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• Metropolitan Museum of Art Launches Expanded Website with 340,000 Works of Art
• Sotheby's New York to Feature an Evening Sale of Contemporary Prints in October
• Recent Work by Japanese Artist and Architect Yutaka Sone at David Zwirner
• 19th Century French Drawings from the Louvre On View at the Morgan Library & Museum
• The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Displays Californian Artists Use of Light
• The Tate Modern Presents a Retrospective of German Artist Gerhard Richter
• The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Presents "Lars Nørgård: Luxury Visions"
• The Frick Collection ~ The Best Private Art Museum In New York
• Kurt Wenner Creates 3D Chalk Illusions In New York & Worldwide
• Hans Bellmer ~ Engineer of the Erotic ~ at Pinakothek der Moderne
• Alte Pinakothek Exhibits Painting by Johannes Vermeer as Part of Its 175th Anniversary
• The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) shows "American Chronicles ~ The Art of Norman Rockwell"
• The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to explore "Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence"
• "Passion for Art" 35th Anniversary of the Essl Museum Collection
• New Saatchi Gallery Opens at Duke of York's HQ Building, Chelsea
• Whitechapel Gallery Opens Retrospective of Influential Painter Alice Neel
• Regen Projects shows Ocean Landscape Photographs by Catherine Opie
• Marlborough Fine Art will present London Show of New Work of Juan Genovés
• Museo del Prado opens Major Retrospective Devoted to the Work of Joaquín Sorolla
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Metropolitan Museum of Art Launches Expanded Website with 340,000 Works of Art Posted: 26 Sep 2011 11:18 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has relaunched its website, www.metmuseum.org, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Museum. Key features of the expanded and redesigned site include comprehensive access to more than 340,000 works of art in the Museum's encyclopedic collections; extensive information and multimedia features on exhibitions, programs, and galleries; a completely new and streamlined design for greater ease of viewing the vast array of images, resources, and other material now online; and an interactive floor plan and multiple itineraries to enhance in-person visits to the Museum. The new website, which has been in preparation for three years, originally launched in 1996 and has not been thoroughly updated since 2000. Mr. Campbell stated: "We hope that the new website will provide our online visitors with immediate, easy-to-navigate access to the works of art in our collection, including beautiful photography and in-depth information prepared by the Museum's experts who study and care for them. We want the new site to present our global audiences with an elegant and user-friendly online experience of the entire Museum, inspiring visits to our main building and The Cloisters, and helping visitors move seamlessly between learning, planning, and participating online, and encountering face-to-face the magnificent works and the programs in our galleries. So many of our online features provide exciting ways to explore the resources of this great repository of art and scholarship. Some of these features are completely new, like the interactive map and suggested itineraries, and others are established favorites, like the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, which is now more fully integrated into the site and continues to expand in content. We hope to evolve our site with the same breadth, depth, and level of excellence that our many audiences have come to expect from this museum." Erin Coburn, the Museum's Chief Officer of Digital Media, continued: "The new design and navigation reflect the wealth and depth of content that make the Met's website a unique and valued resource. In addition to the new features that will help with planning visits, a new search interface and the addition of high-resolution images with zooming functionality will greatly enhance users' abilities to explore the Met more thoroughly online. We've also designed portions of the website to be optimized for smartphones, so that visitors can easily look up information about the works of art while viewing them in the galleries. This relaunch represents a complete overhaul in how we support the Museum's online presence and positions the Met to be more responsive to the ever-changing needs of the digital environment, while presenting the collections and scholarly resources in myriad new ways to foster learning and exploration." New general features of www.metmuseum.org include: * Overviews of nearly 400 galleries at the Museum with a description and photograph of each, highlighted works of art within the gallery, and links to related content. * The complete holdings of many collections within the Met are now accessible online, totaling more than 340,000 works of art and including all works from the Museum's collection currently on view. Additional object records will be posted on an ongoing basis, with the goal of establishing records online for the remainder of the collection as expeditiously as possible. These records include links to the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, an exceptional resource providing chronological, geographical, and thematic explorations of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collections. * A new design—elegant, clean, and simple—that brings the Met's vast online resources into a unified website with a consistent look-and-feel, simplified navigation, and improved layout. * A new and powerful search interface for the collections that accommodates complex searches, browsing, and simple ways to narrow results, as well as recommendations of related objects. * High-resolution images of many of the works of art, with zooming functionality allowing for detailed exploration and analysis. * A Media Gallery that centralizes an extensive range of videos, interactive features, and other interpretive media for visitors to enjoy. New features to enhance or assist in planning visits to the Museum are: * An interactive floor plan that can be used to locate galleries and special exhibitions, as well as facilities across the Museum. Each gallery links to an overview page featuring a description and photograph of the gallery, highlighted works of art, and links to related content. * Suggested itineraries to help navigate the Met's extensive collections, including maps, estimated durations, and insights and stories to enhance the journeys. One of the itineraries currently available is a tour of works selected and with commentary by the Museum's Director Thomas P. Campbell. The new website is a major initiative of the Museum's Digital Media Department, in partnership with Cogapp, and with key support from the Museum's Information, Systems, and Technology group. Staff from many areas around the Museum contributed content and expertise to the initiative.

Sotheby's New York to Feature an Evening Sale of Contemporary Prints in October Posted: 26 Sep 2011 10:29 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's New York will hold its first-ever evening sale of prints on 27 October 2011. Important Contemporary Prints from an American Private Collection will offer a stunning selection of 37 works by artists including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, which are notable for their wonderful condition. The Collection is also remarkable for the number of comprehensive sets that it contains, led by six complete Warhol portfolios that were purchased directly from his Factory and had remained unframed until present. Select prints from the sale will travel to both Hong Kong and Sao Paolo, before returning to New York for exhibition beginning 23 October. The bi-annual various-owners auction of Prints will be held concurrently on 27 & 28 October, and will be highlighted by works from Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

Recent Work by Japanese Artist and Architect Yutaka Sone at David Zwirner Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:31 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of recent work by Yutaka Sone, on view at the gallery's 533 West 19th Street space. This is the artist's fifth solo show since his first exhibition at the gallery in 1999.  Working in a wide range of media—predominantly sculpture but also painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance—Yutaka Sone's work revolves around a tension between realism and perfection. The artist originally trained as an architect and an almost obsessive attention to detail and its relationship to a larger whole underpin his practice at large. Whether architectural or natural, landscapes occur throughout the artist's oeuvre, and he frequently picks his subjects from actual locations—Hong Kong Island, Los Angeles highway junctions, a mountain range, a section of a rainforest, ski resorts, and his own backyard—recreating these to scale in paint, marble, and crystal, or using organic materials such as plants and soil.

19th Century French Drawings from the Louvre On View at the Morgan Library & Museum Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:11 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- This fall The Morgan Library & Museum hosts an exhibition of eighty of the Musée du Louvre's finest drawings by artists working in France from the onset of the Revolution in 1789 through the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852. David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre, which runs through December 31st, offers an unprecedented opportunity to experience the mastery of Corot, David, Delacroix, Géricault, Ingres, Prud'hon, and other celebrated artists of the era. The Louvre rarely allows so many major drawings from its famed collection to travel. The Morgan is the sole venue for this exhibition. Visit : http://www.themorgan.org/home.asp

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Displays Californian Artists Use of Light Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:10 PM PDT San Diego, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is proud to present "Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface", the most ambitious exhibition in both size and scope yet undertaken by MCASD. It will occupy the majority of the Museum's galleries in La Jolla and downtown and is on view from September 25th through January 22nd 2012. While September 25 marks the official opening of Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, the Museum will install and open downtown galleries throughout the summer months, allowing visitors to partially view the exhibition, see select installations in progress, and hear from the artists, curators, and preparators. This is one of the ways MCASD is aiming to bring the Museum and installation process closer to our members and visitors, providing a rich and engaging experience. "Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface" takes an in-depth look at work by 13 artists whose perceptual investigations and innovative use of industrial materials helped define an era of art making in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s.

The Tate Modern Presents a Retrospective of German Artist Gerhard Richter Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:50 PM PDT London.- Tate Modern is proud to present "Gerhard Richter: Panorama", on view at the museum from October 6th through January 8th 2012. Gerhard Richter (b 1932) is widely regarded as one of the most important artists working today. Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist's 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective that will group together significant moments of his remarkable career. Since the 1960s, Gerhard Richter has immersed himself in a rich and varied exploration of painting. Continually challenging the relevance of the medium, his practice has encompassed a diverse range of techniques and ideas.

The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Presents "Lars Nørgård: Luxury Visions" Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:49 PM PDT Aalborg, Denmark.- The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art is pleased to present "Lars Nørgård: Luxury Visions" on view at the museum from October 1st through January 8th 2012. The major event in the Kunsten this autumn is the most comprehensive exhibition so far of the work of Lars Nørgård, a versatile artist who has established a unique position in the field of Danish art. This is a retrospective exhibition, in which we are presented with the entire spectrum of Lars Nørgård's work: painting, drawing and sculpture. The exhibition occupies both the central gallery and the sculpture gallery in the museum, and is accompanied by a large catalogue and a new film focussed on the artist. Lars Nørgård was born in Aalborg in 1956 and studied at the Skolen for Brugskunst in Copenhagen from 1975 to 1978 before travelling to the US to attend the Academy of Art College in San Francisco from 1980 to 1981. Lars Nørgård originally worked from 1977 until 1980 in a photo realistic style, but during his studies in USA 1980-81, his paintings changed to reflect an emphasis on abstract expression, especially inspired by the artist, Willem De Kooning. His palette was now "Americanised", with strong, bold and light colours. On his return to Denmark, Lars Nørgård joined his acquaintance, Erik A. Frandsen's experimental art school, "Workshop Worst". Lars Nørgård was a part of this art community, and developed over the next few years a figurative style, more allegorical paintings with the members of Workshop Worst as stage models. From 1986, Lars Nørgård alternated between an abstract expressional style, now with a heavy Nordic colour pallet, and a tight cartoonist figurative style. In 1998, Lars Nørgård decided to stop the pendulum, and chose to gather the threads to create the painting style, that today are characteristic for the artist – an amalgamation of figures and space, a picture devoid of a complete explanation, an energetic expression with both abstract and surreal elements. The surreal elements come from the many, completely over simplified line drawings within Lars Nørgård's parallel production. Nørgård's works are in the collections of many Scandinavian museums, including ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Helsingør Bymuseum, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Kobberstiksamlingen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Kunstindustrimuseet, Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Rooseum, Malmø, Skive Kunstmuseum, Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Vejle Kunstmuseum and Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum. The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg was designed by Elissa and Alvar Aalto and Jean-Jacques Baruël, and built between 1968 and 1972. It is a very flexible building, that, due to the mobile partition wall system, can change character, depending on the requirements of each individual exhibition. Special note should also be made of the unique use of natural light, which has helped to make the building world famous. The museum is designed to blend in with its natural surroundings, and like a ziggurat it rises to meet the adjoining hillside. It is situated on the edge of a large area of parks and woodland, and the surrounding vegetation stands in contrast to the precise contours of the building. The materials used were specially selected. The outer walls, and a large part of the floor area are made of carrara marble, and the light material structure helps to give prominence to the art works. The total area is approx. 6000sq.m. On the ground floor is the central hall together with an adjoining sculpture hall. Surrounding these are series of long sky lit galleries, seven smaller exhibition rooms, a chamber music room, the entrance hall, and the administration offices. On the lower ground floor are exhibition rooms, a café, cloakroom, lecture rooms, a study group room, a workshop and a library. The museum is encircled by a sculpture park, an amphitheatre and a grassy terrace. A brick wall forms a bridge between the stringent lines of the museum buildings and the wooded slopes behind. On display in the park are sculptures by Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, Willy Ørskov, Lene Adler Petersen, Mogens Møller and, in pride of place, Bjørn Nørgaard's Klassisk tableau. Drømmeslottet (Classical Tableau. The Dream Castle) – a veritable crystal palace, complete with fluttering banners. The permanent exhibit traces the course of art in Denmark from Naturalism to Abstract Art and more recent experimental art forms. The Danish artist J.F. Willumsen occupies a central place in the collection, which also boasts a fine selection of works by artists from the first half of the 20th century – among them Vilhelm Lundstrøm, Edvard Weie, Jens Søndergaard and Erik Hoppe. Artists from the middle of the last century such as Wilhelm Freddie, Ejler Bille, Egill Jacobsen, Asger Jorn, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Richard Mortensen and Robert Jacobsen are well represented here, while late 20th century art is exemplified by such names as Willy Ørskov, Poul Gernes, Mogens Møller, Kirsten Christensen, Kirsten Ortwed, Kehnet Nielsen and Ingvar Cronhammar. Milestones in international art which have had an impact on Danish art are also highlighted, primarily through works from the mid-20th century by such artists as Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Karel Appel, Constant, Victor Vasarely and Serge Poliakoff. A large private collection forms the nucleus of the museum's permanent exhibit. The Anna and Kresten Krestensen Collection was acquired in 1967 with the aid of a grant from the Kirsten and Palle Dige Foundation. It contains works from Denmark and abroad dating from the first half of the 20th century, and focusses primarily on Danish modernism, the COBRA group and the School of Paris. By dint of donations and new purchases the collection has expanded to include works by the surrealists, members of the Fluxus group and Denmark's "wild young artists" from the 1980s. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.kunsten.dk

The Frick Collection ~ The Best Private Art Museum In New York Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:41 PM PDT The Frick Collection is a not-for-profit educational institution originally founded by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist. In 1913, construction began on Henry Frick's New York mansion at Seventieth Street and Fifth Avenue, designed by Carrère and Hastings to accommodate Mr. Frick's paintings and other art objects. The house cost $5,000,000, but from its inception, took into account Mr. Frick's intention to leave his house and his art collection to the public. Mr. Frick died in 1919 and in his will, left the house and all of the works of art in it together with the furnishings ("subject to occupancy by Mrs. Frick during her lifetime") to become a gallery called The Frick Collection. He provided an endowment of $15,000,000 to be used for the maintenance of the Collection and for improvements and additions. After Mrs. Frick's death in 1931, family and trustees of The Frick Collection began the transformation of the Fifth Avenue residence into a museum and commissioned John Russell Pope to make additions to the original house, including two galleries (the Oval Room and East Gallery), a combination lecture hall and music room, and the enclosed courtyard. In December 1935 The Frick Collection opened to the public. In 1977, a garden on Seventieth Street to the east of the Collection was designed by Russell Page, to be seen from the street and from the pavilion added at the same time to accommodate increasing attendance at the museum. This new Reception Hall was designed by Harry van Dyke, John Barrington Bayley, and G. Frederick Poehler. Two additional galleries were opened on the lower level of the pavilion to house temporary exhibitions. The nearby Frick Art Reference Library was founded in 1920 to serve "adults with a serious interest in art," among them scholars, art professionals, collectors, and students. The Library's book and photograph research collections relate chiefly to paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from the fourth to the mid-twentieth centuries by European and American artists. Known internationally for its rich holdings of auction and exhibition catalogs, the Library is a leading site for collecting and provenance research. Archival materials and special collections augment the research collections with documents pertaining to the history of collecting art in America and of Henry Clay Frick's collecting in particular. The Frick Collection developed the "Art of Observation" training course, initially for medical students, but now used by police, security and defense personnel throughout the USA. Using works of art to train students in observation techniques proved so effective that enquiries were received from as far as way as London's Metropolitan Police Force. Visit the museum's website at … www.frick.org Chief among Henry Frick's bequests, which also included sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts such as furniture, porcelains, enamels, rugs and silver, were one hundred thirty-one paintings. Forty-seven additional paintings have been acquired over the years by the Trustees and the Frick Collection now has a permanent collection of more than 1,100 works of art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. The paintings in the Frick Collection include works by Hans Holbein, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Bellini, El Greco, Titian, Diego Velazquez, Frans Hals, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Johannes Vermeer, Francois Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony van Dyck, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Claude Lorrain, Francisco Goya, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James McNeill Whistler, Francesco Laurana, Jean-Antoine Houdon, John Constable, Edgar Degas, and Severo Calzetta da Ravenna. Vermeer's "Mistress and Maid", the last painting Mr. Frick bought, is one of three pictures by that artist in the Collection, while Piero della Francesca's image of St. John the Evangelist, dominating the Enamel Room, is the only large painting by Piero in the United States. Most of the sculpture purchased by Mr. Frick for the Collection was from the Italian Renaissance. Notable in the Collection are works by Vecchietta, Laurana, Francesco da Sangallo, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Riccio, and Severo da Ravenna. French sculpture includes the Lemoyne Garden Vase for the interior courtyard and remarkable works by Coysevox, Houdon, and Clodion. A number of splendid early North European sculptures are also in the Collection, above all the bust of the Duke of Alba by Jonghelinck, the Multscher reliquary bust, and bronzes traditionally ascribed to Adriaen de Vries and Hubert Gerhard. The collection also includes the furniture in the house, typical of a grand New York residence at the beginning of the twentieth century, covers a variety of periods and places of origin including, French works of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, some English pieces in the Library and Dining Room and in the bedrooms, and furniture especially designed and made for the house by the architect or interior designer. The collection contains Oriental porcelain dating from the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties and embracing a range of types including blue and white, famille verte, famille noire, and famille rose. French porcelain pieces include remarkable examples of Vincennes and Sèvres soft-past porcelains of the eighteenth century, as well as a rare sixteenth century ewer of Saint-Porchaire earthenware. The thirty-one exceptionally fine drawings in The Frick Collection are by such masters as Pisanello, Altdorfer, Rubens, Claude, Rembrandt, Greuze, Gainsborough, Goya, Ingres, Corot, and Whistler. Included in the impressive group of fifty-nine prints are four superb impressions by Dürer, three engravings by Van Dyck, eleven of Rembrandt's most celebrated etchings and drypoints, thirteen of Meryon's pivotal Etchings of Paris, twelve Whistler prints comprising the First Venice Set, and twelve eighteenth-century English reproductive portrait prints. The Limoges enamels in the collection reveal the broad range of applications to which this brilliant but delicate medium was applied in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France from secular objects such as portraits, a casket, and tableware - to objects of religious association, such as devotional images and triptychs. The impressive collection of textiles includes, most notably, two magnificent carpets from the court of the Mughal emperors and two tapestries with scenes from the story of Don Quixote by Peter van den Hecke. In 1999, the holdings of The Frick Collection were substantially expanded by the bequest of twenty-five clocks and fourteen watches from the estate of the celebrated New York collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey. This small but exceptionally fine collection, illustrates both the stylistic and the technical development of clocks and watches from about 1500 to 1830. Several special exhibitions are scheduled annually at the Frick Collection. Currently visitors can see "Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections", which runs from February 15, through May 15, 2011. Of the five paintings from the Frick's permanent collection, four were acquired by Henry Clay Frick between 1899 and 1919, and the fifth by the trustees in 1943 from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan. Three of these works are unquestionable masterpieces by the artist, "Nicolaes Ruts", "The Polish Rider", and the "Self-Portrait" of 1658. Two of the paintings ("Portrait of a Young Artist" and "Old Woman with a Book") were acquired by Frick as Rembrandts but are today attributed to artists in his entourage. This will be the first time that all five paintings have been united in a monographic display. A selection of etchings and drawings by Rembrandt acquired by Henry Clay Frick at the end of his life is also featured. These works on paper, part of the founding bequest and therefore unavailable for loan, are rarely on display. A loan exhibition of 66 works on paper by Rembrandt and his school from the collection of Frits Lugt, now housed in the Fondation Custodia, Paris, will be displayed alongside the Frick's own pieces. Eighteen drawings by the artist as well as a group of his prints will be accompanied by 36 master drawings by his most prominent pupils and students, including Ferdinand Bol, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Carel Fabritius, Govaert Flinck, Jan Lievens, and Nicolaes Maes. Among the exhibitions scheduled for later in 2011 is "In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert", from May 22, 2011, through August 28, 2011, which presents this painting from the collection along with the findings of a recent detailed technical examination by the Department of Paintings Conservation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette" from June 8, 2011, through September 11, 2011 will present some of the rare surviving pieces of furniture from the craze for "a la Turc" or Turkish style, that swept through French high society in the late 18th century. "Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition", from October 4, 2011, through January 8, 2012, will look at the dazzling development of Picasso's drawings, from the precocious academic exercises of his youth in the 1890s to the virtuoso classical works of the early 1920s. Through a selection of more than fifty works at each venue, the presentation will examine the artist's stylistic experiments and techniques in this roughly thirty-year period, which begins and ends in a classical mode and encompasses the radical innovations of Cubism and collage. The show (which opens at the Frick in the fall of 2011 and moves on to the National Gallery of Art in February of 2012) will demonstrate how drawing served as an essential means of invention and discovery in Picasso's multifaceted art, while its centrality in his vast oeuvre connects him deeply with the grand tradition of European masters.

Kurt Wenner Creates 3D Chalk Illusions In New York & Worldwide Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:40 PM PDT New York (NY1 News). - A New York sidewalk was transformed into the 3D deck of a cruise ship, thanks to the work of aclaimed 3D chalk artist Kurt Wenner. The temporary piece was recently done in Manhattan's Financial District as a promotion for Celebrity Cruise's new Silhouette in order to allow passersby a chance to step inside the ship's Lawn Club Grill. Wenner has mastered the technique of "trompe l'oeil" or making a 2D picture seem like a 3D world, and how he does this is understandably complicated. He paid lots of attention in his math classes and used what he learned to trick the human eye. In addition to creating 3D Street Painting for Publicity and Advertising, Kurt Wenner designs Villas and Residential architecture. He also creates lavish Interior design and classically inspired Product Design. Wenner also creates public and private commissioned oil paintings, murals, sculpture and architecture all over the world.

Hans Bellmer ~ Engineer of the Erotic ~ at Pinakothek der Moderne Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:39 PM PDT Munich, Germany - Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) is one of the most important and, at the same time, least known of the German Surrealists.  To this day, his oeuvre remains surrounded by mystery and taboos.  The retrospective in the Pinakothek der Moderne is the first exhibition for over a quarter of a century in Germany to be dedicated to Bellmer's work and was originally organized by the Centre Pompidou, Paris.  It assembles numerous and hitherto unknown drawings from museums and private collections, photographs, paintings, unpublished note pads and sketch books as well as some sculptural objects, among them »La poupée« (»The doll«).

Alte Pinakothek Exhibits Painting by Johannes Vermeer as Part of Its 175th Anniversary Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:38 PM PDT MUNICH.- The Alte Pinakothek welcomes a very special guest to its 175th anniversary: Johannes Vermeer's "Woman Holding a Balance" from the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The exhibition is on display until June 16, 2011. In the early 19th century, this exquisite masterpiece once formed part of the exceptional private collection amassed by the first king of Bavaria, Max I Joseph (1756-1825). He focused almost exclusively on 17th-century Dutch masters, mostly landscapes and genre paintings. To these he added the works of contemporary painters in Munich who were inspired by such Old Masters. In 1826, one year after the death of Max Joseph, the private royal collection was sold at auction. Some exceptional works were acquired for the state collections; others found their way to the Alte Pinakothek via roundabout routes – as part of Ludwig I's collection, for example; many are now scattered far afield. From today's point of view, the greatest loss was Vermeer's painting of 1664.

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) shows "American Chronicles ~ The Art of Norman Rockwell" Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:37 PM PDT DETROIT, MI -Family … innocence … heroism. These are the core themes interwoven throughout the work of Norman Rockwell, one of America's most recognized and beloved artists. American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell, on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) through May 31, 2009, explores Rockwell the artist, his images, and their impact and influence on American culture. The exhibition will also display photo murals of one of Rockwell's studios and his working process. He often posed for his own paintings and viewers will get a glimpse into his technique of preparing to create a painting.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to explore "Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence" Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT WILLIAMSTOWN, MA – The life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe have fascinated critics, scholars, and art lovers alike since she burst onto the New York art scene in the early 1900s. On June 7, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute adds a chapter to this story with the first exhibition to explore the role of the influential American modernist painter Arthur Dove as the key figure in O'Keeffe's development of abstraction as a means of artistic expression. Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence will feature 60 major oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and pastels spanning 1910 to the early 1940s. Among the seminal works on view will be O'Keeffe's Dark Abstraction (1924) and Jack-in-The Pulpit No. VI (1930), and Dove's Moon (1935) and Fog Horns (1929) . The Clark is the exclusive venue for this exhibition, which will be on view through September 7, 2009.

"Passion for Art" 35th Anniversary of the Essl Museum Collection Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:35 PM PDT Vienna, Austria - To mark the 35th anniversary of their collection, Agnes and Karlheinz Essl are presenting the unique jubilee show "PASSION FOR ART".  From more than 6,000 art works, curator Karlheinz Essl has selected more than 400 works by 160 internationally renowned artists – ranging from major works held in the collection to new acquisitions never before displayed.  Both exhibition venues, the Essl Museum and the Schömer-Haus, will be used for the exhibition, with a total of 4500 m² of exhibition space.  This makes the exhibition the largest since the inauguration of the Essl Museum in November 1999.  On exhibition until 28 August, 2007.

New Saatchi Gallery Opens at Duke of York's HQ Building, Chelsea Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:34 PM PDT LONDON - The Saatchi Gallery is set to re-open in the 70,000 sq. ft. Duke of York HQ building on King's Road, Chelsea on October 9 2008 with an exhibition dedicated to new art from China. The new Gallery will also include a dedicated space for Saatchi Online artists to exhibit and sell their work commission free. The space will feature a rotating selection of artists chosen from Saatchi Online Magazine's weekly critics' picks.

Whitechapel Gallery Opens Retrospective of Influential Painter Alice Neel Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:33 PM PDT LONDON.- The Whitechapel Gallery presents the first major retrospective of influential 20th century American painter Alice Neel. Alice Neel (1900–1984) is best known for her portraits of celebrated artists and writers from New York, including Andy Warhol, Frank O'Hara, Meyer Shapiro and Linda Nochlin. A self-proclaimed 'collector of souls', she painted friends, family and neighbours in the Manhattan district of Spanish Harlem, delving into their personalities with rare frankness. Undeterred by a turbulent personal life that included a year of hospitalisation following a nervous breakdown, and the destruction in 1934 of over 250 paintings and drawings, it was only in her later years that she gained widespread recognition. On view until 17 September.

Regen Projects shows Ocean Landscape Photographs by Catherine Opie Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:32 PM PDT LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects presents an exhibition of new work by Catherine Opie. The exhibition presents a suite of new photographs that further the artist's investigation into ideas of landscape. With the ocean as her backdrop, Opie explores the shifting mise en scène of light, color, movement, and the tension between boundaries and limitlessness. In the summer of 2009, Opie traveled aboard a container ship en route from Korea to Long Beach. She documented the voyage in a series of time-based photographs that captured each sunrise and sunset for the ten-day duration of the trip. The works are composed with equal registers of water and sky, broken by a thin center horizon line. On view though 22 May.

Marlborough Fine Art will present London Show of New Work of Juan Genovés Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:31 PM PDT LONDON. - The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art announced the first London exhibition in over 40 years by the Spanish artist Juan Genovés of 15 new paintings that will open at Marlborough Fine Art, London on October 29th. Born in Valencia in 1930, Genovés has been exhibiting with Marlborough worldwide since 1964. This exhibition continues Genovés' exploration of people in groups, depicted through bird's-eye views of crowds where the absence of buildings, roads, trees or clues to a common landscape creates a dynamic of intensity and dislocation. The motivations for the groups' activities are never clear, as Genovés allows the viewer to draw his own conclusions.

Museo del Prado opens Major Retrospective Devoted to the Work of Joaquín Sorolla Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:30 PM PDT MADRID.- The Museo del Prado is presenting the largest and most important retrospective ever to be devoted to the work of Joaquín Sorolla, the most internationally celebrated Spanish painter of the XIX century. The exhibition includes more than 100 paintings by the artist and will offer a comprehensive overview of his finest works, among them all of his great masterpieces. They include the group of panels entitled Visions of Spain, painted for the Hispanic Society of America and brought to Spain by Bancaja in 2007. On exhibition from 26 May through 6 September, 2009. This exceptional exhibition has benefited from the sponsorship of Bancaja, who in addition to their significant undertaking as organising body of the exhibition "Sorolla. Vision of Spain" that was shown to great acclaim in various Spanish cities, has now made a further contribution in the form of their collaboration with this major exhibition project at the Prado. The exhibition "Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923)" will offer the visiting public an outstanding opportunity to see more than 100 paintings by the great Valencian master in what will constitute the most comprehensive and ambitious survey of his finest works. Among the 102 paintings on display, loaned from museums and collections worldwide, will be all the masterpieces by Sorolla that brought him most fame. They include Return from Fishing (1894), loaned by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris; Sewing the Sail (1896), from the Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca'Pesaro in Venice; Sad Inheritance (1899), from the Bancaja Collection; Evening Sun (1903), from The Hispanic Society of America in New York, which is returning to Spain for the first time since it was sold to New York by the artist himself; The Photographer Christian Franzen (1903), from the Lorenzana Collection; Female Nude (1902), and The white Boat. Jávea (1905), both from a private collection. The exhibition will naturally also include important examples of Sorolla's work from the Prado's own collection, including And they still say Fish is expensive! (1894), and Boys on the Beach (1909), as well as a large number of paintings from the Museo Sorolla in Madrid, including The Horse's Bath (1909), Strolling along the Sea Shore (1909), and The Pink Gown (1916). The exhibition will also feature the dazzling group of fourteen monumental panels entitled Visions of Spain, painted by Sorolla for the Hispanic Society of America in New York. They have travelled for the first time in their history for exhibition in Spain through the agreement reached with Bancaja. The large number of works by Sorolla assembled at the Prado, all of which are considered masterpieces by experts on the artist, will make this exhibition unique and unrepeatable. Over the last few decades Sorolla has been the subject of study in the form of numerous exhibitions and other projects, but there has not been a major retrospective of this type since the one devoted to the artist in 1963 in the Casón del Buen Retiro, organised by the Ministry of Science and Education. In addition, the present exhibition, the first to be devoted to Sorolla by the Prado, emphasises the idea of interpreting him as the last great master within its collections. Sorolla will thus be seen to fall within the great tradition of the Spanish School through an exhibition of the same scale, importance and scholarly rigour as the others devoted to the leading names of Spanish art held at the Prado over the years, such as those on Velázquez, Ribera, Murillo, El Greco, Zurbarán and Goya. The layout of the exhibition The exhibition has a fundamentally chronological structure, organised into various sections that emphasise the importance of the various themes and subjects that Sorolla depicted at different periods in his career. For example, there will be a space dedicated to the paintings of social themes that brought the artist fame in the last decades of the 19th century. This is followed by a sizeable group of portraits and a nude that reveal the profound influence of Velázquez on his compositions during the early years of the 20th century. Another area will display his finest beach scenes, painted in 1908 and 1909. Due to their particular importance and large size, the fourteen panels of Visions of Spain painted for the Hispanic Society of America will fill an entire room of the four occupied by the exhibition. This spectacular group was the most complex and important decorative scheme of Sorolla's entire career and can also be seen as an epilogue and summary of his entire oeuvre. The exhibition ends with examples of his landscape paintings. Visit the Museo del Prado at : http://www.museodelprado.es/

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 26 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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