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• The Mauritshuis Presents Modern Masters "Dalí Meets Vermeer"
• The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Presents Henri Cartier-Bresson's Landscapes
• MTV Staying Alive Foundation Presents a Benefit Art Exhibition & Auction
• Sanford Biggers ~ "Cosmic Voodoo Circus" on View at The SculptureCenter
• The Detroit Institute of Arts Shows Gifts from The James Pearson Duffy Collection
• Sotheby's in New York Announces Auction of part III of The Collection of Allan Stone
• The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Presents "Stripped: The Body Beautiful"
• The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation & Mana Art Center Host Works From The Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens Monographic Exhibition Devoted to Henri Fantin-Latour
• The Orange Coast College Art Center Gallery To Host Arthur Taussig Dante-Inspired Prints
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to exhibit Love! Art! Passion! ~ Artist Couples
• Frist Center to host American Modernism from The Lane Collection
• The Snite Museum of Art features Mauricio Lasansky ~ Great Thinkers
• Picasso Show To Open Kunsthaus Zurich's 100th Birthday
• "In His Sixth Decade ~ Prints by Peter Milton" at Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington D.C.
• Museum Huis Marseille in Amsterdam Shows "Adam Fuss ~ A Survey of His Work"
• The Park Avenue Bank presents Andy Warhol ~ Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century
• The Bonnefantenmuseum to host "Live Forever ~ Elizabeth Peyton", a Retrospective
• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam buys 'Wrotham Coffers' by André-Charles Boulle at Christie's Sale
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Mauritshuis Presents Modern Masters "Dalí Meets Vermeer" Posted: 14 Sep 2011 11:40 PM PDT The Hague.- The Mauritshuis is proud to present "Dalí Meets Vermeer: Modern Masters Come to Visit" on view at the museum from September 15th through December 11th. The Mauritshuis, which is renowned for its magnificent collection of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, presents modern and old masters together this autumn. Masterpieces by artists such as Van Gogh, Claude Monet and Salvador Dalí will be exhibited alongside highlights from the museum's own collection. "Dalí Meets Vermeer: Modern Masters Come to Visit" couples old and modern paintings in refreshing combinations, and displays one pair in each room of the museum. The confrontations will invite comparison and closer examination, revealing how painters of different eras grappled with the same artistic problems. The Mauritshuis owns a world-famous collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the seventeenth century, including masterpieces by Dutch artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Steen and Hals, Flemish painters such as Rubens and Brueghel, and the German artist Holbein. This autumn, a number of these seventeenth-century masters will be joined by a selection of international modern artists. All of these loans come from Dutch museum collections and were created during the period 1860-1960. For example, Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" will be installed next to Dalí's "Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages" (from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), paintings that reveal surprisingly similar silhouette and colouring effects. Rogier van der Weyden and Francis Bacon both give their own interpretation of the Passion of Christ. For Rembrandt and Charley Toorop, the self-portrait represented a key artistic challenge, while Jan Both and Paul Cézanne both captured Mediterranean light beautifully in their landscapes. Juan Gris and Jan Davidsz de Heem show remarkable similarities in the compostions of their still-lifes, if not the styles, while Peter Paul Rubens and Max Beckman both use unusual light effects in their portraits. Eleven pairs of paintings will be displayed throughout the museum, occupying one wall in every room. Mauritshuis Director Emilie Gordenker explains: "The interplay and combined effect of the artworks offers an opportunity to look at 17th-century painting in a fresh way. The exhibition will also demonstrate the richness of Dutch art collections, and has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of modern art museums throughout the Netherlands." The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis (English: "Maurice House") is an art museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. Previously the residence of count John Maurice of Nassau, it now has a large art collection, including paintings by Dutch painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans Hals and works of the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger. In 1631, army officer John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1604–1679), who was a cousin of stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent pond named Hofvijver (English: "Court's Pond") in the The Hague, Holland, Dutch Republic. At that time, The Hague was the political center of the Dutch Republic and the States-General assembled in the Binnenhof. The Mauritshuis was named after Prince John Maurice and was built between 1636 and 1641, the period when he was the governor of Dutch Brazil. The Dutch Classicist building was designed by the Dutch architects Jacob van Campen and Pieter Post. The two-storey building is strictly symmetrical contained four apartments and a great hall. Each apartment was designed with an antechamber, a chamber, a cabinet, and a cloakroom. Originally, the building had a cupola, which was destroyed in a fire in 1704. After the death of Prince John Maurice in 1679, the house was owned by the Maes family, who leased the house to the Dutch government. In 1704, most of the interior of the Mauritshuis was destroyed by fire. The building was restored between 1708 and 1718. In 1820, the Mauritshuis was bought by the Dutch state for the purpose of housing the Royal Cabinet of Paintings. In 1822, the Mauritshuis was opened for the public and housed the Royal Cabinet of Paintings and the Royal Cabinet of Rarities. In 1875, the entire museum was available for paintings. The Mauritshuis was a state museum until it was privatised in 1995. The foundation set up at that time took charge of both the building and the collection, which it was given on long-term loan. This building, which is the property of the state, is rented by the museum. The museum collaborates regularly with museums in other countries. In 2007, the museum had almost 250,000 visitors. The collection of paintings of stadtholder William V, Prince of Orange was handed over to the Dutch state by his son king William I. This collection formed the basis of the Royal Cabinet of Paintings of around 200 paintings. The collection is currently called the Royal Picture Gallery. The current collection consists of almost 800 paintings and focusses on Dutch and Flemish artists, such as Pieter Brueghel, Paulus Potter, Pieter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, Johannes Vermeer, and Rogier van der Weyden. There are also works of Hans Holbein in the collection in the Mauritshuis. Visit the museum's website at ... www.mauritshuis.nl

The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Presents Henri Cartier-Bresson's Landscapes Posted: 14 Sep 2011 10:50 PM PDT Wolfsburg, Germany.- The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is proud to present "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Geometry of the Moment", on view at the museum  through May 13th 2012. Henri Cartier-Bresson was the acknowledged 'master of the moment'. With this presentation of around 100 photographs and 7 drawings by the renowned French artist, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is featuring another pioneering figure in its series of "Great Modernist Photographers", which has to date included Brassaï, Lee Miller and Edward Steichen. Born in a suburb of Paris in 1908, Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic career began in 1930 and continued until 1972, when he decided to concentrate all his energies on drawing. After escaping from a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1943 he joined the French Resistance, and in 1947 he co-founded the now world-famous Magnum photo agency with four colleagues.

MTV Staying Alive Foundation Presents a Benefit Art Exhibition & Auction Posted: 14 Sep 2011 08:47 PM PDT Dallas.- The MTV Staying Alive Foundation has announced a dynamic new project to mark the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the AIDS virus. Hosted at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas and curated by The Future Tense, "MTV RE:DEFINE" will bring together original works, many specially commissioned for the project, from a bold roster of 30 of the world's most exciting contemporary artists, photographers and sculptors, including key emerging talents. All 30 pieces will be auctioned, with 100% of the proceeds benefitting the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, which encourages, energizes and empowers young people who are involved in HIV and AIDS awareness, education and prevention campaigns. The exhibition will be open to the public from Friday, September 16th and will culminate in a VIP reception on Saturday, September 24th during which all 30 works will feature in a live auction event in support of the Staying Alive Foundation. For those unable to attend the event, absentee bids will also be accepted including via telephone.

Sanford Biggers ~ "Cosmic Voodoo Circus" on View at The SculptureCenter Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:50 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- The SculptureCenter presents Cosmic Voodoo Circus, an exhibition of new work by Sanford Biggers commissioned through SculptureCenter's Artist in Residence program. Merging modern and post-modern strategies with vernacular forms, Biggers studies and posits historical and contemporary subjectivity as a fluid and multivalent concept. Cosmic Voodoo Circus is curated by Mary Ceruti, SculptureCenter's Executive Director and Chief Curator, and will be on view through November 28, 2011.

The Detroit Institute of Arts Shows Gifts from The James Pearson Duffy Collection Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:49 PM PDT DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) recently received a generous bequest and rich art collection from James Pearson Duffy, one of Detroit's most unorthodox collectors. Gift of a Lifetime: The James Pearson Duffy Collection, on view Sept. 14, 2011–March 18, 2012, showcases this varied collection of drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs. The exhibition is organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts and is free with museum admission. For 40 years, Duffy was one of the great characters of the Detroit art scene, with a free-thinking approach to looking at and acquiring art. He was often guided by his intuition, and the collection that resulted represents a variety of interests—from contemporary photography to mixed-media work by Detroit's Cass Corridor artists, to historical Chinese ceramics.

Sotheby's in New York Announces Auction of part III of The Collection of Allan Stone Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:20 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- On 23rd September Sotheby's New York will present The Collection of Allan Stone Volume III. The sale of property from the renowned New York dealer follows two exceptionally successful auctions in May 2011. Just as in those sales, this offering is made up of outstanding examples by the key artists represented and collected by Mr. Stone; highlights include works by Willem de Kooning, John Chamberlain, Franz Kline, Joseph Cornell and, perhaps most importantly, Wayne Thiebaud. Trained as a lawyer, but passionate about art, Mr. Allan Stone opened his own gallery in 1960. He joined the ranks of influential New York dealers such as Leo Castelli and Sidney Janis, while blazing his own path with a unique selection of artists.

The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Presents "Stripped: The Body Beautiful" Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:19 PM PDT Bournemouth, UK.- The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum is proud to present "Stripped: The Body Beautiful", on display at the museum until January 2nd 2012. This brand new exhibition showcases the human body in all its forms from the Victorian era to the present day.. Featuring sculptures, paintings and objects from the Museum's collection, visitors are encouraged to debate whether beauty is only skin deep. The museum's indoor sculpture park features a number of statues showing the Victorians' attitude towards the naked body. Other higlights of the exhibition include the death mask of Napoleon, a model, made from the original case, of the hand of Lady Emma Hamilton., Lord Nelson's lover and a bodice dating from the 1600s. The exhibition also includes four magnificent sculptures by the artist Jon Edgar and two modern nudes by the portraitist Jonathan Yeo.

The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation & Mana Art Center Host Works From The Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:18 PM PDT Jersey City, NJ.- Over the past four decades, prominent SoHo art dealers Louis K. Meisel and his wife, Susan, have dedicated themselves to the pursuit of collecting and have amassed upwards of 150 distinct collections containing more than 10,000 items. While their collections are comprised of objects of a most varied nature (including some of the largest and most thorough collections of antique gambling devices, player pianos, tin toys, Art Deco pottery and even beech trees) a particular emphasis has been placed on contemporary art, in particular, Photorealism, for which Louis K. Meisel coined the term in the late 1960s. From September 18th through January 2012, the Eileen S. Kaminsky Foundation and Mana Art Center will present highlights from the Meisels' personal art collection. "Our Own Directions: Works from the Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel Collection" assembles Photorealist paintings, photographs and sculpture from 1968 to the present day. The exhibition will feature the work of 38 artists including founding members of the Photorealist movement Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Charles Bell, Audrey Flack, Don Eddy, Robert Bechtle and as well as their contemporary counterparts such as Roberto Bernardi, sculptor John DeAndrea, Raphaella Spence, Bertrand Meniel and Yigal Ozeri. The exhibition will also feature key works from the Meisels' collection of Abstract Illusionism from the mid-1970s, which fuses hard-edge and expressionistic abstract painting styles that employed the use of perspective, artificial light sources, and simulated cast shadows to achieve the trompe l'oeil illusion of 3D space on a 2D surface. The work of 20th century Pin-up illustrators such as Gil Elvgren, George Petty and Alberto Vargas will be presented as well as a selection of paintings by Pop artist Mel Ramos, whose work serves as the collections' bridge between the American figuration of the Pin-up movement to the Photorealism of today. "Our collecting is an intellectual pursuit," said Louis K. Meisel. "We are not part of the herd. We do not collect to gain status nor for investment... It's a life's work and recreation." The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation (ESKFF) was founded in 2009 as an alternative channel through which the exhibiting of works from private contemporary art collections and the presentation of enriching programs for the community may be organized and executed. Inspired by her own experience as a collector, Eileen S. Kaminsky set out to create the foundation as a way to connect artists, collectors, galleries and cultural institutions. On May 15th 2011, the foundation opened the Mana Contemporary Art Center. In addition to being the new home of The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation and Trinkhalle Restaurant, the 125,000 square foot center brings together artist studios, performance and exhibition spaces, and cutting edge art storage facilities, all under one roof. With over 6,000 square feet of pristine exhibition space in the center, The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation will show a selection of works from their collection of contemporary art in the opening exhibition. The ESKFF intends to place and showcase three contemporary art exhibitions each year at the Mana. Mana Contemporary is an immaculate, spacious, up-to-date fine and decorative arts storage facility, providing a broad range of ancillary services to those who own and care for works of art—collectors, foundations, estates and galleries. Mana keeps abreast of innovations in collection management—the technology, materials and handling techniques to deliver museum-standard care of art collections. Through their partnership with the Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation, they offer a venue where collectors, critics and artists can hold exhibitions and both formal and informal events to discuss art of our time. Visit the Mana website at ... http://www.artmanafest.com

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens Monographic Exhibition Devoted to Henri Fantin-Latour Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:10 PM PDT MADRID.- The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid is presenting Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), the first major monographic exhibition to be devoted in Spain to this French painter. It has been organized in conjunction with the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, where it can be seen this summer. The exhibition features a comprehensive selection from the artist's oeuvre comprising 70 paintings, drawings and prints loaned from museums and institutions around the world. Using a chronological arrangement that follows Fantin-Latour's career through the second half of the 19th century, the exhibition includes some of his most famous paintings, among them group portraits of family members and friends, interiors with figures and realist still lifes, as well as allegorical and musical fantasies. On exhibition 29 September through 10 January, 2010. Fantin-Latour was a pupil of Courbet for a short period, a travelling companion of Whistler and a friend of Monet and Degas. Henri Fantin-Latour (Grenoble, 1836 – Buré, 1904) is an artist difficult to position within the history of French painting in the second half of the 19th century. His group portraits, conceived almost in the manner of manifestoes, suggest an artist passionately committed to a new approach to painting, his still lifes are close to realism, while his mythological and allegorical scenes convey the idea that he was allied to academic Symbolism. Fantin-Latour's work coincided with the birth and development of Impressionism but he declined to participate in the group's first exhibition and was never involved in the movement as an active member although he shared many of its aesthetic aspirations. Possibly for this reason, Fantin-Latour has been less studied and is less celebrated than his Impressionist contemporaries, and few major exhibitions have been devoted to him in recent years. The present one, which is the first to be seen in the Iberian Peninsula, aims to reassess and champion the figure and work of this French painter whose oeuvre has been unjustly eclipsed and who has not been judged over time as one of the great figures of modern art. Fantin-Latour's illustrious contemporary, the writer Émile Zola, said that his canvases "do not arouse an immediate attraction; it is necessary to look at them carefully, introducing oneself into them so that one fully grasps and is captivated by their mood and the simplicity of their truth." The exhibition's aim is thus to do justice to Henri Fantin-Latour and to reveal him to the visiting public not just as an exquisite, refined and elegant painter but also as an artist of great quality, subtlety and profound sensibility. This is the intention behind the ambitious selection of works made by Vincent Pomarède, Curator at the Musée du Louvre and curator of the exhibition. The works are arranged with a dual chronological and thematic presentation, organized into seven sections: Flowers and fruits Flowers are a constantly recurring motif in the work of Fantin-Latour and his flower paintings could be described as the genre that he most brilliantly mastered. Particularly appreciated in England, these works are characterized by their balanced, elegant and disciplined compositions, constructed through meticulous relations of forms and colors. Fantin-Latour executed his first still lifes in 1861 for the surgeon and printmaker Francis Seymour Haden during a period in England. Seymour Haden's enthusiastic promotion of these works was largely responsible for the success that the artist enjoyed in that country. In France, however, these works were ignored or even maligned due to their subject matter and because any sort of commercial success was synonymous with mediocrity in the opinion of French writers and critics of the day. They only appreciated Fantin-Latour's largescale "homages", his group portraits, single figures and musical compositions, almost entirely disregarding the flower paintings. Self-portraits Self-portraits were the primary focus of Fantin-Latour's activities during his early years and he engaged in this genre in a regular manner between 1854 and 1861. This introspective activity, which recalls that of other artists such as Rembrandt and Dürer, resulted in around 50 self-portraits in the form of paintings, drawings and prints. They reveal the artist's profound investigation into the expression of emotions based on a study of his own image. This was an almost daily activity in which it was possible to discern an increasing reduction in the motifs that the artist would select to paint, as well as his need for solitude and for time given over to reflection and study. "How beautiful nature is! I come back from the Louvre, have dinner, and from 5 to 8 in the evening I sit down in front of my mirror and alone with nature, we say things to each other that are a thousand times more worthwhile than anything the most beautiful woman could have to say. Oh art!", he wrote to his friend Whistler in 1859. This almost obsessive passion for depicting himself could also, however, be explained in more practical terms, such as the advantages offered by the genre of portraiture with its "always available model", "which is precise, obedient and already familiar with itself before being painted", as the artist noted. More flexible and available than a professional model, his own physiognomy seemed to him better suited to the freedom that he was looking for in his work. At the Louvre Fantin-Latour's activities as a copyist were motivated not just by the need to survive financially at the outset of his career. As was the case with other artists of his generation such as Manet and Degas, this activity was a preferred method of study, interpretation and creation. For more than twenty years, Fantin-Latour was an almost daily visitor to the Louvre, where he undertook commissions for copies of works by the great masters, notably Titian, Veronese, Rubens and Delacroix, his "spiritual master". The influence of these painters is reflected in his conception of portraiture, in which he constantly referred to a wide range of Dutch and French models. It is also evident in his still lifes, which synthesise all the known examples of 16th- and 17th-century flower painting. Musical and poetic allegories Henri Fantin-Latour loved music almost as much as painting. Far from being an inhibiting and competitive factor, this passion constantly enriched his sources of pictorial inspiration and he established a close relationship between the two art forms in a manner imbued with Romantic sentiments but one that heralded his Symbolist interests. These musical "adaptations" in painting were the only subjects that encouraged him temporarily to abandon realistic themes and devote himself to the creation of imaginary, poetic and totally original worlds. Schumann, Brahms, Berlioz and above all Richard Wagner were his sources of inspiration. In 1864 Fantin-Latour presented Scene from Tannhäuser (Venusberg) at the Paris Salon. This was the first of his pictorial variations based on a musical source. With this work the artist had clearly found the subject and aesthetic mood that would enable him to achieve his desired end, that of creating the "painting of the future". To do so he consciously looked to Wagner, whose aim was to create "the music of the future". From 1880, Fantin-Latour's work was initially indebted to Romanticism then subsequently came close to realism and to the "painters of modern life" before moving on to reveal an interest in the work of the early Symbolists. When he returned to "themes of the imagination" at the end of his career the artist revived the idea of contributing to the "painting of the future", championing the pre-eminent role of the dream in art through works inspired by religious, mythological and allegorical themes. In addition, the works of this late period are characterized by a vitality and evident sense of joy, expressed in the use of refined, pleasing colors and intense luminosity. In particular, they express a vibrant, sensual eroticism. Reading The principal themes of these works, reading and study, were subjects that encouraged a focus on a pictorial description of concentration, mental reflection and silence. They are intimate portraits, imbued with a sense of mystery and complicity, that evolved into genre compositions that look back to the restrained tradition of Dutch 17th-century painting. They are formally realist works of an almost photographic nature, but behind their apparent order they conceal an unexpected disorder that is conveyed in the self-absorbed poses of the figures, which seem to conceal a mystery. In the words of the writer Anatole France, these scenes "expressed a gentle seriousness, bathed in a calm light", adding that: "in them, the figures are involved in a life that is at once domestic and sublime." Portraits Fantin-Latour's sisters, friends and the individuals whom he admired received his full attention and the artist devoted himself to them unreservedly when he painted their portraits. However, when he moved away from this close circle and had to execute portraits of unknown sitters he lost all interest and his powers of formal and psychological analysis disappeared. This marked difference between his private and public works is almost unparalleled in the history of art and is even more surprising in the case of an artist whose reputation is largely based on his brilliance as a portraitist. Besides, Fantin-Latour produced some of the most notable group portraits within the history of art, returning at the end of the 19th century to the lessons of Rembrandt and Frans Hals. This is clearly evident in A corner of the Table, loaned by the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, which is one of the four large-scale compositions executed by Fantin-Latour as a celebration of painting, literature and music and which can be seen as true artistic manifestoes. Fantin-Latour paid homage to the art of painting on two occasions in his work and also felt the need to pay tribute to literature. So enthusiastic was he about this project that he declared: "I am painting for myself." The central figure was originally intended to be Baudelaire, but a row in the Parisian literary world resulted in a complete change in the concept, and the painting ultimately became a homage to the poets of the nouvelle vague, with Verlaine and Rimbaud as the central figures. Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards (1875), of whom the latter was one of his most notable supporters and promoters in England, together with others from the 1880s such as those of his sister-in-law Charlotte Dubourg and of his friend León Maître, can be considered among the artist's masterpieces. Fantin-Latour endowed French portraiture with a unique aesthetic due to the special attention he paid to his models, his interest in a truthful representation, the simplicity of the clothes in which they are depicted and his exquisitely refined palette. His canvases were restrained, subtle and austere without being somber. They reflected the mood of the late 19th century in a way that few other artists were able to achieve. Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 – 1904) Son of Théodore Fantin, a painter and drawing master, Henri Fantin-Latour was born in Grenoble on 14 January 1836. In 1841 his family moved to Paris where he trained as a painter, first in the studio of Lecoq de Boisbaudran and later at the École des Beaux-Arts. For a period of a month he also studied at Courbet's "School of Realism" but it would seem that the artist learned most from the Louvre where he executed numerous copies. With no personal fortune and without an acquaintance that could become his patron, Fantin-Latour was thus forced to paint copies throughout his life, and then flowers, to make a living. Soon, the young artist gained reputation as a copyist of the works of the masters, particularly specializing in the Venetian School, above all Titian and Veronese, but also Delacroix, Géricault, Rubens, Murillo or Rembrandt. He was admired but his skill as a copyist somewhat worried his friends, who were afraid he would turn it into a career. Nonetheless, the Louvre was for Fantin, for over twenty years, a place of sometimes lucrative work, but also and especially a place of study, interpretation and creation. In 1859 he went to England for the first time in the company of Whistler and he came back in 1861 and 1864. In this country he found the best purchasers for his flowers and still lifes paintings. He painted also portraits and group portraits of members of his family and friends. In 1836 Fantin-Latour participated in the Salon des refusés and in 1864 exhibited Homage to Delacroix, the first of his group portraits of writers, painters and musicians. Despite his friendly relations with the Impressionists, in 1874 he declined to exhibit with them in the group's first exhibition. Fantin-Latour's compositions on musical themes and "themes of imagination", from the last period of his career, associate him with Symbolist tendencies. The artist retired in 1876 to his country house at Buré (Orne) where he died on 25 August 1904. Visit : http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/home

The Orange Coast College Art Center Gallery To Host Arthur Taussig Dante-Inspired Prints Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:09 PM PDT Costa Mesa, CA.- The Orange Coast College Art Center Gallery is proud to present "Alex's Abventures in the Five Rivers" or "A Year of Dreaming Dangerously", a new exhibit of 20 photographic prints by Arthur Taussig that will be on display in the Art Center from August 29th through October 10th. Inspired by Dante Alghieri, a 14th century Italian poet who wrote the epic poem "The Divine Comedy" Taussig takes the viewer on the journey through the Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise. Taussig, a film and photography professor at OCC from 1971 to 2001, will host a reception on Monday, Oct. 3rd, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on the second floor of the Art Center, where the gallery is located. The exhibit will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on weekdays, and from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free.

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to exhibit Love! Art! Passion! ~ Artist Couples Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:08 PM PDT The Hague, NL - Love, art and passion at the Gemeentemuseum are the key focuses of this major exhibition featuring 17 famous artist couples like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter, Natalia Gontscharowa and Michel Larionov, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej von Jawlensky, and Niki de Saint-Phalle and Jean Tinguely. Each couple's personal and artistic ties are revealed via works of art created in a period stretching from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and now gathered together from all over the world.

Frist Center to host American Modernism from The Lane Collection Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:07 PM PDT NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts closes the 2009 exhibition year and welcomes the new with Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on view in the Ingram Gallery from Oct. 2, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Featuring 45 paintings and eight photographs by such American masters as Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Arthur G. Dove, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, and Ansel Adams, the Lane Collection is considered by many to be one of the greatest museum collections of American Modernism.

The Snite Museum of Art features Mauricio Lasansky ~ Great Thinkers Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:06 PM PDT SOUTH BEND, IN - Mauricio Lasansky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1914 where he learned the art of printmaking at a young age. By the age of twenty-two he had already become the director of the Free Fine Arts School in Villa Maria, Cordoba, Argentina. Seven years later in 1943, he was offered a Guggenheim Fellowship to come to the United States and study the print collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During this decade, printmaking was revitalized to the status of a fine art and Lasansky worked at creating new methods and techniques for the craft, as well as developing new subject matter.

Picasso Show To Open Kunsthaus Zurich's 100th Birthday Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:05 PM PDT ZURICH (REUTERS).- Kunsthaus Zurich, where Picasso had his first museum show in 1932, is celebrating its centenary with a special program including an exhibition showing how contemporaries received the Spanish artist's work. The program kicks off on February 12 with a rare opportunity for the public to glimpse the world-renowned collection of controversial Zurich industrialist Emil Buehrle and culminates with a show marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carl Moser, the Jugendstil building's architect.  The museum revisits its landmark 1932 Picasso exhibition in the final months of its centenary year, allowing the 21st century public to view his groundbreaking art afresh with 70 works from the original show.

"In His Sixth Decade ~ Prints by Peter Milton" at Jane Haslem Gallery in Washington D.C. Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:04 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.

Museum Huis Marseille in Amsterdam Shows "Adam Fuss ~ A Survey of His Work" Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:03 PM PDT AMSTERDAM.- What immediately stands out with the work of Adam Fuss is that, both in terms of the chosen subject matter and in his approach to the photographic technique, he has greatly dissociated himself from conventional photography. That which Fuss produces is, in fact, still a photograph; but in order to achieve that, he did rid himself of all the finer luxuries available to users of the medium nowadays. Like a present-day alchemist, Fuss has mastered the medium's most elementary and primitive forms; he sees just as much potential for creativity in technical knowledge as in the imagination, or the visionary power of the photographer.

The Park Avenue Bank presents Andy Warhol ~ Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:02 PM PDT NEW YORK CITY - The Gallery at The Park Avenue Bank presents Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century through March 2, 2007.  This edition of silk-screen prints by Andy Warhol (1928-1987), one of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, is from the permanent collection of The Jewish Museum, the preeminent U.S. institution exploring 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture.  The MEET A MUSEUM program offers exhibitions from participating museums in its gallery, located in midtown Manhattan.  The Park Avenue Bank has ushered in a new era for banking by displaying rare artwork pieces to its customers from museums around the globe at its main retail branch right in the heart of New York City.

The Bonnefantenmuseum to host "Live Forever ~ Elizabeth Peyton", a Retrospective Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:01 PM PDT MAASTRICHT, NL - The Bonnefantenmuseum will be presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of Elizabeth Peyton's oeuvre on the European mainland, which comprises over 90 works (paintings, watercolours, drawings and lithos) from the past 18 years (1991-2009). Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton has been organised by the New Museum, New York. From her first portraits of 19th-century heroes to her more recent works, peopled with friends from the world of music, fashion and literature, Elizabeth Peyton has presented herself as a contemporary 'painter of modern life', in the words of Charles Baudelaire. Peyton's miniature portraits capture the spirit of the times in an artistic language that unmistakably reflects late 20th-century urban sensitivity. On view 18 October through 21 March, 2010.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam buys 'Wrotham Coffers' by André-Charles Boulle at Christie's Sale Posted: 14 Sep 2011 06:00 PM PDT LONDON.- The sale of Important European Furniture, Sculpture & Clocks realised £7,012,750 at Christies's London and was 79% sold by value and 65% sold by lot. The top lot was a pair of Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry coffres en tombeau (coffers-on-stands), by André-Charles Boulle, circa 1688, which was bought by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and realised £2,617,250.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 14 Sep 2011 05:55 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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