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• The Phoenix Art Museum Shows Jamey Stillings' Photographs of the Hoover Dam Bridge
• ReDot Gallery Shows Colorful Works of the Warlayirti Aboriginal Artists
• The Cactus Gallery Presents an Exhibition of Eight Angelino Artists
• Lenses Shield 9-11: Associated Press Photographers Discuss How they Captured History
• Bonhams Reports Strong August Sales for California and Western Paintings
• Museum of Contemporary Art Announces Record-Breaking Exhibition Attendance
• The Genome Gallery Shows Chicken-Inspired Works
• Library of Congress Features Photographs of Sikkim by Alice Kandell
• Art Historian Clovis Whitfield Finds Answers to Some of the Mysteries of Caravaggio
• Metropolitan Museum of Art announces A Landmark Picasso Exhibition
• 'Vee Speers: Immortal' On Exhibition at Jackson Fine Arts in Atlanta
• The Snite Museum of Art features Mauricio Lasansky ~ Great Thinkers
• Columbia Museum of Art Presents Exhibition of Private Collections
• Christie’s London bi-annual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints
• Vitra Design Museum presents "The Works of Fernando + Humberto Campana"
• Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer Exhibit at the Laura Russo Gallery
• Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum Celebrates 'Surrealism Returns'
• New Auction Records Set at Swann Galleries' Photographs Sale
• Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents Francisco Zuniga ~ Woman as Icon ~
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Phoenix Art Museum Shows Jamey Stillings' Photographs of the Hoover Dam Bridge Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:31 PM PDT Phoenix, AZ.- The Phoenix Art Museum is pleaded to present "The Bridge at Hoover Dam: Photographs by Jamey Stillings", on view at the museum from August 13th through December 4th. From the moment photographer Jamey Stillings first encountered the bridge at Hoover Dam he knew it was a subject he couldn't ignore. Over the next two years, he visited the bridge 16 times documenting the progress and completion of the enormous structure that would eventually span the Colorado River. The resulting photo essay is the focus of The Bridge at Hoover Dam: Photographs by Jamey Stillings which features more than 40 large format color photographs chronicling the creation of North America's longest single-span concrete arch bridge. Officially named the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, the bridge is located roughly 1500 feet downstream of Hoover dam and is the central portion of the Hoover Dam Bypass project. Construction began in 2004 and was completed in 2010. The 1,905 foot long bridge spans the Black Canyon connecting Arizona and Nevada nearly 900 feet above the Colorado River. It is the first concrete-steel composite arch bridge in the United States and the second highest bridge in the country. Photographing the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge was a personal quest for Stillings. Between March 2009 and January 2011, he spent 39 days at the site taking photographs. He visited the bridge at all hours of the day and night, rented helicopters for aerial shots and worked closely with the Bureau of Reclamation and the Federal Highway Administration for permission to access restricted areas. Stillings's overarching goal was to acknowledge the collective talents and labors of those who had built the bridge and to place the bridge within the historical context of Hoover Dam and the American West. "Jamey recognized that the documentation of the creation of a structure greatly impacts how it is remembered in the annals of history and, for him, the story of the bridge was about the many people who made it possible: those who had envisioned the design, made plans for the construction, worked in the challenging desert environment and dedicated years to its completion," commented Rebecca Senf, Norton Curator of Photography, Phoenix Art Museum. "His work offers a revealing portrait of the bridge by recording the construction for posterity and illuminating the structure's impressive impact on the southwestern landscape." Stillings's large-scale, jewel-toned photographs sumptuously capture the bridge's impressive scale and grandeur. Early morning and nighttime photographs are rich with saturated color, while daytime images juxtapose the manmade structure's shapes, lines and patterns against the natural beauty of Black Canyon. Since 1959, the Museum has served as the cornerstone of Phoenix's art and cultural community, providing the people of Arizona with great art from around the world and amazing cultural experiences. Popular international exhibitions are shown along side the Museum's outstanding collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design. A vibrant destination for over fifty years, Phoenix Art Museum presents festivals, live performances, independent art films and educational programs that enlighten, entertain and stimulate. Visitors also enjoy PhxArtKids an interactive space for children, vibrant photography exhibitions through the Museum's landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, and the lushly landscaped Sculpture Garden. The Museum has nine curatorial departments: American, Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, Fashion, Modern, Contemporary, and Photography. The paintings and sculptures on view in the American collection reflect an interest in naturalism and the traditions of Europe, dating roughly from 1790 to the 1940s. Artists include John Singleton Copley, Fitz Henry Lane, George Inness, Eastman Johnson, William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri. The American West Collection includes over 900 paintings, sculptures and works on paper. The collection features paintings from 19th century local artists whose work was influenced by exploration and adventure. Some of the earliest paintings of the Arizona Territory are in the collection as well. Artists include: Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, Grant Speed, Ernest Blumenschein, Walter Ufer, Martin Ernest Hennings, Maynard Dixon, Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Owen, and Chuck Forsman. Spanning three millennia, the comprehensive collection of Asian art features ancient tomb figures, rare imperial porcelain and delicate ink paintings from China, samurai armor from Japan, Chinese ceramics, cloisonné enamel, and Japanese prints and screens. From fine Old master paintings to 19th century sculpture and paintings, the Museum's European collection features more than 1,200 works of art depicting the spectrum from religion to everyday life from the 14th to 19th centuries. Artists include: Marco Palmezzano, Astorga Master, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino), Abraham Janssens, François Boucher, George Romney, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Auguste Rodin, Antoine-Jean Gros, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, and Claude Monet. The Latin American Collection includes over 400 works of art from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The collection highlights Spanish Colonial and early 20th century Mexican artworks that include religious paintings, colonial furniture, and decorative arts. Artists include: Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and many contemporary Latin American artists. The Fashion Collection is made up of more than 4,500 American and European garments, shoes and accessories. The Collection of Modern Art is made up of more than 2,400 paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the turn of the 20th century to 1950. The collection represents many of the pioneers of European and American modernism. Artists include: Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Stella, Arthur Dove, Oscar Bluemner, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hans Hoffman, Seymour Lipton, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, and Willem De Kooning. The Contemporary Collection - art created since the 1950s - is one of the most active and growing areas in the Museum. Displayed in the newly opened, 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m2). Ellen and Howard C. Katz Wing for Modern Art, the collection includes large-scale photography, outdoor sculpture, and art created in a variety of surprising and unexpected materials, plus more "traditional" paintings on canvas. In several instances, works push the technical limitations of several media, including computer-controlled LED lighting and video, ceramics, mirrored glass, and even charred wood struck by lightning. Artists include: Anish Kapoor, Sol LeWitt, Josiah McElheny, Julian Opie, Donald Judd, Michal Rovner, Yayoi Kusama, and Cornelia Parker. In 2006, Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson inaugurated a collaboration to mount rotating exhibits from the Center's photography archives for Phoenix Art Museum visitors. The joint effort has built the Museum's photographic expertise and simultaneously brought the Center's world-renowned collections to new and larger audiences. Artists include: Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, W. Eugene Smith, and Edward Weston. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.phxart.org

ReDot Gallery Shows Colorful Works of the Warlayirti Aboriginal Artists Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:09 PM PDT Singapore.- ReDot Fine Art Gallery is proud to present their annual show of the colourful works of the Warlayirti Aboriginal Artists Aboriginal Corporation. Warlayirti Artists is located in Balgo, in the arid north east of Western Australia, between the Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts. As a midpoint between Alice Springs and Broome, this remote community, originally known as Balgo Hills, was established as a Catholic mission in 1939.  Its 400 inhabitants are mostly Kukatja speakers, but seven main languages can be found here, making it a rich cultural and religious area, steeped in history. The exhibition runs till Saturday 3rd September.

The Cactus Gallery Presents an Exhibition of Eight Angelino Artists Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:54 PM PDT Eagle Rock, CA.- The Reel Rasquache Art & Film Festival, in cooperation with Cactus Gallery in Eagle Rock, is presenting its first independently produced art exhibition, featuring eight Angeleno artists. The exhibition, organized and curated by artist and photographer Angela María Ortíz S., opens at the Cactus Gallery on Saturday, August 12th and continues through September 7th. The opening night event and the exhibition are being presented free of charge.

Lenses Shield 9-11: Associated Press Photographers Discuss How they Captured History Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:14 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP).- People look at some news photos shot on Sept. 11, 2001, and wonder how those who took them could bear to keep working in the face of such tragedy. Richard Drew said his lens acts as a filter: "The things are happening over there, on the other side." For AP photographers working on Sept.11th, none knew the big picture of what was going on. All knew only what was happening right before their eyes, that it was part of something huge, and that it was their job to record it. Five whose images of that day became iconic discussed how the photos came about, how endless hours of shooting sporting events, news conferences and everything in between helped prepare them for moments no one could ever have anticipated, and how their lenses helped shield them from the fears — and tears — that would come later.

Bonhams Reports Strong August Sales for California and Western Paintings Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:58 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The August 9th  sale of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture at Bonhams & Butterfields offered a wide array of important Western scenes, Plein Air, Society of Six and landscapes and cityscapes. Simulcast to San Francisco, the highly-anticipated auction brought more than $2.28 million and featured artists such as E. Charlton Fortune, Hanson Puthuff, Granville Redmond, Arthur Grover Rider, William Frederick Ritschel and William Wendt, among others. Scot Levitt, Vice President and Fine Arts Department Head said of the sale, "During this turbulent week that we witnessed in the world stock markets, the market for California and Western paintings and sculpture continues to be strong. Solid prices, renewed energy and vibrant bidder participation were seen in a number of collecting areas. Interest in the August sale reflected an ongoing constancy in the marketplace for fresh and unique works."

Museum of Contemporary Art Announces Record-Breaking Exhibition Attendance Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:57 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA - The Museum of Contemporary Art announced today that the exhibition Art in the Streets, presented in the first year of MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch's tenure at the museum, attracted 201,352 visitors from April 17–August 8, 2011, marking the highest exhibition attendance in the museum's history. Previous attendance records were set with the museum's presentations of Andy Warhol Retrospective (2002) and MURAKAMI (2007), which welcomed 195,000 and 149,323 visitors, respectively. With this exhibition, MOCA expects to double its annual attendance this year to 400,000 visitors.

The Genome Gallery Shows Chicken-Inspired Works Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:31 PM PDT Charlotte, NC.- Recently opened art gallery Genome is proud to present a new exhibition, "Chicken", opening on Saturday August 20th. The opening reception starts at 6:00 pm. A group of over fifteen artists are participating, consisting of local individuals as well as many from abroad. They were given one word, "chicken," to base a single piece off of. The outcome is a collection of figurative and non-literal contemporary works of art. "Chicken" will remain on view at the gallery until September 22nd.

Library of Congress Features Photographs of Sikkim by Alice Kandell Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:04 PM PDT Washington , DC - Sikkim is high in the Himalaya Mountains of India, bordered by Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan.  The setting is remarkable, with steep slopes, thatched cottages, Buddhist temples, cobbled paths and terraced fields.  During many visits from 1965 to 1971, Alice S. Kandell photographed vivid scenes from daily life, documenting the culture of the tiny kingdom before it vanished.Three hundred of these extraordinary photographs, showing both people and landscapes, are now online at the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/kskm/about.html.  Photographer Kandell has dedicated the rights to the public to encourage worldwide access.  Researchers who visit the Library can consult the entire collection of 15,000 color and black-and-white images, which Kandell donated to the Library in 2010.

Art Historian Clovis Whitfield Finds Answers to Some of the Mysteries of Caravaggio Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:03 PM PDT LONDON.- An important new study of Caravaggio by a leading international expert stands the conventional modern view of this controversial painter on its head. Caravaggio's Eye by Clovis Whitfield rejects the current obsession with Caravaggio as a violent street brawler reputed to have been homosexual and instead provides a compelling picture of a revolutionary whose grasp of new technology threatened the artistic establishment's very existence. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. Whitfield, a London-based art historian and dealer in Old Master Paintings, finds answers to some of the mysteries of Caravaggio's success by regarding him as an artisan who stumbled across a revolutionary way of capturing the appearance of what he saw around him. His revolution was one of technique rather than style and involved the sophisticated use of a camera obscura and so-called 'burning' or parabolic mirrors. By exploiting new advances in glassmaking and optics and the contemporary fascination with light, Caravaggio found a way of making realistic copies of what the camera obscura projected onto a wall. This was sensational and transformed him from a craftsman doing piece work for a souvenir shop to a name known throughout Europe. "Caravaggio's Eye", to be published by Paul Holberton shows how Caravaggio's increasingly sophisticated use of very limited technology brought about the first major change in the understanding of vision for thousands of years. Rather than being limited by the imagery of earlier masters and unlike his colleagues, who were constrained by convention and the master-apprentice relationship, he was able to embark on new subjects. In doing so he became the first to cut and paste images of those he recruited from the streets of Rome – the central casting of his day. Caravaggio's arrogance following this discovery provoked a backlash from the artistic establishment. The profession of painting was based on many years of apprenticeship to studios whose practices were not far removed from medieval guilds in which artists recreated sacred stories from the mind's eye, reading the sources and interpreting them following established conventions. They were supposed to follow the teaching of their elders and betters but Caravaggio's example told them that they could start right away and paint what they saw around them. The idea that this untrained upstart, who could not even draw, could short cut the entire training process and produce magnificent paintings that seduced some of the greatest art patrons of the age caused outrage. "Caravaggio's work has not been considered in terms of the scientific advances of his day, perhaps because the audience he has had in modern times has come almost exclusively from the field of art," says Whitfield. "Modern science has helped a lot to understand the working method that Caravaggio developed and indeed is a key factor in authenticating the original works." In the summer of 1610 he took a boat northwards to receive the pardon, which seemed imminent thanks to his powerful Roman friends. With him were three last paintings, gifts for Cardinal Scipione.What happened next is the subject of much confusion and conjecture. The bare facts are that on 28 July an anonymous avviso (private newsletter) from Rome to the ducal court of Urbino reported that Caravaggio was dead. Three days later another avviso said that he had died of fever on his way from Naples to Rome. A poet friend of the artist later gave 18 July as the date of death, and a recent researcher claims to have discovered a death notice showing that the artist died on that day of a fever in Porto Ercole, near Grosseto in Tuscany. Human remains found in a church in Porto Ercole in 2010 are believed to almost certainly belong to Caravaggio. The findings come after a year-long investigation using DNA, carbon dating and other analyses. Whitfield says that there is little information on which to assess Caravaggio's sexuality but that "the many women he was associated with" makes it likely that he was not homosexual. He believes we should look at Caravaggio with fresh eyes as a man who used science that no-one at the time fully understood to change the history of art for ever. It was an astonishing achievement for a man who died aged just 38 in 1610. Whitfield, who runs Whitfield Fine Art in London, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University. He was later a Visiting Professor at Indiana University and has organised numerous exhibitions from England and the Seicento in 1973 to the recent Caravaggio's Friends & Foes. He has written many exhibition catalogues and articles on 17th century art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art announces A Landmark Picasso Exhibition Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:49 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA a landmark exhibition of 150 works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), will present an unprecedented opportunity to view the Met's extensive collection of the artist's work. Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 27, 2010, this first exhibition to focus exclusively on works by Picasso in the collection will reveal the Museum's complete holdings of the artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics—never before seen in their entirety—as well as a significant selection of his prints. The exhibition encompasses the key subjects that variously sustained the artist's interest: the pensive harlequins of his Blue and Rose periods, the faceted figures and tabletop still lifes of his Cubist years, the monumental heads and classicizing bathers of the 1920s, the raging bulls and dreaming nudes of the 1930s, and the rakish musketeers of his final years. Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art will feature 34 paintings, 58 drawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, and a representative selection of prints (some 50 from a total of 400), all acquired by the Museum over the past 60 years. Importantly, the exhibition includes many works on paper by Picasso that have rarely, if ever, been exhibited before at the Metropolitan. Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues the Museum's tradition of organizing major exhibitions that bring to light its impressive collection of works by a singular artist or period of particular importance, such as Goya in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1995); Toulouse-Lautrec in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1996); John Singer Sargent Beyond the Portrait Studio: Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Collection (2000); Gauguin in New York Collections: The Lure of the Exotic (2002); and The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2007–8). The Metropolitan's collection reflects the full breadth of Picasso's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself over the course of his long and influential career. The works range in date from a dashing self-portrait of 1900 (Self-Portrait "Yo") by the 19-year-old Spaniard to the fanciful Standing Nude and Seated Musketeer (1968), created when the artist was 87. Picasso's iconic portrait of Gertrude Stein from 1906—a bequest of the writer herself in 1946—was the first painting by Picasso to be acquired by the Metropolitan. Over the next six decades, the holdings were shaped by a succession of purchases and gifts from more than 25 donors, among them other pioneering champions of modernism, such as Alfred Stieglitz and Scofield Thayer, and such illustrious collectors as Florene M. Schoenborn, Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, and Jacques and Natasha Gelman. The Metropolitan's collection of Picasso's works also stands apart for its exceptional cache of drawings, which remain relatively little known, despite their importance and number. Examples of the numerous compelling drawings in the exhibition are: Standing Female Nude (1910), one of the key works shown in Picasso's first U.S. exhibition, at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery in 1911; and Head of a Woman (1922), a powerful chalk drawing from his Neoclassical period, which lasted from 1918 to 1925. The collection is notable for its remarkable constellation of early figure paintings, which also include: Seated Harlequin (1901), from the beginning of his Blue period; At the Lapin Agile(1905), in which the artist depicts himself dressed as a melancholy harlequin; and a self-portrait from 1906 that reflects Picasso's encounters with African and Iberian sculpture. Among the many other celebrated paintings in the exhibition are Woman in White (1923), The Dreamer (1932), and Dora Maar in an Armchair (1939). In preparation for this exhibition, all of Picasso's works in the collection have been studied closely, and many were conserved to reveal the artist's intentions or to restore their physical integrity. The exhibition will disclose a number of exciting discoveries made during the conservation process. Complementing the presentation of the artist's works will be photographs of Picasso by Man Ray, Brassaï, and others, also drawn from the Museum's collection. The exhibition is organized by Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman, with Susan Alyson Stein, Curator, both of the Metropolitan's Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art.  Visit The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA at : http://www.metmuseum.org/

'Vee Speers: Immortal' On Exhibition at Jackson Fine Arts in Atlanta Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:48 PM PDT Atlanta, GA - Jackson Fine Arts in Atlanta, Georgia will be showing 'Vee Speers: Immortal" from April 15th until June 18th 2011, an exhibition of new works by Vee Speers. Vee Speers presents the viewer with a distinctly fascinating and highly personal body of work intent on exploring the friction between temporality and timelessness. Vee Speers earned international acclaim with her series The Birthday Party, a collection of portraits informed by the artist's observation of her daughter's eighth birthday. The children portrayed in these photographs were garbed in party dresses and animal masks, blowing facesized bubbles; or dressed in nurse uniforms and gas masks, their expressions steadily transfixing viewers from within timeless compositions awash in anachronistic elements. The Birthday Party found Speers and her subjects gracefully straddling the delicate divides between childhood and old age, past and present, solemnity and play.

The Snite Museum of Art features Mauricio Lasansky ~ Great Thinkers Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:47 PM PDT SOUTH BEND, IN - Mauricio Lasansky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1914 where he learned the art of printmaking at a young age. By the age of twenty-two he had already become the director of the Free Fine Arts School in Villa Maria, Cordoba, Argentina. Seven years later in 1943, he was offered a Guggenheim Fellowship to come to the United States and study the print collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During this decade, printmaking was revitalized to the status of a fine art and Lasansky worked at creating new methods and techniques for the craft, as well as developing new subject matter.

Columbia Museum of Art Presents Exhibition of Private Collections Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:46 PM PDT COLUMBIA, SC - Carolina Collects, the major summer exhibition at the Columbia Museum of Art, celebrates the spirit of private collectors who have been instrumental in the formation and continued vitality of art collections throughout the state. The exhibition opens on June 27 and runs through August 17, 2008, and is presented by Carolina First. Visitors get a first-hand look into private collections of South Carolinians, with hidden gems including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, furniture, decorative arts and photography from a wide range of historical time periods.

Christie’s London bi-annual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:45 PM PDT LONDON.- The Christie's London bi-annual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints in September will feature a fantastic variety of original prints from the Renaissance to the present day including well-known artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt, Picasso, Beckmann, Matisse, Miro, Bacon, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Hockney. A range of subjects by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) are on offer in the contemporary section of the sale ranging from Lenin to Marilyn Monroe, and include the particularly endearing 25 Cats name[d] Sam and one blue Pussy, circa 1954 (estimate: £35,000-45,000). This complete set of eighteen offset lithographs with hand-colouring (including the cover), is one of Warhol's earlier series, which suggests a much more personal tone. Sale on 17 September, 2009.

Vitra Design Museum presents "The Works of Fernando + Humberto Campana" Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:44 PM PDT BERLIN - The Brazilians Humberto Campana (born in 1953) and his brother Fernando (born in 1961) have worked together as furniture designers in Sao Paulo since 1989. Humberto came to the partnership as a self-taught artist with a degree in law while Fernando had been trained as an architect. The first joint work of this unequal pair – brutalistic, surrealistic furniture sculptures – caused a sensation in the Sao Paulo art scene right from the start. Over the past twenty years, they have established themselves among the most well-known and successful designers of our times, implementing their distinctive and individual language of objects in a tremendously wide-ranging oeuvre of furniture, lighting and installations that has been recognized in numerous publications and exhibitions such as at the Experimenta in Lisbon, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the London Design Museum.

Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer Exhibit at the Laura Russo Gallery Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:43 PM PDT Portland OR.- The Laura Russo Gallery is pleased to present new works by Jay Backstrand and Tom Cramer under the title "Oregon Landmarks" from May 5th to 28th. Iconic Portland artist Tom Cramer is widely known for his public murals, painted cars, totems, opera sets and costumes, and recent exhibitions of exquisitely carved, intricate wall reliefs inspired in part by recent travels to the major temples of India. His work is included in museum collections (Portland Art Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Boise Art Museum among others), corporate collections (Microsoft, Harsch Investment Corp., numerous law firms) and many private collections. Cramer is an instructor at PNCA (Pacific Nortwest College of Art), the institution from which he graduated in 1982. Cramer also spent time at the Pratt Institute in NYC in the mid-1980's. His work has been included in several Oregon Biennial exhibitions and many other survey shows.

Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum Celebrates 'Surrealism Returns' Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:42 PM PDT   CHELTENHAM, UK - Significant Surrealist works of art return to Gloucestershire at Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum to celebrate a momentous chapter in the history of Surrealism. Drawn from collections all over Britain, visitors can enjoy seeing pictures and sculptures by key artists of the movement including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Roland Penrose, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Man Ray, Edward Burra and Yves Tanguy.

New Auction Records Set at Swann Galleries' Photographs Sale Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:41 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Auction records for 19th and 20th century photographs were achieved on March 23 at Swann Galleries' two-part auction of The Stephen L. White Photograph Collection; and Fine Photographs. The White Collection, which was exhibited at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum in 2001, consisted of just over 100 remarkable works depicting aspects of the American Dream. Record-setters from the collection included a half-plate daguerreotype of American statesman Henry Clay attributed to Montgomery P. Simons, circa 1848, which sold for $24,000; a signed and inscribed copy of Eadweard Muybridge's seminal stop-motion work, Animal Locomotion, Author's Edition, with 21 plates, 1872-1885, printed 1887, $57,600; James Wallace Black's portrait of Kit Carson, the last known image of the frontiersman before his death, albumen print, 1868, $48,000; and one of Lewis W. Hine's poignant images of a child laborer, Spinner, Cotton Mill, Augusta, Georgia, silver contact print, 1909, $26,400.

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents Francisco Zuniga ~ Woman as Icon ~ Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:40 PM PDT   Los Angeles, CA - Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles is presenting a formidable exhibition of works by the major Mexican 20th century artist and sculptor Francisco Zuniga (b. Costa Rica 1912 - d. Mexico 1998), opening on Saturday, September 29, and extending through Saturday, December 22, 2007. The exhibition, Francisco Zuniga: Woman as Icon, opens with a preview reception Saturday, September 29 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Ariel Zuniga, the artist's son and biographer, will be in attendance. A Major Exhibition of Zuniga Drawings and Sculpture .

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:40 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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