Women Making the London Olympics Museum of London Docklands 5 March – 2 May In March 2009 Jennette Arnold OBE, a member of the London Assembly was invited to the Olympic Park to meet some of the first women on site as part of the Women into Construction project. The sight of Jacqueline Shinkwin operating […]
Read more "Olympics challenge to artistic integrity"AIR reports on a crucial victory for photographers’ rights. Earlier this month, The Digital Economy Bill become law, but only after several key clauses were sacrificed. Crucially for artists clause 43, which relates to the copyright of images and orphan works, was removed. To listen to my audio report click here: AIR Podcast April 2010
Read more "AIR Podcast April 2010"AIR attended The Future for the Arts at the RSA on March 22nd 2010. Culture policy leaders Ben Bradshaw MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow Secretary debated the key issues which will shape arts policy and management over the next decade. Labour have been relatively silent on […]
Read more "AIR Podcast March 2010"I just saw an interesting documentary by Adam Curtis entitled A film about how all of us have become Richard Nixon. Have we become a nation of ‘paranoid weirdos’ with journalists fueling the fire through immoral and unethical reporting? The internet allows even faster communication of information with many stories passing from one person to […]
Read more "Have we all become paranoid weirdos?"I will be participating in the Locus Arts organised group exhibition Coast at the Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable, Kent later this year. The show will feature a wide variety of work in different media, including ceramics, painting, collage and drawing. I am really looking forward to what should be an interesting event and collaborating with Locus […]
Read more "Coast"Theo van Doesburg was one of the leading figures in the development of geometric abstraction, founder of the De Stijl group and editor of the magazine of the same name. He developed contacts with such artists as Bart van der Leck, Anthony Kok, Vilmos Huszar and J.J.P. Oud, becoming a sounding board and transmitter of […]
Read more "Theo van Doesburg and the International Avant-Garde"The Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg experimented with poetry, design, architecture and even advertising. Tate Modern’s massive retrospective ‘International Avant-Garde: Constructing a New World’ opens this week and this Friday (5th Feb) I will be micro-blogging on my visit to the exhibition. This is a continuation of the real-time review I conducted of the State […]
Read more "Theo Van Doesburg live review"Exploitation in the arts is a hot topic at the moment. I have just read Emily Speed’s fantastic report on the issue in the February edition of a-n Magazine. In it she discusses the case of Nicola Vetta, who worked on an expenses-only basis for London Dream Motion Pictures Ltd. Her situation has recently been […]
Read more "Exploitation in the arts"For Katie Paterson’s Streetlight Storm the lights along East Kent’s Deal Pier flicker in time with lightning storms happening live in different parts of the world. Pairing the commonplace with the sublime, Paterson creates intricately poetic artwork that traverses geographical boundaries. She utilises communication processes to engage with technologists, engineers, meteorologists and lightning scientists in […]
Read more "Streetlight Storm by Katie Paterson"Apple today launched the much hyped iPad in Yerba Buena. Resembling a large iPhone, the device carries a lot of hope on its shoulders, least not from publishers who envisage it as the future of news delivery. Here are its basic stats: – 0.5 inches thick – weighs 1.5 pounds (0.7kilos) – 9.7 inch multitouch […]
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