The world’s oldest telecommunications company, British Telecom (BT), has created an online archive of nearly 500,000 photographs, documents and letters gathered since 1846. The year-long project, New Connections, is due to be completed by July and…
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World’s top exhibitions in 2012
We’ve ranked the top ten shows around the world in 2012 according to category (Impressionist and Modern art, photography, contemporary art, antiquities, etc). Here, you’ll find the top shows for each genre. To see the full rankings and an analysis…
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Ice Age Lion Man is world’s earliest figurative sculpture
The star exhibit initially promised for the British Museum’s “Ice Age Art” show will not be coming—but for a good reason. New pieces of Ulm’s Lion Man sculpture have been discovered and it has been found to be much older than originally…
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Art worlds collide at Kiev’s Pinchuk Art Centre
Two opposing visions of contemporary art collide at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev (PAC), a private space funded by steel magnate Victor Pinchuk. The glossy, high-impact, market-friendly work of Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami and Andreas…
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All the art world’s a stage
There was a distinctly arty flavour to last Thursday’s performance of “Timon of Athens” at the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. The action kicked off at a museum opening, where fawning acolytes foisted dreadful pictures upon their eponymous…
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Obama wins the art world’s support
Despite the introduction of policies that have alienated sections of the arts lobby, it looks as though key figures in the US art world will once again step up to back Barack Obama as their candidate in the presidential race.
In February 2008,…
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European Union proposes world’s largest ever cultural funding programme
As the economic crisis deepens across Europe, the European Commission plans to launch the world’s largest ever cultural funding programme, with €1.8bn allocated for visual and performing arts, film, music, literature and architecture. The…
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The World’s Best Art Consultancy
The World’s Best Art Consultancy
art-exchange.com unveils Release III of its art tool for designers
The Future Art Consultancy
Locating and placing artwork in a design project is arguably the most difficult part of the project. While some designers take on this task themselves, many enlist the assistance of an art consultant. One limitation of this approach is the consultant’s limited universe of artists. Most art consultants end up with a few “go-to” favorites.