In London - After a long hesitation, finally decided the British Museum, the "Cyrus Cylinder (Cyrus Cylinder)" lent the National Museum of Iran, a Tehran exhibition as the core of exhibits, the exhibition was opened on September 12, will last four months. British Museum Craig (Neil MacGregor), said on Bloomberg this heritage "embodied the whole history of the Middle East."
This column can be traced to the era of the 6th century BC king of Persia during the reign of Cyrus the Great, has been excavated since 1872 and has been deposited in the British Museum. It is this heritage for the first time to leave the UK, although in 2006 the Iranian National Museum, "Forgotten Empire: Persia world" on a good show he had already lent matters. However, due to a subsequent outbreak of protests in Tehran, the voice of the British Museum at that time were not lending, but rather wait for the country's political problem is resolved.
Leaving things more complicated is the historical significance of this heritage is unclear. Since this column from the ruins of Babylon were discovered, scholars on the inscription of their meaning has not been able to reach consensus. Some historians believe that the inscriptions column reflects the world's first human rights charter, and some historians maintain that it is just a case of political propaganda on the inscription.
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Israel art museum cancel "black panther" exhibition
According to Israel, "Ha'aretz (Haaretz)", Israeli Art Museum announced the cancellation of more than a year on preparations for the "Black Panther (Black Panther)" cross-border movement of the exhibition. Israel's "Black Panther Party," to borrow the name of the United States organized the same name, is a 20th century North African immigrants 70 years of dissident groups, duties on the difference between the elite Ashkenazi Jewish treatment, promote social equity. Invited to participate in this program last week opened an exhibition of contemporary artists, including Sigalit Banai, Josef Dadon, Meir Gal, Itzik Badash, Dor Guez, Dafna Shalom, Meir Tati, Anisa Ashkar, and Roni Somek.
Bar-Ilan University (Bar-Ilan University), a doctoral candidate Shlomit Lir and planning this exhibition in the museum and the "Black Panthers" Reuven Abergil and former leaders who have taken over the campaign talks film Nissim Musak. Lir of "Haaretz" said she "would like to have something to pave the way for public discussion and everything provided daily in the museum context and formal space." She hoped to find another venue for this exhibition - the exhibition will include educational programs, lectures, film screenings and poetry.
Museum curator Meir Aharonson denied to remove this exhibition because of its political content, and said the exhibition did not progress as intended. Aharonson of "Haaretz" said: "According to the paper summary we have never been promised to the organization of the exhibition."
Bar-Ilan University (Bar-Ilan University), a doctoral candidate Shlomit Lir and planning this exhibition in the museum and the "Black Panthers" Reuven Abergil and former leaders who have taken over the campaign talks film Nissim Musak. Lir of "Haaretz" said she "would like to have something to pave the way for public discussion and everything provided daily in the museum context and formal space." She hoped to find another venue for this exhibition - the exhibition will include educational programs, lectures, film screenings and poetry.
Museum curator Meir Aharonson denied to remove this exhibition because of its political content, and said the exhibition did not progress as intended. Aharonson of "Haaretz" said: "According to the paper summary we have never been promised to the organization of the exhibition."
The "Belgium temperament" which is liberate by art
Lefu Nova reports - still under the French Film Archive curator Xiayou Palace by Nigeria (Dominique Pani) Institute of Contemporary Arts to Lefu proposed for Nova since the 1970s art of organizing an exhibition in Belgium . The project "Belgian temperament" is not born with politics-related. Recently occurred in Belgium, Flemish and Walloon government is a matter between the Government into the subject, which, like the exhibition curator, said: "Europe and the Flemish region have this do not care, but rather Brussels - Wallonia showed great enthusiasm. "exhibition also practice from within the context of contemporary art trends of Belgium won the heritage of thinking first inspiration from the Flemish and Dutch schools, to the surreal, fantasy, humor, genre, until strokes of a poetic.
Especially by the Bohemian inspired monster image of the first few runs through the exhibition works to Wesley ink Rees (Wesley Meuris) of the "monkey cage" (Cage for Galago Crassicaudata) for the beginning. In the rectangular lattice covered with carpet placed on the base of the glass cage, every corner and can see the dark figure of a mysterious creature, or potential, or V, or fly.
Jan Fabre (Jan Fabre)'s "Vertigo Theatre" (Spinnenkoppentheater), the concrete and construct a small model of a world between fantasy and imagination between the towns "cold cruel" space. Model in this strange room also lingered a tarantula, which is the medieval legend of a mysterious heretical spider. The security and site maintenance for consideration in the final of the three-dimensional box shows only the wolf spider specimens.
Especially by the Bohemian inspired monster image of the first few runs through the exhibition works to Wesley ink Rees (Wesley Meuris) of the "monkey cage" (Cage for Galago Crassicaudata) for the beginning. In the rectangular lattice covered with carpet placed on the base of the glass cage, every corner and can see the dark figure of a mysterious creature, or potential, or V, or fly.
Jan Fabre (Jan Fabre)'s "Vertigo Theatre" (Spinnenkoppentheater), the concrete and construct a small model of a world between fantasy and imagination between the towns "cold cruel" space. Model in this strange room also lingered a tarantula, which is the medieval legend of a mysterious heretical spider. The security and site maintenance for consideration in the final of the three-dimensional box shows only the wolf spider specimens.
"Programses" : Dual metaphor of the reality and fiction
About DDM Warehouse in Shanghai, the opening of the "double reed" exhibition (October 24) an art show, but it is closer to an art project. As the name implies, the project is intended to express a relationship between the ideas in the planning, this relationship exists between absurdity and logic, between reality and imagination, between appearance and reality, between unity and mutual self-contradictory, between rationality and existential, between whole and part, between the context of art, between traditional culture and consumerism, between socialism and capitalism.
The exhibition that we are living in the city as the background of the exhibition, the city was given the double metaphor of reality and fiction, urban residents with the city's inter-relationship. Its not just the artists invited to the narrow understanding of "contemporary artists", which includes philosophy, literature, architecture and music professionals, or even urban management, security, cleaners, farmers and other ordinary people in cities. Artists involved in the project are free to choose a city block as their own research and. Creation of objects, from urban planning, living space, building status, daily life, cultural history, and include text and sound, and various non-material form other point of view, through the open thinking and imagination, and cooperation across the field of exploration, the past and the future, has already elapsed, and the possibility of taking place in various ways to present contemporary art exhibitions.
The exhibition that we are living in the city as the background of the exhibition, the city was given the double metaphor of reality and fiction, urban residents with the city's inter-relationship. Its not just the artists invited to the narrow understanding of "contemporary artists", which includes philosophy, literature, architecture and music professionals, or even urban management, security, cleaners, farmers and other ordinary people in cities. Artists involved in the project are free to choose a city block as their own research and. Creation of objects, from urban planning, living space, building status, daily life, cultural history, and include text and sound, and various non-material form other point of view, through the open thinking and imagination, and cooperation across the field of exploration, the past and the future, has already elapsed, and the possibility of taking place in various ways to present contemporary art exhibitions.
The orsay museum curator said monet's paintings are ugly
PARIS - French National Museum Association (The Reunion des Musées Nationaux) is currently the Grand Palais in Paris (Grand Palais) organized works of Claude Monet retrospective. Since the exhibition include a loan from major museums around the world about 200 Monet paintings. However, the exhibition curator, Orsay Museum (Musee d'Orsay) Curator cover cubo (Guy Cogeval) and Paris Ma Mengdan Museum between the downtown a bit unpleasant, because the latter refused to lend any of Monet works including the most crucial one: "Impression Sunrise (Impression Soleil Levant)", "Impressionism" for this reason the painting is named. Museum of the private sector as a Ma Mengdan November this year, is planning to hold their own exhibitions, "close to Monet (Intimate Monet)". Remove this small museum and a large body of disputes, and the iconic 1872 photograph of painting was the absence of cover cubo still feel this exciting retrospective, which he himself said on ARTINFO French stations.
He added: "I think the picture's absence did not weaken the strength of the Grand Palais retrospective." Impression Sunrise "is the ugliest one of the work Monet, although by the time favorable for critics, and with its name 'Impressionism'. We work in the Grand Palais exhibition more attractive than this picture. "
He added: "I think the picture's absence did not weaken the strength of the Grand Palais retrospective." Impression Sunrise "is the ugliest one of the work Monet, although by the time favorable for critics, and with its name 'Impressionism'. We work in the Grand Palais exhibition more attractive than this picture. "
U.S. recruitment art "diplomats"
NEW YORK - The United States has been sent abroad by the works of art to show off its soft power. The most famous one than during the Cold War will get the abstract expressionist paintings on display in Europe by the Soviet threat. U.S. State Department recently announced that they not only have to send works of art, but also to launch its own artists.
$ 1,000,000 State funding the opening of a cultural diplomacy called smART Power pilot project in the next two years to visual artists in 15 countries delivered to the Public Art. These representatives will be to select the Bronx Museum of Art, but eventually to the recognition by the government.
The reason why the museum will be responsible for the international exchange activities, mainly because they have been sparing no effort in Africa, Asia and Latin American contemporary artists were presented, and the importance of education activities. Selected artists will be sent to Pakistan, Egypt, Venezuela, China, Ghana, Kosovo, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Kenya.
$ 1,000,000 State funding the opening of a cultural diplomacy called smART Power pilot project in the next two years to visual artists in 15 countries delivered to the Public Art. These representatives will be to select the Bronx Museum of Art, but eventually to the recognition by the government.
The reason why the museum will be responsible for the international exchange activities, mainly because they have been sparing no effort in Africa, Asia and Latin American contemporary artists were presented, and the importance of education activities. Selected artists will be sent to Pakistan, Egypt, Venezuela, China, Ghana, Kosovo, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Kenya.
The America online sponsor art
NEW YORK - America Online (America Online, referred to as AOL) recently selected the art of throwing money at. However, they do not like the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS), as selected sponsored Arts Fair, or like YouTube or Google, as through the sponsorship of the exhibition will play their logo at the museum. The Internet giant decided to pour money directly to the soil in the creative, launched the "creative project (Project on Creativity)", by the famous artist Charles Keke Rolls (Chuck Close) as director, announced yesterday will be $ 25,000 began its first round of sponsorship for the arts in various creative elite 25.
The sponsored project called "25 for 25", from more than 9,000 artists, writers and creative people in the selected application 25, the jury dazzling lineup, including the Whitney Museum (Whitney Museum) director Adam Weinberg, policy Show people Chrissie Iles, writer, Christian Viveros-Fauné and Glenn O'Brien.
Participants for this year (his work can be aolartists.com to enjoy), including the New York Rangers portable hut design architect Julio F. Torres-Santana, was Death Cab for Cutie, Sonic Youth, Arctic Monkeys and bands like Wilco Design posters, visual artists Dan Stiles, there are artists Coke O'Neal - he let people in his 28-foot box design of the structure of pictures, by the proportion of the images to make a fuss, in confusing the lines presented in a neutral environment The industry figures.
The sponsored project called "25 for 25", from more than 9,000 artists, writers and creative people in the selected application 25, the jury dazzling lineup, including the Whitney Museum (Whitney Museum) director Adam Weinberg, policy Show people Chrissie Iles, writer, Christian Viveros-Fauné and Glenn O'Brien.
Participants for this year (his work can be aolartists.com to enjoy), including the New York Rangers portable hut design architect Julio F. Torres-Santana, was Death Cab for Cutie, Sonic Youth, Arctic Monkeys and bands like Wilco Design posters, visual artists Dan Stiles, there are artists Coke O'Neal - he let people in his 28-foot box design of the structure of pictures, by the proportion of the images to make a fuss, in confusing the lines presented in a neutral environment The industry figures.
Berlin subway construction site appearanced the so-called Nazi "degenerate art"
Recently, in Berlin, near City Hall subway construction workers dug up the 11 sculptures, the sculptures had been sentenced to the Nazis as "degenerate." Where 10 sculptures will be the new museum in Berlin this week (Neues Museum) exhibition (the other man a terracotta head is too fragile and not a result of participating.)
Discover the original location of an office building, in the summer of 1944 Allied bombing was razed to the ground, terra cotta and bronze sculpture of those buried in rubble masonry. Why is stored in these works is still a mystery here, perhaps there is in this building with the office of tax consultants and escrow agent Erhard - Ouwo Dick (Erhard Oewerdieck) related, "Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Sueddeutsche Zeitung)" called to the home sheltered Jews known Ouwo Dick and his wife, Charlotte (Charlotte) may be entrusted to manage these works.
One of the few pieces of sculpture have appeared in Nazi propaganda minister Joseph - Goebbels (Joseph Goebbels) of the "Fallen Art (Entartete Kunst)" exhibition, the exhibition tour in Germany and Austria have demonstrated the hundreds by the Third Reich as offensive to the state ideology and the Aryan ideal of art. Although the Nazis, "Fallen Art" and linked the Jews, in fact discover the works of only two Jewish artists from the hand - Fren Friedrich (Freundlich) and Slatter Sharansky (Slutsky) work.
Discover the original location of an office building, in the summer of 1944 Allied bombing was razed to the ground, terra cotta and bronze sculpture of those buried in rubble masonry. Why is stored in these works is still a mystery here, perhaps there is in this building with the office of tax consultants and escrow agent Erhard - Ouwo Dick (Erhard Oewerdieck) related, "Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Sueddeutsche Zeitung)" called to the home sheltered Jews known Ouwo Dick and his wife, Charlotte (Charlotte) may be entrusted to manage these works.
One of the few pieces of sculpture have appeared in Nazi propaganda minister Joseph - Goebbels (Joseph Goebbels) of the "Fallen Art (Entartete Kunst)" exhibition, the exhibition tour in Germany and Austria have demonstrated the hundreds by the Third Reich as offensive to the state ideology and the Aryan ideal of art. Although the Nazis, "Fallen Art" and linked the Jews, in fact discover the works of only two Jewish artists from the hand - Fren Friedrich (Freundlich) and Slatter Sharansky (Slutsky) work.
Global street photography enjoying
PARIS - "today's street photography (Street Photography Now)" a book this month by Thames & Hudson Publishing House, presented the street by chance encounter, the theme raunchy street photography feast. The book editor Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren said that street photography is a rich and prolific art movement, after 60 years, has become an international exchange, the Internet greatly contributed to its development. "We are in the book brings together artists of all those touched by the friendly," they wrote. "And they show each other the good work, critical of each other's eyes, between the peers."
While the Internet provides a good environment, today's environment of street photographers who do not so friendly, they always have been misunderstood, retaining, and even been physically attacked. The fear of terrorist actions and the importance of privacy do not trust people increasingly turn to such acts. Not long ago, London Underground stations were a number of publicity activities to passengers to report any strange behavior by holding the camera. British photographer in their own campaigns online to respond, given "I am not a terrorist" and "photographic guilty" and other slogans.
Howarth and the United Kingdom McLaren cited in the field may be the most famous figure in Martin Parr (Martin Parr): "You have to trust, devotion, courage. Go to the street, while you can."
While the Internet provides a good environment, today's environment of street photographers who do not so friendly, they always have been misunderstood, retaining, and even been physically attacked. The fear of terrorist actions and the importance of privacy do not trust people increasingly turn to such acts. Not long ago, London Underground stations were a number of publicity activities to passengers to report any strange behavior by holding the camera. British photographer in their own campaigns online to respond, given "I am not a terrorist" and "photographic guilty" and other slogans.
Howarth and the United Kingdom McLaren cited in the field may be the most famous figure in Martin Parr (Martin Parr): "You have to trust, devotion, courage. Go to the street, while you can."
Germany nuremberg trial museum opened
Nuremberg, Germany, reported that - after World War II, the Allies selected as the history of the first Nuremberg war crimes tribunal is not a coincidence. They want the Bavarian city into an international symbol of justice and the rule of law, because there was a massive Nazi rallies and Hitler's anti-Semitic laws enacted in 1935 the place. U.S. Attorney General Robert H · Jackson (Robert H. Jackson) in 1946 issued its final statement said: "We are committed to conviction and punishment of those errors have been ... ... so devastating, civilization can not tolerate their being ignored because if these errors occur once again, civilization will not survive. "museum opened on Sunday" Memorium "is located in the current trial of the building, the building is the significance of judicial review and consider those who are left today heritage.
Nuremberg Palace of Justice (Palace of Justice) in the "Courtroom 600" is still being used in the courtroom trial, only open to visitors when not in session, the court is November 20, 1945 at the first round of trials of . The main exhibition in the museum building's top floor, including recorded audio and video at trial, and those defendants who have been on the bench. While Adolf Hitler and the Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler (Heinrich Himmler) committed suicide at the end of the war, so to escape prosecution, trial or the trial of the first round of the 21 Nazi generals. Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering (Hermann Goering) is also in prison, sentenced to be hanged before the suicide.
Nuremberg Palace of Justice (Palace of Justice) in the "Courtroom 600" is still being used in the courtroom trial, only open to visitors when not in session, the court is November 20, 1945 at the first round of trials of . The main exhibition in the museum building's top floor, including recorded audio and video at trial, and those defendants who have been on the bench. While Adolf Hitler and the Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler (Heinrich Himmler) committed suicide at the end of the war, so to escape prosecution, trial or the trial of the first round of the 21 Nazi generals. Luftwaffe commander Hermann Goering (Hermann Goering) is also in prison, sentenced to be hanged before the suicide.
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