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• Artists Announced for the The Whitney Biennial 2012
• The Vero Beach Museum of Art Shows Newly Acquired Andrew Wyeth
• The Israel Museum Shows Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art
• Over Half the United Kingdom's Collection of Paintings Now Online in Your Paintings
• Pablo Picasso Prints on Display at the Cincinnati Art Museum
• John Chamberlain Who Turned Automotive Scrap Metal Into Sculptures Dies at 84
• The Museum of Modern Art in Wakayama, Japan Presents Three Winter Exhibitions
• How a Kidnapping Hurled France and Mexico Into a Major Diplomatic Art Feud
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens "Art & Love in Renaissance Italy "
• William Bouguereau ~ An Artistic Revolution at Hirschl & Adler Gallery
• Tom Murray’s Photos from the Beatles Last Group Publicity Shoot
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents " The Role of Music in Warhol's Work Explored "
• Tarble Arts Center Showcases Art Collection for 25th Anniversary
• The Frick Collection ~ The Best Private Art Museum In New York
• Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass
• Marc Chagall's Illustrations for Gogol's "Dead Souls" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• Pop Art from the Collection of IVAM on View at Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent
• Matisse, Picasso, & Modern Art in Paris ~ The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the VMFA and UVAM
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery opens Favorite Works from the Collection
• Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review"

Artists Announced for the The Whitney Biennial 2012 Posted: 23 Dec 2011 11:05 PM PST New York City.- The Whitney Museum of American Art today announced the list of artists participating in the upcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial, which takes place at the Whitney Museum from March 1 through May 27, 2012. This is the 76th in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded. The Whitney Biennial is an exhibition held every two years in which we gauge the current state of contemporary art in America. The 2012 Biennial is being curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney, and Jay Sanders, a freelance curator. The curators began working on the research and planning of the show in early December 2010. Fifty-one artists have been selected. The Biennial comprises work—including paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations—from both emerging and established artists. In addition to visual artists, the exhibition includes a select group of filmmakers, choreographers, musicians, and playwrights. These multidisciplinary arts will be presented in a large open space in the Museum's fourth floor galleries. The curators are working on the Biennial's film program with Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, the co-founders of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn. The exhibition will be accompanied by an innovative catalogue designed by Joseph Logan with contributions from each Biennial artist. More details on the artists, other Biennial projects, and the schedule of events will be released in January 2012. Artists announced as participating in the 2012 Biennial are Kai Al6thoff, Thom Andersen, Charles Atlas, Lutz Bacher, Forrest Bess (paintings selected by artist Robert Gober), Michael Clark, Dennis Cooper and Gisèle Vienne, Cameron Crawford, Moyra Davey, Liz Deschenes, Nathaniel Dorsky, Nicole Eisenman, Kevin Jerome Everson, Vincent Fecteau, Andrea Fraser, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Vincent Gallo, K8 Hardy, Richard Hawkins, Werner Herzog, Jerome Hiler, Matt Hoyt, Dawn Kasper, Mike Kelley, John Kelsey, John Knight, Jutta Koether, George Kuchar, Laida Lertxundi, Kate Levant, Sam Lewitt, Joanna Malinowska, Andrew Masullo, Nick Mauss, Richard Maxwell, Sarah Michelson, Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran, Laura Poitras, Matt Porterfield, Luther Price, Lucy Raven, The Red Krayola, Kelly Reichardt, Elaine Reichek, Michael Robinson, Georgia Sagri, Michael E. Smith, Tom Thayer, Wu Tsang, Oscar Tuazon, and Frederick Wiseman. In addition to the artists listed above, the 2012 Biennial will present two special curatorial collaborations with external arts organizations: Arika, a UK-based group that organizes festivals of experimental music, moving image, and sound will present their first North American program as part of the 2012 Biennial. The collaboration will take the form of a week of performances, workshops, and conversations that will capture interesting threads in North American listening, including contemporary poetry, noise, and music. As a curatorial programming partner of 2012 Biennial, Artists Space Books and Talks in Tribeca will be the site of a weekly program, curated by Artists Space, focusing on key concerns from the work of the exhibiting artists, as well as from the Biennial as a whole. The fourth floor performance events will involve the artistic collaboration of Bentley Meeker. The Whitney Museum of American Art is the world's leading museum of twentieth-century and contemporary art of the United States. Focusing particularly on works by living artists, the Whitney is celebrated for presenting important exhibitions and for its renowned collection, which comprises over 19,000 works by more than 2,900 artists. With a history of exhibiting the most promising and influential artists and provoking intense debate, the Whitney Biennial, the Museum's signature exhibition, has become the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States. In addition to its landmark exhibitions, the Museum is known internationally for events and educational programs of exceptional significance and as a center for research, scholarship, and conservation. Founded by sculptor and arts patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in 1930, the Whitney was first housed on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. The Museum relocated in 1954 to West 54th Street and, in 1966, inaugurated its present home, designed by Marcel Breuer, at 945 Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side. While its vibrant program of exhibitions and events continues uptown, the Whitney is moving forward with a new building project, designed by Renzo Piano, in downtown Manhattan. Located at the corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets in the Meatpacking District, at the southern entrance to the High Line, the new building, which has generated immense momentum and support, will enable the Whitney to vastly increase the size and scope of its exhibition and programming space. Ground was broken on the new building in May 2011, and it is projected to open to the public in 2015. As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting American art, and its collection—arguably the finest holding of twentieth-century American art in the world—is the Museum's key resource. The Museum's signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country's leading survey of the most recent developments in American art. Innovation has been a hallmark of the Whitney since its beginnings. It was the first museum dedicated to the work of living American artists and the first New York museum to present a major exhibition of a video artist (Nam June Paik in 1982). Such figures as Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, and Cindy Sherman were given their first museum retrospectives by the Whitney. The Museum has consistently purchased works within the year they were created, often well before the artists became broadly recognized. The Whitney was the first museum to take its exhibitions and programming beyond its walls by establishing corporate-funded branch facilities, and the first museum to undertake a program of collection-sharing (with the San Jose Museum of Art) in order to increase access to its renowned collection. Visit the museum's website at ... www.whitney.org

The Vero Beach Museum of Art Shows Newly Acquired Andrew Wyeth Posted: 23 Dec 2011 10:56 PM PST Vero Beach, Florida.- The Vero Beach Museum of Art is celebrating its recent acquisition of Andrew Wyeth's "The Wales Farm" by making the work the centrepiece of an exhibition "In the Tradion of Wyeth: Contemporary Watercolor Masters" on view until January 15th 2012. The majority of the watercolors in the show are the work of living artists such as Kathy Caudill, Ray Ellis, William Matthews, Dean Mitchell, Alan Shuptrine, and Stephen Scott Young. While these masters of watercolor are great technicians,they embrace Andrew Wyeth's sentiment that "to be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing . . . ." Without exception, they express great feeling in their work, while exploring the profound relationships between human beings and the world of the senses through their chosen medium.

The Israel Museum Shows Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art Posted: 23 Dec 2011 10:27 PM PST Jerusalem.- The Israel Museum is pleased to present a selection of 18 recent acquisitions and gifts of international and Israeli contemporary art, on display for the first time at the Museum. "Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art" brings together works in a range of mediums by an international cadre of artists, including Vahram Aghasyan, Ilit Azoulay, Luis Camnitzer, Isaac Julien, Jonathan Monk, Adrian Paci, Anila Rubiku, Yehudit Sasportas, Hiraki Sawa, Jan Tichy and Maya Zak, among others, all of which explore the theme of enchantment. The exhibition is on view through April 30, 2012. Whether in landscapes or interior scenes, the works in Magic Lantern invoke the world of legend, daydream, fantasy and illusion. Through imaginary journeys, blurred silhouettes in the mist, flickering flames and dark forest shadows, the real world assumes the diffuse contours of something magical.

Over Half the United Kingdom's Collection of Paintings Now Online in Your Paintings Posted: 23 Dec 2011 09:04 PM PST LONDON.- Your Paintings is the first national online museum of all publicly owned oil paintings in the UK. It was launched in June of this year (2011) by the Public Catalogue Foundation and the BBC. It has been announced that a further 40,000 paintings have been uploaded to the site since the launch, taking the total to 104,000 paintings, over half the national collection. Among the latest painting images uploaded to the site are works by Thomas Brooks (RNLI Grace Darling Museum, Northumberland), Edgar Degas (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham), Joshua Reynolds (The University of Aberdeen), Bridget Riley (Morley College, London), Peter Paul Rubens (National Trust, Saltram, Devon) and Henry Whiting's "Man Wrestling an Alligator" from Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre, a world-class collection of British fairground art from the 1880s to the 1980s. Without  doubt, the collection of fairground art at Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre in Devon is the most important of its kind in the country. It is a world-class collection of British fairground art from the 1880s to the 1980s.

Pablo Picasso Prints on Display at the Cincinnati Art Museum Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:32 PM PST CINCINNATI, OHIO - The life and work of Pablo Picasso the painter was one of drama and extraordinary talent. Much of that excitement found its way into his prints. This December, the Cincinnati Art Museum will sweep you away in an exhibition that examines how Picasso brought beautiful women and mythical half man half animals alive in etchings, linoleum cuts, and lithographs. More than sixty prints by Pablo Picasso are on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum, December 17, 2011 through May 13, 2012. Picasso Master Prints surveys the career of one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century –who just happens to have been one of the century's leading printmakers. This group of Picasso's prints chronicles his lifelong exploration and accomplishments in the graphic medium. Between 1959 and 1962 Picasso explored the medium of linoleum cut. He devised an unorthodox means of using a single block to print multiple color prints by reducing the block for each subsequent color, working from light to dark, printed in earth tones. Among his most spirited linoleum cuts is the 1959 Bacchanal with Black Bull where dancers and musicians cavort with a bull under a blue sky.

John Chamberlain Who Turned Automotive Scrap Metal Into Sculptures Dies at 84 Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:07 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announced that John Chamberlain has died on December 21, 2011, in Manhattan. Brandishing a wicked sense of humor and notoriously ornery, Chamberlain was a larger-than-life personality who was as bold and expressive as his sculptures, photographs, paintings, and films. He was constantly experimenting with new materials and processes over his five-decade long career—including discarded automobile parts, galvanized steel, paper bags, Plexiglas, foam rubber, aluminum foil--revealing a near-constant stream of inventiveness. His recent exhibitions—in Giswil, Switzerland, in 2009 and 2010; at Gagosian Gallery's New York and London locations in the spring of 2011; and at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munch, Germany, in the summer of 2011-- featured some of the largest and most jubilant sculptures of his career, proving that despite his advancing age, the artist remained fearlessly, relentlessly creative. Chamberlain has been the subject of more than 100 single-person exhibitions around the world, and his first retrospective, at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1971, is to be followed by a second retrospective at the same museum in February of 2012.

The Museum of Modern Art in Wakayama, Japan Presents Three Winter Exhibitions Posted: 23 Dec 2011 08:06 PM PST Wakayama, Japan.- The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama is proud to present three special exhibitions. "Collections: Winter 2011/12", "Hidaka Shokoku: The 130th Anniversary of his Birth" and "Artists around Yoshihara Hideo" ("which overlaps with the "Yoshihara Hideo: A Retrospective" aexhibition, on view through January 15th 2012). All three exhibitions are on view through February 19th. "Collections: Winter 2011/12" has three sections: in the first section, artists, pricinpally from Wakayama, and including Jinnaka Itoko, Tatehata Taimu, Tanaka Kyokichi, Kawaguchi Kigai and Murai Masanari will be featured along with the most renowned wider Japanese artists of the same period, like Kishida Ryusei and Saeki Yuzo. The  second section focusses on Noda Hiroji's Painting, and showcases this artist from Gobo, Wakayama, who is also featured in a major solo show at the National Art Center, Tokyo, beginning in January. The artist's original and unique sense on shape and form will be seen in folded canvases and modified bases. The final section, Western Art in the 20th Century,  shows some of the diverse expressions which made up the art of the 20th  century through the works of artists like Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Joan Miro and others who were active around Paris from the inter-war years beside more recent American and European artists such as Mark Rothko, George Segal and Christo. The second exhibition celebrates the work of Hidaka Shokoku on the occassion of the 130th anniversary of his birth. "Hidaka Shokoku: The 130th Anniversary of his Birth" exhibition we will look back at the life of the artist with about 30 works from the beginning till the very end of his career, along with  about 20 works by related artists such as Tomioka Tessai and Muraami Kagaku to whom Shokoku looked up to as his role-models, Nonagase Banka and Hayashi Takeshi who were cloese friends and his first teacher Sakai Hosen. Shokoku (real given name: Masakatsu, ne Kimura, later to be known as Ikeda) was born to a  doctor family in Gobo, Wakayama. He chose his painter's name Hidaka after his hometown Hidaka district. Shokoku was also an otolaryngologist (head and neck surgeon). He graduated Wakayama Junior High School and Tanabe Junior High School, and then studied at Kyoto Prefectural Medical School. He also studied in the otolaryngology class at Kyoto Imperial Medical University. Afterward he came back to Wakayama to be the head otolaryngologist at Wakayama Red Cross Hospital, and later he opened his own ENT clinic. Playing an active role as a doctor, Shokoku was keenly interested in art, learned from local artists and began to paint himself. He also established a group with his art-loving fellow doctors and organized art exhibitions in Wakayama involving many artists. His contribution to the development of the art and culture at that time was quite meaningful. Until the mid 1950s, he worked as a doctor, and then turned over his clinic to his son to dedicate himself solely to painting. Working on his art vigorously, he came to take a great interest not only in Japanese and Eastern ancient art, but also in Western at, particularly Impressionism, which he studied. A keen walker, he explored many rural areas and mountains, which brought him a deep insight into nature. The final exhibition is "Artists around Yoshihara Hideo" and serves as a counterpoint to the retraspective of the artist which is on view at the museum through January 15th 2012. Artists who had deep connections with Yoshihara Hideo will be featured, to show how they influenced, or were influenced by Yoshihara. His interaction and communication with them formed a stream of contemporary art in Kansai district. Yoshihara started to work on printmaking at the age of 24 in 1955, when he joined in the Demokrato Artist Association (DEMOKRATO). There, he was significantly influenced by EI-Q and Izumi Shigeru, and together they taught themselves lithography through trial and error. In 1956, the members of DEMOKRATO displayed works in this unfamiliar print medium at a Lithographic Group Show by Nine Artists at Osaka for the first time. However it would take some more time for the public to understand printmaking as a new art media. Meanwhile, having some doubt whether printmaking can really be a contemporary artform, Yoshihara began to teach from 1963 at the Kyoto City University of Art, bringing him into contact with the sculptors Horiuchi Masakazu, Yagi Kazuo and Suzuki Osamu who would provide inspiration and support. From his classes, many printmakers like Kimura Hideki and Yamamoto Yoko have since gone on to make an impact worldwide. About 50 works of the artists from his circle will be on view in this exhibition. The unique building of the Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, presents a beautiful contrast with the traditional Japanese architecture of the Wakayama Castle and its famous rooftop that is seen nearby surrounded by urban greenery.  The building was designed by Kisho Kurokawa. In 1963, the Wakayama Prefecture Museum was opened in the Wakayama Castle Park, and in 1970, it was transformed as the Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama. In July 1994, the Museum of Modern Art moved from the Wakayama Culture Center to the new building near the Tenshukaku. Designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa, the unique architecture creates an interesting contrast with the Wakayama castle. The museum has a spacious lobby, a hall for lectures and film screenings, a museum shop, and a restaurant. The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, has a rich collection of home-town Wakayama artists, such as Kigai Kawaguchi and Banka Nonagase. In addition, the Museum especially features a collection and introduction of art prints. This is because many frontier artists who left important landmarks in the history of modern Japanese art print have links with Wakayama. Those printmakers include Yozo Hamaguchi (mezzotint), Kyokichi Tanaka (woodcut), Koshiro Onchi (woodcut), among others. The Museum is proud of its print collection as one of the best in Japan. It also has a overseas art prints such as those of Pablo Picasso and Odilon Redon. Other collections include those of Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, George Segal, and Japanese modern artists of the Kansai area (Western Japan). As well as its famous print collection, the museum also has Japanese traditional paintings, oil paintings, sculptures and art prints of the Meiji Period (1868-1912) as well as contemporary pieces. The museum display changes periodically, and various exhibitions and featured collections are organized in order to exhibit as many works as possible from its holdings for public viewing. Special exhibitions are organised on a regular basis. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.momaw.jp/

How a Kidnapping Hurled France and Mexico Into a Major Diplomatic Art Feud Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:51 PM PST PARIS.- In the French town of Saint-Romain-en-Gal this week, distraught Mexican curators started packing 200 ancient art objects to be shipped back to their country before they could be seen by the public. Meanwhile, ten massive statues by Mexican artist Rivelino, which were to have traveled by boat down the Seine, remained stranded in Rotterdam. These are just some of the consequences of a diplomatic imbroglio that has pitted Mexico and France against each other, and has threatened the artistic events surrounding the celebration of France's Year of Mexico. The crisis began far outside of the art world, when French citizen Florence Cassez lost her appeal in a Mexican court and was sentenced to 60 years in prison on kidnapping charges. Her attorneys and the French government both call this a miscarriage of justice and say that there were significant irregularities in the 36-year-old's arrest and trial. At the very least, they maintain that international agreements stipulate that she should be transferred in France to serve her sentence. According to Time magazine, many international observers agree that the trial was flawed, though three hostages were freed in a raid on the home that Cassez shared with her Mexican boyfriend, a plot she claims to have known nothing about. When Mexico refused to consider any of France's objections to the trial, French president Nicolas Sarkozy publicly dedicated the Year of Mexico to Florence Cassez. Mexico accused Sarkozy of turning culture into a political weapon and promptly withdrew from the collaboration. "This is becoming an homage to a kidnapper," fumed Mexican under-secretary of foreign affairs Lourdes Aranda, according to Le Parisien. For its part, the French government wants to continue with the planned cultural events. Jean-David Lévitte, a diplomatic advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy, said at a press conference that "as for France, its government, and its authorities, we are favorable to maintaining the Year of Mexico." It is, he added, "Mexico's right to decide to say no to the Year of Mexico, and we are disappointed." Many are not happy about this turn of events. Marc Restellini, director of Paris's Pinacothèque, whose show "Masks of Mayan Jade" has been a casualty of the conflict, told AFP that "without getting involved in the whole debate, I deplore the cultural waste of the cancellation of the Year of Mexico and I want to emphasize the financial difficulties that the businesses who were participating in this cultural event risk encountering." The show of Mayan masks was to be the first of its kind in France, and a great deal of work had already been done to make it happen. The Pinacothèque has filled the resulting gap in programming by moving up "The Imaginary Journey of Hugo Pratt," devoted to the well-known comic book artist. Restellini declined to indicate how much money was lost by his organization. Meanwhile, according to Liberation, financial losses have been caused by the cancellation of an exhibition of Mexican art objects at the archeological museum of Saint-Romain-en-Gal, south of Lyons. Insurance and transportation costs totaling $2.75 million dollars had already been incurred, but they are the responsibility of the Mexican government. Various French cities participating in the Year of Mexico have reacted to the diplomatic clash in different ways. In the northern city of Lille, the gallery Espace Le Carré decided to keep its independently-financed show of José Guadelupe Posada's engravings open, but removed all traces of the Year of Mexico designation. In Rennes in Brittany, the "Traveling Mexico" film festival will go on as planned. Its organizers wrote in an open letter to the French government that "one cannot ask French and Mexican artists, filmmakers, writers, and researchers to accept being used to create pressure in matters that are the concern of the courts and diplomatic corps." Toulouse has taken a different tactic, however, and has decided to change the theme of its Rio Loco festival. The city will lose about $165,000 in financing from Mexico, but city officials feel that they've made the right choice. Vincentella de Comarmond, cultural advisor to the mayor's office, said in a statement that "in this tense diplomatic context, important risks threaten the success of Toulouse's cultural events connected with the Year of Mexico." The fate of several big exhibitions taking place later this year remains uncertain. The Musée d'Orsay is supposed to show "Under the Volcano: Art in Mexico, from Independence to Revolution, 1810-1920" starting October 5. On the same date, the Musée de l'Orangerie is to present a highly-anticipated exhibition of works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and on September 29, the Petit Palais has planned to open a retrospective of Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. Museum representatives are anxiously waiting to see what will happen. Mexico has said that it would consider rejoining the event if it is no longer dedicated to Florence Cassez. Meanwhile, the Mexican chamber of deputies has unanimously declared its opposition to the cancellation of the Year of Mexico, and has asked the government to restore dialogue with France.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens "Art & Love in Renaissance Italy " Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:50 PM PST   New York City - Key moments in the lives of Italian men and women in the Renaissance were marked by celebrations carried out with the greatest possible degree of magnificence. Of these, betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child were of the utmost significance. Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a unique look at approximately 150 art objects and paintings, dating from around 1400 to 1550, that were created to celebrate love and marriage. Exhibition on view 18 November through 16 February, 2009.

William Bouguereau ~ An Artistic Revolution at Hirschl & Adler Gallery Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:49 PM PST NEW YORK, N.Y.- Hirschl & Adler Gallery presents William Bouguereau & His Milieu, on view until April 30th, 2011. In the 1950s, the art establishment had a rather narrow view of art and art history. When abstract art was at its peak, Hudson River School paintings by Frederick Church and Albert Bierstadt were considered too realistic, too tightly painted and photographic and were often deacessioned by museums and largely ignored by collectors. Similarly, William Bouguereau was customarily derided in art-history lectures. Then along came an artistic revolution; starting with Pop Art and Andy Warhol—who owned a painting by Bouguereau—the canons of art started to broaden.

Tom Murray’s Photos from the Beatles Last Group Publicity Shoot Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:48 PM PST LONDON.- For almost 30 years, renowned photographer Tom Murray's images from the Beatles last group publicity shoot were stored in the back of a drawer. And now for the first time ever, these rarely seen images will be available for public purchase on an international art site. Rock Paper Photo, which launches this week in New York, will be the most comprehensive online gallery of pop culture fine art photography. Founded by Guy Oseary (Madonna's manager) and with investment from Live Nation, the site deals exclusively in largely unpublished hand signed limited edition images. Why Tom? Why These Photos? Here are some of the facts: Tom Murray is a world-renowned photographer, having worked alongside some of the biggest names in fashion, music, art and even Royalty. His subjects include Elizabeth Taylor, Dustin Hoffman, HRH Princess Margaret, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren (just to name a few). He was the youngest photographer to ever be commissioned by the Royal Family Tom had no idea that he would be shooting the Beatles on that legendary summer day in 1968. All he knew was that he was attending a publicity shoot for an unnamed rock and roll group. The collection of photos from Tom's impromptu and iconic shoot with the Beatles is known as "The Mad Day: Summer of '68" Consisting of the 23 best images taken during the shoot, each picture provides an intimate look at the Beatles and their individual personalities. These images have been hailed by the media as some of the best photographs ever taken of the Beatles and have helped to raise over 6 million dollars for charities worldwide. Tom was the first person to capture the death of John Lennon, 12 years before it happened! At one point during the shoot, John Lennon spontaneously dropped to the ground and decided to play dead. The whole incident was over in seconds, yet somehow captured by Tom. Years later, when Lennon was shot, Time Magazine considered this photo for its cover, yet ultimately deemed it too spooky. All 23 images from the "Mad Day" series will be available for purchase on Rock Paper Photo. These signed and limited edition prints come in a 20 x 24 inch size and/or a 30 x 40 inch size. Tom Murray is an award-winning photographer whose work spans portraiture, theater, fashion, advertising, newspapers and magazines. He perfected his craft working for newspapers, becoming the head of photography for The Sunday Times Colour Magazine, London's first Sunday magazine. He then worked alongside master photographers Helmut Newton and Lord Snowdon. At 25, he received a commission from the Royal Family, becoming the youngest person to receive this honor, and has since immortalized subjects such as Angelica Huston. In the summer of 1968, Mr. Murray was invited to a publicity photo shoot for a popular rock and roll group by a fellow photographer. As it turned out, the band that they were shooting was The Beatles. From two rolls of film, Mr. Murray kept 23 negatives which are considered the most important color photographs of the group from that period of their career. The impromptu shoot took Tom and the band on a mad dash around London; the collection of photographs has become known as The Mad Day: Summer Of '68. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world and has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers like GQ, Vogue, The New York Times, and The London Times. Tom is a dedicated fund-raiser who now devotes much of his time to charities around the world and in his own community where he regularly donates to a local association for the blind. He began in 1969 when he photographed HRH Princess Margaret and chose to donate a portion of those earnings to her favorite charities. Since then, he has been involved with the Make a Wish Foundation (In the US, UK and Sweden), Project Angel Food, Friends in Need and the Caron Foundation, personally helping to raise over 2 million dollars. Through auctioning his prints for charities or donating them outright, he has raised an additional 6 million. Realizing the importance of local charities, wherever his work is exhibited, he generously donates a photographic print to a charity of the gallery's choice. A three time World Press Photo award winner, Tom has received numerous international awards for his work on newspaper and magazine assignments, theatre and advertising commissions as well as specialist portrait commissions in Europe, Africa and The United States of America.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents " The Role of Music in Warhol's Work Explored " Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:47 PM PST   Montreal - For the first time in the historiography of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), the exhibition-event Andy Warhol Live, presented from September 25, 2008, to January 18, 2009, will explore the all-pervading and fundamental role of music and dance in the artist's work and life. Music is an essential narrative element that is present throughout the exhibition and will guide visitors as they rediscover Warhol's work. From this unusual angle, viewers will be treated to a chronological and thematic reading, from the film music Warhol discovered in his youth to the disco scene at Studio 54, the legendary nightclub that opened in 1977, where he was one of the most famous regulars.

Tarble Arts Center Showcases Art Collection for 25th Anniversary Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:46 PM PST   CHARLESTON, IL - As part of its silver anniversary year the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University is presenting the exhibition The Tarble at 25 - Celebrating the Collection. The exhibition is on view through October 14 in the main galleries. Tarble volunteer docents will be available to talk about some of the works in the exhibition at The Tarble at 25 – Community Celebration on Saturday, September 30, 2-4pm. Admission is free and the public is invited.

The Frick Collection ~ The Best Private Art Museum In New York Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:45 PM PST The Frick Collection is a not-for-profit educational institution originally founded by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist. In 1913, construction began on Henry Frick's New York mansion at Seventieth Street and Fifth Avenue, designed by Carrère and Hastings to accommodate Mr. Frick's paintings and other art objects. The house cost $5,000,000, but from its inception, took into account Mr. Frick's intention to leave his house and his art collection to the public. Mr. Frick died in 1919 and in his will, left the house and all of the works of art in it together with the furnishings ("subject to occupancy by Mrs. Frick during her lifetime") to become a gallery called The Frick Collection. He provided an endowment of $15,000,000 to be used for the maintenance of the Collection and for improvements and additions. After Mrs. Frick's death in 1931, family and trustees of The Frick Collection began the transformation of the Fifth Avenue residence into a museum and commissioned John Russell Pope to make additions to the original house, including two galleries (the Oval Room and East Gallery), a combination lecture hall and music room, and the enclosed courtyard. In December 1935 The Frick Collection opened to the public. In 1977, a garden on Seventieth Street to the east of the Collection was designed by Russell Page, to be seen from the street and from the pavilion added at the same time to accommodate increasing attendance at the museum. This new Reception Hall was designed by Harry van Dyke, John Barrington Bayley, and G. Frederick Poehler. Two additional galleries were opened on the lower level of the pavilion to house temporary exhibitions. The nearby Frick Art Reference Library was founded in 1920 to serve "adults with a serious interest in art," among them scholars, art professionals, collectors, and students. The Library's book and photograph research collections relate chiefly to paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from the fourth to the mid-twentieth centuries by European and American artists. Known internationally for its rich holdings of auction and exhibition catalogs, the Library is a leading site for collecting and provenance research. Archival materials and special collections augment the research collections with documents pertaining to the history of collecting art in America and of Henry Clay Frick's collecting in particular. The Frick Collection developed the "Art of Observation" training course, initially for medical students, but now used by police, security and defense personnel throughout the USA. Using works of art to train students in observation techniques proved so effective that enquiries were received from as far as way as London's Metropolitan Police Force. Visit the museum's website at … www.frick.org Chief among Henry Frick's bequests, which also included sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts such as furniture, porcelains, enamels, rugs and silver, were one hundred thirty-one paintings. Forty-seven additional paintings have been acquired over the years by the Trustees and the Frick Collection now has a permanent collection of more than 1,100 works of art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. The paintings in the Frick Collection include works by Hans Holbein, Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Bellini, El Greco, Titian, Diego Velazquez, Frans Hals, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Johannes Vermeer, Francois Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony van Dyck, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Claude Lorrain, Francisco Goya, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James McNeill Whistler, Francesco Laurana, Jean-Antoine Houdon, John Constable, Edgar Degas, and Severo Calzetta da Ravenna. Vermeer's "Mistress and Maid", the last painting Mr. Frick bought, is one of three pictures by that artist in the Collection, while Piero della Francesca's image of St. John the Evangelist, dominating the Enamel Room, is the only large painting by Piero in the United States. Most of the sculpture purchased by Mr. Frick for the Collection was from the Italian Renaissance. Notable in the Collection are works by Vecchietta, Laurana, Francesco da Sangallo, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Riccio, and Severo da Ravenna. French sculpture includes the Lemoyne Garden Vase for the interior courtyard and remarkable works by Coysevox, Houdon, and Clodion. A number of splendid early North European sculptures are also in the Collection, above all the bust of the Duke of Alba by Jonghelinck, the Multscher reliquary bust, and bronzes traditionally ascribed to Adriaen de Vries and Hubert Gerhard. The collection also includes the furniture in the house, typical of a grand New York residence at the beginning of the twentieth century, covers a variety of periods and places of origin including, French works of the late seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries, some English pieces in the Library and Dining Room and in the bedrooms, and furniture especially designed and made for the house by the architect or interior designer. The collection contains Oriental porcelain dating from the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties and embracing a range of types including blue and white, famille verte, famille noire, and famille rose. French porcelain pieces include remarkable examples of Vincennes and Sèvres soft-past porcelains of the eighteenth century, as well as a rare sixteenth century ewer of Saint-Porchaire earthenware. The thirty-one exceptionally fine drawings in The Frick Collection are by such masters as Pisanello, Altdorfer, Rubens, Claude, Rembrandt, Greuze, Gainsborough, Goya, Ingres, Corot, and Whistler. Included in the impressive group of fifty-nine prints are four superb impressions by Dürer, three engravings by Van Dyck, eleven of Rembrandt's most celebrated etchings and drypoints, thirteen of Meryon's pivotal Etchings of Paris, twelve Whistler prints comprising the First Venice Set, and twelve eighteenth-century English reproductive portrait prints. The Limoges enamels in the collection reveal the broad range of applications to which this brilliant but delicate medium was applied in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France from secular objects such as portraits, a casket, and tableware - to objects of religious association, such as devotional images and triptychs. The impressive collection of textiles includes, most notably, two magnificent carpets from the court of the Mughal emperors and two tapestries with scenes from the story of Don Quixote by Peter van den Hecke. In 1999, the holdings of The Frick Collection were substantially expanded by the bequest of twenty-five clocks and fourteen watches from the estate of the celebrated New York collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey. This small but exceptionally fine collection, illustrates both the stylistic and the technical development of clocks and watches from about 1500 to 1830. Several special exhibitions are scheduled annually at the Frick Collection. Currently visitors can see "Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections", which runs from February 15, through May 15, 2011. Of the five paintings from the Frick's permanent collection, four were acquired by Henry Clay Frick between 1899 and 1919, and the fifth by the trustees in 1943 from the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan. Three of these works are unquestionable masterpieces by the artist, "Nicolaes Ruts", "The Polish Rider", and the "Self-Portrait" of 1658. Two of the paintings ("Portrait of a Young Artist" and "Old Woman with a Book") were acquired by Frick as Rembrandts but are today attributed to artists in his entourage. This will be the first time that all five paintings have been united in a monographic display. A selection of etchings and drawings by Rembrandt acquired by Henry Clay Frick at the end of his life is also featured. These works on paper, part of the founding bequest and therefore unavailable for loan, are rarely on display. A loan exhibition of 66 works on paper by Rembrandt and his school from the collection of Frits Lugt, now housed in the Fondation Custodia, Paris, will be displayed alongside the Frick's own pieces. Eighteen drawings by the artist as well as a group of his prints will be accompanied by 36 master drawings by his most prominent pupils and students, including Ferdinand Bol, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Carel Fabritius, Govaert Flinck, Jan Lievens, and Nicolaes Maes. Among the exhibitions scheduled for later in 2011 is "In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert", from May 22, 2011, through August 28, 2011, which presents this painting from the collection along with the findings of a recent detailed technical examination by the Department of Paintings Conservation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette" from June 8, 2011, through September 11, 2011 will present some of the rare surviving pieces of furniture from the craze for "a la Turc" or Turkish style, that swept through French high society in the late 18th century. "Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition", from October 4, 2011, through January 8, 2012, will look at the dazzling development of Picasso's drawings, from the precocious academic exercises of his youth in the 1890s to the virtuoso classical works of the early 1920s. Through a selection of more than fifty works at each venue, the presentation will examine the artist's stylistic experiments and techniques in this roughly thirty-year period, which begins and ends in a classical mode and encompasses the radical innovations of Cubism and collage. The show (which opens at the Frick in the fall of 2011 and moves on to the National Gallery of Art in February of 2012) will demonstrate how drawing served as an essential means of invention and discovery in Picasso's multifaceted art, while its centrality in his vast oeuvre connects him deeply with the grand tradition of European masters.

Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:44 PM PST   LONDON - The National Gallery presents Art of Light: German Renaissance Stained Glass, on view through 17 February 2008. This exhibition, the first of its kind at the National Gallery, sets out to demonstrate that the best stained glass from the Renaissance period fully reflected – and even rivaled – the latest developments in painting, while exploiting to the full the vibrant properties of light.

Marc Chagall's Illustrations for Gogol's "Dead Souls" at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:43 PM PST TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - In the spring of 1931, Marc Chagall set sail for a visit in Eretz-Israel. He had been invited by Tel Aviv Mayor Meir Dizengoff, following their acquaintance in Paris in 1930. Chagall was taken with Dizengoff's passion to establish a museum in the emerging Jewish city, and agreed to join the Paris Committee set up to promote the project. Chagall brought a gift, his series of prints illustrating Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls. The series was personally dedicated to Dizengoff, and was intended to enrich the collection of the museum, due to open in 1932.

Pop Art from the Collection of IVAM on View at Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:42 PM PST TORRENT, SPAIN - The Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) presents in Espai Municipal d'Art de Torrent, "Pop Art of the Collecció L'IVAM al 'EMAT" curated by the Director of the IVAM, Consuelo Ciscar and Javier Ferrer director EMAT, which will be displayed from June 18 to August 2, 2009. The exhibition brings together over forty works of different techniques and media including paintings, photography, works on paper and sculptures. The many artists who are included in this exhibit are figures representative of this trend that emerged in the United Kingdom, but reached its full dimension in United States. These include: Hervé Telémaque, Equipo Crónica, Eduardo Arroyo, John Baldessari, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Darío Villalba, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Lindner and Valerio Adami. The Collection of the IVAM provides a broad, comprehensive overview of Pop Art and the presence of its legacy in the most recent contemporary creations. It focuses on the artists who influenced the development of the avant-garde movements in Spain, including the important contribution made by Spanish artists to that trend. And we say trend because of the different international manifestations of Pop Art that took place simultaneously in several countries rather than something that stemmed from a single source. Manifestations that can be grouped in categories that go from the precursors of Pop Art like Richard Lidner or artists of the Independent Group like Robert Hamilton or the American precursors Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg or Claes Oldenburg to the artists of New Realism like Martial Raysse, and New Image with works by James Rosenquist, and Narrative Figuration with works by Gilles Aillaud, Hervé Télémaque, Valerio Adami and Eduardo Arroyo, Realismo Crítico represented by the work of Equipo Crónica, Equipo Realidad and Juan Genovés, among other trends, including the legacy that has tinged the cinematographic photography of Cindy Sherman or John Baldessari. Be that as it may, Pop Art was never a programmatic movement directed by a coherent group that expressed their ideas in manifestoes, but rather a nexus of different groups and critical stances that resorted to images from mass production as their point of departure and that presented important variations according to their geographic and cultural background. Although in many aspects it is the heir of the historic avant-garde movements, Pop Art constitutes one of the first examples of postmodern art practice thanks, precisely, to its appropriation of images already in existence. Collage and photomontage, along with Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades and similar works or creations of Surrealism, are important artistic antecedents. In fact, a series of Pop artists were directly linked to the latter movement (Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Hervé Télémaque). But more than anything else, Pop was the result of the growth of the consumer society that took place in the nineteen fifties and sixties: the new reality that captured the attention of the younger generation. Josep Renau, who uses collage and photomontage techniques to criticize the American society, appropriating ordinary everyday images of the media and popular culture, has been considered a forerunner or a pioneer of Pop aesthetics, above all because of the influence he had on the work of Equipo Crónica and Equipo Realidad, who used the same techniques in painting to establish a critical interpretation of the images and icons that configure the visual culture of Spain at that time, but also turn their critical glance towards the past and history. However, this resorting to history, the painting of the past or cult cinema, which we find in both Equipo Crónica, Equipo Realidad and Eduardo Arroyo, is not limited to the cultural sphere in Spain but involves permanent interrelationship between popular culture and high culture. This is something that did not follow the initial premises of Pop Art, but in the eighties even Warhol was using images from paintings by Munch, De Chirico or Leonardo's Last Supper in his works. The strategies of Pop provided a (not only visual but also intellectual) framework that, thanks to the contradictions enclosed in this iconographic encyclopedia, constituted a point of departure for political and social reflection about the present. This point of departure allowed Pop to survive in neo and post formulations. Pop Art, in its broadest sense, left the avant-gardes the legacy of a narrative that is still vital for the aspirations of emerging artistic movements today.

Matisse, Picasso, & Modern Art in Paris ~ The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the VMFA and UVAM Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:41 PM PST CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - The University of Virginia Art Museum presents Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the University of Virginia Art Museum. This exhibition reunites works of art that were given in 1947 as bequests to two Virginia institutions, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) and the University of Virginia. The selection of 88 works from the Jones collections at VMFA and the U.Va. Art Museum includes masterpieces of modern French art from the years 1904–1946.  On view 30 January through 24 April, 2009.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery opens Favorite Works from the Collection Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:40 PM PST Buffalo, NY- A new installation now on view at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery celebrates the Gallery long tradition of collecting with approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, and photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. This presentation of many of the best-loved works in the Gallery's permanent collection will be on view through 2009.  These works from the Permanent Collection are arranged with an art historical approach according to six different themes: The Birth of Modernism, American Modernity, The Abstract Gesture, Pop Goes the World, Less is More, and Picture This. The Birth of Modernism extends from the emergence of Impressionism with paintings by artists at the forefront of the movement such as Vincent van Gogh's, The Old Mill, 1888 and Claude Monet's, The Tow-Path at Argenteuil, ca. 1875. More experimental explorations of color are represented by artists André Derain, The Trees, ca 1906 and Henri Matisse, La Musique, 1939 while Pablo Picasso's Nude Figure, 1906 and George Braque's, Glass, Grapes and Pear, 1929 illustrate Cubism. Surrealist and German Expressionist works are also presented providing a visual timeline of the Henri Matisse, La Musique, 1939 development of modern art in Europe.   A selection of American paintings from before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860 to the beginning of the Unites States' involvement in World War II are represented in American Modernity.  The Albright-Knox, the sixth oldest art museum in the nation was established in 1862. The first painting to enter the collection, a beautiful landscape, The Marina Piccola , Capri, 1859, a gift of the artist Albert Bierstadt, is on view along with Winslow Homer's Croquet Players, 1865; William Harnett's still life Music and Literature, 1878; Childe Hassam's impressionist Church at Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1905; and Arthur Dove's semi-abstract Fields of Grains as Seen From the Train,1931. Abstract Expressionist works represent the core of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Permanent Collection.  Former Director Gordon Smith and Board President Seymour H. Knox, Jr. acquired many of these works in the same year that they were created, giving the Gallery its reputation for hanging works while "the paint was still wet."  The keen intuition of these Gallery leaders, viewed by many at the time as controversial, has enabled the Albright-Knox's collection of Abstract Expressionist works to be recognized as one of the foremost in the world.  Among the iconic works on view as part of The Abstract Gesture are Blue-Black, 1952 by Sam Francis; Dialogue I, 1960 by Adolph Gottlieb; and Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 34, 1953-54 by Robert Motherwell. In the 1960s pop artists rebelled against the spontaneous self-expression of Abstract Expressionism by integrating familiar imagery from everyday life into their work. Pop Goes the World includes the work of Andy Warhol who turned the art world upside down with his reproductions of Campbell's soup cans as in 100 Cans, 1962 while Robert Rauschenberg merged elements of Abstract Expressionism with found items he collaged directly on the canvas for Ace, 1962.  Marisol's intriguing wood and mixed media sculptures, Baby Girl, 1963 and The Generals are included as well as a recently acquired work by Jim Lambie, Plaza, 2005, composed of enamel paint and plastic bags.  Another group of artists responded to the expressive, painterly gestures of Abstract Expressionism by focusing on the elemental, a movement later defined as Minimalism. Artists pared images down to their most basic, structural forms and rejected any narrative or attempt at pictorial illusion.   Highlights in Less is More include Frank Stella's "black" painting, Jill, 1959 and Agnes Martin's, The Tree, 1965 with recent acquisitions by Robert Mangold, Column Structure IX, 2006, and Fred Sandback's Untitled (Sculptural Study, Four Part Vertical Construction, c.1982/1984. Since its inception, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery has had a significant relationship with photography.  The grouping Picture This  features a range of photographs including historical works from the early part of the 20th century by Charlotte Spaulding Albright, Wilbur H. Porterfield and Augustus Thibaudeau to contemporary counterparts such as John Pfahl, Sharon Harper and Orit Raff. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is recognized as one of the world's leading collections of modern and contemporary art. With more than 6,500 works in its collection and a dynamic series of exhibitions and public programs, the AKAG continues to grow and fulfill its mission to acquire, exhibit, and preserve modern and contemporary art in an enriching, dynamic, and vibrant environment. Hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission: $10 adults; $8 seniors and students; free, children 13 and under.  On Fridays from 3 to 10 p.m.,  "Gusto at the Gallery," features a variety of free programs for visitors of all ages.  For additional information see www.albrightknox.org.

Art Knowledge News Presents "This Week In Review" Posted: 23 Dec 2011 07:39 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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