JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) announced the joint acquisition of Ann Lislegaard’s Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard) (2006), a silent two-screen video installation from a trilogy …
Israel Museum and Museum in San Diego Jointly Purchase Ann Lislegaard Video Installation
JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) announced the joint acquisition of Ann Lislegaard’s Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard) (2006), a silent two-screen video installation from a trilogy …
Exhibition of Works from 1976-2010 by Herlinde Koelbl at the Munchner Stadtmuseum
MUNICH.- Herlinde Koelbl is one of Germany’s most renowned photographers and producers of documentary films. This exhibition at the Münchner Stadtmuseum displays her multifaceted works. Special emphasis is placed on her photo series “Das deu…
Egypt’s Antiquities Department Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Oasis Trading Post
CAIRO (AP).- Egypt’s antiquities department announced Wednesday the discovery of a 3,500-year-old settlement in a desert oasis, showing the existence of vibrant desert trade routes that stretched from the Mediterranean down into Sudan from the early da…
Archaeologists Find Tunnel Below the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan
MEXICO CITY.- After eight months of excavation, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have located, 12 meters below , the entrance to the tunnel leading to a series of galleries beneath the Temple of the Feathere…
Culhuacan, the other Crib of Zapatism Houses Exhibition
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- An Emiliano Zapata that loved the land and fought for it is the image presented at the exhibition Tierra y libertad: ecos del zapatismo en Culhuacan (Land and Freedom: Echoes of Zapatism in Culhuacan), integrated with different peri…
INAH Submerged Archaeology Documentary Season at MNA
MEXICO CITY.- For over 30 years, submerged archaeology in Mexico has developed and consolidated in different areas from the formation of specialists to the use of advanced technology; research has focused in diverse themes as well, from the study of fi…
Arne Quinze Builds a New Installation on a Bridge in Rouen
ROUEN.- For the festival Rouen Impressionnée, the city of Rouen asked Arne Quinze to create an installation, Camille, on the Boieldieu bridge in the center of Rouen. “ When I visited Rouen and got to see the Boieldieu bridge for the first time, …
UK Coastal Town to Be Transformed by Six Contemporary Artists
LONDON.- Launching in September 2010,
Wonders of
Weston will feature artworks by six internationally renowned
contemporary
artists: Ruth Claxton, Tim Etchells, Lara Favaretto, Tania Kovats in
association
with landscape architects Grant Ass…
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present
MADRID.- Mixed Use Manhattan, the title of this exhibition, refers to land-use zoning – specifically, to neighbourhoods or individual buildings in which a combination of commercial and residential functions is permitted. In the early 1970s, rezoni…