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Home   Sixth Edition of Leading Contemporary Art Fair Frieze Art Fair 2008 Set to Open Tomorrow A man photographs works of art made by Chinese artist Yan Pei Ming which forms part of the Frieze Art Fair, held at Regent Park in London, which was inaugurated today. Photo: EFE / Daniel Deme. LONDON.- The sixth edition of the leading international contemporary art fair is sponsored by Deutsche Bank and takes place in London from 16-19 October 2008. 151 of the world’s most exciting contemporary art galleries, representing 27 ...More From Miro to Warhol: The Berardo Collection in Paris at Musée du Luxembourg PARIS.- José Berardo, born in 1944 on the island of Madeira, is one of the biggest Portuguese entrepreneurs. Barely aged 19, he emigrated to South Africa where he made a fortune working in various fields (goldmining, wine, banking, telecommunications). He came back to Portugal in 1986 and started gathering one of the most interesting collections of modern and contemporary art ...More Etruscans: The Ancient Cities of Lazio Opens at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni ROME.- The exhibition, organized in conjunction with the Lazio Regional Authority's Culture, Performance Arts and Sport Department, with the significant contribution of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage – Superintendence for Etruria Meridionale Archeological Heritage, tells the story of the Etruscan civilization in Lazio and describes its extraordinary level of achievement through the ...More Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life 1990-2005 Opens at the National Portrait Gallery in London LONDON.- A new exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in October, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, will draw together for the first time the well-known assignments and rarely-seen personal work of one of the world's best-known portrait photographers. ...More Exhibition On the Subject of War Opens at Barbican Art Gallery LONDON.- With the accessibility of mobile phone and internet technologies, photography has proliferated in Iraq and Afghanistan, beyond the realm of the official military and the media. Images are made and distributed by many people - individual soldiers, insurgents, refugees - caught up in the violence. If diverse people have found new and urgent uses for photography inside Iraq,...More Christie's Hong Kong Announces Fall 2008 Sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art HONG KONG.- Christie’s, the world’s leading art business and the leading auction house in Asia, announces the Fall sale of Southeast Asian Modern and Contemporary Art will take place on Sunday, November 30th at 11am. This sale follows on the heels of Christie’s landmark Spring 2008 auction in Hong Kong which was its most valuable ever for category....More Turner Prize Winner Steve McQueen to Release Film Hunger LONDON.- Steve McQueen's film Hunger, about the last six weeks of the life of Provisional Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands, is set to be released on October 31. The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. McQueen received the Caméra d'Or (first-time director) Award at Cannes. The film was also awarded the inaugural Sydney Film Festival Prize, for "its controlled ...More Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art Opens Fragile Exhibiton SEGOVIA.- Within the avant-guarde tradition, which favored the dramatic and emphatic aspects of a work, and postmodern art which either rivaled the spectacle or protected it from mass consumerism with a strong sense of the anti-aesthetic, a type of substantially different artwork emerged since the 1960´s. Extremely heterogeneous in form and matter, it puts into play ...More Miami Art Museum Receives Gift of 50 Works from Vogel Collection MIAMI, Fl.- Terence Riley, Director of the Miami Art Museum, announced today that Miami Art Museum has been selected to receive a gift of fifty works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The gifts are part of a national gifts program ...More Sotheby's Spanish Paintings Sale to Offer the Breadth and Wealth of Iberian Masters LONDON.- Sotheby’s annual London sale of Spanish Paintings goes beyond the national boundaries into Portugal and as far away as Puerto Rico to embrace pieces that enrich the historical and cultural mesh of this artistically variegated peninsula. Sourced primarily from private collections, this year’s sale includes outstanding works by Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Zuloaga, Romero de Torres...More Historic Collaboration Between the Aspen Art Museum and Anderson Ranch Arts Center ASPEN.- Beginning with an exhibition walkthrough and free public reception at the AAM at 6:00 p.m., on Thursday, October 30, 2008, the Aspen Art Museum and Snowmass’s Anderson Ranch Arts Center are proud to present a collaborative effort that highlights the artistic accomplishments of Anderson Ranch, its history of art-making, and its importance to the Roaring Fork Valley ...More Modern Mondays Series at MoMA Presents Screenings and Discussions with Multimedia Artists NEW YORK, NY.- Modern Mondays, The Museum of Modern Art’s Monday night screening series of new works by contemporary filmmakers and multimedia artists, continues this fall with engaging and thought-provoking programming by a diverse selection of cutting-edge international artists. Launched a year ago as a way for audiences to have opportunities to interact directly with directors and ...More Boise Art Museum to Receive Major Donation BOISE.- Boise Art Museum has been selected to receive a gift of fifty works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The gifts are part of a national gifts program entitled The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty ...More Ten Contemporary Artists Invited by the Guggenheim to Collectively Formulate a Group Exhibition NEW YORK, NY.- During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. For these artists, an exhibition can comprise a film, a novel, a shared...More A Great Collection of British Art at Sotheby's this November LONDON.- Sir David Montagu Scott (1887-1986) and his wife, Valerie Finnis (1924-2006), were avid collectors of art - as well as devoted and celebrated gardeners - and during their lives they amassed an exceptional array of British pictures that incorporates Victorian and 20th Century British Art. In its range and freshness to the market, the collection is the last of its kind to remain in private ...More