Articles Archive for January 2010
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Portscapes
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
6 February – 25 April 2010
In 2009 several national and international artists undertook an artistic journey of discovery into the past, present and future of the Port of Rotterdam under the umbrella title of Portscapes, drawing inspiration from the port. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing ten art projects that resulted from it in a high-profile exhibition.
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The Subversion of Images – Surrealism, Photography, Film
Fotomuseum Winterthur
February 27 – May 23, 2010
From February 27 to May 23, 2010, the Fotomuseum Winterthur is presenting the exhibition The Subversion of Images–Surrealism, Photography, Film, an extraordinarily rich survey of Surrealist photography. The exhibition comprises over 400 photographs, films, and documents: from the most beautiful and famous photographs by Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Raoul Ubac, Jacques-André Boiffard, and Maurice Tabard to unknown pictures, to magazine publications, artist’s books, advertisements, to the fascination with the “raw, found document,” to photo booth …
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Divided Divided – Carsten Höller
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
6 February – 25 April 2010
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will shortly stage Carsten Höller’s exhibition Divided Divided. The contemporary artist is creating a 1,500 m2 installation especially for the museum. What’s more, visitors can spend the night in the Revolving Hotel Room. All the works on show are based on a simple mathematical formula that divides and re-divides the space and the objects into two.
Carsten Höller is presenting a new series of huge complex mushroom replicas (Triple Giant Mushrooms, 2009-2010). He has made …
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In 2009 The Peggy Guggenheim Collection consolidated its attendance numbers, reaching the considerable total of 347,183 visitors in the 311 days it was open to the public. The daily average was 1,116, which included 5,263 students and 622 teachers who participated in the museum’s education program “A Scuola di Guggenheim”. To this number the 14,000 guests who attended the collection’s inaugurations, special tours, and private and company events can be added, for a comprehensive total of over 361,000 visitors.
Two exhibitions that made 2009 particularly successful closed in the first weeks …
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From stage to painting
The magic of theatre in 19th-century painting
From David to Delacroix and Fuseli to Degas
MartRovereto
From 6 February to 23 May 2010
The theatre and the stage as the keys to a fresh view of the development of painting towards modernity.
This is the new approach offered by the exhibition, entitled “From stage to painting. The magic of theatre in 19th-century painting. From David to Delacroix and Fuseli to Degas”, a project organised thanks to the special support of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, and the result once again of a collaboration …
