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| Mark Leckey Wins Prestigious 2008 Turner Prize - World's Top Contemporary Art Award |
British artist Mark Leckey accepts the 2008 Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery today December 1. Photo: EFE / Daniel Deme.
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LONDON.- Mark Leckey has won Britain´s prestigious 2008 Turner Prize, one of the world´s top contemporary-art award.
Australian rock star Nick Cave presented the award in a ceremony in London this evening. The jury was led by director of the London-based ...More
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| First Exhibition for Andreas Gursky in Australia at National Gallery of Victoria |
MELBOURNE.- For the first time in Australia, an exhibition by German contemporary photographer Andreas Gursky opened at the National Gallery of Victoria....More
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| Hirshhorn Museum Presents Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection |
WASHINGTON, DC.- Figurative art plays an important role in the Hirshorn’s collection. “Strange Bodies,” on view from Dec. 11 to early 2010, brings together some of the most celebrated examples of figuration from the museum’s holdings to examine how and why artists depict and distort the body. Organized by associate ...More
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| Leandro Erlich: The Tower Opens at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia |
MADRID.- The installations of Argentinean visual artist Leandro Erlich question the perception of reality through simulations and optical effects. The artist manipulates everyday situations and spaces in order to establish a parallel reality that is linked to the sole, objective truth....More
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| Made in Munich: Munich Editions 1968 - 2008 on View at Haus der Kunst |
MUNICH.- In 1967 the first international art fair for modern and contemporary art took place in Cologne. Only 18 galleries took part, but with 15,000 visitors and a turnover of one million German mark the starting shot for a lively contemporary art market was given. Everybody was able to look at and buy art, and for the first time galleries were confronted with a direct comparison with ...More
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| Leading 20th Century Artists Present at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale in Paris |
PARIS.- Sotheby's two-session sale of contemporary art, to be held in Paris on December 10/11, has an overall estimate of €12-17 million and features 142 important works by leading 20th century artists. Several represent landmarks in their artists' careers or number among the handful of works by the ...More
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| Major New Installation by Leading International Sculptor Anish Kapoor at Guggenheim in Berlin |
BERLIN.- Memory (2008), a major new installation by leading international sculptor Anish Kapoor, was unveiled at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin on November 29, 2008 and will remain on view through February 1, 2009. ...More
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| Emerging Contemporary Art Fair SCOPE Miami Opens on December 3 |
MIAMI.- SCOPE Miami Dec 3–7 08 – Miami’s original emerging contemporary art fair, returns for its seventh year to Miami this December. Expanded in size and global in reach, SCOPE will host 89 exhibitors from 22 countries in a new 60,000 square foot pavilion. SCOPE’s new location is centrally ...More
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| Diana Larrea: Electrocosmos on View at the Joan Miró Foundation |
BARCELONA.- The Joan Miró Foundation presents Electrocosmos, the first solo exhibition in Barcelona of the work of Diana Larrea, as part of “The 24 Steps” cycle dedicated to Joan Miró and his role in the field of contemporary art, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death on 25 December 1983....More
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| Is it Tomorrow Yet? Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection (1926 - 2006) |
SINGAPORE.- Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and Mercedes-Benz are proud to present is it tomorrow yet? Highlights from the Daimler Art collection (1926 – 2006), a collection spanning more than a century of art. The western blockbuster showcases 150 works drawn from key modernist art movements in Europe to ...More
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| Poet George Szirtes will give a Talk on a Brazilian Artist who Exhibits at the Herbert |
COVENTRY.- A renowned poet will put his talent with words to good use when he visits Coventry to give a presentation on the work of a famous artist.
Poet George Szirtes will give a talk on a Brazilian artist whose work is currently on display at The Herbert Art ...More
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| Gloria Steinem to Moderate Fight Against Sex Trafficking Panel Discussion at Brooklyn Museum |
BROOKLYN, NY.- On Saturday, December 13, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Brooklyn Museum, acclaimed activist and writer Gloria Steinem will moderate a panel discussion on the fight against sex trafficking throughout the world. Joining her will be Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director of Equality Now; Dorchen Leidholdt, Director of the ...More
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| Eli Wilner & Company has Loaned 40 Frames to Christie's and Sotheby's Auction Houses for Their American Sales This Week |
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Company has loaned 40 period frames and period frame replicas to enhance the paintings being sold at the upcoming Sotheby's American Paintings Auction on Wednesday, December 3rd and Christie's American Paintings Auction on Thursday, December 4th....More
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| First Exhibition in 100 Years Tells Story of Revolutionary Art Movement |
SEATTLE.- The Munich Secession, founded in 1892, was the first in a series of Secession movements that were to sweep across Europe and lay the foundation for the emergence of the avant-garde in the twentieth century. From January 24 through April 12, 2009, the Frye Art Museum will present The Munich Secession and ...More
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| Linhof Young Photographer Award |
MUNICH.- Linhof is the oldest existing camera manufacturer in the world with a tradition of more than 120 years in developing and manufacturing view cameras and optical equipment for applied photography. Linhof is market leader for professional large format camera systems. The company has been ...More
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| Collaborative Exhibition Project Exploring the Notions of Urban Utopia, Dystopia and Heterotopia |
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Graduate students from MIT's Department of Architecture display their investigations and the way these terms are represented in visual, audio and literary media. Following the principles of heterotopian spaces the way the French philosopher Michel Foucault defines them ...More
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| temporarycontemporary is Converting a Period Police Station into Artist Studios and Project Spaces |
LONDON.- For the next 7 years this monolithic Arts & Craft facility will become a mixed DIY Art Centre ideal for studios, project spaces and artist groups. The Police Gym can be used for shows and events, with further exhibition spaces in the Prison Cell Block. There will be a communal snack lounge with wifi for studio members in the Police Booking Office to encourage social contact. ...More
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| Announcement of $100,000 "Claude Lévi-Strauss Visiting Scholar Fund" Marks French Ambassador's First Visit to Vancouver |
VANCOUVER.- On his first official visit to Vancouver, the new Ambassador of France for Canada, His Excellency M. François Delattre, attended an event co-hosted by the Museum of Anthropology at the residence of M. Alexandre Garcia, Consul General of France for Vancouver. The event was held to mark the ...More
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| New Porsche Museum to Be Opened in January |
ATLANTA, GA.- In the new Porsche Museum the final preparations are made for the opening on Saturday 31 January 2009. At last, now that the scaffolding has been removed, it is possible to see to the full extent the bold architecture of the building at the head office premises of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG in Zuffenhausen: The 5,600 square metres of exhibition space are supported ...More
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| Straight to Video: Grizedale Arts on film 2000 - 2008 |
LONDON.- Before embarking on a year of solo shows in 2009 tank.tv will, this month, take a look at videos made and commissioned by Grizedale Arts - an organisation where collectivity and participation are central to the production of work in communities both in the UK and abroad. At once loud, rude, urban and improvised as well as ...More
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| Artist Linda Sirow and Fox Residential Group Join Forces for Combination Art Show and Open House |
NEW YORK, NY.- In a most unusual partnership, artist Linda Sirow and realtor Barbara Fox of Fox Residential Group have joined forces to present an exhibit of extraordinary art with a preview of one of Manhattan's most spectacular residential properties, apartment 2ABC at 180 East 79th Street. The opening reception for the art show and real estate open house party takes place on site, ...More
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