Patrimoine(s) et Conservation-Restauration(s) by Roland May

“…Evolution and expansion of a cultural heritage concept applied to fields such as contemporary art and, sciences, technology, ethnography...over the last twenty five years, raises questions about its relationship with conservation, the bases of which were defined in the sixty's, then essentially focused on artwork and aestheticism.With respect to other values and stakes, messages, functions, use, isn't it the opportunity to assess the suitability of these notions and, to some extent, their integration in a process which preserves the narrow and compulsory link between conservation and the durability of cultural heritage with respect to both ancient and new values?…”
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Les images animées au Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration, des dispositifs pour le patrimoine immatériel de l’immigration ? by Marie Caquel

“…Above all such an heritage is not obtain by the most expected disciplines (history, sociology), but by a more surprising couple: ethnology and contemporary art.…”
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Paint handling in Leonardo’s Mona Lisa: guides to a reconstruction by Sandra Šustić

“…How the painter managed to obtain such delicacy of the tonal transitions still occupies the mind of contemporary art researchers. Based on published results of scientific analyses performed on the painting and relying on historical sources, a copy of the painting was made using materials that were identical or at least equivalent to the ones Leonardo used. …”
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Consécration de la faune et de la flore comme motifs esthétiques et d’identité culturelle dans l’art mexicain du xxe siècle by Christine Frérot

“…Concerning the flower, it has gradually turned into a feminist symbol in Mexican contemporary art.…”
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Vidéo-clip musical et vidéo expérimentale by Némésis Srour

“…In the early 2000s, two phenomena emerged at the same time: the sprouting in Lebanon of a video clip industry that spread throughout the Arab world and the recognition, in the field of contemporary art, of a new class of video artists from the region. …”
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Un palais pour les immigrés ? by Andréa Delaplace

“…The museum presents a historical and cultural approach to immigration as well as works of contemporary art relating to the subject. The present article will examine how the museum constitutes an attempt to recognise the heritage of immigration as a national heritage.…”
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Counter-Non-Anti-Remembrance. The Anti-monumental Practices by TIST Collective by Yulia S. Tikhomirova

“…Counter-, non-, and anti-monumental practices have emerged on the scene of contemporary art as a new, critical mode of commemorative and social ritual. …”
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REFLECTION OF NIETZHES PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN AVANGARDIZM ART by Ya. S. Demydenko

“…It was proved that the creative legacy of Nietzsche can be the intellectual base for overcoming the crisis in contemporary art culture and initiate the ascent of man to the new spiritual and artistic heights.…”
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Activisme culturel au Centre Georges-Pompidou. Le photoreportage exposé (1977-1997) by Assia Quesnel

“…The Centre Pompidou thus appears as a place for the consecration of photo-reportage and the media. As for contemporary art, the institution was a place that activated photo-reportage especially in the decision to defend young artists, to show an interest in non-Western countries, and the commissioning of reportages.…”
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Communicative-visual value of environmental art festival by Antonella Violano, Julio Cesar Perez-Hernandez

“…Many forms of art leave their imprint on contemporary art culture as a complex system of ideas and emotions, perceptions and stimuli for reflection. …”
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Reconstruction of the past through artistic practices by Ayşe Ceren Solmaz

“…Using of materials and the narrative potential and relationality of contemporary art practices provide spatial experiences. …”
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Une chambre à soi : genres et corps en art by Luc Schicharin, Anne-Laure Vernet

“…During the course of 2 symposium respectively called « Genderqueer Workshop : a Reflexion on Contemporary Bodies through the Arts », and « A Room to One’s Own : Genders and Bodies in Art » held from March 2015 to January 2016, the problematic of political subjectivity has been approached through an aestethical and philosophical study of works of art which are organized according to the codes of contemporary art and of militant artistic practices coming from subcultures and popular cultures. …”
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Un théâtre astral et « révolutionnaire » : les visions « fanta-scientifiques » de Paul Scheerbart by Cristina Grazioli

“…An important element of our approach to this visionary author, who anticipated many conceptions and practices of contemporary art and stage, is the knowledge of the world of technology and inventions, which Scheerbart transfigures in his innovative 'astral' theatre.…”
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Art, Performance, and Outsourcing in Corporate Art Commissioning: An American Scenario by Charlotte Gould

“…At a time when corporate sponsorship of contemporary art has become increasingly widespread, allowing sponsors to enhance their brands and receive return on investment in the shape of tax breaks and publicity, business has maximized this association by also capitalizing on what it perceives as the work ethic and entrepreneurial skills of the art world. …”
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La dimensión de los discursos curatoriales y su circulación en la Bienal más expandida del Sur Global by Eva Natalia Fernández

“…In this article the purpose is to develop the articulation between curatorial discourses and their circulation in Bienalsur: the most innovative contemporary art biennial in the last four years in thirty-two cities in the world at the same time.This biennial proposes the notion of network as a space for review of the power structures that have to do with the global cultural policies prevailing in the art world.Its operational modality pursues the idea of ​​simultaneity that we will understand as a production of synchronous speeches, with a circulation and a reception established from a situated statement -the south- aiming of repositioning Latin American Art.First, the notions of discourse and circulation will be conceptualized from the gaze of authors such as Michel Foucault, Eliseo Verón, Teun Van Dijk and Michel Espagne. …”
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The Humour and Novelty of Congwayndut Puppet Group: An Overview of Performance Studies by Gendot Dekanipa, Aris Setiawan

“…As a dynamic cultural event, the contemporary art of the Congwayndut group is always produced with a unique dramaturgy, contemporary and innovative setting. …”
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L’art et la manière. Artistes des arts numériques, positionnement professionnel et créativité artistique en France et en Allemagne by Geneviève Vidal, Anne Gagnebien, Eva-Maria Schultze, Christian Papilloud

“…According to our French interviewees, it is bound to the relation between digital arts and contemporary art. According to our German interviewees, it has to be developed away from such strong reference to art.…”
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Faouzi Laatiris : fugues chimériques dans la mondialisation by Morad Montazami

“…How can one relocate this key figure of globalized contemporary art, taking Morocco as a starting point but extending him to a transcultural art history, both local and global (both European and Arab, both North African and African more generally, eventually Mediterranean)? …”
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Ruptures, renaissances et continuités. Modes de construction de l’histoire de l’art maghrébin by Annabelle Boissier, Fanny Gillet

“…Indeed, the authors of such works have established the timeline and refer to such a limited number of historical actors that it seems unlikely that these would be the only ones responsible for the emergence and institutionalization of the modern and contemporary art worlds. We support the assumption that an analysis of the literature and its evolution will offer a key to understanding the process by which the "glorious history" of the Algerian and Tunisian artistic movements was formed. …”
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Animal Objects: Memory, Desire and Mourning by Julia Courtney

“…At the same time disembodied claws, teeth and horns carried an erotic charge when transformed into lovers’ gifts, while the sensuous reaction to animal skins can be seen in contemporary art and fiction. Thirdly, mourning for departed pets or celebrity animals, in an age when death and remembrance were significant cultural forces, might involve the preservation of either a whole animal or isolated body parts, as in the case of larger creatures such as horses. …”
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