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• The Whitchapel Gallery displays ~ Commissions: Now and Then"
• The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art to exhibit "Dear Mother Nature ~ Hudson Valley Artists 2012"
• The Birmingham Museum of Art to show "Warhol & Cars ~ American Icons"
• The Museo de Antioquia celebrates Fernando Botero's 80th Birthday
• YouGugg? You Tube and The Guggenheim Explore Digital Art
• Galerie Barbara Thumm Shows Recent Works by Simon Cantemir Hausi
• Picasso & Braque's Pivotal 1910-1912 Cubist Works At The Kimbell Art Museum
• The Israel Museum Features an Exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens
• MoMA Pays Tribute to Iris Barry ~ Its First Curator of Film
• Art Production Fund to Present "White Ghost" Sculpture by Yoshitomo Nara in NYC
• Hirschl & Adler Modern to show New Works by David Ligare
• Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art to Re-open with a New Exhibition "Pure Pleasure"
• The Art Gallery of New South Wales opens "Grand Weekend"
• Eli Klein Fine Art hosts The Best of Chinese Contemporary Artists
• DC Moore Gallery exhibition as the Exclusive Representative of Robert De Niro, Sr. estate
• Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Presents Rosemarie Fiore ~ Artificiere
• Hospital Radiologists Analyze Brooklyn Museum's Mummies and Make Discovery
• Hans Schiebold featured at Lanning Gallery
• Paintings on Paper by Reeve Schley at James Graham & Sons Gallery
• Liechtenstein Museum Presents a Cross-section of the History & Typology of the Picture Frame

The Whitchapel Gallery displays ~ Commissions: Now and Then" Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:21 PM PDT London.- The Whitechapel Gallery looks at the important role the Government Art Collection plays in commissioning British artists to make new works of art. The Government Art Collection is one of the most important collections of British art, with 13,500 works dating from the 16th century to the present day displayed in 420 government buildings worldwide. "Government Art Collection: Commissions: Now and Then", on view from June 21st through September 9th, is part of the Whitechapel Gallery's on-going programme opening up important public and private collections for everyone and is the final of a series of five displays exploring the diverse nature of the Government Art Collection and its role promoting British culture on the world stage. This display, a key part of the London 2012 Festival, marks 60 years of commissioning for the Government Art Collection and unveils a new work inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Works in the exhibition, many being shown for the first time in a public gallery, date from 1949 to the present day. Highlights includeL. S. Lowry's painting of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation procession in 1953 and John Piper's city scenes for the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro in 1949. Catherine Yass' colour transparencies of the British Embassy in Paris in the day and evening light (1999) will be on display, as well as a pen and ink drawing by Donald Urquhart featuring an A to Z guide to Los Angeles (2010). The display also includes works by artists including Edward Bawden, Andrew Grassie, Robert Holyhead, Runa Islam, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tom Phillips and Conrad Shawcross.  Shown alongside this is The Story of the Government Art Collection (Until September 2nd) in the Pat Matthews Gallery (Gallery 4), displays the Collection's archives for the first time. Rare documents include papers detailing the loan ofWinston Churchill's bust to the Oval Office in Washington from 2001 – 2008, and records of paintings hung in 10 Downing Street under Prime Ministers from the Duke of Wellington to John Major. A 1962 document records artist William Coldstream's proposal that the Whitechapel Gallery hold an exhibition of the Collection, while a World War II photograph shows the bomb damage to the State Rooms of 10 Downing Street. The Government Art Collection (GAC) is very much a working collection and has been since the British Government began to collect works of art to display in 1898. Over the years the collection has expanded and nowadays contains over 13,500 works of art, mainly by British artists ranging from the 16th century to the present day. Works from the Collection are displayed in the offices and reception rooms of several hundred major British Government buildings in the United Kingdom and around the world. Thousands of people visit these buildings every year and therefore the works of art themselves play a vital role in helping to promote British art and artists. New works of art are purchased with the approval of an Advisory Committee. They acquire works by artists who have a strong British connection: for example, those who were born in Britain, or who have lived or are living in the country. Works must be robust and be able to withstand being displayed in a non-gallery environment – a Minister's office or a working building such as an Embassy or Residence. Recent additions to the Collection include an 18th century portrait by Thomas Ross, a painting by William Powell Frith, and sculptures by contemporary artists Cornelia Parker, Yinka Shonibare and Matthew Darbyshire. They also commission works of art, sometimes for the Collection such as Andrew Grassie's paintings of Downing Street and the GAC Sculpture Store, but more often site-specific works for new or refurbished Government buildings. Recent examples of commissions for buildings include Brussels and Madrid, and the Home Office and Ministry of Justice buildings in London.  The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was founded in 1901 as one of the first publicly-funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long track record for education and outreach projects, now focused on the Whitechapel area's deprived populations. It exhibits the work of contemporary artists, as well as organising retrospective exhibitions and shows that are of interest to the local community.The Gallery exhibited "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso in 1938 as part of a touring exhibition organised by Roland Penrose to protest the Spanish Civil War. For the history of post-war British art, the most important exhibition to have been held at the Whitechapel Gallery was This is Tomorrow in 1956. Initiated by members of the Independent Group, the exhibition brought Pop Art to the general public as well as introducing some of the artists, concepts, designers and photographers that would define the Swinging Sixties. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.whitechapelgallery.org

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art to exhibit "Dear Mother Nature ~ Hudson Valley Artists 2012" Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:20 PM PDT New Paltz, New York.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art presents its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley. This year's exhibition titled "Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012" is organized by guest curator Linda Weintraub and will be on view at the museum from June 23rd through November 4th. Ms. Weintraub served as the first director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute at Bard College where she originated 50 exhibitions and published over 20 catalogues. She is the author of several books about contemporary art including "To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet," to be published by the University of California Press in 2012. For Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012, Ms. Weintraub invited artists to send something to Mother Nature that expresses their relationship to her and their feelings about her. What would it be? Love letter? Care package? Medal of honor? Bill for unfulfilled promises? Payment for services rendered? Prayer for guidance? Crutches for support? Bouquet of praise? Compensation for damages? Reward for effort? Entreaty for forgiveness? Pledge of devotion? Summons for misconduct? Condolences? Advice? Warnings?This is the fourth year that a Hudson Valley Artists Annual Purchase Award of $3,000 will be used to acquire one or more artworks from the exhibition for the museum's permanent collection. This Purchase Award is made possible through the Alice and Horace Chandler Art Acquisition Fund. Artists whose work has been purchased in the past include Charles Geiger, Curt Belshe and Lise Prown, François Deschamps, Gilbert Plantinga, and Thomas Sarrantonio.  The Hudson Valley Artists exhibition is open to all emerging and mid-career artists with a permanent mailing address and active art practice in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester Counties who have not had a major one-person museum exhibition and who do not have an exclusive contract with a commercial gallery. Students are not eligible. There is no application fee. Artworks created in traditional and nontraditional media as well as audio, video, film, etc., are welcome. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz (the Dorsky), located at the geographic center of the SUNY New Paltz campus, is one of the largest museums in the SUNY system, with more than 9,000 square feet of exhibition space distributed over six galleries. The Dorsky's permanent collection comprises more than 5,000 works of art, with areas of focus that include American Art, with an emphasis on the Hudson Valley and Catskill Regions, 19th, 20th and 21st century photography and metals. A small but excellent "world collection" of art and artifacts dating back to ancient times and representing diverse cultures enhances the museum's exhibitions and educational programs. Through its collections, exhibitions, and public programs, the Dorsky supports and enriches the academic programs at the college, presents a broad range of world art for study and enjoyment, and serves as a center for Hudson Valley arts and culture.  The museum, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2011, is fast gaining recognition as the premier public showplace for exhibition, education, and cultural scholarship about the Hudson Valley region's art and artists from yesterday, today, and the future. The Dorsky's temporary exhibition program includes exhibitions drawn from the museum's collection as well as exhibitions, installations, and projects by nationally and internationally recognized artists. Each summer the Museum sponsors thematic exhibitions of work by Hudson Valley artists, featuring works by artists living in the mid-Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountain regions. This collection includes outstanding examples of both two and three dimensional objects from diverse cultures, dating from classical to modern times. Areas of strength include objects from ancient Egypt and the Greek and Roman world, Pre-Columbian artifacts, Asian prints spanning the 17th to 19th centuries, traditional African sculpture and masks, Australian aboriginal bark paintings, and Pacific Island artifacts from the early 20th century. The painting collection was started in 1939, when the university acquired a single painting on an extended loan from the W.P.A. Hasbrouck House (New Paltz, NY) by James Scott, became a cornerstone piece in the museum's collection of paintings. Today the collection ranges from 17th to 20th century American, European, and Asian works, with a special emphasis on paintings by artists from our region. In keeping with the regional emphasis of our mission and programming, the museum has a special interest in collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting the work of artists associated with the Hudson River School and the Woodstock Colony for the Arts. The museum is deeply committed to bringing a complementary critical focus to the work of the modern and contemporary artists who have called the Hudson Valley home. Works on paper make up the museum's single largest core collection. The collection was established in 1957 with a bequest of more than 150 American prints from the estate of Edward Coykendall, Many of the prints are by artists from the Hudson Valley and Catskill regions. The Coykendall collection laid the foundation for, and stimulated the museum's interest in, formally addressing the cultural heritage of the region. This focus complements a more comprehensive teaching collection ranging from the 15th through the 20th century that is international in scope, with a strong emphasis on modern and contemporary American and European posters and drawings representing the major art movements of the 20th centuries. In 1983 the museum made a long-range commitment to building a comprehensive collection of 19th and 20th century photographs. Although the museum held only two photographs then, the collection now includes more than 1,300 photographs, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes. In 1995, a formal partnership established with the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) resulted in the transfer of the permanent print collection developed by CPW, to the SDMA on extended loan. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.newpaltz.edu/museum/

The Birmingham Museum of Art to show "Warhol & Cars ~ American Icons" Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:19 PM PDT Birmingham, Alabama.- The Birmingham Museum of Art brings the Birmingham community a distinctive exhibition of works by Andy Warhol. "Warhol and Cars: American Icons", on display from June 24th through September 16th, is the first exhibition to examine Warhol's enduring fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society. A special preview party, which is open to the public, will take place the evening of Friday, June 22nd from 6 pm – 9 pm. "Warhol was fascinated with American culture and his images represented what he felt were elemental to our culture whether they were Hollywood icons, Campbell's soup cans, or Chryslers coming off the Detroit assembly line," said Ron Platt, Curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. "He loved to extol what America was famous for-its products and its thriving industries." The exhibition features more than 40 drawings, paintings, photographs, and related archival material spanning from 1946 to 1986.

The Museo de Antioquia celebrates Fernando Botero's 80th Birthday Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:18 PM PDT Medellin, Colombia.- The Museo de Antioquia is proud to celebrate the 80th birthday of the Medellin-born and resident Fernando Botero by presenting "Viacrucis: La Passion de Cristo" on view through August 8th. Viacrucis —a Latin word meaning "the path of the Cross"— comprises 27 large-format oil paintings and 33 drawings. On display in this show are Botero's careful study of and deep love for the Italian primitives of the first half of the Fifteenth Century and for the artists of the Renaissance. Many artists painted the passion of Christ in scenes that included medieval fortresses and hill-dotted landscapes; now Botero approaches the subject in contexts that incorporate Manhattan or small Antioquia towns. One of the largest works in the show is a Pieta measuring 93 x 58" while a Descent of the Cross measures 90 by 50". Smaller works measuring 20 x 20" lose no power from their size and are made all the more touching by their very intimacy. The hallmark of all the paintings regardless of size and subject is Botero's stunning use of color that charges the works with both seductive beauty and elemental impact. Just as in his paintings of the Abu Ghraib prison, these works depicting Christ's Passion are intense and powerful not only because of the events depicted but also because of Botero's ability to convey pathos and emotion. Botero can be humorous and whimsical as some of his paintings over the years reveal, but he can also turn his considerable talents to portray tragic events as the paintings in this show effectively demonstrated. Botero has all his life been an avid observer of old master paintings and to this day he is a constant museum goer. His work has often been infused with various references to the masters either by subject such as his take on van Eyck's The Marriage of Arnolfini or by subtle references to structure and technique. What becomes immediately clear in the Via Crucis exhibition is Botero's long study and great love of the early Italian primitives of the first half of the fifteenth century as well as the early northern Renaissance painters. What those painters strove to achieve was a way to express naturalism of human form and to create a means to convey in regard to the story of Christ the great emotion and feeling of the event. Botero has in his inimitable, elegant style taken up this heroic and exalted subject and in a unique manner has, while remaining faithful to the events of the story, transformed it. In so doing he has achieved one of the most commanding cycles of works he has painted to date. Through a singular vision of the expression of human emotion and spirit these works are destined to be a high water mark of the artist's entire career. Just as the old master painters used places and people of their time to depict the Passion, Botero uses places and events of our time to portray The Way of the Cross. To give just a few examples, the background setting in one depiction of Christ's crucifixion is Manhattan; in the flogging of Christ, instead of Roman soldiers we see Colombian soldiers; in The Kiss of Judas we see a small figure in the left hand corner which is a self-portrait, and in Ecce Homo Pontius Pilate is represented by an accusatory finger and the village is a town in Botero's home state of Antioquia in Colombia. In the introduction essay to the exhibition catalog the writer Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz writes, "Botero, who in his own words is 'at times a believer, at times an agnostic,' has captured the intensity and cruelty but also the piercing poetry of the tremendous drama of Christ's journey along the Way of the Cross toward his crucifixion." In regard to Botero's style she astutely quotes the English poet, Francis Bacon, "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." Botero's style is distinctly his own and highly original. His art, both in painting and sculpture, strikes a universal chord that goes beyond regional tastes and temporal values and reaches a fundamental feeling in people all over the world. There is perhaps no other living artist who has so many admirers and collectors. His work is recognized and sought-after as much in the United States, South America, and Europe as it is in South Africa, Asia, and Australia. Asia Pacific Sculpture News attributed this phenomenon to "a vision of humanity that transcends the boundaries of cultural specificity, a vision of humanity that pulsates to the ancient universal rhythms of life." Botero was born in Medellín, Colombia in 1932. He moved to Bogotá in 1951 and had his first show there the same year at Galeria Leo Matiz. His first retrospective took place in 1970 in Germany at museums in Baden Baden, Berlin, Dusseldorf and Hamburg. Since then, Botero has continually showed in museums all over the world. In the last ten years he has had an astounding number of museum shows in the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the United States.Botero's work can be found in forty-six museums. Among the most prominent are: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; The Museum of Modern Art New York; Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany; Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany; and The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Many books have been published on Botero's work in English, Spanish, French, German Italian, Chinese and Japanese. The Museum of Antioquia was founded in 1881 and was the first in the region, only the second museum in Colombia and one of the first South American museum's to feature an art room. In the first 60 years, the collection consisted mostly of objects representing important historical moments of Antioquia and Colombia. However, during the twentieth century, with the help of the Society of Public Improvements in Medellin, the museum began to expand its collection and displays of art. In 1975 the institution received the picture "Ex voto" from the Medellin-born Fernando Boteroa, and this paved the way for a close relationship, with Botero making further donations in the following years. Today the museum has a collection of over 5,000 pieces ranging from archaeological to contemporary art, spanning all eras of the history of Colombia. The building has an area of 14,500 m2, distributed over 4 floors. It is located in the historic center of town and was declared an Architectural Heritage of the Nation and restored in the 1990's by the Antioquia Railway Foundation. Visit the museum's website at ... http://www.museodeantioquia.org.co

YouGugg? You Tube and The Guggenheim Explore Digital Art Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:17 PM PDT New York, NY - Art has taken many forms since paintings were hand-pressed on cave walls 32,000 years ago in a grotto in France. The occupants of Grotte Chauvet apparently spit pigment on their hands to make them virtual stencils and then squashed them against the wall. Definitely analog. And they probably never thought of them as art. In its latest incarnation, some art is made up of 1's and 0's. Definitely digital. Many museums, including the Denver Art Museum, have displayed digital art for several years. Now, YouTube has become the primary international display of such art in just five years. There are other locations, such as the online Digital Art Museum.

Galerie Barbara Thumm Shows Recent Works by Simon Cantemir Hausi Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:16 PM PDT Berlin.- The Barbara Thumm Gallery is proud to present "Simon Cantemir Hausì: Waiting for the Perfect Days", on view at the gallery through December 21st. This exhibition is the first solo show in Germany by Cluj based Romanian artist Simon Cantemir Hausì. The exhibition features selected works on paper and canvas from the years 2002 to date.Born in 1976, Hausì's family was highly politicized, subject to surveillance by Romania's communist regime and continually under the threat of interrogation. Hausì's work dwells on themes of uncertainty, and distrust of stability and ideologies. The wildy beautiful landscape of the Romanian countryside is one the artist continues to return to, both physically and via his imagination. Sometimes he reconjures scenes from his childhood: images of boys walking through a forest  at night, or playing in a field during the day. At other times Hausì uses the countryside that he is so familiar with as a ground for the figures and animals that come to his mind as he lives and works in Cluj. These works have a visionary quality: the figures often appearing bathed in an otherworldly light, and the animals portrayed in a fashion that reminds the viewer of scenes found in late Medieval and early Renaissance paintings.

Picasso & Braque's Pivotal 1910-1912 Cubist Works At The Kimbell Art Museum Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:15 PM PDT Fort Worth, TX.- "Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912", the first exhibition to unite many of the paintings and nearly all of the prints created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during these two exhilarating years of their artistic dialogue, goes on view at the Kimbell Art Museum on May 29, where it will remain on view until August 21st. "This small-scale exhibition examines a brief moment with huge implications for the history of art," commented Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. "This show is the first to focus exclusively on this landmark period of intense productivity and adventure for Picasso and Braque." During the years 1910 through 1912, these two great masters invented a new style that took the basics of traditional European art—modeling in light and shade to suggest roundedness, perspective lines to suggest space, indeed the very idea of making a recognizable description of the real world—and toyed with them irreverently. "These are beautiful, enigmatic, playful works of art. They're like conversations in the artist's studio or favorite café, not to be hurried," remarked Malcolm Warner, deputy director at the Kimbell Art Museum. "We hope our visitors will take the time to savor them." Following up on hints they found in the work of Paul Cézanne, and brimming with youthful bravado, Picasso and Braque created pictorial puzzles, comprehensible to a point but full of false leads and contradictions. Viewers pick up a few clues—a figure, a pipe, a moustache, a bottle, a glass, a musical instrument, a newspaper, a playing card—and these start to suggest a reality in three dimensions. The impression is that of a fast, modern world, with glimpses of models, friends, and the paraphernalia of drinking and smoking. But things never fully add up, either in detail or as a whole—and deliberately so. Teasingly elusive, the image is a construction of forms and signs that the artist has put together in a spirit of parody and play. The pleasure for the viewer is to let go of all normal expectations and enter into the game, which is an endlessly intriguing one. More than any avant-garde artists before them, Picasso and Braque called into question conventional ideas about art as the imitation of reality. They collaborated so closely and like-mindedly ("roped together like mountain climbers," in Braque's own phrase) that their works of this period are sometimes difficult to tell apart. Their radical experiment in picture-making, which came to be known as Analytic Cubism, has been as far-reaching in its implications for art as the theories of Einstein for science. This choice, intimately scaled exhibition, featuring 16 paintings and 20 etchings and drypoints, was conceived and organized by Eik Kahng, chief curator at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, in partnership with the Kimbell and Mr. Warner. The Kimbell is a natural collaborator on the project since the Museum's collection includes an outstanding example of the work of each artist from the Analytic Cubist period, Picasso's Man with a Pipe and Braque's Girl with a Cross, both painted in 1911. In the exhibition these appear among paintings from a number of other distinguished collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Tate London, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and the Robert B. and Mercedes H. Eichholz Collection. The etchings and drypoints are selected from several sources, most notably the extraordinary holdings of Cubist prints in the Melamed Family Collection. Not surprisingly in light of its importance in the history of art, Cubism has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions. Some of them have been dauntingly large, especially given the amount of time each of these highly complicated works demands of the viewer. The guiding principle of the present exhibition is that less can be more. It offers the kind of small, carefully calibrated selection that invites the viewer to spend time exploring each work in detail. The Kimbell Art Museum is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding architectural achievements of the modern era. Designed by the American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901–1974), the Museum has won wide acclaim for its classic modern building since its opening in 1972. Kahn's innovative use of natural light and subtle articulation of space and materials greatly enhance the experience of the art. Kahn envisioned a museum with "the luminosity of silver." In his design, "narrow slits to the sky" (as he described the skylights) admit natural light, which perforated metal reflectors disperse onto the underside of cycloid-shaped vaults and down the walls. Courtyards, lunettes, and light slots vary the quality and intensity of the light. The building's gracious proportions, fine craftsmanship, and beautiful landscaping add further to the sense of serenity and restraint. A small collection of less than 350 works, the Kimbell Art Museum has become a byword for quality and importance at the highest level. The Museum's holdings range in period from antiquity to the 20th century, including European masterpieces from Fra Angelico and Caravaggio to Cézanne and Matisse, and important collections of Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman antiquities, as well as Asian, Mesoamerican, and African arts. Visit the museum's website at ... https://www.kimbellart.org

The Israel Museum Features an Exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:14 PM PDT JERUSALEM.- Inaugurating a new series of in-depth exhibitions exploring masterpieces from its encyclopedic collections, the Israel Museum presents an exhibition that sheds new light on The Death of Adonis (ca. 1614) by Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens . On view from January 10 through May 5, 2012, Rubens, Venus, and Adonis: Anatomy of a Tragedy examines this monumental masterpiece, analyzing its iconographic sources, composition, and place within the development of Rubens' style. Twenty-five related works—including a preparatory oil sketch by Rubens as well as drawings, paintings, and prints of the same theme by Rubens and other Flemish and Italian masters of his time—are brought together to illuminate aspects of the artist's special interest in the story of Venus, the goddess of Love and Beauty, and Adonis, her human lover.

MoMA Pays Tribute to Iris Barry ~ Its First Curator of Film Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:13 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- The establishment of The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film, founded as the Film Library, began in 1933, when Iris Barry, the Museum's first film curator, was challenged to organize a series of film programs to "test the waters" of public consumption. From May 10 through 24, 2010, MoMA honors Barry with Iris Barry: Re-View, an exhibition comprising films that Barry selected for a historic series of screenings at The Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Connecticut) from October 28 through December 30, 1934, many of which were later shown at MoMA. The exhibition, which also marks the 75th anniversary of the June 1935 founding of the Film Library, is organized by Anne Morra, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

Art Production Fund to Present "White Ghost" Sculpture by Yoshitomo Nara in NYC Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:12 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Art Production Fund will present "White Ghost" sculpture by Yoshitomo Nara in two locations on Park Avenue, NYC. "We are thrilled to be working with Nara to introduce his first public sculptures in New York City" says Co-founders of Art Production Fund, Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen. This public art installation will coincide with the first Nara retrospective "Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool" opening at Asia Society in early September 2010. During August of 2010 the Park Avenue Armory will host Nara for an open studio residency.

Hirschl & Adler Modern to show New Works by David Ligare Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:11 PM PDT New York City.- Hirschl & Adler Modern is proud to announce the opening of "David Ligare: New Paintings" on April 12th. The artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery will feature over 15 new  paintings in oil, remains on view through May 12th and will be accompanied by a 16 page catalogue with illustrations in color. David Ligare has spent the last thirty years painting, studying, and thinking about  what he calls "recurrent Classicism" – the tenets of Greco-Roman Classicism as they have appeared and reappeared over the centuries. The photographic intensity of his vision is decidedly modern, even as he explores the ancient ideals of measure, harmony, and rich philosophical content.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art to Re-open with a New Exhibition "Pure Pleasure" Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:10 PM PDT BOULDER, CO.- On June 5, 2009, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art will present "Pure Pleasure". This exhibition celebrates the re-opening of the museum following a four-month closure. The museum has undergone renovations to include installation of an elevator and upgrading our jewel of an historic building. We are excited to be able to make our exhibits and programs accessible to a larger community. "Pure Pleasure" highlights the rich and varied talents of a renowned group of artists from the region and beyond. In diverse media, including photography, painting, assemblage, ceramics, video and installation, these artists explore the boundaries of varied definitions of pleasure.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales opens "Grand Weekend" Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:09 PM PDT SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales Grand Courts, home to Rubens, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Hogarth, Delacroix, Leighton, Constable, Gainsborough and Australian artists, Roberts, Streeton, McCubbin, Lambert, Bunny, Phillips Fox, Gruner and Ashton, will re-open to the public in 'grand' style on the Gallery's open weekend (September 12 & 13) with more than 50 free events. Some of the most significant and iconic paintings in the world hang permanently on the walls of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the thirteen grand old courts. These rooms were the very first rooms of the gallery to be built in 1897 in typically grand Victorian style and scale.

Eli Klein Fine Art hosts The Best of Chinese Contemporary Artists Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:08 PM PDT New York - Eli Klein Fine Art is pleased to present our 2010 Winter Show. This group exhibition features the work of some of the Gallery's most-established artists as well as our highly promising emerging artists. This eclectic group includes Cathy Daley, Chen Qiang, Hung Tung-lu, Jiang Huan, Liu Yan, Luo Qing, Meeson Pae Yang, Miao Xiaochun, Sophie De Francesca, Wei Dong, Zhang Lujiang, Zhao Kailin, and Zhang Dali. On exhibition through 1 March, 2010. Eli Klein Fine Art has, over the last year, hosted several important solo exhibitions at the Gallery for artists Zhang Peng, Luo Qing, Xiao Se, and Ma Bing. For each of these artists, our show was their first solo exhibition in the United States and represented a major step in the advancement of their careers. In addition to these landmark shows, Eli Klein Fine Art has produced several significant group shows over this past year, including, Redefining Surrealism, Passing by China, and Chasing Flames. Each exhibit brought together some of China's finest contemporary artists, showcasing some of their work for the first time in the United States. Thus, this exhibition celebrates our past while looking toward the future. Eli Klein Fine Art remains steadfast in its promotion of contemporary Chinese art. Eli Klein Fine Art is at the forefront of America's contemporary Chinese art scene. With a particular focus on the visual arts of contemporary China, Eli Klein Fine Art is committed to exhibiting the work of prominent and emerging Chinese artists--promoting awareness of China's ever-transitioning culture as it's reflected through the country's innovative art. Eli Klein Fine Art is located in the heart of SOHO on West Broadway, situated amongst many of New York's finest galleries and art establishments. Its street-level location boasts 4,000 square feet of exhibition space spread over two floors. Eli Klein Fine Art's strong curatorial department collaborates with prominent museums, private collections and galleries across the world, allowing new Chinese art to become more accessible to a larger audience. Eli Klein Fine Art's artists are represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and many other internationally renowned museums. Below is the artist statement of artist Zhao Kailin. One of the most important and critically acclaimed Chinese masters of contemporary realism working today, painter Zhao Kailin was born in 1961 in Bengbu in southeast China. Zhao Kailin felt, even as a young child, that he wanted to be an artist. "By the age of eight, I knew I wanted to be a painter," Zhao relates. "It was my second grade teacher in elementary school who taught me basic painting skills and encouraged and challenged me. Most important, she taught me how to soar with imaginary wings through the secret world of art." Under her tutelage, Zhao's painting abilities matured, so much so that his work began appearing in children's juried art exhibitions in Bengbu. In 1988, Zhao Kailin was accepted for graduate studies at the prestigious oil painting department of Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts, China's most illustrious and rigorous fine arts institution. "From 1988 to 1990, I studied there and learned traditional western-style oil painting," states Zhao. "It was the most important period of art studies in my life." During this period of intensive training, Zhao was exposed to the galvanizing portraits of Dutch Renaissance master Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) and was immediately taken with the work's luxuriant brushwork, jewel-like color and commanding manipulation of light and shadow inspired by Italian Renaissance painter Carravagio (1573-1610). It was during this same time that Zhao also became enamoured of the elegantly voluptuous society portraiture of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Sargent's Madame X (1884), a full-figure portrait of a mysterious porcelain-skinned woman dressed in a long black dress that scandalized Paris's Salon of 1884, most certainly has left its silky mark on many of Zhao Kailin's portrait paintings. More recently, Zhao's work has concentrated on depicting beautiful, introspective young women, most of whom are Asian and dressed in traditional Chinese attire. Several of the latest pieces feature females with musical instruments. These paintings capture the essential aura of young women suspended between the innocence of childhood and the smoldering sexuality of womanhood, evoking a sense of longing, dreams and desire. "Every painting I do involves personal stories and memories," Zhao explains. "I am always striving to communicate not only the beauty and unspoken personal narratives of these women, but also the inherent beauty of Chinese culture and life." Zhao Kailin's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Asia, Europe and the U.S. and is a part of notable public and private art collections. Winner of a number of awards for his work, and has been an influential mentor to a number of other painters. For further information, please contact the gallery at (212) 255-4388 or info@ekfineart.com.  Eli Klein Fine art is located at 462 West Broadway in between Prince and Houston streets, New York, NY 10012. Please visit our website at: www.ekfineart.com .

DC Moore Gallery exhibition as the Exclusive Representative of Robert De Niro, Sr. estate Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:07 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- One of the most original painters of the post-war generation in New York, Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993) blended abstraction and representation, bridging the gap between European modernism and Abstract Expressionism. For their first exhibition as the exclusive representatives of the Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr., DC Moore Gallery is presenting figure paintings, landscapes, still lifes, and charcoal drawings from 1960-1993. DC Moore Gallery is the exclusive representative of the Estate of Robert De Niro Sr. On exhibition through 28th April.

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art Presents Rosemarie Fiore ~ Artificiere Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:06 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Priska C. Juschka Fine Art presents Artificiere, Rosemarie Fiore's second solo exhibition at the gallery, on view from May 19th through July 2nd. Fiore continues her practice of using fireworks as her sole medium to create works on paper and, most recently in addition, glass sculptures by uniquely utilizing fireworks and smoke bombs for her work and compositions.

Hospital Radiologists Analyze Brooklyn Museum's Mummies and Make Discovery Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:05 PM PDT BROOKLYN, NY.- Four human mummies from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection underwent computed tomography or CT scanning at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island yesterday. Hospital spokeswoman Michelle Pinto said to MSNBC that the testing enables radiologists to learn about the bones and skeletal system of the mummies in extraordinary detail, without having to do invasive or damaging procedures. However, it's the type of news no patient wants to hear and no doctor wants to deliver. So the radiologist looks over the scans, then might say, in a firm but sympathetic voice: "I'm sorry, sir, but by the look of these images it appears nearly all of your organs have been removed. Moreover, you've been dead for thousands of years". The CAT scan revealed a mummy named Lady Hor was male. "It's definitely a man," said Edward Bleiberg, curator of Egyptian art at the museum to the New York Daily News. "Physiologically, it's really clear. The museum, which is seeking to gather more information about the long-since-departed as it prepares to revamp and expand its collection of Egyptian antiquities, released the images on Wednesday. The museum expects to complete a full analysis of the images — 2,400 for each mummy — in about six months, said Edward Bleiberg, curator of Egyptian art. While the general lack of organs came as no surprise — organs were typically removed during the mummification process — the scans have already yielded some interesting information, like the presence of four small amulets on one of the bodies or the discovery of anatomical indicators suggesting that the 2,700-year-old mummy known as Lady Hor was actually a man. The mummy of Hor, which is encased in linen and plaster, has never been opened, because to do so would destroy the ornate case, officials said. Along with a male mummy, it has been a centerpiece of the museum's renowned ancient Egyptian holdings. In the 1910s, the New-York Historical Society, which owned the mummy at the time, reclassified it as a female because the face on the mummy case had no beard. "It still looks like a woman's face to me," Mr. Bleiberg said. "It's so delicate. The features are so fine." The discovery was made after Chusid, a radiologist, and Dr. Amgad Makaryus, director of cardiac CT and MRI at the Manhasset hospital, performed a 64-slice computed tomography, or CT scan, on the mummy, reported Newsday. The Brooklyn Museum's collection of ancient Egyptian art, considered one of the finest in the United States, includes mummified remains of several animals and eleven humans. Through the CT scanning, Brooklyn Museum curators are learning more about each of the four mummies and the ancient civilization in which they lived. The mummies that underwent CT scanning are a Royal Prince, Count of Thebes, who is more three thousand years old; Hor, who was believed to be female prior to yesterday's CT Scan and is actually male; Thothirdes, who is more than 2,500 year old; and a mummy about which little is known, that dates back to the first century C.E. "This was really different from the usual day-to-day," said Dr. Jesse Chusid, a radiologist who conducted the scans. "It was fun because you don't have to make a diagnosis that's unfortunate."

Hans Schiebold featured at Lanning Gallery Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:04 PM PDT   SEDONA, AZ - Artist Hans Schiebold creates large-scale landscapes of such depth that each reads like a geological time clock of its scene.  On Friday, March 7th, from 5-8 pm, Sedona's Lanning Gallery will feature the artist's work for its "1st Friday" event.  It has been said that Schiebold does not paint, but rather sculpts in media on canvas and this is a fair assessment of the singular technique that has secured the artist a listing in the "Who's Who in American Art."

Paintings on Paper by Reeve Schley at James Graham & Sons Gallery Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:03 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- James Graham & Sons Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Reeve Schley, Outdoor Light, which marks the artist's eighteenth solo exhibition with the gallery. Schley has been exhibiting with James Graham & Sons for close to 40 years. The show will be on exhibit from May 5th through June 18th, 2010. The show will feature over two dozen new watercolors as well as four large-scale oil paintings, conveying imagery personal to the artist and painted en plein air.

Liechtenstein Museum Presents a Cross-section of the History & Typology of the Picture Frame Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:02 PM PDT VIENNA.- The Liechtenstein Museum is staging the exhibition Structure and Ornament which presents a cross-section of the history and typology of the frame from the late medieval period to the 19th century. It also showcases the various different techniques involved, from construction to finishing, gilding and patination. Around 100 objects from the Collections' holdings are complemented by works from important private collections in Britain, France and Germany as well as by major loans from national and international museums. The exhibition illustrates the phenomenon of the frame in context with furniture, metalwork and textiles as well as graphics and engravings of ornamental motifs together with miniature paintings in precious settings. On exhibition through 12 January, 2010.

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