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• The CaixaForum Brings Impressionist Masters from the Clark Collection to Barcelona
• Crocker Art Museum to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Studio Glass Movement
• The Ukrainian Museum Shows the First Ever Exhibition of Borys Kosarev Works
• The Peter Fetterman Gallery Shows Photography by Jerry Uelsmann & Pentti Sammallahti
• Bonhams Sells Stunning Hercules Figure for $1,020,573 ~ A New World Record
• The Menil Collection celebrates Return of Byzantine Frescoes with Exhibition until March 2012
• The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai Shows an Exhibition Devoted to Space
• The Hangram Design Museum Shows a Major David LaChapelle Retrospective
• The Frist Center for the Visual Arts to explore Museums in the 21st Century
• Market Surges Upward for Works by 20th-Century Prague Artists
• RM Auctions Sets New World Record for a Mercedes-Benz Sold at Auction
• Dali & Disney Return To Milan
• Hood Museum of Art presents a Comprehensive Display of European Art at Dartmouth
• K20 Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz Museum shows Masterpieces
• Kimbell Art Museum presents an Innovative Collaboration with Filmmaker Philip Haas
• Zg Gallery hosts Gregory Jacobsen's “Prostrate: New Paintings & Drawings”
• Art Gallery of Ontario Shows The Dundas Collection
• The Museum of Contemporary Art highlights Architect Paul Preissner's "Spotting"
• The Valencian Institute of Modern Art Presents The Complete & Exquisite Collection of Degas’ Sculptures
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The CaixaForum Brings Impressionist Masters from the Clark Collection to Barcelona Posted: 17 Dec 2011 11:08 PM PST Barcelona, Spain.- The CaixaForum is pleased to present "Impressionist Masters from the Clark Collection" on view at the museum through February 12th 2012. In April 1874 the first exhibition was held in the studio of the photogra-pher Nadar, in the Boulevard des Capucines in Paris, of a group of painters who had been rejected in the Official Salon: the Impressionists. European art entered into a new stage, marked by a series of very rapid changes that, in just a few years, dispensed with appearance, natural colours, the subject and perspective: the elements that, since the Renaissance, had characterised pictorial representation. When Sterling Clark moved to Paris in 1910, some of the leading artists of this pictorial revolution were still alive. In 1916 Clark bought the painting Girl crocheting by Auguste Renoir, attracted by the colour and sensuality of the feminine image. It was the culminant point of a passion that led him to bring together an extraordinary collection of works of French painting that crossed over from the 19th to the 20th century. Clark did not share the iconoclastic spirit so common in many of the manifestations of contemporary art. Quite the contrary, he sought continuity between the creations of the past and the present. The works he acquired, mainly from the early stage of Impressionism, existed alongside the old masters as well as the immediately previous painting styles, free of ruptures. This exhibition presents the masterpieces of the French painting collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. To begin with, it reconstructs the path that led to Impressionism, when a group of painters – Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, Constant Troyon and Théodore Rousseau — decided to move to the wood of Barbizon, close to Fontainebleau, in order to be able to paint in the open air. Traditionally, the landscape had been the backcloth of mythological or religious scenes. The artists from the Barbizon school moved it into the foreground and established an intimate relationship, as if they wanted to merge it with nature. The Impressionists quickly followed their steps. The early compositions by Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte or Alfred Sisley aspire to retain the impression of a moment during the day, magnificently and sumptuously, through the effects of light and colour. Around 1880 Impressionism experienced a moment of plenitude with the work of Monet that lasted until the final consequences of the search for beauty. The painting is the result of the superimposition of individual brushstrokes that create the effect of an explosion of light, the point of flight disappears and the landscape becomes the object of a transcendental meditation. The impressionists also renewed interior and still life painting: they chose simple subject matters linked to daily life in the country or city and portrayed them as no-one else had done until then: often with natural light, with a vibrant brushstroke that recreates the effect of the light on the surface of things. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was Sterling Clark's great passion, and bought thirty-nine paintings by this artist –nudes, scenes of modern life, portraits, self-portraits, landscapes and still lives– with special emphasis on the early stage of his production, between 1874 and 1880, the period most linked to Impressionism. All this research coexisted alongside the art of academic painters who placed the conventional subjects on the canvas: historic, religious and mythological works and portraits of important figures. For Sterling Clark any art could be good in its category. Thus, in his collection, the masterpieces by Impressionist painters share space with works by the best painters trained in the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. In the final part of the "Impressionists. French masters from the Clark Collection" exhibition, stress is made of the contribution of the Post-impressionists: from Honoré Daumier to Henry Toulouse-Lautrec, from Edgar Degas to Pierre Bonnard and Paul Gauguin. Bright and luminous colours, which do not always coincide with real colours and a conception of two-dimensional space, regardless of the laws of perspective. Sterling Clark turned his personal passion into a collective heritage. In 1955 Clark created his own museum in Williamstown, in the state of Massachusetts and is today a reference centre for lovers of painting, with exhibition rooms and a research and higher education centre. One of Spain's top tourist attractions, the CaixaForum has a fascinating history. Inaugurated in February 2002, CaixaForum is the Barcelona headquarters of "La Caixa" Foundation, a social and cultural foundation created by "La Caixa" savings bank. The "La Caixa" Foundation is a non-profit institution, created at the beginning of the 1980s to supervise the bank's charitable works (which had been part of their philosophy since being established at the start of the twentieth century). The foundation is active in a wide range of cultural areas, including providing public libraries, organizing music festivals, the provision of social services and medical research. However, it is for its museums that it is best known. As well as 2 large science museums (in Barcelona and Madrid), the foundation has art museums and exhibition spaces in Madrid, Mallorca, Palma, Lleida, Tarragona and Barcelona, under the "CaixaForum" banner. The Foundation started collecting contemporary art in 1985 and since then it has accumulated over 950 works. CaixaForum Barcelona is based in a former textile factory in Barcelona that serves both as the foundation's headquarters and also as the main art exhibition space. Commissioned by the industrialist Casimir Casaramona i Puigcercós as a textile factory, this art-nouveau style building was designed by the famous Barcelona architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch and opened in 1911. A triumph of modern, enlightened working conditions and stunning architecture, the building immediately became a design icon for the city, winning local design awards and with many locals refusing to believe that behind the fabulous exterior, it hid a mundane textile factory. The bare brickwork is topped by Catalan vaults resting on cast-iron columns and enclosing light-filled, spacious workshops. By necessity, a long and low building, the architect broke its silhouette with battlements and two slender towers. Unfortunately, it only survived as a factory for a few years before becoming first a warehouse and then stables and garages for the National Police Force. "La Caixa" acquired the building in 1963, and in 1992 it was decided to return this building to the people of Barcelona, and the country as a whole, while giving it a new function with social, cultural and educational aims, it thus became the CaixaForum. Local and international architects, including the RIBA gold medal winning Japanese architect, Arata Isozaki, who designed the main entrance (a sculpted structure in the form of metal trees covered by panes of glass) and visitors' reception area in the Centre, contributed to the refurbishment and extension work. The building now provides 3,600 m2 of exhibition space (in 5 exhibition galleries), a 350-seat auditorium, a kids' art workshop, café-restaurant and gallery shop. It has become one of Barcelona's most dynamic, active and lively cultural centers. From the entrance, escalators and the lift run from Isozaki's sculpture down to the open-air English courtyard below, which gives onto the foyer. This part of the building also houses the "Secret garden", a minimalist, intimate, closed-off area that allows the visitor to clear their mind before encountering more of the artworks. Visit the museum's website at ... http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumbarcelona/caixaforumbarcelona_es.html

Crocker Art Museum to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Studio Glass Movement Posted: 17 Dec 2011 11:01 PM PST SACRAMENTO, CA.- Next summer, the Crocker Art Museum will be one of more than 120 museums nationwide to mark the 50th anniversary of the studio art-glass movement in America. "Red Hot and Blown: Contemporary Glass from the Crocker's Collection" brings together more than 20 works by some of America's most well-known glass artists, including Dale Chihuly, Marvin Lipofsky, Therman Statom, and Nancy Mee. The exhibit will be on view March 17 through September 23, 2012. Since the movement's founding in the early 1960s, glass has emerged as a rich and diverse form of creative expression with vessels, sculptures, and everything in between being blown, cast, assembled, and painted. The Crocker's exhibition includes all of these techniques, ranging from Lipofsky's blown sculptures from the 1960s and Chihuly's elaborate "Macchia Seaform Group" from the 1980s to more recently acquired sculptural works by Statom and Mee.

The Ukrainian Museum Shows the First Ever Exhibition of Borys Kosarev Works Posted: 17 Dec 2011 10:47 PM PST New York City.- The Ukrainian Museum in New York City is proud to present "Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931", the first ever exhibition of the artist's works. The exhibition will be on view from December 4th through May 2nd 2012. "Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931" includes 82 works on paper by Kosarev, an outsider of the Eastern European Modernist movement and a survivor of Stalin's intellectual purges in 1930s Ukraine. Organized by The Ukrainian Museum (New York), the Kharkiv Art Museum (Ukraine), and Rodovid Gallery (Ukraine), the objects in this exhibition are drawn from the collections of Nadia Kosareva (Kharkiv), the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine (Kyiv), the Kharkiv Art Museum, Borys and Tetiana Grynyov (Kharkiv), the VovaTania Gallery (Kharkiv), Dmytro Horbachov (Kyiv), and Oleksander Myzhin (Kharkiv).

The Peter Fetterman Gallery Shows Photography by Jerry Uelsmann & Pentti Sammallahti Posted: 17 Dec 2011 09:22 PM PST Santa Monica, California.- The Peter Fetterman Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions: a series of images by distinguished contemporary photographer Jerry Uelsmann and introducing the work of Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti with a selection of images shown in Los Angeles for the first time. Both exhibitions are on view from December 17th through March 1st 2012. Using multiple negatives to produce his surreal, dreamlike photographs, Jerry Uelsmann has developed a singular artistic vision which has carried him through a nearly 50 year artistic career. Firmly entrenched in his traditional darkroom compositing practices, Uelsmann continues to produce magical and thought-provoking multi-layered imagery without the help of modern computer-base techniques. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a founding member of the Society of Photographic Education and a former trustee of the Friends of Photography. His works are featured in the permanent collections of many of the world's most renowned museums and national galleries.

Bonhams Sells Stunning Hercules Figure for $1,020,573 ~ A New World Record Posted: 17 Dec 2011 08:49 PM PST FLORENCE.- A very rare and important 82 cm. high porcelain figure of Hercules created at the Doccia factory in Tuscany in 1753-55 sold for £657,250 ( $1,020,573 US Dollars) last week in Bonhams Fine European Ceramics auction, setting a new world record price for Doccia porcelain at auction. It was the first time that a Doccia figure of this size had come to auction and the piece far exceeded its pre-sale estimate of £300,000-500,000. The stunning figure of Hercules is based on the famous Antique sculpture of the Farnese Hercules, now in the Archaeological Museum in Naples. The gesso model used in its creation has not moved since the 18th century, and is still kept in the Doccia factory museum. The Doccia factory was founded in the middle of the 18th century by Carlo Ginori, and is still operating in Sesto Fiorentino, just outside of Florence. The factory started making large-scale porcelain figures, a hugely ambitions task, in the late 1740's.

The Menil Collection celebrates Return of Byzantine Frescoes with Exhibition until March 2012 Posted: 17 Dec 2011 08:15 PM PST HOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection announced that March 4, 2012 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently housed on its campus in the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, after which time they will be returned to the Orthodox Church of Cyprus. In celebration of the frescoes, their time in Houston, and the purpose-built Chapel that has been their home for fifteen years, the Menil will present special public events commemorating the return of this sacred art. The works, the largest intact Byzantine frescoes in the Western hemisphere, have been on long-term loan to the Menil from the Orthodox Church of Cyprus following their rescue by the Menil Foundation twenty-eight years ago. They are being returned to Cyprus following the conclusion of the loan agreement between the two parties.

The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai Shows an Exhibition Devoted to Space Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:44 PM PST Dubai.- The Empty Quarter Gallery is proud to present "Third Rock from the Sun , a Journey into Space" on view through January 31st 2012. Although many no longer agree, space exploration is one of the most important factors that will blast the human race into the future. The year 2011 marks the 42nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the centennial of Futurism, and the quadricentennial of the Newtonian telescope. In the same year, it was announced that Virgin Galactic plans to build its first commercial space port in Abu Dhabi . What better time than now to look back on the past and toward the future of space travel, that ultimate flight of fancy of the human imagination? Space exploration may not only be important to scientific advancement, but also to the future of the human race itself. While the Earth needs our utmost attention more than ever, today, the population of the planet has increased more than 4 times to 7 billion people. As the population grows, humans put more and more pressure on the Earth, asking it not only for living space, but for resources to support them.

The Hangram Design Museum Shows a Major David LaChapelle Retrospective Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:43 PM PST Seoul, Korea.- The Seoul Art Center is pleased to announce the retrospective of the acclaimed American artist and photographer David LaChapelle on view through February 26th at the Hangaram Design Museum.  Hugely anticipated, this is LaChapelle's second Asian museum retrospective after a widely successful reception in Taipei, Taiwan in 2010. With nearly two hundred works, it will present the most comprehensive selection of LaChapelle's photographic works ever seen in Asia, spanning over twenty years of his artistic career from the 1980s to 2011. LaChapelle is known internationally for his exceptional talent in combining a unique hyper-realistic aesthetic with profound social messages. Alongside his earlier works commissioned for fashion and celebrity editorials, the exhibition will showcase LaChapelle's recent artworks such as The Raft of Illusion, the site-specific installation Chain of Life and his most recent work Gaia. LaChapelle's photography career began in the 1980s showing his artwork in New York City galleries. His works caught the eye of Andy Warhol who offered him his first job as a photographer at Interview Magazine. Since then, LaChapelle has worked for the most prestigious international publications such as Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and Rolling Stone, photographing personalities as diverse as Madonna, Lance Armstrong, Uma Thurman, Elizabeth Taylor, David Beckham, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hillary Clinton, and Muhammed Ali, to name a few. In 2006, LaChapelle decided to leave the world of publishing and magazines to return to where he started, creating work for exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. LaChapelle has been the subject of exhibitions in both commercial galleries and leading public institutions around the world. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Barbican Museum, London (2002), Palazzo Reale Milan (2007), MALBA Museum, Buenos Aires (2007), Museo del Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City (2009), and the Musee de La Monnaie, Paris (2009), among many others. In 2010, he mounted two record-breaking solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Taiwan and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. In 2011, he has had a major exhibition of new work at The Lever House, New York, and a retrospective at the Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (open through March 2012). After establishing himself as a fixture in contemporary photography, LaChapelle decided to branch out and direct music videos, live theatrical events, and documentary films. His directing credits include music videos for artists such as Christina Aguilera, Moby, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, The Vines and No Doubt. His stage work includes Elton John's The Red Piano and the Caesar's Palace spectacular he designed and directed in 2004. His burgeoning interest in film led him to make the short documentary Krumped, an award-winner at Sundance from which he developed RIZE, the feature film acquired for worldwide distribution by Lion's Gate Films. The film was released in the US and internationally in the Summer of 2005 to huge critical acclaim, and was chosen to open the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. David LaChapelle continues to be inspired by everything from art history and street culture, to the Hawaiian jungle in which he lives, projecting an image of twenty-first century pop culture through his work that is both loving and critical. He is quite simply the only photographic artist working today who has transitioned flawlessly from the world of fashion and celebrity photography to be enshrined by the notoriously discerning contemporary art intelligentsia. The Seoul Arts Center, literally the Hall of Arts, is a cultural center in Seocho-gu, the southern area of Seoul, South Korea. Measuring in 12,0350 m², it consists of many different halls and centers for many diverse art forms. It began construction in 1984, and was fully opened in 1993. It was started with the intention of bringing a more solid aspect to the Korean arts and cultural scene, and to bring the Korean arts to an international level. It consists of the main Festival Hall, Calligraphy Hall, Music Hall, Arts Center, Center of Archives, Education Hall which are all housed indoors, and the Circular Plaza, Street of Meetings, Traditional Korean Gardens, an outdoor Theater, and a market place. The central venue, which is the Opera House, was built basing designs on the traditional hat for Korean men, the "gat", worn during the Joseon Dynasty by grown men who had passed the gwageo. The Music Hall was designed with the idea of a Korean fan in mind. The Hangaram Design Museum within the Seoul Arts Center is sSituated in the east wing of the Center, and opened its doors in 1990. It concentrates on modern and contemporary art enabling younger people to enjoy their visits. Measuring in at 15,434 m², its first and second floors are connected so that major works of art can be displayed without difficulty. The museum uses natural lighting installed in many respectable European art museums to illuminate its art works. Visit the arts center's website at ... www.sac.or.kr/eng

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts to explore Museums in the 21st Century Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:30 PM PST NASHVILLE , TENN. – "Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings" will open to the public in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries May 29, 2009 and will remain on view until August 23, 2009. The exhibition Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings was conceptualized and coordinated by Art Centre Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Not only does this exhibition illuminate the relationship of architecture to the exhibition of art, it also explores the relationship between architecture and the environment. Organized by Art Centre Basel, the exhibition is a survey of the latest museum architecture in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. Eighteen unique designs are represented by models, sketches, computer renderings, photographs and animation—all of which provide fascinating insight into the creative processes of many of the world's major architectural firms. The buildings themselves are at various stages of development. Some have been completed and are already open to the public, some are in the process of being constructed and some have not yet gotten off the ground—and may never come to fruition because of financial constraints. While the Frist Center is not included in the exhibition, Frist Center Associate Curator Trinita Kennedy thinks that the adaptive use of Nashville's historic post office complements the show well.  "In this day and age, as the world becomes more complex and global, museums are no longer simply repositories of the world's great art," Kennedy commented.  "As people seek connections … to the past … to ideas … to each other, museums are central to those explorations as they become places of conversation, study, discourse and celebration." "We have seen that here in Nashville," she continued, "as we have watched the Frist Center become a place where art fosters education, creativity and the sharing of ideas." These new and expanded roles often call for the creation of buildings that address a new, broader functionality or additions to existing facilities in order to meet new needs. "Tensions can, and often do, emerge between the specialized needs of museums and the desire for architects to make an aesthetic statement," Kennedy said.  "Museum building projects in this exhibition include those that are beautifully integrated into their surroundings and several that are set in stark (and sometimes shocking) opposition to their surroundings," Kennedy noted.  "There are buildings by 'starchitects,' (such as Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind)." In the Stonehenge Visitor Centre and Interpretive Museum, architects Denton Corker Marshall drastically altered their original design to adapt to the landscape, and Tadao Ando buried his Chichu Art Museum in the earth of Naoshima, Japan, out of respect for the pristine panorama of the island on which it is located. On the other hand, the biomorphic structure of Kunsthaus Graz in Graz, Austria, stands in sharp and deliberate contrast to neighboring historic buildings.  It was conceived as a structural bridge where past and future meet and is called by locals "the friendly alien." Among the projects profiled in the exhibition: The expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (Taniguchi and Associates); Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (Spacelab Cook-FournierGmbH); the Paul Klee Centre, Berne, Switzerland (Renzo Piano Building Workshop); the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Frank Gehry Partners, LLP) and the expansion of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,  MO (Steven Holl Architects). The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog to which Frist Center Executive Director Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D., contributed the foreword. Frist Center Friends of Architecture Group Formed Museums in the 21st Century is supported by the Friends of Architecture, a new interest group at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.  The effort is led by Dan France, vice president, Messer Construction Co., the company responsible for the original construction of the historic Nashville Post Office in 1933 and 1934. VISITOR INFORMATION Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tenn., is an art exhibition center dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, regional, U.S. and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions. The Frist Center's Martin ArtQuest Gallery features more than 30 interactive stations relating to Frist Center exhibitions. Gallery admission to the Frist Center is free for visitors 18 and younger and to Frist Center members. Frist Center admission is $8.50 for adults, $7.50 for seniors and military and $6.50 for college students with ID (college students are free Thursday and Friday evenings). The Frist Center is open seven days a week: Mondays through Wednesdays, and Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. and Sundays, 1 – 5:30 p.m., with the Frist Center Café opening at noon. Additional information is available by calling 615.244.3340 or by visiting our Web site at : www.fristcenter.org.

Market Surges Upward for Works by 20th-Century Prague Artists Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:29 PM PST Paris, France - In 1983, Marcel Fleiss, owner of the Galerie 1900-2000 here, mounted an exhibition of Czech art titled "Surréalisme en Tchécoslovaquie" after a harrowing buying trip to Prague the previous year, at a time when art and artists were viewed with hostility and suspicion. "Artists were watched closely by police," said Mr. Fleiss, who still owns and operates the gallery. "It was nearly impossible for artworks to leave the country even though the state disdained its own artists."  "The Paris show was sold out at prices that would seem ludicrous today," he added, because they were so low.  These days, acquiring Czech modern art proves more expensive than dangerous. Ever since the fall of communism in 1989, demand for artworks by 20th-century artists from Prague has been steadily rising, with prices climbing in the Czech Republic and elsewhere, especially in the past 5 to 10 years. Works by the most prominent Czech modern artists now sell at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

RM Auctions Sets New World Record for a Mercedes-Benz Sold at Auction Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:28 PM PST MONTEREY, CA.- RM Auctions, the world's largest collector car auction house, continued its strong track record in Monterey, California last night, setting a new world record for a Mercedes-Benz sold at auction and selling 12 automobiles for individual million-dollar-plus results. The star of the night, a spectacular 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster, chassis number 154140 (pictured), attracted spirited bidding in the room and on the phones, selling for an impressive $9,680,000 to applause from the crowd – a new world record for a Mercedes-Benz sold at auction.

Dali & Disney Return To Milan Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:27 PM PST MILAN, ITALY - After over 50 years, Salvador Dalì's genius is back in Milan: Palazzo Reale houses a great exhibition investigating the relationship between this Spanish artist and the landscape, the dream, the desire. It is not very well known but any true Disney geek knows that in the 1940's Walt Disney and renowned artist Salvador Dali collaborated together to create an animated short that combined the classic Disney artistry with the surreal visual styling of Dali.Unfortunately, the project would never come to full fruition until long after both had passed away. In 2003, the Disney Studios released "Destino", a CG-rendered interpretation based on old notes and concept images that were created by the two men.

Hood Museum of Art presents a Comprehensive Display of European Art at Dartmouth Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:26 PM PST HANOVER, NH -  The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents its largest display ever of the museum's remarkable holdings of British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish art from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. From August 30, 2008 to March 8, 2009,  will feature over 120 works of European art, including paintings by Perugino, Claude, De Heem, Van Loo, Batoni, and Picasso; sculptures dating from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century; and prints by Dürer, Rembrandt, Canaletto, Goya, Archapiho, Degas, and Toulouse-Lautrec. It is part of an ongoing series focusing on the museum's permanent collection, following last year's celebration American Art at Dartmouth.

K20 Kunstsammlung am Grabbeplatz Museum shows Masterpieces Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:25 PM PST DUSSELDORF, GERMANY - Before K20 closes for about a year and a half on 28th April 2008, the museum on Grabbeplatz ( K20) will present its most important masterpieces in a comprehensive farewell show. Pablo Picasso's monumental work "Deux femmes nues assises" (1920) from the artist's classicist period is among these masterpieces. Georges Braque's Cubist still life "Nature morte, harpe et violon" (1911) and Marc Chagall's dynamic composition "Le violoniste" (1911) are further indisputable highlights of the exhibition. Wassily Kandinsky's "Komposition IV" (1911) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Mädchen unter Japanschirm" (1909) represent two of the outstanding examples of Expressionist painting. "Die Nacht (1918/19) and "Selbstbildnis mit Sektglas" (1919) bei Max Beckmann also fall into this category. Among other works, Max Ernst's brilliant mural "Au premier mot limpide" (1923) and Joan Miró's "Nu au miroir" (1919) will be chosen from the inventory of Surrealist art. The remarkable collection of colored works by Paul Klee deserves particular mention. His work "Kamel in rhythmischer Baumlandschaft" (1920) and also his late work "heroische Rosen" (1938) are among the essential masterpieces. Developments in western European art after 1945 will be represented primarily by artists such as Lucio Fontana and Arman. Their pictorial objects will be shown together with Yves Klein's monochrome works in blue, gold and red. The large installation "Palazzo Regale" (1985) and other works from the collection with works by Joseph Beuys will be on show. Works by Gerhard Richter, whose cycle "Silikat" (2003) was only recently acquired by Kunstsammlung, will continue to be on display. Representative key works mark the selection of American art after 1945. Needless to say, this choice will include Jackson Pollock's drip painting "Number 32" (1950) which represents a milestone in Expressionist painting. This monumental piece will be flanked by two outstanding examples from Pop Art and Minimal Art: the combine painting "Wager" (1957-59) by Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol's legendary work "Big Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Black Bean)" (1962). Roy Lichtenstein's "Big Painting No. 6" (1965) and Frank Stella's subtle black painting "Delphine and Hippolyte" (1959) will also be shown again. While K20 is closed a selection of approximately 65 works will be on display in three Japanese cities. Starting in October 2008, masterpieces of classic modernism by Beckmann, Chagall, Max Ernst, Klee, Magritte, Miró, Picasso and others will be shown at the Nogoya City Art Museum and after that at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo and also at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe. All the works will be back in Düsseldorf in good time in order to prepare for K20's reopening in November 2009.

Kimbell Art Museum presents an Innovative Collaboration with Filmmaker Philip Haas Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:24 PM PST FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum presents an innovative collaboration with filmmaker Philip Haas, an exhibition of five specially commissioned film installations. The installations both interpret works in the collection and stand as powerful works of art in themselves. They are shown for the first time as an exhibition this summer, after which the Museum will use them occasionally within collection displays in the galleries and in modified forms in various kinds of education and outreach. This free exhibition opens on Saturday, July 18, 2009.

Zg Gallery hosts Gregory Jacobsen's “Prostrate: New Paintings & Drawings” Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:23 PM PST Chicago, IL - Gregory Jacobsen's fifth solo show "Prostrate: New Paintings & Drawings" at Zg Gallery features new works from his botanical heaps series - still life bouquets composed of such disparate elements as meat and muscle tissue, wigs, secreting organs, petits-fours, flora, fauna and various food stuffs, set in romantic landscapes, tenderly gathered into bundles and tied with flowing ribbons.

Art Gallery of Ontario Shows The Dundas Collection Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:22 PM PST   ONTARIO, CANDA - The Art Gallery of Ontario presents Treasures of the Tsimshian from the Dundas Collection, on view through October 7, 2007. The Dundas Collection is among the most important collections of North American First Nations art in existence. Originally acquired by Rev. Robert James Dundas, a missionary working in British Columbia, this collection of Tsimshian First Nations art has been absent from Canada since 1863 until the works were auctioned off by Sotheby's in October of 2006 for more than $7 million.

The Museum of Contemporary Art highlights Architect Paul Preissner's "Spotting" Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:21 PM PST CHICAGO, IL - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ( MCA), shows  March UBS 12 x 12 Presents Paul Preissner, on view through March 29, 2009. Architecture and selective dog breeding converge as architect Paul Preissner uses digital technology to create building designs that strive to be strong and identifiable parts of a cityscape, rather than structures that anonymously blend in with their surroundings. He presents new architectural drawings, animations, and models whose unique combinations of surface patterns and "spotting" serve as a communicative strategy for identification similar to the habits of selective dog breeding that produce desired coat patterns and body shapes.

The Valencian Institute of Modern Art Presents The Complete & Exquisite Collection of Degas’ Sculptures Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:20 PM PST Valencia, Spain - This exhibition presents the complete sculptures of the French Impressionist master, Edgar Degas (1834-1917).  While most museum visitors are familiar with the artist's paintings and drawings, many have never been exposed to these magnificent bronze sculptures now on display.  They encompass the artist's iconic themes: dancers in motion, dancers at rest, seated figures, portraits, horses in motion and horses at rest. Degas considered his sculptures to be personal intimate objects which he created for his own pleasure.  History records that only a handful of the artist's closest friends were even aware of the extraordinary number of sculptures Degas had created.  The exhibition will on view from March 3 to April 17, 2011 at the IVAM, Valencian Institute of Modern Art (Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Catalan). This treasure only becomes known after Degas' death.  His heirs found a large number of his sculptural objects scattered around his home and studio.  Most of the sculptures were made in wax mixed with clay, and the heirs decided that 74 must be cast in bronze to preserve the images.  It was a wise decision.  Had they not cast in bronze, this major body of work would have remained unknown forever. It is a celebration of the artist's creative genius, and presents for the first time in Spain, the complete sculptures of Edgar Degas.   Degas began to paint early in his life. By eighteen, he had turned a room in his home into an artist's studio, and in 1853 he registered as a copyist in the Louvre. His father, however, expected him to go to law school. Degas duly registered at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris in November 1853, but made little effort at his studies there. In 1855, Degas met Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, whom he revered, and whose advice he never forgot: "Draw lines, young man, and still more lines, both from life and from memory, and you will become a good artist." In April of that same year, Degas received admission to the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied drawing with Louis Lamothe, under whose guidance he flourished, following the style of Ingres.   Although he is known to have been working in pastel as late as the end of 1907, and is believed to have continued making sculpture as late as 1910, he apparently ceased working in 1912, when the impending demolition of his longtime residence on the rue Victor Massé forced a wrenching move to quarters on the boulevard de Clichy. He never married and spent the last years of his life, nearly blind, restlessly wandering the streets of Paris before dying in 1917. The IVAM, Valencian Institute of Modern Art (Institut Valencià d'Art Modern in Catalan) was the first center of modern art created in Spain, opening in 1989. Nowadays it's the most important center of modern art in the city of Valencia and one of the most important institutions for modern art in Spain. The newly built construction was inaugurated in 1989 and the original design was made by the Valencian architects Emilio Giménez and Carlos Salvadores; it was remodelled in 2000 by Emilio Giménez and Julián Esteban. Its floor space is 18,200 m2, and it has eight galleries that house both permanent and temporary exhibitions. The museum has two sections: the Centre Julio González, a building of new construction which was inaugurated in 1989 and shows the museum collection together with temporary exhibitions, and the Sala de la Muralla, which has its own separate entrance and shows the remains of the city's mediaeval ramparts that were built in the second half of the 14th Century. The IVAM Collection is organized around various thematic focuses in which particular periods of history are singled out. Equal importance is given to different languages and expressions of art to present a view of international and Spanish art angled towards contemporary sensibility. The Collection contains over 10,600 works, illustrating the fundamental forms of expression of twentieth-century art. Thus, this sample shows key aspects regarding the configuration of modernity where the creative artists, looking for innovation and experimentation, reach top works in behalf of the history of art. The thematic areas on which it focuses are Photography and photo-collage, Installations and new media, Abstraction, Pop Art, Sculpture and Drawings and many thousands of Lithographs on paper. Internet Reference Sources: http://www.ivam.es/en/exhibitions/2852-edgar-degas-sculptures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_Valenci%C3%A0_d%27Art_Modern

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 17 Dec 2011 07:19 PM PST This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

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