| 4/30/2008: Who will be directing the Villa Medici? | |
| Since 1803 the Villa Medici in Rome is housing the Académie de France – eminent symbol of France’s cultural presence abroad. But the Villa has been for some time now in the centre of a dramatic fight....... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/30/2008: First Danish pocketmovie festival take off in September | |
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Cellphones with cameras have provided new possibilities in the area of filmmaking. Therefore Denmarks first pocketmovie-festival, 'Lommefilmfestivalen', is scheduled to take place 5- 6 September this ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/30/2008: New Orient Museum will present Lisbon with fine Asian art next month | |
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May will be a good
month for culture in Lisbon: on the 8th
May, the new Orient Museum will open its doors
to the public, offering a testimony of the historical relations between Portugal and Asia r...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: Philippe Starck: withdrawal of a design icon | |
| “Everything I created is absolutely useless. From a structural point of view design is totally futile. A useful activity is astronomer, biologist or something like that. But design is nothing”, those ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: European Parliament rejects Internet bans for copyright abusers | |
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In a Resolution on Culture Industries in Europe, the European Parliament voted against cutting off copyright abusers from internet access. Measures like the "three-strikes-approach" to disconnect user...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: Arts and art market in Austria | |
| Austria counts around 420 museums, 32 exhibition halls, 92 galleries for contemporary art, 70 festivals and 19 art and antiquity fairs. This dense network of cultural and artistic events and instituti...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: PECHA KUCHA in Vienna | |
| What is Pecha Kucha? Pecha Kucha is Japanese and means „gossip“. In 2003 the Tokyo-based architects Astrid Klein and Marky Dytham had the idea to launch a platform for the creative players of all sect...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: German Bundestag adopts new law on the protection of intellectual property | |
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On 11 April 2008 the German Bundestag adopted the government draft for a law on the improved protection of intellectual property rights in its second and third reading. The opposition parties voted ag...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: European Parliament debate on cultural industries | |
| Around 6 million people are working in the European cultural sector: theatre, film, music etc. But how about the cultural sector in the age of digitization? Can it withstand technological revolution a...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/15/2008: Newsletter "European Creative Industries" – April 1/2008 | |
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Newsletter "European Creative Industries" – April 1/2008
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Herewith you receive all articles published during the last two weeks on our European Information Platform.
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| 4/15/2008: VIENNAFAIR for the 4th time in Vienna | |
| From April 24th to 27th the Austrian capital will be hosting the 4th edition of VIENNAFAIR, the country’s most important international contemporary art fair. Besides the famous Austrian and internatio...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/15/2008: Artprice: the annual art market report for 2007 | |
| Based on 5.4 million sales results from 2900 auction houses the annual report Artprice „Art Market Trends 2007” provides 44 pages of macro- and micro-economic analyses, which inform on current sales a...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/14/2008: Portuguese music market suffers downturn of 6,1 M € in 2007 | |
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Audio and digital music trade in the Portuguese market have undergone a loss of 6,1 million (M) € in 2007, according to the Portuguese Phonographic Association (PPA). Record editors had a 44,5 M € pro...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/10/2008: Innovative cultural tourism project promotes Douro Valley’s wine-growing villages | |
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Aldeias Vinhateiras (wine-growing villages) is an innovative project to regenerate and value a group of six villages in the Douro Valley wine-growing region, in the North of Portugal, promoted by the ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/10/2008: Polish films on the Web | |
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Since 1998 all the film enthusiasts have a perfect tool to follow hot news on Polish films. The www.filmpolski.pl web-site publishes detailed information on Polish Cinematography. One can find there d...... Read Announcement... |
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