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• The Martin Gropius Bau to Feature a Thousand Years of Polish-German Art and History
• The Library of Congress Displays "New Comic Art Acquisitions"
• "In the Beginning Was the Word" ~ Medieval Gospel Illuminations at the Getty Museum
• The New Ida Illuster Gallery To Show Exhibition of Original Drawings by Felix Merkitat
• The Lentos Museum of Modern Art Shows "Ralo Mayer - Obviously a Major Malfunction"
• The Asheville Art Museum Explores the " The Elemental Arts "
• The fordPROJECT to Host Japanese Artists in "Reflections" - A Group Exhibition
• The Amon Carter Museum of American Art Features "The Allure of Paper"
• Pierre et Gilles Retrospective opens at C/O Berlin the International Forum For Visual Dialogues
• San Francisco to Celebrate Hundredth Year of Futurist Manifesto
• Henry Moore's Position at the Forefront of Sculpture & Drawing at Tate Britain
• KLEE AND AMERICA at THE MENIL COLLECTION
• Made in China ~ Scholarship Holders Exhibit at Kunstmuseum Bern
• Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art Totaled US$55,323,044
• Essl Museum Invites Ten International Museums to Take Part in Exhibition
• The Grosvernor Vadehra Gallery Exhibits Dhruva Mistry's Bronzes
• Sotheby's to Offer Property from The Allan Stone Gallery
• Large-Scale Sculpture by David Altmejd Acquired by Dallas Museum of Art
• Pop Art ~ Now and Then at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Martin Gropius Bau to Feature a Thousand Years of Polish-German Art and History Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:50 PM PDT Berlin, Germany - The Martin Gropius Bau is pleased to present a joint exhibition, "Side by Side: Poland – Germany. A 1000 Years of Art and History" as part of the International Cultural Programme of the Polish EU Presidency 2011. Jointly organised with the Royal Castle in Warsaw, "Side by Side" will be on view at the Martin Gropius Bau from September 23rd through January 9th 2012. Poland and Germany look back on over 1000 years of shared history. Among the special highlights is the presentation of Jan Matejko's monumental work the 'Prussian Homage' on loan from the National Museum in Kraków. Contemporary artists have also ventured a look into the future with works that were especially commissioned by the Martin-Gropius-Bau. The complex nature of the history of the two neighbours has above all been shaped by major political developments and events, which have removed from the horizon areas of cultural common ground in such fields as culture, religion, language and economy. Both German and Polish cultural memory is often shaped by emotion and prejudice. Nonetheless, there seems to be a consensus on both sides of the River Oder that a new process of understanding, which begun over 20 years ago, has been forming a basis of a lasting friendship. Polish presidency of the European Union is a unique opportunity to strengthen this vital dialogue through an exhibition in the German capital. This will be the very first time that the 1000 years of Polish-German history in all its manifestations is depicted in a major exhibition. Approximately 700 historical and contemporary exhibits – with some 250 paintings, 30 sculptures, 60 incunabula, 80 manuscripts and 60 prints – will be shown in 19 rooms of the gallery's ground floor with a total area of 3,200 square metres. Apart from traditional works of art the exhibition includes over 60 documents, 100 craft objects, 150 photographs, film material and books as well as examples of music including compositions by Arnold Schönberg, J.F. Telemann, J.S. Bach and the others. The exhibits from numerous Polish, German and international museums and collections are witness of the culture in Poland and Germany. The list of lenders includes the National Museum in Warsaw, the Lódz Museum of Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Vatican Library. The Martin Gropius Bau (Martin Gropius building, or MGB) is considered one of Berlin's most magnificent buildings with its combined classical and Renaissance features. A short walk from Potsdamer Platz, it doubles as one of Europe's top international exhibition and event venues. With a constant flow of half a million visitors per year and over 20 large art photography and cultural exhibitions, the MGB is an established Berlin cultural institution. First inaugurated in 1881 as a Museum for the Applied Arts, the building was designed by Martin Gropius, great uncle of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus movement and Heino Schmieden. After World War I, the building housed the Museum of Pre and Early History and the East Asian Art Collection. Damaged, like most Berlin buildings during World War II and not deemed worthy of preservation, the building was almost demolished to make way for an urban motorway were it not for the intervention of Walter Gropius. Given protected heritage site status in 1966, its reconstruction and restoration only began in 1978 when it was also renamed Martin Gropius Bau. After reconstruction of the exterior by Winnetou Kampmann, it reopened in 1981 as an exhibition venue, remaining directly adjacent to the Berlin Wall until 1990 and accessible only via a rear entrance as the main doorway remained unusuable because of its proximity to the Wall. After German reunification and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, a further spate of restoration and alteration was necessary and the Federal Government commissioned architects Hilmer, Sattler and Albrecht to carry out the work. Completed in 2000, the works included air conditioning and the redesigning of the north entrance as the main entrance to the building. Today the Martin Gropius Bau building is the central venue for the Berliner Festspiele and its partners – the 50 year old umbrella cultural institution which runs many of Berlin's international festivals and cultural events including the Musikfest Berlin, the International Literature Festival and JazzFest Berlin. The Gropius Bau hosts over 20 large art, photography and cultural exhibitions every year. Among the building's special features are its vast exhibition and reception spaces. These include the 300m north vestibule with a glass dome, the 600m Atrium on the ground floor with a surrounding gallery where vast functions for up to 750 guests can be held. Other facilities are conference rooms and a 200-seat cinema. Just off the central Foyer area on the ground floor are the Café and Bookshop. In the high-ceilinged café meals and refreshments are available and in the warmer months food is served in the garden at the back of the building. Visit the MGB website at … http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de

The Library of Congress Displays "New Comic Art Acquisitions" Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:49 PM PDT Washinton, DC.- The Library of Congress is pleased to present "Timely and Timeless: New Comic Art Acquisitions" on view from September 15th through March 10th 2012. Political and social satire, comic-strip and comic-book drawings, New Yorker magazine illustrations and graphic narratives — original cartoon art that was added to the Library of Congress collections during the past decade — will all be featured in the new exhibition. "Timely and Timeless" celebrates and demonstrates the multi-faceted development and impressive growth of the comic art collections at the Library of Congress. The 48 works on display are grouped primarily by genre, including editorial cartoons, caricatures, comic strips, cover art and humor cartoons, comic-book drawings and graphic narratives.  Among the cartoonists represented are historical masters James Gillray and Honoré Daumier, as well as modern and contemporary creators such as Jazz Age cartoonist John Held, Jr.; African American artist Oliver Wendell Harrington; New Yorker cartoonists Charles Addams and Roz Chast; and comic-strip creators Bill Griffith and Aaron McGruder.

"In the Beginning Was the Word" ~ Medieval Gospel Illuminations at the Getty Museum Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:05 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- The four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, among the most well-known texts in the Bible, offer powerful accounts of the life of Christ and form the basis of the religion that his disciples founded. Drawing primarily from the Getty Museum's permanent collection, "In the Beginning Was the Word": Medieval Gospel Illumination, on display August 30–November 27th, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, examines the decoration associated with the Gospels, including portraits of the four Evangelists, and explores the varied approaches to illustrating the life of Christ. Spreading the teachings of the Gospels was an important feature of early Christianity and, as a result, the Gospels were quickly translated from Greek into the many spoken languages of the world.

The New Ida Illuster Gallery To Show Exhibition of Original Drawings by Felix Merkitat Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:41 PM PDT Berlin, Germany - The new Ida Illuster Gallery in Berlin will open on September 29th with a special exhibition of original drawings by Felix Mertikat. In its inaugural exhibition the gallery will host a selection of original drawings by Felix Mertikat from the book 'Jakob', under the title "Rabenkind: Drawings by Felix Mertikat" from September 30th until November 25th. The comic book 'Jakob' is about a boy whose mother 'goes away forever', who then starts looking for her. Felix Mertikat's drawings are a combination of pencil and watercolour that create very intense scenes through their colourful surrealism and stylistic diversity. 'Jakob' is a very personal book about the little child who remains in us when we become adults.

The Lentos Museum of Modern Art Shows "Ralo Mayer - Obviously a Major Malfunction" Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:40 PM PDT Linz, Austria.- The Lentos Museum of Modern Art is pleased to present "Ralo Mayer: Obviously a Major Malfunction", on view at the museum through October 23rd. Featuring 4.56-billion-year-old meteorites, a painting from the collection of the Lentos, a closed eco system and a checklist that travelled to the moon and back with the astronauts on board Apollo, such diverse objects are used by Ralo Mayer in the first part of his exhibition to throw light on his own work from the last few years. Ralo Mayer is the winner of the Triennale Linz Award, which was first presented in summer 2010. Space, the history of its exploration and utopias that tried (in the past) to predict what the world would look like in the future form the thematic backdrop for these works. Like all science fiction that deserves the name, they are deeply rooted in present-day reality and transfer social and economic facts into multifaceted stories.

The Asheville Art Museum Explores the " The Elemental Arts " Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:40 PM PDT Asheville, NC - The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to announce the opening of "The Elemental Arts: Air | Earth | Fire | Water" on Friday, September 2nd. Featuring works by Douglas D. Ellington, Ke Francis, Elizabeth J. Peak and Paula Stark, among other noteworthy artists from the Museum's Permanent Collection, The Elemental Arts examines the way in which artists have treated or incorporated the four essential elements—air, earth, fire and water—into their work. This exhibition is ongoing. The four elements are universal energies, grounded not only in the nature of our planet, but also within our bodies. Our lungs and breath relate to air, our skeletons and flesh to earth, the heat generated by our bodies to fire, and our blood to water. Using both two- and three-dimensional works from the Museum's Permanent Collection, The Elemental Arts invites viewers to consider the vastly diverse nuances of the four elements, be they conceptual, literal, functional, emotional, psychological, linguistic or even philosophical in nature.

The fordPROJECT to Host Japanese Artists in "Reflections" - A Group Exhibition Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:34 PM PDT New York City.- The fordPROJECT is proud to present "Reflections", a group exhibition showcasing three young Japanese artists, Hideaki Kawashima, Makiko Kudo and Toru Kuwakubo. The exhibition inaugurates a collaboration with the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, widely recognized as a leading gallery in the representation of contemporary Japanese artists. The term "reflection" is defined as "careful or long consideration of thought." In the wake of the recent tragedy, and with the current rebuilding of their nation, a new generation of Japanese artists is emerging with a unique vision that provides an innermost perspective of the "self" when seen through the looking glass of Japanese society. The paintings selected for this exhibition can be characterized as a glimpse into the souls of the people as seen by the observer. "Reflections" will be on display at the gallery from September 14th through October 14th.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art Features "The Allure of Paper" Posted: 30 Aug 2011 09:11 PM PDT Fort Worth, TX.- In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents "The Allure of Paper: Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection", on view from July 9th through October 9th. Infrequently shown because of their sensitivity to light, the nearly 100 artworks in this special exhibition have never before been exhibited together. The one-of-a-kind works of art range in date from the early 19th century to the mid-20th century and chronicle the sweeping changes that occurred in American art over the course of nearly 150 years. From portraiture and still-lifes to landscape and genre paintings, these objects embody the breadth of the museum's works-on-paper holdings. Artists represented in the exhibition include Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Edward Hopper (1882–1967), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), Ben Shahn (1898–1969) and Joseph Stella (1887–1946), among many others. Beginning in the 1820s artists in growing numbers exhibited their watercolors and drawings, reflecting an increasing respect for working with paper. While the Amon Carter's drawings and watercolors collection reflects the major trends in American art from the early 19th to the mid-20th century, landscapes dominate the museum's holdings. They reveal the varying approaches artists took to depicting the natural world over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. By the 1870s for instance, landscape artists such as George Inness (1825–1894) became less concerned with faithfully representing nature and more concerned with capturing light and tonal harmonies, along with patterns and rhythms. American watercolorists enjoyed a surge in popularity and support in the 1880s, and some of the most pivotal works in American modernism were created by watercolorists. Also represented in the Amon Carter's collection are several other significant examples of watercolors by pivotal mid-20th century artists like Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) and Edmund Lewandowski (1914–1998). A self-made man, Amon G. Carter (1879–1955) became a legendary figure in Texas history and Fort Worth's leading citizen and champion. His interest in the art of Remington and Russell developed through his friendship with Will Rogers. Mr. Carter's will provided for the establishment of a museum in Fort Worth, free and open to the public, devoted to American art. "As a youth, I was denied the advantages which go with the possession of money," he stated in the will. "I am endeavoring to give to those who have not had such advantages, but who aspire to the higher and finer attributes of life, those opportunities which were denied to me." Today, the museum he did not live to see has evolved into one of the great museums of American art. Designed by Philip Johnson (1906–2005), the Amon Carter Museum building opened to the public in January 1961. "Johnson's museum is extremely elegant," one architecture critic wrote in Harper's Magazine that May. From the beginning, the museum was intended to be a vibrant institution; not only would it house Mr. Carter's collection of works by Frederic Remington and Russell, it would expand to encompass a broader range of American art. The museum began to acquire important works of art in various media—paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and books—by many noted artists working in various styles and depicting a range of subjects and forms. In the 1970s, the museum commissioned photographer Richard Avedon to create what would become the groundbreaking body of work In the American West. The museum aggressively continued to add major works to its collection, including "Idle Hours" by William Merritt Chase, "Flags on the Waldorf" by Childe Hassam, and "Red Cannas" by Georgia O'Keeffe. On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary the Carter underwent a major expansion. The museum now has gallery space to accommodate the full breadth of its permanent collection. With its expansive galleries for traveling exhibitions, there are today some 700 works of art on view at any given time. A 160-seat auditorium is available for programs, and the library of 40,000 volumes is the only research facility between the two coasts to house the 7,500 microform reels of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The museum also houses one of the preeminent collections of American photography, and the expansion resulted in climate-controlled vaults (for both cool and cold storage) and a state-of-the-art conservation center, made possible in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Amon Carter Museum continues in its mission to acquire and display the finest examples of American art and to enlighten minds through its programs, exhibitions, and publications—the vision Mr. Carter first articulated some fifty years ago. Amon Carter truly is part of the heritage of Texas and of the nation, and so, too, is the museum that bears his name. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.cartermuseum.org

Pierre et Gilles Retrospective opens at C/O Berlin the International Forum For Visual Dialogues Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:50 PM PDT BERLIN.- C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, will present the retrospective of French artists Pierre et Gilles from July 25 through October 4, 2009. As only venue in Germany, C/O Berlin presents the exhibition as the first of Pierre et Gilles in fifteen years. The show comprised a total of 80 unique large-format works – from their early photographies of the 1970s to the brand new pictures that were never shown in public before "It's hard to think of contemporary culture without the influence of Pierre et Gilles, from advertising to fashion photography, music video, and film. This is truly global art." Jeff Koons. The cosmos of the worldwide renowned French artist duo is a vivid, colorful world poised between baroque sumptuousness and earthly limbo. Pierre et Gilles create unique hand-painted photographic portraits of film icons, sailors and princes, saints and sinners, of mythological figures and unknowns alike. Pierre et Gilles pursue their own, stunningly unique vision of an enchanted world spanning fairytale paradises and abyssal depths, quoting from popular visual languages and history of art. Again and again, they re-envision their personal dream of reality anew in consummate aesthetic perfection. Pierre et Gilles are among the most influential artists of our time. In their complex, multilayered images, they quote from art history, transgress traditional moral codes, and experiment adeptly with social clichés. Their painterly photographic masterpieces exert an intense visual power that leaves the viewer spellbound. Over the last thirty years, Pierre et Gilles have created photographic portraits of numerous celebrities including Marc Almond, Mirelle Mathieu, Catherine Deneuve, Serge Gainsbourg, Iggy Pop, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Hagen, Madonna, and Paloma Picasso. They work almost exclusively in an opulently furnished studio, where their subjects are costumed lavishly and placed before three-dimensional backgrounds. Pierre photographs the model, and Gilles retouches and hand-colors the print. The reproducible portrait is rendered unique through painting, which highlights each detail with carefully selected materials and accessories. The artist duo Pierre et Gilles (b. 1950 and 1953, respectively) have been living and working together since 1976. Influenced by Pop Art, Gilles first painted a photograph by Pierre in the year 1977. This form of collaboration between photography and painting became the trademark of their work, which has remained unique and has exercised a defining influence on contemporary photography. By the end of the 1980s, Pierre et Gilles were depicting non-Christian mythological figures such as Neptune, Sarasvati, and Médusa. This interest in religious subjects was coupled with a growing fascination with secular ideologies. Le Petit Communiste ­ Christophe (1990), for example, which shows a uniformed Soviet soldier with the familiar tear trickling down his face, was created the year after the Berlin Wall fell. Le Petit Chinois ­ Tomah (1991), in which a white-shirted Asian man confronts the viewer with a bloodied knife in hand, can be read as the image of a defiant China. From a slightly different perspective, Le Petit Mendiant ­ Tomah (1992), centers on the grinning countenance of an anonymous beggar, whose outstretched hand contrasts with a profusion of glittering stardust filling the air around him. The viewer cannot decide whether the beggar's acceptance of his fate transcends his mortal needs or if the West's tendency to romanticize all aspects of the East, even its underside, is being spoofed. In their work of the last ten years, the range of subject matter and moods has further matured. Though Pierre et Gilles continue to depict celebrities, as represented in frequently startling portraits of Catherine Deneuve (1991), Nina Hagen (1993), Sylvie Vartan (1994), and Juliette Greco (1999), they are just as likely to produce more humorous images, such as the campy I Love You ­ Dominique Blanc (1992) and the melodramatic Le Papillon Noir ­ Polly (1995). Some of the most recent images have introduced a melancholic tone that is new for their work, as evinced by the faraway look in one of their favorite model's eyes in Tentation ­ Jiro Sakamoto (1999) or in the seemingly empty helmets in Autoportraits sans Visage (1999). But their most elaborate series of the 1990s, Les Plaisirs de la Forêt, comprising erotic scenes in a nocturnal forest, highlights the combination of erotic tension, elaborately executed settings, and attention to minute detail that characterizes Pierre et Gilles's surprisingly diverse oeuvre. Visit C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues at : http://www.co-berlin.info/co-neu/web/Aktuell/start.php

San Francisco to Celebrate Hundredth Year of Futurist Manifesto Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:49 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From October 14 to 18, 2009, the legacy of Futurism—one of the seminal and most controversial avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century—will be celebrated in San Francisco in a citywide project entitled Metal + Machine + Manifesto = Futurism's First 100 Years. This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Futurism's founding document, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism" (1909), which boldly denounced nineteenth-century nostalgia for the past and instead embraced the noise, technology, and rapid change of modern life. This series of performances, lectures, and events will examine Futurism's relationship to innovative artistic forms, radical and regressive politics, and performance work today.

Henry Moore's Position at the Forefront of Sculpture & Drawing at Tate Britain Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:48 PM PDT   LONDON.- Radical, experimental and avant garde, Henry Moore (1898-1986) was one of Britain's greatest artists. This major exhibition will re-assert his position at the forefront of progressive twentieth-century sculpture, bringing together the most comprehensive selection of his works for a generation. Henry Moore will present over 150 significant works including stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings. Tate Britain opens the most important exhibition of Moore works for a generation. It hopes to surprise those who think they know Moore – and he is mostly known for his enormous postwar outdoor sculptures – as well as introducing him to a whole new audience. Henry Moore at the Tate Britain through 8 August, 2010.

KLEE AND AMERICA at THE MENIL COLLECTION Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:47 PM PDT HOUSTON, TX - The Menil Collection presents Klee and America, an exhibition that addresses the enthusiastic reception for Paul Klee in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, when the artist's fortunes were collapsing under fascism in Europe.

Made in China ~ Scholarship Holders Exhibit at Kunstmuseum Bern Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:46 PM PDT BERN.- Subsequent to the "Mahjong" exhibition (2005), efforts were made to organize an artists' exchange with China. As of 2007, with the help of the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei an apartment-studio was set up in Beijing and made available for six months at a time to young Swiss artists. Over a period of two years, the GegenwART foundation and its patron Dr. h.c. Hansjörg Wyss supported this initiative and financed the stay of five artists/artist-couples there. These included the Geneva artists Marc Bauer, Sharyar Nashat and Pierre-Philippe Freymond, the Zurich artist Christian Vetter and the artist-brothers Cyril and Gregory Chapuisat from Founex.

Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art Totaled US$55,323,044 Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:45 PM PDT LONDON.- Sotheby's Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art tonight brought a total of £33,531,150/ US$55,323,044/ €39,479,519* – a figure comfortably within the pre-sale expectations of £26,750,000-37,270,000 – and saw 23 of the 27 lots offered find buyers. The sale achieved the best sellthrough rates since last June for an Evening Sale in this category at Sotheby's - a sold-by-lot rate of 85.2% and a sold-by-value rate of 90.8%. Furthermore, eight works sold for prices in excess of £1 million, with an average lot value of £1,457,876. The auction saw active bidding within the room and on telephones from international collectors. Pablo Picasso's Homme à l'épée (lot 8) was the top-selling lot of the evening when it realised £6,985,250/US$11,524,964/ €8,224,421, comfortably within its estimate of £6-8 million, and this represents the highest price of the Impressionist & Modern Art sales series in London this summer.

Essl Museum Invites Ten International Museums to Take Part in Exhibition Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:44 PM PDT VIENNA.- On the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2009, the Essl Museum has invited ten international museums to take part in the exhibition project "ASPECTS OF COLLECTING". All participating institutions and museums received a certain budget and were asked to acquire works of art they considered interesting and significant. The selection was made by the respective museum directors or curators. There were no conditions imposed, there was only the recommendation to focus on contemporary art. The Essl Museum also contributed its own acquisition scheme. The selected sets of works are being presented in an exhibition at the Essl Museum and will then be made available to the individual museums as permanent loans.

The Grosvernor Vadehra Gallery Exhibits Dhruva Mistry's Bronzes Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:43 PM PDT London.- The Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of bronze sculptures by Dhruva Mistry from the collection of Nigel Greenwood. These include important works that the artist made while living in London from 1987-1990. The exhibition will be on view from May 6th to May 20th. A few of Mistry's sculptures in this exhibition like Hanuman, Spatial Diagram 2, Woman 3 (Study for river), and Study for the Object are maquettes he made for larger public sculptures. Woman 3 is a study for one his most important large scale pieces called The River, which is located in Birmingham. This sculpture has been affectionately nicknamed 'Floozie in the Jacuzzi' by the locals. In this sculpture Mistry depicts a bold classical idealised form of a reclining female nude sitting in the middle of a large fountain. Whilst this is perhaps the most used form in sculpture, Mistry was able to add to some qualities to it that were truly his.

Sotheby's to Offer Property from The Allan Stone Gallery Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:42 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- This spring, 50 years after the founding of The Allan Stone Gallery, Sotheby's will offer property from the collection of renowned New York dealer Allan Stone. Works will be presented in two volumes on the evening of Monday, 9 May 2011, the night before Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening sale on 10 May. Volume I will comprise outstanding examples by the key artists represented and collected by Stone and highlights include works by Willem de Kooning, John Chamberlain, Franz Kline, Joseph Cornell, and others. Volume II will be dedicated to the West Coast artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose work was first championed by Stone in New York more than forty-five years ago. The two sales are estimated to bring more than $35 million* and go on view in New York beginning 6 May 2011.

Large-Scale Sculpture by David Altmejd Acquired by Dallas Museum of Art Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:41 PM PDT DALLAS, TX.-The Dallas Museum of Art today announced the acquisition of a major large-scale sculpture, The Eye, by the celebrated Canadian artist David Altmejd. Among the artist's most ambitious works to date, The Eye measures approximately 11 by 18 feet and is an imposing and mesmerizing structure of mirrored glass and wooden support that engulfs the viewer in a spectacular environment of fractured light and reflection. Acquired by the DMA through the DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund made possible by Two by Two for AIDS and Art, the work is currently on view in the DMA's exhibition Performance/Art through March 21, 2010.

Pop Art ~ Now and Then at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:40 PM PDT Wolverhampton, UK - Exploring the relationships and connections between the Pop Art of the 1960s and contemporary art today. The third Pop Art exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery features outstanding contemporary artists like David Mach, Takashi Murakami and Gavin Turk amongst familiar Pop Artists, Roy Lichenstein, Patrick Caulfield, Andy Warhol and many more.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 30 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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