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Building the Revolution - Exhibitions 29 October 2011—22 January 2012 In the Sackler Wing of Galleries, Burlington House 2009-2013 Season supported by Supported by Christmas and New Year opening times Buy tickets online or telephone 0844 209 0051 (booking fees apply. This exhibition examines Russian avant-garde architecture made during a brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c.1922 to 1935. The drive to forge a new Socialist society in Russia encouraged synthesis between radical art and architecture. The exhibition juxtaposes large-scale photographs of extant buildings with relevant Constructivist drawings and paintings, vintage photographs and periodicals. Courtyard Sculpture In conjunction with the exhibition, a reconstruction of Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, known as ‘Tatlin’s Tower’, specially commissioned from Jeremy Dixon of Dixon Jones Architects has been installed in the Royal Academy’s Annenberg Courtyard.

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Kim Jong-il is dead. Here's his monster movie. As bad as it was under Japanese rule I imagine it was much worse under Kim. Maybe under his father Il Sung during the war... but the majority of Kim Il Jong's problems were cumulative. Such as food shortages, starvation of free information etc. When the Japanese were there, there were public mutilations of the locals - they fitted in to part of their world-view at the time that the Chinese and Koreans were 'lesser' races Which is stupid considering Japanese are most likely descended from Koreans who went to the island for whatever reason. But that isn't the first time history has been altered to serve political purposes. I think a lot of the East Asian races would like to feel that their race is unique in the sense that they don't share similar genetics with each other.

‘Blue Is The Colour’: versions from around the world I dimly recall watching an animated Czech film on Channel 4 many years ago, which featured a version of the Chelsea anthem Blue Is The Colour sung in Czech. (Huw Jones in the comments now reveals this to be ‘Virile Game’, by Czech genius Jan Svankmajer - it appears 1min 45secs into this clip.) It seems I may not have imagined this. I’ve just found out that the song was indeed recorded by Czech singer Frantisek Ringo Cech as Zelená je tráva (‘Green Is The Grass’) in 1981. Here are some Czech footballers – including the great Antonin Panenka - singing it in the 1970s. There’s also a Danish version called Rød-hvide farver (Red and White Colours) recorded by Flemming Anthony in 1984. And here’s a rather chirpy Finnish version, where it was recorded by Vexi Salmi and called Hoo Ji Koo, although it’s better known as Taas Kansa Täyttää. Here are The Proclaimers singing a pretty awful recent version, renamed ‘White Is The Colour’ for the Vancouver Whitecaps in Canada. Like this: Like Loading...

From the Archives A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China Contributions by Julia F. Andrews, Christina Chu, Shan Guolin, Mayching Kao, Kuiyi Shen, Jonathan Spence, and Xue Yongnian Published in 1998 336 pages, fully illustrated Hardcover English and Spanish editions This catalogue accompanies the exhibition A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China, which was presented at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo (now closed) in 1998, and organized by scholars of modern Chinese art (Julia F. Andrews and Kuiya Shen). Excerpt Aficionados of China's fascinating history and its great cultural tradition may demand that contemporary Chinese artists–to be authentic–should paint only in the hallowed manners: scroll paintings in ink of a poet alone in a thatched cottage. Related Books Related Essays

Poker TV – Watch Free Live Streaming Online from The Poker Channel ARTMargins: Central & Eastern European Visual Culture Sport | Football Inter are holding out for a massive fee for Dutch midfielder Sneijder, but have hinted a deal involving cash plus either Michael Essien or Florent Malouda might clinch a move. Chelsea face competition from both Manchester clubs. Guus Hiddink, expected to be named as Chelsea’s new manager next week when a settlement deal with the Turkish Football Federation is thrashed out, has singled out Sneijder as one of the key players he wants. Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is still reluctant to meet Inter’s massive price for the 26-year-old – and even more of an obstacle is Sneijder’s massive £175,000 a week wages. Meanwhile, Chelsea’s hopes of landing Brazilian whizzkid Neymar have taken a knock. Chelsea are hoping to conclude two deals this weekend. A £9m deal for Racing Genk winger Kevin de Bruyne is also close, but the 19-year-old Belgium international is to be loaned back to his parent club for a year before moving to England.

Ostalgia at the New Museum (Review Article) Ostalgia, The New Museum, New York, July 14-October 2, 2011 Evgenij Kozlov (E-E), The Leningrad Album, 1967–73, Ink, ballpoint pen, pencil, and crayon on paper, 150 drawings, each 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in (30 x 21 cm), Collection Kozlov and Fobo, Berlin © 2011, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn LEFT: Vladimir Arkhipov, Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts*, 1960s/2011 Archival pigment print 11, x 14 in (28 x 36 cm) each, Courtesy the artist; RIGHT: Simon Starling, Flaga, 1972-2002, Fiat 126 built in Turin, driven to Poland, and reconfigured with Polish parts, 63 x 124 x 78 5/6 in (160 x 315 x 200 cm), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin Deimantas Narkevicius, Once in the XX Century, 2004, Video, color, sound, 8 min., Courtesy Jan Mot, Brussels, and gb agency, Paris, © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris For another review of this show, see: "Ostalgia At The New Museum (Review Article)" by Alise Tifentale

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