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• The Jane Sauer Gallery to Display ~ "Chuck Savoie: Pattern and Light"
• New Exhibition Shows the History of The Center for Creative Photography
• The Barnsdall Art Park Exhibits Nazim M. Nazim's Paintings & Michael Todd's Sculptures
• The Rice/Polak Gallery Presents the Work of Vico Fabbris, Adam Graham, & Rusty Wolfe
• The Sert Gallery at Harvard University To Show "Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka"
• Christie's Announces Second Edition of Multiplied During Frieze Fair
• Graves Gallery Debuts the Blk Art Group in the UK
• Crime and Punishment Explored in Exhibition at Musée d'Orsay in Paris
• Playboy Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Iconic Bunny with Exhibition
• Museums Celebrate Art Fund Prize Nomination with "Love Your Museum"
• The Museum of Modern Art in Vienna shows ' Bad Painting / Good Art '
• Nelson-Atkins Museum Announces Exhibition by Alfred Jacob Miller
• The Oklahoma City Museum of Art debuts "Been Rich All My Life"
• John Currin to exhibit at Sadie Coles HQ in London
• Large-Scale Wall Installation by the Artist Chitra Ganesh at P.S. 1
• The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria shows "Turning Our World Upside Down"
• Paul Gauguin's "Nevermore" Chosen As One of Most Romantic Artwork in Art Fund Poll
• World Ceramics Masterpieces from the V&A Museum opens at Khan As'ad Pasha
• Georgia Museum of Art to show "The Authority of the Mexican Muralists "
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Jane Sauer Gallery to Display ~ "Chuck Savoie: Pattern and Light" Posted: 27 Aug 2011 11:01 PM PDT Santa Fe, NM.- The Jane Sauer Gallery is proud to present "Chuck Savoie: Pattern and Light" on view at the gallery from September 9th through October 11th. Glass blowing as a manipulation technique for creating functional and decorative glass has been around since Phoenician times. Actual tools identifiable as relating to glass blowing have been found in excavations dating back to around 50BC. These show the use of a clay blowing tube - the precursors of the steel blowpipes used in the glassblowing of today. While the blowpipe method of glass formation (or free blowing tube method, as it can sometimes be referred to) spread throughout the world, it was the Venetians - particularly on the Island of Murano - who developed it to the highly decorative and colorful art form of today. From as long ago as the 13th Century, Murano has ranked as the finest art center for glassblowing in the world. Many artists from the United States and other countries have traveled to learn from these masters over the ages up to the present. Chuck Savoie is one of these artists who has been fortunate enough to study closely with Lino Tagliapietra, the most renowned of contemporary Murano glass artists. Savoie studied in a number of studios while in Murano where he learned the magical formulas for color frequently keep secret except for the glass artists born into the families of Murano. Chuck Savoie's complex, layered and patterned glass is the result of thirty years of exploration both in the United States and Italy. He incorporates ancient Italian techniques aided by his extensive education in art, chemistry and math. His under graduate education in art included sculpture, foundry work and glass. This was further enhanced by receiving a Master's Degree in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. He combines a very rare combination of academic study and learning from the mind and hand of great masters who have a tradition of mentorship. Savoie's understanding of chemistry has given him mastery of two ancient and difficult techniques, Zanfirico, twisted cane, and Reticello, the most difficult of Italian techniques. Savoie places one set of twisted cane into another catching a small air bubble in each diamond made by the opposing lines. His understanding of the properties of glass has given him the ability to make glass that can have very precise minute lines. This skill makes his patterns not only masterful, but beautiful. Savoie's goblets are reminiscent of the Italian traditional methods of creating goblets brought into contemporary glass methodology. Each is different and he is constantly making new forms and colors. Savoie might consider a grouping of 3 or more glasses together and has at times created a set of goblets to be used at one time in a table setting. Most often, the viewer creates their own artistic scenario by putting together a collection of goblets having forms and colors that complement one another. The wall artworks are sculptural amplifications of both shape and color using three dimensional glass objects mounted on the wall with bronze fittings wrapping around the forms and performing as part of the glass and part of structure. They make a dance together on the wall. The glass and intricate patterns within the pieces are integrated with light to make a painting on the wall in dynamic play of light and reflection. Savoie uses these site specific installations to explore personal themes. They might be playful, peaceful, humorous, dramatic or a combination of ideas and emotions. There is always an opening for the viewer to make an interpretation. In "In a Fine Spring Day", beautiful colors of cut and finely polished glass open to interior patterns. The pieces sprint across the wall, casting shadows, creating an ever changing play of form and color. "Passairean" is relaxed semicircle of delicate shades of blue dropping glass elements. Within each piece is a pattern of yellow and clear glass revealed here and there by cutting through the glass shape. The bronze fitting embrace each piece and create a pattern independently. The Jane Sauer Gallery is known for its excellent reputation among art admirers, collectors, museum curators, art critics, and artists. Jane brings to the gallery 34 years of wide experience as a highly recognized professional in art. She is known nationally by museum curators and collectors for her work as an innovative studio artist, and is often requested to serve as guest judge or curator for exhibitions. Artists and collectors throughout the country continue to seek her advice and remember her for her continuous activism in promotion of the arts. Jane brings her lifelong experience, training, and artistic eye to bear on the selection of artists she represents in the gallery. Her selection process is rigorous: "I seek to present work that is conceptually sound, meaningful, and captures the essence of intellect and creativity. Although each work must be technically accomplished, I look for a quality in the work that reveals 'the hand of the artist'." Throughout her long career, Jane Sauer has been at the forefront in supporting creative artists who are not limited--in their vision or in the materials they use:  "The field of art is ever-expanding, limited only by the range of the human imagination. Contemporary artists are redefining our notion of art, creating a fluid field that is not tied to traditionally recognized techniques or media." Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.jsauergallery.com

New Exhibition Shows the History of The Center for Creative Photography Posted: 27 Aug 2011 10:28 PM PDT TUCSON, AZ.- The Center for Creative Photography's current exhibition Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography, will be on through November 27th. In 2010, the Center for Creative Photography celebrated its thirty‐fifth anniversary which posed an opportunity to look back on past accomplishments and celebrate recent activities.  Creative Continuum presents a variety of photographs and archival objects acquired by the Center for Creative Photography over the past 36 years, demonstrating the diversity of the collection and the range of materials it preserves.

The Barnsdall Art Park Exhibits Nazim M. Nazim's Paintings & Michael Todd's Sculptures Posted: 27 Aug 2011 10:15 PM PDT Hollywood, CA.-  The Barnsdall Art Park is pleased to announce two exhibitions, "Nazim M. Nazim: Power Animals" and "Michael Todd: Bronze and Steel", both on view until October 1st. Both exhibits are curated by Jeff Phillips of The Art Art Project and feature new works by these contemporary artists. The exhibits celebrate of both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional art creation, featuring the masterly painting skills and content of the work of Nazim M. Nazim, and the exuberance and epic-scale of Michael Todd's most recent sculptures.

The Rice/Polak Gallery Presents the Work of Vico Fabbris, Adam Graham, & Rusty Wolfe Posted: 27 Aug 2011 10:06 PM PDT Provincetown, MA.- The Rice/Polak Gallery is pleased to announce its fifth exhibition of this season, featuring the work of Vico Fabbris, Adam Graham, and Rusty Wolfe. "Vico Fabbris: Floragenis" features the artist's surreal botanical still lifes, "Adam Graham: Impression Phenomena" shows the artist's fascination with artificial light at twilight and "Rusty Wolfe: New Beginnings" shows Wolfe's lacquer on Plexiglass works. All three exhibitions are on view from September 1st through September 15th. Provincetown itself has long been recognized as a unique place, a perfect blend of remoteness and rare natural beauty. Vast numbers of artists have made the pilgrimage to Provincetown, where diversity has become the one unifying factor.

The Sert Gallery at Harvard University To Show "Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka" Posted: 27 Aug 2011 09:30 PM PDT Cambridge, MA.- The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and the Departments of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University are pleased to present "Pavel Schmidt: Franz Kafka—Verschrieben & Verzeichnet", on view in the Sert Gallery from September 13th through October 16th. An opening panel discussion and reception will take place on Thursday, September 29th at 6 pm. The Kafka cycle presented here consists of forty-nine sketches created over the past four years by Pavel Schmidt, Swiss painter, illustrator, and installation artist. The title of each drawing is the name of a character from one of Kafka's narratives or someone the author personally knew. Schmidt juxtaposes each drawing with a fragment from Kafka's previously unpublished writings, which are here presented in the German with English translations.

Christie's Announces Second Edition of Multiplied During Frieze Fair Posted: 27 Aug 2011 09:11 PM PDT LONDON.- Following the success of the ground-breaking inaugural contemporary editions fair Multiplied in 2010 – the first of its type in the UK – Christie's announced that the salerooms in South Kensington will once again be transformed during Frieze week this year. The fair will be open to the public with free admission from 14-17 October. Wallpaper* is official media partner for Multiplied 2011. Nic McElhatton, Chairman of Christie's South Kensington comments, "We are delighted to host Multiplied once again this year within the excellent exhibition rooms available at Christie's South Kensington. Staging such a ground-breaking fair enables us to engage with clients and the art world in a very different way, and it is incredibly exciting to be able to provide an international platform for young and emerging artistic talents."

Graves Gallery Debuts the Blk Art Group in the UK Posted: 27 Aug 2011 09:10 PM PDT SHEFFIELD, UK - From Saturday 27 August, Sheffield's Graves Gallery will debut the UK 's first exhibition exploring the work of the influential art collective, the Blk Art Group. Curated by Museums Sheffield, the exhibition will bring together rarely-seen works from the city's own collections and loans from the artists to showcase the group's considerable contribution to raising awareness of black British art. In the early 1980s, the British National Party was on the rise, the Brixton riots were shaking London and South Africa was in the grip of apartheid. Against a backdrop of injustice and unrest, the Blk Art Group emerged as a strong creative force in Britain. Heavily influenced by the Black Power Movement in the US , the artists in the group each made powerful responses to the crises in race relations both at home and overseas. Using a wide range of materials, from straw and calico to newspapers and x-rays, the Blk Art Group made radical, innovative work which expressed the black experience. The group was only active for a short period of time, but were a critical catalyst in raising the profile of the vibrant black art scene in the UK ; their legacy has subsequently influenced a generation of British artists, including Chris Ofili and Steve McQueen. Blk Art Group will include a series of works that were acquired for Sheffield during the 1980s, but have been seldom displayed due to the delicate nature of the materials they were made from. Thanks to support form Arts Council England, these works have now undergone careful conservation. The exhibition will see these newly restored works go on show together for the first time in over 20 years alongside a series of personal loans from the Blk Art Group artists. Blk Art Group will feature work by Eddie Chambers, Claudette Johnson, Keith Piper, Donald Rodney and Marlene Smith. The exhibition will also explore the role that regional galleries, including those in Sheffield , played in supporting and promoting black British art at a time when many public art institutions were reluctant to engage with the work of black artists. Louisa Briggs, Curator of Visual Art at Museums Sheffield said: 'It's fantastic that Museums Sheffield have had this opportunity to recognise the remarkable, influential work of the Blk Art Group. We're delighted that the exhibition has allowed us to restore some of the real highlights from the city's collection and share them with our visitors once again.' Visitors to the exhibition will see Eddie Chambers' How Much Longer (1984), Keith Piper's Black Assassin Saints (1984) and Donald Rodney's Britannia Hospital series (1988) from Sheffield 's collection shown together for the first time in over 20 years. Blk Art Group will also include Rodney's installation The House That Jack Built (1987), Claudette Johnson's And I Have My Own Business (1982) and Untitled (1983).and Marlene Smith's Art History (1987) and Sugar Baby All the Time (1987). Blk Art Group opens at the Graves Gallery on Saturday 27 August and continues until 24 March 2012. Entry to the exhibition is FREE.

Crime and Punishment Explored in Exhibition at Musée d'Orsay in Paris Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:51 PM PDT PARIS.- On 30 September 1981, the French Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Robert Badinter, successfully brought about the abolition of the death penalty in France. It had taken two hundred years of discussion to reach this point: from 1791, when Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau addressed the Constituent Assembly and called for the abolition of capital punishment. From 1791 to 1981, from the French Revolution to the present day, there had been two hundred years of passionate debate about the sense and the value of a penalty which, having once depended on the omnipotence of a god or on a king's absolute power - tempered by grace – would now only be meted out, in the philosophy of the Enlightenment, by man, and man alone. But can man be the judge of his fellow man's actions? With a long history of dark inspiration, modern literature has resounded with these struggles, and created many, memorable criminal characters, in works ranging from Sade to Baudelaire and Barbey d'Aurevilly, from Dostoyevsky, whence the title of the exhibition, to Camus' The Outsider... The figure of the murderer, with all his negative energy and complexity, is the dark side of the hero, his ambiguous double, the part of him that transgresses and becomes all the more disturbing for being so seductive. A source of stories for magazines (from Lacenaire to Violette Nozières), and soon after, for illustrated daily newspapers, the powerful fantasy of violent crime was greatly increased through novels and the theatre. Linking murder to sexual abuse even became a must in pulp fiction and in the images this conveyed or evoked. In fact, the contamination of the visual arts by the theme of crime, by newspaper articles, and even by images in the popular press, was another great feature of the century. There are many example of this in painting: from Prud'hon's Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime [Justice et la Vengeance divine poursuivant le Crime] to Valloton's Nemesis, from the Fualdès Affair that so fascinated Géricault, to Delacroix's Louvel, from Victor Hugo's hanged men to Warhol's electric chairs. New subjects, such as the female criminal, appeared and caught the imagination. Condemned by David, rehabilitated by Baudry, then presented once again as a dark character by Edvard Munch, Charlotte Corday joined the ranks of mythical figures, from Lady Macbeth to Lucie de Lamermoor. The issue was also raised of the relationship between madness, genius and crime, from Delacroix's prisoners to those of Egon Schiele. The greatest painters are those whose heightened representations of crime or of capital punishment result in the most striking works. These range from Goya and Géricault to Lautrec and Picasso. Like opera, the cinema was not slow to assimilate the equivocal charms of extreme violence, transformed by its representation into something pleasurable, perhaps even into sensual pleasure. At the end of the 19th century, a new theory appeared purporting to establish a scientific approach to the criminal mind. It was Lombroso - 2009 marks the two hundredth anniversary of his death – who developed this school of anthropology, setting out not only the character traits he claimed were found in criminals, but also the physiological features, like stigmata, all transmitted genetically, in his view, through atavism. Acceptance of this theory also decriminalised the individual to some extent and criminalised his social class and then his race, or at least made them open to scientific investigation, the procedures for which Bertillon would later develop. This theory of anthropology concluded that a man whose fate is preordained by his anatomy, could not be held fully accountable. Theories such as these would have a considerable influence on images in painting, sculpture and photography. As a regular visitor to the courts, like Daumier whom he greatly admired, Degas liked to examine and decipher the faces of the accused, hoping to detect the " science" of the criminologists. And his little Rat in a tutu (The adolescent corps de ballet at the Paris Opera were known as petits rats), far from being an innocent young girl, is a dangerous, plague-mongering animal. Sexual violence also haunted Degas; it could well have led to the excesses of Neo Baroque freneticism in Cézanne's early works; it then appeared in Picasso's work, before finding its full expression in the works of Dix, Grosz and the later works of Munch. Finally we should remember that the motif of the gibbet, the garrotte and the guillotine was ever-present, even though architects were creating panoptic designs for prisons where the individual could be observed at any time. For several years now, a new issue has arisen in relation to crime and punishment: the crime of passion, the compulsive crime of the serial killer, should they be subject to psychiatric investigation and commitment to an asylum, or to the judgement of the court and imprisonment? Beyond crime, there is still the perpetual problem of Evil, and beyond social circumstances, metaphysical anxiety. Art, particularly art between 1820 and1920, can provide a spectacular expression of this. The aesthetic of violence and the violence of the aesthetic - the exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay aims to bring them together through music, literature and a wide range of images. Visit : http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html

Playboy Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Iconic Bunny with Exhibition Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:50 PM PDT CHICAGO, IL.- Playboy Enterprises, Inc. and The Andy Warhol Museum invited more than 20 emerging and established artists to reinterpret the iconic Playboy Bunny in a variety of mediums for "Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny", a new exhibition that will open at the Pittsburgh museum on March 27, 2010. This new exhibition is part of Playboy's global, year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Playboy Bunny and Playboy Clubs. Playboy will also commemorate the milestone with 50 Playboy Club parties in 50 cities, all held on one night, and newly-designed Playboy apparel.

Museums Celebrate Art Fund Prize Nomination with "Love Your Museum" Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:49 PM PDT LONDON.- Museums and galleries long-listed for the Art Fund Prize will be hosting special events over Love Your Museum Weekend, which takes on Saturday 10  April and Sunday 11 April weekend.Helping Henry VIII with his wedding preparations, Raku firing and playing virological cluedo are just some of the activities and events planned for Love Your Museum Weekend 2010. The weekend will be hosted by institutions nominated for this year's Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries, an award for excellence and innovation in UK museums. On Saturday 10 April at 11.30am, for the very first time, six of the long-listed institutions will embark on a national simultaneous 'I love my museum' cheer.

The Museum of Modern Art in Vienna shows ' Bad Painting / Good Art ' Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:48 PM PDT   Vienna, Austria - The Museum of Modern Art in Vienna shows "Bad painting" is the critique of painting expressed with its own most essential means: Many of the most important painters of the 20th century like Francis Picabia, René Magritte, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, Neil Jenney, Georg Baselitz, Albert Oehlen or Julian Schnabel radically called their medium into question using different strategies of incorrect, faulty, ugly or angry painting in order to open up new possibilities for the medium. Using prominent works by 21 artists, the exhibition presents "bad painting" as a phenomenon which opens a new and differentiated perspective on the history of painting since the beginning of modernism which today still influences contemporary discourse.

Nelson-Atkins Museum Announces Exhibition by Alfred Jacob Miller Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:47 PM PDT KANSAS CITY, MO.- Vibrant and masterful mixed media works on paper by the artist Alfred Jacob Miller, depicting the American West inspired by a six-month expedition in 1837, will be on view in Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America Collection, an exhibition that opens this fall at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., then travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2011.

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art debuts "Been Rich All My Life" Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:46 PM PDT OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - In conjunction with the Harlem Renaissance (http://tinyurl.com/adjphe) exhibition, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art presents the award-winning documentary film Been Rich All My Life March 12 through March15, 2009. Directed by Heather Lyn MacDonald, the film tells the story of an unlikely troupe of tap dancers.  They are the "Silver Belles," five former showgirls now aged 84-96, performing to standing ovations, as sassy as they ever were.

John Currin to exhibit at Sadie Coles HQ in London Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:45 PM PDT LONDON - Sadie Coles HQ is presenting a major new series of paintings by American painter John Currin whose subjects range from the domestic to the overtly erotic. These exceptionally refined and gloriously engaging paintings continue the intense debate within Currin's work that combines art historical technique with contemporary reference. While some of Currin's new paintings are of flowers and exquisite china, most are depictions of hardcore eroticism taken from European pornography.  On view 2 April through 10 May, 2008.

Large-Scale Wall Installation by the Artist Chitra Ganesh at P.S. 1 Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:44 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- P.S.1 presents a large-scale wall installation by the artist Chitra Ganesh, for the second installment of the new series "On-site" which continues P.S.1's long standing tradition of commissioning site-specific, wall based projects. Ganesh's new wall piece, The Silhouette Returns (2009), was put on view in the P.S.1 lobby this October 1, 2009 and will continue through April 5, 2010. Chitra Ganesh creates wall installations, paintings, drawings, photographs, and animations that make use of an expansive visual vocabulary that ranges from Bollywood films, comics and graphic novels, to iconic feminist imagery.

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria shows "Turning Our World Upside Down" Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:43 PM PDT VICTORIA, BC - The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is one of the cheekiest traveling exhibits Victoria is likely to experience. It's a nudge, nudge, wink, wink exchange between artists and viewers, prompting us to think and re-think our unwitting acceptance of norms and order in the Western world. World Upside Down opened Friday, June 5 with a collection of work by contemporary artists who challenge our ideas of race, ethnicity, gender and art itself. It's a world where the symbolic order of things is turned on its head. On view through August 30th, 2009.

Paul Gauguin's "Nevermore" Chosen As One of Most Romantic Artwork in Art Fund Poll Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:42 PM PDT LONDON.- Paul Gauguin's, "Nevermore", 1897, which is on display at The Courtauld Gallery, was chosen by artist and broadcaster Matthew Collings, and was selected from a list of five works chosen by well known public figures. The other selected artworks were Titian's "Bacchus and Ariadne", selected by writer and broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon; Jan Van Eyck's "The Arnolfini Portrait", chosen by artist Grayson Perry; Nicolas Poussin's "Rinaldo and Armida", chosen by writer, critic and professor of literature at University of Essex, Marina Warner; and Peploe's "Roses", chosen by presenter and Art Fund Prize chair of the judges, Kirsty Young.

World Ceramics Masterpieces from the V&A Museum opens at Khan As'ad Pasha Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:41 PM PDT   DAMASCUS, SYRIA - The exhibition explores the history of international ceramics from 3000 BC to the present day, highlighting the links between all the world's great ceramic traditions. It features early ceramics of China, looks at cross-currents between Asia, the Middle East and Europe and at the luxury wares made for European Medieval and Renaissance courts. The exhibition concludes with a survey of 20th-century ceramics. Among the many highlights of the exhibition are a two-metre high turquoise-glazed sceptre from dynastic Egypt; a life-size goat from Augustus the Strong's extraordinary porcelain menagerie at Dresden.

Georgia Museum of Art to show "The Authority of the Mexican Muralists " Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:40 PM PDT ATHENS, GA – From the Collection: The Authority of the Mexican Muralists  will be on display from July 19 to September 28, 2008, at the Georgia Museum of Art. This exhibition is sponsored by YellowBook USA, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 27 Aug 2011 08:39 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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