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• Wyoming Art Dealer Discovers Previously Unknown American Impressionist Master
• “Agony and Ecstasy” from the François Pinault Collection at the SongEun ArtSpace
• Harvard Art Museums Explores Connections Between Renaissance Art and Science
• The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art Presents its Annual Fall Exhibition
• New Britain Art Museum Shows a Comprehensive Survey of America’s Oldest Art Colony
• Sundaram Tagore Beverley Hills To Feature Adi Da Samraj Exhibition
• Hirschl & Adler Shows Richard Lonsdale-Hands Modernist Artworks
• The Arlington Museum of Art Presents Five Artists "Points of View"
• Australian Museum Announces Exhibition of Works from Guggenheim
• Salvador Dalí ~ 'Liquid Desire' a Major Retrospective is Hosted by NGV
• The de Young Museum hosts Dale Chihuly's First Major Exhibition in San Francisco
• Art Images Libraries Now Online and Free
• Galleria dell'Accademia presents Robert Mapplethorpe ~ Perfection in Form
• Portland Museum of Art's Winslow Homer Illustrations to Appear Online
• Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Welcomes Six-Millionth Visitor
• Major Picasso Exhibition Opens at Heather James Fine Art
• Martin Gropius Bau Offers a Contemporary Look at Islamic Visual Expression
• Mother Teresa, Gene Autry, Katharine Hepburn on Upcoming US Postage Stamps
• 'The Car as Art' at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Wyoming Art Dealer Discovers Previously Unknown American Impressionist Master Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:17 PM PDT Laramie, WY.- When art dealer, Gayle B. Tate, was contacted by the estate of Emerson E. Glass, one can only imagine his surprise.  The work of the previously unknown master of American impressionism that had laid hidden from the art world for over fifty years, came suddenly to light. It was not until the first shipment of paintings arrived at Mr. Tate's office that he began to realize the significance of this offering.  The paintings began to flow into his office only a few at a time, but with increasing quality, to the point where it was obvious that this was truly an undiscovered master. Mr. Tate had met the widow of the artist in 2003 in pleasant surroundings of tea and cake, but did not place much significance on it until she asked for another meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. During that meeting, Nina Glass spoke in rambling memories of her late husband's work and their life together. Then, a year later, Mr. Tate received a call from a law office in Omaha, informing him of the choice by the artist's deceased widow, that G. B. Tate & Sons Fine Art was named in her will to handle the artist's estate. The work of Emerson Glass can found at the current show G. B. Tate & Sons Fine Art in Laramie, Wyoming through the end of October. The show is open to the public by appointment, or the works can be seen on the gallery's website. Among the artist's few associates was his friend, Birger Sandzen, who is widely recognized in the art world for his own contributions to American impressionism. The work of E. E. Glass bears certain similarities to that of Sandzen, but with a greater attention to detail and draftsmanship. E. E. Glass worked with both brush and a tight palette knife technique that is unique to himself in the world of art. Why has the artist's work never surfaced? Mr. Glass was deformed in a house fire when a youth. He lost his parents in the fire and was raised in the deep south by a plantation worker. He was always a recluse who shunned public exposure. Even his work reflects who he was, being of the high and lonely mountain ridges and hidden places of the Rocky Mountains. His work took him to Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming among other places. One can see the kind of place Glass preferred, evident in their isolation or time of day. His paintings of the night and moon are an important part of his production, which are again a reflection of isolation and seperation. Also, the artist often painted the storms and tornados of the midwest plains, logically reflecting his own turmoil. Yet the paintings of E. E. Glass are filled with hope and energy, despite his life circumstances. Colors are applied very liberally and beautifully interacted in his strong impressionist techniques. His subjects, often the wind blown pines of the high ridges are carefully and dramatically drafted to show their character... that of survivors against the "storms of life". Emerson Glass was born in poverty and died in poverty, having never sold a painting.  Glass's father was a foreman on a cotton plantation in the deep south, near the town of Clinton, Louisiana.  At the age of seven, a fire destroyed the boy's home and his father and mother died in the blaze. Emerson himself was badly burned and scarred for life on the left side of his face and upper body... leaving him scarred in more ways than one. A plantation worker took the young boy in and cared for him till he left home at the age of 23.  "Mammi Jax" was a black woman, born and raised as a plantation slave and served as cook for the master of the plantation.  The deformed Emerson Glass was worth little more than an object of abuse in southern society, even for a white boy... but to Mammi Jax, he was the son she never had, a gift from above.  For the rest of the world, a boy with no education, no social acceptance and no hope for the future... EE Glass was a castaway. No one noticed the foundation of an exceptional talent... no one except Mammi Jax. She could see the pain in the young Emerson, and always spoke to the boy as if he was the Prince of Baton Rouge, destined for greatness.  Even though he never saw the kind of success most folks dream of, it never seemed to matter much to young Emerson. But Mammi Jax was there to gently push the boy toward his destiny. At the age of 13, the great depression hit this country like those freight trains that roared through Clinton but never stopped. Nonetheless, despite the lack of education, Emerson found ways to make his own colors... from red clays and roots and berries, to rocks and bits of cloth ground into pigments, Glass rubbed his rudimentary pigments together and stored them in jars, spreading them onto cardboard panels with twigs and branches. With Mammi Jax behind him, young Emerson did not work in the fields or the kitchen, but spent his days gathering materials and sitting alone under the trees of southern Louisiana and Mississippi. He would get off by himself for days at a time, spreading his handmade colors on bits of cardboard and shirt stuffers he was given from grocery stores and laundry services. He knew nothing of government help for artists during the years of FDR and the WPA. He simply worked alone in fields, far from civilization and the pain of exposure to society. When Mammi Jax died, Glass was 23, and had never seen a real painting, never met an artist, never been to a museum or gallery and never read an art book. Yet in Montgomery, Alabama, Emerson Glass found his first exposure... a show of the great impressionists at the new Museum of Fine Art. He wept for days in delight at the sight of the great masters... Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and the rest of the early modernist movements.  Color just for the sake of color became a new source of passion for Glass.  He took jobs washing dishes and sweeping floors so he could buy colors he had never seen before.  Slowly but surely, he grew in skill and determination to paint. By the time he was 30, Glass was producing work that had matured into his unique style.  In his travels, he crossed paths with William Henry Walker (American, 1871 - 1938), who spoke of Glass as an innovative post runner of the impressionists. He was invited to stay and study with Walker, but rejected it to avoid Walker's frequent company and popularity. During his travels toward the west, Glass met Birger Sandzen in Lindsborg, Kansas, staying briefly to study with the artist before continuing toward the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. No further artists have been found to associate with the work of EE Glass, and he had no audience with which to share his vision. Because of his awkward appearance, he avoided public exposure and would not engage in social events so necessary for emerging artists of his day.  No galleries, no patrons... destined for obscurity for the rest of his life. In 1954, Emerson met Nina Brandt. The couple seemed like a perfect if not serendipitous match, for she was blind and he was deformed. Under common law marriage, they lived together for the remainder of Emerson's life, when he died of natural causes at the age of 71 in a tiny apartment in a rural area south of Kansas City, Missouri. What Nina did for Emerson was support his desire to see what she couldn't... the wide spread horizon of the midwest and western United States, from the abundant wildlife and fields of corn and wheat of the plains to the majesty of the Rocky Mountains. There is no evidence that they ever traveled east from the Mississippi River. Nina was able to obtain government disability support, most of which was used to buy paints, wooden panels and pay for travel expenses for she and her husband. In return, Emerson taught her to read Braille... this despite the fact that he could not read himself. Yet in his own words, he could "feel the language with her", and they both learned from books without print. Little else is known about Emerson Glass. The only two people who figured in his life were Mammi Jax and Nina. No other person is named as instrumental in his history. Emerson never exhibited his work and as far as is known, never sold a painting. The fact that he and Nina lived in the barest of circumstances was never a hindrance to their happiness together and their privacy was just what they liked. Nina Glass died in March, 2007. Two years prior to her death, and having no children or other close relative, she entrusted the estate of her husband's work to G. B. Tate & Sons Fine Art of Laramie, Wyoming. Nina and Tate were under agreement that no paintings would be displayed or offered for sale until after her death... for she could not allow even the potential for any further rejection of her husband, in the event the art world might not accept his work. G. B. Tate & Sons Fine Art retired from public art gallery operations in 1997, and have since worked discretely and privately with our long standing and growing list of clientele for quality works of art. Visit their website at  ... http://www.gbtate.com

“Agony and Ecstasy” from the François Pinault Collection at the SongEun ArtSpace Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:16 PM PDT SEOUL. KOREA - SongEun ArtSpace welcomes the exhibition "Agony and Ecstasy" a selection of 23 works from the François Pinault Collection of contemporary art. This will be the first time that works from the François Pinault Collection will be presented in an exhibition in Asia. For this exhibition, François Pinault has decided to entrust the curatorship to Francesca Amfitheatrof. Focusing upon the central theme of portraiture and the representation of the self, Amfitheatrof has selected a highly expressive list of works, which include portraits, statues, busts, mirrors, animals preserved in formaldehyde and photographs by four major contemporary artists: Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Cindy Sherman.

Harvard Art Museums Explores Connections Between Renaissance Art and Science Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:35 PM PDT Cambridge, MA.- The Harvard Art Museums are proud to present "Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe", an exhibition that examines how celebrated Northern Renaissance artists contributed to the scientific discoveries of the 16th century. This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue offer a new perspective on the collaboration between artists and scientists: the project challenges the perception of artists as illustrators in the service of scientists, and examines how their printmaking skills were useful to scientists in their investigations. Artists' early printed images served as effective research tools, not only functioning as descriptive illustrations, but also operating as active agents in the creation and dissemination of knowledge. Taking into consideration prints, books, maps, and such scientific instruments as sundials, globes, astrolabes, and armillary spheres, this project looks at relationships between their producers and their production, as well as between the objects themselves.

The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art Presents its Annual Fall Exhibition Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:07 PM PDT Novato, CA.- The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present "Shattered", its 6th annual Fall National Exhibition, juried this year by Kenneth Baker, Art Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. "Shattered" will be on view at the museum through September 25th, with an opening reception (at 500 South Palm Drive). Kenneth Baker will present a talk on his selection process, the theme of the exhibition, and its broader meanings from 4-5pm on Saturday, August 20th, preceding the opening reception.

New Britain Art Museum Shows a Comprehensive Survey of America’s Oldest Art Colony Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:45 PM PDT New Britain, CT.- The New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA) presents "The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011)" through October 16th in the Museum's McKernan Gallery. The exhibition will be the most comprehensive survey of America's oldest art colony ever presented, and will focus on Provincetown's legacy as an art colony (in 1916, the Boston Globe declared it the "Biggest Art Colony in the World") and will cover over 100 artists and as many artworks from Charles W. Hawthorne's founding of the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899—and, thereby, the colony itself—to the present day. This will be the largest and most comprehensive examination of the art colony ever completed as the last Provincetown survey (exhibited over 40 years ago) ended with artwork from the 1970's.

Sundaram Tagore Beverley Hills To Feature Adi Da Samraj Exhibition Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:22 PM PDT Beverley Hills, CA. - The Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverley Hills is proud to present "Adi Da Samraj: Orpheus and Linead" on view from September 8th through October 8th. Adi Da Samraj is known for his monumental works meant to draw viewers into an ecstatic experience and connect them to a higher spiritual truth. Since his participation in the 2007 Venice Biennale, the late American-born artist has commanded a large international following. This exhibition, called Orpheus and Linead, curated by the renowned Italian critic and art historian Achille Bonito Oliva (director of the 45th Venice Biennale), comprises 7 works on aluminum. Each image is a geometric abstraction composed of the three primary colors and black and white. The exhibition originally premiered in September 2010 at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York.

Hirschl & Adler Shows Richard Lonsdale-Hands Modernist Artworks Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:25 PM PDT New York City.- Hirschl & Adler Modern is proud to present "The Paintings of Richard Lonsdale-Hands (1913-1969)" on view at the gallery from September 8th through October 8th. Born in England, Richard Lonsdale-Hands was a highly successful London-based industrial and package designer. After beginning his professional career as a designer on London's Fleet Street, in 1937, at the age of twenty-four, Lonsdale-Hands broke out on his own, founding Richard Lonsdale-Hands Associates. Lonsdale-Hands's company (later the Lonsdale Hands Organisation Ltd) subsequently became the largest European industrial design and market research firm of its time (he also acquired Greenly's Ltd, a major London advertising agency, further expanding his empire.) Lonsdale-Hands was a leader in British design, and by his mid-30s was an internationally recognized captain of industry.

The Arlington Museum of Art Presents Five Artists "Points of View" Posted: 03 Sep 2011 07:02 PM PDT Arlington, TX.- The Arlington Museum of Art is pleased to present "Points of View", on view at the museum until September 30th. In this exhibition, five artists interpret their world with distinctive points of view through Oils, Acrylics, Watercolor, Mixed Media and Digital Paintings. The artists featured are Douglas Winters, Sonali Khatti, David Maxwell, Starr Perry, and Dan Darr, the exhibit has been curated by Lee Bowman. The museum seeks to present outstanding art work by regional artists with shows that incorporate a variety of styles from traditional to contemporary to experimental. Starr Perry is a full time artist and owner of Abstract Zebra, a Fort Worth design studio that experiments with intriguing mixed media combinations of heavy body acrylics and cutting edge software techniques to produce art works with dazzling color, texture and drama.  Primarily self taught, she experimented with various artistic methodologies while maintaining a full time career in accessories and beauty sales until early retirement from corporate life in 2005, due to ill health. When sudden life style changes due to medical necessity in her 40's required bed rest and physical rehabilitation, Starr utilized the time experimenting with digital software as a new medium, and also began study with well-known experimental mixed media artist Martha Howell of Arlington, Texas.  Starr's large scale abstract creations can be produced on metal panels or on canvas which can be mounted on walls, elevator doors or other surfaces. In 2009, Starr was one of 3 winners at NYLO Hotels National art contest for her digital paintings on canvas, combined with impasto and resin pours. Today Starr works with an extensive hotel clientele, including NYLO Hotels, the Westin, and W Hotels, high profile corporate clients such as Trammell Crow and Heathrow airport in London as well as private collectors. Douglas Winters III paints from his home studio located in Dallas, Texas.  The main inspiration for his work comes from his passionate connection with nature. Born in Austin, Texas, Douglas was introduced at an early age to his two great loves, art and nature, by supportive family members. Douglas' grandmother, an artist and professional art teacher, and Douglas' uncle a renowned artist and teacher, currently living and teaching in China have been very influential in Douglas' artistic development. Douglas' father introduced him to the natural world as a child and throughout his life they have enjoyed time together in the great outdoors. Douglas studied commercial art, studio art, and architecture at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Through the use of vibrant colors that explode off the canvas and subjects that beg to be different, Douglas's art invites you to breathe deeply and step inside the wonderful world of nature. David Maxwell studied at TCU and at the University of North Texas where he received a degree in industrial arts and spent most of his working career in Texas and New Mexico. But it was not until his retirement that his life-long interest in art was directed to a serious focus on watercolor painting. Courses in painting at the University of Houston provided a foundation and led to study with several well-known watercolor artists over a period of years. He has received several awards in national juried competitions, most notably the Nell Storer Memorial Award from the American Watercolor Society in 2008. Acceptance of his work in national juried competitions has garnered him Signature Membership in six societies including the National Watercolor Society. His life-long love of automobiles provides a venue for the adventurous path of finding abstract shapes in the reflections of bright chrome and shinny surfaces of classic cars that he photographs at automobile shows. Conventional watercolor looseness is not readily seen in his paintings. His pieces are instead very tight and controlled, although surprises from the wonderful playfulness of color may be found if one looks closely. Many of his paintings at first glance appear to be oil or acrylic. His unique method of accomplishing multiple washes and gradations of color give his paintings a unity of form with sharp detail and depth of color saturation. David paints from his home in Fort Worth and is an active member of the Fort Worth Society of Watercolor Artists where he regularly leads critique session for that group's members. Sonali Khatti maintains a studio in Dallas, Texas and is an active painter and member of the Bonny Studio in Richardson, Texas. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and holds a post graduate diploma in Asian Art from the University of London where she focused on the arts of India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. She has traveled extensively in Europe visiting Asian textile collections in museums, as well as visiting rural villages in the Kutch, India, production epicenter of handcrafted textiles in India. She did an apprenticeship at the Bhandani Workshop, where she studied traditional tie-dye techniques and an apprenticeship with Toofan Rafai, master of natural dyes where she learned the traditional arts of natural dyeing, painting and block printing. About her work in this exhibit, Sonali says: "History and the registration of time, both on a personal as well as a universal level are the inspiration for my work.  Painting allows me to reconnect with my past and the journey I have traveled as an artist.  I create environments that explore the dissolving of time, transporting the viewer to a unique sense of place and atmosphere. My process utilizes the layering of line, texture and color to build imagery, which reveals a broad and richly historical personal narrative.  The purpose of each painting is to experience a passage of time by delving into the relationships between what has happened in the past with what remains in the present.  Through stamped surfaces, buried remnants of cloth, and preserved marks, a story unfolds." Dan Darr is an artist from Arlington, Texas who works in a wide range of media, styles and techniques. His artwork has won major awards in juried shows, and his murals can be found in homes throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Dan was born in Dallas, TX but grew up in Fort Worth, TX. He graduated first from Paschal High School in 1988, and then from Texas A&M University in 1993, with a degree in Environmental Design. He worked as an intern architect, and now teaches Art at Arlington's Martin High School. For the most part, Dan paints, but a look around his studio will reveal works done in scratchboard, collage, fabric, even multimedia sculptures illuminated by Christmas lights. Dan's style may range from very abstract to realistic, depending on what the piece calls for. His work also stretches from conceptual to literal. Within this variety, some subject matter and themes keep emerging—especially that of music. For the paintings featured in this show, Dan says: "I happened to find some old photographs in a flea market.  They immediately provoked questions with their mystery:  "Who are these people?  What was their life like?  What did they love about life?  What happened right before or after this photo was taken?  Why did their photos end up in a flea market?" and so on. They captivated my imagination and I decided to give these photos a second life in the form of a painting. I make guesses about the people in the photo, sometimes I will change the composition, but I always paint the image in color, to make the people and their situation feel more real to the viewer. These paintings can be about the difference between the ways we remember things versus the way they really were; they can be about the mystery of not knowing the people in the photo, who cannot talk to us; they can be about untold stories or dreams." The Arlington Museum of Art exists to champion creativity and provide access to art for the cultural enrichment and economic development of our community. The museum sponsors a year-round program of curated art exhibitions which are featured in the main gallery on the first floor. Curated exhibitions typically run from six weeks to two months in length. As a non-collecting museum, the Arlington Museum of Art is a community art center providing display opportunities for aspiring artists where they can feature in high quality curated exhibits free to the public. The museum focuses on emerging artists working in both traditional and contemporary styles. An influential group of Arlington citizens which included the Martin, Vandergriff and Hawkes families founded the Arlington Art Association in 1952 to promote art activities in the community. In subsequent years, the organization promoted art shows for local artists, juried art exhibits and art auctions to raise money for college scholarships for students from Arlington high schools. Over the years, the organization also put money into a savings account in the hopes that a building could be purchased to give the organization a permanent home. By 1986, $60,000 had been raised and with additional donations and bank financing the JC Penny building on Main Street was purchased. The facility was remodeled to showcase art exhibits and in 1989 the art organization had a new home and was incorporated as the Arlington Museum of Art. The first major show of contemporary art went on display in May, 1990. A successful fund drive to match a gift by Dallas art patrons Nona and Richard Barrett, allowed the museum to hire a fulltime director. Joan Davidow was hired in 1991 and the museum set a course of focusing on contemporary Texas art. The legacy of her exhibitions of cutting-edge contemporary Texas art earned a level of attention seldom achieved by museums this size. Joan resigned her position of almost 10 years in September 2000 and the Board honored her with the title of Director Emeritus. In February 2001, Anne Allen became the AMA's new Director. Before joining the Museum, Ms. Allen served as Executive Director of The Old Jail Art Center in Albany, Texas. Under Ms. Allen's direction for the next six years, the AMA continued its active exhibition schedule and added a number of new programs, notably gallery talks and artist lectures designed to appeal to the art educated and art curious alike. A broadened vision for the museum has been adopted by the board of directors which allows the museum to become a true community art center. Curated exhibitions are designed to provide a balance between contemporary Texas art and traditional art forms which are in keeping with a broader community appeal. A major part of museum funding comes through the rental of museum facilities for various social events and through the rental of gallery space to individual artists and art groups to display their creative work. The museum also hosts concerts, art workshops, community group meetings, and special events. Visit the museum's website at ... http://arlingtonmuseum.org

Australian Museum Announces Exhibition of Works from Guggenheim Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:50 PM PDT PERTH, AU - This autumn the public will have the unique opportunity of seeing world-class works of art normally on display in Venice, Italy, when the Art Gallery of Western Australia hosts Peggy Guggenheim: A Collection in Venice (October 9, 2010 - January 31, 2011), the first exhibition of a new series entitled Great Collections of the World. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with an essay by Philip Rylands, Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and a native of Venice, said, "The Peggy Guggenheim Collection has never previously been presented in Australia and the Gallery has been collaborating closely with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice to bring this exhibition to Western Australia. Perth will be the only venue for this unique exhibition which will captivate Australian audiences with both the outstanding quality of the art and the intriguing personal story of Peggy Guggenheim." Dr Carboni said that it has been his vision for the Art Gallery of Western Australia to present a series of high-calibre, highly focused exhibitions from internationally celebrated institutions, and it gave him great pleasure to have been able to secure the first exhibition from such a prestigious museum in his birthplace, Venice. The works in the exhibition display Peggy Guggenheim's love of art, and in particular her strong affinity for two key artistic movements of 20th Century modern art: Surrealism and abstraction. Also on display will be personal photos and items which belonged to Peggy, such as a pair of her famous sunglasses. The exhibition at the Gallery will present the vitality created by the combination of European and American artists that transformed Modernist art throughout the world, and will feature works by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. This exhibition has been organised by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The Art Gallery of Western Australia, founded in 1895, occupies a precinct of three heritage buildings on the south-eastern corner of the Perth Cultural Centre. The Gallery houses the State Art Collection, which includes one of the world's finest collections of Indigenous art, the pre-eminent collection of Western Australian art and design, as well as Australian and International art and design. Visit : http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/index.asp The Peggy Guggenheim Collectionis among the most important museums in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. The museum was inaugurated in 1980 and presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of 20th century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli Collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.  The  Peggy Guggenheim Collectionis owned and operated by theSolomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which also operates the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin.

Salvador Dalí ~ 'Liquid Desire' a Major Retrospective is Hosted by NGV Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:49 PM PDT MELBOURNE, AU - Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire  is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Salvador Dalí ever to be staged in Australia. The exhibition is drawn from the holdings of the two largest collections of Dalí in the world: - the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí in Figueres, Spain; and the Salvador Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida, USA. The exhibition opens 13 June and will be on view through 4 October, 2009 at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). This year the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series includes Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire at the National Gallery of Victoria and A Day in Pompeii at Melbourne Museum. Melbourne Winter Masterpieces is an initiative of the Victorian Government.

The de Young Museum hosts Dale Chihuly's First Major Exhibition in San Francisco Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:48 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The de Young Museum hosts Dale Chihuly's first major exhibition in San Francisco, June 14 through September 28, 2008. Chihuly at the de Young includes eleven galleries of new and archival works representing the breadth and scope of the artist's creative vision over the last four decades. The de Young Museum is the only venue for this exhibition. "I'm very excited about my upcoming show at the de Young. It will be the most ambitious show I've created to date," says Chihuly.

Art Images Libraries Now Online and Free Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:47 PM PDT PRWeb - Art Knowledge News (AKN) has published daily for 6+ years and is distributed free to over 800,000 registered subscribers, worldwide.  Now anyone can have access to the 20,000 plus fine art and photography images from its archives, and the images can be used without registration or any cost. Two image libraries are available for public use and they will have great value to art lovers, collectors, art historians, art critics, students, artists seeking inspiration, and the two libraries grow everyday by the addition of new images daily.

Galleria dell'Accademia presents Robert Mapplethorpe ~ Perfection in Form Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:46 PM PDT Florence, Italy - "The most beautiful Mapplethorpe show I've ever seen," exclaimed Patti Smith at the grand opening for "Robert Mapplethorpe. Perfection in Form." Standing at the feet of Michelangelo's David, and flanked by Mapplethorpe's photographs of male nudes, Smith added, "This show is the realization of Robert's dream." Mapplethorpe's first muse and companion, Smith provided the spark for the exhibition. Visiting the museum in 2007 with Renaissance art historian Jonathan Nelson, she explained that Mapplethorpe adored Michelangelo. Nelson, together with Franca Falletti, director of the Galleria dell'Accademia, curated the exhibition dedicated to the internationally acclaimed American photographer on the twentieth anniversary of his death. At the opening, Michael Ward Stout –president of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation— proclaimed the exhibition "the most important event in Mapplethorpe's artistic life."

Portland Museum of Art's Winslow Homer Illustrations to Appear Online Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:45 PM PDT PORTLAND, ME.- On June 5, the Portland Museum of Art will debut a website of highlights from its Winslow Homer illustrations collection. This groundbreaking online gallery on the Museum's website, www.portlandmuseum.org, will provide searchable and zoomable access to more than 250 of Homer's wood engravings. Many of these works have never been seen by the public before. The engravings are part of a gift of 445 Homer wood engravings given to the Museum by Peggy and Harold Osher in 1991, a nearly comprehensive collection of Homer's graphic work. The launch of this online gallery is in celebration of the Museum's exhibition Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place on view June 5 through September 12. A computer station will be available in the exhibition to allow visitors access to all of these works.

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Welcomes Six-Millionth Visitor Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:44 PM PDT GRAND RAPIDS, MI.-Just one week after Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park opened its large-scale indoor and outdoor exhibition "Chihuly: A New Eden," the organization to welcomed its six-millionth visitor. Graham and Grace Clark of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario were greeted by Fred Meijer and David Hooker, Meijer Gardens' CEO yesterday at 11 AM.The couple received a one-year membership to Meijer Gardens and two tickets to the special 15th anniversary concert with Lyle Lovett on August 7.Meijer Gardens originally calculated the visitor milestone to occur in late May. Chihuly's 15 site-specific installations across the 132-acre campus have attracted more than 17,000 visitors in the first week alone. The exhibition earned instant popularity and ushered in the six-millionth visitor much sooner than expected.

Major Picasso Exhibition Opens at Heather James Fine Art Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:43 PM PDT PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA, has established itself among U.S. and international art collectors as one of the nation's premier galleries with shows by Monet, Rauschenberg and diverse, up-and-coming young artists. Today it announces a world-class Picasso exhibition that will survey the master's paintings, drawings and sculptures from several of his major periods, including Cubism, and will highlight an important private collection of 80 pieces of Picasso's ceramics. These works will appeal to a wide range of collectors with prices from $5000 to $25 million. The show will run November 28, 2009, through March 14, 2010.

Martin Gropius Bau Offers a Contemporary Look at Islamic Visual Expression Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:42 PM PDT BERLIN.- The exhibition shows selected precious objects of classical Islamic art as well as significant works by 20th-century and contemporary artists, most of whom have an Islamic background. The 250-odd works on display offer a contemporary look at Islamic forms of visual expression. Laid out on an associative basis into 18 "theme rooms", the exhibition provides a venue for encounters between East and West, classical and contemporary artworks, Islam and Modernism. Over 50 contemporary artists from such places as Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul, Damascus, Teheran, Jerusalem, Paris, London and New York will be taking part in the exhibition. Their work will be displayed alongside classical works of Persian, Indian, Arab and Ottoman art. On view through 18 January, 2010.

Mother Teresa, Gene Autry, Katharine Hepburn on Upcoming US Postage Stamps Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:41 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC (AP).- Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year. Joining them will be Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer and Adm. Arleigh Burke. Other new stamps will honor the Negro baseball leagues, the Sunday funnies and the Hawaiian rain forest, the Postal Service announced Wednesday. The post office releases a series of commemorative stamps every year, honoring people, places and institutions. These stamps remain on sale for a limited period and are widely collected.

'The Car as Art' at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:40 PM PDT Kalamazoo, MI - The Car as Art, an exhibition celebrating automotive design and featuring actual cars along with drawings and illustrations, opens Saturday, January 20, 2007 and continues through Sunday, March 11 at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.  American automotive design influenced numerous consumer goods, as well as fashion, fine arts and graphic design.  The Car as Art, an exploration and celebration of automotive design from the teens through the 1960s, will feature 14 classic cars with some of the industry's most distinctive lines.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 03 Sep 2011 06:39 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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