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• Global Tour of The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor Announced by Christie's <#1>
• Sir Terence Conran Makes Major Gift to the Design Museum in London <#2>
• The Asia Society Museum Shows Ai Weiwei’s New York Photographs <#3>
• The ASU Art Museum Presents "By Myself and With My Friends" Video Art <#4>
• Francis Bacon Sold at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Sale <#5>
• The Whitney Museum of American Art Presents a Major Lyonel Feininger Retrospective <#6>
• Edward Hopper : Major Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art <#7>
• The National Gallery of Art exhibition of Venetian Renaissance Sculptor Tullio Lombardo <#8>
• SFMOMA SHOWCASES PICASSO AND AMERICAN ART <#9>
• Ori Gersht's Films & Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art <#10>
• The De la Warr Pavilion Showcases Major Art Innovators <#11>
• Fifty Million Years of the Evolution of the Horse <#12>
• Exhibition Inspires Play ~ EN PLEIN AIR ~ at the Florence Griswold Museum <#13>
• Louvre Opens a Major Retrospective of the Great Renaissance Master ~ Andrea Mantegna <#14>
• Tate Liverpool to Unveil New Commissions by Rineke Dijkstra <#15>
• Musée du Luxembourg opens a Louis Comfort Tiffany Monographic Exhibition <#16>
• Joslyn Art Museum Features Albert Paley - Contemporary American Sculptor <#17>
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News <#18>
  

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced the  official dates for a landmark series of public exhibitions and special events  leading up to the sale of the collection of Elizabeth  Taylor, the celebrated film star, fashion icon, and humanitarian. In  tribute to this amazing woman and her legions of fans worldwide, Christie's has  arranged for an international, three-month tour of highlights from her expansive  collection that starts in September 2011 and includes stops in Moscow, London,  Los Angeles, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, and Hong Kong. The tour will culminate in New  York in early December with a special ten-day, museum-quality exhibition of  Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry, fashion, accessories, decorative arts and  memorabilia, followed by four consecutive days of auctions. For this pivotal  event, slated for December 3 to December 16, 2011, Christie's New York will  devote its entire Rockefeller Center gallery space to  the public exhibition and sales, which are expected to draw several thousand  visitors each day.

Marc Porter, Chairman and President of  Christie's Americas, noted: “Christie’s is honored to have been entrusted with  this important role in celebrating the extraordinary life and legacy of  Elizabeth Taylor. The global tour and exhibition of her collection at Christie's  will be a window into the world of a true icon, a rare woman who was at once an  international film and fashion star, loving mother, successful businesswoman,  and generous humanitarian. This collection of her many cherished possessions  will bring us closer to the essence of Elizabeth Taylor’s unique spirit, and  promises to inspire admiration, delight, and at times, sheer wonder, in all who  come to see it.”

In keeping with Elizabeth Taylor’s life-long devotion  to humanitarian causes, Christie’s is pleased to announce that a portion of the  monies generated by exhibition admissions, events and publications related to  the sales will be donated to The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS  Foundation (ETAF). Founded in 1991, ETAF provides funding to AIDS service  organizations throughout the world to assist those living with HIV and AIDS.  

The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor
• Public  Exhibition: The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor December 3 – 12, 2011
• The  Legendary Jewels, Evening Sale December 13, 2011
• Jewelry (Sessions II  & III) December 14, 2011
• The Icon and her Haute Couture, Evening Sale  December 14, 2011
• Fashion and Accessories (Sessions II, III & IV)  December 15, 2011
• Fine and Decorative Art & Film Memorabilia,  including costumes December 16, 2011
• Impressionist & Modern Art  February 2012, Christie’s London

LONDON.- The Trustees of the Design  Museum announced today a major gift by Sir Terence  Conran towards the museum’s new development project. This will help to  create the world’s leading museum of contemporary design and architecture in  London. Sir Terence Conran’s donation consists of a cash gift of £7.5m and the  value of the sale of the lease of the current Design Museum building at Shad  Thames valued in the region of £10m. This gift will bring Terence Conran and the  Conran Foundation’s support for the museum, and its predecessor, the Boilerhouse  over the last 30 years to £50m. The Design Museum plans to relocate from its  current home at Shad Thames to the former Commonwealth Institute building,  giving it three times more space in which to show a wider range of exhibitions,  showcase its world-class collection and extend its learning programme.  

NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Society  Museum presents an exhibition of 227 photographs taken by Ai Weiwei, capturing the history, culture, and atmosphere  of New York City from his unique perspective. The exhibition marks the first  time Ai Weiwei’s New York Photographs series is being shown outside of China.  Before Ai Weiwei became internationally recognized as an artist and activist, he  lived in a tiny apartment in New York’s East Village, and was a prominent member  of a community of expatriate Chinese artists and intellectuals in the  neighborhood’s then burgeoning avant-garde scene.  Throughout those years, from 1983 to 1993, the artist used his camera to  document his life and work, his surroundings, and the atmosphere of the time.

Tempe, AZ.- The Arizona  State University Art Museum is pleased to present "By Myself and With my  Friends" a selection of video art works, on view from July 2nd through August  27th. The exhibition will feature works by Krista Birnbaum, Donna Conlon, Rivane Neuenschwander and Sergio Neuenschwander, Connie Samaras and Corinna Schnitt. We spend time  by ourselves; we spend time with others. We are aware that these two  circumstances differ greatly. Time alone can be a period of comfort and  reflection — or of nervousness and despair. It can be a time of rejuvenating our  bodies, peaceful silences, an opportunity to become one with ourselves or  perhaps engage in an act of individual creativity. But alone time can also be  filled with boredom, fidgetiness and a restless mind that wanders in  uncomfortable directions.

LONDON.- A painting by Irish-born artist Francis Bacon sold for 18.0 million pounds ($28.7 million)  on Tuesday, the second highest price paid for a work of art at a Christie's post-war and contemporary auction in London.  Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992), was an Anglo-Irish figurative  painter known for his bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery.   Bacon's painterly but abstract figures typically appear isolated in glass  or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. He began  painting during his early 20's and worked only sporadically until his mid 30s.  Before this time he drifted, earning his living as an interior decorator and  designer of furniture and rugs.

New York City.- The Whitney Museum of American Artis proud to present "Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge of the  World" from June 30th through October 16th. "Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of  the World" is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in  collaboration with the Montreal  Museum of Fine Arts, where it will be exhibited in 2012. The  exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated monograph with a feature  essay that provides a broad overview of Feininger’s career, tracing his  relationships with movements and organizations that defined the development of  modern art, including Cubism, the Blaue Reiter, the  Blue Four, the Bauhaus, and  Black Mountain College. Additional essays focus on  Feininger’s comics, his photographs, his musical compositions, and his  reputation in Germany.

Born and raised in New York, Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) moved at the age  of sixteen to Germany, where he became one of the leading practitioners of  German Expressionism and the Bauhaus. In the late 1930s, when the Nazi campaign  against modern art forced him to flee back to New York after an absence of fifty  years, his marriage of abstraction and recognizable imagery made him a beloved  artist in the United States. Long acknowledged as a major figure of the Bauhaus,

Feininger is renowned for his romantic, crystalline paintings of  architecture and seascapes. Less well known are the whimsical aspects of his  work: his pioneering Chicago Sunday Tribune comic strips; his figurative,  Expressionist compositions; his photographs; and his miniature hand-carved  wooden figures and buildings, known as 'City at the Edge of the World'. This  retrospective is the first in Feininger’s native country in more than forty-five  years, and the first ever to include the full breadth of his art.

Feininger was one of the very few fine artists also to draw comic strips as  a cartoonist. His short-lived Chicago Tribune comic strips, The Kin-der-Kids and  Wee Willie Winkie's World, were noted for their fey humor and graphic  experimentation.

Feininger also had intermittent activity as a pianist and composer,  with several piano compositions and fugues for organ extant.
His son, Andreas  Feininger, became famous as a photographer of New York City.

As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the  Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and  contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. The  Whitney is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and exhibiting  American art, and its collection—arguably the finest holding of  twentieth-century American art in the world—is the Museum’s key resource. The  Museum’s signature exhibition, the Biennial, is the country’s leading survey of  the most recent developments in American art. Innovation has been a hallmark of  the Whitney since its beginnings. It was the first museum dedicated to the work  of living American artists and the first New York museum to present a major  exhibition of a video artist (Nam  June Paikin 1982). Such figures as Jasper Johns, Cy  Twombly, and Cindy Sherman were given their first museum retrospectives by the Whitney.

The Museum has consistently purchased works within the year they were  created, often well before the artists became broadly recognized. The Whitney  was the first museum to take its exhibitions and programming beyond its walls by  establishing corporate-funded branch facilities, and the first museum to  undertake a program of collection-sharing (with the San Jose Museum of Art) in  order to increase access to its renowned collection. The Whitney’s collection—  comprising more than 19,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints,  photographs, films, videos, and new media by more than 2,900 artists—contains  some of the most significant and exciting work created by artists in the United  States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Visit the museum's  website at ... http://whitney.org <http://whitney.org/>

Edward Hopper : Major Exhibit at the National Gallery of Art <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/DvV6MtFQUw4/edwardhoppernationalgalleryofarthtml.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:20 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC - Edward Hopper marks the first time in more than 25 years that a comprehensive exhibition of this great artist's work has been seen in American museums outside New York and is the most complete survey of his career ever presented in Washington. The exhibition of 96 paintings and works on paper focuses on the period of the artist's great achievements—from about 1925 to mid century—when he produced such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), and Nighthawks (1942).
The National Gallery of Art exhibition of Venetian Renaissance Sculptor Tullio Lombardo <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/1XjL7TOpq_g/national_gallery_of_art_exhibition_of_venetian_renaissance_sculptor_tullio_lombardo.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:19 PM PDT  WASHINGTON, DC.- In the first exhibition dedicated to Venetian Renaissance sculptor Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455–1532), his romantic approach to portraiture is revealed in four of his greatest marble carvings, which are joined by eight related works from his closest circle. On view at the National Gallery of Art's Italian galleries in the West Building from July 4 through November 1, 2009, An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture celebrates the artist's pioneering talent. Although groundbreaking, Tullio's double-portrait busts drew on various ancient sources, including Roman funerary reliefs and cameo portraits, and expressive figures from the Hellenistic Greek world, with supple flesh and parted lips. In addition, Tullio seems to have been aware of northern European double portraits in painting and prints.


SFMOMA SHOWCASES PICASSO AND AMERICAN ART <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/UpXjooV7oVk/San_Francisco_Museum_of_Modern_Art_SFMOMA.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:18 PM PDT San Francisco, CA -  The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents the exhibition Picasso and American Art.  The exhibition examines the fundamental role that Pablo Picasso’s artwork played in the development of American art during the 20th century.   Beginning with the artist Max Weber, who developed a friendship with Picasso in the early 1900s, many American artists came to both acknowledge Picasso as the central figure of the modern movements and define their own artistic achievements through the absorption, critique, or rejection of his example.  While unmistakably pervasive during the first half of the last century, Picasso’s catalytic influence continued to be of great importance in the second half, sparking some of the most searching work from our most significant artists.  On exhibition until 28 May, 2007.

Ori Gersht's Films & Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/R2-azM92b2Q/09_05_2011_01_06_16_ori_gershts_films_and_photography_at_the_santa_barbara_museum_of_art.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:17 PM PDT

Santa Barbara, CA.- The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents "Ori Gersht: Lost in  Time", the artists first solo exhibition in the Western U.S. from May 20th until  September 4th. Ori Gersht depicts scenes of natural beauty that perceptively disguise and reveal a  history of violence.  Bringing together for the first time the artist’s  trilogy of films and related works based on 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century  European still-life painting, and two new series based on Japanese history, "Ori  Gersht: Lost in Time" represents five years of recent work. This exhibition of  more than 28 works marks the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the  Western United States, and is accompanied by his first museum catalogue produced  in the United States.


The De la Warr Pavilion Showcases Major Art Innovators <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/eU9dEm15HDI/2010_04_01_01_29_27_the_de_la_warr_pavilion_showcases_major_art_innovators.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT EAST SUSSEX., UK - This spectacular exhibition comprises drawings, prints and experimental films, and explores the recurring tension between figuration and abstraction throughout the 20th century and the ways by which ideas and concepts evolve. Presented non-chronologically, it encompasses movements such as Russian Constructivism, Futurism and Vorticism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, and comprises works by key artists, as well as works of artists who have been sidelined in the mainstream of art history. The exhibition will be on view at De la Warr Pavilion through June 13, 2010.


Fifty Million Years of the Evolution of the Horse <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/v5JeOvJSQdI/americanmuseumofnaturalhistoryhorseevolutionhtml.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:15 PM PDT New York City - The American Museum of Natural History today announced a major new exhibition, The Horse, opening May 17, 2008 and remaining on view through January 4, 2009. The Horse will examine the powerful and continuing relationship between horses and humans and explore the origins of the horse family, extending back more than 50 million years.
Exhibition Inspires Play ~ EN PLEIN AIR ~ at the Florence Griswold Museum <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/cMjMeJoAbyg/Florence_Griswold_Museum.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:14 PM PDT
 OLD LYME, CT - EN PLEIN AIR—Impressions of  Painting in Giverny & Old Lyme is a new play created especially for the  Florence Griswold Museum by actor Christopher Eaves.EN PLEIN AIR  premieres Wednesday, June 25 and continues through Saturday, June 28.

Louvre Opens a Major Retrospective of the Great Renaissance Master ~ Andrea Mantegna <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/1CWqGmF_QQg/andreamantegnahtml.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:13 PM PDT     PARIS - Drawing on its remarkable collection of  Andrea Mantegna’s ( 1431-1506 ) paintings (by far the largest outside  Italy), completed by exceptional loans from other French and international  collections, the Louvre has mounted France’s first major retrospective  of this foremost Renaissance artist. The exhibition endeavours to trace  the main stages of Mantegna’s career, through works in different techniques. It  recalls the influences that marked his production and how rapidly his reputation  spread. The Louvre's major retrospective of the work of one of great  masters of the Italian Renaissance: Andrea Mantegna. On exhibition 26th  September through 5th January, 2009.
Tate Liverpool to Unveil New Commissions by Rineke Dijkstra <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/cNxhd8MpvJo/2010_02_21_01_10_44_tate_liverpool_to_unveil_new_commissions_by_rineke_dijkstra.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:12 PM PDT  LIVERPOOL.- In April 2010 Tate Liverpool will unveil new commissions by acclaimed Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying features two Liverpool-based video works never seen before in the UK. The works were borne out of the artist’s residence at Tate Liverpool during the European Capital of Culture 2008 exhibition The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space; a groundbreaking project inspired by ideas and proposals from people across the city. Dijkstra has had a long and fruitful relationship with Liverpool, using its residents as sitters for her photography and video works for over 15 years. She explains that she is drawn to the culture of storytelling and the unwavering friendliness of the people of the city.


Musée du Luxembourg opens a Louis Comfort Tiffany Monographic Exhibition <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/EBpJKLMnlwE/2009_08_04_20_48_31_musee_du_luxembourg_opens_a_louis_comfort_tiffany_monographic_exhibition.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:11 PM PDT  PARIS.- The  Musée du Luxembourg is hosting the first monographic exhibition ever  devoted in France to the famous American creator Louis Comfort Tiffany, a  show conceived by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The  exhibition brings together some 160 works (stained-glass windows, vases,  lamps, objects, jewels and mosaics, drawings, watercolours and  photographs), to reveal Tiffany’s outstanding contribution to the glass  industry as well as to decorative arts in general. On exhibition  16 September until 17 January, 2010.

Joslyn Art Museum Features Albert Paley - Contemporary American Sculptor <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artknowledge/~3/ggYQBFz0-18/2010_08_08_23_06_07_joslyn_art_museum_features_albert_paley_contemporary_american_sculptor.html?utm_source=feedburner_medium=email> Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:10 PM PDT

OMAHA, NE.- Joslyn Art Museum’s contemporary  galleries is an exhibition celebrating Albert Paley’s diverse and significant  body of work, his virtuosity as a monumental sculptor, and the completion and  dedication of Odyssey, Paley’s gateway into Iowa on Interstate 80 at S. 24th  Street in Council Bluffs, Iowa, near the Missouri River border with neighboring  Omaha. Odyssey was commissioned by the Iowa West Foundation as part of their  nationally acclaimed Public Art Initiative. Albert Paley: Celebrating a  Contemporary American Sculptor, on view through September 26 at the  Joslyn.


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