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• Important Russian Art at Sotheby’s New York Auction on Nov1st
• The Joshua Liner Gallery Opens New Works by Chloe Early & Ryan McLennan
• The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show in New York City
• The Cummer Museum of Art Features Eugene Savage's Seminole Paintings
• The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens to Host Two New Exhibitions
• The Bellevue Arts Museum Shows "Travelers: Objects of Dream and Revelation"
• LewAllen Galleries Present New Paintings by Michael Roque Collins
• The Morgan Library & Museum to Highlight Treasures of Illuminated Islamic Manuscripts
• Diane Arbus Major Retrospective in France Opens at Jeu de Paume
• 1000 Strip Off in Spencer Tunick Tribute to Artist LS Lowry
• "The Subject is Women" at the Nassau County Museum of Art
• The World's Most Expensive Painting - Pablo Picasso's "Green Leaves, Nude and Bust" At Tate Modern
• Prize Awarded to Glasses that Enable Paralysed Artists to Draw
• Peggy Guggenheim Collection Presents Exhibition of Gallerist Ileana Sonnabend
• Kunsthistorisches Museum exhibits 'The Myth of Antiquity' in Vienna
• Minneapolis Institute of Art Billboard Replaced After Clothes Painted On Titian Nude 'Venus'
• Miró ~ Dubuffet ~ Basquiat at the Nassau County Museum of Art
• The John Jones Collection exhibits "Paperview" from Three Renowed Art Collections
• Our AKN Editor Greatly Enjoyed A Guided Tour Of The ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum In Denmark
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Important Russian Art at Sotheby’s New York Auction on Nov1st Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:36 PM PDT New York City.- Sotheby's annual autumn auction of Important Russian Art in New York will be held on November 1st. In response to persistent demand for rare and historic works with exceptional provenance, the sale will offer 26 museum-quality masterpieces spanning important genres in Russian art, from 19th century paintings to the early avant-garde and Soviet eras of the 20th century. The auction is estimated at $19.4/28.2 million in total, with a strong average lot value of nearly $1 million, and will be highlighted by pictures from two American institutions: Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin's Pearl Mosque at Delhi, on offer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), and a group three works by Nicolai Fechin that includes Bearing Away the Bride, on offer from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma (separate releases available). A selection of works will be on view in Moscow from 18–20 October, before returning to New York for the full sale exhibition opening 26 October in Sotheby's York Avenue galleries, alongside the auctions of Impressionist & Modern Art and 19th Century European Art. The three paintings by Russian-American artist Nicolai Fechin on offer from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum  in Oklahoma City will be led by "Bearing Away the Bride", the most significant and monumental canvas by the artist ever to appear at auction (est. $3/5 million). Proceeds from the sale of the three works will help fund future acquisitions of Western materials at the Museum, which is America's premier institution of Western history, art and culture. Bearing Away the Bride is the key painting from Fechin's exceptionally rare Russian period that defined him as a mature artist, having arrived at the distinct style and ethnographic interests that would characterize his long and prosperous career, and is among the most singularly accomplished of his entire oeuvre. The work was inspired by Fechin's travels to remote villages outside Kazan during the summers of 1906 and 1907, where he encountered members of the Cheremis (now Mari) tribes, among others. It depicts a traditional wedding ritual performed by the Cheremis in the village of Lipsha. According to native custom, the newlyweds would return to their respective childhood homes after the wedding ceremony itself, and remain apart for a full week. Fechin here depicts the moment when the groom returns to his wife and escorts her to their new, shared home. The November auction will also feature Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin's "Pearl Mosque at Delhi", the most accomplished painting from the artist's famed Indian series and his most significant canvas to appear at auction in over a century (est. $3/5 million*). The monumental work – measuring approximately 13 by 16 feet – is on offer from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), along with seven works in the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 2 November. Vereshchagin was unquestionably the most famous of all Russian painters during his lifetime. In 1874, he acquired sufficient funds to visit India with his wife and embarked on a two-year journey throughout the country. No other major artist had ever visited India at the  time, and Vereshchagin found much inspiration in the intensity of the landscape. Upon his return to Paris in 1876, Vereshchagin set to work on "Pearl Mosque at Delhi", which was his largest canvas to date and perhaps the most monumental of his entire oeuvre. Often considered the best, most technically adept output of his career, Vereshchagin's Indian series features numerous depictions of architectural monuments, all of which he realistically captured with painstaking attention to detail – a testament to the lasting influence of his training under Jean-Léon Gérôme. In addition to Pearl Mosque at Delhi, 19th century works in the November auction will be highlighted by Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin's "Sandy Coastline" from 1879  (est $1.2/1.8 million). The work is a marvel of natural rendition that borders on romanticism, wherein the bright coast and the glowing tops of the abstracted tree trunks contrast with the darkened sky. Shishkin simultaneously depicts the un-idealized reality of the scene, capturing the forest's struggle for survival in an inhospitable terrain. The composition might be seen as a metaphor for prerevolutionary Russia's precarious viability, meager foundations and impending political unrest, but also and its will to endure. Featured on the catalogue cover will be Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova's "Street in Moscow" from 1909 (est. $1.2/1.5 million). One of the most revolutionary figures of her generation, Goncharova is further distinguished as the most valuable and collectible of all female artists. While most of her canvases from the early 20th century focused on Russian peasant life, Street in Moscow is distinct for its portrayal of a refined bourgeois cityscape, which she embeds with amusing commentary on social classes. Meanwhile the presence of street signs underscores Goncharova's interest in Russian folk art, making this one of the earliest examples of Russian avant-garde painting. Also on offer from this period is "Still Life in a Tavern in a Minor Key" by Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov, which similarly represents one of the earliest contributions to the Russian avant-garde (est. $700/900,000). Working in a revolutionary Neo-primitivist style, Larionov emphasizes the "Eastern" origins of the imagery in this still life by featuring a traditional samovar and cup. Further highlights from the early 20th century include canvases by Petr Petrovich Konchalovsky and Nicholas Roerich. Konchalovsky finished the powerful and vibrant "Pines" in 1920, dating it to one of the artist's most sought-after periods (est. $800,000/1.2 million). In terms  of its synthesis of color, texture and form, the work is a superb representation of the aims of the Jack of Diamonds group, which the painter helped to found in 1909, and demonstrates the raw vitality of Konchalovsky's work. "And We Continue Fishing" is the fourth of six paintings in Roerich's Sancta series (est. $1.2/1.5 million). These allegorical works are meant to represent a spiritual journey, and they are unique within the artist's work from the 1920s for their distinctively Russian setting and imagery. The work exudes a simplicity of form and a reverence of subject that evokes the nature of icon painting. Paintings from Soviet-Era artists  will be led by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev's "Fireworks. The Bronze Horseman" (est. $3/4 million). Kustodiev was approached by the Central Bureau to prepare decorative designs for the first anniversary celebration of the October Revolution in 1918. The result was a series of large-scale panels that decorated Ruzheinaya Square in what was then Petrograd, and it is all but certain that "Fireworks. The Bronze Horseman" was executed as part of this remarkable cycle. The composition centers on one imposing figure – the equestrian statue featuring Tsar Peter I, St. Petersburg's founder. The bold palette and exuberant technique evoke Kustodiev's own intense nationalism. Another highlight from this period will be "Faces of a Generation" by Aristarkh Vasilevich Lentulov (est. $1.4/1.6 million). In the 1930s, Lentulov adjusted his style to reflect the drastic changes occurring around him, and the resulting works from his "Industrial Period" are among his rarest and most emotive. The laborers at the heart of the revolution figure prominently in his paintings from this period, their faces dominating the artist's monumental canvases and infusing them with psychological intensity. Sotheby's was founded in London on March 11, 1744, when Samuel Baker auctioned "several Hundred scarce and valuable books" from the library of the Rt Hon Sir John Stanley for a few hundred pounds. The story of Sotheby's expansion beyond books to include the best in fine and decorative arts and jewellery is also the story of the global auction market, defined by extraordinary moments that continue to capture the world's attention. Since 1744, Sotheby's has distinguished itself as a leader in the auction world. Their auctions, conducted in the venerable salerooms in London and Paris, the museum-quality galleries of their headquarters in New York and the spirited environs of Hong Kong rivet audiences worldwide. Season after season, the depth and excellence of Sotheby's offerings have produced watershed, record-breaking sales. Sotheby's has been entrusted with the sale of many of the world's treasures, amongst them: Napoleon's St Helena library, the Duchess of Windsor's jewels, the Estate of Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, Rubens' Massacre of the Innocents, Pablo Picasso's Garçon à la Pipe, Francis Bacon's Triptych, 1976, The Grand Ducal Collections of Baden, the Qianlong Yellow-Ground Famille-Rose Double-Gourd Vase, the 5,000-year-old Guennol Lioness, Giacometti's L'Homme Qui Marche I, the Magna Carta, the first printing of the Declaration of Independence and The Martin Luther King Jr Collection. Sotheby's has long recognised that great works of art, as well as the collectors interested in consigning and acquiring them, inhabit the global sphere. They were the first international auction house to expand from London to New York in 1955, and the first to conduct sales in Hong Kong and the then–Soviet Union. Today they maintain 90 locations in 40 countries and they conduct 250 auctions each year in over 70 categories. In addition to their four principal salerooms, the company, recognising the potential in new markets, also conducts auctions in six other salerooms around the world, further expanding its global reach. Visit the auction house's website at ... http://www.sothebys.com

The Joshua Liner Gallery Opens New Works by Chloe Early & Ryan McLennan Posted: 19 Oct 2011 09:47 PM PDT New York City.- The Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present "Feathers and Wax", an exhibition of new paintings by the Irish artist Chloe Early. This exhibition marks the artist's New York City and Joshua Liner Gallery solo debut. Alongside this exhibition, the gallery will be showing "Abominations", an exhibition of new paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist Ryan McLennan. This is the artist's second solo show with the gallery. Both exhibitions are on view from October 20th through November 19th. Reception Thursday October 20th from 6-9pm

The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show in New York City Posted: 19 Oct 2011 09:27 PM PDT New York City.- The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show opens at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street on October 21st and runs through October 27th. Established in 1989 The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show is recognised the world over as a premier showcase for exceptional quality works of art from antiquity to the present day. Featuring some of the world's top dealers, The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show consistently attracts large crowds to enjoy and buy from a superb variety of items, including silver, sculpture, bronzes, furniture, carpets and textiles, jewellery, pictures, ceramics and glass. All works are for sale under the strictest vetting conditions.

The Cummer Museum of Art Features Eugene Savage's Seminole Paintings Posted: 19 Oct 2011 09:15 PM PDT Jacksonville, Florida.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens is pleased to present "Eugene Savage: The Seminole Paintings", on view through January 8th 2012. The exhibition features 42 paintings and watercolors inspired by Savage's trips to the Everglades. As part of the Museum's 50th Anniversary celebration, the works are being displayed publicly for the first time since the 1960s. The Cummer purchased the collection in 2007, after former trustee Samuel Vickers introduced Savage's work to the Museum. Savage's series is the most extensive painted record of the Florida Seminoles from the early twentieth century. He found a way to depict native culture as well as critique modern urban life. The natural rhythms of the Everglades are portrayed, which presents a vision of Seminole life. "While certainly not documentary in nature, Savage's abstracted compositions evoke mystery and imagination," said Keris. "I hope visitors will be enthralled by the work of Eugene Savage, and his magical recollections of the Seminoles and the Florida Everglades."

The Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens to Host Two New Exhibitions Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:55 PM PDT Delray Beach, Florida.- Two exhibitions recently opened at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, "Zenmi - A Taste of Zen: Paintings, Calligraphy, and Ceramics from the Rival Lee Asbell Collection" and "Small Wonders: Japanese Snuff Bottles from the Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art" are both on view until January 22nd 2012. Zen is a form of Buddhism known for its reliance on personal introspection as a means of achieving enlightenment. Zen has always been iconoclastic as well; whereas even the Buddha can be the object of irreverence. The exhibition features over 80 works of art including paintings and calligraphy mounted as hanging scrolls, inscribed ceramics used in the tea ceremony, and other objects associated with the practice of Zen. All works are examples of the genre of Japanese art called zenga, which is believed to have originated in the 17th century as spiritual exercises, aids to meditation, and visual sermons showing the path to Zen enlightenment. The artists are venerated Zen teachers who took up the brush late in life to create unique works of religious art noted for their drama, boldness, seeming impulsiveness and immediacy of expression. This exhibit features paintings, calligraphy, and ceramics by Zen masters of the 17th to the 20th centuries from the collection of Riva Lee Asbell.

The Bellevue Arts Museum Shows "Travelers: Objects of Dream and Revelation" Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:54 PM PDT Bellevue, WA.- The Bellevue Arts Museum is pleased to present "Travelers: Objects of Dream and Revelation" on view through December 31st. The idea of travel always captures the imagination with its alluring offer of an escape from the routine and a promise of change. It encompasses both the anticipation of the journey, the "dream," and the confrontation of the reality we find, from expectation to revelation. "Travelers: Objects of Dream and Revelation", brings together nine contemporary artists who explore the ambiguous motif of travel and the objects associated with it. Featured artists include Janice Arnold, Margarita Cabrera, Marc Dombrosky, Erika Harrsch, Timothy Horn, Cal Lane, Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz and Robb Putnam.

LewAllen Galleries Present New Paintings by Michael Roque Collins Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:54 PM PDT Santa Fe, New Mexico.- LewAllen Galleries is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, "Michael Roque Collins: Tides of Memory", on view from November 4th through December 11th. This exhibition marks the first public presentation of the artist's recently inaugurated sculptural practice and features important new paintings exemplifying the sustained relevance of the mythic in contemporary art. Through a dynamic engagement with these media, Collins cultivates complex  relationships between cultural memory and personal history, mythology and the quotidian, abstraction and representation, as well as the spiritual and concrete. Most recently, Collins was awarded a Bioethics and Human Rights Global Art Competition prize from the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization; and, his work was selected for an exhibition sponsored by that organization that will tour between venues in Paris and Houston. The artist lives and works in Houston, Texas, where he has held numerous esteemed teaching positions and is current Director of the School of Art of Houston Baptist University.

The Morgan Library & Museum to Highlight Treasures of Illuminated Islamic Manuscripts Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:42 PM PDT New York City.- The Morgan Library & Museum is internationally acclaimed for its collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, but it may come as a surprise that it also possesses a number of important Islamic manuscripts dating from the late middle ages to the nineteenth century. They include such treasures as a thirteenth-century treatise on animals and their uses, regarded by some experts as one of the greatest of all Islamic manuscripts, and a rare, illustrated translation of the life of the celebrated Persian poet and mystic, Mevlana Jalal al-Din Rumi. Beginning on October 21st and running through January 29th 2012, these works, along with almost ninety additional manuscripts, single illuminated pages, and beautifully handwritten Qur'ans, will go on view in "Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan". It is the first time the Morgan has gathered these spectacular volumes together in a single exhibition, and several are disbound, permitting visitors to view a selection of miniatures from them.

Diane Arbus Major Retrospective in France Opens at Jeu de Paume Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:41 PM PDT PARIS.- Diane Arbus (New York, 1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves. Arbus found most of her subjects in New York City, a place that she explored as both a known geography and as a foreign land, photographing people she discovered during the 1950s and 1960s. She was committed to photography as a medium that tangles with the facts. Her contemporary anthropology—portraits of couples, children, carnival performers, nudists, middle-class families, transvestites, zealots, eccentrics, and celebrities—stands as an allegory of the human experience, an exploration of the relationship between appearance and identity, illusion and belief, theater and reality. On exhibition 18 October through 5 February, 2012. In this first major retrospective in France, Jeu de Paume presents a selection of two hundred photographs that affords an opportunity to explore the origins, scope, and aspirations of a wholly original force in photography. It includes all of the artist's iconic photographs as well as many that have never been publicly exhibited. Even the earliest examples of her work demonstrate Arbus's distinctive sensibility through the expression on a face, someone's posture, the character of the light, and the personal implications of objects in a room or landscape. These elements, animated by the singular relationship between the photographer and her subject, conspire to implicate the viewer with the force of a personal encounter. Diane Arbus was born in New York City on March 14, 1923, and attended the Ethical Culture and Fieldston Schools. At the age of eighteen she married Allan Arbus. Although she first started taking pictures in the early 1940s and studied photography with Alexey Brodovitch in 1954, it was not until 1955-57, while enrolled in courses taught by Lisette Model, that she began to seriously pursue the work for which she has come to be known. Her first published photographs appeared in Esquire in 1960 under the title The Vertical Journey. From that point on she continued to work intermittently as a free-lance photographer for Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Show, The London Sunday Times, and a number of other magazines, doing portraits on assignment as well as photographic essays, for several of which she wrote accompanying articles. During the 1950s, like most of her contemporaries, she had been using a 35mm camera, but in 1962 she began working with a 6x6 Rolleiflex. She once said, in accounting for the shift, that she had grown impatient with the grain and wanted to be able to decipher in her pictures the actual texture of things. The 6x6 format contributed to the refinement of a deceptively simple, formal, classical style that has since been recognized as one of the distinctive features of her work. She received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1963 and 1966 for projects on "American Rites, Manners and Customs" and spent several summers during that period traveling across the United States, photographing contests, festivals, public and private gatherings, people in the costumes of their professions or avocations, the hotel lobbies, dressing rooms and living rooms she had described as part of "the considerable ceremonies of our present." "These are our symptoms and our monuments," she wrote in her original application. "I want simply to save them, for what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary." The photographs she produced in those years attracted a great deal of attention when a selected group of them were exhibited, along with the work of two other photographers, in the 1967 "New Documents" show at the Museum of Modern Art. Nonetheless, although several institutions subsequently purchased examples of her work for their permanent collections, her photographs appeared in only two other major exhibitions during her lifetime, both of them group shows. In the late 1960's she taught photography courses at Parsons School of Design, the Rhode Island School of Design and Cooper Union and in 1971 gave a master class at Westbeth, the artists cooperative in New York City where she then lived. During the same period she initiated the concept and did the basic research for the Museum of Modern Art's 1973 exhibition on news photography, "From the Picture Press." She made a portfolio of ten photographs in 1970, printed, signed and annotated by her, which was to be the first of a series of limited editions of her work. She committed suicide on July 26, 1971 at the age of forty-eight. The following year the ten photographs in her portfolio became the first work of an American photographer to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale. In the course of a career that may be said to have lasted little more than fifteen years, she produced a body of work whose style and content have secured her a place as one of the most significant and influential photographers of our time. The major retrospective mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in 1972 was attended by more than a quarter of a million people in New York before it began its tour of the United States and Canada. The Aperture monograph Diane Arbus, published in conjunction with the show has sold over 300,000 copies. Beginning in 2003, Diane Arbus Revelations, an international retrospective organized by The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art traveled to museums throughout the United States and Europe between 2003 and 2006. Major exhibitions devoted exclusively to her work have toured much of the world including, Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Visit the Jeu de Paume in Paris at : http://www.jeudepaume.org/

1000 Strip Off in Spencer Tunick Tribute to Artist LS Lowry Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:29 PM PDT Manchester, UK - More than one thousand volunteers braved the cold and stripped naked. . in the name of art. People of all ages, shapes and sizes were photographed by Spencer Tunick at eight landmark locations across Salford and Manchester. The nude mass gathering was held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Lowry arts centre, with the pictures set to form part of an exhibition at the venue later in the year.The New York artist has photographed thousands of nude volunteers across the world, most recently at the Sydney Opera House last month. But he chose chilly Salford and Manchester for his first multiple site installation after being inspired by the works of LS Lowry, who also captured crowds of people in public places . . albeit with their clothes on. The volunteers were taken by heated buses to the secret locations and asked to pose naked for the early morning photo-shoots yesterday and today. The M.E.N. was on hand to capture the action at the iconic Peel Park, Salford. The site was chosen because LS Lowry painted there and studied at the nearby Salford School of Art. The installation 'Everyday People' focuses on ordinary men and women, and was inspired by the Salford legend LS Lowry, known for his 'matchstick men' style. Tunick has photographed similar pieces at the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Institut Cultura in Barcelona, Spain, as well as at the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Baltic in Gateshead. Tunick, 43, was at the centre of the project, roaring instructions at his participants – who had nothing to protect their modesty – using a microphone. He asked them to perform a series of poses – ranging from freezes to jumping up and down – before capturing their images. Speaking at the Peel Park event, he said: "Hopefully it was enjoyable for the participants. I think it went really well. We had a wonderful morning of making artwork around Salford and Manchester. "I feel like I didn't miss anything – I'm not looking back thinking I missed this or that. The people were here to make interesting artwork to reflect Lowry's paintings – they weren't here to spread a message about nudity." Speaking after the event, Tunick said: "I think it went really well. I think we got it. I think the people here in Salford had the intention to make art. "I feel like I didn't miss anything. I made some really good works here.I really like how scattered the bodies were. It's not so much a covering of bodies, but a sprinkling of bodies." said Tunick. Victoria Denning, 56, from Birmingham, was one of the participants. She said: "It was absolutely amazing. It's wonderful how many different shapes and sizes of bodies there are. "You get so used to seeing a certain shape of body in magazines, and not one single person looked like that. "Even the first time it felt normal because everyone was doing it and nobody was looking. It was just amazing." Laurence Stephen Lowry (1 November 1887 – 23 February 1976) was an English artist born in Stretford, Lancashire. Many of his drawings and paintings depict nearby Salford and surrounding areas, including Pendlebury, where he lived and worked for over 40 years at 117 Station Road (B5231), opposite St. Mark's RC Church. Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of Northern England during the early 20th century. He had a distinctive style of painting and is best known for urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as "matchstick men". He also painted mysterious unpopulated landscapes, brooding portraits, and the secret 'marionette' works (the latter only found after his death). Because of his use of stylised figures and the lack of weather effects in many of his landscapes he is sometimes characterised as a naïve, a 'Sunday painter' although this is not the position of the many museums galleries that have organised retrospectives of his works

"The Subject is Women" at the Nassau County Museum of Art Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:28 PM PDT ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- "The Subject is Women: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism" offers a lavish viewing of works by women and works depicting women. This sumptuous exhibition will demonstrate how artists of these movements and eras depict women — and how women artists depict themselves. The works of the show, many of them vibrant oils, include renowned masters such as Cassatt, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir as well as others. Degas is represented by "Danseuse" (buste), 1900; Pissarro by "La Marché des Gisors, rue Cappeville", 1894-95; Renoir by "Jeunes filles aux lilas", c. 1890 and "Femme nue aux coussins verts", 1909 and Alfred Stevens by "Le Masque japonais", c. 1877.

The World's Most Expensive Painting - Pablo Picasso's "Green Leaves, Nude and Bust" At Tate Modern Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:27 PM PDT London (BBC).- The world's most expensive painting ever sold at auction is going on public show in the UK for the first time. "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1932 and based on his muse, Marie-Therese Walter. The painting became the most expensive in the world when it was auctioned in New York by Christies in 2010, selling for for $106.5m (£65.5m). As of Monday 7 March 2011, it can be seen on display at the Tate Modern in London. Tate director Nicholas Serota: "This is an outstanding painting by Picasso. I am delighted that through the generosity of the lender we are able to bring it to the British public for the first time."

Prize Awarded to Glasses that Enable Paralysed Artists to Draw Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:26 PM PDT LONDON.- The EyeWriter has today, Friday 12 March 2010, been chosen as the winner of the first FutureEverything Award, a £10,000 prize set up by FutureEverything to celebrate the creative imagination that will shape our future. The EyeWriter is a pair of low-cost eye-tracking glasses that allow artists and graffiti writers with paralysis to draw using only their eyes. Inspired by Tony Quan, a graffiti writer, social activist and publisher who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (AML) in 2003, The EyeWriter is the result of a collaboration with five other artists and a production company. It is an ongoing project to empower people suffering from degenerative neuromuscular diseases with creative technologies.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection Presents Exhibition of Gallerist Ileana Sonnabend Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:25 PM PDT VENICE.- Considered by many to be among the greatest gallerists of late 20th century contemporary art, Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) also brought together a major art collection of her own. The exhibition Ileana Sonnabend. An Italian Portrait, on view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, from May 29 to October 2, 2011, presents works from the Sonnabend Collection, New York, on the theme of Italy: works by Italian artists, and works by international artists which reference Italian culture, tradition, and topography.

Kunsthistorisches Museum exhibits 'The Myth of Antiquity' in Vienna Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:24 PM PDT   VIENNA - The protagonists of classical myths – heroes, mortals, gods and demi-gods – are deeply embedded in our collective memory and have lost nothing of their power to fascinate. Neither the invasion of the barbarians in Late Antiquity nor Christianity could fully uproot the memory of the pagan ancient world, with the Renaissance proudly rediscovering classical civilization. Their myths came to life again in the Renaissance and baroque paintings and frescoes that decorated sumptuous princely palaces. On view December 4, 2008 till March 1, 2009.

Minneapolis Institute of Art Billboard Replaced After Clothes Painted On Titian Nude 'Venus' Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:23 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS, MN - A billboard for a Minneapolis Institute of Art museum has been replaced after someone spray-painted clothing and the word "Brrr!" in red over its depiction of nudity from a 16th-century Venus painting by Titian.The billboard advertisement is for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' exhibition of works by the Italian master Titian. The museum chose to feature the famous "Venus Rising from the Sea" painting on the billboard because "it's very typical of paintings in the show," said MIA spokeswoman Anne-Marie Wagener. The graffiti was discovered on a billboard in Long Lake, a western suburb, last week. None of the other Minneapolis area billboards advertising the show have been damaged. The one that was vandalized has been restored to its previous condition, despite objections from some museum officials.

Miró ~ Dubuffet ~ Basquiat at the Nassau County Museum of Art Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:22 PM PDT ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) presents works by Joan Miró, Jean Dubuffet and Jean-Michel Basquiat, shown together for the first time. The artists do not share generation nor culture, but they do share a confrontational antagonism to the traditional and academic, resulting in art that is raw, bold and forthright. Primal symbols characterize their work in personalized types of graffiti that exist in a timeless, unidentifiable space. In the work of these artists, signs and color erupt in a free association of structure and rhythm; the mysterious act of painting is shown as wild and free, yet also very exacting. Miró/Dubuffet/Basquiat opens at NCMA on March 13, 2010 and remains on view through May 23, 2010.

The John Jones Collection exhibits "Paperview" from Three Renowed Art Collections Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:21 PM PDT LONDON.- "Paperview" brings together works on paper from three renowned London based art collections, alongside a selection of emerging and established London based artists. At a time when many galleries are reducing their exhibition programmes, Paperview celebrates the humble medium of paper by bringing together works by 75 artists from around the world. The exhibition has been supported by John Jones to create an open discourse on both the passion and practicalities of collecting. In the current economic climate John Jones hopes to help galvanise the art market and inspire new collectors.

Our AKN Editor Greatly Enjoyed A Guided Tour Of The ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum In Denmark Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:20 PM PDT ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, in Aarhus, Denmark is one of the largest art museums in northern Europe, 10 floors high with a total of 17,700 m². The museum opened on 7 April 2004 after a construction process that started with Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen winning the design competition in 1997. The name ARoS is the Old Danish name of the city Aarhus, while the capitalized letters of the name hint at the Latin word for art, namely ars. It is the ambition of ARoS to create and develop an international art museum in Aarhus to be known and appreciated both nationally and internationally as an innovative and attractive art museum with a high degree of artistic experience. The museum is divided into three different permanent collections: The Danish "Golden Age" 1770–1900, Danish Modernism 1900–1960 and Contemporary Art. The ARos also includes The 9 Spaces, a specific use "gallery in progress" of installation art, where 1 or 2 rooms are done by guest artists each year. The use of the number 9 refers to Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and the 9 circles of hell. The rooms are painted black to contrast with the bright white exterior. The roof terrace substitutes for the divine light as if you descended from hell. In this way the whole museum is part of the travel from hell to heaven. This movement is emphasized by the grand spiral staircase in the main 'museum streetscape'. With thousands of square meters spanning the ten levels the museum now has ample space to showcase its extensive collection of 2,100 paintings, 400 sculptures and installations, 200 art videos and over 7,000 drawings, photos and graphics: a collection that ahead of the inauguration was enhanced by the addition of works by international artists such as Bill Viola, Tony Oursler, Carsten Höller, Miwa Yanagi and James Turrell. In large measure, a donation of DKK 40m by New Carlsberg Foundation over a ten-year period enabled the purchase of these works. Besides finishing The 9 Spaces, and many future exhibits ARoS extended the museum with "Your Rainbow Panorama" by Ólafur Elíasson (see image below ). Situated on the roof, it is a circular skywalk in the colors of the rainbow, the gives a very unique panorama of the city of Aarhus. ARoS has featured some prominent changing exhibitions inspired, curated or made by the likes of Bjørn Nørgaard, Ingvar Cronhammar, architect Frank Gehry, Paul McCarthy, Robert Rauschenberg, Michael Kvium, H.C. Andersen, and Wim Wenders. The first of these exhibitions presented a series of main works by pop artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. As many other modern art galleries and museums ARoS also plays great tribute to architects and their works having hosted several architecture themed exhibitions. Website: _ www.aros.dk/ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum's collection of paintings and sculptures from the 18th and 19th centuries is the largest in Denmark outside Copenhagen. The collection of art from the Danish "Golden Age" in particular is one of the finest in the country. The collection is located in Gallery I at the top of the building – provides two gallery trails that bring visitors into close contact with major works from the museum's comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures dating from the period 1770-1930. The first trail traces the development of Danish art from N.A. Abildgaard at the close of the 1700s through Vilhelm Hammershøi and J.F. Willumsen at around 1900: a trajectory that includes "Golden Age" paintings by C.W. Eckersberg, Johan Thomas Lundbye, Christen Købke, P.C. Skovgaard among many others as well as works representative of National Romanticism and late Romanticism. French Salon art from Mønsted's Collection leads on to Naturalism, P.S. Krøyer and the Skagen School. The selection of nineteenth century works is rounded off by a series of realist works by Frants Henningsen, among others. Classical modernism from 1900-1930 is the theme of the gallery's second trail. Here visitors encounter notable works by early modernists such as Karl Isakson,Edvard Weie, Harald Giersing and Olaf Rude. The collection of contemporary art at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum reflects the international thrust of the modern age. Gallery II – the middle gallery – shows works from the museum's collection of Danish and international art dating from the period 1930–1980. The collection of artworks from these highly consequential 50 years concentrates on a succession of pillars in twentieth century art. The groundbreaking experiments of 1930s' surrealism led to the formation of two international schools – Cobra with Asger Jorn as its leading light and that of "concrete art" pioneered by Richard Mortensen and Robert Jacobsen. Both movements are represented in the gallery. Separate rooms are dedicated to the two luminaries of post-war expressivism – Svend Wiig Hansen and Mogens Andersen. The 1960s saw the total subversion of the concept of art through the emergence of experimental movements such as Pop Art, Fluxus and the Danish Eks-school. Trailblazing works by Andy Warhol, Arthur Køpcke and Bjørn Nørgaard occupy a prominent position in the gallery, as does the museum's Per Kirkeby collection, which is the most comprehensive Kirkeby collection in the world. The museum's gallery for contemporary art shows Danish and international art from 1980 to the present day. The collection ranges from the Danish "Neue Wilden" of the 1980s to the 1990s' experiments with the new mediums of photography, video and installation art. The Gallery is home to works by a spectrum of artists – both Danish and international – who, as established figures on the international art scene, enable us to take the pulse of art today. The West Gallery with its almost 400 square meters hosts three to four temporary exhibitions annually as well as a number of informal presentations of particular art projects. The exhibition space highlights new media – photography, video and installation art. The exhibitions focus on both young, experimental art and established artists. As is the case with the other exhibitions in the museum, the west gallery presents art of high, international quality. ARoS is currently exhibiting the work of Christian Lemmerz - "GHOST", through March 6th 2011, a revolutionary artist who employs a wide range of materials, such as marble, paper, wire, meat, fat, and margarine. Lemmerz has created a large body of art that fascinates even as it repels, brushing against or transgressing taboos and incarnating the darker sides of human nature in artistic form. With the exhibition 'Ghost', the largest solo exhibition of the works Christian Lemmerz yet staged, ARoS wishes to celebrate an artist who has continually renewed his artistic idiom over the course of the last 25 years. Employing a wide range of materials, such as marble, paper, wire, meat, fat, and margarine, Christian Lemmerz has created a large body of art that fascinates even as it repels, brushing against or transgressing taboos and incarnating the darker sides of human nature in artistic form. From his original point of departure in the experimental art scene of the 1980's, e.g. at Værkstedet Værst, Christian Lemmerz has evolved to become a master of classical arts. With his marble sculptures he has inscribed himself in a sculptural tradition with roots going back to the immortal masters of Antiquity, the Renaissance, and neo-classicism. In 2009 his endeavors were recognized when he was awarded the Thorvaldsen Medal, the most prestigious accolade any Danish sculptor can receive. Over the course of two years, ARoS has worked closely with Christian Lemmerz on setting up the comprehensive exhibition, which features his large-scale, painstakingly crafted marble and bronze sculptures as the central works.

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