Top four city museums in Spain
Spain, with its myriad of influences and epic history, is a country with a diverse gamut of sights and sounds to offer its 45 million tourists who visit every year. An area where this can be seen in particular is in its museums and galleries, a rich history of art and culture has left Spain a huge legacy in this department with names such as Dali, Picasso and Miro leading the list: Guggenheim, Bilbao: Now one of the most easily recognised buildings in Europe, the Guggenheim in Bil Go here to see the original: Top four city museums in Spain
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Top four city museums in Spain
The author of this post, Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin , is a 2008 graduate of Harvard College in History of Art and Architecture and Italian Studies who works at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and continues to fuel his interest in contemporary art by attending exhibits wherever his travels take him. Before I knew it, I was implicated.
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Shepard Fairey’s iconoclasm at ICA Boston
You wouldn't tell we are in a recession by the amount of people that turned up last night at the group show opening of 'Rogue Wave' at the LA Louver Here are a couple of pics: Right and Left sides of video room installation of Micol Hebron. Lots of gum chewing. . . Olga Koumoundouros in the Main Gallery (that is a plastic Big Gulp cup there at the bottom) Tia Pulitzer sculpture, clay and auto paint video and ink jet prints from Erin Cosgrove and upstairs, Matt Wedel's almost life-sized clay/glazed (and a little creepy) sculptures
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The OC and Beyond. . . last night’s opening at LA Louver
Every day I am amazed at the ingenuity of Iran’s cyber generation. Isolated from outside media, they transformed seemingly narcissistic and shallow, global networking sites (check out pics of my trip to San Francisco) into an unrestricted forum divulging political corruption. This generation is completely utilizing resources like Youtube, where millions of people are witnessing the violence erupt in the streets, and Twitter, where first-hand experiences are chronicled in a continuous feed.
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Coming Soon, Contemporary Iranian Art
While I should be focused on writing the paper I am presenting at the Arts in Society conference in Venice in exactly two weeks, I am continually side-tracked by what is becoming an all consuming concern of how does a relatively new small gallery survive in the new economy? I have watched three other galleries close in my east side neighbourhood over the past few months: Ninette Gyorody’s Studio Nine Gallery on Queen St East, Svava Juliusson’s LIST Gallery on the Danforth, and a gallery on Pape at Danforth
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Art Galleries in the New Economy
Since opening my gallery just over two years ago I have noticed a curious thing. Whenever there is some sort of art event ( Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition , Riverdale Art Walk , Queen West Art Crawl , Nuit Blanche , Canadian Art Gallery Hop , etc.) happening in Toronto, the gallery is DEAD! This past weekend was no exception. I remember noticing a similar pattern while I was the Director of the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art / OneWest Art Centre in Colorado.
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Art Fairs, Festivals & Biennials
Hi Everybody, I am back from Colombia and ready to blog. I spent almost a month in South America and loved every minute of it. Sundays in Bogota. They shut-down the streets and everyone gets out. Can you imagine one day a week, no cars and quasi-obligatory exercise. . .?? Besides eating my way through the city, I also saw an excellent Warho l exhibition at the Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica , went to several gallery openings- one in particular for Colombian painter Luis Caballero that knocked my socks off, along with salt mines made into churches, horse drawn carts selling avocados the size of cantaloupes, street performers at stop lights, and the incredible collection of art and culture in Bogota's Nation Gallery.
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Back in Town!
During the just-concluded National Art Exhibition, Guangdong Eleventh selected entries in the selection of activities, with realism as the main characters sing featuring oil paintings , oil paintings of a group of young artists then come to the fore, created a dramatic landscape. Some people think that: This is the realism of Guangdong as a canvas, following the “Cultural Revolution” after the rise again.
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china young artist ,how to grow ?
Probably the most provocative (and to my mind, best) museum show of the summer so far is nothing of the blockbuster variety, which, to me, signals how hard it is to cohere large-scale shows into something with resonance. No such problem with the AGO's recent installation of Sarah Anne Johnson's “House on Fire,” a chilling true-life history of government conspiracy, cover-up and abuse. In Johnson's case, it cuts close to the bone; it wasn't a story she became interested in from afar — her grandmother lived it.
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Sarah Anne Johnson: House on Fire at the AGO
It's a sports metaphor, the “old college try” is, an anachronism rooted, I would imagine, in the still-innocent, romantic era when schoolboy knickers and all-male literary societies were seen as more fraternal than fey. Which suits Jon Sasaki well enough, to be sure, as his practice of “romantic conceptualism,” as he's called it, often has a charming sheen of the elegiac. For Jessica Valentin, the title is a bit more literal, in that, until very recently, she was actually in college; a very recent graduate of the University of Toronto's Art History program (as well as Sheridan College's Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning), Valentin is this year's winner of the William Huffman Award for Excellence in Studio Practice, named for the Toronto Arts Council' s Associate Director
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The Old College Try: Sasaki + Jessica Valentin at Red Bull 381
Bernhard Pankok Walnut and spruce cupboard 1899 Bernhard Pankok trained as an artist and illustrator in Dusseldorf and Berlin, but it was as a furniture designer that he produced some of his most interesting work. It was while he was freelancing in the early 1890s as a graphic artist and illustrator in Munich, that he became interested in the English Arts & Crafts movement
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Bernhard Pankok and Art Nouveau
“Back to the Future” at the Center for Opinions in Music and Art (COMA) in Berlin brings together 12 artists in an exhibition that endeavours to recontextualize our concepts of linear and cyclical time, space and memory. The impressive exhibition, curated by Carson Chan, unifies philosophical conundrums and the collision of science fiction and reality Go here to see the original: Back to the Future at COMA, Berlin Review By Alicia Reuter
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Back to the Future at COMA, Berlin Review By Alicia Reuter
A collective exhibition of works by Portuguese artists: Francisco Urbano, Carla Taveira, José…Bringing this exhibition to the UK will provide a window to the most current developments in contemporary art from artists that are making an impact on the movement i tself….Florentina Resende: “The artist has full conscience that to research and dominate the colour is much more than just an exercise….Outlined below are the five individual artists:… View post: Portugal: Expressions of Contemporary Art
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Portugal: Expressions of Contemporary Art
What seems like not that long ago, a scrappy breed of art space rose up in defiance to the staid institutional culture of its day. They were called a number of things — parallel galleries being the one that always made the most sense to me — but over time the label “artist-run centre” stuck, if only for purely pragmatic reasons: These were spaces — I hesitate to call them “institutions,” as would they, I think — free of the stodgy institutional politics that plagued the big museums, and unconcerned with market forces that dictated what kind of art should be made
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Trust No-one Under 30: Mercer Union’s birthday party
Filed under: Celebrity Fashion Mistakes Lady Gaga hides her “Poker Face” at a press conference in Malta. Photo: Rene Rossignaud, Pacific Coast News Sure Lady Gaga is known for her traffic-stopping wardrobe ( or lack thereof! ), but has the blonde taken her attention-grabbing antics too far
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Lady Gaga Wears Mask for Press Conference – Has She Gone Too Far?
Ynge Gamlin Tornrosa 1954 During the 1950s the Swedish textile company Nordiska Kompaniet, under the leadership of Astrid Sampe, took great strides in the process of opening up the world of textile design to the new ideas and influences of the post war culture that had spread rapidly since the end of the Second World war.
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Ynge Gamlin, Astrid Sampe and Abstract Expressionism
It is necessary to attempt to characterize whatever is new in the contemporary world and, in my opinion, what is new is a change of setting, a shift in references, w … See “Non-Places,” Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture, and the Everyday, ed…. Excerpt from: Marc Augé Interviewed: "Places and Non-places-a Conversation with Marc Augé"
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Marc Augé Interviewed: "Places and Non-places-a Conversation with Marc Augé"
It is the final weekend of the Institute of Contemporary Culture ‘s current exhibition Housepaint Phase 2: Shelter at the Royal Ontario Museum. Housepaint, Institute of Contemporary Culture Roloff Beny Gallery, 4th Floor Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON December 13, 2008 – Juy 5, 2009 Curated by Devon Ostrom Curated by Devon Ostrom this provocative and stunning exhibition deals with the difficult issue of poverty and homelessness bringing together some of Canada’s best street artists: Cant 4 / Amanda Marie , Case / Ryan Mackeen , Dixon / Juan Carols Noria , Dstrbo / Dan Butler , EGR / Erica Fosich Rose , Elicser Elliot , Evoke / Patrick Thompson , Fauxreel / Dan Bergeron , Gene Pendon / Gene Starship , Other / Derek Shamus Mehaffey , and Specter / Gabriel Reese
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Housepaint Phase 2: Shelter @ the Royal Ontario Museum
There are group of painters in china , had taken their dream canvas of the country, duty-bound to embark on a “gold-plated” tour. After a baptism, now they are with different “Western” to return to the motherland, or “celebration” or “defeat.” They are the “returnees” in the ranks of special groups, returned to their “journey” is even more curious.
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Here's a cheery way to kick off your mid-week holiday: Check out the Power Plant's film series this evening. The first is the Andrei Ujica's Tarkovsky -worthy film (with a side of Woody Allen) Out of the Present — except, unlike Tarkovsky's existential sci-fi dreamworlds , this is real. Ujica's documentary, about Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev 's 10 month experience on the Mir space station in 1991, is the stuff of Allen's iconic 1973 movie Sleeper , in which Allen's character goes to the hospital with a headache and wakes up 200 years later to a bizarro future world.
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The beginning, and The End, at the Power Plant tonight