FLORENCE.- Emerging Talents is a biennial project promoted by the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS), Florence , comprising an exhibition and prize which aims to identify and foster the younger generation of Italian artists, aged between …
Steven Holl Architects’ Horizontal Skyscraper Wins AIA Institute Honor Award
NEW YORK, NY.- The Horizontal Skyscraper is an innovative example of the large-scale, hybrid use building, which challenges the usual developer typologies. The building hovers above a tropical landscape, freeing it for public use and for a unique schem…
New North Carolina Museum of Art Building Wins 2011 AIA Award
NEW YORK, NY.- The 127,000-square-foot, single-story project—one of only ten to receive the Honor Award for Architecture this year—was selected from hundreds of submissions worldwide. The AIA announcement of the Award notes the building interior’s …
The Wright, the Guggenheim’s New Fine-Dining Restaurant, Wins Best of the Year Award
NEW YORK, NY.- The Wright, the Guggenheim’s new fine-dining restaurant designed by Andre Kikoski Architect, has won a Best of the Year Award from Interior Design Magazine, it was announced on December 2, 2010, during a ceremony at the IAC Building…
Glasgow-Born Sound Artist Susan Philipsz Wins 2010 Turner Prize
LONDON (REUTERS).- Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz, the first artist working primarily in sound to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize, is the winner of Britain’s most prestigious art award when it is announced later Monday. Her “Lowlands” installation fo…
Protest Painting by Nicholas Middleton Wins Visitors’ Choice
LIVERPOOL.- Nicholas Middleton is the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize’s Visitors’ Choice for the second time with his painting Protest, April 1st 2009. Nicholas scooped the £2,010 prize, sponsored by Rathbones, with a detailed photo…
Titanic Salvage Company Wins Award from Virginia Court
RICHMOND (AP).- The company with exclusive rights to salvage the Titanic is entitled to full compensation for artifacts worth about $110 million that it has recovered in a half-dozen perilous expeditions to the famous shipwreck, a federal judge has rul…
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Wins Case Against Self-Named Dalí Museum in Berlin
BARCELONA.- In early 2009, the German company Dalí-Museum
Berlin GmbH announced the opening, in February 2009 on Berlin’s Leipziger Platz,
of a show entitled “DALÍ – DIE AUSSTELLUNG” (DALÍ – THE EXHIBITION) displaying
graphic works and …
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Wins Case Against Self-Named Dalí Museum in Berlin
BARCELONA.- In early 2009, the German company Dalí-Museum
Berlin GmbH announced the opening, in February 2009 on Berlin’s Leipziger Platz,
of a show entitled “DALÍ – DIE AUSSTELLUNG” (DALÍ – THE EXHIBITION) displaying
graphic works and …
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Wins Case Against Self-Named Dalí Museum in Berlin
BARCELONA.- In early 2009, the German company Dalí-Museum Berlin GmbH announced the opening, in February 2009 on Berlin’s Leipziger Platz, of a show entitled “DALÍ – DIE AUSSTELLUNG” (DALÍ – THE EXHIBITION) displaying graphic works a…