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Top 10 Craziest & Most Original Artworks Top 10 Craziest & Most Original Artworks

Rotating Wall Art Richard Wilson, one of Britain’s best known sculptures is drawing inspiration for the world of construction and engineering with his latest art called Turning the Place Over. The art is a section cut out from a building and rotates itself on a pivot with a cost of £450,000. It is described as one of the most daring piece of public... [Read more of this review]

Karijn Kakebeeke Named Winner of the 2009 BMW Paris Photo Prize Karijn Kakebeeke Named Winner of the 2009 BMW Paris Photo Prize

PARIS.- Karijn Kakebeeke was named winner of the 2009 BMW – Paris Photo Prize for contemporary photography at the opening of Paris Photo, receiving the 12 000 Euros (US $ 15, 000) Prize. Karijn Kakabeeke, represented by The Empty Quarter Gallery from Dubai, is the sixth winner of this major international award. Born in 1974, the Dutch photographer... [Read more of this review]

Sotheby’s Hopes “Zero Art” Sale will Raise Plenty of Cash Sotheby’s Hopes “Zero Art” Sale will Raise Plenty of Cash

LONDON.- Sotheby’s is hoping its February sale of 49 works from the so-called “Zero Art” movement will raise plenty of cash, and confidence is high after a recent New York contemporary auction that eclipsed expectations. The works from the private collection of Gerhard and Anna Lenz are expected to fetch more than 12 million pounds ($20.2 million)... [Read more of this review]

Do Antiquities Really Belong To Their Country Of Origin? Do Antiquities Really Belong To Their Country Of Origin?

Zahi Hawass regards the Rosetta Stone, like so much else, as stolen property languishing in exile. “We own that stone,” he told Al Jazeera, speaking as the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The British Museum does not agree — at least not yet. But never underestimate Dr. Hawass when it comes to this sort of custody... [Read more of this review]

UC Berkeley Modifying Museum Building Project; Alternate Plan Due Early Next Year UC Berkeley Modifying Museum Building Project; Alternate Plan Due Early Next Year

BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley’s plans for a new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) are being modified due to lingering economic uncertainty, museum and university officials announced today. Several intriguing concepts for a new BAM/PFA home are under review and a detailed plan is expected to be unveiled... [Read more of this review]

High Names Michael Rooks New Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

ATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announced today that the High has appointed Michael Rooks as the new Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Rooks will officially join the High in January 2010. Rooks has held curator positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,... [Read more of this review]

Nine Dusseldorf Museums and Galleries Prepare for Dusseldorf’s Second Quadriennale Nine Dusseldorf Museums and Galleries Prepare for Dusseldorf’s Second Quadriennale

DUSSELDORF.- Art enthusiasts from Germany and abroad are looking forward to the second Quadriennale, which will open on September 10, 2010 and ends in January 2011. Nine Duesseldorf museums and galleries are preparing high quality exhibitions with considerable grants from the regional capital without which the ambitious exhibition plans would not be... [Read more of this review]

China calls for return of art treasures from abroad

BEIJING  – China has ratcheted up pressure for imperial treasures to be repatriated, condemning overseas auctions of its relics and demanding they come home. China is particularly eager to get back a series of bronze animal heads looted in 1860 by British and French soldiers when they burned down the Qing emperors’ summer palace in Beijing. China’s... [Read more of this review]

‘Turner to Czanne’ is a hit at Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse

In 1908, two straight-laced Welsh sisters became the world’s unlikeliest avant-garde art collectors. Gwendoline and Margaret Davies were strict Calvinists, teetotalers and spinsters. They also had a passion for sumptuous Impressionist paintings — and the means to gratify it. Granddaughters of a railway magnate, each received the modern equivalent... [Read more of this review]

How the Mona Lisa Lost Her Eyebrows How the Mona Lisa Lost Her Eyebrows

Pascal Cotte said Leonardo built the painting up in layers, the last being a special glaze whose optical properties increased the illusion of a three-dimensional face. Above the glaze Leonardo painted details such as the eyebrows. Cotte said: “That could explain why the eyebrows have disappeared – they have faded because of chemical reactions or... [Read more of this review]