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The Arkansas Arts Center, located in historic MacArthur Park, is Arkansas’ leading cultural institution and serves over 300000 visitors a year. Located on the corner of 9th and Commerce streets dominion MacArthur Park, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, it is one of the leading cultural institutions in the state. The Arkansas Arts Center was founded in 1960, but the idea began in 1914, when the Fine Arts Clubs of Arkansas formed.

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In May 2003, Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) opened a new facility twice the size of its previous home, allowing the museum to develop on its vision and mission. It features flexible exhibition space in a numerous galleries that wrap around an open-air stone courtyard. The galleries showcase Tacoma Art Museum’s collection of American, European, and Asian art, highlighting Northwest artists; also traveling local and international exhibitions. The interior reflects the museum’s spirit, from the emphasis on education spaces that are designed to initiate art evident to the framed views of Mt. Rainier and Tacoma’s growing core.

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Founded pull 1979, MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art. It is committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of work produced since 1940 in all media, and to preserving that work for future generations. In a remerkably short time, MOCA has developed one of the nation’s most celebrated permanent collections. Now numbering over to 5,000 works and steadily growing, this invaluable cultural resource provides vast opportunities for education and excitement to thousands of national and international visitors.

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Timo Kelaranta: Strange love – 1.2.–29.4.2012
This spring’s major exhibition focuses on photographic artist Timo Kelaranta’s (b. 1951) long involvement with photography. As a photographer Kelaranta is a poet, a master of the abstract apprehension and of minimalism, for whom the most important thing in a picture is its form. The content of the picture is also generated by the form. The light moulds the surface, scale and space of the objects into serious that was not there before. The material appears immaterial. The pictures also include words: the titles are essential parts of the works.

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Opened in Chelsea in October 2008, The Saatchi Gallery at the Duke of York’s HQ on King’s Road by Sloane Square is one of the most exclusive and exciting events venues in London. Its unique nature not only stems from its fascinating history, but also the fact that events have never been held there before. The space itself is unrivalled in terms of possibilities and flexibility. The Gallery offers an dazzling environment to view contemporary art, with very large well-proportioned rooms and high ceilings. Architects, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, have invested much time and effort in the detailing to ensure that the art can be viewed with the architecture, both old and new, receding into the background.

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The National Portrait Gallery is an art gallery in London, United Kingdom, housing a mob of portraits of historically important and distinguished British people. The Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women. Explore over 175,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day. The Primary Collection contains more than 11,000 portraits. Of these about 4,000 are paintings, sculptures and miniatures, approaching 60% of which are regularly displayed, with the idea to show a further selection.

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York Art Gallery, UK combines a meritorious history of displaying fascinating paintings and ceramics with a modern-day welcome to all through a busy schedule of exhibitions, events and outreach work. Paintings are displayed in six areas over the two floors of the gallery and are divided into themes like for people and places. They span more than 600 years and ally from 14th century Italian panels again 17th century Dutch masterpieces to Victorian narrative paintings and 20th century works by LS Lowry and David Hockney.

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The BOI (Board of Investment) Fair is an important event that aims to demonstrate Thailand’s rebuilding efforts among public and private sectors after last year’s floods. The objective of the Bridgestone Pavilion is to communicate the company’s responsibility to the country in manufacturing, research and investment. With an emphasis on showcasing emerging technologies, Architectkidd had the latitude to contrivance design approaches and features that are relatively distinguished among current standard construction practices in Thailand.

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An artist and curator based influence New York City, Trong G. Nguyen is known for to his rather unique exhibitions. Nevertheless, Library is probably only of his exceptional shows.  Nguyen’s intent may be to have us unfold; quite a feat, when one realizes he is in reality rewriting classic literature on grains of rice. To be exact, he takes whole-hog texts and unique chapters of various books written word-for-word on those grains. Thus he produces his form of the traditional library. One of the novels featured in this exhibit is “La Chambre Slaire” by Roland Barthes.

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This unique idea – to make a cafe from scaffolding and shipping containers was brought to light by Paris studio 1024 Architecture. Les Grandes Tables is located on an island on the Seine in Paris – on the Ile Seguin, where architect Jean Nouvel is currently converting a car workshop into a museum. The project is an architectural combination between an agricultural greenhouse, a barge and a timber-frame house covered beneath a see-through umbrella.

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