Lorenzo Agius In the Mood at Alon Zakaim Fine Art from Monday 14th September
Lorenzo Agius at Alon Zakaim Fine Art until 14th October 2009. The exhibition presents an exclusive selection of his most celebrated portraits available as limited editions to the public for the very first time. Brad Pitt, Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie and Keira Knightly are just some of the many celebrities featured. In the Mood follows [...]
Philippe Starck’s Design For Life reality TV show
Starck’s new series, which begins on BBC2 tonight, is called Design for Life. Following the tried and tested format, he takes 12 young British designers, sets them challenges and each week eliminates the weakest. The winner becomes part of Starck’s “tribe” for six months, their triumphant concept given the opportunity to join the world’s most [...]
Gagosian Retail New York
Over at CoolHunting they have a sneak preview of the new Gagosian retail space which is set to open in the next week in New York City. Designed by Dan Rowen Architect/MNDesign in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, the space is spare, bright and successfully feels more retail than gallery. The space focuses primarily on the [...]
Design 21 Announces Call for Entries for UNESCO’s Dream Center Logo Competition
DESIGN 21 believes in the potential of design to improve life, but it also recognizes the power of branding. In order to help UNESCO’s mission of providing arts education to children around the world, DESIGN 21: Social Design Network – an online platform founded by Felissimo and UNESCO – is hosting a competition to increase [...]
Nadav Kander Obama’s People at Flowers Gallery Private View Tuesday 14th September
Selection from Obama’s People 2009Archival pigment Prints Barack Obama II 2009 Chromogenic Print 152 × 122 cm ‘Obama’s People’, photographic portraits of the 53 members of President Obama’s cabinet. Through to 10th October 2009
Dane Mitchell Wins Art Competition Using Other Contestants Trash As His Entry
A New Zealand artist has caused a bit of controversy amongst the artistic community after winning a contemporary art award utilizing the discarded materials of his competitors. Dane Mitchell’s “Collateral” recently beat out 282 other pieces to win the 2009 National Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award, as well as $15,000. It was created after Mitchell [...]
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ART Product: JUBILEE, 2012 – SIXTY PUNK SINGLES
To celebrate a new exhibition, JUBILEE, 2012 – SIXTY PUNK SINGLES,
Richard Hamilton: the Duchamp-ion of intellectual art
The father of pop art – who is to be the subject of a posthumous exhibition at the National Gallery – also rediscovered and popularised the once-neglected work of Marcel Duchamp
NEW Jeff Koons Exhibition.
13th May 2nd September 2012 The Fondation Beyeler is presenting the first Koons exhibition ever held in a Swiss museum. From the start Koons worked in terms of chronological series of pieces, each with its own title. Taken together, these series titles provide an overview of his artistic conception. The extensive show comprises about 50 [...]
LAST DAY TO CATCH FAD OFFICE: Sunday 13th 2012
SUNDAY 13TH MAY Please note: Douglas Park and Silvia Ziranek will perform upstairs near the main entrance. And the rest of the programme will continue within FAD office headquarters. Tomorrow we will be celebrating with a FAD office closing party. Victory Press will be printing of invites to the FAD office party throughout the day, [...]
LADIES OF THE PRESS AT FAD OFFICE | The Other Art Fair May 2012
Want to get involved? Send in your daydreams, poetry, doodles and more, and it will be incorporated into the LIVE PRESS performance at FAD office at The Other Art Fair on Sunday 13th May 2012 The performative duo Ana Čavić and Renée O’Drobinak will be the closing FAD office with their signature LIVE PRESS performance. LIVE PRESS! is a performance [...]
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