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• The Southeast Museum of Photography Shows "A Second Telling: September 11 ~ Here is New York"
• CSU Northridge Art Gallery presents Two Contemporary Artists From China
• The Boise Art Museum Presents the Art of the Graphic Novel
• The Affordable Art Fair to Land in Los Angeles in January 2012
• Times Square Alliance and mmmm. Unveil the World Premiere of "Meeting Bowls" in NYC
• MoMA's Annual Photography Series Highlights Six Emerging Contemporary Artists
• Early American Militaria to Highlight Bonhams & Butterfields' Fall Sale
• The Hunt for Hidden Gems Begins on the Series Premiere of "Buried Treasure"
• The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Hosts Exhibition of Jack Tworkov
• Harvard Art Museum receives Major Gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer
• Cézanne Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th Anniversary
• "Salvador Dalí ~ A Surrealist in Istanbul" opens at The Sakip Sabanci Museum
• 100 Masterpieces from the Städel Museum at Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni
• Vancouver Art Gallery To Host 'The Colour of My Dreams ~ The Surrealist Revolution'
• Sotheby's Announces Two-Day Exhibit of Ukrainian Art In Kiev
• Phillips de Pury & Co. Features Highlights from NYC Contemporary May Sales
• 5,200 People Pose Naked
• Masterpieces from Russia at the Royal Academy of Arts
• Migros Museum hosts First Solo Exhibition in Switzerland for Tatiana Trouvé
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Southeast Museum of Photography Shows "A Second Telling: September 11 ~ Here is New York" Posted: 19 Aug 2011 12:17 AM PDT Daytona, FL.- The Southeast Museum of Photography is proud to present "A Second Telling: September 11 - Here is New York", on view until October 2nd. This powerful set of photographs is drawn from the permanent collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography and consists of photographs from an original exhibition which was organized in response to the World Trade Center tragedy of 2001. "Here is New York" was originally organized by four individuals in the days immediately following the destruction of the World Trade Center. The exhibition began during the third week of September in a small vacant storefront on Prince Street in Soho, which was owned by one of the organizers and where he had taped up a nondescript picture of the World Trade Center in the front window on September 11, 2001. As soon as the call for submissions went out, the response was immediate and overwhelming. By Christmas, over fifteen hundred photographers had contributed more than four thousand images, and more than two hundred and fifty thousand people had made their way to Prince Street to view them. The goal of the 2002 project was to collect, organize, display and preserve for historical purposes the broadest possible view of this event and its aftermath. The 2002 presentation of "Here is New York" at the Southeast Museum of Photography was one of only a handful of such presentations outside of New York City. More than fifty images were acquired by the museum from the 1,200 photographs that were originally exhibited at the museum in spring 2002. The images on display at the museum include powerful and poignant images taken by professional and amateur photographers. "The First 24 Hours", a video shot during the 24 hours immediately following the tragedy will also be shown continuously in the museum. The Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP) is a public resource dedicated to the advancement of the fields of photography and education through multi-disciplinary curriculum service, community education and public programs. The Museum upholds professional museum standards (AAM), and values freedom of intellectual inquiry, diversity, service to the discipline and profession and partnership with our community. The Southeast Museum of Photography assists Daytona State College in its mission of providing quality, affordable academic, job training and personal enrichment programs to educate and empower individuals and promote economic development. The SMP is an independent academic and public-service unit of Daytona State College. The museum opened in 1992 and is one of 13 facilities in the US dedicated exclusively to photography, and one of only a handful of such institutions nationally, that share a scope, reach and depth of collection and activities in this specific field. It is Florida's most comprehensive museum of photography and the largest in the southeast. SMP is a vibrant museum with an impressive international reputation of leadership for photography exhibitions, publications and educational programming. SMP exhibitions and publications are well known in the field of photography and reach an international audience. The museum serves national audiences for photography and art as well as all local and regional audiences, universities, colleges and schools. SMP enjoys strong relations with other national and international photographic institutions and has hosted significant exhibitions of world-class photojournalism, fashion and advertising images, contemporary photographic art, thematic exhibitions by most major photographic artists; and the works of such renowned photographers as Andre Kertesz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Webb, Susan Mieselas, Steve McCurry, Eugene Richards and Paul Fusco. Since 1992, the Museum has presented more than 300 exhibitions; 300 symposia, lectures, or other programs; and published more than 30 monographs or catalogues. In a typical year there are six exhibition seasons presenting solo, survey, vintage, thematic and various forms of retrospective exhibitions numbering about twenty. In recent years there has been a considerable increase in the number of exhibitions and programs directly presenting works significant to Florida and/or produced by Florida artists. The museum has also directed more of its curatorial efforts into generating, researching and developing new exhibitions directly. Exhibitions and public programs in photography bring many of the world's most renowned artists and photojournalists to the museum and to Florida. SMP recently moved to a new contemporary, multi-purpose complex at the main Daytona campus entrance of Daytona State College, directly on International Speedway Boulevard; giving the museum a very high profile in the community on the most-traveled public street. The landmark cultural complex enhances the museum's ability to serve the community, the region and visitors to the area. It includes increased gallery space (9,000 sq.ft.), and education, workshop and office space, a theatre-style lecture area, seminar rooms (three, combined capacity 120 seats), a public access reference library and photographic resource center, a new museum bookstore, coffee shop and a cinema/screening room (90 seat). Atrium, seminar and banquet/symposium program areas total 30,000 sq. ft. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.smponline.org/

CSU Northridge Art Gallery presents Two Contemporary Artists From China Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:50 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA.- The California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Art Gallery is proud to present "Tales of Our Time: Two Contemporary Artists From China", on view from August 29th through October 8th. Curated by Dr. Meiqin Wang, Assistant professor of art history at California State University Northridge, there will also be an artists reception on Friday, September 9th from 5–7pm, a talk at the gallery on Monday, September 12th from 10am and an artist lecture on Wednesday, September 14th from 11am. The exhibition explores urbanization and its impact in contemporary China through the art of internationally established Chinese artists Chen Qiulin and Weng Fen. The exhibit presents about forty photographic and video works created by the two artists since the beginning of the twenty-first century—a decade that witnesses the dramatic movement of urbanization and modernization of the Chinese world.

The Boise Art Museum Presents the Art of the Graphic Novel Posted: 18 Aug 2011 11:34 PM PDT Boise ID.- The Boise Art Museum is pleased to present "Comics at the Crossroads: Art of the Graphic Novel", an exhibition which explores the work of 40 Northwest comic artists. For decades comics have largely been viewed as light-hearted and amusing stories told through simple line art. But in recent years, comics have moved from the cultural fringes into the artistic and literary mainstream. The Los Angeles Times recently added a Graphic Novel category to its slate of annual Book Prizes, citing the medium as "an expanding part of the book landscape, both aesthetically and commercially". "Comics at the Crossroads: Art of the Graphic Novel" will be on view at the museum from August 20th through November 27th.

The Affordable Art Fair to Land in Los Angeles in January 2012 Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:18 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- Chosen for its vibrancy, allure, and burgeoning art scene, Los Angeles will soon play host to the Affordable Art Fair, an event that seamlessly fuses art, quality, education, and entertainment. Founded twelve years ago by Will Ramsay, the Affordable Art Fair is an unrivaled international phenomenon; with fairs held annually in ten locations around the world. Presenting contemporary art priced from $100 - $10,000, with three quarters of the work under $5,000, the Affordable Art Fair will present original, contemporary works to entice the entire L.A. community.

Times Square Alliance and mmmm. Unveil the World Premiere of "Meeting Bowls" in NYC Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:17 PM PDT NEW YORK CITY - The Times Square Alliance with the Consulate General of Spain New York today present a month-long public art installation of a new generation of urban furnishing, termed the Meeting Bowls. At 5 feet tall and 7 feet in diameter and open to the sky and flashing billboards of Times Square, the giant bowls can host up to eight strangers or friends. The collaborative of Spanish artists, mmmm…, created the Meeting Bowls to capture urban territory for use as social places for gathering and getting to know people. On a first-come, first-serve basis, all members of the public can enjoy the intimate spaces from 8 AM to Midnight today through September 16, located at 46th St. and Broadway. This is the world premiere of Meeting Bowls and the first installation by mmmm… in the United States.

MoMA's Annual Photography Series Highlights Six Emerging Contemporary Artists Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:02 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announces the 26th annual New Photography exhibition, running September 27, 2011, through January 16, 2012, in The Robert and Joyce Menschel Gallery. This year, the exhibition expands to feature six artists—Zhang Dali, Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, and Viviane Sassen. These artists, hailing from Canada, China, England, Holland, and the United States, exemplify the diversity and international scope of contemporary photographic work. New Photography 2011 is organized by Dan Leers, The Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.

Early American Militaria to Highlight Bonhams & Butterfields' Fall Sale Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:46 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields is proud to announce that its November 14, 2011 Antique Arms and Armor and Modern Sporting Guns sale in San Francisco will feature a single-owner collection of more than 400 lots of American militaria, including military headgear, uniforms, edged weapons, firearms and accoutrements, illustrating all facets of military life, from the Federal Period through the Civil War. Highlighting the auction will be a number of uniform ensembles from the early Federal Period and Civil War, as well as a historic, Paris-made Confederate artillery officer's frock coat of Lt. Col. Richard Snowden Andrews.

The Hunt for Hidden Gems Begins on the Series Premiere of "Buried Treasure" Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:23 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- With every family comes a dream, and with every treasure a story. Hosts Leigh and Leslie Keno ("Antiques Roadshow") are modern-day treasure hunters. These world-renowned antique experts and appraisers have helped people all over the U.S. sell more than $1 billion worth of collectibles. In the new unscripted series, the identical twin brothers will travel across the country helping ordinary people find treasures right in their own homes. Throughout the hour, the Kenos will show up at participants' homes and immediately begin their hunt for the hidden gems. Leigh and Leslie will investigate items of interest using cutting-edge technology to determine authenticity, condition and – ultimately – worth. The series premiere of BURIED TREASURE airs Wednesday, Aug. 24 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Hosts Exhibition of Jack Tworkov Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:22 PM PDT Asheville, NC.- The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville is pleased to present "Jack Tworkov: The Accident of Choice, the artist at Black Mountain College". Organized and curated by Jason Andrew, this historic exhibition includes important works by Jack Tworkov, who taught painting at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1952. On view will be paintings and drawings by Tworkov ranging from 1948-52 including works from one of the artist's most noted series, House of the Sun that began at Black Mountain College. The exhibition remains on view at the museum until September 17th. Also on exhibit are letters, photographs, and ephemera from students and fellow artists including >Fielding Dawson, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, and Stephan Wolpe; photographs of Jack Tworkov at Black Mountain College by Robert Rauschenberg, and several original works by Rauschenberg from 1952. Jack Tworkov (1900-1982) was a founding member of the >New York School and is regarded as one of the great artists, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Clifford Still, whose gestural paintings of the 1950s formed the basis for the Abstract Expressionist movement in America. In the summer of 1952, Tworkov was invited to teach painting at Black Mountain College. By 1952, Jack Tworkov had gained recognition as one of the most masterful artists of his generation. At the same time, his reputation as a teacher and mentor was also on the rise. Tworkov was a powerful intellectual, and believed in being open to all forms of inspiration and expression. His interdisciplinary attitude and his balanced exchange of ideas made it possible for him to form lasting relationships with composers >John Cage, Morton Feldman, Stefan Wolpe, choreographer Merce Cunningham and fellow painters Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and the young Robert Rauschenberg to name a few. Accident of Choice refers to the experimental nature inherent in all forms of expression—painting, sculpture, dance, film, drama. Decisions (whether conscious or unconscious) are intrinsic to the process of creating. Inherent in those choices are accidents—the spontaneous slide of the brush or the unexpected weight change when creating a dance. These choices confirm the will of the artist. It was the exploitation of such unexpected moments that this generation of artists that came into prominence in the 1940s and 50s were open to, and these artists, composers and writers became associated with the New York School. The title also lends insight to Tworkov's philosophy to balance the spontaneous and automatic with the conscious and the planned. "My hope," Tworkov wrote in a statement for his 1957 show at the Stable Gallery, "is to confront the picture without a ready technique or a prepared attitude--a condition which is nevertheless never completely attainable; to have no program and, necessarily then, no conceived style. To paint no Tworkovs". "Accident of Choice" features work by Jack Tworkov spanning the time period of 1948-1952 with a particular focus on a single series of paintings that began from a sketch made at Black Mountain College. The artist titled the series "House of the Sun." Various examples of the series, which, as a subject the artist describes he did not choose, "but he came to know" derived from a series of paintings inspired by the theme of Odyssey. Important paintings and drawings from the series are included. The focus of the exhibition quickly broadens beyond the artist's process to include his interactions and friendships with other artists of the time who together embraced the overall experimental nature that was Black Mountain College. This includes letters and ephemera from Fielding Dawson, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, and Stephan Wolpe; photographs of Jack Tworkov at Black Mountain College by Robert Rauschenberg, and several original works by Rauschenberg from 1952. The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is an exhibition space and resource center dedicated to exploring the history and legacy of the world's most acclaimed experimental educational community. We offer changing exhibitions, a video archive, research materials, and a selection of books and other materials for sale. The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center was founded in 1993 by Mary Holden to honor and pay tribute to the spirit and history of Black Mountain College and to acknowledge the College's role as a forerunner in progressive, interdisciplinary education with a focus on the arts. Through exhibitions, publications, lectures, films, seminars, and oral history interviews BMCM+AC is committed to spreading awareness of Black Mountain College and its important legacy. In 1995 we organized a Black Mountain College reunion attended by former faculty and students. Other ongoing projects include the development of a permanent collection and archive to provide safe storage for artwork and historical materials related to the College and a series of publications about the college and the people associated with it. The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center aspires to provide a place where multifaceted programming can take place in an energetic environment. Our goal is to provide a forum for people from a variety of backgrounds in both the arts and sciences to interact so that art, ideas, and discourse are integrated with an emphasis on process rather than product. The home of the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center provides a forum to perpetuate the energy, vision, and accomplishments that made Black Mountain College one of the most creative educational forces of the 20th century. At the same time, BMCM+AC sponsors new programs to promote an innovative and experimental approach to today's issues and concerns. Thus the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center preserves and perpetuates the guiding spirit of historic Black Mountain College as an inspiration for contemporary society. The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center preserves and continues the unique legacy of educational and artistic innovation of Black Mountain College for public study and enjoyment. We achieve our mission through collection, conservation, and educational activities including exhibitions, publications and public programs. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.blackmountaincollege.org

Harvard Art Museum receives Major Gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:09 PM PDT   Cambridge, MA - Harvard University announced that the Harvard Art Museum has received a gift of 31 major works of modern and contemporary art and $45 million from Harvard alumna Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a former Harvard Art Museum curator, longtime supporter and friend of the museum and of Harvard, and wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer Jr. The modern works include important paintings and sculptures by Brancusi, Derain, Giacometti, Lipchitz, Miró, Modigliani, Picasso, Rosso, and Vuillard. The contemporary art includes major works by di Suvero, Heizer, Judd, Lichtenstein, Nauman, Newman, Oldenburg, Serra, Shapiro, and Tuttle. This gift represents one of the most significant donations of works of art ever received by the museum. The financial gift is the single largest donation in the history of the Harvard Art Museum. The Art Museum concurrently announced previous gifts of 43 other modern and contemporary works (both outright and partial gifts) from Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer Jr., and Mr. Pulitzer and his first wife, Louise (who died in 1968). These gifts were made between 1953 and 2005 and were never formally announced as donations to the Art Museum, and included paintings by Braque, Cézanne, Miró, Monet, Picasso, and Stella, and works on paper by Cézanne, Degas, and Delaunay. In addition, the Pulitzers have provided financial support over the years that helped the Art Museum to purchase 92 works of art, including paintings by Baselitz, Braque, and Mondrian, works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly, LeWitt, Marden, Serra, David Smith, and Twombly, and an important collection of Indian paintings on paper. The Pulitzers' sustained history of donations to build the collection at the Harvard Art Museum and their wide-ranging support of the institution have played a significant role in enhancing the University's commitment to the study and appreciation of the visual arts. Mrs. Pulitzer's gifts come at a time when the Art Museum has launched a major initiative that will enable it to better advance its mission as a leading center for research and teaching in the visual arts. A central component of the plan is an increasing integration of the museum's collections and programs into the academic life of the entire University. The Art Museum, working with architect Renzo Piano, has embarked on an extensive renovation and expansion of its historic facilities at 32 Quincy St. in Cambridge. The new design will allow a far more effective presentation of the collections and exhibitions of the three museums that compose the Harvard Art Museum—the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum—in new exhibition galleries and study centers and will greatly enhance the museum's research and education facilities. "The Harvard Art Museum's distinguished collections and dedication to teaching and research in the arts have had a significant impact on the field, on scholarship, and on my own life," noted Mrs. Pulitzer. "Both Joe and I have supported the Art Museum over the years in recognition of Harvard's unparalleled role in the development of professionals in the arts worldwide and because of our belief that the arts are a cornerstone in learning and education in all fields. My gift is also a way of thanking Harvard for the enrichment of my life and the defining role that art has played for me. The Harvard Art Museum's new project will expand the ways that art advances education even further and I am very proud to support the museum as it moves forward." "I am especially grateful for this remarkable gift because it is the continuation of a lifetime of giving of art, financial support, and time to the Art Museum and Harvard by Emmy and Joe," said Drew Faust, president of Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History. "The arts are central to the academic life of Harvard University. Emmy's generosity will help ensure that they play an even more robust role on campus and in the lives of all our students, whether they are studying the arts, economics, law, medicine, physics, or other disciplines." "Emmy has been the Art Museum's most active and dedicated benefactor, and her and Joe's long-term, substantive support has enriched the experience of countless students, researchers, and visitors," noted Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museum. "This current gift provides tremendous new strength in the museum's holdings of modern and contemporary art. Emmy and Joe's personal involvement and profound generosity stand as a model of institution-building and will advance scholarship in the visual arts for generations to come." Mrs. Pulitzer's formal involvement with the Art Museum began in 1957 when she served as assistant curator of drawings—working under the legendary curator Agnes Mongan—a position Mrs. Pulitzer held until 1964. She received her master's degree in the arts from Harvard in 1963 and has served in numerous leadership roles at the Art Museum and at Harvard, including as a chair and member of the Art Museum's Visiting Committee and Collections Committee, beginning in the early 1990s. She also serves on the University's Board of Overseers and is a member of its Standing Committee on Humanities and Arts, as well as the President's Advisory Committee on the Allston Initiative. Mr. Pulitzer was a member of the Harvard College Class of 1936 and, like his wife, filled many leadership positions at the Art Museum and the University, including: • Member, Board of Overseers, 1976–1982 • Member, Visiting Committee, Art Museum, 1971–1993, and vice chair, 1976–1983 • Member, Visiting Committee, Fine Arts Department, 1949–1971 and 1976–1982, and chair, 1976–1982. In addition to their other support of the University, Mr. Pulitzer provided a gift to endow the Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professorship of Modern Art in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which was activated with the appointment of Yve-Alain Bois in 1991. Mr. Pulitzer served as the editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and chairman of the Pulitzer Publishing Company for 38 years. He also served as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1955 through 1986. Mr. Pulitzer's support of the Art Museum was both far-ranging and farsighted, beginning in 1939 when he anonymously pledged $6,000—$2,000 a year—for a Fogg Museum Fellowship in Modern Art for postgraduate study abroad. The fellowship was administered by a small committee that included Edward Forbes, Paul Sachs, Alfred Barr, and eventually Meyer Schapiro. Fellowships were granted over the next three years to Francis Catlin, Milton Brown, and John McAndrew, all of whom became distinguished art historians. In 1958, Mr. Pulitzer anonymously established a fund for the acquisition of modern art, which enabled the Art Museum to acquire a major Mondrian drawing and a painting by Jackson Pollock. In 1976, for his 40th reunion, Mr. Pulitzer established a named endowment, the Joseph Pulitzer Jr. AB '36 Beneficiary Aid Fund, which continues to this day to support research travel for undergraduate art history concentrators. Emily Rauh Pulitzer and her late husband Joseph Pulitzer Jr. have been prominent supporters of the arts and built one of the country's premier private art collections. The Pulitzers have made generous gifts to many organizations and institutions, especially those in St. Louis, the city in which they have deep roots and commitments. These include gifts of works of art and a leadership gift to the capital campaign of the St. Louis Art Museum, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Grand Center, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and Washington University. Owing to the Pulitzers' commitment to St. Louis and to further strengthen the experience of the arts, Mrs. Pulitzer founded The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in a developing neighborhood. It opened in St. Louis in 2001 in a building designed by architect Tadao Ando. Through art exhibitions, programs, collaborations, and exchanges with other institutions—including the Harvard Art Museum—the Pulitzer Foundation aims to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of art and architecture and is a resource for artists, architects, scholars, students, and the general public. About the Harvard Art Museum The Harvard Art Museum is one of the world's leading arts institutions, comprised of three museums (Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museum Archives, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Turkey). The Harvard Art Museum is distinguished by the range and depth of its collections, its groundbreaking exhibitions, and the original research of its staff. As an integral part of Harvard and the community, the three art museums and four research centers serve as resources for students, scholars, and visitors. For more than a century, the Harvard Art Museum has been the nation's premier training ground for museum professionals and scholars and is renowned for its seminal role in the development of the discipline of art history in this country.   Visit : www.harvardartmuseum.org

Cézanne Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th Anniversary Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:08 PM PDT London - The Courtauld Gallery holds the finest group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) in Britain.  As the culmination of The Courtauld Institute of Art's 75th anniversary, the Gallery is showing the entire collection together for the first time.  The importance of the collection lies not only in its exceptionally high quality but also in its wide range, with seminal paintings, drawings and watercolours from the major periods of the artist's long career. The Courtauld Cézannes, on view from 26 June to 5 October 2008, will be the first opportunity to enjoy this extraordinary collection in its entirety.

"Salvador Dalí ~ A Surrealist in Istanbul" opens at The Sakip Sabanci Museum Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:07 PM PDT ISTANBUL, TURKEY - The Sabanci University Sakip Sabanci Museum (SSM), with the sponsorship of Akbank and in cooperation with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation, opened one of the 20th century's most important artists and representative of the Surrealist movement Salvador Dalí. The signature ceremony for the sponsorship for the exhibition "Salvador Dalí: A Surrealist in Istanbul" took place on 24 March 2008 at the SSM. The exhibition can be viewed between 20 September 2008 and 20 January 2009.

100 Masterpieces from the Städel Museum at Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:06 PM PDT ROME.- The exhibition presents, for the first time in Italy, a selection of works from the collection of the internationally renowned museum of Frankfurt, founded in 1815 through a bequest by merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728-1816) and among Europe's richest and most prized collections of ancient and modern art, besides being a unique foundation for the time in which it was instituted. The exhibition also gives room to masterpieces of German Expressionism, represented by the groups Die Brücke (with Heckel and Nolde) and Der Blaue Reiter (with Marc and Jawlensky), whose production is geared to a formula painting dramatic and radical. On view at Rome's Palazzo delle Esposizioni through 17 July.

Vancouver Art Gallery To Host 'The Colour of My Dreams ~ The Surrealist Revolution' Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:05 PM PDT Vancouver, Canada - 'The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art' is the most comprehensive exhibition of surrealist art ever presented in Canada. Included are outstanding works by Hans Bellmer, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy and other leading figures of Surrealism. Guest curator Dawn Ades, a renowned scholar and leading expert on the movement, has selected more than 300 works of art that underscore the radical sense of experimentation that contributed to the founding of Surrealism in the 1920s and resulted in a rich diversity of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and film in the ensuing decades.

Sotheby's Announces Two-Day Exhibit of Ukrainian Art In Kiev Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:04 PM PDT KIEV.- Sotheby's announced that on Wednesday, May 20th and Thursday, May 21st, 2009 it will stage a two-day exhibition in Kiev, in association with Ukrainian House, to showcase 19 works from its first Contemporary Art sale ever to include a major offering of Ukrainian Art. The exhibition at Ukrainian House (2 Kreschatuk Street, 01001, Kyiv, Ukraine) will present highlights by some of Ukraine's most important contemporary artists from the London Contemporary Art: Russian and Ukrainian auction on Tuesday, June 9, 2009.

Phillips de Pury & Co. Features Highlights from NYC Contemporary May Sales Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:03 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips de Pury & Company announced the highlights from the May Contemporary Art Part I and Contemporary Art Part II sales. The sales will feature important and iconic modern and contemporary works. Contemporary Art Part I includes 51 lots with a pre-sale estimate of $84,970,000 to $120,500,000. Contemporary Art Part II includes 308 lots with a pre-sale estimate of $8,467,000 to $12,153,000.

5,200 People Pose Naked Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:02 PM PDT SYDNEY, AU (REUTERS).- Some 5,200 Australians posed naked in front of the Sydney Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by New York-based artist Spencer Tunick for another signature installation of nudes against urban backdrops. On a chilly, overcast, first day of autumn, the mass nude photo shoot was titled "Mardi Gras: The Base" and meant to celebrate Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras last weekend.

Masterpieces from Russia at the Royal Academy of Arts Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:01 PM PDT   LONDON - In January 2008, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition presenting modern masterpieces drawn from Russia's principal museum collections: the State Pushkin Museum and the State Tretyakov Museum in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Over 120 paintings by Russian and French artists working between 1870 and 1925 will be displayed together for the first time ever in the United Kingdom in an exhibition which surveys the main directions of modern art from Realism and Impressionism to Non-Objective painting. Works will include paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse together with those by Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich.

Migros Museum hosts First Solo Exhibition in Switzerland for Tatiana Trouvé Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:00 PM PDT ZURICH.- Tatiana Trouvé (born 1968 in Cosenza, lives and works in Paris) became known for her room constructions, architectonic interventions, and snake-like metal sculptural objects that are seemingly solidified in movement – as if frozen. In her artworks Tatania Trouvé often explores the association between the "inner" and the "outer" on both material and psychological levels. Psychological spaces are turned outwards and become concrete, uncanny "inner" spaces. For this, her first solo exhibition in Switzerland, Tatiana Trouvé is exhibiting an installative spatial structure with architectonic interventions and large format drawings. On view at the Migros Museum until 21 February, 2010.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 18 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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