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• Please Excuse Our 24 Hour Delay For Maintenance
• The National Gallery London ~ One Of The Best Collections Of European Art In The World
• Michael Jackson's ' Thriller', Muppets Among 25 Honored in United States Film Registry
• Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art Presents "I Know Something About Love"
• Norman Gorbaty ~ 2 Exhibitions At The Fairfield University In Connecticut ~ A Rediscovered Master
• Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art ~ New Survey Book of Contemporary African Art
• Musée du Louvre presents a Retrospective for Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
• The Library of Congress to host "The Sound of Broadway Music: A Symposium on Orchestrators"
• Giovanni Bellini in a Major Exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
• Vinyl Factory Exclusive Art Edition by Grace Jones & Chris Levine
• " Andy Warhol & Other Famous Faces " on view at Maryhill Museum of Art
• Jack Balas Shows 'Muse/Museum' at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
• Solo Exhibition of New Paintings by Tom McGrath at Sue Scott Gallery
• This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News

Please Excuse Our 24 Hour Delay For Maintenance Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:34 PM PDT ANNOUNCEMENT: Art Knowledge News will be taking a One Day break during a 24 hour, or less, period required for maintenance of our equipment. We are posting many 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 . . and we are also publishing current art news articles on the left hand side under RECENT NEWS .. Enjoy

The National Gallery London ~ One Of The Best Collections Of European Art In The World Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:29 PM PDT Unlike comparable art museums such as the Louvre in Paris or the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the National Gallery in London was not formed by nationalizing an existing royal or princely art collection. The History of London's National Gallery dates back to April 1824 when the House of Commons agreed to pay £57,000 for the picture collection of the banker John Julius Angerstein. His 38 pictures were intended to form the core of a new national collection, for the enjoyment and education of all. The pictures were displayed at Angerstein's house at 100 Pall Mall until a dedicated gallery building could be constructed. Angerstein's house was small and unsuited to becoming an art gallery (it had to close for a while due to subsidence) and was compared unfavorably with other national art galleries, such as the Louvre in Paris, and ridiculed in the press. So, in 1831 Parliament agreed to construct a dedicated building for the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square. There had been lengthy discussion about the best site for the Gallery, and Trafalgar Square (at the time being constructed on the site of the King's Mews in the Charing Cross district) was eventually chosen as it was considered to be at the very centre of London. Trafalgar Square could be reached by the rich driving in their carriages from the west of London, and on foot by the poor from the East End. It was felt that in this location the paintings could be enjoyed by all classes in society. The new building designed by William Wilkins finally opened in 1838. There was a lot of public criticism of the Wilkins' building, King William IV (in his last recorded utterance) thought the building a "nasty little pokey hole", while the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray called it "a little gin shop of a building". Some of these criticisms were addressed through the landscaping of Trafalgar Square, the steps in front of the National Gallery serving to increase its height and prominence, but in 1869 the architect E.M. Barry was asked to submit designs for rebuilding the entire Gallery. After much discussion, it was decided that the existing building should remain, and instead, a new wing should be added. This was completed in 1876, and added seven new exhibition rooms at the east end, including the impressive dome. The Royal Academy of Arts which had also been housed in the National Gallery building moved out in 1869, leaving extra space for the National Gallery. Continuing expansion of the collection led the trustees to campaign long and hard for additional space. Eventually, in 1907, barracks at the rear of the Gallery were cleared and work began to construct five new galleries. Further expansion was carried out in 1975, when the 'Northern Extension' was completed, providing 9 large rooms and 3 smaller 'cabinet' rooms of additional exhibition space. In 1985 Lord Sainsbury and his brothers agreed to finance the construction of a new wing on a site next to the Gallery which had been vacant since the Second World War, when a furniture shop was destroyed by bombing. The new Sainsbury Wing, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Robert Venturi and his wife, Denise Scott Brown, was opened in 1991, to display the entire early Renaissance collection. With a commitment to free admission, a central and accessible site, and extended opening hours the Gallery has ensured that its collection can be enjoyed by the widest public possible, and not become the exclusive preserve of the privileged. From the outset the National Gallery has been committed to education. Students have always been admitted to the Gallery to study the collection, and to make copies of the pictures. A vibrant education program continues today for school children, students, and the general public. The program includes free public lectures, tours and seminars. Following the completion of the Sainsbury Wing, the Gallery has a total floor area of 46,396 metres squared and is visited by more than 4 million people every year. Visit the National Gallery's website at … http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

Michael Jackson's ' Thriller', Muppets Among 25 Honored in United States Film Registry Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:27 PM PDT WASHINGTON, DC (AP).- Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, with that unforgettable zombie dance, will rest among the nation's treasures in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. The Library of Congress hosts the National Film Registry, said to be the world's largest archive of film, TV, and sound recordings. An honor to be asked to participate, the 25 inductees were on the short list of the hundreds of titles considered. The 1983 Jackson music video directed by John Landis, though still the subject of lawsuits over profits, was one of 25 films to be inducted for preservation in the 2009 National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art Presents "I Know Something About Love" Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:25 PM PDT LONDON.- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents a multimedia group exhibition devoted to works by Yang Fudong, Shirin Neshat, Christodoulos Panayiotou and Yinka Shonibare MBE. The exhibition is on view until May 22, 2011. Each of these artists explores the theme of love in different times and cultures through the spectrum of their personal experience, observation and commentary. The exhibition title takes its cue from a 1960s song written by Bert Berns and performed by The Exciters, in which there is the recurring lyric, 'I know something about love'.

Norman Gorbaty ~ 2 Exhibitions At The Fairfield University In Connecticut ~ A Rediscovered Master Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:15 PM PDT Fairfield, Connecticut (New York Times).- Norman Gorbaty, now 78, has been making artworks, many of them large, for more than half a century. Hundreds, probably thousands, of pieces in more than a dozen media. For most of that time, the pieces were set aside, leaned against a wall, thrown in a drawer or folder, relegated to the basement or attic, and rarely seen by anyone other than friends or relatives. But after Mr. Gorbaty's wife died in 2003, his son thought that organizing and perhaps showing the art would be therapeutic, so he secretly entered a drawing into a juried show."It was the clear winner," recalled the juror, Susan Greenberg Fisher, then associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Yale University Gallery. She described Mr. Gorbaty's work as "the highest level." Ms. Fisher was the first of many experts to praise the work as Mr. Gorbaty. Now shared with hundreds of galleries and museums.

Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art ~ New Survey Book of Contemporary African Art Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:11 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Contemporary African Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage and occupy the social and cultural complexities of the continent since the past 30 years. Its frame of analysis is absorbed with historical transitions: from the end of the postcolonial utopias of the sixties during the 1980s to the geopolitical, economic, technological, and cultural shifts incited by globalization. This book is both narrower in focus in the periods it reflects on, and specific in the ground it covers. It begins by addressing the tumultuous landscape of contemporary Africa, examining landmarks and narratives, exploring divergent systems of representation, and interrogating the ways artists have responded to change and have incorporated new aesthetic principles and artistic concepts, images and imaginaries to deal with such changes.

Musée du Louvre presents a Retrospective for Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:06 PM PDT PARIS - With this retrospective, the first of its kind to be presented in a French museum, the Louvre, in association with the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, invites visitors to discover the work of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Although little known in France, this artist had a profound impact on nineteenth-century Austrian painting. A master of many genres (portraits, landscapes, scenes from everyday life, open-air paintings, and even still lifes), Waldmüller favors rigorous realism. However, this scrupulous quest for exactitude does not detract from the discreet, pervasive and satisfying harmony of his paintings.

The Library of Congress to host "The Sound of Broadway Music: A Symposium on Orchestrators" Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:02 PM PDT Washington, DC - When we think of musicals such as "West Side Story," "The Sound of Music" or "My Fair Lady," we're reminded of Tony crooning "Maria," another Maria rapturously singing the title-tune "The Sound of Music," or Liza Doolittle claiming "I Could Have Danced All Night." The melodies and words roll by, but the colors of the instruments playing them, the haunting high string lines, the countermelodies and embellishments in the flutes and clarinets, or the dramatic chords by the trumpets are all the works of the orchestrators.

Giovanni Bellini in a Major Exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome Posted: 09 Jul 2011 07:58 PM PDT ROME - The major monographic exhibition on "Giovanni Bellini" that Mauro Lucco and Giovanni C. F. Villa are organizing at Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale exhibition center, putting together a scientific committee of immense international prestige comprising the world's leading experts on the painter, is an operation that is going to entail numerous difficulties due to the fragile condition and immense value of the works of art involved, almost all of which are on wood and extremely large. This is the first monographic exhibition on Giovanni Bellini since Rodolfo Pallucchini devoted an exhibition to him at the Doge's Palace in Venice in 1949, almost 60 years ago.

Vinyl Factory Exclusive Art Edition by Grace Jones & Chris Levine Posted: 09 Jul 2011 07:55 PM PDT LONDON.- The collaboration between pop icon Grace Jones and light artist Chris Levine continues with a stunning art & vinyl edition and a series of limited edition prints, which will be released by The Vinyl Factory. The Vinyl Factory, which is hosting Grace's first ever London art exhibition, will be taking preorders for the bespoke art & vinyl edition, which includes the Hurricane LP, Grace's first album of new material in nineteen years. 'Stillness at the Speed of Light,' which opens to the public at The Vinyl Factory in Soho on 30th April, will showcase the extraordinary alchemy between this iconic individual and leading cutting-edge artist.

" Andy Warhol & Other Famous Faces " on view at Maryhill Museum of Art Posted: 09 Jul 2011 07:51 PM PDT GOLDENDALE, WA.- American Andy Warhol (1928-1987), one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th Century, on view at Maryhill Museum of Art in the spectacular Columbia River Gorge for a four-month exhibit in the form of his famous prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation. Opening on Saturday, July 19, the Andy Warhol & Other Famous Faces

Jack Balas Shows 'Muse/Museum' at Jenkins Johnson Gallery Posted: 09 Jul 2011 07:43 PM PDT New York City - Jenkins Johnson Gallery is pleased to present Muse/Museum, a solo exhibition in the project room of watercolors by Jack Balas.  They will be on view in conjunction with a solo exhibition of new paintings by Wes Hempel.

Solo Exhibition of New Paintings by Tom McGrath at Sue Scott Gallery Posted: 09 Jul 2011 07:38 PM PDT NEW YORK, NY.- Sue Scott Gallery presents Blue Ridge by Headlights, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Tom McGrath. Opening April 8th, the works are on view through May 31, 2010. Produced over the last two years after residencies in Northern France, Miami and Eastern Tennessee, McGrath's paintings materialize these transient stints and interrogate the use of landscape in its capacity to suggest a specific sense of place.

This Week in Review in Art Knowledge News Posted: 09 Jul 2011 07:37 PM PDT 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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