| 1/30/2009: The might of art | |
| French Minister of Culture Christine Albanel recently presented to the press the project La force de l’art 02 [The might of art 02], second exhibition edition of the great Triennial dedicated to the F...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/30/2009: Gaia becomes the first Atlantic Axis Capital of Culture | |
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The Portuguese city of Vila Nova de Gaia becomes this month the first Atlantic Axis Capital of Culture, a qualification that will be attributed by the axis every two years.
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| 1/30/2009: Comic art at the Louvre! | |
| It is a premiere for the Musée du Louvre in Paris: With the exhibition Le petit dessein the Museum will for the first time and until April 13th 2009 present works by comic-strip artists.
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| 1/27/2009: First Luso-Spanish Museum Meeting aims to strengthen bilateral relations | |
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Forty Portuguese and Spanish museum directors will gather this week in the Spanish city of Merida to strengthen bilateral relationships and encourage common projects.
The I Luso-Spanish Museums Me...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/19/2009: Happy New Year to arts and culture | |
| During his visit to Nîmes last week French president Nicolas Sarkozy addressed his best wishes for the New Year to the arts and cultural world. He pointed out his hope to see the National Assembly pas...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/5/2009: Serralves celebrates 20 years of existence... in spite of budget restrictions | |
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Serralves celebrates this year the 20th anniversary of its Foundation and the 10th of its Modern Art Museum. Although it’s a year of celebration, the budget of the Foundation will be reduced in 10% co...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/29/2008: The art of developing games | |
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More and more artists and humanists find the games industry to be a new field of activity for them. According to Olaf Zimmermann, president of the German Arts Council, sophisticated games highly depen...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/29/2008: First V&A Museum to open outside London | |
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A branch of the London Victoria and Albert Museum, which is considered the world’s premier museum of art and design, is scheduled to open in Dundee, Scotland. The proposal was first put forward in Apr...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/17/2008: departure – The Austrian way of promoting creative industries | |
| In 2003 departure was established as Austria’s first independent business development and service center for companies of the creative industries. Today it is considered a successful example for innov...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/17/2008: The Arctic Arts in Paris | |
| Conferences, workshops, contemporary installations, fairy tale and cinema cycles, events and cultural program, ice skating and ice bar – at this time of the year the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris is a...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/28/2008: 17th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid | |
| The 17th Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid will be taking place in Paris from November 28th to December 7th 2008.
Unpublished works at the frontiers between new cinema and contemporary ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/28/2008: Old Renault factory becomes artistic hub – but for how long ? | |
| A fallow Renault factory site in Lyon, invested by sculptors, painters, musicians and theatre groups, has become a creative and vibrant artistic hotbed. But the artists’ space is to be closed down in ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/25/2008: Villa Medici: plans and ideas of the new director | |
| The Académie de France in Rome, founded under Louis XIV and named Villa Medici, accommodates artists for a specific period of time in order to allow them to perfect their artistic competences, be it i...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/25/2008: When public buildings support contemporary art… | |
| The French Ministry of Culture recently published a brochure on its program „1% artistique” [loose translation: 1% for the arts], a measure supporting the arts within construction and rehabilitations ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/21/2008: 2008 Power List of the contemporary art world | |
| For the seventh year in a row the famous magazine Art Review published a list of the 100 most influent personalities from contemporary art world.
Ranking first is Damien Hirst, leading the Young Brit...... Read Announcement... |
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