MADRID.- During the meeting held on October 4th and 5th last, the ARCOmadrid Organising Committee selected a total of 141 galleries for its General Programme and ARCO 40. These will be joined by a further 38 galleries who will be featuring in the vario…
Fernando Botero’s Rotund and Voluptuous Forms at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest
BUDAPEST.- Rotund and voluptuous forms, characteristically simple and expressive figures, people, animals and objects dominate the works of Colombian-born Fernando Botero. The language of his colourful and often luminous works is understandable for all…
International Design Festival Design Act 2010 Opens in Moscow
MOSCOW.- From August 31 to September 5, 2010 Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art Winzavod will hold the fourth International Design Festival Design Act 2010. The DESIGN ACT mission is to showcase global industrial design trends, to bring the audience c…
International Design Festival Design Act 2010 Opens in Moscow
MOSCOW.- From August 31 to September 5, 2010 Moscow Centre for Contemporary Art Winzavod will hold the fourth International Design Festival Design Act 2010. The DESIGN ACT mission is to showcase global industrial design trends, to bring the audience c…
Curators of Mickey Mouse Jesus Exhibition On Trial in Russia
San Francisco –
Andrei Yerofeyev and Yury Samodurov, two Russian curators, who organized
a show
called “Forbidden Art 2006,” are facing possible three-year jail
sentences for
offending the religious beliefs of the Russian Orthodox commun…
Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin Statue Removed in Georgian Home Town
GORI, GEORGIA (REUTERS).- Authorities removed a towering statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin from the central square of his native city in the dead of the night on Friday, carting away the monument to Georgia’s most famous native. The 6-meter-high b…