Forget FIRST THURSDAYS Frog Morris presents SECOND THURSDAY Forthcoming appearances... 8.30PM THURSDAY 14th FEBRUARY : MONTAGUE ARMS 289 Queens Road, New Cross SE15 2PA UNCLE JEEPSIE’S VALENTINES SPECIAL Martin White on accordion Daniel & Davina - Valentines Cards Theo Morris - songs on the guitar and stylophone M&S do S&M – improv...
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Artfutures is a Contemporary Art Society project.
A unique and un-missable event in the contemporary art calendar, each
year, the Contemporary Art Society handpicks work by approximately
100 artists to form an exhibition of work for sale. Selected through
a combination of exhaustive research includi...
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Diane Ibbotson's Star Shine wins the Royal Academy of Arts annual Summer Exhibition. [Star Shine: Oil on canvas, 85x110cm]
"The Royal Academy’s annual Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open submission contemporary art exhibition, with a tradition of showcasing work by unknown and emerging artists alongside that of more established names....
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A fresh breeze is blowing around the famous gothic cathedral of Cologne: Time for a new image! The ageing metropolis on the River Rhine is now a centre for DESIGN.
"There's a new buzz in Cologne, a city known for its celebrations and major events. From June 20 to 24, 2007, RheinDesign will turn the entire city into one huge open-air festival. A...
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Venice Biennale
The 52nd Venice Biennale, the world's oldest and highest-profile international art exhibition, is to open to the public in northern Italy. Seventy-two countries are competing for the top prize - the Golden Lion. For the first time there are separate pavilions devoted to African and Roma, or Gypsy, art.
See BBC News
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The Barbican Art Gallery is celebrating 30 years since the release of The Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen with an exhibition of art from the punk era.
June 2007 marks two remarkable 30 year anniversaries: the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and the release of the Sex Pistols’ irreverent God Save the Queen with its infamous album cover by Jamie Reid . To...
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Banksy artwork taken from gallery
Nine Banksy paintings were stolen in two separate burglaries. Limited edition prints of artwork by guerrilla artist Banksy have been taken in two raids at a gallery in Sussex.
A total of 10 items valued at about £10,000 - nine of them by Banksy - were stolen on 20 and 24 May.
See the BBC News Report here
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The Sorrell Foundation Young Design Centre has opened at Somerset House this Spring. The centre is designed to highlight the wants and needs of young people from the designers of their schools.
It will also encourage local authorities to engage with the foundation’s body of work established over the past seven years, including its Joinedupdesign...
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Edgy symbol of digital age or artistic flop - London unveils Olympic logo.
Glitzy launch of brand designed to work with new media greeted by online petition for it to be scrapped states The Guardian's Design sector today.
Stephen Bayley, founder of the Design Museum, described it as feeble, a "puerile mess, an artistic flop and a commercial sca...
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The eagerly awaited new edition of Media Poetry: An international Anthology, reproducing every one of the fundamental texts from the first, 1996 edition, and brought completely up to date and expanded by poet and visual artist Eduardo Kac. It is a comprehensive volume, offering a global view of experimental poetry that requires contemporary media t...
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Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful. I have just caught the BBC documentary "Imagine... It's the Surreal Thing". 50 minutes of creative heaven from BBC1. (See the supporting BBC website here at BBC: Imagine)
"To become truly immortal, a work of art
must escape all human limits: logic and
commonsense will only interfere. But
once these barriers a...
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Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica will screen at film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cine...
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Wondering through the pages of AIGA today, I found the most inspiring and warming article by Janet Swistock. Swistock is an AIGA student writer, with A.A.S. in Computer Graphics, and is currently attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design.
Swistock begins her article discussing the marketing...
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The next Design History Society Annual Conference, Design/Body/Sense, will be hosted by Kingston University, University of London, and will be convened by Dr Trevor Keeble in September 2007.
As an embodiment of thought, feeling and intention, design demands to be encountered from a bodily perspective. Design/Body/Sense calls for the interdiscipl...
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Walk inside a cloud at The Hayward this summer. Experience a series of newly commissioned, dramatic installations by Antony Gormley, one of the most celebrated artists working in the UK today. Taking the body as its point of departure, the exhibition is an invitation to embark on a journey through different kinds of space.
Blind Light: "Archite...
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Adobe Live 5-6 June @ Business Design Centre, London.
Want to be inspired? Want a concentrated hit of creative energy? Want to learn how Adobe Creative Suite® 3 will change the way you work and create? Adobe Live will feed your imagination. Whatever you're into, this annual two-day feast will help you turn your creative vision into reality - on...
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British artist Damien Hirst revealed his latest work of art at the White Cube Gallery in London, June 1, 2007.
"For the Love of God" is a life-size cast of a human skull in platinum and covered by 8,601 pave-set diamonds weighing 1,106.18 carats. The single large diamond in the middle of the forehead is reportedly worth $4.2 million alone. Hirs...
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Marjetica Potrc is at The Barbican
24 May 2007 - 2 September 2007
The Curve
Acclaimed Slovenian artist and architect Marjetica Potrc, is renowned for installations that present socially driven architectural projects in a gallery context. Working at the interface of architecture, art and social science, Potrc is concerned with the fundamentals...
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Can Art or Design reach a medium and audience, other than by a visual mean?
Yes. of course.
Adrian Shaughnessy presents Graphic Design on The Radio,
Fridays from 1-2pm, on Resonance FM.
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If you a have not come across Bit fall, do take a look at this stunning piece of art combined with a typographic design aesthetic, by artist Julius Popp.
See Julius Popps Bit Fall here
For all info on artist Julius Popp visit his works at Spherical Robots
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ARTIST TO EAT A CORGI In an extraordinary art event artist and animal rights activist Mark McGowan is to eat a Corgi dog live on the Radio on Tuesday 29th May 2007, in a protest against the Royals and their treatment of animals. Tragically the dog which is to be eaten died recently at a Corgi breeding farm in Southern England and is to be prepared...
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ARTS UNWRAPPED Behind the scenes access to leading artists’ studiosOver three weekends:18 -20 May, 1-3 June, 8-10 June 2007“For writers, it’s a blank piece of paper, for artists, it’s an empty studio… these places act as storage containers for half- baked ideas that have never made it further than the scribbled note, which is why to be invited into...
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London Design Festival 2007; the most exciting and diverse yet15 – 25 SeptemberThe London Design Festival 2007 will be defined by a series of new and innovative installations and events, making it the most comprehensive and diverse in the Festival's five-year history. This coincides with the announcement today that Swarovski Crystal Palace has agre...
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Aperture Event
Inside the Photography Gallery: Panel Discussion
Join us for a panel discussion that will examine the pioneering gallerists
of the 1970s, who jumped into exhibiting photography, and their crucial role
in shaping and marketing modern photography. Gain insight into how the world
of art photography morphed from a small g...
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London Art Fair returns to Islington from 17-21 January at the Business
Design Centre. The Fair encompasses an extraordinary range of work -
predominantly painting but also sculpture, photography, drawing and
contemporary ceramics. Some 1800 artists are represented, presented by over
100 of the UK's leading galleries.
Final chance......
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The Photographers' Gallery
5 & 8 Great Newport Street
London
WC2H 7HY
ADMISSION FREE
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square
Information line: 020 7831 1772
Information email: info@photonet.org.uk
Opening hours
Galleries and Bookshop
Monday - Saturday 11.00 - 18.00
Sun 12.00 - 18.00
Late nig...
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What's on at the V&A this December?
V&A Museum of Childhood re-opens
Come and see the V&A Christmas tree!
An Italian Christmas at the V&A
Wednesday late night opening moves to Friday
Volume in the John Madejski Garden
Last chance to see... Leonardo da Vinci
Last c...
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FRIEZE ART FAIR ANNOUNCE NEW CURATOR
30 November 2006
The directors of FRIEZE ART FAIR announced today the appointment of NEVILLE WAKEFIELD as Curator of Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair.
Neville Wakefield is an indepentent curator, critic and editor based in New York. He most recently curated Defamation of Character, an international gr...
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CELESTE ART PRIZE 2007
£17,000 prize money:
£10,000 Artist
£5,000 Student Artist
£2,000 Public On-line Vote.
The Celeste Art Prize is pleased to announce the launch of the second
Celeste Art Prize. The prize was founded in 2005 to promote painting in its
widest sense and has a unique selection process where...
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We are delighted to announce that Victoria Miro Gallery, London is now
representing the artist Phil Collins, together with Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
and
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
Victoria Miro and Glenn Scott Wright
Directors
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