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• AKN Salutes The Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) in Rio de Janeiro ~ Brazil’s National Art Museum
• The Toledo Museum of Art Displays "Small Worlds"
• The Penn Museum Presents Ahmet Ertug's "Vaults of Heaven ~ Visions of Byzantium"
• The Lyman Allyn Art Museum Celebrates the Art of Japanese Manga
• The Emmanuel Fremin Gallery to Exhibit Surrealist Photographer Giuseppe Mastromatteo
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Presents the Prints of Romare Bearden
• Architectural Paintings From the Renaissance to the 18th Century On View In Madrid
• A Fascinating Collection of Modern & Contemporary Art ~ The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin
• Sigmar Polke ~ 'We, the Petty Bourgeois' ~ Opens at Hamburger Kunsthalle
• Estate of José Iturbi Sale at Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles
• Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle
• The Rijksmuseum Exhibits A Large Selection Artist Dick Bruna's Works
• Property of Hollywood Star Tony Curtis to be Offered by Julien's Auctions
• MoMA presents ~ Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s
• MCA Denver presents "Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made"
• Yoko Ono Photo
• Bill Viola Presents "Emergence" at the Galleria dell'Accademia
• Art Museum at the University of Kentucky to show Motherwell & Jasper Johns Exhibition
• The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Shows Interactions Between Painting and Photography
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

AKN Salutes The Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) in Rio de Janeiro ~ Brazil’s National Art Museum Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:48 PM PST Rio de Janeiro - The Museu Nacional de Belas Artes ( MNBA , Portuguese for National Museum of Fine Arts ) is the national art museum of Brazil, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The museum, officially established in 1937 by the education minister Gustavo Capanema, was inaugurated in 1938, by president Getúlio Vargas. The museum collection however, originated much earlier, in 1808. Fleeing Napoleon's invasion and the wars being fought on the Iberian Peninsula, the Portugese Royal Court transferred to Brazil. King John VI brought part of the Portuguese Royal art collection with him, and much of it remained after the King's return to Europe. This collection became the core collection of the National School of Fine Arts. The collection was later enlarged by Joachim Lebreton, a French artist who led the French Artistic Mission that came to Brazil in 1816 to help organize the arts in the country. The French Artistic Mission was charged by John VI to organize the Royal School of Sciences, Arts and Crafts in Rio de Janeiro. Its first building, designed by French Neoclassical architect Grandjean de Montigny, was inaugurated in 1826, when the school was renamed the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. In the following decades, the Academy expanded their collection, gathering an important collection of paintings and forming a glyptotheque. After the proclamation of the Republic in 1889, the Imperial Academy was renamed Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (National School of Fine Arts). In the early 1900s, the center of Rio de Janeiro was extensively remodeled and between 1906 and 1908, a new building was constructed for the National School of Fine Arts in the Central Avenue (now Avenida Rio Branco), very close to the new main square of the city (the Cinelândia). The style of the new building, designed by Spanish architect Adolfo Morales de los Ríos, was clearly inspired by the Louvre Museum in Paris. But during the construction the project was modified, possibly by Rodolfo Bernardelli and, later, by Archimedes Memoria. As a result, the building presents an eclectic design, with facades modeled after different styles. In 1931, the school was incorporated by the University of Rio de Janeiro. When the museum was created in 1937, it became the heir not only to the National School collection, but also to its building. Starting in the 1940s, the school's activities were slowly moved out, the process being completed in 1975. At that time the collection was split, with some works being transferred to the Ilha do Fundão campus, serving as core collection of the university's Museu Dom João VI. In the mid-1990s, the Fundação Nacional de Artes was transferred to another location and the museum was finally able to occupy the whole building. Currently, the museum has 6,800 square meters of exhibition area and 1,800 square meters of storage. In addition to the exhibition areas and technical/administrative rooms, the museum contains a large library as well as conservation and restoration facilities. The MNBA is one of the most important cultural institutions of the country, as well as the most important museum of Brazilian art, particularly rich in its collection of 19th century paintings and sculptures. In the 1980s structural problems were detected in the building, and since then the museum has been undergoing a rolling schedule of repair and refurbishment works which have reduced the museum's capacity for temporary exhibitions, limiting the museum to a few small scale temporary exhibitions and larger scale rolling presentations of the permanent collection. The MNBA's collection consists of approximately 20,000 items, including painting, sculpture, drawing as well as decorative arts, furniture, folk art and African art. The MNBA's collection of works by Brazilian artists is particularly impressive. Nineteenth century artists represented include Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, Jean-Baptiste Debret, Félix Taunay, Victor Meirelles (more than 150 works, including "The First Mass in Brazil" and "Battle of Guararapes"), Pedro Américo ("Battle of Avaí", "Moses and Jochebed", etc.), Almeida Júnior ("Countrymen stalking", "The Brazilian Lumberjack", etc.), Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre, Pedro Weingärtner, Rodolfo Amoedo, Zeferino da Costa, Henrique Bernardelli, Eliseu Visconti, Castagneto, Hipólito Caron, Antônio Parreiras, and many others. Although the 19th Century painting collection is particularly strong concerning, there are also significant paintings from the earlier Colonial period, such as works by Manuel da Cunha, Leandro Joaquim and Manuel Dias de Oliveira. The modern section includes a good selection of paintings by artists closely related to the Modern Art Week (Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Di Cavalcanti, Lasar Segall, Vicente do Rego Monteiro, etc.) and a more representative collection of modernist painters active in the 1930s and on (Cândido Portinari, Djanira, Guignard , Cícero Dias, Alfredo Volpi, Maria Leontina, Ivan Serpa, Iberê Camargo, etc.). Among the contemporary works, the collection includes Hélio Oiticica, Paulo Pasta and Eduardo Sued. Rodolfo Bernardelli is the best represented sculptor with more than 250 works in the collection, alongside pieces by Marc Ferrez, Chaves Pinheiro, Almeida Reis, Correia Lima, Celso Antônio de Menezes, Franz Weissmann, Amílcar de Castro, Rubem Valentim, Sergio de Camargo and Farnese de Andrade. The Museu Nacional de Belas Artes has one of the most important collections of engravings in the country, an assemblage of works which is able to provide a remarkable panorama of the historical development of print technique in Brazil. The collection of prints is permanently available to consult by researchers, artists and general public in the "Gabinete de Gravuras" (prints cabinet) and is presented in revolving exhibitions at the Carlos Oswald Room. The section of Brazilian drawings of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes contains about 4,000 works, being one of the largest collections of the institution. It includes works on pencil, pen, ink, crayon, watercolor, chalk, and other techniques, either produced as sketches or as independent artworks. The museum collection of Brazilian folk art consists of 442 works, attesting to the ethnological aspects of the regional societies of Brazil. The collection includes works of both functional and artistic nature. The museum's collection of African art is composed by wood carvings, masks, ceremonial objects, functional objects, ivory and bronze sculptures, textiles, body ornaments, and other items related to several ethnic groups, most part of which indigenous to Western Africa, more specifically, to the Bight of Benin. The collection of international paintings at the MNBA is today one of the most representative among South American museums. A major part of the collection is composed by European paintings, mainly French, but including significant Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and Flemish school works, alongside Latin American, Canadian and the US artists. The collection of Italian paintings includes works by Bartolomeo Passarotti, Luca Cambiaso, Gioacchino Assereto, Giovanni Lanfranco, Il Raffaellino, Francesco Albani, Antonio Maria Vassallo, Luciano Borzone, Simone Cantarini, Valerio Castello, Jacopo Vignali, Grechetto, Giambattista Langetti, Ciro Ferri, Francesco Cozza, Baciccio, Corrado Giaquinto, Francesco Guardi, Tiepolo and Alessandro Magnasco. The nucleus of French paintings is mainly composed by 18th and 19th century artworks. It comprises, aside from the painters of the French Artistic Mission, names such as Jacques Courtois, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, François Bonvin, Théodule Ribot, Jules Breton, Jean-Paul Laurens, Constant Troyon, Jean-Jacques Henner, Jules Dupré, Gustave Doré , Henri Harpignies, Alfred Sisley , Armand Guillaumin , Edmond Aman-Jean and Henri Martin. Among the highlights of the collections is the group of 20 paintings by Eugène Boudin, one of the largest such ensembles outside France. The collection of Dutch, Flemish and German paintings is mainly composed by works ranging from 15th to 17th century. It includes an important group of eight Brazilian landscapes by Dutch artist Frans Post, the first landscapist of the New World. The collection also includes paintings by Joos van Cleve, Hans von Kulmbach, Jan Dirksz Both, Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Abraham Brueghel, David Teniers the Younger, Daniel Seghers, Gerard ter Borch, David Beck, Jan Steen. Other European artists presented in the collection include Juan Pantoja de la Cruz, Bernardo Germán de Llórente and Federico de Madrazo (Spanish), Francisco de Holanda, Silva Porto, António Pedro, Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro and José Malhoa (Portuguese), Emile Claus (Belgian), Árpád Szenes (Hungarian) and Carlos Schwabe (Swiss). Latin American painting is represented by a number of anonymous works of the Cuzco School and modern artists, such as the Argentinians Benito Quinquela Martín and Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós. Also representing the art of the Americas are the Canadians Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté and Paul Duff. The museum holds a small collection of international sculpture, including the Roman marble bust of Antinous, dating back to the 2nd century BC, as well as a Greek torso of a woman. The collection also includes three bronze busts by François Rude, Constantin Meunier's "The Harvester", Auguste Rodin 's "Meditation without Arms", and works by Antoine-Louis Barye and António Teixeira Lopes. Several works in the collection are by foreign artists active in Brazil during the 19th century, such as the French brothers Marc and Zéphyrin Ferrez and the Italian Augusto Girardet. The collection also includes a number of bronze reductions produced by artistic-industrial companies, such as Barbedienne, and a didactic collection of plaster copies of ancient Greek and Roman statues. The museum owns approximately 2,000 examples of international prints representing a diversified and eclectic panorama of the history of engraving. Modern prints include works by Pablo Picasso , Joan Miró , Jacques Lipchitz , Marc Chagall , Wassily Kandinsky and Jacques Villon. Another highlight of the collection is the ensemble of more than one hundred 17th and 18th century Japanese woodcuts (ukiyo-e) by artists such as Utamaro and Hiroshige . The Museu Nacional de Belas Artes has a small but highly distinguished collection of international drawings, including 247 drawings by Grandjean de Montigny and other works by François Gérard, Honoré Daumier , Rosa Bonheur, Édouard Detaille, Henri-Edmond Cross and Jean-Louis Forain. Other European schools well represented in the collection include Italy (Bartolomeo Cesi, Annibale Carracci, Guido Reni, Pompeo Batoni ), Portugal (Francisco de Holanda, Domingos Sequeira, Vieira Portuense, José Malhoa), Netherlands and Germany (Paulus Potter, Johann Moritz Rugendas), among others. The MNBA hosts a regular programme of exhibitions. Currently, they have three exhibitions on view. "Monica Barki - Sensitive File" is a retrospective celebrating the artists 30 year career with 127 of her works on view. These cover all stages of her career, through drawings, studies with collage, prints, paintings, assemblages, photo essays and videos. This exhibition is on view through January 29th 2012. "1978 - Drawings, Claudio Teixeira Valerio" is on view until February 5th 2012 and feature the artist's updating of drawings originally designed for an exhibition held in 1978, during the military dictatorship. Many of the original drawings were lost and this exhibition recreates the original with 27 drawings of various sizes, inspired by this gloomy and troubled period in Brazilian history. The third exhibition currently on view features the works of the Guild of St. Francis. The Guild of St. Francis is a group of three artists - Celio Belem, Claudio Teixeira, and Valerian Eulalio Milton - who are also professional painting conservators and restorers. The group was formed in 2005, when they began to create the works that are now displayed at the MNBA. This collective of painters had its genesis from conversations in the studio, in Niterói, and an interest in creating joint works honoring the seventeenth-century painting, with special attention to the study of the technique applied by the artists of that era, and especially the works of Peter Paul Rubens. In the Netherlands the professional guilds of the seventeenth century were named according to their patrons - thus the Guild of St. Luke received this name in tribute to the patron saint of painters. In Niterói, the Guild of St. Francis was so named because the studio that hosts the collective work being located in the neighborhood of the same name. "The Guild of St. Francis" exhibition will remain on view through February 5th 2012. Visit the museum's website at … www.mnba.gov.br/

The Toledo Museum of Art Displays "Small Worlds" Posted: 20 Dec 2011 09:55 PM PST Toldeo, Ohio.- The Toledo Museum of Art is pleased to present "Small Worlds" on view at the museum through March 25th 2012. As its name suggests, "Small Worlds" brings together intricate, charming, disquieting and thoughtful works of art on the smallest of scales. Each of the engaging works creates an intimate space or environment and shows scenes which are familiar but perhaps slightly askew. The five contemporary artists represented offer us more than 40 small worlds rendered as relief paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs. There also are video and art installations, a fully functional 65-square-foot house, and objects created specifically for this show that, in some cases,incorporate facets of the Toledo Museum of Art and its environs. The concept of "world" is both universal and highly personal because our worlds are shaped by individual experiences and imaginations. The intricate, intriguing works in Small Worlds explore the realms of the home, the studio, the neighborhood, the city and the natural world, said Amy Gilman, curator of contemporary art, associate director of the Museum and organizer of the exhibition. "These works encourage the viewer to consider space and perspective in different ways," says Gilman.

The Penn Museum Presents Ahmet Ertug's "Vaults of Heaven ~ Visions of Byzantium" Posted: 20 Dec 2011 09:33 PM PST Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.- The Penn Museum is pleased to present "Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium", an exhibition of large-scale photographs by Turkish photographer Ahmet Ertug, on view at the museum through February 12th 2012. The grandeur of Byzantine Christian art — preserved through the ages in early Christian churches in the Cappadocia region of Turkey — is the focus of this large-scale photography exhibition. "Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium" contains 13 color photographs by renowned Turkish photographer Ahmet Ertug documenting the interiors of three churches — the Karankik Kilise (Dark Church), the New Church of Tokali (Buckle Church), and the Meryem Ana Kilisesi (Church of the Mother of God) — all more than 1,000 years old and all UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The photographs include close-up views of elaborate wall paintings depicting classic Christian scenes from the life of Christ and images of saints. Also included are images revealing the dramatic interior architecture of these churches, places that have inspired, and continue to inspire generations of worshippers and admirers.

The Lyman Allyn Art Museum Celebrates the Art of Japanese Manga Posted: 20 Dec 2011 09:19 PM PST New London, CT.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is proud to present "Hello Manga!" on view at the museum through March 17, 2012. Since the 1980's, Japanese comics have been capturing the attention of the American public and inspiring artists and fans. "Hello Manga!" celebrates the art of manga and explores its popularity with American audiences.  Both longtime fans and those new to manga will enjoy the illustrations, books, costumes, collectibles, and manga-inspired wall murals in this exhibition. These objects highlight manga's impact on American reading habits, fan culture, and artwork. This exhibition has been organized by Carolyn Grosch, Assistant Curator at the Lyman Allyn, along with Connecticut College professors Takeshi Watanabe and Sayumi Harb.

The Emmanuel Fremin Gallery to Exhibit Surrealist Photographer Giuseppe Mastromatteo Posted: 20 Dec 2011 09:10 PM PST New York City.- The Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is pleased to announce its grand re-opening in its new, larger Chelsea space located at 547 West 27 Street, suite 508. The gallery's first vernissage will be held on January 5th 2012 from 6-8 pm, introducing a 5 week solo show for Italian born artist Giuseppe Mastromatteo for his "Indepensense" series (which will close on February 12th). Following a wide acclaim reception in 2011 at Art Hamptons, the AAF, Greenwich Art Fair and Red Dot Miami, this will be be the first solo show for Giuseppe in the United States. Giuseppe Mastromatteo was born in Italy in1970 . After a period spent as a recordist's assistant inside a record company, he graduated from Accademia di Comunicazione di Milano in art direction. He writes about the Arts, teaches Advertising at various significant academic institutions, and collaborates with the Triennale Museum of Milan in the role of art director. Since 2005 his works have been exhibited at the Fabbrica Eos Art Gallery, Milan as well as at national and international art fairs. He currently lives and works in Milan.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Presents the Prints of Romare Bearden Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:56 PM PST Kansas City, MO.- Artist Romare Bearden's life and art were marked by a broad range of intellectual and scholarly interests, yet the visual arts were his primary focus. Bearden (1911–1988) was a master of collage, but he was also known for his watercolors, oil paintings, photomontages and prints. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art features more than 75 of Bearden's works in "Impressions & Improvisations: The Prints of Romare Bearden" on view through January 8th 2012. The exhibition is organized into two sections: Bearden's printmaking processes and important thematic motifs. Together, these two approaches provide a broad overview of Bearden's genius as an artist: he was constantly stimulated–artistically, intellectually and emotionally–at the very deepest levels in every medium he employed. Bearden believed the process of making art was as important as the work of art itself.

Architectural Paintings From the Renaissance to the 18th Century On View In Madrid Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:30 PM PST Madrid.- The Museo Thyssen--Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are proud to present "Architectural Paintings: From the Renaissance to the 18th Century". This exhibition, which is split between the two venues, comprises a group of more than 140 paintings from the Renaissance to the 18th century that depict buildings and cities, either as the principal motif or as the background for the depiction of other subjects. The exhibition will aim to show the visiting public the development of these architectural motifs or settings and the wide range of issues that contributed to the independence of the genre in the 18th century. Painted buildings were one of the options chosen by numerous artists to emphasize the scenes and episodes depicted in their paintings, among them leading painters from the Mediterranean world and northern Europe between the 14th and 18th centuries including Duccio di Buoninsegna, Canaletto, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Tintoretto, Gaspar van Wittel, Hubert Robert, Maerten van Heemskerck and Hans Vredeman de Vries. "Architectural Paintings" will be on view through January 22nd 2012. The exhibition brings together works by these renowned artists, with outstanding loans from private collections and museums around the world, among them Musei Vaticani, National Gallery of Art (Washington), Galleria degli Uffizi, Museo del Prado and Patrimonio Nacional. By including architectural motifs in their works, artists established the setting for the movement or position of the figures and provided them with a context that was credible in spatial, visual, historical, mythical, legendary and imaginary terms. In addition, such works could become innovative painted architectural projects or eloquent fragments of structures that steered the viewer's emotions and the narrative thread through the use of walls, windows etc. The link between the painting of buildings and cities with travelling is another key theme in this exhibition, as is an analysis of the architectural ideas and solutions that these artists frequently presented in their works. Behind their apparent objectivity, painted structures – cities, palaces, temporary constructions, ruins and designs – conceal symbols, recollections, or forms of political and religious propaganda, in some cases of considerable complexity. The works of these artists, who became increasingly specialised, particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries, responded to demand from the religious and political authorities and from intellectuals. On occasions they painted fantastical buildings inspired by ancient and modern travellers' accounts or by religious or secular texts. These were backdrops and buildings charged with sacred or political resonances and symbolism, transformed into expressions of wealth and luxury, eulogies of particular individuals, emblems of cities or nations or recollections or exaltations of triumphs and journeys or visits. In other cases these artists painted buildings under construction or ones contemporary with the painting, introducing the very process of building into the representation: machines, tools, workmen, etc. They also painted ruins, which in the case of religious scenes such as the Nativity or the Adoration of the Magi, referred to the destruction of a pagan past over which the "new architecture" of Christianity arose. Similarly, the depiction of the classical architectural orders symbolised the new order of Humanism. Painted buildings and settings were soon incorporated into the theory of representational systems, particularly those of perspective and architectural theory. Painting and architecture and their respective idioms thus began to express inherent tensions and conflicts through works that moved from painting to architecture and from planned or built architecture to painting. To paint buildings was a form of designing them and, conversely, to design and build them was a way of painting and adorning the world, including the world represented on the two-dimensional surface of the canvas. The exhibition is structured both chronologically and thematically. The first part, on display at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, spans the 14th to the 17th centuries, a period in which the painting of buildings and city views was considered a minor genre but in which these elements frequently appeared as the backgrounds to religious, historical and mythological scenes. The depiction of such elements would become increasingly important until it triumphed as an independent genre in the 18th century, which is the subject of the second part of the exhibition in the exhibition space of Fundación Caja Madrid. It includes works by the great masters of the vedute, landscapes with ruins, capriccios etc. Cities for living in or dreaming about, real, imaginary, surprising or dream-like cities occupy the backgrounds of the paintings to be seen in the first rooms of the exhibition. Duccio di Buoninsegna, Francesco d'Antonio and Benedetto Bonfigli are among the 14th and 15th century artists whose paintings introduced the theme of "Architecture as Setting" with works in which the setting allows for the presentation of the religious narrative. Religious subject matter is also the focus of the second section, "Perspective and Space", which includes a group of paintings that reveals the importance of perspective, both pictorial and architectural, which was crucial to Renaissance art and to the evolution of painting from that point onwards. Artists represented include Fra Carnevale, Gentile Bellini and Tintoretto. The next two sections, "The historical City: memory and ruins" and "The Ideal City", introduce symbolism in the form of reverie, recollection, emotion and fantasy as an additional element in the architectural settings of a range of scenes. It is thus to be found in the work of Italian artists such as Vittore Carpaccio and northern European ones including Maerten van Heemskerck. These two sections are followed by "Legendary Buildings and Cities" and "Imaginary and fantastical Buildings", which illustrate the theme of travel and its key role in the development of painted architecture as an independent pictorial genre. We see real or imaginary journeys, journeys in time or through the imagination. These works lead on to the representation of historical or mythical places and monuments such as Babylon, the Tower of Babel, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse at Alexandria: buildings, ruins or cities entirely or partly created by the painter's imagination. The exhibition continues with an area devoted to "Antiquity as Landscape" featuring the work of great 17th century painters such as Annibale Carracci and Claude Lorrain. Here the religious or historical subject becomes a more anecdotal pretext for the depiction of majestic landscapes with elements from the classical world. Finally, views of cities such as Rome and Naples or some of their most famous buildings and monuments are the subject of "The modern City as a Metaphor of Power". This section includes works by Viviano Codazzi and Gaspar van Wittel, among others, and is the last section in the first half of the exhibition. "Cities of the Grand Tour" is the first section on display at Fundación Caja Madrid. These views of buildings and cities, which functioned as souvenirs of royal or historical trips, first appeared in the Renaissance but it was above all in the 18th century, with the rise of the so-called Grand Tour, that the genre of vedute reached its peak. This room includes works by all the leading representatives of vedute painting - Canaletto, Guardi, Bellotto, Van Wittel, Zocchi, Panini and Marieschi – in the form of views of Italian cities, particularly Venice, with a markedly topographical focus. As a result such works became "postcards" or souvenirs for the aristocrats, intellectuals and European artists who wished to recall their experiences of Italian art and culture throughout the course of the 18th century. The evolution of the genre and its expansion beyond Italy can be seen in the next section, entitled "The Image of the City and Architecture in Europe", which includes views of other cities, among them Madrid, with paintings of Atocha, the calle de Alcalá and the Royal Palace by Antonio Joli. The attitude of other Grand Tour travelers, who seemingly allowed themselves to get lost and to be surprised by what they saw, confusing real views with fantasies and potential projects, led to the appearance of a new genre known as the capriccio. The room devoted to "Architectural Capriccios" features various examples by artists such as Canaletto, Bellotto and Panini in which real city views, buildings and historical monuments are combined with imaginary places and structures, on occasions associated with artistic and architectural innovations or new intellectual concepts. The same was the case with the subject of ruins, another sub-genre of the architectural landscape and one that became widespread in the 18th century. In the present exhibition examples are included in the section "The Poetic of Ruins", with works by Marco Ricci, Hubert Robert and Claude Joseph Vernet among others. Ruins were associated with the notion of the passing of time, both historical time and the day to day, and such works implied a journey into the past or through the present that encouraged thoughts of the future. The exhibition ends with a room devoted to "Ruins and Memory as Projects" which displays a group of prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Since 2001 the Caja Madrid Foundation has been providing institutional support to public universities in the Community of Madrid. The collaboration has been to support teachers in programs, teaching and research in universities. In late 2010, adopted a new line of mobility grants for teachers of public universities in Madrid. The program aims at the realization of stays of 4 to 10 months in Universities and Research Centers Foreign accredited academic and scientific excellence. More information on the exhibition can be found on the museums' websites at ... http://www.museothyssen.org and ... http://www.fundacioncajamadrid.es

A Fascinating Collection of Modern & Contemporary Art ~ The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:21 PM PST The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) was established by the Government of Ireland in 1990 as Ireland's first national institution for the presentation and collection of modern and contemporary art. The museum was officially opened on 25 May 1991 by the, then Taoiseach Charles J Haughey. Since its opening the museum has rapidly established itself as a significant and dynamic presence in the Irish and international arts arena. It is widely admired by its peers throughout the world for the range and relevance of its exhibitions, for its innovative use of its growing Collection, for its award-winning education and community program and for its visitor-centered ethos and facilities. The IMMA is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. The museum presents a wide variety of art in a dynamic program of exhibitions, which regularly includes bodies of work from its own Collection and its award-winning education and community department. It also creates more widespread access to art and artists through its Studio and National programs. The museum is housed in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the finest 17th-century building in Ireland. The Royal Hospital was founded in 1684 by James Butler, Duke of Ormonde and Viceroy to Charles II, as a home for retired soldiers and continued in that use for almost 250 years. The style is based on Les Invalides in Paris with a formal facade and a large elegant courtyard. The Royal Hospital in Chelsea was completed two years later and also contains many similarities in style. The Royal Hospital Kilmainham was restored by the Government in 1984 and opened as the Irish Museum of Modern Art in May 1991. The museum's mission is to foster within society an awareness, understanding and involvement in the visual arts through policies and programs which are excellent, innovative and inclusive. IMMA has proved to be a valuable and popular addition to the country's cultural infrastructure, attracting more than 400,000 Irish and overseas visitors each year, both to the Museum itself and to events organized throughout Ireland by its National program. It is hoped that in the future the Museum will be provided with more space, allowing its current activity to be complimented by an encyclopedic permanent display of contemporary art, something Ireland lacks. The IMMA has an excellent museum shop, with a strong emphasis on publications relating to modern Irish artists and a highly regarded café. Entry to the museum is free, and the museum's Mediator Team (gallery staff) provide free guided tours every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 2:30pm. Visit the museum's website at … http://www.imma.ie The Collection of IMMA, which comprises some 4,500 works, has been developed since 1990 through purchase, donations and long-term loans, as well as by the commissioning of new works. The guiding principle behind this process is that the Ccllection is firmly rooted in the present. The museum's acquisitions policy is to concentrate on the work of living artists, but it accepts donations and loans of more historical art objects with a particular emphasis on work from the 1940s onwards. The museum's Collection is made up of the Permanent Collection and a number of loan collections. The Madden Arnholz Collection of some 2,000 old master prints also forms a part of the IMMA Collection. The museum displays its Collection in rotating temporary exhibitions, exploring the work of individual artists in solo displays, and through curated group exhibitions. The museum's Collection is also the focal point for the IMMA National program. The permanent collection of IMMA comprises some 1,650 works. The collection reflects some of the most exciting trends in Irish and international art with lens-based work by Marina Abramovic, James Coleman, Willie Doherty, Gilbert and George, Candida Höfer, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Issac Julien, and Paul Seawright, installations by Gerard Byrne, Liam Gillick, Ann Hamilton, and llya and Emilia Kabakov. Also, sculpture by Stephan Balkenhol, Dorothy Cross, Iran do Espírito Santo, Juan Mũnoz, Kathy Prendergast, Rebecca Horn and Corban Walker; and paintings by Barrie Cooke, Howard Hodgkin, Tony O'Malley, Philip Taaffe, Juan Uslé, and Jack B. Yeats. Major donations include a wide variety of modern and contemporary art, including paintings by Basil Blackshaw, Cecil King and Sean Scully, sculptural works by Louise Bourgeois, Barry Flanagan and James McKenna and a film installation by Neil Jordan. Heritage Gifts include 50 works from the PJ Carroll & Co. Ltd. Art Collection, and 46 works from the Bank of Ireland Collection. In 1988 approximately 1,200 Old Master prints were donated to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham (now IMMA) by Clare Madden. The collection includes works by Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya and many other innovative European printmakers from the Renaissance onwards. Following the death of Clare Madden in October 1998 the collection was augmented by the addition of a large collection of books containing prints by the English printmaker Thomas Bewick and his family bringing the total range of printed images to 2,600. Related items in this bequest include unusual versions of the prints on silk and one of Bewick's printing blocks. The Museum's temporary exhibition program regularly juxtaposes the work of leading, well-established figures with that of younger-generation artists to create a debate about the nature and function of art.Works shown range from painting and sculpture to installation, photography, video and performance. These exhibitions usually last three to four months and up to four shows can be on view at any one time. IMMA originates many of its exhibitions but also works closely with a network of international galleries and museums. The museum also displays its collection in rotating temporary exhibitions as well as projects and exhibitions based on the work of its education and community departments. Amongst the exhibitions currently on view is a collection of works by Romuald Hazoumè (until May 15th 2011). Winner of the Arnold Bode Prize at documenta 12, Romuald Hazoumè is one of Africa's leading visual artists. He has worked with a wide variety media throughout his career, from discarded petrol canisters, oil paint and canvas, to large-scale installation, video and photography. The exhibition at IMMA focuses on his iconic sculptures made from discarded plastic canisters which resemble the primitive tribal masks that were so influential to the early Modernists, such as Picasso and Braque. Until 12 Jun 2011, "Philip Taaffe - Anima Mundi" is a survey of the work of the American painter Philip Taaffe, featuring 34 mixed media, mostly abstract paintings from the last ten years. Taaffe's work has been celebrated in museums around the world for its rich fusion of abstraction with ornamentation, combining elements of Islamic architecture, Op Art, Eastern European textile design, calligraphy and botanical illustration. The exhibition includes many of the most striking examples of the vivid, complex images that result from Taaffe's highly individual use of line and color. 'Old Master Prints: The Madden Arnholz Collection' is on exhibition until June 12th 2011 and displays prints by many of the most famous artists ever to work with print-making. Works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, William Hogarth and Rembrandt van Rijn are all featured with works drawn from the Madden Arnholz Collection. "Les Levine: Three Works from the 1970s" provides the public with an opportunity to view three series of etching and photographic works from the 1970s, recently donated to IMMA by the artist. In the works, the New York-based Irish artist mixes text and image to reinforce his belief that social and political problems are valid concerns for art. A major travelling exhibition will be on view from 6th April 2011, when IMMA hosts "Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection" (on view until June 26th 2011). "Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection", presents the iconic paintings of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the two central figures of Mexican Modernism. Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) and her husband, the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957). The myths that surrounded them in their lifetime arose not only from their significant body of work, but also from their active participation in the life of their time, their friendships (and conflicts) with leading figures, their imposing physical appearance and spirited natures. The paintings exhibited include key images by Kahlo such as "Self Portrait with Monkeys", and "Self Portrait as a Tehuana" or "Diego in My Thoughts", and the major work by Rivera, "Calla Lily Vendors" (all 1943). The paintings are supplemented by other works including diaries, lithographs, drawings, pastels and collages, all offering a rich visual experience for the visitor. Also included are striking photographs of Kahlo and Rivera by Lucienne Bloch, Héctor García, Martin Munkacsi, Nickolas Muray and Bernard Silberstein. The Museum concentrates on acquiring contemporary art by living artist and buys only from primary markets: studios and galleries. It also accepts donations of art dating from 1940 onwards and through some generous gifts has made progress towards a representative collection of art of that period

Sigmar Polke ~ 'We, the Petty Bourgeois' ~ Opens at Hamburger Kunsthalle Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:20 PM PST HAMBURG - At the centre of this exhibition is a long-neglected and only recently reassembled body of work by Sigmar Polke from the period 1974–1976: Wir Kleinbürger – Zeitgenossen und Zeitgenossinnen (We, the Petty Bourgeois – Contemporaries). The ten-part series of unusually large works on paper occupies a very important place in the artist's oeuvre due to the unique variety of figures, traces, signs and quotations from popular imagery it contains: echoes of "Capitalist Realism" from the 1960s blend with precursors to Polke's chemical and optical experiments with colour in the 1980s as well as the political themes that were to become increasingly prominent in his work from the mid-1990s onwards. On exhibition through 31 January, 2010.

Estate of José Iturbi Sale at Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:19 PM PST LOS ANGELES, CA - By the close of the auction in Los Angeles, Bonhams & Butterfields clients - private and institutional collectors and members of the trade - had spent more than $1.76-million for fine art and furniture from the Beverly Hills Estate of conductor/composer José Iturbi and Marion Seabury, proceeds benefiting the José Iturbi Foundation.

Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:18 PM PST MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google is celebrating the 110th birthday of Rene Magritte by incorporating some of Magritte's masterpieces with the Google logo. Ever so often, Google does a "doodle", or a "decoration" they make to their logo. Over the years doodles have become one of the most beloved parts of Google. The doodle selection process aims to celebrate interesting events and anniversaries around the world that reflect Google's personality and love of innovation.

The Rijksmuseum Exhibits A Large Selection Artist Dick Bruna's Works Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:17 PM PST AMSTERDAM.- Graphic designer, illustrator and author of children's books Dick Bruna (1927) has agreed a long-term loan of a selection of his work to the Print Room of the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands. His designs for paperback covers, advertising material and children's books, obviously including Miffy, cover the period from 1953 to 2007. On exhibition from 5 July through 29 August at The Rijksmuseum.

Property of Hollywood Star Tony Curtis to be Offered by Julien's Auctions Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:16 PM PST BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Julien's Auctions, the world's premier entertainment and celebrity auction house will offer a rare glimpse into the life of one of Hollywood's most colorful stars, Tony Curtis. The rare Hollywood star whose off-screen character was often more sensational than his on-screen one, lived a life that could be its own movie or television series. Curtis' career spanned six decades with popularity during the 1950s and 1960s enabling him to transpose his good looks into super movie stardom. He acted in over 100 films ranging from light comedy to serious drama and he also made numerous television appearances. In addition to being a popular actor, Curtis was a fine art connossiuer. Collectors will have the opportunity to purchase some of his impressive art collection along with items from his illustrious career at Julien's Auctions Gallery in Beverly Hills on September 17th, 2011. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will benefit Shiloh Horse Rescue, a charitable organization founded by Jill and Tony Curtis that rescues and rehabilitates abused, neglected and slaughter-bound horses of all types Among Curtis' most memorable films were 1959's "Some Like It Hot" 1960's "Spartacus," 1953's "Houdini" 1952's "Son of Ali Baba", 1957's "Sweet Smell of Success," 1965's The Great Race and of course 1968's "The Boston Strangler," often noted as his most serious part. He earned an Oscar nomination for the 1958 crime drama "The Defiant Ones." The film "Some Like It Hot" in which he acted with icon Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon has been called the funniest film in history by the American Film Institute. He also acted with such greats as Burt Lancaster in "Sweet Smell of Success" and Cary Grant in "Operation Petticoat." Curtis was often noted for his impeccable comedic timing. Off screen Curtis earned even more attention for his personal life which was filled with great turmoil and change. He married five times, his first and most famous to actress Janet Leigh. The Curtis Estate auction features property spanning from his World War II Naval stint through the first decade of the 21st century. Fine art highlights coming to the block include the Andy Warhol Some Like it Hot Shoe, given to Curtis as a gift by the artist, (est $20,000/30,000), three drawings by Balthus (two est $25,000/35,000 and one est $30,000/40,000), a Maurice Denis oil on canvas study for the Baptism of Christ Mosaic at the Church of Saint Paul in Geneva, Les Ondes, (est $20,000/30,000), ceramics and prints by Picasso, Braque, and Chagall, a fine collection of 20th century American, British, and European paintings, and many selections from Tony Curtis's own secondary career as an artist, including paintings, drawings, prints, ceramic vases, and a tapestry. Also available for the first time are a selection of assemblage shadowboxes, a type of artwork very personal to Curtis and never before exhibited or sold to the public, although these items were occasionally bestowed as gifts upon friends and family. Tony Curtis was an inveterate collector with a discerning eye. His treasures, collected from his travels all over the world, range from Faberge objets de vertu ( a 14k gold cigarette case, est $4,500/$6,500; and a trefoil dish inset with Russian coin, est $3,000/5,000), to fine watches (including an 18k gold Audemars Piguet Chronograoh wristwatch, est $6,000/8,000), to fine furniture (a Chinese Chippendale expanding writing desk, est $4,000/6,000), to boxes that he personalized with found objects, trinkets and mementos, preserved as he left them (numerous lots with estimates between $200 and $1,000). Choice memorabilia items from Curtis' acting career include a yachtsman's jacket from the famous shipboard kissing scene with Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot (est $10,000/15,000), a beautiful rosewood Rudall and Carte flute given to Curtis by Frank Sinatra (est $3,000/4,000), his Photoplay 14k gold medal award for Most Popular Male Star won in 1958 (est $3,500/4,500), and Hanna/Barbera's own depiction of Stoney Curtis in an animated cel from an appearance on the Flintstones (est $1,200/1,800). This auction also proudly showcases awards, mementos, photographs, letters, clothing, and personal effects from all phases of Curtis' life and career and reflecting his many interests and talents. A full list of items for auction can be viewed at the Julien Auctions website. This is indeed a unique opportunity to see the lifestyle of one of the world's most talked about actors whose iconic twists beyond his roles still talked about in many circles. The Exhibition of The Estate of Tony Curtis presented by Julien's Auctions, Beverly Hills is designed by Rush Jenkins and Klaus Baer of WRJ Design Associates, who have designed exhibits for The Collection of Michael Jackson, The Estate of Johnny Cash, The Collection of Cher and more recently The Collection of Barbra Streisand.

MoMA presents ~ Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:15 PM PST NEW YORK CITY - Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s is an exhibition of works drawn from the MoMA collection of Architecture and Design that explores the ways in which the singular landscape of New York has inspired architects since the 1970s with visions of utopia. The city has served as a model for architectural projections and reflections, and also as a metaphor for the complex relationship between the limitations of reality and the infinite possibilities of architectural thought. On display through October 27, 2008.

MCA Denver presents "Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made" Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:14 PM PST DENVER, CO.-The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver(MCA Denver) announces the opening of Looking for the Face I Had Before the World Was Made, six exhibitions focused on the metaphysics of the human figure. The exhibitions bring together very different types of art and artists including figurative paintings and video by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans (b.1963), a video of a short play by the late Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), abstract paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by New York artists Eric and Heather ChanSchatz (both b. 1968), photographs by New York artist Lorraine O'Grady (b. 1934), architectural renderings as portraits by late San Francisco draftsman A.G. Rizzoli (1896-1982) and drawings by Denver artist William Stockman (b. 1965). The exhibitions open as one on January 29, 2010. A public reception will be held the same day from 8–10pm, with a preview for MCA Denver members from 6–8pm.

Yoko Ono Photo Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:13 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Located in the Museum's Lower Gallery, this exhibition of John Jonas Gruen's portraits of notable artists, all of whom are represented in the Whitney Museum's collection, has been extended to September 5, 2010. The exhibition is curated by Elisabeth Sussman. Writing in the volume of photographs from which this exhibition takes its title, art historian Justin Spring notes: "John Jonas Gruen has made it his business to be in the right place at the right time. During his many years in Manhattan, Gruen – critic, author, and keen cultural observer – has moved with ease among dancers, musicians, playwrights, and poets.

Bill Viola Presents "Emergence" at the Galleria dell'Accademia Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:12 PM PST FLORENCE, ITALY - The Galleria dell'Accademia will present the restored Pietà da Palestrina, the marble group sculpture attributed to Michelangelo and exhibited in the Tribune of the David. On this occasion at 10.00 p.m. in the Tribune of the David the Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence proposes the video Emergence (2002) by Bill Viola in the presence of the artist himself. This event intends to suggest a meditation on the theme of the Pietà, a central theme in the life and work of Michelangelo starting from his youth (St. Peter's Pietà), and then repeatedly in later age (the Bandinelli Pietà intended for his own tomb, and the Rondanini Pietà).

Art Museum at the University of Kentucky to show Motherwell & Jasper Johns Exhibition Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:11 PM PST   LEXINGTON, KY - An exhibition of prints by Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell and Pop artist Jasper Johns opens at the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky on January 11, 2009. Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns: Poetic Works As Metaphor explores the unique relationship between the visual arts and writing and focuses on these two artists—both major figures in twentieth-century American art—to the work of writers Rafael Alberti and Samuel Beckett, respectively. On view through 1 March, 2009.

The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Shows Interactions Between Painting and Photography Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:10 PM PST Santa Fe, NM.- "Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph", a major exhibition that addresses the anxious, yet highly productive relationship between painting and photography in 20th-Century American art is on view at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum until September 11th. This exhibition of more than 75 paintings and photographs focuses on the work of American painters for whom the photograph has been essential, beginning with the acclaimed 19th century realist Thomas Eakins and continuing through to contemporary art, including such masters as Georgia O'Keeffe, Frederic Remington, Charles Sheeler, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Chuck Close, David Hockney and Sherrie Levine. Major works by such ground-breaking photographers as Eadweard Muybridge, Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman and Margaret Bourke-White will also be included. Shared Intelligence brings together approximately 75 photographs and paintings by artists for whom the two mediums were essential to their practices, such as Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, Thomas Eakins, Sherrie Levine, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cindy Sherman, Charles Sheeler, Ben Shahn and Edward Steichen.  The exhibition pairs paintings and photographs to demonstrate specific relationships between the two media and how painters consistently turned to photography to invigorate aspects of their work. In the beginning of the 20th Century, photographers felt obligated to justify their use of the camera as a means of expression.  Today however, the question is no longer Can photography be the equal of painting? but rather Has the photograph supplanted painting's position in the hierarchy of the art world? Certainly it is nearly impossible to imagine a contemporary artist whose work is untouched by the camera, if only as a means of reproduction.  And yet, the photograph's role in modern art goes far beyond reproduction or even as a source of subject matter. Photographic seeing, the way the lens freezes, flattens, enlarges and crops the world, conditions all visual representations.  Above all, there is no way of escaping the the camera's service to the vast legal, scientific and economic systems of knowledge that categorize and regulate modern existence itself. The exhibition intends to refute the idea that painting from a photograph is some sort of failure of imagination or technique - rather the two mediums enrich each other.  Ultimately, the exhibition emphasizes the role of the artist as picture maker, rather than as either painter or photographer.  In opposition to modernist critics such as Clement Greenberg and John Szarkowski who have tried to establish the autonomy of painting and photography, a crucial theme of this exhibition is the way in which the two mediums have always intersected and spilled into each other.  Painting has used the camera repeatedly to reinvigorate itself, just as photography has been equally enriched by a dialogue with painting. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened to the public in July 1997, eleven years after the death of the artist from whom it takes its name. Welcoming more than 2,225,000 visitors from all over the world and being the most visited art museum in the state of New Mexico, it is the only museum in the world dedicated to an internationally known American woman artist. One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called "the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it." She was a leading member of the Stieglitz Circle artists, headed by Alfred Stieglitz, America's first advocate of modern art in America.  These avant-garde artists began to flourish in New York in the 1910s. O'Keeffe's images—instantly recognizable as her own —include abstractions, large-scale depictions of flowers, leaves, rocks, shells, bones and other natural forms, New York cityscapes and paintings of the unusual shapes and colors of architectural and landscape forms of northern New Mexico. The Museum's collection of over 3,000 works comprises 1,149 O'Keeffe paintings, drawings, and sculptures that date from 1901 to 1984, the year failing eyesight forced O'Keeffe into retirement. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is the largest single repository of O'Keeffe's work in the world. Throughout the year, visitors can see a changing selection of these works. In addition, the Museum presents special exhibitions that are either devoted entirely to O'Keeffe's work or combine examples of her art with works by her American modernist contemporaries.  The Museum also organizes exhibitions of works by her contemporaries, as well as by living artists of distinction. Over 140 artists other than O'Keeffe have been exhibited at the Museum, such as Arthur Dove, Sherrie Levine, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center opened in July 2001 as a component of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. As the only museum-related research facility in the world dedicated to the study of American Modernism (late nineteenth century – present), it sponsors research in the fields of art history, architectural history and design, literature, music and photography.  Its annual, competitive stipend program awards six stipends to qualified applicants who can spend three to twelve months at the Research Center, which makes its library, collections and unique archives accessible to researchers worldwide as well as to its in-house scholars. The Museum and its Research Center are both Pueblo Revival-style buildings located two blocks from the historic Santa Fe Plaza and were renovated in 1997 and 2001, respectively, by Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/

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