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

---

• The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Shows Contemporary British Art
• The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Shows Birger Sandzén's Colorado Landscapes
• The Menil Collection Announces Return of Byzantine Frescoes to Cyprus in 2012
• Brazilian Artist Beatriz Milhazes 3rd Solo at Galerie Max Hetzler
• "Picasso 1905 in Paris" Exhibition Opens at Kunsthalle Bielefeld
• Lehmbruck Museum's Extensive Exhibition Celebrates its 100th anniversary
• Neuberger Museum of Art Features a Ten-year Survey of Paintings & Drawings by Dana Schutz
• The Indian Highway Contemporary Art Exhibition Reaches MAXXI in Rome
• Crime and Punishment Explored in Exhibition at Musée d'Orsay in Paris
• Buckingham Palace Shows Dutch Landscapes From the Royal Collection
• Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters on View at Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)
• National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi Shows Exhibition from the V&A
• Masterworks of John Brack Re-United at National Gallery of Victoria
• Charles Burdick brushes up on Master Painters at Cahoon Museum
• James Ensor's Innovative and Profound Paintings on View at Musée d'Orsay
• The Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art Reinstalls Their Modern Collection
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits Early Buddhist Manuscript Paintings
• Scream Gallery to Feature Works by R. Crumb During London Comic Festival
• The Art Fund International Adds To Glasgow's Contemporary Art Collection
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design Shows Contemporary British Art Posted: 25 Sep 2011 08:53 PM PDT Providence, RI.- The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design is highlighting its collection of contemporary British art (one of the largest in the world) in a major exhibition this fall. "Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection" richly captures Britain's contemporary art scene as it emerged from World War II to become a prominent force on the world stage today. Made in the UK opens on September 23rd and remains on view through January 8th 2012. "Made in the UK" celebrates works by British artists from the 1950s through the present and includes such major figures as Tacita Dean, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Jim Lambie, Julian Opie, Bridget Riley, and Yinka Shonibare. Many of the artists in the exhibition are represented at the Tate and other important British collections, but are not seen in depth in American museums. This exhibition of approximately 100 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and more, focuses on Baker's collecting, decade by decade — revealing important British contributions to and the international nature of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Geometric Abstraction, Optical Art, and Photorealism. It culminates in conceptual works by the Young British Artists (YBAs) — including Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread — who took the art world by storm in the 1990s and are still highly influential today. "Made in the UK" is co-curated by Jan Howard, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, and Judith Tannenbaum, Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art. Baker (1912-2002), a Providence native, member of the Museum's Fine Arts Committee, and important collector of contemporary American and European art was renowned in the arts as a "collector's collector" (New York Times). Based in New York after 1952, his reputation was built by quietly supporting emerging artists, many of whom have become the most influential artists of their time.  "He never lost the thrill of discovering new talent, and, as he could afford it, continuing to support those whose work he had previously collected," says Howard. "Because the British works would be separated from the bulk of his collection, he was eager that they be judged of importance as a group." Baker, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford who later lived in London during World War II, donated approximately 135 works of British art to RISD, so that the Museum now has one of the strongest collections of modern and contemporary British art in this country. In his diaries he wrote, "As I obtained my Rhodes Scholarship from Rhode Island, I feel that I am making a kind of gesture to England and to my native city by this gift."  RISD Museum curators continue to collect in the spirit of Baker through the Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art, which enables the Museum to purchase paintings, sculpture, and drawings by living British artists. Recent purchases underscore the tremendous diversity of contemporary British culture and include works by Fiona Banner, Martin Boyce, Dean, Emin, Mona Hatoum, Roger Hiorns, Hirst, Shirazeh Houshiary, Kapoor, Lambie, Hew Locke, Richard Long, Opie, Kathy Prendergast, and Shonibare. A gift from Baker in 2000 established the Museum's Contemporary Art department and endowed the curator's position. Rhode Island School of Design Museum is a prominent art museum in Providence, Rhode Island affiliated with the well-known Rhode Island School of Design. The museum was founded in 1877 and is the 20th largest art museum in the United States. The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (The RISD Museum) contains a broad range of works from around the world, including Egypt, Asia, Africa, ancient Greece and Rome, Europe, and the Americas. It also features many notable works by a range Rhode Island artists such as 17th century Newport furniture makers Goddard and Townsend and nineteenth century Rhode Island painters, such as Anglo-American impressionist John Noble Barlow and portraitist Gilbert Stuart. The museum also features prominent international and American artists such as Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Paul Revere, and Andy Warhol. The RISD Museum houses over 80,000 works of art. Created in 2000, the department of Contemporary Art oversees an eclectic collection of painting, sculpture, video, mixed media, and interdisciplinary work, dating from 1960 to the present. In addition, the department regularly organizes exhibitions that highlight important issues, trends and individual explorations in recent art. Represented in the collection are significant paintings by Richard Anuszkiewicz, Sam Francis, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Ronnie Landfield, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Wayne Thiebaud, Larry Rivers, and Andy Warhol, among others. The collection also includes important sculptural work by Richard Artschwager, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Tom Otterness, Lucas Samaras, and Robert Wilson. The museum's video collection features experimental works by such pioneers in the field as Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, Richard Serra, and William Wegman. The Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art includes contemporary paintings by such important artists as Luís Cruz Azaceta, Fernando Botero, José Bedia, Claudio Bravo, Wifredo Lam, Jesús Rafael Soto, Joaquín Torres Garcia, and Roberto Matta Echuarren. The department has a natural and strong connection with Providenceís contemporary art community, and numerous RISD faculty and alumni and local artists are represented in the collection. Among them are Howard Ben Tré, Jonathan Bonner, Richard Fleischner, Ruth Dealy, Richard Merkin and Bunny Harvey. The Painting and Sculpture collection contains more than 2,500 works of European and American art from the medieval period to 1960. The Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods are represented by the work of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Lippo Memmi, Jacopo Sansovino, Alessandro Magnasco, and others. The collection also includes major work by such northern European masters as Tilman Riemenschneider, Hendrick Goltzius, Joachim Wtewael, Salomon van Ruysdael, and Georg Vischer. 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces include paintings by Francisco Collantes, Sebastien Bourdon, Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin, Nicolas Poussin, Angelica Kauffmann, and Joshua Reynolds. Early 19th-century European art is represented by Thomas Lawrence, Hubert Robert, Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont, Joseph Chinard, Théodore Géricault and others. The department has excellent examples of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism schools by such artists as Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. There is important work by 19th-century French sculptors Auguste Rodin, Charles Henri Joseph Cordier, Jules Dalou, and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Among the 20th-century European painters in the collection are Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Fernand Léger, and Oskar Kokoschka. The 18th- and 19th-century American collection is particularly strong, with important examples by such artists as John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, Martin Johnson Heade, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, and Edward Mitchell Bannister, an African-American landscapist who spent his career as a painter in Rhode Island. Significant works by George Wesley Bellows, Robert Henri, Charles Sheeler, Maxfield Parrish, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Twachtman, Hans Hoffman, Paul Manship, and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, among others, represent American artistic achievements of the early 20th-century. The department of Prints, Drawings + Photographs oversees approximately 18,000 European and American works on paper from the 15th century to the present. Included in the collection are important examples of Old Master drawings and prints, among them works by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Goya. The department has one of the largest collections (over 800) of British watercolors in the country. Included among them are fine examples by J.M.W. Turner, George Chinnery, John Sell Cotman, William Blake and Thomas Rowlandson. The collection of French prints and drawings includes work by Nicolas Poussin, Hubert Robert, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Honoré Daumier, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso and others. Notable in the collection of American watercolors and drawings is work by Benjamin West, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast and Maxfield Parrish. Among the important 20th-century artists represented in the collection are Franz Kline, James Rosenquist, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Jennifer Bartlett, Eric Fischl, Wayne Thiebaud, Kara Walker and Francesco Clemente. The history of the art of the book is represented, in one of its earliest forms, by the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499), a masterpiece of Renaissance illumination. In later centuries, work by masters of printing and illustration provides a link between the earliest books and twentieth-century "artists' books" that push limits and challenge traditional interpretations of the form. A summary of the history of photography is provided by 5,000 photographs, among them significant works by Gustave Le Gray, Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, Frederick Sommer, Carrie May Weems, and former RISD professors Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. The department also oversees the Aaron Siskind Center for the Study of Photography, which is open to photography students and Museum visitors alike. Visit the museum's website at  ... http://www.risdmuseum.org

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Shows Birger Sandzén's Colorado Landscapes Posted: 25 Sep 2011 08:20 PM PDT Colorado Springs, CO - The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is pleased to present "Sandzén in Colorado" on view from October 1st through January 8th 2012. The exhibition features the Colorado landscape paintings of former Broadmoor Art Academy instructor and landscape master, Birger Sandzén. A special members preview will be held on September 30th and will feature a panel of speakers discussing the artist and his art.In the exhibition "Sandzén in Colorado", Sandzén's paintings will be complimented by his sketchbook drawings and photographs in order to provide insight into the artist's process of translating the landscapes he observed into paintings that he believed were pure expression. "There are western motifs out here, especially in a certain light (for example, in gray weather), which are distinguished by their majestic lines as in protruding rocks, rolling prairie and winding ravines,"  "Sandzén wrote in 1915. "On should, when painting such motifs, first of all emphasize the rhythm and then sum up the color impression in a few strokes."

The Menil Collection Announces Return of Byzantine Frescoes to Cyprus in 2012 Posted: 25 Sep 2011 08:06 PM PDT HOUSTON, TX.- After more than two decades in Houston, the beloved Byzantine frescoes will go back to Cyprus in 2012. While this moment is bittersweet, the story of these frescoes—from their rescue, to their long-term loan to the Menil, and now to their return—very much reflects the essence of the Menil Collection, its focus on the aesthetic and the spiritual, and our responsible stewardship of works from other nations and cultures.

Brazilian Artist Beatriz Milhazes 3rd Solo at Galerie Max Hetzler Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:18 PM PDT BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler presents the third solo exhibition of Beatriz Milhazes, featuring four large scale paintings and a mobile, which were the subject of her solo show at Fondation Beyeler in Basel earlier this year, as well as recent collages. Central to the exhibition are four monumental canvases of different sizes on the theme of the four seasons. They are composed of stylized, ornamental floral motifs and geometric forms which are symptomatic of Beatriz Milhazes' oeuvre, as is the transfer technique deriving from collage that she developed. Influenced by the tropical climate and vegetation of her home country Brazil, her work rhythmically constructed, features unique exuberant colours.

"Picasso 1905 in Paris" Exhibition Opens at Kunsthalle Bielefeld Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:17 PM PDT BIELEFELD, GERMANY - 1905 was a key year for Pablo Picasso. After his melancholy Blue Period, he began creating the brighter paintings of acrobats and circus artistes of his Pink Period at his studio in Montmartre. Picasso had, in the meantime, settled in the metropolis of Paris. He was now more fascinated by the antique-oriented paintings by French artist Puvis de Chavannes than by the work of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, his role model at the time of his first trip to Paris. Archaic-looking lads, monumental female bodies, and increasingly abstract, mask-like faces mark the development of a new concept of the body, which culminated in the famous Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907. Picasso's friends and his lover, Fernande Olivier, were portrayed as if on a wide stage, in countless drawings, paintings, and sculpture.

Lehmbruck Museum's Extensive Exhibition Celebrates its 100th anniversary Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:05 PM PDT DUISBURG, GERMANY - Grace kneels in Duisburg, was forged in 1911 in a Parisian studio. For its creator Wilhelm Lehmbruck, the Kneeling Woman became a completely personal mark of creation. Affecting the art of the modern era like an impulse, with its graceful yet peculiar pose and a gesture that until that time was unique the piece has exercised an immense influence on sculpture and painting in the past hundred years. In 2011 the Kneeling Woman celebrates its anniversary, and the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg thus dedicates one of the most complex and extensive exhibitions in their history to the piece, curated by an international team managed by Marion Bornscheuer, curator of the Lehmbruck Collection and painting and graphics. Exhibition on view from 24th September to 22 January 2012.

Neuberger Museum of Art Features a Ten-year Survey of Paintings & Drawings by Dana Schutz Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:04 PM PDT PURCHASE, NY.- Even before she had reached the age of thirty, Dana Schutz was considered one of the leading artists of her generation. Her imaginative work, filled with inventive stories and hypothetical situations, is strange, humorous, whimsical, disturbing, and oddly compelling, all at the same time. Combining fantasy and reality, humor and horror, her vibrant paintings abound with expressionist energy. From September 25 through December 18, the Neuberger Museum of Art will present Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, the first ten-year (2001-2011) survey of this extraordinary artist's paintings and drawings. Featured are thirty paintings and twelve drawings, including work from each of her endlessly fascinating and innovative series -- from Frank from Observation (2002), portraying the fictional life of Frank, the last man on earth as depicted by Schutz, the world's last painter, to recent works from the Tourettes and Verbs series including Swimming, Smoking, Crying, and Shaking, Cooking, Peeing (2009).

The Indian Highway Contemporary Art Exhibition Reaches MAXXI in Rome Posted: 25 Sep 2011 07:03 PM PDT Rome.- MAXXI (the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts) is proud to present "Indian Highway", on view from September 22nd through January 29th 2012. Consisting of 60 works by 30 different artists, and including 4 site-specific installations, the exhibition describes the boom, the contradictions and the myriad facets of the "Indian miracle" through the eyes of contemporary Indian artists. This major touring group show coproduced with the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo has been touring Europe for the past 2 years, but takes a new spin with every stop it takes. The exhibition can essentially be divided into three macro areas. The first is 'Indian Identity and Histories', which investigates political, social and religious themes such as the war between India and Pakistan, the religious struggles, the transience of the national borders. Among the works on show: the large painting by Fida Husain (recently deceased, a protagonist on the Indian art scene for over 70 years, to whom the entire exhibition is dedicated) refers to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in November 2008. The video "The Lightning Testimonies" by Amar Kanwar recounts the war between India and Pakistan through the testimonies of raped women. The video "I Love My India" by Tejal Shah tackles the repression of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, while "100 Hand Drawn Maps of Indi"a by Shilpa Gupta reflects the sense of insecurity and the instability of the national borders. The disturbing installation by the same artist "Untitled – Skewers" features 185 lances looming from the ceiling and arousing a sense of fear. ' Exploding metropolises' examines urban expansion and chaos and the abandonment of the rural areas. The symbol of the exhibition, the wallpaper installation "Dream Villa 11" by Daynita Singh is virtually a luminous sign repeated for 80 metres on MAXXI's external wall at the first floor level: it reproduces a contemporary metropolis from above, shrouded in a blue light, with the great highways like rivers of fire. Among the works on show: the sculpture "Transit" by Valay Shende, the huge truck in aluminium discs contrasting with "Autosaurus Tripous", the skeleton of a traditional rickshaw in resin bones by Jitish Kallat, while the 27-metre-long installation by Subodh Gupta composed of pots and pans alludes to the workers' lunch. 'Contemporary Tradition', the third anf final area, explores the revisiting of ancient forms of expression from Indian culture such as miniatures, ceramics and ink paintings. The site-specific installations Strands by N.S. Harsha and "Growing" by Hemali Bhuta are examples, as are the large enamelled panels by Nalini Malani that allude to the mythological stories. The show Nineteen Mantras produced by Fondazione Musica per Roma and Fondazione MAXXI and co-produced with the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, is also part of the project conceived for MAXXI Art. Executive production is by Fattore K with direction by Giorgio Barbiero Corsetti, music by Riccardo Nova, chroeogrpahy by Shantala Scivalingappa and the contributions of Indian dancers, musicians and singers. The show will be staged in the Auditorium Parco della Musica in January 2012 and then in Milan. A choreographical, musical and video work, it recounts the impetus of myth, transporting it into the contemporary through mantra verse. Previews of the work may be seen in the exhibition thanks to three multi-media stations. The MAXXI (the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts) is a national museum dedicated to contemporary creativity, located in the Flaminio neighbourhood of Rome, Italy. It is managed by a foundation created by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. It was designed as a multidisciplinary space by Zaha Hadid and committed to experimentation and innovation in the arts and architecture. The project was first announced in 1998 and took over 10 years to complete, during which time there had been six changes of national government in Italy. The Royal Institute of British Architect's (RIBA) Stirling Prize for architecture 2010 was been awarded to MAXXI and Zaha Hadid. The building is a composition of bending oblong tubes, overlapping, intersecting and piling over each other, resembling a piece of massive transport infrastructure. The MAXXI consists of two museums: "MAXXI art" and "MAXXI architecture". In addition to the two museums, the MAXXI also features an auditorium, a library and media library specialized in art and architecture, a bookshop, a cafeteria, a bar/restaurant, galleries for temporary exhibition, performances, educational activities. The large public square designed in front of the museum is planned to host art works and live events. The MAXXI has been acclaimed by The Guardian as "Hadid's finest built work to date" and a masterpiece fit to sit alongside Rome's ancient wonders. The permanent collections of these two museums grow through direct acquisitions, as well as through commissions, thematic competitions, awards for young artists, donations and permanent loans. The collection includes works by Alighiero Boetti, William Kentridge, Kara Walker, Ed Ruscha, Gilbert & George, Gino De Dominicis, Michael Raedecker, Anish Kapoor, Gerhard Richter, Francesco Clemente, Lara Favaretto, Marlene Dumas, Maurizio Cattelan, Gabriele Basilico, Kiki Smith, Thomas Ruff, Luigi Ghirri, Manfredi Beninati, Vanessa Beecroft, Stefano Arienti, Francis Alys, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Schutte and archives of architects Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi and Pier Luigi Nervi. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it

Crime and Punishment Explored in Exhibition at Musée d'Orsay in Paris Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:50 PM PDT PARIS.- On 30 September 1981, the French Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Robert Badinter, successfully brought about the abolition of the death penalty in France. It had taken two hundred years of discussion to reach this point: from 1791, when Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau addressed the Constituent Assembly and called for the abolition of capital punishment. From 1791 to 1981, from the French Revolution to the present day, there had been two hundred years of passionate debate about the sense and the value of a penalty which, having once depended on the omnipotence of a god or on a king's absolute power - tempered by grace – would now only be meted out, in the philosophy of the Enlightenment, by man, and man alone. But can man be the judge of his fellow man's actions? With a long history of dark inspiration, modern literature has resounded with these struggles, and created many, memorable criminal characters, in works ranging from Sade to Baudelaire and Barbey d'Aurevilly, from Dostoyevsky, whence the title of the exhibition, to Camus' The Outsider... The figure of the murderer, with all his negative energy and complexity, is the dark side of the hero, his ambiguous double, the part of him that transgresses and becomes all the more disturbing for being so seductive. A source of stories for magazines (from Lacenaire to Violette Nozières), and soon after, for illustrated daily newspapers, the powerful fantasy of violent crime was greatly increased through novels and the theatre. Linking murder to sexual abuse even became a must in pulp fiction and in the images this conveyed or evoked. In fact, the contamination of the visual arts by the theme of crime, by newspaper articles, and even by images in the popular press, was another great feature of the century. There are many example of this in painting: from Prud'hon's Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime [Justice et la Vengeance divine poursuivant le Crime] to Valloton's Nemesis, from the Fualdès Affair that so fascinated Géricault, to Delacroix's Louvel, from Victor Hugo's hanged men to Warhol's electric chairs. New subjects, such as the female criminal, appeared and caught the imagination. Condemned by David, rehabilitated by Baudry, then presented once again as a dark character by Edvard Munch, Charlotte Corday joined the ranks of mythical figures, from Lady Macbeth to Lucie de Lamermoor. The issue was also raised of the relationship between madness, genius and crime, from Delacroix's prisoners to those of Egon Schiele. The greatest painters are those whose heightened representations of crime or of capital punishment result in the most striking works. These range from Goya and Géricault to Lautrec and Picasso. Like opera, the cinema was not slow to assimilate the equivocal charms of extreme violence, transformed by its representation into something pleasurable, perhaps even into sensual pleasure. At the end of the 19th century, a new theory appeared purporting to establish a scientific approach to the criminal mind. It was Lombroso - 2009 marks the two hundredth anniversary of his death – who developed this school of anthropology, setting out not only the character traits he claimed were found in criminals, but also the physiological features, like stigmata, all transmitted genetically, in his view, through atavism. Acceptance of this theory also decriminalised the individual to some extent and criminalised his social class and then his race, or at least made them open to scientific investigation, the procedures for which Bertillon would later develop. This theory of anthropology concluded that a man whose fate is preordained by his anatomy, could not be held fully accountable. Theories such as these would have a considerable influence on images in painting, sculpture and photography. As a regular visitor to the courts, like Daumier whom he greatly admired, Degas liked to examine and decipher the faces of the accused, hoping to detect the " science" of the criminologists. And his little Rat in a tutu (The adolescent corps de ballet at the Paris Opera were known as petits rats), far from being an innocent young girl, is a dangerous, plague-mongering animal. Sexual violence also haunted Degas; it could well have led to the excesses of Neo Baroque freneticism in Cézanne's early works; it then appeared in Picasso's work, before finding its full expression in the works of Dix, Grosz and the later works of Munch. Finally we should remember that the motif of the gibbet, the garrotte and the guillotine was ever-present, even though architects were creating panoptic designs for prisons where the individual could be observed at any time. For several years now, a new issue has arisen in relation to crime and punishment: the crime of passion, the compulsive crime of the serial killer, should they be subject to psychiatric investigation and commitment to an asylum, or to the judgement of the court and imprisonment? Beyond crime, there is still the perpetual problem of Evil, and beyond social circumstances, metaphysical anxiety. Art, particularly art between 1820 and1920, can provide a spectacular expression of this. The aesthetic of violence and the violence of the aesthetic - the exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay aims to bring them together through music, literature and a wide range of images. Visit : http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html

Buckingham Palace Shows Dutch Landscapes From the Royal Collection Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:49 PM PDT London.- The Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace is showing "Dutch Landscapes" from the Royal Collection until October 9th. This exhibition of 42 paintings draws on the Royal  Collection's rich holdings of Dutch 17th-century landscapes, including works by Jacob van Ruisdael, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van der Heyden and Meyndert Hobbema.  By the 17th century, landscape painting was well established as a distinct art form and one in which Netherlandish artists excelled. The fine detail and meticulous finish of Dutch pictures appealed to British taste, and 34 of the works in the exhibition were acquired by the future George IV between 1809 and 1820.

Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters on View at Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:48 PM PDT DETROIT, MI - An extraordinary "who's who" of modern art masters, including Monet, Dali, van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, Matisse, Picasso and Rodin—to name just a few—will be on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) October 12th , 2008 through January 18th, 2009. Through 75 paintings and sculptures, visitors will be immersed in one of the most fascinating periods in the history of art—the gradual shift from a reliance on artistic tradition to an insistence on individual innovation at the turn of the 20th century.

National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi Shows Exhibition from the V&A Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:47 PM PDT NEW DELHI.- The National Gallery of Modern Art in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, presents "Indian Life and Landscape by Western Artists", an exhibition of more than ninety paintings and drawings from the V&A 1790 – 1927, at National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, New Delhi from October 27, 2009 to December 6, 2009. The exhibition is a collection from London's Victoria and Albert Museum which shows rare and interesting watercolors, sketches, aquatints, lithographs and engravings by European artists who visited India between the 18th- and 20th-centuries.

Masterworks of John Brack Re-United at National Gallery of Victoria Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:46 PM PDT Melbourne, Vic. - For the first time in two decades John Brack's iconic Melbourne paintings, The bar and Collins St., 5p.m., will hang together at the National Gallery of Victoria ( NGV ). The works were unveiled by Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, NGV. The bar is on loan to the NGV for nine months while its owner, David Walsh, builds the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania where it will be on permanent display.

Charles Burdick brushes up on Master Painters at Cahoon Museum Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:45 PM PDT COTUIT, MA – Wellfleet octogenarian Charles Burdick continues to be very much a working artist, painting nearly every day. And in recent years, he frequently paints other artists at work, providing his own playful interpretations of such masters as Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso. Thus, the title of the Cahoon Museum's fall show, "Artist at Work: The Paintings of Charles Burdick," works two ways.

James Ensor's Innovative and Profound Paintings on View at Musée d'Orsay Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:44 PM PDT PARIS.- When presented at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels and at the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, the work of James Ensor (1860-1949) is that of a Belgian painter who is both innovative and tortured. Presented at the Musée d'Orsay, his original and profound paintings are those of a 19th-century artist situated between Naturalism and Modernity. Presented at the MoMA, his work fits brilliantly and naturally into the great avant-garde movements that are the forte of this museum. Furthermore, it was this powerful originality that Alfred Barr stressed in 1940, when he acclaimed the "Tribulations of St. Anthony", declaring that Ensor was, at the time he produced this painting in 1887, "the boldest living artist". On view Spring, 2010.

The Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art Reinstalls Their Modern Collection Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:43 PM PDT Oklahoma City.- In preparation of the reopening of the museum's Stuart Wing in October 2011, the Sandy Bell Gallery of the Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma will be reinstalled with selected works from the permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, as well as works on loan from a private collector. Works by Leon Polk Smith, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha and other important contemporary artists will be included in the installation. The opening reception on June 3rd and 4th will feature a special choreographed dance inspired by Rauschenberg's "The Lotus Series" and a live concert in conjunction with the Norman Music Festival.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits Early Buddhist Manuscript Paintings Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:42 PM PDT NEW YORK CITY - An installation of 30 palm-leaf folios from Indian illuminated manuscripts opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on July 29, 2008. Featuring some of the earliest surviving Indian manuscripts, dating from the 10th to the 13th century, Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting: The Palm-leaf Tradition will center on one remarkable Mahayanist Buddhist text, the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra ('Perfection of Wisdom'), illustrated through the Museum's rare holdings of eastern Indian and Nepalese illuminated palm-leaf manuscripts, book-covers, initiation cards, thankas, and sculptures.

Scream Gallery to Feature Works by R. Crumb During London Comic Festival Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:41 PM PDT LONDON.- Robert Crumb, otherwise known as R. Crumb, is one of the leading figures of the 1966/67 hippy underground comic movement. Philadelphia-born Crumb exploded onto the scene in the late 60's, heralding a renaissance of underground sex and drug comics. His LSD-inspired characters Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural quickly established him as a counter-culture icon. His drawings are exhibited in blue-chip galleries and museums all over the world.

The Art Fund International Adds To Glasgow's Contemporary Art Collection Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:40 PM PDT LONDON.- Two purchases funded by the UK's leading independent art charity The Art Fund, through its £5 million funding scheme Art Fund International, are going on display for the first time at a new exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. The works by Lothar Baumgarten and Emily Jacir form part of the exhibition 'Unsettled Objects' which features pieces from Glasgow's collection of contemporary art, and runs from 10 December 2009 until March 2011.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 25 Sep 2011 06:39 PM PDT This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

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