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Watari Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo Hosts The AKN Editor

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Written by Felix Baumeister   
Friday, 10 September 2010 03:08




ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Editor has been invited to visit Museums and cultural sites in mainland China and Japan. We will be posting interesting articles from our archives, some of the BEST Articles and Art Images that appeared in your magazine during the past six plus (6+) years . . Enjoy.
 
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Hermitage Amsterdam Celebrates Its Opening with "At the Russian Court" ~ a Sumptuous Exhibition

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Written by Robert V. Gaines   
Friday, 10 September 2010 03:05

Mihály Zichy - State Banquet in the Concert Hall in honour of a visit by Wilhelm I, 1873, Watercolour & pencil Courtesy of State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg

Amsterdam, NL -The inaugural exhibition of Hermitage Amsterdam, At the Russian Court. Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century, promises to be one of the most lavish ever presented in Europe, and one of the largest.   With more than 2,200 objects on loan from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, the exhibition will fill the Amstelhof—the historic, newly restored home of Hermitage Amsterdam—from 20 June 2009 to 31 January 2010, as it recreates life at the Russian court during the nineteenth century: a period that spanned the reigns of six tsars, from the little-known Paul I, son of Catherine the Great, to the tragic Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia.

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André-Charles Boulle Retrospective at the Museum of Decorative Arts of Frankfurt

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Written by Jack Warfield   
Friday, 10 September 2010 03:04

Andre-Charles Boulle - Louis XIV Style Commode - Louis XIV style Marble Top violet wood and parquetry serpentine front gilt bronze mounted three drawer commode. 39 inches H, 63 inches W, 26 inches Deep - ( Note : Not on exhibition)

FRANKFURT.- The first ever retrospective about André-Charles Boulle, the most illustrious cabinetmaker of all time, opened on October 28. With a scenography by Juan Pablo Molyneux, it takes place in the Museum of Decorative Arts of Frankfurt, the emblematic building created by Richard Meier. It was conceived by two French art historians, Jean Nérée Ronfort and Jean Dominique Augarde, in close cooperation with Professor Ulrich Schneider, director of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Decorative Arts) of Frankfort.

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Masterpieces from Russia at the Royal Academy of Arts

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Written by Sally Folley   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:58

Ilya Repin - Manifesto of October 17th, 1905, 1911 - Oil on canvas - 184 x 323 cm State Russian Museum, St Petersburg - Photo © State Russian Museum

LONDON - In January 2008, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition presenting modern masterpieces drawn from Russia’s principal museum collections: the State Pushkin Museum and the State Tretyakov Museum in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Over 120 paintings by Russian and French artists working between 1870 and 1925 will be displayed together for the first time ever in the United Kingdom in an exhibition which surveys the main directions of modern art from Realism and Impressionism to Non-Objective painting. Works will include paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse together with those by Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich.

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The Gemeentemuseum The Hague Retrospective of Lucian Freud

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Written by Hugh Cantwell   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:55

Lucian Freud - Bella and Esther, 1988 - Oil on canvas - 73.7 x 88.9 cm Private Collection - © the Artist

THE HAGUE, NL - The Gemeentemuseum The Hague presents Lucian Freud, on view through June 8, 2008. German-born British painter Lucian Freud (b. 1922) is famous around the world for his intimate and revealing portraits and nudes. With his keen eye and highly personal approach, he lays bare the hidden feelings and thoughts of his subjects. The aim is not to achieve any superficial or flattering likeness, but to reveal the essence of the subject’s inner being. The results are impressive and extremely private portraits of vulnerable individuals. The first ever Dutch retrospective of this extraordinary and unconventional artist.

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Georgia O’Keeffe at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

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Written by Erick Cullen   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:50

O'Keefe

Dublin, Ireland - An exhibition of the work Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the legendary figures of 20th-century American art,  is open to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern ArtGeorgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction comprises 28 works dating from 1918 to 1977, less than a decade before her death at the age of 98 in 1986. The exhibition presents a survey of her entire career, exploring the central focus of her work – the transformation of nature into abstraction by expressing an object’s essence through color, form and allusion. It includes landscape paintings, flower studies and abstract works, her major areas of interest throughout her remarkable career.Georgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction continues until 13 May. Admission is free.

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McDermott & McGough retrospective at Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)

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Written by Nikki Sulon   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:46

McDermott & McGough - The Last Supper 1898 - 1998, palladium print - 51 x 61 cm Courtesy of Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont

DUBLIN, IRELAND - A retrospective of the entire photographic work of the American-born artists McDermott & McGough, covering two decades of their highly-original output in that medium, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday 6 February 2008. An Experience of Amusing Chemistry: Photographs 1990 – 1890 comprises some 120 works created using a wide range of historic photographic techniques, including the use of palladium, gum, salt and cyanotype prints.

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The Powerful Hand of George Bellows ~ Drawings from the Boston Public Library

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Written by Jon Cotton   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:41

George Bellows - Preaching (Billy Sunday), March 1915 - Crayon, pen and ink, brush and ink wash on paper, Wiggin Collection, Boston Public Library

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art is pleased to present The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library in the Focus Gallery. Considered the most important collection of Bellows’ graphic art in the United States, the exhibition sets a new standard for recording the history and significance of the artist’s drawings. On exhibition 21 June through 31 August, 2008.

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"Rauschenberg Express" Hosted by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

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Written by Walter Barnett   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:39

Robert Rauschemberg Express

Madrid, Spain - Opening on 7 November at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is the 20th in the Museum’s “Contexts of the Permanent Collection” series.  Entitled RauschenbergExpress, it is the first exhibition organized by the Museum to be devoted to a living artist.  The exhibition aims to document and reveal the process through which the American artist Robert Rauschenberg arrived at the technique of oil painting with ink serigraphy – one of his most important innovations – and the way this became the principal element of his style around 1963, the year that Express was painted.

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Major Exhibition of Works by George Grosz announced at Berlin's Akademie der Kunste

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Written by Karl Grossinger   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:36

George Grosz - ( titled 'Remember Uncle August, the Unhappy Inventor') 1919 - This piece is both vulgar and disturbing. Example of the Dada movement,  the use of collage, to distort the human face was a protest against conventional painting.

BERLIN.- For the first time, the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) is presenting a large-scale selection of the abundance of material on George Grosz preserved in its art collection and archive. Two hundred sketchbooks, drawings from his youth up to the time of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), including such famous pictures as “Friedrichstraße” and “Christus mit Gasmaske” (Christ with a Gas Mask), portfolio works, journals, collages, photographs and written documents allow a glimpse into the life and artistic workshop of George Grosz. The incorruptible view of the ingenious draughtsman and political artist, who influenced our image of the Weimar Republic more than any other, thus becomes clear.

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Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 a Retrospective at Jeu de Paume

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Written by Fionna Barber   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:32

Twiggy, coiffure de Ara Gallant studio de Paris, 1968 - Photograph by Richard Avedon © 2008 the Richard Avedon Foundation

PARIS - This exhibition is the first major retrospective of the artist’s work since his death in 2004. After the Louisiana Museum (24 August 2007 to 13 January 2008), it is being presented this summer at the Jeu de Paume Concorde, where it will occupy the entire space. The exhibition brings together 270 works spanning Richard Avedon’s career from 1946 to 2004. There are of course fashion photographs, but above all there are photographs of figures from the worlds of politics, literature, the arts and show business.
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The Whitney Museum Presents an Exhibition Exploring Lucinda Child's Legendary Dance

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Written by Donald Hettleman   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:31

In 1979, Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass invited Sol LeWitt to collaborate with them on a new work titled "Dance". Photo: EPA/Walter Bieri

NEW YORK, NY.- A legendary collaboration between Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, the iconic performance work Dance is the subject of a special exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, featuring an archival performance video and various related materials by the three artists, in its fifth-floor galleries throughout the summer. The installation has been organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Curator. In 1979, Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass invited Sol LeWitt to collaborate with them on a new work titled Dance, commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The project brought the minimalist language of the three artists into a tightly structured dialogue. Glass’s musical score formed the framework for Childs’s choreography, to which LeWitt responded by creating a 35mm black-and-white film of the dancers performing passages selected from each of three dances.

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National Gallery to Show First Monographic Exhibition of Paintings by Christen Kobke

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Written by Gilbert Collingswood   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:29

Christen Købke - "Schloß Frederiksborg im Abendlicht", 1835 - Oil on canvas, 69 X 101 cm. - Courtesy of Hirschsprungske Samling, Copenhagen

LONDON.- 'Christen Købke: Danish Master of Light' is the first monographic exhibition of paintings by Christen Købke (1810–1848) ever to be shown outside Denmark. Købke is arguably one of the greatest talents of Denmark’s Golden Age, yet a solo exhibition of his work outside his homeland has eluded him until now. This show will comprise 48 of Købke’s most beautiful and distinguished works spanning a variety of genres: landscape, topography, portraiture and his charmingly oblique depictions of national monuments informed by a decidedly avant-garde sensibility.

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Major Eadweard Muybridge Retrospective Announced by Tate Britain for Autumn 2010

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Written by Keith Shedd   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:28

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) - English photographer, He was the first to analyze motion successfully by using a sequence of photographs and resynthesizing them to produce moving pictures.  His work has been described as the inspiration behind the invention of the motion picture.

LONDON.- The pioneering British photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) will be the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain in autumn 2010. Bringing together around 150 works, this exhibition will demonstrate how Muybridge broke new ground in the emerging art form of photography. From his iconic images of animals and humans in motion to depictions of the sublime landscapes and life of the dynamic America of the later nineteenth century, the exhibition will explore the ways in which Muybridge created and honed his remarkable images that continue to resonate powerfully with artists and photographers.

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This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

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Written by Editor, Art Knowledge News   
Friday, 10 September 2010 02:27

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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