinged corridors leading to delightful garden courts. At its completion in 1941, the building was the largest marble structure in the world. On March 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed building and the collections on behalf of the people of the United States of America. The paintings and works of sculpture given by Andrew Mellon have formed a nucleus of high quality around which the collections have grown. Mr. Mellon's hope that the newly created National Gallery would attract gifts from other collectors was soon realized in the form of major donations of art from Samuel H. Kress, Rush H. Kress, Joseph Widener, Chester Dale, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, and Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch as well as individual gifts from hundreds of other donors. The modern East Building, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect I. M. Pei and opened in 1978, is composed of two adjoining triangles with glass walls and lofty tetrahedron skylights. The pink Tennessee marble from which both buildings were constructed was taken from the same quarry and forms an architectural link between the two structures. The East Building provided an additional 56,100 m2 of floor space and accommodated the Gallery's growing collections and expanded exhibition schedule as well as housing an advanced research center, administrative offices, a great library, and a burgeoning collection of drawings and prints. The two buildings are linked by an underground concourse featuring sculptor Leo Villareal's computer-programmed digital light project "Multiverse". On May 23, 1999 the Gallery opened an outdoor sculpture garden located in the 6.1-acre block adjacent to the West Building at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W. The garden provides an informal, yet elegant setting for works of modern and contemporary sculpture. The National Gallery of Art contains three museum shops, three cafes and a bar as well as the Library, a major national art research center serving the Gallery's staff, members of the Center for Advanced Study, visiting scholars, and serious adult researchers. Visit the museum's thorough website at .. http://www.nga.gov The National Gallery of Art has one of the finest art collections in the world, including an outstanding and highly representative collection of European art. The permanent collection of paintings spans from the Middle Ages to the present day. The strongest collection is the Italian Renaissance collection, which includes two panels from Duccio's "Maesta", the great tondo of the "Adoration of the Magi" by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale "Nativity", Bellini's "The Feast of the Gods", the only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Americas, and significant groups of works by Titian and Raphael. Other European collections include examples of the work of many of the great masters of western painting, including Mattias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Anthony van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner and Eugène Delacroix, among many others. American artists featured in the collection include Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, Thomas Chambers, Fitz Henry Lane, Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Edwin Church and Mary Cassatt among many others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such diverse works as the "Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis", a superb collection of work by Rodin and Degas, Honoré Daumier's entire series of bronze sculptures, including all 36 of his caricatured portrait busts of French government officials, superb modern sculpture by Henry Moore and others and wonderful examples of Chinese porcelain. The east wing is a showcase for the museum's collection of 20th-century art, including works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Joan Miró, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston and Mark Rothko as well as hosting the gallery's special exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art is home to fifteen diverse permanent exhibits that highlight artworks by Henri Matisse ("cutouts"), Alexander Calder (untitled mobile, commissioned for the East Building atrium), Andy Goldsworthy ("Roof", a sculpture installed on the ground level of the East Building) and other specially commissioned pieces or highlights from the collection. Three major exhibitions are now on view at the National Gallery of Art. "From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection" (until 2 January 2012) highlights works from Chester Dale's magnificent bequest to the National Gallery of Art in 1962. This special exhibition features some 83 of his finest French and American paintings. Among the masterpieces on view are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's "Forest of Fontainebleau", Auguste Renoir's "A Girl with a Watering Can", Mary Cassatt's "Boating Party", Edouard Manet's "Old Musician", Pablo Picasso's "Family of Saltimbanques", and George Bellows' "Blue Morning". Other artists represented include Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Claude Monet. Dale was an astute businessman who made his fortune on Wall Street in the bond market. Portraits of Dale by Salvador Dalí and Diego Rivera are included in the show, along with portraits of Dale's wife Maud (who greatly influenced his interest in art) painted by George Bellows and Fernand Léger. A selection of works from the museum library entitled "Collections Frozen in Time" (until 24 July 201) focuses on historic private collection catalogues held by the National Gallery of Art's own library. From the Middle-Ages until the 19th century, rulers, nobles, and wealthy merchants acquired and sold paintings, classical sculpture, gems, vases, and numismatics. As these private libraries grew they became a way to demonstrate an individual's wealth and sophistication and had to be documented. Some collectors wrote their own catalogues, others sought noted scholars to catalogue the works. In the days before photography, artists were commissioned to produce lavish engravings depicting the assembled objects in fine detail. The private collection catalogue soon became as much a luxury object as the items it described, and as collections were dispersed over time, these catalogues often remained the only record of the collections' original contents. Until the 15th of May 2011, the National Gallery of Art is spotlighting Ter Brugghen's "Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene" (on loan from the Allen Memorial At Museum of Oberlin College) hanging it alongside their own, famous "Bagpipe Player". Although these paintings belong to different genres, they reveal the sure fluidity of brush, exquisite color harmonies, and sophisticated compositional orchestration for which Ter Brugghen is renowned. "Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene" depicts an episode from the life of Sebastian, a third–century Roman soldier. After refusing to renounce Christianity he was bound to a tree and shot by archers. Irene, along with her maidservant, rescued him, removed the arrows from his flesh, and nursed his wounds. The circumstances prompting the creation of this work are not certain, but it is probable that Ter Brugghen painted it for a hospital in Utrecht. Major forthcoming exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art include "Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals" from 20th February 2011. Organized jointly with the National Gallery, London, this exhibition will explore the 18th century art inspired by the city of Venice. The exhibition celebrates the rich variety of these Venetian views, known as 'vedute', through some 20 masterworks by Canaletto and more than 30 by his rivals, including Michele Marieschi, Francesco Guardi, and Bernardo Bellotto. Responding to an art market fueled largely by the Grand Tour, these gifted painters depicted the famous monuments and vistas of Venice in different moods and seasons. From February 27thth 2011, "Gauguin: Maker of Myth will feature nearly 120 works by Gauguin in the first major look at the artist's oeuvre in the United States since the blockbuster National Gallery of Art retrospective of 1988–1989, "The Art of Paul Gauguin". Organized by Tate Modern, London, in association with the National Gallery of Art, the exhibition will bring together self-portraits, genre pictures, still lifes, and landscapes from throughout the artist's career. It will include not only oil paintings but also pastels, prints, drawings, sculpture, and decorated functional objects. Organized thematically, the exhibition will examine Gauguin's use of religious and mythological symbols to tell stories, reinventing or appropriating narratives and myths drawn both from his European cultural heritage and from Maori legend. Opening on April 17th 2011, a retrospective of work by Gabriel Metsu will featue some 35 paintings. Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667) is one of the most important Dutch genre painters of the mid-17th century. His ability to capture ordinary moments of life with freshness and spontaneity was matched only by his ability to depict materials with an unerring truth to nature. Although his career was relatively short, Metsu enjoyed great success as a genre painter, but also for his religious scenes, still lifes, and portraits. This exhibition will be the first monographic show of Metsu's work ever mounted in the United States.

Roy Lichtenstein - Posters at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:39 PM PDT   HAMBURG, GERMANY - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg presents Roy Lichtenstein - Posters - First composed: C. 70 exhibits from the period 1962 – 1997, on view through March 1, 2009. In all, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) designed something like seventy posters, which are brought together here for the first time. They give an overview of the prolific motives which fill the world of an artist who, with his trademark dot matrices painted in a two-dimensional plane, became a bye-word for American Pop Art together with Andy Warhol.

The Frist Center to display Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:38 PM PDT PROVIDENCE, RI.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris, opening Sept. 10, 2009, in the Upper-Level Galleries. The show, which offers a unique perspective on Surrealism by examining the intersection of documentary photography, manipulated photography and film, will be on exhibition.  It will travel to the International Center of Photography in New York followed by the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Ga. Paris was a hotbed of creative activity at the dawn of the 20th century, attracting artists and writers to its vibrant and wildly fertile art scene. Numerous galleries flourished during this period, fueling the immigration of many of the world's most talented artists.

National Galleries of Scotland announces Overview of Surrealist Movement Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:37 PM PDT EDINBURGH.- A comprehensive survey of Surrealist art, which will bring together masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró, will be the major summer exhibition at the Dean Gallery in 2010. Another World, which will be the centrepiece of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's 50th anniversary celebrations, will offer a fascinating overview of arguably the most important art movement of the twentieth century. The exhibition will include major loans from public and private collections and will offer visitors the chance to see the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's world-famous collection of Surrealist art in its entirety for the first time.

Savannah College of Art showcases Famous Works on Paper Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT SAVANNAH, GA - World-class works on paper by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse and Joan Miro will be on display and available for purchase at the Savannah College of Art and Design during the "Modern Masters" exhibition, held Sept. 2nd through 22nd  at Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St., Savannah.  An opening reception and printmaking demonstration will be held in the gallery Sept. 4, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Salvador Dali Foundation Presents Recently Acquired Paintings Made in the 1920s Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:35 PM PDT FIGUERES, SPAIN - The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí has presented its latest acquisition, an oil painted on both sides titled "Figure from Behind" (front) and "Nymphs and Young Ladies in a Garden Fountain" (back). The provenance of the painting is from a private collector and since 1925, with the exception of the Retrospective during the Year of Dalí, had not been seen in public. In the painter's view, we cannot forget the work of Ismael Smith, Marià Andreu or Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre, all of them friends of Salvador Dalí, with whom he had a relationship, especially with the latter, also a friend of Federico García Lorca.

Delaware Art Museum presents "Gifted ~ Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection" Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:34 PM PDT Wilmington, DE - The Delaware Art Museum presents Gifted:  Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, an exhibition featuring more than 30 works of art given to the Delaware Art Museum since its reopening in June 2005, on view July 12, 2008 – November 9, 2008.  Paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and ceramics—including works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection—will be featured.  Gifted offers visitors a glimpse into how the Museum's collection grows through the generosity of collectors.

The National Gallery of Art features Philip Guston in a Focus Exhibition Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:33 PM PDT   WASHINGTON, DC - A focus exhibition of works by American artist Philip Guston (1913–1980) at the National Gallery of Art inaugurates a new series of shows in the Tower Gallery of the East Building that center around developments in art since the 1970s. A dramatic and meditative space, the Tower is among the most elegant in the I.M. Pei building, which opened in 1978. On view February 1 through September 13, 2009, In the Tower: Philip Guston includes works drawn largely from the Gallery's own collection and features a six-minute film specially made for the exhibition.

LACMA Launches Image Library Expanding Online Access to Museum's Collection Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:32 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announce that it will provide access to free high-resolution images of the museum's rich encyclopedic collection through its newly created Image Library. Visitors to the library can download the images free of charge and without any restrictions on use. The Image Library opens with 2,000 public domain images (with more to be added), representing a broad range of LACMA's collections, including Egyptian, Decorative Arts and Design, Latin American, Chinese and Korean, European Painting, Photography and Sculpture, and many more.

National Gallery of Art Acquires Leo Villareal's Major Installation "Multiverse" Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:31 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- Conner Contemporary Art announced that the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC has acquired for the permanent collection Leo Villareal's installation Multiverse. Multiverse, the largest and most complex light sculpture created by American artist Leo Villareal, may be seen and experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. Commissioned by the Gallery and on view until November 2009, the work features approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED (light-emitting diode) nodes that run through channels along the entire 200-foot-long space. The development of this LED project began in 2005, and the installation created by Villareal specifically for this location began in September 2008.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:31 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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