leAD  Turkey's most famous living novelist is holding a pair of dentures in a room packed with ephemera reflecting everyday Turkish life of the past three decades. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006 and author of My Name is Red (1998) and Snow (2002), is standing among a sea of objects—sewing machines, clocks, soda-bottle tops, buttons, lottery tickets, china dogs, birdcages, cigarette lighters and false teeth—that will soon go on display in The Museum of Innocence, a four-storey building in the Çukurcuma neighbourhood, central Istanbul. This venue, not just a chamber of curiosities, is the real-life incarnation of the museum painstakingly assembled and detailed in his book The Museum of Innocence (2008). READ MORE
articles The Virgin minus fog: National Gallery in London cleans its famous canvas while the Louvre perform a quantitative chemical analysis on the Mona Lisa Plans to redevelop Certosa, the largest abandoned island in the Venetian lagoon, include a nature park, marina and vineyard Vittorio Sgarbi opens up Renaissance treasure in Venice After his Versailles retrospective, the Japanese artist will return to painting Further loans to follow to Hungary and Iceland A British conceptual artist, an Iraqi artist and a US soldier who served in Iraq, travelled from New York to Los Angeles with the remains of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bomb attack in tow Chilean museum runs out of funds to re-open its doors in time for the country's bicentennial celebrations The exhibition, to be held in a property co-owned by a Russian billionaire, also includes works by Warhol, Hirst, Richter and Saatchi's "New Sensations" All articles
video  Speaking at Art Basel 2010, Massimo Bartolini explains the concept behind his popular installation, Organi 2007/8 in which he turned a scaffolding structure into an instrument controlled by an oversized music box roller. He also talks about his early life and the influences which led him to become an artist. Interview by Jean Wainwright.
Illuminating the Messeplatz  Eric Hattan's uprooted lamp scuplture on display in the Messeplatz outside Art Basel this year is proving to be an understated hit at the show. Highlighting the differences in scale between public fixtures and furniture whilst connecting the piece with the shortlived life of an uprooted flower, Hattan shows links between both the natural and the built environment.
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exhibitions  The curator of the sixth Liverpool Biennale, Lorenzo Fusi, has widened the remit from bringing the work of both emerging and more established UK and international artists to England's third largest city, making it a providing a platform for newer artists. Along with an emphasis on new commissions, Fusi has brought in Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz to install a work from 1978, previously unseen in the UK, and 20 Cuban artists who are reinventing Allan Kaprow's Happenings through events and performances.
. all exhibitions jobs  The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority welcomes exceptional talent with a passion to help realize the dream of making the West Kowloon Cultural District an international destination of choice for the best in world-class arts, local and international culture and entertainment. This will be the place to be for everyone -- our children, our family, our artists, our visitors and every single one of you. all jobs | 
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