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• The Northumbria University Gallery & Baring Wing Presents a Retrospective of Norman Cornish
• The Hague Settles on Looted Jan Steen Painting "The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah"
• Sculpture by Thomas Houseago at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh
• Photographic Memory ~ The Album in the Age of Photography
• Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art Will Open the Shutters of 'The Peacock Room'
• The Louisiana Museum Exhibition Shows a New Side of Josef Albers
• Original Rembrandt 17th Century Drawing Stolen from California Hotel
• Karin Sander Awarded the 2011 Hans Thoma Prize for Fine Arts
• The Belvedere Focuses on Josef Danhauser's Famous Pictorial Narratives
• The National Gallery Of Ireland ~ A Cultural Gem In The Emerald Isle ~ The Best of the Best On View
• The Maeght Foundation: Jewel of the French Riviera
• Kimbell Art Musem to Showcase Art From the Private Collections of Texas
• New York Cool: Painting & Sculpture from the NYU Collection at Grey Gallery
• Museu Picasso presents " Living Things ~ Picasso Figure / Still Life "
• "Art in the Streets" on View at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA LA
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to Host Kees van Dongen Exhibition
• Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon to Show the Development of Modern Art (1945-1950)
• Christie’s London bi-annual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints
• Sotheby's to Offer Untitled (Pecho/Oreja) by Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Northumbria University Gallery & Baring Wing Presents a Retrospective of Norman Cornish Posted: 15 Aug 2011 11:55 PM PDT Newcastle, UK. - The Northumbria University Gallery & Baring Wing is proud to present "The Narrow World of Norman Cornish", on view at the gallery until October 7th. Norman Cornish is 91 years old now and still painting. The story of his prodigious career as an artist who converted his experience as a miner into compelling imagery has become justly famous. As the mining industry recedes into history though the real context of his life and art grow ever more elusive. Here are a few reminders. At the time of his birth in 1919 the average death rate in British coal pits was an annual 1.3 per thousand miners. By the time he started work at the age of 14 technological advances had reduced that figure to 0.75 per thousand but that is to ignore the many accidents. Indeed the Spennymoor pit at which he started his working life, the Dean and Chapter Colliery, was notorious enough locally to be known as 'The Butcher's Shop'. Describing in his autobiography his descent to the coal-face on his first day at work, Cornish recalled that, "The cage dropped very rapidly. About half way down I felt that I was coming upover." At the shaft bottom he realised that he had been "dropped into a man-made world" and "was to learn that the dangers of gas, stone falls, the darkness and the restricted space, were all to shape these men into industrial gladiators." For the next 33 years, in a career spent largely underground, Cornish recorded the life of the pit where his 'marras' risked their lives every day. He depicted them in the claustrophobic space of the seams or tending pit ponies but of course, his "narrow world" as the novelist Sid Chaplin admiringly called it included that network of customs and shared experiences that bind a community together. In his scenes of their 'civilian' life, miners are shown walking to work in the early dawn, the pit head gantry resembling another Calvary. These unselfconscious metaphors might equally apply to his studies of his wife Sarah knitting which the ambivalently secular Cornish allowed to have "an aura of sanctity". As for his repertoire of pub interiors, they are, of course, bathed in an amber glow, the colour of brown ale, while the local chip van also looms large as a communal meeting point – for gossip as much as for food. With the demise of the coal industry and the decline of the culture dependent on it, a few pits have been converted into mining heritage centres. They do their job of documentation competently enough but they cannot compare with the heightened, felt experience that Cornish offers. Above all, he presents us with what the American photographer Robert Frank called "the humanity of the moment". Established in 1977 as a teaching gallery and the University's link between town and gown, the University Gallery's policy is to present exhibitions by artists of national and international distinction, as well as less established but promising artists. By the early 1990s the Gallery's international profile was firmly established with a series of major touring exhibitions of Edvard Munch's work including the curatorship of the Frieze of Life exhibition at the National Gallery, London. The Gallery continues to initiate high profile exhibitions with touring links in America, Japan, Greece, Italy and Germany while maintaining an annual programme of exhibitions by artists of regional and national distinction.  The Gallery specialises in contemporary painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography exhibitions, as well as historic and thematic loan exhibitions from national collections. Acquisitions to The Permanent Collection, comprising over 350 works, reflect the exhibition programme's strong regional, national and international links.  Exhibitions are supported by scholarly publications, interpretative literature and an education programme for adults and children, including public lectures, art classes and study days. The Gallery also provides training and work experience for students, as well annual placements for graduate and post-graduate students from Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. In 2003/4, with grant support from the Baring Foundation, Northern Rock and the Monument Trust, the Gallery underwent a major redevelopment programme to improve access, double the exhibition space and provide a highly visible public entrance facing the City. Nico Widerberg's sculpture 'Pillar Man' commissioned by ACE and the City as part of the 'Hidden Rivers' programme, marks the entrance to the University Gallery and is one of three other major sculptures, commissioned by the university as part of its 'Percent for Art' policy. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/universitygallery/

The Hague Settles on Looted Jan Steen Painting "The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah" Posted: 15 Aug 2011 10:56 PM PDT AMSTERDAM, NL - Lawyers for the U.S. heir of a Jewish art dealer who lost many paintings while fleeing the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands say she has settled with The Hague municipality on a valuable work by Jan Steen. The lawyers say Marei von Saher will receive euro1 million ($1.4 million) and donate her share in the painting "The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah" to a Hague museum. The piece has an unusual history: it was cut in two before the war and painstakingly restored in the 1990's — before von Saher's claim to the larger part was finally established by the Dutch state in 2006.

Sculpture by Thomas Houseago at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh Posted: 15 Aug 2011 10:47 PM PDT EDINBURGH.- The first major outdoor exhibition of sculptures by the British artist Thomas Houseago ever to be staged, The Beat of the Show comprises new and recent large-scale works, mostly in bronze and being exhibited for the first time. One of the most original and compelling sculptors of his generation, Thomas Houseago is known for his often monumental sculptures which subvert classical and modernist forms using a variety of materials (wood, clay, plaster, iron and steel); a synthesis of abstraction and figuration, they clearly reveal the process of making and often contain elements of the drawing which lies at their core.

Photographic Memory ~ The Album in the Age of Photography Posted: 15 Aug 2011 10:24 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- As photography became an increasingly accessible medium in the twentieth century, the popularity of the photographic album exploded, yielding a wonderful range of objects made for varying purposes—to memorialize, document (officially or unofficially), promote, or educate, and sometimes simply to channel creative energy. Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography (Aperture, June 2011) traces the rise of the album from the turn of the century to the present day, showcasing some of the most important examples in the history of the medium, as collected by the Library of Congress.

Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art Will Open the Shutters of 'The Peacock Room' Posted: 15 Aug 2011 08:49 PM PDT Washington, DC - For the first time in 25 years, the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art will open the shutters of James McNeill Whistler's famed Peacock Room for public view on the third Thursday of each month, beginning Aug. 18, 12-5:30 p.m. Visitors to the room will have a chance to experience the tonal subtleties and decorative variations of Whistler's "harmony in blue and gold" visible only in natural sunlight. For the first time, the Freer Gallery's renowned Peacock Room has been restored to its appearance in 1908, when museum founder Charles Lang Freer used it to organize and display more than 250 ceramics he had collected from throughout Asia. As the first special exhibition held in the room since it underwent conservation in 1993, The Peacock Room Comes to America highlights Freer's belief in "points of contact" between American and Asian art and the aesthetic relationships to be found among the museum's diverse collections.

The Louisiana Museum Exhibition Shows a New Side of Josef Albers Posted: 15 Aug 2011 08:16 PM PDT HUMBLEBAEK, DENMARK - The Louisiana Museum – on paper is a series of small exhibitions at Louisiana, scheduled to be shown in the course of 2011. The exhibitions are curated by director of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Poul Erik Tøjner, and focus on graphic works and drawings. The first artist in the series was American Al Taylor (1948-1999), now followed by German Josef Albers (1888-1976). Both artists are represented in Louisiana's collection.

Original Rembrandt 17th Century Drawing Stolen from California Hotel Posted: 15 Aug 2011 08:15 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- A 17th Century drawing by Rembrandt was snatched from a private art display at a California luxury hotel while a curator was momentarily distracted, officials said Monday. The theft of the $250,000 sketch from the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the upmarket seaside community of Marina del Rey happened around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night while someone who seemed interested in buying another piece held the curator's attention for a few minutes. The stolen sketch was drawn with a quill pen and depicts what appears to be a court scene with a man prostrating himself before a judge. Created circa 1655 and measuring approximately 28 cm by 15 cm, a rare Rembrandt.

Karin Sander Awarded the 2011 Hans Thoma Prize for Fine Arts Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:53 PM PDT BERNAU IM SCHWARZWALD.- The Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) has bestowed the 2011 Hans Thoma Award, the Grand State Prize for Fine Arts, to the Berlin-based artist Karin Sander. The jury honoured Karin Sander for her outstanding oeuvre of sculptures, installations and spatial interventions. The award ceremony took place on 14 August at the Hans-Thoma-Kunstmuseum in Bernau. The solo exhibition on that occasion runs from 16 August to 18 September and is free to the public.

The Belvedere Focuses on Josef Danhauser's Famous Pictorial Narratives Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:52 PM PDT VIENNA, AUSTRIA - During his lifetime, Josef Danhauser (1805–1845) was one of the most important artists in Vienna, and his name is inseparably linked with the epoch known today as the Biedermeier era. The summer exhibition at the Orangery presents the artist as a storyteller. His paintings grant a revealing glimpse into the life and thought of his time. On view through 25th September at the Lower Belvedere. Trained at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to be a history painter, Danhauser soon overcame the academic traditionalism to enrich his historical and religious topics with genre elements. What distinguished him most was his extraordinary ability to translate literary texts into pictorial language. Gestures, facial expressions, and telling movements are the "vehicle" of his pictorial narratives; and behind it all lie a daring use of satire and acute powers of observation. Inspired by the series of engravings by the English painter William Hogarth (1697–1764) and the Vienna street scenes of Josef Lanzedelli the Elder (1772-1831) and Georg Emanuel Opiz (1775-1841), he developed his own unique narrative style. Danhauser enhanced his works with a multitude of informative and explanatory details, made historical and literary allusions, and combined them all to weave a thick narrative tapestry. His painted narratives are striking illustrations of living conditions in Vienna of the early nineteenth century. Works like The Game of Chess convey an idea of the popular salons of the day, with the décor reflecting the taste of the period. Danhauser often integrated into his works the latest creations from the Danhauser furniture factory, which he jointly ran with his brother Franz. In these works, however, the depiction of the ambience only sets a decorative framework; paramount are the characters and actions of those portrayed. In Danhauser's œuvre genre scenes with a moralising subject play an important role, for example in The Rich Spendthrift, The Soup for the Poor, The Widow's Penny, and The Reading of the Will. Criticism of the government, which was prevented by censorship, was replaced by criticism of his fellow man. In addition, Danhauser spent his entire life in examining the artist's profession, and numerous studio scenes reflect his existence as an artist. In the summer of 2010, with the support of the Dorotheum, the Institute for the Compilation of Oeuvre Catalogues was established at the Belvedere's Research Centre in order to provide a strong impetus for advancing a scholarly research and review of Austrian artists and their works. The Director of the Belvedere, Agnes Husslein-Arco, is gratified "to be able to present with the publication at hand the first comprehensive art historical assessment of Josef Danhauser's complete work, which launches the series Belvedere Werkverzeichnisse [Belvedere Oeuvre Catalogues]". Besides a monograph on the life and work of the artist, this catalogue raisonné includes over 500 paintings, some of which have never before been published. Catalogues of the works of Marc Adrian, Carry Hauser, Hans Makart, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Martin van Meytens, Koloman Moser, Otto Rudolf Schatz, and Curt Stenvert are currently being compiled at the Belvedere, with further publications on Friedrich von Amerling, Tina Blau, Jean Egger, and Gerhart Frankl planned. Themes of the Exhibition Social Criticism and Reportage Danhauser was always extremely interested in people. And he was witty enough to convey his observations in a humorous way. Early on in his career he captured the vanities of his contemporaries in the series Embarrassing situations. He also documented the boisterous behavior of spectators in Giraffe in the Zoo. These works were influenced by a series of lithographs showing scenes from the daily lives of artisans and laborers in Vienna by Georg Emanuel Opiz and Josef Lanzedelli the Elder. Yet Danhauser did not content himself with merely depicting situations but enriched them with anecdote. Occasionally he responded to current events: for instance in 1831 when a new card was introduced known as an Enthebungskarte (literally a "release card"). People could use these to prevent unwanted calls from needy Well-Wishers asking for gifts at New Year. A late example of his criticism of society is the Newspaper Readers, depicting two wagoners who have just read that the railway's developments will soon deprive them of work. The Many Sides of Being Human Danhauser soon realized that it was not enough to just capture a situation in a picture. To make contemporaries aware of their inconsiderate behavior and the consequences of heartless actions he needed to show these in plainer terms: A mirror had to be held up to people, presenting them with a clear picture of their deeds. So the painter created didactic images juxtaposing two contrasting ways of behaving. The Rich Glutton and The Widow's Penny demonstrate that he drew some of his ideas from the scriptures. Literary texts provided other sources of inspiration. The two versions of Reading the Will are based on the novel Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer by Sir Walter Scott, and the painting Wine, Women and Song echoes the saying: "He who loves not wine, women and song, remains a fool his whole life long." William Hogarth and Josef Danhauser Danhauser's connection with the English painter William Hogarth was already recognized by contemporaries and a number of newspaper articles highlighted this with approval. Just like Hogarth, Danhauser was depicting the fates of individuals to draw attention to the moral decline in his day. Hogarth's influence is also apparent in the way Danhauser examined people's characters, using exaggerated expressions and gestures to convey his protagonists' depravity. In this way he could attack superficiality and hypocrisy and at the same time create a moralizing image of customs at the time. Yet for all his descriptive clarity, Danhauser never attained the same penetrating observation as Hogarth, his figures tending to be typecast into positive and negative characters. Poets Love, or: Transforming a Story into a Picture The whereabouts of the painting Poet's Love is unknown and we can only gain an impression of the work from a contemporary engraving. This and the five preliminary studies displayed were chosen as an example to represent how the painter's pictures evolved. The original idea was inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, V, 73–142), and the forbidden love between Francesca da Polenta and her brother-in-law Paolo, revenged by her husband Gianciotto Malatesta who murdered the lovers. In later sketches the protagonists are dressed in Renaissance rather than medieval-style clothing. The man wearing a laurel wreath and his writing pose recall Torquato Tasso, who was crowned with laurels by Leonora d'Este. Danhauser skirted around this historical inconsistency in the finished painting by adding the following explanation: "Picture from life in sixteenth-century Italy." The Influence of Hogarth's The Rakes Progress The series of engravings by the English painter William Hogarth became well known in the German-speaking world after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's detailed descriptions were published in the Göttinger Taschen-Calender between 1784 and 1796. What appealed to Danhauser about Hogarth was his great interest in realism, the pictures within the picture that add commentary to the subject matter, and his seemingly effortless ability to sum up the essence of the scene. Even as a young artist, Danhauser tried to include these elements in his works. This is demonstrated particularly by his studio scenes like The Scholars' Room and Comical Scene in the Studio that have a succinct and humorous message. The Artist in His Studio Danhauser was interested in his profession as such all through his life. He never depicted himself, however, but gave others the roles in the stories he wished to tell. His subject is always the conflict between the artist's illusory world and reality, which invades from the outside. Danhauser most liked to juxtapose the painter's daily life with the instinctual behavior of animals. When he considered his pictures unjustly criticized by journalists he painted his studio once again, only this time with a group of dogs tearing up drawings in his Canine Comedy. By contrast, the Novel Reading shows one of the more private times in a painter's daily life: the creative phase of finding a subject. This painting also shows an interesting coexistence of the painter's art world with its "worthless" paraphernalia and another artificial "illusory world," namely the world of the bourgeoisie. Salon Scenes Danhauser, as artistic director of the Danhauser furniture factory, moved in noble and upperclass circles. His designs shaped the tastes in furnishings of the time. As a result, the interiors in his pictures can be seen as authentic documents of the day, as he naturally included his own furniture designs. The Game of Chess is particularly important in this context, as it is the very earliest depiction of a salon in nineteenth-century European painting. The story it represents also deserves a mention: a woman winning a game that is dominated by the queen. In this and other scenes the artist conveys an impression of social gatherings, the contemporary love of music, but also overindulgence and excess. Visit The Belvedere Museum at : http://www.belvedere.at/jart/prj3/belvedere/main.jart?rel=en

The National Gallery Of Ireland ~ A Cultural Gem In The Emerald Isle ~ The Best of the Best On View Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:39 PM PDT In June 1852 William Dargan, the father of the Irish rail network, approached the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) with an offer to underwrite a spectacular exhibition on Leinster Lawn in Dublin, the home of the RDS since 1815. He wished to imitate the great exhibition that had taken place at Crystal Palace in London the previous year. Just eleven months later, on the 12th May, the exhibition was opened in an astonishing series of pavilions for which the architect, John Benson, received a knighthood. The enthusiastic response of the visiting crowds demonstrated an active interest for art as well the desire for the establishment of a permanent public collection that would also be a fitting tribute to the generosity of Dargan. Following the success of the exhibition a special committee was established to promote the establishment of a National Gallery in Dublin. In November 1853 the Irish Institution reported that it had considered four possible sites for the location of a Gallery including one adjacent to Leinster Lawn. The next ten years saw active campaigning for the funding of the new Gallery building which was designed by Francis Fowke. Meanwhile the Irish Institution, continued under the direction of George Mulvany to hold loan exhibitions until 1860 when it was disbanded. On Saturday, the 30th of January 1864, the Earl of Carlisle officially opened the National Gallery of Ireland to the public. The collection comprised just one hundred and twelve pictures, including thirty nine purchased in Rome in 1856 and thirty which were on loan from the National Gallery in London and elsewhere. In 1866 an annual purchase grant of £1000 was allocated for the acquisition of pictures and the institution would thrive over the years through purchases, bequests and donations. In 1901 the Countess of Milltown gifted over 200 pictures to the gallery from her house at Russborough as well as a collection of silver, furniture and books from her library. The gift was so substantial that a new extension was constructed to accommodate it. This would be only one of a number of bequests and gifts that the National Gallery of Ireland would receive and which have contributed to the quality of the collections housed there today. In 1968 the gallery was extended again with designs by Frank DuBerry, senior architect with the Office of Public Works. This new extension is today named the Beit Wing in acknowledgement of the exceptional generosity of Sir Alfred and Lady Beit who gifted seventeen outstanding old master pictures to the institution in 1987. Some six years later in 1993 the Gallery became the focus of international attention when Caravaggio's, 'The Taking of Christ', a painting recorded in contemporary biographies on the artist and known through copies but long believed to be lost or destroyed, was discovered in a Jesuit house of studies in Dublin. The picture remains in the gallery on indefinite loan from the Jesuit fathers. The most recent addition to the Gallery complex was the Millennium Wing opened in January 2002. Designed by London based architects Benson & Forsyth and located on sites purchased by the Gallery in 1990 and 1996, the new wing introduced a new, second public entrance to the gallery from the busy thoroughfare of Clare Street in Dublin. Currently the Gallery is refurbishing the Dargan and Milltown wings to better accommodate the nearly 1 million visitors who pass through every year. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.nationalgallery.ie The National Gallery houses some 16,000 paintings, sculptures, works on paper and objets d'art dating from the early thirteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century. The collection boasts an impressive range of masterpieces by artists from the major European schools of art whilst also featuring the world's most comprehensive collection of Irish art. Two whole rooms in the National Gallery of Ireland are dedicated to the paintings of Jack Butler Yeats, brother to the great poet W. B. Yeats. Other Irish artists within the collection include, James Barry, Augustus Nicholas Burke, Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Francis Danby, Daniel Maclise, Sarah Purser, Roderic O'Conor, Walter Osborne, John Lavery, Paul Henry, William John Leech, Sean Keating, Mainie Jellett, Gerard Dillon and Louis le Brocquy. The Centre for the Study of Irish Art (CSIA), within the National gallery supports and promotes the study of Irish art and associated disciplines. Its library and archive collection documents the country's rich artistic legacy from early celtic art to the present. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in the visual arts in Ireland. The holdings include a library of publications on Irish art, enriched by a rare book collection and illustrated book collection featuring work by Irish artists such as Rose Barton, Harry Clarke, Louis le Brocquy and William Scott. The collection of works by British and American artists includes, William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, J M W Turner, Henry Raeburn, George Romney, John Singer Sargent, Stanley Royle, Francis Wheatley and Andrew Festing. The European art collection includes masterpieces from Spain (including works by Luis de Morales, Jusepe de Ribera, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Juan Gris), France (Jacques Yverni, Nicolas Poussin, Jean Lamaire, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Kees van Dongen and Edgar Degas), Italy (Fra Angelico, Zarobi Strozzi, Filippino Lippi, Titian, Giovan Battista Moroni, Caravaggio, Guido Reni, Domenichino, Guercino, Sassoferrato, Luca Giordano, Carlo Maratta, Francesco Solimena and Canaletto), Germany and Holland (Georg Pencz, Angelica Kauffmann, Emil Nolde, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens, Anthony van Dyck, Gerrit van Honthorst, Rembrandt, Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Aelbert Cuyp, Matthias Stomer, Rembrandt, Willem Drost, Anthonie de Lorme, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer and Cornelis Troost). The Prints and Drawings Study Room provides access to the Gallery's collection of prints, drawings, watercolors and miniatures from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is open to all members of the public, students and visiting scholars for the study and appreciation of the collection... Because of the current refurbishment work, there are currently no temporary exhibitions showing at the National Gallery of Ireland. However, works from the National Gallery are currently touring in the "Gabriel Metsu: Rediscovered Master Of The Dutch Golden Age" and can be seen on display in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam until 21 March 2011 before moving on to the National Gallery of Art, Washington on 17 April 2011.

The Maeght Foundation: Jewel of the French Riviera Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:38 PM PDT The French Riviera wasn't always known as a getaway for the rich and famous.  Under the glittery veneer is a subtle beauty that comes not only from the natural surroundings, but also the warmth and joie de vivre of the local residents. The character of the Côte d'Azur began to change at the end of the nineteenth century, when neoimpressionist painter Paul Signac discovered the remarkable quality of the light in St. Tropez.  Signac brought other artists, including Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Henri Charles Manguin, and Georges Seurat. Farther along the Riviera to the east, the medieval "perched" villages of Tourette sur Loup, Vence, and St. Paul de Vence are veritable artist colonies.  Matisse lived near Vence and designed and built the Rosary Chapel nearby.  Marc Chagall is buried in St. Paul's cemetery.  His mosaics turn up in unlikely places including a baptismal font in a church in Vence and the wall of a private garden.

Kimbell Art Musem to Showcase Art From the Private Collections of Texas Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:37 PM PDT Fort Worth, Texas - Texas is a place full of ambitions, and one of these ambitions is the subject of an exhibition opening at the Kimbell on November 22nd: the desire on the part of a wide range of Texans to collect major works of European painting and sculpture for display in their homes. The exhibition surveys the history of private collecting in Texas from the oil boom days of Spindletop to the present day, telling the stories of the men and women in the state who, through private means, and for private purposes, have formed significant collections of European paintings and sculpture of the highest discernment—collections that might seem more at home in Paris, France, than Houston, Texas, or on an English country estate than a West Texas cattle ranch. On view through 21 March, 2010 at the Kimbell art Museum.

New York Cool: Painting & Sculpture from the NYU Collection at Grey Gallery Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT NEW YORK CITY - This spring, concluding a year-long emphasis on 20th-century painting, the Grey Art Gallery presents New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection. Surveying Lower Manhattan's disparate art world in the 1950s and early '60s, New York Cool is curated by NYU professor and art critic Pepe Karmel and is drawn entirely from the New York University Art Collection. The show features over 80 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints and premieres at Grey Art Gallery through July 19, 2008, before embarking on a national tour to four museums.

Museu Picasso presents " Living Things ~ Picasso Figure / Still Life " Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:35 PM PDT   BARCELONA.- Museu Picasso presents Living Things: Picasso Figure - Still Life, on view through March 1, 2009. One of the primary objectives of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona is to constitute a centre of reference for research and the generation of knowledge about Picasso and his work. The Museum has brought together under the auspices of its Rethinking Picasso programme a number of projects that offer vital new approaches to Picasso, moving beyond traditional biographical narratives and stylistic classifications to seek new perspectives and free the subject from the weight of convention and cliché.

"Art in the Streets" on View at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA LA Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:34 PM PDT Los Angeles.- "Art in the Streets" is the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. Curated by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and Associate Curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, the exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Sao Paulo, where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved. The exhibition will feature paintings, mixed media sculptures, and interactive installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists and will emphasize Los Angeles's role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to seminal local movements such as cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen to Host Kees van Dongen Exhibition Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:33 PM PDT ROTTERDAM.- This autumn, for the first time, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing the recently restored work A Finger on her Cheek by Kees van Dongen in its original state in All Eyes on Kees van Dongen, an exhibition that also features some sixty other key masterpieces from international collections. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is staging a major exhibition of paintings by the internationally renowned artist Kees van Dongen (1877-1968). The thoughtful selection of eighty works -around sixty paintings- is being flown to Rotterdam from leading international collections. On view 18 September through 23 January, 2011.

Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon to Show the Development of Modern Art (1945-1950) Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:32 PM PDT LYON, FRANCE - In October 2008, the Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon will present a major exhibition devoted to European and American art in the wake of the Second World War, with particular attention to the emergence of various movements in each country. The exhibition starts with the end of World War II and concludes with the advent of the Cold War (1945-1950). At that specific moment in time, American and European artists were united in a feeling of starting from scratch, of re-creating art forms stripped of the ideologies that had accompanied artistic creation since the beginning of the twentieth century.

Christie’s London bi-annual sale of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:31 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.

Sotheby's to Offer Untitled (Pecho/Oreja) by Jean-Michel Basquiat Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:30 PM PDT LONDON - SOTHEBY'S forthcoming Contemporary Art Evening Sale will be highlighted by Jean-Michel Basquiat's early masterpiece, Untitled (Pecho/Oreja), 1982-83. The work will be offered on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 and comes from the joint collection of Irish rock band U2. It is estimated at £4-6 million. The painting was first spotted by U2's bassist Adam Clayton at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. The band acquired Untitled in 1989, and it has since resided in their Dublin studio.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 15 Aug 2011 07:29 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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