Pay for my drink?! At an Art show..?!! Ben Neal muses over why “you pay to get into a music event and then quite happily pay for over priced drinks because you’re at a concert, but expect free entry & booze at art venues, and how this must be detrimental to the art world at … [Read more…]
Karen Osborne is a visual artist working in a wide variety of mediums and situations, as shown in the extensive galleries on her site, but I confess I’m mainly linking to her because she has this fantastic photograph on her front page.
There’s an exhibition of works by Salvador Dali coming to the Halcyon gallery in the ICC building on December 4th and running until January 8th.
James Thornett took his his Clingfilm Camera on holiday and threw some expired colour film in it resulting in some rather nice photos. Here’s a couple. And there’s more here.
Interesting bit of news passed my way today. Bear in mind the usual disclaimers of hearsay and gossip but I have it on damn good authority that Curzon St Station is to be boarded up and not used for any events until it’s permanent future is decided, something that could take a number of years. … [Read more…]
Created in Birmingham is currently funded in a very roundabout way by the Arts Council via Creative Republic. If I haven’t been too transparent about this it’s because to be honest I never really knew who was paying for it and I’ve always had complete editorial freedom over what goes on here. Basically I just … [Read more…]
Ben Neal, who’s involved in all manner of curious stuff including Jazz Thrash Assassin and Maggothouse, has started a new weblog. Currently he’s just done the “what I’m up to / what I like” thing but hopefully he’ll soon start documenting the weird. One to keep tabs on I reckon.
The profiles of the 4Talent Award Winners are online now. Here’s the Birmingham contingent: Polarbear (poet) Chris Keenan (photographer) Nathan Hughes Berry (commedian) This compromises the bulk of Ten4 issue 8 which you can pick up from the usual places or order online.