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• The Glyptotek Museum Showcases "Guaguin & Polynesia ~ An Elusive Paradise"
• Porter Contemporary Presents "Splash!" a Colorful Group Show
• Galerie Gabriel Rolt to Show New Works by Nik Christensen
• Famous Music Photographer Barry Feinstein Dies at 80
• "Out of Nowhere" is a Visual Feast at the Royal Cornwall Museum
• Bonhams offers 113yr Old Car, the Last of its Kind of Veteran Cars
• The Scottish National Gallery Shows George Bain ~ Master of Modern Celtic Art
• The Natural History Museum in London Hosts Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 Images
• The Merry Karnowsky Gallery Shows "Asleep In The Wind", A Group Exhibition
• Warhol Authentication Board to Dissolve Due to Millions of Dollars in Legal Fees
• Philadelphia Museum of Art Shows "Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall & His Circle"
• Philadelphia Museum of Art opens Major Exhibition "Cézanne & Beyond"
• Art Dubai 2011 Will Showcase More Than 75 Galleries From All Over the World
• "Tony Berlant: New Works" on View at Brian Gross Fine Art in Los Angeles
• Guggenheim Museum Announces Six Hugo Boss Prize Nominees
• The Whitney Museum opens Major Exhibition of Jenny Holzer's Works
• The Museum on the Seam Presents "A Clash of Civilizations"
• Abertis Pays State Taxes With A Picasso
• One Of The USA's Leading and Most Comprehensive Art Museums ~ The Saint Louis Art Museum
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Glyptotek Museum Showcases "Guaguin & Polynesia ~ An Elusive Paradise" Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:20 AM PDT Copehagen.- The Glyptotek Museum is proud to present "Guaguin & Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise", on view at the museum through December 31st. Tahiti's exotic women, the light and the vibrant colours, carved human bones, tattoos – the Glyptotek's exhibition of the French painter Paul Gauguin delves deep into the artist's life and the myths about Polynesia as Paradise on Earth. "Gauguin & Polynesia – An Elusive Paradise" comprises 120 works – including more than 50 of the artist's famous motifs from Tahiti and the Marquesa Islands. Many of them are being exhibited in Denmark for the first time. With its 60 Polynesian artefacts from the period between 1750 and 1900 this is the most comprehensive presentation hitherto of the rich, exotic culture Gauguin encountered in the South Seas and subsequently soaked up: cult figures, weapons, jewellery made of hair and bones, beautiful women and tattooed bodies. However the meeting between Gauguin and Oceania inadvertently also tells a story of Tahiti's rapid cultural and human decline. Gauguin noticed the decline immediately on his arrival in 1891, but still managed to contrive an image of a Paradise which has remained intact almost until the present day. Gauguin spent the winter of 1884-85 in Copenhagen with his Danish wife Mette (née. Gad) and their family. Much suggests that visits to the Danish National Museum's ethnographic collection awoke his yearning for remote tribal cultures. This inspiration was further nurtured by his encounter with the art of the so-called 'primitive' peoples at the World Exposition in Paris in 1889, and it flowers during his subsequent journeys to Polynesia and New Zealand. Gauguin often called himself  'Oviri' – the wild man. He invented and refined his own form of "primitive" art, equal parts abstraction and observation of the natural world. In Copenhagen, Brittany and in Tahiti the 'primitive' aided Gauguin in his intense quest for a new art capable of making powerful statements about the human being, the erotic, and the mythical and mystical depths of life. Posterity has shown an enormous interest in Gauguin's art, but also in his character and personal life. His pictures of Tahiti are today icons of the encounter of European art with alien cultures and he inspired painters such as Picasso and Matisse. With Gauguin, art becomes seriously modern. "Gauguin & Polynesia" combines a presentation of Gauguin the pioneer's dream and life's work with an insight into a fairytale but ultimately also tragic part of a world on the threshold of the 20th century. Gauguin's artistic and human odyssey can be seen as one of old Europe's last, romantic infatuations with the alien, the remote and the yearning for Paradise on Earth. Before Tahiti Gauguin had believed he could realize utopia in such places as Brittany, Provence, Panama, Madagascar, Cambodia and Martinique. Many of these places he never even visited, however he saw them as alternating destinations in dreams. It is possible that he realised quite early on that it was not the goal but the journey that mattered. In 1892, the year after his arrival in Papeete, he wrote: "My artistic centre is in my head and nowhere else". Gauguin always seems to be arriving either to late or too early for his own life, but his massive restlessness is, at the same time the driving force in his art and thought. It was he himself who started many of the myths which still thrive about him today – and it is in the variety and rôles of these that new questions are now (being) asked. For the first time in a Gauguin exhibition Polynesian art, cults and history are being independently and extensively presented – and that exclusively with artefacts from before 1900, so one gains an impression of these islands in Gauguin's time. Visitors will be able to see objects he used directly in his painting, but especially to gain insight into mores and customs in the French colony towards the end of its flourishing. The Glyptotek has a special relationship with Gauguin. Their collection with 46 of the artist's works is one of the largest in the world. Helge Jacobsen (1882-1946), son of the museum's founder Carl Jacobsen, undertook massive purchases of his paintings, several of them from his widow, Mette Gad, who was Danish and lived in Copenhagen until her death in 1926. The Ny Carlsberg Foundation has since donated a great number of the master's works. Some of collection's most important pieces can be seen in a special arrangement with other major French works at the museum during the course of the exhibition. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek mseum was founded by the brewer Carl Jacobsen (1842-1914) who created one of the largest private art collections of his time. It was named after his brewery, Ny Carlsberg, with the addition of "Glyptotek", meaning collection of sculpture. Jacobsen was interested in contemporary French and Danish art, as well as ancient art from the cultures surrounding the Mediterranean. To secure the future of the collection, Carl Jacobsen and his wife Ottilia donated it to the public in two deeds of gift from 1888 and 1899. The Museum's buildings were created to house these works of art. "With a beauty all its own", Carl Jacobsen wrote about his museum on Dantes Plads. This quote still carries weight at the Glyptotek, where the staff see it as their most cherished duty to maintain, develop and strengthen the museum's particular profile as an art collection, an architectural monument and a cultural institute. Today, the museum houses the largest collection of ancient art in Northern Europe, primarily sculpture, from Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Italy. The main focus of the French Collection is 19th century French painting and sculpture. The painting collection contains works by such painters as Jacques-Louis David and Édouard Manet, as well as a large collection of Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Pierre Bonnard. The single painter represented with most paintings is Paul Gauguin with more than 40 works. The museum also holds a large collection of French 19th century sculpture by artists such as Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Rodin, the Rodin collection being one of the largest in the world, as well as a complete collection of Degas' bronze sculptures. The Danish Collection contains a large collection of Danish Golden Age paintings by painters such as Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Christen Købke and Johan Lundbye. It also contains the largest representation of Danish Golden Age Sculpture in the country. The European Collection comprises works from the 18th to the 20th century. Represented sculptors include Neoclassicists such as Antonio Canova, Johan Tobias Sergel, Asmus Jacob Carstens, John Flaxman, Christian Daniel Rauch and Edward Hodges Baily, as well as Modernists like Constantin Meunier, Julius Klinger, Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti. The collection also comprises a small collection of Modern paintings of artists such as Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Serge Poliakoff and Gilioli. The unique surroundings with the Winter Garden, the Larsen Building for the Collection of French painting (inaugurated in 1996) and the Café each create a beautiful frame for the enjoyment of art and culture of a high standard. Since 1996 the Glyptotek has received approximately 350,000 visitors per year, making it one of the most popular art museums in Denmark. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.glyptoteket.dk

Porter Contemporary Presents "Splash!" a Colorful Group Show Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:56 PM PDT New York City.- Porter Contemporary is pleased to announce "Splash!", a group exhibition of thirteen artists in various mediums focusing on color. The exhibition opens to the public with a wine reception on Thursday, October 27th from 7 - 9 PM when Porter Contemporary invites everyone to come in their most impressive colors and make their own splash! "Splash! is intended to be fun and exploratory as we head indoors in the winter months" says Owner/Director, Jessica L. Porter. "We have had some serious exhibitions over recent months and my hope was to lighten things up and talk about something as basic yet complex as color". "Splash!" will remain on view through December 3rd.

Galerie Gabriel Rolt to Show New Works by Nik Christensen Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:55 PM PDT Amsterdam, NL - Galerie Gabriel Rolt is proud to announce "The Lower Depths" an exhibition of new works by Nik Christensen. Black ink applied to paper with brushes and the artist's hands are the age-old tools with which Nik Christensen creates his beguiling works — images which seem to emerge from the subconscious whilst flaunting their own dexterity. The Lower Depths, Christensen's third solo exhibition with Galerie Gabriel Rolt, finds endless possibilities within the limitations of its media, segueing a range of techniques within single pictures to join the complex with the primordial. "The Lower Depths" opens on October 22nd and will remain on view through November 19th.

Famous Music Photographer Barry Feinstein Dies at 80 Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:29 PM PDT Kingston, NY - Barry Feinstein, a photographer who gained renown as one of the premier chroniclers of the 1960s and '70s music scene, including shooting iconic album covers for Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and George Harrison, has died. He was 80. Feinstein, a longtime resident of Woodstock, N.Y., who had been in failing health the last 10 years, died Thursday at a hospital in Kingston, N.Y., said his wife, Judith Jamison Feinstein.In an award-winning career that began in the 1950s and included shooting many of Hollywood's biggest stars, Feinstein had photos published in Life, Look, Time, Esquire, Newsweek and other magazines.

"Out of Nowhere" is a Visual Feast at the Royal Cornwall Museum Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:19 PM PDT TRURO in Cornwall, UK - Walking into the "Out of Nowhere" exhibition that has just opened at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro is like treating yourself to a visual feast. Known as triptychs, huge paintings across three large canvasses adorn much of the wall space – some of them brightly coloured and all featuring intricate details that demand a closer look.  Artist Noel Betowski has lived in Cornwall since 1987 and the inspiration he draws from his surroundings is implicit in his works, some of which, he says, took as much as two months each, working twelve hours a day, to produce. It's not hard to see why looking at the myriad of details of his large painting.

Bonhams offers 113yr Old Car, the Last of its Kind of Veteran Cars Posted: 20 Oct 2011 11:06 PM PDT LONDON.- Bonhams will be offering a number of superb cars in the Veteran Motorcar and Automobilia Sale on Friday November 4th 2011 at New Bond Street, launching the weekend of the historic London to Brighton Run, of which Bonhams is a partner Sponsor. The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run was first held 1896 and today is the world's longest-running motoring rally. The run, which had an amazing 500,000 spectators last year, takes place on Sunday 6th November, with the first (and oldest) cars leaving Hyde Park at sunrise.

The Scottish National Gallery Shows George Bain ~ Master of Modern Celtic Art Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:25 PM PDT Edinburgh.- The Scottish National Gallery is proud to present "George Bain: Master of Modern Celtic Art" on view at the gallery until February 13th 2012. This exhibition, produced in partnership with Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie, presents a unique display devoted to the Scottish artist often referred to as the "father of modern Celtic design." George Bain was a key figure in the revival of Celtic art in the 20th century and devoted much of his life to the study of the intricate decorative designs used by ancient Picts and Celts. Demonstrating the artist's great versatility, this display will feature a selection of some 55 items, including watercolours, drawings, sculptures and jewellery, as well as archival material and objects made to Bain's designs. Much of the material has never have been on public display before.

The Natural History Museum in London Hosts Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 Images Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:07 PM PDT London (BBC).- The Natural History Museum is proud to host the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 exhibition. The winners were announced on October 19th, and more than 100 prize-winning photographs from the competition's 17 categories are on show in the exhibition at the Natural History Museum from October 21st through March 11th 2012. Now in its 47th year, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is an international showcase for the very best nature photography. The competition is owned by two UK institutions that pride themselves on revealing and championing the diversity of life on Earth - the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Being accepted into this competition is something to which wildlife photographers across the world aspire. Professionals win many of the prizes but amateurs succeed too. Each year, tens of thousands of entries are received and judged by an international jury of photography experts.

The Merry Karnowsky Gallery Shows "Asleep In The Wind", A Group Exhibition Posted: 20 Oct 2011 09:06 PM PDT Los Angeles.- The Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present "Asleep In The Wind", an exhibition featuring Mercedes Helnwein, Patrick Morrison and Glen Baxter, on view at the gallery through November 5th. Curator, Mercedes Helnwein says of the exhibition: I've chosen Patrick Morrison and Glen Baxter to exhibit with me for various reasons, most importantly the fact that their work genuinely entrances me. To that add the fact that they both currently work on paper, as I do, and this intrigued me because I am very much in love with paper. I had always known Patrick Morrison's work as very bright and vibrant. His paintings were almost moving on the canvas – very much alive with impossible colors, thick and beautifully contrasting each other, almost wrestling each other. I had heard rumors of something new brewing in his studio, and when I went to visit him earlier this year I walked into a different, explosively different world.

Warhol Authentication Board to Dissolve Due to Millions of Dollars in Legal Fees Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:40 PM PDT Pittsburgh, PA - The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced today that it would "dissolve" the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc. in early 2012. The 16-year-old board, which has been charged with reviewing and authenticating artworks by the Pop artist, has been subject to criticism — and numerous lawsuits — for its questionable and controversial authentication practices. According to Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs, the decision to do away with the board was informed by a "strategic review" of the foundation's core programs and reflects the foundation's "intent to maximize its grant-making and other charitable activities in support of the visual arts." The board will honor all requests for review received prior to October 19, but will no longer accept new submissions. Wachs told that the foundation's decision was driven by the financial toll the board's operations have taken on the institution has a whole. Consisting of five scholars and curators who meet three times a year to consider submissions, the board costs approximately $500,000 a year to operate. But it was the legal fees from lawsuits over works rejected by the board that ultimately made it untenable, according to Wachs. "I don't want to spend $7 million a year on lawyers," he said, referring to the amount paid by the foundation last year toward defending itself. Authenticating Andy Warhol has always been something of a tricky business, considering the sheer volume of the artist's production, his appropriation-based methods, and, frequently, his degree of remove from the finished product. In 2007, London-based American Joe Simon filed a complaint challenging the board's rejection of the authenticity of a 1964 Warhol self-portrait he owns; collector Susan Shaer filed a parallel lawsuit in 2009. (Other owners who believe their alleged Warhols were unfairly rejected by the board include London dealer Anthony d'Offay, whose portrait was returned to him by the Tate after he included it in a gift of more than 230 other contemporary works to the museum in 2008.) Last year, the foundation made waves when it re-authenticated 100 Brillo boxes that maverick curator Pontus Hulten made in Sweden three years after Warhol's death. The Shaer and the Simon cases against the foundation were dropped in 2010 due to a lack of financial resources on the part of the plaintiffs. But the foundation is also currently locked in litigation with its D&O insurer, with whom it is seeking coverage of its legal fees. Wachs said the lawsuit will proceed despite the dissolution of the authentication board. When asked who he thought would take charge of authenticating Warhols after the board's dissolution, Wachs said the same process "used for all artists" — the vast majority of whom go without authentication boards — would be applied to Warhol. The foundation will continue to bear some influence over the Pop artist's body of work with its catalogue raisonne. (Neil Printz and Sally King-Nero, the authors of the catalogue, were also on the authentication board.) Wachs had no comment when asked how the dissolution might influence the market for Warhols, which, according to an ArtTactic report, comprised 17 percent of the contemporary auction market in 2010. Still, some who disagreed with the practices of the foundation feel vindicated by the news. Seth Redniss, the New York lawyer who represented both Simon and Shaer in court, said . ."There's no need for a comment. The shutdown speaks for itself." Andrew Warhola, Jr. (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." In his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market." $100 million or more  is a benchmark price that only Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre-August Renoir, Gustav Klimt and Willem de Kooning have achieved. By Julia Halperin

Philadelphia Museum of Art Shows "Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall & His Circle" Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:28 PM PDT Philadephia.- "Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle" is on view at the Philadephia Museum of Art until July 10th 2011. The exhibition is focussed on the works of around eleven artistic émigrés. This includes 40 paintings and sculptures by Marc Chagall and artists like Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, Moïse Kisling, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Amedeo Modigliani, Chana Orloff, Jules Pascin, Margit Pogany, Chaim Soutine, and Ossip Zadkine. As a symbol of culture, freedom, and modernity, the city of Paris held a magnetic attraction for artists from around the globe during the early decades of the twentieth century. Most painters and sculptors, as well as poets and writers, settled in a vibrant area of Paris known as Montparnasse, which was sprinkled with art galleries, artists' residences, and cafés. It was here that Alexander Archipenko, Marc Chagall, Moïse Kisling, Moïse Kogan, Jacques Lipchitz, Louis Marcoussis, Amedeo Modigliani, Chana Orloff, Jules Pascin, Chaim Soutine, and Ossip Zadkine established studios and discovered each other's work. This exhibition includes more than 70 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by these émigré artists and their French colleagues, all of which were created in a unique atmosphere of mutual encouragement and support in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century. Interwoven throughout is the story of Chagall's formative years in the French capital during the 1910s, his return to Russia during World War I and the rise of the Russian Revolution, and the artist's triumphant return to Paris in the 1920s as a leading figure of the city's thriving avant-garde. It was in 1911 that Moishe Shagal, popularly known as Marc Chagall first arrived in Paris. Shortly after his arrival, Chagall assimilated rapidly the pictorial language of the most contemporary artistic styles of the day, especially Cubism, and married it with the artistic traditions of his native Russia. La Ruche, located on the southwestern fringe of Montparnasse in Paris, gave Chagall the much needed space to explore his creative instincts. The three-storey high building was developed by the French sculptor Alfred Boucher and soon became the hub for thriving artists across the globe, the rent being minimal. Chagall often used to describe the place as, "In La Ruche, you either came out dead or famous." La Ruche provided a large population of Eastern European artists a much-needed platform to experience the vibrant artistic interchanges that made Paris such an attractive place to live and work as well as unparalleled exhibition opportunities. Among the other artists to live in or frequent La Ruche in the 1910's were Archipenko, Kisling, Lipchitz, Soutine, and Zadkine, who will be represented in the exhibition by two monumental sculptures in cedar wood that have not been displayed at the Museum since 1963. Rising majestically at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Philadelphia Museum of Art stands as one of the great art institutions of the world. In more than 125 years since its founding, it has grown far beyond the limits originally set for it. Historically, the Museum was a legacy of the great Centennial Exposition of 1876 held in Fairmount Park. In March 1873, an act of the Pennsylvania State Legislature set in motion plans for the construction of Memorial Hall to remain open after the Exposition as a Museum of Art and Industry "for the improvement and enjoyment of the people of the Commonwealth." On May 10, 1877, exactly one year after the inauguration of the Centennial Exposition, Memorial Hall reopened as a permanent museum. The Museum is beginning to move forward to dramatically expand the Neoclassical building overlooking the Parkway. Frank O. Gehry has been selected as architect for this 10-year master plan. The Museum is home to over 225,000 objects, spanning the creative achievements of the Western world since the first century AD and those of Asia since the third millennium BC. The European holdings date from the Medieval era to the present, and the collection of arms and armor is the second largest in the United States. The American collections are among the finest in the country, as are the expanding collections of modern and contemporary art. In addition, the Museum houses encyclopedic holdings of costume and textiles as well as prints, drawings, and photographs that are displayed in rotation for reasons of preservation. Visit the museum's wesbite at ... http://www.philamuseum.org

Philadelphia Museum of Art opens Major Exhibition "Cézanne & Beyond" Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:27 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA, PA - In 1907, the French painter Paul Cézanne's posthumous retrospective astonished younger artists, accelerating the experimentation of European modernism. Cézanne (1839-1906) became for Henri Matisse "a benevolent god of painting," and for Pablo Picasso "my one and only master." Cézanne's inclusion in the Armory Show in New York in 1913 also offered American artists a new direction. Cézanne & Beyond (February 26 through May 17, 2009) will examine the seismic shift provoked by this pivotal figure, examining him as form-giver, catalyst, and touchstone for artists who followed.

Art Dubai 2011 Will Showcase More Than 75 Galleries From All Over the World Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:26 PM PDT Dubai, UAE - Art Dubai announced that its fifth edition, held from 16 to 19 March 2011, will feature displays by more than 75 renowned and upcoming galleries. One of the region's most established and largest contemporary art fair, Art Dubai 2011 will showcase galleries from over 30 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Art Dubai 2011 edition will be the first under the leadership of Antonia Carver, Fair Director. "I'm delighted to have joined the fair at this extraordinary moment, when it is both reflecting and contributing to the creative, social and commercial shift in this region," Carver stated. "Art Dubai is rooted in the Gulf but is part of a 'future conversation' that critically links Asia and the Middle East with the rest of the world. It is enormously exciting to be a part of the cultural scene in Dubai, a city of ideas, of entrepreneurship and of debate."

"Tony Berlant: New Works" on View at Brian Gross Fine Art in Los Angeles Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:25 PM PDT Los Angeles, CA - Veteran Los Angeles artist, Tony Berlant, opens an exhibition of new works at Brian Gross Fine Art on Thursday, May 5, with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30pm. Berlant is renowned for his brilliantly colored metal collages on panel, which range from literal landscapes to pure abstractions. This new work turns toward the mystical, drawing on Eastern spiritual influences to create complex, transcendental compositions. Included in the exhibition are tall, vertical panels featuring a mysterious goddess figure that appears and disappears throughout the work. This goddess image appeared to Berlant when he photographed a section of the plywood floor in his studio and digitally altered the image to create a Rorschach effect. Berlant uses this manipulated image as a ground for several works, with varying amounts of overlaying collage in symmetrical compositions that seem to reference Eastern religious image and pattern, such as found in Tibetan thangkas.

Guggenheim Museum Announces Six Hugo Boss Prize Nominees Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:24 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- In October 2009, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and HUGO BOSS announced the six artists short-listed for THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010. Since then, each of the nominees has garnered further accolades and been featured in institutional exhibitions around the world. THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010 will be awarded on November 4, and a solo exhibition by the winning artist will be presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2011.

The Whitney Museum opens Major Exhibition of Jenny Holzer's Works Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:23 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY - Jenny Holzer, one of the leading artists of her generation, is the subject of a major exhibition opening in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art on March 12, 2009. Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT, centering on Holzer's work since the 1990s, is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, in partnership with the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. This is Holzer's largest and most comprehensive exhibition in the United States in more than fifteen years; it remains on view at the Whitney through May 31, 2009 in the fourth-floor Emily Fisher Landau Galleries.

The Museum on the Seam Presents "A Clash of Civilizations" Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:22 PM PDT Jerusalam.- The Museum on the Seam is pleased to present "WEST END: A Clash of Civilizations and a Battle for Domination in the World of Tomorrow", currently on view. Artists from Iraq, Iran, Morocco, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia will participate for the first time in an exhibition set in Israel, despite the boycott in the Arab world, together with their colleagues in the west, and will address all these important issues such as does the political and cultural awakening of the Muslim societies in the Middle East and the west represents a milestone in the formation of a new world? Will globalization and mass immigration from Muslim countries to the west change the face of Europe, the USA and the rest of the world? Are we witnessing the formation of a multi-cultural society or alternatively a clash of civilizations as was envisioned by Samuel Phillips Huntington? Are we on the verge of establishing a new relationship between the Muslim and the western worlds?

Abertis Pays State Taxes With A Picasso Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:21 PM PDT   BARCELONA, SPAIN - Abertis acquired Pablo Picasso's painting Mujer con gorro y cuello de piel (1937) which it then donated to the State through a payment of taxes. The Ministry of Culture has ceded the work to the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC). The work is an oil on canvas, measuring 61 x 51 centimetres, showing Marie-Thérèse Walter, the Malaga painter's sentimental companion between approximately 1927 and 1935. In the portrait, Picasso carried out an exhaustive analytical exercise and subjected Marie-Thérèse's youth and personality to a thousand metamorphic transformations. The artist converted the model into an icon of sensuality through a rich pictorial language in which the distortion of shapes meant the consolidation of the so-called Picasso style which marked the keys of the artistic language of the 20th century.

One Of The USA's Leading and Most Comprehensive Art Museums ~ The Saint Louis Art Museum Posted: 20 Oct 2011 08:20 PM PDT The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) began as the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, an independent entity within Washington University in St. Louis. Originally housed in a building in downtown St. Louis, the Museum moved to its current home in Forest Park after the 1904 World's Fair. The Saint Louis Art Museum's building was designed by renowned American architect Cass Gilbert for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the World's Fair. Originally part of the Palace of Fine Arts, the Museum was the only building from the Fair designed to be a permanent structure, the "one material monument of the Exposition." It stands as a reminder of that defining event in the history of the city of St. Louis and the State of Missouri. In 1909 the museum separated from Washington University and was renamed the City Art Museum of Saint Louis. During the 1950s, the museum added an extension to include an auditorium for films, concerts and lectures. In 2005, noted British architect David Chipperfield was appointed to design a further expansion of the museum. Chipperfield has won some of Europe's most prestigious commissions, including the restoration of the Neues Museum and master plan for Museum Island in Berlin and the redesign of Venice's historic cemetery island, San Michele. He was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007 for the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany. His U.S. projects include the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa; the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center; and the Des Moines Central Library. The expansion will include more than 224,000 square feet (20,800 m2) of gallery space, including an underground garage, within the lease lines of the property. The expansion is expected to cost $125 million. The project officially broke ground in early 2010 and will be completed in 2012. The museum will remain open during construction. The museum's mission is to collect, present, interpret, and conserve works of art of the highest quality across time and cultures, to educate, inspire discovery, and elevate the human spirit and to preserve a legacy of artistic achievement for the people of St. Louis and the world. Through generations of public support and private benefaction, the Saint Louis Art Museum has assembled one of the finest comprehensive art collections in the country, totaling more than 32,000 works, and the museum is visited by more than half a million people every year. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.slam.org The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the nation's leading comprehensive art museums with collections of artworks that include those of exceptional quality from virtually every culture and time period. Areas of notable depth include Oceanic art, pre-Columbian art, ancient Chinese bronzes, and European and American art of the late 19th and 20th centuries, with particular strength in 20th-century German art. The American art collection features masterworks of paintings and sculpture from Colonial portraiture through modernist and abstract art of the first half of the 20th century. The Museum's American holdings reflect the nation's longstanding fascination with landscape and include Hudson River School paintings by Jasper Cropsey, Thomas Cole, and John Frederick Kensett, as well as scenes of the Western frontier. The local landscape is well represented in the work of Missouri artists Henry Lewis, Charles Ferdinand Wimar, and George Caleb Bingham. The Election Series, illustrating three stages of the Missouri electoral process, is one of the highlights of the Museum's paintings by Bingham. The collection also includes major works by the late nineteenth-century artists Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase, and Bessie Potter Vonnoh as well as Impressionist compositions by Henry Ossawa Tanner, Childe Hassam, and John Henry Twachtman. Important twentieth-century work by Georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley, and Philip Guston is also presented. The Collection of European Art to 1800 includes exceptional examples of art made across the continent of Europe and the British isles from the seventh through the eighteenth centuries. The earliest pieces in the collection are a pair of toga pins made in Spain in the seventh century. Other examples from the medieval period include enamels and metalwork; architectural fragments; stone, wood and ivory sculpture; manuscript illuminations; and stained glass. The Museum's medieval holdings are strongest in French and German Romanesque (c.1050–c.1200) and Gothic (c.1200–c.1500) art. Highlights include a French St. Christopher, a superb alabaster Madonna, an exquisite head of St. Roch, and a German gilded Christ of exceptional quality.The collection of paintings and sculpture comprises work made in Europe between 1300 and 1800. Highlights include a late Titian masterpiece (1570–76) left in his studio at his death; a marble Pan made in Michelangelo's workshop in the 1530s; one of only 37 known works by the baroque master Bartolomeo Manfredi painted around 1615; a copper painting made in 1612 by Artemisia Gentileschi; an important Neo-Classical narrative painting by François-André Vincent exhibited in 1785; and a stunning portrait by Hans Holbein depicting the wife of King Henry VIII's comptroller of 1527. The Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs houses more than 13,000 works of art on paper. There are approximately 8,500 prints, 3,000 photographs, and 1,500 drawings, watercolors, and collages from a wide range of periods and cultures. The department has particular strengths in art from Western Europe and the United States. It is internationally known for its German works on paper, and houses the largest public collection of Max Beckmann's prints in the world. The print collection also has impressive holdings by Albrecht Dürer, Max Klinger, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jacques Callot. The collection of drawings features significant works by George Caleb Bingham, Edgar Degas, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The photography collection is strong in 20th century American with large holdings of works by Edward Curtis, Paul Strand, Andreas Feininger, and Moneta Sleet Jr. The Museum's collection of Modern art is one of the largest and most distinguished components of its holdings, spanning more than 150 years of European painting and sculpture. Among the highlights from the 19th century are paintings by Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edouard Manet, and Paul Cézanne as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh. The 20th century holdings include the largest public collection of paintings by Max Beckmann in the world. Many of these and numerous works by German Expressionist artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, and Wassily Kandinsky were part of a significant bequest by St. Louis collector Morton D. May. Also in the Modern collection are signature works by Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Henry Moore, as well as notable paintings by Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Amadeo Modigliani. The Contemporary collection spans the post-war period to today. The department has particular strengths in American painting and sculpture from Abstract Expressionism through Minimalism. Highlights from the 1950s and 1960s include works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, and Ellsworth Kelly. Also from the mid-twentieth century are significant examples by Pop artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg. Internationally known for German art from the 1970s and 1980s, the collection houses signature works by Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer, and Gerhard Richter. Acquisitions of art made in the past two decades, including video, mixed media, and installation, reflect the growing dynamism and international nature of contemporary art. Since 2000 the Contemporary department has acquired over ninety works by artists such as Glenn Ligon, Thomas Scheibitz, Rivane Neuenschwander, El Anatsui, and Julie Mehretu. The Saint Louis Art Museum also has major collections of ancient art including works from the Egyptian, Near Eastern, and Classical civilizations, mainly Greek and Roman, African art, Oceanic art, Pre Columbian and American Indian art, Asian art from across the vast continent of Asia, with particular strengths in the arts of East Asia and decorative Arts and Design featuring European and American furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles, arms and armor, architectural elements and period rooms. The Saint Louis Art Museum hosts a constantly changing program of temporary exhibitions, highlighting works from their collections or major travelling exhibitions. Currently on display is "Glimpsing History through Art: Selections from the Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese Prints", which features Japanese works from the collection. Until April 10th 2011, this exhibition features selected highlights from the Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese Prints. The Lowenhaupts generously donated their entire collection of 1,357 Japanese prints and related works of art to the Museum in 2010. The collection includes works of art from the Meiji period (1868–1912), focusing on color woodblock prints that depict scenes from the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). Both conflicts were fought and won by a rapidly modernizing Japan over its neighbors China and Russia. "Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea" until April 10th 2011, brings together over 90 works, many never before seen in the United States, to offer exciting insights into the culture of the ancient Maya. Surrounded by the sea and dependent on the life-giving power of rain and clouds, the ancient Maya created fantastic objects imbued with the symbolic power of water. This exhibition presents four thematic sections: Water and Cosmos; Creatures of the Fiery Pool; Navigating the Cosmos; and Birth to Rebirth, that explore the different ways Maya artists represented water, from setting religious narratives in watery domains to using shells and other exotic materials acquired through coastal trade networks. Internationally renowned artist William Kentridge received a Dean's Medal from Washington University's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts this March. To celebrate, the Saint Louis Art Museum will present his work in two related exhibitions, one of film, the other of prints. Kentridge works fluidly between the realms of drawing, printmaking, animation, and theater. His imaginative visual narratives interweave personal, artistic, and political themes. "Visual Musing: Prints by William Kentridge" and "William Kentridge: Two Films" can both be seen until May 22nd 2011. These exhibitions bring together 44 works from two recent series of prints by Kentridge, Thinking Aloud (2004) and Nose (2007–2009). Both bodies of work blend his own visual iconography with that of stories from literature and theater. Composed of his expressive and richly layered marks, the prints demonstrate his mastery of intaglio processes. Kentridge's works reveal a lively sense of improvisation and the unexpected unfolding of metaphorical associations. Alongside these the Saint Louis Art Museum is offering two short animated films, 'Weighing...and Wanting' (1998) and 'Journey to the Moon' (2003). In both films, Kentridge investigates two ongoing themes in his art: the political and the personal.

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