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The inaugural Art Basel Qatar, held in Doha this February, marked a striking new chapter for one of the world’s most influential art platforms. Conceived around the curatorial theme “Becoming”, the fair departed from the traditional booth model to focus on artist-driven presentations that explored transformation, identity, and social
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I have visited Landesmuseum in Zurich to see the exhibition on Battle of Marignano from 1515. Its poster is pretty intriguiging as the exhibition itself, where I learnt about significance of this event. Not only that it was a battle for the power of Milan, but also an important stone
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Last week I was in Sarajevo and visited an exhibition opening in gallery Duplex 100m2. The exhibition was great, but I caught this corner in a side room, a painting and poster showing Radenko Milak's work, and another wall object. It says: "The war is over! Let&
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The exhibition Kendell Geers 1988 - 2012 can be seen in Haus der Kunst in Munich until 12.05.2013
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I spent several days in December in Oslo. You may not believe but first thing that comes to my mind is - light! And then color! And then some more light! The color was more indoors. Somewhat lazy and unwillingly I went to City Hall, only to discover that it
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When in Oslo, don't miss two things: Oslo Opera House and Astrup Fearnely Museum. Here are some messages and impressions from the second one. This museum has been built between 2006 and 2012 and designed by designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The complex is itself very nordic:
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International art fair "Highlights" in Munich is klein aber fein. It is also very young: established only in 2009 as a joint initiative from several galleries, it still managed to position itself as an important meeting point for true experts in fine and contemporary art. Here one can
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... and this beautiful folio comes from the present-day Uzbekistan, Samarkand. It is attributable to the calligrapher 'Umar Aqta', who made this to the ruler Timur. It represents a beautiful calligraphy from Timurid period, written in muhaqqaq style and depicting Sura al-Qisas (28: 82-84). This belongs to the one
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Naked before the Camera is a small temporary exhibition given in Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It evolves around the topic of naked human body in photography, bringing the light to this highly disputed motive in art and depicting it from various angles. Therefore, we see the first
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I've been recently in Chicago - a city with certainly some of the most beautiful high-rise buildings in the world. These buildings have later inspired the cities and architects around North America to compete more creative, more theme oriented and unusual in their next project. Museum of Contemporary
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Art Institute of Chicago is one of these encyclopedic art museums of the world. You have permanent exhibitions that span continents and geographies, centuries and epochs, personalities and schools. I went there the other day expecting a regular museum visit for max. 2 hours or so (so long the concentration
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A warm and sunny afternoon was well-spent in Glyptothek in company of Greek and Roman statues.