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- The Kunstmuseum Basel to Showcase Max Beckman's Landscapes
- The Phoenix Art Museum Shows Contemporary Artists Rebecca Campbell & Angela Ellsworth
- The Allentown Art Museum Announces Reopening this October
- The San Francisco International Airport Museum Shows the Paris Photos of Benjamen Chinn
- The Malmö Konsthall Presents "Misaki Kawai – Big Bubble"
- Studio21South Presents a Group Show ~ "Going Coastal"
- The Art Gallery of New South Wales Presents "One Hundred Flowers"
- National Gallery of Australia To Feature Renaissance - 15th & 16th Century Italian Paintings
- The ICN Gallery Opens in London With Contemporary Japanese Show
- Serge Diaghilev's Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 Announced by the V&A
- Valencian Institute for Modern Art Opens "From Gaudí to Picasso"
- Comprehensive Exhibition of Neo Rauch's Oeuvre Opens in Munich and Leipzig
- Renowned Multi-faceted German Artist Sigmar Polke Dies at Age 69
- Salvador Dalí Exhibition Huge Success at The National Gallery of Victoria
- Colgate's Picker Art Gallery Exhibitions ~ Treasures from the Permanent Collection
- Pure Sixties, Pure Bailey, a Selling Exhibition at Bonhams in London
- Highlights & Special Projects at The Armory Show 11th Edition in New York City
- Museo Arte Reina Sofía explores 'The Invention of the 20th Century'
- Cherry and Martin Gallery hosts Ruby Osorio
- Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"
| The Kunstmuseum Basel to Showcase Max Beckman's Landscapes Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:18 PM PDT  Basel, Switzerland.- The Kunstmuseum Basel is proud to present "Max Beckman - The Landscapes" on view from September 4th through January 22nd 2012. Max Beckmann (Leipzig 1884 – 1950 New York) is one of the titans of modernism, even though he saw himself as the last Old Master. He never joined any of the avant-garde groups of the twentieth century, but the experiences of Impressionism, Expressionism, New Objectivity, and abstract art left their traces in his oeuvre. Beckmann was long perceived as a typically German artist, and only in the past few years has his importance been fully appreciated on the international stage, with retrospectives in Paris, London, and New York. Against the modernist tendency to dissolve the traditional genres, Beckmann remained a lifelong defender of classical genres: the depiction of the human figure—in the form of portraits, mythological tableaus, and acts—the still life, and the landscape. Famous as a painter of the human condition, he also renewed the genre of landscape painting with outstanding and haunting works that are virtually without equal in twentieth-century art.  The comprehensive special exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel now turns the focus on the artist's oeuvre in landscapes, showing seventy paintings, among them masterpieces such as "The Harbor of Genoa" from the St. Louis Art Museum and the "Seashore" from the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, but also sublime works from numerous private collections, some of which have rarely been on public display. Beckmann's landscapes allow the beholder to trace the development of his art in its purest form. Less shaped by allegorical layers of meaning, they directly reveal his magnificent qualities as a painter. Beckmann's reserved view of the landscape remains striking: vistas framed by windows, curtains, parapets, columns, and elevated vantage points often mediate the distance between the inhabited world and the boundless expanses of nature.Private objects from Beckmann's possessions frequently appear in the foregrounds of these landscapes as vestiges of the still life, giving the beholder a sense of the painter's presence. The dramaturgy of these vistas is evidence that Beckmann fuses an abstractly conceived image of the landscape with the recollection of the impression he received from a particular scenery that is the foundation of each painting. The gaze he fixes on nature helps clarify his standpoint and places him in a relationship with the world. Landscapes from different phases of his life – Beckmann's fresh start in Frankfurt after World War I or the years he spent in exile in Amsterdam – illustrate how this relationship evolves. The history of Basel's public art collection can be traced back to the 17th century. When it acquired the Amerbach Kabinett, Basel became the first municipality to possess its own art collection long before princely collections were made accessible to the public in other cities of Europe. On the death of Basilius Amerbach (1533-1591), grandson of the famous printer and son of a distinguished lawyer who had been a close friend of Erasmus, the encyclopaedic collection contained not only some 60 paintings (among them 15 by Hans Holbein the Younger) and a very large portfolio of drawings and prints, but natural objects, ethnographic artefacts and a library as well. In 1671 the art collection was transferred to the "Zur Mücke" house near the Cathedral Square and opened to the public, becoming one of the city's major attractions. In 1823 the Amerbach art collection, which had already been enhanced by donations from the Council and private donors, was merged with the holdings of as second museum started by jurist Remigius Faesch (1595-1667). This brought not only further paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger, but also important works by 15th to17th century artists from the Upper-Rhine region into the collection. In 1849, the need for more display space resulted in a move to the late classicist, multi-purpose building by Melchior Berri in Augustinergasse (which still houses the Museum of Natural History and the Museum today). A bequest by Samuel Birrmann (1793-1843), a Basel painter and art dealer, helped to introduce an acquisition policy, and in 1855 a fund earmarked for contemporary Swiss art was established under the aegis of the Museum Commission.  The Canton of Basel-Stadt, too, has been providing acquisition funding since 1903. With the completion of a purpose-built building by architects Rudolf Christ and Paul Bonatz in St. Alban-Graben, the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung moved into the Kunstmuseum Basel in its present form in 1936. The building has been thoroughly refurbished over the past few years. For additional display space The Museum für Gegenwartskunst was established in a converted factory at St. Alban-Rheinweg in 1980. A joint venture with the Emanuel Hoffmann and Christoph Merian Foundations, many more recent works were transferred from the Kunstmuseum to the new museum. Never content to stand still, the next great challenge for the Kunstmuseum is implementing a planned expansion. This new building, will be located opposite the museum, is intended to be a special exhibition area offering the visitor a constantly new experience. Much remains to be done before the projected opening date of 2015, but its completion will be the latest chapter in this museum's long tradition of re-invention and growth.  The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland, particularly Upper-Rhenish and Flemish paintings and drawings from 1400 to 1600 and 19th to 21st century international art. The museum has the world's largest collection of works by the Holbein family. Other highlights of the fifthteenth and sixteenth century are paintings by Konrad Witz, Hans Fries, Hans Baldung (called Grien), Niklaus Manuel (called Deutsch), Lucas Cranach the Elder and outstanding works by the Upper-Rhenish Masters of the fifthteenth and sixteenth century as well as Flemish art of the sixteenth century. The main features of the seventeenth and eighteenth century are the Flemish and Dutch schools (Rubens, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Frans Francken, Rembrandt, Jacob Ruisdael), German and Dutch still lifes (Wilhelm Claesz Heda, Georg Flegel, Sebastian Stoskopff) and an important group of paintings by the Swiss artist Caspar Wolf. The Kunstmuseum also owns the worldwide largest collection of paintings by Arnold Böcklin. Noteworthy in the nineteenth century collection are the most comprehensive group of Nazarene paintings in Switzerland including works by Koch, Overbeck, and Olivier, important assemblages of works by Füssli, French painting from Romanticism to Realism including Delacroix, Géricault, Corot and Courbet. Swiss art of Birmann, Calame, Anker, Zünd, Buchser, Segantini and Hodler. German art with Feuerbach and Marées and especially French Impressionism with works of art by Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley and Postimpressionism represented by Cézanne, Gauguin and van Gogh. The museum also has 8 sculptures by Rodin. The focal points of 20th-century art on display are Cubism, Expressionism and American art after 1945, including the unique compilation of works by Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Hans Arp, Alberto Giacometti, Marc Chagall, Barnett Newman, Joseph Beuys, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella and Bruce Nauman. In January 2005, the Library of the Kunstmuseum Basel moved into a building directly adjacent to the Kunstmuseum. Formerly home to premises of the Swiss National Bank, the building was donated to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel by Maja Oeri in 1999 and bears the name "Laurenz-Bau", in memory of the prematurely deceased son of the donor and her husband. Apart from the library, the building also houses the administrative offices of the Kunstmuseum and the Department of Art History of Basel University. The Library, which is open to the public, contains over 150,000 titles. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch  |
| The Phoenix Art Museum Shows Contemporary Artists Rebecca Campbell & Angela Ellsworth Posted: 31 Aug 2011 09:31 PM PDT  Phoenix, AZ.- The Phoenix Art Museum is pleased to present "Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth" on view in the Katz Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art, Marshall Gallery and Hendler Gallery from September 3rd through January 23rd 2012. Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth both spent their childhoods in Utah and within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Their different experiences and individual reactions to this specific context have inspired much of their mature work as artists. Multilayered and complex, their works touch on memory and nostalgia but are grounded in the present and the reinterpretation of their experiences as well as Mormon traditions and practices. This exhibition will include painting, sculpture and installations.  |
| The Allentown Art Museum Announces Reopening this October Posted: 31 Aug 2011 09:30 PM PDT  ALLENTOWN, PA.- Closed for almost a year while undergoing major renovation and expansion, The Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley announced it will reopen its doors to the public on October 16, 2011. The $15.4 million expansion and renovation project, designed by the renowned architecture firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA) and constructed by Alvin H. Butz, Inc., has added 7,900 square feet to the museum and created a modern, warm and welcoming atmosphere for visitors. Shared Treasure the opening exhibition will run October 16, 2011 – January 15, 2012.  |
| The San Francisco International Airport Museum Shows the Paris Photos of Benjamen Chinn Posted: 31 Aug 2011 09:20 PM PDT  San Francisco, CA.- The San Francisco International Airport Museum is proud to present "Benjamen Chinn: Paris 1950–1951", on view at the F3 – Gate 76 Photography Gallery from September through November. Benjamen Chinn was born on Commercial Street in San Francisco's Chinatown district in 1921. Chinn's interest in photography started when he was ten years old. His older brother, John, taught him how to develop and print photographs in the family basement, which they had converted into a darkroom. Later, during World War II, Chinn used his photography skills as an aerial and public-relations photographer for the U.S. Army Air Corps based at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Hawaii.  |
| The Malmö Konsthall Presents "Misaki Kawai – Big Bubble" Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:42 PM PDT  Malmö, Sweden.- The Malmö Konsthall is pleased to present "Misaki Kawai – Big Bubble", on view from September 10th through November 27th. The Japanese artist Misaki Kawai (b. 1978) works with painting, drawing, sculpture, installations and artists' books. Her works are filled with colourful characters, who appear to come from the dream world of film, music and comics. Strongly influenced by today's consumer society – of which she herself is a part – Kawai fuses East with West, humour with seriousness and dreams with reality. The result is both chaotic and exuberant. Misaki Kawai has been drawing since she was very young, and the drawn line forms the basis of her work.  |
| Studio21South Presents a Group Show ~ "Going Coastal" Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:11 PM PDT  North Adams, MA.- Studio21South is pleased to present "Going Coastal" a group show about what goes on where water meets the land. The exhibition is on view at the North Adams gallery until October 16th. The exhibit includes graphic prints of rock formations of Monhegan Island, Maine by Chatham artist Frank Curran, juxtaposed with Thor Wickstrom's oil interpretations of the same sites. Also featured are whimsical perspecitves on beach life by Williamstown artist Julia Morgan-Leamon's, and Eric March's watercolors of Coney Island. Works by gallery artists will also continue to be on view, including Berkshire landscapes, as well as scenes of North Adams and Tanglewood.  |
| The Art Gallery of New South Wales Presents "One Hundred Flowers" Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:44 PM PDT  Sydney, AU - The Art Gallery of New South Wales is pleased to present "One Hundred Flowers", on view through January 2nd 2012. The Art Gallery of NSW has one of the finest collections of Asian art in Australia displayed in the beautiful Asian galleries, opened in 2003. The exhibition "One hundred flowers" is a selection of works that have been added to the Gallery's Asian collection over the last five years. Covering many centuries, the wide selection of art on show represents high points of artistic expression across countries and cultures as diverse and distant as Tibet and Indonesia.  |
| National Gallery of Australia To Feature Renaissance - 15th & 16th Century Italian Paintings Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:28 PM PDT  CANBERRA, AU - The National Gallery of Australia today announced that it will present the first ever exhibition in Australia dedicated to Renaissance paintings. The exhibition is titled Renaissance – 15th & 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, it will be the Gallery's major summer exhibition, opening on 9 December 2011. Everyone understands that the Renaissance was a golden age in which learning and the arts flourished as never before. The exhibition will feature more than 70 paintings including works by Italian masters such as Raphael, Botticelli, Bellini and Mantegna – artists whose paintings have never been seen in Australia before. The Honourable Ashley Dawson-Damer is generously supporting the exhibition through her role as Exhibition Patron. Ms Dawson-Damer has an ongoing commitment to the Gallery as a Member of the National Gallery of Australia Council and a Life Governor of the National Gallery of Australia Foundation.  |
| The ICN Gallery Opens in London With Contemporary Japanese Show Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:27 PM PDT  London.- September 8th sees the opening of ICN Gallery, an exciting new commercial Asian art gallery in Shoreditch, London, that will exhibit everything from Pop Art to traditional craft works from the contemporary Japanese and Asian art scene. Reflecting the creative culture of Asia, and in particular Japan, this unique gallery with its adjoining café specialising in Japanese tea, delivers a new style of art space in London. The ICN gallery will open with a very special exhibition entitled 'Ohako', on view from September 8th through October 19th.  The word 'Ohako' means 'one's best skill' but is also the word for traditional Japanese tea boxes. Each of the 30 participating artists, who are leading the creative culture scene in Japan today, specialising in manga art, ceramics, architecture, fashion design, character design and fine art, were given a traditional tea box from Shizuoka. They created a unique piece of art that is housed inside, transforming it into an art box, with a view to giving London visitors a rare opportunity to experience the unique harmony of the Japanese arts using a combination oftraditional and contemporary expression.Amongst the participating artists are Riusuke Fukahori, who's signature works are his goldfish that look three dimensional but in reality they are two-dimensional, painted with acrylic on layer after layer of resin. The painted layers create a shadow that makes it seem as if the goldfish are actually swimming around. The work could be counted as both contemporary art and contemporary craft. Keiko Masumoto challenges the traditional dominating relationship of the vessel and it's motif. Keiko's work possesses comprehensive techniques of Japanese pottery that will make a believer of anyone. Ryo Arai is a sculptor who specialises in papier-mâché, the art of shadow. He has inherited the craftsman skills in making traditional toys with papier-mâché, which originates from the Edo period (since the 1600's). Arai continues to pursue this rare form of craftwork that is under the threat of extinction. His paper sculpture creations are well known as book cover designs for the popular Japanese author Kyogoku Natsuhiko. Sachiho Kondo's works are created by using Japanese washi paper, ink, pigments and pen. By only using the colour black she creates a graphic and catchy pop element of work with a humorous twist. After working at the Issey Mikake design studio since 1983, Kazushi Kobayashi became independent in 1988. In 2001 he received the Ueno no Mori Museum prize at The 24th Japan Ivory Sculptures exhibition. His works are created from a sheet of paper cut out with scissors and folded into three dimensional forms. The theme is the momentary brilliance of life and his works have mythical stories hidden within.  Other artists included in the exhibitions include, Paradise Yamamoto, Seijiro Niwa, Takao Aoki, Reiko Motohara, Gen Miyamura, Mai Miyake, Kyoei Design: Kouichi Okamoto, Hideyuki Kume, Shinnosuke, Daisuke Nagaoka, Kazuhiro Ishigami, Wabisabi: Kudo "Wabi" Ryouhei/Nakanishi "Sabi" Kazush, Megumi Matsubara & Hiroi Ariyama, Osamu Watanabe, Takao Sakai, Ayako Takagi, KIMA, Yukinori Dehara, Wataridori project: Tomoko Aso /Akiko Takeuch, Nobumasa Takahashi, Masataka Kurashina, Riusuke Fukahori, Fantasista Utamaro, Shiriagari Kotobuk and Tanaka Katsuki. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.icn-global.com/   |
| Serge Diaghilev's Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 Announced by the V&A Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:09 PM PDT
Diaghilev's dramatic performances transformed dance, reawakening interest in ballet across Europe and America. This major retrospective will celebrate his enduring influence on 20th-century art and design and will include more than 300 objects from the V&A's own unrivalled collection and from a variety of lenders. The energy of the Ballets Russes' performances will be brought to life through giant backcloths, costumes, art, film and sound. Specially created films will be on show throughout including footage of composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall explaining the development of music that accompanied the Ballets Russes. Treasures on show will include Picasso's huge front cloth for Le Train Bleu, as well as original costumes and set designs, props and posters by artists and designers like Léon Bakst, Georges Braque, Jean Cocteau and Natalia Goncharova. These will tell the story of a company which began in the social and political upheaval of prerevolutionary Russia and went on to cause a sensation with exotic performances that had never been seen before. The exhibition begins with Diaghilev's life in St Petersburg. With an overview of the dance scene he was set to transform, it will explore his early work in Paris, displaying the magnificent costume for Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godonov worn by Feodor Chaliapin. This gallery will include a rich array of costumes designed by Bakst and tell the story of the Ballets Russes up to the outbreak of War in 1914.
 The second gallery will take visitors behind the scenes of the Ballets Russes' productions - their inspiration, choreography, music and creation of the sets. Nijinsky's notation for L'Après-midi d'un faune will be displayed for the first time as it was intended to be read, as will the musical score for Pulcinella by Stravinsky. Another highlight will be a presentation of The Firebird, examined through a series of designs for Goncharova's coronation scene, concluding dramatically with the actual backcloth. Pablo Picasso became an integral member of the Ballets Russes during the War. His enormous front cloth for Le Train Bleu, dedicated and signed, will be on show as well as a costume he designed for Parade. The exhibition will look at how the Ballets Russes survived during the War having been cut off from their roots in Russia with little access to the cities they performed in before 1914. The final gallery will present Diaghilev and his company in the 1920s - a period when he had achieved great status in European culture. The works of artists, authors and musicians he knew or was associated with will be shown - including manuscripts by Joyce, Proust and Eliot. There will be a large selection of costumes in this gallery from the exotic - Léon Bakst's The Sleeping Princess and Henri Matisse's Le Chant du rossignol, and the wacky - Mikhail Larionov's Chout and Giorgio de Chirico's Le Bal, and the chic - Coco Chanel's bathing costumes for Le Train Bleu, Georges Braque's Zephyr and Flore and Marie Laurencin's Les Biches. Mark Jones, Director of the V&A said: "Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes redefined ballet. Our exhibition will tell the story of this groundbreaking entrepreneur and artist. Diaghilev's dedication to pushing boundaries and collaborating with the best designers, choreographers and artists of his time left an inspiring legacy. The V&A is delighted to be showing its unrivalled collection of Diaghilev and Ballets Russes' objects in this timely exhibition." The V&A is the greatest museum of art and design, a world treasure house with collections of fabulous scope and diversity. The Museum holds over 3000 years worth of artefacts from many of the world's richest cultures. Choose one of the collections below to explore further. Visit : http://www.vam.ac.uk/  |
| Valencian Institute for Modern Art Opens "From Gaudí to Picasso" Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:08 PM PDT
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| Comprehensive Exhibition of Neo Rauch's Oeuvre Opens in Munich and Leipzig Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:07 PM PDT
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| Renowned Multi-faceted German Artist Sigmar Polke Dies at Age 69 Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:06 PM PDT
Bloomberg News - Sigmar Polke, one of Germany's best-known artists, died last night from cancer at the age of 69, his dealer Erhard Klein said in a phone interview. Polke, a painter, graphic artist and photographer, was "one of the most important and most successful representatives of German contemporary art," German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said in a statement. "He was a critical, ironic and self-ironic observer of postwar history and its artistic commentators."  |
| Salvador Dalí Exhibition Huge Success at The National Gallery of Victoria Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:05 PM PDT
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| Colgate's Picker Art Gallery Exhibitions ~ Treasures from the Permanent Collection Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:04 PM PDT  |
| Pure Sixties, Pure Bailey, a Selling Exhibition at Bonhams in London Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:03 PM PDT
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| Highlights & Special Projects at The Armory Show 11th Edition in New York City Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:02 PM PDT  |
| Museo Arte Reina Sofía explores 'The Invention of the 20th Century' Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:01 PM PDT Madrid, Spain - The art critic and historian Carl Einstein was one of the most important and multifaceted personalities of the 20th-century artistic avant-garde. His books, articles and essays were fundamental pieces for the critical study of the avant-garde movements; in them he introduced the West to African art and ratified Cubism as a movement in its own right. His intellectual oeuvre, rediscovered in recent decades, is now paid tribute at the MNCARS. This is the first international exhibition to offer a visual description of the work of Einstein, a key figure in visual arts as well as literature, theatre, film and political action.  |
| Cherry and Martin Gallery hosts Ruby Osorio Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:00 PM PDT
Los Angeles, CA - Cherry and Martin Gallery presents new works on paper by Ruby Osorio. The gallery also announces the release of Osorio's first suite of hand-colored, hand-stitched lithographs. The exhibition at Cherry and Martin runs through February 16, 2008.  |
| Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 31 Aug 2011 07:00 PM PDT This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here .   |
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