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Event Calendar- Laboratory of Architecture / Fernando Romero: - United States • Pittsburgh • Carnegie Museum of Art

Through 5/31/2009 -- Organized by Raymund Ryan, Carnegie Museum of Art curator of architecture,EM Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero/EM presents the ambitious designs of young Mexican architect Fernando Romero and his practice, LAR (Laboratory of Architectu..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images41/Fernando_Romero_museum.jpg

Event Calendar- Art Nouveau and Rationalism : The architecture of Sigurd Frosterus - Finland • Helsinki • Museum Of Finnish Architecture

Ongoing -- PSigurd Frosterus (18761956) was a Finnish proponent of European architectural rationalism. He adopted new Continental European concepts of architecture while working in the office of the world-famous Art Nouveau architect Henry van de Velde i...

Event Calendar- Open House: Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living - Poland • Warsaw • Center for Contemporary Art

Through 2/15/2008 -- PThe mostly site-specific architectural designs respond to the particular features of the urban or rural environments for which they were conceived yet also simultaneously address demographic and socioeconomic developments with international relevance....

Event Calendar- 2nd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: The Flood - Netherlands • Rotterdam •

Through 6/26/2005 -- PA month of exhibitions, conferences (mostly in Dutch), excursions and a City Program all dominated by ‘The Flood’. The second International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam focuses on the relation between water and architecture in the Nethe...

Event Calendar- Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922Цн32 : Photographs by Richard Pare - United States • New York • Museum of Modern Art

Through 10/29/2007 -- Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922–32 examines Soviet avant-garde architecture in the postrevolutionary period. Little known or published, examples of this avant-garde architecture abound, not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg bu...

Event Calendar- Ant Farm 1968 - 1978: - United States • Berkeley, California • Berkeley Art Museum

Through 4/25/2004 -- Ant Farm was founded in 1968 by recent architecture graduates Doug Michels and Chip Lord. In the idealistic spirit of the times, they were determined to work outside traditional architecture. They were joined by Curtis Schreier, Hudson Marquez, Douglas Hurr, a..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images16/antfarm.jpg

CCA 2004 Music Festival

CCA 2004 Music Festival Reflects on Architectural Ideas of the 1970s by architects Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, James Stirling, and Gordon Matta-Clark.

Event Calendar- Art and Architecture in Cuba Today: - United States • New York • The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through 11/8/2004 -- Final lecture in a series on the interaction of art, politics, and society tracing the diversity of Cuban art and architecture from the Colonial period to the present. Topics range from a discussion of the most spectacular Renaissance and Baroque architecture ...

Event Calendar- Zaha Hadid : - United States • New York • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Through 10/25/2006 -- PHaving first achieved international recognition through her striking images and designs, architect Zaha Hadid is widely known as one of today’s most innovative architects, consistently testing the boundaries of architecture, urbanism, and design..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images27/zaha_hadid_BMW.jpg

Denver Art Museum Opens Hamilton Building

The $110 million campus expansion includes the $75 million Hamilton Building designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. Book Tip: The Architecture Traveler: A Guide to 263 Key Modern American Buildings by Sydney LeBlanc

Rem Koolhaas Wins Mies van der Rohe Award

Dutch architect Rem Koolhasas is as controversial for his social theories as for his architectural designs. Now, he and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) have won the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2005 for the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin.

Event Calendar- Andrea Branzi: - France • Paris • Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Through 6/22/2008 -- PThe installations presented at the Fondation Cartier have evolved out of one of the Florentine architect and designer Andrea Branzi’s major preoccupations: how may we reinvent architecture following its demise? Branzi (b. 1938) argues that moder...

Event Calendar- DesCours: - United States • New Orleans • various venues

Through 12/14/2008 -- PThe American Institute of Architects (AIA) New Orleans Chapter hosts the 2nd Annual DesCours event, bringing five days of architecture, art, design and music to the streets, sidewalks and courtyards of New Orleans.  Hidden spaces throughout t..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images39/DesCours.jpg

Event Calendar- Territories: - Sweden • Malmo • Malmo Konsthall

Ongoing -- "Territories "brings together architects and artists in an exhibition about politics, architecture and geography. As the title of the exhibition implies, a number of projects are presented dealing with the occupation, control and defence of sp...

Event Calendar- Havana and Santiago: The Great Cities of Colonial Cuba : Cuba: A History in Art - United States • New York • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through 11/8/2004 -- First in a series of lectures on the interaction of art, politics, and society tracing the diversity of Cuban art and architecture from the Colonial period to the present. Topics range from a discussion of the most spectacular Renaissance and Baroque architec...

Event Calendar- The Rise of the Afro-Cuban Tradition: - United States • New York • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through 10/25/2004 -- Lectures on the interaction of art, politics, and society tracing the diversity of Cuban art and architecture from the Colonial period to the present. Topics range from a discussion of the most spectacular Renaissance and Baroque architecture in the New World...

Event Calendar- The Cuban Avant-garde and Social Change in the Early Twentieth Century: - United States • New York • The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through 11/1/2004 -- Third in a series of lectures on the interaction of art, politics, and society tracing the diversity of Cuban art and architecture from the Colonial period to the present. Topics range from a discussion of the most spectacular Renaissance and Baroque architect...

Event Calendar- Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture: - United States • San Francisco • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Through 1/17/2005 -- Tracing glamour's trajectory from Hollywood's golden age to present-day connotations of affluence, "Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture" presents an array of more than 100 objects including couture, jewelry, automobiles, furnitur..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images20/glamour_show.jpg

Event Calendar- Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture: - United States • San Francisco • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Device to Root Out Evil Finds Home in Canada

Controversial sculpture 'Device to Root Out Evil' by American sculptor Dennis Oppenheim finds home in Harbour Green Park in downtown Vancouver.

Event Calendar- Etruscan Princes. Between East and West: - Spain • Palma de Mallorca • CaixaForum Palma

Through 8/29/2008 -- PDuring the course of the sixth and fifth centuries BC, an original monumental architecture style emerged in Etruscan cities, taking in both the public sphere,with the erection of sacred buildings richly decorated in multi-coloured terra-cotta, and the...

Event Calendar- Markus Schinwald: Vanishing Lessons : - Austria • Bregenz • Kunsthaus Bregenz

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Event Calendar- Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-1974 : - United States • Chicago • Museum of Contemporary Art

Through 1/19/2003 -- Although none of their major projects were ever built, Archigram’s utopian visions of modular communities such as "Walking City" (1964), "Plug-In City" (1965), and "Instant City" (1968) anticipated the m...

Event Calendar- Frank O. Gehry: Work in Progress: - United States • Los Angeles • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Through 1/26/2004 -- "Frank O. Gehry: Work in Progress" highlights the architect’s unique design process through an examination of his firm’s most current projects and commissions. Focusing on 10-12 projects currently in the office, the exhibition trac..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images15/gehry.jpg

Event Calendar- Museums for a New Millennium: - United States • Miami • Miami Art Museum

Through 1/4/2004 -- Contemporary museum architecture is the focus of this exhibition, which presents drawings, photographs, and original models of 25 architectural milestones from around the world. The featured projects, all key works by internationally renowned architects, offer...

Event Calendar- Hiroshi Sugimoto: - England • London • Serpentine Gallery

Through 1/18/2004 -- Japanese-born Hiroshi Sugimoto uses a traditional wooden box camera to render the real world both abstract and infinite. For his first solo exhibition in a public gallery in London, Sugimoto has responded to the space, light and architecture particular to the ...

Event Calendar- Olafur Eliasson: - Iceland • Reykjavik • Reykjavik Art Museum

Through 3/14/2004 -- Olafur Eliasson's strong standing in the international art arena was ultimately confirmed with his show, "The Weather Project", in the Turbine hall of the Tate Modern in London, which opened in October 2003. The installation has attracted wide..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images15/olafureliasson.jpg

Event Calendar- Robert Indiana 66: Paintings and Sculpture.: - United States • Bartlesville, Oklahoma • Price Tower Arts Center

Through 7/4/2004 -- In his recent work, the 75-year-old artist Robert Indiana, returns to his early fascination with numbers, inspired by childhood memories of Phillips 66 gas stations. The self-described "American painter of signs" rose to fame with the Pop movement. &..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images18/indiana4.jpg

Event Calendar- Edward Hopper : - England • London • Tate Modern

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Event Calendar- Havana: Photographs by Robert Polidori: - United States • Salem, Massachusetts • Peabody Essex Museum

Through 1/9/2005 -- Eighteen of the artist’s large-scale images are on view. Polidori first visited Havana in 1997 while on assignment as staff photographer for The New Yorker. He began exploring the city's dynamic architecture—from the elegant colonial to the exubera..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images19/havana.jpg

Event Calendar- Mies in America: - United States • Chicago • Museum of Contemporary Art

Ongoing -- Mies created an architecture that transformed the landscape of a continent. Highlighting his process of creation, this exhibition connects Mies's investigations and philosophical foundations with the visual art of his time. Organized by the Canadian Centre for...

Event Calendar- Edward Hopper : - Germany • Cologne • Museum Ludwig

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Event Calendar- Custom Built: A Twenty Year Survey of Work by Allan Wexler - United States • San Francisco • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ongoing -- A hybrid of architecture, furniture and sculpture, Wexler's works examine both the social function and formal components of how things work. He manipulates functional objects like chairs and tables in such a way as to alter people's engagement with them. Inste...

Event Calendar- First International Festival of Contemporary Dance: Body-City: La Biennale di Venezia - Italy • Venice • Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Teatro alle Tese

Through 7/18/2003 -- Articulated as an "urban itinerary" which from Charleroi leads to Kyoto, from Paris to New York, and Johannesburg, the Festival is concentrated in six week-ends, beginning on 12 June with "Silent Collisions", the new work created by ...

Event Calendar- Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time: - Japan • Tokyo • Mori Art Museum

Through 1/9/2006 -- PEMHiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time/EM is a survey of the Japanese artist’s photographic work, made from the 1970s until the present. It includes Sugimoto's best-known works, such as the Dioramas, which he photographed, in life-like ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images9/sugimotofidelcastro.jpg

Event Calendar- Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio - Word / Action / Architecture: - Netherlands • Amsterdam • Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art

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Event Calendar- Lasting Foundations: The Art of Architecture in Africa : - United States • Long Island City, New York • Museum for African Art

Through 1/6/2006 -- A survey of innovative architecture used in private and public spaces presents carved architectural elements alongside photographs, videos and works by four contemporary artists. Architectural sculpture from various regions, South African beadwork and photogra...

Event Calendar- Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling : - United States • Boston • The Institute for Contemporary Art

Through 5/7/2006 -- Tents, yurts, houseboats, sliding walls, refugee shelters, knock-down furniture, hammocks, laptops, GPS phones—Living in Motion brings together a range of architecture and design objects from around the world to address the ways people live on the go and..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images26/shelter.jpg

Event Calendar- Olafur Eliasson: Your Light Shadow: - Japan • Tokyo • Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

Through 3/5/2006 -- Olafur Eliasson's works consider the boundaries of human perception and the relationship between nature, architecture and technology. The physical environment which surrounds Eliasson is also evident in the work. He has used steam to render the phenomena of na..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images16/olafureliasson.jpg

Event Calendar- Time Inside: - France • Paris • Galerie Mamia Breteschщ

Through 4/29/2006 -- PIn their digital & video-based art the architect Luca Curci and the artist Fabiana Roscioli look for the magical assembling knot between the physical and the virtual space, the transarchitecture. The architecture of the hyperlinked cyberspace...."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images27/time_inside.jpg

Event Calendar- Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts Projects Buildings - Germany • D№sseldorf • K21 Kunstsammlung

Through 6/25/2006 -- An exhibition of museum architecture from the 1st decade of the 21st century. 26 projects from four continents offer a broad cross-section of the most interesting.and forward-looking contemporary museum buildings, all currently in planning, under construction,..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images27/Coop_Musee_des_Confluences.jpg

Ellen Stewart Wins Praemium Imperiale Arts Award

Some of the artists Ellen Stewart supported include Robert de Niro, Sam Shepard, and Andy Warhol.

Last Chance! Doris Salcedo: Shibboleth

In an attempt to address a long legacy of racism and colonialism that underlies the modern world, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London.

Virtually Miraculous: Attending "The Wedding at Cana"

Filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s installation explores the Veronese masterpiece from inside the painting itself.

Mona Lisa Gets Better View at Louvre

Leonardo's lady with the enigmatic smile now hangs in the Salle des Etats of the Louvre, a much larger space that should give her 1500 visitors every hour a better view of her, and her a better view of Paolo Veronese's 'Marriage at Cana'.

Turner Prize 2002 Shortlist

Tate Britain has announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize. Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at Tate Britain from 30 October 2002 - 5 January 2003. The winner of the г20,000 prize will be announced at Tate Britain on 8 December 2002 during a live broadcast by Channel 4.

African Masks: 'Magical Faces of Africa', at the Musщe Dapper, Paris - Exhibition Review

With the permanent exhibition "Magical Faces of Africa", which occupies three floors of the (too) little known Musщe Dapper in Paris, we are shown the most riveting and disconcerting examples of African art, in the form of African masks from the Punus, Krahn, Wakonde, Dogon, and many other ethnicities around the continent. (The feature has an accompanying image gallery of 24 masks from the collection.)

Piero Manzoni at the Serpentine Gallery

Innovator in modern art, Manzoni, with perspective of art history, begins to look dated and gimmicky in an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.

Money, Power and Politics in the Roman Empire

An exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna focuses on a little-known chapter in the economic and monetary history of the Roman Empire.

Turner Prize Exhibition Opens at Tate Britain

Works by four shortlisted artists on view in London compete for controversial Turner Prize.

LE LOUVRE: Palace and Paintings CD-ROM Review

Review of a CD-ROM: 'Le Louvre: palace and paintings'

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Book Review: Thomas Struth: 1977–2002

This book is the exhibition catalog of Thomas Struth 1977 - 2002. The German photographer's exhibition is touring United States museums.

Event Calendar- Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s: - United States • New York • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through 2/19/2007 -- Political, economic, and social turmoil shaped Germany's short-lived Weimar Republic (1919–1933). These pivotal years also became a most creative period of 20th-century German culture, generating innovation in literature, music, film, theater, and archit..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images28/christian_schad.jpg

Event Calendar- Karim Rashid: - Spain • Santa Cruz de Tenerife • Galerэa Leyendecker

Ongoing -- PKarim Rashid is a leading figure in the fields of product, interior design, fashion, furniture, lighting and art. Born in Cairo, half Egyptian, half English, and raised in Canada, Karim now practices in New York. He is best known for bringing his demo..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images29/karim_rashid.jpg

Event Calendar- Abelardo Morell: Camera Obscuras: 1991 - 2006 - United States • New York • Danziger Projects Gallery

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Event Calendar- Umbria Jazz 2002: - Italy • Perugia • Various venues

Ongoing -- Two weeks of Jazz non stop amidst the Etruscan and Roman ruins, gothic cathedral and fourteenth century churches of Perugia. The combination of music, architecture, food, and ambience and taking all those into account, this is probably the best Jazz Festival i..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images3/sonsof5.jpg

Event Calendar- 2007 LA Garden Show: - United States • Los Angeles • Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Through 5/6/2007 -- PPromenade along a dozen gardens designed by leading designers in Southern California including: Russell Cletta, Daniel Lopez, and Daniel Weedon of Estate Gardens of ValleyCrest, Steve Gerischer of Larkspur Design, Joan Grabel of Park Slope De...

Event Calendar- Matthew Barney : The Cremaster Cycle - Germany • Cologne • Museum Ludwig

Ongoing -- In 1994 the American artist Matthew Barney (b. 1967, San Francisco) began his 5-part series of Cremaster films. Alone the numbering of the parts - 4 (1994), 1 (1995), 5 (1997), 2 (1999), 3 (2002) - is already a contradiction of the serial principle. Cremaster ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images10/barneybio.gif

Event Calendar- Venice and the Islamic World, 828Ц1797: - United States • New York • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through 7/8/2007 -- PAs recent scholarship convincingly demonstrates, trade, travel, and cultural and diplomatic relations were the most important vehicles for the exchange of artistic ideas between Venice and her Muslim neighbors. Maps give a sense of place and a realiza..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images29/Mansueti.jpg

Event Calendar- MAGMA: - Iceland • Reykjavik • Reykjavik Art Museum

Through 8/26/2007 -- This exhibition of Icelandic contemporary design includes furniture, clothing, lighting, jewelry, architecture, textile, technical innovations, and cuisine.  More than eighty designers from Iceland take part in EMMAGMA/EM. Five designe..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images29/icelandic_design.jpg

Event Calendar- Documenta 12: - Germany • Kassel • Kunsthalle Fridericianum and other galleries

Through 9/23/2007 -- PHeld every five years, EMDocumenta /EMis one of the most important events for contemporary visual arts worldwide. The first EMDocumenta/EM, created by Kassel painter and academy professor Arnold Bode in 1955, w...

Event Calendar- Umbria Jazz 2007: - Italy • Perugia • Various venues

Through 7/15/2007 -- Two weeks of Jazz non stop amidst the Etruscan and Roman ruins, gothic cathedral and fourteenth century churches of Perugia. The combination of music, architecture, food, and ambience and taking all those into account, this is probably the best Jazz Festival i..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images29/Jarrett2.jpg

Event Calendar- Anselm Kiefer: - Spain • Bilbao • Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Through 9/3/2007 -- This thematic exhibition showcases a selection of iconic works of the last ten years from the German artist Anselm Kiefer's (b. 1945) own personal holdings, as well as from private and public collections, including important pieces from the Guggenheim Museum B...

Event Calendar- Vertigo: The century of off-media art, from Futurism to the web - Italy • Bologna • Museum of Modern Art, Bologna

Through 11/4/2007 -- PCurated by Germano Celant with Gianfranco Maraniello, the exhibition presents over four hundred works, including artist books, films, installations, paintings and photographs that show the Twentieth Century and its art as a period of far-reaching chan..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images3/merda.jpg

Event Calendar- Chagall Ц between Heaven and Earth: - Switzerland • Martigny • Fondation Pierre Gianadda

Through 11/19/2007 -- The retrospective of the Pierre Gianadda Foundation shows the numerous facets of Chagall’s art, with an exceptional selection of some 200 works from all periods of his life and from the greatest public collections, notably: the State Tretyakov Gallery, M...

Event Calendar- Air : - United States • Los Angeles • The Greek Theatre

Through 9/21/2007 -- The Parisian duo Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin in concert with special guest Sondre Lerche. While conventional instruments continue to play a great role, Air have fashioned several tracks from the new album EMPocket Symphony/EM&nbsp...

Event Calendar- The Art of John Dos Passos : - United States • Augusta, Georgia • Morris Museum of Art

Through 11/25/2007 -- Featuring sixty-four watercolors and six pieces of book jacket art this show chronicles the extensive travels of American novelist and writer John Dos Passos (1896 - 1970) who wrote forty-two literary works including the EMU.S.A./EM trilogy and...

Event Calendar- Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History : - United States • San Francisco • Asian Art Museum

Through 1/6/2008 -- PContemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto is best known for his photographic series of empty movie theaters and drive-ins, seascapes, dioramas, and wax museums.  In this show, he explores connections between past and present modes o...

Event Calendar- Doris Salcedo: Shibboleth: - England • London • Tate Modern

Through 4/6/2008 -- PRather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Columbian artist Doris Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Turbine Hall. The concrete walls of the crevice are ruptured by a steel ...

Event Calendar- In Scaena: The Theater of Ancient Rome: - Italy • Rome • Colosseum

Through 2/17/2008 -- PThis new archaeological exhibit confronts the history of the roman theater in the splendid space of the Colosseum. The course that was chosen for this exhibition focuses on “icons”, putting together 70 works that explore the complex origin..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images31/Colosseum_theatre.jpg

Event Calendar- New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival: - United States • New York • Various Venues

Ongoing -- Of particular interest in this year's festival programme is director Stanley Kwan's film "Lan Yu", a love story about a young country boy newly arrived in Beijing to study architecture and the successful head of a fast-growing trading company ...

Event Calendar- Art Basel Miami Beach: - United States • Miami Beach • Miami Beach Convention Center

Through 12/9/2007 -- PA lavish affair of interest to style editors as well as the art community, EMArt Basel Miami Beach/EM continues its pitch as the North American winter edition of Art Basel, the world’s largest and most important trade fair for mo..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images31/shanghartgallery.jpg

Event Calendar- Design by Design: Two Centuries of Creativity - France • Paris • Galeries nationales du Grand Palais

Through 1/8/2008 -- PSince the sixties and the post-modern impact of the eighties, the word ‘design’ has been in trouble. Prey to individual interpretations and long banned from institutional language in France, the word has undergone such inflation that it ha..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images32/pesce_design.jpg

Event Calendar- Granada International Festival of Music and Dance: - Spain • Granada • Various Venues

Through 7/6/2003 -- The splendor of Granada's Moorish architecture and gardens as well as the quality of the Spanish and invited artists from abroad make this festival self-recommending. Highlights include Compañía Nacional de Danza, Brodsky Quartet, Ballet de l’...

Event Calendar- Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes : - United States • Minneapolis, Minnesota • Walker Art Center

Through 8/17/2008 -- The intention of SPAN class=wac_titleEMWorlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes/EM/SPAN is to demonstrate how the American suburb has played a catalytic role in the creation of new art. Challenging preconceived ideas and expectation...

Event Calendar- Edward Hopper on view in Chicago: - United States • Chicago • The Art Institute of Chicago

Through 5/10/2008 -- PEdward Hopper (1882 – 1967) is considered the pre-eminent painter of modern America and many of his works have become iconic images of the twentieth century.By staging scenes and motifs from everyday life, illuminated by stro...

Event Calendar- Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention: - United States • Spokane, Washington • Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

Through 4/27/2008 -- Samuel Colt is a nineteenth century icon. His designs for the revolver redefined the architecture of the firearm. His marketing and manufacturing innovations made an indelible mark on America. Over 150 firearms, paintings, broadsides, photographs and decorativ...

Event Calendar- Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2008 Lineup: - United States • Indio, California • Empire Polo Fields

Through 4/27/2008 -- PThe Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is an annual three-day event held at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. Musical genres include alternative rock, rap/hip hop, and electronica. The festival also includes independent films and exhi..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images33/kraftwerk.jpg

Event Calendar- The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam: - United States • Los Angeles • J. Paul Getty Museum

Ongoing -- Together with Rembrandt and Vermeet, Saendredam (1597 - 1665) is considered one of the masters of the Golden Age of Dutch art. The exhibition esamines a series of drawings and paintings Saenredam made of the churches of Utrecht during a stay beginning in 1636....

Event Calendar- The New York School: - England • London • Michael Hoppen Gallery

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Event Calendar- Africa in Photographs on view in Berlin: - Germany • Berlin • Camera Work Gallery

Through 6/7/2008 -- PThis group show hopes to provide an insight into the  landscape and wildlife as well as the culture of individual countries on the African continent. Some of this work is familiar, such as Leni Riefenstahl's excellent work for the be..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images33/nick_brandt_elephant.jpg

Event Calendar- The Parade of the Gladiators: - Croatia • Pula • Roman Arena

Through 5/18/2008 -- PThe largest town on the Istrian peninsula, Pula, features not only attractive beaches, but it also boasts numerous monuments of Roman architecture: the Triumphal Arch of the Sergi from the 1st century B.C., Hercules’ Gate and Twin Gates..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images8/gladiatorhelmets.jpg

Event Calendar- Flow : - United States • New York • Studio Museum of Harlem

Through 6/29/2008 -- EMFlow/EM is the first twenty-first century exhibition focusing on art by a new generation of international artists from Africa. These artists are uniquely conscious of, and responsive to, recent African history, global economics and the idiosy..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images34/dawit_petros_proposition.jpg

Event Calendar- Fernand Lщger: Paris - New York : - Switzerland • Basel • Fondation Beyeler

Through 9/7/2008 -- PTimed to open the same week as Art Basel, the world’s largest and most important fair for modern and contemporary art, the Fondation Beyeler's retrospective of Fernand Léger (1881-1955) aims to provide a review of the key phases of the Fren..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images35/fernand_leger.jpg

Event Calendar- Umbria Jazz 2008: - Italy • Perugia • various venues

Through 7/20/2008 -- Two weeks of Jazz non stop amidst the Etruscan and Roman ruins, gothic cathedral and fourteenth century churches of Perugia. The combination of music, architecture, food, and ambience and taking all those into account, this is probably the best Jazz Festival i..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images26/cassandra_wilson.jpg

Event Calendar- Power & Glory: Court Arts of ChinaТs Ming Dynasty: - United States • San Francisco • Asian Art Museum

Through 9/21/2008 -- PEMPower & Glory/EM, a major loan exhibition in collaboration with The Palace Museum (Forbidden City) in Beijing, the Nanjing Municipal Museum, and the Shanghai Museum, features Some of the most precious artworks from the Ming y...

Event Calendar- Sargent and Italy : - United States • Denver • Denver Art Museum

Through 9/21/2003 -- "Sargent and Italy" explores the unique relationship between the American artist John Singer Sargent, born in Florence in 1856 to expatriate American parents, and Italy. The exhibition, which complements important works by Sargent in LACMA..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images14/sargent.jpg

Event Calendar- Stedelijk Museum in De Nieuwe Kerk n║ I : Beelden 1947 - 2002 Sculpture - Netherlands • Amsterdam • De Nieuwe Kerk

Ongoing -- The summer of 2002 sees the start of a cooperative arrangement between the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. For three years, from 2002 to 2004, parts of the Stedelijk Museum’s collection will be on display in the summer in De N..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images11/chamberlain.jpg

Event Calendar- Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective : - Germany • Berlin • Neue Nationalgalerie

Through 10/5/2008 -- PThe exhibition consists of more than seventy photographs, along with a sculpture of the great master of black-and-white photography; it demonstrates the great diversity of his groups of works, whose impressive clarity and precision immediate..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images9/sugimotofidelcastro.jpg

Event Calendar- It's not only Rock 'n' Roll, Baby! : - Belgium • Brussels • Palais des Beaux-arts

Through 9/14/2008 -- PEMIt's not only Rock 'n' Roll, Baby/EM! or how the voice of rock emerged in the visual arts. The show brings together works by musicians from the 1970s to the present day, including Patti Smith, Brian Eno, Chicks on Speed, Fis..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images37/kembra_pfahler.jpg

Event Calendar- Matthew Barney : The Cremaster Cycle - United States • NEW YORK • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Event Calendar- The New State: Polish Art between Experiment and Representation - Austria • Vienna • Leopold Museum

Through 3/31/2003 -- Within the framework of the "Polish Year in Austria 2002" the Leopold Museum is presenting an exhibition of Polish artworks dating from the period between 1918 and 1939. On view are selected works of classical modernism, including painting, sculpture..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images11/slendzinski.jpg

Event Calendar- Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1957-1968 : - Sweden • Stockholm • Moderna Museet

Through 1/6/2009 -- Work by Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Edward Kienholz, Sam Francis and Robert Irwin, as well as artists from the beat generation and pop-minimalists in the Finish Fetish circles, are the core of the exhibition. The concept is also reflected in the films o...

Event Calendar- Erich Salomon: The King of the Indiscreet, 1928 - 1938 - France • Paris • Jeu de Paume Ч HЇtel de Sully

Through 1/25/2009 -- P"Ah, there he is, the king of the indiscreet!" exclaimed Aristide Briand as he pointed to Erich Salomon in the salons of the Quai d'Orsay, where he had been caught by surprise. The words would become famous, especially since the French Forei...

Event Calendar- Erich Salomon: The King of the Indiscreet, 1928 - 1938 - France • Paris • Jeu de Paume Ч HЇtel de Sully

Event Calendar- Dutch Mannerism: Goltzius and His Contemporaries: - Scotland • Edinburgh • National Gallery of Scotland

Through 2/8/2009 -- PDutch Mannerism focuses on two major acquisitions made by the National Gallery of Scotland in recent years: Hendrick Goltzius’ drawing of a Bust of a Man with a Tasselled Cap and Abraham Bloemaert’s painting, Miracle of the Loaves. These m..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images39/Hendrick_Goltzius.jpg

Event Calendar- Alberto Burri : - Italy • Milan • Triennale di Milano

Through 2/8/2009 -- PCurated by Maurizio Calvesi and Chiara Sarteanesi this retrospective exhibition devoted to Alberto Burri (1915-1995), presents the artist, the man and the influence he had on the culture of the time through historical works, notably his masterpieces f...

Event Calendar- Christian Schad: - Austria • Vienna • Leopold Museum

Through 1/6/2009 -- PPolitical, economic, and social turmoil shaped Germany's short-lived Weimar Republic (1919–1933). These pivotal years also became a most creative period of 20th-century German culture, generating innovation in literature, music, film, theater, a..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images29/christian_schad_self_portrait.jpg

Event Calendar- Tokyo in the 1930s and the Birth of Prince Asaka's Art Deco Residence: - Japan • Tokyo • Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Through 1/12/2009 -- POn display are a wide variety of paintings, photographs, picture postcards and so on that captured the new face of Tokyo at the time, demonstrating the wealth of its urban life and culture. In addition, these items portray the architecture, daily prod..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images39/japan_1930s.jpg

Event Calendar- Godfried Donkor: Story of a London Township : - England • London • Space

Through 3/14/2009 -- PA cylindrical living space topped with a cone shaped grass roof addresses the social aspects of living without private rooms and secure doors. Against the concrete and brick of modern forms of housing, Mud Hut is both symbolic of community and an inte..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images40/Godfried_Donkor.jpg

Event Calendar- Miguel Osuna: Mi Reina del Palmar : - United States • North Hollywood, California • Cella Gallery

Through 3/14/2009 -- POsuna’s new body of work titled EMMi Reina del Palmar/EM or “My Queen of the Palmgrove” has been inspired by lyrics from the song “En mi Viejo San Juan” written by Noel Estrada around 1945.  The s..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images40/miguel_osuana.jpg

Event Calendar- Urban China: Informal Cities : - United States • New York • New Museum

Through 3/29/2009 -- PEMUrban China: Informal Cities/EM is a multifaceted exploration and physical manifestation of the groundbreaking magazine EMUrban China/EM. Founded in 2005, EMUrban China/EM is the only magazine devoted ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images41/urban_china.jpg

Event Calendar- Seal with special guest Peter Cincotti: - United States • New York • Radio City Music Hall

Through 4/16/2009 -- PSeal's most recent studio album, 2008’s Soul features 11 classic soul songs, and is a departure from his previous album, 2007’s System, which was more dance-oriented. His big hits include “Kiss From a Rose” and “CrazyR...

Event Calendar- Seal with special guest Peter Cincotti: - United States • Atlanta, Georgia • Chastain Park Amphitheatre

Through 4/18/2009 -- PSeal's most recent studio album, 2008’s Soul features 11 classic soul songs, and is a departure from his previous album, 2007’s System, which was more dance-oriented. His big hits include “Kiss From a Rose” and “CrazyR...

Event Calendar- Christian Schad: Retrospective: - Netherlands • Den Haag • The Gemeentemuseum

Through 5/10/2009 -- PPolitical, economic, and social turmoil shaped Germany's short-lived Weimar Republic (1919–1933). These pivotal years also became a most creative period of 20th-century German culture, generating innovation in literature, music, film, theater, a..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images29/christian_schad_self_portrait.jpg

Event Calendar- Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim: - United States • Cambridge, Massachusetts • Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Through 9/7/2009 -- PAs the first recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum, Guy Tillim traveled through Angola, Mozambique, Congo, and Madagascar, documenting the grand colonial architecture and how it has become part of a contempora..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images41/avenue_patrice_lumumba.jpg

Event Calendar- Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward : - United States • New York • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Through 8/23/2009 -- PFifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition EMFrank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward/EM&g...

Event Calendar- Sugimoto: - Japan • Osaka • The National Museum of Art Osaka

Through 6/7/2009 -- PBased in New York and Tokyo, contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto is best known for his photographic series of empty movie theaters and drive-ins, seascapes, dioramas, and wax museums.  In this show, he explores connec..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images9/sugimotofidelcastro.jpg

Event Calendar- Carlos IV: Mecenas y coleccionista (Charles IV Patron and Collector): - Spain • Madrid • Palacio Real

Through 7/19/2009 -- PKing Charles IV (1748-1819) made his name in art history on account of his exquisite taste; suffice to say that Francisco de Goya was his chamber painter and Juan de Villanueva favourite architect. During his reign, he strived to grant power to the er...

Event Calendar- The Worlds of Islam in the Aga Khan Museum Collection: - Spain • Madrid • CaixaForum Madrid

Through 9/6/2009 -- PEMThe Worlds of Islam in the Aga Khan Museum Collection/EM, organised by "la Caixa" Social and Cultural Outreach Projects in cooperation with the Aga Khan Trust for Culture – the cultural arm of the Aga Khan Development..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images42/mongol_robe.jpg

Event Calendar- New Perspectives in Contemporary Art : - United States • New York • Affirmation Arts

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Event Calendar- Deborah Butterfield: New Sculptures: - United States • San Francisco • Gallery Paule Anglim

Through 8/29/2009 -- PThe outdoor presentation at 425 Market Street, a private plaza in downtown San Francisco, is the site of four horse sculptures by Deborah Butterfield. The compositions, larger than life, made from wood pieces and stone and cast in bronze, aim to provi..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images42/Deborah_Butterfield_horse.jpg

Event Calendar- Images of Cuba: - United States • New York • Grady Alexis Gallery

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Event Calendar- The Miracles of Mary: A 17th-Century Ethiopian Manuscript : - United States • Chicago • The Art Institute of Chicago Web Site

Through 3/16/2003 -- Recently acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago, this Ethiopian manuscript was made to guide and enhance the yearly cycle of celebrations in Mary’s honor, and its well-preserved pages bear witness to many years of careful use. The leather-bound book in..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images12/miraclesofmary.jpg

Event Calendar- The Unilever Series: Anish Kapoor: - England • London • Tate Modern

Through 4/6/2003 -- Kapoor has stated that his aim is to make objects and installations that look as if imported 'from another world'. The artist has used the entire length of Tate Modern's massive Turbine Hall, which measures 155m (550ft) long, 23 m (75ft) wide and 35m (115 ft) ...

Event Calendar- Borderline: Piece for ten dancers: - Spain • Madrid • Teatro de la Zarzuela

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Event Calendar- Matthew Barney : The Cremaster Cycle - France • Paris • Musщe dТArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Through 1/5/2003 -- In 1994 the American artist Matthew Barney (b. 1967, San Francisco) began his 5-part series of Cremaster films. Alone the numbering of the parts - 4 (1994), 1 (1995), 5 (1997), 2 (1999), 3 (2002) - is already a contradiction of the serial principle. Cremaster ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images10/barneybio.gif

Event Calendar- Gerhard Richter: Acht Grau (Eight Gray): - Germany • Berlin • Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

Through 1/5/2003 -- To mark the artist’s 70th birthday as well as the Berlin museum's acknowlegement of Gerhard Richter's highly successful retrospective exhibtion tour of the United States (currently on view at the San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art until 14 January 2003),...

Event Calendar- Tom Sachs : Nutsy's - Germany • Berlin • Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

Through 10/5/2003 -- Tom Sachs' "Nutsy's", a major new installation, makes its European premiere at the Deutsche Guggenheim, in what will be the American artist's first solo museum exhibition in Europe. The installation, which has been specially reconfigured for t...

Event Calendar- Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art: - United States • New York • The Frick Collection

Through 1/5/2003 -- To mark its recent centenary, the Toledo Museum of Art has lent twelve of its greatest European paintings. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art includes exceptional works by artists such as Piero di Cosimo (1462-1521), Jacopo Bassano..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images12/jamestissot.jpg

Event Calendar- Common / Places: Contemporary Photography from Germany and Northern Europe - United States • Baltimore • The Baltimore Museum of Art

Through 5/25/2003 -- "Common/Places" focuses on the familiar places of everyday life—faceless buildings, anonymous street corners, and domestic interiors—that are transformed into compelling, large-scale works by some of the most important contemporary...

Event Calendar- Walker Evans: - United States • Minneapolis • The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Through 9/14/2003 -- Working for the U.S. government in the 1930s, Evans created his most significant body of work, essaying the vernacular architecture and rural poor of the Deep South. This exhibition consists of about 50 of these stunning, vintage photographs. They are drawn en...

Event Calendar- David Adler, Architect: The Elements of Style - United States • Chicago • The Art Institute of Chicago

Through 5/18/2003 -- David Adler (1882 - 1949) was one of the most important architects designing homes and estates in the United States during a period known as that of the "great American house". His career spanned four decades, during which time he undertook commision...

Event Calendar- Erasmus Prize 2002: Bernd and Hilla Becher, industrial structures: - Netherlands • Amsterdam • Stedelijk Museum

Through 12/31/2002 -- Bernd (b. 1931) and Hilla (b. 1934) Becher have been recording the anonymous industrial architecture of Europe and the United States since 1959. In particular, their strong conceptual view on image and method have influenced a whole generation of German photog...

Event Calendar- Art Basel Miami Beach : - United States • Miami • Various venues

Through 12/8/2002 -- "Art Basel Miami Beach" aims to be the North American winter edition of Art Basel, the world’s largest and most important trade fair for modern and contemporary art held in Switzerland each June. Scheduled to make its debut last year, &l..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images13/alexkatz.jpg

Event Calendar- Sargent and Italy : - United States • Los Angeles • Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Through 5/11/2003 -- "Sargent and Italy" explores the unique relationship between the American artist John Singer Sargent, born in Florence in 1856 to expatriate American parents, and Italy. The exhibition, which complements important works by Sargent in LACMA..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images14/sargent.jpg

Event Calendar- Kirchner: Expressionism and the City : - England • London • The Royal Academy

Through 9/21/2003 -- A different version of the exhibition recently on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, this show focuses on works produced in the period 1905-1915, often considered Kirchner's most creative and innovative. It includes over a hundred paintin...

Event Calendar- Shopping: - England • Liverpool • Tate Liverpool

Through 3/23/2003 -- This exhibition – a co-production by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Tate Liverpool – is the first of its kind devoted to shopping as a phenomenon of 20th- and 21st-century culture. "Shopping" documents the fascination, the...

Event Calendar- Art Deco 1910-1939: - England • London • Victoria and Albert Museum

Through 7/20/2003 -- "Art Deco 1910-1939" features over 300 works in painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, textiles, glass, metal, jewellery, graphic art, product, transport and industrial design, fashion, film and photography. Highlights include original ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images14/artdeco.jpg

Event Calendar- Art Deco 1910-1939: - England • London • Victoria and Albert Museum

Event Calendar- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938: - United States • Washington, D.C. • National Gallery of Art

Through 6/1/2003 -- The Washington exhibition of 140 works surveys Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's career, but focuses primarily on work created from 1908 to 1920, during his prewar years in Dresden and Berlin and his early years in Davos, Switzerland. The show includes paintings, prints...

Event Calendar- Reagan Louie: Sex in Asia: - United States • San Francisco • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Event Calendar- Reagan Louie: Sex in Asia: - United States • San Francisco • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ongoing -- This exhibition is devoted to Reagan Louie's large-scale colour photographs representing his candid and complex study of the Asian sex industry.Reagan Louie, a Chinese American photographer living in the Bay Area, spent six years exploring ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images14/reaganlouie.jpg

Event Calendar- Granada International Festival of Music and Dance: - Spain • Granada • Various Venues

Event Calendar- Global Village: The 60s: - Canada • Montrщal • Musщe des beaux-arts de Montrщal

Ongoing -- The exhibition is based on the idea that the 1960s was a turning point in history that revolutionized our view of the human condition, following the launch of the satellite Sputnik in 1957 (a reconstruction of which is on view). Images of the Earth seen from s..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images14/lamamma.jpg

Event Calendar- Soul and Beauty of Japan: Masterpieces from the Tokyo National Museum: The Great Collections - Germany • Bonn • Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Through 10/26/2003 -- The artistic identity of Japan was formed essentially during the Muromachi and Momoyama periods, from the 15th to the early 17th centuries. From the highly cultivated lifestyle of the shoguns and the samurai / bushi, the noblemen and the warlords, a unique aes...

Event Calendar- Haluk Akakчe: - Switzerland • Basel • Museum f№r Gegenwartkunst

Through 11/9/2003 -- Turkish artist Haluk Akakçe (b. 1970, lives and works in London and New York) started his career as a painter before turning to the digital media. While Akakce's early computer-animated videos, with their poetically surreal stories, still bear a strong cv...

Event Calendar- Common Wealth: - England • London • Tate Modern

Through 12/30/2003 -- "Common Wealth" is a group exhibition that brings together five celebrated international contemporary artists from Europe and Latin America. Featuring Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Höller, and Gabrie...

Event Calendar- Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection: - United States • Pittsburgh • The Frick Art Museum

Through 2/8/2004 -- This major exhibition highlights the rich artistic heritage of the Ottoman Empire and explores the influence exercised by the sultans over every aspect of life from military power to religious devotion. Presented in four sections, this fascinating exhibition c..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images15/lion.jpg

Event Calendar- Art Basel Miami Beach : - United States • Miami • Various venues

Through 12/7/2003 -- The second editorion of Art Basel Miami Beach continues its mission to be the North American winter edition of Art Basel, the world’s largest and most important trade fair for modern and contemporary art held in Switzerland each June. BR>..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images13/alexkatz.jpg

Event Calendar- Flight of fools: Russian photography today - England • London • White Space Gallery

Through 2/28/2004 -- Photography in Russia and the Ukraine had to be restructured after the end of the socialist system. It was able to find its place in the field of art following Western standards, with new tendencies regarding form and content which quickly surpassed painting i..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images17/russian.jpg

Event Calendar- Conversations with Contemporary Artists : Winter/Spring 2004 - United States • New York • The Museum of Modern Art

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Event Calendar- Body Display: - Austria • Vienna • Secession

Through 4/18/2004 -- The "Body Display" exhibition is the fourth station in a five-part series of exhibitions entitled "Performative Installation." This series is an initiative of Siemens Arts Program in cooperation with Galerie im Taxispalais in ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images17/bodies.jpg

Event Calendar- The Age of Rubens: Genovese Homes, Patrons and Collectors - Italy • Genoa • Palazzo Ducale

Through 7/11/2004 -- The collecting practice – a distinctive mark of the Genoese culture - was strictly linked to the architecture of the town palaces and to the varied forms of investments pursued by the Genoese bankers of the time. It was also characterised by the presence...

Event Calendar- Ben Kweller / Death Cab For Cutie : - United States • New York • Irving Plaza

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Event Calendar- Einst№rzende Neubauten : - United States • New York • Irving Plaza

Through 4/24/2004 -- Along with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten ("collapsing new buildings") helped pioneer industrial music with an avant-garde mix of white-noise guitar drones, vocals verging on unlistenable at times, and a...

Event Calendar- Brian McKee 'Detritus': - Germany • Munich • Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary

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Event Calendar- Brian McKee 'Detritus': - Germany • Munich • Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary

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Event Calendar- Art Deco, 1910-1939 : - United States • San Francisco • Legion of Honor

Through 7/4/2004 -- First seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London "Art Deco 1910-1939" features over 300 works in painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, textiles, glass, metal, jewellery, graphic art, product, transport and industrial design, fash..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images14/artdeco.jpg

Event Calendar- Art Deco, 1910-1939 : - United States • San Francisco • Legion of Honor

Event Calendar- J°rn Utzon: - Denmark • HUMLEBAEK • Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

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Event Calendar- Daniel Richter: The Morning After: - United States • New York • David Zwirner

Through 6/19/2004 -- In the 1990’s, Daniel Richter became known for his colorful abstract paintings, gaining critical success in 1999 when he introduced large-scale figurative paintings. His work is based on images taken from magazines, newspapers and books, collaged by Rich...

Event Calendar- Insideout: Sasha Waltz - Netherlands • Amsterdam • Het Muziektheater

Through 6/16/2004 -- Sasha Waltz created her latest production insideout at the initiative of GRAZ 03 (Graz European City of Culture), as an interdisciplinary dialogue between architecture, visual arts, music, dance, video and science. insideout is an exhibition, concert and dance...

Event Calendar- Shen Wei Dance Arts. : - United States • New York • Alice Tully Hall

Through 7/17/2004 -- The New York-based company founded by Chinese-born, choreographer/visual artist Shen Wei will dance the New York premiere of Shen's new evening-length work. In his new, full-evening work for Festival 2004, Shen will continue to explore the integration of dance...

Event Calendar- Umbria Jazz 2004: - Italy • PERUGIA • Various venues

Through 7/18/2004 -- Two weeks of Jazz non stop amidst the Etruscan and Roman ruins, gothic cathedral and fourteenth century churches of Perugia. The combination of music, architecture, food, and ambience and taking all those into account, this is probably the best Jazz Festival i..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images3/sonsof5.jpg

Event Calendar- Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting: - United States • Los Angeles • Gallery at REDCAT

Through 8/8/2004 -- Mehretu's language of abstraction borrows from real and imagined geography, architecture, history, mapping and photojournalism to navigate the unstable terrain of what she has identified as "a narrative filled with urgency and optimism, like a strange dre...

Event Calendar- Solos: FutureShack : - United States • New York • Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Through 10/10/2004 -- Designed by Australian architect Sean Godsell and entered into Architecture for Humanity's relief housing competition, FutureShack addresses the shelter needs of refugees and homeless persons around the world. Constructed from one ready-made twenty-two-foot-lo..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images19/future_shack.jpg

Event Calendar- Solos: FutureShack : - United States • New York • Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Event Calendar- Destination Olympia, 5th Century BC: - Switzerland • Lausanne • Olympic Museum

Through 2/15/2005 -- "Destination Olympia, 5th Century BC" is an exhibition-display where, through a combination of illusion and reconstruction, the visitor will find himself in the 5th century BC, first in Elis, the city where the athletes gathered one month befo..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images19/zeus.jpg

Event Calendar- Eva Hesse: - United States • San Francisco • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ongoing -- Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1936, Eva Hesse and her family immigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. She lived most of her life in New York, studying at the Pratt Institute of Design from 1952 to 1953 and Cooper Union from 1954 to 195...

Event Calendar- Art Deco, 1910-1939 : - United States • Boston • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Through 1/9/2005 -- First seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London "Art Deco 1910-1939" features over 300 works in painting, sculpture, architecture, furniture, textiles, glass, metal, jewellery, graphic art, product, transport and industrial design, fash..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images14/artdeco.jpg

Event Calendar- Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780 Ц 1918 - Austria • Vienna • Kunsthistorisches Museum

Through 2/20/2004 -- In the exhibition some 180 selected pieces of Viennese silver form the neo-classical period to the Wiener Werkstätte are compared with the architecture and design icons of the 20th century; the result is an examination of Vienna`s role in the history of m..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images20/viennese_silver.jpg

Event Calendar- Viennese Silver: Modern Design 1780 Ц 1918 - Austria • Vienna • Kunsthistorisches Museum

Through 2/20/2005 -- In the exhibition some 180 selected pieces of Viennese silver form the neo-classical period to the Wiener Werkstätte are compared with the architecture and design icons of the 20th century; the result is an examination of Vienna`s role in the history of m..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images20/viennese_silver.jpg

Event Calendar- Pipon: Sursaut : Light Installation - Germany • Munich • Hauptzollamt / Glaskuppel

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Event Calendar- Pipon: Sursaut : Light Installation - Germany • Munich • Hauptzollamt / Glaskuppel

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Event Calendar- UNESCO-ICOMOS: International Millennium Congress - France • PARIS • Unesco Headquarters

Ongoing -- The three-day Congress will provide an overview of research, studies and state-of-the-art of knowledge in different fields of architectural heritage related to the conservation and restoration of monuments, buildings, historic towns, archaeological sites and o...

Event Calendar- The Greek Classical Period : Illusion or Reality. - Germany • Berlin • Martin-Gropius-Bau

Ongoing -- Some 600 objects from museums around the world present an era of ancient Greece that had an enormous influence far beyond Greece itself. Only a few generations after it was created, Greek – and above all Athenian – literature, architecture and visu...

Event Calendar- Arne Jacobsen Ц Absolutely Modern: - Denmark • HUMLEBAEK • Louisiana Museum of Art

Ongoing -- Louisiana’s exhibition will be the most extensive centennial celebration of Danish architect and designer Arne-Jacobsen’s birth. The show comprises architecture, furniture design, landscape gardening, textile design, photographs and watercolours, ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images12/arnejacobsen.jpg

Event Calendar- Die Br№cke: - Spain • Madrid • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Through 5/15/2005 -- The Brücke artists group was formed in 1905 in Dresden. Its members included the architecture students Erich Heckel, Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Cuno Amiet and Otto Mueller were among the most o..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images23/max_pechstein.jpg

Event Calendar- Third Triennial of Photography Hamburg: - Germany • Hamburg • Various venues

Through 6/19/2005 -- Over 100 exhibitions on view in 84 museums, galleries and cultural institutions are part of the Third Triennial of Photography in Hamburg. EMArchive of the Presence/EM is the theme for this year's triennial and through a series of lectures, wor...

Event Calendar- Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the TouristТs Eye: - United States • Chicago • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Through 6/5/2005 -- PThe works in the exhibition range from large scale installations and sculptures to more intimate photographs and videos and focus on the phenomenon of international visual artists whose work responds to their experience of traveling and living within ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images24/jeff_koons.jpg

Event Calendar- Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design - United States • New York • Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Ongoing -- An international showcase of products, architecture, and digital media that explore the role of “skin” as outer surface and structural form. ...

Event Calendar- Ballet National de Marseille: - France • Marseille • Thщтtre national de Marseille la Criщe

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Event Calendar- Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer: - United States • Pittsburgh • Carnegie Museum Of Art

Through 2/5/2006 -- Luke Swank (1890–1944) found beauty in the grittiness of the steel industry, explored the behind-the-scenes life of the circus, made portraits, transformed mundane household items and industrial parts into interesting abstract forms and examined historic..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images25/luke_swank.jpg

Event Calendar- Andrew Wyeth: Memory & Magic: - United States • Atlanta • High Museum of Art

Through 2/26/2006 -- Approximately one hundred tempera paintings, watercolors, and drawings, many from the personal collection of Andrew and Betsy Wyeth, will be seen or shown together for the first time. The exhibition will focus on recurrent themes in the artist's work, such as ...

Event Calendar- Peter Hujar: - United States • Queens, New York • P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Through 1/16/2006 -- PAn exhibition of more than seventy photographs by Peter Hujar, a highly regarded New York photographer of the 1970s and 1980s who died of AIDS in 1987. The range of Hujar’s subjects — studio portraits, nudes, landscapes, the city street, m..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images26/peter_hujar_fayette.jpg

Event Calendar- Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo : - Japan • Tokyo • Mori Art Museum

Through 5/7/2006 -- PEMTokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo/EM traces the cultural links between these two capitals from the end of the nineteenth century until the present day and attempts to reflect their varied interaction through some 500 works div..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images26/george_grosz.jpg

Event Calendar- Maison Cauchie: - Belgium • BRUSSELS • Maison Cauchie

Ongoing -- No visit to Brussels would be complete without a visit to the Maison Cauchie - one of the finest examples of Art Nouveau art and architecture in Europe. ...

Event Calendar- Frank Gehry: Art + Architecture - Canada • Toronto • Art Gallery of Ontario

Through 5/7/2006 -- SPAN class=body1This exhibition places Transformation AGO within the past ten years of the architect’s career, featuring drawings, models and site photographs of recently completed projects, along with working models generated through the design ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images26/frank_gehry_disney_concert_hall.jpg

Event Calendar- The Forsythe Company: - Germany • Berlin • Spielzeiteuropa

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Event Calendar- The Forsythe Company: - Australia • Adelaide • Festival Theatre

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Event Calendar- Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic: - United States • Philadelphia • Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Event Calendar- Ettore Sottsass, Designer: - United States • Los Angeles • Los Angeles County Museum

Through 6/11/2006 -- This exhibition is a full retrospective of Ettore Sottsass' career, and presentx the wide array of objects he has created: furniture, ceramics, glass, utilitarian and decorative items for domestic, business and retail environments, together with plans, photogr...

Event Calendar- On-Site: New Architecture in Spain: - United States • New York • Museum of Modern Art

Through 5/1/2006 -- The exhibition features thirty-five significant architectural projects that are currently in design or under construction. These works are considered in relation to an additional eighteen projects, each of which are a major architectural accomplishment complet..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images26/barajas_airport_madrid.jpg

Event Calendar- Documenta11: - Germany • Kassel • Kunsthalle Fridericianum and other galleries

Ongoing -- Held every five years, the Documenta is one of the most important events for contemporary visual arts worldwide. The first Documenta, created by Kassel painter and academy professor Arnold Bode in 1955, was an unexpected success. The exhibition, which was laun...

Event Calendar- Eva Hesse: Sculpture: - United States • New York • The Jewish Museum

Through 9/17/2006 -- PThe exhibition focuses on Hesse’s large-scale latex and fiberglass sculptures, subtle and luminous works that are singular achievements.  Also on view are significant earlier sculptures and drawings which show the creative evolution of ...

Event Calendar- Contemporary Rock Poster Art: - United States • San Francisco • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Through 9/5/2006 -- PAn installation of some 26 contemporary rock posters by design studio Urban Inks as well as noted San Francisco artist Rex Ray as part of the ongoing exhibition EMThe Art of Design: The Architecture and Design Collection/EM./P ...

Event Calendar- Modernism: Designing A New World 1914 - 1939: - England • London • Victoria and Albert Museum

Through 7/23/2006 -- PThe exhibition concentrates on the years 1914 -1939. Europe and, to a lesser extent, America are the focus but the reach of Modernism is demonstrated by selected exhibits or projects from different parts of the world. The show focuses on architecture ...

Event Calendar- Contemporary Arab Representations: The Iraqi Equation - Spain • Barcelona • Fundaciє Antoni Tрpies, Barcelona

Through 6/25/2006 -- PEMContemporary Arab Representations/EM is a long-term project which includes presentations of works by authors from different disciplines (visual arts, architecture, literature, thought, film), seminars, performances and publications. ...

Event Calendar- The Welfare Show: - Canada • Toronto • The Power Plant at Harbourfront Centre

Through 5/28/2006 -- PThe Power Plant presents EMThe Welfare Show/EM, a large scale thematic exhibition by Scandinavian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. Elmgreen and Dragset are well known for their large-scale interventions into gallery architec..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images27/prada_marfa.jpg

Event Calendar- Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era - Austria • Vienna • Kunsthalle

Through 9/17/2006 -- PThis show bears witness to a social, political, ethnic and sexual liberation that had its beginning in the 1967 “summer of love” in San Francisco. The crossover between psychedelic art, political revolution and counter-culture found its re..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images27/eric_clapton.jpg

Event Calendar- Knut ┼sdam - Retrospective: - Norway • Oslo • Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art

Through 9/3/2006 -- Knut Åsdam (b 1968) is one of Norway's most internationally distinguished young artists. He uses film, video, photography, text, sound and architecture to probe the borders between subject and setting. Life in the contemporary urban scene is one of the re..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images27/knut_asdam_pissing.jpg

Event Calendar- Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi : - United States • Long Island City, New York • The Noguchi Museum

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Event Calendar- Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo: Die Kunst zweier Stфdte - Germany • Berlin • Neue Nationalgalerie

Through 10/3/2006 -- PFirst on view at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo earlier this season,EM Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo/EM traces the cultural links between these two capitals from the end of the nineteenth century until the present day and attempts to r..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images26/george_grosz.jpg

Event Calendar- Umbria Jazz 2006: - Italy • Perugia • Various venues

Through 7/17/2006 -- PTwo weeks of Jazz non stop amidst the Etruscan and Roman ruins, gothic cathedral and fourteenth century churches of Perugia. The combination of music, architecture, food, and ambience and taking all those into account, this is probably the best Jazz F..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images3/sonsof5.jpg

Event Calendar- Bruno Di Lecce: - Italy • Rome • A.A.M. Architettura Arte Mode

Through 9/2/2006 -- Italian photographer Bruno di Lecce (b. 1980) works on the points of contact between visual arts and architecture. His research concentrates on the themes of identity and memory. The exhibition presents approximately fifteen photographs on the theme of identit...

Turkish Writer Orhan Pamuk Receives German Peace Prize

Controversial Turkish author Orhan Pamuk received the German book tradeТs prestigious Peace Prize for works that explore life in a changing Turkey. He is also set to go on trial in December in Turkey for media statements about the mass murder of Armenians and Kurds in Turkey in 1915.

Seen on the Net: 'One of the Dark Places of the Earth': Virtual Visit to Gorщe's 'House of Slaves'

Goree Island, Senegal: Unesco creates a 'virtual visit' to Goree Island's 'House of Slaves' and the infamous 'Gate of No Return.' Great Black History month feature.

2007 National Book Awards and European Literary Prizes Announced

Coveted book awards and literary prizes in the U.S. and Europe make headlines this week.

Book Review: Movie Love in the Fifties by James Harvey

A review of James HarveyТs new appraisal of postwar Hollywood movies in the 1950s

Dining Out: Buenos Aires

An insider's tip paves a shorter path to the Argentine capital's most savory pleasures.

Muslim Power in Europe and its Impact on Spanish Cuisine

Almonds, saffron, paprika, peppers and sweets for pastries were among the many ingredients and spices associated with the cuisine of Muslim Spain.

Agents of Change: Baroque Instruments and the Atlantic Slave Trade

This winter, travellers to Britain with an interest in history and baroque music can hear an unusual programme of Italian violin concertos and visit the blockbuster exhibition on the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Music for the Millennium: John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists

The Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, under the leadership of their founder and conductor, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, rounded off their recent European tour with an outstanding concert at the Barbican Hall in London on 3 December.

Restoration of the Grand Foyer of the Palais Garnier in Paris

Before the curtain went up and during the interval, spectators strolled around the newly renovated grandiose Grand Foyer which had been closed to the public since February, 2003.

Event Calendar- Per Kirkeby : - England • London • Tate Modern

Through 9/21/2009 -- PThe work of Danish artist Per Kirkeby (b. 1938) resists easy categorisation. Over the past four decades he has created an oeuvre that encompasses paintings on hardboard and canvas, blackboards, works on paper, small and large-scale bronze sculptures, ...

Event Calendar- Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence: - England • London • Victoria and Albert Museum

Through 7/19/2009 -- PThe magnificence and splendour of Baroque, one of the most opulent styles of the 17th and 18th centuries is the subject of the V&A’s spring exhibition. The exhibition attempts to reflect the complexity and grandeur of the Baroque style, ..."meta name="HeadlineImageURL" content="/images42/charles_II.jpg

REVIEW: EGYPTIAN ART IN THE AGE OF THE PYRAMIDS

Review of archaeological exhibition 'Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids' at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art, in New York.

L'ART EGYPTIEN AU TEMPS DES PYRAMIDES

Même la vieille Egypte a été jeune un jour ! Jeune, et donc un peu hésitante, parfois fantaisiste, tendre ou rieuse à l'occasion, mais déjà douée d'une maîtrise d'enfant prodige. C'est cette Egypte inattendue, entre autres, que présente le Grand Palais jusqu'au 16 août 1999 sous le titre l'Art égyptien au temps des pyramides, relayé par le Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York jusqu'au 9 janvier 2000, et par le Musée royal de l'Ontario à Toronto, à partir du 13 février.

Gates of Paradise to Tour United States

Lorenzo Ghiberti’s celebrated Renaissance doors of the Florentine Baptistery will travel to the United States in 2007.

Pierre Huyghe Wins Hugo Boss Prize 2002

Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and Hugo Boss AG announced that French artist Pierre Huyghe has been awarded the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2002

Gold Processing Center Discovered in the Ancient Kingdom of Kush

Archaeologists have discovered a gold processing center that documents the ancient African kingdom of Kush.

Michelangelo Drawing Found at Cooper-Hewitt

An unsigned drawing by Michelangelo turns up at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City.

WITCHCRAFT AT THE LOUVRE: HEKA, Magic and Bewitchment in Ancient Egypt

Every Egyptian, not just a priest, is a magician in his own way, and shares in the power 'Heka', that the gods have given to man allowing him to act on reality. Even to sculpt or to trace hieroglyphics is to make Heka. The Louvre has organized an exhibition around the sociological theme of Heka magic in its religious and political purpose, as well as in everyday Egyptian life. (This feature also includes a bibliography on Egyptian magic.)

Topkapi Ottoman Princes at the Court of Versailles

review and information about the Topkapi exhibition at the Chтteau de Versailles by culturekiosque.com, Europe's guide to art and entertainment worldwide by international journalists and critics

Exhibition Review Thomas Eakins: An American Realist

A review and photos of Thomas Eakins, An American Realist, an exhibition of paintings, photos, drawings by the nineteenth century American artist Thomas Eakins at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris

Event Calendar- Art Brut and women artists: A Different Eye: - Germany • Cologne • Messeplatz

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Laurie Anderson Awarded Gish Prize

New York performance artist and experimental musician Laurie Anderson was the first artist-in-residence of NASA.

Valery Gergiev at The White Nights Festival

Valery Gergiev, maestro of the Mariinsky Theatre and The White Nights Festival, talks to British journalist Andrew Jack in St Petersburg

klassiknet CD Review

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Alvin Ailey Visits Les Etés de la Danse: Interview with Valéry Colin

The ever-popular Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater had the packed festival audience roaring and stamping its feet.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Burrell Collection: Cultural Legacy or Tourist Package for Glasgow?

For the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley tourist board, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Burrell Collection have become the perfect package tour.

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict; or, Empire Repeats Itself

Imperial overstretch, financial bailouts, media manipulation, war in Mesopotamia, and even (olive) oil: Hadrian's Rome looks eerily modern.

Exhibition Dream Factory Communism: The Visual Culture of the Stalin Era

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Ornette Coleman Wins the Japanese "Praemium Imperiale"

Ornette Coleman Wins the Japanese Praemium Imperiale

New York Fashion Week Parties: Serious Pleasures

"Unlike Paris, where parties go late, or Vienna, where balls last until nearly breakfast, the typical New York function is all but done by 11:00, the frozen desserts left melting in their bowls by professional men and size 2 socialites", write insiders Alan and Julie Behr after the semi-annual circus of Fashion Week shows and parties.

Orhan Pamuk Wins 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature

Pamuk was the first author in the Muslim world to publicly condemn the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. He also qualified the conflict between East and West as "absurd".

Interview with William Ledeuil of Ze Kitchen Galerie in Paris

Chef William Ledeuil talks about his restaurant Ze Kitchen Galerie in Paris and his cookbook 'The Colours of Taste'.

Classical CD Review - 17 May 1999

Classical music CD reviews by Culturekiosque, Europe's guide to arts and entertainment worldwide by international journalists and critics

Aterballetto and Mauro Bigonzetti

"Every time I heard a piece of music, whether classical like Beethoven or Purcell, or jazz or pop, images began to move in front of my eyes, engendering an emotion and giving me the structure of a work, and then I was further inspired by individual dancers, and by my relationship to them."

Art in the Dark: Scene and Herd at the New de Young Museum

"People were dancing and singing to boom boxes, drinking beer and wine, and smoking tobacco and other herbs to pass the time", writes Peter Kupfer about the all-night opening of the new $203 million copper-clad de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Photojournalist Wins Photographer of the Year for Afghanistan Picture 'The Valley'

Images of wars, disasters, gorilla murders, child marriages, hi-tech advertising, beauty and strippers competed for the top prize in Paris.

Glam Slam, Luxe Redux: Current Trends in Interior Design

Design consultant C. Davis Remignanti offers his view on current trends in home decor and reveals the only timeless rule you should ever follow for achieving good design.

Comment: Monuments and Blunders

Alan Behr on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the arrival in Port Everglades, Florida of a Polish railroad car.

Event Calendar- The Male Gaze: Gay Male Art - United States • New York • The powerHouse Arena

Through 5/27/2007 -- PEMThe Male Gaze/EM features the work of mostly contemporary homosexual artists in a variety of media. They examine aspects of the existential condition, identity politics, gender, youth-oriented pop culture, notably American, as well a...

A Tribute to Luther Allison

Other Americans move here for quality of life, for culture, for the architecture - to escape banality. They would like to feel European somehow. Allison, however, was a true expatriate. He remained always a foreigner here. He left something he loved behind, he did not find something new to love.

Un Hommage р Luther Allison

Les musiciens traitent le blues comme le gospel (ou la parole de Dieu). C'est une sorte de vщritщ-mшtre, une mesure de croyance. 'Il ne sait pas jouer le blues' veut dire qu'il est simplement nul.

Interview: Ton Koopman

Culturekiosque interviews the Dutch conductor after a frigid Bach Christmas Oratorio.

Critiques de CD classiques - 17 mai 1999

Critiques de CD classiques par Culturekiosque, le magazine de l'actualitщ culturelle europщenne

Southern Living in Living Color: The Photographs of William Eggleston

A native Southerner raised on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, Eggleston has the ability to speak complex truths in single, garish bursts of artistic discovery.

Sympathy For Europe's Biggest Loser

Alan Behr in New York on Eric D. Weitz' new book about life, art, sex and politics during the Weimar Republic.

Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Hotel: A Design Fiasco’s Lasting Legacy

Form may follow Function, but if they both are being led by Folly, the result is usually disaster. Unable to live with his Swiss hotel’s failure, Heinz Julen sees to it that its controversy lives on.

The Man Who Made Dead Bodies Speak and Fathered the American Public Library

Harold Hyman reports on a travelling exhibition about one of the founders of public libraries in the United States who was expelled from medical school because he made cadavers speak during autopsies.

Art and Archaeology Blog: 'Massive Change' at Vancouver Art Gallery

Massive Change: A Manifesto for the Future of Global Design has opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery, inviting viewers to consider the dynamic future of design culture and the real choices we must make, addressing the fundamental role of design in all aspects of human life, from manufacturing and transportation to health and the military.

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