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• ArtPalmBeach Celebrates its 15th Anniversary at the Palm Beach Convention Center
• Gagosian Gallery Worldwide Exhibition of 25 Years of Spot Paintings by Damien Hirst
• The ARKEN Museum Celebrate's the 40th Jubilee of Denmark's Artist Queen Margrethe II
• The Montclair Art Museum Presents Abstraction in American Art
• Storytelling in Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Nailya Alexander Gallery To Show Underground Russian Photography 1970s and 1980s.
• The Little Black Gallery Presents Yul Brynner's Celebrity Photographs
• The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan 'Round-Up' Of Fine Art
• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) shows "Afterlife" Discarded Materials As Works of Art
• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Annual Fall Art Exhibition and Auction
• Marlborough Fine Art to show New Works of Frank Auerbach
• The New York Public Library shows Art Deco Prints and Posters
• Paintings by Frank Stella show of “Geometric Variations” at Paul Kasmin Gallery
• Icon of Art History Henri Matisse's "Dance" on Loan at Hermitage Amsterdam
• Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to Host Susan Rothenberg Exhibition
• Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) features “Pathways to Unknown Worlds"
• Willem de Kooning 'Women' at Craig F. Starr Associates
• California African American Museum shows “Inside My Head: Intuitive Artists of African Descent”
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

ArtPalmBeach Celebrates its 15th Anniversary at the Palm Beach Convention Center Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:37 PM PST Palm Beach Florida.- ArtPalmBeach celebrates its 15th Anniversary at the Palm Beach County Convention Center from January 20th through January 23rd 2012 with a Preview evening on January 19th. ArtPalmBeach is considered one of the most influential contemporary art fairs on Florida's Gold Coast by both critics and art enthusiasts since its opening in 1997. In honor of the Anniversary celebration, the fair will debut the most extensive program in its history by encompassing premiere events, special exhibitions, topical lectures, special museum tours, site specific art installations, art performances and exclusive VIP programs. ArtPalmBeach 2012 welcomes back many returning exhibitors as well as introducing newcomers to the Palm Beach art scene.  The fair is comprised of over seventy international galleries presenting works of all forms of contemporary art including painting, sculpture, photography, design, fine art glass, video and installations from modern art to new cutting-edge artists. The fair will honor the lifetime accomplishments of Japanese sculptor Jun Kaneko and will feature a one-man exhibition of major works sponsored by Elaine Baker Gallery (Palm Beach, FL). Originally a painting student, Kaneko discovered a passion for sculpture upon his arrival to California in the early 1960's, a time now defined as the Contemporary Ceramics Movement in America.  Kaneko has taught at the nation's leading art schools including Scripps College and the Rhode Island School of Design.  Kaneko's bronze and glass sculpture and two-dimensional works appear in numerous international exhibitions and as well as over 50 museum collections around the world.  He has been honored with national, state and organization fellowships and an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London.  He has realized almost 30 public art commissions and recently designed the set and costumes for a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Additional 2012 fair highlights include a Beth Lipman Installation, presented by Heller Gallery (New York, NY) coinciding with her exhibition opening on January 18th at the Norton Interactive Installation and Performance by Ultra Violet: artist, film maker, muse to Warhol and Salvador Dali and author of Famous for 15 Minutes; My Years with Andy Warhol. The fair also features an exhibition and 35' Installation and Light Performance by Stephen Knapp, a one woman exhibition of phorography by Nathalia Edenmont, exhibited by Wetterling Gallery (Stockholm) coinciding with her exhibition at Whitespace, Lluis Barba's one man photography exhibition featuring new monumental works and personal appearance, sponsored by Besharat Gallery(Atlanta,GA). Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the US studio glass movement, a number of events around the fair feature leading US glass artists, including, "Michael Taylor, Pioneer in the American Studio Glass Art Movement" which presents "A Geometry of Meaning" exhibition and personal appearance, sponsored by Ruth Lawrence Gallery (Rochester, NY), a tribute to the "50th Anniversary of the American Glass Art Movement, 1962-2012", group exhibition & book launch for Harvey K. Littleton: A Life in Glass by Joan Falconer Byrd, sponsored by Maurine Littleton Gallery, (Washington DC). Hans Kotter's "Altered Vision" is a light sculpture installation, sponsored by Gallery De Buck (New York, NY). Installation works by George Wardlaw, entitled "American Master, Passages into Abstraction, 1958-1978,"  with an accompanying book launch is sponsored by Courthouse Gallery (Ellsworth, ME). The lecture and panel discussion series will include a full program of daily presentations;  Michael Kimmelman, Chief Critic of the New York Times,"The View from Over There, Over Here"; Jun Kaneko, "In Between"; William Warmus, Former Curator of Modern Glass at Corning Museum of Glass will moderate a roundtable discussion, "The Studio Glass Experiment – The First 50 Years 1962-2012"; a thought provoking panel moderated by Bruce Helander, Editor-in-Chief of The Art Economist;  Willis "Buzz" Hartshorn of International Center of Photography, "The ICP Legacy and New Directions in Photography"; Ullysees Dietz, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Newark Museum, "Ceramics as Art, Not a New Idea"; and Mark Leach, Executive Director of the SECCA, Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art will present "The New SECCA and its New Directions in Contemporary Art". In 2011, ArtPalmBeach was marked with outstanding attendance and strong sales. The fair welcomed a record 28,000 attendees during the five-day run. Dealers reported positive sales and strong interest from known collectors within the industry, reconfirming ArtPalmBeach's establishment as a fixture of South Florida's contemporary art scene. Visit the fair's website at ... www.artpalmbeach.com.

Gagosian Gallery Worldwide Exhibition of 25 Years of Spot Paintings by Damien Hirst Posted: 11 Jan 2012 09:18 PM PST NEW YORK, N.Y.- Gagosian Gallery presents "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011" by Damien Hirst. The exhibition will take place at once across all of Gagosian Gallery's eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong, opening worldwide on January 12, 2012. Most of the paintings are being lent by private individuals and public institutions, more than 150 different lenders from twenty countries. Conceived as a single exhibition in multiple locations, "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011" makes use of this demographic fact to determine the content of each exhibition according to locality.

The ARKEN Museum Celebrate's the 40th Jubilee of Denmark's Artist Queen Margrethe II Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:42 PM PST Copenhagen, Denmark.- The ARKEN Museum is proud to present "The Essence of Colour - The Art of Queen Margrethe II", on view at the museum from January 28th through July 1st 2012. To mark HM Queen Margrethe II's 40th Jubilee, ARKEN is showing a major exhibition focusing on the Queen as an artist. The Queen's royal status involves sitting for many portrait painters, but at an early stage the Queen herself took up the brush. We are pleased to have a Queen with such striking artistic talent. This is the biggest exhibition to date of the Queen's art, where the public can follow her artistic development over the past 35 years. Over 130 acrylic paintings, water-colours and découpages are presented – including a series of brand new works that have never before been shown to the public.

The Montclair Art Museum Presents Abstraction in American Art Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:27 PM PST Montclair, New Jersey.- The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) proudly presents "Patterns, Systems, Structures: Abstraction in American Art". The exhibition is being staged in two phases. Part One opened on December 3rd, 2011, in the McMullen Gallery with works from the late 19th century through the 20th, including Native American art; Part Two opens February 12th 2012, in Lehman Court and the Shelby Gallery with additional works representing 20th-century abstraction. The exhibition runs through May 19th 2013, and is organized by MAM's chief curator, Gail Stavitsky. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the permanent collection of the Montclair Art Museum and explores the rich variety of approaches to abstraction in American art.

Storytelling in Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Posted: 11 Jan 2012 08:15 PM PST New York, NY - "Storytelling in Japanese Art," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a captivating combination of show and tell, read and look. Curatorially speaking, the exhibition takes us gently in hand and, through text panels, captions and diagrams, reveals the narrative side of Japanese art with memorable clarity. It has been organized by Masako Watanabe, a senior research associate in the Met's Asian art department, and while installed in the museum's Japanese permanent-collection galleries, it is a temporary show full of significant loans. Illuminating the tales played out in a lavish assortment of hand scrolls, hanging scrolls, screens and books, the exhibition, with its explications and elucidations, gives didacticism a good name. It deserves return visits, especially for its second rotation, starting Feb. 8, when, due to fragility, several hand scrolls will be wound to different scenes and five screens will be replaced by others.

The Nailya Alexander Gallery To Show Underground Russian Photography 1970s and 1980s. Posted: 11 Jan 2012 07:38 PM PST New York City.- The Nailya Alexander Gallery is pleased to present "Underground: Russian Photography 1970s-1980s", on view at the gallery from January 25th through March 24th 2012. The exhibition contains some forty vintage gelatin silver prints by Boris Smelov (1951, Leningrad -1998, St. Petersburg), Boris Mikhailov (b. 1938, Kharkov), Yuri Rytchinsky (b. 1935, Brdiansk), Alexander Lapin (b. 1945, Moscow), Nikolai Bakharev (b. 1946, Novokuznetsk), Gennady Bodrov (1958, Solntsy F1999, Kursk), Vladimir Kuprianov (1954 - 2011, Moscow), Igor Moukhin (b. 1961, Moscow), Andrey Chezhin (b. 1960, Leningrad), and Alexey Titarenko (b. 1962, Leningrad). During the Khrushchev's cultural thaw, nonconformist art and literary movements, involving such figures and activities as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Josef Brodsky and Samizdat, had a great impact on the evolution of Russian photography in the 1970s, and laid the foundation for a new generation of photographers during glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s.

The Little Black Gallery Presents Yul Brynner's Celebrity Photographs Posted: 11 Jan 2012 07:06 PM PST London.- The Little Black Gallery is proud to present " Yul Brynner : A Photographic Journey", on view at the gallery from January 11th through February 11th 2012. Yul Brynner's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most charismatic and versatile actors is irrefutable. But his talent as a photographer has been relatively unknown and unacknowledged. Brynner's subjects are some of the pivotal figures of cinematic and stage history, and his talent lies in capturing these people and particularly actors (those best at disguising their true selves) at ease, both on and off set: Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Audrey Hepburn in a gondola in Venice, Elizabeth Taylor relaxing poolside. The exhibition has been put together by Brynner's daughter Victoria Brynner, and coincides with the recently published book of the same name.

The Dallas Art Museum ~ A Texan 'Round-Up' Of Fine Art Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:51 PM PST The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District, Dallas, Texas. The new building was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, the 2007 winner of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. The Dallas Museum of Art collection is made up of more than 28,000 objects, dating from the third millennium BC to the present day. The museum's library contains over 50,000 volumes available to curators and the general public. The Dallas Museum of Art's history began with the establishment in 1903 of the Dallas Art Association, which initially exhibited paintings in the Dallas Public Library. The Museum's collections started growing from that moment on, and it soon became necessary to find a permanent home. The museum, renamed the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1932, relocated to a new art deco facility within Fair Park in 1936, on the occasion of the Texas Centennial Exposition. This new facility was designed by a consortium of Dallas architects in consultation with Paul Cret of Philadelphia. In 1943 Jerry Bywaters became the director of the DMFA and under his tenure, impressionist, abstract, and contemporary masterpieces were acquired and the Texas identity of the museum was emphasized. In 1963 the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts merged with the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art. The permanent collections of the two museums were then housed within the DMFA facility, which suddenly held significant works by Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Gerald Murphy, and Francis Bacon. By the late 1970s, the greatly enlarged permanent collection and the ambitious exhibition program fostered a need for a new museum facility. The museum moved once again, to its current venue, at the northern edge of the city's business district (the now designated Dallas Arts District). The $54 million dollar facility, designed by New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, gave the museum a new 370,000-square-foot facility when it opened in January 1984 (the museum's Sculpture Garden opened a year before in October 1983). At the same time the name was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1985 the new decorative arts wing, built to house 1,400 objects from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, opened. In 1991, construction began on the addition of the Nancy and Jake L. Hamon Building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. When this opened in 1993 the museum gained an extra 140,000 square feet. In 2003, the Dallas Museum of Art marked its 100th birthday on January 19, and celebrated by remaining open for 100 continuous hours with 45,000 visitors in attendance. The museum collects, preserves, presents, and interprets works of art of the highest quality from diverse cultures and many centuries, including contemporary. As well as its galleries and library, the Dallas Museum of Art contains a café, museum shop and a unique 12,000-square-foot learning environment, the Center for Creative Connections. Visit the museum's website at … www.dallasmuseumofart.org The Dallas Museum of Art's collections include more than 24,000 works of art from around the world ranging from ancient to modern times. The collection of ancient Mediterranean art includes Cycladic, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Apulian objects. The museum's collections of South Asian art range from Gandharan Buddhist art of the 2nd to 4th centuries AD to the arts of the Mughal Empire in India from the 15th to the 19th century. Highlights include a 12th century bronze Shiva Nataraja and a 10th century sandstone representation of the god Vishnu as the boar-headed Varaha. Objects in the museum's highly regarded African collection come from West and Central Africa.The objects date primarily from the 16th to the 20th centuries, although the earliest object is a Nok terracotta bust from Nigeria that dates from somewhere between 200 BC to 200 AD. The museum's significant collection of European art starts in the 16th century. Some of the earlier works include paintings by Giulio Cesare Procaccini ("Ecce Homo"), Pietro Paolini ("Bacchic Concert"), and Nicolas Mignard ("The Shepherd Faustulus Bringing Romulus & Remus to His Wife"). Art of the 18th century is represented by artists like Canaletto ("A View from the Fondamenta Nuova"), Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre ("The Abduction of Europa"), and Claude-Joseph Vernet ("Mountain Landscape with Approaching Storm"). The 19th and 20th century collection of European art also stands out. Among significant works in this collection are "Fox in the Snow" by Gustave Courbet, "The Seine at Lavacourt" by Claude Monet, "I Raro te Oviri" by Paul Gauguin, "Beginning of the World" by Constantin Brâncuşi, "Interior", and "Les Marroniers ou le Vitrail" by Edouard Vuillard. The collection of works by Piet Mondrian is also particularly noteworthy (with works like "The Windmill", "Self-Portrait", and "Place de la Concorde"). In 1985 the Dallas Museum of Art received a one-of-a-kind gift from Wendy Reves in honor of her late husband, Emery Reves. The Reves collection is housed in an elaborate 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m²) reproduction of the couple' home in France, Villa La Pausa (originally created for Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel), where the works were originally displayed. Among the 1,400 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper Emery Reves had collected are works from leading impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist artists, including Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vincent van Gogh. Another part of the Reves wing is devoted to decorative arts and includes Chinese export porcelain, European furniture, Oriental and European carpets, iron, bronze, and silver work, antique European glass, and rare books. The Dallas Museum of Art has significant holdings of ancient American art. The collection covers more than three millennia, displaying sculptures, prints, terracotta, and gold objects. Works in the ancient American collection span 3,000 years and represent twelve countries. Highlights include ceramics from the southwestern United States, ceramics and stone sculpture from Mexico and Guatemala, gold from Panama, Colombia, and Peru, textiles and ceramics from Peru and the Head of the god Tlaloc (Mexico, 14th-16th century). The American art collection includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the United States, Mexico, and Canada from the colonial period to World War II. Among the highlights of the collection are "Duck Island" by Childe Hassam, "Lighthouse Hill" by Edward Hopper, "That Gentleman" by Andrew Wyeth, "Bare Tree Trunks with Snow" by Georgia O'Keeffe and "Razor" and "Watch" by Gerald Murphy. One of the most beautiful pieces in the collection is "The Icebergs" by Frederic Edwin Church. This painting had long been referred to as a lost masterpiece. The painting was given to the museum in 1979 by Norma and Lamar Hunt. The Dallas Museum of Art also has one of the most thorough collections of Texas art. This is in great part thanks to Jerry Bywaters, director of the DMA from to 1943 to 1964, who was also one of the Dallas Nine, an influential group of Texas artists. In addition to paintings by Bywaters, the DMA has great works by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, Julian Onderdonk, Alexandre Hogue, David Bates, Dorothy Austin, Michael Owen, and Olin Herman Travis. The Museum's growing collections are the foundation for a broad range of special exhibitions organized by the DMA -- from nationally traveling shows such as Thomas Struth and Henry Moore: Sculpting the 20th Century to focused exhibitions such as the recent Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg and the upcoming Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat. From its establishment in 1903 as the Dallas Art Association, one of the Museum's missions was to collect and exhibit the work of living artists. However, it was only with the 1950 acquisition of Jackson Pollock's "Cathedral" that the collection really started. Every important artistic trend since 1945 is represented in the Dallas Museum of Art's vast collection of contemporary art, from abstract expressionism to pop and op Art, and from minimalism, and conceptualism to installation art, assemblage, and video art. The collection is now the largest in the world outside of specialist modern and contemporary art museums. Contemporary artists within the collection whose reputations are well established include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Smithson. Among photographers represented in the collection are Cindy Sherman, Nic Nicosia, Thomas Struth, and Lynn Davis. When the current Museum facility opened in the mid-1980s, several artists were commissioned to create site-specific works especially for the Dallas Museum of Art: Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Richard Fleischner, and Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen. In recent years, the museum has shown a strong interest in collecting the work of contemporary German artists such as Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, and Anselm Kiefer, while simultaneously collecting works by young contemporary artists. Amongst the highlights of the collections are Jakson Pollock's "Cathedral", Steve Wolfe's "Untitled (Piano Music for Erik Satie)", John Chamberlain's "Dancing Duke" and Alan Saret's "Deep Forest Green Dispersion". The museum's collection of works on paper, includes photographic works from the earliest pioneers, such as Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq through to Cindy Sherman. Temporary exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art reflect the breadth of its collections and its educational role. Currently on view is "Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement" (until May 8, 2011). This exhibition offers the first comprehensive examination of the life and work of the recognized patriarch of the American Arts & Crafts movement, Gustav Stickley. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore Stickley as a business leader and design proselytizer, whose body of work included furnishings, architectural and interior designs, and related imagery that became synonymous with the movement that was at its height between approximately 1880 and 1910. This exhibition will include over 100 works produced by Stickley's designers and workshops, including furniture, metalwork, lighting, and textiles, along with drawings and related designs. Also featured in the exhibition is a re-creation of Stickley's seminal model dining room from his 1903 Syracuse Arts & Crafts exhibition. "Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Porfolio" (until July 17th 2011), features sixteen works drawn from a rare example of a portfolio within the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1910 Frank Lloyd Wright and Berlin publisher Ernst Wasmuth issued 'Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright (Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright)', a portfolio of one hundred stylishly rendered lithographs of plans, details, and perspective views produced by the architect and his assistants. Including defining works such as the architect's Oak Park home and studio, Unity Temple, and the Larkin Company Administration Building, among other projects, this portfolio served as the first and most important publication of Wright's innovative Prairie school creations and an inspiration for European and American architects in the decades to follow. This is a rare opportunity for the public to see these design illustrations from a pivotal time in Wright's career. A third design exhibitiojn, "Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present" is on show until 29th January 2012, and features more recent design works. Including over thirty works drawn largely from the Museum's collections dating from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition reveals the transformation of ideology and forms that have shaped international design of the last half century. From the technological and formal ideals of modernism to the influence of the handmade object, the works reflect increasingly complex and vibrant relationships between concepts of function, aesthetics, and material expression. Featured are designs by Raymond Loewy, Verner Panton, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Ettore Sottsass, Robert Venturi, Donald Judd, Zaha Hadid, Louise Campbell, and Fernando and Humberto Campana. In the Center for Creative Connextions, "Encountering Space" runs until August 31st 2011 and presents works of art from the Museum collections and asks visitors to consider how space is used to invite engagement, raise questions, and create meaning. As viewers begin to encounter works of art this way, they are no longer passive observers but active participants. Until April 17th 2011, the museum is offering visitors the opportunity to see "2011 Young Masters Exhibition", selected works created by Advanced Placement® Studio Art, Art History, and Music Theory students participating in the O'Donnell Foundation's AP Fine Arts Incentive Program™ in the Concourse beginning February 26.

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) shows "Afterlife" Discarded Materials As Works of Art Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:50 PM PST SAN JOSE, CA.- On the heels of its recent show, Next New:Green that featured the works of emerging Bay Area artists exploring issues related to conservation,the environment and global warming; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents "Afterlife", a group exhibition of works created to breathe new life into re‐purposed materials and objects. Guest curated by Kathryn Funk, "Afterlife" will be exhibited in the ICA's Main Gallery and Cardinale Project Room from November 7, 2009 through January 23, 2010. The show includes sculpture, video, and multi‐media work from artists Claudia Borgna, Mark Fox‐Morgan, Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor, Lisa Kokin, Charlotte Kruk, Robert Larson, Scott Oliver, Beverly Rayner, and Ann Weber.

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Annual Fall Art Exhibition and Auction Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:48 PM PST SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is pleased to announce its upcoming Annual Fall Art Exhibition and Auction. Now in its 29th year, the comprehensive exhibition of more than 100 art works by some of the hottest artists in the Bay Area opens with a special member-only exhibition preview from 5pm to 6pm on Friday, October 2nd. A public reception is scheduled from 6pm to late during the popular South First Friday Gallery Walk in downtown San Jose's SoFA arts and entertainment district.

Marlborough Fine Art to show New Works of Frank Auerbach Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:47 PM PST London - "Frank Auerbach's paintings are the full results of tremendous application. They may appear sudden -instantaneous even- but they are feats of concentration. Studied yet impulsive, ranging from darkness to radiance and from the declamatory to the subdued, they are keyed to an air of resolve as unguarded as joy, as involuntary as grief. From the earliest portrait heads to recent sightings of the tower blocks beyond Mornington Crescent, glorified as the sun strikes them, there's a constant quickening, a pulse of the here and now". . .William Feaver. On exhibition 23 September – 24 October 2009. Private view Tuesday 22 September 2009 at Marlborough Fine Art, London.

The New York Public Library shows Art Deco Prints and Posters Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:46 PM PST   NEW YORK CITY - A New York Public Library exhibition explores the rich history, legacy and influences behind Art Deco, a style which visually captured the fascinating decades of the 1920s and 1930s and signaled the birth of our contemporary concept of modernism. Art Deco Design: Rhythm and Verve will be on view at The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street on view through January 11, 2009. Admission is free.

Paintings by Frank Stella show of “Geometric Variations” at Paul Kasmin Gallery Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:45 PM PST NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents "Geometric Variations," the first New York gallery exhibition to explore the historical importance of Frank Stella's iconic square paintings from the 1960's and 1970's. The exhibition includes large single and double canvasses from Stella's Concentric Square and Mitered Mazes series, as well as the seminal "New Madrid" painting from his Benjamin Moore series. On exhibition 22 September through 29 October. Frank Stella began covering square canvases in alkyd house paint in 1961. Like his earlier Black, Aluminum and Copper paintings, these new square paintings articulated the relationship between the two-dimensional picture plane and its three-dimensional support. Unlike the previous works, they were characterized by a crisp regularity, rigid symmetry and all-over flatness. As the art historian and curator William S. Rubin wrote, "In their extreme simplicity, and the absolute evenness of their matte surface, these pictures have a kind of immediacy that was not to be found in the more complex structures, the more elusive and ambiguous light and the more painterly execution—relatively speaking—of the Black, Aluminum and Copper pictures." The squares played a pivotal role in the development of Stella's work, where the ultimate goal was to make paintings whose pictorial force came from their materiality, and whose presence would be immediately available to the eye. "The Concentric Squares created a pretty high, pretty tough pictorial standard," he said, "Their simple, rather humbling effect—almost a numbing power—became a sort of 'control' against which my increasing tendency in the seventies to be extravagant could be measured." These systematic experimentations with color and value relationships provided Stella with a departure point for the more radically shaped canvasses and three-dimensional wall reliefs of his later works. As the French art historian Alfred Pacquement wrote, "Coming to grips with the use of color, he rediscovered without much difficulty how to appropriate the effects of illusionism. The multicolor Concentric Squares are, nevertheless, premonitions of his evolution toward volume." Frank Stella was born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts. Recent solo exhibitions include Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series at The Phillips Collection in 2011, Polychrome Relief at Paul Kasmin Gallery in 2009, Moby Dick: Frank Stella and Herman Melville at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in 2009, and Frank Stella on the Roof and Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture at the Metropolitan Museum in 2007. A major five-decade retrospective of his career, organized by Michael Auping, chief curator of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, is planned for 2013. Stella after attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he attended Princeton University, where he majored in history and met Darby Bannard and Michael Fried. Early visits to New York art galleries influenced his artist development, and his work was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Stella moved to New York in 1958, after his graduation. He is one of the most well-regarded postwar American painters still working today. Frank Stella has reinvented himself in consecutive bodies of work over the course of his five-decade career. Visit Paul Kasmin Gallery at: http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/

Icon of Art History Henri Matisse's "Dance" on Loan at Hermitage Amsterdam Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:44 PM PST AMSTERDAM.- From Thursday 1 April the painting Dance (1909-1910) by Henri Matisse will be included in the exhibition Matisse to Malevich. Pioneers of modern art from the Hermitage. Dance, which will be seen at the Hermitage Amsterdam only until 9 May, has never previously been displayed in the Netherlands. It is one of the icons of art history and comes from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. It is rarely loaned out. Very recently the Ministry of Culture in Moscow gave permission for Dance to be loaned to the Hermitage Amsterdam for six weeks.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to Host Susan Rothenberg Exhibition Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:43 PM PST SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum announced an upcoming exhibition featuring approximately 20 paintings by Susan Rothenberg entitled Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place, Jan. 22 through May 16, 2010. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum has collaborated with the Fort Worth Museum to include this exhibition in its Living Artists of Distinction series, a program that honors living artists whose works have made distinctive contributions to the history of American modern art. After being on view at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the exhibition will travel to the Miami Art Museum.

Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) features “Pathways to Unknown Worlds" Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:42 PM PST Philadelphia, PA - Jazz pioneer, bandleader, mystic, philosopher, and consummate Afro- Futurist, Sun Ra, (born Herman Poole Blount 1914, Birmingham, Alabama, died 1993) and his personal mythology have grown increasingly relevant to a broad range of artists and communities. "Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968" presents a collection of paintings, drawings, prints, manuscripts, ephemera, and video produced by and about Ra and his associates . . much of it previously unseen.

Willem de Kooning 'Women' at Craig F. Starr Associates Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:41 PM PST New York City - Craig F. Starr Associates is pleased to give an advance preview announcement of the opening of Willem de Kooning: Women. The highlight of this exhibition is the groundbreaking painting, Woman, 1949 which is on loan from an important private collection. On exhibition April 12 through 8 June 2007.

California African American Museum shows “Inside My Head: Intuitive Artists of African Descent” Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:40 PM PST Los Angeles, CA -  "Inside My Head: Intuitive Artists of African Descent," an exhibition at the California African American Museum (CAAM), showcases the work of 32 artists, many of them local, who have developed a mature style mostly on their own.   Opened Thursday, May 7, this colorful and engaging exhibition will run through Monday, September 27, 2009. While a number of artists in the show are self-taught, others with formal training have deviated from it to evolve towards a very personal vision, often ignoring the mainstream art world.  In addition to its permanent collection, CAAM hosts specially mounted exhibitions curated through loans and its own collection, and tours CAAM exhibitions throughout California and the nation. According to CAAM curator Mar Hollingsworth, who assembled the exhibition, what seems to unite all these creators is their search for an unadulterated truth, a sense of authenticity that often manifests in representational artwork that celebrates their Black heritage and their physical, spiritual and cultural environment.   Some of the artists presented here work with media that has been widely recognized as belonging to the "fine arts" realm, while others create pieces that have been only marginally considered as such. "One of the main purposes of this exhibition is precisely to erase such boundaries," she explains. "Whether the creator makes a sculpture out of marble or a quilted dress with fabric remnants, the final product stands on its own in terms of quality of execution, design and composition. The exhibition will prove that artistic expression can be manifested in many forms and through many techniques, independently of schooling, and that the transition between art and craft may be seamless." The exhibition, she explains, tries to shed some light on the many ways creativity and artistic expression can flourish, as well as to validate a body of work that may not be sanctioned by the "cutting-edge" establishment. "In many ways," she adds, "African American artists have been outsiders for centuries-- they were excluded from the mainstream galleries and museums, since their sense of creativity and subject matter were often distinctively unique and deeply rooted in cultural traditions." The exhibition is divided into areas that follow specific themes: Dreams, Visions and Recollection, Fantastic Creatures, Pride and Recognition, Spirituality and the Divine, and The Power of Transformation. Included are paintings, sculptures, collages, assemblages, photographs, videos, dolls, garments and jewelry.   Thirty-two contemporary artists are represented in the show. They are: Jaami Abdul-Khaliq Abdul-Samad, Donna Angers, Floyd Bell, Patricia Boyd, Angela Briggs, Tracy Brown, Yrneh Brown, Ron Carrington, Chukes, Cola, Madi Comfort, Charles Dickson, Graham Goddard, Deidre Greene, Mamie Hansberry, Stephen Hardy, Sy Hearn, Elton Henderson, Ronald Jackson, Michael Massenburg, Bridgitte Montgomery, Dominique Moody, Anne Myatt, Elliott Pinkney, Noah Purifoy, Aydeé Rodríguez, Toni Scott, Karen Seneferu, Malik Seneferu, Dorothy Taylor, Teresa Tolliver and Timothy Washington. The California African American Museum (CAAM) researches, collects, preserves and interprets for public enrichment the history, art and culture of African Americans. Chartered by the California State Legislature in 1977, CAAM is a state supported institution and a partner with the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Friends, the Foundation of the California African American Museum.  Located at 600 State Drive in Exposition Park, the museum is open to the public Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 am -   5:00 pm, and Sundays, 11am - 5pm. Parking in the adjacent lot is $8.00 all day. Enter the lot from Figueroa and 39th Streets. Admission and workshop participation is always free. A series of programs have been organized, providing the opportunity to create one's own art with the tutelage of some of the featured artists.   To reserve space or for more information about a program, call 213.744.2024 or visit the Web site at :  www.caamuseum.org.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 11 Jan 2012 06:39 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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