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Panic! – it’s a survey of the arts

A new survey seeks to build a picture of social mobility and the backgrounds of those working in the arts, and is accompanied by a programme of events, art commissions and a visual campaign by the designer Peter Saville.

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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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Pictures of… Illuminating art in Blackpool

As part of the LightPool project, which is introducing new projection mapping technology to Blackpool’s famous illuminations, Grundy Art Gallery has been transformed by a series of installation environments celebrating artists’ fascination with the properties of light.

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Plymouth Art Weekender: an ambitious event in a changing city

The inaugural Plymouth Art Weekender presents work across the city by over 400 local, national and international artists. Artist and AIR Council member Steven Paige welcomes this audacious new festival and looks at how the city’s visual art ecology has developed in the five years since British Art Show 7.

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Time to grow up? I’d rather stand up and be counted

Set against the backdrop of its Newcastle city centre building being lost to redevelopment, a recent two-day event at the artist-led NewBridge Project in Newcastle asked whether it was time for artists to ‘grow up’ and accept the new agenda of cuts, philanthropy and big business sponsorship. Artist Lesley Guy joined in the conversation and came to a different conclusion.

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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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