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Qatar Foundations Sidra Medical and Research Centre revealed plans to combine cutting edge technology with an incandescent design to become the first academic medical and research centre in the region and will provide the highest standards of healthcare. The Sidra design is the creation of Pelli Clarke Pelli and the projects executive architectural firm Ellerbe Becket. Both firms have created healthcare facilities around the world.
Sidra use a modern structure of steel, glass and white ceramic tile to achieve a dramatic design and landscaping includes three atriums that serve as indoor healing gardens a unique feature that all patients will be able to view from their luxury rooms. The atriums divide the facility into three hospitals within a hospital one for children, one for women and one for adults. To symbolize the importance of both tradition and progress the historic house will be preserved. Anticipated to open in late 2010, $7.9 billion has been endowed to the medical and research centre, the largest endowment of a medical centre anywhere in the world.
The first exhibition in England to focus on the complex and fascinating relationship between Russian and Italian Futurism is to be held at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, 39a Canonbury Square, London N1, from Wednesday 28 March until Sunday 10 June 2007.
A long overdue and comprehensive examination of the subject, A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia explores the energetic, creative and occasionally violent encounter of East and West in the arena of avant-garde art. These were cultural movements with powerful national characteristics.
The First Street Gallery announces an exhibition of new work by Penny Kronengold which will open on Tuesday, March 27 and continue through Saturday, April 21. In this exhibition Kronengold returns to the figure of the horse. Her interest was renewed after coming upon the glass-encased horses and figures of the Hindu Gate, and unusual installation of 17th- and 19th- century Indian sculptures in the Museum of Natural History. The Central Park carousel and the armored horses in the Metropolitan Museum struck a similar chord. Many months of drawing proceeded the paintings.
Writings in The New York Sun and artcritical.com, David Cohen has noted that Kronengold's 'formal concerns amount to an almost alchemical duality of solid and transparent, mass, and fluidity. She draws extensively from lifeÖthen improvises with abandon at the easel. The result is an animated dialogue, at times, actually, a collision of intense drawing and ecstatic color.'
CAPE 07 is a 'Cultural Soup Afrique': a multi-venue, multimedia contemporary African art event that aims to challenge artistic conventions, cross socio-economic and geographic divides and offer fresh perspectives on contemporary African art.
Featuring a dynamic programme of exhibitions, discussion sessions and performances, as well as a mobile art school and an innovative 'Soup Afrique' kitchen, it is call to action for cultural practitioners to respond to the unique realities of present-day Africa and redefine African cultural practice.
The Craft is the fantastical documentation of a fictional sect. Created by the artists Emma Talbot and Cathie Pilkington it brings together an anthology of work claiming to document the existence of a hitherto undiscovered isolated community.
The exhibition will present the artists finds in the form of a museological compilation of objects, tableau and paintings. This home-spun museum of curiosities is the fictitious hinterland which reveals Cathie Pilkington and Emma Talbots collective fascination with the darker side of human experience including their interests in gothic obsession, entrenched belief systems and communal codes of behaviour.
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Following the one-man exhibition of the author at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Villa Croce in Genoa in 2005, CACT opens its own 2007 season right with a solo show of the Italo-Argentinian artist Andrea Crosa (1949).
It is not by chance that we mention the exhibition in Genoa almost two years after, because that chance for an exhibition had showed the turning point in his maturation of the working process, in his aesthetic system of behaviour and of paralleling the expository rooms. The spatial layout, particularly suitable to a more process-like presentation of an art work, is seemingly ideal to assist and validate the recent researches of Crosa.
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Bodhi Art is proud to bring to New York Nataraj Sharmas traveling exhibition titled S T R E T C H, completed during his 2006 residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute [STPI]. In S T R E T C H, paintings and mixed media etchings in paper, pulp and prints, Nataraj Sharma continues to explore the relationships between urbanization, landscapes and the human presence at the interstices of modernity.
The opening of S T R E T C H coincides with New Yorks Asia Week - the focal point for significant Asian art auctions and gallery shows. The Asian Art Fair is widely lauded as the worlds leading Asian art fair and this year Bodhi Art is proud to participate and showcase the works of many Indian artists at this prestigious fair.
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This first London solo exhibition at Cafe Gallery Project by the highly acclaimed German colour painter, Sybille Berger, features three new major works alongside recent paintings and related sketches.
By excluding any narrative element from her painting and letting the work speak for itself, her colours take on a reality outside of their own existence. The colour of a whole work becomes both concrete and abstract at the same time, making an impact both as a physical and metaphysical presence. These paintings speak to an intuitive receptive level within us, becoming like a projection surface for the observer.
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Cape Farewell travels to the vast industrial space of the Kampnagel Cultural Centre with Cape Farewell: Art and Climate Change, the exhibition developed with the Natural History Museum in 2006.
The show features Stranded, Heathe! r Ackroyd & Dan Harvey's 6-metre long crystal-encrusted Minke whal e skeleton, End of Ice, David Buckland's 28' video projection of the demise of an iceberg, Nymark (Undiscovered Island), Alex Hartley's topographically inspired photographic installation of his 'new' Arctic island and Siobhan Davies' ephemeral projection of a lone dancer, Endangered Species
Architects are being urged to help fight the obesity epidemic in the UK. The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment is this year promoting measures to improve community mobility around our cities, suburbs, shopping centres and office blocks so often mere monuments to inactivity and over-consumption. "Far too much housing is built on a cul-de-sac format with a huge great wall around it and one entrance in and out," says Tim Townshend, a Newcastle academic. "It's for motor traffic, with high-speed distributor roads around the edge of the compound.
Usually these places have no local shops or facilities
Children play indoors or they're taken by car to friends' homes, where they play indoors. Meanwhile, Londons inner-city boroughs are replacing former mining towns as Britains sickest areas, according to a report by market intelligence firm CACI. The serious illness focused on within the report are, to a large extent, caused by lifestyle choices, claimed Ian Thurman, the firms location analysis chief. Photograph: Erwin Wurm, Fat House, 2003. Source: Guardian
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on Bobby Flynn must win Australian Idol
thanks for the message. maybe you'd like to explain the difference between 'art' and 'popular culture ego' because at the moment that statement is meaningless. if you're asserting that 'art' and 'popular culure' are somehow mutually exclusive I see no evidence for that - some of the greatest 'art' produced by western civilisation has been firmly embedded in the marketplace - etc most renaissance art. Is it your own prejudice against pop culture that's preventing you from getting into idol?