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• The Ellen Noël Art Museum Showcases Paintings by René Alvarado
• New York State Museum exhibits Historic Images from Burns Archive
• Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar exhibits at Galerie Schlassgoart in Luxembourg
• La Maison Rouge Exhibits Works From the Olbricht Collection
• The Autumn Affordable Art Fair to Open in Battersea Park
• The Moderna Musset in Stockholm Displays Later Paintings by Turner, Monet & Twombly
• The Southeast Museum of Photography Shows Stuart Rome's Forest Photographs
• Prospect 2 International Contemporary Art Biennial in New Orleans
• The National Gallery of Art displays The Famed Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff
• The Soka University of America Presents Art by Contemporary German Artists
• Art Madrid’s Fifth Edition Closes ~ A Public Sucess for Spanish Artists
• The Carmichael Gallery in Culver City Presents Works by 5 New York Artists
• Bonhams to auction Maltese Artist's 1875 Grand Tour Watercolour Sketchbook, Est. £500,000
• MoMA Wales Presents Traditional Welsh Idioms "No Hope Like a Canary"
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Opens an Innovative Presentation of the Work of Joan Miro
• Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibits Hans Burkhardt Painting "Burial of Gorky"
• Hamburger Kunsthalle features Survey of Stephan von Huene's Work
• World Record For Juan Gris at Christie's New York at $20.8 Million
• The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art In Budapest, Hungary ~ A Modern Palace Of Fabulous Art
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Ellen Noël Art Museum Showcases Paintings by René Alvarado Posted: 16 Oct 2011 11:55 PM PDT Odessa, Texas.- The Ellen Noel Art Museum is proud to present "From the Pueblo to West Texas: Paintings by René Alvarado" on view from October 21st through January 29th 2012. In 2009, René Alvarado was named the "Texas Two-dimensional Visual Artist of the Year". René Alvarado was born in the small village of El Manantial, Coahuila, Mexico, just outside Torreón, Mexico. Although at that time, by American standards, there was little entertainment or news of the outside world, this small community embraced a sense of ritual, acted out in story-telling, music, and religious ceremony. When Alvarado came to the U.S. with his family at seven years of age he brought with him an interest in art that solidified his attachment to his Mexican roots. It also assisted him in cultivating his new life in San Angelo, Texas. Alvarado's canvas became a personal journal as the anecdotal narratives reflected his life experiences. Alvarado states, "I have come to realize that my work is defined both by my familial roots in northern Mexico and by the subtle, mystical environment of my adopted home in West Texas. My creative process is immersed in this dual identity." "From the Pueblo to West Texas: Paintings by René Alvarado" features paintings full of elegant and mysterious images, layering multiple details of the stories that have inspired him. The personal iconography draws upon the rich cultural heritage and cultural folklore from both cultures. The large colorful paintings in this exhibition feature prominent and repetitive decorative motifs such as fish, roses, and vines. Figures of women are commonly featured in the works. He examines the respect and reverence for the matriarchal household he knew as a child. Like the patron saints in his small pueblo church who seemed to watch over him, his paintings of women reflect a Madonna-like status in his adulthood. The artist will give a free, public Gallery Talk about his life and work on Friday, October 21, at 10:30 a.m. in the Museum. All members of the community, especially students and artists, are encouraged to attend the talk by this "2009 Texas Two-dimensional Visual Artist of the Year". In the gallery, Alvarado will also create an "artful space" echoing the traditional customs of the Mexican celebration called Dia de los Muertos. With curious objects, images, and color, the installation will be designed to reflect the artist's personal memories and current views of this distinctive and unique celebration.The installation is being created in conjunction with the Ellen Noël Art Museum Family Art Day – Dia de los Muertos, on October 30th 2:30-4:30 p.m. Opened in 1985 as the Art Institute for the Permian Basin, the Ellen Noël Art Museum of the Permian Basin is the culmination of years of grass roots fundraising efforts by Odessans to build a fine arts museum. The Museum was renamed in its tenth year to honor the leadership and philanthropy of Mrs. Ellen W. Noël.  In the fall of 2005, the Museum celebrated its 20th anniversary and accreditation by the American Association of Museums. With its expansion in 1998, the Ellen Noël Art Museum now features 22,120 square feet of gallery and office space, including a storage wing for the growing permanent collection.  Its state-of-the-art climate control system creates an excellent environment for the many changing art exhibitions each year. The Museum has three impressive galleries of varying sizes and configurations that allow for exhibitions of varied works, each in it own unique setting.  Admission to the galleries is free.  The Museum is known for its very active exhibitions schedule and outstanding education programming for all ages. In addition to the three galleries, the Museum has a storage wing with secured receiving area, collection storage vault and curatorial offices.  Other sections include two classrooms, the Nancy Chambers Library, an administrative office wing and a Sculpture and Sensory Garden. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.noelartmuseum.org

New York State Museum exhibits Historic Images from Burns Archive Posted: 16 Oct 2011 11:04 PM PDT ALBANY, NY.- Shadow and Substance: African American Images from The Burns Archive -- opens at the New York State Museum October 15th, showcasing rarely-seen photographs from one of the largest private photography collections in the world. Open through March 31, 2012 in the Photography Gallery, the exhibition allows the viewer to perceive how African-Americans were seen by others and how they wished to be seen. These images do not tell a complete story of the past, but their eloquent shadows provide unique glimpses into the lives of African-Americans over the past 160 years.

Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar exhibits at Galerie Schlassgoart in Luxembourg Posted: 16 Oct 2011 10:46 PM PDT LUXEMBOURG.- Galerie Schlassgoart presents Discourses of Prismatic Truths a solo exhibition of Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrekar through November 11th at Pavillon du centenaire/Arcelor Mittal, Luxembourg. The artist has gained recognition with his exhibition at the NUS Museum, Singapore 2009, and Galerie Sylvia Bernhardt, Germany 2010 amongst the several solo shows held by him. Born in 1974 in Mumbai, Ratnadeep received his first class in Fine Arts from the Sir J.J. School of Art Mumbai. His work was included in the exhibition Imprints at the Ueno Royal Museum, Japan and was the recipient of the prestigious Governors Prize in the Visual Arts. A well-rounded contemporary artist who does not abandon his tradition, many of Ratnadeep's work still carry elements that are traditionally considered post-modern Indian art.

La Maison Rouge Exhibits Works From the Olbricht Collection Posted: 16 Oct 2011 10:02 PM PDT Paris.- La Maison Rouge is proud to present "Memories of the Future: The Olbrich Collection" on view at the foundation from October 22nd through January 15th 2012. A medical doctor and art collector from Essen, Germany, Thomas Olbricht, two years ago set up Me Collectors Room, a contemporary art venue in Berlin which, like La Maison Rouge, hosts temporary exhibitions. The Olbricht collection, one of the biggest in Germany, comprises in excess of 2,500 works, a selection of which is on permanent show at Me Collectors Room. This is the first time the collection has travelled to France. La Maison Rouge, a private non-profit foundation, opened in June 2004 in Paris to promote contemporary creation through three temporary exhibitions a year.  Solo or group shows, some are staged by independent curators.

The Autumn Affordable Art Fair to Open in Battersea Park Posted: 16 Oct 2011 09:42 PM PDT London.- The Affordable Art Fair returns to Battersea Park on October 20th and runs through October 23rd. Over 100 galleries will be exhibiting affordable artworks in a range of media and styles. The fair includes the 'Recent Graduates' Exhibition', a specially curated exhibition featuring some of the most exciting works being produced in British art schools, and providing the opportunity to snap up a work by a star of tomorrow. The price ceiling of £4,000 and the compulsory labelling of all artwork ensures you know what you can and can't afford, and the huge array of paintings, sculpture, photography and prints means there is something to suit every taste. The artists shown at the spring and autumn fairs in London are entirely different, so even if you don't find your perfect piece the first time it is always worth coming back!

The Moderna Musset in Stockholm Displays Later Paintings by Turner, Monet & Twombly Posted: 16 Oct 2011 09:26 PM PDT Stockholm.- The Modern Museet is proud to present "Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings" on view at the museum from October 8th through January 15th 2012. J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011) are three of the greatest painters of the last 150 years. This groundbreaking exhibition focuses on their later work, examining not only the art historical links and affinities between them but also the common characteristics of and motivations underlying their late style. All three artists were considered radical in their time and met with negative comment when pushing the boundaries of the conventions of painting. Their late work has a looseness and an intensity that comes from the confidence of age, when notions of finish and completion are modified.

The Southeast Museum of Photography Shows Stuart Rome's Forest Photographs Posted: 16 Oct 2011 09:08 PM PDT Deltona, Florida. The Southeast Museum of Photography (SMP) exhibition space at the Lyonia Envrionmental Center is proud to present "Stuart Rome: Wonders, Images of Florida's Forests" on view through March 19th 2012. Florida has always figured large in the American psyche. Shrouded in mystery and myth, the Florida landscape has inspired awe, fear and conjecture. From the early days of the republic, through the era of exploration and to the present day, explorers, artists and writers chronicled their travels and discoveries in Florida for a curious and fascinated nation. Stuart Rome has followed in the footsteps of many of these great pro-genitors and journeyed to the heart of the Florida peninsula. His new body of landscape images adds to this rich and compelling history of botanic, scientific and artistic curiosity and draws some of its inspiration from the writings and journals of many important early naturalists. The eloquent tracery of patterns and details in his prints resonates with an inner glow and with a draftsmanship that veers at will from lyrical to muted to explosive, to capture the many and varied complexions of the processes at play in the natural world.

Prospect 2 International Contemporary Art Biennial in New Orleans Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:49 PM PDT New Orleans, Louisiana.-  'Prospect.2 New Orleans', the second edition of the international contemporary art biennial, opens to the public on October 22nd and will be on view through January 29th 2012. Curated by Artistic Director, Dan Cameron, "Prospect.2" features 27 local, national, and international artists from a variety of artistic and cultural backgrounds, and a total of nine different countries, including the United States, France, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Japan, Chile, Iceland and Vietnam. New Orleans was the first U.S. city to host a recurring international art exhibition, beginning in 1887 with the exhibition of the Art Association of New Orleans. In this tradition and like its predecessor, Prospect.1, Prospect.2 features art originating from New Orleans and Louisiana within an international context, as well as significant works by international and U.S.- based artists conceived and developed specifically for the city. "Prospect.2" opens on Saturday, October 22, 2011 with a series of festivities including three special performances by participating artists. R. Luke DuBois, a new media artist and composer, is presenting The Marigny Parade, a public performance and music piece. The Marigny Parade is taking place around the Marigny Triangle in New Orleans and features nearly 350 musicians from three renowned New Orleans high school and middle school marching bands, including The Roots of Music Marching Crusaders, The Eleanor McMain Marching Mustang Band, and the O. Perry Walker High School Marching Band. The 350 musicians, performing as five separate groups, will play a new composition written by DuBois. Beginning at 11:00am, the five groups will begin marching from five different locations in the city, converging on Washington Square for the finale of the piece. The performance will be followed by the Prospect.2 ribbon-cutting ceremony that officially opens the biennial. Performance artist and sculptor William Pope.L, is presenting a performance and video installation entitled Blink. For the work, the artist asked New Orleans residents to donate photos in response to the questions: "When you dream of New Orleans, what do you dream of? // When you wake up in the morning, what do you see?" These donated images will be part of a video installation mounted on a truck – a modern, travelling version of a "magic lantern" projection – that will traverse the city of New Orleans from sundown on October 22, 2011 through sunrise the following day. The video, intended to be a collective "memory bank" of the residents of New Orleans, will be stationed at Xavier University's Art Village following the performance for the duration of the biennial. Also as part of the opening day program, Baltimore-based artist, Joyce J. Scott is presenting a performance entitled, Miss Veronica's Veil, at 4:00pm in Café Istanbul at the New Orleans Healing Center. The performance, presented together with 2 singers, a tuba player and a guitarist, alternates between songs, spoken word, and actions, telling the tale of Miss V, a contemporary manifestation of Saint Veronica, who is frustrated by the reoccurring events of history – especially the chasm between men and women. Scott, best known for her glass and beaded sculptural works, is also be featured at Newcomb College Art Gallery with a selection of past and recent work, which includes an outdoor sculpture produced especially for Prospect.2 in collaboration with the local glass studio Inferno. Among the internationally renowned artists participating in the biennial is Sophie Calle, who presents a new iteration of her long-term project, True Stories. For Prospect.2, the project has been reimagined as a site-specific installation that will employ Calle's signature blending of reality and fiction. In the work, she weaves her personal narrative into the history of the 1850 House of the Louisiana State Museum, one of the apartments in the famous Pontalba Apartments in Jackson Square in New Orleans. When the house was bequeathed to the Louisiana State Museum in 1927, the museum recreated what the home would have looked like in its original, Antebellum-era state. In her installation, Calle transforms the historic house by inserting her own items of sentimental value, such as photographs, texts, paintings, and clothes into the various rooms, and in doing so, seamlessly blend the lines between past and present, reality and fantasy, and public and private. Memphis-based photographer and filmmaker William Eggleston, presents an exhibition of rarely shown works, including a black and white photographic series entitled Nightclub Portraits, and a continuous screening of his film Stranded in Canton, which has been described as an intimate and gritty view of Memphis. Eggleston's works are on view at the Old U.S. Mint, Louisiana State Museum. Sculptor and filmmaker Francesco Vezzoli, presents a site-specific, sculptural installation entitled, Portrait of Sophia Loren as the Muse of Antiquity (After Giorgio de Chirico), at the Piazza d'Italia, a landmark of early postmodernist architecture designed in the late 1970s by Charles Moore, and restored in 2004. The installation features a statue of the actress done in an exaggerated surrealistic style, with a red carpet leading from the ground level, to the upper stairwell. Several artists participating in "Prospect.2" are presenting works that embody the spirit of New Orleans, and have been specifically created for the biennial and the city. Alexis Rockman and An-My Lê present works that consider the geographical location of New Orleans and the environmental and political issues facing the region and its inhabitants. Rockman presents a mural-scale painting imagining a war between species indigenous to the Louisiana bayou and those that have been introduced to the bayou ecosystem within the past 500 years. Vietnamese photographer An- My Lê presents a new series of photographs based on her investigations into the lives of Vietnamese nationals who have migrated to southern Louisiana throughout the past 25 years. An-My Lê has worked directly with the Vietnamese community of New Orleans East to produce this new body of work, which reflects the ties of this community to the Mekong Delta region in Vietnam. Highlights of the biennial also include work from artists who currently live and work in New Orleans. Among these artists are Dan Tague, who is presenting a new installation entitled The U.S. Dept. of Civil Disobedience, which explores areas of overlap between high school social studies and the history of radical politics in the United States; Dawn DeDeaux, who has created a large-scale multimedia installation work entitled Goddess Fortuna And Her Dunces In An E ort To Make Sense Of It All, which is inspired by John Kennedy Toole's literary masterwork, The Confederacy of Dunces; and Bruce Davenport Jr., who is presenting some of his most ambitious drawings to date, including a series of large-scale works which express the unique richness of marching bands as a dominant force in the local arts culture. Works will be shown at sites throughout several different neighborhoods of New Orleans, including the French Quarter, Tremé, St. Claude, the Warehouse District, City Park, and Tulane and Xavier Universities. Venues range from museums and major cultural institutions, to public spaces, and non-traditional exhibition spaces. For the first time, Prospect will also exhibit in Lafayette, Louisiana with a video installation by Ragnar Kjartansson presented at the Acadiana Center for the Arts. Additional Prospect.2 venues include: Art House on the Levee; Contemporary Art Center New Orleans; Isaac Delgado Art Gallery, Delgado Community College; Historic New Orleans Collection – Broulatour Mansion and Courtyard; 1850 House, Louisiana State Museum; U.S. Mint, Louisiana State Museum; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University; New Orleans African American Museum; New Orleans Healing Center; Dutch Alley Performance Pavilion; New Orleans Museum of Art; Ogden Museum of Southern Art; Piazza d'Italia, The American Italian Cultural Center; UNO St. Claude Gallery; Xavier University, Founded in 2008 by Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans is one of the leading biennials of international contemporary art in the United States. Conceived in the tradition of the great international biennials, such as the Venice Biennale and the Bienal de São Paulo, Prospect New Orleans showcases new artistic practices from around the world in settings that are both historic and culturally exceptional, and contributes to the cultural economy of New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf region by spurring cultural tourism and bringing international attention to the area's vibrant visual arts community. Visit the biennal's website at ... http://www.prospectneworleans.org/

The National Gallery of Art displays The Famed Collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:30 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC.- Ten themes—Scrape, Concentricity, Line, Gesture, Art on Art, Drip, Stripe to Zip, Figure or Ground, Monochrome, and Picture the Frame—reveal surprising juxtapositions among the 126 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints selected from the famed collection of Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, amassed between 1958 and 2004, the year of Jane Meyerhoff's death. While six American masters—Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Hofmann, and Frank Stella—figure prominently, all of the leading abstract expressionists and several younger artists are also represented. The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works will be on view in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art through May 2, 2010. "The Meyerhoffs built one of the greatest collections ever to focus on American painting of the postwar era, striking not only in its depth and quality, but also in the passion and acumen with which it was assembled," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "This exhibition probes the visual logic behind the choices made by the collectors and by the artists whose work they collected." Some 190 objects from the Meyerhoff collection were shown at the National Gallery of Art in 1996. The new exhibition will present 24 works that were acquired after 1996. The entire Meyerhoff collection, which includes nearly 300 works of art, will become part of the Gallery's permanent collection. Since 1987, the Meyerhoffs have already generously donated 47 works. The Exhibition Rather than being divided by artist, movement, or decade, the works in the exhibition are arranged according to a different logic. Each of the ten categories explores one principal visual theme or material device of 20th-century art, as demonstrated and continuously reconfigured by the artists in the Meyerhoff collection. Scrape: While modern artists did not invent scraping or any other technique of the brush or palette knife, they did repurpose scraping from a technique of removal and deposit to a positive means of creating particular appearances. The works in this section present a compendium of scraping techniques and effects, and include paintings, such as Hans Hofmann's Autumn Gold (1957) the Meyerhoff's first purchase in 1958; Willem de Kooning's Untitled VI (1983); and Clifford Still's 1951-N (1951); as well as two important lithographs by Jasper Johns. Concentricity: There is no more powerful location than a center and no clearer way to mark it than by concentricity. Aspects of this phenomenon are explored in works that include Josef Albers' Homage to the Square (1950), Kenneth Noland's Mandarin (1961), Robert Rauschenberg's Autobiography (1968), Richard Serra's Torus IV (2000), and Frank Stella's Marquis de Portago (first version—1960). Line: Jackson Pollock's achievement of a fully abstract, non-enclosing line broke with the traditional use of the line to describe contours and shapes. This section reveals the seemingly endless variety of treatments of line by artists as diverse as Mel Bochner, Jean Dubuffet, Julian Lethbridge, Roberto Matta, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and others. Gesture: Gesture painting, which celebrates the artist's physical action, ranges from the heroic gesture, as epitomized by two seminal canvases by Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning, to the frozen gesture of Roy Lichtenstein's brushstroke sculptures, to the constructed, interlinked gestures of Frank Stella or Anthony Caro. Art on Art: Art has always been about, around, and for other art. Works in this section reveal their makers' sources, influences, and references, including Jasper Johns' autobiographical painting Spring (1986) and related works on paper; Philip Guston's controversial, yet prescient Courtroom (1970); and Roy Lichtenstein's riff on Theo van Doesburg's progressive abstraction of a cow. Drip: The drip has been a key pictorial element in modern painting, from Arshile Gorky's delicate veils of thinned paint to Jackson Pollock's famous technique of pouring paint on a horizontal canvas. Artists in this category, including Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Brice Marden, celebrate the varied possibilities of the often unavoidable drip in their canvases. Stripe to Zip: Stripes have been associated since the Middle Ages with marginality, transgression, pollution, and revolution. It is only fitting that postwar artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, and others would develop a love affair with this optically jarring pattern. Barnett Newman, who famously coined the term "zip" to describe his signature vertical stripes, plays with the many possible variations in his portfolio of lithographs 18 Cantos (1964). Figure or Ground: In the struggle to break free of the traditional hierarchy of figure over ground, many artists have turned to the grid and other all-over patterns. Variations on this device are demonstrated in the works of Howard Hodgkin, Brice Marden, and Terry Winters. Color and value contrast in Ad Reinhardt's Abstract Painting (1950) are so minimal that definable spatial relations become an elusive mirage. Monochrome: Though frequently used to describe pictures of a single color, this category explores the alternative definition of monochrome: no color or no-chrome. Artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Mark Rothko push gray to its tonal extremes of black and white, reveling in the importance of texture and light when color is held to a minimum. Picture the Frame: One of the principal dreams of modernist painting was an autonomous, self-evident, almost self-generating picture that had no need of external support to secure its coherence and status. In this final section, Burgoyne Diller, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Joel Shapiro, with others, challenge or celebrate the boundary of the edge, mocking and dissolving the need for the frame. The exhibition spills beyond its own galleries to mingle with works in the Gallery's permanent collection and with the architecture of the East Building. Several works will be installed throughout the atrium and Upper Level, including Roy Lichtenstein's Bedroom at Arles (1992), Ellsworth Kelly's Red Curve (1987), and Claes Oldenburg's Soft Drainpipe—Red (Hot) Version (1967). Some 20 works previously donated by the Meyerhoffs, including Barnett Newman's Stations of the Cross (1958-1966), will also be on view in the Concourse and Upper Level galleries. The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection In 1987 the National Gallery of Art announced that Robert and Jane Meyerhoff of Phoenix, Maryland, near Baltimore, had signed an agreement with the National Gallery of Art providing the terms for the eventual donation of the entire collection to the Gallery. To date, the Meyerhoffs have given 47 works to the Gallery. Upon the donation of the remainder of the collection, a foundation will operate the galleries in Phoenix: the art will be displayed both there and in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Meyerhoffs' galleries will become a center for the study of postwar art. Visit : www.nga.gov/

The Soka University of America Presents Art by Contemporary German Artists Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:29 PM PDT Aliso Viejo, CA.- The Art Gallery at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California is proud to present the works of 16 contemporary German artists in an exhibition curated by Walter Bischoff.  The 44 contemporary paintings and drawings are being shown for the first time in Orange County and are on view from May 20th through August 19th, with an opening reception on May 24th.

Art Madrid’s Fifth Edition Closes ~ A Public Sucess for Spanish Artists Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:28 PM PDT MADRID.- Art Madrid's Fifth edition of ARCO closed its doors with great public success and significant levels of institutional purchases and private collectors. In a complex year for the contemporary art world, Art Madrid consolidates as an essential meeting point for contemporary Spanish art, increasing the number of visitors to 37,000, almost 20% more than last year, with sales exceeding those of the previous edition. Regarding its sixth edition, next year Art Madrid´s organizers will emphasize its search for a greater quality in the proposed exhibition galleries. Thus it will create an external selection committee and will look for independent artistic advisors for the various programs to be carried out.

The Carmichael Gallery in Culver City Presents Works by 5 New York Artists Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:27 PM PDT Culver City, CA.- The Carmichael Gallery is pleased to present "Breach of Privacy" a group exhibition featuring works by Yasmine Chatila, Hilo Chen, Adam Krueger, Alyssa Monks and Jaclyn Santos, five New York-based artists whose creative practices span a disparate range of media, yet coalesce to represent compelling explorations of voyeurism in its shifting states of ecstasy, release and isolation. Via exhilarating photorealistic oils, hauntingly subtractive mixed media works and raw black and white photography, each artist fashions his or her own unique voyeuristic allegory, some oblique, others candid, but all bound by a bittersweet philosophical thread that delves far deeper than that which is externally revealed in each of "Privacy", on view from May 21st through June 11th.

Bonhams to auction Maltese Artist's 1875 Grand Tour Watercolour Sketchbook, Est. £500,000 Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:26 PM PDT LONDON. - A remarkable sketchbook containing over 80 stunning watercolours by Count Amadeo Preziosi, who left Malta to spend his life in Constantinople (Istanbul), is one of the highlights of Bonhams next Travel and Exploration Sale on 16th  September in New Bond Street. The sketchbook taken on a Grand Tour of Europe in 1875 by the watercolour artist, Count Amadeo Preziosi (1816-1882), self-titled 'Souvenir de mon dernier voyage' is estimated to sell for £320,000-500,000. The book provides a brilliant insight into a lost world, one that our forbears inhabited just 135 years ago, but a world utterly transformed.

MoMA Wales Presents Traditional Welsh Idioms "No Hope Like a Canary" Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:25 PM PDT Machynlleth, Wales.- The Museum of Modern Art, Wales is proud to present "Dim Gobath Caneri (No Hope Like a Canary"), an exhibition of works inspired by traditional Welsh idioms by poet Mike Jenkins and artist Michalel Gustavius Payne, on view at the museum until October 29th. Thanks to a grant from the Arts Council of Wales Michael Gustavius Payne (or Gus as he's known in Merthyr) and poet Mike Jenkins have produced "Dim Gobaith Caneri"using ideas inspired by traditional Welsh idioms and phrases to explore themes relevant to Wales and the world today, in a modern context. Payne explained that "the idea of using the Dim Gobaith Caneri idiom as a theme was intended initially to be working title, but as things moved onward, it seemed to become even more relevant as ideas became distilled and the points binding both our contributions became more and more apparent".

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Opens an Innovative Presentation of the Work of Joan Miro Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:24 PM PDT MADRID - The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opened the exhibition Miró: Earth. It offers a totally innovative presentation of the work of Joan Miró that focuses on a recurrent concept in the artist's work: the earth. For the first time this theme will be the subject of a major monographic exhibition covering Miró's entire career from 1918, the year of his first solo exhibition, to his death in 1983. On view 17 June through 14 September, 2008.

Philadelphia Museum of Art Exhibits Hans Burkhardt Painting "Burial of Gorky" Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:23 PM PDT Philadelphia, PA - When the artist, Hans Burkhardt (b. 1904 Basel, Switzerland - d. 1994 Los Angeles) left New York late in 1937, after nearly nine years of sharing Arshile Gorky's studio, he brought to Los Angeles the largest holdings of Gorky works by his friend and mentor, outside Gorky's own holdings. Burkhardt was the first to introduce Gorky's work to other artists and curators in L.A. and his collection was the subject of a number of Gorky museum exhibitions. Hans Burkhardt's "Burial of Gorky" is currently on view as part of the concurrent exhibition, "Arshile Gorky in Context" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 10, 2010.

Hamburger Kunsthalle features Survey of Stephan von Huene's Work Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:22 PM PDT HAMBURG.- The artist Stephan von Huene (1932–2000) famous for his construction of intriguing sound sculptures, was also an exceptionally draughtsman. The exhibition The Song of the Line for the first time offers a survey of the entire oeuvre of his drawings. Drawings in pen and pencil that von Huene produced in California in the 1960s are evidence of the artist's familiarity with the work of Pablo Picasso as well as with the sculptures of the native North American Kwakiutl tribes and the cartoon drawing of the Disney empire. The figures in von Huene's early, consummately executed drawings throw open a pan-erotic cosmos of imagery replete with allusions to the mythological pictorial traditions of a wide range of cultures and eras. On view through 6 June.

World Record For Juan Gris at Christie's New York at $20.8 Million Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:21 PM PDT NEW YORK.- In its second Evening Sale of the week, Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, achieved $147 million for paintings and sculpture with top lots from Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Wassily Kandinsky commanding the highest prices. The sale follows Wednesday's Evening Sale of two single-owner collections, The Modern Age: The Hillman Family Collection and The Collection of Alice Lawrence. New world auction records were set for Cubist master Juan Gris, American artist Alice Neel, and for works on paper by Georges Seurat and René Magritte. The two Evening Sales at Christie's New York this week achieved a combined total of $194 million.

The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art In Budapest, Hungary ~ A Modern Palace Of Fabulous Art Posted: 16 Oct 2011 08:20 PM PDT The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, Hungary, was the first Ludwig Museum to be established in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1989 the art-collecting couple, Irene and Peter Ludwig, made a contract with the Hungarian state and established this contemporary fine-art museum with 72 works of their own pieces of art. In 1991 they added a further 195 pieces, expanding the collection which can be seen at the Palace of Arts, and which is continually being added to. The Palace of the Arts opened in 2005 and it accommodates the most diverse branches of the arts, with facilities incorporating the most advanced theater, museum, and acoustic technologies. The spectacular building occupies an area of more than 10,000 m2 at the Pest side of the Lágymányosi Bridge, adjacent to the National Theatre, the first pillar of the Millennium City Centre being built on the site. The main objective of the architects – Zoboki, Demeter and Associates – was that the multi-functional building should present a coherent whole when viewed from the outside. The exterior presents a simple, clear aspect with large expanses of glass, and almost devoid of decorative elements. Inside, the building is laid out into broad, clearly-arranged internal spaces. The outer surfaces are of "dead" material – concrete, glass and Süttő limestone, while inside, an enormous undulating main wall, clad mainly in walnut, creates a warm, friendly atmosphere. The building's principal visual feature is the imposing lobby, which connects the three main sections: the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, the Festival Theatre, and the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art. Its design and size are optimal for a lovely and educational trip through contemporary international and Eastern European art. The Béla Bartók National Concert Hall is the largest section of the building. With an audience capacity of 1700, the concert hall ranks among the best of the world in terms of acoustics, having been built by Artec of New York in association with Hungarian engineers. The fabulous acoustic system is coupled with a high-tech audio-visual system which can serve the needs of any visiting production at world standard. The queen of musical instruments, the great organ, was installed in spring 2006. The concert hall is home to the National Philharmonic and its Orchestra, Choir, and Music Library. The Festival Theatre occupies the east wing of the complex. It seats an audience of 452, and its stage technology is of equal standard to that of the concert hall. The theatre hosts visiting companies and is home to the National Dance Theatre. The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, formerly accommodated in Buda Castle, takes up the whole side of the building facing the Danube. In addition to the exhibition halls, the Museum wing incorporates the Glass Hall, the events hall of the Palace of the Arts, and an expandable lecture and projection hall. The Museum has a gross floor area of 12,000 m2. The flooring in the exhibition halls is bamboo, and illumination of art works is largely by natural light, supplemented by a system of concealed light sources. In line with international standards, the humidity is constantly monitored and controlled, and adjusted to suit each exhibition's particular needs. Visit the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art website: http:www.ludwigmuseum.hu Its continuously growing collection gives an overview of international art since 1950 and of Hungarian art from the 1960's to recent days. It displays masterworks of modern and contemporary art in its permanent collection, focused on American pop art (Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, etc.) and on Eastern and Central European art. The museum's collection also has a valuable classic and contemporary avant-garde Russian collection. The Ludwig collection of some 800 works by Picasso is one of the largest collection in the world and from this collection three significant paintings from his late period are in Budapest. Budapest is the ideal place to reflect on the role of art and politics, and the Ludwig Museum, in its permanent collection exhibition, showcases the intersection of contemporary art and politics. The collection reflects on the social and political utopias, mines cultural memory and explores the limits of creativity in public spaces, and above all, the complex role that the artist plays in society. These reflections are especially fraught with complex questions in the former eastern bloc, as any history of art will be wrapped up with questions of censorship, propaganda and authorship. The different conceptual bases for art due to the repressive political climate mean that certain "apolitical" forms, such as abstract art, took on a political cast during the Cold War. In this case, abstraction became a negation of the systematic ideals of Eastern Europe and a form of rebellious expression. The exhibition rescues many works which had been obscured by political pressures to shed new light on them for both localand international visitors. This wonderful permanentexhibition collected artwork from about fifty artists both from Hungary and various corners of the Eastern and Western European world. In its most recent and current exhibitions, the thematic approach is the strongest principle defining the selection of works from the Museum's collection. Instead of displaying the well-known highlights, the exhibition intends to focus on newer works, and endeavours to acquaint the wider public with them. Among them are recent acquisitions on display for the first time in the context of the Museum, in part from Hungarian artists (including István Csákány, Tamás Kaszás, Ádám Kokesch, Csaba Nemes). Some of the works are well-known pieces from the international scene (e.g., the works of Harun Farocki, Zbigniew Libera, Simon Starling, Mladen Stilinović, Bálint Szombathy, Goran Trbuljak). The works are not arranged according to an art historical categorisation or a chronological principle, but in a way which enables us to highlight some other (thematic or formal) aspect of the works. Some of these connections might seem banal or trivial at times, but they rather serve to provide the visitors with starting points for the formations of new meanings (Ferenc Ficzek, Zsigmond Károlyi, Stanislav Kolíbal, Timm Ulrichs, etc.). The exhibitions aim to "rescue" these works form a traditional and rigid art historical system that is often capable of showing only a fraction of the connections and correspondences of the works. For this reason, the exhibition strongly relies on the visitors' active participation, invited to mobilize and make use of their own experience and knowledge in the reception and interpretation of the works, thus enabled to enter into a more personalized relationship with them. Following on the Ludwig Museum's exhibition, New Acquisitions – Rarely Seen Works (2009), Kind of Change, immediate upcoming exhibitions will focus on the display of recently acquired works of art. These exhibitions can be considered a complete whole together with the rearranged permanent exhibition, Unmistakable Sentences (2010), where many of the newly acquired works have been on view. The majority of the works of art that have been acquired by the museum during the last couple of years are embedded in the texture of the recent past of East-Central Europe and that of its ever-changing present, where questions of artistic forms and existence, and of historically determined artistic products have been constantly and painfully raised. Some these upcoming exhibitions are: Sing! - Mladen Stilinović Retrospective (April 22, 2011 - July 03, 2011), a retrospective exhibition that brings together the main installations, collages, photographs and art books of the most important neo-avant-garde artists in the former Yugoslavia; László Moholy-Nagy - The Art of Light (June 10, 2011 - September 25, 2011). In this exhibition, the exceptionally diverse artistic and media-theoretical activity of László Moholy-Nagy, key figure of modernist art, is arranged around the motif of light. The selection includes 200 paintings, black and white and colour photographs and graphic drafts from the period after 1922, concurrent with his development of the genre of photogram and his influential pedagogical and art theoretical activity at the Bauhaus; and Rita Ackermann (November 18, 2011 - February 05, 2012), in this exhibition, the atmosphere of the late 1980s and the 1990s means a crucial factor in the development of the art of Rita Ackermann, who started her studies as a painter in Hungary before leaving for New York where she lives and works today. After several prominent galleries and group exhibitions worldwide her works will be on display as a part of the Ludwig Museum's solo exhibition series.

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