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• The de Morgan Centre Re-opens in London
• Degas Dancer estimated at US$25-35 million at Christie's Impressionist & Modern Sale
• The Harn Museum of Art Hosts Women Ceramicists from Japan
• The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Presents Ann Toebbe's Latest Collages & Paintings
• The Hungarian National Gallery Shows "Paintings on Paper" from Its Collection
• The Turquoise Tortoise Gallery Features “Brent Nageli: Painting Pots”
• The Whitney presents "Three Landscapes" ~ A film installation by Roy Lichtenstein
• The Pavilion of Art & Design London Returns for its Fifth Annual Fair
• Metropolitan Museum of Art to display Francis Bacon ~ A Centenary Retrospective
• Tarsila do Amaral solos at Fundacion Juan March in Madrid
• Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopens at Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Cantor Arts Center Showcases Art from "Dürer to Picasso"
• Sebastião Salgado presents 'True Africa' at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
• The Lillehammer Art Museum In Norway ~ Chosen Museum Of The Year ~ Toured By Our Editor
• The Kreeger Museum Is Showing "Tom Wesselmann Draws"
• Winterthur Museum exhibits American Portraits from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Flamenco & Photography Celebrated at Aperture Gallery in New York
• The RISD Museum of Art to display "The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver"
• Major Surrealism Exhibition To Open At Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

The de Morgan Centre Re-opens in London Posted: 07 Oct 2011 11:25 PM PDT London.- Refurbished, re-configured restored and re-hung, visitors will once again be able to experience the stunning collection of William De Morgan's ceramics and Evelyn De Morgan's  paintings – the largest collection of each anywhere in the world. While William De Morgan was the most important ceramicist of the Arts and Crafts Movement and a close friend and collaborator of William Morris, his wife Evelyn was a talented and acclaimed artist and symbolist painter. Together they were actively involved in a number of social movements of their day; including prison reform and women's suffrage and so the Centre is also a rich resource for students of late 19th Century art, social and political history. Once again the Centre will host a lively and wide ranging programme of temporary exhibitions, many featuring the work of contemporary crafts-people thus promoting craft education and the best craft practices of today. Their aim is to ensure that the Arts and Crafts Movement goes on into the future and that the Centre remains a focus of relevance and interest. For their re-opening, the De Morgan Centre are presenting an exhibition of Fine Cell's work in the re-designed temporary exhibition space.  The charity trains prisoners in highly skilled and paid needlework, using William De Morgan's tile designs for many of their cushion ranges. The De Morgan Centre has had a long-standing relationship with Fine Cell Work and now once again visitors will have a chance to see and purchase from a range of cushions, bags and small items. The De Morgan Centre is re-opening alongside Wandsworth Museum which launched in 2010. The two small independent museums will support each other by sharing expertise and resources such as a fabulous cafe. Co-existing in the same building, we aim to provide an exciting and varied visitor destination in the heart of Wandsworth. The De Morgan Foundation owns an unparalleled collection of work by the late 19th and early 20th ceramicist William De Morgan and his artist wife Evelyn. Both highly esteemed in their fields, they were key participants at the beginning of the still influential Arts and Crafts Movement. This wonderful collection was formed by Evelyn's sister, Mrs. Wilhelmina Stirling. She was a fascinating woman who published her sister and  brother-in-law's biography and other books on diverse subjects. She inherited some pieces from her sister and brother-in-law and actively sought out other works to add to her collection which she assembled at her home, Old Battersea House in London. Mrs Stirling died at the age of ninety nine in 1965. She bequeathed her substantial art collection to be looked after in Trust and the De Morgan Foundation Charity was formed in 1967 to discharge this duty. Mrs Stirling leased her home from the Borough Council who, after her death, granted a long lease to the American publisher, Malcolm Forbes. He restored it and for a period of time gave the De Morgan Foundation space to display elements of its collection. A large number of ceramics were lent to Cardiff Castle and the National Trust properties, Cragside in Northumberland and Knightshayes in Devon. Since 2002 the Foundation's collection has been housed at the De Morgan Centre in South West London. However it was a victim of Wandsworth Council's  arts cuts which closed the library whose building it shared in 2009 and the Foundation began to search for a new home for its collection of over 1000 ceramics and 500 paintings and drawings. However the Centre has received a reprieve and after some extensive negotiations it will be reopening to the public for a further 3 years in its West Hill location, alongside the recently opened Wandsworth Museum. Dating from 1887, the year in which the De Morgans were married, the building accommodates the collection and archive, and provides additional space for temporary exhibitions and seminars. The exhibition space was designed by Michael Davies of Michael Davies Associates, London, to take maximum advantage of the fine Arts and Crafts architecture with state of the art exhibition display facilities and lighting. William (1839-1917) and Evelyn (1855-1919) De Morgan were both highly respected artists in their own rights. They married in 1887 and in addition to their art, they became involved in many of the leading issues of the day including, prison reform, pacifism and spiritualism. Together they were also involved with the Suffragette movement. Evelyn was a signatory for the "Declaration in Favour of Women's Suffrage" in 1889 and William showed his support by serving as Vice President of the "Men's League for Women's Suffrage" in 1913. They were described by Sir Edward Poynter (President of the Royal Academy) as "...two of the rarest spirits of the Age." The most important ceramicist of the Arts and Crafts Movement, De Morgan rediscovered the lost art of lustre decoration and the brilliant colours of Islamic pottery, particularly the bright turquoise which features prominently in his ceramic work. He was especially inspired by Isnik work of the 16th century. De Morgan began his artistic career working alongside contemporaries William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, before opening his own potter's studio in Chelsea. De Morgan worked primarily as a ceramic designer, and had a substantial staff of decorators. These included Joe Juster and Charles and Fred Passenger, whose initials can often be seen on De Morgan pieces. During his career, De Morgan worked on a range of commissions, from stately homes to the Czar of Russia's yacht, and his tiles decorated the public rooms and corridors of several P&O Liners. De Morgan was also a stained glass artist, inventor and chemist. After his pottery closed in 1904 he embarked on a career as a novelist and in the final years before his death he published seven novels, all of which enjoyed enormous success and brought their author the financial security which had until then eluded him. De Morgan was actively involved with the issues of  his day such as education, prison reform, the suffragette movement, pacifism and spiritualism. Evelyn was inspired to become an artist by her uncle, the symbolist painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope. In 1873 she was one of the first women to attend the recently opened Slade School of Art. She won many medals and awards at the Slade and as an up and coming young artist was invited to exhibit at the opening exhibition of the influential Grosvenor Gallery, alongside such established names as Edward Burne-Jones, George Frederick Watts and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Evelyn spent much of her time in Italy, particularly in Florence where her artist uncle lived. The influence of Botticelli and his contemporaries is apparent in the style of many of her paintings. In 1887 Evelyn and William De Morgan married. While each continued to practise their own work, they jointly became interested in and involved with many of the social issues of their day. Visit the centre's website at ... http://www.demorgan.org.uk

Degas Dancer estimated at US$25-35 million at Christie's Impressionist & Modern Sale Posted: 07 Oct 2011 11:21 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- Christie's announces its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on November 1st will be led by Edgar Degas' Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, the most celebrated sculpture to have emerged from the Impressionist era. With its unflinching realism, bold and unconventional combination of materials, and staunch rejection of idealized grace, Petite danseuse represents a defining moment in Degas's career, when he made a daring and controversial break with academic tradition to embrace a new modernist aesthetic unlike any seen before. This iconic work of art is estimated at $25 – 35 million, and is poised to become one of the top-selling works of Impressionist art to reach the auction block this season.

The Harn Museum of Art Hosts Women Ceramicists from Japan Posted: 07 Oct 2011 11:12 PM PDT Gainesville, Florida.- The Harn Museum of Art is pleased to present "Soaring Voices: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists" featuring 87 works by 25 exceptional female artists who reflect Japan's rich and innovative ceramic culture. "Soaring Voices" is on view from October 16th through December 31st. For thousands of years, women have been highly active in the production of ceramics. However, their names are seldom spoken of. "Soaring Voices", featuring 20th and 21st century works, demonstrates the cultural shift in Japanese society toward individualism, where women artists are becoming recognized in an artistic realm traditionally held by men.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Presents Ann Toebbe's Latest Collages & Paintings Posted: 07 Oct 2011 10:34 PM PDT Chicago, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is pleased to present the last in the series of UBS 12 x 12 exhibitions, "New Artists/New Works: Ann Toebbe", on view from October 8th through October 30th. Toebbe's meticulously detailed paintings, collages, and drawings comprise a fascinating world of domestic interiors reconstructed from memory and depicted from multiple viewpoints. Her three new large-scale works made of painted paper—The Doctor's Wife, The Grocer's Wife, and The Photo Engraver's Wife—are based on conversations with her mother, mother-in-law, and step-mother-in-law that centered on fond memories of their childhood kitchens and the difficulties of being a wife and mother in the 1940s and 50s. With these works, the artist considers the role of women as homemakers and the ongoing centrality of the kitchen within domestic life.

The Hungarian National Gallery Shows "Paintings on Paper" from Its Collection Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:52 PM PDT Budapest.- The Hungarian National Gallery is proud to present "Paintings on Paper: Watercolors in the Collection of Prints and Drawings I (1900-1945)", on view at the museum until October 26th. The significance of the collection of prints and drawings in the Hungarian National Gallery, comprising over eighty thousand items, is less well known than it should be, as paper-based objects, which are very sensitive, cannot be on permanent display. The array of cabinets of prints and drawings has, for six consecutive years now, been an effort to change this, showing a half-yearly renewed selection to accompany the permanent exhibition of twentieth-century paintings and statues. Watercolor, a technique requiring great manual dexterity and experience, is a kind of transition between drawing and painting. Watercolors are done in one sitting, using water soluble paint on paper. The line, which is the primary means of expression in drawings, is here replaced by patches of color. Watercolor was at first chiefly employed to do preliminary studies or colour sketches for larger scale paintings and, less frequently, as a medium for landscapes and portraits. The technique came to be renewed in 18th century England, where pigments were used on wet paper, creating a glazed surface with the paper showing through. In the first half of the 19th century this manner of painting became widespread on the continent as well, becoming an independent creative medium in the late 19th century, sometimes combined with other techniques such as gouache, ink or tempera. Since then, watercolor as a painterly medium has been in competition with line drawing, virtually disappearing in periods when the line became more accentuated, while flourishing in others, like that between the two world wars.

The Turquoise Tortoise Gallery Features “Brent Nageli: Painting Pots” Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:37 PM PDT Sedona, Arizona.- The Turquoise Tortoise Gallery opens its new exhibition "Brent Nageli: Painting Pots" on October 7th with a reception for the artist from 5:00 to 8:00 pm during Sedona's "1st Friday Gallery Tour" event. Nageli's oil paintings on canvas capture with nearly three-dimensional reality, stunning and ancient Native American pottery. His paintings appear even more special when one learns that the artist is completely colorblind. As a child he colored faces green thinking himself accurate. And though he had a passion for art he felt it a hopeless career to pursue and made his mark instead in business, eventually owning his own construction supply company. But all the while he held a longing to be an artist and dabbled in everything from drawing to wood carving to rock art.

The Whitney presents "Three Landscapes" ~ A film installation by Roy Lichtenstein Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:23 PM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y.- This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Three Landscapes: A Film Installation by Roy Lichtenstein on view from October 6, 2011 to February 12, 2012. This cinematic triptych, the product of a partnership between Lichtenstein, Universal Studios, and Joel Freedman of Cinnamon Productions Inc., has been restored by the Whitney in close collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, and is being shown in its entirety and in its original 35mm film format for the first time. The exhibition is curated by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney's Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.

The Pavilion of Art & Design London Returns for its Fifth Annual Fair Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:22 PM PDT London.- Patrick Perrin and Stéphane Custot are pleased to announce the final selection of participants for the fifth edition of the Pavilion of Art & Design London. Bringing together an incredible set of 57 galleries from 11 countries to its prime location on Berkeley Square, PAD London 2011 promises to be the strongest edition of the fair since its inception in 2007. A rigorous selection process introduces to London the best dealers from Europe and North America within the fields of Modern Art, Design, Decorative Arts, Photography and Tribal Art from 1860 to today. Opening a new London space in October, Luxembourg & Dayan (USA) make their first appearance with modern artworks by Alexander Calder, Steven Parrino and Anselm Kiefer. Owned by former Sotheby's directors and known for their stable of incredible modern and contemporary artists, Mitchell-Innes & Nash (USA) offer artworks by Alberto Burri and Kenneth Noland. PAD London is open from October 12th through October 16th. Making their debut to the fair is Eykyn Maclean (USA), the New York-based private dealers also opening a new London space in 2012, specialising in museum-quality artworks ranging from Impressionism to Post-War. Concentrating on Italian modern masters, Galleria Tega (Italy) presents fantastic works such as a golden punctured canvas by Lucio Fontana. Rounding out the Modern British faction and joining Robin Katz Fine Art (UK) and Osborne Samuel (UK) is Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert (UK), who emphasises on internationally renowned 20th century artists from the genre. Galerie Pascal Lansberg (France) features an incredible selection of modern and contemporary art, with particular focus in Pop Art, Abstraction and Nouveau Realism. Also displaying modern art is Natalie Seroussi (France), showing works by Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet and Victor Vasarely alongside 20th century design from Galerie du Passage (France) at their shared stand at PAD London. Superb examples of Scandinavian furniture, including chairs and tables by Finn Juhl and Poul Kjaerholm, are exhibited at Dansk Møbelkunst (Denmark), while Swedish gallery Modernity (Sweden) shows a rare decorated chest by architect Josef Frank and sterling silver candelabra by Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala. One of Jean Prouvé's first  masterpieces, the Fauteuil "cité", created as  part of a competition to design chairs for the university in Nancy, features at Jousse Entreprise (France), while Yves Macaux (Belgium), an international expert in the Viennese Secession, presents a brass chandelier by Adolf Loos and dining chairs by Joseph Urban. British antiques dealers Blairman & Sons (UK) display fine 19th century furniture and decorative objects from the Arts & Crafts movement by artists such as Dr Christopher Dresser and EW Godwin. Dominating a significant portion of the fair are stands dedicated  to the most cutting-edge of contemporary design, with many galleries commissioning new works specifically for the occasion. Priveekollektie (The Netherlands) shows pieces from emerging and established designers, including Arik Levy, Rolf Sachs and Reinier Bosch. David Gill Galleries (UK) returns to PAD London after a two-year hiatus with works by design greats such as Fredrikson Stallard and Mattia Bonetti, staging their contemporary furniture alongside a 1966 cabinet by Ettore Sottsass. Nilufar Gallery (Italy) bridges the gap between 20th century and contemporary design with neon lighting by Michael Anastassiades, bookcases by Martino Gamper and curved tables designed by British artist Bethan Laura Wood. Once again Moët Hennessy sponsors the donation of a significant piece of Design or Decorative Arts to the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the Moët Hennessy-PAD London Prize. The prestigious judging panel, chaired by architect and designer Nigel Coates, is comprised of prominent figures in the fields of art, fashion, culture, communication and business, such as Allegra Hicks, Jasper Conran, Tom Dixon, Bella Freud and Karla Otto. Previous years have seen the V&A acquire exquisite pieces from  Friedman Benda (USA) and Carpenters Workshop Gallery (UK). A Child's Chair Project II is the second initiative at PAD London to raise vital funds for the NSPCC's Rebuilding Childhoods Appeal. Francis Sultana, in collaboration with the Rebuilding Childhoods Volunteer Board, including Bodil Blain and Sojin Lee, have commissioned leading artists and designers to customise the child's size Vitra edition of the Verner Pantone chair to be offered for sale at the fair this October, with 100% of the proceeds going to benefit the NSPCC. Artists and designers participating in this initiative include Fredrikson Stallard, Oriel Harwood, Zaha Hadid, Barnaby Barford, Alexander Taylor and Mattia Bonetti, amongst others. The participating artists and designers all have very individual styles, which range from minimalist to baroque, creating unique pieces which retain the spirit of the creator, yet simultaneously capture the child's imagination. In November of this year, PAD New York will launch at the Park Avenue Armory to coincide with New York's fall Impressionist and Contemporary auctions. With four successful years of the London fair and the revered reputation of its Parisian counterpart, Pavillon des Arts et du Design Paris, now it its fifteenth year, PAD New York will build on this distinguished heritage to present a third collection of Modern Art, Design, Decorative Arts, Photography, Jewellery and Tribal Art. The fair organisers also plan on opening a Milan edition of the fair in 2012 to overlap with the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Visit the fair's website at ... www.padlondon.net

Metropolitan Museum of Art to display Francis Bacon ~ A Centenary Retrospective Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:21 PM PDT   NEW YORK, NY - The first major New York exhibition in 20 years devoted to Francis Bacon (British, 1909–1992)—one of the most important painters of the 20th century—will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 20 through August 16, 2009. Marking the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective will bring together the most significant works from each period of the artist's extraordinary career. Drawn from public and private collections around the world, this landmark exhibition will consist of some 70 paintings, complemented by never-before-seen works and archival material from the Francis Bacon Estate, which will shed new light on the artist's career and working practices. The Metropolitan Museum is the sole U.S. venue of the exhibition tour. "Bacon is more compelling than ever: Despite the passage of time, his paintings remain fresh, urgent, and mysterious. Never before has this work been more relevant to young artists," noted Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. "For these reasons, we are very pleased to be able to present a retrospective spanning his entire career to our viewing public." Entirely self-taught, Francis Bacon emerged in 1945 as a major force in postwar art. He rose to prominence over the subsequent 45 years, securing his reputation as one of the seminal artists of his generation. With a predilection for shocking imagery, Bacon's oeuvre was dominated by emotionally charged depictions of the human body that are among the most powerful images in the history of art. The exhibition's loosely chronological structure will trace critical themes in Bacon's work and explore his philosophy about mankind and the modern condition with visually arresting examples. The earliest group of works, from the 1940s and '50s, focuses on the animalistic qualities of man, including: paintings of heads with snarling mouths (Head I, 1947–1948, The Metropolitan Museum of Art); images of men as pathetic and alone (Study for a Portrait, 1953, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany); and the human figure portrayed as base and bestial (Figures in a Landscape, 1956, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, England). The exhibition also features numerous versions of Bacon's iconic studies (1949–1953) after Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X (1650). Mortality is addressed directly in his last works (Triptych, 1991, The Museum of Modern Art, New York). In the 1960s, working in his classic style of much looser, colorful, and expressive painting, Bacon showed the human body exposed and violated as in, for example, Lying Figure, 1969 (Foundation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland). In the following decade he increasingly used narrative, autobiography, and myth to mediate ideas about violence and emotion, as in the 1971 painting In Memory of George Dyer(Foundation Beyeler) and Triptych Inspired by the Orestia of Aeschylus, 1981 (Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway). A number of important works by Bacon will only be presented at the Metropolitan Museum, including Study for Portrait I, 1953 (Denise and Andrew Saul); Painting, 1946 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York); and Self Portrait, 1973 (private collection, courtesy Richard Nagy, London). Central to an understanding of the artist's working methods are the large caches of archival materials that have only become available since Bacon's death, especially the contents of the artist's famously cluttered London studio. A rich selection of 75 items from the artist's studio, his estate, and other archives will be included in the exhibition. The objects include pages the artist tore from books and magazines, photographs, and sketches—all of which are source materials for the finished paintings on view in the exhibition. The curators of Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective are Gary Tinterow, Matthew Gale, Head of Displays, Tate Modern, and Chris Stephens, Head of Displays, Tate Britain. The presentation of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum is organized by Gary Tinterow and Anne L. Strauss, Associate Curator, assisted by Ian Alteveer, Research Associate, all in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Visit : http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp

Tarsila do Amaral solos at Fundacion Juan March in Madrid Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:20 PM PDT   Madrid, Spain - This exhibition is the first solo presentation and one of the most important to be held in Europe on the work of the Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral (Capivari, São Paolo, 1886 – São Paolo, 1973), a key figure in Brazilian painting and responsible for the introduction of the European avant-garde into that country. For Juan Manuel Bonet, curator of the exhibition, Tarsila do Amaral is: "one of the leading figures of a still little known avant-garde movement, but one whose principal innovations are among the most important South American contributions to modern culture."

Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopens at Metropolitan Museum of Art Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:19 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- After an eight-month hiatus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments on March 2, featuring a refreshed and reinstalled presentation of its renowned collection of Western musical instruments. Showcasing more than 230 works of art drawn primarily from the Museum's extensive holdings, which are among the most important in the world, the new installation of Western musical instruments will focus attention on individual masterworks by exploring each within its musical and cultural context, by offering exciting comparisons of how individual makers realized the same concept, and by introducing examples of the various instruments' developments. Among the wide range of objects on view—keyboard, string, percussion, woodwind, and brass instruments—a highlight will be the famed "Batta-Piatigorsky" 'cello made in Cremona, Italy, by Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), on loan from a private collection. Built in 1714, the cello—which was owned by the distinguished cellists Alexandre Batta (Dutch, 1816-1902) and Gregor Piatigorsky (Russian, 1903-1976)—is regarded as one of the best examples of the maker's work.

Cantor Arts Center Showcases Art from "Dürer to Picasso" Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:18 PM PDT   STANFORD, CA.- Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents "Dürer to Picasso," the first in a year long series of exhibitions spotlighting the museum's collection. With 100 works from the Renaissance to WWII, "Dürer to Picasso" represents the top tier of art acquired through gift, purchase, and bequest since the museum's reopening in 1999, after a closure forced by the 1989 Lomia Prieta earthquake. On view through 15 February, 2009.

Sebastião Salgado presents 'True Africa' at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:17 PM PDT TOKYO.- Sebastião Salgado is a pioneer of the photo-documentary genre who is still active today and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography  presents an exhibition of his latest work, entitled 'Africa'. In this exhibition, we look at the true state of Africa, which is sometimes referred to as 'the neglected continent,' through the eyes of Sebastião Salgado, who started his career as an economist. Since he first began photographing Africa in the 1970s, various campaigns have been held around the world to prevent starvation and desertification there, and numerous plans have been put into action.

The Lillehammer Art Museum In Norway ~ Chosen Museum Of The Year ~ Toured By Our Editor Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:16 PM PDT The Lillehammer Art Museum in Norway was chosen as museum of the year in 2008. This is the first time an art museum has received this award. The Lillehammer Art Museum, two hours outside of Oslo, features Norwegian visual art from the early 1800s to the present day. Established as a private foundation in 1994, the Lillehammer's permanent collections include historical and contemporary paintings and sculptures of such artists as Hans Gude, J. C. Dahl, Adolph Tidemand, Eilif Peterssen, Christian Krogh and Edvard Munch. Temporary exhibitions include contemporary international art. Local Lillehammer painters including Kristen Holbø, Thorvald Erichsen and Lars Jorde are well represented in the collection. The museum offers guided tours (in English) everyday. The foundation Lillehammer Art Museum was established April 1 1994. The foundation is a further development of the 67-years-old institution Lillehammer City Collection of Paintings. The museum also holds temporary exhibitions of Norwegian and international art. Lillehammer Art Museum is considered one of the country's most important and representative works from the year 1820-1950. The core of the museum's collection was generously donated by two private collectors: In 1921 the merchant and local patriot Einar Lunde donated over 150 paintings to the city of Lillehammer, and in 1958, antique dealer Oscar Johannessen from Oslo gave his collection of paintings from the 1800s to the institution. In course of the last years the collection has been strengthened by a number of substantial donations and by acquisitions mainly focused on contemporary art. In 2008 art collector Jon Dobloug gave parts of his collection of Norwegian contemporary art to the museum. The collection contains 189 works of art, and has the title "Jon Dobloug's collection". The museum is one of the nation's leading art museums, and houses a collection consisting of approx. 3400 works. The museum also organizes six separate exhibitions a year, featuring both historical art and modern art. Through the government-sponsored art programme The Cultural Rucksack, the museum also offers cultural and art workshops. The unique museum building was drawn by the architectural firm Snøhetta in connection with the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer.

The Kreeger Museum Is Showing "Tom Wesselmann Draws" Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:15 PM PDT Washington, DC.— The Kreeger Museum is pleased to announce that "Tom Wesselmann Draws" will be on view through July 30th. In the 1960s, Tom Wesselmann was one of the key figures in the Pop Art Movement along with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichenstein, James Rosenquist and Robert Indiana. He was a brilliant colorist, superior draftsman and innovator of new techniques, who devoted his life to his art and his family. Tom Wesselmann Draws is the most comprehensive exhibition of drawings by the artist that has ever been assembled. The exhibition includes over 60 works, many of them large in scale and created from materials not usually associated with drawing, including steel, aluminum, fabric, and molded plastic. In addition, many of the pieces on view have never been seen outside the artist's studio in New York City.

Winterthur Museum exhibits American Portraits from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:14 PM PDT WINTERTHUR, DE.- Winterthur Museum & Country Estate will be the exclusive venue of a significant new exhibition, Faces of a New Nation: American Portraits of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opens on July 25th, 2009. The exhibition consists of masterpieces across a span of nearly 150 years. They range from those created by the first immigrant limners at work on these shores to those of highly professionalized artists who undertook commissions in the country's major cities just before the Civil War.

Flamenco & Photography Celebrated at Aperture Gallery in New York Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:13 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture Foundation, a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography, and Instituto Cervantes, a non-profit organization that contributes to the cultural advancement of Spanish-speaking countries, have partnered to celebrate and interpret the art of flamenco through photography in two concurrent exhibitions opening February 4 and 5 at Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes respectively, just prior to the launch of the 10th annual New York Flamenco Festival on February 11. Exhibition on view through 1 April, 2010.

The RISD Museum of Art to display "The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver" Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:12 PM PDT PROVIDENCE, RI.- The RISD Museum of Art presents The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650, featuring 85 objects from the RISD Museum's outstanding collection of Renaissance and Baroque prints—until now unpublished and rarely viewed—as well as objects from major public institutions such as the National Gallery of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Visitors to the exhibition will receive a privileged view into this prized resource. Although most people see and even touch an engraving every day—US currency and many stamps are engraved on steel—few artists work in the medium today. In the Renaissance engraving was new, and one of the world's first reproducible art forms, full of possibility for the spread of designs of all types throughout Europe.

Major Surrealism Exhibition To Open At Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:10 PM PDT Brisbane, Australia (ABC Limelight).- Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art have announced a major new exhibition of Dali, Magritte, Miró, Picasso, Man Ray and other surrealists. "Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams" opens in June and showcases Europe's most important and extensive collection of surrealist works from the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Gallery of Modern Art, which opened in December 2006, complements the Queensland Art Gallery building. Situated at Kurilpa Point only 150 metres from the Queensland Art Gallery building, the Gallery of Modern Art focuses on the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Musée National d'Art Moderne, housed in Paris's iconic Centre Pompidou, is one of the world's best museum collections of modern and contemporary art. Its Surrealism collections are the finest in Europe — and the core of this collection is coming to the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. This exhibition presents more than 180 works by 56 artists, including paintings, sculptures, 'surrealist objects', films, photographs, drawings and collages. 'Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams' is an opportunity to see important art works that rarely leave Paris, in an exhibition that will provide a fascinating and comprehensive overview of this important artistic movement. The exhibition presents a historical overview of Surrealism, charting its evolution from Dada experiments in painting, photography and film, through the metaphysical questioning and exploration of the subconscious in the paintings of Giorgio De Chirico and Max Ernst; to the readymade objects of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray's photographs. Gaining traction in the early 1920s, the movement's development is explored through the writings of Surrealism's founder André Breton and key early works by André Masson. Also included is a remarkable selection of paintings and sculptures by surrealists Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Victor Brauner, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger and Paul Delvaux. Film and photography are also represented throughout the exhibition, including films by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, René Clair and Man Ray. Important photographic works by Hans Bellmer, Brassaï, Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Eli Lotar and Jacques-André Boiffard also feature. The exhibition is rounded out with late works that show the breadth of Surrealism's influence, and includes major works by Jackson Pollock, Arshile Gorky and Joseph Cornell. 'Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams' will be accompanied by an innovative Children's Art Centre program, an exciting range of public programs, including talks, discussions and performances, and a full-colour exhibition catalogue. The popular Up Late program will return on Friday nights from July, as well as an amazing film program at the Gallery's Australian Cinémathèque. The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art was briefly closed after the Brisbane floods of January 2011, but reopened in March. In July 2002, Sydney-based company Architectus was commissioned by the Queensland Government following an Architect Selection Competition, to design the Gallery. A main theme of Architectus's design is a pavilion in the landscape, one which assumes its position as both hub and anchor for this important civic precinct. Critical to this is the building's response to the site, its natural topography, existing patterns of urban generation, and the river. The Gallery's flagship project is the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series of exhibitions, now a major event on the national and international arts calendar. The expertise developed from staging the Triennial for over a decade has led to the establishment of the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art (ACAPA), to foster alliances, scholarship and publishing, and the formation of an internationally significant collection of art from the Asia-Pacific region. Similarly, the Gallery is committed to profiling Indigenous Australian art and strengthening relationships with Queensland's Indigenous communities. The Gallery is also recognised as an international leader in presenting innovative museum-based learning programs for children. These programs are coordinated through the Children's Art Centre. Visit the museum's website at ... http://qag.qld.gov.au/

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 07 Oct 2011 09:09 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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