Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art...

---

• The Art Beijing Fine Art Fair Returns For Third Annual Showing
• The Art of the Danish Golden Age Exhibited in Moscow
• Museo de Arte de Ponce Enters the Age of Video Art ~ Online
• Preview Berlin - The Emerging Art Fair Brings Art to the Historic Tempelhof Airport
• Stadel Museum Discovers An Important Work by Jean-Léon Gérome
• The Hendershot Gallery Presents Christian Curiel's First New York Solo
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shows "Masterpieces from the Chih Lo Lou Collection"
• ArtRio ~ The Inaugural Rio de Janeiro International Art Fair Opens
• Saltfineart Presents New and Unseen Works by Victor Hugo Zayas
• Reading Public Museum to Feature American Impressionists from its Collection
• Connor Contemporary Art ~ Asks 'Is Realism Relevant?' in Three Exhibitions
• Museo del Prado opens Victorian Paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce
• "In His Sixth Decade ~ Prints by Peter Milton" at Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington D.C.
• Comprehensive Retrospective of Yayoi Kusama at the Reina Sofia In Madrid
• Manchester Art Gallery to host Recent Works from the Frank Cohen Collection
• Léon Ferrari Retrospective Opens at a Catholic Church in Arles
• Metropolitan Museum of Art announces Augustus Saint-Gaudens Exhibition
• Fourteen International Artists Exhibit in Geneva Under the Title Why Painting Now?
• A Trio of New Exhibitions Open at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Art Beijing Fine Art Fair Returns For Third Annual Showing Posted: 05 Sep 2011 10:40 PM PDT Beijing, China -  The Art Beijing 2011 Fine Art Fair will be held at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center in Beijing from September 15th to 18th. A VIP preview will be held on September 15th. One of the fair brands promoted by Beijing Art Fair Culture Co., Ltd., two Art Beijing Fine Art Fairs have previously been successfully held. The previous two Fine Art Beijing achieved high academic and commercial success, winning praise from various circles for expertly reflecting the development trends of the Chinese art market as well as meeting their audiences' demands for classical art. This year's Fine Art Beijing will continue the tradition of the executive council of Art Beijing, integrating classical and fine art resources from both home and abroad through professional planning and all-round services. In the areas of services, sales, customers, positioning and media publicity, Fine Art Beijing offers an extraordinary package of services and market resources that exceed the expectations of its participating galleries and event partners. Bringing together over 40 galleries and art institutions, this year's Fine Art Beijing offers a strong lineup. It will present an extraordinary exhibition of both classical and modern art from West and East. Compared with previous fairs, the exhibits at the Fine Art Beijing 2011 are richer in form and more diversified in style. Attending the fair, you will be able to travel from the ancient past to the contemporary art world, enjoying classical Western paintings, modern Chinese paintings, modern and contemporary oil paintings, Japanese paintings, and Russian oil paintings, all of which have had an enormous impact on contemporary Chinese art. Many classical Western paintings since the 18th century will be exhibited by Hagemann Gallery, Classic Jen Western Arts Salon, Galerie Cinquini, Gu Feng Tang and Zeit-Foto Salon, including paintings from the art traditions of the Barbizon School, Neoclassicism, Realism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Pop Art. Can Art Center, Bloom Gallery, BaiYaXuan, Permanence Gallery, Chin DerJyn Gallery and ChingShiun International Art Auction Co., Ltd., will also bring renowned oil paintings by Chinese modern and contemporary artists, including Wu Guanzhong, Jin Shangyi, He Duoling, Wang Yidong, Zhang Xiaogang, Shi Benming and Li Guijun. The Ching Shiun International Art Auction Co., Ltd., will also exhibit masterpieces by Lin Fengmian, Zhu Dequn, Zhao Wuji and Gu Wenda, all of whom are well-known for their singular fusions of traditional Chinese art and Western art. Poly International Auction Co., Ltd., and Beijing Council International Auction Co., Ltd., will bring audiences outstanding artworks bymodern and contemporary masters like Wu Changshuo, Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi, Hong Yi, Xie Zhiliu, Gao Jianfu and Wu Guanzhong, allowing us to appreciate the essence of Chinese painting. In addition, Fine Art Beijing 2011 will exhibit classical Russian oil paintings by K.M. Maksimov and Mylnikov, which will be presentedby Sanshang Art Gallery, as well as masterpieces by Japanese masters exhibited by Beijing Noda Contemporary Gallery. As in previous years, one of the highlights of Fine Art Beijing 2011 will be an exhibition ofclassical furniture, jewelry, Buddhist sculpture and antiques. This year, participants include the Culture Art Consultant Co., Ltd., Jade Gallery Co., Ltd., BB Gallery, Liang Ke Tang, and Jing Xian Zhai, all of which are all renowned art institutions.The exhibition size and exhibit categories will also be larger than last year. Traditional fine artworks like Tibetan Thang-ka and ceramics will be included in the fair for the first time. Buddhist sculpture will, however, remain the section's highlight. An indispensable part of all Art Beijing fairs is the theme exhibition, which builds on fine arts history and academic analysis for its mission of art education and popularization. This year, Art Beijing is working with many art institutions to showcase master artists from a range of countries, historical periods, styles and schools. In addition, experts will discuss the systematic presentation of classical arts, such as printmaking, sculpture, oil painting and ink painting in thecontext of contemporary art and collection. Fine Art Beijing 2011 will not only be a visual feast, but an experience of the very essence of traditional art. The exhibition includes follows a carefully planned positioning and concept to best present the history and culture of classical art, as well as itsvalue and significance today. Visit the fair's website at ... http://www.artbeijing.net

The Art of the Danish Golden Age Exhibited in Moscow Posted: 05 Sep 2011 09:59 PM PDT MOSCOW.- Art of the Danish Golden Age has in recent years been the subject of several major exhibitions abroad. Last year it was the national galleries in England and Scotland that marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Christen Købke with a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work mounted in collaboration with the National Gallery of Denmark. Now the Russian public is being given the chance of a more comprehensive introduction to this flourishing period during which Danish art acquired a character of its own. It also saw the development of Danish architecture in the Neoclassical style. Copenhagen, in particular, acquired a new look, with buildings designed by Christian Frederik Hansen and by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll.

Museo de Arte de Ponce Enters the Age of Video Art ~ Online Posted: 05 Sep 2011 09:36 PM PDT PONCE, PR.- Museo de Arte de Ponce entered the age of video art with an exhibit titled 11 in 2011, comprised of 11 short videos by artists from Puerto Rico, the United States, Singapore, and Australia. The site is located at www.museoarteponce.org/11en2011. With 11 in 2011, the Museo de Arte de Ponce is expanding beyond its physical galleries and, in fact, beyond the need for visitors to actually visit the museum, while at the same time acting on a philosophy of creating new connections between art, the artist community, and the public in general. Dr Agustín Arteaga, director and CEO of Museo de Arte de Ponce notes that "the boom in the digital economy and in new technologies has changed the language of audiovisual communication, and consequently the language of the art video. The museum's initiative in putting videos on exhibition on its webpage is a move toward opening spaces for discussion and dissemination of this remarkable, and thriving, genre in modern art."

Preview Berlin - The Emerging Art Fair Brings Art to the Historic Tempelhof Airport Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:30 PM PDT Berlin.- Following the turbulent developments of Berlin's art fair landscape in 2011, and even in its proverbial "perilous" seventh year, Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair is looking forward to an internationally oriented group of exhibitors that follow the "emerging" principle, promising an exciting art fair for all those seeking new discoveries in the contemporary art scene. From September 9th through 11th, an upcoming generation of galleries and project spaces from 15 nations will present the most ambitious positions of their programmes in Hangar2 of the former Tempelhof Airport. In addition to the 61 exhibitor concepts, the runway has been cleared for two new projects this year. With 'Video Art Box' by Fresh Paint and 'Focus Academy', the focus of the exhibition discourse has been placed squarely on the interface between art production and the art market.

Stadel Museum Discovers An Important Work by Jean-Léon Gérome Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:29 PM PDT FRANKFURT.- In the context of examining the Städel's nineteenth-century holdings in view of the imminent reopening or new presentation of the museum's collections respectively, an important painting by the French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) has been discovered. The picture shows Saint Jerome reclining against a lion, his traditional attribute. After its comprehensive restoration, the painting will be on display for the first time as part of the Städel's new permanent "Modern Art" (1800-1945) presentation. The work was last exhibited in London in 1882.

The Hendershot Gallery Presents Christian Curiel's First New York Solo Posted: 05 Sep 2011 08:12 PM PDT New York City.- The Hendershot Gallery is pleased to announce Christian Curiel's first New York solo exhibition, "No Hay Olvido/There's No Forgetting", curated by Adriana Farietta. The gallery will feature a survey of Curiel's figurative paintings and works on paper from 2007 to 2011 that explore self-identity through latent memories of youth and maintain a central focus on relationships and belonging. Through meta-surrealist depictions, Curiel uses various signifiers for illustrating the complexities of youth and the concerns of self-identity, sociopsychological integration and how they correlate. "No Hay Olvido/There's No Forgetting" will be on view at the gallery from September 7th through October 19th, with an opening reception on September 7th between 6 – 8 pm.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shows "Masterpieces from the Chih Lo Lou Collection" Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:55 PM PDT New York City.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is proud to present "Dissent in 17th Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection", on view at the museum from September 7th through January 2nd 2012. The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great Wall engendered some of the most traumatic events in Chinese history. This wrenching era also spurred an enormous outpouring of creative energy as many former Ming subjects turned to the arts to express their loyalty to the noble but doomed cause of Ming restoration and to assert their defiance and moral virtue. Drawn from one of the finest and most comprehensive private assemblages of the art of the Ming-Qing transition, "Dissent in 17th Century China" will showcase more than 60 landscape paintings and calligraphies that highlight the intensely personal styles created by the leading artists of that time. Particularly noteworthy are the clusters of exceptional works by Huang Daozhou, Hongren, Bada Shanren (Zhu Da), and Shitao.

ArtRio ~ The Inaugural Rio de Janeiro International Art Fair Opens Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT Rio de Janeiro.- From September 8th through September 11th, all the lights will be focused on Rio de Janeiro. More precisely in the port zone, where the first edition of ArtRio - the Rio de Janeiro International Art Fair will take place. The event will contribute to the art sector, the economy and the country's tourism with the participation of 80 well known art galleries – national and international. Created by Elisangela Valadares and Brenda Valansi Osorio, partners at the agency Bex Feiras e Eventos Culturais, ArtRio starts already big. Due to the good moment of the Brazilian economy, important international galleries confirmed its participation. Among them is the Australian Tristian Koenig, presenting for the first time works from John Kleckner and Riccardo Crespi, from Milan, bringing Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson – the duo represented Iceland at the Venice Bienalle Art Festival.

Saltfineart Presents New and Unseen Works by Victor Hugo Zayas Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:17 PM PDT Laguna Beach, CA.- In an exciting prequel to his solo show at the Laguna Museum of Art in the winter of 2012, saltfineart is proud to present "KINETIC" featuring Victor Hugo Zayas' never before seen line work - delicate nudes in charcoal and electrical grids in thick, visceral oils. Also forming part of the exhibition is an astounding collection of vibrant rocks, ranging from giant to minute, that the artist has created privately for years. The exhibition will be on view from September 1st through October 30th.Installed by discipline (drawing, painting and sculpture) throughout the three rooms of the gallery, the exhibit will focus on the tremendous strength of Zayas' line and composition.

Reading Public Museum to Feature American Impressionists from its Collection Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:11 PM PDT READING, PA.- A new exhibition at the Reading Public Museum titled American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists' Colony opens September 24, 2011 and continues through January 29, 2012. This comprehensive exhibition features, for the first time, one of The Museum's greatest strengths — its own collection of works by American Impressionists. This collection of lyrical landscapes, ranging from snow-covered hills to sun-filled harbors and seascapes, penetrating portraits, and remarkable still life paintings documents an important moment in the history of American art. It includes more than 100 total works, including 75 oil paintings and nearly 30 works on paper dating from the golden age of American Impressionism, the 1880s through the 1940s. A wide range of approaches to impressionism in the earliest twentieth century, including an abiding interest in capturing the effects of light and atmosphere in loosely brushed compositions, is explored.

Connor Contemporary Art ~ Asks 'Is Realism Relevant?' in Three Exhibitions Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:10 PM PDT Washington, DC.- Is Realism Relevant? Conner Contemporary Art enthusiastically says 'YES' with three concurrent solo exhibitions featuring new works by Erik Thor Sandberg, Nathaniel Rogers and Katie Miller. All three aexhibitions are on view at the gallery from September 10th through October 22nd. Six centuries after Flemish oil painting branded the early modern age, each of these DC area artists maximizes his or her command of the realist technique to express the human condition in contemporary life. Engagement with current issues imbues these painters' works with the relevance of their own time, while their informed references to artistic precedents casts present situations within a historical perspective. With its world class Old Master museum collections, Washington is a natural home for realism. Representational painting began to make a resurgence here in the 1970s, in the wake of the prominent Washington Color abstractionists. Today, Sandberg, Rogers and Miller are at the leading edge of contemporary realism in DC. Erik Thor Sandberg unleashes allegories of our increasingly complex relationship with nature through narratives of power and passivity that unfold across panoramic vistas in "Reparatory Gestures", his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Sandberg, who has repeatedly demonstrated mastery of the human figure and landscape as a subjects, emphasizes the viewer's body in the experience of the topographies depicted in the four large concave paintings that anchor this new series. The artist designed curved panels to envelope us in captivating expressions of man's manipulations of the environment. Sandberg impressed artificiality on each wilderness landscape with depictions of intrusive human activity, or vestiges of it, such as a port-a-potty, picnic fixings, and guardrails. Whether his characters are engaged in libidinous acts, or immobilized by uncertainty, the contexts in which we find them question the ultimate consequences of their choices. As the picture planes bend, so do the meanings that play out across them. The concave arch of each panel pushes and pulls the ideas represented on it, diverting them from a predetermined linear progression into elusive possibilities for our thoughts to follow. Sandberg reminds us that our personal and collective journeys may lack sure direction or fixed outcomes. Yet, he also suggests, with flawlessly rendered details, including glistening drops of nectar and multi-colored birds' eggs, that nature's powers of imaging and reparation are ceaselessly at work, leaving us with hope that these forces can restore the balance that man repeatedly compromises. Nathaniel Rogers presents vivid analogies of human phenomena surrounding the concept of crisis - how we create it, deal with it, or ignore it - in "When Disaster Strikes", his second solo exhibition with the gallery. Rogers' superior draftsman's skill is perfectly matched to his sharp wit in this series of intimate panel paintings that reveal coping strategies, or lack thereof, in the automated, indulgent contemporary world. The artist postulates extreme life situations that manifest at intersections and dissonances between behavior and virtual reality. In scenes of real and imagined disasters, including floods, fires and unseen threats, Rogers suggests a breakdown in reality. This theme is expressed most noticeably in the anxiety contained in his narratives, and more subtly in the dissolution of the representational fabric of his pictures. We find a section of the interior depicted in Facing Annihilation unexpectedly sanded down to reveal the bare wood of its support; and a slice of the landscape background in Nailed, appears to peel off, an illusion that underscores the artifice of the picture. As Rogers characterizes contemporary states of mind, he also tests his medium's ability to convey the immediacy of our experiences. "The Fancy of Babes" is Katie Miller's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Relentlessly pushing the realist technique toward hyper-realism, Miller creates artistic characterizations of the consumer-driven hype that fuels the commercial sexualization of children. The artist orders her toddler subjects according to hieratic compositions seen in Renaissance masterpieces by Hans Holbein the Younger and Albrecht Dürer, among others, employing geometric principles from that period to instill her figures with the authority of holy, royal or mythological beings. The anachronistic formats interact with Miller's exacting rendering of the children's features and flesh, giving them an otherworldly quality. The youngsters that confront us in these paintings appear disarmingly knowing and self-possessed. This effect is amplified by their attributes, belly button rings and "bling-bling-binky" pacifiers, inspired by Bratz Babyz dolls, and other widely marketed children's products. Even the kids' pets - a purse dog, a Cremello horse and a hairless cat - appear to have been bred to exaggerated points of curvaceousness. In her three largest panels, Miller poses the toddlers' full length figures in extremely graceful positions that seem to defy anatomy and gravity. Their precarious beauty figures the challenges of balancing childhood with forced adulthood in today's consumer culture. Since opening in 1999, Conner Contemporary Art (CCA) has mobilized the careers of artists who excel in diverse media. Owner Leigh Conner brings professional integrity and over a decade of experience to the Gallery's selective participation in exhibitions at international venues including art fairs, museums, and project spaces. Together with co-founder Jamie Smith, Ph.D., Conner has steadily developed a contemporary curatorial program grounded in the history of art, presenting the art of Washington-based artists in meaningful dialogue with the art of established international artists. CCA promotes art that contributes to important movements, with particular focuses on abstraction and realism. The Gallery presented color field exhibitions featuring works by Morris Louis and Gene Davis and reintroduced the art of 1950s-1960s Washington color painters Howard Mehring and Thomas Downing with newly published source material. CCA has consistently encouraged vital new experimentation in abstract imaging, presenting seminal work in four solo exhibitions by internationally renowned digital light artist Leo Villareal, and supporting his recent 200-foot installation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Complementary to its abstract programming, the Gallery advances exceptional figural art, such as the oil painting of Erik Thor Sandberg, the most powerful young successor to the DC realist movement, which originated in the 1970s. Sandberg's contemporary figural allegories of virtue and vice are conversant with photographs by Swedish artist Maria Friberg and sculptures by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. Ethical questions evoked by their works resonate with problems of gender, sexuality and race confronted in figural drawings by Baltimore artist Zoë Charlton and in endurance performances by Washington, DC artist Mary Coble. CCA is located in a newly converted industrial building recently acquired and renovated by Conner and Smith. In DC's Atlas Arts District, the Gallery occupies a 7,000-square foot ground-level complex with two indoor galleries, a dedicated media room, and an open courtyard exhibition space. Providing museum-scale exhibition areas for established artists and project spaces for young talent, CCA continues to strengthen its artistic dossier. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.connercontemporary.com

Museo del Prado opens Victorian Paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:07 PM PDT MADRID,SPAIN - For the first time in Spain the Museo del Prado is presenting a selection of 19th-century English paintings from the Museo de Arte in Ponce. Entitled The Sleeping Beauty. Victorian Painting from the Museo de Arte, Ponce, the exhibition offers the visiting public a unique opportunity to see works of the stature of Flaming June by Frederic, Lord Leighton and Edward Burne-Jones' monumental masterpiece, The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon. On exhibition 24 February through 31 May, 2009. For historical reasons, 19th-century British art is one of the least well represented areas in Spanish collections, including that of the Prado, which has very few examples of Victorian painting. For this reason the Museo del Prado has decided to organise the present exhibition, which offers a carefully chosen selection of English paintings. They are loaned by the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico, which is temporarily closed for re-modelling, and include The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon by Edward Burne-Jones, and Flaming June by Frederic, Lord Leighton. Both paintings will travel to the Prado after their display at Tate Britain. The exhibition comprises 17 works in total, of which 10 are paintings and 6 are drawings and a watercolour. It will allow the public to become acquainted with both 19th-century English painting and with highlights of the museum founded in Ponce. The exhibition also includes paintings by artists such as John Everett Millais (1829-1896), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Thomas Seddon (1821-1856) and William Holman Hunt (1827-1910). They were painted during the various different phases of the movement known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which was founded in 1848 with the initial aim of reforming English painting, at that date governed by the conservative strictures of the Royal Academy. The Pre-Raphaelites based themselves on a new vision of nature and on their quest to rediscover the aesthetic innocence of the Early Renaissance painters. Among the outstanding works to be seen in the exhibition is Burne-Jones' masterpiece, The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon. Prior to being seen at Tate Britain it has remained in Puerto Rico since Luis Ferré acquired it in the 1960s due to its importance for his collection and the difficulties involved in transporting a work that measures more than 6 metres wide. Burne-Jones devoted the last years of his life to this painting, which reflects his fascination (shared with fellow artists such as Rossetti and William Morris) for the legend of King Arthur. He constantly re-worked the composition up to the day before his death. Exhibited alongside this great work is a series of preliminary sketches and preparatory drawings that will help the visitor to appreciate the evolution of this dreamlike image. The exhibition includes outstanding examples of works by the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Miss Gladys M. Holman Hunt by William Holman Hunt, the artist who remained most faithful throughout his career to the group's motto of "Truth to Nature"; Escape of the Heretic, 1559 by John Everett Millais, which is a characteristic example of the use of imaginary anecdotes as a means of expressing universal human sentiments; and The Roman Widow by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a work that forms part of a lengthy series of enigmatic, half-length female portraits that were in part influenced by the Venetian Renaissance portrait. The Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) The Museo de Arte de Ponce was founded in 1959 by Luis A. Ferré (1904-2003), a leading figure in the economic, political and cultural life of Puerto Rico and a great lover of music and the arts. The Museum became an important centre for European culture in the Caribbean and at the time of its opening presented a comprehensive survey of Western art organised by schools (Italian, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, English, French, North American and Puerto Rican), with the European holdings constituting the core of the collection. In 1963 Ferré acquired one of the collection's great masterpieces of British painting, Burne-Jones's The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, a monumental reflection on Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. He also acquired Flaming June by Frederic Lord Leighton, a homage to beauty and the Museum's most famous painting. The collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce now numbers around 3,800 works spanning the 14th to the 21st centuries and includes examples of Italian and Spanish Baroque art, Pre-Raphaelite painting and contemporary Latin American work. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848 by Millais, Hunt and Rossetti. It arose in opposition to the conservative, academic approach of the Royal Academy of Arts, which upheld the pictorial methods of the 16th-century Italian Renaissance, and to the clichéd nature of Victorian art. The Brotherhood aimed to return to a more spontaneous approach inspired by nature and by the technique and symbolism of the Italian and Flemish Primitive painters. Anticipating the precepts of later, innovative movements such as Art Nouveau, the Brotherhood's works are enveloped in a literary atmosphere, depicting historical, social and religious subjects in a modern manner in their quest for a mystical and spiritual mode that would express purity of sentiment. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an introductory text by Miguel Zugaza, Director of the Museo del Prado, and another by Agustín Arteaga, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Museo de Arte de Ponce. Visit the Museo del Prado at: www.museodelprado.es/en/ingles/

"In His Sixth Decade ~ Prints by Peter Milton" at Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington D.C. Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:06 PM PDT Washington D.C.- The Jane Haslem Gallery is pleased to present "In His Sixth Decade: Prints by Peter Milton" until June 30th. Peter Milton is now in his sixth decade as an artist. His most recent prints, which embrace digitally produced imagery, have sent him in another new and perhaps unexpected direction. These new prints are more luminous and three dimensional. Proving, once again, that Milton continues to reinvent himself by pushing his art to another level of visual experience.

Comprehensive Retrospective of Yayoi Kusama at the Reina Sofia In Madrid Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:05 PM PDT Madrid.- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía presents a comprehensive retrospective monographic exhibition about Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama from May 11th through September 18th. It is organised in collaboration with Tate Modern, and it will offer a global vision of a career that spans six decades. For the Spanish public, this is the first chance to visit a large scale Kusama exhibition. She is considered to be the most famous living artist in Japan. After the show in Spain, the exhibition will travel to other main international art centres: the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate Modern in London and the Whitney Museum in New York. The exhibition on display at Museo Reina Sofía, curated by Frances Morris, Tate Modern's Permanent Collections Curator (International Art), aims to show the width and profoundness of Kusama's production, giving priority to the artist's most intense moments of innovation through 150 pieces from her own collection, galleries and private collections, as well as some of the most important museums in the world: the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), MoMA – Museum of Modern Art (New York), the  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington), The National Museum of Modern Art (Tokio) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokio), among others.

Manchester Art Gallery to host Recent Works from the Frank Cohen Collection Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:04 PM PDT MANCHESTER, UK - Manchester Art Gallery will present an exhibition of major contemporary works from China, India and Japan from the Frank Cohen Collection. Facing East showcases eleven groundbreaking paintings and sculptures by some of the world's leading artists, many of which have rarely been on public display. Frank Cohen is one of Britain's leading collectors of contemporary art, often referred to as the 'Saatchi of the North'. His collection of contemporary art contains over a thousand works by major international artists, as well as works from emerging contemporary artists.

Léon Ferrari Retrospective Opens at a Catholic Church in Arles Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:03 PM PDT ARLES, FRANCE - The presence of a Léon Ferrari retrospective in a church is a paradox verging on the miraculous: here we have a famous, ninety-year-old artist who has devoted a large part of his working life to studying and implacably criticising the Catholic Church from its origins up to the present day. Ferrari's œuvre foregrounds the contradictions of the human condition: the abuses of power and the intolerance, sexual repression, racism, violence and authoritarianism that characterise different kinds of organisations in contemporary society. In 2009 the Museum of Modern Art , MoMA in New York featured his work in a major exhibition with artist Mira Schendel called Tangled Alphabets.

Metropolitan Museum of Art announces Augustus Saint-Gaudens Exhibition Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:02 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY - Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) was a French-Irish immigrant who became the greatest American sculptor of his day. From humble roots, through his prodigious talent, he rose in society, eventually counting some of America's most influential people in art and literature, diplomacy and economics, technology and social policy among his friends and clients. The collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art contains nearly four dozen works by the accomplished artist, representing the entire range of his oeuvre, from early cameos to innovative painterly bas-reliefs to character-penetrating portrait busts and statuettes derived from his public monuments.

Fourteen International Artists Exhibit in Geneva Under the Title Why Painting Now? Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:01 PM PDT GENEVA.- Creative and expressive possibilities in the visual arts underwent a rapid expansion during the twentieth century. Duchamp invented the ready-made; in the 1960s and 1970s, happenings, installations, Land Art, Body Art, video and photography were among the media used by visual artists. The death of painting was widely announced. Yet in recent times, painting has made a comeback, seeing its prestige restored in the eyes of collectors and institutions alike. In late 2002, the Centre Pompidou presented the exhibition Cher Peintre, Lieber Maler, Dear Painter. Figurative Painting since the Last Picabia. It attempted, in the form of a genealogical tree, to contextualize the "return" of a kind of figurative painting that had emerged over the course of the 1990s. Between 2004 and 2005, Charles Saatchi presented in London a cycle of three exhibitions entitled The Triumph of Painting. In 2007, with the exhibition What is Painting? On view through 19 December, 2009.

A Trio of New Exhibitions Open at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Posted: 05 Sep 2011 07:00 PM PDT COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center welcomed three new exhibitions. The artists, Earl Biss, Gib Singleton and William Kentridge, are each masters of their own distinct disciplines. Biss, a Native American, is a major contributor to the explosion of Southwestern Art in the last half of the 20th century through oil painting; Singleton is a master sculptor of religious figures; and Kentridge is one of the world's most compelling contemporary artists, featuring charcoal drawings and stop-motion videos.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 05 Sep 2011 06:45 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.

You are subscribed to email updates from Art News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610