Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art...

---

• The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art to Show 19th Century Academic Realism From the Dahesh Museum of Art
• CB1 Gallery Features New Paintings by Lisa Adams
• The Yang Gallery to Show "Lv Yanjun ~ Solo Exhibition 2012"
• The Newport Art Museum to Show New England Artist Andrew Nixon
• Museum of Islamic Art Unveils A Massive Richard Serra Sculpture "7"
• Saint Rosalia paintings by Van Dyck reunited for the first time at Dulwich Picture Gallery
• Judaism ~ A World of Stories at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam
• Regen Projects to Show Recent Work by Daniel Richter
• The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) ~ The Finest Art Collection In South America
• Art Gallery of South Australia presents "Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art"
• Tate Movie Project "The Itch of the Golden Nit" Seen Across the UK
• Joslyn Treasures Return ~ Well Traveled & Rarely Seen at the Joslyn Art Museum
• Elvis' Clashes with Media on View at Newseum in Washington
• Bonhams Russian Sale Offers Spectacular Return To The London Marketplace
• Pulitzer Prize Photographs to Open at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism
• Russian Works of Art With Exceptional Art-Historical Importance at Sotheby's
• Who Burnt Down The White House ?
• LACMA Receives Gift of Thomas Eakins’s 'Wrestlers'
• Edinburgh Printmakers Present 'An Informed Energy: Lithography & Prints'
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art to Show 19th Century Academic Realism From the Dahesh Museum of Art Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:34 PM PST Malibu, California.- The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University is pleased to present "The Epic and the Exotic: 19th-century Academic Realism from the Dahesh Museum of Art", on view from January 14th through April 1st 2012.  The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution in the United States dedicated exclusively to 19th-century European academic art. This exhibition includes works from its holdings by such luminary talents as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, among other masters. These artists chose subjects that were often epic, inspired by the highest ideals of Western civilization, and exotic, providing a glimpse into distant lands, such as the Middle East. Featured in the exhibition are 32 historical paintings created in the great European art academies, which were dedicated to continuing the grand tradition of classical art. These academies were state-sanctioned institutions that trained artists to uphold the values of society. Serving as both schools and exhibition halls, these organizations promoted the ideals of classical realism that had been revived in the Renaissance and reached a height of perfection in the late 19th century. The art emphasized noble and moralizing subjects, often taken from grand episodes in European history. These paintings were executed with consummate skill, demonstrating the artist's mastery of all the elements of representational art. The nations of Western Europe -- and France in particular -- had attained a high level of economic and cultural development in the 19th century and saw themselves as the epitome of Western civilization. Eager to reflect the values of their time, academic artists turned to the past to reflect timeless and lofty principles. They synthesized the best from Europe's grand epochs. They borrowed subjects freely from both pagan antiquity and Christianity, viewing the classical world as embodying noble themes that prefigured the values of Christian Europe. The academies stressed flawless technique. Rather than emphasizing personal expression, a premium was set on producing paintings that demonstrated a full mastery of representational art. Raphael was seen as an exemplary master. Scores of 19th-century artists strove to emulate his ideal of elegant, noble figures rendered with clarity, grace, and restraint. Artists endured years of rigorous training to develop their skills in mastering the elements of pictorial realism -- ranging from line and form, light and shadow, perspective and anatomy -- all employed with the goal of capturing complex and idealized subjects. In the academies there was a clear hierarchy of subject matter. The highest and most noble subject was history painting. This category included scenes from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome as well as from the Bible. These scenes from great moments in Europe's past were believed to instruct and elevate the public by promoting examples of exemplary moral behavior. Other subjects were placed on a sliding scale of importance. The academic artists also embraced a new subject known as Orientalism. In the 19th century, Europeans began to interact more widely with the world at large. One region that captured the public's imagination was the Middle East. Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1798-1801 stimulated great interest in the region. Soon artists began painting scenes of Arabia and North Africa in order to give the public a taste for a foreign and exotic Muslim world that seemed so different from Europe. This exhibition also includes a group of genre paintings, scenes of everyday country life. As more and more Europeans flocked to large cities, the rural lifestyle seemed threatened with extinction. Artists looked upon these peasants as noble beings whose simple lives represented a lost ideal of European culture. Before his death in 1994, Frederick Weisman was a flamboyant art collector, jetting around the world in a private jet decorated by artist Ed Ruscha, and sitting for an Andy Warhol portrait. After his death, Weisman's legacy was a series of generous gifts to art museums in New Orleans, San Diego, Minneapolis, and at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University. This simple but spacious 3,000-square-foot facility features changing exhibits that draw from Weisman's significant collection of contemporary art and travelling exhibitions. Past shows have included the work of Marsden Hartley, Italian neo-expressionist Sandro Chia and World War II posters The museum feature a regularly changing program of exhibitions of contemporary and historic art by California and national artists. Visit the museum's website at ... http://arts.pepperdine.edu

CB1 Gallery Features New Paintings by Lisa Adams Posted: 19 Dec 2011 09:21 PM PST Los Angeles, California.- CB1 Gallery is pleased to present "Paradise Notwithstanding", new paintings by Lisa Adams, on view at the gallery through January 15th 2012. This is Lisa Adams' first exhibition. Lisa Adams' new paintings continue her exploration of two worlds, that of decay and that of possibility. The place that she conjures through this juxtaposition is one that comes to terms with the coexistence of the real and the ideal.  "It's a vision of imperfection's guiding light," says the artist. Just as decay and possibility come together in Lisa Adams' work for "Paradise Notwithstanding", the new paintings are completely fluent in both the language of abstraction and of representation. This balance, and tension, leads viewers to explore the varied possibilities within each work, with visual iconography including water features, flora elements, atmospheric texture, and color fields.

The Yang Gallery to Show "Lv Yanjun ~ Solo Exhibition 2012" Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:57 PM PST Singapore.- The Yang Gallery is proud to present "Lv Yanjun: Solo Exhibition 2012" on view at the gallery from January 7th through February 7th 2012. There are a number of works about the Revolution Period in Chinese history, mostly being labeled as 'political pop art' or 'cynical realism'. Many times these works feature characters that are either warped, numb or abnormal. However, the young girls in Lv Yanjun's paintings are amazingly beautiful. In fact, they often remind us of the beauty and youthfulness that were throttled during those mad years. Sometimes in Lv's paintings the characters are disproportional, but such disproportion embodies a sculpture-like, aesthetic feeling of solemnity and peacefulness, and this is a beautiful feeling without further reasoning. Like how the famous Chinese painter Qi Baishi once said, wonder exists between likeness & unlikeness. The essence of sacristy comes into full view through Lv's works; that art is not just a blinded replica of reality, but a powerful and hearty expression of the spirit in real life.

The Newport Art Museum to Show New England Artist Andrew Nixon Posted: 19 Dec 2011 08:42 PM PST Newport, Rhode Island.- The Newport Art Museum is proud to present " Andrew Nixon : I Am Here and You Are Not" on view at the museum from January 7th through March 11th 2012. In this exhibition, New England artist Andrew Nixon explores notions of place and memory through his magic landscapes. the exhibition includes paintings, drawings and prints created between 1994 and 2011. Andrew Nixon will speak about his work during an informal gallery talk at the Newport Art Museum on Sunday, January 15th beginning at 2 pm. The talk is free with admission. Place is a central theme in Nixon's work. The title "I Am Here and You Are Not" refers to, "the way in which we routinely exchange the ineffable experience of real places (the immediacy of earth, air and light) with their representation in pictures, maps and new media. Although place is obviously external, our sense of it is deep in the fabric of being, inseparable from imagination and memory," says Nixon, who teaches art at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Nixon's images, "...are not literal records of specific places so much as inventions that combine remembered surroundings with perceptual inquiries."

Museum of Islamic Art Unveils A Massive Richard Serra Sculpture "7" Posted: 19 Dec 2011 07:47 PM PST DOHA, QATAR - On December 15, in the presence of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani and more than 700 dignitaries and special guests, Qatar Museums Authority inaugurated the MIA Park, a new cultural destination on Doha's Corniche. The inaugural ceremony included remarks by Qatar Museums Authority Chairperson Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and master sculptor Richard Serra, and Hughes de Courson's The Magic Lutes was performed by the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in a temporary concert shell, inspired by the nearby Museum of Islamic Art designed by I.M. Pei. A dramatic light show herald the presentation, with guests seated facing Doha Bay to allow scenic views of MIA Park and the city's skyline.

Saint Rosalia paintings by Van Dyck reunited for the first time at Dulwich Picture Gallery Posted: 19 Dec 2011 07:21 PM PST LONDON.- Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Van Dyck in Sicily: Painting and the Plague (15 February - 27 May 2012), the first ever exhibition to focus on the prolific year and a half that Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) spent in Sicily between 1624 and 1625. The exhibition reunites for the first time the 16 works, all portraits and paintings of religious subjects, that are documented, or believed to have been painted during that year in Palermo. The most significant group of paintings produced by Van Dyck in Palermo are the images of the city's patron saint, Rosalia. Not only did Van Dyck create Rosalia's iconography as we know it today, but he also witnessed the events of that summer that fixed the saint's role for the city. The saint is still to this day highly venerated by the citizens of Palermo. The exhibition brings together every painting of Rosalia by Van Dyck, not only from America, but also from London, Spain and Puerto Rico, allowing them to be seen in the same room for the first time.

Judaism ~ A World of Stories at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:32 PM PST AMSTERDAM.- This winter, De Nieuwe Kerk and the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam present an exhibition about Judaism. With more than five hundred objects on display, this exhibition tells the fascinating story of three thousand years of Jewish religion, culture, art and history, the chronicle of a world religion that takes diverse international forms but has always held onto its identity. The exhibits come from internationally renowned museums and private collections, and most of them are on display in the Netherlands for the first time. The absolute highlights include a first-century Dead Sea Scroll from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (with reservation), the oldest complete Torah scroll, originally from Erfurt and now at the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, valuable manuscripts, a painting by Chagall from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art , and the Alefbet Tapestry by the contemporary Russian-American artist Grisha Bruskin. This exhibition is on display from 17 December 2011 until 15 April 2012.

Regen Projects to Show Recent Work by Daniel Richter Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:31 PM PST Los Angeles, California.- Regen Projects is proud to present "Daniel Richter: A Concert of Purpose and Action", on view at the gallery from January 7th through February 18th. An opening reception for Daniel Richter will take place on Saturday, January 7th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.  This will be the gallery's second solo exhibition with German artist Daniel Richter. The show includes bold, new paintings that explore the boundaries of social order against the backdrop of anarchic disorder. Richter's current works reference war, abstraction, rock and roll, history, our shared recent past, and the political present. The exhibition title is derived from Woodrow Wilson's 1917 declaration of war on Germany, where the US President describes the role and purpose of America in relation to freedom and democracy worldwide. Richter's large-scale paintings question the context of history painting in a society whose historiographic idea of progress has been significantly altered, hence Richter's lone, heroic figures depicted singularly or in an ecstatic mass. These protagonists embody the various contradictions presented by the work: fear and joy, darkness and light, paranoia and security. Within these strikingly colorful and exuberant works appear inhabitants of a mountain region whose landscape is composed of abstract patterns that reference natural or geological systems. Drawing from a complex visual vocabulary, Richter's nomadic spaces allow for the intersections of exoticism, myth, and reality. The concept of the sublime in Richter's large-scale tableaux characterizes contemporary natural landscapes that are inundated with an ideology from which their greatness is derived, both splendid and terrifying. Richter's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, including the artist's most recent show at the Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany. A major survey of the work opened in 2007 at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg and traveled to the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands; the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; and the Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA. In 2010, Richter designed a series of stage sets for the Salzburg Opera's production of Lulu in conjunction with his solo museum exhibition at the Rupertinum Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria. In 1998 he was the recipient of the prestigious Otto Dix award, and in 2002 the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin awarded Richter the Preis der Nationalgalerie. Daniel Richter's work subverts the genre of epic historical painting. Often working from media images, his large-scale paintings reconstitute current events as timeless fables, spinning the anxiety of contemporary zeitgeist into overwhelming tableaux of allegorical fantasy. In Gedion, Richter paints a crowd of people outside a stadium. The figures are given a ghost-like presence, radiating with a supernatural aura. The carnival-esque atmosphere is infused with a malefic tension; a boozy Saturday night reconstituted as imperious myth. In the background, naked figures tend to the building; their presence is reminiscent of cherubs in Renaissance religious painting. Regen Projects is a Los Angeles gallery which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2012. With two galleries located on Santa Monica Boulevard and North Altmont Drive, Regen Projects presents the best in contemporary art, with artists including John Currin, Anish Kapoor, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Wolfgang Tillmans and Gillian Wearing all represented. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.regenprojects.com

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) ~ The Finest Art Collection In South America Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:21 PM PST The São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) is located on Paulista Avenue in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It's well-known for its current home in a 1968 concrete and glass structure designed by Lina Bo Bardi, the main body of the building is supported by two lateral beams over a 74 meter freestanding space. The building is considered a landmark and a symbol of modern Brazilian architecture. MASP is internationally recognized for its collection of Western art, considered the finest in Latin America and indeed, the entire Southern Hemisphere. It also houses an impressive collection of Brazilian art, prints and drawings, as well as smaller collections of African and Asian art, antiquities, decorative arts, and others, amounting to almost 15,000 pieces. MASP also has one of the largest art libraries of the country. The museum's history started in the 1940s. Assis Chateaubriand, founder and owner of Diários Associados ("Associated Dailies"), the largest media and press conglomerate of Brazil at the time, launched a campaign, with the bold intent of acquiring masterpieces to form an art collection of international standard in Brazil. Originally, he intended to locate the museum in Rio de Janeiro, but chose São Paulo where he believed it would be easier to gather the necessary funds, since the city was booming. At the same time, the European art market had been deeply influenced by World War II, making it possible to acquire fine artworks for reasonable prices. Chateaubriand recruited Pietro Maria Bardi, an Italian professor, critic and art dealer, to help him create a "Museum of Classical and Modern Art". The museum was inaugurated and opened to the public on October 2, 1947, displaying the first acquisitions, including canvases by Picasso and Rembrandt on the first floor of the Associated Dailies headquarters. In the 1950s the museum expanded, creating the Institute of Contemporary Art (offering workshops of engraving, drawing, painting, sculpture, dance and industrial design), the Publicity School (presently the 'Superior School of Propaganda and Marketing'), organizing debates about cinema and literature and creating a youth orchestra and a ballet company. Alongside the educational program, the museum expanded its collections and began to organize travelling exhibitions from the collection. Between 1953 and 1957, a selection of 100 masterpieces of the museum's collection traveled throughout European museums, such as Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris) and the Tate Gallery (London). In 1957, the collection was displayed in the United States, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and in the Toledo Museum of Art. The following year, the museum's holdings were presented in other Brazilian institutions, such as the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, in Rio de Janeiro. These exhibitions served to gain publicity for the fledgling museum, increasing attendance and providing funds for further expansion of the collection. It soon became clear that the museum needed its own, much larger site, and in the 1950s plans were drawn up to move into a purpose-built gallery on a site donated by the city council and Italian-born architect Lina Bo Bardi (wife of Pietro Maria Bardi) was commissioned to design the new building. The construction is considered to be unique worldwide for its peculiarity: the main body of the building stands on four lateral supporting pillars, creating a void underneath the building. Built between 1956 and 1968, the new museum was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. The museum building has 13,000 sq. meters of floor space spread on five levels, including the permanent and temporary exhibition rooms, library, photo gallery, film gallery, video gallery, two auditoriums, restaurant, a store, workshop rooms, administrative offices and restoration facilities. More than 60,000 visitors a month make the MASP the most visited museum in São Paulo. Visit MASP's website at … http://masp.art.br The collection contains almost 10,000 pieces, mostly of Western art from the fourth century BC to today. The collections of French and Italian artworks are particularly strong. Italian artists are represented by Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Tintoretto, Perugino, Piero di Cosimo, Guido Reni and Guercino. Notable French works include paintings by François Clouet, Poussin, Jean-Marc Nattier, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. MASP also has the complete collection of 73 sculptures by Edgar Degas as well as three of the artist's paintings. Spanish Art is represented by El Greco, Francisco Goya and Diego Velazquez with British Artists include works from Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, George Romney and J. M. W. Turner, among others (including a Winston Churchill oil painting "The Blue Room, Trent Park"). Among the works by Flemish, Dutch and German artists which are on show are paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, Memling, Cranach, Quentin Matsys, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck and Jan van Dornicke. American artworks in the collection include pieces by Torres Garcia, Diego Rivera, Siqueiros, Alexander Calder and among many Brazilian artists, including Frans Post, Victor Meirelles de Lima, Nicolas Antoine Taunay, Tarsila do Amaral, Nicola Antonio Facchinetti, Candido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Anita Malfatti, Lasar Segall, Almeida Junior, Victor Brecheret and Flavio de Carvalho. Modern and contemporary works include paintings and drawings by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Modigliani, Matisse, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Andy Warhol and Jim Dine. MASP also have small but significant collections of African and Asian arts. The core collection also includes archaeological artifacts (Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman and pre-Colombian American), sculptures (including Rodin bronzes, pieces by Ernesto di Fiori and Victor Brecheret among others), drawings, prints, photographs, majolica (Italian pottery), as well as tapestries, clothing and design. MASP have a large program of temporary exhibitions, featuring both works from their own collection and loan items. Amongst the former, a special exhibition of sculpture from the collection under the title "Fashionable Obsessions: Sculpture from the MASP Collection" (until March 27th 2011) features 50 works by masters of three-dimensional art from the 19th century to the present day (and a pair of Tang-dynasty Chinese terracotta warriors). Among works by Renoir, Degas, Brecheret, Felicia Leirner, Alexander Calder, Bruno Giorgi, Rodin, Arcangelo Ianelli, Duke Lee, Jim Dine and others, particular highlights include "Greta Garbo" by Ernesto de Fiori, "Venus" by Pierre Renoir, "14 year old dancer" by Edgar Degas, "Birds" by Wesley Duke Lee and "Winged Bicho" by Emanuel Araújo. Until May 1st 2011, "Brzilian Papers: The Art of Printmaking" features a selection of over 120 works by masters of the different techniques of engraving. "The Art of Printmaking" collects works by Volpi, Tarsila, Babinski, Samico, Manny Araujo, Gruber, Garden, Segall, Grassmann, Valentine, Hudinilson, Leirner and many others from the MASP collection. These works illustrate the history of printmaking in Brazil. An ongoing exhibitions "Gods and Madonas – The Art of the Sacred" features 40 works from the 14th to 19th centuries, including Andrea Mantegna's "St. Jerome in the Wilderness", on display for the first time since undergoing restoraration. Besides the museum, MASP is a cultural center that provides various activities to the public as an art school, workshops, dance performances, music and theater, lectures and debates, courses for teachers, among many other activities held throughout the year. Among the sculptures stand out the marbles of the Greek goddess Higéia the fourth century BC and the collection of 73 sculptures by Degas, which can only be seen fully in the MASP, the Metropolitan Museum in New York or the Museum D'Orsay in Paris . Collections of prints, photographs, drawings, archeology, majolica, tapestries and European decorative arts, plus a large collection of kitsch pieces, are also part of the museum. The museum has broadened its collection through donations from individuals and partnerships with companies and institutions. Since 1990, it is considered essential to the exchange and partnership between museums in the world, is to upgrade skills or to restore our works. Responsibilities of the Department of Conservation and Restoration. The Department of Conservation and Restoration of MASP conservation, preservation and restoration of works belonging to the museum, as well as assist in the conservation area for temporary exhibitions from other museums or institutions. Whereas the museum's works are stored, displayed and transported in accordance with international museums, the department of conservation and restoration develops an important role in preventive conservation, treatment and safety of the collection. The mission of MASP is to "encourage, promote and sustain, by all means at its disposal, the arts in general and in particular the visual arts, promoting the development and cultural improvement of the Brazilian people"

Art Gallery of South Australia presents "Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art" Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:20 PM PST Adelaide, Australia - Exclusive to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Making Nature: Masters of European Landscape Art explores the way in which European artists since the Renaissance have represented the landscape according to three different ideologies: the ideal, the romantic and the realistic. Through superb oil paintings, sculptures, watercolours, prints, drawings and photographs from the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, visitors to this exhibition experience the emotive powers, serenity and poetry of nature. On exhibition through 6 September, 2009.

Tate Movie Project "The Itch of the Golden Nit" Seen Across the UK Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:19 PM PST LONDON.- The Tate Movie Project's The Itch of the Golden Nit premiered Wednesday 29 June in Leicester Square. The film is the first of its kind – an animation made by and for children. Thousands of drawings, sound effects and story ideas by children from across the UK make up the action-packed, half hour animation as part of the Cultural Olympiad. David Walliams, Miranda Hart, Catherine Tate and Rik Mayall lead the stellar cast providing the voices for the children's characters from Evil Stella to Captain Iron Ears. Funded by Legacy Trust UK and BP, with additional support and resources from the BBC, the film has been brought together by Tate and the creative magic of Aardman Animations.The film recently won Best Content Partnership Award at the Broadcast Digital Awards.

Joslyn Treasures Return ~ Well Traveled & Rarely Seen at the Joslyn Art Museum Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:18 PM PST OMAHA, NE.- Joslyn Art Museum's collection is not only known and admired by those in Omaha who consider the museum their own, but is respected by institutions worldwide. A quick look at the itinerary of the Museum's most popular works over the past years would make even the most seasoned traveler jealous — requested for over three dozen exhibitions, objects from the Joslyn collection have toured from coast to coast as well as to Europe. Joslyn Treasures: Well Traveled and Rarely Seen reunites these familiar and important favorites with highlights from the vaults to showcase forty works from antiquity through the twentieth century. The exhibition is on view at Joslyn from June 4 through August 28.

Elvis' Clashes with Media on View at Newseum in Washington Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:17 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP).- A spark that helped ignite Elvis Presley's fame more than 50 years ago was lit by the newspaper editors and critics who hated him. They detested his voice and thought his moves were unfit for family publications, all while teenagers went wild. It's that shocking style and clash with the media that also will make Elvis the subject of a new exhibition at the Newseum, a history museum that celebrates the First Amendment in Washington. The exhibit opening March 19 traces Elvis' rise in the 1950s — in part a study in image management by his longtime manager, Col. Tom Parker — to his meeting with President Richard Nixon at the White House in 1970. It will include rare objects from Presley's life, some never before displayed outside of Graceland and others never before publicly displayed anywhere.

Bonhams Russian Sale Offers Spectacular Return To The London Marketplace Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:16 PM PST LONDON.- Rare works by top Russian artists Konstantin Somov, Alexei Harlamoff and Nikolai Bogdanov-Bel'sky are just some of the lots at the Russian sale at Bonhams New Bond Street on Monday 8th of June. One important piece set to go under the hammer is Repose at Sunset by Somov, dated 1922. The painting is characteristic of the artist's "evening" compositions, using a setting sun to compose a symphony of colour on the plane of the canvas. This piece alone is expected to fetch between £500,000-£700,000. Other highlights within the catalogue include portraits by Alexei Harlamoff – Young Girl Before a Blue Background and Young Girl with Grapes, one of which is expected to fetch up to £250,000; whilst a portrait of Mikhail Benois, by Konstantin Korovin is estimated to reach £260,000. Known predominantly as a landscape painter, this painting sees Korovin draw on the style of the popular portrait painter of the époque Kees van Dongen to depict his subject. Canvases aside, a silver-gilt, jewelled and enamelled miniature icon made by Fabergé with an Imperial Warrant between 1908-1917 is a lot with a colourful history. The piece is inscribed in Cyrillic with partly effaced ink to read "Blessings from a father, to Elevferiy, born 27 June 1916, Tsarskoe Selo" and is thought to have been presented by Prince Yussupov to commemorate the birth of his illegitimate son. On the basis of inscribed photographs of the Prince dedicated to his illegitimate children, it seems that he maintained close contact with his second family throughout his years in exile. The miniature is expected to reach £90,000. The theme of family plays an important part in Young Boy with a Balalaika by Nikolai Bogdanov-Bel'sky. The artist's oeuvre is predominantly preoccupied with the theme of children, though until now the subject of this particular painting has remained anonymous. Claire Wrathall, in a piece written for Bonhams Magazine, researched the piece in more detail and identified the Young Boy with a Balalaika as likely to be Klaus Erkhardt, the artist's stepson. The portrait is expected to achieve around £90,000 in the sale. Evgenia Teslyuk, Head of the Russian Department at Bonhams comments that: "Our June sale offers a selection of wonderful paintings and works of art. We are confident they will appeal to our clients because of their quality and the fact that most of them come from private collections and have never been on the auction market before." Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. The present company was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son and Neale UK. In August 2002, the company acquired Butterfields, the principal firm of auctioneers on the West Coast of America and in August 2003, Goodmans, a leading Australian fine art and antiques auctioneer with salerooms in Sydney, joined the Bonhams Group of Companies. Today, Bonhams offers more sales than any of its rivals, through two major salerooms in London: New Bond Street, and Knightsbridge, and a further seven throughout the UK. Sales are also held in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Boston in the USA; and Switzerland, France, Monaco, Australia, Hong Kong and Dubai. Bonhams has a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 25 countries offering sales advice and valuation services in 57 specialist areas. For a full listing of upcoming sales, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, go to www.bonhams.com .

Pulitzer Prize Photographs to Open at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:15 PM PST UNIVERSITY of MS.- "Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," the largest and most comprehensive display of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever shown in the United States, formally opens at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at the University of Mississippi on April 22. The exhibition will be on display through July 3, 2009. The Pulitzer exhibit will open formally April 22 at 5 p.m. at the Overby Center with a panel discussion about the photographers and the fascinating stories behind their award-winning photos.

Russian Works of Art With Exceptional Art-Historical Importance at Sotheby's Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:14 PM PST NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby's on  12 April 2011 auction of Russian Art in New York will feature paintings and works of art with exceptional provenance and art-historical importance. The paintings on offer are highlighted by works from iconic Russian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Ivan Aivazovsky, Isaac Levitan, Nicholas Roerich, Boris Grigoriev, and Yuri Pimenov, whose canvas The Pianist leads an impressive group of works by the Soviet Realist artist (est. $500/700,000*). The works of art are led by An Important and Rare Micromosaic Table by Gioacchino Barberi after Alexander Orlovski Made for the Russian Court 1830-33, one of the rarest and most extraordinary micromosaic tabletops known to exist, which was likely made for Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia from 1825-55, or a member of his court (est. $400/600,000). The sale will be on exhibition in Sotheby's York Avenue galleries beginning 7 April, alongside the auctions of Magnificent Jewels and Important Watches.

Who Burnt Down The White House ? Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:13 PM PST LONDON.- A portrait miniature of Sir Pulteney Malcolm GCB GCMG (1768-1838), a Scottish Navel officer from Dumfriesshire, is to feature in the Fine Portrait Miniatures auction at Bonhams, Knightsbridge, Thursday 8th April at 2pm. On 24th August 1814 Sir Pulteney Malcolm was third in command of a fleet which set fire to many public buildings in Washington D.C., including the White House. The fire also raged through the buildings housing the Senate and the House of Representatives and the interiors of both buildings, including the Library of Congress, were destroyed.

LACMA Receives Gift of Thomas Eakins’s 'Wrestlers' Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:11 PM PST Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today the recent acquisition of Thomas Eakins's (1844 – 1916) large sporting painting, Wrestlers (1899).  The generous gift of Mrs. Cecile C. Bartman and The Cecile and Fred Bartman Foundation, Wrestlers is one of the last major subject paintings this great American realist created.  Viewed in the trajectory of Eakins's accomplishments, from his first student studies of the figure and early rowing pictures of the 1870s to his late boxing and wrestling paintings, Wrestlers stands as a superb summation of some of the most significant themes of the artist's career.

Edinburgh Printmakers Present 'An Informed Energy: Lithography & Prints' Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:10 PM PST Edinburgh.- The Edinburgh Printmakers presents 'An Informed Energy: Lithography and Prints from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico', on view until 21st May 2011. This world-class exhibition of works by leading international artists including Jim Dine, Kiki Smith and Lesley Dill, celebrates the diversity of the medium of lithography and the accomplishments of the renowned Tamarind Institute of New Mexico. Collaboration, between the artist and the master printer as well as between Tamarind and institutions worldwide, is at the heart of the Tamarind's programme and they have a long association with the Scottish art community. That history goes back to the late 1970s when Ken Duffy from Edinburgh attended the Tamarind Professional Printer Program with the assistance of the Scottish Arts Council. Since then  the Tamarind have hosted a number of Scottish lithographers, including Stuart Coordiner, Elspeth Lamb, and Linsay Croall, and have been associated with the Edinburgh Festival and Glasgow School of Art as well as print shops in Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Dundee. The Tamarind shares with Edinburgh Printmakers an interest in expanding the boundaries of the traditional print and highlighting the creative possibilities of original printmaking. The Tamarind Institute is a non profit centre for lithography that trains master-printers and houses a professional collaborative studio for artists. Founded in 1960 in Los Angeles, Tamarind played a significant role in reviving the art of lithography in the United States and continues to provide professional training and creative opportunities for artists. The Tamarind Institute is recognized internationally for its contributions to the growth of contemporary printmaking around the world. Now located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, the Tamarind is currently celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2011. Tamarind continues to offer programs that range from the training of master printers and intensive courses for lithographers to print publishing and international projects that mesh artistic and social goals. The work in this exhibit was created between 1989 and 2010 by artists-in-residence who collaborated with Tamarind master printers in our studio. When Tamarind was founded in 1960, few American artists made prints; now, thanks to the community of master printers who have established workshops in the United States, many of whom were trained at Tamarind, artists who do not have the necessary equipment or skills can explore the unique expressive vocabulary of lithography and other graphic mediums. Visit the Tamarind's website at ... http://tamarind.unm.edu/ Established in 1967 as the first open access studio in Britain, Edinburgh Printmakers (EP) is dedicated to the promotion of contemporary printmaking practice. It achieves this by providing, maintaining and staffing an entrance free gallery and inexpensive, open access print studio, where artists and members of the public can use equipment and source technical expertise in order to develop their hands on printmaking skills. As a not for profit organisation that is also a registered charity, EP receives approximately 50% of it's funding through revenue and project funding from the Scottish Arts Council as well as support from the City of Edinburgh Council. This enables the organisation to highly subsidise the cost of using the print studio, making access to creative facilities affordable to a wide range of people. This includes professional artists, students, community groups and members of the public, who wish to develop new or existing skills. To complement the work on show by the resident artists they have a rolling programme of exhibitions representing the whole spectrum of contemporary graphic art. Previous exhibitions have ranged from the graphic works of artists such as Marc Chagall, David Hockney, Matisse and Picasso to contemporary American prints by such artists as Andy Warhol and Jim Dine as well as showcasing the wealth of talent that exists in Scotland itself. The Gallery and Studio are very centrally situated being only a few minutes walk from both the railway station, central bus station and the main shopping and cafe areas. Visit Edinburgh Printmakers website at ... http://edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 19 Dec 2011 06:09 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.

You are subscribed to email updates from Art News To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610