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Monday, 17 September 2007 12:37 |
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A £7m Surrey art gallery and museum has been unveiled following 10 years of development. The Lightbox in Woking opened on Saturday with an exhibition showing unseen material from Aardman Animation. Designed by Marks Barfield Architects, the creators of the London Eye, the building is on the banks of the Basingstoke Canal. The centre will house a range of exhibitions from modern art to animation and local history.
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Friday, 14 September 2007 12:16 |
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More than 300 works of 20th century art went on show in Vienna's Albertina museum Friday after the owners agreed to put their vast collection on permanent loan to the gallery.
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 12:41 |
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Published: September 12, 2007
After a six-month international search, the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis said yesterday that it had appointed Olga Viso, director of
the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, as its new
director. Ms. Viso, who is to assume the post in January,
succeeds Kathy Halbreich, who has led the Walker for 16 years and is
retiring in November.
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 11:05 |
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This October, Art: 21 presents Art21 Access '07, an international celebration of contemporary art and creativity. In conjunction with the PBS premiere of Season 4 of Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only primetime national television series to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists, Art21 Access ’07 features more than 300 sneak previews of the new season in all 50 states, in 23 countries, and on all seven continents.
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Monday, 10 September 2007 12:40 |
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Lifting a bit of suspense over one of the museum world’s most
controversial architecture commissions, the Barnes Foundation has
chosen Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to design its new home in downtown
Philadelphia. Museum officials said the choice would be announced
today. The selection follows years of pitched battles over the
foundation’s plan to bypass its own founding charter and move its famed
collection of Renoirs, Cézannes and Matisses and other masterpieces to
Philadelphia from its stately home in suburban Merion, Pa.
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Friday, 07 September 2007 12:00 |
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A recent $30 million proposal from an Arkansas museum to share a
101-piece art collection with struggling Fisk University won't factor
into a decision whether to allow the most-prized piece by Georgia
O'Keeffe to be sent to a New Mexico museum.
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Friday, 07 September 2007 11:52 |
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The Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, a research arm of the
Harvard University Art Museums, has been given Barnett Newman’s studio
materials and related ephemera. The Barnett and Annalee Newman
Foundation says its gift may help scholars better understand Newman’s
working methods and therefore aid in the conservation of his paintings.
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 12:08 |
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The Barnes Foundation acquired a downtown site for its world-renowned
art collection on Wednesday, paving the way for its planned move from
the suburbs to a prominent museum area in the city. Mayor John F.
Street signed legislation that authorizes the city to enter into a
long-term lease with the Barnes for a site occupied by a juvenile
detention facility. That building will be torn down to make way for the
Barnes' new home as soon as its population can be relocated, officials
said.
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 11:58 |
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A painting of his girlfriend's face - larger than life but flawless
even in pitiless close-up - by the young Czech painter Hynek Martinec
has been voted the visitors' favourite of all the works on display in
the BP portrait award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 12:10 |
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After decades of operating without a large permanent collection, Asia
Society is opening a drive to collect contemporary Asian and
Asian-American art.
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 12:07 |
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An Albanian artist has entered the Guinness
Book of World Records for a second time after sticking together 1.5
million toothpicks in the shape of a horse mosaic.
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 13:23 |
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Leigh Conner and Jamie Smith are very pleased to announce the purchase
of 1358-1360 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC as the new location for
Conner Contemporary Art and *gogo art projects."
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 13:01 |
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Film director Julien Schnabel has beaten off competition from fellow
artists, photographers, and journalists to scoop this year's Gucci
Group Award.
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 12:58 |
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In a series of factory workshops on the outskirts of this city welders,
carpenters and other skilled craftsmen are busy turning wood, metal and
other items into fine objects. Their raw material includes Ming dynasty
furniture, Tibetan artifacts, mounds of ash and animal skins.
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Monday, 03 September 2007 11:53 |
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NY Arts Magazine has been one of eight international publications chosen to design a unique version of the smart car. The notorious compact car will feature the NY Arts design in 2008. While currently in the works, the smart car project has already received attention at the World Art Masters 2007 conference held this past August at the 5 star Swiss resort St. Moritz. The conference hosted numerous artists, artworks, galleries, corporate sponsors of the arts and art awards. NY Arts Magazine was widely distributed along with publications about the Smart Car project and NY Arts involvement. Below are images of both the St. Moritz conference and the blank canvas smart car that NY Arts will soon transform! Listed along the car are the other seven participating publications.
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Friday, 31 August 2007 08:38 |
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The artist Damien Hirst, who is in
the process of selling a diamond-covered skull for $100 million,
is branching out into fashion, with a new collection for Levi
Strauss & Co. The line Hirst co-designed for the company's spring 2008
``Warhol Factory X Levi's X Damien Hirst'' collection includes
jeans decorated with a skull pattern made of Swarovski crystals.
Priced at $4,000 a pair, the jeans are the most expensive items
in the collection.
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Friday, 31 August 2007 08:32 |
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer signed into law yesterday a measure
that advocates say will provide much-needed housing dollars for artists in the state.
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 12:38 |
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 12:35 |
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 13:19 |
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Damien Hirst, the U.K.'s wealthiest
artist, is selling his diamond skull to an investment group for
$100 million, said Frank Dunphy, Hirst's business manager. The platinum skull, studded with 8,601 diamonds, has been on
the market at least since June 3, when it went on show at London's
White Cube gallery. Dunphy, reached by telephone, said the price
hadn't been discounted and would be paid in cash, though he
wouldn't say over what period, or identify the investment group.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 13:16 |
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Israel's national museum has launched an Internet catalog of more than 1,000 pieces of art looted by the Nazis to allow Holocaust survivors and their heirs to identify and reclaim property. The release of the database followed a spat between the Israel Museum and a group, formed by the Israeli government to locate the property of Holocaust victims, that accused the museum of not doing enough to return pieces to their rightful owners. The group hailed the database on Tuesday as a "very positive sign."
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:08 |
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007 13:07 |
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Monday, 27 August 2007 12:51 |
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