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• The Wichita Art Museum Presents Some Treasures From its Vaults
• The Walker Art Center Shows an Exhibition of the Ongoing Puppeteer Project by Pedro Reyes
• The New Mexico Museum of Art Presents "New Native Photography"
• Brooklyn Museum Hosts A Long-Term Installation at Their Luce Center for American Art
• AP Photographer Peter Hillebrecht Remembers When the Berlin Wall was Built
• Bonhams to Hold Exhibition of Works by Catalan Artist Carlos Nadal
• The Whitespace Gallery Shows Thai Artist Prasert Yodkaew
• Manchester Art Gallery To Stage Major Exhibition of Ford Madox Brown
• The Orlando Museum of Art Presents a Tony Robbin Retrospective
• Our Editor Visits The Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria ~ Home To The Rudolf & Elisabeth Leopold Collection
• The Albright-Knox Art Gallery To Show Landmark New Media Exhibition
• Camden Arts Centre hosts A Posthumous Solo Exhibition of Liz Arnold
• Christie's Auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art Expected to Realise in Excess of £20 million
• Warhol Exhibition opened at the New Johnson Center for the Arts
• Famous Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Transforms the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
• National Museum in Taiwan showcases 70 Works of Art by Vincent Van Gogh
• Art 40 Basel ~ Extraordinary Quality; Surprisingly Strong Results With 61,000 Attending
• "Carles Congost: Adult Contemporary" solos at Galeria Joan Prats
• ART HK 09: Hong Kong International Art Fair Opens Big
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Wichita Art Museum Presents Some Treasures From its Vaults Posted: 12 Aug 2011 11:23 PM PDT Wichita, KS.- The Wichita Art Museum is currently showing an exhibition of artworks that have been in storgage for years. "Been In The Dark: What You Haven't Seen Lately" remains on view at the museum until October 23rd. "Been In the Dark: What You Haven't Seen Lately" is an exhibition of artworks that have been in the vaults – literally in the dark – for years without having been put on display. For some of the art, this will be the first time it has ever been shown. These galleries are filled with a compilation of seemingly random objects, whose apparent relation is the fact that they haven't been shown in a long while. The idea for Been In the Dark came from experience being in the vaults and seeing interesting objects that had not been shown in some time. Surely others would want to see them as well! Usually, these objects hadn't been shown for simply practical reasons, such as not relating to the themes of past exhibitions. Now with no theme other than underexposure, they have the occasion to receive the attention they deserve. While there is no subject or style that unites the objects in "Been In The Dark", it would be misleading to say that the exhibition is a Dada-like random assemblage of objects. It is hoped that the visitor will find subtle relationships in the movement of one object to another – a rhythm of related or contrasting compositions, the weaving of color harmonies, and the whimsical juxtaposition of subjects. The installation is intended to be a pleasure to experience as a whole – as a viewing process – as well as on the level of the appreciation of individual works of art. The Wichita Art Museum is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas. It was established in 1915, when Louise Murdock's Will created a trust to start a collection of art works by "American painters, potters, sculptors, and textile weavers." The collection includes works by Mary Cassatt, Arthur G. Dove, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyshoi, John Marin, Paul Meltsner, Horace Pippin, Maurice Prendergast, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Charles Sheeler. The Museum's lobby features a ceiling and chandelier made by Dale Chihuly. Visit the museum's website at ... http://wichitaartmuseum.org

The Walker Art Center Shows an Exhibition of the Ongoing Puppeteer Project by Pedro Reyes Posted: 12 Aug 2011 10:29 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Karl Marx, Adam Smith, and other towering figures from the history of economic theory take on starring roles as puppets in the Walker Art Center organized exhibition Baby Marx. Exploring the intersections of entertainment, economic theory, and contemporary art, Baby Marx, created by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, opened August 11 and runs through November 27. Baby Marx is organized by Bartholomew Ryan and Camille Washington for the Walker Art Center.

The New Mexico Museum of Art Presents "New Native Photography" Posted: 12 Aug 2011 10:28 PM PDT Santa Fe, NM.- The New Mexico Museum of Art is proud to present "New Native Photography, 2011" on view at the museum until October 2nd. This showcase of new work by Native American artists, timed to coincide with the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts' ninetieth annual Indian Market, presents twenty-five photographs by nineteen North American artists.  The exhibition was selected from a competition juried by the distinguished artists and educators Larry McNeil and Hulleah J.Tsinhnahjinnie, along with the museum's curator of photography Katherine Ware. The competition was open to photographers from federally recognized United States and Canadian tribes, nations, first nations and pueblos. More than thirty artists submitted work for consideration, which included everything from black-and-white portraits to staged and constructed images.

Brooklyn Museum Hosts A Long-Term Installation at Their Luce Center for American Art Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:39 PM PDT Brooklyn, NY - This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics, and textiles) ranging in date from the colonial period to the present. For the first time, major objects from these exceptional collections are joined by selections from the Museum's important holdings of Native American and Spanish colonial art. Motivated at least in part by a desire to compete with the European art that was fast overtaking the market in the United States, young American artists sought to enhance the sophistication and cosmopolitanism of their productions through contact with foreign cultures. Many of these Americans took pride in their nationality but no longer found it central to their work. This major exhibition is ongoing.

AP Photographer Peter Hillebrecht Remembers When the Berlin Wall was Built Posted: 12 Aug 2011 09:21 PM PDT BERLIN (AP).- Fifty years after his pictures of the Berlin Wall going up were published around the globe, former AP photographer Peter Hillebrecht slowly walked along a cobblestone strip that serves as a reminder of the barrier that once divided the German capital — and relived the day. "I got a phone call at 2:30 in the morning from an editor telling me that the East Germans had started building a wall through the city," the 81-year-old said during a recent visit to Berlin, ahead of the 50th anniversary Saturday of the building of the wall. "So I ran out and took some of the first pictures at night, and then many more during daylight in the Tiergarten neighborhood and Brandenburg Gate where the East German soldiers had started shoveling and put up fences."

Bonhams to Hold Exhibition of Works by Catalan Artist Carlos Nadal Posted: 12 Aug 2011 08:23 PM PDT LONDON.- Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art Department will be hosting an exhibition of a selection of works by Carlos Nadal from English Collections. Fifty works spanning all of his life will be on show at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, London from Thursday 25 August - Wednesday 7 September 2011. On Thursday 25 August between 11am-12 noon the artist's son Alex Nadal will be present to offer insight into his father's life and work. Although, by the time, Abstraction was becoming the great fashion, Nadal never lost his love for the Fauvist movement. In a series of later paintings, Homage to My Friends, he captures Fauvism and Cubism within a single canvas.

The Whitespace Gallery Shows Thai Artist Prasert Yodkaew Posted: 12 Aug 2011 08:05 PM PDT Bangkok, Thailand  - The Whitesp ce Gallery is proud to present "Sciencefaith" a new exhibition of works by Prasert Yodkaew, opening on August 25th (with a reception between 6 and 8 pm) and remaining on view until September 18th. In an age defined by technology with its foundational core of scientific beliefs, where does one find a place for a dream, a myth, a lyrical fantasy? Prasert Yodkaew confronts his audience with design sketches for unfathomable devices, detailed catalogues of otherworldly creatures in motion, threedimensional models of flying implements, decompositions of traditional architecture interspersed with biological specimens.

Manchester Art Gallery To Stage Major Exhibition of Ford Madox Brown Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:52 PM PDT Manchester, UK - This autumn, Manchester Art Gallery stages the first major exhibition of Ford Madox Brown's work since 1964. The show brings together 140 works from public and private collections, including his epic paintings of Victorian life Work and The Last of England. This comprehensive survey of Brown's work champions the pioneering role the artist played in the development of Pre-Raphaelitism and explores how the artist's rebellion against traditionally taught methods led to a completely new, radical and original style. On view Saturday 24 September 2011 - Sunday 29 January 2012

The Orlando Museum of Art Presents a Tony Robbin Retrospective Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:51 PM PDT Orlando, FL.- The Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition of Tony Robbin's paintings and sculptures, which spans a period of forty years and reveals an artist whose focus and insight has produced an extraordinary body of work. "Tony Robbin: A Retrospective, Paintings and Drawings 1970-2010" is on view at the museum until October 30th. Robbin's central concern over this period was to explore strategies for representing four-dimensional space in two- and three-dimensional abstract art. The results were works that offer the viewer a dazzling visual experience grounded in the artist's rigorous understanding of the principles of higher-dimensional geometry. Robbin has noted: "Artists who are interested in four-dimensional space are not motivated by a desire to illustrate new physical theories. . . . We are motivated by a desire to complete our subjective experience by inventing new aesthetic and conceptual capabilities." His imaginative power to bring together the worlds of art and science successfully can be seen in this exhibition. Robbin has had over 25 solo exhibitions since his debut at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974, and has been included in over 100 group exhibitions in 12 countries. He was an originator of the Pattern and Decoration movement in contemporary art. Robbin holds the patent for the application of Quasicrystal geometry to architecture, and has implemented this geometry for a large-scale architectural sculpture based on quasicrystal patterns at the Danish Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark, as well as one for the city of Jacksonville, Florida. He is a pioneer in the computer visualization of four-dimensional geometry. Since 1981, his realtime rotation programs of four-dimensional figures have been useful for obtaining an intuitive feel for four-dimensional space, and quasicrystal space. The OMA has long recognized Tony Robbin as an important and innovative artist and has demonstrated this through acquiring and exhibiting  his work. The OMA is grateful to the collectors who generously lent works for this exhibition, including Cindy and J. D. Alexander, Lisa and Joe Jensen, Linda and William Malzone, Eileen and David Peretz, Norma and William D. Roth and Marcia and Howard Zipser. The OMA also thanks fellow artists Joyce Kozloff and Robert Kushner, art historians Carter Ratcliff and Linda Dalrymple Henderson, mathematician George Francis and art collector Norma Roth for their essay contributions to the exhibition catalog. Founded in 1924, the Orlando Museum of Art is a 501(c)(3) educational institution whose mission reflects the continued growth of Florida, ardent community support for the arts and the OMA's role as a leading cultural institution in the region. Since its inception, the Museum's purpose has been to enrich the cultural life of Florida by providing excellence in the visual arts. To meet this objective, the Museum has dedicated itself to collecting, preserving and interpreting notable works of art; to presenting exhibitions of local, regional, national and international significance; to developing first-rate educational programs; and to presenting creative and inclusive programs to reach every segment of a diverse community. Annually, the Museum presents 10-12 exhibitions on-site and 13 exhibitions off-site, award-winning art enrichment programs, unlimited gallery tours, teacher in-service training programs, video programs, distinguished lectures, art appreciation lectures, studio classes, lecture/luncheon programs and outreach services in its facility and through outreach services. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.omart.org

Our Editor Visits The Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria ~ Home To The Rudolf & Elisabeth Leopold Collection Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:42 PM PDT In 1994, with support from the National Bank of Austria, the Leopold Museum was founded by Professor Rudolf Leopold and the Republic of Austria. The first task of the foundation was to grant public access to the comprehensive collection (over 5,700 artworks from the Leopold's private collection) through the construction of a new 11,500 m2 modern museum. The result, the Leopold Museum, occupies a striking modern building designed by Pritzker Prize winning architects Ortner & Ortner, which opened in 2001. Located in Vienna's Museum Quarter, the building appears as a light-flooded cube of shell-white limestone. The building's interior only allows daylight to penetrate at specific points along the length of the rooms (with side light along the breadth) and only allows one-sixth of the exhibition area to be lit by daylight from above. A few very deliberately positioned picture windows create the kind of randomness found in "bourgeois" homes, consistent with the pictures having been painted for that certain stratum of society. The voluminous building could almost be said to house two museums, one above the other. The part of the building above ground level is entirely dedicated to the Leopold Collection, the three lower floors are mainly used for the graphics collection, temporary exhibitions, communication (the auditorium) and storage. Visitors enter at the high atrium level, and can either take the single-flight staircase to the right, or enter the Klimtsaal (Klimt gallery), the first large gallery on the left. The top of the main stairs overlooks another big gallery which is in fact accessed on a lower floor and is part of the temporary exhibition area. The staggered heights of these galleries create a mezzanine which houses the museum shop, which in turn leads up to the café above the entrance hall. The functional "confusion" of the spatial order in the entrance area is presumably not an artistic principle but a response to a simple need, one which has been translated into an instrument of spatial perception throughout the entire museum. It is on the next floor that the whole concept of the sequence of interlocking rooms becomes clear, both in terms of the simplicity of the arrangement and the variations in the repeated basic configuration. In Addition to featuring the works of the expressionist Egon Schiele, the Leopold Museum has also made a name for itself as the museum of Viennese Art Noveau. No other museum offers a comparable cross section of the exceptional achievements of this uniquely Viennese tradition. The finest examples of turn-of-the-century Viennese craftsmanship are combined with a presentation of painting, graphic art and sculpture, providing insight into this remarkable era. Designed by artists like Kolo Moser or Josef Hoffmann and produced by the Wiener Werkstätte, these objects bear witness to the timeless elegance of art in Vienna around 1900. Visit The Leopold Museum at : www.leopoldmuseum.org/ Professor Rudolf Leopold (1925-2010) was born in Vienna, and obtained his doctoral degree in medicine in 1953. During his medical studies, he began to attend art history lectures and to collect paintings and objects of art at the same time, above all, works of the then little-respected Egon Schiele. He purchased his first painting ("The Hermits" by Egon Schiele) using the 30,000 Austrian Schillings that his mother had promised him for a car as a reward for completing of his medical studies. But Rudolf Leopold decided against the car and bought the Schiele, thus beginning his collecting career with a brilliant coup. Over the years, professor Leopold not only amassed a large and significant collection (extending to other significant Austrian artists), but became the foremost expert on Schiele, curating exhibitions of his work and publishing a critical catalogue of Schiele's works with a detailed list of his motifs. The museum owns 44 oil paintings and 180 gouaches and watercolours by Egon Schiele (the largest collection of Egons Schiele's art in the world), as well as other Austrian art of the 20th century, including key paintings and drawings by Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, Albin Egger-Lienz, and paintings and prints by Herbert Boeckl, Hans Böhler, Anton Faistauer, Anton Kolig, Alfred Kubin, and Wilhelm Thöny. The historical context is illustrated by major Austrian works of art from the 19th and 20th centuries.The panoramic windows of the museum offer a unique view of the Vienna city centre, with Maria Theresien-Platz and the Imperial Palace. Two exhibitions are currently on view at the Leopold Museum. "Cezanne – Picasso – Giacometti" (extended until 2 February 2011) provides an opportunity to see masterpieces from the Beyeler Foundation in Basel. The main interest of the Beyelers lay mainly in collecting "well-approved" works of art. The approval process entailed a private ambience that allowed the works to be viewed over a long period of time, under varying conditions. The main purpose was not to reflect a history of modern art but rather the deep relationship the couple had built to the work they had collected, the accent lying always on the singularity and permanence of each work. Key works by artists like Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Francis Bacon, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein or Andy Warhol stand out in an abundance of distinguished names. Over time, a series of work groups emerged, for which the Beyeler Foundation enjoys worldwide acclaim. These include groups of work by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Leger, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee and Jean Dubuffet. A second exhibition, "Florentina Pakosta" (until 18 April 2011) provides an overview of work to date by the contemporary Viennese artist Florentina Pakosta. Her work takes socially critical realism as its starting point. Beginning in the late 1950s, Florentina Pakosta used pencil drawings and India ink works to examine anonymous character types whom she met at inns, on the streets or in train stations. Parallel to this, she was also experimenting with a cubist formal language. Over the course of time, her psychology-focused portrayals of human beings were reduced to stereotypical characters which she sometimes alienated to the point of becoming caricatures, and which occasionally even ended up as monstrosities. In the 1970s, Pakosta began creating the monumental character heads which were to garner her widespread fame. Further themes in Florentina Pakosta's works from the 1980s are uniformity and control.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery To Show Landmark New Media Exhibition Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:40 PM PDT Buffalo, NY.- "Videosphere: A New Generation" is the first-ever exhibition of works in new media drawn exclusively from the Gallery's Collection. Featuring twenty-six works by twenty-four artists, it highlights the Gallery's recent acquisition of new media works with various styles and approaches. The featured artists represent both emerging talent and pioneers in the field, including Cory Arcangel, Jeremy Blake, Phil Collins, Brody Condon, James Drake, Isaac Julien, Bruce Nauman, João Onofre, Kelly Richardson, and Peter Sarkisian, each working in video, film, computer animation, and/or the repurposing and modification of old technology. "Videosphere: A New Generation" will be on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo from July 1st through October 9th.

Camden Arts Centre hosts A Posthumous Solo Exhibition of Liz Arnold Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:39 PM PDT London - Camden Arts Centre presents a new solo exhibition by Liz Arnold, one of the most original painters to emerge onto the London art scene in the 1990s. It includes paintings and watercolours, some of which have never been exhibited before. Her carefully crafted canvases depict cartoon-like animals seemingly imbued with human emotions. They inhabit a world that is both fantastical and familiar. On exhibition through 19 April, 2009.

Christie's Auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art Expected to Realise in Excess of £20 million Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:38 PM PDT LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place at Christie's on 30 June 2009 and will offer 41 lots including exceptional and significant works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Doig, Lucio Fontana, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. The first auction to take place under the direction of Francis Outred who joined the company in January 2009 as International Director and Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art for Christie's in Europe, both the pre-sale exhibition and sale will take place at King Street from 27 to 30 June. The auction is expected to realise in excess of £20 million.

Warhol Exhibition opened at the New Johnson Center for the Arts Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:37 PM PDT   Troy, AL - The Johnson Center for the Arts located in downtown Troy, Alabama, in conjunction with the Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, will feature an exhibition by Andy Warhol. Exclusive to The Johnson Center for the Arts, Alabama's first Andy Warhol retrospective brings together an outstanding selection of prints that capture a variety of subjects including celebrity, novelty, ordinary and the artist himself. The retrospective features a selection of works that span Warhol's most influential three decades of the 60's, 70's and 80's. The exhibition will be highlighted by The Center's Grand Opening to be held at 2 PM on September 14th.

Famous Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Transforms the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT BARCELONA.- As of December 10 the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion will be the object of an intervention that reflects on the use of buildings and our concept of them as unique, unalterable spaces. The artist Ai Weiwei, one of the leading – and most controversial – figures of Chinese contemporary art, will fill the Pavilion pools with two elements that, though very common in our everyday lives, are totally foreign to architectural construction. He will replace the water of the two pools, one exterior and the other interior, with milk and coffee, respectively. Visit : http://www.miesbcn.com/index.html

National Museum in Taiwan showcases 70 Works of Art by Vincent Van Gogh Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:35 PM PDT TAIPEI, TAIWAN - An exhibition entitled Van Gogh: the Flaming Soul showcasing more than 70 drawings and 20 paintings by Vincent van Gogh from the Kröller-Müller Museum's collection opened at the National Museum of History in Taipei (Taiwan) in December. In preparation, a delegation from the Kröller-Müller Museum travelled to Taipei at the end of October to discuss the various aspects of an exhibition of this scale with those involved. Topics of discussion vary from transport, security, light and climate conditions to the design of the rooms and the content and appearance of the accompanying catalogue. The collection will be on display until March 28, 2010.

Art 40 Basel ~ Extraordinary Quality; Surprisingly Strong Results With 61,000 Attending Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:34 PM PDT BASEL.- The 40th edition of Art Basel closed on Sunday, June 14, 2009. This year, the annual reunion of the international artworld attracted 61,000 artists, collectors, curators, and art lovers from around the globe, slightly more than last year and the highest number ever. The participating galleries, art connoisseurs, and the media were unanimous in pronouncing this a strong year for the show. Art 40 Basel demonstrated the health of the high-quality segment within the art market: Collectors rewarded excellent material and strong booth presentations with unexpectedly strong sales throughout the week.

"Carles Congost: Adult Contemporary" solos at Galeria Joan Prats Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:33 PM PDT BARCELONA.- Galeria Joan Prats is presenting 'Adult Contemporary', Carles Congost's first solo exhibition in Barcelona since 2005. The new works of multifaceted artist Carles Congost bring forth a variety of ways to approach the production of images related to the miscellaneous imaginarium of pop culture. In his recent photographic works he combines the sketch with the photo romantic novel in stories that allow aesthetic and character association in dissonant social circumstances. His visual references go from the comic strip genre, portraying camp super heroes, to celebrities from the European show business, from poprock, from cult movies or gore, punk and underground cultures. On view through 3 January 2010.

ART HK 09: Hong Kong International Art Fair Opens Big Posted: 12 Aug 2011 07:32 PM PDT HONG KONG - ART HK 09 opened yesterday to a heady atmosphere of excitement as Hong Kong's elite and key Asian collectors from across the region joined the thousands who visited the Fair on it's first day. The mood was heightened as those gallerists seeking new territory in the evolving international art market reported robust sales. ART HK 09 features over 110 exhibiting galleries from 24 countries with works ranging from $1000 to $10 million, appealing to diverse local and international collectors.

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