“Anatomy of an Angel” (foreground) by Damien Hirst on display at Sotheby’s in London. (Click to watch video)One thing about the hyped auction of new works by Damien Hirst at Sotheby’s next week is immediately impressive: its sheer scale. It would be wrong to compare this to a private gallery show…
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H-Box installation view at Tate Modern in London (Photo: jamesapallister)
Mobile galleries are a current fad sweeping exhibition hubs around the world, like a travelling circus for the cultural crowd. It started with Chanel’s Mobile Art Pod and continues apace with French luxury brand Hermes’ H BOX: a travelling screening space for…
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In the new $25 million Audubon Insectarium, which opened in June, you can watch Formosan termites eat through a wooden skyline of New Orleans (as if this city didn’t have enough problems), stick your head into a transparent dome in a kitchen closet swarming…
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Italian bishops and government representatives think Kippenberg’s ‘Zuerst die Füße’ is provocative.
A one-metre high sculpture of a crucified frog, holding a mug of beer and an egg, at a modern art museum in Italy has stirred controversy in the predominantly Roman Catholic city of Bolzano. ‘Zuerst die Füße’ by the late…
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‘Restoration Rocks’: jewelry collection with fragments of Guggenheim Museum’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building encapsulated in glass.
Always dreamed of owning an architectural masterpiece? Since last April the Guggenheim Museum in New York is offering Restoration Rocks, a special edition jewelry line that incorporates actual historic fragments of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic…
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Past March 12, 2007, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on its website, a “pioneering initiative to provide digital images to scholars at no charge.” This announcement has been immediately spread by the scholar blogosphere, as for example in the blog of The Chronicle of the Higher Education and The Attic.…
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Last fall the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in the Russian capital Moscow unveiled the plans of British architects Foster + partners for the refurbishment of the existing museum and for the transition of the surrounding area into a cultural quarter. Just like other prestigious museum projects in Moscow and elsewhere,…
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The spiderweb shaped Living Roof on top of California Academy of Sciences in bloom.
This fall, after eight years and almost half a billion dollars, architect Renzo Piano will complete the greenest museum ever built—the new California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park—housing its aquarium, planetarium, and natural-history museum…
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