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- The IB Isabel Bilbao Galería de Arte Shows New Works by Cristina Guerrero
- The Legacy Art Gallery To Show Landscapes "Convergence / Divergence"
- Yoko Ono Japanese Musician & Artist Awarded the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize
- Tomma Abts' First Solo Exhibition in the Rhineland On View at Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
- Property of Hollywood Star Tony Curtis to be Offered by Julien's Auctions
- Thai Filmmaker and 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or Prize Winner Showing at IMMA
- Pakistani Art Makes U.S. Debut at Asia Society Museum
- The Joslyn Art Museum Opens Reinstalled North-Wing Galleries
- The Magnificent Bergen Art Museum In Norway Is Toured By Our Editor
- V&A Acquires Album of James Gillray Cartoons Hidden for More than 100 Years
- Yue Minjun's Recent Works at The Pace Gallery in Beijing
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art To Celebrate its 75th Anniversary in 2010
- Peabody Essex Museum to Host Art Museum Libraries Symposium
- Bonhams & Butterfields to Highlight Artists from the Golden State on November 17th
- Art Antiques London ~ Fair for Collectors & Connoisseurs at Royal Albert Hall
- Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs Opens at Memorial Art Gallery
- The World of Beatrix Potter™ at the Victoria & Albert Museum
- Edwin Deakin celebrated at the Crocker Art Museum
- DC Moore Gallery to exhibit Recent Paintings & Pastels by Yvonne Jacquette
- Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"
The IB Isabel Bilbao Galería de Arte Shows New Works by Cristina Guerrero Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:41 PM PDT Alicante, Spain.- The IB Isabel Bilbao Galería de Arte is pleased to present "Cristina Guerrero: An Instant and its Equivalence", on view at the gallery from August 12th through August 30th. "An Instant and its Equivalence", consists of series of painted diptychs that create the visual effect of a shape and its apparent counterpart. In this exhibition, the Spanish artist continues to develop her "Semjanzas (Similarities)" cycle, work that has brought her national and international recognition since 2004. Cristina Guerrero (born in San Sebastian in 1979) graduated from the University of the Basque Country in 2002 with a degree in fine arts. In the "Semjanzas" series she combines objects and everyday personal life with details of her or her partner's or even their children's' body. During this process she determines a connection, between shapes, colours and appearances, which serves to create new associations. Owe to this, Guerrero prefers to create well realistic and representational oils, devoted to detail and an accurate use of light and shadow. Clothing, food, jewellery and other accessories are gathered by the artist herself and collected both from her trips and her everyday's shopping in Renteria, where she lives. However, the young painter deprives these items of their essential characteristics and transfers the observer's interpretation to them while maintaining the relationship with herself, with her own life and atmosphere; and establishing a link between the object and her anatomy. Cristina Guerrero creates images that, at first glance, give the illusion of a reflection, but in fact they show analogies not entirely clear from the start. It is the artist's vision that reveals the link between life and the environment, character and object, body and nature. So diverse and heterogeneous connections emerge ranging from logical objects, their dramatic interpretation and a bold overstatement of the images. Cristina Guerrero's work is presented, in galleries in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and San Sebastian in Spain; New York and Chicago (USA); Berlin, Frankfurt, and Kaarst in Germany; and in international fairs in Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy and the United States. The IB Isabel Bilbao gallery was founded by the artist Oscar Bento in December 1989 as Atelier Uno, located at the port of Jávea (in Alicante, Spain). In June 1990 Isabel Bilbao became the director of the gallery. In the spring of 1993 the gallery moved to a three story old building at the old town in Javea. From 1996 to 1998 this gallery ran alongside a second gallery space in Denia (also in Alicante, Spain). Both spaces were named as IB Isabel Bilbao – Galería de Arte. The Javea space shut down in December 2008 due to the intense renovation works in the old town in Javea. In 2004 the gallery opens a new space, 'Collection', in Moraira (Alicante, Spain) and in 2007 the gallery opened IB Isabel Bilbao Galerie, a new space in Berlin. The gallery is committed to the selection, exhibition and promotion of the contemporary arts and seeks to create a direct channel of communication between artists and society. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.isabelbilbao.com |
The Legacy Art Gallery To Show Landscapes "Convergence / Divergence" Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:25 PM PDT Victoria, BC.- The Legacy Art Gallery at the University of Victoria is proud to present "Convergence/Divergence: Landscape and Identity on the West Coast" on view from August 17th through October 1st. This exhibit explores how artists on the West Coast of BC, both settler and First Nations, respond to the West Coast landscape as a means of expressing identity, while also suggesting ways in which an artist's identity provides a lens for presenting or interpreting landscape. The works selected highlight contrasting artistic approaches and ways of relating to local landscapes, illustrating both First Nations' and settlers' complex relationships to the places they live. |
Yoko Ono Japanese Musician & Artist Awarded the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:11 PM PDT HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - In 1989 the city of Hiroshima, first place in the world to suffer a nuclear attack, established the Hiroshima Art Prize with the object of promoting through art the "spirit of Hiroshima" that yearns for permanent world peace and prosperity for all humanity. The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art is to stage an exhibition showcasing the work of the eighth prize winner, Yoko Ono. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art was established on May 3, 1989. The first public art museum in Japan devoted exclusively to contemporary art, it is located in the Hijiyama Park which has a splendid view of Hiroshima and is famous for its cherry blossoms. |
Tomma Abts' First Solo Exhibition in the Rhineland On View at Kunsthalle Dusseldorf Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:10 PM PDT DUSSELDORF.- Born in 1967, German artist Tomma Abts ranks among the outstanding female painters of her generation. She was awarded the Turner Prize in 2006, and her work has featured in solo exhibitions at such renowned institutions as Kunsthalle Basel, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. The show at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is the London-based artist's first solo exhibition at an institution in the Rhineland, where she is teaching since summer 2010, having taken up a professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. On exhibition through 9 October. |
Property of Hollywood Star Tony Curtis to be Offered by Julien's Auctions Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:53 PM PDT BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Julien's Auctions, the world's premier entertainment and celebrity auction house will offer a rare glimpse into the life of one of Hollywood's most colorful stars, Tony Curtis. The rare Hollywood star whose off-screen character was often more sensational than his on-screen one, lived a life that could be its own movie or television series. Curtis' career spanned six decades with popularity during the 1950s and 1960s enabling him to transpose his good looks into super movie stardom. He acted in over 100 films ranging from light comedy to serious drama and he also made numerous television appearances. In addition to being a popular actor, Curtis was a fine art connossiuer. Collectors will have the opportunity to purchase some of his impressive art collection along with items from his illustrious career at Julien's Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills on September 17th, 2011. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will benefit Shiloh Horse Rescue, a charitable organization founded by Jill and Tony Curtis that rescues and rehabilitates abused, neglected and slaughter-bound horses of all types |
Thai Filmmaker and 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or Prize Winner Showing at IMMA Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:52 PM PDT DUBLIN.- The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is presenting the first Irish exhibition by the internationally acclaimed Thai artist and film-maker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Opening to the public on Wednesday. For Tomorrow For Tonight features new work that explores the theme of night through video, photographs and installation. Weerasethakul is the winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. He is the director of Tropical Malady, winner of a jury prize at Cannes and Blissfully Yours, winner of the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes in 2002; and at the 63rd Venice Film Festival, his film Syndromes and a Century is the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. |
Pakistani Art Makes U.S. Debut at Asia Society Museum Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:28 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY- An exhibit of rare Buddhist sculptures, architectural reliefs and works of gold and bronze is opening at the Asia Society Museum on Tuesday after a long and tumultuous journey from Pakistan. The works, many of which have never been shown before in the United States, are from the historically rich Gandharan region of Pakistan. They had originally been scheduled to be shown in March but roadblocks, U.S. visa problems for Pakistani officials accompanying the works and a new Pakistani law delayed the opening until this month. |
The Joslyn Art Museum Opens Reinstalled North-Wing Galleries Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:27 PM PDT Omaha, NE.- The Joslyn Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of its reinstalled north-wing galleries with a new presentation of the museum's renowned collection of American and American Western Art. "Art in America: Colonial Times to the Present" highlights the history of American painting from 1750 to 1950, and features a new interpretation of the Museum's collection of art of the American West and Plains Indian cultures. Toby Jurovics, Joslyn's chief curator and Richard and Mary Holland Curator of American Western Art, said the galleries offer a new look at familiar favorites as well as important works that have been off view for many years. "Our desire is to offer a more cohesive narrative of the history of American Art, arranging our collection of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts chronologically from the Colonial period to the rise of Modernism in the twentieth century". The galleries are also rich with new views of Joslyn's nationally recognized collection of art of the American West, including its world-renowned Maximilian-Bodmer Collection. Jurovics noted, "One of our goals was to integrate the history of Euro-American art and exploration of the West with that of the American Indian cultures that inhabited the Upper Missouri River region. Works by Karl Bodmer and Alfred Jacob Miller, as well as key paintings by Charles Bird King and Henry Inman and objects from our collection of American Indian art, present the history of the peoples and landscape of the High Plains in a cohesive fashion for the first time at Joslyn". Portraits by James Peale (1749–1831) and Erastus Salisbury Field (1805–1900); early American furniture illustrating both a lingering European influence and a newly developing Federalist style; paintings by Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and Thomas Doughty (1793–1856), representing the Hudson River School — the first distinctly American art style. The 'American Origins' gallery illustrates the emergence of an American art that reflected the new republic's ideals and growing prosperity following the Revolution. Ceremonial and utilitarian artifacts created by Indian tribes of the High Plains; portraits of American Indians done in the field by artist-explorers George Catlin (1796–1872), Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), and Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874); and studio portraits of Plains Indians painted by Charles Bird King (1785–1862) in Washington, D.C., and replicated in Philadelphia by Henry Inman (1801–1846). Combined, these installations reflect a vital profile of the peoples and culture of the Upper Missouri regionand are featured in the 'Across the Wide Missouri and Faces of the Upper Missouri' gallery Scenes of everyday life by John George Brown (1831–1913), William Harnett (1848–1892), and Eastman Johnson (1824–1906); the rise of a new vision of landscape in paintings by Eanger Irving Couse (1866–1936) and Albert Blakelock (1847–1919); and American artists such as William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), and John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), who were gaining recognition internationally in the latter half of the century are all featured in the 'An Expanding Presence' gallery. The works in the 'The Romantic Horizon and The Myth of the West' gallery illustrate the diversity of interests and growing international presence of American artists in the second half of the nineteenth century. Grand, dramatic landscapes by Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), Thomas Hill (1829–1908), Thomas Moran (1837–1926), and Worthington Whittredge (1820–1910), artists who traveled West and created paintings that inspired a nation. The artists in this gallery helped to shape an idealized image of the western landscape as an untouched wilderness that has persisted to the present day. Artist-illustrators such as Frederic Remington (1861–1909), Charles Marion Russell (1864–1926), Charles Schreyvogel (1861–1912), William Robinson Leigh (1866–1955), and Maynard Dixon (1875–1946). Painters in this gallery created an image of the West as a rough-hewn paradise of rugged landscapes and daring action. The final gallery, 'Realism, Abstraction, and Regionalism' features Robert Henri (1865–1929) and John Sloan, whose realist work elevated the contemporary city and its inhabitants to the subject of fine art; abstraction and the influences of the European avantgarde in paintings by Stuart Davis (1892–1964) and Raymond Jonson (1891–1982); and the Regionalists Grant Wood (1892–1942), Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), and John Steuart Curry (1897–1946). The artists in this gallery reflect the complex and competing themes in American art during the first half of the twentieth century. Joslyn Art Museum was a generous gift to the people of Omaha from Sarah H. Joslyn (1851–1940) in memory of her husband, George A. Joslyn (1848–1916), in his day, the richest man in Nevada, thanks to his interests in paper mills and publishing. When associates suggested he move his business headquarters East, George answered that his money had been "made in Omaha and it would be spent in Omaha." After her husband's death, Mrs. Joslyn devoted herself to creating a memorial that would perpetuate their shared interests in music and art, as well as benefit the greatest number of people possible. She decided to build a concert hall surrounded with art galleries. When it opened on November 29, 1931, the new museum received several private collections as gifts, as well as collections from the Art Institute of Omaha and the Friends of Art. The extraordinary Art Deco building was hailed not only as an important addition to the city of Omaha, but to modern American architecture as well. In 1938 it was listed among the 100 finest buildings in the United States. Construction took three years and cost almost $3 million. The three-level interior comprises some 38 marbles from around the world and includes stone from Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, and Morocco. The exterior and retaining wall alone filled 250 boxcars with George Pink (Etowah Fleuri) marble. The building's architects utilized Native American themes throughout the museum interior and on the east entrance columns. Moravian floor tiles used in the colorful Storz Fountain Court include symbols for literature, music, architecture, and painting. The Walter and Suzanne Scott Pavilion, a 58,000 square-foot addition designed by renowned British architect Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and built in 1994 at a cost of $15.95 million, connects to the original Memorial building with the glorious glass ConAgra Foods Atrium. In 2007, Joslyn celebrated 75 years of achievement and inspiration with an exciting year of events and programs recognizing the Museum's permanent collection, special exhibitions, building, campus, and community partnerships. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.joslyn.org |
The Magnificent Bergen Art Museum In Norway Is Toured By Our Editor Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:11 PM PDT Bergen Art Museum (Bergen Kunstmuseum) was founded in 1825 by Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie. In its early years, the museum contained numerous art collections, including several works by the painter Johan Christian Dahl, cultural artifacts, and craftwork items. In 1931, the museum moved from its location in the Seminarium Fredericianum building near Bergen katedralskole, to a new building south-west of Lille Lungegårdsvann. This was the first dedicated museum building in Norway. The current natural history building was finished in 1865, and Bergen Museum moved in during 1866. The botanical garden was laid out between 1897 and 1899, and the cultural history department got its own building in 1927. The increasing research activity at the museum from the late 19th century and onwards led directly to the founding of the University of Bergen in 1948. Bergen Art Museum's permanent exhibitions are in Lysverket and Rasmus Meyer collection. These exhibits show art from the museum's own collections and are on view long periods of time. Basic exhibitions in Lysverket is a traditional historical-chronological review of the art history of early Renaissance to the present day. The presentation is supported by important works in the museum's collections, and thus focus on Norwegian art history. Works from the Stenersen collection are included in exhibitions in Lysverket. The Rasmus Meyer Collection is a special collection of the Bergen Art Museum, shown in a building constructed for this purpose in 1924. A visitor can experience the historic original interiors, and the golden age of Norwegian painting, with works by Edvard Munch, Christian Krogh and Harriet Backer among the highlights. In particular, the Bergen Art Museum is also home to an exceptional collection of international contemporary works, where the most prominent artists include Joan Miró, Johan Christian Dahl, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The Bergen Art Museum offers a broad range of educational programs and gives presentations of both permanent and temporary exhibitions to pre-school, elementary school and secondary school classes. Through The Cultural Rucksack program (a national scheme for professional art and culture in schools in Norway), the museum offers guided tours and art workshops by art historians and artists, which are adapted to the curriculum of the Norwegian school system. In recent years the museum has made a considerable investment in digital workshops with advanced computer programs. The aim of temporary exhibitions is to highlight the city's artistic diversity, and how a new generation of artists are present. The exhibition also makes the occasional swoop through the last forty years in the Bergen art. The participating artists are not necessarily from the area, expiations are open to a large variation in background and nationalities. Many of the works can be seen in the museum's permanent exhibitions where they are part of an art historical presentation. Also, the museum's temporary exhibitions regularly collect works from the collections, and other museums, and some works can be seen in the museum's interactive Internet service. The Bergen Art Museum has well crafted exhibit and educational facilities and programs designed to provide visitors of all ages with stimulating and inspiring art experiences. From 2007, the management of the collections is delegated to a new foundation - the consolidated large museum Art Museums in Bergen, Bergen Art Museum is now aligned with five museums. |
V&A Acquires Album of James Gillray Cartoons Hidden for More than 100 Years Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:10 PM PDT LONDON.- An album of 40 'suppressed' cartoons by leading British caricaturist James Gillray (1756-1815) has recently come to light in the Criminal Law Policy Unit of the Ministry of Justice. It features material judged socially unacceptable in the 19th century - including explicitly sexual, scatological and politically outrageous subject matter. The album was probably seized by police more than a century ago as 'pornographic material' and handed to Government officials. This slim volume of 'Curiosa' has now been transferred to the print collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A. |
Yue Minjun's Recent Works at The Pace Gallery in Beijing Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:09 PM PDT BEIJING.- The Pace Gallery, Beijing presents an exhibition of Yue Minjun's recent works in cooperation with Robb Report. The exhibition, entitled The Road, is the leading Chinese contemporary artist's first solo exhibition in the Pace Gallery, Beijing. The exhibition is on from June 11th through July 16th. More than two decades into his artistic career, Yue is still smiling at the world as he sees it. His trademark "Smile" symbol, the playful, mocking hallmark of the artist's cynical realist style, conceals within it a spirit that's sometimes stubborn and fragile. On exhibition until July 16th at the Pace Gallery in Beijing, China. |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art To Celebrate its 75th Anniversary in 2010 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:08 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA. - In 2010, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will mark its 75th year as a pioneering force in art worldwide and an unparalleled destination for the people of the San Francisco Bay Area. Through special exhibitions, events, public programs, and an anniversary publication, the museum will offer visitors new insight into the artists and individuals that have made SFMOMA a center of innovation and risk-taking in the art world and a cultural beacon on the West Coast. Special programming will also tell the story of how museum staff, artists, and people from the Bay Area and beyond have established at SFMOMA one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary art in the world. Throughout the anniversary season, SFMOMA will present a series of exhibitions under the heading 75 Years of Looking Forward that will tell the story of the artists, collectors, cultural mavericks, and San Francisco leaders who founded, built, and have animated the museum. |
Peabody Essex Museum to Host Art Museum Libraries Symposium Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:07 PM PDT SALEM, MA.- Libraries, archives, and museums face similar challenges. Libraries and archives affiliated with art museums have a second layer of concerns to consider in determining how they best relate to their parent institution. The Peabody Essex Museum's (PEM) Phillips Library will host a symposium on September 23 and 24, 2010 to explore the issues associated with this very question.Major topics to be addressed include: |
Bonhams & Butterfields to Highlight Artists from the Golden State on November 17th Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:06 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA - California's oldest and largest auctioneer, Bonhams & Butterfields, will offer contemporary art from the Golden State during the firm's Made in California sale on November 17, 2009. Though regional in theme, artwork by internationally known artists such as John Altoon, Robert Arneson, Ruth Asawa, Claire Falkenstein, Sam Francis, Robert Graham, George Rodrigue, Wayne Thiebaud and Peter Voulkos will be featured as well as property from the Collection of Fred Spratt and famed Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoonist Jay Ward. |
Art Antiques London ~ Fair for Collectors & Connoisseurs at Royal Albert Hall Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:05 PM PDT LONDON.- This June, Kensington Gardens will provide the stunning backdrop to Art Antiques London, which runs from 9 through16 June 2010, a new art and antiques fair aimed at both the seasoned connoisseur and those who admire and value beauty and timelessness. Art Antiques London will be held in a beautiful custom-built marquee opposite the Royal Albert Hall, adjacent to the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Fair's participants are leading specialists in a wide range of disciplines, including furniture, paintings, jewellery, clocks, textiles, silver and ceramics, as well as rare books and modern and contemporary objet d'art. Every object exhibited at the Fair is rigorously examined and vetted for quality and authenticity, so collectors can be assured they can buy with confidence. |
Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs Opens at Memorial Art Gallery Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:04 PM PDT |
The World of Beatrix Potter™ at the Victoria & Albert Museum Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:03 PM PDT London - Beatrix Potter was the first fully to exploit the merchandise possibilities of fiction. Peter Rabbit became a popular culture phenomenon twenty-five years before Walt Disney conceived his screen icon, Mickey Mouse. Today, The Tale of Peter Rabbit remains one of the best-selling children's classics of all time and The World of Beatrix Potter™, initiated by Beatrix herself in 1903, is one of the world's largest international literature-based licensing programmes. |
Edwin Deakin celebrated at the Crocker Art Museum Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:02 PM PDT Sacramento, Calif. – One-hundred and twenty years have passed since Edwin Deakin was accorded a major show in Sacramento. Beginning January 26, works by the celebrated California painter will return in a long-overdue, career-spanning exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum. Nearly 50 of his paintings and eight drawings will go on display through April 20, 2008, in Edwin Deakin: California Painter of the Picturesque. |
DC Moore Gallery to exhibit Recent Paintings & Pastels by Yvonne Jacquette Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:01 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announces the opening of Yvonne Jacquette. The exhibition features recent paintings and pastels depicting unique aerial views of New York City, New Orleans, and rural Maine. Since Jacquette has lived in New York for part of nearly every year since 1955, the city is, naturally enough, one of her primary subjects. Her paintings depict well-known buildings, famous bridges, neighborhood intersections, and the like with an architectural accuracy that allows individual structures to be readily identified. On exhibition 10 february through 13 March, 2010. |
Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:01 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 . |
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