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• Salvador Dalí Retrospective opens at Moscow's Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
• The Flomenhaft Gallery Presents New Works by Siona Benjamin
• Fotomuseum Winterthur Exhibits Shirana Shahbazi ~ Real or Abstract Photography?
• Ibid Projects Features "States of Fragility ~ A Solo Exhibition by Anj Smith"
• ARKEN Museum of Modern Art Opens Exhibition of Warhol & Basquiat Unusual Collaboration
• Homage to Louise Bourgeois to Mark Her 100th Birthday at Fondation Beyeler
• 'Orientalism from Delacroix to Kandinsky' at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich
• Kate Who? ~ Exhibition of Iconic Works by Mario Testino at Phillips de Pury & Co.
• K20 Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz Museum shows Masterpieces
• The Rebecca Molayem Gallery Unveils Two "Pep Art" Pioneers
• The Cincinnati Art Museum presents ' Hidden Treasures '
• Martin Gropius Bau Celebrates 90th Anniversary of the Bauhaus
• Rare Cabinet by Emile Bernard Acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of Art
• ARKEN Museum of Modern Art to present Masterpieces from The Israel Museum
• C/O Berlin Loves Hair and Shows it with Photography Exhibition
• KLEE And America at Neue Galerie
• Industry Gallery to show Unique Sculptures of Shlomo Harush
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Salvador Dalí Retrospective opens at Moscow's Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:55 PM PDT MOSCOW.- The exhibition entitled Salvador Dalí: A Retrospective opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts , coinciding with the Dual Year Spain-Russia. It is the mayor retrospective ever celebrated in Russia with original works. It will be opened from 3 September until 13 November. The opening events were presided over by the Russian Minister of Culture, Aleksandr Avdeev, the Spanish Ambassador, Mr. Luis Felipe Fernández de la Peña, as well as Irina Antonova, director of the Pushkin Museum, and Joan M. Sevillano, Managing Director of the Dalí Foundation. The show includes works from the very early years (20's) down to Dalí's last canvases. It offers the visitor an opportunity to see his evolution, not only technical but also his influences, iconography, ideological sources, symbolism, of his original universe. The loans come exclusively from the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí. The exhibit benefits from the sponsorship of the Russian cultural foundation The Link of Times. Salvador Dalí: a retrospective is the result of research and collaboration of both teams from the Dalí Foundation and the Pushkin Museum. The selection of Works aims at providing the Russian audience with a deep insight into Dalí's life and artistic evolution, and it specially focuses on the late period. It contains a hundred pieces including 25 oil paintings, 20 watercolours, 70 drawings, and many photographs. The Pushkin Museum director, Irina Antonova, and the exhibition's curators, Montse Aguer, director of the Centre for Dalinian Studies of the Dalí Foundation, and Alexei Petujov, curator of the Russian museum, they all agree that this show will allow visitors to study Dalí's production in depth. It is intended for an audience that has shown a big interest for the artist and his muse Gala, born in Kazan. The exhibition's designer is the highly reputed scene painter of the Bolshoi Theatre, Boris Messerer. After the Russian capital was moved to Moscow in 1918, the Soviet government decided to transfer thousands of works from St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum to the new capital. The entire collection of Western art from the Museum Roumjantsev was added too. These paintings formed a nucleus of the Pushkin museum's collections of Western art. But the most important paintings were added later from the State Museum of New Western Art. These comprised Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artwork, including top works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, Dufrénoy and Matisse. Among them Van Goghs "Le Vigne Rouge" apparently the only painting sold during the artist's lifetime. In 1937, Pushkin's name was appended to the museum, because the Soviet Union marked the centenary of the poet's death that year. At present, the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts constitutes more than 560,000 works of art: paintings and sculptures, works of graphic art, applied art, art photography, archaeological monuments and numismatic items. Documents on the history of the Museum, scientific and epistolary heritage of its founders, other museum prominent individuals and important art historians and artists are kept there. Archives of some other museums whose collections were passed to the Pushkin Museum are preserved as well.

The Flomenhaft Gallery Presents New Works by Siona Benjamin Posted: 04 Sep 2011 09:54 PM PDT New York City.- The Flomehaft Gallery is proud to present Siona Benjamin's newest and very inspired paintings, photographs and constructions, and with this exhibit they officially welcome her back from a four month trip to India on a Fulbright Fellowship. Like Orpheus, Benjamin has traveled near and far both physically and emotionally before returning to Mumbai, where she was born. Growing up in India she was a member of the Jewish Bene Israel group that settled there at least nine generations ago. As a child she was pulled from her roots of necessity.  She was educated in Catholic and Zoroastrian schools because they offered  the best education. Ever since, hers has been a voyage of self discovery, to find a way most meaningful to her. The fruits of these voyages can be seen in "My Magic Carpet: Recent works by Siona Benjamin" at the gallery from September 15th through November 5th.

Fotomuseum Winterthur Exhibits Shirana Shahbazi ~ Real or Abstract Photography? Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:22 PM PDT WINTERTHUR.- How real or abstract is photography? This question has preoccupied photography since its inception. As early as 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes proposed photographing the world in its entirety, after which it could be burned down: "Form is henceforth divorced from matter". Alvin Langdon Coburn asked in 1916: "Why should not the camera also throw off the shackles of conventional representation and attempt something fresh and untried?". In the 1960s and 70s one spoke about "generative photography", self-generating photographs with their own aesthetics of production. This general question has yet to be settled, and in recent years it has again become highly relevant. Shining through in works by Wolfgang Tillmans, for example, is the notion that all photographs are "to the same degree, representational, concrete and abstract; constructions that arise from translations and manipulations".

Ibid Projects Features "States of Fragility ~ A Solo Exhibition by Anj Smith" Posted: 04 Sep 2011 08:21 PM PDT LONDON.- For her third solo exhibition at IBID PROJECTS, Anj Smith presents a series of eight new paintings to be shown for the first time. Each work is located between representations of portrait, landscape and still life painting, often encompassing or rejecting elements of all three. This collapsing of simultaneous ideas and phenomena is intrinsic to these paintings, where narratives are as complex and layered as the application of paint and where objects disintegrate into chaotic rubble or reconfigure to acquire brand new and bewildering meanings. Differing states of time, place and different psychological spaces overlap in these works, as do the types of painting, with luminous jewel-toned colour banks as likely to exist against crude slabs of impasto, scratched barren areas or zones of almost pornographic attention to the minute.

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art Opens Exhibition of Warhol & Basquiat Unusual Collaboration Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:21 PM PDT SKOWEJ, DENMARK - ARKEN is presenting a large special exhibition of two American art legends, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). Featuring more than 65 works, the exhibition includes paintings by Warhol and Basquiat along with a wide selection of the more than 100 collaborative works that the two artists created over a short, intense period from 1983 to 1985. The exhibition is organized by Curator Dieter Buchhart in collaboration with ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. On view through 11 January, 2012.

Homage to Louise Bourgeois to Mark Her 100th Birthday at Fondation Beyeler Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:21 PM PDT BASEL.- To mark her 100th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an homage to Louise Bourgeois (25.12.1911 – 31.5.2010), one of the most significant and influential artist personalities of our times. Comprising about 20 exhibits, some of them multipartite, the exhibition represents a concentrated selection from the artist's oeuvre and address its key themes: an involvement with other artists, a concern with her own biography, and the translation of emotions into objects of art. In addition to works and series of works from renowned international museums and private collections, more recent, previously unexhibited works – including the late cycle À l'infini (2008) – are on view through 8 January, 2012. These are supplemented by groups of pieces from the Beyeler Collection. Especially revealing insights are provided by juxtapositions with paintings by Fernand Léger and Francis Bacon, and sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. These artists, with whom Bourgeois had a special relationship, were influential and inspiring for her. Fondation Beyeler's homage to Louise Bourgeois focuses on her amazing ability to cast a spell over the viewer with her art's poetic moods, trains of association, and unique manner of visual narration. For a long period she negated the opposition, so central to modern art, between figuration and abstraction, and enriched contemporary art with a highly personal brand of objective meaning. This holds especially for the legendary Cells, two examples of which are on view, including the largest in scale, Passage dangereux (1997). Born in Paris, Bourgeois united several epochs in her personality and biography: that of the proud and sensitive Parisian bourgeoisie, which gradually declines in the course of the first half of the 20th century and, for her, was embodied in the problematic figure of her father; her experience of Parisian modernism as an art student; the shift of the art scene from Paris to New York, in which she was materially involved after her move there in 1938; and finally, the inward and outward turmoil in the U.S. of the day, including the great movement for equal rights to which she decisively contributed. All of these lines of development and diverse experiences combined to shape her personality. This is the sense in which the key work in the exhibition, À l'infini, should be understood – fourteen etchings each of which features two converging lines. The basic form of this impressive and moving work derives from the type of cloth that consists of at least two threads and can be infinitely reproduced and varied. Seen in this light, history, too, might be understood as a tissue spun from threads of memory. The symbol Bourgeois found for spinning filaments and eternal renewal was the spider, which she associated with her mother. As an exhibition highlight, Fondation Beyeler is presenting the both threatening and fascinating monumental sculpture of a spider, titled Maman (1999, bronze, 927.1 x 891.5 x 1023.6 cm.), a key work for the understanding of her art. After a tour through the cities of Bern, Zurich and Geneva, Maman is now on view for the duration of the exhibition in Berower Park of the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel. The exhibition was conceived together with Louise Bourgeois (d. May 31, 2010) and curated by Ulf Küster, curator at the Fondation Beyeler, in cooperation with the Louise Bourgeois Studio, New York. In October 2011 a book on the exhibition by Ulf Küster, Louise Bourgeois, will be published in the series Kunst zum Lesen by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern. German and English edition, 144 pp., c. 21 illus., 15 in color, CHF 24.90, ISBN 978-3-7757-3227-7. The Beyeler Foundation or Fondation Beyeler with its museum in Riehen near Basel owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler that was built up by the couple over five decades and placed under the aegis of the foundation in 1982. The collection was first publicly exhibited in its entirety at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 1989. By building Renzo Piano's museum structure in 1997, the Beyeler Foundation made its collection permanently accessible to the public. Some 200 works of classic modernism reflect the views of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler on 20th-century art and highlight features typical of the period from Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon. Visit the Fondation Beyeler at : http://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/Home

'Orientalism from Delacroix to Kandinsky' at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:20 PM PDT Munich, Germany - With some 150 paintings and sculptures, the major exhibition 'Orientalism in Europe: from Delacroix to Kandinsky' presents the diverse interpretations of the Islamic Orient, North Africa and the Middle East by almost 100 western European artists. This survey starts with Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign (1798–1801) and continues through to the Modernism of the early 20th century. Masterpieces by Ingres, Delacroix, Gérôme, Renoir, Sargent, Klee and Kandinsky present Orientalism as a diverse artistic theme that transcends styles, artistic perspectives and national borders. Also awaiting discovery are magnificent works by lesser known artists like Lawrence Alma Tadema, Gustav Bauernfeind, Jaroslav Cermák, Henri Evenepoel, Fabio Fabbi, Osman Hamdi Bey, John Frederick Lewis, Alberto Pasini, Edward Poynter and José Villegas y Cordero. The exhibition runs until May 1st 2011. Any exhibition that is dedicated to such multifaceted and complex subject matter is compelled to consider the social, political, ethnical and religious aspects in addition to the numerous artistic perspectives. Fascination with this geographical region, spanning three continents and ruled for a long time by the Ottoman Empire, has abounded in the western world for as long as knowledge of their cultures and trade with them has existed. However, during the 19th century, the situation changed dramatically. Until this point, orientalism as a courtly art form was largely expressed in so-called Turqueries or Chinoiseries, yet very few artists had actually travelled that far afield. Then Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign heralded a veritable "Egyptomania" all over Europe. The French army was accompanied by 167 scholars and artists who consequently gave rise not only to new scientific disciplines but also to a new orientalism in art. Many artists now started actually travelling to various locations as official emissaries of western governments or on their own initiative in order to document cultures that were considered to be unspoiled. Some of them even settled there permanently. In turn, their paintings and photographs fostered further tourism and shaped a particular image of the Orient that was strongly influenced by colonial motivations. Some dreamt of sensual pleasures from the 'Tales of 1,001 Nights', which are reflected in the numerous depictions of drug and harem fantasies. Others were fascinated by the emotionality of a forbidding culture that had been considered 'barbaric' until then. During the 19th century, Islamic cities were rediscovered in southern Spain, thereby sparking off a great deal of curiosity for the Orient. For academic artists, the search for the roots of civilisation was of prime importance. This included not only the classical monuments but also those landscapes that were considered unchanged since the time of Jesus Christ, in order to represent historical and biblical paintings more realistically. The infinite expanse of the desert offered a unique artistic challenge, and the developing sciences of ethnography and anthropology were also reflected in art. The exhibition concludes with works by several modern artists who were equally unable to resist the allure of the Orient and who interpreted the topic with a new pictorial expression. In the globalised world of the 21st century, the different moral concepts of east and west are still colliding and the original fascination with this foreign culture is sadly lacking in the discussions on burkas and minarets. Thus, an exhibition that documents the West's view of the Orient not only presents magnificent works of art but also some of the history of the conflicts and projections. One successful aspect of the exhibition would be if it manages to uncover a wider diversity of facets on this topic, thereby leading to a greater understanding of today's positions. The 'Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung' (the Exhibition Gallery of the Hypo-Cultural Foundation) is the best known and most important entity of the Hypo-Cultural Foundation. This exhibition space on Munich's Theatinerstraße, is located within the busy pedestrian zone in the very city centre. More than 80 exhibitions have been presented since the opening of the venue in 1985. In 2001, the Kunsthalle moved into new premises within the city block complex called 'Fünf Höfe' (the five courtyards), which has been designed by the renowned Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The exhibition space of some 1200 square meters is equipped with the latest technical, security, and climate-control requirements. High artistic quality and thematic variety have always been the guiding force in establishing the exhibition program, which has included art dating from 5,000 BC up to the present day. Themes addressing a broader cultural context, such as prehistoric or non-European civilizations, have been featured in exhibitions like "Sudan", "Korea, The Ancient Kingdoms", or "The Gold of the Scythians". An interdisciplinary exhibition was first organised in 2005, and dealt with the subject of water. The heart of the exhibition program, however, is based on western art including works by Old Masters ("Madame de Pompadour" or "Frans Hals and Haarlem Painting") and classical modern art, featuring artists like Chagall, Gauguin, Giacometti, Kirchner, Magritte, Munch, or Picasso. Some of the best visited exhibitions of the past years include "Monet and Modern Art" (237,000 visitors), followed by "Folkwang the First Museum of Modern Art", as well as "Mark Rothko - Retrospective". With an average of more than 300,000 visitors annually, the Kunsthalle has welcomed some 7 million art lovers since its inauguration in 1985. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.hypo-kunsthalle.de

Kate Who? ~ Exhibition of Iconic Works by Mario Testino at Phillips de Pury & Co. Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:19 PM PDT LONDON.- Kate Who?, an exhibition of iconic works by Mario Testino at Phillips de Pury & Company, features intimate photographs of the fashion legend by the ultimate fashion photographer. Mario Testino was born in Lima, Peru. In 1976, after completing his studies in Peru, he arrived in London to pursue a career in photography. A El Salvador childrens clinic was entirely funded from the sale of a single print from Mario Testino's iconic portraits of the late Princess Diana.

K20 Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz Museum shows Masterpieces Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:18 PM PDT DUSSELDORF, GERMANY - Before K20 closes for about a year and a half on 28th April 2008, the museum on Grabbeplatz ( K20) will present its most important masterpieces in a comprehensive farewell show. Pablo Picasso's monumental work "Deux femmes nues assises" (1920) from the artist's classicist period is among these masterpieces. Georges Braque's Cubist still life "Nature morte, harpe et violon" (1911) and Marc Chagall's dynamic composition "Le violoniste" (1911) are further indisputable highlights of the exhibition. Wassily Kandinsky's "Komposition IV" (1911) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Mädchen unter Japanschirm" (1909) represent two of the outstanding examples of Expressionist painting. "Die Nacht (1918/19) and "Selbstbildnis mit Sektglas" (1919) bei Max Beckmann also fall into this category.

The Rebecca Molayem Gallery Unveils Two "Pep Art" Pioneers Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:17 PM PDT NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA.- The Rebecca Molayem Gallery in West Hollywood will be opening a solo exhibit on February 13, 2010 from 6-10 PM of the newest work from "Pep Art" pioneer David Willardson in collaboration with digital impressionist and photographer, Marshall Swerman. Willardson and Swerman's "IKONXART Series" renders American and International superstars like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Elvis Presley, And Warhol, Audrey Hepburn, Amelia Earhart, the Beatles, Muhammad Ali and others. All are represented in larger-than-life scale that reflects their influence on global pop culture and history. Willardson's use of rich texture, bold colors, and accentuated movement working with Swerman's creative digital manipulations offer a unique perspective on the scope and meaning of fame and power.

The Cincinnati Art Museum presents ' Hidden Treasures ' Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:16 PM PDT CINCINNATI, OHIO,  The Cincinnati Art Museum presents an unparalleled selection of treasures from its outstanding permanent collection, one of the finest in the nation. Long Time No See: Hidden Treasures from the Cincinnati Art Museum, on view June 28 to August 31, showcases more than 100 objects, including many rarely seen and diverse works, ranging from an exquisite 17th century Duhme & Co. silver tea set, to a vibrant Tahitian scene by Gauguin, to a sheer metallic jacket by ground-breaking fashion-designer Issey Miyake.

Martin Gropius Bau Celebrates 90th Anniversary of the Bauhaus Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:15 PM PDT BERLIN.- "Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model" on view through 4 October, 2009 at the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin. Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stiftung Weimar jointly present this exhibition. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Bauhaus and 20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the leading Bauhaus research institutions and museums in Germany – the Bauhaus Archive Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar – are for the first time jointly presenting an exhibition. With about 1,000 objects it will be the largest Bauhaus exhibition ever. The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA cooperating partner in the project, sent 25 objects to Berlin and will present its own exhibition "bauhaus 1919 – 1933. Workshops for Modernity" beginning on 8 November in New York.

Rare Cabinet by Emile Bernard Acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of Art Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:14 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced today the acquisition of a rare corner cabinet with scenes of Breton life, carved and painted by Pont-Aven School artist Emile Bernard. One of only four known examples of important wood furniture produced by the Pont-Aven School, this cabinet further enhances the IMA's renowned Pont-Aven School collection—the most distinguished in North America.

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art to present Masterpieces from The Israel Museum Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:13 PM PDT COPENHAGEN, DENMARK -  They caused an outrage when they appeared. Today they rank among the most reproduced, popular and priceless artists in the world. Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Rodin, van Gogh, Cézanne, Braque. From the end of January 2009 they can all be seen at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. In the spring of 2009 ARKEN presents the fine collection of French Impressionists and Postimpressionists from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. 53 paintings and sculptures come to Denmark for four months in the exhibition ' MONET, RENOIR, VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN '.

C/O Berlin Loves Hair and Shows it with Photography Exhibition Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:12 PM PDT BERLIN.- At C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, Schwarzkopf presents photographs by Karl Lagerfeld, Gabo, and Russell James and illustrations by Olaf Hajek from December 12, 2009, to January 17, 2010. The exhibition accompanying the book We Love Hair will be shown at the Postfuhramt at Oranienburger Straße 35/36. A symbol of beauty, temptation, and seduction; an expression of power and strength, intimidation and protest—hair is a universal medium of self-expression. Always making a statement, hair can signal group membership while simultaneously demonstrating otherness. With its wide variety of shapes, colors, and textures, hair serves as a means of self-definition and self-dramatization.

KLEE And America at Neue Galerie Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:11 PM PDT NEW YORK– The Neue Galerie New York opens "Klee and America," an exhibition that will address the enthusiastic reception for the artist's works in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition features more than sixty paintings and drawings by Klee, which will be on loan from private and public collections in the United States and abroad. It runs through May 22 at the Neue Galerie, before traveling to The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. The national sponsor of the exhibition is Altria Group, Inc. The exhibition has more than 60 Paintings and drawings. Josef Helfenstein, Director of The Menil Collection, is responsible for the concept of the exhibition and co-edited the catalogue with Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Senior Curator at The Phillips Collection. "The influence of Paul Klee in America has never fully been investigated," noted Helfenstein. "This exhibition seeks to document and analyze the reception and study of Klee, and thereby to restore an influential but often overlooked chapter to the history of modern art."

Industry Gallery to show Unique Sculptures of Shlomo Harush Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:10 PM PDT Washington, DC  – Industry Gallery's inaugural exhibition, opening Saturday, January 16, 2010, 6‐8 PM, will feature the first solo U.S. exhibition by Jerusalem‐born artist Shlomo Harush. "Round the corner" will feature twenty unique, hand crafted stainless steel and aluminum works that examine different sculptural aspects of conventional seating units. Harush will arrange the work in an urban tableau within the gallery' 4,300 square feet of industrial space.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:09 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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