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MoMA
Tim Burton
22 November 2009 – 26 April 2010

Video: Tim Burton MoMA Spot
Directed by Tim Burton
Produced by Mackinnon and Saunders
CGI Animation: Flix Facilities
Animation: Chris Tichborne
Lighting Camera: Martin Kelly
Music by Danny Elfman

website: www.moma.org/timburton

Whitney Biennial
25 February – 30 May 2010

This year marks the seventy-fifth edition of the Whitney’s signature exhibition. While Biennials are always affected by the cultural, political, and social moment, this exhibition “simply titled 2010” embodies a cross section of contemporary art production rather than a specific theme. To underscore the idea of time as an element of the Biennial and to demonstrate the influence of the past on 2010, familiar and less well-known artists from previous exhibitions are brought together in Collecting Biennials, an accompanying installation drawn from the Museum’s collection on view on the fifth floor. Balancing different media ranging from painting and sculpture to video, photography, performance, and installation, 2010 also serves as a two-way telescope through which the Whitney’s past and future can be observed.

Whitney website

Helena Almeida: inside me
9 February – 31 March 2010

John Hansard Gallery presents the first UK showing of the work of Portuguese artist Helena Almeida.

Almeida’s work includes photography, performance and drawing. Although the artist is always in front of the camera, she insists that her images are not self-portraits. Dressed in black since the early 1970’s, sometimes with objects or furniture found in her studio, she assumes positions that she has painstakingly choreographed. These create complex visual compositions that are as much about space and line as the relationship between the artist and the image. Sometimes she further complicates these compositions by painting directly onto the photographs in bold primary blue or red.

Helena Almeida: inside me presents a selection of works made over the last 40 years.

John Hansard Gallery website

Documenta 13
9 June – 16 September 2012

Documenta 13 announces Dr. Christine Litz as a new member of the dOCUMENTA (13) organisational team. Recently appointed project manager, she is responsible for the realization of the ideas developed by the artistic director, Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev, and her curatorial team, as well as for the artists’ projects and other elements that will ultimately comprise dOCUMENTA (13).

Christine Litz is an art historian. She studied Art History, German Language and Literature, and Education in Cologne and Bochum, where she completed her doctorate on “Script in the Visual Arts” in 2002.

Documenta 13 website

Brighton Festival 2010
Saturday 1 – Sunday 23 May

Artist, cultural thinker and producer Brian Eno will be making his mark on the Brighton as the Festival's Guest Artistic Director for 2010. Eno highlights include the constantly evolving sound and image-scape 77 Million Paintings, an exclusively commissioned sound installation set into the fabric of the city and Icebreaker performing Eno's soundtrack to the film of the Apollo moon landing.

Brighton Festival website