Love is Enough: runs at BMAG 25 April – 6 September 2015 Following a stint at Modern Art Oxford, Love is Enough, an exhibition bringing together two artistic legends, will be coming to Birmingham. Curated by Jeremy Deller, this visual feast of an exhibition launches today and will run until September. It features the work of Andy Warhol … [Read more…]
Today (14th February) sees the start of New Art West Midlands 2014. It was announced in December that 24 emerging artists from our own regional universities would exhibit their work within four different galleries across Birmingham and Wolverhampton. A Turning Point West Midlands initiative, New Art West Midlands exhibits the work of 24 artists, all … [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…]
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…]
Dance blogs in the West Midlands If you like dance, these are the blogs to follow Tindal Street Press’s summer ebook success | Tindal St Press “This summer the clear genre appeal of a regional crime novel and a summer beach romance have reached more readers than we could have expected”. Nicely done. Iona Waite … [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:
Flatpack and Fierce have barely begun, but I’ve already been taking a sneak peek of a few of the things they’ve got going on, including Symphony of a Missing Room, the Vintage Mobile Cinema and a trip over to the Dirty End. Yesterday morning I headed over to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, for a … [Read more…]
Commercially Inviable Records » Here Come The Light Nights A free sampler of upcoming releases on the label Wanted: Critical friends “BiNS is looking for contributors, willing to go out, and then come back, and write good criticism about what they found”. Splendid. Why couldn’t I quote Charlotte’s Web on stage? Lucy Caldwell on copyright … [Read more…]