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…]
Is it just me or is Birmingham loving, and seems to be bloody good at, knitting? I think of this threaded enthusiasm comes as a result of the work in the past of Stitches and Hos, who we’ve chatted about lots and lots. Well those merry chap and chapettes recently did a project called Knit … [Read more…]
While looking for something completely different the other day, I stumbled across a set of photos on BMAG’s Flickr account called ‘Behind the Scenes at BMAG‘. Very interesting it was too – fashion shoots, roof works (with views across the city) and the conservation studio. Here’s the slideshow:
This weekend it’ll be two years until the Olympics kick off. There’ll be hundreds of events across the country to celebrate this happy fact with a map that looks uncannily like the one below (click it to go to the website) showing what’s going on where. Around these parts there’s: Culture Vulture Family Weekend at … [Read more…]
Heard And Not Seen (HANS) is an arts project and exhibition at Gallery 36 at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery by artists Sandra Hall and Mitra Memarzia, in association with Friction Arts. Here’s what the project’s website has to say about it all: The project aims to create a unique, safe space for people to … [Read more…]