December 2013

 


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Vatican at VENICE BIENNALE 2013

-VATICAN PARTICIPATES IN ITALY’S BIGGEST ART EVENT FOR THE FIRST TIME- The 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice, starting on the 1st of June  until 24 November  2013 is going to have eight new participating countrie...


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The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and PinchukArtCentre are proud to present The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013. The exhibition includes the 21 artists, from 16 different countries, who were shortlisted in the second e...



Shafic Abboud, Les cafés engloutis, 1990. Oil on canvas, 115 x 125 cm. Copyright Succession Shafic Abboud. Courtesy Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris.

Shafic Abboud by Claude Lemand

I have a great admiration for Shafic Abboud, the foremost Parisian Arab painter of the second half of the 20th century. His paintings are a manifesto for freedom, colour, light and joy, as well as being a permanent bridge betw...


©Firyal Al Adhamy

Firyal Al Adhamy: DARWISH – AN ALTAR OF POETRY

Bu Zaboon House – Muharraq, Bahrain Until 10 June 2013     Page Views: 2627



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FANCY A BELLINI WITH YOUR BANKSY?

-Laura Stewart advises checking into the uber-chic Hotel Cipriani for the Venice Biennale this June- Page Views: 1577


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Tamara Chalabi the driving force behind Iraq’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Chalabi explains to artBahrain’s Laura Stewart the unique challenges she faced in executing a culture project in Iraq – a country still very much in bare-bones survival mode.     Page Views: 1992



Crane No 3 (Tekno), 2012
Oil, acrylic on canvas
46.0 x 46.0 cm
©Jeremy Dickinson

Jeremy Dickinson

8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery – Tokyo, Japan 17 June  - 7 August 2013     Page Views: 1686


Silk red velvet with embroidery (fragment), Italy, 15th century, 
16 x 20 cm, silk, metal thread. 
Courtesy of Center for Social Research on Old Textiles

TRADITION

A selection from the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles (CSROT) with works by Willem Oorebeek, Lucy Skaer and Christopher Williams Grazer Kunstverein - Graz, Austria 8 June – 11 August 2013 Page Views: 1412



Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013 Designed by Sou Fujimoto

Serpentine Gallery – London, UK 8 June – 20 October 2013    Page Views: 400


Paula Pavi. Have you seen me before? (2008)

Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?

Whitechapel Gallery – London, UK 18 June – 8 September 2013 Gallery 7 Page Views: 1443