This Thursday take an after-hours cultural excursion on the Art Bus. Visiting seven Birmingham galleries for this edition, (The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Eastside Projects, Ikon Gallery, mac birmingham, The Parkside Gallery (BCU), RBSA Gallery and the Waterhall Gallery at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery) all will be open from 5pm until 9pm. The … [Read more…]
On Wednesday 11th December, Art Bus will return to take gallery lovers around several fantastic art galleries in Birmingham; mac Barber Institute of Fine Arts Ikon RBSA Gallery Eastside Projects Hop aboard the bus as it travels around the city, all while enjoying a mince pie and glass of wine at selected galleries. Some of the … [Read more…]
Ok, not that many in the grand scheme of things, but I’ve noticed a small but determined flurry of talk/lecture/discussion events coming through my RSS feeds in the past few days. These are they… D’log has flagged up: A Series of Conversations organised by the Birmingham Photography and Archive Research Group; and Some events and … [Read more…]
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in partnership with The Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Grand Union, Birmingham is organising a high profile selected exhibition as well as offering five bursaries for recent visual arts graduates from the five regionally-based university art schools. The aim of the exhibition and bursaries is to profile the best, critically-engaged work emerging from … [Read more…]
A moving image exhibition project, an art gallery and a South Asian arts organisation make for quite a nice banding together, I think. Tonight’s event celebrates Chinese New Year and Fake Magazine inform us that highlights will include: On the Way to the Sea, directed by Tao Gu which was screened at the Toronto International Film … [Read more…]
Urban Buildings • Redevelopment, Redesign, Rediscovery A site covering the construction works going on in Birmingham (and further) also looking at old/derilict buildings Galleries Night – On the Art Bus Art, bus, art, bus, art, bus, etc. With bonus wine and mince pies. This is tonight and features the Barber Institute, Mac, Ikon, Eastside Projects … [Read more…]
Blogging the retail game « I Am Pete Ashton “So starting in a fortnight I’m going to start my journey, exploring the indie retail landscape of Birmingham from a We Are Birmingham perspective” Pete’s good at blogging. This’ll be interesting Digbeth is Good » Hither and Thither’s tour of Digbeth art spaces A nice run … [Read more…]
I’m disappointed I missed a talk by Birmingham Opera Company‘s Graham Vick at the Barber Institute yesterday lunchtime. I need to keep a closer eye on what happens over there (and maybe, y’know, get round to visiting at some point). Anyway, Ian from 7 Inch Cinema went along and has blogged his notes. Lots of … [Read more…]