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• SFMOMA Presents a Dialogue Between Paul Klee and Andrew Schoutz
• The Museum on the Seam Presents "A Clash of Civilizations"
• ArtZone 461 Presents Heidi McDowell and Stan Washburn
• The Broad Art Museum Acquires Two Works by Andrew Kuo
• Bonhams to Sell Two Rare Watercolours by George French Angas
• The Art Gallery of Alberta Presents Abstract Works by Lawren Harris
• J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Selection of Photographs by Herb Ritts
• The Cape Gallery Presents its Annual Wild Life Exhibition
• Guilty Plea in Connection with Fake Clementine Hunter Paintings Sales
• The National Museum of Women in the Arts Honors Painter Susan Swartz
• The Baltic Centre ~ A Superb International Exhibition Centre ~ A Major Venue For Contemporary Art
• Francis Bacon's Artistic Career at the Palazzo Reale in Milan ~ A Full Overview
• Kunsthistorisches Museum exhibits 'The Myth of Antiquity' in Vienna
• "Louvre Atlanta" Partnership Brings in Over 1.3 Million Visitors to the High Museum of Art
• Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert to show Early Works from 1939-1954 by Lucian Freud
• The International Center of Photography (ICP) Celebrates the Career of Elliott Erwitt
• Denver Art Museum hosts Impressionist Plein-Air Landscape Paintings
• "Coming Together through the art of John Lennon" and Beatles Memorabilia
• Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Names Annie Leibovitz as 2010 Women of Distinction Honor
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

SFMOMA Presents a Dialogue Between Paul Klee and Andrew Schoutz Posted: 10 Aug 2011 10:37 PM PDT San Francisco, CA.- SFMOMA is pleased to present "Artists in Dialogue: Andrew Schoultz and Paul Klee", on view at the museum from August 13th through January 8th 2012. Curated by John Zarobell, this exhibition creates a visual dialogue across a century, drawings by contemporary Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz respond to the inventive works of Swiss-born Modernist Paul Klee, which are featured on an ongoing basis in SFMOMA's Djerassi Gallery. Schoultz worked with Zarobell to choose 19 pieces from the MOMA's 200-something large Klee collection, then produced ten of his own drawings in response. Paul Klee (1879–1940) has long been revered as one of the most original and inventive modern artists. Born in Switzerland, Klee made his name in Germany, where he was associated with the Blaue Reiter group and became an influential instructor in the Bauhaus. A diverse array of work by Klee, primarily from the acclaimed Djerassi Collection, are always on view at SFMOMA. Starting August 13, the exhibition will feature drawings by San Francisco artist Andrew Schoultz presented in dialogue with the works on paper by Klee that inspired them. This exhibition pairs the work of two artists living a century apart: Swiss-born modernist Paul Klee (1879-1940) and San Francisco-based contemporary artist Andrew Schoultz (Born 1975). Klee's idiosyncratic and inventive practice has inspired many subsequent generations, from his students at the Bauhaus to mid-century Abstract Expressionists to a range of artists today. His works, on paper, often created as series of experiments in color and form, yielded mutifarious results that opened up the artistic process to innovation. Among other strategies, Klee pioneered many unprecedented combination sof tecniques, such as brushing, spraying, tracing and scraping, sometimes all in a single piece. Schoultz's drawings share with Klee's a commitment to two fundamental principles: the production of metaphor through imagery that is at once abstract and figurative, and the idea that art must in some way draw its relevance from the world the artist inhabits. The examples shown in this exhibition extend visual symbols explored in Schoulz's earlier works into new territory inspired by Klee's imagery and practice. He uses motifs common in Klee's art, such as horses and cities, as well as specific techniques such as arrangements of parallel lines, the use of sprayed ink to produce an even gray tone, and the development of forms from dense linear hatching. For this exhibition Schoultz made a group of drawings that respond directly to SFMOMA's Klee holdings, which are presented on an ongoing basis in this gallery. The pairing highlights the continuity of the creative process by considering one artist's means of coming to terms with the art of the past. Says Andrew, "The result, theoretically, is that the works I created would be in dialogue with the works of Klee and perhaps viewing the works side-by-side would create some kind of a new entry point and conversation for a viewer about both of our works. Ideally, it would be awesome for someone to see my work differently next to his, and his work differently next to mine." Founded in 1935, SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted to modern and contemporary art. From the outset, the museum has championed the most innovative and challenging art of its time, and it continues to exhibit and collect work by both modern masters and younger, less-established artists. They always have a dynamic schedule of thought-provoking exhibitions on view, including special exhibitions and changing presentations from our collection of more than 27,000 artworks, photographs, and design objects. Audio guides, docent tours, video screenings, interactive kiosks, and public programs offer opportunities to learn more about modern art. Located just a short walk from downtown San Francisco, the landmark building features a soaring atrium topped by our signature turret and oculus skylight. The MuseumStore offers the West Coast's finest selection of modern and contemporary art books, as well as exceptional design objects, furniture, jewelry, and children's products. Meanwhile, the cafe serves gourmet fare in a light-filled space with indoor and outdoor seating. SFMOMA's internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art includes more than 27,000 works and continues to grow. With strong holdings in photography, painting and sculpture, architecture and design, and media arts, the museum strives to present key examples of Modernism as well as more recent works that reflect a variety of artistic developments occurring regionally, nationally, and around the world. Each year, in addition to organizing ongoing installations of permanent collection works, its curators develop a variety of collection-based presentations to complement the special traveling exhibitions hosted by the museum. Including both modern art masterworks and glimpses of contemporary art in the making, the permanent collection contributes to SFMOMA's standing as a dynamic art center where visitors can learn, reflect, and be inspired. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.sfmoma.org

The Museum on the Seam Presents "A Clash of Civilizations" Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:58 PM PDT Jerusalam.- The Museum on the Seam is pleased to present "WEST END: A Clash of Civilizations and a Battle for Domination in the World of Tomorrow", currently on view. Artists from Iraq, Iran, Morocco, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia will participate for the first time in an exhibition set in Israel, despite the boycott in the Arab world, together with their colleagues in the west, and will address all these important issues such as does the political and cultural awakening of the Muslim societies in the Middle East and the west represents a milestone in the formation of a new world? Will globalization and mass immigration from Muslim countries to the west change the face of Europe, the USA and the rest of the world? Are we witnessing the formation of a multi-cultural society or alternatively a clash of civilizations as was envisioned by Samuel Phillips Huntington? Are we on the verge of establishing a new relationship between the Muslim and the western worlds?

ArtZone 461 Presents Heidi McDowell and Stan Washburn Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:45 PM PDT San Francisco, CA.- ArtZone 461 Gallery is happy to announce "Road Trip" a new exhibition of paintings by Gallery artist Heidi McDowell, photo-documenting her various car trips through the Western United States. The Side Gallery presents recent paintings by Stan Washburn whose work draws from daily life, with adjustments:  His interiors, for example, seldom represent any real place. Both exhibitions remain on view until August 21st.

The Broad Art Museum Acquires Two Works by Andrew Kuo Posted: 10 Aug 2011 09:13 PM PDT EAST LANSING, MI.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has acquired two works by multidisciplinary artist Andrew Kuo. The works, "Self-Portrait (Rise and Shine)," 2009, and "The More You Know About Me, The More You'll Think Twice Before Calling/I'd Be More Tolerable If I Smoked Weed Because...," 2011, are the first acquisitions for the new contemporary art museum, which will also assume care for the 7,500 object collection of the university's former Kresge Art Museum. Dedicated to exploring global contemporary culture and ideas through art, the Zaha Hadid-designed museum will serve as both an educational resource for the campus community and a cultural hub for the central Michigan region. The Broad at MSU is scheduled to open in spring 2012.

Bonhams to Sell Two Rare Watercolours by George French Angas Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:48 PM PDT SYDNEY, AU - Two rare and important watercolours by George French Angas are to be auctioned at Bonhams Australian Art sale on 22 August at Byron Kennedy Hall, Sydney. One shows the departure of Sturt's third and final expedition from Adelaide, while the other depicts the first Royal Adelaide Show. They are estimated to fetch AU $20,000-30,000 each. George French Angas was the son of Englishman George Fife Angas, who supporting the establishment of an Australian state settled entirely by free settlers, founded the South Australian Company.

The Art Gallery of Alberta Presents Abstract Works by Lawren Harris Posted: 10 Aug 2011 08:47 PM PDT Edmonton, Alberta.- The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is proud to present "Lawren Harris Abstractions", jointly organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Alberta. On view until September 11th, this exhibition of paintings and drawings features a selection of abstract works by renowned Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris. "Harris' career presents us with an interesting narrative of creative change" says AGA Deputy Director/Chief Curator Catherine Crowston "shifting from a strong commitment to landscape painting in the early decades of the 20th century to a focus on non-objective abstraction in the 1930s."

J. Paul Getty Museum Acquires Selection of Photographs by Herb Ritts Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:56 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Museum announces the acquisition of 69 photographs by famed fashion and celebrity photographer Herb Ritts. Consisting of photographs of nudes, portraits, and images made for high-fashion ad campaigns, this acquisition is the most significant body of the artist's work on the West Coast. The majority of the acquisition comes in the form of a generous gift from the Herb Ritts Foundation. "It's exciting to have so many of Ritts's best photographs become part of our collection," adds Paul Martineau, associate curator in the Department of Photographs. "We are looking forward to displaying them in our galleries next spring for what will be the first significant exhibition on Ritts in over a decade."

The Cape Gallery Presents its Annual Wild Life Exhibition Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:05 PM PDT Cape Town, South Africa.- The Cape Gallery is pleased to present its annual "Wild Life" exhibition, on view at the gallery from August 14th through September 10th. The Cape Gallery has built up a collection of work by some of the best Wild Life artists in South Africa. The culmination of this process is the annual Cape Gallery Wild Life exhibition, a group exhibition showcasing some of the finest interpretations of the love of the land. This year, a growing concern for the destruction of natural recourses and habitats has drawn attention to themes of migratory patterns and endangered species. Painted Wolf Wines, who actively support the conservation of the African Wild Dog, will be sponsoring wine for the opening event. Emma and Jeremy Borg, the founders of the Painted Wolf Wines brand, will be the opening speakers. Artists have also agreed to donate a portion of sales of the work used in the exhibition to a charity of their choice for the duration of the exhibition.

Guilty Plea in Connection with Fake Clementine Hunter Paintings Sales Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:04 PM PDT ALEXANDRIA, LA.- United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Robert E. Lucky, Jr, 64, of New Orleans, pled guilty to a one-count bill of information charging mail fraud in connection with selling non-authentic paintings falsely attributed to Clementine Hunter. Lucky utilized various sources to obtain Clementine Hunter paintings, including paintings from William and Beryl Toye, which have been determined by government experts to be non-authentic. Lucky then resold the fake paintings for a profit. Lucky faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both when he is sentenced on October 21, 2011.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts Honors Painter Susan Swartz Posted: 10 Aug 2011 07:03 PM PDT Washington, D.C.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts honors painter Susan Swartz with a special exhibition "Susan Swartz: Seasons of the Soul" on view at the museum until October 2nd. Known as much for her environmental activism and philanthropy, the multi-award winning abstract expressionist painter Susan Swartz displays the boldest, riskiest work of her career to sound an alarm about protecting our planet's scarce natural resources. Passionate about the environment, and eager to use her art and resources to sound an alarm about the fragility of the planet we inhabit, Susan Swartz is known for the emotional and lyrical beauty of the landscapes she paints using bold strokes of color that inspire a visceral response in viewers. Her remarkably potent abstract paintings have captured the attention of both museums and collectors, and prompted them to take environmental concerns more seriously.  Susan Swartz says there's an underlying narrative to her work now: "An urgent plea to notice, respect and preserve our natural environment." Dr. Susan Fisher Sterling, Director, National Museum of Women in the Arts says, "Pulsating with dazzling color, Susan Swartz's abstract landscapes simultaneously articulate her awe of the natural world and her rallying cry for its preservation. A staunch environmentalist, philanthropist, and producer of award-winning documentaries, Susan has turned to her art as a source of healing, resilience, and inspiration throughout her battle with environmentally-bred illnesses. The National Museum of Women in the Arts is delighted to showcase her work in a special exhibition this summer." Diagnosed first with mercury poisoning and then with Lyme Disease, Susan Swartz struggled with these life-threatening, chronic illnesses in the past decade. She says, "My paintings changed when I became ill. I was forced out of my comfort zone as an artist, forced to become bolder and riskier in my work. The art I am now creating is more impassioned, more profound, and more achingly full of desire than anything I have created in the past. While I have always enjoyed painting the divine beauty of nature, my two illnesses have had a profound effect on me, and my work. During my slow recovery, I gained a deeper reverence for all that God created and felt inspired – charged, really – to do all I could to protect the environment in its most pristine form." A classically trained painter from a family of artists and musicians, Susan Swartz has been working as a professional artist for most of her adult life from homes in Park City, Utah and Martha's Vineyard. Susan Swartz says, "I first got to know the National Museum of Women in the Arts shortly after it opened twenty-four years ago. On that first visit, I remember thinking 'maybe someday my work will be here…' It's an incredible privilege now to have my paintings at what is really the first place dedicated to promoting and honoring women artists. Billie Holladay and NMWA were really the pioneers in giving equal footing to women artists. Such profound institutional support allows us to dream and inspires us to persevere." Susan Swartz paintings are in private and corporate collections in the US, the UK and Japan.  She was featured as the 2002 Winter Olympic's Environmental Artist and her works are in museum collections at the Salt Lake City Olympic Museum; U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame & Museum; the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland; and the Springfield Museum of Art in Utah. Together with Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, H.L.A. Culmer and Maynard Dixon, Susan Swartz is included in the book "Painters of the Wasatch Mountains ." Susan Swartz also published the book "Natural Revelations: The Art of Susan Swartz" which was awarded a bronze medal at the 12th Annual Independent Book Publisher Awards. John E. Buchanan, Jr., Director of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco says, "The paintings of Susan Swartz are about beauty, balance and harmony.  As with many successful authors, Susan succeeds at painting what she knows best, and in a manner similar to that by which she conducts her life.  It would be difficult to separate the painting from the painter in her particular case. It would also be deceptive to label Susan strictly as a landscape artist.  Yes, her work may well be seen as the contemporary continuum of that tradition that emerged in many countries, cultures and from early times forward.  Yet, Susan's paintings may be more aptly likened to "landscapes of the mind," influenced as much by the imagination as by an actual site.  Like the work of Odilon Redon, Susan's landscape compositions are so intensely and personally rendered that they convey a distinct sense of place, if not of this earth, then of the terrain of the artist's mind.  She thusly conveys a soul to images that might often appear vacuous to us as viewers.  Susan's technique is virtuosic on the laying in of color and glazes as she builds up her canvases.  Although richly painted, less is often more in her most successful compositions.  Their unique voice speaks through her ability to imbue them with her personal experiences and beliefs regarding faith, health and environment." The National Museum of Women in the Arts brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by teaching the public about their accomplishments.  To fulfill its mission, the museum cares for and displays a permanent collection, presents special exhibitions, conducts education programs, maintains a Library and Research Center, publishes a quarterly magazine and books on women artists, and supports a network of state and international committees.  NMWA also serves as a center for the performing and literary arts and other creative disciplines. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 as a private, non-profit museum.  Its inspiration came from the personal collection of Wilhelmina Cole Holladay and Wallace F. Holladay, who began collecting art in the 1960s, just as scholars and art historians were beginning to discuss the under-representation of women and various racial and ethnic groups in museum collections and major art exhibitions.  Mrs. Holladay devoted her energies and resources to creating a museum that would showcase women artists and the Holladay collection became the core of the institution's permanent collection. The permanent collection comprised of more than 3,000 works provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly. The work in the collection represents a wide range of styles and media — from the Renaissance paintings of Elisabetta Sirani to modern photographs by Barbara Morgan to Louise Nevelson's contemporary sculptures. NMWA also has several important special collections, including silver by 18th and 19th-century Irish and English women silversmiths. Visit the museum's website at ... www.nmwa.org

The Baltic Centre ~ A Superb International Exhibition Centre ~ A Major Venue For Contemporary Art Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:51 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).

Francis Bacon's Artistic Career at the Palazzo Reale in Milan ~ A Full Overview Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:50 PM PDT Milan, Italy - Francis Bacon is unanimously considered the last of the great 20th century masters, but his works have not been exhibited in Italy since 1993. Nonetheless, he was so accomplished at representing the universal unrest of his century that a wide-ranging public recognizes and appreciates his work.  The exhibition shows a collection of his works and its completeness and precision put it in the same light as other important international tributes to Francis Bacon. It covers the key phases of this great painter's exploration of his art, and provides an overall interpretation of his artistic career.

Kunsthistorisches Museum exhibits 'The Myth of Antiquity' in Vienna Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:49 PM PDT   VIENNA - The protagonists of classical myths – heroes, mortals, gods and demi-gods – are deeply embedded in our collective memory and have lost nothing of their power to fascinate. Neither the invasion of the barbarians in Late Antiquity nor Christianity could fully uproot the memory of the pagan ancient world, with the Renaissance proudly rediscovering classical civilization. Their myths came to life again in the Renaissance and baroque paintings and frescoes that decorated sumptuous princely palaces. On view December 4, 2008 till March 1, 2009.

"Louvre Atlanta" Partnership Brings in Over 1.3 Million Visitors to the High Museum of Art Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:48 PM PDT ATLANTA, GA.- The closing of the exhibition "The Louvre and the Masterpiece" last weekend marked the culmination of "Louvre Atlanta," the High Museum 's unprecedented three-year partnership with the Musée du Louvre in Paris. During the course of the partnership, the High welcomed over 1.3 million visitors to the museum for seven exhibitions that brought a combined 493 treasures from the Louvre's collection to Atlanta. Masterworks from all eight of the Louvre's curatorial departments have traveled to the High, including rare works by artists including Raphael, Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Velázquez.

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert to show Early Works from 1939-1954 by Lucian Freud Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:47 PM PDT LONDON - A major loan exhibition of early works by Lucian Freud (born 1922) will be held at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, 38 Bury Street, St James's, London SW1 from 9th October through 12th December 2008. The earliest paintings, from 1939, were completed when the artist was only 16. Many of the paintings in the exhibition are from private collections and not normally available to be seen by the public. With the support of the artist, the exhibition will be curated by the artist's assistant and model for the past fifteen years, the painter David Dawson, with help from Catherine Lampert, who most recently selected the Freud retrospective which opened in Dublin in June 2007.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) Celebrates the Career of Elliott Erwitt Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:46 PM PDT New York.- "Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best" at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York runs from May 20th to August 28th 2011. This major retrospective showcases the career of photographer and filmmaker Elliott Erwitt, the recipient of this year's ICP Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement. Distinguished as both a documentary and commercial photographer, Erwitt has made some of the most memorable photographs of the twentieth century, including portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Che Guevara, as well as astonishing scenes of everyday life, filled with poetry, wit, and special sense of humor. Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian émigrés, On view are over 100 of his favorite images from the past sixty years, as well as some previously unseen and unpublished prints from his early work.

Denver Art Museum hosts Impressionist Plein-Air Landscape Paintings Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:45 PM PDT DENVER, CO - Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism celebrates the great outdoors with some of the finest examples of mid- and late-19th century French and American landscape paintings. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art with works from its own collection, this traveling exhibition offers a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by renowned artists including Monet, Courbet, Daubigny, Renoir, William Glackens,  and Sargent. Opening at the Denver Art Museum on June 13, 2008, Landscapes features 40 paintings and will continue through September 7, 2008.

"Coming Together through the art of John Lennon" and Beatles Memorabilia Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:44 PM PDT WAUKESHA, WI.- The new John Lennon original art and Beatles memorabilia exhibit is rapidly evolving at the Waukesha County Museum. Entitled "Coming Together through the art of John Lennon", the display will debut with a grand opening ceremony on August 15, 2008, followed by an opening to the general public on August 16, 2008 at 10:00 am.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Names Annie Leibovitz as 2010 Women of Distinction Honor Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:43 PM PDT SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum announced today that legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz will be the guest of honor at its 2010 Women of Distinction Series event on March 6, 2010, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe. Leibovitz was a selected in recognition for her 40 years of iconic work, which has included some of the most memorable, provocative and moving works, making her arguably the most well-known living artist in the photographic medium. At the March event, Leibovitz will take those in attendance on a journey through some of her most famous photographs.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 10 Aug 2011 06:43 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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