In this review of the Damian Ortega show at Ikon Eastside Terry Grimley interviews curator Helen Legg giving some insight in why they’re in a big dirty warehouse. Some visitors might feel that the current space would make a perfect permanent gallery if only its walls were given a good scrub and a few coats … [Read more…]
Antonio Gould reports from the Serious Virtual Worlds conference that took place in Coventry recently.
Type Records have released their 30th album. Stef runs through some of their recent releases.
The Designer Show And Tell event at the Plus festival looks pretty fun: This event, taking place at the Plus Friday Night Party, is proving to be very popular amongst exhibiting agencies and freelancers at the festival. Designer Show and Tell is a simple concept. Participants are asked to show 10 images each on view … [Read more…]
Here’s the full press release for Paul Kaynes’ appointment as West Mids Creative Programmer for the Cultural Olympiad. I’m not going to try and summarise it as I’m still processing exactly what a Cultural Olympiad is but here’s what he intends to do: • Encourage and enable arts and cultural bodies to get involved, and … [Read more…]
If I was being cruel I’d say the title of the latest exhibition to take place at Curzon St Station is an indication of some shark jumping, but I’m not and it looks pretty cool. The Cure Zone is: An exhibition by a group of international visual communicators. Fusing ideas of European, Asian, North and … [Read more…]
In this post about Audiences Central’s Chief Executive Paul Kaynes leaving to become West Midlands Creative Programmer for the Cultural Olympiad we learn that Audiences Central used to be called Birmingham Arts Marketing, which is something I did not know and makes a lot more sense now.
Just a quick note about the Binary Oppositions launch tonight at Vivid and then the Rainbow. I’ve been picking up bits and bobs of info about this over the week and I’m starting to suspect it’s a very important project that scoops whole swathes of interesting West Mids talent and projects it into wonderful places. … [Read more…]