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The first major UK show of Brazilian artist Vik Muniz focuses on his series of portraits.
The photographic images include works from art history and portraits of well-known people.
His choice of materials to make his photographs reads like an extraordinary shopping list; chocolate, ink, peanut butter, sugar, soil, thread, glue, and more recently diamonds and caviar have all been used by Muniz.
With a strong sense of irony and playful vitality he breathes new life into iconic images.
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In its second year, The Women's International Film & Arts Festival, (WIFF) sponsored by American Express and chaired by Emmy award-winning actress Ruby Dee kicks off on March 29 and runs through Sunday, April 1, 2007.
Over the course of 4 days, a diverse selection of 40 films will be screened from over 12 countries including: Spain, Australia, England, Germany, New Zealand, South Korea and Mexico.
This year's festival offers film lovers an exciting weekend full of events that include big budget films, world cinema, innovative independent films, international documentaries, and short films celebrating the richness of the lives of women around the world.
In addition to the screenings there will be workshops, panel discussions, symposia and parties held during the festival.
With women representing only 5% of filmmakers globally, WIFF -- a non- profit founded in 2005 by Yvonne McCormack-Lyons -- was created to bring women artists from all over the world together in South Florida to explore, share and dialogue about issues concerning women through the arts.
This year's festival will showcase a rich assortment of films that reflect the lives of women around the world.
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An appeal to aesthetics as the congenial understanding of cultural and artistic expressions and the special attitude towards the world, that can affect states of mind and relationships.
This congress aims to bring together from as wide a world as possible, aestheticians, philosophers of art, artists, critics and those interested in all aspects of the arts.
Plenary talks, artist presentations, panels, special artistic events, a sculpture symposium on the METU campus, performances, film and video shows are planned.
The XVII International Aesthetics Congress is organized by the SANART Association of Aesthetics and Visual Culture with the support of the Middle East Technical University, the Faculty of Architecture, the Faculty of Philosophy, and the Department of Arts.
It is organized under the auspices of the International Association of Aesthetics with full responsibility of SANART.
The METU Campus, which has won awards for its landscaping and ecological nature, has many facilities for food and shopping as well as outdoor and indoor swimming pools, gyms, several museums.
More than a hundred participants can be lodged in single or double rooms inexpensively, in order of application.
The languages of the congress are English, French and German.
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Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, the first comprehensive solo exhibition in North America of one of the most influential American artists to emerge since the 1990s, opens at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, this spring.
Zittel investigates contemporary life in Western societies through her sculptures and installations, which draw on architecture and geography to explore the psychological, biological, and economic aspects of domestic and urban existence.
"We are delighted to bring the works in this exhibition back to Los Angeles-in close proximity to Zittel's studio and the natural environment where the artist lives and works," said MOCA Director Jeremy Strick, "This exhibition fulfills the common mission of the artist and MOCA: the integration of the visual arts with contemporary culture."
Co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and co-curated by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Senior Curator Paola Morsiani and Trevor Smith for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Andrea Zittel: Critical Space will be on view at MOCA's critically acclaimed exhibition space in Little Tokyo, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA March 4-May 14, 2007.
MOCA's presentation will be coordinated by MOCA Curator of Architecture and Design Brooke Hodge.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents the first international survey of a remarkable body of work that emerged from the dynamic relationship between art and feminism in and around the 1970s.
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution-on view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA March 4-July 16, 2007-brings together the work of 119 artists from 21 countries to examine how the feminist movement fundamentally changed the way we see and understand art.
More than eight years in the making, WACK! is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Connie Butler-curator at MOCA for 10 years (1996-2006) and current Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In the late 1960s through the '70s-a period marked by the resurgence of feminism - a fundamental shift in women's perceptions of their own social roles began to have an impact on contemporary art practices.
As reflected in the exhibition's title, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution focuses on the intersection of art and feminism during this era and recaptures the idealism of the feminist movement.
"WACK" is not an acronym in itself, but was chosen by curator Connie Butler to recall the acronyms of many activist groups and political communities from this time whose activities focused on women
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