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• The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College Shows Joe Forkan's Lebowski Cycle
• Extended Drawing: Exhibition by Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman & Richard Serra
• Artspace 111 Shows 4 Artist's Views of Big Bend National Park
• Peter Saul Print Retrospective Opens at Carl Solway Gallery
• The Robert Berman Gallery Features Southern California's Illustrator Artists
• The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Presents Sculpture From its Collection
• Leslie Sacks Fine Art Presents David Hockney in Los Angeles
• The Art Gallery of Ontario ~ The World’s Largest Collection Of Canadian Art ~ Plus International Masterpieces
• Gagosian Gallery Rome Presents "Made in Italy" ~ A Group Show
• Marlborough Presents an Exhibition of New Works by Paul Hodgson
• Atlas Gallery hosts Exhibition of Polaroid Photographs / Film Now Expired Forever
• Colombian Museum Hosts Largest Exhibition Ever in Latin America of Andy Warhol's Works
• "The Spectacular of Vernacular" at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston
• National Gallery of Canada Embarks on New Partnership with the Art Gallery of Alberta
• Robert Rauschenberg Remembered with Exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art
• Gemaldegalerie in Berlin features Sebastiano del Piombo
• Hockney Highlights Bonhams & Butterfields' Fine Prints Auction
• World Record Price for Corinthia by Jean-Leon Gerome at Sotheby's
• Watercolors at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College Shows Joe Forkan's Lebowski Cycle Posted: 18 Sep 2011 11:48 PM PDT Costa Mesa, CA.- The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College is pleased to present "Joe Forkan - The Lebowski Cycle", on view from September 10th through October 28th. An opening reception was be held in Orange Coast College's Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion. "The Lebowski Cycle," which will run through October 28th, is a series of paintings using masterpieces of Western art and the 1998 Coen Brothers' film, "The Big Lebowski," as a theme. Doyle Arts Pavilion features "The Lebowski Cycle" series for the first time in its entirety with additional drawings and studies. The exhibit coincides with The Lebowski Fest LA on Sept. 23-24. Begun in 2006, The Lebowski Cycle is a series of paintings exploring the idea of layered narratives, using masterpieces of western art and the 1998 Coen Brothers' film The Big Lebowski as a starting point. Describing the cycle, Joe Forkan states: "Much of my previous work is figurative, dealing with memory and perception, and walks a line between representation and abstraction, but I struggled with the idea of making narrative paintings. Film and television have largely overtaken painting as the mediums for narrative approaches, and contemporary painters have largely focused their attentions elsewhere. Yet I have still found myself moved by paintings that depicted grand story arcs, compressing into a singular image a multitude of thoughts, ideas and emotions. And it wasn't strictly the stories that interested me. Actually, when looking at narrative art from the Baroque era in particular, I am often more interested in the internal complexities of the images than the specifics of the story represented. The human interaction and conflicts, the formal qualities and modes of depiction give the paintings great breadth and depth and can continue to engage the viewer's interest over time. These were challenges I wanted to engage in my work. The formal and conceptual possibilities seemed enormous, but only if the narratives could remain mobile, and the paintings weren't trapped in a singular reading. I began thinking about The Big Lebowski, the 1998 film by Joel and Ethan Coen. In writing the film, the Coen brothers began by constructing of a labyrinthine narrative worthy of a Raymond Chandler novel, and replaced the traditional hardboiled detective character with an aging pothead, turning a genre on its head. This gave them great storytelling possibilities, playing off of and to the conventions of the genre (as well as the conventional take on aging potheads). I've always loved this film for its humor, its preposterous story arc, rich visuals, and the way the entire story is played so straight by the actors. The film became a screen upon which I could project ideas from a wide range of sources and intensions. By combining narratives, themes, and titles from well-known works of western art with scenes from the film, and ideas and approaches from contemporary art, I found a rich repository of images that informed, overlapped and contradicted each other; ideas to alter, splice together, reconfigure, and run back through the language of painting. It's an engaging process. Each painting of the original twelve is at least 72 x 40 inches, painted with oil on linen. My desire was to have the paintings read as a body of work, and I knew that the paintings would diverge stylistically if painted sequentially, so I decided to begin all twelve of the original paintings at once. There are now fourteen in progress." The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College focuses on contemporary visual culture and creates dynamic programming that inspires interaction and dialogue between artists, students, scholars, and local and international communities. OCC's on campus contemporary arts museum features eight large north-facing skylights which provide exceptional lighting and gives the building a distinct look and feel.  Designed by architect Steven Ehrlich the Arts Pavilion is an epic environment with 3,400 sq feet of exhibition space in our Main Gallery and Project Room/Young Gallery, a gallery book store, vault, prep areas and administrative offices. The Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion is one of Southern California's best exhibition spaces which also hosts special events, music event, performances, installations, films etc. and features exhibitions that highlight artists from around the globe. Through their yearly exhibitions of OCC students, professors and professional artists they develop programming and publications that introduce new and exciting artworks and concepts to the Southern California community and beyond. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.occartspavilion.com

Extended Drawing: Exhibition by Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman & Richard Serra Posted: 18 Sep 2011 10:29 PM PDT MAASTRICHT, NL - Extended Drawing focuses on a specific aspect of the work of American artists Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman and Richard Serra. The exhibition shows works in which line and drawing are taken beyond their original boundaries. The exhibition brings four artists together, who belong to the 'classical' generation that gave direction to American art from the mid-sixties. These four artists have consistently used drawing in their zeal to strip art of easy (false) sentimentality and an over-emphasized subjectivity. Their endeavour to achieve universality leads them to a far-reaching objectification of visual means. Extended Drawing stands for the art that transcends the limitations of all the traditional values that are part and parcel of the various mediums. For some time already, painting and sculpture have demonstrated all sorts of 'extended' forms, including significant contributions by these four artists. However, until now, the inclusion of drawing has not been on the agenda.

Artspace 111 Shows 4 Artist's Views of Big Bend National Park Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:29 PM PDT Fort Worth, TX.- Artspace 111 is pleased to present "Big Bend Journey"  featuring the work of artists Dennis Blagg, Cindi Holt, Jim Malone, and, in the Salon, Betty Alcorn. The exhibit, features the four artists' take on the picturesque landscapes of the Big Bend Region of Texas in their unique styles. As Dennis Blagg has stated: "The desert represents a landscape of broken promise, yet it is a place of vast spiritual content... an emptiness waiting to be filled... the Big Bend offers many faces to be painted." "Big Bend Journey is on view at the gallery from through October 24th.

Peter Saul Print Retrospective Opens at Carl Solway Gallery Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:28 PM PDT CINCINNATI, OH.- Scorching social commentary, cartoon-like grotesque figures and acidic colors characterize the paintings of Peter Saul. In organizing the first retrospective of his prints, Carl Solway Gallery highlights his parallel involvement with printmaking, featuring work created from 1966 to the present. The prints engage cultural topics ranging from the Vietnam War and decades of American policies to more personal issues involving sexual politics and consumerism. Public figures from Ronald Reagan, to Angela Davis, to Donald Duck and Superman appear. In a quote from 1967, Saul stated: "Not to be shocking means to agree to be furniture". In creating rambunctious artwork aiming straight for the controversial subject matter avoided by many artists, he rejects the notion of becoming furniture with great relish.

The Robert Berman Gallery Features Southern California's Illustrator Artists Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:08 PM PDT Santa Monica, CA.- The Robert Berman Gallery is proud to present "Paid to Play", an overview of the oft overlooked Southern California artists rooted in illustration, commissioned to create imagery for record albums, magazines, advertisements, et al.  A genre dirtily linked to commercialism but nonetheless full of innovation, technique, artistic expression and speed. "Paid to Play" is on view at the gallery until November 12th and is part of the Pacific Standard Time collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.

The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Presents Sculpture From its Collection Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:07 PM PDT Kalamazoo, MI.- The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts is pleased to present "Off the Wall", on view from September 17th through December 4th. Featuring a selection of sculptures from the institute's collection, the exhibition includes art that can literally and figuratively be described as "off the wall." Over 65 free-standing sculptures and wall reliefs from the 1950s to the present demonstrate the 20th-century impulse to push the boundaries of fine art. Some artists created unexpected, abstract forms using traditional materials. Artists also dared to use commonplace or industrial materials that flaunted the conventions of fine art. Ceramicists made vessels unconstrained by functionality.

Leslie Sacks Fine Art Presents David Hockney in Los Angeles Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:51 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA.- Leslie Sacks Fine Art is proud to present "Hockney in Los Angeles", a selection of the artists iconic prints from the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition is on view until October 20th. This exhibition at Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, highlights a select group of David Hockney's prints made in Los Angeles during the 1970's and 1980's. Hockney's rise to fame took place after he moved to the U.S. from England, ensconced himself in Los Angeles and became the L.A. art scene's favorite adopted son. This period of time, the 1970's and 1980's, was concurrent with the print revival that began in L.A. before his arrival with June Wayne's founding of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1960, and the subsequent founding of Gemini G.E.L., one of L.A.'s most prominent publishers, where Hockney made many of his iconic prints. It seems Hockney made a concerted effort in the 1960s to reject the polished skills he'd acquired in art school, but in the 1970's he returned to a classic style of draftsmanship, as evidenced by Celia, 8365 Melrose Avenue (the address of the Gemini atelier). This print demonstrated to a wide audience beyond any possibility of doubt that Hockney was a major talent to be reckoned with by any art historical standard. Hockney's style shifted again in the 1980's as he moved away from a relatively classical style of rendering and toward a more expressionistic style in the manner of Henri Matisse. This transition is exemplified by Celia in an Armchair of 1980 wherein Celia's face is rendered rather realistically with fine lines while her figure and dress are expressed as a bold contour drawing. This exhibition includes a number of works in this latter, more  expressionistic style. The forgoing is a somewhat oversimplified discussion of Hockney's work in print media during the 1970's and 1980's. During the mid 1980s, a particularly fertile time for Hockney's graphics, he incorporated cubism and the occasional cartoonlike riff à la Pablo Picasso, and worked with several publishers outside of L.A. The most notable of these was Ken Tyler, who had trained in L.A. at Tamarind and then founded Gemini, with partners Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein, before moving on to found Tyler Graphics Ltd. in Mt. Kisco, New York. So, albeit indirectly, Los Angeles played a role in most of Hockney's iconic prints published outside of Los Angeles. A number of these, installed discretely from those made in L.A., will also be presented in this show. Leslie Sacks established his first gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1981. Leslie Sacks Fine Art opened in the Los Angeles community of Brentwood in 1992 and has become an important American venue specializing in fine prints and rare works on paper by modern and contemporary European and American masters. Leslie Sacks Fine Art also represents a select roster of important mid-career contemporary artists including Shane Guffogg, Minjung Kim and Jon Krawczyk. Leslie Sacks Fine Art is a member of the California Art Dealers Association and the International Fine Print Dealers Association. While specializing in fine prints and unique works on paper, the gallery's collection also includes painting, sculpture and illustrated artists' books (livres d'artistes), impressionist and expressionist works, and a thoroughly vetted collection of African tribal art. In addition to holding a substantial owned inventory Leslie Sacks Fine Art works with dealers and collectors throughout Europe, Asia and the United States to source and discretely  sell important impressionist, post-impressionist and 20th century art. In 2007 Leslie Sacks Fine Art acquired Bobbie Greenfield Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, California. Now called Leslie Sacks Contemporary, this sister gallery specializes in prints, works on paper, paintings and sculpture by post-war and contemporary masters, and represents, in Los Angeles, the estate of Robert Motherwell (The Dedalus Foundation), and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://lesliesacks.com

The Art Gallery of Ontario ~ The World’s Largest Collection Of Canadian Art ~ Plus International Masterpieces Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:42 PM PDT The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is located in Toronto's downtown Grange Park district. With almost 50,000 square meters of physical space, the AGO is the 10th largest art museum in North America. Its collection includes more than 70,000 works spanning the 1st century to the present-day. The museum was originally founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens, who incorporated the institution as the Art Museum of Toronto. The museum was renamed the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1919, and subsequently the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1966. The current location of the AGO dates to 1910, when the gallery was willed the estate known as the Grange, a historic Georgian manor built in 1817, upon the death of Goldwin Smith. In 1911, the museum leased lands to the south of the manor to the City of Toronto in perpetuity so as to create Grange Park. In 1920, the museum also allowed the Ontario College of Art to construct a building on the grounds. The museum's first formal exhibitions were opened in the Grange in 1913. In 1916, the museum decided to begin construction of a small portion of a planned new gallery building. Designed by Pearson and Darling in the Beaux-Arts style, excavation of the new facility began in 1916, and the first galleries opened in 1918. Expansion throughout the 20th century added various galleries, culminating in 1993, which left the AGO with 38,400 square meters of interior space. Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million (later increased to $276 million) redevelopment plan by Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB). Although Frank Gehry was born in Toronto, and as a child had lived in the same neighborhood as the AGO, the expansion of the gallery represented his first work in Canada. Gehry was commissioned to expand and revitalize the AGO, not to design a new building; as such, one of the challenges he faced was to unite the disparate areas of the building that had become a bit of a "hodgepodge" after six previous expansions dating back to the 1920s. Kenneth Thomson was a major benefactor of Transformation AGO, donating much of his art collection to the gallery as well as providing $50 million towards the renovation. Thomson died in 2006, two years before the project was complete. The AGO reopened in November 2008, with the transformation project having increased the art viewing space by approximately 50%. Notable elements of the expanded building include a new entrance aligned with the gallery's historic Walker Court and the Grange, and a new four-storey south wing, clad in glass and blue titanium, overlooking both the Grange and Grange Park. The most characteristic outward-facing element of the design however is a new glass and wood façade called the Galleria Italia (named in recognition of a $13 million contribution by 26 Italian-Canadian families). The completed expansion received wide acclaim, notably for the restraint of its design. As well as the galleries, AGO contains world-class conservation, research and education facilities as well as a restaurant, café, bar and museum shop. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.ago.net The Art Gallery of Ontario includes the world's largest collection of Canadian art, which depicts the development of Canada's heritage from pre-Confederation to the present. The Canadian Collection includes major works from 19th century Canadian artists, with a particular emphasis on the paintings of Cornelius Krieghoff, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, through strong holdings of the work of Tom Thomson, Lawren S. Harris, J.E.H. Macdonald, David Milne and James Wilson Morrice to significant paintings by post-war artists Paul-Emile Borduas and William Kurelek. The AGO has one of the finest collections of Inuit art in the world. The inaugural exhibition of Inuit art in the Samuel and Esther Sarick Gallery focuses on transformation, which occurs during the traditional spiritual practice of shamanism and when the ancient culture of the North came into contact with Southern newcomers. Over 500 sculptures are also exhibited in the Inuit Visible Storage Gallery on the concourse level. Almost 1,500 works (plus a further 1,000 projectile points) covering 11,000 years of history are on display in the AGO's Canadian galleries. The museum also has an impressive collection of European art, including the most important collection of Medieval and Renaissance decorative arts outside Europe and the United States, featuring major works by Tintoretto, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony van Dyck, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, and Frans Hals, and works by other renowned artists such as Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Edgar Degas. In addition to these, the AGO also has one of the most significant collections of African and Oceanic art in North America, and a contemporary art collection illustrating the evolution of modern artistic movements in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including works by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and Jenny Holzer. The AGO is home to the Henry Moore Sculpture Centre, which houses the largest public collection of works by this British sculptor. Moore's bronze work, Two Large Forms (1966–1969) greets visitors at the museum's north façade. The AGO also have significant collections of photographs and prints and drawings. A key component of the collection was newspaper tycoon, Ken Thomson's gift of his art collection, the most significant private art collection in Canada, which added 2,000 outstanding works, including signature works by Canadian artists from the 19th to mid-20th century, with some 300 works from the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. The collection also includes a remarkable 145 paintings by the 19th century artist Cornelius Krieghoff and 100 works by the early 20th century luminary David Milne, as well as key paintings by Paul Kane, Paul-Emile Borduas and William Kurelek. The gift also includes a compelling collection of 130 mainly British ship models from the 17th century through the Napoleonic era to the 20th century. About The Walter Trier Gallery - Devoted to the work of Walter Trier, this gallery features small rotating exhibitions of the artist's watercolours, drawings, paintings and sculpture along with satirical works on paper by other artists from the AGO collection. Walter Trier was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1890. He moved to Berlin at age 20 where he became known for his caricatures and childrens' book illustrations. Trier fled to England from Nazi Germany in 1936 and eventually immigrated to Canada in 1947. In Toronto he illustrated books and designed posters for Canada Packers Limited. He died in Collingwood, Ontario in 1951. In 1976 the AGO received a gift from the Trier-Fodor Foundation of over 1100 works by Trier and 345 folk toys. The gift was accompanied by an endowment to support the acquisition of humorous, satirical and illustrative art. Trier was born to a middle class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. In 1905, Trier entered the Industrial School of Fine and Applied Arts; he later moved to the Prague Academy. In 1906, he entered the Royal Academy, Munich, where he studied under Franz Stuck and Erwin Knirr. In 1910, Trier moved to Berlin where he spent most of his career. An anti-fascist, Trier's cartoons were bitterly opposed by the Nazis. In 1936 he emigrated to London. During the Second World War, Trier helped the Ministry of Information produce anti-Nazi leaflets and political propaganda. He and his wife became British citizens in 1947, the same year that they moved to Canada to be near their daughter, who had moved to Toronto with her husband in the late thirties. Among a number of exhibitions currently on show at the AGO, "Black Ice: David Blackwood - Prints of Newfoundland" until June 12th 2011 features one of Canada's leading printmakers and popular artists. This exhibition showcases some iconic works for the first time, revealing the richness of Blackwood's imagination and his working methods. Blackwood has been telling stories about Newfoundland in the form of epic visual narratives for 30 years. To bring this narrative to life, the exhibition will situate Blackwood's prints in time and space by looking at the history of Newfoundland and the people who settled there. Blackwood explores the timeless theme of the struggle for survival between humans and nature in one of the most exposed and hostile environments on earth. He depicts a town and a centuries-old way of life that has disappeared. "Paterson Ewen: Inspiration and/et Influence" until May 22nd 2011 showcases the work of this towering figure in the recent history of Canadian art. Since his death in 2002 there has not been a major showing of his work. When he made the transition from painting on canvas to painting on plywood in the early 1970s he seemed, to many who had followed his work, to have bridged an extraordinary divide: between painting and sculpture, and between representation of images and the actual process of making them. His work subsequently influenced and encouraged many artists – to experiment, to engage with personal subject matter and reintroduce representational appearances. This exhibition highlights the major works in the AGO's authoritative collection of Ewen's work, yet places this collection in a larger context, displaying, for the first time, works by Ewen alongside artwork by the artists and movements that influenced and encouraged him. "Where I was born… : A Photograph, a Clue, and the Discovery of Abel Boulineau", from March 5 to August 21, 2011 features the work of a completely unknown French photographer and his photographs of French regional life at the turn of the 20th century. The group of 1,702 gelatin silver printing out paper prints was acquired by the AGO as the work of Émile Fréchon but recent research has revealed the work to be by Abel Boulineau, a painter and teacher at the Association polytechnique in Paris, not known until now to have made photographs. It is unclear how or why Boulineau learned photography, but every summer from 1897 to 1916, he traveled through different regions of France taking photographs. Many of the photographs he made became the basis for paintings. He was drawn to similar subjects no matter where he traveled: to washerwomen and tradespeople, shopkeepers and children, markets and villages, as well as the landscape. Through a focused selection of more than 70 works in the AGO's Tanenbaum Gallery, visitors will find out how they came to be attributed to Boulineau and will discover Boulineau's gem-like photographs of the regions of Brittany, Aquitaine and the Rhône-Alps. On now until April 3, 2011 "Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts" brings to Canada for the first time more than 200 spectacular works of art created for India's great kings, including paintings, furniture, decorative arts, jewelry and even a custom made Rolls Royce. These magnificent objects chronicle the many aspects of royal life and celebrate a legacy of cultural patronage by generations of maharajas, both in India and in Europe.

Gagosian Gallery Rome Presents "Made in Italy" ~ A Group Show Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:41 PM PDT Rome.- The Gagosian Gallery in Rome is pleased to present "Made in Italy", a group show celebrating the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification. The exhibition maps an unexpected Italian journey through works by seminal artists of the past sixty years: Georg Baselitz, Jean Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Dike Blair, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Louise Lawler, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Thomas Struth, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Lawrence Weiner.  "Made in Italy" will be on view until July 29th.

Marlborough Presents an Exhibition of New Works by Paul Hodgson Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:40 PM PDT LONDON.- "Taken all together, Paul Hodgson's six new pictures make a powerful address to perennial questions about the self and its ability to articulate an identity, and about faith and its reasonable limits" – Andrew Motion. Hodgson's new works are concerned with exploring different kinds of uncertainty as a key to pictorial narrative; 'keys to narrative rather than narrative itself' he says.

Atlas Gallery hosts Exhibition of Polaroid Photographs / Film Now Expired Forever Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT LONDON.- Early last year, the Polaroid Corporation ceased producing its iconic film. The 9th October 2009 will see the final "Use by" or Expiration date of the last batch of Polaroid film manufactured. The exhibition at Atlas Gallery features a wide selection of Polaroid prints by photographers who have either worked directly with the Polaroid Corporation as part of their research program or who have become famous for the quality of their Polaroid prints either alongside or independent from their traditional camera-based work. It thus traces the development and use of this unique medium up to the present day.

Colombian Museum Hosts Largest Exhibition Ever in Latin America of Andy Warhol's Works Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:38 PM PDT BOGOTA, COLUMBIA - The exhibition, organized by Museo de Arte del Banco de la República in conjunction with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, offers a complete panorama of the work of this fertile artist and it is the largest exhibition ever organized in a Latin American museum. The list of works of art comprises 26 paintings, 57 silk screens, 39 photographs and 2 installations ('Silver Clouds' and 'Cow wallpaper'). Fourteen of his films will also be screened at the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño. Andy Warhol, "Mr. America" explores all aspects and periods from this multi-facetic production from this artist, with a particular emphasis in the period between 1961 and 1968. On exhibition 18 June through 21 September, 2009.

"The Spectacular of Vernacular" at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:37 PM PDT HOUSTON, TX.- In an era of virtual neighborhoods and fast-paced Internet communication, The Spectacular of Vernacular addresses the role of vernacular forms in the work of 27 artists who utilize craft, incorporate folklore, and revel in roadside kitsch to explore the role of culturally specific iconography in the increasingly global world of art. Originally employed as a linguistics term, vernacular is now broadly applied to categories of culture, standing in for "regional," "folkloric," or "homemade"—concepts that contemporary artists have investigated since the late 1950s as part of a deeper consideration of the relationship between art and everyday life. For the artists included in the exhibition, aspects of the vernacular—and often specifically American vernacular—provide a platform for narratives of home life, social ritual, and sense of place.

National Gallery of Canada Embarks on New Partnership with the Art Gallery of Alberta Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT TORONTO.- As of January 31, visitors to the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) will have the opportunity to enjoy exceptional works of art drawn from the National Gallery of Canada (NGC)'s collections. The announcement of the three-year partnership was made today by the NGC and the AGA. In a designated space on the main floor of the new AGA, called The National Gallery of Canada at the Art Gallery of Alberta, special exhibitions will be presented by both institutions. These will range from the presentation of single works or new acquisitions, to full exhibitions of different sizes, covering a variety of collecting areas from the past to present.

Robert Rauschenberg Remembered with Exhibition at Long Beach Museum of Art Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:35 PM PDT LONG BEACH, CA - The Long Beach Museum of Art received several gifts of prints by artist Robert Rauschenberg in the 1970s and 1980s. A selection of prints is on view in the Museum's Ridder Gallery through October 19th. Rauschenberg was instrumental in changing the approach to printmaking in fine art studios. Publisher Tatyana Grosman of Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) on Long Island, New York invited Rauschenberg to make prints in 1962.

Gemaldegalerie in Berlin features Sebastiano del Piombo Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:34 PM PDT BERLIN - Sebastiano Luciani, later named del Piombo, is one of the lesser known, but no less outstanding artists of the Italian Renaissance. The painter, originally from Venice, was once a serious contender to Raphael when it came to winning favour with the Roman public and was also befriended with Michelangelo. In his atmospheric paintings he manages to fuse the Venetian colours of his masters Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione with the monumentality of the Roman school.

Hockney Highlights Bonhams & Butterfields' Fine Prints Auction Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:33 PM PDT SAN FRANCISCO.- On May 3, 2011, Bonhams & Butterfields presents iconic Pop Art and abstract Expressionism highlights by famed artists Andy Warhol and Richard Diebenkorn during its Fine Prints auction in San Francisco. Simulcast to Los Angeles, the highly anticipated sale will also feature works by Sam Francis, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Jean Tinguely, among others. Reflecting upon the May sale, Bonhams & Butterfields' Fine Prints Director Judith Eurich said: "The auction features many exciting and unique pieces, and is expected to draw strong numbers both in the auction room and on the telephone."

World Record Price for Corinthia by Jean-Leon Gerome at Sotheby's Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:32 PM PDT PARIS - After Old Master Paintings & Drawings, Sotheby's sale of 19th Century Paintings & Drawings brought a total of €2,482,425 from 147 lots. Sculpture specialist Ulrike Goetz was "very happy that a masterpiece by one of the most talented artists of the 19th century should find a place of honour in the Musée d'Orsay. Corinthia was Gérôme's last work, done at the end of his life, and this was the only version of the subject completed during his lifetime."

Watercolors at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:30 PM PDT   SPRINGFIELD,MA - A group of colorful watercolors will be on view in the Starr Gallery at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts from December 3, 2007 through October 26, 2008, in the special exhibition At Play: Leisure Time Portrayed in Watercolor.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 18 Sep 2011 07:29 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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