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Article date: Monday, January 27, 2020

Festival of Visual Culture Hors Pistes - Out of Line Opened its 15th Edition at the Centre Pompidou

For it’s fifteenth exhibition, Hors Pistes (who can be translate as "Out of line") festival will focus on exploring, confronting and questionning the metamorphose of artistic experimentation and the individual use of the contemporary image, in all it diversity (from movies to series, from video to computer graphic…). What are those pictures that we contanstly and abundantly see ?

Article date: Sunday, January 26, 2020

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

This exhibition will present the kimono as a dynamic and constantly evolving icon of fashion, revealing the sartorial, aesthetic and social significance of the garment from the 1660s to the present day, both in Japan and the rest of the world.

Article date: Sunday, January 19, 2020

Unique 300 Year Old Scientific Drawings at Risk of Leaving the UK

An export bar has been placed on a group of 18th century albums containing what experts claim are amongst the finest examples of botanical drawing in existence. The works, ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’ and ‘A Commonplace Book’ are valued at £2,500,000 and were completed in the mid 1700s. They are at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can be found.

Article date: Thursday, January 16, 2020

Discover the Complete Painted Works and Unique Miniatures of Jan Van Eyck Online

Thanks to the VERONA project (Van Eyck Research in OpeN Access) of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), the complete painted works, plus the unique miniatures of Jan Van Eyck, can now be admired online in ultra-high resolution. During the presentation of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2019 for Research to the VERONA project, photos and scientific images of several of Jan Van Eyck's top works, plus miniatures from the manuscript Turin-Milan Hours, were added to the website Closer to Van Eyck.

Article date: Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Hella Jongerius – Breathing Colour

National museum of Sweden presents Hella Jongerius’s exhibition Breathing Colour which is a visual installation that features the results of her longstanding research into colour, shape, light and materials.

Article date: Monday, January 13, 2020

'Our World is Burning' Exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo Conceived in Collaboration with the MATHAF

The exhibition Our World is Burning offers a fully political view of international contemporary creation seen from the Gulf, where wars and diplomatic tensions have constantly determined the history of the early 21st century.

Article date: Monday, January 13, 2020

Humanising the Art Museum: Interview with Sandro Debono

"The role of the museum today should be more about the ambition of firmly displacing the human towards the centre of a comprehensive, one-weave experience. The stories told, the experiences and the display presented, as well as the services provided should be weaved and intertwined into one albeit each would contribute distinctively to one and the same vision. This also concerns the simplest of actions, needs and requirements of a cultural space designated to be acknowledged as a museum".

Article date: Sunday, January 12, 2020

Cecilia Alemani Named Artistic Director of the La Biennale di Venezia Visual Arts Department

The Venice Biennale said Friday that it has appointed Cecilia Alemani as the new Director of its Visual Arts Department, making her the first woman to hold the job. As a result the Italian curator, who comes from Milan and is based in New York, has the task of planning and curating the upcoming 59th International Art Exhibition.

Article date: Thursday, January 9, 2020

Opening of the Berlin-Based “Help Desk” for Enquiries about Cultural Assets Seized in the National Socialist Era

Since the beginning of January there is a central point of contact in Berlin for enquiries from those whose cultural assets were seized as a result of persecution under the National Socialist regime, and their descendants. This “Help Desk” is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Article date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Meeting of Director-General and Iran’s Ambassador to UNESCO

The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on Monday received Ahmad Jalali, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and discussed tensions in the Middle East with particular regard to heritage and culture. The Director-General recalled the provisions of the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, two legal instruments that have been ratified by both the United States and Iran.

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