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| Museum of Islamic Art Opens in Iconic I.M. Pei Designed Landmark Building in Doha, Qatar |
Image of the exterior of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. The Emir of Qatar, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani inaugurated the museum this past November 22 and will open to the public on December 1. Photo: EFE / Noushad.
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DOHA.- The Museum of Islamic Art, a new cultural icon for the Gulf region, will open its doors to the public on December 1, 2008. Dedicated to reflecting the full vitality, complexity and diversity of the arts of the Islamic world, the Museum of Islamic Art will collect, preserve, study and exhibit masterpieces ...More
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| National Gallery in UK to Present Major Exhibition Picasso: Challenging the Past in 2009 |
LONDON.- From his earliest years Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a passionate student of the grand European painting tradition, frequently visiting the Louvre, the Prado and many other museums for inspiration. The masters of Spanish painting, including El Greco, Velázquez and Goya, were of crucial importance to him, as were Rembrandt, Delacroix, Ingres, Manet and Cézanne. ...More
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| The State Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- An outstanding collection of the treasures of the State Museums of Berlin that honors the contributions of patron James Simon opened at the Legion of Honor. The State Museums of Berlin and the Legacy of James Simon is a case study of the history of collecting during the late ...More
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| Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga Opened Tracey Emin: 20 Years |
MALAGA.- The first major Spanish retrospective exhibition of work by Tracey Emin, one of the most celebrated and influential artists of her generation will be the highlight of this year’s winter exhibition programme at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga. Tracey Emin: 20 Years charts the artist’s career...More
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| Office for Contemporary Art in Norway Opens Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? |
OSLO.- 'Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?' is a research project that consists of three platforms – an exhibition, a programme of public events and a publication – examining the juncture of the political and the erotic through the work of artists produced predominantly in the context of the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 70s. Part of ...More
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| Erhard Klein: Thoroughly Concentrated Opens at Kunstmuseum Bonn |
BONN.- On Erhard Klein’s 70th birthday, Kunstmuseum Bonn is organizing a small homage that brings together the major pieces that the Kunstmuseum have acquired from the gallerist in Bonn’s Südstadt (from 1970) and in Bad Münstereifel-Mutscheid (to 2006)....More
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| IVAM Installs Five Monumental Sculptures by Gerardo Rueda in Valladolid |
VALLADOLID.- Gerardo Rueda devoted part of his work to public sculpture, so this sample of pieces from the collection of IVAM Valencia aims to bring the public and all those who visit us this facet of his creative career in this area of Valladolid downtown dedicated the urban leisure. The exhibition displays a set of ...More
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| Kunsthaus Zürich Announces Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milan - Turin / Los Angeles, 1956 - 1969 |
ZURICH.- From 13 February to 3 May 2009, the Kunsthaus Zürich will present ‘Hot Spots’, an exhibition devoted to the artistic avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Milan and Turin, and Los Angeles. The show features
outstanding works of art, photography, architecture and design by such world-...More
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| The Museum of Modern Art Salutes Agnieszka Holland with Major Film Retrospective |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art honors award-winning film and TV director and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland (Polish, b. 1948) with a month-long exhibition spanning her three-decade career, from her roots as a highly political contributor to Polish New Wave cinema, through major English-language releases such as The...More
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| Peter Freeth RA: My Affair with Resin at the Royal Academy of Arts |
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts presents an exhibition of prints by Royal Academician Peter Freeth. The exhibition, in the Tennant Room, explores the themes to which Freeth has returned throughout his career as well as the unique process behind his prints....More
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| People of Today: Faces of Wales at National Portrait Gallery in London |
LONDON.- New portraits of Sound of Music star Connie Fisher, BAFTA and Laurence Olivier Award nominated actor Michael Sheen and Today programme presenter John Humphrys will feature in People of Today: Faces of Wales at the National Portrait Gallery throughout the month of ...More
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| Tallest Building in China Breaks Ground |
SHANGHAI.- Shanghai Tower, a 632-meter (2,074 foot) building designed by Gensler, a leading global architectural design firm, advances sustainable design strategies and gives prominence to public spaces. The Shanghai Tower Construction & Development Co., Ltd., is the project's developer. Thornton Tomasetti structural engineers, Cosentini Associates mechanical, ...More
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| Institute of Contemporary Arts Presents Seven International Artists |
LONDON.- Dispersion presents seven international artists who work with photography, film, video and performance. All of these artists explore the appropriation and circulation of images in contemporary society, examining the role of money, desire and power in our accelerated image economy – from the art market to the internet and art historical icons to pornography....More
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| Painting the Heart of Russia: Nikolai Timkovs Sustaining Vision |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Meridian International Center presents selections from The Timkov Collection, provided by Timothy and Lisa Wyman, featuring landscapes by renowned Russian painter Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (1912-1993). His paintings, many of which have never been exhibited publicly, capture an elemental ...More
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts Appoints New Head of Prints and Drawings |
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) today announced the appointment of Thomas E. Rassieur as its new John E. Andrus III Curator of Prints and Drawings. In this capacity he will lead the MIA's Prints and Drawings Department, a collection of some 40,000 prints and drawings ranging from 14th ...More
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| New Orleans Museum of Art Offers Free Admission through January 18 |
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art will offer free admission to all through January 18, 2009. The dates of the free admittance offer, which began November 1, coincide with both Prospect.1 New Orleans, the international contemporary art biennial which is free at all of its 25 venues throughout the city, and Objects of ...More
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| The Turner Prize, Only Better |
by Jane Speaks
With the inauguration this year of Detroit's Kresge Prize, and its annual awards of half a million dollars, Southeast Michigan's regional arts scene will shift beyond recognition and the Kresge Prize will now lie at the heart of Detroit's future ...More
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| Soldier Billboard in Miami Wynwood District |
MIAMI.- A poignant and controversial art project is on view in Miami. It is part of the Soldier Billboard Project which has had a presence in five other cities since the fall. The soldier billboards have sparked a heated debate on the street and on the web with responses from the military and the public. ...More
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| Going Public '08 - Port City Safari - the Sound of the City |
MILAN.- The cultural agency aMAZElab in Milan presents PORT CITY SAFARI, a journey touching some of the main port cities in Europe and in the Mediterranean area, participating in the project with researches, exhibitions and seminars, organised by local museums, universities and cultural institutions....More
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| Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát at Phoenix Art Museum |
PHOENIX.- Organized by The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the exhibition showcases 54 complex drawings made by artist Elihu Vedder to accompany Omar Khayyám’s classic 12th century Persian poem, the Rubáiyát. The combination of Vedder’s hauntingly beautiful images with Khayyám’s profound...More
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