Two giants of modern movie-making are honoured this autumn in benefit galas organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma). Quentin Tarantino, the director of cult hits such as “Reservoir…
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Tate buys work about Sabra and Shatila massacres
The Tate in London is buying a work based on the massacre of Palestinian refugees,sheltering in camps near Beirut in 1982, which has been called the “modern Guernica”.
Sabra and Shatila Massacre, 1982-83, is a vast drawing by the Iraqi…
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Ancient stones revealed on tapestry
The cleaning of an Elizabethan tapestry map has revealed what may be the earliest depiction of the Rollright Stones, a series of Neolithic and Bronze Age megaliths in the English Midlands, says Maggie Wood, the keeper of social history at…
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Arab Spring turmoil scuppers two shows
The Centre for Fine Arts (Bozar) in Brussels has been forced to postpone two major exhibitions due to open this autumn because of complications arising from the Arab Spring. Political turmoil in the Middle East has made it increasingly difficult to…
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German billionaire’s plan thwarted in Potsdam
The German software billionaire Hasso Plattner has withdrawn his offer to build a home for his Modern art collection in Potsdam’s historic city centre, which would also provide space for temporary exhibitions.
At the end of April, Plattner…
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This is not a talent show, says curator of Venice Architecture Biennale
“The Architecture Biennale is not an ‘Architecture’s Got Talent’ show.” So says David Chipperfield, the British curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens on Wednesday (29 August-25 November). His theme is “Common Ground”, his aim…
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Researcher, Year Ahead publication
We need a temporary, full-time researcher for The Art Newspaper‘s Year Ahead publication. You will enter into a computer database the dates and titles of future exhibitions organised by leading art museums worldwide. You must be available to…
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New font for Rijksmuseum rebrand
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has been radically rebranded in time for the long awaited reopening of the museum in April next year, with a jaunty new house style for its catalogues, signage, paper and posters. “My starting point was the fact that the…
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Other Weather Projects
Add another biennial to the calendar, but one with a twist—or do we mean twister? The National Weather Center Biennale, the “first national juried exhibition featuring art about weather”, due to take place in April 2013, is looking for…
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Seattle’s lifeline for non-profit arts jobs
Seattle has launched a new programme, Arts Mean Business, which aims to distribute $ 250,000 to jobs that keep Seattle’s arts and cultural organisations financially afloat.
Non-profit institutions can apply to the city’s