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Jutta-Cuny Franz Memorial Award 2015

by NG | Aug 1, 2015 | Competition, Germany, International, NG 3 / 2015

The Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation has been awarding the Jutta Cuny-Franz Memorial Award every other year since 1987. Dr. Ruth Maria Franz (1910-2008) established a Foundation and the prize to commemorate her daughter, the sculptor Jutta Cuny (1940-1983) who lost her...

International Glass Prize 2015 in Lommel

by NG | Jul 8, 2015 | Belgium, International, NG 2 / 2015

The subject of the first International Glass Prize of GlazenHuis in Lommel, Belgium was The Object — its identity and characteristics such as beauty and quality. But what happens on the way from idea to reality? Which path does the artist take — consciously or...

2015 – International Year of Light

by NG | Feb 6, 2015 | International, Italy, NG 1 / 2015

Ghana proposed and UNESCO proclaimed the year 2015 to “International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies.” It is “meant to remind of light’s significance as an elementary necessity of life for people, animals, and plants and thus also as a central component of...

The Cafesjian Centre for Arts in Armenien

by NG | Nov 1, 2014 | Armenia, NG 3 / 2014

Gerard Leon Cafesjian was born to Armenian immigrants in Brooklyn, New York in 1925. As a young man he served in the Marines in the Second World War and married Cleo Thomas, a nurse in 1947, whom he had met during the war. They had three children. As a successful...

Bodytalk at the glassmuseum in Ebeltoft

by NG | Aug 5, 2014 | Denmark, International, NG 2 / 2014

See-through S/M lingerie, illustrations of sexual organs, curtains in the shape of oversized DNA codes, and a series of other works that address the human body and gender: The exhibition Bodytalk at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark shows original interpretations and...