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• Peace On Earth . . . and Best Wishes For A Wonderful Christmas
• The New York State Museum in Albany Celebrates its 175th Anniversary
• The Art Gallery of New South Wales Hosts Picasso Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso
• Rijksmuseum Exhibits Atmospheric 19th-century Winter Paintings
• The Kunstmuseum Berne Shows Russian Art Since 1970
• Richard Hamilton ~ Portrait of the Artist at the National Portrait Gallery in London
• Metropolitan Museum of Art enhances Online Access to its Collections with Google Goggles
• The 21st Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Fair Opens in January
• The Corcoran Displays Contemporary African American Art in "30 Americans"
• Like, Love, Lust ~ Michael Sarich at the Nevada Museum of Art
• Salvador Dalí Museum debuts Women: Dalí's View & Obsession With Female Form
• DC Moore Gallery shows Paintings by Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine
• Kunsthalle Bielefeld Revisits the 80s with Exhibition from Bischofberger Collection
• San Diego Museum of Art To Host “From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection”
• Friedrich Petzel Presents Prints Made in Collaboration with Jorge Pardo
• Amon Carter Museum aquires Landmark Charles Sheeler Painting
• The Joan Miró Foundation shows Qubo Gas
• Sotheby's Spring Sale of Russian Art in New York will be Held on April 22
• The Moscow Museum of Modern Art features Étude to Art Object
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

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The New York State Museum in Albany Celebrates its 175th Anniversary Posted: 21 Dec 2011 09:44 PM PST ALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum celebrates 175 years of adding to the scientific and historical knowledge of New York State with a new exhibition which showcases the Museum's invaluable collections, highlights the people who built them and the research that has resulted. On display in Exhibition Hall until April 30, 2012, "From the Collections" features many of the Museum's important collections in anthropology, history and natural science. It illuminates the history of the oldest and largest state museum in the nation. Included are highlights of the more than 15 million scientific and historic artifacts and specimens that make up the Museum's collections, including perennial favorites, priceless treasures and new acquisitions. The Museum and its collections officially began on April 15, 1836 when Governor William Marcy appointed the staff of the state's first official Geological and Natural History Survey to conduct "a grand and comprehensive collection of the natural productions of the State of New York to exhibit under one roof its animal, mineral and vegetable wealth."

The Art Gallery of New South Wales Hosts Picasso Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso Posted: 21 Dec 2011 09:25 PM PST Sydney, Australia - The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) is proud to host the most significant exhibition of Picasso's art ever held in Australia. 150 important paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings created by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) have come from the artist's personal collection – works he was determined never to relinquish. "Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris" is the most ambitious exhibition ever undertaken by the Gallery. Jointly organised by Musée National Picasso, the Art Gallery of NSW and Art Exhibitions Australia (AEA), the exhibition is part of the Sydney International Arts Series, bringing the world's outstanding exhibitions to Australia, and will be on view at the museum through March 25th 2012.

Rijksmuseum Exhibits Atmospheric 19th-century Winter Paintings Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:30 PM PST AMSTERDAM.- From 21 December 2011 to 26 March 2012, the Rijksmuseum will be presenting the Dutch Winters exhibition at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The evolution of the 19th-century winter landscape will be displayed by means of eight atmospheric paintings. During the first half of the 19th century, Romanticism painting was at its height. In their winter landscapes, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Charles Leickert evoke an idyllic atmosphere and a love of nature. Around 1870, a new phase emerged in which the detailed brush strokes of the Romantic period made way for a more tonal style of painting. The Hague School attempted to depict nature more realistically and to capture the atmosphere of a particular moment. The grey tones in the works of Louis Apol and Anton Mauve are typical of the style. At the end of the 1880s, Amsterdam Impressionism arose as a counterpart to this movement. Willem Witsen and Isaac Israëls use a more colorful palette and smooth strokes to render their impressions of urban and rural life.

The Kunstmuseum Berne Shows Russian Art Since 1970 Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:10 PM PST Berne, Switzerland.- The Kunstmuseum Berne is proud to present "Passion and Painting: Russian Art since 1970 - The Collection Arina Kowner" on view at the museum until February 12th 2012. the exhibition features works from one of the key collections of Russian contemporary art, Arina Kowner's collection comprises over 200 works of art by 48 artists from 1970 to 2008. The focus of the collection is the period of social and political transition in the former East Bloc from 1984 to 1996, presenting an arthistorical documentation of a unique epochal change. The show is part of the series of exhibitions in Bern on Russian contemporary art. Arina Kowner, a collector based in Zurich who originally came from Russia, knew or is acquainted with many of the artists whose works she now owns. As Kowner puts it herself: "Acquiring a work of art is mostly linked to a personal encounter."

Richard Hamilton ~ Portrait of the Artist at the National Portrait Gallery in London Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:09 PM PST LONDON.- A new display at the National Portrait Gallery plays tribute to the life and career of artist Richard Hamilton, who died earlier this year. Ten portraits of Hamilton, one of the founders of Pop Art in Britain, will form the display which was originally intended to mark the artist's approaching 90th birthday. Richard Hamilton: Portraits of the Artist will run from 19 December 2011 to 14 May 2012 in Room 32 of the Gallery. Hamilton was a member of the Independent Group which, during the early 1950s, met regularly at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, to focus on the study of popular culture, particularly that emanating from America. He was fascinated by the visual language of contemporary society including advertisements, consumer products, packaging, fashion, cinema, magazines and design. He strove to both interrogate and celebrate mass culture through his art work. In addition to painting, Hamilton also worked with printmaking, sculpture, photography and, latterly, computer technology, creating a diverse body of work that represents a unique engagement with the 'look' of the modern world.

Metropolitan Museum of Art enhances Online Access to its Collections with Google Goggles Posted: 21 Dec 2011 08:08 PM PST NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) announced that it is collaborating with Google to allow users to search the Web via pictures they take on their mobile phones, to increase access to information online about its encyclopedic collections. Beginning this week, image-based searches on Google Goggles for works of art in the Met's collections—whether from reproductions in books, posters, or postcards, for example, or in the galleries themselves—will produce direct links to extensive information about works of art on www.metmuseum.org, the Museum's website. More than 76,000 works of art from the Met's collections are currently recognizable when searching with Google Goggles, including works from the Museum's significant holdings of American art, Asian art, photographs, drawings and prints, European paintings, and Islamic art. Sculptures and other objects that Google's technology is not optimized to recognize were not included in the Met's participation; the Museum also excluded works under copyright.

The 21st Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Fair Opens in January Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:54 PM PST Los Angeles, California.- Photo L.A. returns to the historic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for its 21st edition from January 12th through January 16th 2012. Continuing the discourse on photography's place in the fine arts, Photo L.A. provides dealers from around the globe a platform for the exhibition of vintage masterworks, contemporary photography, as well as video and multimedia installations. This exciting juxtaposition creates the character that is Photo L.A. There will be an opening night benefit gala on Thursday, January 12th, benefiting the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with special host Moby. In addition to the compelling program of lectures, panels, book signings, and special installations, Photo L.A. is pleased to announce Salon de Tableaux, an area of tabletop presentations showcasing vintage, vernacular and unique photography. This year, the fair is also introducing "photoBOOK" - a forum with guest reviewers offering feedback to photographers on their book proposals. The growth of galleries, world-class museums, art fairs, and outstanding university programs in Los Angeles over the last decade attests to the city's rising status as a marketplace and destination for curators, collectors, and enthusiasts. Now in its 21st year, Photo L.A., the longest running art fair west  of New York City, continues to showcase emerging and established artists from around the globe, exhibiting with traditional and contemporary art galleries alongside private photography dealers. Photo L.A. opens up discourse on photography's place in the fine arts, providing a platform for the presentation of new techniques alongside vintage work. Contemporary photography, video, and multimedia installations are shown side-by-side with enduring masterworks from the 19th and 20th centuries. This juxtaposition creates the excitement that is Photo L.A. To coincide with the J. Paul Getty Museum 's Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, a segment of Photo L.A.'s programming will focus on this period of post WWII art created in Southern California. In addition, attendees will enjoy a bookstore, seating area, café, coffee bar, video and VIP lounges in their expansive lobby. Docent-led tours of the fair will take place every day hosted by distinguished professors, art critics and curators. Talks include; Jeffrey Henson Scales (Photographer, Photo Editor, The New York Times); Eileen Cowin (Artist); Weston Naef will present Carleton Watkins and His First Collectors, in conjunction with the newly published book, 'Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs' (J. Paul Getty Museum 2011). This long awaited book makes known for the first time the scope, breadth and depth of Watkins's work with the large format camera on the Pacific Coast between about 1860 and 1880. The talk will be illustrated with engravings, maps, daguerreotypes, stereographs, and mammoth-plate images; and Ken Gonzales-Day (Artist and Professor, Chair, Art Department, Scripps College) who will give his audience an opportunity to go behind the scene of an artist's career and the process of creating his LACMA PAC Prize winning book, Profiled, which explores sculptural depictions of race. Panel discussions will include 'Collecting Photographs + Art: Public Collections', 'The Photography Book Roundtable', 'Michael Fried's Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before Panel', 'Collecting Photographs: Private Collections', and 'Photographers of the Getty Initiative Pacific Standard Time, Art in Los Angeles, 1945-1980'. Visit the fair's website at ... http://www.photola.com

The Corcoran Displays Contemporary African American Art in "30 Americans" Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:40 PM PST Washington DC.- The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design is proud to present "30 Americans", a wide-ranging survey of works by many of the most important African-American contemporary artists of the last three decades. By bringing seminal artistic figures together with younger and emerging artists, the exhibition explores artistic influence across generations and sheds light on issues of racial, sexual and historical identity. Often provocative and challenging, "30 Americans" at the Corcoran explores ideas central to the American experience. "30 Americans" is on view at the gallery from October 1st through February 12th 2012. Artists included in "30 Americans" include Nina Chanel Abney, John Bankston, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, iona rozeal brown, Nick Cave, Robert Colescott, Noah Davis, Leonardo Drew, Renée Green, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Kerry James Marshall, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, William Pope.L, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith, Jeff Sonhouse, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, and Purvis Young. First shown  at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida, "30 Americans" has been reconceived for its presentation in Washington. At the Corcoran, the exhibition is organized around ideas of identity as well as artistic community and legacy, highlighting relationships between artists across generations. The exhibition explores the ways in which a foundational figure's ideas and formal innovations ripple through contemporary practice: Robert Colescott's investigations of the narratives of art and history in relation to African-American culture echo through the grand portraits of Kehinde Wiley and the cut-paper silhouettes of Kara Walker; the innovations of  Jean-Michel Basquiat's graffiti-based paintings of the urban environment find current form in the work of Mark Bradford and Shinique Smith; while David Hammons's wry investigations of language, meaning, and race provide a starting point for  the conceptualism of Glenn Ligon and Lorna Simpson. The Corcoran Gallery of Art stands as a major center of American art, both historic and contemporary. Founded "for the purpose of encouraging American Genius," the Corcoran's extensive collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th century American art represents most significant American artists. The Corcoran possesses a fine collection of European art as well. While continuing its efforts to represent historic American works, the gallery also encourages modern European and American artists by showing and purchasing their work, paying particular attention to artists in the Washington area. The permanent collection includes works by Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Gene Davis, and many others. There are always several exhibitions on display, regularly featuring contemporary work on the second floor with modern and early American work on the first floor. The Corcoran is the oldest and largest non-federal art museum in the District of Columbia. Its mission is to be "dedicated to art and used solely for the purpose of encouraging the American genius". Visit the museum's website at ... www.corcoran.org

Like, Love, Lust ~ Michael Sarich at the Nevada Museum of Art Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:39 PM PST   RENO, NV – Like, Love, Lust: Michael Sarich, the first full-scale survey of work by the artist, opens at the Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) on January 26, 2008. Michael Sarich is among the most prolific artists working in northern Nevada today. Since coming to Reno in 1989 to teach art at the University of Nevada, Sarich has gained attention for his multi-layered and densely packed compositions that overflow with symbols and icons that he has incorporated into his own pictorial language. Like, Love, Lust features works ranging from the artist's early multi-layered personal narratives to his recent social commentaries. The exhibition will be on view through March 30, 2008.

Salvador Dalí Museum debuts Women: Dalí's View & Obsession With Female Form Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:38 PM PST ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Continuing to explore Salvador Dalí's work in new ways, the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg presents Women: Dalí's View, an exhibition which examines Dali's artistic obsession with the female form. On view until September 21, 2008, the paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints and objects assembled from the museum's permanent collection – the largest outside of Dalí's native Spain – represent a diverse range in the artist's approach to the female form, and reveal how images of women dominate Dali's work, much as they do the history of art.

DC Moore Gallery shows Paintings by Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:37 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.-DC Moore Gallerypresents Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine, featuring paintings and drawings by two of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Though from different backgrounds - Lawrence (1917-2000) grew up in Harlem and Levine (b. 1915) in Boston's South End - their lives parallel each other in several ways, from the arc of their careers to their lifelong dedication to unique artistic visions. The exhibitions, which continue through February 6, are timed to coincide with Jack Levine's 95th birthday. On exhibition through 6 February, 2010.

Kunsthalle Bielefeld Revisits the 80s with Exhibition from Bischofberger Collection Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:36 PM PST BIELEFELD, GERMANY - "Of course, the 1980s was an important period in art history—something that we are just beginning to realize. It is only now that we are really starting to understand the beauty, power, and special aspects of these paintings. This kind of art juggles a great deal, all at once, being oriented toward a variety of things. Many artists referred to earlier epochs, not merely to so-called Modernism alone. Suddenly, there were long traditions again. Minimalism and Conceptual art foresaw that painting would come to an end at some point, so from this viewpoint, it was quite astonishing for something like this to happen around 1980." The exhibition 'The 80s Revisited' will run from 21 March to 20 June 2010.

San Diego Museum of Art To Host “From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection” Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:35 PM PST San Diego, CA.- From July 9th through October 3rd 2011, the San Diego Museum of Art is proud to be the only U.S. museum to show "From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection". This spectacular survey of Spanish art from the 16th century to the 1970s will feature 64 works drawn from one of the world's finest private collections From the golden age of Charles V and on through the modern period, this exhibition showcases such acclaimed masters of the Spanish school as El Greco, Ribera, Murillo, Goya, Sorolla, Picasso, Dalí and Miró. Spanning four centuries, this selection of works by some of the world's most celebrated artists illustrates a splendid chapter in the history of Spanish art. Visitors to the exhibition will also be invited to discover dazzling artists little-known in the U.S., such as the Romantic Manuel Barrón y Carrillo, or the Modernist Romero de Torres. This exhibition proposes new perspectives on the story of Spanish art, considered both thematically and historically. An outstanding selection of old master paintings will  underscore the importance of religious piety and royal patronage from the 16th to the 18th century, including Jusepe de Ribera's sensational Saint Jerome, Bartolomé Murillo's sublime Immaculate Conception, and Francisco de Goya's masterful Doña María Teresa de Vallabriga y Rozas. The struggle between tradition and modernity will be considered from the late-18th to the 20th century, featuring six works by Salvador Dalí, among them his monumental Ascension of Christ, and the diptych Gala's Christ, painted for his wife and muse in 1978. Monuments of painting, the masterpieces assembled for this exhibition are also a testament to a preeminent collector's enduring passion. A native of Asturias, Spain, Juan Antonio Pérez Simón has made Mexico City his home. It is also home to his collection, begun in the 1970s, which now ranks among the greatest in the world. From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection, a choice selection from the outstanding works that comprise this stellar collection,premiered in Paris, at the Musée Jacquemart-André, before traveling to the Musée national des beaux-arts in Québec City. The San Diego Museum of Art's mission is to collect, preserve, interpret and display the finest works of art that men and women have created throughout time for the benefit of the broadest conceivable audience. The inspiration for a permanent public art gallery in San Diego can be traced to the Panama-California International Exposition, held in Balboa Park during 1915-1916.  The Exposition, which was organized to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal and to promote San Diego as a seaport, also showcased San Diego as a growing cultural center. Planning for the new museum began in 1922 when local business and civic leader, Appleton S. Bridges (1849-1929), offered to fund the construction of a permanent structure to house a municipal art collection. A prominent site on the north side of Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama was secured and construction got underway in April 1924. Bridges hired one of San Diego's leading architects at the time, William Templeton Johnson (1877-1950), to design and construct the new art gallery. The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego officially opened its doors on February 28, 1926, at which time ownership and maintenance of the building was transferred to the City of San Diego. The Museum underwent an important period of expansion, in terms of both its collections and gallery space from 1955 until 1979. The completion in 1966 of the west wing doubled the space of Bridges' original structure and additional gallery space was added with the completion of the Gildred-Parker-Grant (east) wing in 1974. In 1978, Trustees changed the name of the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego to The San Diego Museum of Art in recognition of the Museum's status as a repository for applied and decorative arts in addition to the fine arts of painting and sculpture. The San Diego Museum of Art provides a rich and diverse cultural experience for 350,000 visitors annually. Located in the heart of beautiful Balboa Park, the Museum's nationally renowned collections include Spanish and Italian old masters, South Asian paintings, and 19th and 20th century American paintings and sculptures. The Museum regularly features major exhibitions of art from around the world, as well as an extensive year-round schedule supporting cultural and educational programs for children and adults. At The San Diego Museum of Art, exhibition text is always in English and Spanish. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.sdmart.org

Friedrich Petzel Presents Prints Made in Collaboration with Jorge Pardo Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:34 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Friedrich Petzel Gallery presents the group exhibition, Jorge Pardo Sculpture Ink. This summer Friedrich Petzel Gallery will exhibit a set of prints made in collaboration with Jorge Pardo, shown for the first time since it debuted in the Guggenheim's exhibition "theanyspacewhatever". In the original museum exhibition, Pardo transformed a section of the museum's infamous ramp with an interlocking system of intricately-patterned screens that were illuminated by anthropomorphic sculptural lamps. This installation blocked and then demarcated an alternative circulation route for visitors while it also functioned as an inventive display system for a series of silk-screened prints created by the artists in the exhibition.

Amon Carter Museum aquires Landmark Charles Sheeler Painting Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:33 PM PST FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum announces that it has acquired a major American painting by the artist Charles Sheeler: Conversation—Sky and Earth, painted in 1940. "The acquisition of this famous landmark painting strengthens the museum's collection in important ways," says Rebecca Lawton, curator of paintings and sculpture. "It is beautifully executed, daring in its conception, and highly provocative in its evocation of a photographic source." Sheeler was part of the early 20th-century New York avant-garde art world that included Demuth, Louis Lozowick and Joseph Stella.

The Joan Miró Foundation shows Qubo Gas Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:32 PM PST BARCELONA, SPAIN - The Joan Miró Foundation presents an exhibition by qubo gas (www.qubogas.com), a group set up in 2000 in Lille by Jef Ablézot (1976), Morgan Dimnet (1973) and Laura Henno (1976). This brings to an end the Pigments and Pixels cycle curated by Marie-Thérèse Champesme and Pascale Pronnier, which has shown a selection of works by artists from Le Fresnoy who look at the various links between today's artists and the techniques, themes and styles that have been present throughout the history of art. The exhibition is on view 15 June – 30 September 2007.

Sotheby's Spring Sale of Russian Art in New York will be Held on April 22 Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:31 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's spring sale of Russian Art in New York will take place on April 22, 2009, and include a wide variety of modern and contemporary Russian painting and Works of Art featuring an exceptional selection of Icons and decorative items with Imperial lineage. The pre-sale exhibition will open to the public on April 17.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art features Étude to Art Object Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:30 PM PST Moscow, Russia - The main building of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art at 25 Petrovka Street is hosting "Étude to Art Object", a large-scale experimental display focused on works by Russian artists from the Museum's permanent collection. For the first time ever, the Museum exhibits its holdings united by a single thematic program that allows demonstrating a considerable variety of artworks assembled by the Museum and unveil a number of pieces unseen by the public. On view 14 February through 10 May, 2009. The main reference point of the project is étude, or study. In the strict sense of the word, it is a "subordinate" type of visual art that is executed from nature with a goal of learning its rules. To this day, étude plays a crucial role in academic fine arts education. To match the traditional notion of étude with pioneering practices of contemporary art – here lies the main intrigue of the "Étude to Art Object" display. In this case, étude is a metaphor for a distinctive creative method of the artist, which aims at exploring not only really existing objects, but conceptual features as well. The novelty of curatorial approach consists in a wider interpretation of the étude phenomenon, in its understanding as a flexible and many-sided aesthetic category that can be applied both to preparatory sketches and to finished works of art. The versatile Museum collection and the thoroughly planned itinerary of the display make it possible to trace how certain traits of étude reveal themselves in the contradictory world of the 20th and 21st century art. Among these traits are: photographic verisimilitude, repetition of motifs, references to classical tradition, demonstration of laws of motion, the issue of artistic language as such. The route of the intellectual journey through the display is logically structured by three general thematic sections: "Canon", "Natura" and "Metamorphoses". The first section presents model examples of étude, such as graphic studies and academic paintings. In the next zone, the notion of the étude receives a broad interpretation: works that are on view here may belong to different genres, but all of them explore nature and its principles. Finally, the visitor enters into the space of play and fantasy, where the very idea of the étude is splintered into several conceptual aspects summarized in certain tag-words. Accordingly, the "Metamorphoses" section includes six consecutive parts: "Hyper-reality", "Repetition", "Classics!", "Motion Mechanics", "Geometry of Form", and "Language Exercises". All these aspects, illustrated by works from the Museum's holdings, reveal at times surprising affinity with dominant interests of contemporary artists. The display consists of more than three hundred works executed in various media: from traditional painting, graphics, sculpture and photography to kinetic objects and video installations. In direct proximity, artists are arrayed who often seem to stand at polar extremities in terms of their creative intentions. Among them are: AES+F, Alexander Archipenko, Konstantin Batynkov, Leonid Borisov, Pavel Chistyakov, Semyon Faibisovich, Andrey Goncharov, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Andrey Grositsky, Francisco Infante, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Valery Koshlyakov, Oleg Kulik, Mikhail Larionov, Igor Makarevich, Kazimir Malevich, Tatyana Nazarenko, Timur Novikov, Viktor Pivovarov, George Pousenkoff, Leonid Purygin, Oskar Rabin, Aidan Salakhova, Vasili Shukhaev, Sergey Shutov, Igor Snegur, Vinogradov and Dubosarsky, Dmitry Zhilinsky, and many others. Apart from works from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the display is enriched with pieces from the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg and the Surikov Moscow State Academic Arts Institute. The design of the display was created by Boris Bernaskoni, one of the most promising young architects in Moscow, praised for his singular approach to exhibition architecture. His stylish and purist solution, without distracting attention from the artworks on view, helps to clarify the structure of the project and guides the visitor on the way from "Étude to Art Object". Moscow Museum of Modern Art / 25/1 Petrovka St., 107031, Moscow, Russia / Visit : http://www.mmoma.ru

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 21 Dec 2011 07:29 PM PST This is a new feature for the subscribers and visitors to Art Knowledge News (AKN), that will enable you to see "thumbnail descriptions" of the last ninety (90) articles and art images that we published. This will allow you to visit any article that you may have missed ; or re-visit any article or image of particular interest. Every day the article "thumbnail images" will change. For you to see the entire last ninety images just click : here . When opened that also will allow you to change the language from English to anyone of 54 other languages, by clicking your language choice on the upper left corner of our Home Page.  You can share any article we publish with the eleven (11) social websites we offer like Twitter, Flicker, Linkedin, Facebook, etc. by one click on the image shown at the end of each opened article.  Last, but not least, you can email or print any entire article by using an icon visible to the right side of an article's headline.

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