Peggy Guggenheim

Visiting the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, transport us to one scenario of 1950s movie, or to a fragment of the Italian Baroque. Beyond of the cualities of Palazzo Venierdei Leoni, or the mystical history that surrounded the patron life of the great Peggy Guggenheim; the professionalism of its current team has done of this collection, one of the most coherent of all the times in this kind of institution.

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The Alfred H. Barr Painting and Sculpture Galleries

A tour through Modern Art

As part or the ongoing exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) we can find two rooms with a series of paintings and sculptures that cover from the late XIXth Century until the 80´s of the XXth Century. The collection also has a third room that cover from the las two decades of the XXth Century until today.

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British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age

The Victoria & Albert Museum major spring exhibition will showcase the best of British design and creative talent from the 1948 ‘Austerity Olympics’ to the summer of 2012. It will be the first comprehensive exhibition to examine the ways in which artists and designers who were born, trained or working in the UK have produced innovative and internationally acclaimed works from post-war to the present day.

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The art of sharing art

If we acknowledge that the ultimate goal of art is to show the internal tissues of the soul, we will then acknowledge too the importance of sharing sensibility, beauty, history and knowledge. The different degrees of culture allow society more or less mobility to solve its problems in it are located the transformational alternatives that allow a better well-being, i.e., a better living.

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Soumaya Museum Art for All

Grupo Carso has looked for the comprehensive development of the human being key areas: health, education, culture, sports, justice, human and economic development, environment and conservation. In over 16 years, Soumaya Museum of Carlos Slim Foundation has embraced these ideals through art.

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Camila Muñoz, the transformation of everyday life

A naked mannequin seems to look out the window, nobody notices him until Camila rescued it with her eyes and turns it into a piece that conveys a devastating loneliness. So she, camera in hand waiting the time for the perfect scene, the cat on the roof facing the sky, the stage actor who takes a breath, or the sun beginning its descent. 

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Heroines

This spring, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting Heroines, a survey through the depiction of women as the empowered protagonists of key roles and as manifestations of the gender identity crisis in western art, reviewing a comprehensive range of times, from Renaissance to present times. It is a glance at strong female figures: active, independent, defiant, inspired, creative, dominating and triumphant.

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Orientalismo en Europa: de Delacroix a Kandisky

With some 150 paintings and sculptures, the major exhibition Orientalism in Europe: from Delacroix to Kandinsky presents the diverse interpretations of the Islamic Orient, North Africa and the Middle East by almost 100 western European artists. This survey starts with Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign (1798–1801) and continues through to the Modernism of the early 20th century.

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Dreamlands Center Pompidou, París

Dreamland was at the Grande Galerie at Centre Pompidou from 5 May to 9 August 2010, the exhibition Dreamlands considered for the first time the question of how World’s Fairs, international exhibitions, theme parks and kindred institutions have influenced ideas about the city and the way it is used. 

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