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(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (M)

I wanted to be a dancer when I was a child. My mother booked me ballet lessons, but after a … More

(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church, Arnolfini, Bristol, Cecilia Bengolea, Francois Chaignaud, Gathering Storm, IBT15, In Between Time, Marlene Freitas, Mimosa, review, Trajel Harrell

Fog / Fire in the Lungs, In Between Time Festival

Today I have to steam the floor in the gallery. I have to erase all traces of blood-paint from its … More

IBT15, In Between Time

Lectures at Birmingham School of Art, February 2015

I’m looking forward to getting back into some higher education teaching in the next couple of weeks at the beautiful … More

Arts Based Masters Programme, Birmingham City University, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham School of Art, BOM, Cathy Wade, higher education, Karen Newman, lecture, Susan May, teaching

The Artist and the City and KULES Residency, Stoke-on-Trent

A new five-year project in Stoke-on-Trent titled ArtCity aims to re-stimulate cultural growth and opportunity for those living and working … More

Airspace Gallery, ArtCity, B Arts, KULES, New Art WM, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, The Artist and the City

Donald Rodney and Luke Fowler: Recent Acquisitions and Commissions in the West Midlands

Two of the region’s best-loved galleries have been working hard to acquire and commission artworks from some of the most … More

acquisitions, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Museums Trust, commissions, Donald Rodney, Film and Video Umbrella, Hepworth Wakefield, Luke Fowler, New Art WM, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Josephine Pryde: These are just things I say, they are not my opinions

Riding a miniature locomotive train through an exhibition is an unlikely way to experience a series of photographs. The train … More

Arnolfini, Bristol, Josephine Pryde, photography, Photomonitor

Upcoming reviews and In Between Time Festival

I am delighted to have been selected for the Writers Programme for the upcoming In Between Time Festival in Bristol. … More

Birmingham Show, Bristol, Croft Castle, Eastside Projects, exhibition reviews, In Another Light, In Between Time, Isabelle Cornaro, Meadow Arts, New Art Gallery Walsall, Sikander Pervez, Spike Island

I Sell the Shadow to Save the Substance

An exhibition of new photographs by Birmingham-based Lucy Hutchinson takes as its central idea the ways in which identities are … More

GRAIN, Library of Birmingham, Lucy Hutchinson, photography, Photomonitor

Conflict, Time, Photography

Toshio Fukada’s series of gelatin silver prints, ‘The Mushroom Cloud – Less than Twenty Minutes after the Explosion’ (1945), show … More

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Conflict Time Photography, Don McCullin, George N. Barnard, Luc Delahaye, Photomonitor, Roger Fenton, Simon Norfolk, Sophie Ristelhueber’, Tate Modern, Toshio Fukada

Objective Considerations of Contemporary Phenomena

MOT Projects’ current exhibition investigates the uses and possible abuses of written, spoken and constructed forms of language. Curated by … More

Cicely Farrer, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, John Bloomfield, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kim Schoen, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, MOT International, MOT Projects, Nicole Bachmann, Patrick Goddard, review, this is tomorrow

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