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Berliner Liste 2007: Even More International
The 4th BERLINER LISTE - fair for contemporary art runs parallel to the art forum in the autumn 2007. More than 50 international galleries will show their most interesting artists, in the station – former postal freight depot, near the Potsdamer Platz.
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Sir Elton John´s Photos Seized
Sir Elton John confirmed that he is the owner of the picture seized by police. He is acussed of child pornography because of a donation he made to an art exhibition. Elton insited that the picture had been widely published and exhibited throughout the world without objection. The photo was taken by Nan Goldin and features two young girls playing together in front of a kitchen sink. One is skimpily dressed, the other is naked and lies beneath her, knees bent and legs splayed towards the camera. This is only one of the 149 images used in the exhibition.
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Art Forum Berlin: A Magnet For Contemporary Art
The twelfth ART FORUM BERLIN, international trade fair for contemporary art, will take place at the Berlin Exhibition Grounds from 29 September to 03 October 2007. Organized by Messe Berlin GmbH in cooperation with an international art gallery advisory board, ART FORUM BERLIN is one of the most innovative, world-class art shows.
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Heilmann And Waters Accept Armory Show 2008 Commission
In honor of its tenth edition, The Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art, has commissioned two artists to commemorate its beloved, late founders Pat Hearn and Colin de Land. Baltimore artist John Waters and New York artist Mary Heilmann, longtime friends and exhibiting artists of Colin de Land’s American Fine Arts and Pat Hearn Gallery, respectively, will collaborate on the visual identity for the 2008 fair.
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Preview Berlin: The Emerging Art Fair
Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair was launched in 2005 based on an initiative from four Berlin gallery owners: Kristian Jarmuschek (Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner), Tobias Kuttner (KUTTNER SIEBERT), Rüdiger Lange (loop – raum für aktuelle kunst) and Ralf Schmitt (Förderkoje). The aim of the organisers is to present ambitious, young art, still in its early stage, on the international art scene. In 2006, 12,000 enthusiastic visitors came to Preview Berlin. This year, the fair will, for the first time, take place in a former hangar at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport where a total area of more than 4,200 m² will be the impressive stage for an exciting exhibition of art. Preview Berlin takes place at the same time as Art Forum Berlin.
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Winners Of Japan's Praemium Imperiale
Conductor Daniel Barenhoim received the Praemium Imperiale awarded by the Japan Art Association. The Praemium Imperiale is a prize for artists that has been awarded since 1989 at the suggestion of the Emperor of Japan. It is intended to be a "Nobel Prize in art" and an expansion on the Nobel Prize in Literature to other fields of fine art.
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ArtBeijing 2007: The Future of Art
A contemporary art fair is not only a place of art commerce. An art fair is also fertile ground for young artists to test their skills, a meeting place for the exchange of avant-garde ideas, a springboard for new galleries, and an incubator for art collections. The staff at ArtBeijing is ready to guide you through this year´s fair, and to assist you in discovering the new faces and latest forces behind this year´s contemporary art scene.
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ART COLOGNE Palma de Mallorca
ART COLOGNE Palma de Mallorca is scheduled to open on 19 September 2007 in Terminal A of Palma de Mallorca Airport. A five-day event, it will showcase the entire spectrum of modern art - from modern classics to the very latest in contemporary art. Selection has just been completed by the ART COLOGNE Palma de Mallorca Committee and fifty-five galleries have been chosen.
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The True Essence Of Monika Steiner : "Lines and Forms"
The Geras–Tousignant Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition "Lines and Forms" by Swiss artist Monika Steiner. "Abstraction is my way to describe what I cannot see physically, what is beyond the tangible. I take an idea and remove all that is familiar to me, seeking the true essence, what’s left is something that has a much deeper grasp of reality."
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The 20/21 British Art Fair Celebrates Its Twentieth Anniversary
The 20/21 BRITISH ART FAIR is the only fair specialising exclusively in modern and contemporary art. It takes place 11 – 16 September at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7.
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"Rewind, Remix, Fast Forward" At Contrasts Gallery
Contrasts Gallery presents "REWIND ´REMIX´ FAST-FORWARD: CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART", an exhibition that encourages a re-evaluation of Chinese contemporary art. Art from China is still widely perceived in the West as being largely concerned with political protest art in the guise of "Political Pop", characterised by images of Mao and propaganda poster motifs, or "Cynical Realism" characterised by laughing faces.
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Vlachy Exhibition At Gallery Gora
Through the camera’s lens, Janez Vlachy channels distinctive creative insight in order to capture fleeting and highly sensuous instants of time. His photographs, which have been recognized within the international art scene for over a decade (in 1988, he received the first international award of note in Luxembourg), nostalgically evoke the atmosphere of a passed age, one in which photography did not yet engage with its mimetic and positivistic nature.
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