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• The Queensland Art Gallery Shows Masterpieces From The Prado Collection
• IVAM Exhibition Features the work of José Manuel Ciria ~ The Last Decade
• National Gallery of Art Launches 2nd Edition of the Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné
• Pop Art Pioneer Richard Hamilton Dies at the Age of 89
• Dean Project Presents Sculptures by Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers
• The McMaster Museum of Art Displays 18th Century Prints of Utamaro & Hogarth
• The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Exhibits Indonesion Artist Entang Wiharso
• The Royal College of Art Hosts the 20/21 British Art Fair in September
• The Sammlung Essl at Klosterneuberg ~ Austria′s Biggest Private Collection of Contemporary Art ~ Toured By AKN Editor
• 'Tigers of Wrath': Watercolors by Walton Ford at Brooklyn Museum
• Major Picasso Exhibition for Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012
• Glowlab Presents a Solo Exhibition of Post-apocalyptic Work by Alex Lukas
• Fifteen Years of Collecting at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ~ Against the Grain
• Stolen Art by Warhol Is Double Mystery in California and Worldwide
• Gallery Brown shows John Lurie's "The Invention of Animals"
• New Museum organizes first Elizabeth Peyton Survey
• The Kunsthaus Zürich Exhibition Offers Sculptures, Paintings from All Phases of Alberto Giacometti's Career
• Amon Carter Museum features the Art of Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874)
• Fondation Beyeler presents "Visual Encounters ~ Africa, Oceania and Modern Art"
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Queensland Art Gallery Shows Masterpieces From The Prado Collection Posted: 13 Sep 2011 11:05 PM PDT Brisbane, Australia.- Following its exhibitions in Japan, China and Russia, The Prado will be a portrait of the Museum through the great masters in its collections in Australia. The Museo del Prado has entered into a collaborative agreement with Art Exhibitions Australia (AEA), a non-profit-making body responsible for the organisation of major exhibitions in Australian museums, and with the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. "Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado" will be shown at the Queensland Art Gallery through November 4th. This is the first exhibition that the Prado will hold in that country and is part of its "International Prado" programme that has already involved the presentation of exhibitions in Japan and China in previous years, as well as the one currently to be seen at the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. With this new exhibition, the Museum will present for the first time in Australia a survey of the history of Spain and Spanish art from the 16th century to the early 20th century through a group of works comprising 80 paintings and around 20 works on paper. "Portrait of Spain. Masterpieces from the Prado" will present around 100 works with the aim of encouraging a reflection on the evolution of painting in Spain over the course of more than three centuries and on the internal and external factors that influenced it. To explain this development, the exhibition will be presented in chronological order, focusing on three major periods with clearly defined political, social and artistic characteristics: an initial section covering the years 1550 to 1770, which coincides in political terms with the Ancien Régime and in cultural terms with the so-called Spanish Golden Age. This will be followed by a section spanning the last quarter of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, which was a "critical" period with important shifts in mindsets, political organisation and forms of social relations. Finally, there will be a section on the last fifty years of the 19th century, the period that saw the birth of modern Spain. Within each period the exhibition features works by the leading artists of the day as well as examples of the most characteristic themes and subjects that distinguish each period from the others. As a result, the visitor will not only learn about the stylistic evolution of Spanish painting but also how thematic interests changed over time and how new subjects were introduced. The works in the first section are grouped under the headings "Portrait and Power: monarchs and buffoons", "Mythology as the Language of Power", "Painting and Religion" and "Secular Society: the still life". While most of these themes continued to be present in later centuries they are represented here in the section that corresponds to the period of their greatest influence over the formulation of art in Spain. In the case of the second section ("1770-1850: A changing world") the headings are "Images of a Society", "Portrait and daily Life" and "Reason and Madness", the last comprising graphic work by Goya that covers aspects of art and thought in Spain at that time that cannot be represented through paintings. The last section ("1850-1900: On the threshold of modern Spain") will reveal how the country itself, its history landscape and literature were the subject of artistic reflection by painters, many of whose works express the links that they felt with Spanish artists of the past. This section includes the headings "Defining the traditional Image of Spain" and "Spanish Painting looks at itself in the Mirror". Among the artists represented in the exhibition are El Greco, Ribera, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Murillo, Valdés Leal, Carreño, Paret, Van der Hamen, Meléndez, Goya, Vicente López, Federico de Madrazo, Rosales, Fortuny, Beruete and Sorolla. There will also be paintings by foreign artists working in Spain or directly influenced by Spanish painting, such as Titian, Anthonis Mor, Rubens, Luca Giordano, Houasse, Tiepolo and Mengs. The Queensland Art Gallery is Queensland's premier visual arts institution and a leading art museum nationally. The Gallery's driving philosophy is to connect art and people. The Gallery was established in 1895 as the Queensland National Art Gallery. Throughout its early history the Gallery was housed in a series of temporary premises, and did not have a permanent home until the opening of its current architecturally acclaimed building on Brisbane's south bank in 1982. Since opening, the Gallery's Collection, exhibitions, audiences and programs have grown in size, complexity and diversity. To cater for the community's future needs, during the 1990s the Gallery embarked on extensive research and wide consultation, resulting in the concept of a second building. The Gallery of Modern Art, which opened in December 2006, complements the Queensland Art Gallery building. Situated at Kurilpa Point only 150 metres from the Queensland Art Gallery building, the Gallery of Modern Art focuses on the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Gallery's flagship project is the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series of exhibitions, now a major event on the national and international arts calendar. The expertise developed from staging the Triennial for over a decade has led to the establishment of the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art (ACAPA), to foster alliances, scholarship and publishing, and the formation of an internationally significant collection of art from the Asia-Pacific region. Similarly, the Gallery is committed to profiling Indigenous Australian art and strengthening relationships with Queensland's Indigenous communities. The Gallery is also recognised as an international leader in presenting innovative museum-based learning programs for children. These programs are coordinated through the Children's Art Centre. To ensure all Queenslanders have access to the Collection, travelling exhibitions tour to regional and remote centres of the state. Visit the museum's website at ... http://qag.qld.gov.au/

IVAM Exhibition Features the work of José Manuel Ciria ~ The Last Decade Posted: 13 Sep 2011 09:08 PM PDT VALENCIA, SPAIN - The director of the IVAM, Mrs. Consuelo Ciscar; the artist, José Manuel Ciria, and the curator of the exhibition, Kara Van der Weg, inaugurated the exhibition 'Ciria. States of opposition (2001-20011) which will run until on 8 January. The exhibition, sponsored by Telefónica, gathers 28 paintings and 82 drawings series between abstraction and figuration, with features ranging from the spontaneous gesture to the precise rigor of the grid. The artist works between Madrid and New York in the decade from 2001 to 2011. Over the last decade, the paintings of Jose Manuel Ciria have moved between abstraction and figuration, their markings ranging from animated gesture to the precise rigor of the grid. On exhibition at the Valencian Institute for Modern Art (IVAM).

National Gallery of Art Launches 2nd Edition of the Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné Posted: 13 Sep 2011 08:55 PM PDT WASHINGTON, D.C.- A newly expanded version of the Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) Online Catalogue Raisonné introduces 333 works produced by the acclaimed Los Angeles print and sculpture workshop between early 1997 and late 2005. The online catalogue now represents 2,069 editions, recording Gemini's creative activity from its 1966 inception through 2005. Since 1981, the National Gallery of Art has been home to the Gemini G.E.L. Archive, which represents an example of virtually every print and edition sculpture produced by this important workshop. The Gallery's holdings of Gemini works are a cornerstone of its contemporary graphic art collection.

Pop Art Pioneer Richard Hamilton Dies at the Age of 89 Posted: 13 Sep 2011 08:02 PM PDT London (BBC).- British artist Richard Hamilton, regarded as a pioneer in the field of Pop art, has died at the age of 89 following a short illness. The London-born artist's best known work was a 1956 collage featuring a body builder and a tin of ham, which earned him the title "Father of Pop". The Gagosian Gallery, which announced his death, said the art world had "lost one of its leading lights". He was working on a major retrospective just days before he died. The exhibition is due to be seen in London, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Madrid next year.

Dean Project Presents Sculptures by Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers Posted: 13 Sep 2011 08:01 PM PDT New York City.- Dean Project is thrilled to present, "On the Brink", on view at the gallery from September 15th through October 29th. This is the second solo exhibition with the gallery by the collaborative husband and wife team: Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers. Continuing with their exploration of ideas of material value and the consequences of the actions we take to satisfy our desires, Berg-Myers have created a new body of works.  This current exhibition is meant to provide the viewers with objects-situations where our choices are put to the test in how we understand the value of the things we do.Some of the works in the exhibition have titles such as "All that glitters" and "As good as gold" which echo marketing tools employed in our contemporary culture to attract with a promise of guaranteed satisfaction if consumed.

The McMaster Museum of Art Displays 18th Century Prints of Utamaro & Hogarth Posted: 13 Sep 2011 08:00 PM PDT Hamilton, Ontario.- The McMaster Museum of Art is proud to present "The 'Floating' Urbanities of Utamaro and Hogarth: Pictures for Women?" on view at the museum until January 12th 2012. The famous printmakers and painters William Hogarth (1697-1764) and Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1753-1806) lived worlds apart. What little Hogarth knew of Asian art fell under the broad heading of Chinoiserie: lacquer, porcelain, and figurines popular in Britain since the East India Company traded out of Hirado, Japan c.1613-23. As late as the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London—almost a century after Hogarth's death—the specific qualities of Japanese art remained officially a subset of Chinese achievement. Utamaro was equally unaware of European art.

The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Exhibits Indonesion Artist Entang Wiharso Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:50 PM PDT Kalamazoo, MI.— The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts is pleased to present "Second Skin: Peeling Back the Layers", featuring work by contemporary Indonesian artist, Entang Wiharso, and curated by Dr. Mary-Louise Totton, Associate Professor of Asian/Pacific Art, Western Michigan University. According to Dr. Totton, "Currently one of Indonesia's most active international artists, Entang Wiharso compounds the narrative power and complex formats of the ancient local artistic genres of his homeland with a contemporary global outlook. His original voice is processed through a variety of mediums and idioms that explore issues of identity, power, love, and intolerance." "Second Skin: Peeling Back the Layers" is on view from September 10th through November 6th.

The Royal College of Art Hosts the 20/21 British Art Fair in September Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:45 PM PDT London.- The 20/21 British Art Fair, the fair which champions Modern British art, will take place from 14 – 18 September at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London. It will be opened by the highly acclaimed author and scriptwriter, Anthony Horowitz, at 5pm on the 14th. The Royal College of Art, arguably 'the spiritual home of British art', is an ideal setting to see work by the great names of the 20th century, many of whom are former students: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Elisabeth Frink, Luke Frost, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Peter Lanyon, L. S. Lowry, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Briget Riley, Stanley Spencer and Graham Sutherland. Alongside will be a large selection of contemporary work by established names such as Hirst, Tracey Emin, Banksy as well as by both emerging artists and recent graduates. With some 56 of the country's leading dealers exhibiting, the Fair, now in its 24th year, is not to be missed! A curated selection of sculpture which highlights British excellence and expands on the theme set earlier this year by the Royal Academy. Exhibitors have been invited to submit pieces of special interest and, with many of the best Modern British dealers exhibiting at the Fair, this promises to be an exciting and informative feature. With names as wide-ranging and significant as Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore, Hepworth and Anthony Caro and Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley and Damien Hirst all now celebrated internationally as well as nationally, there is a strong case to be made for British sculpture, rather than painting, representing this country's most original and successful means of artistic expression through the 20th century. Yet, as the recent Modern British Sculpture show at the Royal Academy made clear, as much by its omissions as by its inclusions, the story is even richer and more interesting than such a random list of names as this might at first suggest. With this in mind, the organisers of this year's 20/21 British Art Fair (being held at the Royal College of Art from 14 – 18 September) decided to put together a selected 'trail' of their own. Curated by exhibitors René Gimpel and Peter Osborne and entitled 'Form – Matter – Material', 12 galleries are participating in the 'trail' which, it is hoped, will draw wider attention to just some of those other sculptors, and periods of sculpture, which many felt were perhaps sidelined or neglected in that show. With this in mind the emphasis of the 22 pieces is very much on post-war and more recent work, the only earlier pieces being Jacob Epstein's vividly modelled Portrait of Sunita 1925 (Boundary Gallery) and Henry Moore's one-time teacher, Leon Underwood's exuberant, African-influenced terracotta figure June of Youth 1933 pictured right (Redfern Gallery). After this, the focus moves on to that quite remarkable, youthful explosion of sculptural activity in the immediate post-war period, the critic Herbert Read's 'geometry of fear' sculptors, Reg Butler, Kenneth Armitage and Lynn Chadwick among others, who made such an impact at the 1952 Venice Biennale. In fact all eight of those who showed then are represented here and many by extremely characteristic pieces. Geoffrey Clarke, for example, whose 'Complexities of Man' piece at the Biennale caused a particular stir, is represented here by another work from 1951, full of those post-war political and social anxieties about nuclear war that characterised all their work, the welded iron sculpture Man as Fortress (Keith Chapman). No less seminal a piece is Kenneth Armitage's major bronze Linked Figures 1949, pictured right (Piano Nobile), the first sculpture in which he experiments with the idea, later to become very characteristic of his work, of grouping two or more figures in a single, dynamic form. Meanwhile, equally resonant of this significant moment in post-war British sculpture are Eduardo Paolozzi's magnificent bull of 1946, Bernard Meadows' Armed man I 1961, with its animalistic body armour and claws and Reg Butler's precariously balanced bronze, Girl Bending Over, 1955, of which he observed at the time "I try to get the mass up in the air like an explosion…". Of the others in this original Biennale group, Lynn Chadwick is seen here with a later piece, one of his monumental bronzes from the great 'Jubilee' series that emerged in the late 70s, the two figures, their cloaks blowing out behind them, of his Maquette Jubilee II 1983, imbued with an intense, dynamic energy; William Turnbull, too, is represented by a later 1980s piece, Metaphoric Venus 4 (1982), one of what were termed his 'new' sculptures, sleek, ambiguous forms created between 1979-1986, that embody ideas derived from primitive fertility symbols, non-European masks and prehistoric tools; and finally, there is Robert Adams, whose exuberant carved yew-wood figure Centaur 1948, dating to that period before he went more fully abstract, again speaks of a fascination with the direct expressiveness of primitive art. Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth had of course also been shown in that Venice Biennale display as kind of godparents to this younger generation and they are present here too but, again, with rather later pieces: Moore with a highly characteristic 1976 cast bronze, Working Model for Reclining Figure: Prop, Hepworth with a rather more abstract small bronze Six Forms in a Circle of 1967 (both Osborne Samuel). Moore, meanwhile had become, a point of reaction for sculptors emerging in the late 50s, among the most notable of whom was, of course, his former assistant Anthony Caro, represented here by one of his ruggedly architectural welded bronze/brass pieces Late Quarter (Variation F) 1981. The even more iconoclastic 60s spirit is, at same time, also wittily represented here by two highly distinctive and unusual Pop Art works, Jann Haworth's mixed media Lindner Doll 1964 and Clive Barker's chrome-plated bronze, Homage to Magritte 1968, Peter Blake's wife at the time, Haworth's sewn and stuffed soft sculpture, using vinyl, nylon stockings and sequins (among other things), broke every rule in the sculpture book while the shiny blank modernity of Barker's sculpture now appears almost like an early prefiguring of Jeff Koons. Barry Flanagan, too, worked in a similarly anarchic vein for much of his life, as his edgily humorous Anvil and Pilgrim 1984 powerfully demonstrates. That same, distinctly 60s, spirit also lived on in the Boyle Family's work, a piece like Study for the Fire Series with Blackened Sandstone 1989, clearly deriving its inspiration from the 'found' forms of the street, becoming both poetic and intensely resonant in feeling. (Barry Flanagan is having a retrospective at Tate Britain opening 27th September).  A good note, in short, to end on – the innovative, thoughtful, engaged and poetic qualities that have always abounded in the rich tradition of British sculpture over the last century or more, still very much alive and in good hands! Visit the fair's website at ... http://www.britishartfair.co.uk

The Sammlung Essl at Klosterneuberg ~ Austria′s Biggest Private Collection of Contemporary Art ~ Toured By AKN Editor Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:30 PM PDT A short journey from Vienna, in the town of Klosterneuburg, is the Essl Collection Museum, which occupies its very own purpose-built art museum by the Danube. It houses Austria′s biggest private collection of contemporary art. Art collecting powerhouse couple, Agnes and Karlheinz Essl (Karlheinz Essl is the founder of bauMax, a chain of do-it-yourself and garden centres) believe that "art enriches life and releases innovative forces," the two have always sought to collect challenging works. The collection was originally meant to be housed in the 'MuseumsQuartier' in Vienna, but after a long - and typically Austrian - argument about the architecture of the museum it was built in Klosterneuburg, where they live and where bauMax has its headquarters. The striking building was designed by the award-winning Austrian architect Heinz Tesar and when it opened in 1999, the Essls could now display a collection that boasted the likes of Damien Hirst, Paul McCarthy, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Bill Viola, Tony Oursler and Jonathan Meese. Visitors enter the Exhibition Building of the Essl Collection through an entrance pavilion in the southern part of the building. From the entrance hall and the light-flooded stair hall that extends freely over all five storeys one reaches the first floor with its inner courtyard, lawn and water basin. This floor also contains the lobby, the entrance to the library, the galleries and the exhibition hall. On the mezzanine floor, a spacious studio is used for the numerous events and activities of the educational program. The six large storage rooms on the ground floor with a total floor space of 2,500 sq. meters are supplemented by additional rooms devoted to conservation, workshops, technical equipment and the administration of the artworks in the storage rooms. The seven galleries which are located on the west side contain the permanent display of the Essl Collection. They each have different dimensions and are lit through their three meter high skylights. The east-facing Exhibition Hall receives its daylight from the windows along one side and is visually linked to the corridor on the floor below that leads to the art storage rooms. The Rotunda connects the Exhibition Hall with the "Large Hall" on the floor above. Adjacent to it is the Lecture Hall, where lectures, special events and music performances are held. The Rotunda connects the Exhibition Hall with the Large Hall. It has been intentionally left empty and is filled only with the sounds of specifically conceived sound installations by various composers. The "Large Hall", where the sculptures and installations are displayed is lit by windows along one side as well as by skylights. The hall is covered by an 820 sq. meter roof that is shaped like a wave. Adjacent to the "Large Hall" are the Café and the museum shop. Situated approximately 600 meters from the Essl Museum, the Schömer-Haus (also designed by Heinz Tesar) is just a few minutes' walk away. Although its main function is as the Schömer-bauMax-Corporate Group headquarters it also provides extra exhibition space for the Essl Museum. Entry is free. it serves as an exhibition hall for the Essl collection and as a concert hall. The concert series, Music at the Schömer-Haus, has been curated by the composer Karlheinz Essl since 1992. About four times a year, the building is transformed into a venue for exceptional musical events, where primarily New Music is presented with all its radical, unconventional facets. Visit the museum (and Schömer-Haus) website at: http://www.sammlung-essl.at With more than 6.000 exhibits the Essl Collection today offers an excellent overview of Austrian painting since 1945, placing it in an international context. Collecting in depth was always an essential idea and the artists' development in the course of their oeuvre was to be shown. The scope of the Austrian exhibits in the Collection ranges from the Abstract Expressionism of the 50's and 60's to the Vienna Actionism and New Painting of the 80s and all the way to the reductionist art of the 90s. In addition to the post-war paintings the Collection contains an important group of works of Classical Austrian Modernism. In the past few years the selection of the works by international artists has been made mainly on the basis of their significance for painting and their relationship to the Austrian art tradition. Among the well-known artists represented are; Arnulf Rainer, Sam Francis, Maria Lassnig, Antoni Tàpies, Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, Valie Export, Markus Oehlen, Daniel Richter, Gerhard Richter, Hubert Schmalix, Siegfried Anzinger, Jonathan Meese, Sean Scully, Per Kirkeby, Oskar Kokoschka, Lois Renner, Gottfried Helnwein, Karel Appel and Krystufek . The collection is supplemented in photography, video and sculpture by the work of Franz West, Nam June Paik, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Jannis Kounellis and Barbara Szüts as well as high-quality sculptures. Currently the Essl Museum has 3 exhibitions on exhibition. "India Awakens" (until February 13th 2011) is in the main exhibitions hall and presents the new generation of contemporary Indian artists. Alongside paintings, sculpture and photography the exhibition will include spacious video installations and contemporary Tribal Art. All works were acquired by the Essl Museum and have partly been created specifically for this exhibition. In the main hall, under the title of "Private Wurm", one of Austria's most internationally successful artists, Erwin Wurm presents recent works (until 30th January 2011). In this personal show the artist takes a look at his childhood and youth. In his work, Wurm explores the realms of action art, performance art and sculpture and translates them into a contemporary media context. "Beautiful Klosterneuburg", a personal choice of works selected by German artist Albert Oehlen is presented in the seven gallery rooms (until 8th May 2011). The exhibition features paintings and sculptures by artists including Rudolf Hausner, Friedensreich Hundertwasser but also contemporary art by Paul McCarthy and Heimo Zobernig. In the 1980s, Albert Oehlen was part of the "Neue Wilde" group, which included names such as Martin Kippenberger, Werner Büttner and his own brother Markus Oehlen. These "new savages" took an ironic stance and challenged the entire medium of painting. At the nearby Schömer-Haus art collector Agnes Essl takes a look at artists whose work has been represented in The Essl Collection from its inception and who have become creative "Associates of Long Standing (until spring 2011). Of the idea behind the exhibition, Agnes Essl says: "In our first guest-book I found an invitation to a preview of Kurt Moldovan's work for 10 November 1979. This exhibition was one of the first we had organised in a very private context in our home for our relatives and a few friends. Then others followed, among them Rudolf Hradil, Herbert Breiter, Ernst Gradischnig, Gottfried Salzmann, Markus Vallazza, Hans Kruckenhauser and Giselbert Hoke. That was the beginning of our collection!"

'Tigers of Wrath': Watercolors by Walton Ford at Brooklyn Museum Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:29 PM PDT Brooklyn, NY - More than fifty of Walton Ford's meticulously rendered, large-scale watercolors of vividly imagined birds, animals, and flora will be on view in an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum through January 28, 2007.  Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford, which will tour to venues to be announced, comprises watercolors created between 1990 and the present exploring such themes as colonialism, the naturalist tradition, and the extinction of species.  Using the animal kingdom as a mirror of the human world, Ford employs his skill as an artist and observer to communicate his views on society.  In The Starling, 2002, he depicts an enormous European starling presiding over a desert-like landscape and being fed by exotic birds from around the world.

Major Picasso Exhibition for Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012 Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:28 PM PDT EDINBURGH.- The first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso's lifelong connections with Britain will be the highlight of the summer season at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012. Picasso and Britain will examine Picasso's evolving critical reputation here and British artists' responses to his work. Originating at Tate Britain, this pioneering show marks the first time that the two organisations have collaborated on a major exhibition. Opening in August 2012 at the height of the Olympic celebrations, Picasso and Britain will comprise over 150 works from major public and private collections around the world, including over 60 paintings by Picasso. Highlights will include masterpieces from all periods of his career such as his great 1925 painting, The Three Dancers, which the Tate acquired from the artist following his 1960 exhibition and major cubist paintings from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Glowlab Presents a Solo Exhibition of Post-apocalyptic Work by Alex Lukas Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:27 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Glowlab presents "The Eventuality of Daybreak", a solo exhibition by Alex Lukas featuring a new series of post-apocalyptic urban landscapes that blur the visual boundaries of fiction and reality. Glowlab will host a reception for the artist on Thursday, November 12, 2009, from 7 to 9 pm. On view though 6 December, 2009. Lukas' work explores the existence of disaster, be it realized or fictitious, in contemporary society. Hyper-realistic motion pictures and unforgiving news footage depict seemingly identical – and equally riveting – facades of tragedy. The artist recognizes that relentless visual bombardment has resulted in society's desensitization to the aesthetics of destruction.

Fifteen Years of Collecting at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ~ Against the Grain Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:26 PM PDT WOLFSBURG, GERMANY - The foundation of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 1994 simultaneously marked the launch of its mission to build a permanent collection. Today, along with the museum's exhibition programme, the collection enjoys an international reputation and is one of the outstanding cultural features that contribute to the City of Wolfsburg's appeal. To mark the museum's 15th anniversary, Markus Brüderlin, the director of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg since 2006, has chosen to present the collection in a new light. The exhibition 15 Years of Collecting – Against the Grain has therefore been conceived as a distinctive, informal juxtaposition of older and younger artists and works rather than the customary chronological display. On view through 13 September, 2009.

Stolen Art by Warhol Is Double Mystery in California and Worldwide Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:25 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA - The theft of 10 silkscreen paintings by Andy Warhol has the Los Angeles Police Department searching for clues, but it has people in the art world scratching their heads, too. Why were just Warhols stolen, and not other more valuable art at the same location? Also what art thieves in their right mind would steal well known Warhols that are realistically un-marketable anywhere in the world ? "It's hard to say what they want to do with them, but it looks like somebody knew about these pieces," Detective Hrycyk said Saturday. He said that there was no sign of forced entry and that other valuable artwork and possessions had not been taken.

Gallery Brown shows John Lurie's "The Invention of Animals" Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:24 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA - Beginning on June 26 and continuing for the following six weeks, Gallery Brown (based in Los Angeles) will be exhibiting the large-scale limited edition artwork of John Lurie, musician, director, actor and artist in "The Invention of Animals." Stylistically primitive, yet completely modern, Lurie's work presents his musings in a new, interpretive storytelling manner – managing to be haunting, poignant as well as humorous.  His imagery may be playful, but his approach and use of materials is serious.  The work impresses on an abstract level, especially in the crisp line, the textural use of translucent washes, and the unusual and engaging color relationships Lurie employs. On view June 26, 2010 through August 7, 2010.

New Museum organizes first Elizabeth Peyton Survey Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:23 PM PDT NEW YORK CITY - The New Museum announced that it will present the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton's work, including paintings, drawings, and prints. " Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton" premieres at the New Museum and will be on view from October 8, 2008 through January 11, 2009, and will then travel to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; and the Bonnefantenmuseum, in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

The Kunsthaus Zürich Exhibition Offers Sculptures, Paintings from All Phases of Alberto Giacometti's Career Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:22 PM PDT ZURICH.- From 11 March to 22 May the Kunsthaus Zürich presents an exhibition entitled 'Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Seeing'. Sight is the foundation of all visual art, and no artist has focused so centrally on the process of seeing as Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), the Swiss sculptor, painter and graphic artist. The exhibition offers some 100 sculptures, paintings and drawings from all phases of his creative life to demonstrate the way Giacometti lends the psychological process of seeing a material presence. It begins with the brilliantly premature confidence of the young Giacometti, reared in the Bregaglia valley, as he transmutes what he sees into artistic form. At the Academy in Paris, however, as he becomes conscious of the problems of perception, he gradually grows less sure of himself, and the profound creative crisis that ensues leads him in 1925 to abstraction and Surrealism.

Amon Carter Museum features the Art of Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874) Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:21 PM PDT   Forth Worth, TX - Visitors to the Amon Carter Museum can embark on a captivating visual adventure this fall in a special exhibition of paintings and drawings by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874), the first American artist to journey into the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller, on view September 20, 2008 through January 11, 2009, features more than 85 works that offer first hand depictions of the Lakota, Shoshone, Nez Perces, and other American Indian societies, as well as the last of the fur trappers and traders of the nineteenth-century American West.

Fondation Beyeler presents "Visual Encounters ~ Africa, Oceania and Modern Art" Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:20 PM PDT Basel, Switzerland - For the first time, works of art from Africa and Oceania occupy the center of a Fondation Beyeler exhibition. The presentation is based on the small but exquisite group of sculptures brought together by Ernst Beyeler for his museum collection. These are supplemented by about 180 outstanding loans from 50 public and private collections. Each of the 13 exhibition spaces is devoted to an African or Oceanic culture, lending each ensemble a quite unique character. These extra-European works, of the highest quality and significance for world art, confront selected paintings of classical modernism from the Fondation Beyeler collection. On view January 25 through May 24, 2009.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 13 Sep 2011 07:19 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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