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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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
