November 2009
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36 Toronto Dealers Captured – by an artist!!
Selected Toronto art dealers featured in a suite of portraits by artist Viktor Mitic
In this remarkable portrait-survey of thirty-six of Toronto’s most distinctive and influential art dealers, artist Viktor Mitic has captured and illuminated the unique individual personalities of his subjects. Depicting by turns their passion, insouciance, vivacity, shrewdness, eccentricity, geniality, and more,...
It Takes a Village: 2009's Kandinsky Prize... →
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Bombardier Interior Designs For Trains Contest →
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The ” YouRail - Visions of modern transportation ” design and idea contest by Bombardier is about the creation of new and innovative interior designs for trains. It is hosted by the HYVE Innovation…
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Tate Appoints First Photography Curator
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MAN RAY AWARD TO CINDY SHERMAN
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Go See – New York: Paul McCarthy ‘White Snow’ at... →
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Paul McCarthy “[Shit Pie (White Snow)]” (2009), at Hauser & Wirth.
Hauser & Wirth’s New York gallery is showing an entirely new collection of works by Paul McCarthy. “White Snow”…
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OPENING TONIGHT: Shirley Shor Exhibtion at Yeshiva...
Please join us tonight, Wednesday November 18, 2009, for the opening of *In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, *a group exhibition feautring a installation piece titled *The Well* by Mike Weiss Gallery Artist, *Shirley Shor*. Other artists in the exhibition include Alan Berliner, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Matthew Ritchie and Ben Rubin. The opening will be TONIGHT from 6 to 8 pm at the...
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Sotheby's hopes Zero Art sale will raise plenty |... →
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The World's first Twitter murder mystery novel has...
The world’s first entirely Twittered murder mystery novel has started on Twitter. Reading it is completely free, readers just have to sign up for Twitter.com and then follow @whodunit140.
‘I love the idea of people being able to read the story without having to pay for it,’ said the author, ‘as well as the freedom to write whatever I like.’
The story will develop...
News & Events « AIS, College of LAS, University of... →
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At the Threshold of Incarceration and Militarism: The Making of the U.S. Navy’s War Crimes Tribunals Program, 1945-1949 Keith L. Camacho Postdoctoral Fellow, American Indian Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tuesday, December 1, 2009 12 noon - 1:30 pm Native American House, Conference Room 1204 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL Open to the public On March 24, 1945,...
A Weird Juxtaposition of Food and Art
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Next month, a McDonalds will open next to the Louvre’s underground entrance. This recent news has angered art-enthusiasts, collectors, and pretty much all of France, but apparently, placing fast-food restaurants and other chains next to famous sites is nothing new.
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After 580 years and 24 emperors, Beijing’s Forbidden City got its first franchise in 2000 – a...
MOCA Is Back With A Little Help ($60 Million... →
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Abu Dhabi to host The Guggenheim →
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Nam June Paik Art Center Prize Recipients... →
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“A Call To Arms”
Nov. 4 ~ 29
Andrew Morrow / Meghan Myres / Annette Hegel / Daphne Gerou
Katherine Haycock / Peter Purdy / Robert Fontaine / Scott Waters
This art in this show comes with a warning label: “this group of artists have created political art that rocks the boat”. Political artists are often cast as “difficult” but knowledgeable art lovers always go to the most difficult piece in...
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Mental Mediations: paintings by Ammar Qusaibaty
The Jerusalem Gallery, in Washington, DC is happy to announce a solo art show by Ammar Qusaibaty scheduled to open on Nov 20 under a theme of Mental Mediations. These abstract images, two-sided painting on transparent sheets, express the artist’s dual influences of metaphor in the Arabic language and the rigor of abstract mathematics.
According to the artist the world is best exposed as a system...
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Latest edition of Flaneur art and culture zine...
The latest issue of Flaneur magazine is available today at www.flaneur.me.uk . Flaneur is an independent zine that publishes new fiction, art, reviews and humour. ‘We are an eclectic mix of artists and writers who contribute ideas and images,’ said the editor. ‘We make a magazine that we like and hope that readers will too.’
Flaneur has been published intermittently since...