Friday, 30th January 2009
5:49pm
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...
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Friday, 16th January 2009
3:43pm
Google at the Prado
The technology underpinning the internet facility Google Earth has been used in a joint project by the Prado, Madrid, and the internet search company to enable in-depth online viewing of the museum's masterpieces (pictured above).
A spokesperson for the museum said, 'It allows people to see the main masterworks in the museum as they never have done before. You can see details tha tthe human eye is unable to see.' The images have a resolution of 14,000 megapixels, around 1,400 times greater than a picture taken on a standard 10 megapixel camera.
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3:05pm
The Kimbell Art Museum, Texas, has announced Eric McCauley Lee, former director of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, as its new director. Lee takes over from previous director, Timothy Potts, who resigned in 2007 to take up the post of director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
The board of the Kimbell Art Foundation formally announced the unanimous decision today, following 18 months of interviewing candidates from around the world. Eric Lee is reported as saying, 'The Kimbell has always been a dream job of mine. I am absolutely elated,' adding that his new job is: 'protecting the...
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6:35pm
Iraq Restorations
The World Monument Fund has launched a project with Iraq that aims to preserve the ancient city of Babylon (pictured above). The site is home to the ancient gardens built by King Nebuchadnezzar II, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The WMF are a New York based non-profit organisation that seeks to protect sites of cultural and architectural importance around the world. The Babylon site, located 55 miles south of Baghdad on the east bank of the Euphrates, will be developed in collaboration with Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, in order...
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A recent exhibition in Nottingham showcases contemporary artists' exploration of the Communist-era space race.
Cast aside by Modernists for much of the 20th century, Classicism
has a comeback of sorts, with an excellent new book reappraising
architecture partnerships and a recent exhibition at one of the very
institutions that so derided the style.
