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The good thing about the recession is that we will now be able to concentrate on art, on what matters. The bullshit we had to deal with before is over.
video: Time Lapses - Punta della Dogana and Tadao Ando - PalazzoGrassiTV on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWfu0IqivrE]

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Thu, 07 May 2009 20:38:48 -0700 The Venice art kilometre http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-venice-art-kilometre http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-venice-art-kilometre txt: Museo Vedova, presentato il progetto di Renzo Piano - Comune di Venezia
The mayor Cacciari expressed satisfaction to see "Vedova coming back home", and stressed the innovative character of the new exhibition space, inviting the Foundation to follow the will of Vedova and to be a space open to experimentation and research - that were the hallmark of the artist - and then to the young, making of it a laboratory where young people can "search, try, smudge, do what they want to grow." Venice is unique in the world for the wealth of initiatives and cultural and artistic international character noted the mayor, citing in particular "the art kilometer" that from the Accademia goes to Punta della Dogana via the Guggenheim, but it is lacking of meeting and research places which would be actually laboratories.
link: The art kilometre which will save Venice - La Stampa (Google translated page) video: Steve Lambert solo show walkthrough on vimeo.com [vimeo http://vimeo.com/4371530]

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Fri, 01 May 2009 10:33:15 -0700 Punta della Dogana, 6 june 2009 http://oddtag.posterous.com/punta-della-dogana-6-june-2009 http://oddtag.posterous.com/punta-della-dogana-6-june-2009 The inaugural exhibition of the Francois Pinault Foundation new contemporary art center at Punta della Dogana is opening on 06.06.2009. Two years ago, 08 june 2007, the agreement between Venice authorities and the Francois Pinault Foundation... txt: Punta della Dogana, signed the agreement for the new Center for Contemporary Art - www.comune.venezia.it
Punta della Dogana, the [Venice] mayor continued, will not be the exhibition of the great consacrated masters, and not even a trendy fashion show, but a documentation and research center, permanently open, which will develop a cultural strategy in synergy with other large museums of the city, dedicated both to the ancient masters and to the modern art.
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Sun, 11 May 2008 13:47:55 -0700 The Venice Factory http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-venice-factory http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-venice-factory Gondolas full of tourists. In the background the renovation works' scaffolding of the Punta della Dogana de Mar (also known as Punta della Salute). Project: architect Tadao Ando, $$ François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi. img: The Venice Factory - oddtag on flickr.com
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Sat, 10 May 2008 20:07:29 -0700 The Art Factory http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-art-factory http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-art-factory txt: Pinault, Ando et Cacciari lancent la Pointe de la Douane
Hier après-midi, devant la presse internationale et les autorités locales, François Pinault, président de Palazzo Grassi a présenté, avec Tadao Ando, le projet architectural du futur centre d'art contemporain à la Pointe de la Douane. En présence du maire de Venise, Massimo Cacciari, ils ont annoncé l'iminent début des travaux afin d'assurer une ouverture du site à l'occasion de la prochaine Biennale d'art contemporain, en juin 2009.
txt: Manifesto - Aurora Street associazione culturale
The bell tower clock strikes seven in the evening. In the central hall of the Venice Museum darkness falls, shrouding the blackened remains of what was once the main square of our city. This is where our ancestors met to do what the inhabitants of every city do in their main squares: stroll, meet with friends, converse and maybe even enjoy an ice-cream while sitting at one of the many square’s Caffès, letting their thoughts dance to the notes of the small orchestras. Today it seems that the aim of the Museum is to reproduce that atmosphere of past times for visitors with the same effective suggestion as a washed-out photograph fixed on the tombstones of people who have been buried.
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Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:27:35 -0700 Venice from East to West http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-from-east-to-west http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-from-east-to-west txt: Venice is a dream still, although a bit noisy and full - The Telegraph - Calcutta - India
Today, with little of the past elegance of Venetian inhabitants and visitors on show and the famous bars and teashops in the Piazza selling overpriced cocktails to profligate tourists, Beaton would not have been impressed by the lycra generation doing Venice even had he appreciated the importance of tourism to keep the city alive and afloat. It is only the hidden shops and restaurants and the markets known to habitués that retain a particular atmosphere of the place, although the tradition of craftsmanship of the city continues in sympathetic and skilled restorations of great works of art; the preservation of ancient skills such as the handloom silk weaving of the Bevilaqua family and the skills of the Murano glass blowers; and a continuance of the love for beauty that carries the visitor from the 12th century, through the High Renaissance, and, to my mind, the overblown frills of mannerism and the baroque, on to the glorious 20th century riches in the Guggenheim Museum. The present-day opening of the Palazzo Grassi and the ongoing development of the Punta della Dogana as exhibition sites for the contemporary collection of the French billionaire, Francois Pinault, can be celebrated as part of the generational artistic life of the city.
video: Jeff Koons @ Venezia 2/4 - blog.palazzograssi.it Incontri di Palazzo Grassi aspettando Punta della Dogana [dailymotion id=x45099]

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