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| - | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007] | + | '''Oporto''', (the use of the name '''Porto''' is becoming increasingly common in the English-speaking countries) is [[Portugal]]'s second city in size and importance. It is situated in the north of the country, on the northern bank of the [[Douro]] River, just in from the coast of the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. The country and the [[Port Wine]] ([[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]: ''Vinho do Porto'') owe their names to the city of Oporto. |
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| - | == The 80s: A Topology == | + | |
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| - | :One of the curatorial convictions behind the survey exhibition ‘The 80s: A Topology’, was that 1980s art is currently misunderstood and underappreciated. The exhibition, accompanied by an extensive catalogue, presented around 250 works by 70 artists, and was intended as a positive reappraisal of the period. For the most part, the co-curators Ulrich Loock and [[Sandra Guimarães]] stuck fairly squarely to art works originally made in and for gallery and institutional contexts. Without making any impossible claims to completeness, they sought to present an idea of the art of the 1980s at odds with unflattering stereotypes: its rampant commercialism or aesthetic heavy-handedness, for instance. The show also allowed new emphases to emerge in light of contemporary art practice; a practice that has, in many ways, been weaned on a diet of stoic Conceptualism and Minimalist display, but that probably has more in common with 1980s art than is generally acknowledged – particularly in terms of its pluralism and of the culturally and politically neo-conservative climate in which it is made. --Dominic Eichler via [http://www.frieze.com/review_single.asp?r=2706] | + | |
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Oporto, (the use of the name Porto is becoming increasingly common in the English-speaking countries) is Portugal's second city in size and importance. It is situated in the north of the country, on the northern bank of the Douro River, just in from the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The country and the Port Wine (Portuguese: Vinho do Porto) owe their names to the city of Oporto.
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