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MODENA.- SPEED_M is a series of exhibitions dedicated to Italian photographers, following one another in rapid succession within the spaces of METRONOM. In solo shows Bruno Cattani, Michele Buda and Enrico Moretti will be presenting a thematic selection of works. The exhibitions aim to be contemporary proposals for looking at photography through themes, techniques and subjectivity. The first show, Eros, features Bruno Cattani with a series of photographic works from a research project, which he has been pursuing for several years, dealing with exhibition places. Bruno Cattani’s work is not artistic documentation: his journey through museum spaces – places of time par excellence – becomes a way of looking at art works, at sculptures, with a private and biased eye. Cattani’s photographic eye leaves the works of art to speak, restricting himself to suggesting relationships and dialogues,

LONDON.- Fascinating photographs of London Women’s Pub Outings in Battersea and Clapham taken by Scottish photographer Grace Robertson in the 1950s are being sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Photographs on 20 May 2010. The four images follow a group of women on a series of pub outings laughing, dancing, forming a conga line and going on a theme park ride. Robertson commented on the experience of photographing these women: “I can’t recall ever having been present at a more high-spirited gathering of like-minded people who, for a few hours, gave themselves utterly to the enjoyment of the moment.” The photographs, which were printed in the British photojournalism publication Picture Post, are expected to fetch £500 – 800 each. The sale features 18 important examples of mid-20th century photojournalism in total, including works by Thurston Hopkins such as La Dolce Vita, Knightsbridge,

NEW YORK, NY.- TheGreatNude.tv, a web-magazine founded in 2007, will present the TheGreatNude Invitational on the mezzanine level of the Roger Smith Hotel in NYC from May 13 to 16, 2010. The Invitational will highlight artworks featuring the nude form – from the academic to the cutting edge – with works from over 20 established and emerging contemporary artists from around the world. Artists from France, Germany, Norway, Poland and the US are on exhibit (see Exhibitor List below) which features a special exhibition in cooperation with The Nerdrum Institute entitled Corpus Hermeticum, curated by Leah Poller, featuring legendary artist Odd Nerdrum, along with Adam Miller, Richard T. Scott and Fedele Spadafora. Opening Night Reception on Thursday, May 13th is from 6pm to 9pm; Live Nude Sketch Parties on May 14th and 15th. Come draw the models with exhibiting artists or just have a drink and view the Invitational. On Sunday

SHANGHAI.- Feel the Harmony – this is the theme for the presentation of the Austrian pavilion on the occasion of the EXPO in Shanghai. The construction with its distinctively flowing surface creates the impression of a seamless surface; there are, however, used 60 million joints for providing for a uniform distribution of the tension forces. The entire outward facade is covered by a glimmering porcelain coat consisting of 10 million Chinese tiles, fading from red into white. A curved ramp leads the visitors into the interior of the construction, and from there onto a tour visiting the highlights of Austria: from beautiful landscape scenes on to the cultural heritage as well as rather impressive economic and technological performances and achievements. The visitors are presented a rather diverse selection of sensuous impressions combining virtuality and reality in a unique kind of experience. High-resolution panoramas and imageries of real landscape spots are projected ont

MEXICO CITY.- Six giant figureheads at Chakanbakan Archaeological Zone, Quintana Roo, considered the greatest and among the earliest in the area, will be restored by specialists of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). Created more than 2,300 years ago, these sculptures remind the Olmeca style, which represented deities with jaguar faces, revealing the adoption by Maya of elements from earliest cultures. Intervention to figureheads made out of stucco, clay and stone is coordinated by Gerardo Calderon and conducted by specialists from the INAH National Coordination of Cultural Heritage Conservation (CNCPC). “A team of restorers will begin an integral cleaning in May 2010, followed by plastering and reintegration of small missing parts, as well as consolidation”, informed archaeologist Fernando Cortes, in charge of the archaeological zone. He added that during conservation work, restorers will tak

By: Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP).- The suit O.J. Simpson wore on the day he was acquitted of murder has been delivered to the Newseum in Washington, D.C., where it will be part of a display focusing on the trial that was viewed by millions. Susan Bennett, vice president and deputy director of the museum of news, said the Armani was transported Thursday by Simpson’s former manager, Mike Gilbert, who had it in storage for nearly 15 years. Gilbert flew to Washington from California carrying the tan suit, white shirt and gold tie in a garment bag. Bennett said the clothing has been placed in the artifact preparation area and Newseum officials hope to have it ready for display by October, which will mark the 15th anniversary of Simpson’s acquittal in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. Simpson was acquitted Oct. 3, 1995, after a televised trial that riveted the nation. “We are very careful with all o

VIENNA.- In the Czech artist Jiří Kovanda, the Secession once again presents an artist in an advanced stage of his career who is currently considered an important point of reference for younger artists. For his first solo show at an institution in Vienna, he has conceived a new installation specifically designed for the main hall at the Secession. In this new work, he continues his subtle praxis of minimal and offhand gestures. The public perception of Jiří Kovanda’s work often focuses on his early interventions in the public space. During the second half of the 1970s, he implemented a series of performances in Prague that examined the socially familiar on the edge of invisibility, probing the leeway everyday life leaves the individual. For instance, he would stare, as though spellbound, in the eyes of people standing behind him on an escalator, or stand, arms spread wide, on the city’s central Wenceslas Square. In other works, he staged perfectly humble mate

BERLIN.- Works by Michael Snow: Piano Sculpture and Sex is Michael Snow’s second exhibition at Klosterfelde. With his work of the past 50 years, the Canadian artist (born in 1928) has pushed just about every possible button of artistic expression there is. A pioneer of early experimental film, Michael Snow has tested out such diverse media as painting, photography, installation, video, musical improvisation and performance. Led by a rigorous interest in the particular medium and a high keenness to experiment with its material qualities and constraints, the artist playfully addresses questions of representation and conventions of perception. While the first exhibition at the gallery in 2002 focused on Snow’s sound-works, juxtaposing installations of cassette players, live recordings of his band CCMC, and CD-books, Piano Sculpture and Sex creates a survey with early drawings from the 50’s, sculptures and photogr

BIRMINGHAM.- MAC (Midlands Arts Centre), the pioneering Birmingham arts centre, opened its doors to the public on 1 May 2010, following a two year £15 million expansion and refurbishment programme. Set in the 8.6 acre Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, MAC was the brainchild of local philanthropist John English, the theatre writer and director, and his wife Alicia (Mollie) Randle. It was one of the first of a wave of arts centre developments in the 1960s, which sought to bring the arts out of conventional museums and theatres and into the heart of local communities. Since its original conception as a centre for children and young people, MAC has grown to reach out to all ages and backgrounds in the community and is widely regarded as the most successful arts centre in the country, with more than half a million visitors a year drawn from across the whole of the West Midlands. It has played a creative role in the early stage of th

LOS ANGELES, CA.- A painting, contemporaneously taken from an important 1950 Port-au-Prince religious mural lost in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, is being offered for sale at Bonhams in New York on May 11 during the inaugural bi-coastal Modern, Contemporary and Latin American Art auction. The oil on masonite painting titled Nativity, which will be unveiled to the public at Bonhams in Los Angeles on April 30, was painted by leading Haitian artist Rigaud Benoit. The work was produced around the time Benoit was commissioned, along with three other leading Haitian artists, to paint a monumental mural series in the apse of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, located close to the National Palace in Port-au-Prince’s main square. Importantly, this commission likely marks the first time in the country’s history that local artists were invited and paid to create art in a public space. With the original mural now destroyed, this painting carr