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Photographic art in motion appears under soft, state-of-the-art lighting in the Hyndman Gallery. The art gallery is an eco-friendly work of art in itself featuring resource efficient design, development and construction. Bamboo composite flooring meets a long and curved white exhibition wall accented by a piano and art.
Celebrity portrait photographer Victor Skrebneski's triptychs are exhibited together there during his "Homage to Francis Bacon" exhibition.
Other stark photographic images, created by the longtime photographer for Estée Lauder, are on display at the Jack and Shirley Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City until Jan. 29.
At the art center, Dolly Marshall, the center's director, said, everyone is admittedly "passionate about the arts."
The center's grand opening in mid-November marked a new era of regional art tradition in northwest Indiana.
In November 2002, Shirley Lubeznik donated 15,000 square feet of office space, to be used for an art center constructed in memory of her late husband, Jack Lubeznik.
The center is the former office complex of Restaurant Management Corp., which was owned and operated by the Lubeznik family. The complex was the management base of operations for their McDonald's restaurants in northwest Indiana.
Transforming the building to accommodate artists and their
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Bulent Eczacibasi, Turkey's sixth- richest man according to Forbes magazine, was at a dinner party in October at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined his group.
Eczacibasi, chairman of Eczacibasi Holding AS, said he asked Erdogan, who seemed awed by the museum he was seeing for the first time, why Turkey shouldn't have "one-tenth" of the French museum. Two days later, he got a call from the prime minister, inquiring about an Eczacibasi-funded museum project.
That's how the opening of Turkey's first museum of modern art -- whose seeds were first sown by Eczacibasi in 1987 yet had gotten nowhere due to a lack of official support -- took place Oct. 11, five months ahead of the originally scheduled date.
Erdogan, who's lobbying the European Union to start membership negotiations with Turkey, came to visit the museum site in October, brought Istanbul's mayor along and gave orders to facilitate the opening before Dec. 17, when the EU is set to make its decision. Erdogan attended the opening ceremony and was presented with a plaque for his support.
"The prime minister immediately saw the symbolic significance of the museum," said Eczacibasi, 55, in an interview. "While we're trying to show the EU that we're western as well as eastern culturally, this is a great example."
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The inauguration of the Istanbul Modern, the first museum of modern and contemporary art in Turkey, will take place on 11 December 2004 under the auspices of Prime Minister of Turkey.
Situated at the shores of the Bosphorus and located in one of the entrepots on the port, Istanbul Modern faces the historical peninsula with Topkapi Palace and Hagia Sophia across the Golden Horn and leans back to Pera.
As the founder of Istanbul Modern, which has been established under the aegis of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, the Eczacibasi Group has provided the first investment and project management finance as well as the core collection.
Recalling that art is an indispensable component of personal and social development, Oya Eczacibasi, Chair of the Board, says: "Istanbul Modern is opening its doors to exhibit our country's art heritage, and to create a platform for our creativity, dynamism, cultural identity and universal values. Our museum will always be open to innovation and change."
In line with its aim of being a living museum, Istanbul Modern will seek to create a vibrant, year-long program of diverse events that will set an art agenda for Turkey and will contribute to mark Istanbul as a capital on the world's cultural map.
Rosa Martinez, curator of
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To celebrate the holiday season Velocity Art and Design is bringing New
York City-based potter-extraordina ire Jonathan Adler to Seattle for the first
time. At the event, which is open to the public, Velocity will premiere
Adler's new 2005 collection, as well as hard-to-find limited edition pieces
and his hand thrown "couture" line.
This event marks the first in a series of
national designer events hosted locally by Velocity in the coming months.
A drawing will be held at the event for a limited edition vase, signed and
numbered by Jonathan Adler, and valued at more than $300. One need not be
present to win. Holiday cheer will be provided by Bombay Sapphire.
As a living icon of modern design, Jonathan Adler's work is at the
forefront of style. Adler's best-known accomplishment is reviving the
decorative arts in this decade.
His unconventional approach to ceramics has
single-handedly taken pottery from hippie to hip.
Jonathan Adler's chic,
groovy lifestyle collection has expanded to include not only ceramics, but
also pillows, rugs, lighting, dinnerware, handbags, and furniture. By merging
organic shapes, geometric patterns, and sensuous textures with a witty sense
of humor, Jonathan Adler has achieved an innately chic style that is at once
timeless and of-the-moment.
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From colorful murals on highway underpasses to towering sculpture on oceanside parks, dozens of artists are striking up community conversations through public art projects for Art Basel Miami Beach, which runs through Sunday at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Much of the effort is motivated by the third annual fair, with some artists creating works specifically for Art Basel and others eager to give voice to their hometown at a moment when tens of thousands of residents and visitors are focused on art.
Some of the most visible works will be part of Art Projects, a showcase of bronze sculpture, mosaic murals, video projections and other original work produced by 13 artists specifically for Art Basel.
Independent artists, both local and out-of-town, also have chimed in to the dialogue with murals, interactive exhibits and other creations.
Taken together, these projects create a patchwork of public art laced with the individual perspectives of artists from South Florida and abroad.
Miami muralist Xavier Cortada has been busy transforming dingy highway underpasses in Allapattah, Miami and Little Havana into Miami Mangrove Forest. His past public art projects include mosaics and murals at the State Capitol in Tallahassee, Nike Town at Sunset Place, the Miami-Dade Department of Juvenile Justice and elsewhere.
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