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.

For more information:
www.ucei.it/giornatadellacultura
www.jewisheritage.org




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.

For more information:
contact@musicasacra.com
www.musicasacra.com/colloquium




18/06/2010
Ukrainian Icons

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.

For more information:
info@mobia.org
http://mobia.org




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.

Catalog: Fabbrica delle Idee - Milan

For more information: 
info@fondazionednart.it   
www.fondazionednart.it
www.comune.milano.it/palazzoreale


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12/06/2010
Spoleto 53rd Festival

18 June - 4 July 2010
Spoleto, Umbria Italy

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.

Programme attached.

For more information:
info@festivaldispoleto.com
www.festivaldispoleto.com


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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

For more information:
info@medrar.org
http://medrar.org


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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.

For more information:
cultura@cividale.net
www.cividale.net


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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

For more information:
www.festarte.it
videoart.contest@festarte.it
promozione@festarte.it
www.federculture.it
arte@federculture.it


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25/05/2010
Body and Spirit in Writing in the East and the Wes

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.

For more information:
www.cini.it


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13/05/2010
Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino

13 - 17 maggio 2010
Lingotto, Torino Italia

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.

Per informazioni:
www.salonelibro.it

 




12/05/2010
Night in Museums 2010

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.

For more information:
www.beniculturali.it



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Che santo è?CHE SANTO è?
Il libro si apre con le presentazioni del vescovo mons. Luciano Monari, l'introduzione è stata affidata a donna Alessandra dei principi Borghese. Ha partecipato al progetto la prof.ssa Gabriella Zarri, professore ordinario di Storia Moderna all’Università di Firenze. I santi sono suddivisi secondo l'ordine del messale romano e per meglio comprendere il comune di appartenenza del santo si sono scelti colori differenti (rosso per i martiri, verdi per gli apostoli, ciano per gli arcangeli, arancio per i dottori, blù per i quattordici santi ausiliatori etc).
Aggiunta di nuovi i santi: ora 108, sempre rappresentati in stile cartone animato, e tenenti conto della realtà storica, geografica e dove possibile della fisionomia del personaggio non di meno è stata data attenzione alla correttezza iconografica.
A cura di Paolo Linetti - Studio Ebi
Pagine 138 (a colori)

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DA JACOPO DELLA QUERCIA A DONATELLODA JACOPO DELLA QUERCIA A DONATELLO
LE ARTI A SIENA NEL PRIMO RINASCIMENTO. Il volume documenta quello straordinario periodo per le arti a Siena che copre i primi sei decenni del Quattrocento e raccoglie in maniera unica pezzi emigrati da lungo tempo all'estero, ricostruendo complessi che nel corso dei secoli sono stati smembrati e le cui parti sono oggi disperse tra vari musei. Il catalogo presenta oltre 240 opere tra dipinti, sculture, miniature ed oreficerie, libri e tessuti. Si apre con una sezione dedicata al revival trecentesco nella pittura senese del Quattrocento, per proseguire con tre sezioni cronologiche (1403-1425 da Jacopo della Quercia a Gentile da Fabriano a Siena; 1425-1444 dalla Pala dell'Arte della Lanadi Sassetta al polittico dei Gesuati di Sano di Pietro; 1444-1461 Dal polittico dei Gesuati all'addio di Donatello) chiudendo con sezioni dedicate alle forme della devozione, arte secolare e pubblica, all'oreficeria e ai codici miniati.
Editore: MOTTA FEDERICO
pp.639

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L’Arma per l’Arte - Aspetti del Sacro ritrovatiL’ARMA PER L’ARTE - ASPETTI DEL SACRO RITROVATI
Il volume illustra la mostra di Firenze, dedicata all’esposizione di un ricco patrimonio sacro e religioso sottratto da musei e luoghi sacri quali chiese, conventi e dirottato poi sul mercato antiquario e recuperate dopo un lungo lavoro di indagini da parte del reparto speciale dei Carabinieri.
Straordinaria la serie di dipinti con soggetto delle Vergini: Madonna col Bambino di Segna di Bonaventura, la Madonna di Senigallia di Piero della Francesca, la Madonna col Bambino di Paolo Veneziano e ancora il Trittico di Sano di Pietro e le suggestive Madonna col Bambino di Lucas Cranach e quella di Pinturicchio. Da segnalare poi anche le suppellettili trafugate come le croci processionali – capolavoro di oreficeria la croce Veliterna del XI-XII secolo –, lo scrigno della ‘Sacra cintola’, poi miniature, un leggio, opere di fine cesellatura come i calici e gli ostensori.
Editore: Sillabe
Autore: P. Andreasi Bassi; S. Pasquinucci
24 x 27; pp. 144; 100 foto

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Sacerdote immagine di Cristo. Attraverso quindici secoli d'arte di Steen HeidemannSACERDOTE IMMAGINE DI CRISTO. ATTRAVERSO QUINDICI SECOLI D'ARTE DI STEEN HEIDEMANN
Questo Straordinario volume, dalla ricchissima iconografia, presenta in tutta la sua pienezza l'immagine storica e sacra del sacerdote cattolico. Molti uomini di Chiesa con la loro testimonianza e autorevolezza hanno contribuito a fare di questo volume un opera unica nella sua importanza e bellezza. Il compilatore del libro, Steen Heidemann, per sette anni ha visitato musei e collezioni private in cerca di opere d’arte, che ha fotografato. Il risultato è eccezionale: si tratta di un libro senza precedenti. Grazie all’Istituto del Cristo Re Sovrano Prete, è stato possibile arricchire il volume con testi e commenti scritti da illustri uomini di Chiesa, fra i quali il Santo Padre.
Editore & Imprint: Cantagalli
Pagine: 320 formato 25 x 31 cm

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Un Poema CistercenseUN POEMA CISTERCENSE
Affreschi giotteschi a Chiaravalle Milanese.
Il volume documenta in modo esaustivo e analitico l'importante ciclo pittorico di Chiaravalle, che riguarda gli affreschi della Torre nolare, sotto il tiburio. Si tratta delle Storie della Vergine, un ciclo eseguito verso la metà del Trecento sulla fonte della "Legenda Aurea" scritta dal frate domenicano Jacopo da Varagine, testo fondamentale per l'iconografia dell'arte medievale. L'Abbazia di Chiaravalle è un complesso monastico cistercense del XII secolo. La paternità dell'intero ciclo di affreschi è attribuita agli allievi della scuola giottesca e in particolare all'affascinante e per molti versi ancora misteriosa figura di Stefano, con ogni probabilità nipote di Giotto. Il soggetto mariano si deve al fatto che l'Abbazia, costruita nel 1135, venne dedicata alla Madonna. Il volume consente di scoprire episodi, dettagli e aspetti degli affreschi che sfuggono alla visione d'insieme, dal momento che il ciclo è collocato in posizione lontana dal visitatore.
A cura di Sandrina Bandera con un saggio di Mina Gregori.
302 pp. 200 illustrazioni a colori

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SACRI MONTISACRED MOUNTS
The architecture of Sacred Mounts in Piemonte and Lombardia
Die Architektur der "Sacri Monti" im Piemont und in der Lombardei
The book is the combined work of prof. Jorg Winde (author of the photographies) and prof. Jurgen Zanker, historian of the art. It collects study documents and photographies about Sacred Mounts of the western alpine arc: Varallo, Crea, Orta, Varese, Oropa, Ossuccio, Ghiffa, Domodossola, Belmonte. A systematic work of great cultural value developed also through an itinerant exposure (2003-04) wanted by Regione Piemonte.

Illustrated catalogue with b/w photos, 100 pages

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ARTE CRISTIANA CONTEMPORANEACONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN ART
ART ARCHITECTURE THEOLOGY LITURGY
Edit by Andrea B. Del Guercio.
A work that encloses a selection of extensions, realizations, show events. The scope is to demonstrate the tight relationship and comparison between the artistic creation and the sacred space, in the terms of belongings to the contemporaneità values. The four parts of the book regard the following areas: art (Andrea Del Guercio), aesthetic theological (Pierangelo Sequeri), architecture (Michele Premoli), liturgy (Enrico Mazza). The text contains a wide coloured photographic service of the artworks.

Illustrated book, 496 pag.
Ancora Editions Between Art and Theology 2007

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Insieme a Don Tonino Bello...



Flare II - A Conversation with Antony Gormley



Jeremy Rifkin, "La civiltà dell'empatia"



Sacred Music Colloquium (CMAA)



Da pellegrini sui Sacri Monti



CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATER OF TAIWAN: Songs of Wanderers



Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet "Babel"



Tarshito - Le sculture Sacre dell'Arte



Akram Khan - Gnosis



Vasari Singers 2010 Bach Workshop and B Minor Mass



LE ICONE DEL TRETYAKOV: VISITA CON PADRE SCALFI



Concorso Arte Sacra a Fano



Lead India



Le Avanguardie dell'Arte Sacra



BIG BANG di Lucilla Giagnoni



Progetto per il Sacro Cuore di Gesù



The Goddess of Mercy celebrated in Dunhuang



Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello. Le arti a Siena nel primo Rinascimento



Free Hugs



Sita Sings the Blues


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