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WORLD ART VISION 2008 to be launched in Cancun

WORLD ART VISION 2008 to be launched in Cancun - Over 100 artists from 5 continents will participate in WORLD ART VISION, which will feature painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, prints, installation art, video and digital art. Arturo Garcia Bustos and Rina Lazo, who were, respectively, pupils of and assistants to Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera will be present during the exhibition, therefore bringing an exceptional artistic testimony to WORLD ART VISION: CANCUN 2008. The idea of WORLD ART VISION: CANCUN 2008 comes from a desire to invest in contemporary art in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico; not only to further increase the number of tourists, but also to make it a meeting point for the Americas for collectors, critics and interested parties, to visit a fair where the artists stand beside the art, without the representation of a ga

Phoenix Art Museum Hosts Unprecedented Gathering of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art

Phoenix Art Museum presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore and understand the ongoing link of contemporary Asian art with centuries of tradition. This summer, beginning July 8, 2008, the Museum presents A Tradition Redefined, four extraordinary exhibits focused of Asian art from the 19th, 20th and 21st century. Highlighting this exceptional show, is "Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting from the Chu-tsing Li Collection," the first exhibition to present an overall, comprehensive picture of the development of modern and contemporary Chinese ink painting.

Exciting new vision on art: WORLD ART VISION 2008 to be launched in Cancun

WORLD ART VISION will take place from 5 to 14 December 2008 at the Cancun Center, Cancun, Mexico. It is the first edition of this contemporary art fair that is to become essential to the art scene of the Americas. WORLD ART VISION logo

Phoenix Art Museum Hosts Unprecedented Gathering of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art

PHOENIX, AZ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/30/08 -- Phoenix Art Museum presents an unprecedented opportunity to explore and understand the ongoing link of contemporary Asian art with centuries of tradition. This summer, beginning July 8, 2008, the Museum presents A Tradition Redefined, four extraordinary exhibits focused of Asian art from the 19th, 20th and 21st century. Highlighting this exceptional show, is "Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting from the Chu-tsing Li Collection," the first exhibition to present an overall, comprehensive picture of the development of modern and contemporary Chinese ink painting.

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The Art Monthly cover photo, featuring Olympia Nelson and taken by her mother Melbourne photographer Polixeni Papapetrou

Art a la carte: How restaurants are becoming the new art galleries

Ever since Picasso and Miro painted for their supper at La Colombe d'Or, high in the hills of Provence, in the south of France, the close connection between art and food has flourished. Today, fabulous original works of their art hang on the walls and bear testimony to the unique deal the artists struck with the restaurateur. They were hungry and penniless, the restaurant had acres of bare walls, so what better than to knock up a picture or two in exchange for a free meal? While this might not still go on in today's rather more ruthlessly commercial eateries, many modern restaurants are still showcasing all forms of art. Artists range from the modern masters who ate at La Colombe d'Or to leading contemporary figures such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

GC ART 2008 Demonstrates: Gaming is Art!

For what is now the third time, visitors with an interest in art will find the GC ART exhibit section a big attraction in Hall 2 at the Leipzig Exhibition Centre. During Europe's benchmark fair for interactive entertainment, the GC - Games Convention, the four exhibitions "Space Invaders. From Outer Space", "History&Culture", "Machinima" and "Digital Beauties" will demonstrate from 21 to 24 August how art and digital worlds blend together. Several workshops give guests at the show the opportunity to design small art works for themselves.

New Media and Museums in Eastern Europe

New media art is no stranger to eastern Europe and the Balkans; from the early net.art of Vuc Cosic to the collective work of Apsolutno, these regions were the proving ground for many groundbreaking experiments in media, politics, and art. So the upcoming international symposium on (New) Media Art in Museums this October in Croatia signals that the region's consideration of media art has come full circle from unknown outsiders and agitators to curated collectibles (not too dissimilar to the path traced in other regions or for other "avant-gardes"). The intersection of cultural institutions like museums with new media art continues to confound both artists and curators alike. No standard institutional model has arisen for the collecting of such work, for how to frame it in the overall programs of the museum, nor how to preserve the work.

A New Intelligent FileSystem for Gnome

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Art Deco Living In Stanmore - 01/07/2008

Art Deco was a style that flourished through the twenties and thirties as stylistic changes occurred to many visual mediums. Inspired by the age of speed, architecture conceived during the Art Deco period consisted of simplistic and modern geometrical lines. An opportunity has now arisen to buy into this enchanting period with an impressive art deco style property in Valencia Road, Stanmore. Although now relatively rare, the sleek, white, asymmetrical style of art deco houses is a striking and somewhat refreshing alternative to the many rather uniform red bricked buildings of today.

Art Deco Living In Stanmore

Art Deco was a style that flourished through the twenties and thirties as stylistic changes occurred to many visual mediums. Inspired by the age of speed, architecture conceived during the Art Deco period consisted of simplistic and modern geometrical lines. An opportunity has now arisen to buy into this enchanting period with an impressive art deco style property in Valencia Road, Stanmore. Although now relatively rare, the sleek, white, asymmetrical style of art deco houses is a striking and somewhat refreshing alternative to the many rather uniform red bricked buildings of today.

Art Centre offers unique opportunity for photographers - The Agnes Etherington Art Centre offers a new opportunity in the visual arts - a series of three workshops for experienced photographers this summer and fall. Part the centre' s Exposures... Tu

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre offers a new opportunity in the visual arts - a series of three workshops for experienced photographers this summer and fall.

Art + Auction

To paraphrase a Supreme Court justice on pornography, I know art when I see it. Specifically, when I see it in museums or the pages of trendy art magazines. Who doesn’t like Edward Hopper or Michelangelo? But I met John Chamberlain, who makes sculptures from crushed cars, and Joan Mitchell’s abstracts in the pages of Art + Auction, an oversized monthly that marries “Page Six� to features on, as Sondheim wrote in “Sunday in the Park With George,� “the art of making art.�

Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York (ACAF NY) To Be Held November 7-10, 2008 at Pier 92

August 20, 2008 - New York, NY - One of the most important exhibitions of contemporary Asian art, the 2nd annual Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York (ACAF NY), will be held from November 7-10, 2008, at Pier 92, 52nd Street and 12th Avenue, in New York City. More than 60 international galleries and non-profit organizations will show a wide range of contemporary work by artists from countries including China, Japan, Korea, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. Much of the work, including paintings, sculpture, photography, works on paper, video and installations, will be on view for the first time in the U.S. The Asian Contemporary Art Fair New York is the only international art fair in New York dedicated exclusively to Asian contemporary art.

Contemporary wave hits art world

KOLKATA: Contemporary artists are increasingly gaining more strength in auctions. Together with Chinese and Southeast Asian art, Indian works of from this genre is witnessing tremendous growth. While US contemporary art is leading the pack, this genre is sweeping the world and younger artists are establishing a connect with the recent global art trends.

Making Inroads: Art in General's Only Connect at Bloomberg Headquarters

Bloomberg Tower, the headquarters of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's global business news and information corporation, Bloomberg LP, is a sleek, glass and curved steel skyscraper in midtown Manhattan which forgoes cubicles and executive offices for an ostensibly non-hierarchical and sans-wall flow of physical and digital information. As an allegory for globalized information dispersion, this opening-up of interior space reflects the much-discussed contradictions of globalization, itself. Since the building's completion in 2005, the downtown art nonprofit, Art in General, has partnered with Bloomberg LP to produce five contemporary art exhibitions that reflect on this space as well as the model of business practice that it nurtures. The current iteration of the partnership, entitled Only Connect, features work by artists Larry Bamb

Mandarin Oriental Munich offering Expert Art Tours

Specially created for travellers with a passion for art, Mandarin Oriental, Munich is offering a new service to its guests; bespoke personal art tours with Munich’s very own art expert Dr Eva Karcher. Appealing both to serious collectors and to those with a brewing interest in art; Dr Karcher will take guests on insider tours of Munich’s most famous galleries and museums as well as artists’ studios and exquisite private collections, enabling guests to get a closer look into the city’s rich art scene.

Indeed, a successful art expo, an analysis

THE interesting thing about the first ever Nigerian Art Expo, which winds up today at the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos, is that it has, again, fulfilled one other important promise of the Joe Musa’s led National Galley of Art aimed at re-positioning the visual art sub-sector to becoming a one stop point for investment and tourism in the country. Early in the life of the present administration, the National Gallery, under the dynamic leadership of its present director, had organized a first in the history of the parastatal’s art stakeholders forum at the Eko le-Meriden Hotel, Lagos, where artists, investors and interested stakeholders converged to brain-storm on ways to re-positioning the production, marketing and preservation of Nigeria’s contemporary art.

Surviving Recession and Succeeding in the Art Business

MIAMI, June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In times of economic trouble, an art gallery may seem to be a very distant place for art lovers and quite a challenge for gallery owners needing to survive the recession. St. Thomas University's Institute for Communication, Entertainment and Media has been ahead of the game in higher education by creating a MA degree with a specialization in Art Management that can be finalized in approximately 18 months. In partnership with the University of Venice, Italy, this program gives a comprehensive understanding of business and cultural aspects in managing art galleries, museums and artistic events.

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A few days ago, I dozed through a rather desultory conversation, on Lok Sabha TV, between painter Krishen Khanna (83) and art critic Geeti Sen, till Krishen said something that made me sit up. It matched what I have been saying for some time. He said, "Art history does not interest anyone anymore and, what is worse, they don't even think it is important."

Sino Group's 'Art in Hong Kong' and Zhu Qizhan Art Musuem present'The Grand Entrance' - Selected Works by Chinese Opera Ink Painting Artists

(23/6/2008, Hong Kong) Sino Group's 'Art in Hong Kong' and Shanghai Zhu Qizhan Art Museum are proud to bring together 75 Chinese Opera ink paintings by 19 masters from Mainland China. The exhibition is on tour from Shanghai Zhu Qizhan Art Museum and will be held at OC Gallery, Olympian City I from 21 June to 14 July.

Indianapolis Art Center Receives New Sound System

Indianapolis-based Klipsch has donated a new state-of-the-art cinema surround speaker system to the Indianapolis Art Center. The "world class" sound system has been installed in the Frank M. Basile Auditorium. It will allow the Art Center to bring more film entertainment to its traditional mix of presentations and demonstrations. The new sound system will make its debut next week when the Art Center launches a series of films that run through mid-August.

Nuclear fallout used to spot fake art

Scientists and art historians have developed what they say is a foolproof way of identifying forged works of art. They can distinguish between art created before 1945 and that produced after that date by measuring levels of the isotopes caesium–137 and strontium–90. These isotopes do not occur naturally but are released into the environment by nuclear blasts.

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