18/08/2010 Folk Art Paradise: Joe Minter’s African Village in America
In 1989, retired construction worker and artist Joe Minter, Sr. had a vision: He wanted to commemorate 400 years of Africans in America by creating an installation using found materials, and erect it in his backyard. Concerned that the then newly opened Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham would exclude the masses of ordinary people involved in the movement, he prayed, and received his mission from God, to document the struggle in his own way. The installation is created by his home into the west side of Birmingham, Alabama.
29/07/2010 11th edition of the EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE
05 September 2010
This year edition 26 European Countries taking part to the event.
Every year, a special subject matter is chosen, around which activities and events are being organized. The subject matter of this year, “Art and Judaism”, offers an especially wide field of topics to explore different kinds of art, artists, periods and more.
05/07/2010 Reflections on Nelson Mandela. Icon of Peace
With quotations from celebrities such as Kevin Spacey and Kate Moss, as well as working professionals, artists, and kids, Reflections on Nelson Mandela presents a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning leader’s power to inspire and influence the world. A fashion photographer and native South African, author Antoinette Haselhorst approached a diverse range of individuals for the project, armed with a camera and a single question: “What do you think society, mankind, and humanity can learn from Nelson Mandela’s values and virtues?” The result is a volume of touching photos and poignant reflections, with proceeds from sales going toward the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund: www.nmcf.co.za
23/06/2010 Sacres Music Colloquium XX
Fino al 27 giugno 2010 Duquesne University
Church of the Epiphany
Pennsylvania, USA
The largest and most in-depth teaching conference and retreat on sacred music in the world. Gregorian Chant has been called the most beautiful music this side of Heaven. But as Pope Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican Council have emphasized, it is also integral to Catholic liturgical life and should be heard and experienced with wide participation in every parish. The Church Music Association of America is working to bring about this ideal with its Sacred Music Colloquium.
June 18 - September 12, 2010 Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway at 61st Street
New York, NY USA
This exhibition from the collection of the oldest monastery in Ukraine, the Kyiv-Pecherskaya Lavra (or Monastery of the Caves) will survey the history of Ukrainian icons and their stylistic evolution over the centuries. Ukrainian icons, unlike their Russian counterparts, incorporated noted influences from western art, particularly during the Renaissance and Baroque styles. The blending of East and West in their iconography and style is unique and needs to be better known in the US. Alongside icons the exhibition will display textiles, ceremonial and altar crosses, chalices and other liturgical objects. MOBIA will be the first venue in the United States.
15/06/2010 FIRE - FROM ERACLITO TO TIZIANO FROM PREVIATI TO PLESSI
6 March - 4 July 2010 Palazzo Reale
Piazza Duomo
Milan, Italy
Exhibition postponed until 4 July 2010
Fire is the second event in a four-year project about the four elements (Water, Air, Earth, Fire) developed and implemented by the Foundation DNArt with the Lombardia Region in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan-Culture. The exhibition is an exploration into the symbolic and archetypal roots of the Fire element by comparing them through the exhibition of archaeological, artistic and contemporary works allowing the visitor to follow a thread that come with the growth of our culture from antiquity to present. Among the splendid works selected, all masterpieces, it ranges from ancient Greece to Imperial Rome, from Tiziano to Plessi, from Cranach to Domenichino and from Previati to Burri. The path is divided into 11 thematic sections that highlight the symbolic value of the Fire: Fire creator, Fire in myth, Fire Underground, Rebirth, Fire helpful, Fire community, ancestral Fears, Light of redemption, Light and Darkness, Apocalypse of knowledge, Dis-concealment.
It will start on 18th June the 53rd edition of Spoleto Festival, rich and multiform appointment. An International Festival of culture and entertainment in a cosmopolite region with a great tradition in reception, wich become a point of reference for art, nature and food. Gogo No Eiko opens the Festial with a new japaneese opera by the musician Hans Werner Henze.
[ download allegato ] 01/06/2010 4th Cairo Video Festival - Video Art & Experimental films
Deadline for submission: 15th of June 2010
Medrar for Contemporary Art is a common cultural corporate and philanthropic platform for young emerging artists based in Egypt. It aims to contribute to the motivation of different means of communication, developing experiences and financial support for contemporary praxis on the national, regional and international level. Medrar aims to drive the interest of young emerging artists and provide them with chances of experimentation and accession by encouraging their activities and the intercultural exchange between them globally, as well as creating a space for dialogue between young art critics by producing serial prospectuses and critique researches and providing data base for curatorial based projects. Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submission to the Forth Video Festival hosted in Goethe institute Cairo-Downtown. To submit videos as only screening copies in (DVD-PAL or NTSC) format along with a completed application form in a sealed envelope to:
Forth Video Festival - Cairo
Medrar for contemporary art
22 khayrat st. El Sayeda Zeinab
Postal code:11461
[ download allegato ] 29/05/2010 The Soul and the World. Religious art between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries
Monastero di Santa Maria in Valle Via Monastero Maggiore 38
Cividale del Friuli, (UD) Italy
POSTPONED UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2010
The Cividale exhibition will exhibit about sixty pieces of various age and type strictly unpublished: paintings, sculptures and sacred vessels made between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the works from private collections included paintings attributed to Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, Andrea Schiavone, Alessandro Magnasco, Johann Carl Loth, Giandomenico Ferretti and Pompeo Batoni. An important exhibition, organized by the City of Cividale and curated by the art historian Roberta Costantini in collaboration with the University of Udine.
[ download allegato ] 28/05/2010 Festarte VideoArt Festival -3rd International Competition 2010
Federculture, a Public Services Federation operating in the sectors of Culture, Tourism, Sports, and Leisure has, among its institutional objectives, the objective of promoting territories through culture. Federculture promotes events and projects in favor of minimizing the gap between diverse realities, providing occasion for comparison and thus a direct dialogue between artists of different nationalities and backgrounds. Festarte, with the theme - INVISIBLE VIOLENCE Private / Public / Social - challenges the artists to investigate on a kind of violence that does not injure the body, that is not visible, that hurts without touching, that dims the mind, deteriorates the existence and the vital force. A competition of Video Art that comprises an exhibition, awards, and subsequent touring shows of selected works in a few principal Italian museums.
Prize money Euro 5.000
Deadline to send the requested Videos and Documentation - Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Maximum length of videos: 8 minutes
Awards night September 15, 2010: At “La pelanda” (MACRO Testaccio) Rome – piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4 New Cultural Area of the Municipality of Rome, managed by MACRO.
With the patronage of: Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Ministro della Gioventù, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione del Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali della Provincia di Roma
26 – 28 May 2010 Fondazione Cini
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice, Italy
The international conference on Body and Spirit in Writing in the East and the West has been organised with the aim of exploring the relations between the intangibility of thought and its transformation into a visual, written and intelligible matter. This will be done by considering the differences and interactions between various forms of writing and by highlighting the relationship between types of thought and forms of communication in different cultural contexts (especially in Asia and Europe). In this case the conference will begin by looking at writing in its most suggestive material manifestation – calligraphy. In the European tradition, calligraphy makes use of abstract symbols which basically refer to phonetic expression. To a large extent this process is also found in the calligraphy of Islamic and Indian languages. In the Far East, on the other hand, calligraphy takes on a more material aspect, not so much because there is a strong visual component binding the written sign to an object or a concept, but because calligraphy and image are very often merged in both art and literature and especially in painting on religious themes.
The appointment with the Salone returns every year in May at Lingotto. Today, the Salone is the biggest bookshop in Italy and the cultural area of the MediterraneanThe Salone is also a buzzing international festival of culture with a programme of over one thousand conferences, meetings, debates and shows with more than 2,000 speakers and guests over five days. The Salone Internazionale del Libro is organised by the Fondazione per il Libro, la Musica e la Cultura (Foundation for Books, Music and Culture), the Province of Turin and the City of Turin.
15 May 2010 Museums and archeologiacal areas
Italy
For the second year the MiBAC participates to “the Night of the Museums”, the European event with admission free in museums and archaeological areas in evening and night timetable. An occasion that involve the young public to partecipate. A lots of involved places of art will enrich the proposal organizing events as concerts, thematic exhibition and evocative guided tour.
20/08/2010 I Dialoghi di San Giorgio Protecting nature or saving creation?
14 Settembre 2010 - 16 Settembre 2010 Fondazione Giorgio
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venezia, Italia
The meeting is based on the now widely accepted notion that the gamut of passions mobilized by ecology so far has not reached the level or intensity of what is required for the immensity of the tasks at hand. In the past only religion seems to have mobilized the right set of transformative passions. But it is not clear whether this level of energy is still available nor it is clear whether it is really useful. Our idea is to review the topic of ecology and theology and try to explore some new paths in what would very easily otherwise risk becoming an accumulation of “feel good” attitudes. Two reasons, we think, explain the relative sterility of many debates at this junction between ecology and theology. The Dialogue will involve a select number of experts and scholars from different experiences and disciplines – philosophers, historians, anthropologists, theologians (representatives of different religious traditions), environmentalists, economists, political strategists and authors. These experts will meet and discuss their points of view, visions and experience over three days (14, 15 and 16 September) in the unique setting of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, a place capable of creating a suggestive atmosphere, encouraging calm refl ection and open debate. All the participants will sit around a table for three days and the general public will be allowed to attend the debate. The conversation is likely to be held mostly in English. The following scholars have already agreed to take part: Matthew Engelke, Eric Geoffroy, Izabela Jurasz, Bruno Latour, Ignazio Musu, Ted Nordhaus, Anne-Marie Reijnen, Simon Schaffer, Michael Shellenberger, Elizabeth Theokritoff, George Theokritoff, Andrea Vicini and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.
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