Barbie, the icon

Il suo vero nome è Barbara Millicent Robert, ma per tutti è solo Barbie. Definirla una bambola sarebbe riduttivo. Barbie è un’icona globale, che in 56 anni di vita è riuscita ad abbattere ogni frontiera linguistica, culturale, sociale, antropologica. Per questo motivo il Museo delle Culture di Milano le dedica una mostra, curata da Massimiliano …

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Raqs Media Collective appointed chief curator of the 11th Shanghai Biennale

The Indian artist/curator group Raqs Media Collective has been appointed the chief curator for the 11th edition of the Shanghai Biennale, which will be open on November 11th 2016 until March 12th 2017 at the PSA. As the first international contemporary art biennial on the Chinese mainland, the Shanghai Biennale was launched in 1996. Since …

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Hugo McCloud: Timeline

Fondazione 10707 Nov 2015 — 06 Dec 2015 Fondazione 107, in partnership with Luce Gallery, presents Timeline, Hugo McCloud’s solo show, curated by Federico Piccari. Hugo McCloud intervenes building inside the spaces of Foundation 107 three places: the shops in which the artist worked in his youth and that contributed to his professional education. Being …

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Arthrise: Pre-Ecological Visions in Italian Art 1967-73

PAV Torino06 Nov 2015 — 21 Feb 2016 With its new exhibition Earthrise, the PAV aims to extend its investigations into the genealogy of the relationship between artistic practices, social change and production of the environment, presenting a collection of pioneering research carried out in Italy in the crucial years around 1968. Nineteen-sixty- eight was …

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Guggenheim Announces Short List for the Hugo Boss Prize 2016

Six finalists have been selected for the Hugo Boss Prize 2016, the biennial award established in 1996 to recognize artists whose work is among the most innovative and influential of our time. Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and chair of the jury, today announced the …

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Winning artists and curator announced for the 2016 Abraaj Group Art Prize

The Abraaj Group, a leading investor operating in global growth markets, has announced the curator and winning and shortlisted artists selected for the eighth Abraaj Group Art Prize, the most significant arts prize in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, recognised globally for its generous and innovative support of artists. Artists from the …

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10th Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography

The 10th Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography, will take place from 31 October to 31 December 2015. The Bamako Encounters provide an important platform for photographers in Africa and the diaspora, displaying their work to an international public. After a four-year break, due to events in Mali, the Bamako Encounters are back with a …

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VAN GOGH NELLA VILLA DEI CAPOLAVORI

Dal 25 settembre all’8 dicembre 2015La sedia di Vincent: ritratto di una struggente (disperata) umanità. Nasce dal prestigioso rapporto di collaborazione tra la National Gallery di Londra e la Fondazione Magnani Rocca questo evento unico che, per la prima volta in Italia, permette di ammirare nella Villa dei Capolavori, sede della Fondazione a Mamiano di …

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GIACOMO BALLA ASTRATTISTA FUTURISTA

12 settembre – 8 dicembre 2015Balla coloratissimo nella Villa dei Capolavori. La mostra GIACOMO BALLA Astrattista Futurista allestita alla Fondazione Magnani Rocca di Mamiano di Traversetolo, presso Parma, dal 12 settembre all’8 dicembre 2015, a cura di Elena Gigli e Stefano Roffi, intende presentare il percorso artistico di Balla (Torino 1871 – Roma 1958) attraverso …

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Adrián Villar Rojas: Rinascimento

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents Rinascimento, the first Italian solo exhibition of works by Adrián Villar Rojas. Born in Argentina in 1980, the artist has received international acclaim through a language that has a strong impact, and explores the narrative potential of contemporary sculpture. Many of his works have a monumental scale, and include multiple …

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