Ankaria Foundation, in collaboration with the Cátedra Jorge Oteiza of the Public University of Navarra, publishes this bilingual book with the lectures given during the 2nd International Symposium “What is Contemporary Art Today?”, which was held in the Museum of Navarra on  4 and 5  May 2010 , and then in CaixaForum Madrid on 6 and 7 of that month.

Directed by de American academic Professor Alexander Alberro, it brougth together the leading international experts Terry Smith, Pamela Lee, Juliane Rebentish and Andrea Giunta.

Artistic practice today is a complex conjunction of modalities in the midst of which co-exist the survival of a traditional art, in other words a “modern” one that has incorporated 20th-century avant-garde innovations of a formal nature, and a “contemporary” art that not only refers to present day creation but which sees itself as a “reinvention” of art.

In this sense, the very question asked about the identity and the meaning of this type of innovative artistic practice as well, as the way its revolutionary development obliges us to refocus our critical analysis, are crucial issues that must be approached in a bold and rigorous way. This was the approach adopted by the participants in the symposium, the lectures of which are now published in a bi-lingual edition that will undoubtedly become a work of reference.

Ankaria Foundation has held the 1st theoretical and practical course to identify and properly assess graphic art pieces. Detalied information in “Ankaria Training”

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The course was taught by Enrique Gonzalez (Print and Edition magazine director),  Javier Blas (Prado Museum) and Jaime Mairata (lawyer and collector). For two days we had opportunity to approach the classical and contemporary techniques with Javier Blas  and knowing the keys to understand the print. With Jaime Mairata we enter the world of private collectors and gave us a deep insight into his motivations and development of his collection. Enrique Gonzalez told us about his vision since the creation of his magazine six years ago, and the evolution of contents and interests found during this period.

On Saturday the course focused on visits to Dan Benveniste workshop and The Benveniste Contemporary an La Caja Negra galleries and we had the opportunity to talk about business in printmaking and its realities.

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Fundacion Ankaria

Ankaria Foundation has decided to extend until January 25^th the deadline for receipt of compositions for the 1^st Ankaria Prize for the best article on Politics and Society, open to university students. The decision was taken on a proposal from several Spanish universities, which in addition to value highly the initiative, have recommended postponing the deadline after Christmas not to make it coincide with the first quarter course exam’s period.

We recall that the award has been organized in collaboration the newspaper Negocio y Estilo de Vida, and consist in composing an essay, with a limit of between 700 and 750 words, in the form of newspaper article on the subjetc: Justice and the social rule of law in Spain.The prize is open to students of any institution of higher education in Spain, regardless of what are they studying.

Entree de mosquee de Moulay idriss

The fund has 3,500 photographs of periods ranging from 1870 to 1952, and the sample is presented in Madrid aims to confront these unique images of a period in the history of Morocco through the travelers who arrived there with images Morocco latest from the perspective of most contemporary Moroccan artists.

A series of parallel meetings will help us understand the different motivations of travelers early twentieth century compared to the XXI century.

In collaboration with the prestigious maritime, Jose Luis Goni, the Foundation is preparing a conference designed to shed light on this issue by combining history, current and regulations and which have the presence of leading figures in various fields to help create debate and reflection.