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Exhibition visitors are silhouetted next to a dress made famous by American actress Julia Roberts during a preview of the 'Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future' exhibition which features the work of celebrated Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani at Resorts World Sentosa, one of Singapore's main tourist attractions on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. AP Photo/Wong Maye-E.
SINGAPORE.- One hundred pieces of exquisite haute couture designs by Italian maestro, Valentino Garavani, will be featured in a curated exhibition at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) from 22 December 2010 to 13 February 2011. The seven-week long show promises to take visitors into a world of timeless glamour and elegance. The exhibition – ‘Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future’ – is developed by Paris’ celebrated institution Les Arts Décoratifs, and it will feature haute couture looks from founder Valentino Garavani’s early designs to present-day creations by current Creative Directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. The Singapore retrospective will take on a Valentino-inspired architectural design by Christian Biecher, the architect in charge of the exhibition design, who belongs to a new generation of architects who has designed civil buildings in France, Japan, Chin ... More |
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City of Boston Targets Tax-Exempt Non-Profit Organizations to Help Fill Budget Hole
File photo of Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino. AP Photo/Elise Amendola.
By: Ros Krasny
BOSTON (REUTERS).- Boston moved on Wednesday to ask hospitals, universities and other tax-exempt nonprofit organizations to pay more to support basic services like fire-fighting, police and road maintenance. The city, whose property tax accounts for some 64 percent of its revenues, is already among the more than 100 U.S. municipalities with programs designed to get tax-exempt nonprofits to make payments in lieu of taxes -- known as PILOT schemes. But Boston, where reduced revenue due to the deep recession and foreclosure crisis has resulted in layoffs and cuts in services, said it wanted a more structured method to encourage nonprofits to make payments for city services. "It's about fairness," Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said in an interview with WBZ radio. "It's about ... More | | Detroit Institute of Arts Opens New Gallery Devoted to Ancient Middle Eastern Art
Bowl with Portrait of the Sasanian King as a Ram, unknown artist, Iran, 500-650, gilded silver. Detroit Institute of Arts.
DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will open a new gallery devoted to the arts of the Ancient Middle East on Dec. 22 that will showcase the ancient cultural heritage of what we today call Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Yemen and Armenia. A favorite with the public, the serpent/dragon panel from the Ishtar gate of Babylon, will be back on display. “Many visitors have asked what happened to our dragon,” said Graham W. J. Beal, DIA director. “We are happy to have Marduk’s serpent back on view, along with a selection of our most important objects in the Ancient Middle East collection.” The panel from the Ishtar Gate with the symbol of Marduk, the patron god of Babylon, is joined by two stone wall-carvings from the Royal Palace at Nimrud, Iraq. One depicts an Assyrian eagle-headed god scraping sap from a ... More | | Smithsonian Scientist Sheds Light on Origin of Martian Moons, Phobos and Deimos
Phobos from 6,800 Kilometers (Color). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Copyright: Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been the result of a giant impact that sent rocks and debris into orbit around Mars, instead of asteroids that were captured by the planet’s gravity as previously thought. After going into orbit, the material from the giant impact aggregated and formed into small, low-mass moons. This collision could also account for why Mars spins on its axis. This theory is presented in an article by Smithsonian scientist Robert Craddock at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies to be published in the Icarus International Journal of Solar System Studies. In recent years a number of separate observations suggest that the Martian satellites were the result of giant impact. Similar to the Earth–Moon system, Mars has too much angular momentum; in both cases a giant ... More |
 | Earliest Known Darrow Monopoly Game Set Acquired by National Museum of Play
The oldest known version of Monopoly handmade by inventor Charles Darrow. AP Photo/The Strong.
ROCHESTER,NY.- One of the most significant and rare artifacts in toy history—the oldest known version of Monopoly, handmade by Charles Darrow around 1933—has been acquired by the National Museum of Play at the Strong in Rochester, New York. This Monopoly set, created with pen-and-ink and gouache on a circular piece of oilcloth, was handmade by Darrow in Philadelphia and rumored to be the size and shape of Darrow’s dining room table. The handmade set contains more than 200 pieces, including a rules sheet, playing cards, and playing pieces such as draw-cards, hotels and houses, banknotes, and tokens. This Darrow Monopoly game was acquired from the Forbes Toy Collection auction at Sotheby’s in New York City on December 17. Strong President and CEO G. Rollie Adams said of the game, “We are extremely excited and pleased to add this highly importan ... More | | World's Most Iconic Vodka Collaborates with Artist Krink to Launch Absolut Limited Edition
The Absolut Limited Edition bottle is available in Selfridges and Harvey Nichols with a recommended retail price of £22.99.
LONDON.- To mark the launch of the exceptional ABSOLUT LIMITED EDITION bottle, ABSOLUT Vodka is set to unveil ‘A work in Progress’ with internationally renowned New York artist, Krink and art, fashion and photography magazine, Exit. Since its inception in 1979, ABSOLUT has been at the forefront of design and creativity, sharing its unique and pioneering vision of the world through creative collaborations with some of the world’s most eminent figures, including Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and more recently Spike Jonze and Jay-Z. “Krink”, aka “KR”, is one of the most visionary and inspirational street artists working today, and is also the creator of KRINK - a line of the finest quality handmade inks and markers, used by artists the world over. Originally from Queens and still based in New York City, Krink’s unique technique has ... More | | Major Exhibition of Picasso's Work from his Early Paris Period to be Held in the Netherlands
Pablo Picasso, Waiting (Margot), 1901. Museu Picasso, Barcelona, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2010.
AMSTERDAM.- An exhibition devoted to Pablo Ruiz y Picasso’s (1881-1973) spectacular artistic development in Paris, a dazzling cultural centre at the beginning of the 20th century, is being held in the Netherlands for the first time. With more than 70 works of art, including towering masterpieces such as the Self-portrait with a palette and Moulin de la Galette, Picasso in Paris, 1900-1907 outlines how in just a few years Picasso grew from an unknown young artist into the leading figure of the French avant-garde. The exhibition, curated by renowned Picasso expert Marilyn McCully and organised jointly with the Museo Picasso in Barcelona, presents major loans from private collections and museums, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The exhibition is on view from 18 February through 29 May 2011 in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from where it wi ... More |
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The Pobeda Gallery Presents an Exhibition by Editorial and Art Photographer Charles Thompson
The ballerinas featured in these images are captured at that very moment of transformation. © Charles Thompson.
MOSCOW.- Charles Thompson is an editorial and art photographer whose work has appeared in L’Officiel, Vogue, Esquire, Elle Décor, Town & Country, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He began his career in photography at Colors Magazine, the influential anthropology and photography magazine published by Benetton, where he was executive editor. He lives between New York and Moscow with his wife Olya, a Russian native, and their four children. This is his first exhibit in Russia. On view through January 31, 2010 at the POBEDA gallery. “The first time I read of the mythical half-bird/half-woman creatures, Sirin and Alconost, was in a book about pre-revolutionary Russian traditions and costumes. The author described magical beings with bird bodies and human heads that could metamorphose into human female forms at will. They had been popular motifs in peasant lace and embrodery designs, wood carving and 16th Century L ... More | | Country Club Presents Another Mise-en-Scène Exhibition Curated by Michael Lowe
Takashi Murakami, Mr. Wink, 2000. Photo: Courtesy Country Club.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Country Club Cincinnati presents Another Mise-en-scène, an exhibition/installation curated by Michael Lowe. Taking its title from the French term typically applied to the design aspects of theater or film production, this exhibition will combine a dramatically wide range of art objects and design objects into considered and ill-considered vignettes leading to a compelling whole – or mise-en-scène. From exhibition curator Michael Lowe: “The exhibition presents a view of a new bohemia or a newer bohemia which follows the path of all such revolutions in taste, taste in lifestyle, art and decor - the holy trinity of happiness. My apologies to those who view art and design as vehicles of social change or on the other end of the spectrum, the new symbols of status. Art and objects should give pleasure in the same way as a holy revelation or a cat of nine tails. I hope to whip or woo ... More | | Olafur Eliasson Develops New Installation Specially for ARKEN's Most Striking Gallery
Olafur Eliasson,Test for Din blinde passager, 2010, foto Studio Olafur Eliasson © 2010 Olafur Eliasson.
COPENHAGEN.- Eliasson’s installation Din blinde passager (Your blind passenger) is a 90-metre-long tunnel. Entering the tunnel, your body is surrounded by dense fog. With visibility at just 1.5 metres, museumgoers have to use senses other than sight to orient themselves in relation to their surroundings. Accordingly, the work demands your singular, intense attention. The exhibition is the final instalment in ARKEN’s three-year UTOPIA series. Eliasson completes the project with a work highlighting the utopian potential inherent in the individual’s relation to the surrounding world. The exhibition is on view through November 27, 2011. Eliasson says: “For me, utopia is linked to the now, the moment between one second and the next. It constitutes a possibility that is actualised and converted into reality, an opening where concepts like subject and object, inside and outside, proximity and distance are tossed int ... More |
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Entrance of Winter Illuminates Rock Painting in Baja California Archaeological Site
The astronomical phenomenon of the Winter solstice that takes place every December 21st was observed at El Vallecito Archaeological Zone. Photo: INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- On the morning of December 21, a sunray entered a rocky shelter and illuminated the rock painting known as “El Diablito” The astronomical phenomenon of the Winter solstice that takes place every December 21st was observed at El Vallecito Archaeological Zone, Baja California, where during the first hours of the morning, sunlight entered the rocky shelter named El Diablito, marking up the change of seasons. The event took place at the rocky conjunct that lodges cave paintings created by Kumiai, a semi-nomad group that dwelled this area, building huts, manufacturing tools, processing food and capturing diverse aspects of their life and cosmogony. In a wall of the space known as El Diablito (the Little Devil), considered the most relevant at the site, a 20 centimeters-high anthropomorphic ... More | | Morris Museum Exhibition Features the Michelangelo of Medicine, Frank H. Netter, MD
Frank H. Netter, Back Muscles.
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- Featuring more than 40 works of art by the acclaimed master of medical illustrations, this exhibition celebrates Dr. Frank Netter’s contribution to the study of human anatomy. The exhibition will be on view through February 27, 2011. This exhibition, which highlights the startling beauty and stunning accuracy of Netter’s illustrations, is the inaugural show in a new series at the Morris Museum that will explore the intersection of art and science. Frank H. Netter, MD, Michelangelo of Medicine focuses on the following themes: the five senses, the human heart, and Netter’s extraordinary ability to depict the patient with the humanity and personality of a recognizable individual. This exhibition features works on loan from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, and is sponsored by Elsevier Health Sciences, publisher of the fifth edition of Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy. The value of ... More | | ICA Boston Announces Amie Siegel as the Winner of the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize
Amie Siegel in Empathy, 2003, 35mm film, 92 min., Courtesy of the artist.
BOSTON, MA.- Amie Siegel has been named the winner of the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize, the Institute of Contemporary Art announced. This biennial award recognizing a Boston-area artist of exceptional promise carries a $25,000 prize and an opportunity for the finalists to present their work in an exhibition at the ICA. Siegel’s work, along with work by the eight other finalists—Robert de Saint Phalle, Eirik Johnson, Fred H.C. Liang, Rebecca Meyers, Matthew Rich, Daniela Rivera, Evelyn Rydz and Stephen Tourlentes—is on view at the ICA through Jan. 17, 2011. “We are delighted that Amie Siegel has been named the latest recipient of the award and would like to congratulate all the 2010 finalists, whose work truly demonstrates the strength, vitality and talent of Boston’s art community,” says James Foster, Chairman, President and CEO of Charles River ... More |
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Image of Francis Bacon, One of Ireland's Top Artists, to Sell in First Irish Art Sale at Bonhams
LONDON.- An evocative portrait of Francis Bacon, one of Britain’s leading 20th century artists, painted by one of his friends, Louis Le Brocquy, Ireland’s foremost living artist, is for sale at Bonhams inaugural Irish Art Sale in London on 9th Feb 2011. The picture is one of the most significant lots to feature in the auction. A watercolour, titled Image of Francis Bacon No 18, it is estimated to sell for £60,000 to £80,000. Although he painted Bacon several times, trying to capture “the Baconness of Bacon”, this example is more representational than the other semi-abstract pieces. Penny Day, Head of Irish Art at Bonhams, says: “It is rare to find an image that combines the names and reputations of two giants of British and Irish art, in this instance as artist and sitter”. Bonhams have a distinguished track record in selling Irish Art over the last 13 years, but 2011 will see a stand-alone dedic ... More
Reagan Memorial Idea Splits Berlin Long After Wall
BERLIN (REUTERS).- A dispute over whether Berlin should honor late President Ronald Reagan for his 1987 speech urging the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall has divided the German capital. Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and other conservative leaders have criticized the local center-left Berlin government for its refusal to commemorate Reagan's 100th birthday in February. "Naming a street after this great honorary citizen of Berlin would be very welcome," Guttenberg told Bild newspaper on Wednesday, adding his name to a list of Christian Democrats angry at the Social Democrat-led Berlin city government. The SPD rules in Berlin with the reform communist Left party, which traces its roots to Communist East Germany's ruling SED party that built the Berlin Wall in 1961. In 1987 -- two years before the Berlin Wall collapsed -- Reagan delivered a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate and made a public appeal to then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: "Mr. Gorbachev ... More
Maria Lind has Been Appointed the New Director of Tensta Konsthall
SPANGA, SWEDEN.- Prior to assuming her duties at Tensta Konsthall 1 January, 2011, Maria Lind was director of the Masters Programme at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York (2008-2010). She was head of Iaspis in Stockholm in 2005-2007 and head of Kunstverein Munchen in 2002-2004. From 1997 to 2001 she was a curator at Modern Museet and in 1998 a co-curator of Manifesta 2, Europe’s art biennale. Maria Lind was educated at Stockholm University and at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in New York. Since the beginning of the 1990s she has been working as an art critic and her book, Selected Maria Lind Writing, was recently published by Sternberg Press (Berlin). In 2009 she received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. -We are very pleased to be able to recruit one of the world’s most outstanding individuals within the international art sphere as director of ... More
Smithsonian Acquires Lifetouch Donation for Photographic History Collection
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recently received a donation of historic materials from Lifetouch Inc. as part of its effort to record the history of photography. Lifetouch, an employee-owned photography company, specializes in portraiture at schools, studios and churches. The donation includes two cameras, patent drawings and interviews with the inventors that will complement the museum’s collection of some 15,000 pieces of photographic apparatus and more than 200,000 photographs. Lifetouch has donated a Micro-Z and a TruView camera system, both patented in the early 1980s. The Micro-Z camera exposed a bar code and student information on the negative, simplifying the process of matching a student with a picture. The TruView camera also exposed bar codes on the negative but additionally allowed a customer to preview a digital image before the film image was developed. N ... More
Bidders Drawn to Unique Works by Contemporary Artists at Swann Galleries' Auction of American and Contemporary Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Bidders were drawn to an assortment of drawings and other unique works at Swann Galleries’ November 18 auction of American Art & Contemporary Art. The sale’s top lot was a Sketchbook with 52 drawings in pencil, ball-point pen and ink and crayon by Joan Mitchell, circa 1954-55, which brought $144,000*. The book had been inscribed and dedicated, on the occasion of Mitchell’s 29th birthday, by fellow artists Paul Brach, Mike Goldberg and Miriam Schapiro. Other unique highlights offered in the Contemporary Art section were Jim Dine’s Visiting with Charcoal I, charcoal on paper, 1980, one of the artist’s signature depictions of a bathrobe, this one nearly five feet tall, $24,000; Karel Appel’s Deux Oiseaux, gouache and crayon on paper, 1958, $22,800; and Paul Jenkins’s Phenomena Sufi Veil, watercolor on paper, 1982, $13,200. Featured contemporary prints included Keith Harin ... More
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