Archive for the ‘arts’ Category
Blown Up! : eventwork around the idea of exploded cinema in Paris
Thursday, November 26, 2009 13:07 No CommentsEvent: Blown Up !
Opening Date: 29 November 2009
Location: Mains d’Oeuvres, 1, rue Charles Garnier, 93 400 Saint-Ouen, Paris, France
Duration: 29/11/09 – 18/12/09
If you are in - or happen to go to - Paris between November 29 to December 18 we recommend you visit Blown Up ! at Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen.
Blown Up ! is an eventwork [...]
‘Ghost Forests’ exhibition in Trafalgar Square: forest issues and climate change
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 19:23 No CommentsBritish politician Ed Miliband talks to Environmental Artist Angela Palmer at her current and powerful exhibition ‘Ghost Forests’ in Trafalgar Square, London. The artist explains how by bringing a rain forest to Trafalgar Square, epicentre of modern industrialization, she seeks to enhance awareness of the mass deforestation currently underway in other parts of the world [...]
The Art of Pursuit: Interview with artist Nick Laessing
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 17:34 No CommentsOn occasion of Artissima 2009, Turin’s international contemporary art fair, The Norma Mangione Gallery hosts an exhibition, curated by Simone Menegoi, showcasing two British artists Nick Laessing, and Kit Craig running from November 7 to December 19 2009.
Nick Laessing and John Bedini’s drawing of his ‘Free Machine’, courtesy The Norma Mangione Gallery
Nick Laessing born in [...]
Acclair Art Valuation Service: a fairer way to value art
Friday, October 30, 2009 10:58 1 CommentAcclair Art Valuation Service installation at VanAbbemuseum, photo courtesy Acclair
It has happened to nearly all of us, at least once, to remain flabbergasted on discovering the price of a work of art. Whether we personally consider the piece worthless, over-priced or incomprehensible is relatively immaterial because the commercial value given to art belongs to a [...]
Mauer Mob: Recreating the Berlin Wall
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:02 No Commentswww.mauer-mob.com
On a previous post we mentioned the project “Recreating the Berlin Wall”, a massive flash mob art action project initiated by Martin Butler, a unique and participatory event that aims to recreate the full length of the once dividing wall with the presence of 33,000 people from 8 - 8.30 pm on November [...]













