Erik Hagens: Everyday Life – Presented in Paintings from the 1960s till Today
Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 May 2010 17:30 Written by Worklab Wednesday, 05 May 2010 11:05
Workers' Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Temporary exhibition April
24th – August 15th 2010
Since the 1960s, Erik Hagens has consistently, and with great social engagement, drawn and painted pictures of today’s people, living in a world characterized by pollution, consumerism and a constant bombardment by the mass media.
Because Erik Hagens holds a position all his own in the world of Danish art, and because there has been no major, comprehensive presentation of his work since 1994, The Workers' Museum has decided to let his 70th birthday on the 21st of April, 2010, serve as the occasion for a retrospective exhibition.
Erik Hagens’ pictures invite comparison with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. They tell a good story, while at the same time uncovering several underlying layers and taking a sharp, critical look at the reality being illustrated. His art is thus both thought-provoking and a sight for sore eyes, often approaching a propagandistic social criticism.
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Transforming Culture in the Digital Age
Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 May 2010 17:30 Written by Worklab Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:59
Estonian National Museum is happy to announce, that from 14.-16. April took place in Tartu international conference „Transforming Culture in the Digital Age“. The initial call of the conference invited professionals of different heritage institutions – museums, libraries and archives, working artists, educators and academicians researching the subjects of cultural transformation from across the disciplines.An
eBook: Transforming Culture in the Digital Age has been produced on the basis of the conference presentations. The book is a collection of 56 articles, divided to four large sections – Changing users, Transforming heritage, Digital literature and Digital art. Each of these sections represents a larger theme from the conference where practitioners and academics met and discussed the consequences of digitalisation.New domain for Worklab
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Portimão Museum wins 2010 Council of Europe Museum Prize
Last Updated on Monday, 22 March 2010 08:29 Written by Worklab Thursday, 17 December 2009 12:02
The committee's decision was motivated by the success story of the museum, the relevance of its theme and the extent of its educational programme to the benefit of the local community. The Portimão Museum housed in a former sardine canning factory on the estuary of the Arade River has successfully restored the industrial/historical heritage of the Portimão area.
Its permanent exhibition traces the interaction of man with his environment over a period of five millennia, with particular emphasis on the sardine canning industry. Underwater archaeology also plays a special role, with an extensive collection of items that have been recovered from the River Arade during successive underwater research projects, such as sunken ships from civilisations dating back over three millennia.
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