MUST SEE… ANNTI LATENEN @ LIVERPOOL BIENNALEAntti Laitinen works across idioms of performance, video and photography. His mission across this collection of idioms is to stage mythologies and erase the boundary between success and failure, through a trajectory of personal endurance and almost delusional imagination. Laitinen takes us beyond normal...
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Vandalog’s London Street Art TourVandalog is launching a street art tour to East London, open to all. The tours will cover street art and graffiti in East London, and we’ll probably visit a gallery as well. We’ll see work from artists like Banksy, Space Invader, Eine, Conor Harrington, Barry McGee, Sickboy, and many more. The tours should last a co...
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The Krah @ The Brick Lane gallery The Brick Lane Gallery is pleased to
present the world famous street artist The Krah. Originally from Greece The Krah
has been making waves in the UK street art scene and has been painting the
streets of London for many years. The Krah’s works can be seen around the
Shoreditch and Brick Lane area. Like many s...
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Goldie UK Solo Show exhibiting NOW.Goldie's next UK Solo show is running until the 26th April at The Maverik Showroom, 68-72 Redchurch St, Shoreditch, London E2 7DP. The duplex venue will be transformed into a cutting edge situation not to be missed!
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ART IN MIND @ The Brick Lane Gallery 16 - 27 AprilOpening: 15th April 6.30 - 8.30 PMThe Brick Lane Gallery is pleased to present a dynamic group exhibition ”Art in Mind" featuring 15 Street and Contemporary artists from different artistic and cultural backgrounds. The show will host a selection of international and UK artists, presenting...
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CALLING FOR ARTISTS!The next ART IN MIND exhibition needs you. Place: The Brick Lane gallery, LondonDates: from 14th August- 27th August 3,6 and 9 meters of gallery space for hire. For more details about the exhibition, email info@thebricklanegallery.com www.thebricklanegallery.com
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The Brick Lane gallery has lunched a street art map for East London. East London has been always famous for its various and diverse art life. In Brick Lane, Shoreditch, Hoxton and Old Street are you can find loads of different street art works.See the map of street art in East London on The Brick Lane gallery website www.thebricklanegallery.com I...
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Sarah Lyall, of The International Herald Tribune, found artists too busy pre-emptvely striking back at the art fair's commercialism to worry about deeper meaning.http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/15/arts/13frie.phpThe art price bubble could be about to burst. Not necessarily a bad thing in a fair which takes the market head-on, writes Colin Glead...
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The art fair where all the work is given away at the end50 contemporary artists take part in The Free Art Fair 2008. Including Stella Vine, Gavin Turk, Chantal Joffe, Bob & Roberta Smith, and Bruce McLean. In contrast to the recent Damien Hirst auction and the market frenzy of frieze art fair week, The Free Art Fair will allow anyone to see and...
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LONDON—For those who closely monitor the London art scene will notice that it is shifting to Fitzrovia, Many new galleries are emerging and some east end and south side galleries are moving to the new location. Stuart Shave/Modern Art gallery recent moved from the East Ends hub of Vyner street. In the past year, Fitzrovia has also seen a number of...
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Damien Hirst will auction a series of new works at the London
auction house Sotheby’s rather than sell through his London representative gallery The White Cube.
Hirst made this decision based on the success of the 2004 auction at Sotheby’s where
11.5 million pounds of work was sold. Hirst believes that the contemporary art world is forever cha...
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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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