September 2010

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Saatchi Search
The Saatchi Gallery and the BBC have announced that they will be forming a new partnership to help spot new talent in the arts, across Britain. They have created a new show called ‘Saatchi’s Best of British’ which will feature six young artists, who will attend an art school for three months and be tutored by some of the UK’s finest contemporary artists. The students will then go on to exhibit their work at the upcoming exhibition of British art from the Saatchi Gallery Collection at Russia’s Hermitage Museum St Petersburg. By 2010, the exhibition will be in London. Applicants to ‘Saatchi’s Best of British’ can upload their work on a dedicated website which will be launched in February.

Sotheby’s Favour Turkish Art
Sotheby’s, London, has announced an upcoming sale of Turkish Contemporary Art, which will consist of 73 lots. The auction, which is estimated to make over £1.2 million, will consist of paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs, by some 53 artists. The collection consists of works by Turkish masters such as Taner Ceylan, Seyhun Topuz and Erol Akyayas. The works in the auction have been put together as a representation of the different aspects of modern Turkish art, which in recent years has become more sought after by collectors.

Gaza’s Cultural Sites Damaged
The Art Newspaper has reported that the current war on Gaza has done even more costly damage to historic heritage sites and buildings across the coastal strip. Gaza’s only museum, The Antiquities Museum of Gaza, has incurred structural damage. The museum is privately run by a prominent Gazan collector, Jawat Khoudary, who was also its founder. Throughout the building, glass doors have been smashed and the roof and walls damaged. Many important antiquities from Byzantine Pottery to Islamic bronze objects were totally destroyed in the 22 days of air and land strikes. The museum's conference hall also took a direct hit from nearby shelling. Prominent sites in the region such as Tell es-Sakan, a Bronze age settlement; Tel el-Aiull, a middle to late Bronze age period city and Anthedon, A Hellenist port, were also damaged.

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