18 juillet 2007

" Fraîche TABLO (circulating air) is a doorframe for blocks of flats. It is based on the moucharaby and securely maintains a door ajar, allowing smooth airflow.It is composed of a scalable semi-wooden slatted structure which can be fitted on doors of different sizes; the slats are oriented so that the inside of the room is not visible."MACHIN&MACHIN (France) - Jerome Garzon & Fred Sionis - 033 6 85 47 82 99 - djegarzon@gmail.com 

Alonso Sanchez Coello (vers 1532-1588), Portrait de Don Diego, fils de Philippe II d'Espagne, Huile sur toile - 108 x 88,2 cm - Acquis par le Liechtenstein Museum, Vienne, mais interdit de sortie temporaire du Royaume-Uni (Photo : D.R.) Une toile d'Alonso Sanchez Coello, convoitée par la National Gallery mais achetée par le Liechtenstein Museum de Vienne est actuellement interdit de sortie jusqu'au 20 juillet prochain et de nombreux autres chefs-d'œuvre actuellement au Royaume-Uni pourraient, selon de nombreux observateurs, se... [Lire la suite]

Le Comité populaire de la province de Hà Tây vient d'injecter 2 milliards de dôngs supplémentaires à la restauration de la maison communale de Mông Phu, dans le village de Duong Lâm, chef-lieu de Son Tây, province de Hà Tây (Nord). Cette somme porte à 7 milliards de dôngs les investissements réservés à la préservation de ce site. On compte restaurer sa cour, ses portes, ses murs et planter des arbres. (CVN)

Lors des récentes fouilles menées au site archéologique Buôn Râu, commune de Hoà Tiên, district de Krông Pak, province de Dak Lak (hauts plateaux du Centre), un grand nombre d'antiquités datant de l'âge néolithique (il y a environ 3.000 ans) ont été découvertes. D'après Trân Quy Thinh, de l'Institut d'archéologie du Vietnam, ces objets de grande valeur prouvent un bon niveau de fabrication des objets en pierre des habitants vivant à Krông Pak, à l'époque néolithique. Les antiquités retrouvées sont des fragments de céramique, des... [Lire la suite]

Ching Huang, "The Way" (Video) 1st Place - $1,000 Award, The Art of Digital Show 2006 SAN DIEGO, CA.- An international exhibition of digital art at the elegant Lyceum Theatre Gallery in San Diego's historic Gaslamp Quarter will take place October 6 - November 11, 2007. The judge will be Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Art of Digital Show is a world-class exhibition featuring all forms of digital art -- digitally manipulated photography, digital painting, computer based... [Lire la suite]

Lapo Elkann Photo: Scott Schuman (www.menstyle.com)

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890, Stone bench in the garden of the asylum, last week of May-first week of June 1889, black chalk, brush, diluted oil paint and ink, now grey-brown. Vincent van Gogh Stichting (inv. D226 V/1962). AMSTERDAM.-Through 7 October 2007, the print room in the Rietveld building will mount the Van Gogh’s drawings: new insights presentation. Years of research into Van Gogh’s drawings have yielded new insights into the artist’s way of working. Taking both sketches as well as finished drawings as its point of... [Lire la suite]

Willem de Kooning (American, born in the Netherlands, 1904–1997), Attic, 1949, Oil, enamel, and newspaper transfer on canvas, 61 7/8 x 81 in. (157.2 x 205.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, in honor of her son, Glenn David Steinberg, 1982 (1982.16.3). © 2007 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. NEW YORK.-One of the preeminent collections of Abstract Expressionism, The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection... [Lire la suite]

Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venere degli stracci, 1967 NICE, FRANCE.- The Nice Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is devoting its temporary exhibition spaces to the powerful and extraordinary work of Michelangelo Pistoletto, on view through November 4, 2007. The exhibition includes 68 works, mostly from the artist’s personal collection, which will acquaint visitors with his entire career, from the Self-Portraits and Mirror Paintings of the 60s, through the Arte Povera works, Minus Objects and Divided Mirrors of the 70s, to Art... [Lire la suite]