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• Show of Cuban Modernism is the most ambitious in US since 1944

  04-03-2017 22:00
  US audiences have not had a chance to see the art produced in Cuba over the past six decades, says Mari Carmen Ramrez, the curator of Latin American art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH). That changes this month when the museum opens Adis Utopia, the largest show of contemporary Cuban art in the US since 1944which took place well before the Cuban Revolution in 1959.More than 100 works will trace the relationship of artists to this utopian dream, Ramrez says, as attitudes evolved from in
  
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• Street dreams: surreal digital collages – in pictures

  04-03-2017 18:00
  
  Spanish artist and graphic designer Nacho Ormaechea uses digital collages to imagine the stories of the people he comes across on the street, from the London Underground to a farmers’ market in Marseille. In his project Street Memories, he fills in their silhouettes with images that he feels reflect their mental state. “The idea came naturally,” he says, “as the logical consequence of my inclination to observe people as a sort of secret game, I have always liked this idea
  
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• Korsakoff Blight

  04-03-2017 17:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What do a troubled writer, a clueless private eye, a dead guy, and a kid who’s perpetually doing battle with a psychotic murderer have in common? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. In KORSAKOFF BLIGHT, these four characters explore the origins of fiction, storytelling, and creativity in a strange, yet deceptively simple setting that echoes the work of Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka, Charlie Kaufman, and David Lynch. The post Korsakoff Blight appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Discover a visual delight! Guillaume Bottazzi’s giant painting is at Place Jourdan in Brussels

  04-03-2017 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you are looking for a dopamine experience: the French artist Guillaume Bottazzi has created this painting, 17 m x 6 m, a soft, sensual and colourful artwork.The post Discover a visual delight! Guillaume Bottazzi’s giant painting is at Place Jourdan in Brussels appeared first on Zouch.
  
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• Dali's enigma, Picasso's protest: the most important artworks of the 1930s

  04-03-2017 15:12
  
  For surrealists, modernists and montagists alike, it was a labyrinth of monsters and physical horrors: no decade has ever been so lucidly portrayed by its artistsWhat the Great Depression reveals about our future Salvador Dalí’s The Enigma of Hitler is a ghostly farewell to the 1930s. Painted in the last year of the decade, when Hitler’s invasion of Poland finally brought the years of appeasement to an end, its image of a melting telephone suspended above a photograph of the F
  
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• Strangers, secrets and desire: the surreal world of Sophie Calle

  04-03-2017 13:00
  
  Calle has long found beauty in the bizarre – her appearance on the Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist is overdueSophie Calle is France’s most famous – and the world’s most quintessentially French – conceptual artist. She once said that she became an artist because she wanted to seduce her father, who was an avid art collector. In the pursuit of her art, she has become a stripper, a stalker and a thief, famously finding a stranger’s address book on
  
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• How One Indiana Mayor Is Using The Arts To Rebuild Her City

  04-03-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  "While we understood the importance of focusing on infrastructure, job creation and public safety, we also knew that in order to spur resurgence in the city, we needed to embrace creative placemaking – using the arts to improve design and management of public places -- to transform the city’s image among residents and outside entities. We quickly recognized the importance of public-private partnerships, and the investment of non-profit partners."
  
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