Museum galas for Tarantino and Kubrick

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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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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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The German software billionaire Hasso Plattner has withdrawn his offer to build a home for his Modern art collection in Potsdam’s historic city centre, which would also provide space for temporary exhibitions.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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