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• The National Portrait Gallery Shows Works by Seven Asian American Artists
• The June Kelly Galley To Show Recent Works by Tonya Ingersol
• The New Museum of Liverpool has Welcomed 250,000 Visitors in First Month
• Israel Antiquities Authority To Restore of the Crown in Damascus Gate
• Heather James Fine Arts Presents New Paintings by Penelope Gottlieb
• Preview Berlin: The Emerging Art Fair 2011 Opens in September
• National Gallery of Victoria Acquires Newly Discovered Renaissance Masterpiece
• The African American Museum Shows the Aesthetic & Political in African American Art
• Museo Reina Sofia Explores the Extraordinay Drawings by Martín Ramírez ~ A Mental Patient
• ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art shows " Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg"
• Liam Gillick's "Cat" at the German Pavilion is Subject of Heated Debate As Venice Biennale Ends
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Hosts Juan Muñoz Retrospective
• First Major Exhibition in Armenia of Original Works by Artist Arshile Gorky
• The Speed Art Museum announces The Most Famous People in the World: Yousuf Karsh 100
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen stages Carsten Höller’s exhibition Divided+Divided
• Denver Art Museum to show Jean-Antoine Houdon highlights from the Louvre
• From Mihály Munkácsy to Andy Warhol at Budapest Fine Art Fair '08
• The Louvre Casts Doubt on Authenticity of Picasso Painting Stolen from Kuwait and Found in Iraq
• Sylvie Fleury Brings Luxury and Glamour to the Contemporary Art Center of Málaga
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The National Portrait Gallery Shows Works by Seven Asian American Artists Posted: 17 Aug 2011 10:31 PM PDT Washington, DC.- The Smithsonian National portrait Gallery is proud to present "Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter", on view at the museum until October 14th 2012. This exhibition features seven artists, each of whom will show several works. The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program are collaborating on an exhibition that will be the Smithsonian's first major showcase of contemporary Asian American portraiture. Through the groundbreaking work of seven talented artists from across the country and around the world, the exhibition offers provocative renditions of the Asian American experience. Their portraits of encounter offer representations against and beyond the stereotypes that have long obscured the complexity of being Asian in America. The artists featured are CYJO, Hye Yeon Nam, Shizu Saldamando, Roger Shimomura, Satomi Shirai, Tam Tran and Zhang Chun Hong. This exhibition displays the diversity of contemporary Asian American identity through the groundbreaking work of seven visual artists. Roger Shimomura is a third-generation American of Japanese descent who deconstructs Asian American stereotypes through his art. Born in San Francisco, Shizu Saldamando blends references to youth subculture in Southern California with nods to her Japanese and Mexican heritage. Other artists use concepts of diaspora, migration, and transnationalism to expand the meaning of their Asian American identity. Artists from Asia who work in the United States — like Satomi Shirai, who moved to New York City from Tokyo, or Hye Yeon Nam, who came to this country from Korea to study art, and CYJO, an artist currently based in China — regularly travel back and forth from Asia to the United States and craft unique portraits of encounter from their experiences. The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in Washington, D.C., administered by the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous individual Americans. It resides in the National Historic Landmarked Old Patent Office Building (now renamed the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture), located just south of Chinatown in the Penn Quarter district of downtown Washington. The third oldest federal building in the city, constructed between 1836 and 1867, the marble and granite museum has porticoes modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The building was used as a hospital during the American Civil War. Walt Whitman worked there and used his experiences as a basis for "The Wound Dresser". The Bureau of Indian Affairs moved into the building after the war ended. Whitman worked as a clerk for the bureau until 1867, when he was fired after a manuscript of "Leaves of Grass" was found in his desk. It was spared from demolition by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958, and given to the Smithsonian, which renovated the structure and opened the National Museum of American Art (later renamed the Smithsonian American Art Museum) and National Portrait Gallery there in 1968.It is the namesake for the Gallery Place Washington Metro station, located across the intersection of F and 8th Streets, Northwest. Hallmarks of the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection include the famous "Lansdowne" portrait of George Washington; the Hall of Presidents; and its extensive selection of portraits of remarkable Americans from all walks of life. Since its reopening on July 1, 2006, the Portrait Gallery has also focused on contemporary portraiture in its "Portraiture Now" series, and in its triennial contemporary portrait competition, the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. The National Portrait Gallery was closed for extensive renovations and expansion in January 2000; it reopened on July 1, 2006. The renovated museum includes a new, glass-enclosed courtyard designed by Foster + Partners, the architecture firm of renowned architect Norman Foster. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.npg.si.edu/

The June Kelly Galley To Show Recent Works by Tonya Ingersol Posted: 17 Aug 2011 09:23 PM PDT New York City.- The June Kelly Gallery is pleased to present "Tonya Ingersol: Through the Woods", on view at the gallery from September 8th through October 4th. The exhibition includes recent paintings by Tonya Ingersol — large, colorful tableaux inhabited by fantastical imagery that chronicles our contemporary times in the tradition of fairy tales. Entitled "Through the Woods", the works on show represent a departure from Ingersol's earlier realistic and detailed but still mystical style.  The artist notes that fairy tales have long been used as a source of inspiration in many artistic disciplines. Here, Ingersol deploys her visual imagery to portray the timeless and universal themes of life and to emphasize the importance of passing eternal and vital truths from generation to generation.

The New Museum of Liverpool has Welcomed 250,000 Visitors in First Month Posted: 17 Aug 2011 09:11 PM PDT LIVERPOOL.- More than 250,000 people have visited the Museum of Liverpool since it opened four weeks ago, equivalent to the capacities of Anfield or Goodison Park 5 to 6 times over and more than half the population of the city as a whole. Crowds have flocked to the new Museum with an average of 8,300 people a day through the doors. The Museum which is free entry opened on 19 July and tells the story of the city and its people. Museum bosses had predicted 78,000 visitors in the first month of opening, but the response from the public has been three times that.

Israel Antiquities Authority To Restore of the Crown in Damascus Gate Posted: 17 Aug 2011 09:10 PM PDT JERUSALEM.- For hundreds of years, when visitors arrived in Jerusalem and entered the city by way of Damascus Gate – the largest and most magnificent of Jerusalem's gates – they glanced up and saw the large 'crown' that the sultan Suleiman the Magnificent built atop the gate in 1538 CE. But in 1967 the gate sustained serious damage and the crown was destroyed during the fighting in the Six Day War. Now, the Jerusalem Development Authority, in cooperation with the Israel Antiquities Authority and with funding provided by the Prime Minister's Office, is concluding a comprehensive project of rehabilitating Damascus Gate, during which the gate was cleaned of the effects from the ravages of time and its ornamentation was restored, including the magnificent 'crown' at the top of the gate.

Heather James Fine Arts Presents New Paintings by Penelope Gottlieb Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:59 PM PDT Jackson, Wyoming - Heather James Fine Art is pleased to present "Penelope Gottlieb: Invasive". This exhibition fo new works by the aritst is on view from August 18th through September 30th. Penelope Gottlieb's latest paintings are a natural evolution from her recent series, "Gone,"in which the artist recreated a series of plants on the 'confirmed extinction' list that have no known visual reference by reconstructing them from botanists' descriptions.  With her new body of work, Gottlieb is playing upon the theme of John James Audubon's commodification of the natural world via his marketing of prints, reflecting the consumption of nature prevalent in the social attitudes of the 19th century.

Preview Berlin: The Emerging Art Fair 2011 Opens in September Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:42 PM PDT BERLIN.- Following the turbulent developments of Berlin's art fair landscape in 2011, and even in its proverbial "perilous" seventh year, PREVIEW BERLIN – The Emerging Art Fair is looking forward to an internationally oriented group of exhibitors that follow the "emerging" principle, promising an exciting art fair for all those seeking new discoveries in the contemporary art scene. From September 9 to 11, an upcoming generation of galleries and project spaces from 15 nations will present the most ambitious positions of their programmes in Hangar2 of the former Tempelhof Airport. In addition to the 61 exhibitor concepts, the runway has been cleared for two new projects this year. With VIDEO ART BOX by Fresh Paint and FOCUS ACADEMY, the focus of the exhibition discourse has been placed squarely on the interface between art production and the art market.

National Gallery of Victoria Acquires Newly Discovered Renaissance Masterpiece Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:22 PM PDT MELBOURNE, AU - The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) today announced that in its 150th year it had acquired a highly important masterpiece by Correggio, one of the most influential figures of the Italian High Renaissance. Director Gerard Vaughan unveiled the painting, which has just arrived from London. The newly discovered work, titled Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist was painted by Antonio Allegri, called Correggio, circa 1514‐1515. This rare Correggio is a magnificent example of early 16th century Northern Italian painting. It is an incomparable masterpiece with no other similar work either in the NGV Collection, or any other public collection in Australia.

The African American Museum Shows the Aesthetic & Political in African American Art Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:21 PM PDT Philadephia, PA.- The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) and Bank of America present a vibrant collection of contemporary African American art with their exhibition "Mixing Metaphors: The Aesthetic, Social and Political in African American Art". Opening September 21st and continuing through December 31st, the exhibition is composed of more than 90 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculptures and mixed media works by 36 artists. The works in "Mixing Metaphors" were selected by photographer and art historian Deborah Willis. "I selected works for this exhibition that captured my imagination," said Willis.  "I wanted to focus on how African-American artists define and explore the concepts of beauty and abstraction when depicting moments from the extraordinary to the mundane." "Mixing Metaphors" is organized into three thematic sections designed to foster critical thinking, provide social context and engage discussion: Reflections and Likeness, Constructing Place and Rituals of Existence. The term "Mixing Metaphors" is used to encourage the viewer to think of ways in which art and storytelling illustrate experiences. Some of the artists in this exhibition base their work on stories about family life, while others reflect on ideas about music and love. Others use the formal aspects of line, color and shape in their explorations. Willis challenges the viewer to investigate the role that art plays in society and how art affects our interpretation of what we see through this dynamic exhibition. Philadelphia market president, Bank of America. "By joining together with AAMP to bring this exhibit to the city of Philadelphia, we are helping the museum celebrate its 35th anniversary of honoring the African-American legacy." The exhibit is accompanied by educational and cultural programming from the opening reception through the closing in December. Events include a film screening of Separate, But Equal with a discussion with filmmaker Shawn Wilson, art-making workshops with local artists, a curator's talk with Willis, artists' talk with local artist Allen Edmunds, whose work is featured in the exhibit, and a musical poetry slam. The artwork is provided by Bank of America's Art in our Communities® program. Through the program, Bank of America has transformed its collection into a unique community resource from which museums and nonprofit galleries may borrow complete exhibitions. By providing these exhibitions and the support required to host them, this program helps enrich communities culturally and economically and generate vital revenue for museums. By the end of 2011, Bank of America will have loaned more than 50 exhibitions to museums worldwide. Founded in 1976 in celebration of the nation's Bicentennial, the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) is the first institution funded and built by a major municipality to preserve, interpret and exhibit the heritage of African Americans. Throughout its evolution, the Museum has objectively interpreted and presented the achievements and aspirations of African Americans from precolonial times to the current day. The year 2011 marks an important milestone for the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP). Beginning in January and continuing throughout the year a host of events, activities and acknowledgements are planned in celebration of 35 years of serving the Philadelphia region through art, history and culture. The museum is located in the City's historic district, right on the corner of 7th and Arch Streets. They are one block from the National Constitution Center and Independence National Historic Park, three blocks from the Liberty Bell and a short walk from the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Visit the museum's website at ... http://aampmuseum.org

Museo Reina Sofia Explores the Extraordinay Drawings by Martín Ramírez ~ A Mental Patient Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:11 PM PDT MADRID.- This exhibition on Martín Ramírez will bring together some eighty drawings from 1948 to 1963, exploring this artist's extraordinary production. These works highlight Ramírez's memories of Mexico, as well as his encounter with the North American landscape and the richness of his unique imagination. Art critics celebrate Ramírez's oeuvre for its bold lines, meticulous repetitions and extraordinary variations within the same themes addressed consistently by the artist. Also to be shown together with these works is a selection of drawings discovered in a garage in California in 2007, which have not yet been exhibited outside New York. On view 31 March through 2 July, 2010. Working with a limited range of materials and supplies, Martín Ramírez (1895-1963) created an astonishing oeuvre, over a period of some fifteen years, while an inmate of DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, California. Ramírez made his art in a room that he shared with dozens of other men who were also confined on account of their mental and physical disabilities, and, perhaps, because they were homeless, impoverished, and unemployed. Ramírez's workspace was in a corner of the ward. His drawings were placed underneath his mattress for safekeeping. His art supplies were stored in a bedside table. In this communal space, he embarked upon his self taught artistic endeavor. This act of creating within a culture of confinement marries him to a rich tradition of individuals who responded to the same impulse. Making art in prisons and asylums, and developing expressive formal and technical strategies specific to their constricted atmospheres, has proven a not uncommon reaction by inmates and patients from the late nineteenth century onwards. Transcending the category of art therapy; the work of the most significant – the most gifted and/or visionary – has been recognized under various rubrics: art brut, or "outsider", or "self taught" art. Ramírez devised a singular artistic style that, with its reliance of flexible linear structures, created spaces whose complex topographies inscribe multiple viewpoints. In addition, he was a master bricoleur who used whatever was to hand. Collecting papers of various kinds, such as discarded nurses' notes, cigarette rolling papers, magazines, newspapers, book pages, flattened paper cups, and examining-table cover sheets, he attached them together with homemade glue (made from potato starch, bread dough, and his own saliva). His medium was crushed crayons, colored pencils, and water-based paints that he deployed with the aid of a matchstick as his stylus (rather than a brush). For a straightedge he used a tongue depressor. Collage and chine colle were also incorporated to enrich his drawn line. On occasion, he would display the finished scroll-like drawings on the porch door of the ward, hanging them on hinges expressly designed for that purpose. Between 1948 and his death in 1963, Ramírez created some 450 drawings. From the start of his career as a draughtsman, he found champions: during the 1950s a clinical psychologist interested in art, Dr. Tarmo Pasto, studied his habits, collected his works and organized several exhibitions, mostly at university colleges; Chicago painter, Jim Nutt, discovered Ramírez's work in 1968 and with gallerist Phyllis Kind and artist Gladys Nillson, soon acquired a large cache of his work. Beginning in the early 1970s the Phyllis Kind Gallery exhibited and documented Ramírez's drawings in a series of solo shows. While these exhibitions received high praise from art critics and were admired by many contemporary artists, Ramírez's work did not garner widespread national attention until 2007, when a large-scale retrospective was organized by Brooke Davis Anderson at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Today, he is considered one of the pre-eminent self-taught masters of the twentieth century. The diverse repertoire of imagery found in Ramírez's drawings fuses elements drawn from both Mexican and American culture, from the environment of his childhood in a small rural community in a remote part of the Mexican province of Jalisco, and from certain experiences, derived from weekly film screenings and a constant supply of magazines, that broke the monotony of his confinement at DeWitt. Within the limited range of subjects he repeatedly explored, modified, and refined he developed a richly expressive range of forms and idioms. His favorite subject appears to have been a rider on horseback. This equestrian figure is often framed in a box-like room reminiscent of a stage, a structural device which the artist used not just to contain but also to valorize his subject. By playing with shading, color, texture, and scale, Ramírez modified it tellingly from one version to the next. Also among his favorite motifs was the railroad, the means of his exodus from his native land in search of more lucrative employment abroad. Born in 1895 in Los Altos de Jalisco, a deeply Catholic area, Ramírez married, fathered four children, and acquired land and farm animals before leaving his home in 1925 in search of work that would help him pay off the loans on his modest ranch. Travelling with friends to California, he worked in mines as well as on the railways for some years. By 1931 however, partly due to the Depression, he was jobless and homeless. Arrested by the police because of his confused state and inability to communicate, he was soon afterwards committed to Stockton State Hospital, where he was diagnosed as an incurable catatonic schizophrenic. In 1948 he was moved to DeWitt where he remained for the rest of his life. During his decades of confinement, Ramírez rarely spoke. He was never interviewed about his drawings; nor did not leave any writing about them. While his intentions and motivations will never be fully understood, his biography undoubtedly informed his work in multiple ways, as recent research has made clear. In the last decade scholars have investigated such key factors impacting his life as immigration, regionalism, and institutionalization, in order to create a more nuanced, dimensional portrait of this institutionalized artist in place of the longstanding stereotype of the mentally disturbed autodidact who works unwittingly. Since the 1920s the art of the insane has been greatly admired by vanguard artists of many persuasions, notably Max Ernst, Paul Klee and countless Surrealists. Stimulated by what they considered its pure or unmediated forms of expression, these professional painters adopted its formal and technical features as transgressive modes that would enable them to subvert the stylistic and formal conventions they had imbibed during their academic training. A half century later, during the 1970s, and in parallel with the growth of critical recognition and wider institutional support for several types of unschooled practice (the art of the insane, and visionary or spiritual modes), came recognition that far from embodying an untrammeled expressiveness, it attested to the maker's struggle to affirm a sense of order in a world that he or she experienced as deeply fractured and chaotic. That is, what these creators sought was ways of controlling and giving meaning to a matrix that they experienced as horrifically unstable, dislocated and fraught. Today, what is now stressed are parallels and similarities that ostensibly align the work of the two groups in contrast to that earlier period which emphasized the substantive differences between the art of self taught outsiders and that of professional practitioners. Fundamental distinctions that separate trained artists whose work circulates through mainstream critical discourses and distribution networks from socially and culturally excluded individuals cannot be ignored however when responding to their works. In introducing Ramírez's remarkable drawings to European audiences for the first time, this retrospective was not conceived as a gesture of recuperation, that is, it does not attempt to reposition him within the mainstream art world. Ramírez' achievement is indisputable: together with Swiss Adolf Wölfli and American Henry Darger, he is widely recognized as one of a trio of great art brut masters. Rather, Martín Ramírez. Reframing Confinement provides an opportunity to question how such work should be situated and discussed within a new framework, a museum of modern and contemporary art (as distinct from the types of institutions in which it has previously been shown, namely, museums devoted to the presentation of folk art or encyclopedic museums that showcases art from many cultures and eras). In addition, it invites consideration of the roles played by Ramírez and kindred artists in the context of contemporary visual culture today, far beyond the disciplinary boundaries of modernist art practices. Martín Ramírez was born in 1895 in Rincón de Velázquez, Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico. In 1925, he left his family and in order to seek work in the United States. From 1925 to 1930 he worked on the railroad and in the mines of northern California. In 1931 he was picked up by the police and committed to Stockton State Hospital, San Joaquín County, CA, where he received a preliminary diagnosis of manic depression. He escaped several times and was again committed. In 1933 he was diagnosed with dementia praecox, catatonic form. In the middle of 1930 he began to draw on a more regular basis. In 1948 he was moved DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, California, where he met Tarmo Pasto, professor of Psychology and Art at Sacramento State College, who followed and supported his work. In 1951, his first solo show was held at the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery in Sacramento, and in 1954, another solo show The Art of a Schizophrene, took place at Mills College in Oakland, California. In 1963, he died at DeWitt of a pulmonary edema. In 2007, a major retrospective of his work was shown at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. 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ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art shows " Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg" Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:10 PM PDT Karlsruhe, Germany - The Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) has been a partner of the ZKM | Karlsruhe for many years. As an expansion of this partnership, the Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg has, additionally, collaborated with the ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art since 2005. In the context of this cooperation, the collection will be honored in 2009 with a major exhibition on the ground floor of the museum. On exhibition through 18 October, 2009.

Liam Gillick's "Cat" at the German Pavilion is Subject of Heated Debate As Venice Biennale Ends Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:09 PM PDT VENICE.- The 53rd Venice Biennale comes to an end on 22nd November 2009, after receiving over 350,000 visitors. The German Pavilion has been at the forefront of media interest and has been the subject of heated debate in the national and international press. With his allusions to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's revolutionary Frankfurt Kitchen (1926), Liam Gillick presented an installation that provided a model of democratic and human formation of living space as a counterpart to the absent ergonomic functionality of the pavilion's politically symbolic 1930s architecture. Between these two perspectives on the paradigm of modernism, a connection has been made by a cat - cult icon in antiquity, demon with magic powers in the middle ages, symbol of wisdom in romanticism and domesticated pet today, but still with superstitious connotations - as a speaking witness to history. A self-depreciating alter ego for the artist, the cat stands for this typically formal and enigmatic opposite extreme.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Hosts Juan Muñoz Retrospective Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:08 PM PDT BILBAO, SPAIN - In 1984, Juan Muñoz's (b. 1953, Madrid; d. 2001) first solo exhibition, held in his home city of Madrid, featured a small winding staircase topped with a balcony, resting against a wall. Muñoz said that this work was "the first piece I recall with which I had a certain feeling of identity." This architectural motif would recur throughout the artist's career and now more than two decades later, this sculpture is part of the most important international retrospective of Muñoz's work, an exhibition of more than 80 works including sculptures, installations, drawings, radio plays, and writings, some never before seen on view at The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

First Major Exhibition in Armenia of Original Works by Artist Arshile Gorky Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:07 PM PDT YEREVAN, ARMENIA.- The Cafesjian Center for the Arts announced that the first major exhibition in Yerevan of original work by the American-Armenian artist Arshile Gorky will take place at the Center from November 8, 2009 through January 31, 2010. "Arshile Gorky: Selections from the Gerard L. Cafesjian Collection" will exhibit 16 drawings and 7 paintings by the man who would become known as the most monumental presence in American twentieth-century art. This is the first major exhibition of original work in Armenia by Arshile Gorky, an artist once described by a critic of the time as a "hero of Abstract Expressionism."

The Speed Art Museum announces The Most Famous People in the World: Yousuf Karsh 100 Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:06 PM PDT Louisville, Kentucky - The Speed Art Museum announces The Most Famous People in the World: Karsh 100 on view from March 12 to June 27, 2010. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this exhibition presents iconic portraits of many of the 20 -century's most famous people taken by world-renowned photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002). "The minute I saw this exhibition on its international tour in Seoul, South Korea, I knew the Louisville public would love it," said Dr. Charles L. Venable, Director of the Speed Art Museum. "If you like great photography, are interested in history, or are simply intrigued by famous and powerful people, this is an exhibition that you will not want to miss."

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen stages Carsten Höller’s exhibition Divided+Divided Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:04 PM PDT ROTTERDAM, NL - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen stages Carsten Höller's exhibition Divided Divided. The popular contemporary artist is creating a 1,500 m2 installation especially for the museum. What's more, visitors can spend the night in the Revolving Hotel Room. All the works on show are based on a simple mathematical formula that divides and re-divides the space and the objects into two. Installations on view through 25 April, 2010.

Denver Art Museum to show Jean-Antoine Houdon highlights from the Louvre Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:03 PM PDT   Denver, CO – Houdon from the Louvre , an exhibition of premier portrait busts from French Enlightenment sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, will open at the Denver Art Museum on October 11, 2008, and run through January 4, 2009. The show includes approximately 20 sculptural works from the renowned artist portraying intellectual and political leaders, including American founding fathers George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, as well as famous busts of Enlightenment thinkers Denis Diderot and Voltaire and Houdon's own wife and children.

From Mihály Munkácsy to Andy Warhol at Budapest Fine Art Fair '08 Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:02 PM PDT   BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - Mihály Munkácsy, Béla Kádár, Andy Warhol, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy,  just to name a few artists whose works of art can be admired at this year's Budapest Art Fair antique and contemporary exhibition and fair in the Mucsarnok (Art Hall) between 20 and 23 November 2008. The antique and contemporary exhibition, looking back to a period of 15 years and renewed last year both in its name and profile, is the most significant event of arts in Hungary, that gradually became a cultural event on the international scene too. Over the years the exhibition introduced under the name of Antique Interior in the Ethnographic Museum 15 years ago has undergone spectacular changes. The exhibition was launched simultaneously with the rebirth of the Hungarian art treasure market.

The Louvre Casts Doubt on Authenticity of Picasso Painting Stolen from Kuwait and Found in Iraq Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:01 PM PDT Bagdad, Iraq - It was presented as a coup for the Iraqi authorities – the seizure of a stolen Pablo Picasso from a village hawker who had no idea that his loot was priceless.Tuesday's raid by the Iraqi army's special forces unit in a town south of Baghdad was also seen as a diplomatic success, a rare chance for Iraq to mend a bridge burned by Saddam Hussein in 1990 when his forces returned from their invasion of Kuwait with plundered treasure worth untold millions. But tonight the art world was casting doubts over the provenance of the painting known as The Naked Lady, with the Louvre disowning the find and no one else prepared to claim it as authentic.

Sylvie Fleury Brings Luxury and Glamour to the Contemporary Art Center of Málaga Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:00 PM PDT MALAGA.- The Contemporary Art Center of Málaga, in collaboration with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, is presenting the first exhibition in Spain of the Swiss artist, Sylvie Fleury. It comprises a survey of her output over the last 20 years and will allow the visitor to see some of her most important works through which she offers an ironic vision of consumer culture and the angst that prevails in contemporary society. Sculptures, murals, videos and neons constitute the key pieces in a comprehensive display of works which demonstrates that nothing is what it seems while revealing the most destructive side of present-day aspirations. The artist guides the viewer through the world of fashion, luxury and leading brand names, using the vehicle of art to criticise the superficiality of a capricious, dissatisfied world. On view through 12 June, 2011.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 17 Aug 2011 08:00 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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