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| Fernando Botero Opens Abu Ghraib-El Circo Exhibition at Casa das Artes de Vigo in Spain |
Colombian painter Fernando Botero points at one of his works of art included in the exhibition "Abu Ghraib-El Circo, which he has inaugurated today at the Casa das Artes de Vigo. Photo: EFE / MARTA G. BREA.
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VIGO.- Casa das Artes de Vigo presents an exhibition of works by the world-renowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero. These works are strongly personal statements of his reaction and feelings stemming from his reading of news media accounts of the events taking place at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003....More
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| Japan Society Presents the First Exhibition Devoted to a New Phenomenon in Japanese Art |
NEW YORK, NY.- This fall Japan Society Gallery explores the emergence of a new genre in contemporary art, one uniquely rooted in Japanese culture: the use of centuries-old methods of basketry to create startlingly original sculptural forms. New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters is the first comprehensive overview of the phenomenon, which has emerged only in the last few decades. ...More
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| Sotheby's New York Evening Sale of Contemporary Art Brings $125,131,500 |
NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, the Evening sale of Contemporary Art brought $125,131,500 million (est. $202,400,000/ 280,400,000*). The top lot of the sale was Yves Klein’s Archisponge (RE 11), which brought $21,362,500. Artist records were set tonight for Philip Guston, Beggar’s Joys, which achieved $10,162,500; John Currin, Nice ‘N Easy, which realized $5,458,500; and Richard ...More
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| Project Room XX: The Creation of the Chamber for Human Rights at the United Nations Office in Geneva |
GENEVA.- Fundación ONUART has commissioned top contemporary Spanish artist Miquel Barceló, supported by a 20-strong team, to create a unique ceiling painting for Room XX. This meeting venue will host the Human Rights Council and will be one of the largest and most state-of-the-art of all the negotiating rooms at the Palais des Nations. What also distinguishes Room XX in ...More
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| Carl Einstein and the Avant-garde Opens today at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina |
MADRID.- The art critic and historian Carl Einstein was one of the most important and multifaceted personalities of the 20th-century artistic avant-garde. His books, articles and essays were fundamental pieces for the critical study of the avant-garde movements; in them he introduced the West to African art and ratified Cubism as a movement in its own right. His intellectual oeuvre, ...More
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| Museum Quality Work by Russian Artist Vladimir Makovsky to Headline Sotheby's Russian Art Sale |
LONDON.- On Monday, November 24, 2008, Sotheby’s London will hold its bi-annual Russian Art Evening Sale, as part of its Russian Art Sales Week. The auction will offer for sale masterworks by some of Russia’s greatest artists, including Ivan Aivazovsky, Vladimir Makovsky, Boris Grigoriev, Nikolai Roerich, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Alexander Yakovlev and Konstantin Korovin....More
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| The Jewish Museum Recaptures the Brilliance of a Vanguard Theater, Cut Short |
NEW YORK, NY.- During the artistic ferment following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, major artists joined actors, choreographers, writers, and musicians in creating a daring new theater. This collaboration gave rise to extraordinary productions with highly original stage designs that redefined the concept of theater itself, attracting large, diverse audiences and garnering international critical ...More
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| UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980s at Tate Modern |
LONDON.- A new display at Tate Modern, UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980s, will offer an opportunity to re-appraise Neo-Expressionist painting a quarter of a century after its emergence. Drawing on the collections of UBS and Tate, Paintings from the 1980s, will bring together eleven large-scale works by the key international painters who were at the forefront of this new form of figurative ...More
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| Erich Solomon: The King of the Indiscreet , 1928-1939 Opens at Jeu de Paume in Paris |
PARIS.- Erich Salomon (born 1886), whose career and tragic destiny are intimately bound up with the political and media history of the interwar period, was certainly one of the first reporters to enter the hitherto impenetrable world of power and to reveal the private lives of celebrities to the general public. His work thus marked the beginning of a new era in photojournalism. He was the precursor...More
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| Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists at Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography |
OTTAWA.- Profoundly symbolic works by some of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous artists send a powerful message on the evolution of Aboriginal self-determination in Canada. They will be presented by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in an exhibition entitled Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists ...More
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| MOCA Presents Major Survey of Works by Pioneering Artist Louise Bourgeois |
LOS ANGELES.- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents the first major travelling survey of the work of pioneering artist Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911) in more than two decades. Louise Bourgeois is organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and curated by Frances Morris, head of collections, Tate Modern; Marie-Laure Bernadac, chief curator of ...More
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| Constantinos Volanakis' Masterpiece The Arrival of Karaiskakis at Faliro Sells for 1,609,250 Pounds |
LONDON.- Sotheby’s has led the field of Greek Art auctions since its inaugural sale in 2001 and its auction in London today continued this trend when a monumental work by Constantinos Volanakis, entitled The Arrival of Karaiskakis at Faliro, sold for £1,609,250 (€1,970,855), establishing a new auction record for a 19th-century Greek painting ever sold at auction by a considerable margin (the ...More
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| Mark di Suvero Sculpture Exhibition Set for Art Basel Opening at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden |
MIAMI.- Renowned artist Mark di Suvero's enormous steel sculptures will soon rise over Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden's world famous flowering trees and vines, lush rainforest and bustling butterfly garden. Fairchild will open Mark di Suvero at Fairchild, an outdoor exhibition of five massive sculptures including the never before exhibited Olompali, during the famed international art fair, Art Basel...More
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| Musee d'art Contemporain de Montréal Opens Exhibition by Lynne Marsh |
MONTREAL.- On the boundaries of performance, cinema and image, Lynne Marsh’s works explore the relationship between physical and psychological spaces. The exhibition is comprised of three recent major video installations by the Canadian artist: Camera Opera (2008), Stadium (2008) and Ballroom (2004). All three feature a single female figure in a vast, uncluttered architectural space....More
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| David Fisher, Creator Of The Dynamic Tower, Named Worldwide Architect Of The Year |
MIAMI.- David Fisher, architect of the renowned Dynamic Tower to be constructed first in Dubai, has been honored as the worldwide Architect of the Year by The Developer & Builders Alliance, the group announced.
Dr. Fisher was presented with the award at a gala event held at the Mar-a-Lago ...More
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| Centre Pompidou Opens Exhibition by Mexican Damian Ortega |
PARIS.- Born in Mexico City in 1967, Damián Ortega is the first Latin American artist to show in Espace 315. With Abraham Cruzvillegas and Gabriel Kuri, he is one of the leading members of the rising artistic generation in Mexico, first coming to widespread attention at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, with Cosmic Thing, a Volkswagen Beetle dismantled and suspended from the ceiling, an...More
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| Jan van Eyck Academie - Call for Applications |
MAASTRICHT.- Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit proposals for individual or collective research projects for a one-year, two-year or variable research period in the department of Design
Extrastatecraft: Hidden Organizations, Spatial Contagions and Activism, a new ...More
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| Fifty Years Ago-Hope Diamond Officially Presented to Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History |
WASHINGTON, DC.- On November 10, 1958, the Hope Diamond was officially presented to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History by Mrs. Harry Winston and received by Smithsonian Secretary Leonard Carmichael and George Switzer, curator of mineralogy. The donor, noted jeweler Harry Winston, was not present at the official ceremony; under the terms of his ...More
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| New Laser Method Reproduces Masterworks to Protein Patterns |
MONTREAL.- Canadian researchers have created a new protein patterning technique that's enabled them to reproduce complex cellular environments and a miniature version of a masterpiece painting. According to a new study published in the journal Lab on a Chip, scientists from Université de Montréal, the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre, McGill University...More
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