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• Critical Raves for Hans Burkhardt Exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
• Did Teen Age Boys Kill Van Gogh ?. . New death theory by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith
• The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Presents New Contemporary Art of India
• The Great Plains Art Museum Premiers V....Vaughan's Great Plains Paintings
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shows Renaissance Master Perino del Vaga
• The Fourteenth Editions Artists' Book Fair to Open in New York
• The Winnipeg Art Gallery Presents New Art from Cape Dorset
• The Davis Museum at Wellesley College Opens "The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy"
• Christie's to Auction an Important Pair of Russian Porcelain Vases
• Museo Picasso in Malaga opens Alberto Giacometti ~ A Retrospective Exhibition
• The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan 'Round-Up' Of Fine Art
• The Asheville Area Arts Council hosts Hall and Dawson Fogg
• New Frank Gehry Designed Theater Set for 2012 Opening in NYC
• The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to showcase Impressionist Giovanni Boldini
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents Exhibition Including 74 Edgar Degas' Bronzes
• Major Pablo Picasso Exhibit Opens at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow
• The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) Maastricht 2011 Promises An Outstanding Event With The Best Choice Of Fine Art
• Museum Exhibition Shows How Impressionism was Influenced by the Weimar School
• Masterpiece Landscapes at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Critical Raves for Hans Burkhardt Exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Posted: 17 Oct 2011 11:12 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA - Seismic shifts are taking effect in Los Angeles as "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980," an initiative of The J. Paul Getty Trust with arts institutions across Southern California are underway with museum and gallery openings all over Southern California. Surprisingly, one of the most ambitious exhibitions is presented, not by one of the 60 museum type institutions involved, but by one of L.A.'s long established private galleries, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts.  A just released video sheds light on one of the most compelling components of this major Getty endeavor.  Jack Rutberg Fine Arts' exhibition "Hans Burkhardt: Within & Beyond the Mainstream" brings to light through some 90 works of art and objects, one of the most important artists in L.A.'s 'uncharted' history.  In this fine video of the exhibition's opening night reception, by filmmaker Eric Minh Swenson, the breadth of Burkhardt's provocative work is revealed along with commentary by L.A. art luminaries offering their reflections by critics, art historians and artists in attendance, while Jack Rutberg himself offers insights and context to a history long neglected of this great artist. A Guided Exhibition Walk-Thru by Jack Rutberg on  Saturday, October 22nd at 3 PM is an art event that should not be missed. This expansive exhibition reveals Hans Burkhardt's compelling body of work created in Los Angeles over a period of more than 6 decades. The guided exhibition walk-thru will key upon a history that places Burkhardt in context and discusses his profound impact on the Los Angeles art scene. {youtube}7pRSv-OjVZ0{/youtube} HANS BURKHARDT: "WITHIN & BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM" AT JACK RUTBERG FINE ARTS CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO ON YOUTUBE The video takes the viewer through much of this major exhibition, with works beginning when Burkhardt left New York for L.A. late in 1937, to his final poignant painting of 1993, "The Extra Stripe."  Included are monumentally-scaled works that offer insight into why critics such as Donald Kuspit and Peter Selz have regarded Burkhardt to be one of the major voices in American 20th century art. Hans Burkhardt (1904-1994) was born in Basel Switzerland.  Immigrating to New York in 1924, his artistic training began at Cooper Union and then at Grand Central School, where he met Arshile Gorky. Gorky's role as Burkhardt's mentor soon evolved as Burkhardt became a colleague and trusted friend. Burkhardt shared Gorky's studio for the better part of the years 1928 to 1937, where Willem de Kooning, another Gorky disciple, would frequently visit. When Burkhardt moved to Los Angeles late in 1937, he represented the most significant artistic bridge between New York and Los Angeles, as he was part of the genesis of what became the New York School.  In L.A. he forged an independent course, ultimately pursuing an abstract expressionist style often anticipating the work of his contemporaries and later artists in the East Coast and Europe. Burkhardt's first solo exhibition was in 1939 at the Stendahl Gallery. In the 1940s he regularly exhibited at Frederick Kann's Circle Gallery, where Man Ray was significant in the formation of a short-lived collective of artists called "The Open Circle."  In 1945, the Los Angeles County Museum presented Burkhardt's first museum solo exhibition, which the L.A. Times called an exhibition of "…dynamic power…a striking transfer of feeling into form." Following that museum exhibition, Burkhardt was both critically celebrated and "censored," as his works proved controversial in the years leading up to the McCarthy Era, when modern artists in L.A. were seen as Communist threats. Particularly controversial were his anti-war paintings and Hollywood studio strike paintings, including his "indictment" of then Screen Actors Guild head, Ronald Reagan. "Less incendiary" subjects also proved controversial, such as his Crucifixion Series – condemned for his use of red color and abstract style, regarded as subversive; examples of which are included in "Hans Burkhardt: Within & Beyond the Mainstream".  His painting "One Way Road" (1945), purchased by the County Museum, was removed from its walls shortly thereafter and was finally shown again at LACMA in 2003. Works of the 1950's onward were hugely influential to young artists emerging onto the scene. Artists ranging from Ed Kienholz, John Altoon, Karl Benjamin, Tony Berlant, Melvin Edwards, Michael C. McMillen, etc., were impacted by Burkhardt's independent and provocative works, as he received extensive critical recognition. In the 1950s alone, Burkhardt had an impressive 23 solo exhibitions including a 10-year retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, as well as museums in the U.S., Mexico and the Sao Paulo Biennale. In the 1960s Burkhardt continued to exhibit in an impressively large number of major exhibitions including his 30-year retrospective in 1961-62, organized by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, traveling to San Francisco's Palace of the Legion of Honor and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.  Following a 40-year retrospective at the San Diego Art Institute, the San Diego Museum of Art in 1968 presented a hugely provocative survey of Burkhardt's paintings inspired by his protest of the Viet Nam War, which included his now-famous skull paintings.  These works are now regarded by eminent art historians to be among the major works of the 20th century. Donald Kuspit cites that these paintings  "…make clear that Burkhardt is the master - indeed the inventor - of the abstract Memento Mori." The reactive and prescient nature of Burkhardt's work is evident through the earliest anti-war subjects dating from 1938 through his final painting "The Extra Stripe" from his 1993 "Black Rain Series," included in "Within & Beyond the Mainstream".  Burkhardt's unceasing engagement with contemporary culture over such a remarkably sustained period distinguishes him from other artists, as evidenced by the painting "Sex Pistols," part of his graffiti Basel/Graffiti series of 1981. In 1992 Hans Burkhardt was honored in New York, receiving The American Academy's lifetime achievement award.  Its citation, written by Wayne Thiebaud states:  "Currently at age 87, his works continue to urge us to reflect upon our deepest human concerns about ourselves and our world." The Exhibition, "Hans Burkhardt: Within & Beyond the Mainstream" is currently on view through December 24, 2011 at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles. JACK RUTBERG FINE ARTS 357 N La Brea Ave                    Los Angeles, CA 90036 Tel. 323-938-5222 jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com

Did Teen Age Boys Kill Van Gogh ?. . New death theory by Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith Posted: 17 Oct 2011 10:37 PM PDT AMSTERDAM, NL - Two American authors believe Vincent van Gogh was fatally shot by two teenagers and did not die from self-inflicted wounds, but the new theory won a skeptical reception from experts at the museum dedicated to the 19th century Dutch master.  A book by Pulitzer prize-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, the new book "Van Gogh, The Life" concludes that Van Gogh, who suffered chronic depression, claimed on his deathbed to have shot himself to protect the boys. "van Gogh was covering up his own murder," said Naifeh in an interview broadcast Sunday on the U.S. network CBS's "60 Minutes". Leo Jansen, curator of the Van Gogh Museum and editor of the artist's letters, said the biography is a "great book," but experts have doubts about the authors' theory of van Gogh's death in 1890.

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Presents New Contemporary Art of India Posted: 17 Oct 2011 10:23 PM PDT San Francisco, California.- The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts if pleased to present "The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India" on view until January 19th 2012. "The Matter Within" features photography, sculpture and video by artists of India living inside the country as well as in the diaspora. Inspired by material culture, literature, spirituality and social and political aspects of the history of the South Asian region, the exhibition is organized around three thematic threads that resonate from contemporary India—embodiment, the politics of communicative bodies and the imaginary. Of particular interest are the artistic practices that either incorporate these concepts or operate within a gap between these rich thematic categories. Whereas sculpture and painting have a long history within both sacred and secular traditions of Indian art in recent years, photography and video have emerged as significant media as well.

The Great Plains Art Museum Premiers V....Vaughan's Great Plains Paintings Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:48 PM PDT Lincoln, Nebraska.- The Great Plains Art Museum welcomes the return of Texas artist V….Vaughan and her plein air painting series documenting America "from the passenger seat."  Since 2007, Vaughan has traveled the roads and rails of the Great Plains region painting scenes of change. Her work has documented much of the Plains region from a car, a bus, or a train, for "Passing America: The Great Plains", on view at the museum until December 11th.  Vaughan's first solo exhibition, which premiered at the Great Plains Art Museum in 2007, was "Last Year on the Farm," a daily plein air series that documented her family's last year on a multi-generational farm. The success of that exhibition and the stories shared with the artist since its premier helped inspire the 'Passing' series.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Shows Renaissance Master Perino del Vaga Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:34 PM PDT New York City.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently showing "Perino del Vaga in New York Collections", on view through February 5th 2012. Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1501-1547), a pupil of Raphael, was a leading innovator of the late Renaissance style known as Mannerism, and one of the most influential Italian artists of the 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a painting and a drawing by the master, and they are both featured in Perino del Vaga in New York Collections, on view from September 27, 2011, through February 5, 2012.  The new acquisitions are seen alongside some 18 drawings by the artist from the Metropolitan Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum, and private collections, as well as a second painting from a New York private collection.

The Fourteenth Editions Artists' Book Fair to Open in New York Posted: 17 Oct 2011 09:34 PM PDT New York City.- The fourteenth, biggest and best ever Editions|Artists' Book Fair will take place between November 3rd and November 6th, at the former Dia building at 548 West 22nd Street in the heart of the Chelsea gallery district. As the longest running Fair of its kind, Editions|Artists' Books is honored to continue its tradition of championing the unique medium of the artists' edition. Alongside established international publishers, the Fair will feature promising up-and-comers, offering visitors a cross-section of the contemporary publishing community with a breadth and scope unparalleled by any other fair. The opening night preview and champagne reception to be held on Thursday November 3rd from 6 to 9 pm offers an exclusive first look at the Fair's many exciting offerings.

The Winnipeg Art Gallery Presents New Art from Cape Dorset Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:38 PM PDT Winnipeg, Manitoba.- The Winnipeg Art gallery is proud to present "New Art from Cape Dorset", on view until April 8th 2012. This exhibition features drawings and sculptures created by second- and third-generation Cape Dorset artists in recent years. Eleven original drawings are by Ningeokuluk Teevee (b. 1963) and Tim Pitsiulak (b. 1967), two young artists who are causing much excitement among collectors. Since 2004, Teevee has been creating drawings that explore the relationship between abstraction and representation, particularly the interplay of patterns found in nature. Pitsiulak came to public notice in 2005 with a lithograph, "Caribou Migration", that was included in the Cape Dorset annual print collection. His drawings are realistic depictions of modern subjects that are often angled or run off the edge of the page. Both artists have recently been creating large-scale drawings, such as Teevee's Sea Goddess which is five feet wide.

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College Opens "The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy" Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:19 PM PDT Wellesley, Massachusetts. - The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is proud to present "Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy", the first major touring exhibition to explore the dynamic exchange of ideas that shaped the astonishing landscapes of these Surrealist artists. This groundbreaking exhibition, which features approximately 25 paintings along with selected ephemera by each artist, provides unprecedented access to the couple's intertwined artistic and personal lives. Sage and Tanguy were inseparable throughout their 15-year marriage, sharing adjoining studios in Woodbury, CT and communicating only in French until Tanguy's untimely death in 1955. As Karen Rosenberg writes in the New York Times, this "fascinating" exhibition "intently explores the couple's sinister dreamscapes of polymorphous pebbles (his) and menacing monoliths (hers)." Both artists sought to create paintings that the French poet André Breton called "peinture-poésie," a style influenced by poetry and dream-like imagery. "Double Solitaire" is on view at the museum from October 19th through January 15th 2012.

Christie's to Auction an Important Pair of Russian Porcelain Vases Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:18 PM PDT LONDON.- A magnificent and important pair of porcelain vases by the Imperial Porcelain Factory will highlight this autumn's Russian Art Week in London (estimate: £1,700,000-2,200,000 pounds). In their 28th November Russian Art Sale, Christie's will offer perhaps the finest and grandest pair of Russian porcelain vases to appear at auction in recent memory. Over the years, Christie's have been entrusted with the sale of numerous important pairs of Russian vases and have achieved the highest price ever paid at auction for a pair of Russian porcelain vases sold in 2006.

Museo Picasso in Malaga opens Alberto Giacometti ~ A Retrospective Exhibition Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:22 PM PDT MALAGA, SPAIN  - The Museo Picasso Málaga presents Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective, an exhibition that precisely reflects the different stages in the career of one of the outstanding artists of the last century. Giacometti's work is crucial to understanding the development of the avant-gardes and the subsequent evolution of contemporary art, while as an artist he nevertheless defies classification. This project challenges the conventional reductionist view of Giacometti's oeuvre. This is the first Alberto Giacometti retrospective to be held in Spain in more than 20 years, and it will bring together 198 artworks in the Palacio de Buenavista. The 20 photographs and 166 of the other works are from the collections of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, in Paris, created by the artist's widow. The show is completed by three works by Gioacometti that are on loan from private collections and from the Zurich Kunsthaus, along with a work by José Ruiz Blasco and a selection of eight works by Pablo Picasso from private collections, the MPM's own permanent collection and the Fundación Picasso Casa Natal. On view 17 October through 5 Februay, 2012. The activities that have been scheduled to take place alongside this exhibition include workshops, jointly organized with ONCE, that involve six resin copies of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti; a seminar that will examine the subject of Architects, Film-makers and Artists in their Studios; a series of talks to be held in Malaga and Paris on The Artist's Studio; guided tours of the exhibition for adults and schoolchildren, and workshops for school group during term-time and for children in general during the Christmas holidays. With his exhibition of Alberto Giacometti (Borgonovo, Switzerland, 1901 - Chur, Switzerland, 1966), the Museo Picasso Málaga presents the work of a key figure in twentieth-century art and a contemporary of Pablo Picasso, with whom he coincided in Paris, although, though the Swiss artist was a generation younger. Despite the evident aesthetic and existential differences that characterize their work and their attitudes, there are significant points in common in the two artists' careers, such as being sons of artists, their academic training, their move to Paris during their youth from peripheral countries to the artistic centre of the time, and their shared interest in the Old Masters. The exhibition also addresses other key facets of Giacometti's life and work, such as his obsession with inventing new modes of representation by stripping traditional genres such as the portrait, the still-life, the human figure and landscape down to the barest minimum. The show also explores his belief in the existence of a reality beyond the realm of appearances, as evidenced by his brief foray into Surrealism – a reality he perceived as being in constant flux and transformation. The 169 works by Giacometti brought together for this exhibition, which include oil paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, furniture and textiles, and the 20 photographs by other artists documenting the artist at work, are grouped in different sections and arranged chronologically to show the successive stages of his aesthetic evolution: the earliest works, his arrival in Paris and first exposure to non-academic influences, his interest in late Cubism, his artistic relationship with creative talents such as Picasso and Cézanne, the notion of the cage as delimited space and the human as an artistic genre, among other topics. Alongside them are displayed a small selection of works by Pablo Picasso that illustrate the common features of both artists, as described above. It should be pointed out that twenty of the works that have been brought to Malaga - amongst them two oil paintings - have never before been on loan from the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti for exhibition purposes. This is therefore the first time they have been on show. Also on display is an interactive digital version of a 1932 sketchbook of Giacometti's drawings that reveals the Swiss artist's explicit interest in a group of works by Pablo Picasso that are specific in terms of period and form. A journey through his work A painter, sculptor, draftsman, printmaker, creator of decorative objects and writer, Giacometti never ceased to explore new artistic paths. The exhibition as a whole bears witness to his disturbing and wonderful world and the coherence of his aesthetic position. Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective begins with works from the family setting of his early years, and the first portraits and anatomical studies. One of the key sections of the exhibition traces the artist's development from his arrival in Paris in 1922 and his attempts to engage as a sculptor with late Cubism in the second half of the twenties and the early thirties and with the tenets of Surrealism, from his first contacts with Jean Cocteau and André Masson in 1929 through to his admission into André Breton's circle in 1931. During the thirties Giacometti devoted a part of his energies to applied arts, designing and making furniture and decorative objects, a number of examples of which are included in the show. This line of work gave added impetus to his experimentation and his sculptural exploration of a new idea of ​​place, with an aesthetic far removed now from Cubism and Surrealism. He now set himself to question the value of abstract art as a credible vision of reality, and in engaging with and reworking the traditional genres made a unique contribution to the history of twentieth century art. During the second half of the thirties, after he was expelled from the surrealist group, he began to focus on the relation between figure and pedestal, on the expression of architectural and spatial qualities, highlighting the work of art as the nucleus that facilitates the experience of place. One of the most innovative departures here is the affirmation of the value of real movement in sculpture. From 1946 on, are the stretched and elongated threadlike figures sculpted in bronze that inhabit a space shared with the viewer. These are complemented by a series of oil paintings in which the representation of the protagonists strips them of subjectivity in order to endow them with objective intensity and luminosity. For Giacometti, sculpture was of interest to the extent that it embodied his vision of the outside world. The exhibition concludes with the impressive figure of the Walking Man I from the sixties, the culmination of a life and a career of absolute dedication to his work. The exhibition also includes a remarkable selection of Giacometti's prints and drawings, which focus on the modes of representation of the artist's studio and models, and a series of works that bear witness to his appreciation of the art of other cultures, notably those of Africa and Oceania. The exhibition is curated by art historian Véronique Wiesinger, director of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris and one of the world's foremost experts on the artist's work, in collaboration with José Lebrero Stals, artistic director of the Museo Picasso Málaga. Visit The Museo Picasso Málaga at : http://www2.museopicassomalaga.org/

The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan 'Round-Up' Of Fine Art Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:22 PM PDT The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas. The new building was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, the 2007 winner of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. The Dallas Museum of Art collection is made up of more than 28,000 objects, dating from the third millennium BC to the present day. The museum's library contains over 50,000 volumes available to curators and the general public. The Dallas Museum of Art's history began with the establishment in 1903 of the Dallas Art Association, which initially exhibited paintings in the Dallas Public Library. The Museum's collections started growing from that moment on, and it soon became necessary to find a permanent home. The museum, renamed the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1932, relocated to a new art deco facility within Fair Park in 1936, on the occasion of the Texas Centennial Exposition. This new facility was designed by a consortium of Dallas architects in consultation with Paul Cret of Philadelphia. In 1943 Jerry Bywaters became the director of the DMFA and under his tenure, impressionist, abstract, and contemporary masterpieces were acquired and the Texas identity of the museum was emphasized. In 1963 the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts merged with the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art. The permanent collections of the two museums were then housed within the DMFA facility, which suddenly held significant works by Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Gerald Murphy, and Francis Bacon. By the late 1970s, the greatly enlarged permanent collection and the ambitious exhibition program fostered a need for a new museum facility. The museum moved once again, to its current venue, at the northern edge of the city's business district (the now designated Dallas Arts District). The $54 million dollar facility, designed by New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, gave the museum a new 370,000-square-foot facility when it opened in January 1984 (the museum's Sculpture Garden opened a year before in October 1983). At the same time the name was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1985 the new decorative arts wing, built to house 1,400 objects from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, opened. In 1991, construction began on the addition of the Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. When this opened in 1993 the museum gained an extra 140,000 square feet. In 2003, the Dallas Museum of Art marked its 100th birthday on January 19, and celebrated by remaining open for 100 continuous hours with 45,000 visitors in attendance. The museum collects, preserves, presents, and interprets works of art of the highest quality from diverse cultures and many centuries, including contemporary. As well as its galleries and library, the Dallas Museum of Art contains a café, museum shop and a unique 12,000-square-foot learning environment, the Center for Creative Connections. Visit the museum's website at … www.dallasmuseumofart.org The Dallas Museum of Art's collections include more than 24,000 works of art from around the world ranging from ancient to modern times. The collection of ancient Mediterranean art includes Cycladic, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Apulian objects. The museum's collections of South Asian art range from Gandharan Buddhist art of the 2nd to 4th centuries AD to the arts of the Mughal Empire in India from the 15th to the 19th century. Highlights include a 12th century bronze Shiva Nataraja and a 10th century sandstone representation of the god Vishnu as the boar-headed Varaha. Objects in the museum's highly regarded African collection come from West and Central Africa.The objects date primarily from the 16th to the 20th centuries, although the earliest object is a Nok terracotta bust from Nigeria that dates from somewhere between 200 BC to 200 AD. The museum's significant collection of European art starts in the 16th century. Some of the earlier works include paintings by Giulio Cesare Procaccini ("Ecce Homo"), Pietro Paolini ("Bacchic Concert"), and Nicolas Mignard ("The Shepherd Faustulus Bringing Romulus & Remus to His Wife"). Art of the 18th century is represented by artists like Canaletto ("A View from the Fondamenta Nuova"), Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre ("The Abduction of Europa"), and Claude-Joseph Vernet ("Mountain Landscape with Approaching Storm"). The 19th and 20th century collection of European art also stands out. Among significant works in this collection are "Fox in the Snow" by Gustave Courbet, "The Seine at Lavacourt" by Claude Monet, "I Raro te Oviri" by Paul Gauguin, "Beginning of the World" by Constantin Brâncuşi, "Interior", and "Les Marroniers ou le Vitrail" by Edouard Vuillard. The collection of works by Piet Mondrian is also particularly noteworthy (with works like "The Windmill", "Self-Portrait", and "Place de la Concorde"). In 1985 the Dallas Museum of Art received a one-of-a-kind gift from Wendy Reves in honor of her late husband, Emery Reves. The Reves collection is housed in an elaborate 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m²) reproduction of the couple' home in France, Villa La Pausa (originally created for Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel), where the works were originally displayed. Among the 1,400 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper Emery Reves had collected are works from leading impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist artists, including Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent van Gogh. Another part of the Reves wing is devoted to decorative arts and includes Chinese export porcelain, European furniture, Oriental and European carpets, iron, bronze, and silver work, antique European glass, and rare books. The Dallas Museum of Art has significant holdings of ancient American art. The collection covers more than three millennia, displaying sculptures, prints, terracotta, and gold objects. Works in the ancient American collection span 3,000 years and represent twelve countries. Highlights include ceramics from the southwestern United States, ceramics and stone sculpture from Mexico and Guatemala, gold from Panama, Colombia, and Peru, textiles and ceramics from Peru and the Head of the god Tlaloc (Mexico, 14th-16th century). The American art collection includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the United States, Mexico, and Canada from the colonial period to World War II. Among the highlights of the collection are "Duck Island" by Childe Hassam, "Lighthouse Hill" by Edward Hopper, "That Gentleman" by Andrew Wyeth, "Bare Tree Trunks with Snow" by Georgia O'Keeffe and "Razor" and "Watch" by Gerald Murphy. One of the most beautiful pieces in the collection is "The Icebergs" by Frederic Edwin Church. This painting had long been referred to as a lost masterpiece. The painting was given to the museum in 1979 by Norma and Lamar Hunt. The Dallas Museum of Art also has one of the most thorough collections of Texas art. This is in great part thanks to Jerry Bywaters, director of the DMA from to 1943 to 1964, who was also one of the Dallas Nine, an influential group of Texas artists. In addition to paintings by Bywaters, the DMA has great works by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, Julian Onderdonk, Alexandre Hogue, David Bates, Dorothy Austin, Michael Owen, and Olin Herman Travis. The Museum's growing collections are the foundation for a broad range of special exhibitions organized by the DMA -- from nationally traveling shows such as Thomas Struth and Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century to focused exhibitions such as the recent Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg and the upcoming Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. From its establishment in 1903 as the Dallas Art Association, one of the Museum's missions was to collect and exhibit the work of living artists. However, it was only with the 1950 acquisition of Jackson Pollock's "Cathedral" that the collection really started. Every important artistic trend since 1945 is represented in the Dallas Museum of Art's vast collection of contemporary art, from abstract expressionism to pop and op Art, and from minimalism, and conceptualism to installation art, assemblage, and video art. The collection is now the largest in the world outside of specialist modern and contemporary art museums. Contemporary artists within the collection whose reputations are well established include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Smithson. Among photographers represented in the collection are Cindy Sherman, Nic Nicosia, Thomas Struth, and Lynn Davis. When the current Museum facility opened in the mid-1980s, several artists were commissioned to create site-specific works especially for the Dallas Museum of Art: Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Richard Fleischner, and Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen. In recent years, the museum has shown a strong interest in collecting the work of contemporary German artists such as Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, and Anselm Kiefer, while simultaneously collecting works by young contemporary artists. Amongst the highlights of the collections are Jakson Pollock's "Cathedral", Steve Wolfe's "Untitled (Piano Music for Erik Satie)", John Chamberlain's "Dancing Duke" and Alan Saret's "Deep Forest Green Dispersion". The museum's collection of works on paper, includes photographic works from the earliest pioneers, such as Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq through to Cindy Sherman. Temporary exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art reflect the breadth of its collections and its educational role. Currently on view is "Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement" (until May 8, 2011). This exhibition offers the first comprehensive examination of the life and work of the recognized patriarch of the American Arts & Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore Stickley as a business leader and design proselytizer, whose body of work included furnishings, architectural and interior designs, and related imagery that became synonymous with the movement that was at its height between approximately 1880 and 1910. This exhibition will include over 100 works produced by Stickley's designers and workshops, including furniture, metalwork, lighting, and textiles, along with drawings and related designs. Also featured in the exhibition is a re-creation of Stickley's seminal model dining room from his 1903 Syracuse Arts & Crafts exhibition. "Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Porfolio" (until July 17th 2011), features sixteen works drawn from a rare example of a portfolio within the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1910 Frank Lloyd Wright and Berlin publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued 'Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright (Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright)', a portfolio of one hundred stylishly rendered lithographs of plans, details, and perspective views produced by the architect and his assistants. Including defining works such as the architect's Oak Park home and studio, Unity Temple, and the Larkin Company Administration Building, among other projects, this portfolio served as the first and most important publication of Wright's innovative Prairie school creations and an inspiration for European and American architects in the decades to follow. This is a rare opportunity for the public to see these design illustrations from a pivotal time in Wright's career. A third design exhibitiojn, "Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present" is on show until 29th January 2012, and features more recent design works. Including over thirty works drawn largely from the Museum's collections dating from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition reveals the transformation of ideology and forms that have shaped international design of the last half century. From the technological and formal ideals of modernism to the influence of the handmade object, the works reflect increasingly complex and vibrant relationships between concepts of function, aesthetics, and material expression. Featured are designs by Raymond Loewy, Verner Panton, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass, Robert Venturi, Donald Judd, Zaha Hadid, Louise Campbell, and Fernando and Humberto Campana. In the Center for Creative Connextions, "Encountering Space" runs until August 31st 2011 and presents works of art from the Museum collections and asks visitors to consider how space is used to invite engagement, raise questions, and create meaning. As viewers begin to encounter works of art this way, they are no longer passive observers but active participants. Until April 17th 2011, the museum is offering visitors the opportunity to see "2011 Young Masters Exhibition", selected works created by Advanced Placement® Studio Art, Art History, and Music Theory students participating in the O'Donnell Foundation's AP Fine Arts Incentive Program™ in the Concourse beginning February 26.

The Asheville Area Arts Council hosts Hall and Dawson Fogg Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:19 PM PDT Asheville, NC - The Asheville Area Arts Council Presents: New Work by Cynthia Hall and Dawson Fogg from August 7th through 30th, 2009. The opening reception and Art Walk will be held at Asheville Area Arts Council; 11 Biltmore Ave.; Friday, August 7th from 5:00-8:00 pm. The Asheville Area Arts Council's programs and services fall into five major categories: Arts-in-Education, Artist Support Services, Organizational Support Services, community services, and the Urban Trail.

New Frank Gehry Designed Theater Set for 2012 Opening in NYC Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:18 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY (AP).- A nonprofit theater selling tickets for just $20 is bringing one of the world's most renowned architects to New York's pricey theater district. An arts center designed by Frank Gehry and originally intended for ground zero will anchor a new complex that will also include apartments with some low-income housing, a hotel, a cafe and a bookstore, the city announced Tuesday. Despite the recession, the $800 million, 59-story Signature Center "is an example of how our city can keep growing," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a dedication ceremony for the new home of the Signature Theatre Company.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to showcase Impressionist Giovanni Boldini Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:17 PM PDT WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- During his lifetime, the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) achieved tremendous popularity in Europe and the United States, where he was celebrated for his vibrant brushwork and striking portraits. The exhibition Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris illuminates Boldini's early career when he lived in Paris and painted the city's bustling streets, cafes, and concert halls, as well as charming scenes of its sunny suburban landscapes, while developing his unique style. Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, the first Boldini exhibition in the United States in twenty years, opens at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on February 14, 2010.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art Presents Exhibition Including 74 Edgar Degas' Bronzes Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:16 PM PDT TEL AVIV.- Previously deemed a sentimentalist, mostly immersed in the world of dance and the stage, Edgar Degas (1834-1917), one of the foremost artists active in Paris in the late 19th century, has recently been rediscovered as an artist of unusual intellectual power. His profound interest in capturing the "spirit of the time" while meticulously scrutinizing the everyday—concurrent with confrontation of the lessons learned from the great masters of the past—enabled him to formulate trailblazing insights pertaining to the visual arts as well as to the social and gender orders of the time.

Major Pablo Picasso Exhibit Opens at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:15 PM PDT MOSCOW, (REUTERS).- Russia's influence on Pablo Picasso was celebrated at a new Moscow exhibit on the Spanish painter, sculptor and co-founder of the Cubism movement. Picasso paintings of bulging-eyed women and sculptures bearing his trademark triangular noses feature in a 240-piece collection of works by one of most prolific and dominant artists of the 20th century. The largest Picasso exhibit on Russian soil in over 50 years opened on Friday and it was the Russian influence on Picasso -- by way of his Russian wife and access to her world -- that excited those in the marble halls of Moscow's Pushkin Museum near the Kremlin, which is housing the exhibit.

The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) Maastricht 2011 Promises An Outstanding Event With The Best Choice Of Fine Art Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:13 PM PDT Maastricht, The Netherlands.- The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) Maastricht, the world's most influential art and antiques fair opens its doors at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the Netherlands from 18-27 March 2011. As a visitor to TEFAF Maastricht you will be present at an outstanding event, one that offers the best choice of the very best in fine art. You will have a unique chance to view and to buy paintings from Bruegel to Bacon as well as objects reflecting 6,000 years of excellence in the applied arts. Nowhere else will you find such an elegantly displayed selection of genuine masterpieces from 263 of the world's most prestigious art and antiques dealers from 17 countries. Nowhere else will you find such rigorous investigation of their quality, condition and authenticity. Every item is checked by one of 26 vetting committees made up of over 155 internationally respected experts. And nowhere else will you find yourself in such a distinguished and stimulating company of dealers, academics, art critics, and collectors. During the week of the fair, anyone who is anyone in the field of fine art will be at TEFAF Maastricht.

Museum Exhibition Shows How Impressionism was Influenced by the Weimar School Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:12 PM PDT WEIMAR, GERMANY - Today's longing for unspoiled nature is due to the impending consequences of global climate change and the unbridled exploitation of natural resources. But as early as the mid-19th century a movement developed in France, that could pull artists out of their urban ateliers into the country to be "en plein air", to ensure the beauty and virginity of the wild. The artists no longer sought the sublime and picturesque subject, as before on the traditional grand tour of the Alps and Italy, but the original and simple in the vicinity and in rural life. With its close monitoring of the atmospheric phenomena of different times and seasons, they were also the pioneers of Impressionism. On exhibition at New Museum in Weimar, Germany through 30 May, 2010.

Masterpiece Landscapes at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:10 PM PDT Strasbourg.- The Museum of Fine Arts Strasbourg and the Galerie Heitz (City Gallery), both located in the historic Palais Rohan jointly present the exhibition "A Taste of Nature" until the 15th of August. The exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts brings together a collection of paintings and graphic works (prints and drawings), chosen from among the finest pieces from the collections of Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings. About eighty graphic works, all from the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art are presented at Galerie Heitz. The works exhibited emphasize dialogue between nature and Man (whether man is the artist or the viewer): the exaltation of the feelings of attraction to the picturesque and the idealized landscape and the journey from observation to subjective vision. The exhibition is intended as a journey through the history of European landscape art extending from the Romantic period to the middle of the twentieth century, with masterpieces by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Arthur Sisley, Claude Monet and Paul Signac all on view. Alongside these painters, a host of less well-known works It aims to highlight key works from the collections of museums in Strasbourg, where possible featuring the landscape of the region. By bringing together for the first time, works that are not usually displayed in the same location, resonances between the works can be seen. Some eighty paintings are exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts by themes, allowing for unprecedented confrontations. The themes are, 'The Window', 'Characters in Nature', 'Water', 'The City'. 'The Campaign' and 'The Tree'. The exhibition is accompanied by a selection of films and a series of lectures, and is thematically linked with the major exhibition held in conjunction with the Museum Unterlinden in Colmar, entitled "The picturesque Alsace. The invention of a landscape 1770 - 1870". The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg (Museum of Fine Arts of Strasbourg) is the old masters paintings collection of the city of Strasbourg, located in the Alsace region of France. The museum is housed in the first and second floors of the baroque Palais Rohan since 1898. The museum displays works by non-Upper Rhenish artists from between the 14th century and 1871 and by Upper Rhenish artist from between 1681 and 1871. The museum owns almost 1,000 works, of which around 250 are on permanent display. The old masters from the upper-Rhenish area until 1681 are exhibited in the neighboring Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame.The first municipal art collection of the city of Strasbourg was the result of the French Revolution, and was a consequence of the expropriation of churches and cloisters. Through the years, the collection, which was founded in 1801, grew by private donations, as well as government loans from the inventory of the Louvre. On August 24, 1870, the museum, which was housed in the Aubette on Place Kléber, was set on fire by Prussian artillery fire and completely destroyed. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War, it was resolved to re-establish the museum, and the imperial art historian Wilhelm von Bode was commissioned with the task in 1889. In 1890, the museum was launched and was re-stocked since that time by acquisitions and gifts. In 1931 under the leadership of Hans Haug (1890-1965), the collection of medieval art and upper-Rhenish painting (Konrad Witz, Hans Baldung, Sebastian Stoskopff) was transferred to the newly-founded Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame. The collection of modern art went to the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg). On August 13, 1947, fire destroyed part of the re-established collection, including works of Francesco Guardi, Thomas de Keyser, Antonio del Pollaiolo and Lucas Cranach the Elder. Visit the Strasbourg museums website at ... http://www.musees-strasbourg.org

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