BELGRADE — Painter Olja Ivanjicki died on Wednesday in Belgrade, at the age of 78, the Serbian Association of Painters has confirmed. Ivanjicki, born in Serbia and of Russian extraction, was one of the founders of the Mediala surrealist figurative painting group created in the 1960s to rally major Serbian artists, including Leonid ejka, Dado Đurić, Vladimir Veličković, and Ljuba Popović. She exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Museum of Modern Art in Skopje, and at the Dobbs Ferry campus in New York. The winner of many awards and prizes, she was named best artist of the 20th century in Yugoslavia based on a popular vote.
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According to the exhibition statement posted in the gallery, only two of the artists created traditional images using the camera obscura. The cave featured in an Allegory within Plato’s The Republic is a metaphor for minds not yet opened to the reality of the world through philosophy. I sense an anxiety over the believability of the medium in many of the artists’ work. A lens in a viewing tunnel isolates this action and inverts it to appear logically upright so that viewers find a luminous little house tumbling in circles like the twister scene from The Wizard of Oz . In the end, Spangler and the majority of exhibiting artists considered the camera obscura as a departure point.
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The game reached extra innings, only to be interrupted by rain and an injury timeout, but that didn’t stop Corona school Leonardo da Vinci /IS 61 from claiming the title and defeating Manhattan Division champ Hunter College , 3-2, on Saturday at Lehman College in the Bronx . The league began as a 12-team league in Manhattan last year, then expanded to 29 teams this year with the support of the Pinnacle Group, a real estate management company that footed all the league’s bills. The greatest player ever to man the blue line for the Blueshirts got the call Tuesday - Brian Leetch is in the Hall of Fame's Class of 2009. From the ballpark and the arena to the big screen and the boob tube, the Daily News looks back at some of our favorite athletes-turned-actors.
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The best submission will receive the Singapore Art Exhibition prize comprising a $50,000 grant to be used for professional development through residences, further studies or training, and for the creation and/or presentation of new projects and works. The winning choreographer with the Most Promising Work will receive a $2,000 cash prize and a chance to present a new work at the final showcase of the next edition in 2010. View never before seen photographs at this first solo exhibition by Steve McCurry, winner of the prestigious Robert Cappa Gold Medal for ‘Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad’ Award and the photographer of the iconic ‘Afghan Girl’ portrait. Catch the Milestones music event at the River Promenade fronting Timbre @ The Arts House which pays tribute to four eras of Singapore music from the 1970s to the present and features musicians from Singapore’s music heyday of the 1970s till the present. The artistes lined up include Peter Diaz, October Cherrie and the 1970s Tribute Band on Tuesday (music from the 1970s), Robert Fernando, Gypsy and Tokyo Square (music from the 1980s) on Wednesday, Concave Scream, Force Vomit, watchmen featuring Kevin Mathews (music from the 1990s) on Thu and Blues Train, West Grand Boulevard and Goodfellas (current music) next Fri. Catch 40 10-minute plays in English and Mandarin about everything from wedding disasters to botched burglaries by some of the best playwrights, directors and actors in town at the return of this Short & Sweet Singapore festival.
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