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Gary Hume
Annabel Tilley talks to Gary Hume about twenty-five years of practice, prizes and paint.
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Blogger profile: Rosemary Marchant
We picked a good time to catch up with Rosemary Marchant, right before her degree show in Brighton. After the install we then followed up with her plans for practice and research post-graduation… so here’s the before and the after!
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Open letter to The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport
12 Visual art representatives address the damage that will be inflicted by proposed spending cuts, in a letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.
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Blogger profile: Craig Hudson
Richard Taylor in conversation with Craig Hudson from University Campus Suffolk on the skills to learn, the ideas to express and how the human sculptural form embodies the materiality for both.
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Bites from the blogs
This month’s blog selection.
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Graham Crowley on the state of play for contemporary painting
Graham Crowley is one of the most distinguished living painters in the UK today. As the deadline closes on entry to the John Moores 2010 competition, Kate Brundrett asked him for his views on the competition’s significance and for his ‘take’ on the state of contemporary art practice.
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Artists in empty shops
Dan Thompson from The Revolutionary Arts Group reveals how artists are once again making use of empty spaces as a means to kick-start both the cultural and economic well being of town centres, and suggests seven steps to enable this area of practice to flourish.
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It’s unfair in Amsterdam
As a response to this year’s Amsterdam Art Fair, the Unfair Project was set up by the ParachutArtists Foundation to explore the phenomenon of the contemporary art fair and art economy.
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Best in Show
John Jones Project Space, London
2-31 October
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Gallery re-opened
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, officially re-opened its upper galleries to the public in October with Connect, a new permanent exhibition that makes connections between works of art from different cultures and times.
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Re: Debate – the shortfalls of the gallery experience (a-n Magazine, October 2008)
Amongst all the hyperbole, buzzwords, philosophical stances, and fission and fusion of arts disciplines, there is a tendency to forget that the primary philosophical question that the visual arts sets out to address is “What is beauty?”
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Art Fair
In the run up to the 2008 Zoo Art Fair, Jane Watt’s profile looks at the first four years of this non-profit enterprise.
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Arts criticism in the 21st century
Lara Farrar asks “Has technology rendered the art critic obsolete or does it hold the key for the revival of the profession?”
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Artist-led activity
Chris Brown introduces a rulebook to guide you through the whys and wherefores of artist-led activity.
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Art is not about escape
Though the imprecision of ideas expressed in Dave Grimbleby’s letter (a-n Magazine October issue) hampers meaningful dialogue, I do think he is attempting to raise a set of common-place misconceptions and ill-conceived objections to contemporary art. Firstly, Dave is hostile […]
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Trade off: Markets for art in the UK
Emilia Telese’s opening essay offers analysis of the markets for art in the UK highlighting the ‘contradictions and idiosyncrasies’ of the relationship between artists and money,
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Commodification / co-modification
Martine Rouleau wonders what or who is susceptible to change the market. Can artists adapt it to their own expectations and should the demands of the market influence artists’ work?
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London group
Formed in 1913, the London Group developed as an alternative to the conservatism of the New English Art Club (NEAC) and Royal Academy (RA), institutions which at that time gave (some) artists an opportunity to show their work through open submission.
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Mima opens
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima) has opend its doors to the public after a major lottery-supported refit.
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ArtFutures
The next ARTfutures will be held at Bloomberg SPACE, London, 8-14 March.
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Northern prize heralded
Northern Art Prize, a new prize for contemporary artists, launched in November.
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Saved for the nation
A seven-year campaign led by Littoral’s Ian Hunter and Celia Larner has saved Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn, in Elterwater Village, Cumbria for the nation.
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New seekers
Despite the fact that more people than ever before are going to galleries, the upsurge of festivals and public and the willingness of foreign collectors to buy British art, it’s clear from talking to artists that their bank accounts are in as dire a state as they’ve ever been.
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Fear and loathing
Grayson Perry on exhibiting in ‘The Raw and the Cooked’.
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Morality bites
Godfrey Worsdale on artists who explore moral issues.
