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TODAY'S FEATURED VIDEO

MARTIN CREED: WORK NO 850 AT TATE BRITAIN, LONDON

Martin Creed's 'Work No. 850' centres on a simple idea: that a person will run as fast as they can every thirty seconds through the gallery. Each run is followed by an equivalent pause, like a musical rest, during which the grand Neoclassical gallery is empty. This work celebrates physicality and the human spirit. Creed has instructed the runners to sprint as if their lives depended on it. Bringing together people from different backgrounds from all over London, Work No. 850 presents the beauty read more...




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FEBRUARY 09, 2010

JERRY SALTZ: MANNERISM IS US

Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years? Popes and kings may have loved it, but artists needed to go try something else. You can't compete w...read more...


RINKO KAWAUCHI AT ARGOS CENTRE, BRUSSELS


In her still and subdued works, Rinko Kawauchi, one of the most celebrated Japanese photographers of her generation, tries to capture the brief and transient beauty of the everyday things we often overlook. This exhibition at Argos surveys the past ten years of Kawauchi's work.


THIS WEEK'S NEWS ROUND-UP

A Giacometti sculpture breaks the world record for a work of art sold at auction; Gursky's photograph of Madonna is expected to make $2 million at Sotheby's London next week; and Jeff Koons will make the next BMW art car.


SAATCHI ONLINE TOP 10 CHOSEN BY VICTORIA CHAINE MENDRZYK

Victoria Chaine Mendryzk, a freelance writer currently living and working in London, selects ten artists who use language in their work registered on Saatchi Online.

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THIS WEEK'S OPENINGS AROUND THE WORLD

As the evenings finally begin to get longer, be sure to catch openings in London this week for Florian Hecker, Candice Breitz, Natasha Kissell and Franz Ackermann. In New York, meanwhile, there are solo shows this week for abstract painter Emilio Perez and celebrated photographer Daido Moriyama, as well as new installation work by Banks Violette, a...read more...

 

February 08, 2010

SCHAUN BELCHER: SAATCHI ONLINE CRITIC'S CHOICE BY VICTORIA CHAINE MENDRZYK

Shaun Belcher frequently posts his doodles on his blog, which thus functions like a diary. They retrace his mood, his frustrations with the arts scene or his views on the art world with a deadpan humour. His drawings are a mixture between comics, scribbles and caricatures and are made with an unhesitating black pen.


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February 06, 2010

KOEN VAN DEN BROEK AT SMAK, GHENT

S.M.A.K.'s current retrospective exhibition of work by the Belgian artist Koen van den Broek (b. 1973, Bree) brings together both new and existing work from the period 1999-2009, taken from private and public collections internationally. The exhibition, compiled by Andrew Renton (Goldsmiths College, London) and Thibaut Verhoeven (S.M.A.K. Ghent), p...read more...

February 05, 2010

GIACOMO BRUNELLI AT PHOTOFUSION, LONDON

Over the past few years Giacomo Brunelli has developed a style which he calls "animal focused street photography". By pushing the boundaries of nature photography Brunelli creates eerie and unfamiliar images, which succeed in capturing the instinctive drama and wildness of his subjects.

February 04, 2010

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI: MONUMENTA 2010 AT THE GRAND PALAIS, PARIS

Following the success of the first two MONUMENTA events, featuring Anselm Kiefer in 2007 and American sculptor Richard Serra in 2008 - both of which attracted over 140,000 visitors in five weeks - leading French artist Christian Boltanski takes up the Monumenta challenge in 2010. Conceived as a work in sound and vision, 'Personnes' addresses the qu...read more...


MICHAEL HUEY AT JOSH LILLEY, LONDON

For his first London exhibition American artist Michael Huey presents a series of works which focus on archival materials - photographs, papers, objects - presented anew as the outcome of the artist's subtle interventions. An 1870s watercolour miniature, ruined by spilled wine; a young girl's sketches of the night sky; an anonymous, enigmatic 1940s...read more...


THIS WEEK'S NEWS ROUND-UP

Christie's reports a 24% drop in sales for 2009; Bob Dylan debuts his paintings in London; a Freud self-portrait is expected to fetch £4 milion at Sotheby's; London's ICA could close in May; and Michael Landy consigns work by fellow artists such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin to his Art Bin.

February 03, 2010

TWO MAJOR CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN SHOWS OPENING AT THE GARAGE, MOSCOW

The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture will showcase new art being created in Russia today in two major exhibitions, both opening on 5 March 2010. 'Futurologia' will explore the legacy of the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, and 'Russian Utopias' will examine the theme of utopia in Russian art over the last 20 years. Together, th...read more...


FOTOFEST 2010 BIENNIAL, HOUSTON, TEXAS

The FotoFest 2010 Biennial opens in Houston, Texas, in March offering a chance to see some of the best photography form the US. The biennial will present four exhibitions of contemporary American and across the city there will also be more than 80 independently organized photographic exhibitions. The biennial is accompanied by a programme of talks,...read more...

February 02, 2010

MIRIAM ELIA: I FELL IN LOVE WITH A CONCEPTUAL ARTIST, AND IT WAS TOTALLY MEANINGLESS

I never got my GSCE in Art - I guess I just didn't get it. I mean Screwed up balls of paper? Light bulb's going on and off? Vomit on the floor of the gallery? What did it all mean??????? I was about to find out. Martin Creed said that when he first saw me, he was 'struck by cupids arrow,' and I have to admit, I felt the same. We met backstage at a ...read more...

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CONTENTS
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MICHAEL LANDY AT THE SOUTH LONDON GALLER...
Sebastian Sharples went to the South London Gallery for Art and Music Magazine to meet the ...

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JUAN FONTANIVE AT RIFLEMAKER, LONDON
"...I like to make things that dance" Juan Fontanive's debut exhibition at Riflemaker consisted of a room of 'paper films', mechanical flipbooks ho...

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ALEXANDER CALDER'S CIRCUS
Carlos Vilardebo's 1961 film of Alexander Calder's 'Circus,' is an intricately assembled performance piece played out by handmade characters including...

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TOM SACHS'S SPACE PROGRAM PART 1
For more than a decade Tom Sachs has pondered the homespun technical ingenuity and romance with the unknown that brought America the Apollo program. E...

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KEYS TO OUR HEART (2008) BY KALUP LINZY
Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist currently living and working in Brooklyn. Born in 1977 in Stuckey, Florida, Linzy graduated fr...

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THE BUILDING BY HANS OP DE BEECK
Belgian artist Hans op de Beeck builds and stages contemporary, fictive urban and household locations, situations and characters that seem extremely f...

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ALTERAZIONI VIDEO AND RAGNAR KJARTANSSON...
For Performa 2009, the Italian collective Alterazioni Video and Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson presented Symphony n.1, a live and multimedia piec...

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SAMURAI STORY BY DAVID BLANDY
'Samurai Story' is a film by British artist David Blandy who was born in London (1976), where he now lives and works. Blandy studied at Chelsea Colleg...

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AN INTERVIEW WITH TIM BURTON
Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himse...

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PAUL MCCARTHY AND MIKE KELLEY: FAMILY TY...
In one of his more disturbing projects, American artist Paul McCarthy collaborates with fellow artist Mike Kelley on this film depicting the relations...

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Nice comedy. Maybe not a masterpiece, but still enjoyable to watch.

OSS 117 Rio ne répond plus (2...
By Nicolas Rilliet

Very funny comedy. A pleasure to watch.

Everybody's fine (2009)
By Nicolas Rilliet

Very nice remake of 'Stanno tuti bene' (1990). Robert de Niro and Drew Barrimore are great in it. Moving ... read more...

Bottle shock (2008)
By Nicolas Rilliet

Nice and pleasant comedy. Nothing revolutionary in it, just entertaining.

Letter from an Unknown Woman (...
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A lovely movie about err, love! Staring Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Marcel Journet, Mady Christians, th... read more...

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birth of the Messiah

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down/index.php?showpic=254566 Thank you very much my Saatchi friends, let's put some colours in the final.

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The Seed of Reason
The Seed of Reason 94 Whangarei 'studies' 09-10. Art composition by Hugh Thomas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_ptqX
qjsZw Image quality well below orig. http://www...

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Girl Dreaming Exhibition
- A Progress Report

We are moving on a pace with our planned Girl Dreaming Exhibition at the White Tree Gallery in Wolverhampton, starting Saturday, April 10th, and running for two weeks. Pl...

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The Encyclopedic Cartoons
Video Project

A video project elaborated and curated by Joas Sebastian Nebe Worldpremiere at Kulturpalast Wedding, Berlin, Germany, 12th february 2010, 20h

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Columns for the Sunset by
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At the age of six, Fernando loses his father, a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice and music critic for the daily Diário de Notícias. Soon thereafter, his brother...

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Angelina Joli
A snapshot of my current exhibition with beautiful music.

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GOT ART? CALL 2 ARTISTS
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LILLIAN BASSMAN : LILLIAN BASSMAN
The Wapping Project, London.
Artypete

Passable photographs from fashions big
photographer. I found little interest
beyond, oh-yeah-thats-nice type
thoughts.

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WADDINGTON GALLERIES GROUP SHOW
WADDINGTON GALLERIES
Sally Bern

I like this gallery, very conservative
but kinda like a mini museum. Big
names. Like it!

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NICHOLAS BYRNE : A CATHOLIC EPISODE
Vilma Gold
Sally Bern

I liked these works they don't demand
too much, magically subtle but not
snore boring.

Rating:

Oh! art gallery
UNUSUAL VIEW LAUNCH
Sally Bern

Inspired idea, which is for a workthy
cause, should be more places like
this.

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Micheal Landy
SLG, LONDON
Artypete

The Landy in the work, makes me think
about it longer..I can't really work
out if this is a good piece of art.
Physically yes, it is a bit of a
beauty, but art bins, art rubbish,
makes me cringe a bit. Still will be
interesting when it is full to the
brim!

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Tthe seed explodes!!!!!
I find that doing 10 to 20 sketches every morning is a great way to lubricate the brain and imagination and lead to powerful paintings.....I rarily use the sketches thems...

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keep the mind sharp ....
Daily sketches keep the mind sharp and can leed to seeds of wonderous creations to come....

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podgorny alexander it is opened for cooperation consider its art

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Rengha Rodewill
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'Black & White'
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Portrait of Perfect
Happiness in Conditioning
Centre, London

Social engineering, genetic manipulation, ‘Brave New World’ â€" ‘happiness’ actually may require freedom to compare with unhappy states, at least as a truth, for ...

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I'm a celebrity- get me
out of reality

I'm a celebrity- get me out of reality 51 Whangarei 'studies' 09-10. Art composition by Hugh Thomas http://www.artmajeur.com/index.php?go
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Forgotten + Future
Landscapes

The School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery at Indiana University, Your Art Here and ArtsWeek present "Forgotten and Future Landscapes," a series of billboards which feature a...

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ny tid
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VISIBLE MAN - New
sculpture by Marco
Cannone

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gallery/artist_profile/Marco+Cannone/
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ILLUSION - New sculpture
by Marco Cannone

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gallery/artist_profile/Marco+Cannone/
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Christopher Stone and
Peter Morris

Christopher Stone and Peter Morris will be taking part in their first show together, Late August at The Forge Gallery,Walberton, a date to put in your diaries. Peter Mor...

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