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For the past month, CITIZEN:Citizen has been building an online archive called Virtually Mine, which attempts to be the largest collection of objects and their meanings for the world to share.
Virtually Mine launched at Peel Gallery in Houston when CITIZEN:Citizen decided to invert established art gallery norms and rather than curate a show themselves, they invited guests to become the curators in the exhibition titled Virtually Mine.
In opposition to current trends of glamorising design as elitist and expensive work, Virtually Mine celebrates the everyday and the personal asking one to rethink their possessions and explore how they value the objects in their life.
For the exhibition in Houston, visitors were invited to bring their own objects or designs into the gallery.
Each item was photographed, recorded, tagged with a unique ID and added to the digital archive.
Each guest was also asked to write about what the object meant to him or her.
This information and the objects digital record was then uploaded to the virtual archive.
From this initial show, CITIZEN:Citizen will produce a series of exhibitions in museums and galleries across the country and develop the Virtually Mine online archive.
Ultimately within these days of mass global consumerism, Virtually Mine offers a chance to observe ours and others relationships to the objects in our lives.
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In celebration of Women's History Month and the first anniversary of the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, the Brooklyn Museum presents a series of public programs, including discussions, music, and films focusing on women in the arts.
Highlights include a panel discussion titled Funding a Revolution moderated by Carol Jenkins and featuring women who are making historic strides in philanthropy; a dialogue with artist Ghada Amer; and a film from Women Make Movies.
"We must measure the emancipation of women on a centuries old yardstick," said Dr. Elizabeth A. Sackler, public historian, arts activist, and benefactor of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
"One hundred fifty years ago in this country, it was rare for women to receive any formal education and to own property, or to have basic rights within a marriage.
One hundred years ago women had to fight, and fight hard, for the right to vote.
Twenty-five years ago, even after all the successes of the women's movement, the Equal Rights Amendment was left un-passed, in the dust.
So, you see, the yardstick is alive and well." "Yes," she concedes, "the glass ceiling is higher but not shattered.
It is necessary to pull out the bottom bricks of the patriarchal wall to move this country away from the male elitism that keeps prisoners of us all -- men and women alike."
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From 15 February to 12 May 2008, the Kunsthaus Zurich is showing masterpieces of European Pop Art arranged by motif, under the headings "Consumerism", "Spectacle", "Media" and "Leisure".
The exhibition offers proof of the proposition that Pop Art is not an American invention.
"Europop" traces the artistic attitudes and modes of expression typical of the 1950s and 1960s beginning in London, where the term Pop Art was coined around 1955, and proceeding to Paris, Dusseldorf and Milan.
With over 80 major pieces from more than ten European countries, the Kunsthaus Zurich makes a case for the continuing relevance of one of the most intensive and influential artistic schools of the 20th century.
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The Aram Gallery has commissioned London-based designer Martino Gamper to create Total Trattoria - the ultimate expression of his Trattoria al Cappello concept.
Developing further his idea, Total Trattoria, which opens at The Aram Gallery on March 7th, completes the concept and puts it on show to the public for the first time.
Gamper has designed every single element of the dining event ranging from the kitchen and its storage areas to the cutlery and the tables and chairs to the glassware.
A series of thirteen individual tables that connect to form one large dining table will snake around the gallery to seat 25 guests.
The 25 chairs around the table are all different but are constructed from the same set of component parts, designed by Gamper.
The pieces include the results of many collaborations between Gamper and a wide variety of makers including engraved glasses placed on clusters of leather coasters, blown-glass water jugs and limited edition placemats designed by Gamper's collaborators in the Trattoria events, Maki Suzuki, Alex Rich and Kajsa Stahl.
The exhibition graphics and communication, also designed by Suzuki, Rich and Stahl, will include a specially designed catalogue.
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Future by Design shares the life and vision of Jacque Fresco, a futurist, technologist, and inventor known by many as a modern-day Da Vinci.
This documentary film by Academy Award nominated filmmaker William Gazecki captures the life and far-reaching vision of this master of out-of-the-box thinking.
Fresco has spent nearly 80 years envisioning the future, and his extensive body of work, in addition to his outspoken and likeable character, make Future by Design a visually and intellectually engaging exploration into how our culture can evolve towards true sustainability.
Following a screening of this critically acclaimed film, Mr. Gazecki takes questions from the audience.
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