A design award at the 2016 WORLD DESIGN

A playful bottle packaging inspired by three Lithuanian festivities: Carnival, St. Casimir Day, and Easter.

https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=40404

Syrian Refugee Children Find Comfort in Coping with Their Grief Through Art Therapy

The Bouvier Affair How an art-world insider made a fortune by being discreet.

I
LLUSTRATION BY BEN WISEMAN

BY SAM KNIGHT

HTTP://WWW.NEWYORKER.COM/MAGAZINE/2016/02/08/THE-BOUVIER-AFFAIR?MBID=NL_160203_DAILY&CNDID=39505087&SPMAILINGID=8505079&SPUSERID=MTE0NJG1NTC2NJQZS0&SPJOBID=860339089&SPREPORTID=ODYWMZM5MDG5S0

La fotografía del hombre que atrapó "La mano de Dios" en Portugal

Eran las ocho de la mañana de un domingo en Madeira, Portugal, cuando una extraña bola de fuego se formó en el cielo. Como suele hacerlo, Rogéiro Pacheco, aficionado a la meteorología, la astronomía y "todo lo que tenga que ver con la ciencia", estaba listo para no dejarla escapar.

Los impresionantes colores del carnaval de Oruro en Bolivia

Ai Weiwei’s Playful Bamboo and Paper Kite Installation at Le Bon Marché

http://aiweiwei.com/

Woven Playgrounds by Alexandra Kehayoglou

As the granddaughter of Greek immigrant rugmakers, it is not surprise Alexandra Kehayoglou creates unique wool rugs that bring together ancient craft and modern art. Alexandra is a dream weaver. Using a hand-tufting process that takes several months to complete, her rugs incorporate the textured, multicolored terrains, with high, hairy and uneven pile, most often imitating nature, like miniature pastures and meadows. The Buenos Aires based artist is designing rugs that are pushing the limits of art and functionality.
http://trendland.com/woven-playgrounds/

Portada de nuestra Web - Front Cover our website, 1 -15 febrero/february 2016

IVANA VOSTRAKOVA, Czech Republic http://www.ivanna.cz/
"In the rain" -  photograph collage

A conversation with Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Gund

Cardinal Points

Amigos, el próximo día 14 de Febrero se termina "Puntos Cardinales"

Exposición colectiva comisariada por Vicky Romay y Frances Sinkowitsch, con los artistas cubanos Esteban Blanco, José Ney, Antonio Nuñez yGerard Pavón.

Si estas cerca de New York no te lo pierdas: 

Galería Cá D´Oro, de Mar - Sat 11 AM - 18:00. Gracias..

Galleria Ca 'd'Oro de Nueva York Nueva York, NY 10011 ny@ca-doro.com

(212) 620-0549

529 West 20th Street 9 piso.

MATISSE IN ALL HIS GLORY: NEW TOME CHRONICLES THE ARTIST’S WORK AT THE BARNES FOUNDATION

Henri Matisse, Le bonheur de vivre, 1905–6, oil on canvas.

PHOTO: ©2016 THE BARNES FOUNDATION; ART: ©2016 SUCCESSION H. MATISSE/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK

http://www.artnews.com/2016/01/29/matisse-in-all-his-glory-new-tome-chronicles-the-artists-work-at-the-barnes-foundation/

Sharjah Light Festival 2016 Set To Dazzle With Over 23 Beautiful Shows

Masjid Al Noor / Courtesy of Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA)

http://islamicartsmagazine.com/magazine/view/sharjah_light_festival_2016_set_to_dazzle_with_over_23_beautiful_shows/

CALLIGRAPHY TATTOOS BY SADHU LE SERBE

The Sultan Ahmed Mosque

The dome of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. Photo © Islamic Arts Magazine


http://www.bluemosque.co/

Hoshinchu Air Bonsai Garden Tokyo, Japan

http://hoshinchu.com/

Casey Neistat Snowboarding Through the Wintery Streets of New York City During the Blizzard

Epic Geometric Patterns Made in Sand and Snow by Artist Simon Beck

Artist Simon Beck turns a walk on the beach into a work of art with these massive crop circle-inspired creations. Obviously each piece takes a huge amount of pre-planning but physically executing such intricate designs can take a full day trudging (sometimes well into the night).

https://www.facebook.com/snowart8848/

NIEPCEBOOK, Le magazine photo en édition limitée !

Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein.

With its new exhibition, Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, the Vitra Design Museum sheds a new light on contemporary African design. Focusing on a new generation of entrepreneurs, thinkers and designers from Africa, the exhibition aims to show that design in Africa is understood on a much more inclusive level than in Western societies and that design accompanies and fuels economic and political change on the continent. Making Africa features a plethora of work cutting across a wide variety of media, from the architecture of David Adjaye to the remarkable cardboard city models by Bodys Isek Kingelez.

http://www.design-museum.de/de/informationen.html

Portada de nuestra Web - Front Cover our website, 15 -31 enero january 2016

Nora Al Mazrooa, Saudi Arabia, http://www.noraalmazrooa.com/
"can you hear me now"

WOMEN: Annie Leibovitz's New Portraits to tour 10 global cities

Misty Copeland, New York City, 2015 
© Annie Leibovitz from WOMEN: New Portraits 

Starting January 16, 2016

Annie Leibovitz's new photographs, which have been commissioned by UBS, will be shown in 10 cities over the next 12 months. The tour starts in London in January 2016. Host cities will include Tokyo, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Istanbul, Frankfurt, New York and Zurich.

more....https://www.ubs.com/microsites/annie-leibovitz/en/tour/all-cities.html

Nadie apuesta por los artistas jóvenes (excepto ellos mismos)

• MARTA MEDINA
• Parece que el mundo del arte siempre ha estado tocado de muerte en una perpetua agonía. "Hijo, no estudies Bellas Artes, que no tiene salida". Pero tras unos años de crisis, de no ver luz al final del túnel, hay que liarse la manta a la cabeza. Y si no hay salida, te la construyes. Si no me expones los cuadros, ya me los expongo yo. Son jóvenes, artistas y audaces, y quieren hacerlo a su manera........
• leer más: http://www.elmundo.es/f5/2016/01/11/5643144d268e3e006e8b4629.htm

Astronaut Chris Hadfield Space Oddity song HD, HQ, Major Tom, David Bowie

Cultural Destruction by Islamic State Continues with No End in Sight

Sony World Photography Awards 2015

© Sebastian Gil Miranda, Argentina, Proffesional Competition, 1st Place Campaign, Sony World Photography Awards 2015 

Exif: Canon EOS REBEL T2i; 110 mm; 1/800 seg; f/11; ISO 200

Review of Lawrence Weiner: Within a Realm of Distance at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire

Matilda Bathurst

http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/review-of-lawrence-weiner-within-a-realm-of-distance-at-blenheim-palace-oxfordshire/

Welcome to the 7th edition of ArtsLibris

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A Giant LED Star Pierces the Floors of a 4-Story Building in Malaysia

PORTADA DE NUESTRA WEB 1-15 ENERO 2016

Giuseppe Sticchi, www.gigarte.com/sticchinain/

Frammenti Ischia

Misure:40 cm x 50 cm x 1 cm

Tecnica:acrilico su tela

Stile:Surrealismo

Happy new year

Thousands of pigments fill glass vials below the slatted wood ceilings of the new concept Pigment, an art supply laboratory and store that just opened in Tokyo by company Warehouse TERRADA. The store design was created by architect Kengo Kuma, utilizing bamboo and large open spaces to create a sense of unity with the outdoors and spark the imagination of those who enter.

by Kate Sierzputowski

Thousands of pigments fill glass vials below the slatted wood ceilings of the new concept Pigment, an art supply laboratory and store that just opened in Tokyo by company Warehouse TERRADA. The store design was created by architect Kengo Kuma, utilizing bamboo and large open spaces to create a sense of unity with the outdoors and spark the imagination of those who enter.

In recent years fewer artists have turned to more traditional methods of art making, diminishing the number of successors to these older forms. Pigment aims to provide hard-to-find tools for the preservation of older paintings while also inspiring the latest generation of artists to incorporate these older materials into newer works. In addition to selling brushes, pigments, special glues, and papers (some used in Japanese painting since the Meiji period), the store will also provide workshops by both art professors and manufacturers of the supplies housed in-store.

If you can’t make it to Japan to experience the space in person, you can browse Pigment’s large supply of pigments and rare materials on their online store here. (viaDesignboom)

“Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans,”

Photograph by NASA EO/REX/FEATURES VIA AP

MOMA charts the evolution—and the liberating breakthrough—of Jackson Pollock.

Pollock’s early work is a thrill ride of quick studies. “Stenographic Figure” (c. 1942) eyes Picasso, Miró, and André Masson.CREDITTHE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK / MR. AND MRS. WALTER BAREISS FUND, 1980 / © 2015 POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION / ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS 10th Edition of the International Arte Laguna Prize

The major collective exhibition which will take place in the historical location of the Arsenale in Venice in March 2016.

The prestigious venue in the lagoon city will host the exhibition of 30 works of painting, 30 sculptures and installations, 30 works of photographic art, 10 videos, 10 land art projects, 5 performances which will be performed live during the exhibition's opening ceremony.

http://www.labiennale.org/en/venues/arsenale.html

British Museum boss MacGregor leaves Lampedusa cross

British Museum boss Neil MacGregor's final acquisition before stepping down is a cross made from the wreck of a refugee boat sunk in the Mediterranean.

The 2013 Lampedusa Cross was made and gifted by carpenter Francesco Tuccio, who lives on the Italian island.

The boat was carrying more than 500 refugees from Eritrea and Somalia, of which 151 people survived

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35120004

El crítico y curador peruano Gustavo Buntinx alertó sobre la crisis que está atravesando el mundo artístico y propuso alejarse "del gran ruido del arte contemporáneo"

El jueves último tuvo lugar la segunda jornada de Sur Global: Horizontes para una nueva Bienal de Arte, una actividad de intercambio entre artistas, curadores, críticos, coleccionistas y público en el Muntref (sede Hotel de Inmigrantes).

En ella, el historiador del arte, crítico y curador peruano Gustavo Buntinx se refirió -sin eufemismos- a la crisis por la que atraviesa el mundo del arte. A continuación repasamos los extractos más salientes de su alocución:

"En el mundo del arte se falsifica hasta las obras inexistentes."

"El arte crítico hoy corre el riesgo de morir de éxito."

"Son cuerpos inertes, amortajados a la espera de su valoración de mercado. (Al referirse a las obras de arte actuales)."

"Hemos sido descubiertos, celebrados, y enterrados en el mismo gesto (Al referirse al arte latinoamericano)."

"El aroma del dinero súbito enloquece."

"Asesinamos lo que consagramos."

"El arte contemporáneo empezó a morir cuando decidió convertirse en un deporte de masas, en este capitalismo aeróbico."

"La espectacularización del arte es el beso de Judas."

"La recuperación es posible solo si nos volvemos a un ethos de gratuidad. Contra la profesionalización del arte."

"El arte debe ser un espacio (otro) donde lo que se hace es perder dinero, no ganarlo."

"Hay que retornar a lo espiritual, recluirse, apartarse."

"Buscar zonas de silencio, contra el gran ruido del arte contemporáneo."

"Hay que recuperar la sensibilidad poética y la emoción en el arte."

Daniel Merle 

PARA LA NACION http://www.lanacion.com.ar/autor/daniel-merle-371

We are excited that the Clark Bonsai Collection will soon be unveiled! The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture has transferred their extensive bonsai collection to the Golden State Bonsai Federation (GSBF) for placement at the Shinzen Friendship Garden in Woodward Park, Fresno.

http://www.shinzenjapanesegarden.org/shinzen_bonsai.html

A Chinese Folk Artist’s Descendants Are Split by the Government’s Use of Their Family Legacy

Clay figurines, made in a style recognized across China as historical folk art, are being used in a Communist propaganda campaign, “China Dream.” Relatives of the sculptor who founded the style and studio 200 years ago have objected to its appropriation. 
CreditSim Chi Yin for The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/world/asia/a-chinese-folk-artists-descendants-are-split-by-the-governments-use-of-their-family-legacy.html?_r=0

Installation View of Ebony G. Patterson: Dead Treez at the Museum of Arts and Design Photo: Butcher Walsh © Museum of Arts and Design

http://www.madmuseum.org/

PORTADA DE NUESTRA WEB 15 -31 DICIEMBRE 2015

Shadia Alem, Saudi Arabia, http://shadiaalem-rajaalem.com

Artwork Title: Supreme Ka'ba of God; Materials Used: photography art and collage, mounted onto 6mm clear acrylic complete with 3mm alucobond backing; Dimensions: 200 x 120 x 6mm; Work Brief: Here I, as an artist born in the holy city of Mecca, stand witness to the change taking over my city .

WATCH: THE S TRAIN MAY BE NEW YORK CITY'S MOST MUSICAL SUBWAY LINE

Art at the heart of ecological transition

Art at the heart of ecological transition

At the international conference on climate COP21 (Conference of parties), which takes place between 29 November to 11 December 2015 in Paris, the second day brought together 150 heads of State about the question of the “last chance” to curb climate change. The whole of society, the art world included, is acting. While culture has been recognized by the UN as three complimentary pillars of sustainable development-social, economic and environmental- the UN conference is accompanied by an extensive cultural program. This massive commitment of institutions and artists seems to mark a turning point in the mobilization of society against climate change and a new step for the holistic of contemporary art.

Antartica Village

PORTADA DE NUESTRA WEB, 1-15 DICIEMBRE 2015

Viviana Rodriguez, Argentina, www.vivianarodriguez.com.ar

The Christmas light-up festival at Garden by the Bay in Singapore

 November 27, 2015. AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHMAN

PARIS, a LE GRAND PALAIS

https://youtu.be/uIlsVFbGIFU?list=PL9LWAQYUI74sIuRhF2QkjaNh1oRqKpUFo

HORROR IN PARIS

Bullet holes in the window of the Carillon café, in Paris, following Friday’s terror attack.CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY PAOLO LEVI / EPA / LANDOV

Covered bodies outside a restaurant, following Friday evening’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIPPE WOJAZER/REUTERS VIA LANDOV

PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIPPE WOJAZER/REUTERS VIA LANDOV

PORTADA DE NUESTRA WEB, 15-30 NOVIEMBRE 2015

Georgy Kurasov, Rusia,  http://kurasov.com/

THE FADING HERITAGE OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Palmyra (Syria) 

Photo: Christophe Charon


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