Recently added articles from Art Monthly:
Inside out.(Dave Beech on the fall of public art)
Sep 01, 2009; Beech, Dave ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On 7 July this year a memorial to the 7/7 bombing victims in London was unveiled in hyde park. Designed by two young architects, Kevin Carmody and Andrew Groarke, it consists of 52 stainless steel columns, corresponding to the number of innocents killed in ...
The future of futurism.
Sep 01, 2009; Townsend, Christopher ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON 15 OCTOBER 1908, A YOUNG, SELF-AGGRANDISING AND WEALTHY ITALIAN POET CALLED FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI crashed his new Fiat sports car into a ditch on the northwestern edge of Milan while avoiding an errant cyclist. No one was hurt much in the incident, ...
Empty plinth.(One & Other public art project)(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Hope Junky' read the slogan on the young woman's T-shirt, as she sat out her hour on the empty plinth, eating her desultory takeaway lunch while gazing disconsolately at the people thronging Trafalgar Square below, most of whom were entirely oblivious to her presence. As Benjamin Franklin ...
Student concerns about falling standards in higher education.(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2009; ... We seek to draw your attention to the poor standards of higher education that we have received at the London Institute. We have been raising these issues with our tutors and the dean throughout our course, but to no avail. Fees are rising, but the quality of 'service' students ...
UK City of culture.(ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw is soliciting bids from UK cities for the title of City of Culture, a mini-me version of the European award that Liverpool held last year. The idea is that every four years a new UK city is awarded the honour--just the title; no funds are provided--in an ...
Tate extension threatened?.(ARTNOTES)(Department of Culture, Media and Sport is asking for return of budgets including that of Tate Modern extension budget)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has discovered that it has overpledged its budget by 100m [pounds sterling] and is reportedly asking institutions to return any unspent capital funds. A spokesperson for the DCMS admitted that its capital budget is ...
Professional community artists.(ARTNOTES)(Participatory Arts and Media Professional Practice course makes arts education accessible to the community)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... News arrives that affirms the increasing professionalisation and specialisation of contemporary art: the University of the West of England is launching the UK's first Graduate Certificate in Participatory Arts and Media Professional Practice, a three-year course 'aimed at those working in ...
Olympiad funding.(ARTNOTES)(Cultural Olympiad)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The long-promised and frequently derided Cultural Olympiad, which is intended to deliver a UK-wide series of arts events to accompany the 2012 Games, may yet prove to be less of a farce than expected (many presumed that it would rival the dismal failure of the last such 'spectacular': the ...
Firstsite still unseen.(ARTNOTES)(delay in Firstsite's building construction)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Building work has halted on Firstsite's new home after Colchester Council sacked its contractor because of delays and cost overruns. The building, originally ...
Venice strike.(ARTNOTES)(Venice Biennale workers strike)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Some of the 110 seasonal workers employed by the Venice Biennale (160 during the opening days) are unhappy about their working conditions and are on strike, picketing at the gates of the Giardini exhibition venue. The strikers outline their many grievances in a statement being handed out ...
Galleries.(ARTNOTES)(closing of Haunch of Venison Zurich branch )(Albright-Knox Art Gallery only opens four days a week to cut cost)(VINEspace changes its name to Gooden Gallery)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, has announced a three-year cost-cutting plan in an attempt to retain existing staff levels during the recession. One main action is to close the gallery for an additional day, meaning that the gallery is now open only four days per week ....
Royal College of Art.(PEOPLE)(Richard Wentworth joins Royal College of Art)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Artist Richard Wentworth, currently master of drawing at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University--and exhibitor in Daniel Birnbaum's 'Making Worlds' exhibition ...
Baltic.(PEOPLE)(Laurence Sillars appointed as chief curator at Baltic )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Laurence Sillars has been appointed chief curator at Baltic and will take up the post in ...
Bob & Roberta Smith and Wolfgang Tillmans have been appointed Tate Trustees for four and five years respectively.(PEOPLE)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Bob & Roberta Smith and Wolfgang Tillmans have been appointed Tate Trustees for four and five years ...
Hayward Gallery.(PEOPLE)(Cliff Lauson joins Hayward Gallery as curator)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Art Monthly contributor Cliff Lauson has left his assistant curator post ...
Commissions.(ARTNOTES)(Yinka Shonibare has been commissioned by Newark Museum in New Jersey to make sculpture for museum's centenary)(Situations commissioned Heather & Ivan Morison's Black Cloud sculpture)(Stour Valley Arts and Turner Contemporary commissioned Bethan Huws' film)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Newark Museum in New Jersey commissioned Yinka Shonibare to produce a site-specific sculpture to commemorate the museum's centenary. Party Time: Re-imagine America, which was completed this summer, is installed in the grand dining room of Ballantine House, the 1885 mansion that forms part ...
Prizes.(ARTNOTES)(Northern Art Prize shortlist and the Prix Pictet shortlist)(Edward MacDowell Medal given to Kiki Smith )(Awards list)
Sep 01, 2009; ... The Northern Art Prize has announced this year's shortlisted artists: Pavel Buchler, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Rachel Goodyear and Matt Stokes. An exhibition of work by the shortlisted artists will run for three months at Leeds Art Gallery from 27 November. The winner of the 16,500 ...
Events.(ARTNOTES)(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Abandon Normal Devices, the North West's festival of new cinema and digital culture, will run-Buzz Lightyear style--'until 2012 and beyond'. The event will move from city to city during different months, with the primary locations being FACT (Liverpool), Cornerhouse (Manchester) and Folly ...
Aurora goes dark.(ARTNOTES)(the last Aurora festival due to Norwich University College of the Arts withdrawal of support)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... This year's Aurora, the annual moving image festival in Norwich, is likely to be the last after Norwich University College of the Arts withdrew its support. Since ...
Artists' book fairs.(ARTNOTES)(London Art Book Fair )(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Marcus Campbell's long-established Artists' Book Fair has become the London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery, broadening its focus to encompass general art book publishing while retaining a strand dedicated to artists' books. Exhibitors have been selected by an advisory board ...
