Author: Darko Topalski

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center and the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) announce the relaunch of ArtsConnectEd, their award-winning
educational Web site. The new ArtsConnectEd includes a rich array of
extra features, such as the ability to contribute content through comments,
tags, and ratings, and it invites teachers and students to create and upload
presentations, lesson plans, and curricula and classroom materials.
These changes make the Web site more responsive to the needs of
educators, students, higher education scholars, and an international
public—while maintaining and improving the site’s access to both institutions’
collections, educational resources, and archives.

LONDON.- “History in the Making” or the “Secret Diaries of
Linda Schultz” follows protagonists John Webber, a political activist, and Linda
Schultz, a graphic designer, as they awake one morning to discover they have
each been subject to an unexpected and radical sex change. In this new
theatrical work, Keren Cytter playfully chronicles the repercussions on society
and sexual politics that follow, utilising choreography, language, film and
music. Directed and written by Cytter, and choreographed in collaboration with
D.I.E NOW (Dance International Europe Now), a group of actors and artists formed
by Cytter in 2008, the story unfolds through a series of scenes; banal
everyday gestures are contrasted with highly stylised movements using mimicry
and silhouette, eventually reaching a crescendo of absurd theatricality, when
social revolution occurs.

SAN DIEGO, CA.- San Diego’s first Beyond the
Border International Contemporary Art Fair (BTB ICAF), scheduled for September 2
through 4, 2009. The 3-day contemporary art fair will be held at The Grand Del
Mar, San Diego’s newest luxury resort in Coastal North San Diego
County. The event will showcase over $4 million in artwork by prominent
national and international galleries coupled with sponsors such as Maserati,
Modern Luxury Media, Qualcomm, Christie’s, The American Institute of Wine and
Food, The California Bipolar Foundation, and many others. Organizers anticipate
over 3,000 qualified new and established collectors over the three days. The
public is invited to attend the event, which marks the first time these national
and international galleries with investment-grade art will be presented in San
Diego.

VERO BEACH, FL – The Gallery at Windsor is pleased to present Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making from December 7, 2008 – April 20, 2009 in Vero Beach, Florida. Founded in 2002, The Gallery at Windsor is an independent art space located in the heart of the Windsor community. It invites curators to respond to the space with exhibitions that reflect the Windsor environment. This year, The Gallery has chosen Alex Katz, a leading American artist who has defined possibilities in figurative art since the 1950s, exerting significant influence upon generations of younger artists.

MADRID.- “The story we propose is more like The
Thousand and One Nights than War and Peace”. With this graphic example the head
of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia referred to the reorganization
of the museum’s collection which will open to the public today. One and
a half years after starting his job at the museum of contemporary art, Manuel
Borja-Villel, has made a complete turn around and now the museum’s collection
shows modern art in a new way and starts off with works made by There will no
longer be a linear exhibition of works of art, by date, creator and theme,
but what there will be is a scheme where relations and connections will
allow us to see movies made by Buster Keaton and Luis Buñuel together with the
works made by Goya, Solana and Picasso and also African art, which so inspired
the artist from Malaga.