The Turner Prize 2010 was awarded to Susan Philipsz yesterday evening. The £25,000 prize was presented by Miuccia Prada.

The jury admired the way in which her work provokes both intellectual and instinctive responses and reflects a series of decisions about the relationship between sound and sight. Philipsz’s work draws on the immersive properties of sound and uses her own voice to create powerful sculptural experiences…

If you are in New York between now and 7 May you should take a day and visit the MoMA to see William Kentridge’s great exhibition called: Five Themes.

The South-African born artist is famous for his compositions of poetical elements with policital themes. With a range of animated short movies, the museum also shows other drawings, sketches, collages, prints as well as performances that gives a great retrospective on Kentridge’s Œuvre of the last 30 years.

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Post-Sale Report, February 2010

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Certainly no crisis on the Art market. A sculpture by the famous Swiss art sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) has hit a new record during auction for the highest price ever of 65 million pounds (74 million Euros).

“L’Homme qui marche I” is a life size bronze figure of a moving man and faces a great recognition value for Giacometti.

According to Sotheby’s it has just beaten Picasso’s record of his work “Boy with a pipe” that has been sold 2004 for about 104 million dollar, which was just under Giacometti’s.

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New York. On friday last week a woman made a 6inch big tear drop on the lower right-hand corner of Picasso’s famous ‘The Actor’, while attending a class at the Metropolitan Museum.

The spokesman of the Museum stated that “She lost balance during this class session.”

The Picture immediately came to the Museum’s conservation studio for repair. “Fortunately, the damage did not occur in a focal point of the composition, and the curatorial and conservation staffs fully expect that the repair, which will take place in the coming weeks, will be unobtrusive,” the museum said.

This is not the first time that a Picasso suffered from a teardrop. The 1932 picture of Picasso’s mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter was about to be sold for a record $139 million. Because of a tear, the sale fell through and the painting’s estimated value fell to $85 million — a drop of $54 million.

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Beginning the year the arabs started it tall, in fact taller than ever before.

Formerly known as the planned ‘Burj Dubai’, the ‘Burj Khalifa’, in dedication to the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, will be defining Dubais landscape in future.

The opening ceremony for the Burj was marked by a dazzling fireworks display that wreathed the tower in stars and smoke. The final height of the tower, which has been shrouded in secrecy, was also revealed to be 2,717ft (828 metres).

The result however is stunning. He produced a symbiosis of great light incidence methods in modern architecture in relation to the late classicism of the museum and whatever has been rescued from this old ruin.

Lately, the whole cultural scene in Berlin is talking about it. A german architecture critic, Dieter Bartetzko, summarized:

“The first time on, it is not the contrast between a faultless facade and completely damaged ancient relics that soaks the crowd in, additionally. It rather is the fact, mentally and physically, that this Museum must pay tribute to destroyed times such as the antiques it carries.”

To understand his meaning better I recommend the virtual tour on their homepage:

Take the virtual tour through the “Neues Museum”