Architect Hadid’s zig-zag school wins top UK prize

LONDON (REUTERS).- Iraq-born Zaha Hadid has won Britain’s main architecture prize for a second year running with her design for a futuristic Z-shaped school in London, unexpectedly beating the 2012 Olympic Games cycling arena. The Royal Institute of British Architects‘ judges awarded the 20,000-pound prize to Hadid for the Evelyn Grace Academy, a new school in south London which they described as a “highly stylized zig-zag of steel and glass”. The London-based architect won last year’s competition for a modern art [...]

Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University appoints Min Jung Kim as deputy director

EAST LANSING, MI.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has appointed Min Jung Kim as its deputy director. Throughout her career, which includes more than a decade’s experience in international programming and planning for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Kim has developed strategic alliances and collaborative initiatives with cultural institutions around the globe. At MSU’s Broad Art Museum , she will be responsible for strategic planning and overseeing daily operations. She joins the new Zaha Hadid-designed museum, which [...]

Dallas Museum of Art Presents First Overview of Its Modern and Contemporary Design Collections

DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present, a new installation drawn largely from its growing collections of iconic furniture and related objects from the past 50 years. On view through January 29, 2012, in the Museum’s fourth floor Tower Gallery, Form/Unformed reflects the vibrant transformation of ideology and style that shaped international design over the last half-century. The installation features work by such renowned designers as Verner Panton, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, [...]

Galerie Gmurzynska Presents Exhibition by Award-Winning Architect Zaha Hadid

ZURICH.- Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Prize winning architect, has curated and designed her latest exhibition entitled ‘Zaha Hadid and Suprematism’ for the famed Galerie Gmurzynska on the historic Paradeplatz in Zurich. Recently named one of the 100 Most Influential of People of 2010 by TIME Magazine, Hadid’s exhibition will be the first to directly explore the connection between her works and those of the Russian Suprematist artists of the early twentieth century, the link between which has spanned her entire career. [...]

Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize Launches June 2010

LONDON.- The first of its kind, Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize (MOP CAP) is a global search to identify the most talented emerging Iranian artists from both its homeland and the Persian Diaspora. The MOP CAP judging panel is made up of experts in contemporary Iranian art and culture from around the world and will be chaired by Canvas Holding Founder, Ali Khadra. Further panellists include the Serpentine’s Director of International Projects, Hans Ulrich Obrist, architect Zaha Hadid and [...]