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• The Fleming Collection To Showcase John Burningham's Illustrations
• Paris Left Bank Comes to Edinburgh at Bonhams Colourists Sale
• Ron Mueck's Monumental Sculpture "In Bed" to Tour to Five Queensland Galleries
• The Japan Society To Showcase "Fiber Futures ~ Japan’s Textile Pioneers"
• SOLAR To Host New Works by Darlene Charneco
• The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Shows Works by Bob Ray & Steve Johnson
• The Brooklyn Museum Opens an Exhibition of Photographs of Prominent Latino Americans
• The Tel Aviv Museum of Art To Show "Inside Job: Street Art in Tel Aviv"
• New Collection of Andy Warhol Designs for iPhone, iPad and MacBook
• The National Museum of Contemporary Art Presents "Artist of the Year 1995-2010"
• The Vatican Museums ~ 9 Miles Of Galleries Containing Some Of The Most Famous Artworks Ever Created
• 'An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art' at the New Britain Museum of American Art
• Christie's Latin American Sale to feature Rare Masterpieces & Contemporary Paintings
• Sony World Photography Awards Winners Showcased at Somerset House
• Arken Museum exhibits 'Triumph of Desire ~ Danish and International Surrealism'
• ARCOmadrid Opens 30th Edition with Works of Art Between the Ordinary and Extraordinary
• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Celebrates Harriet Hosmer's Life & Work
• MoMA Presents the First Major U.S. Retrospective of Famed Israeli Designer Ron Arad
• Cranbrook Academy of Art to Create Experiential Environment for AXA Art Lounge
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Fleming Collection To Showcase John Burningham's Illustrations Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:31 PM PDT London.- A celebration of the rich and varied career of John Burningham, one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved illustrators, is to be held at the Fleming Collection at 13 Berkeley Street, London W1 from September 13th to December 22nd. The retrospective exhibition, entitled "John Burningham: An Illustrated Journey", will include illustrations, working drawings and previously  unseen archive material. It will be accompanied by a new book about Burningham published by The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, the charity that runs The Fleming Collection. The artistic achievements of Burningham, who marked his 75th  birthday earlier this year, have been extraordinary. He is both the author and illustrator of many children's books, did the illustrations for 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' by Ian Fleming, and produced a series of superb travel posters which will go on show in a simultaneous exhibition at The London Transport Museum. The Fleming Collection, which has become an embassy for Scottish art in London, will also show  sketches from Burningham's time working on slum clearance schemes in Glasgow in the 1950s. Burningham was born in Surrey in 1936 and attended nine different schools, including Naemoor, near Dunfermline, and Summerhill, A.S. Neill's famous alternative school where lessons were not compulsory. There, helped by an excellent teacher and a great deal of time spent in the art room, he laid the foundations for his life's work. On leaving in 1953 he registered as a conscientious objector rather than do National Service in order to please his pacifist father. Among a variety of tasks that he carried out during this period of non-military duties was slum clearance in the Govan district of Glasgow and some of his sketches of life in this tough, industrial environment will be included in the exhibition. On the strength of these he was fast-tracked onto a course in graphic design and illustration at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, where he met fellow student Helen Oxenbury, who he married in 1964. She is also a well-known illustrator of children's books. Burningham's first break came when he was commissioned by London Transport to design a poster for them. "Please avoid the rush hour" appeared in 1961 and eight further posters followed along with other work for  the British Transport Commission. Some of these will be included in The Fleming Collection's exhibition and the full range will go on show at The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2 from September 12th to December 2nd. The first children's book written and illustrated by Burningham was 'Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers' published in 1963, which was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration. Many other books followed, including 'Mr Gumpy's Outing', for which Burningham won a second Greenaway Medal. He was recently nominated as a British entry for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award presented by the International Board on Books for Young People. The success of Borka led to a commission to illustrate 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', the only children's book written by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels and grandson of Robert Fleming, founder of Flemings bank. The Fleming Collection, now an independent charity, grew out of the corporate collection of Scottish art set up by the bank. Burningham made his own model of Chitty and suspended it from the ceiling using fishing line before taking photographs of it from every angle. The remains of the model, now minus its wings, and some of the original working drawings will go on show in the exhibition at The Fleming Collection. Burningham recalls that the only change that Fleming, a heavy smoker, made to his illustrations was to ask for the addition of a striped Tabac sign to a drawing of Paris. In 1968 Flemings, the former merchant bank, moved into new London offices and David Donald, one of the directors, suggested that it would be a good idea to purchase a few paintings in order to brighten up the many bare walls. The only guidelines he was given by the Board were that, in view of the company's Scottish origins the paintings should be by Scottish artists or of Scottish scenes by any artist. David Donald was able to buy quality paintings by artists such as the Scottish impressionist William McTaggart, the Glasgow Boys, and the Scottish Colourists for sums which today seem very low. He was also able to buy two paintings, "Lochaber No More" by John Watson Nicol (1856-1926) and "The Last of the Clan" by Thomas Faed (1826-1900), which have become the most famous images of the Highland Clearances. The Fleming Collection is noted for it outstanding examples of work by the Colourists, many of which were loaned to the Scottish Colourist exhibition at the Royal Academy, London and Dean Gallery, Edinburgh in 2000. The Collection was never regarded as an investment, but rather as a means of promoting a pleasant, stimulating and sometimes challenging environment for both staff and visitors alike. At the same time the Collection aimed to foster Scottish art and encourage young Scottish artists. Undoubtedly, much of the success of the Collection stems from the fact that it has been built up, at any one time, by one person, or two at the most, not by a committee; committees rarely agree on what should be bought and end up buying everyone's second or third choices! Following the announcement of the sale of the bank, the Fleming Collection was sold in April 2000 to a new charitable foundation, endowed by the Fleming Family, called The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation. The Foundation acquired premises in Berkeley Street , London where it converted an empty retail space into a gallery named The Fleming Collection. The gallery opened to the public in January 2002 and holds four exhibitions of Scottish art annually. Over the years the gallery has brought public collections to a London audience, exhibitions have been held from the Fergusson Gallery, Perth and Kinross Council; City Art Centre, Edinburgh; McManus Galleries and Museum, Dundee; The National Galleries of Scotland; Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow. Exhibitions surveying the work of artists such as DY Cameron, William McTaggart, Edward Baird and James Pryde have taken place and new research on these artists has been published by the Foundation. Annually an exhibition will be drawn from the permanent collection focusing on a single theme, genre or period. Often exhibitions curated by The Fleming Collection tour to other museums and galleries. Visit the collection's website at ... http://www.flemingcollection.com

Paris Left Bank Comes to Edinburgh at Bonhams Colourists Sale Posted: 19 Aug 2011 10:48 PM PDT EDINBURGH.- A major painting by the Scottish Colourist, John Duncan Fergusson, is one of the highlights of the sale of Bonhams' Colourists and other Scottish painters in Edinburgh on the evening of Wednesday 31 August. The work, 'At the Milliner's Paris', depicts some of the dressmaking assistants Fergusson met at the louche Cafe d'Harcourt in the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank in Paris where they would gather after work and mingle with students from the nearby Sorbonne University. It was a favourite haunt of Fergusson's when he was living and working in Paris before the First World War and based in a studio in the Rue Notre Dame des Champs. (The cafe continued as a student meeting place until the Nazi invasion in 1940 when it was turned into a German run bookshop. It is now a branch of Gap).

Ron Mueck's Monumental Sculpture "In Bed" to Tour to Five Queensland Galleries Posted: 19 Aug 2011 09:54 PM PDT QUEENSLAND, AU - Arts Minister Rachel Nolan today announced monumental sculpture "In Bed" by Ron Mueck will tour five regional Queensland galleries in 2011-2012, as part of the Gallery of Modern Art's (GoMA) fifth birthday celebrations. "Queensland Art Gallery is touring the breathtakingly life-like sculpture from September 2011 until July 2012, beginning with Ipswich Art Gallery, 10 September – 13 November, before traveling on to Thuringowa, Cairns, Mackay and Hervey Bay," Ms Nolan said.

The Japan Society To Showcase "Fiber Futures ~ Japan’s Textile Pioneers" Posted: 19 Aug 2011 09:11 PM PDT New York City.- The Japan Society is proud to showcase a growing aesthetic movement, art inspired by extreme textile making in the exhibition "Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers" on view at the society's gallery from September 16th through December 18th. Coaxed from materials as age-old as hemp and newly developed as microfilaments, a varied array of more than 35 large-scale works will be on view. While the spirit of a Japanese sensibility and a technical virtuosity hewn over centuries is everywhere evident, what best characterizes the work on view is a thirst for experimentation, whether it be in the search for the unconventional material or in the fusing of seemingly opposing extremes of old and new. One also sees the medium of fiber used to express ideas about nature and sustainability and personal and cultural identity.

SOLAR To Host New Works by Darlene Charneco Posted: 19 Aug 2011 08:41 PM PDT East Hampton, NY.- SOLAR is very pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition "Islands of Memory", featuring new works by Darlene Charneco. This is the artist's first solo show at SOLAR and is an opportunity to view her most current series of signature resin, nails, and mixed media panels that draw on a number of sources, including network theory, geographic information systems, video games, virtual worlds, childhood toys, and educational tools.  Islands of Memory is a continuation of the artist's explorations into how we think, learn and remember. Islands draws on a literal understanding of Charneco's background and identity:  Puerto Rico and Long Island as the locations, homes, and homelands that conform and shape her being.  Metaphorically, as is explicit in the title, the term relates to memory, expressed in the artwork as forms.  She states, "… I feel a draw to extrude the spaces and at times have them be free sculpture.  These clusters are like thought-forms…a chunking of concepts that I am trying to hold, mix, marry, communicate with, make tangible". "Islands of Memory" will be on view at the gallery from August 27th through October 24th.

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Shows Works by Bob Ray & Steve Johnson Posted: 19 Aug 2011 08:16 PM PDT Charleston, SC.– The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston School of the Arts is pleased to present two concurrent solo exhibitions, "White Days Unswallowed" by Bob Ray and "From the Ground Up" by Steve Johnson. The exhibitions open with a reception on Friday, August 26th from 5 until 7pm and run through October 7th. Prior to the public reception, the community is invited to a gallery walk-through with Bob Ray and Director/Senior Curator Mark Sloan at 4:30pm. During the opening reception, Bob Ray and his son will debut an original performance entitled "White Days Unswallowed." Visitors will have the chance to hear Steve Johnson speak about his work on Saturday, August 27th at 2:30pm inside the Halsey Institute's galleries. Throughout the exhibition, guided group tours will be offered.  All events are free with the public encouraged to attend.

The Brooklyn Museum Opens an Exhibition of Photographs of Prominent Latino Americans Posted: 19 Aug 2011 08:15 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- A new exhibition of large-format, full-color photographic portraits, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Latino List, will be on view at the Brooklyn Museum from August 19 through December 11, exploring the personal stories of some of today's most influential Latino Americans from the fields of culture, politics, business, and sports. America Ferrera, Gloria Estefan, Pitbull, Eva Longoria, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Chi-Chi Rodríguez are among the twenty-five subjects featured. The exhibition will include excerpts from an accompanying documentary film, also called The Latino List, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders with interviews conducted by Emmy Award–winning journalists Maria Hinojosa and Sandra Guzman. In this film, which will premiere on HBO on September 29th, the people in Greenfield-Sanders's photographs are seen and heard directly sharing their stories and experiences as Latinos in America.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art To Show "Inside Job: Street Art in Tel Aviv" Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:55 PM PDT Tel Aviv, Israel  - The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is pleased to present "Inside Job: Street Art in Tel Aviv", on view at the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion for Contemporary Art from August 25th through January 14th 2012. In recent years, the streets of Tel Aviv – especially those in the city's central and southern neighborhoods – have been flooded with visual images, which pop up on the exteriors of abandoned houses and on other types of walls. These images range from simple slogans to complex graffiti inscriptions and carefully planned, colorful compositions.  Some of these works are remarkably large, while others are small and almost invisible; what characterizes them all is the bold and innovative relationships they forge with the surrounding urban environment.

New Collection of Andy Warhol Designs for iPhone, iPad and MacBook Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:54 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Incase announced the second release of designs in the Incase for Andy Warhol Collection. The latest collection release highlights Warhol's artistic range, featuring imagery from works in a variety of media including silkscreening (Elvis, Advertisements), film (Empire) and hand-drawing (Telephone, Do It Yourself Flowers). Iconic Warhol images turn Incase's signature protective cases and bags for iPhone, iPad and MacBook into functional pieces of art, a tribute to the great American artist's affinity for technology and its place in contemporary culture and the arts.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art Presents "Artist of the Year 1995-2010" Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:53 PM PDT Seoul, Korea  - The National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea is pleased to present "Artist of the Year 1995-2010", on view until October 30th at its main building in Gwacheon. The exhibition will look back on the past 16 years of Korea's contemporary artwork. In addition, the 'Artist of the Year' initiative will be revised. Under the 'Artist of the Year' initiative, which was established in 1995 and ran until 2010, artists who showed a strong creative drive and performed distinguished art activities in the Korean art world were selected on an annual basis regardless of their age and genre, and were invited to hold individual exhibitions at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. Over the past 16 years, 23 artists, including Jheon Soo-cheon, Yoon Jeong-seop, Suh Se-ok, Jung Yeon-doo, and Park Ki-won, were selected through this system,  enabling them to establish a stronger position in the art world and develop into leaders of the Korean art scene. The exhibition,  titled  Artist of the Year 1995-2010, offers a good opportunity to reflect on the history of the chosen artists in the years 1995-2010 and to explore and declare a new direction for the future. The representative art works of the 23 artists selected by the 'Artist of the Year' will be displayed in this exhibition, and a video of each artist's message will be presented as well. Through this exhibition, visitors will get to know all about the artists' art world and life story, as well as the future direction of Korean art. This exhibition will also help  the National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea to make a great step forward with the opening of the Seoul  branch, UUL which will satisfy the needs of the 21st century. For the past 16 years, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea has been exploring various changes and innovations through the 'Artist of the Year' program, and now seeks to revise the system as its first step  before the opening  of  the UUL. The new  program will be a comprehensive, practical art sponsorship  initiative that will  focus on discovering and assisting artists so that they can develop as global artists. This program seeks to discover and foster artists who have future potential and vision in the realm of Korean contemporary art. Unlike other award programs in the arts arena, it will sponsor the activities of the selected artists, provide a matching program between artists and theorists and continuous support through a dedicated curator system, and establish systematic assistance for the production of promotional art catalogue videos. Together with SBS, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea will provide a better work environment for the selected artists, which will contribute to constructing a basic infrastructure for art in the long run. Located in beautiful Gwacheon, the National Museum of Contemporary Art displays work by Korean and international modern artists, as well as work by those contemporary artists currently making waves in the art world. As well as its permanent collection, the museum generally presents several special exhibitions, which run for three to four months. The museum is conveniently located on the outskirts of Seoul near to several other attractions, such as the Seoul Grand Park, and Seoul Land amusement park. The National Museum of Contemporary Art museum building was constructed in a manner that harmonizes with both the natural and the artificial beauty of its surroundings, through a traditional form that invokes contemporary tastes. The design of the museum reflects Korea's traditional architectural style of fortress walls and a beacon mound. The museum features a sculpture gallery in the form of fortress walls, a painting gallery the shape of a semi-oval hall, and the Ramp Core in the style of a beacon mound that connects the two sections.The exterior space of the museum is designed to reflect a traditional Korean garden, enabling gradual access through a passage that gives the visual effect of a steady ascent. The sculpture garden is formed naturally by the shape of the surrounding land and the trees and shrubs. Starting in 1971, two years after its establishment, the museum has collected works of art, and each year adds historically valuable and important works to its collection. In the early years, the museum's collection was focused on modern arts, and in the 1980s abstract art and works of international artists were actively collected. In the 1990s, the collection began to favor a more collectable form of art, and began to focus on works by young artists rather than those of mainstream artists and deceased artists. In the 2000s, with the supplementation of the collections in accordance with a re-evaluation of art history, interest and collections in lesser-known genres, as well as experimental and avant-garde art forms such as engravings, crafts and photography increased. The history of the National Museum of Contemporary Art's collection has unfolded along with the flow of Korea's art and culture since the 1970s. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.moca.go.kr

The Vatican Museums ~ 9 Miles Of Galleries Containing Some Of The Most Famous Artworks Ever Created Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:38 PM PDT The Vatican Museums boast one of the world's greatest art collections, they are a gigantic repository of treasures from antiquity and the Renaissance, all housed in a labyrinthine series of lavishly adorned palaces, apartments, and galleries (9 miles long) leading to the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican Museums occupy a part of the papal palaces in the Vatican City enclave in Rome, built from the 1200s onward. From the former papal private apartments, the museums were created over a period of time to display the vast treasure trove of art acquired by the Vatican. The Vatican Museums trace their origins to one marble sculpture, purchased more than 500 years ago. The sculpture of 'Laocoön', the priest who, according to Greek mythology, tried to convince the people of ancient Troy not to accept the Greeks' "gift" of a hollow horse, was discovered 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. On their recommendation, the pope immediately purchased the sculpture from the vineyard owner. The pope put the sculpture of Laocoön and his sons in the grips of a sea serpent on public display at the Vatican exactly one month after its discovery. Since then, the museums have grown and expanded, and now consist of a number of different buildings within the Vatican Enclave, including the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, Gregorian Etruscan Museum, the Pio-Clementine Museum, the Chiaramonti Museum, the Braccio Nuovo (New Wing), Gregorian Profane Museum, Pio Christian Museum (with the Christian and Hebrew Lapidary), Pinacoteca (picture gallery), Missionary-Ethnological Museum, Sacred Museum (formerly part of the Vatican Library), Vatican Historical Museum (Lateran Apostolic Palace) along with displays of tapestries, ceramics, miniature mosaics, and classical and modern religious arts in the Vatican Palaces and Chapels that are also open to the public. There are 54 galleries, or "salas" in total, with the famous Sistine Chapel, notably, being the very last sala within the Museum. Other highlights include paintings by Fra Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli and Filippo Lippi in Room III; three of Raphael's most famous paintings (Coronation of the Virgin, 1503; Madonna of Foligno, 1511; Transfiguration, 1520) in Room III; a remarkable portrait of St. Jerome by Leonardo da Vinci (1480) in Room IX; Caravaggio's dramatic Descent from the Cross (1608) in Room XII; and Bernini's clay models in Room XVII. A Workshop for Restoring paintings, bronzes, marble, tapestries and other items, is part of the Museums, which also include a Scientific Research Laboratory. The Vatican Library is one of the oldest in the world and contains over 75,000 codices. The museums include restaurants and cafes, museum shops and even the Vatican post office. Over 4 and a half million visitors annually enjoy the Vatican Museums collections and facilities. Visit the museum's website at … http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html The Vatican Museums collection is displayed throughout the different salas, which are laid out in the separate, but connected buildings. The Museo Pio-Clementino contains the Greek Cross Gallery (Sala a Croce Greca) with the porphyri sarcophagi of Constance and Saint Helen, daughter and mother of Constantine the Great. The Sala Rotonda, shaped like a miniature Pantheon, contains impressive ancient mosaics on the floors, and ancient statues lining the perimeter, including a gilded bronze statue of Hercules. The Gallery of the Statues (Galleria delle Statue), which as its name implies, holds various important statues, including 'Sleeping Ariadne' and the bust of 'Menander', it also contains the 'Barberini Candelabra'. The Gallery of the Busts (Galleria dei Busti), contains an impressive collection of Roman busts, while the Cabinet of the Masks (Gabinetto delle Maschere) is named from the mosaic on the floor of the gallery, found in Villa Adriana, which shows ancient theater masks. Along the walls, several famous statues are shown including the 'Three Graces'. The Sala delle Muse houses the statue group of Apollo and the nine muses as well as statues by important ancient Greek sculptors and the Sala degli Animali is named for the many ancient animal statues it contains. The Museo Chiaramonti is named after Pope Pius VII, who founded it in the early 19th century. The museum consists of a large arched gallery inside which are exhibited statues, sarcophaguses and friezes. The New Wing ("Braccio Nuovo") built by Raphael Stern, houses important statues like 'The Prima Porta Augustus' (which created some controversy in 2008 when the Vatican museum created a copy and painted it as research had indicated the original probably looked – art historian Fabio Barry described the results as looking "like a cross-dresser trying to hail a taxi") and John L. Stoddard's 'Old Father Nile',(sometimes called "Colossus of the Nile" ). Also in the Chiaramonti museum it the Galeria Lapidaria with more than 3,000 stone tablets and inscriptions, the world's greatest collection of its kind (generally not open to the public). The Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, founded by Pope Gregory XIII in 1836, has eight galleries housing important Etruscan pieces from archaeological excavations. The pieces include: vases, sarcophagus, bronzes and the 'Guglielmi Collection'. The Museo Egiziano, founded by Pope Gregory XVI, houses a grand collection of Ancient Egyptian material including papyruses, the 'Grassi Collection', animal mummies, and the famous 'Book of the Dead'. Amongst the other highlights spread across the various salas paintings by Caravaggio including the majestic 'Entombment', Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of 'St. Jerome in the Wilderness', works by painters Fra Angelico, Giotto, Raphael, Nicolas Poussin and Titian, the red marble papal throne, formerly in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, the Raphael Rooms with many works by Raphael and his workshop, including the masterpieces "The School of Athens" and "The Transfiguration", more modern works by van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Renato Guttuso, Marc Chagall, Henry Moore, Wassily Kandinsky and others, the Gallery of Maps (topographical maps of the whole of Italy, painted on the walls by friar Ignazio Danti of Perugia, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII), the world's largest pictorial geographical study, the frescoes and other works in the Borgia Apartment (built for Pope Alexander VI), and of course, the Niccoline and Sistene chapels. The Vatican Museums program of temporary exhibitions currently includes "Rituals of Life: The Spirituality and Culture of Aboriginal Australians" which will be on display throughout 2011. Inspired by the canonization of Australia's only Saint, Mary Mackillop in 2010, "Rituals of Life" is a journey through the spirituality and culture of the Aboriginal people of Australia using pieces from the collection in the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums. In the lead-up to the exhibition, Fr. Nicola Mapelli with Katherine Aigner; a representative of the National Museum of Australia who researched the collection, travelled extensively to Aboriginal communities, mainly in Western Australia and the Tiwi Islands to reconnect with the descendents of the Aboriginal people who sent their works to the Vatican almost a century ago as a gift to Pope Pious XI. On this journey of reconnection, Fr. Mapelli met ancestors of the artists who were very happy to see him and expressed their pride that these works of art were now cultural ambassadors at the Vatican Museums. The exhibition was inspired by the desire to honor Indigenous Australian Art, as being one of the oldest artistic expressions on our planet. These expressions embrace daily life in all its manifestations. The centrality of the indigenous art is strongly connected to their spirituality, and the heart of this spirituality is expressed through what is called The Dreamtime. The meaning of Dreamtime is complex. Dreamtime is used to describe a belief, a religion and a law. It is identified as a past moment in which the first ancestors began a journey around the world, creating all the features of the world itself. The spirits of these ancestral beings live on today, under the form of eternal forces, which are visible in every single manifestation of nature. This explains the strong spiritual bond between this population and the land of their birth, which they therefore consider sacred. The works of art on display, selected from the vast Vatican collection, range from the simple objects used in daily life to ceremonial decorations, from musical instruments to the spears used during hunting, from painting on portable stones to containers made of decorated egg shells all of which have in common a bond with the religious, spiritual and supernatural dimension. "The Way of the Sea" is a collection of sixty model vessels from all parts of the world displayed along the Helicoidal Ramp (the first time this exhibition area has been used). The models are displayed alongside black and white photographs taken by Catholic missionaries at the beginning of the twentieth century.

'An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art' at the New Britain Museum of American Art Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:37 PM PDT New Britain, CT.- Until July 3rd 2011 the New Britain Museum of American Art's McKernan Gallery features 'An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art'. The exhibition is composed of works from the personal collection of Jonathan "Jack" Warner and his wife Susan Austin Warner and the collection of The Warner Foundation. Jack Warner started his private collection in the 1950s when he bought a series of prints by John James Audubon (1785-1851). Today the Warner Collection is one of the premiere collections of American art in the world. Warner's collection reflects his belief in learning American history through art and his passion for America.

Christie's Latin American Sale to feature Rare Masterpieces & Contemporary Paintings Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:36 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY - Christie's Latin American Sale in New York on May 28 and 29 will feature rare masterpieces spanning from 17th century Colonial art to Contemporary paintings. Important artists represented include Diego Rivera, Leonora Carrington, Mario Carreño, Cundo Bermúdez, Wifredo Lam, Rufino Tamayo and Matta. The two-day sale will offer 276 lots and expects to realize in excess of $14 million. A self-portrait by Diego Rivera will lead the sale (estimate: $1.2-1.8 million). Sigmund Firestone, an American engineer and art collector from Rochester, New York, met Rivera and Frida Kahlo on a business trip to Mexico in 1939, and subsequently maintained a friendship and correspondence with the artists, commissioning self-portraits from each.

Sony World Photography Awards Winners Showcased at Somerset House Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:35 PM PDT LONDON.- The Sony World Photography Awards Winners' Showcase is the flagship exhibition of the World Photography Festival. Showcase theme 'From Chaos into Order' mirrors the process by which we make sense of photographs in the world. All of the World Photography Organisation's Festival exhibitions run from April 26 through May 22, at the prestigious Somerset House, London.

Arken Museum exhibits 'Triumph of Desire ~ Danish and International Surrealism' Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:34 PM PDT Copenhagen, Denmark - Arken Museum of Modern Art presents Triumph of Desire - Danish and International Surrealism, on view through January 11, 2009. In the 1930s Surrealism spread like wildfire across Europe, led by Dalí, Magritte and Miró. Danish Surrealists from Wilhelm Freddie and Richard Mortensen to Heerup and Jorn were influenced by the international wave. But how was it expressed in their art? This is what ARKEN will spotlight in the autumn exhibition.

ARCOmadrid Opens 30th Edition with Works of Art Between the Ordinary and Extraordinary Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:33 PM PDT MADRID.- ARCOmadrid opens its doors on February 16th to art world professionals from noon to 9 pm, who can now get their passes to the fair online in the Request for Professional Access section on our web. After two professional preview days, the fair opens to the general public on Friday 18th until Sunday 20th, from noon to 8 pm. The public can also get their tickets online. Anyone interested in knowing more about the upcoming fair can find what they are looking for in INFOARCO, also available on our web. INFOARCO contains details of how to get there, admission, galleries, the different sections, awards, prizes, etc. plus lots of useful information on Madrid and what's happening art-wise in the city during the fair. At the same time, this coming February 9th, ARCOmadrid is launching its application for iPhone and iPad, downloadable from iTunes. ARCO runs from 16 February 2011 until 20 February 2011. With a number of 197 galleries taking part this year, 2011 edition has a special focus on Russia.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Celebrates Harriet Hosmer's Life & Work Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:32 PM PDT ST. LOUIS, MO - Neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908) was one of the most successful women artists of her day, described by the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning as "a perfectly emancipated female." She was also the first woman to study anatomy at what would become the Washington University School of Medicine and produced many of her most significant works — such as the bronze statue of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton in Lafayette Park — for St. Louis patrons.

MoMA Presents the First Major U.S. Retrospective of Famed Israeli Designer Ron Arad Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:31 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Ron Arad: No Discipline, the first major U.S. retrospective of Arad's work, from August 2 to October 19, 2009. Among the most influential designers of our time, Arad (British, b. Israel 1951) stands out for his adventurous approach to form, structure, technology, and materials in work that spans the disciplines of industrial design, sculpture, architecture, and mixed-medium installation. Arad's relentless experimentation with materials of all kinds—from steel, aluminum, and bronze to thermoplastics, crystals, fiberoptics, and LEDs—and his radical reinterpretation of some of the most established archetypes in furniture—from armchairs and rocking chairs to desk lamps and chandeliers—have put him at the forefront of contemporary design.

Cranbrook Academy of Art to Create Experiential Environment for AXA Art Lounge Posted: 19 Aug 2011 07:30 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- AXA Art, the worlds leading fine art insurance specialist and Cranbrook Academy of Art announced a creative collaboration. Under the terms of the relationship, AXA Art has commissioned the prestigious art academy to conceptualize, design and create a 21st-century experiential environment to be installed in the AXA Art lounge at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. The space will serve as a respite, where the company will host its collector clients and guests in attendance at the fair. The Cranbrook design-build team, lead by four of the Academy's s artists-in-residence, includes Beverly Fishman, Elliott Earls, William Massie, and Heather McGill. AXA Art requested that they use 'The Thrill of Creating' as inspiration and consider modernity, functionality and innovation while transforming the lounge space.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 19 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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