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World Art - January 2007

Kuwait office development, short listed for MIPIM award

January 31st 2007 22:05
An Atkins Bahrain project, the Al Sharq office complex, has been short listed for the 2007 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Award - Offices category. The 180m tower will cover an area of 56,400sq.m. Commissioned by Al Mar & Aqar, the complex combines work and leisure, internal and outside spaces, and offers a variety of scenarios for business within a sustainable and environmentally responsible design. Hovering above a glass fronted entrance is a podium with a sky garden food court. Office spaces are hung from a pairing of parallel blades topped at roof level with a gym, spa, health club and pool. Floating above this pool deck is a suspended high-panoramic views. Solar panel cladding contributes to the green building’s energy needs while the foliage camouflage provides office workers a place to step outside and recharge.


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SHCA Builds Emergency Operations Center in Brooklyn

January 31st 2007 22:01

From America

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DUANE HANSON – Sculptures of the American Dream

January 31st 2007 00:09
ow a body of them are invading Denmark: The bodybuilder and the CEO, the pensioner, the derelict and the family dog – American artist Duane Hanson’s exceptionally lifelike figures. See them for yourself when they settle in ARKEN’s Art Axis in the spring 2007 exhibition DUANE HANSON – Sculptures of the American Dream.

The verisimilitude is astounding, as they sit there on the bench in the gallery. It is virtually impossible to see that the elderly couple with the glazed expression are not just another two exhausted museum visitors taking a well-earned rest amid the flurry of impressions. However, the life-sized sculptures are actually cast in bronze by the American sculptor Duane Hanson (1925-1996). Better than anyone in his generation he was able to portray the consequences of post-war consumer culture and lifestyle for the American middleclass, with equal parts tenderness, humour and barbed criticism.
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Metamorphosis: Sculpture by David Altmejd

January 30th 2007 01:19
Oakville Galleries is excited to announce Metamorphosis – David Altmejd’s first major solo exhibition in Canada outside Montreal. The exhibition will be open to the public from 27 January to 25 March 2007 at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens.

Metamorphosis is produced by the Galerie de l’Universite du Quebec a Montreal and is curated by Louise Dery. David Altmejd has also been chosen to represent Canada at the 2007 Venice Biennale of Visual Art. Montreal-born artist/sculptor David Altmejd’s research is about energy and metamorphosis. Altmejd creates miniaturized architectural structures that weave a horror-movie /Gothic type of aesthetic with a reference to modern architecture and minimalist sculpture.[
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Step Into Leonardo's Shoes Anatomy Drawing Workshop

January 28th 2007 22:52
Something a little closer to home. At the University of New South Wales, School of Medical Sciences, Sydney, Australia. Step Into Leonardo's Shoes Anatomy Drawing Workshop 5-day Workshop to take place February 5-9, 2007. Want to draw human anatomy specimens? The University of New South Wales (Sydney) is offering the rare opportunity to draw real human specimens in the School of Medical Sciences (Faculty of Medicine).

Under the guidance of Dr Brian Freeman, associate professor of anatomy, and artist Susan Dorothea White, author of Draw Like Da Vinci (Cassell, London 2006), you discover what's under the skin while acquiring new drawing skills.
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RISD Routes: Work by Rhode Island School of Design Alumni

January 28th 2007 07:20
News out of Fuller Museum of Craft, Brockton, USA: this winter visitors to Fuller Craft Museum can discover what the “RISD experience” is all about in the exhibition RISD Routes on view January 20 – May 6, 2007. Curated by David Revere McFadden, Chief Curator of New York’s Museum of Art and Design, and organized by the RISD Alumni Association, RISD Routes features works of contemporary craft by New England alumni of Rhode Island School of Design.

Works in glass, metal, wood, ceramic, fiber and metal demonstrate the wealth of creativity in New England, and the importance of contemporary craft in the art world.
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Voting Now Open for Online NanoArt Worldwide Competition

January 26th 2007 10:06
NanoArt , one of the new art disciplines of the 21st Century is a new art form where micro/nanosculptures created by artists/scientists through chemical/physical processes and/or natural micro/nanostructures are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes.

The monochromatic electron microscope images are processed further to create a piece of art. Los Angeles, CA . The first ever online NanoArt International Competition. This is a project by Premiere Portfolio Artist Jan Kirstein.
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2007 ISH trade fair

January 25th 2007 00:08
Better known as a European financial capital, Frankfurt will host 1000 innovations in bathroom, building, energy, air-conditioning and renewable energy technology during the 2007 ISH trade fair this March. Billed as the largest exhibition of its kind in the world, ISH Frankfurt am Main will span five full days, fill 20 halls, and feature over 2300 global expositors.

Highlights of ISH 2007 Frankfurt are set to include excursions through avant-garde restroom form and function, cutting-edge building services and energy technology (like this air pipe systems cleaning robot), and "Aircontec", the specialist international trade fair for air-conditioning and ventilation equipment. From March 16 to 20.
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Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne

January 22nd 2007 22:17
Make Your Own Life takes a look at the mythic proportions and art historical significance of the alternative scene based in Cologne in the late 80s and early 90s. Long an important city for art and commerce in Germany, during these years Cologne fostered a group of artists that bucked the establishment to raise important questions of artistic identity and institutional critique. For artists like Martin Kippenberger, Jutta Koether, Albert Oehlen, and Cosima von Bonin, art became a place to carve out their own terms of participation within the social, political, and economic constraints of the art world, where they could make their own lives the basis of their work, as Kippenberger exhorted.

Where: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA United States of America
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Venerable Hsing Yun: Chinese calligraphy image master

January 18th 2007 22:56
Something out of Taiwan. Venerable Master Hsing Yun is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding and influential Buddhist monks in the world. He was tonsured at the Qixia Temple in Nanjing at the age of twelve. In 1949, the Master arrived in Taiwan. In 1967, he founded the Fo Guang Shan monastery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

He established the Buddha's Light International Association in 1992 acting as its President. Over one million people have become members of the association under his leadership. In addition to establishing Fo Guang Shan branch monasteries worldwide, Venerable Master Hsing Yun has also set up Buddhist colleges, high schools, universities, publishing houses, teahouses, Buddhist art galleries, a television station, a newspaper, and a mobile medical clinic. Read in depth article here.
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Las Arenas reconstruction: Richard Rogers imagines

January 18th 2007 01:46
TIMES are changing in Spain with one of Barcelona's most famous bullrings, the iconic Arenas de Barcelona, set to be converted into a luxury retail complex by British architecture firm Richard Rogers Partnership.

Despite local opposition to the plan, the historic structure, which opened in 1898 but has sat disused since 1990 due to the declining popularity of bull fighting in Catalonia, will house approximately 45 000 square metres of mixed retail, commercial and leisure areas as well as a 1200 square metre underground car park. In a homage to Spain's rich cultural past, Rogers plans to retain the bullring's exterior fabric - its famed brick façade - while overhauling the interior to include stainless steel staircases, glass lifts, and steel towers.
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Thom Mayne: Architect for La Defense

January 16th 2007 00:41
A Thom Mayne design will form the centerpiece of an attempt by French authorities to revitalise La Defense, the unpopular commercial district on the western outskirts of Paris. Most well-known for the brawny Caltrans District 7 Headquarters in Los Angeles, Mayne beat out some of the hottest architects in the world for the job to design what will be the tallest office tower in France.

Controversially, Mayne’s “Phare Tower” is to be entirely covered by a diaphanous skin constructed from perforated stainless steel, an unusual feature that the American architect and provocateur described as an attempt to soften the brutal cityscape of the area while evoking the romantic spirit of Paris. “The sensuousness of Paris found its way into the project,” Mayne said, likening the design to a woman’s “layered dress or slip”.
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Marina Abramovic: Images of Balkan Erotic Epic

January 14th 2007 22:27

Those crazy Balkans are at it again

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Why were these album covers banned, removed, altered or the subject of a huge amount of controversy.

January 9th 2007 12:11
Everyone needs a little controversy - here's a really interesting site that lists and shows the covers of albums that were banned and neve-r released to the public - featuring the Beatles, Stones, and heaps of other very well known artists . They're all album covers that "were banned, removed, altered or raised a huge amount of controversy." Visit the site here.
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Larisa Zavadskaya: Hermitage custodian and thief

January 8th 2007 12:11
It is said that to see the entire Hermitage collection it would take 80 years - one's entire life. That doesn't excuse theft - especially when on a huge scale. Larisa Zavadskaya may not be internationally notorious but more details are emerging about the final years of this middle-aged specialist in enamels at one of the world’s great museums, and the greatest in Russia.

By all appearances a devoted custodian of art for 30 years, she had been the quiet keeper of thousands of artifacts in the museum’s Russian culture department. Anonymous in life—she lived in a communal flat with her family in Saint Petersburg and earned $500 a month—she became notorious after her death last year for her involvement in the ultimate inside job: the theft of 221 treasures from the collection in her care - that's serious
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Gustav Klimt - images popularity and price soars

January 5th 2007 12:11
Neue Galerie cofounder, and chairman emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art, recently shelled out a reported $135 million for Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) last June. Many observers were shocked not only by the amount paid—one of the highest known prices for a single painting to date—but also by the name of the artist it was paid for.

So why is Klimt so hot at the moment. The answer involves a mix of factors, including the painting’s extraordinary provenance and recent history, Lauder’s passion for and pursuit of this particular work, and the soaring demand for German and Austrian Expressionism, along with the explosive growth of the broader art market. Read more here
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Mona Lisa Pregnant say researchers

January 4th 2007 12:11
How about this - turns out that the Mona Lisa is pregnant - and here I am thinking that she was just carrying a bit. Newspaper headlines recently gave the Louvre’s most famous resident a new name. Maybe, they suggested, we should call her “Mama Lisa,” because a team of researchers who examined Leonardo’s masterpiece last September concluded that the Mona Lisa was pregnant.

Under her thick coat of dirty varnish, the researchers said, she is wearing not a shawl but a fine, gauzy veil attached to a white bonnet that is no longer visible. Such garments were typically worn by Italian Renaissance women when they were pregnant.
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Call for Submissions - Artscape is currently accepting applications for the Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program

January 3rd 2007 12:11
Not up my alley, but for those serious artists be aware that there's an interesting 'Call for Submissions' . Artscape is currently accepting applications for the Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program taking place June 1 - 30, 2007 Submission Deadline: February 21, 2007, 4pm EST 2007 Program Dates: June 1 - 30.T

he Gibraltar Point Residency transcends political, aesthetic and geographic boundaries, welcomes diversity and provides a spawning ground for unique cultural alliances. The program is open to international artists who are engaged in the research, development or creation of work. Emerging, mid-career and established professional artists are invited to apply. Participants in the residency program receive accommodation, a private work studio and all meals at no cost. Travel and material costs are the responsibility of participating artists.
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Ivor Sias returns to South Africa with new exhibition

January 2nd 2007 12:12
Exiled from South Africa for political dissidence Ivor Sias has, after a thirty year absence, returned to South Africa with his exhibition Longings. Sias studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and received his masters in painting at the University of Amsterdam.

Well known for his controversial and politically progressive subject matter, he has exhibited in galleries and museums in Germany, Italy and America, as well as participating in the 2005 Berlin Artfair. The exhibition, the first in Joao Ferreira Fine Art's new space at 70 Loop Street in Cape Town, was opened by Peter Clarke on December 20, 2006
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Gustav Klimt - images popularity and price soars

January 1st 2007 12:30
Neue Galerie cofounder, and chairman emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art, recently shelled out a reported $135 million for Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) last June. Many observers were shocked not only by the amount paid—one of the highest known prices for a single painting to date—but also by the name of the artist it was paid for.

So why is Klimt so hot at the moment. The answer involves a mix of factors, including the painting’s extraordinary provenance and recent history, Lauder’s passion for and pursuit of this particular work, and the soaring demand for German and Austrian Expressionism, along with the explosive growth of the broader art market. Read more here
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Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes: Images at Portland Museum of Art

January 1st 2007 12:16
One of the giants of early 19th century Spanish art has found himself reappreciated - a set of 80 black-and-white etchings, Los Caprichos, by Spanish artist Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), going on view at the Portland Museum of Art from December 16, 2006 through February 25, 2007.

Los Caprichos, one of the most influential series of graphic images in the history of Western art, provides a satirical and damning look at 18th-century Spanish society. This superb first edition set of these controversial etchings, published in 1799, is one of four sets acquired directly from Goya by the Duke and Duchess of Osuna.
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