A concept by the artist John Baldessari to display a human cadaver as a work of art could one day be realised, a leading curator believes, despite a recent failed effort to find and display a dead body within the strict legal framework surrounding…
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Art world big hitters back London hospital project
In a healthy move, leading organisations and figures in the art world have thrown their weight behind an ambitious new arts programme based at a west London hospital. The Serpentine Gallery, Christie’s, the artist Anish Kapoor and Mark Godfrey, the…
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Fight continues to realise Christo’s Colorado River project
The artist Christo’s long legal battle to erect Over the River in Colorado hit another roadblock when a US judge ordered that no construction of the project may proceed until a legal challenge against the work has concluded.
Two separate…
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Kabakovs’ Cuban project provokes US government in election year
A project by the artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov during the 11th Havana Biennial was nearly derailed when the US Department of the Treasury denied the artists the necessary public performance and exhibition licence that would allow five US children…
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Thomas Demand to create art project in Sydney
Following in the footsteps of contemporary artists including Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, John Baldessari and Michael Landy, the German artist Thomas Demand is creating a John Kaldor public art project, due to open in Sydney on 23 March (until 22…
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Thomas Demand to create Kaldor art project in Sydney
Following in the footsteps of contemporary artists including Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, John Baldessari and Michael Landy, the German artist Thomas Demand is creating a John Kaldor public art project, due to open in Sydney on 23 March (until 22…
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For the record: MoMA’s oral history project
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will reinstall James Rosenquist’s F-111, 1964-65, recreating the way it was first installed in Leo Castelli’s Upper East Side gallery in 1965. Due to be unveiled shortly (the exact date has not yet been…
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Google’s art project – latest cash cow for the Internet giant?
The latest Google’s Art project appears to be a huge successâ¦.and Google’s newest cash cow. The idea was not innovative as others like VIP Art Fair and Artlog, along with museums and art galleries websites were already offering online art tours. What is making the Google’s Art project superior to the others is the way it was executed. Well thought and designed user interface, high resolution images with zooming, online collection-building, integrating 3D gallery Space with Flat Images (a very physical sense of how large works are and how they are presented next to each other) and public access.