Anish Kapoor has designed Britain’s largest piece of public sculpture, a 120 metre tall interwoven tower that people will be able to climb. The tower will boast spectacular views of London and the Olympic park. The work falls somewhere in between a crushed Buckminster Fuller Geodesic Dome, a fun fair Helter Skelter and […]
2 April 2010
When I dream about eating: as I bite into the apple, donut, whatever, there is always nothing there. I’ve always wanted to make art like that. Alex Pearl It’s official: Alex Pearl did not travel to the Antarctic. His application not to go was accepted by the British Antarctic Survey in June […]
1 April 2010
“The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». He is interested in the artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and […]
Many paintings dealers have expressed their concern about changes introduced to the operation of the Witt Library by the management of the Courtauld Institute last summer. Most of the library staff were dismissed, and replaced by fewer, less qualified staff. The new staff are no longer able to offer the range of services previously offered. […]
One of the cuts concealed in Alastair Darling’s budget yesterday was a staggering £60 million in funds earmarked for the arts slashed from the Department for Culture Media and Sports 2010-11 budget. In addition, £2.2 billion is to be diverted from the National Lottery’s culture and heritage endowment to the Olympics. This is money that […]
I knew Ross as a filmmaker, collaborator and the founder of the Funnel, the most important locale for experimental film in Canada. It wasn’t just the man’s charm, but his films — awkward, jarring, disjunctive, and, of course, ironic — which grabbed my attention. It was the late 1970s. It was punk. No one followed, […]
21 March 2010
Tools : Stuff : Art ‘Before starting work I walk around it several times accompanied by myself. ‘ Between 1890 and 1898 Erik Satie lived at 6 rue Cortot : “in a wardrobe.” Satie was a collector . . . . After his death his wardrobe was found to contain […]
17 March 2010
10 Downing Street e- Petition CAW dedicate the needs of disadvantaged, excluded groups in our community, people coping with learning disabilities and mental health problems. There is no heating. As a listed building there is a duty of care by the owner to carry out maintainance? Let’s not lose these two buildings to developers […]
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10 March 2010
Press Release / 25th January 2010 SPACE University of Portsmouth Eldon Building, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth One of only a handful of artists worldwide who employ a process called ‘Carbon Photography’ will be exhibiting her work at the University of Portsmouth next week. ‘Liminal’ is a contemporary art exhibition by Iranian-born artist Katayoun […]
Banksy is at it again this time in the role of filmmaker. The film titled, “Exit Through The Gift Shop” or “The Worlds First Street Disaster Film” had it’s premiere at a pop up cinema in Waterloo tonight in a disused railway arch. The festivities came complete with a painted red carpet and salvaged arm […]
24 February 2010
What was it about Moore? Over the past fifty years there have been several British exhibitions dedicated to Henry Moore the Artist and his work. In the late seventies there were as many as 40 exhibitions taking place around the world at any given time, a testament to his popularity. This new exhibition […]
24 February 2010
For Expatriates in China, Creative Lives of Plenty by Dan Levin. NY Times arts page, Sunday, 10th January 2010 THERE was a chill in the morning air in 2005 when dozens of artists from China, Europe and North America emerged from their red-brick studios here to find the police blocking the gates to Suojiacun, their […]
U.S. Embassy London New Building Unveiled U.S. Embassy London Kieran Timberlake Wins Design Competition Kieran Timberlake has won the competition to design the new United States’ high-security embassy in London. Here is the first photo: The design for the new London embassy at Nine Elms was finally confirmed today 23 February 2010 It will be […]
22 February 2010
SUSAN OLMETTI ABSTRACT ARTIST PRESENTS BROTHER’S AND SISTER’S AND BUBBLES Olmetti’s upcoming three abstract art exhibits will highlight:“The Outdoor Girls” Dedicated to My Falling Angels “And Definitions of theCohesive Force of Life and Sexuality” Dedicated to My Knight In ShiningArmor,Tyrone Noonan, My Rock Star. The Third series titled “Gusts OfReality” Dedicated to My Father Joseph […]
22 February 2010
{page:Section1;} –> Bristol based Artist, Heather Tweed will again be giving residents and visitors to Edinburgh the chance to search for and keep a series of small artworks that will be hidden around the City Centre. The new installation art piece was inspired by a visit to a school in Cairo whilst working […]
15 February 2010
“To begin with, I have no specific target and I do no sketching. Out of limestone rock, I hew a sculpture, a unique one.”Direct stone carving means spontaneity, freedom and evolution.Carving reveals the curves of the shapes already contained in the raw material. It’s an interpretation, made visible, of the geological energy in the stone […]
15 February 2010
Pascal François meets artist Hermann Amann in Avignon. Hermann Amann was the founder of the « Nouvelle Pigmentation » movement. In 2001, they decided to open the « Atelier de la Barthelasse », located in an old distillery on Île de la Barthelasse, across from Avignon. It proved to be a favorable place for a series of five polychrome […]
9 February 2010
A reader of Blueprint, artist Danny Rolph has created an instalation for the magazine’s new headquarters off Fleet Street. The painting, Asquith,forms part of the Twinwall series, which are all named after British Prime Ministers, and is influenced by Rolph’s love of architecture. With a layered network of lines, three-dimentional forms and collaged images and […]
9 February 2010
There is a quality about Danny Rolph’s images that could be described as protozoan. That association at first seems surprising because the proliferation of acute angles, jagged coloured shafts and polychromatic zigzags like speed streaks into the supposed interiors of these works at first suggests other parallels entirely: the purposeful world of the constructed, mechanical […]
5 February 2010
Trinidad – Creative new beginning for Chris Ofili – Tate Britain’s Retrospective Exhibition. Still in his early 40’s Chris Ofili has presented a very powerful retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain this month, and currently on exhibition until May 16th 2010. He demonstrates his ability to communicate in a highly original visionary way, using his […]
3 February 2010
Kirsty Buchanan’s practice negotiates a shifting miasma between a performative drawing space which explores both erotic longing and the embarrassment associated with this exploration. In a libidinal act of abandon she throws herself into the act of drawing sexual encounters (both remembered and imagined) as if throwing herself into the arms of a new lover […]
1 February 2010
The Empire Strikes Back – Saatchi & Saatchi’s exhibition of Contemporary Art from India and Pakistan The Exhibition is a display of Social and political comment and includes issues of Poverty, war, environment and religion. A thematic approach to immigration slums and poverty. The exhibition is a collection of work that Charles Saatchi has […]
30 January 2010
Trying to understand the phenomenon of an Organic Form in the Built Environment, I have made a series of paintings which would fall into the category of architectural impressions. The following notes reflect my thoughts on this subject. The aesthetic quality of an organic form is directly determined by its inherent metaphor and appeals both […]
29 January 2010
A glimpse beyond the interstice- separating the public and private domain Donna Wolf One often wonders, where the public domain stops and the private domain begins. Throughout history, the line of demarcation between public and private space has captured the fascination of artists.Today it continues to serve as an inspiration for contemporary artists, each […]
28 January 2010
Balancing Familes in Stone A Conversation with Boaz Vaadia A sculptor who grew up on a farm, Boaz Vaadia is inspired by the nature around him. Vaadia says of his work, “I work with nature as an equal partner. The strongest thing I address is that primal connection of man to earth. It’s in the […]
This is perhaps the most telling photo of Tony Blair ever presented on the net. Artist Richard Hamilton’s ‘Shock and Awe’ © 2010 sums up the sad demise of this once popular Prime Minister. Mr Blair will soon be appearing at the iraq inquiry. Please dig it and pass it on. Image of Tony Blair […]
27 January 2010
European City of Capital Culture Istanbul 2010 One Port for two Continents – We will always have Paris? Written by Juliette Goddard MARCA As an artist to land in Istanbul for the arrival of the opening of the New Year 2010 and Celebrate the European city of capital culture 2010 with the moon the […]
27 January 2010
http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2008/11/peoples-landscape-steven-baris-and-kim.html Tuesday, November 11, 2008 New work from Steven Baris, a perennially interesting artist, is also up at Pentimenti. In his pair of exhibits, Baris has gotten experimental and looser. In the small Project Room, Baris’ Ruse of Transparency series explores the force fields exerted by massive urban buildings, which he expresses via building shapes […]
24 January 2010
no reflex all that structures me, those arms, these legs, these extended hips, hair, eyes, horizontal arteries, veins, all these skins, these atmosphere between us… What you see in me its you. thats us, united in this indissoluble amalgam. Behind these glass surfaces, I protect myself of his air, of his mental confusion, of his […]
24 January 2010
“Once upon a time , portraits of boho absinthe drinkers were common, with the most famous by Desgas and Picasso.Now that BC liquor stores stock the notorious intoxicant, Holly Armishaw has contemporized the medium and the setting. As part of her ongoing La Femme Tragique photo project, which consists of “romanticized psychological autobiographical self-portraits,” she […]