Latest Arts News from around the World

Artists to virtually MMUVE IT!
Arts Hub
Friday, July 04, 2008 (Australia)
The recipients of the Australia Council for the Arts’ second virtual worlds arts initiative, MMUVE IT!, have been announced.

Revelation descends on Perth
Arts Hub
Friday, July 04, 2008 (Australia)
The Revelation Perth International Film Festival began its 11-day season yesterday, armed with a program that comprises 90 films over 66 sessions, including 10 feature films, 17 documentary features and 1 world premiere.

The Art Fair comes to town
Arts Hub
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (Australia)
An expansive and diverse collection of contemporary art will be housed at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building from 30 July until 3 August. The 11th Biennial Melbourne Art Fair 2008 brings over 3,000 works from 900 artists from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond to art collectors, students and art lovers for the 4-day event.

CAREER PROFILE: Nathan James
Arts Hub
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
The Kowalsky Gallery's MASHUPS, is an exhibition curated by British artist Stuart Semple, looking at the concept of appropriation and the re-articulation of mass culture. Some of the exhibitions artists have answered Arts Hub's Career Profile quiz, so tune in throughout July to find out the dreams and aspirations of some of the UK's most fascinating young artists. First up Nathan James takes centre stage.

Our Creative Talent: Building local voluntary and amateur arts participation
Arts Hub
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Arts Council England and Voluntary Arts England invite people in the community to take part in a major national conference on local arts participation and voluntary and amateur groups this week.

Noisebox returns to LBT this August
Arts Hub
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
After the success of last summer’s music festival, Noisebox is returning to Huddersfield with another line up of the best unsigned bands from the North of England.

Nicholas Archer wins the ING Fresh Eyes Competition
Arts Hub
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
44-year old Nicholas Archer, a part-time painting lecturer at the Heatherly School of Art, Chelsea, has won the coveted ING Fresh Eyes competition.

Jerwood Sculpture Prize opens for submissions
Arts Hub
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
The UK’s largest prize for outdoor sculpture, the Jerwood Sculpture Prize, is now calling for submissions for this year’s competition.

Creative Scotland
Arts Hub
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
Creative Scotland is the name of the proposed new strategic body tasked with leading the development of the arts, creative and screen industries across Scotland.

Balmoral Scholarships 2009 - Call for Applications
Arts Hub
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
Artists’ residence Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral in Bad Ems, Foundation for Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate, has begun its call for applications for next year’s exclusive artist-in-residence scholarships.

Jean Nouvel - the architect as artist
The Times Online
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
"Artists are always the laboratory for the first ideas, the first emotions. Architects take emotions from the streets, the art galleries, the museums; they steal. I have a lot of compromises. César could do exactly what he wanted."

Let's twist again
The Guardian
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
His billowing, writhing designs have made Frank Gehry one of the most celebrated architects in the world. So why is Britain so scared of him?

When good authors write bad books
The Guardian Blogs
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (United Kingdom)
There's no rule saying you have to love a writer 'til death do you part. If a book's worse rather than better, show it the door.

Renaissance Sculpture Damaged in Fall at Met
The New York Times
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (USA)
A glazed terra-cotta relief by the Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia came loose overnight from its perch above a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and crashed to the stone floor below, suffering serious damage, museum officials said on Tuesday.

Irina Baronova, Ballet Star, Dies at 89
The New York Times
Thursday, July 03, 2008 (Australia)
Irina Baronova, an international ballet star who was one of three celebrated prodigies known as the “baby ballerinas” after George Balanchine discovered them in Paris in the 1930s, died on Saturday at her home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. She was 89.