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• The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Hosts Two Exhibitions of the Chicago Imagists
• The Santa Monica Museum of Art Presents a Survey of Beatrice Wood to the Age of 105
• The Brandywine Museum Presents N.C. Wyeth's Treasure Island Illustrations
• The Israel Museum Returns A Looted Max Liebermann Masterpiece to the Artist's Heirs
• The Shanghai Exhibition Center Hosts the 2011 SH Contemporary Art Fair
• MoMA PS1 Major Exhibition Reflects Upon "September 11"
• The Amon Carter Museum Remembers Will Barnet's 100th Birthday
• The Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse University presents Three West Coast Street Artists
• The Georgia Museum of Art Presents an Edmund Lewandowski Retrospective
• The Palazzo Venezia in Rome highlights 'The Mind of Leonardo ~ Universal Genius'
• The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute shows 'The Art of the Pastel'
• Artists Learning to Be Business-Minded at New York Foundation for the Arts
• Salvador Dali Foundation Presents Recently Acquired Paintings Made in the 1920s
• National Gallery of Victoria announces Exhibition from the Stadel Collection
• J. Paul Getty Museum exhibits Extraordinary Bronze Statue Excavated from Pompeii
• Gagosian Gallery Announces Exclusive Representation of Photographer Richard Avedon
• Josée Bienvenu Gallery to feature Aaron Wexler ~ Invisible Ghost
• Clark Art Institute to feature Henri deToulouse-Lautrec and Paris
• Kazimir Malevich's 'Suprematist Composition' Sets $ 60 Mil Record at Sotheby's Sale
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Hosts Two Exhibitions of the Chicago Imagists Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:47 PM PDT Madison, WI.- The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present two exhibtions featuring the works of the Chicago Imagists. Both exhibitions open on September 10th. In the museum's main galleries, they will be showing "The Chicago Imagists" (until January 15th 2012), while the State Street Gallery will be showing "Chicago School: Imagists in Context" (until December 30th). In the late 1960s, art audiences were introduced to a vibrant new generation of artists who would soon be identified collectively as the Chicago Imagists. Like the Pop artists in New York, Los Angeles, and London, who were somewhat older, these young artists drew inspiration from the everyday urban world and popular culture. But despite these common interests, the Chicago Imagists were more focused on a fantasy art of brilliant color, graphic strength, and free line. With sources and inspirations that ranged from comic books to Surrealism, the Chicago Imagists trafficked in exuberant and irreverent satire that spoke to the political and social foibles, as well as the whimsy, of contemporary life at the end of the tumultuous 1960s and into the 1970s. "Chicago Imagists" at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art will include more than 75 works by Roger Brown, Sarah Canright, Ed Flood, Art Green, Philip Hanson, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca, Barbara Rossi, and Karl Wirsum, as well as their friend and mentor Ray Yoshida. The exhibition is being organized by the museum's curator of collections, Richard H. Axsom; director, Stephen Fleischman; and former curator of exhibitions, Jane Simon, and will be accompanied by a major publication. Titled 'Chicago Imagists', this richly illustrated book will include essays by Lynne Warren, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Cécile Whiting, professor of art history at the University of California, Irvine; and the exhibition curators. Together, these writings will comprise the most extensive examination to date of the Imagist artists, their influences, and their place within American history and art history. "Chicago School: Imagists in Context" offers a cultural framework in which to consider the work of the Chicago Imagists. Drawing from the museum's permanent collection, this exhibition presents works by artists who influenced the Imagists or were influenced by them--from the expressionistically rendered human figures of Leon Golub to the sexually charged, surrealist watercolors of Robert Lostutter. Other artists represented include Robert Barnes, Phyllis Bramson, Don Baum, Miyoko Ito, Ellen Lanyon, June Leaf, Peter Saul, Hollis Sigler, and H.C. Westermann, among others. The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is a nonprofit, independent organization that exists to exhibit, collect, preserve, and interpret modern and contemporary art. After a distinguished 105-year history in borrowed and refurbished spaces, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art opened to the public on April 23, 2006, in a new facility within the Overture Center for the Arts. Designed by world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli, the museum's exhilarating facility offers 51,500 square feet of space for the study, presentation, and conservation of modern and contemporary art, as well as a 7,100-square-foot rooftop sculpture garden. Public amenities include spacious galleries, a 230-seat lecture hall, a children's classroom, a new-media gallery, and a study center for drawings, prints, and photographs. Like the rest of Overture Center, the facility was made possible by the extraordinary generosity of W. Jerome Frautschi, a long-time friend of the museum. The museum's collection traces its origins to a major gift from Rudolph and Louise Langer in 1968. Through donations and museum purchases, the collection has grown to become an important community resource. Works span the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and include paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, and drawings. Romare Bearden, Deborah Butterfield, John Steuart Curry, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Cindy Sherman are among the many esteemed artists represented in the collection. Exhibitions are the cornerstone of MMoCA's public programs and have featured many of the most respected artists of the last century, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, Sol LeWitt, George Segal, Jim Dine, Rodney Graham, Georgia O'Keeffe, Claes Oldenburg, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and John Wilde. The main galleries, located on the second floor, host the museum's major exhibitions. The Henry Street Gallery presents exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection while the State Street Gallery offers a changing roster of exhibitions and installations. MMoCA's rooftop sculpture garden presents major works on a rotating basis in an illuminated garden setting. Visit the museum's website at ... http://mmoca.org

The Santa Monica Museum of Art Presents a Survey of Beatrice Wood to the Age of 105 Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:41 PM PDT Santa Monica, CA.- The Santa Monica Museum of Art presents "Beatrice Wood: Career Woman—Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects", a comprehensive survey and new assessment of this seminal artist who made a remarkable body of ceramic lusterware until just a few years before her death in 1998 at the age of 105. On view at the Santa Monica Museum of Art from September 10th through March 3rd, 2012 this monographic exhibition offers a scholarly, commemorative evaluation of Wood's extraordinary life and career that traversed and contributed to the cultural and artistic highlights of the 20th century. "Beatrice Wood: Career Woman" is part of "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980". This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.

The Brandywine Museum Presents N.C. Wyeth's Treasure Island Illustrations Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:05 PM PDT Chadds Ford, PA.- To celebrate the 100th anniversary of its publication, the Brandywine Museum will present "N.C. Wyeth's Treasure Island, Classic Illustrations for a Classic Tale", an exhibition including 16 dramatic paintings created by the artist for the book. They will be seen together at the Brandywine River Museum for the first time since they left the artist's studio a century ago. Since its publication in 1911, Wyeth's edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale has been the iconic Treasure Island. Wyeth's settings and characters have excited generations of readers, and his imaginative vision has influenced other illustrators as well as theater and film directors.

The Israel Museum Returns A Looted Max Liebermann Masterpiece to the Artist's Heirs Posted: 09 Sep 2011 10:32 PM PDT JERUSALEM - Israel's national museum said Thursday that it has returned a painting to the estate of its creator, decades after the masterpiece was looted from a Jewish museum in Nazi Germany. The Israel Museum said "The Return of Tobias," a 1934 painting by German Jewish artist Max Liebermann, is now in Berlin after it was determined the work belongs to Liebermann's heirs. Liebermann, who died in 1935 at the age of 88, was a prolific painter who led the avant garde artistic society known as the Berlin Secession. He also served as president of the Prussian Academy of Arts during the 1920s and early 1930s. Some of his works have been valued at more than $1 million.

The Shanghai Exhibition Center Hosts the 2011 SH Contemporary Art Fair Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:41 PM PDT Shanghai.- SH Contemporary 2011 will take place in September, with preview on the 10th, in downtown Shanghai, at the extraordinary Shanghai Exhibition Center, and with a joint 4-day programme of openings, studio visits and events, in cooperation with the city's leading galleries and cultural initiatives.Mirroring the Asia Pacific art systems in the city that is the hub of the region, SH Contemporary highlights the work of galleries that promote innovative practices and research and nurture the creative movements that are crossing China and Asia, changing the global cultural landscape. Under the new direction of Massimo Torrigiani, the 5th edition of the fair is organized into 2 main sections, providing visitors with a selection of cutting-edge and emerging art, including video, film, photography and new media.

MoMA PS1 Major Exhibition Reflects Upon "September 11" Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:21 PM PDT New York City. - MoMA PS1 is presenting "September 11", a major exhibition reflecting upon the attacks of September 11th 2001, and the ways that they have altered how we see and experience the world in their wake. Eschewing images of the attacks on 9/11, as well as art made directly in response, the exhibition provides a subjective framework within which to consider the attacks in New York and their aftermath. Organized by MoMA PS1 Curator Peter Eleey, September 11 will occupy the entire second floor of the museum, with additional works located elsewhere in the building and in the surrounding neighborhood. The exhibition will open on the tenth anniversary of the attacks, and will remain on view through January 9th 2012.

The Amon Carter Museum Remembers Will Barnet's 100th Birthday Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:20 PM PDT Fort Worth. TX.— The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is pleased to present "Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935–1965", on view at the museum until December 31st. To mark the 100th birthday of pioneering printmaker, painter, and educator Will Barnet (b. 1911), this exhibition of nearly fifty works explores the momentous evolution of Barnet's art from realism to abstraction during the middle decades of the twentieth century. Will Barnet's career began in 1931, when he earned a scholarship to the prestigious Art Students League in New York. Here he excelled at various printmaking techniques including lithography, intaglio, and woodcut. In 1935 he was the youngest person to ever be appointed League Printer. A year later he began teaching graphic arts at the League, then composition and painting, initiating his nearly half-century career as one of America's most important educators.

The Warehouse Gallery at Syracuse University presents Three West Coast Street Artists Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:01 PM PDT Syracuse, New York.- Syracuse University's contemporary art venue, the Warehouse Gallery, is proud to present "Colofronian Construction: Public Street Art" on view from September 15th through October 29th. For this exhibition, the artists Apex, Jet Martinez and Chor Boogie have been invited to each create new temporary murals inside the Warehouse Gallery. The work is based on improvisation, collaboration, and the notion that how and what they paint is recognizably Californian in its focus on strong colors, patterns, forms, and nature. Their language consists of colorful abstract forms pertaining to optical illusions and movement, faces, evoking real and imaginary urban settings, and tropical imaginary landscapes.

The Georgia Museum of Art Presents an Edmund Lewandowski Retrospective Posted: 09 Sep 2011 09:00 PM PDT Athens, GA.-  The Georgia Museum of Art is pleased to present "Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond" on view in the Virginia and Alfred Kennedy and Philip Henry Alston Jr. Galleries from September 10th through December 3rd. Midwestern artist Edmund Lewandowski (1914–1998) was an influential painter and art educator known for his images of industrial, urban and architectural subject matter. Organized by the Flint Institute of Arts, "Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond" surveys all aspects of Lewandowski's oeuvre, which includes a wide array of subjects in varied styles and media. This monographic exhibition features almost 50 examples of his work, including two paintings from the permanent collection at the Georgia Museum of Art, and examines the artist's career and impact as an artist and educator. Edmund Lewandowski was born in Milwaukee in 1914 and attended the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee from 1931 to 1934. Following graduation, he assumed a teaching position in public school as a means of support though he pursued painting and commercial commissions in advertising and magazines on his own.  In 1936, Edith Halpert, an important New York art dealer of modern art, invited him to join her gallery, the noted Downtown Gallery. That year, he also began painting murals for the Federal Art Project, and during 1939 and 1940, he executed post office murals in Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin. From 1942 to 1946, Lewandowski made maps and concealments while serving in the United States Air Force. In 1947, he went back to the Layton School of Art where he was appointed to the faculty, but he also continued to do commercial work. In 1949, he moved to a teaching position at Florida State University, in Tallahassee, where he remained until 1954. Following his tenure in Florida, he returned to the Layton School of Art as Director until 1972. Lewandowski was chair of the Art Department at Winthrop from 1973-1984 and was named professor emeritus upon his retirement. Lewandowski is recalled by students at Winthrop and members of the Rock Hill community for his teaching, service to the community and his exceptional artwork. He remained in Rock Hill until his death in 1998. The Georgia Museum of Art, on the campus of the University of Georgia, in Athens, is both an academic museum and, since 1982, the official art museum of the state of Georgia. The permanent collection consists of American paintings, primarily 19th- and 20th-century; American, European and Asian works on paper; the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings; and growing collections of southern decorative arts and Asian art. From the time it was opened to the public in 1948 in the basement of an old library on the university's historic North Campus, the museum has grown consistently both in the size of its collection and in the size of its facilities. Today the museum occupies a contemporary building in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on the university's burgeoning east campus. There, 79,000 square feet house more than 8,000 objects in the museum's permanent collection—a dramatic leap from the core of 100 paintings donated by the museum's founder, Alfred Heber Holbrook.Much of the museum's collection of American paintings was donated by Holbrook in memory of his first wife, Eva Underhill Holbrook. Included in this collection are works by such luminaries as Frank Weston Benson, William Merritt Chase, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence and Theodore Robinson. Over the years it has been impossible to separate the history of the museum from the story of Holbrook's generosity. Numerous museum exhibitions have traveled to national and international venues. When "Adriaen van Ostade: Etchings of Peasant Life in Holland's Golden Age" was exhibited at the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, the catalogue quickly sold out, becoming a text for the study of 17th-century Dutch printmaking in classrooms across the United States. This exhibition also reflected the importance of prints and drawings in the programming of the museum, which houses one of the finest collections of works on paper in the Southeast. The collection includes Old Master prints, Parisian prints of the 1890s and American prints and drawings of the early 20th century. Exhibitions from international museums such as the National Gallery of Scotland, the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the Rembrandt House and the San Carlos National Museum in Mexico City have all been displayed in the galleries of the museum over the past decade. The museum also offers traveling exhibitions formed from its permanent collection to other museums and art institutes around Georgia and the Southeast. Since the early 1970s the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art, a support group of more than 1,200 members, have hosted fundraisers and openings for exhibitions and have sponsored exhibitions and educational programs at the museum. In April 1996, the Georgia Museum of Art opened a new building on the East Campus of the university as part of the Performing and Visual Arts Complex, which also includes the School of Music, the Performing Arts Center, and, now, the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The new building allowed for larger and more ambitious exhibitions and a new emphasis on professional practices, trends that will continue to hold true in 2011 and beyond. The museum has become a leader, in particular, among university museums, and its educational programs have been the most tangible example of the balance it strives to achieve among state, local, and university audiences as it seeks to fulfill its trifold mission of teaching, research, and service. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.georgiamuseum.org

The Palazzo Venezia in Rome highlights 'The Mind of Leonardo ~ Universal Genius' Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:50 PM PDT ROME, ITALY- Although Leonardo da Vinci  is commonly known as a "universal genius", the exhibitions dedicated to him have almost always focused on some specific area of his activity: art, anatomy, technology, studies on water, on flight, on war, and so on. The Mind of Leonardo offers its visitors a different point of view, inviting them to explore the Genius' very mode of thinking and his unitary conception of knowledge as the effort to assimilate, through bold theoretical syntheses and inventive experiments, the laws that govern all of the wondrous operations of man and nature. Now hosted in the prestigious Palazzo Venezia in Rome from May 1 to August 30, 2009. The exhibition makes use of innovative educational tools, including: 3D animations and high-definition reproductions, functioning models carefully constructed using historically accurate techniques and materials (of particular interest is the premiere presentation of the mechanical lion designed by Leonardo for the arrival of Frances I in Lyon in 1515), PC stations with access to interactive contents, virtual reconstructions of some of Leonardo's lost works and films which illustrate for the first time sensational new discoveries in his drawings and paintings (in particular related to the Adoration of the Magi). The first venue in Florence, at the Uffizi Gallery (28 March 2006 – 7 January 2007), displayed precious originals (the Saint Jerome from the Vatican Museums, the self-portrait from Turin, the "exploded skull" of the Weimar Sheet). From October 3, 2006 it has been enriched by an additional section under the title "At the time of the Battle of Anghiari (1504-1508)", hosted by the Print and Drawing Department of the Uffizi Gallery. This section represents a real "show within a show", displaying over 30 Leonardo's autograph sheets, lent by prestigious cultural institutions from all over the world, a precious original manuscript (the well-known Codex on the flight of birds), paintings of great beauty derived from Leonardo's lost works, as well as sculptures, remarkable engravings and ancient prints. The Florence show was visited by over 1,100,000 persons. The Florence display of The Mind of Leonardo inaugurated the series of events entitled Universal Leonardo, which are part of the prestigious programme of the 28th Exhibition of Art, Science and Culture promoted by the European Council. The second venue of the exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum (20 March – 17 June 2007) was promoted by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, in collaboration with Asahi Shimbun, NHK and NHK Promotions, in the framework of the prestigious "Primavera Italiana 2007". The extraordinary display of the original painting of the Annunciation, exceptionally loaned by the Uffizi Gallery, was the exclusive privilege of the Japanese venue of The Mind of Leonardo. The exhibition attracted nearly 800,000 visitors in less than three months, getting the highest daily average for any exhibition all over the world in the decade 1997-2007. Afterwards (16 August – 2 December 2007) The Mind of Leonardo has been presented in Debrecen (Hungary), at the MODEM–Museum of Modern Art, under the title Az igazi Da Vinci. The Hungarian show, promoted in collaboration with the Debrecen Museum of Modern Art and the Municipality of Debrecen, displayed the main sections of the original exhibition, supplemented with a new section devoted to Leonardo's studies on horses and the extraordinary life-size reconstruction of the Sforza Horse, a gigantic equestrian monument over 7 metres high. Two precious originals made the exhibition richer: a small bronze equestrian statue from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, related to Da Vinci's projects for the Sforza Monument, and an early folio by Leonardo from the Uffizi Print and Drawing Collection in Florence. From September 27, 2008 to January 25, 2009 The Mind of Leonardo has been displayed at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San José, California, for the first time ever together with Renaissance Engineers, under the title Leonardo: 500 Years into the Future. The twin exhibitions offered visitors the unique occasion to admire Leonardo in context and to penetrate the secrets of a mind that conceived and achieved extraordinary results. The San José exhibition featured the gigantic model of the Sforza Monument and two 16th-century paintings from Leonardo'circle on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence – the so-called Leda Spiridon and the Virgin and Child with St. Anne by Gian Giacomo Caprotti. From May 1 to August 30, 2009 The Mind of Leonardo will be hosted in the prestigious Palazzo Venezia in Rome. The Roman venue is adorned by significant art works, which include the well-known Leda Borghese and Leda Spiridon, a Virgin with Child and St. John after Leonardo (respectively coming from the Galleria Borghese, the Uffizi Gallery and the Galleria Palatina in Florence) and two outstanding drawings from the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi. The exhibition also features a drawing and two autograph fragments recently discovered in a private collection, bearing witness to Leonardo's studies for the staging of Poliziano's Orpheus dated to 1506-1508. The gigantic model of the Sforza Monument will tower over Piazza Venezia.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute shows 'The Art of the Pastel' Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:49 PM PDT WILLIAMSTOWN, MA -  Pastel has long been embraced as an exceptionally versatile and effective drawing technique. The Art of the Pastel at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will feature eleven works by Edgar Degas, Jean-François Millet, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, and others. The pastels will be on view November 22, 2008, through February 16, 2009.

Artists Learning to Be Business-Minded at New York Foundation for the Arts Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:48 PM PDT New York City - Paul Barman thinks his is a great idea for a business: personalized, hip-hop versions of the traditional Jewish wedding contract, known as the ketubah, that he writes and sings. He calls them Audioketubah and, at $1,500, they come in the form of handwritten scrolls and CDs, perfect gifts for a couple who cannot stomach another set of stemware. Juan Hinojosa makes collages from found materials like Metrocards and food wrappers, and clothing tags that he filches from high-end stores. He often brings an attractive female friend along to distract the staff while he snips off the labels, though he said he has never actually taken anything of value.

Salvador Dali Foundation Presents Recently Acquired Paintings Made in the 1920s Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:47 PM PDT FIGUERES, SPAIN - The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí has presented its latest acquisition, an oil painted on both sides titled "Figure from Behind" (front) and "Nymphs and Young Ladies in a Garden Fountain" (back). The provenance of the painting is from a private collector and since 1925, with the exception of the Retrospective during the Year of Dalí, had not been seen in public. In the painter's view, we cannot forget the work of Ismael Smith, Marià Andreu or Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre, all of them friends of Salvador Dalí, with whom he had a relationship, especially with the latter, also a friend of Federico García Lorca.

National Gallery of Victoria announces Exhibition from the Stadel Collection Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:46 PM PDT MELBOURNE, AU - Premier John Brumby announced a new blockbuster exhibition, "European Masters: Städel Museum 19th – 20th Centuries" will come to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2010 as part of the hugely successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. European Masters: Städel Museum 19th – 20th Centuries will be on at the NGV International, St Kilda Road from June 19 until October 10, 2010. Mr Brumby said the exhibition comprises more than 100 works from the internationally renowned Städel Museum in Germany by artists including Monet, Cézanne and Renoir, and is the first time this collection of works will be displayed outside Europe.

J. Paul Getty Museum exhibits Extraordinary Bronze Statue Excavated from Pompeii Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:45 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- Statue of an Ephebe as a Lampbearer, a long-term loan from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples, is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa. The object, which was excavated from Pompeii in 1925, will remain on view at the Getty until March 2011. The Getty has also begun conservation work on another object from Naples ' archaeological museum—a statue of the Apollo Saettante—that will go on view at the Getty Villa following conservation.

Gagosian Gallery Announces Exclusive Representation of Photographer Richard Avedon Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:44 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announces the worldwide representation of Richard Avedon, in partnership with The Richard Avedon Foundation. Larry Gagosian comments, "Avedon is America's consummate modern photographer and one of the iconic artists from a generation which produced many extraordinary painters, sculptures, and photographers. We consider it a great privilege to represent one of the true masters of twentieth century art."

Josée Bienvenu Gallery to feature Aaron Wexler ~ Invisible Ghost Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:43 PM PDT New York, NY - Josée Bienvenu Gallery is pleased to present Invisible Ghost , Aaron Wexler's second one-person exhibition in New York. Aaron Wexler operates within a complex matrix of acrylic and paper collage on panel. The mat acrylic surfaces of his paintings are incised and peeled away to reveal playful dreamscapes of free association. Wound together, the pictures float in and out of focus and illusory space while simultaneously denoting the flatness of their plane and materiality. Fractal and prismatic, his paintings are carefully constructed, the surfaces collaged with a myriad of cut shapes, a complex puzzle of figure and ground. Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14 from 6 to 8pm. On view May 14 - June 20, 2009.

Clark Art Institute to feature Henri deToulouse-Lautrec and Paris Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:42 PM PDT   WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Vibrant and racy Parisian nightlife of the late nineteenth century will be on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute this winter. Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris, an exhibition of over eighty remarkable oil paintings, posters, photographs, drawings, and lithographs, marks the first time in over fifteen years that the Clark will show nearly its entire extraordinary collection of works by the great French painter and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901). Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris will be on view February 1 through April 26, 2009.

Kazimir Malevich's 'Suprematist Composition' Sets $ 60 Mil Record at Sotheby's Sale Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:41 PM PDT   New York City - Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition from 1916 sold for $60,002,500 at Sotheby's, not only a record for the artist, but a record for any Russian work of art ever sold at auction. Regarded as an icon of Russian art and a paradigmatic example of the 20th century avant-garde, the masterwork was executed in 1916, the same year that Malevich published his Suprematist Manifesto. The Heirs of Kazimir Malevich issued a statement through a spokesperson as follows: "The heirs are delighted with the extraordinary sale achieved for Suprematist Composition which confirms Kazimir Malevich's position among the greatest masters of the 20th century."

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