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• • 07.07.2011

    Baalbeck International Festival

    Officially launched in 1956, the Baalbeck festival is the oldest in the Middle East and offers this year a special tribute to Gershwin with the Ger...

  • 27.06.2011

    Jackson 'Thriller' jacket sells for $1.8 million

    The red and black leather jacket worn by Michael Jackson in his "Thriller" video went under the hammer for $1.8 million on Sunday, a day...

  • 23.06.2011

    Lee Ufan at the Guggenheim

    The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will be presenting Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity, the first North American museum retrospective devoted to the artis...

  • 09.06.2011

    Rina Banerjee at the Musée Guimet in Paris

    “Chimeras of India and the West” by Indian born American artist Rina Banerjee is the third exhibition in the series of Musée Guimet’s ambitious pr...

  • 05.06.2011

    Early selections for Venice Film Festival

    The 68th Venice Film Festival has released its initial program for premieres at the 2011 event, August 31-September 10, with several highly-anticip...

  • 03.06.2011

    Is the internet making us stupid?

    Like tens of millions of others, US technology writer Nicholas Carr found the lure of the worldwide web hard to resist -- until he noticed it was g...

  • 20.05.2011

    A 'Tower of Babel' entirely of books in Argentina

    Marta Minujin, Argentina's most famous artist, is known for artwork that is both out-sized and outlandish. Her latest creation might also be descr...

  • 16.05.2011

    Michal Rovner's exhibition "Histoires" at the Louvre

    From May 19th, the Louvre will present Michal Rovner’s exhibition “Histoires” in three areas of the museum: The Cour Napoléon; the Medieval Louvre...

  • 12.05.2011

    Odilon Redon Retrospective in Paris

    Although he was a contemporary of the Impressionists (he took part in the group’s last exhibition in 1886), Odilon Redon (Bordeaux 1840 – Paris 19...

  • 10.05.2011

    Bernar Venet in Versailles

    Following shows by Jeff Koons, Xavier Veilhan & Takashi Murakami, this summer will see another artist, Benar Venet, exhibit at Versailles. Thi...

• • 06.07.2011

    Cy Twombly, post-war art giant, dead at 83

    Influential US artist Cy Twombly, who died Tuesday aged 83, was a key figure in the post-war abstract art world with a career spanning six decades....

  • 23.06.2011

    Micha Ullman on view at Israel Museum

    The Israel Museum is showing the first museum retrospective of the work of Israeli artist Micha Ullman, spanning the artist's fifty-year career in...

  • 16.06.2011

    British comedians have Americans eating off their plates

    American critics are eating up the movie version of a popular BBC miniseries The Trip, in which two comedians riff about food, snot and Michael Cai...

  • 07.06.2011

    The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier in Montreal

    The first ever retrospective dedicated to the designs of world-renowned French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier will be unveiled at The Montreal Museum...

  • 03.06.2011

    Pulse is Launchpad for St Martins design graduates

    From June 5 to 7, British and international exhibitors will be displaying their latest interior design products at this year's Pulse trade show in...

  • 31.05.2011

    Anselm Kiefer opens Salt of the Earth in Venice

    From 1st June to 30th November, the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova will be presenting Salt of the Earth by Anselm Kiefer, one of the most i...

  • 17.05.2011

    Brancusi and Serra at the Fondation Beyeler

    The Fondation Beyeler is devoting its large summer exhibition to the art of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Richard Serra (b. 1939), two of th...

  • 16.05.2011

    International Symposium in Paris on the Fate of Public Art

    On the 19th and 20th of May 2011, in celebration of the United Nations World Day for Cultural Diversity, Dialogue and Development, the World Herit...

  • 10.05.2011

    Jimi Hope : an artist of many talents

    Jimi Hope is back in Lomé for a few weeks to devote himself to his second passion after music, painting. This jazz / soul artist with borne talen...

  • 10.05.2011

    Jaume Plensa’s "Echo" in Madison Square Garden

    Echo, Jaume Plensa’s commission for Madison Square Park, depicts a nine-year old girl from Plensa’s Barcelona neighborhood, lost in a state of tho...