PARIS (AP).- “Parlez-moi d’amour.” Speak to me of love. This is Paris and the language is love — crazy love — amid the creative folly of a city whose ethereal beauty and bawdy underside spell magic. Spend a day, and a de rigueur night, here a…
Christie’s Names Brett Gorvy Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Brett Gorvy has been named Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s. In an expanded role, Gorvy will be the sole leader of the Post-War and Contemporary Art business on a worldwide basis and at…
Nicolas Feuillatte Selects Julien Taylor as the "Artist of the Year"
NEW YORK, NY.- Every year since 1999, Nicolas Feuillatte has selected and named the “artist of the year”, who creates an original and exclusive work to add dimension to the brand identity. Each artist brings their own individual interpretation, sy…
Kunsthaus Zürich Shows ‘The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
ZURICH.- From 25 February to 15 May 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich is hosting ‘The Original Copy’, which assembles more than 300 photographs from the dawn of modernism to the present. By over 100 leading photographers and path breaking sculptors…
Kunsthaus Zürich Shows ‘The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
ZURICH.- From 25 February to 15 May 2011, the Kunsthaus Zürich is hosting ‘The Original Copy’, which assembles more than 300 photographs from the dawn of modernism to the present. By over 100 leading photographers and path breaking sculptors…
Getty Museum Displays Stories to Watch: Narrative in Medieval Manuscripts
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The illuminators of medieval manuscripts found creative ways to tell stories through pictures. A sequence of illustrations was often linked on a page, or several parts of a tale were incorporated in a single image. On view at the J. P…
Evolution of the Conception of Beauty in Contemporary Glass Art at Mudac in Lausanne
LAUSANNE.- Launched in the early 1970s, the mudac collection has reached the respectable age of forty. It has attained a level of maturity that invites in-depth critical examination of its sources. After all, four decades of collecting activity the wor…
New Purpose-built Cultural Centre for Manchester to Bring Together Library Theatre and Cornerhouse
MANCHESTER.- A major new cultural facility will help unlock up to 10,000 jobs in a key regeneration area in Manchester city centre. Two unique Manchester creative organisations, Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company, will join forces in a stunning pu…
German Architects Get Creative with Portable Storage, Transform a Subway Stop into a Mini Opera House
KANSAS CITY, MO.- If you’ve ever taken a subway ride, you’re familiar with what goes on at the underground stops. It’s no different in Germany—unless you get off in the Ruhr District between Mülheim and Essen. That’s where German architecture fi…
After 23,358 Submissions, Mediums Collide at YouTube’s Guggenheim Exhibit
NEW YORK (AP).- After 23,358 submissions and countless double-clicks, the results are in for YouTube’s “biennial of creative video.” On Thursday night, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Google Inc.-owned video website presented “YouTube Play,” a…