BE OPEN is a creative think tank whose mission is to promote people and ideas: a cultural and philanthropic initiative that aims to harness the brainpower of the global creative minds in the arts, education, design, business, and the media – and asks them to imagine and then build solutions for the future. BE [ Read More ]
Presented at the end of the Rome Film Festival 2012, in MAXXXI competition, “Tar” is a movie adapted by James Franco and the students in the class he teaches at New York University, as a compilation of ten short films each directed by a student, based on a book of poems titled Tar by Pulitzer [ Read More ]
Saturday the 23 of June 2012, opens the fifth edition of Contemporary Art at Villa Pisani, a project that from now on, will take place every two years: Niele Toroni, and Arthur Duff are the artists encouraged to design and produce original works for the Villa Pisani Bonetti in Bagnolo Lonigo Vicenza, an early masterpiece [ Read More ]
SIGIS The artist who invented the technique of Vinylism The Venice Biennale of 2012 has declared Matteo Vaccari Sigismondi an actual Art Maestro, bestowing him the official recognition of having invented an artistic technique: Vinylism. The young Milanese artist, began as an enfant prodige deejay, in times when this profession could not be improvised, but [ Read More ]
BANKSY CELEBRATES ZS40 WITH A LIZ INSANE “One’s painting one’s face…” If you’re in the UK you can’t have failed to notice news coverage of genius street artist Banksy’s ( http://www.banksy.co.uk/ ) latest creation. The enigmatic Bristolian chose his home town as the venue for this latest artwork, where the image of the Queen of [ Read More ]
Che bello quando l’arte – nello specifico il video mapping – incontra la musica e i bravissimi organizzatori, pieni di entusiasmo per la seconda edizione del Video Sound Art, trovano non solo dei nomi di altissimo livello ma anche una location, Villa Simonetta a Milano, suggestiva e di grandissimo fascino. L’associazione che ha organzzato tutto [ Read More ]
Paris based art director Pascal Witaszek has recently caused a huge twitting with his brand new poster on an imaginary future film by Ron Howard, featuring Ryan Gosling, on Walt Disney’s life, “Walt”. But unfortunately it’s been only a fake poster: in fact the movie itself isn’t a project yet, although the idea has been [ Read More ]
Artify It Secures Key Investments to Launch a New Platform to Transform Today’s Art Ecosystem Artify It, a San Francisco-based start-up, is unveiling today a new service offering that harnesses technology and a subscription-based model to provide artists, businesses and consumers fresh ways to experience high-quality, contemporary art The company announces today that it has [ Read More ]
Natalie Curtis’ (& more) exhibition, in collaboration with Michael Shamberg Between March and April 2012 Turtle Salon will be hosted by Meter Room (Coventry, UK) and Grey Area (Brighton, UK). A salon in two-parts, the project draws from Shamberg’s sprawling network of artists, friends, projects, & places. Featuring works by Romeo Alaeff, Michael Bartlett, Francis Baudevin, [ Read More ]
Here the final list of the nominations of the 84th Academy Awards 2012, that will take place next feb 26th. Actor in a Leading Role Demián Bichir in “A Better Life” George Clooney in “The Descendants” Jean Dujardin in “The Artist” Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Brad Pitt in “Moneyball” Actor in a [ Read More ]
The new generation of art is a mixture between street art and 3D paintings: here you are 3d street art! Lots of contemporary artists, and writers too, are now involved in this particolar new art, and also some brands have adopted this vehicle in order to create their adv , for example Reebok Crossfit, which [ Read More ]
The documentary by Henry William Bateman depicts the strong-willed passion and determination of the icy region to stand out of the crowd and make its way through towards a sustainable future. The country has the potential to be the testing ground for new technologies to fulfil an economy of subsistence farming, in complete vouchsafe of [ Read More ]
Avatar Sculpture Works represents the works of Hyper- Realist sculptors Jamie Salmon and Jackie K. Seo. Jamie Salmon is a British born, self taught contemporary sculptor, living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He started his career working as a commercial artist and sculptor for the movie effects industry. He specializes in hyper-realist sculpture, both figurative [ Read More ]
9th November – 18th December 2011 Free Entrance The first Italian solo exhibit of the artist Pipilotti Rist at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi opens, once again, the doors of the historical Manzoni movie theatre, that for over fifty years has been one of the most important cinemas in Milan. The elegant ambiance with fresco [ Read More ]
Immortality behind reality: that’s Shreya Shetty’s art. She’s one of the most interesting illustrators-artists in digital painting, with 3 years of VFX experience at Rhythm and Hues Studios where she worked as a Look Development artist, writing shaders and painting textures for characters and props for films and commercials: Shreya’s creatures are amazingly stolen from [ Read More ]
Special Event at the 2011 Rome Film Festival, “Pina” by Wim Wenders’ is a huge miracle of the connection between cinema, dance, art and technologies. The first European 3D ever made, “Pina” is a feature-length dance film with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (died in 2009), featuring the unique and inspiring art [ Read More ]
Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. Based on Brian Selznick’s book, Director Martin Scorsese at his very best first time in approaching the 3D technologies, in a movie featuring stars Christopher Lee, Sasha [ Read More ]
In London anything, or should I say ‘everything’ is possible…even to stroll inside a chain of high end department store, such as Selfridges, and find yourself inside a museum of wonders. The Museum of Everything is one of Britain’s most successful independent art museum, and it is now hosting an exquisite new show. It is [ Read More ]
PAOLO BARBIERI He’s one of the most important artist in fantasy illustration and books, from his collaboration with writer Licia Troisi to lots of Mondadori’s artworks. Now the Italian illustrator Paolo Barbieri comes out with his own first book, “Favole degli Dei”, for which he’s written the story and created the art-characters too. We’ve met [ Read More ]
This is a conceptual art project by Praxis, curated by Vallejo Gantner, artistic director of PS122 in Manhattan. Praxis is the collaborative art team of Brainard and Delia Carey, and in this project, James Franco has collaborated with them. Praxis has been in the Whitney Museum Biennial and James Franco has exhibited his art work [ Read More ]
Four young photographers, 22 days, 9000 km, 1800 Polaroid films. To wait for them, the beautiful, wild and endless landscape of Scandinavia. It was the 3 of May 2010, about a year ago. Anna Morosini (aged 23, from Perugia), Elena Vaninetti (aged 25, from Milan), Gabriele Chiapparini (aged 29, from Bologna) and Andrea Colombo (aged [ Read More ]
RabbitFest comes back – Show of Animation The Second Edition of RabbitFest – Show of Animation there will be on September, 10th and 11th, in Perugia, at Giardini del Frontone. The event, organized by the cultural association Skunk, in collaboration with Cinegatti and under the patronage of Municipality of Perugia, aims at sensitize public awareness [ Read More ]
“Orizzonti 2011” is the Venice Film Festival 2011 section aboit the exploration of doing cinema in contemporary world, crossing different languages and direction’s attitudes. In the year of Visual Art at the Biennale of Venice, the Festival will introduce and present very particolar films made by directors who work with images in movement. From historical [ Read More ]
Twentieth Century Fox has released some new concept art for “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” on the movie’s official Facebook page. The pictures have been released by Kirsten Franson, Milena Zdrakovic and Brian Cunningham. Overall, the concept art for “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” provides a background look at the creation [ Read More ]
The Hotel Excelsior in Lido di Venezia will host Digital Expo during the 68th Venice International Film Festival (31 August -10 September 2011). Digital Expo is an event which gathers people working in the film and audiovisual production sector (documentary films, videos, commercials, digital animations, etc.) and in digital technologies. It will take place in [ Read More ]
VIDEO SOUND ART Questo report lo potrei fare così: Inizio report-Lunga vita a questi nuovo entusiasmante e coinvolgente festival -Fine Report. In questo modo l’anno prossimo terrete gli occhi ben aperti e giungerete –muniti di Autan – ad Abbiategrasso, dove il primo fine settimana di luglio si è tenuto, nella scenografia incantevole del Castello Visconteo [ Read More ]
