We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,00.html

Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the history of culture, the ways we try to avoid thinking about death and why Google is dangerous for young people.

Earth: Art of A Changing World

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/gsk-contemporary-season-2009/

an exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts --

GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a changing world is the second annual contemporary art season at 6 Burlington Gardens. The exhibition will present new and recent work from more than 30 leading international contemporary artists, including commissions and new works from the best emerging talent.

The works share the common theme of climate change.

Supported by GlaxoSmithKline

Ecouen accueille François Ier et Soliman en complices

http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2009/12/17/ecouen-accueille-francois-ier-et-soliman-en-complices_1282082_3246.html#ens_id=1282158

Au château d'Ecouen (Val-d'Oise), le Musée national de la Renaissance réserve une belle surprise. Jusqu'au 15 février, l'exposition "François Ier et Soliman le Magnifique" met en lumière les relations nouées entre deux grands souverains que le contexte historique et religieux aurait dû opposer.

Works of Martiros Adalian

http://www.adalart.com/

The Art Depot Gallery's quarterly artist showcase will feature artist Martiros Adalian and his exhibit, "Let Them Eat Cake."

Adalian's showcase is themed after 18th century France. detailing a mixture of what that era represented: wealth, big hair, poverty and images from nightmares of Francisco Goya, in a more modern interpretation.

Archetyp' Art ospita le opere di Bucci e Soriano

http://www.eolopress.it/eolo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3076:archetyp-art-ospita-le-opere-di-bucci-e-soriano&catid=123:eventi&Itemid=217

In mostra fino al prossimo 28 gennaio presso la galleria Archetyp'Art di Termoli i lavori di due giovanissimi artisti come Sebastiano Bucci e Paolo Soriano nella mostra " Graffi, vetro e quotidianità". Testo critico

"Può l'arte essere un carcere? Riprendo questa espressione dal titolo di un saggio del critico d'arte argentino Horacio Zabala a sottolineare, per antitesi, l'assoluta valenza dei lavori di Sebastiano Bucci e Paolo Soriano presentati alla galleria Archetyp'Art;...

Matisse Poetry Illustrations Come to Atlanta

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9547902

The artist produced dozens of drawings and etchings as illutrations for the work of French poets Stephane Mallarme and Pierre Ronsard. Matisse's drawings appeared alongside the poems in his "Florilege des Amours de Ronsard" and "Poesies" collections, published in the 1930s and '40s.

Sixty-three of the illustrations will be on display at the Museum of Art at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta from Jan. 17 until May 9

House of Art & Bedford-Stuyvesant Pay Tribute to ...

http://www.nychouseofart.com

... Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Mrs. Coretta Scott King

A Life Celebration

remembering and honoring the life and legacy of two American Heroes

Life Celebration Schedule

12:00pm - 2:00pm:
Dr. King and Mrs. King - Story Time for Kids

2:30pm - 5:30pm:
"American Experience: Citizen King"
(Documentary and Discussion)
citizen king

6:00pm - 9:00pm:
f-READ-om Through Art

Touching Warms the Art

http://www.contemporarycrafts.org/exhibitions/index.php?f=2008_01_touching

Presented in context with Metalsmith’s Exhibition in Print (EiP) 2007 and selected objects on view from Framing · The Art of Jewelry, this juried exhibition democratizes the experience of art jewelry. Many of the concepts inherent in pieces of art jewelry remain vague or abstract until the viewer becomes the wearer. But this transmission, and subsequent transformation, is typically not possible in a museum setting.

Una exposición reivindica la obra de 24 artistas condenadas al silencio

http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/610145/0/creadoras/olvidadas/exposicion/

"Cuando se haya roto el infinito estado de servidumbre de la mujer, cuando alcance a vivir por ella y para ella, y cuando el hombre, hasta ahora abominable, le haya dado su indulto, entonces la mujer también será poeta y encontrará lo desconocido", vaticinó en 1871 Arthur Rimbaud.

Casi un siglo y medio después, las mujeres "pueden destacar en el panorama artístico igual que un hombre, sin necesidad de hablar de lucha de sexos", opina Marisa Oropesa, ...en Valladolid.

L'oeuvre secrète de Gustav-Adolf Mossa

http://www.quefaire.be/l-oeuvre-secrete-de-183617.shtml

Mossa est considéré aujourd’hui comme le dernier peintre symboliste français. Son oeuvre, déjà reconnue avant la première guerre mondiale, a été ensuite volontairement occultée par l’artiste lui-même.

OLA Festival, Rollins College

http://www.artbymarcos.com/

Unraveling of "Transition" by Marcos Cruz

Stainless steel sculpture, created 02.02.10

Illustrating the energy status quo...