ArtsProfessional Magazine UK

Patronage: Russell Miller describes how Manchester Art Galleries strive to form successful relationships with supporters and develop a strong sense of stewardship Wigmore Hall’s John Gilhooly reveals the importance of clearly defining what you need and why you need it when asking for money and Ann Bukanatas, Curator at National Museums Liverpool, says why she thinks financial prizes provide a temporary respite to a young and emerging artist, but are no substitute for income from regular sales, commissions or bursaries

Open Studios: As well as providing space for artists to research, experiment and make work, affordable studio organisations and their tenant artists make a significant contribution to the well-being and sustainability of local communities. Val Millington, Director of the National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers, emphasises the importance of good quality studio space. Ferial Evans shows how artists inviting the public into their studios in Suffolk are contributing to social and economic strategies and the tourism agenda and Mat Jenner highlights 40 years of work at SPACE, the pioneering organisation for artists’ studios, which started small but is still flourishing.
Spotlight: Rebecca Walton shares the British Council’s belief that the arts provide a unique space for intercultural conversations.

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Art Knowledge News

Picasso's Blue Period 1901-04

Have you ever wondered what is Picasso's Blue Period?
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/blueperiod

Exhibition Exploring the Life and Work of Palladio Celebrates his 500th Anniversary
Venice, Italy - This exhibition celebrating the 500th anniversary of Palladio’s birth tells the story of a remarkable life and attempts to solve a mystery: how did a humble miller’s son become the most renowned world architect in the last five centuries? The story is told in unique ‘film stills’, i.e. the works brought together from over eighty European museums and libraries by an international team of scholars from Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Palladio_his_500th_Anniversary.html

The Museum of Arts and Design shows Elegant Armor ~ The Art of Jewelry
NEW YORK.- The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will inaugurate the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery in its new Columbus Circle home with Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry. On view from September 2008 to March 2009, the exhibition explores the inspirations for contemporary jewelry, including the fine arts, the human form and the natural world. Featuring over 130 works from 1948 to the present, Elegant Armor draws from the Museum’s collection of approximately 450 modern and contemporary works, the entirety of which will be housed in the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery in publicly accessible study drawers

http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Museum_of_Arts_and_Design_MAD.html

Modern Photographs ~ The Machine, the Body and the City ~ at Parrish Art Museum
Southampton, NY - This exhibition traces the evolution of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries, from early Pictorialist works that mimic the moodiness of late 19th-century painting, through the Modern formal experimentations of the Constructivist and Bauhaus schools, to the documentary ethos of mid-century America and the large-scale, staged tableaux of our own time. As indicated by its title, the exhibition also examines three prominent themes highlighted by the selection: depictions of the metropolis, modern machinery, and the human figure. On view at the Parrish Art Museum though 30 November, 2008.

http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Parrish_Art_Museum_Machine_Body_City.html

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents 'Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night'
NEW YORK.- The Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, presents Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night, the first exhibition to examine Vincent van Gogh’s lyrical view of the night through nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which he often combined with other longstanding themes of his art—peasant life, sowers, wheatfields, and the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene. This exhibition includes 23 paintings and 10 works on paper from all periods of Van Gogh’s career, as well as a selection of his letters and examples of the rich literary sources that influenced the artist’s work in this area by writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Jules Michelet, and Emile Zola. It will be on view at MoMA through January 5, 2009, and then it travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where it will be on view February 13 to June 7, 2009.

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

Noyes Museum of Art presents 'Awakenings ~ Art & Healing'

OCEANVILLE, N.J. – The Noyes Museum of Art presents Awakenings: Art & Healing, an exhibition of contemporary Outsider Art through November 2, 2008. Awakenings explores the power of art as a tool for healing, hope and communication for people with mental and physical challenges. The featured artists are associated with Hospital Audiences, Inc. (HAI) in New York City, an organization that is devoted to using professional artists to reach individuals in group residences and treatment programs for chronically mentally ill adults.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Noyes_Museum_of_Art_Awakenings.html


André Kostelanetz Papers Are Donated to the Library of Congress
Washington, DC - Papers of conductor and arranger André Kostelanetz are being donated to the Library of Congress by the musician’s estate, marking a significant expansion of the collection Kostelanetz provided to the Library during his lifetime. Kostelanetz, who died in 1980, was a major figure in U.S. popular music and on radio for half a century. Early in his career, he was best known for his interpretations of classical pieces, and over his lifetime he was credited with selling more than 50 million recordings that tapped a public appetite for popular arrangements of classical and Broadway music.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Andre_Kostelanetz.html

Tacoma Art Museum presents " Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire "
TACOMA, WA - Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition "Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire" from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. Many Europeans relied on published travelogues for information, but many also traveled to the region. Genre paintings, the prevalent form of Orientalist art in the nineteenth century, were greatly influenced by these artists' direct experience of everyday life in the region. The exhibition is on view Saturday, September 20, 2008 through Sunday, January 4, 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Tacoma_Art_Museum_Oasis.html


Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art shows 'Spectacular Saturn ~ Images from Cassini-Huygens Mission'
ITHACA, NY - The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University presents Spectacular Saturn: Images from the Cassini-Huygens Mission, on view through January 4, 2009. This exhibit displays over fifty images of the planet Saturn, its rings, and its satellites. This selection, by Cornell members of the Cassini project, was made from almost two hundred thousand images that have been transmitted to Earth since the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Cassini-Huygens_Mission.html

Whats happening in the arts and design world

Alphabet of Illustrators

This alphabet of illustrators has been provided by the Culture Archive based in Brighton and offers digital images of historical illustrations. Clicking on any name provides high quality images of scans from books and publications of the illustrator's work. Illustrations include pictures from the fairytales of Hans Christian Anderson, as well as work by the artist Walter Crane, Edward Bawden's pamphlet for Fortnum and Mason and the work of Fougasse, and many more.
http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/aoi/


Babar The Elephant
The Morgan Library and Museum in New York have launched an online facsimile of original sketches for Jean de Brunhoff's classic children's character Babar The Elephant.
This digital facsimile presents every page of a small, delicate maquette that Jean de Brunhoff created in 1930 or 1931 as he drafted the first book in the Babar series. The maquette, an extraordinary handmade booklet complete with cover and endpapers, text and illustrations, is the prototype for Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant.
http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=900

Arts Journal/Artopia

Art Critic John Perreault's critical review about Larry Rivers http://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/


About the Artist- Larry Rivers
American painter whose works frequently combined the vigorous, painterly brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism with the commercial images of the Pop art movement.Rivers early developed an interest in jazz, and after briefly serving in the army during World War II he studied composition at the Juilliard School of Music. One of his classmates there was Miles Davis, who introduced him to other jazz musicians, and Rivers was soon touring the United States with different groups as a jazz saxophonist. In 1945, however, he was given a book on modern art and quickly discovered he had a natural talent for painting. From 1947 to 1948 he studied in the New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts, school of the prominent Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann. Rivers later studied at New York University College, graduating in 1951. His early paintings were exhibited in New York City in 1949.

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Arts at the Heart of the Olympics
The powers behind London 2012 have promised that the arts will be at the heart of the next Olympic Games, according to Charlotte Higgins in the G. Sebastian Coe promises "a clear and tangible cultural legacy for the whole nation". Launching the Cultural Olympiad, Jude Kelly, chair of culture, ceremonies and education for the Olympics, unveiled a series of cultural initiatives that will build over the next four years and culminate in a celebration of British creativity in the summer of 2012. The Olympiad will not restrict itself to London but, according to Kelly, will "embrace the whole nation". At Tate Britain, Coe will take part in the Martin Creed sculpture Work 850, which involves a runner sprinting along the length of the museum’s Duveen Galleries.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/05/olympics2012

Scholar finds ‘Beethoven’s last piano work’ in library
An Australian musicologist has discovered what he believes to be the last piano work written by Beethoven five months before he died.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/scholar-finds-beethovens-last-piano-work-in-library-923491.html


Hirst auction exceeds expectations
Damien Hirst has given up smoking and drinking and, in the wake of a lukewarm reception for his works in India, is auctioning a selection at Sotheby’s. The first session has brought in £70.5m. What’ll he do with all that cash?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/02/damien.hirst.india


Leicester University invests in modern art
He may not be able to afford a Hirst, but the boss of Leicester University has been buying up art to improve the look of the campus and lift the spirits of staff and students.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/framework-for-success-why-leicester-university-is-investing-in-modern-art-925162.html

8. Playing with the Band
Oasis has teamed up with Arts Council England and music magazine NME to inspire fans to learn to pick up instruments and play music. The band is giving away a DVD featuring sheet music and lyrics to three new songs and is asking new artists to send in their interpretations before the actual songs are released next month. Musicians will submit their own versions to a special website, with the winning entrant invited to travel to an Oasis gig anywhere in the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2709308/Oasis-teams-up-with-Arts-Council-and-NME-to-inspire-fans-to-learn-to-play-music.html

Art and Research at Glasgow School of Arts

Art and Research is an artist-led, internationally peer-assessed e-journal of Research in Fine Art Practice, focused upon questions, contexts and methodologies of artistic research and practice. Art & Research aims to serve professional artists and academics, curators and critics, artistic researchers, postgraduate and doctoral research students and undergraduates, and to inform current pedagogical thought in a global context.
Issue 2 is focused on the work of French philosopher Jacques Rancière and includes papers from the two-day conference Aesthetics and Politics: With and Around Jacques Rancière co-organized by Sophie Berrebi and Marie-Aude Baronian at the University of Amsterdam on 20 and 21 June 2006. It includes the previously unpublished text of Rancières plenary lecture delivered at the conference and a new interview with the philosopher; it also includes a transcript of an exchange with Rancière which followed the papers presented by Stephen Wright and Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield which also appear here.
http://www.artandresearch.org.uk/

The Arts Newsletter Goethe Institute

The Arts Scene in Germany
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/thm/idd/en3645200.htm

ARCHITECTURE
Oases of Green: Gardens Conquer the Cities
Dossier: Contemporary Monument Concepts in Germany
Updated and redesigned
http://www.goethe.de/kue/arc/dos/dos/zdk/enindex.htm

DANCE
Constanza Macras: In the Eye of the Storm
http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/thm/idd/en3664698.htm

DESIGN AND FASHION
We redesigned our fashion and design web pages
Fashion Scene
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/mod/enindex.htm

Design Trends
http://www.goethe.de/kue/des/prj/des/enindex.htm

FILM
Recent History with Great Depth of Feeling
http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/idd/en3603488.htm

LITERATURE
A Question is a Question - Writers' Soliloquies
http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/thm/idd/en3645804.htm

MUSIC
Beyond Bayreuth: Classical Music Festivals Booming in Germany
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/opr/en3602442.htm

German University Schools of Music - a Changing Tradition
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/opr/en3630155.htm

Germany, Europe's Festival Heartland
http://www.goethe.de/kue/mus/thm/prh/en3629714.htm

VISUAL ARTS
(Painting, Sculpture and Graphic, Photography, Media Art)

Under the Spell of Fountains: The Artist Jeppe Hein
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/kab/en3614582.htm

Thorsten Brinkmann: Portrait of a Serial Collector
http://www.goethe.de/kue/bku/thm/bpp/en3654577.htm

Art and Design

Czech Book Covers
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries website has provided this resource on Czech book covers of the 1920s and 1930s, which is based on the collection in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Library. The overview introduces Czech book design which sprang from the journals published by the Devetsil Artistic Union. The union was a highly influential group of avant-garde poets, writers, artists and designers who were active from 1920 to 1931. The collection can be viewed by style - constructivism, poetism, surrealism or social realism; or by book designer/typographer/illustrator, including work by Karel Bedrna,Vrastislav Hugo Brunner, Gustave Dore and Adolf Hoffmeister. All these books can also be viewed by author or by date of publication. A select bibliography is also provided.
Link: http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/czechbooks/

Dali and Film
This website features the online exhibition 'Dalí: Painting and Film', also showing at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 29th June until 15th September 2008. Bringing together over a hundred paintings, photographs, drawings and films by Salvador Dalí, the exhibition explores the role of cinema in his work, and covers his collaborations with filmmakers including Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney.
Link: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2008/dali/

Graphic Design Timeline
The Graphic design timeline is an interactive guide which acts as an accompaniment to the fourth edition of "Meggs' History of Graphic Design", by Philip P. Meggs and Alston W. Purvis. Using flash technology the site provides a chronological history of graphic design, beginning in the year 15,000 BC and the Lascaux cave paintings, and covering the invention of writing, illuminated manuscripts, the advent of printing, the industrial revolution, the Arts and Crafts Movement, right up until the present day to the digital revolution and beyond.
Link: http://www.graphicdesigntimeline.net/

Design Management Institute

DMI Review Articles

Designing the Future of Business
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/aug2008/id20080813_677771.htm

How Tangible is Your Brand?
Mary Weisnewski, Kite, Inc
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/journal/article08192WEI53.htm

Embedded Brand: The Soul of Product Development
By Guido Stompff, Océ, Netherlands
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/journal/article08192STO38.htm



Designed by KTF: A Telecoms Case Study

By Won-Kik Lee, IFP Co. Ltd., and Bo-Young Kim, IDS & Associates
http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/publications/journal/article08191LEE53.htm

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Art Knowledge News - Keeping You in Touch with the World of Art.


The Museo del Prado to show " Rembrandt ~ A History Painter "
Madrid, Spain - Of the great masters of European painting, Rembrandt is one of the least well represented in the Museo del Prado, which has only one work by his hand, the Artemisia (1634). For this reason, the Museum has decided to organise an exhibition that will allow the public to see more of the work of this remarkable artist. It includes around 30 paintings and five prints loaned from leading European and American museums and will focus on the subject of Rembrandt as a narrative painter. On exhibition 15th October 2008 to 6th January 2009.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Museo_del_Prado_Rembrandt.html


The Library of Congress Awards the Gershwin Prize to Stevie Wonder
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington named singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder—who burst on the scene in the early 1960s as a musical prodigy, and whose dance hits and love songs segued over the years into thoughtful commentaries on the joy and injustice in our world—as the recipient of the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The award presentation will take place in the Great Hall of the Library on Feb. 23, 2009. As an added distinction to this year’s Gershwin Prize, the Library has offered, and Wonder has accepted, a musical commission. He joins a group of eminent composers who have received Library commissions, ranging from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein to Paquito D’Rivera.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Stevie_Wonder.html

San Diego Museum of Art presents "The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota"
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, on view November 1, 2008–January 4, 2009. In conjunction with the Timken Museum of Art, SDMA is presenting a major exhibition featuring the work of internationally recognized Japanese textile artist and kimono designer, Itchiku Kubota (1917–2003). Kubota used a variety of traditional techniques and unique personal innovations to create shimmering, abstract landscapes through a complex layering of dyes and inks on monumentally-scaled kimono.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Landscapes_of_Itchiku_Kubota.html

Woodson Art Museum’s 33rd Annual Birds in Art Exhibition
WAUSAU, WISCONSIN.- The Woodson Art Museum’s 33rd annual Birds in Art exhibition, opening Saturday, September 6, offers a creative and surefire remedy to cure avian envy. With the exhibition closing on November 9th, visitors have nine weeks to take the cure. Birds in Art comprises 126 original contemporary works by 113 painters and sculptors hailing from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England,France,Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United States
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Woodson_Art_Museum.html


Jacob Philipp Hackert ~ Europe's Landscape Painter ~ at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar Weimer, Germany - On the occasion of its theme-year,“Europe in Weimar 2008”, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is showing the retrospective exhibition “Jakob Philipp Hackert, Europe’s Landscape Painter of the Goethe Era” through November 2, 2008. The exhibition, which was jointly prepared by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Hamburg Kunsthalle, includes some 80 paintings as well as 120 gouaches, water-colours and drawings. It is thus the most comprehensive Hackert retrospective ever shown.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Jacob_Philipp_Hackert.html


Arken Museum exhibits 'Triumph of Desire ~ Danish and International Surrealism'
Copenhagen, Denmark - Arken Museum of Modern Art presents Triumph of Desire - Danish and International Surrealism, on view through January 11, 2009. In the 1930s Surrealism spread like wildfire across Europe, led by Dalí, Magritte and Miró. Danish Surrealists from Wilhelm Freddie and Richard Mortensen to Heerup and Jorn were influenced by the international wave. But how was it expressed in their art? This is what ARKEN will spotlight in the autumn exhibition.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com//Arken_Museum_of_Modern_Art.html