The Birmingham Post has a report on a new gallery show on Ladypool Road in Sparkbrook.
Baghdad Café is part of a project called Under a New Sky, which has brought together eight artists well-known on the international art circuit to propose a number of community-based projects, linked to the idea of regeneration, for Sparkbrook.
The Ladypool Road building acts as a kind of exhibition and information centre for the project. Participating artists include the American minimalist artist (and rock critic) Dan Graham, who is showing a video of a glass pavilion installed in the grounds of a museum in Portugal. Graham hopes to do something similar in Birmingham.
Others taking part are Reza Aramesh (Iran/UK), Paul Eachus (UK), Nooshin Farhid (Iran/UK), Runa Islam (Bangladesh/UK) and Goshka Macuga (Poland/UK). But perhaps the biggest name is Yona Friedman, the 83-year-old architect and theorist of flexible and sustainable urban forms who was born in Hungary and lives in France.
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There’s also more info in this press release and it runs at 394 Ladypool Road, Sparkbrook, Thur – Sat 12-6pm, until April 21st.