The Art Bar is a new venture opened by the Q-Club, based in the Methodist Central Hall on Corporation Street. Hosted by The Sauce Gallery, the Art Bar will hold monthly exhibitions, open daily from 12 midday til late for visitors to pop in and browse art work while relaxing with a drink.

With newly refurbished bar areas, events spaces, a restored grand entrance and even newly decorated toilets, Central Hall has finally got the loving touch it craved- without losing any of it’s original splendour and identity.

The first exhibition to be featured is ‘Headz’, is a 20 year collection of musicians photographed by Pete Williams. This article on Birmingham Mail explains a bit more about The Art Bar.

This launches at 1pm today over at the Custard Factory’s Sauce Gallery with a talk and music from Digby Fairweather [insert joke about weather remaining fair here].

From Peter Williams:

a powerful exhibition of portraiture that features nu-generation playas like DJ Shadow, Reprazent, Sizzla, Soweto Kinch, Courtney Pine and Cassandra Wilson alongside legends like Don Cherry, McCoy Tyner, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Randy Weston, Steve Reid, Nina Simone and Miles Davis – horn at the ready, floating in the air like an eerie apparition

And not only, but:

Following on from the hugely successful Swifty Pop Shop which opened at the Sauce gallery at the end of 2009,  have invited Swifty to contribute to Headz! As the former creative director of Straight No Chaser, Swifty has long worked with Peter Williams imagery.

More info via Punch Records.