Thursday, October 2, 2008

International Art News: October 2, 2008





ARTS NEWS: October 02, 2008

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Call for Artists: Murals needed for project
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL USA

My Top 3? Symposium
National Museum of Australia, Canberra, AC AU Australia

Gen Next III: Annual Gallery Show
Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, WB IN India

Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL USA United States of America

Call for Artists: Murals needed for project
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL USA

The Armory Art Center invites all mural artists who paint representationally to send three images electronically to compete to become a member of a team of artists who will be hired by a luxury hotel in Palm Beach County to paint numerous murals within the hotel. The final team of artists will be chosen by the hotel's administration. Team members will be paid to create numerous images representing different aspects of the hotel and its appointments within a lush tropical setting. The images you see will be some of the source material artists will use to inspire the mural compositions. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
 
My Top 3? Symposium
National Museum of Australia, Canberra, AC AU Australia

Australia's leading Aboriginal photographer, Wayne Quilliam, will be joined by a panel of experts to present and discuss his three most intriquing Indigenous photographs at the National Museum in Canberra on Sunday, October 5, 2008. In association with the A Different Time: The Expedition Photographs of Herbert Basedow 1903-1928 exhibition, Quilliam and the panel will explore the ways images continue to be used by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, as well as their contemporary role as the starting point for historians, artists, curators and communities. One of the original members of absolutearts.com, Wayne Quilliam has used a Premiere Portfolio to promote his work since 2001. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
Gen Next III: Annual Gallery Show
Aakriti Art Gallery, Kolkata, WB IN India

Gen Next, the annual show of the Aakriti Art Gallery was conceived with the sole idea of promoting contemporary artists below forty years of age. Gen Next shows have revolutionized the concept of curatorial endeavor and brought about a change in the approach to the way of seeing. The show that was initiated in 2006 as the first anniversary celebration of the Aakriti Art Gallery, the core concentration was led by the commitment to promote young talent and project their works. It has been the motto of this gallery since foundation to search for novel possibilities and unique ideas, thus to conceptualize a different language in showcasing and endorsing artworks. ? Aakriti Art Gallery promotes their artists with a Gallery Portfolio at absolutearts.com. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
 
Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL USA United States of America

The Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago presents Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art. With powerful works by Chen Qiulin, Yun-Fei Ji, Liu Xiaodong, and Zhuang Hui, the exhibition offers new perspectives on the colossal Three Gorges Dam. The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangzi River in China is a massive project entwined in controversy. When finally completed, it will stand as the world?s largest generator of hydro-electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants. However, the dam?s 375-mile reservoir has already displaced over one million people and submerged over one thousand towns and villages. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
The Voice of Art in a Battle for Freedom: International Artists Create Book in Support of Key Political Figure
Micra Art Group, Skogas, SE Sweden

On October 2nd, 2008, the Mirca Art Group, an international coalition of professional artists, will release their landmark collaborative effort, a book entitled Freedom and Art, to the public. The book features 74 works of art, each accompanied by a short statement about the synergy of freedom and art in our world, and is being sold to raise funds in support of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a key political figure who has been under house arrest in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for the past 18 years over her bid for political freedom. Several artists who have Premiere Portfolios with absolutearts.com will be participating in the book: Leo Evans, Doug Kinsey, Don Murphy, Brad Michael Moore, Cassandra Gordon-Harris, Luise Andersen and Carla Goldberg, who compiled the information and created the publication. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com

 
Art Fair Course: Join a unique 3-day course on contemporary art during Frieze Art Fair in London. Learn about the contemporary art world today and the art market. Led by Sotheby's Institute of Art with visits to Frieze Art Fair. To book a place, click here:"

Sotheby's Institute of Art in London presents a unique 3-day course on contemporary art, the art market and collecting with additional sessions on art from emerging markets, 16 - 18 October. The combination of lectures and visits to Frieze Art Fair in London provides a unique understanding of the contemporary art world today. Click here to book a place:

Art and National Identity
Valerie Grove, Dubai

Before I came to the UAE I knew there were at least 10 Emirati artists. I had their names and images in a book published in 1982 by the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States. However, on arrival in Dubai I faced a major problem - there was no National Museum or Art Gallery so no obvious place to find them. It actually took me six months to find a local artist but it is amazing that just over a year later, I am now aware of more than 200 and have actually seen the work of well over 50.

This is largely thanks to independent arts organisations and the fact that my search coincided with a national identity crisis in the UAE. Concern about losing a sense of national self is particularly acute in Dubai, where nationals are at highest estimates only 10 per cent of the population. This resulted in 2008 being designated the 'year of national identity' by the UAE government making it a good time to propose projects focussing on local culture and local creative output.
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