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Wij (and the rest of the world) letten op! | Huizen verplaatst naaktschilderijen van Ellen Vroegh na klachten
donderdag 22 mei 2008 12:00
(Novum) - De gemeente Huizen heeft naaktschilderijen van kunstenares Ellen Vroegh verplaatst. Twee of drie mannen met een islamitische achtergrond en enkele baliemedewerkers hadden volgens een gemeentewoordvoerder over het uitzicht geklaagd. De door sommigen als confronterend ervaren schilderijen hingen sinds dinsdag in de publieksruimte van het gemeentehuis. | Open Ateliers Jordaan 2008
Tijdens de Pinksterdagen, op 10, 11 en 12 mei 2008, vindt de 11e editie plaats van de Open Ateliers Jordaan, de bekendste kunstenaars-atelierroute van Amsterdam, die om de twee jaar wordt gehouden en die iedere keer weer duizenden kunstliefhebbers de gelegenheid biedt om kunstenaars in hun atelier te ontmoeten.
Open Ateliers Jordaan is een initiatief van kunstenaars die werkzaam zijn in de Jordaan. Deze laagdrempelige en altijd goed bezochte, professionele kunstmanifestatie wil het direct contact tussen publiek en kunstenaars bevorderen.
Ongeveer 70 kunstenaars uit alle diciplines van de beeldende kunsten doen dit jaar mee; van schilders tot beeldhouwers, van fotografen tot keramisten. Het publiek heeft de mogelijkheid om direct in het atelier van de kunstenaar zijn of haar werk te bekijken en natuurlijk ook eventueel te kopen. Kunst in Amsterdamse moskee
ANP - gepubliceerd op 06 mei 2008 02:47, bijgewerkt op 02:47
AMSTERDAM - - In de Amsterdamse Fatih-moskee hangen komend weekend schilderijen van enkele kunstenaars. Tijdens de Open Atelier Route in de Jordaan is de moskee een van de expositielocaties.
Volgens initiatiefnemer Jaap Kapteyn is het de eerste keer dat een moskee in Nederland kunst toelaat. In de meeste moskeeën zijn afbeeldingen verboden. Op de schilderijen zijn geen portretten te zien, wel abstracte werken en landschappen. Volgens Kapteyn was het moskeebestuur meteen enthousiast toen hij het idee opperde. ‘We hebben alleen gediscussieerd over welke schilderijen we wel en niet kunnen ophangen. Daarbij hebben we ons nog meer ingeperkt dan voor deze moskee nodig was in de hoop dat ons initiatief navolging krijgt in andere moskeeën.’ Circa 8000 kunstliefhebbers lopen elk jaar de Open Atelier Route in de Jordaan. | Art
Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?
By ROBERTA SMITH - Published: April 19, 2008
Small paintings of the abstract kind are having a moment right now in New York. | ROGERS MUSICSTORE CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 2008 - The Rebirth of Music
Now in its 26th year, Rogers MusicStore CMW is the single longest running and premiere conference focusing on business of Music, bringing together Sound Recording, New Technology and Broadcast for one spectacular week of events... Combining informative, intensive conferences, cutting edge trade exposition, award shows & Canada’s biggest New Music Festival. By night Toronto's most popular clubs and concert halls throw open their doors to industry insiders and the general public to create an electrifying musicfest of discovery. The talented emerging new bands are music to the ears of A&R reps on the lookout for next year's stars. The Festival spans 4 nights of performances, with over 500 showcasing bands at over 40 live music venues in downtown Toronto. | | Deep Screen – Art in Digital Culture:
Voorstel tot Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen 2008
30.05.08 - 30.09.08
Deep Screen – Voorstel voor Gemeentelijke Kunstaankopen 2008 presenteert hedendaagse kunstwerken die sporen van de digitale cultuur in zich dragen. De jury, onder voorzitterschap van gastcurator Andreas Broeckmann, selecteerde 18 kunstenaars uit meer dan 200 inzendingen.
Tijdens de tentoonstelling in Stedelijk Museum CS maakt directeur Gijs van Tuyl een keuze van werk dat wordt aangekocht voor de collectie van het museum.
De toenemende digitalisering van onze cultuur heeft gevolgen voor de kunsten. We maken snapshots met een mobieltje, kiezen met één blik op het scherm digitale foto’s en creëren onze eigen werkelijkheid met behulp van Photoshop en iPhoto. De invloed op de kunst is te zien aan het tijdelijke karakter van de gebruikte beelden, waarbij proces, herhaling en verandering sleutelwoorden zijn. | Visual art: The focus is on the new, the trendy, the hip, the cool
Amid all the exhibits of modern and contemporary art, a display of ancient Chinese artifacts will come to Orange County.
By RICHARD CHANG - The Orange County Register - Friday, September 21, 2007
It's going to be another busy season – and busy new year – in visual art. The bigger institutions are preparing their hallmark exhibitions, while the smaller art centers are aiming to present works that stimulate thought, pleasure, dialogue and, hopefully, repeat visits.
Modern and contemporary art seem to be favorites, with a "Birth of the Cool" exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art, a "Dalí: Paintings & Film" show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a big "California Video" survey next year at the Getty.
Move over "Star Trek": Seven artists will explore the "vinyl frontier" at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, while 14 international artists will incorporate animation concepts and technologies at the San Diego Museum of Art | The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Alvarez - JANUARY 26 - MARCH 29, 2008 - UCR SweeneyArtGallery
 The Signs Pile Up: Paintings by Pedro Alvarez is the first comprehensive exhibition in the U.S. on the artist and his work. Pedro Alvarez (1967-2004) was one of the leading artists who established themselves in Cuba during the 1990s, a period of time that has been called the Special Period, or Periodo Especial, a time of economic crisis after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Alvarez utilized collage and appropriation in his evocative, large-scale paintings as a postmodern technique for examining cultural identity. He often juxtaposed different time periods from Cuba, along with references to U.S. popular culture from the 50s to the 90s. After moving to Spain, his interests broadened into explorations of transnationalism, among other topics. Much of the subject matter in the paintings deals with the cultural interchange between Cuba and the U.S., Afro-Cuban history, U.S. slavery, the effects of the legalization of the U.S. dollar in Cuba in the 90s, and the role of landscape painting within a highly charged socio-political context. | | The Transhumanist Arts Center is designed to provide insight into the future directions of art and creativity of the 21st Century as well as a brief history of transhumanity, Transhumanist Arts, and Extropic Art.
Artists and the arts, throughout history, have been a voice and a vision of civilization. Artists, as communicators, reach out to others and introduce insight and vision about society and culture. Artists and the arts bring together the passions, the dreams and the hopes of humanity and transhumanity and express these emotions in ways that touch us deeply.
Whether it is filmmaking, industrial or graphic design, poetry, fiction, science fiction, digital images, video, paintings, music, dance, sculpture, architecture, literature—our work communicates to culture and affects the pulse of culture. | 
| Computer Scientist Plans Bach Over Broadband - 19 Jul 2007
A singing computer scientist wants to use cutting-edge technology to create Europe's first successful Internet choir.
Dr Barry Cheetham, a senior lecturer in The School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester, is seeking to combine his academic expertise in communications, networks and digital signal processing with his love of choral singing.
He is looking for funding to drive forward a project that will bring together amateur and semi-professional singers across Europe for seamless and polished live performances.
But to make this possible he will have to address the limitations of existing communications networks.
New 'ultra broadband' networks will be needed, capable of delivering sound and images with far less delay than services like Internet telephony and video conferencing currently achieve. | 
| Ellen Vroegh - Modern Art Paintings and Stones, Figurative and Abstract. My paintings are modern figurative, very colorful and divided in two categories; multicolors and terracolors. | Invitation to Join the NanoArt Movement - Push the Boundaries and be the Avant-Garde in Art
NanoArt 2007 INTERNATIONAL ONLINE COMPETITION - 2nd Edition
ART - SCIENCE - TECHNOLOGY Interactions - Submission deadline December 31, 2007.
Open to All Artists and Scientists – 3 Electron Microscope Scans are provided as Seed Images for you to choose and to create the NanoArt Works
The worldwide competition NanoArt 2007 is open to all artists 18 years and older. Online voting will open January 1, 2008 through March 31, 2008. Judging is via the Internet and decided by our site visitors. Winners will be notified and published online around April 15, 2008.
NanoArt is a new art form where micro or nanosculptures created by artists or scientists through chemical or/and physical processes are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes. The monochromatic electron microscope scans are processed further using different artistic techniques to create pieces of art that can be showcased for the general public. To read more about NanoArt and Nanotechnology please visit www.nanoart21.org | UOVO is an opinions and culture magazine, a magazine of illations, confessions, convictions, fantasies, dreams, fancies, obsessions. Uovo marries features and fashion, putting fashion in the context of culture within the world we live in - how we dress, live, socialize; what we listen to, watch; who inspires us. Uovo is the first magazine to combine art culture interests with the innovation of a style magazine. Uovo is the only magazine, which takes its inspiration and departure from art to embrace celebrity interviews, quality reviews, art projects, photography and high end reader competitions. Uovo is luxurious, collectable, unforgettable and unique. Uovo is a radically new and intelligent magazine concept for people who want to read more. | POW (Pictures On Walls) was founded by a loose collection of alcoholics and show-offs that felt they were too underground (meaning not good enough) to be embraced by the proper art world. They set up their own production facility in an East London shit-hole from where prints could be produced and sold direct over the internet without the usual art world sham, snobbery and mark-up. | | | | | | | | | 
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