Metropolis: reflections on the modern city is on until the 23rd June at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Here’s a short blurb that sums it up better than I could: “Metropolis brings together stunning work by 25 contemporary artists of the highest international standing to Birmingham and includes digital projection, painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media … [Read more…]
Town Hall & Symphony Hall Birmingham and Philharmonia Orchestra have recently launched digital music installation Universe of Sound: The Planets in Birmingham’s disused Municipal Bank. Visitors experiencing Universe of Sound can walk through each individual section of the orchestra’s part in the piece, screened in various rooms and partitioned areas within the great Municipal Bank building. The … [Read more…]
Looking to develop Birmingham artists, Critical Spaces sets up local, critical support networks for socially-engaged artists, e.g. site-specific, situationist, public, community and outreach artists. These pilot groups are lead by artist Hannah Hull, with the eventual hope that the groups will begin to run self organised meetings. From Critical Spaces: We find individual artists that want to … [Read more…]
PROVIDE Paper is a free publication which is produced and distributed by the PROVIDE Shop in Digbeth, with the goal of sharing the creative talents of their friends and customers. Each issue has a theme, and we are currently accepting submissions for Issue 002: Choose Adventure, until Friday 14th June. Anything that can be printed … [Read more…]
Last week we mentioned that this weekend is the Still Walking Microfestival, organised by Ben Waddington. Still Walking is intended to cover a wide range of experiences that in some way involve walking (our current working definition is something like “human-powered movement through a space”). Still Walking events will include (but not be restricted to): … [Read more…]
We last wrote about the Beermat Character project by Inkygoodness in August last year, and since then it has been joined by Ammo Magazines Poop Deck project, has been exhibited at the Coningsby Gallery in London and is now online for all to see, and buy. There are many Midlands artists in the exhibition, including Ed … [Read more…]
Birmingham Architecture Festival is happening this weekend – their launch party is in fact tonight. Here is a small selection of CiB’s highlights/recommendations, but do be sure to read up on the programme yourself to see what other activities you could be getting up to this weekend. —- KINO 10 are showing a series of … [Read more…]
With the end of term approaching the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design will be showcasing the work of their graduates from 10th – 16th June. This is an opportunity to look for new talent or simply view a wide range of work across different disciplines. The work is being showcased in the following disciplines … [Read more…]