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Maker of ‘profoundly beautiful’ films wins 2015 Jarman Award
Belfast-based artist Seamus Harahan wins the £10,000 Film London Jarman Award.
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NOW SHOWING #124: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes a reflection on obsolete technology in London, an exploration of fiction and alternative realities in Nottingham, and found objects and immersive environments in Oxford.
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Austmarka | 3 degree | overcast sleep late speed through breakfast avoid the news focus on muesli spend the morning in the studio with the Norwegian artist we look at each other’s work talk about Venice she visited this year […]
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Buy art at Christmas: 10 gift ideas including Fluxus films, a brilliant badge and an umbrella with attitude
Looking for Christmas present ideas but want to avoid the high street? Why not support artists and/or organisations that promote contemporary art by purchasing unusual or limited edition works online instead. Here’s 10 ideas to start you off, from a 50p badge to a £400 print.
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4 Chosen Prints Of Memory Traces For The Pretty’s Exhibition In Ipswich
What printing works have I chosen to exhibit in Pretty’s? Print 1 – By The Waters 8 Now the reason why I wanted to include this image as my first choice, is because I have had so many moments by […]
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A Q&A with… Nato Thompson, chief curator, Creative Time
As the Creative Time Summit NYC takes place this weekend at the Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, Nato Thompson speaks to Pippa Koszerek about the summit, his new book Seeing Power and how art can impact social change.
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Extra London Trip Inspiration – Soane Museum
What else did I do after the Ai WeiWei gallery? The Soane Museum I did successfully enough tried to find the Soane museum with my three classmates who got a little bit lost in the city area but did […]
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Weary, O.
It is a dreich November day, a day when the whole country is shrouded in mist, perhaps as the aftermath of Halloween or just the reality of autumn. I have the chance to escape and listen to Graham Fagen talking […]
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Theaster Gates Sanctum – belief in community & people – no religion required
A Performance Lecture by Theaster Gates, part of the Sanctum Programme by Situations Bristol
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NOW SHOWING #120: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes the launch of Bloc Projects new gallery space, Margaret Harrison’s political installations in Middlesbrough and minimalist sculpture in Belfast.
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CLOUDED IDENTITIES: The Treacherous Border between Fiction and Reality
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What is the point of the Istanbul Biennial?
The Istanbul Biennial has had a troubled few years. In 2013 it was embroiled in controversy over its reaction to political demonstrations in the city’s Taksim Square, while the current 14th edition arrived at a time of growing political tension in the country. As it draws to a close this week and Turkey prepares to go to the polls in a snap election, Dany Louise argues that this international biennial has failed to respond to the urgent and compelling context it finds itself in.
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Glow in the dark art: new skatepark sheds light on Everton
A recently opened skatepark in Everton Park, Liverpool is the result of a Liverpool Biennial commission of the South Korean artist Koo Jeong A, working with Wheelscape Skateparks and a host other agencies and community groups in the city. Laura Robertson takes a look at this luminous living sculpture and finds out more from the artist.
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Dodge the Shredder – Lincolnshire
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Art in the high street, Ikea in the gallery at Warrington’s North festival
The inaugural North festival in Warrington has brought pavilions from city’s including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool – as well as art that responds to Ikea – to the streets and galleries of the town. Laura Robertson reports.
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NOW SHOWING #116: The week’s top exhibitions
This week’s selection includes an exploration of the cliché of collecting in Manchester, the unveiling of the Serpentine’s autumn exhibition in London and a painting exhibition in Rochester that mixes old and new technology.
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A Q&A with… Zanele Muholi, LGBT photographer
Deutsche Börse Prize nominee Zanele Muholi has been documenting the LGBT community in her home country of South Africa for nearly ten years, creating a body of work that has been shown around the world. As a show of her photography opens in Liverpool, Laura Robertson talks to her.
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Artes Mundi 7 shortlist: seven artists who open up “new ways of engaging with the world”
The seven-strong shortlist for the international prize and exhibition’s seventh edition features artists from Angola, Lebanon, USA and Japan, and includes two well-known British artists.
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A Q&A with… William Kentridge, artist
The South African artist William Kentridge is a staple of international art biennials, a critically acclaimed art superstar known for his theatrical, thoughtful work. With an exhibition featuring two new films currently showing at London’s Marian Goodman Gallery, Dany Louise discovers more about the politics and processes behind his art.
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Istanbul Biennial opens with 1500 artworks across 36 venues
The 14th Istanbul Biennial opens with work by over 80 international artists and a theme that ‘hovers around’ the connotations and physical reality of salt water.
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Northern art and soul: Warrington festival addresses north-south divide
The inaugural North festival of contemporary art opens in Warrington in October with a series of city pavilions and an exhibition that invites artists’ responses to Ikea. Laura Robertson speaks to some of the artists involved and the London-based gallerist behind the event.
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Jeremy Deller discusses role of art in music on 6 Music
Turner Prize winner to explore the role of art within music and how the two have affected one another.
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Uffizi Gallery appoints its first non-Italian director
As part of a scheme that has seen 20 top museum jobs up for grabs across Italy, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has appointed a German art historian as its new director.
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Personal History at the V&A
When I first came to London in 1982 it was as a music student playing the viola at the Royal College of Music, round the corner from the V&A. Many years later, I discovered I was dyslexic, but at the […]
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A Q&A with… Rabab Ghazoul, Iraq Pavilion artist
Iraqi-born, Cardiff-based artist Rabab Ghazoul is one of five artists featured in the Iraq Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, with a three-channel video piece that focuses on Tony Blair’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry. Chris Sharratt finds out more.