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Christopher Baker announced as new director of Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Editor — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:44:33 +0000

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery announced that Christopher Baker has been appointed as the new Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, following an international search led by the recruitment company Odgers Berndtson. He will take up his position at the Portrait Gallery on 1 August 2012. Mr Baker has been Deputy Director of the Scottish National Gallery since 2003 and was previously Curator at Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford. He enjoys an international ... Read More

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Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) opens Thomas Demand solo exhibition

Editor — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:21:26 +0000

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents Ta solo exhibition by Thomas Demand, on view 19 May– 8 July 2012. This exhibition will be the first in a Japanese museum to present a comprehensive view of Demand’s activities, from his early works to his recent film pieces as well as his well-known pieces such as Bathroom (1997) and Grotto (2006).Thomas Demand, Kontrollraum / Control Room, 2011. C-print. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / APG-JAA, Tokyo. Courtesy Sprüth Magers ... Read More

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Tony Auth Retrospective Opens June 2 at the Michener Art Museum

Editor — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:09:57 +0000

A retrospective of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Tony Auth will be on view at the Michener Art Museum June 2 to October 21 in the Fred Beans Gallery. To Stir, Inform and Inflame: The Art of Tony Auth is sponsored anonymously, with additional support from Deborah & Arthur Corsini, Caroline & David Rasner and Williams & Hand, P.C.Tony Auth The Trojan Elephant, Pen and ink on paper, finished in Photoshop, 14 x 11 (image size: 12 x 8) Collection of the art“This ... Read More

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Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) announces

Editor — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:05:17 +0000

The Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), in partnership with the Virreina Centre de la Imatge de Barcelona, presents Número tres, de la casa a la fábrica. This exhibition of photography and video reconsiders the link between work and home, thirty-seven years after Jean-Luc Godard’s film Numéro deux. Exhibition open 31 May–30 September 2012. Inspired by the Jean-Luc Godard’s fusion of house and factory, Número tres offers a new take on the forms, ideas, and figures invented by ... Read More

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Cincinnati Museum Center turns on fountain and kicks off a summer overflowing with great programming

Editor — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:03:50 +0000

CINCINNATI – You know it’s almost summer in Cincinnati when you see Cincinnati Museum Center’s Union Terminal fountain on in all its glory! This morning, Museum Center turned on the fountain with the help of our community. Guests were invited to join and help countdown as the fountain was brought to life for the summer of 2012. The celebration was a kick-off for a summer overflowing with fun and educational programming for the whole family. Join us this summer for 100 Days of Fun, a ... Read More

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Host Color Hosts KVM Virtual Machines Near Chicago

Editor — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:07:41 +0000

Web Hosting Provider Host Color announced that they host a new KVM Virtual Dedicated Servers in a data center near Chicago. Host Color with this step will provide a much lower prices for VPS hosting services to their customers with a choice of virtualization platform between OpenVZ, KVM and Xen virtual machines with 99.999% uptime, fully-redundant network and 24/7 support. Web Hosting Host Color is well well known for their services and ... Read More

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Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) announce free daily events this summer

Editor — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:52:26 +0000

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St Michaels, MD, is offering a full roster of daily events for museum guests this Memorial Day through Labor Day.CBMM’s Sailing Saturdays program is offered on select weekends throughout the summer at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. Participants can try their hand sailing the museum’s Apprentice For a Day sailing and rowing skiffs. Kid-themed, hand-on activities are offered on Thursdays and Fridays from 2-4pm. ... Read More

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Ursula Blickle Foundation in collaboration with Westfalischer Kunstverein Munster presents Sapountzis. Videos and Picnic

Editor — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:03:26 +0000

Ursula Blickle Foundation in collaboration with Westfalischer Kunstverein Munster will present the two-part solo show Videos and Picnic and The Gadfly Festival by Yorgos Sapountzis on 20 May–8 July 2012. Yorgos Sapountzis, Fast Cast Past, 2011. Video still. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. The works of Yorgos Sapountzis engage with public space, placing it in a new consciousness incorporating both the past and the present. Many of his projects take as their starting ... Read More

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International Center of Photography opens Christer Stromholm. Les Amies de Place Blanche

Editor — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:01:36 +0000

The International Center of Photography presents Christer Stromholm. Les Amies de Place Blanche, an exhibition on view from May 18, 2012 through September 2, 2012.Christer Strömholm, Jacky, 1961. © Christer Strömholm/Strömholm Estate. Raising profound issues about identity, sexuality, and gender, Christer Strömholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche, on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street), presents 40 photographs, historical ... Read More

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Frist Center for the Visual Arts announces Carrie Mae Weems. Three Decades of Photography and Video

Editor — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:14:43 +0000

The first major museum retrospective devoted to contemporary artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems—widely acclaimed as one of today’s most eloquent and respected interpreters of the African American experience—opens on September 21, 2012, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. Some 225 photographs, installations, and videos, selected from more than fifteen museums and private collections, offer an unprecedented and compelling survey of Weems’s thirty-year ... Read More

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