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Dany Louise is a visual arts specialist and writer with twenty years experience in education, management and strategic arts roles. She has worked with organisations including Arts Council England and Brighton and Hove City Council. She wrote 'Ladders for development: Impact of Arts Council England funding cuts on practice-led organisations' and 'A Fair Share? Direct Funding to Artists' for a-n. A freelancer, she works strategically with small arts organisations. She is researching a PhD on the interface between biennials of art and public policy.
Weymouth was a curious mixture of chilled buzziness on my visit towards the end of July. A popular Jurassic Coast holiday destination, it’s usually a charming old-style seaside town with a magnificent beach and plenty of fish and chip cafes Read on…
Various sites, Weymouth and Portland
27 July - 12 August 2012
“Oh my God!” “Don’t you dare lower your voice to me!” “If we fail the earth will die!” The voices of seven actors pitch 45 minutes of high-tempo narrative fragments from Hollywood disaster Read on…
John Hansard Gallery Central, Southampton
31 October 2012
Amid the economic misery, the long-awaited opening of Turner Contemporary is a welcome good news story. Ten years in the making, it has survived changes of design, the abolition of one of its major funders*, and the usual range of Read on…
Turner Contemporary, Margate
16 April - 4 September 2011
This sixth edition of the Liverpool Biennial of Art is a quieter, more thoughtful affair than usual, with plenty of political edge giving it bite and relevance. Driven by Director Lewis Bigg’s fury at the bankers who have nearly Read on…
Various, Liverpool
18 September - 28 November 2010
From a cultural management perspective, Frieze Art Fair is a model early twenty-first century entity. It straddles both high end trade and the infrastructure development beloved of cultural management practitioners. With the Frieze Foundation and Read on…
Regents Park, London
15 - 18 October 2009
Originally a locus for colonial powers to demonstrate their wealth, power and supposedly civilised standards through high art, the Venice Biennale is still dominated by the Western canon. To have a presence in Venice is to stake a claim as worthy Read on…
Camping Fusina, Venice
18 - 24 August 2009