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IN 2006, Irish business spent €15 million on arts sponsorship, according to the Dublin-based industry body that helps broker arts sponsorship deals, Business2Arts. Nobody knows the annual budget of Italian clothes retailer Benetton's arts and culture project, Fabrica, set in rural Treviso close to Venice, but it funds internships, stipends and production expenses each year for 35 artists, photographers and film-makers to do more or less as they please.
[img] Fabrica a Bagnoli - Perrimoon on flickr.com
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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:27:49 -0700 Who is Peggy will be on sale http://oddtag.posterous.com/who-is-peggy-will-be-on-sale http://oddtag.posterous.com/who-is-peggy-will-be-on-sale [txt] WHO IS PEGGY? Fabrica designs a new collection of objects for the 60th anniversary of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Treviso, August 2008. The young designers of Fabrica, the Benetton Group’s communication research center, have accepted a commission from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice to design a new collection of items for the prestigious museum on the Grand Canal, which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary. [...] The Who is Peggy collection will be on sale, beginning September 2008, in the two shops of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
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