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Bedwyr Williams: Nimrod
Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
18 September – 24 October
a-n Magazine 2009 November - a-n The Artists Information Company
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a-n Magazine November 2009
Contents include: UK studio organisations profiled in Creative places; Rona Smith’s North Elevation architectural collaboration in Collaborative relationships; state of higher education debates; plus Reviews from UK and Ireland. PDF version [size 5.4 MB]. Requires PDF reader.
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Creative places
Profiling studios and facilities around the UK.
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This is Wunderbar
Wunderbar is “a dynamic new festival of contemporary performances, visual art, and extraordinary happenings for North East England that places the audience at the heart of the experience”.
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Paris Photo 2009
Paris Photo (Carrousel du Louvre, 19-22 November) is the place to be for anyone interested in or working with photography.
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Making a living
Organised by Sophie Hope, co-facilitated with Veronica Restrepo and held at London
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Sustain fund closes
Arts Council England’s
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North Elevation
Artist Rona Smith, public art consultant Vivien Lovell and architect Soraya Khan discuss the development of Rona’s ambitious North Elevation work which was permanently installed at Lumen United Reform Church last year.
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Artist parents: speak up
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall” Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938
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Bites from the blogs
This month’s blog selection.
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Hinterland
Hinterland curator Jennie Syson says this year’s commissions “will present a cycle-powered cinema, trees grown from books, tasty opportunities to eat the local plant life and a chance to do a spot of bird watching whilst appreciating areas of natural beauty within the city and beyond”.
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Campaigns
Get involved.
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New visual arts research
Responding to the gap in intelligence about artists and their practice, AIR: Artists’ Interaction and Representation has been conducting a series of research projects with the aim of informing cultural advocacy and policy-making.
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State of higher education
The quality of art education offered in UK universities has been regularly under the spotlight in recent times. In this month’s Debate, an MA graduate gives an account of the critical situation, and proposes an alternative system to offer education for artists.
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Big picture – 2009 November
It’s Hard To Make a Stand by Steve Bishop
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Aoife Cassidy and Anita Delaney: Of Men and Mountains
Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
12 September – 10 October
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Generosity is the new political
Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridge
5 September – 1 November
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Rachel Lancaster
Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
5 September – 3 October
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Jacques Nimki: I want nature
66 Corporation Street (opposite McDonalds), Corby
18 September – 17 October
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Safe art
Is it only me who thinks there is something wrong with art education these days?
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They shoot horses don’t they?
The problem with ethical regulation in art or in any walk of life is that it is open to abuse and interpretation.
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Re: Art is not hardware
I think the issue with this government high street initiative is that it’s not part of a programme which attempts to actively deal with the underlying problems that have caused the recession in the first place.