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• The Frye Art Museum Shows the Controversial Art of Gabriel von Max
• The Artspace Gallery To Showcase New Works by Martin Greenland
• The Lanning Gallery Presents "Jonathan Howard's World"
• The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents "Twentieth-Century Art ~ The Second Half"
• The Bruce Museum Shows "Pablo Picasso's Vollard Suite ~ The Sculptor’s Studio"
• American Artist Jeff Koons to Lend 3 Old Master Paintings to Paris Tableau
• The Earl of Glasgow Asks To Keep Graffiti Permanent on his Castle
• Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Highlights of September Auction
• The Georg-Kolbe Museum Hosts 2011 Bernhard Heiliger Award Winner Fabian Marcaccio
• Phoenix Art Museum Hosts Major Retrospective of Ernest L. Blumenschein
• The Stadel Museum will Show the First Monographic Exhibition on Sandro Botticelli
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Acquires Fischer Collection of German Expressionism
• The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibits Canada's First Truly Avant-Garde Art Movement
• Exhibition by The Singh Twins Announced at the National Portrait Gallery
• The National Gallery To Display 'Acts of Mercy' by Frederick Cayley Robinson
• Tate Liverpool Takes a Journey through the Black Atlantic
• Stenersen Museum to open “Off the Beaten Path” ~ Issues of Gender-Based Violence
• The British Museum exhibition Explores the Legacy of Shah' Abbas
• MUMOK features " Mind Expanders: Performative Bodies / Utopian Architectures "
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Frye Art Museum Shows the Controversial Art of Gabriel von Max Posted: 01 Sep 2011 10:47 PM PDT Seattle, WA.- The Frye Art Museum is proud to present "Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul", on view at the museum through October 30th. One of the most discussed and controversial artists of the late-19th century, Gabriel von Max (1840–1915) "set hearts beating violently" with his paintings of a somnambulant, crucified woman with a full-blooded swain at her feet and an anatomist pulling back diaphanous cloth from the alabaster corpse of a beautiful young woman. Max's portrayal of Jairus' daughter being raised from the dead, his polemical depiction of vivisection and his paintings of his beloved yet melancholic monkeys engaged in various humanlike endeavors stirred the emotions and public debates of his day. Yet, despite international acclaim, Max has not been the subject of a solo museum exhibition in the United States until now. "Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul", curated by Frye Director Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, reintroduces the artist's accomplishments to American audiences and examines the reception of his work in the New World that fascinated Max. The exhibition includes more than 50 works: 34 paintings from public and private collections in Europe and the United States as well as original drawings, woodcuts on the theme of Faust, illustrated letters, rare photographs and antiquarian publications illustrated by Max. Max completed his first major painting, "The Christian Martyr", when he was a 27-year-old student at Munich's Royal Academy. Although the painting of a female saint on a crucifix (which is a highlight of the Frye Founding Collection) brought Max instant acclaim in 1867 in Munich and at the Paris World's Fair, its reception presaged a century-long debate about the artist's "rather morbid tendency." At the same time, the painting—as noted by American author S.G.W. Benjamin 10 years later—assured the public and art critics of Max's formidable intelligence, imagination and technical ability. Some of the 19th century's most discussed paintings will be on view. From the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Neue Pinakothek in Munich come two stunning masterpieces: "The Anatomist", 1869, which Elisabeth Bronfen described in her classic 1992 book Over Her Dead Body!, and "The Ecstatic Virgin Anna Katharina Emmerich", 1885. Loans from the National Gallery in Prague include two of Max's most important paintings, "The Seeress of Prevorst in High Sleep", 1892, and "Judas Iscariot", 1877, as well as three India ink drawings of Faust; "Faust in his Study", "Faust Conjures the Spirit of the Earth" and "Wagner Facing Mephisto in Faust's Study". The polemical "Vivisector", 1883, and the exquisite "Saint Elisabeth as a Child" from the Städitsche Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau in Munich will be shown together with Max paintings from the Frye Founding Collection, including his signature work, "The Christian Martyr", 1867. The extensive Max holdings of a private Californian collection of German symbolist painting—the Daulton-Ho Collection—will be highlighted, as well as original photographs of Max, his family and participants in occult experiments that took place in the artist's atelier. Throughout his long and esteemed career, Max explored biblical and literary narratives on life, death, temptation, ecstatic visions, the raising of the dead and the occult. He was known for his "soul painting." Max's fascination with the natural sciences found expression in imagery related to contemporary research on the origins of mankind. Toward the end of the 19th century, Max concentrated increasingly on his scientific interests and created a series of paintings depicting monkeys with humanlike traits, which brought him great success. In the late-19th century, Max, like his Munich Secessionist colleague Albert von Keller (who was featured in a Frye Art Museum exhibition last fall), was greatly impacted by emerging scientific methods and theories that were shaping art, literature and culture. While both artists were fascinated with the occult, Max's interest had a distinctly ironic touch, as witnessed by staged family photographs that included "ghosts" and "fun" séances. Throughout his successful career, Max and his second wife Ernestine spent most of their time on Lake Starnberg, south of Munich, where they lived with a menagerie of monkeys. Max allocated most of his time, money and energies towards amassing an unmatched personal collection of anthropological and prehistoric artifacts, which included between 60,000 to 80,000 objects at the time of his death. The impressive collection is now housed in the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim, Germany. Charles Frye (1858–1940) was the son of German immigrants who moved to America in 1846 to farm in Iowa. In 1888 Frye moved from Iowa to Seattle, where he purchased land and established a successful business. Frye and his wife Emma (1860–1934) became avid collectors and patrons of the arts. A 1930 newspaper article reports that Charles viewed his first oil painting in 1893 at age thirty-five. In 1909 the couple lent a French painting to Seattle's Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (a World's Fair celebrating the development of the Pacific Northwest), which indicates that they were probably well-known as collectors by this time. The Fryes displayed their paintings in their private quarters and in a purpose-built exhibition space attached to their home. Major philanthropic supporters of music in Seattle, the couple hosted concerts as well as charitable events in their art gallery. Gifted in perpetuity to the people of Seattle, Charles and Emma Frye's collection became the Founding Collection of the Frye Art Museum, which opened on February 8, 1952. After Charles Frye's death in 1940, the executor of Frye's will, Walser Sly Greathouse, administered the establishment of the Museum and became its first director. After Greathouse died in 1966, his widow Ida Kay directed the Museum until her retirement in 1993. In 1994 the Board appointed Richard West, scholar and former director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. West oversaw the Frye Art Museum's expansion and renovation, which was designed by Rick Sundberg of Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects, Seattle. After West's retirement in 2003, Midge Bowman, a Yale-trained historian and educator, directed the Museum, establishing the museum's archive and initiating important collection research projects. Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, former director of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, became the Museum's director in 2009 following Bowman's retirement. The Frye Art Museum's collection highlights many kinds of paintings, prints, works on paper, and sculptures. Artisits represented at the museum include Eugène Boudin, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Félix Ziem, Eugène Isabey, Franz von Lenbach, Tim Lowly, Fritz von Uhde, Hermann Corrodi, Ludwig von Zumbusch, and Franz Stuck. Visit the museum's website at .... http://fryemuseum.org

The Artspace Gallery To Showcase New Works by Martin Greenland Posted: 01 Sep 2011 10:22 PM PDT London.- Artspace Gallery is pleased to present "Martin Greenland: Uncharted Land", on view at the gallery from September 16th through October 14th. Martin Greenland, the first prize winner of John Moores 24 in 2006, is a landscape painter whose images of a lyrical pastoral coexist with an underlying darker side. In this, his second solo exhibition at Art Space Gallery, there is snow-capped peaks, ice-cold cataracts, dense forests, deserted valleys and an unerring eye for a heightened reality that suggests a retreat from the modern world into a private sanctuary of childhood memories and associations of an industrial age in decline.

The Lanning Gallery Presents "Jonathan Howard's World" Posted: 01 Sep 2011 10:12 PM PDT Sedona, AZ.- The Lanning Gallery is pleased to present "Jonathan Howard's World" on view at the gallery from September 2nd through September 11th. The exhibition unveils the artist's latest urban paintings; an artist's reception opens the exhibition for the Phoenix artist whose star is quickly rising in the art world. Howard's work is defined by his singular mission to portray on canvas the transient nature of the present, the manner in which a moment is experienced. Reality, to Howard, is "the interaction of the individual in relation to his or her environment, both of which are changing every second." Not only is reality defined by the street we are crossing or the bridge we are driving on, it is equally defined by that which holds our focus, by our associated mental predispositions, memories, interpretations and thoughts.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents "Twentieth-Century Art ~ The Second Half" Posted: 01 Sep 2011 09:07 PM PDT Tel Aviv, Israel.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is pleased to present "Twentieth-Century Art: The Second Half", a rehanging of the museum's contemporary art collection. The display of the collection now follows the chronological development of modernism and its varied expressions in Europe and the USA of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: American Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel, Post-Painterly Abstraction, Pop and Nouveau Realisme and minimal and conceptual art. Also presented are prominent trends of the creative pluralism that developed during the 1980s and characterizes post/neo-modernism. Each year, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art welcomes more than 500,000 visitors, offering them over twenty annual Israeli and international art exhibitions.

The Bruce Museum Shows "Pablo Picasso's Vollard Suite ~ The Sculptor’s Studio" Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:52 PM PDT Greenwich, CT.- The Bruce Museum is proud to present "Picasso's Vollard Suite: The Sculptor's Studio" on view until October 16th. In 1932, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) purchased the château Boisgeloup in Normandy, where he set himself up with a fully appointed studio for sculpture, a medium to which he would devote himself in the years to come. The excitement of working in the three-dimensional art form, which had always been subsidiary to pictorial art for Picasso, inspired one of the great series of modern prints, "The Sculptor's Studio," forty-six etchings made over the course of a year, from spring 1933 to spring 1934. Rendered in the purified linear style that he first began to exploit during the First World War, these extraordinary images bring the classical world of the artist-and-model, as Picasso imagined it, fully to life.

American Artist Jeff Koons to Lend 3 Old Master Paintings to Paris Tableau Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:51 PM PDT PARIS.- World-renowned American contemporary artist Jeff Koons is lending three Old Master paintings to Paris Tableau, the first international art fair dedicated to Old Master paintings, from 4 to 8 November 2011 at the Palais de la Bourse, Paris. This major new event was devised by ten leading Parisian paintings dealers who invited ten important international colleagues from London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Rome, Madrid and New York to join them. Jupiter and Antiope or Venus and Satyr by Nicolas Poussin (1584-1665), Young girl holding two puppies by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) and Femme nue or Woman with a Parrot by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) are the three alluring works that were selected from Jeff Koons' collection to show in Paris. These three captivating paintings will undoubtedly be an alluring attraction to Paris Tableau, a new event which promises to be an important addition to the vibrant art scene this autumn.

The Earl of Glasgow Asks To Keep Graffiti Permanent on his Castle Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:32 PM PDT Largs, Scotland (BBC).- The Earl of Glasgow has written to Historic Scotland asking if the exhibit can remain as a permanent feature of Kelburn Castle in Largs. The mural features a psychedelic series of interwoven cartoons depicting surreal urban culture and was completed by Brazilian graffiti artists in 2007 at a cost of £20,000. It was originally permitted by North Ayrshire Council on the understanding that it was temporary. A three-year limit was put on the graffiti, pending the start of work to replace the harling stucco on the exterior of the turret. The castle is located in the grounds of Kelburn Estate, which also houses a country centre open to the public and featuring a series of outdoor attractions. The idea was simple and original: take the vibrant and often transient art form of Brazilian graffiti, out of its predominantly urban street art context and apply it to the ancient and permanent walls of an historic rural castle in Scotland. On a historic building steeped in rural conservative perceptions, this bold and shocking artistic statement received huge media attention, while challenging the public's understanding of both urban graffiti art and the British institution the building represents.

Phillips de Pury & Company Announces Highlights of September Auction Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:13 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce highlights from the September Under the Influence auction. The sale opens the Fall auction season with a fresh selection of contemporary art. Vik Muniz's Jackie (Pictures of Diamonds), 2005 estimated at $100,000 to $150,000 portrays Jackie Kennedy Onassis shining with vitality. The photograph is fashioned from more than 3,000 loose, precious diamonds originally supplied by a diamond trade collector and patron of the artist. Muniz's use of three-dimensional materials challenges the boundaries of dimensionality by flattening the objects into a two-dimensional photographic portrait. The resulting portrait of Jackie radiates with the poise, grace and spirit of its iconic subject.

The Georg-Kolbe Museum Hosts 2011 Bernhard Heiliger Award Winner Fabian Marcaccio Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:54 PM PDT Berlin, Germany - The Georg-Kolbe Museum is proud to present "Fabian Marcaccio. The Structural Canvas Paintant" in conjunction with the artist being awarded the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture 2011. The exhibition, featuring new works in the artist's structural canvas 'paintant' series, will be on view at the museum from September 11th through November 20th. The reformulation of the concept of art in the 1960's led to great repercussions, especially in sculpture, which had extended its range into space with objects and installations. Fabián Marcaccio was born in Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina in 1963, where he studied philosophy at the university. At the age of 22 he moved to New York City, where he lives and works today. He has exhibited at numerous locations in the United States, Europe and South America. In Germany his works have previously been shown at the Kunstverein Stuttgart, Württemberg (2000), at the Kunstverein (2001) and by his participation in Documenta 11 (2002). The neologism "Paintant" is a conflation of the terms "painting" and "mutant" and has been used by Marcaccio since 1995 in both individual work and exhibition titles. It serves as an umbrella term for a variety of artistic practices, the nature of the panel painting dissolving the boundaries of both content and form. Fabian Marcaccio's work investigates whether the traditional medium of painting can survive in the digital age. He has used printmaking transfer techniques to make paintings and became well know in the 1990s for his manipulations of the conventions of painting. More recently, he has relied upon digital and industrial techniques to infuse his painting process with spatial and temporal concerns. The results are environmental paintings, animations, and "Paintants" that combine digitally manipulated imagery, sculptural form, and three dimensionally painted surfaces. The works in the exhibition reflect a range of both political and social issues in contemporary globalization, the financial crash, transsexuality, genetic engineering and terrorism. The Georg-Kolbe-Museum is located in the former studio-building of the sculptor Georg Kolbe (1877-1947) in Berlin-Westend close to the Olympic Stadium. Created from the estate of Georg Kolbe, this was the first new museum to be created in West Berlin in 1950. An annex was added in 1996, in order to meet the increased need for professional storage and the continued growth of the exhibition operations. In 1998 a coffee shop ­ Café K ­ opened in the former home of Kolbe¹s daughter and family in the building next door. This also is where sculpting courses for children are offered on the first Saturday of each month, in cooperation with artists from the museum's exhibitions. For some time now, the presentation of the collection of central works of representational sculpture of the 20th century (Kolbe, Aristide Maillol, Gerhard Marcks, Ernst Barlach, Hermann Blumenthal, Richard Scheibe, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Renée Sintenis and others) has been complemented with temporary exhibitions. Both classic Modernism and the subject of sculpture as such play important roles. In recent years, the Georg-Kolbe Museum increasingly opened up to contemporary art. The exhibitions here represent a dialog between tradition and the present, which is further intensified in the project room for contemporary sculpture, the "Kunstkammer im Georg-Kolbe-Museum", created in January of 2009. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.georg-kolbe-museum.de

Phoenix Art Museum Hosts Major Retrospective of Ernest L. Blumenschein Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT Phoenix, AZ – Phoenix Art Museum celebrates the career of one of the most successful American artists of the early 20th century with the opening of In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein. A founder of the famed Taos Society of Artists, Blumenschein rocketed into the spotlight with his modernist approach to capturing the American West.  This major retrospective, on view March 15 through June 14, 2009, covers every aspect of the artist's career and is the first Blumenschein exhibition in 30 years and the first in Arizona. "In Contemporary Rhythm is the most comprehensive exhibition to ever assemble, study and celebrate Blumenschein's remarkable work," commented Jerry Smith, associate curator of American Art, Phoenix Art Museum.  "It features masterworks by the artist that reveal his daring aesthetic, his proto-modernist style, his social sensitivities and his influence on regional as well as national trends in art." The exhibition follows Blumenschein's life, tracking the artistic, social and political dimensions of his art.  It features his major landscape and figural paintings of the Southwest, for which he is best known today, as well as early works from the beginning of his career when he worked in France and as a professional illustrator. As Blumenschein developed as an artist, he also formed a stance on social issues that included pictorial testimonials of the cultural identity of the native people of Taos and respect for their lands. Blumenschein landed in Taos, New Mexico, as the result of a fortunate accident.  He was traveling with fellow artist Bert G. Phillips on a sketching trip from Denver to northern Mexico when a wheel of their carriage broke, leaving them stranded in Taos Valley.  The delay gave the artists time to take in the spectacular countryside and interesting cultures of the area.  They decided to stay and work in the area, later founding the Taos Society of Artists to promote the splendor of Taos and the art of the American West to larger audiences. Academically trained in New York and Paris, Ernest L. Blumenschein painted in a style that combined traditional and realistic means of expression with subtle undercurrents of modernism, particularly in his bold use of color and the manner in which he constructed his compositions. In addition to founding the Taos Society of Artists (1915-27), Blumenschein's interests in modernism also led him to establish the New Mexico Painters (1923-27), one of the region's earliest groups of modernist painters.  At the height of his career, he was one of the few artists to have paintings purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Blumenschein's work has been treasured by collectors and museums since the early 20th century," commented Smith.  "In Contemporary Rhythm exemplifies why curators and critics alike have heralded Blumenschein as the most distinctive of the Taos artists." Exhibition Details This exhibition is organized by Phoenix Art Museum, in collaboration with the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, and the Denver Art Museum. This exhibition is presented at Phoenix Art Museum in the Steele Gallery, March 15 through June 19, 2009. A substantial catalog tracing the artist's career, artistic achievements and role within modernism will accompanies the exhibition and is available in the Museum Store.  The catalog, written by Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham, includes a foreword by Phoenix Art Museum director James K. Ballinger and a contributing essay by Associate Curator of American Art, Jerry N. Smith. Admission to the exhibition is included in general museum admission, which is $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens (65+), $8 for full-time college students with ID, $4 for children ages 6-17 and free for children under 6 and for museum members.  Admission is also free on Tuesdays from 3:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and for everyone on First Fridays, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Phoenix Art Museum is located in downtown Phoenix at the corner of Central and McDowell Road.  Museum hours are Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. and Wednesday – Sunday from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  The museum is closed on Mondays and major holidays. About Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix Art Museum is the Southwest's premier destination for world-class visual arts.  Popular exhibitions featuring artists such as Rembrandt, Norman Rockwell, Annie Leibowitz and Monet are shown along side the Museum's outstanding collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design.  A community epicenter for nearly fifty years, Phoenix Art Museum presents festivals, live performances, independent art films and educational programs that enlighten, entertain and stimulate. Visitors also enjoy PhxArtKids an interactive space for children, vibrant photography exhibitions through the Museum's landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, the lushly landscaped Sculpture Garden, dining at Arcadia Farms at Phoenix Art Museum, and shopping at The Museum Store. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit : www.PhxArt.org, or call the 24-hour recorded information line at (602) 257-1222.

The Stadel Museum will Show the First Monographic Exhibition on Sandro Botticelli Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:38 PM PDT FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum will show the first monographic exhibition on Sandro Botticelli (1444/45–1510) in the German-speaking world from 13 November 2009 to 28 February 2010. Taking the artist's monumental Idealized Portrait of a Lady, one of the Städel Museum collection's highlights, as its starting point, the exhibition presents numerous works from all productive periods of this great master of the Renaissance in Italy about 500 years after his day of death (17 May 1510). The exhibition opens with portraits and allegorical paintings that illustrate the degree of sophistication with which Botticelli drew on this highly developed genre and enriched it with new impulses. While the second chapter centers on his famous mythological representations of goddesses and heroines of virtue, the third part is dedicated to his abundant religious oeuvre. With a total of more than forty works by Botticelli and his workshop, the show presents a comprehensive selection of his work surviving worldwide.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Acquires Fischer Collection of German Expressionism Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:37 PM PDT RICHMOND, VA.- One of the finest remaining refugee collections of German Expressionist art has a new home – at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection includes works assembled by the couple in Frankfurt, Germany, between 1905 and 1925, the most creative years of German Expressionism. No state funds were spent by the museum. VMFA used donor funds restricted to the purchase of art for the commonwealth.

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibits Canada's First Truly Avant-Garde Art Movement Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT BUFFALO, NY.- Guest curated by Roald Nasgaard, Professor of Art History at Florida State University, this exhibition includes sixty works of art, as well as photographs, books, and other ephemera documenting the history of the Automatiste, Canada's first truly avant-garde art movement. Organized by the Varley Art Gallery in Unionville, Ontario, this landmark exhibition will represent the first extensive retrospective of the work of this group of Canadian abstract artists to be shown in the United States. On view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery from 19 March through 30 May , 2010.

Exhibition by The Singh Twins Announced at the National Portrait Gallery Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:35 PM PDT LONDON.- Work by The Singh Twins will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery for the first time in March. The twin sisters are contemporary British artists whose award-winning paintings explore issues of social, political, religious and multicultural debate. The display will offer a contemporary response to the concurrent exhibition, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, and The Singh Twins have created a new Gallery trail to draw links between their work, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860, and the Gallery's permanent Collection. On view 11 March through 20 June 2010

The National Gallery To Display 'Acts of Mercy' by Frederick Cayley Robinson Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:34 PM PDT LONDON.- Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862–1927) is one of the most distinctive yet elusive British painters of the early 20th century. This will be the first exhibition of his work to be shown in the United Kingdom for over 30 years. The four central paintings on display are the summation of Cayley Robinson's artistic ambition. Executed between 1916 and 1920, his masterpiece, 'Acts of Mercy', comprises four large-scale allegorical works commissioned to adorn the new Middlesex Hospital, rebuilt between 1928 and 1935. Combining modernity with tradition to remarkable effect, the artist emulates the spiritual integrity and methods of the Old Masters he encountered in the National Gallery.

Tate Liverpool Takes a Journey through the Black Atlantic Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:33 PM PDT LIVERPOOL.- "Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic" takes its inspiration from Paul Gilroy's seminal book 'The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness' (1993). The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of different black cultures from around the Atlantic on art from the early twentieth century to today. From the influences of African art on the modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Ellen Gallagher, Chris Ofili and Kara Walker, the exhibition will reflect how artists around the Atlantic have claimed the language of Modernism in diverse ways, as a powerful tool to explore, formulate and assert their own identity.

Stenersen Museum to open “Off the Beaten Path” ~ Issues of Gender-Based Violence Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:32 PM PDT OSLO, NORWAY - A new international exhibition of contemporary art brings together artists from around the world to explore the many dimensions of gender-based violence. In "Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art," set to open June 20 at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway, 17 well-respected artists from 14 countries create new stories through their artwork addressing gender-based violence from a global perspective. To promote social change, Art Works For Change serves as a catalyst within the community. Through its partnerships with museums, galleries, and advocacy and educational organizations, Art Works For Change provides a forum for which local education and outreach can take place within each host city the exhibition travels.

The British Museum exhibition Explores the Legacy of Shah' Abbas Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:31 PM PDT LONDON - The British Museum just opened the first major exhibition to explore the rule and legacy of Shah 'Abbas, one of the formative figures in the creation of modern Iran. Shah of Iran from 1587 – 1629 AD, he is remembered as one of the country's most influential kings and a great military leader, ruling Iran at a time of political renewal, when it succeeded in positioning itself as a world power with a sharply defined national identity. In association with The Iran Heritage Foundation, the exhibition will feature extraordinary loans, never before seen outside of Iran, alongside loans from Europe and the US. On view through 14 June, 2009.

MUMOK features " Mind Expanders: Performative Bodies / Utopian Architectures " Posted: 01 Sep 2011 07:30 PM PDT VIENNA, AUSTRIA - "Mind Expanders" at MUMOK shows the connections between the social upheavals and the art forms of the 1960s and 1970s that were border transgressing and architecturally-influenced or performative in nature. The title is derived from Haus-Rucker-Co's seat object for two people which conjoins technology and body and stands as an example of the attempt to achieve an artistically radical redefinition of the social environment and interpersonal relationships.

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