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Bad timing: Adam Chodzko interviewed by David Barrett.(Interview)
Jul 01, 2008; Barrett, David ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] David Barrett: I get the impression that your show was conceived partly in relation to the specifics of the Tate St Ives building and its position above Porthmeor Beach. Adam Chodzko: Well the building and its situation are really unusual. The ...
Slow time: Marcus Verhagen discusses globalisation and time.
Jul 01, 2008; Verhagen, Marcus ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SOME FIVE MINUTES INTO EASY RIDER, 1969, WYATT, A LACONIC YOUNG BIKER PLAYED BY PETER FONDA, STOPS HIS CHOPPER AND LOOKS AT HIS WATCH, CONSIDERS IT FOR A MOMENT, THEN PULLS IT OFF AND THROWS IT TO THE GROUND BEFORE SETTING OFF INTO THE CALIFORNIAN DESERT ...
Things v objects: Rikke Hansen on the public life of things.(Essay)
Jul 01, 2008; Hansen, Rikke ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TERMS SUCH AS 'PARTICIPATION' AND 'DIALOGUE' HAVE COME TO DOMINATE THE DISCUSSION THAT SURROUNDS THE SO-CALLED SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART PRACTICES OF THE LATE 1990S AND THE 2000S. According to such rhetorics, the artist is an engineer of situations, setting up ...
Back to the future.(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One hundred and fifty years ago last month, on June 18 to be precise, Alfred Russel Wallace sent a letter to Charles Darwinthat rocked his world, as the publication of On the Origin of Species the following year was to rock our own. The letter revealed ...
The future of art education.(LETTERS)
Jul 01, 2008; Gawthrop, Rob ... Having fought and lost the battle for Hull School of Art five years ago (also reported in this magazine) and as a former student of David Hall and Tony Sinden at Maidstone College of Art (now UCCA), I find your report (AM317) makes rather dispiriting reading. It was therefore with some ...
Sheffield.(ARTNOTES)(Sheffield Hallam University )
Jul 01, 2008 ... Fine art students at Sheffield Hallam University have held their last degree show at the Psalter Lane Campus--a bus ride away from the centre of Sheffield in the attractive, leafy western suburbs of the city, Nether Edge. The campus has been sold off for about 90 homes (the old Bluecoat ...
Talks.(ARTNOTES)
Jul 01, 2008 ... There are still two talks in July, if you hurry, at the Siobhan Davies Studios, London, in a series called Parallel voices, put together by Isaac Julien. 'Visual arts and performance' is on July 4 (with Isaac Julien, Helena Blaker and Pablo Bronstein--see reviews, p42) and 'The conceptual ...
Quite a lot of coming and going lies ahead for Lynne Cooke.(COMINGS AND GOINGS)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Quite a lot of coming and going lies ahead for Lynne Cooke. She plans to retain her position as curator at Dia Art Foundation, New York, where she has worked for 17 years, while also joining the Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid, as chief curator. Cooke, who is currently working on a project with ...
Andrew Nairne, currently director of Modern Art Oxford, moves to Arts Council England in the autumn.(COMINGS AND GOINGS)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Andrew Nairne, currently director of Modern Art Oxford, moves to Arts Council England in the autumn. This is a move up, across, or back, depending on how you look at it--he was formerly at the Scottish Arts Council, prior to taking up the first directorship of Dundee Contemporary Arts. He ...
The new director of Chisenhale Gallery, London, has been announced as the curator, writer and lecturer Polly Staple, editor at large for frieze magazine, who was curator of projects at the Frieze Art Fair (2002-06), and had previously been curator at Cubitt Gallery, London and co-editor of Untitled.(COMINGS AND GOINGS)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The new director of Chisenhale Gallery, London, has been announced as the curator, writer and lecturer Polly Staple, editor at large for frieze magazine, who was curator of projects at the Frieze Art Fair (2002-06), and had previously been curator at Cubitt Gallery, London and co-editor of ...
Simon Wallis, the outgoing director at Chisenhale, who had previously worked at the ICA, London, Tate Liverpool and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, has been announced as the first director of The Hepworth Wakefield, designed by David Chipperfield.(COMINGS AND GOINGS)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Simon Wallis, the outgoing director at Chisenhale, who had previously worked at the ICA, London, Tate Liverpool and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, has been announced as the first director of The Hepworth Wakefield, designed by David Chipperfield. This project, on which construction has started ...
Victoria Pomery, director of Turner Contemporary, Margate and a former colleague of Wallis at Tate Liverpool, also hopes to see a Chipperfield-designed gallery through to completion in 2010.(COMINGS AND GOINGS)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Victoria Pomery, director of Turner Contemporary, Margate and a former colleague of Wallis at Tate Liverpool, also hopes to see a Chipperfield-designed gallery through to completion in 2010. Planning permission was granted for the sculpturally impressive plan of ...
Goldsmiths.(ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... All change at Goldsmiths: Sam Fisher is taking early retirement from the art department, having presided over the BA in fine art as programme leader since 1993. More recently he has been director of undergraduate studies. Janet Hand, head of the department and assistant director of ...
Venetian nationalities.(ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Liam Gillick, the well-known artist and rearranger of history, social structures, scenarios and objects, is to represent Germany at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Gillick, 44, works in New York and London and was previously thought to be English or English of Irish family, via Aylesbury, ...
London heat.(ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The tourists' art season has officially started in London, while the rest of the art world quietly slides off for a holiday break. 36 Bedford Row Chambers in Bloomsbury, 'the chambers of Francis Oldham QC', is hosting a series of exhibitions. The gallery will feature work of young and ...
Prizes.(ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The biennial 50,000 [euro] Vincent Award has announced its shortlist this year as Francis Alys, Liam Gillick, Deimantas Narkevicius and Rebecca Warren. The selection had previously included Berlin-based artist Peter Friedl, who changed his decision to participate in the competition after ...
Giveaway.(ARTNOTES)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The independent charity the Art Fund has recently issued an inventory of its 7m [pounds sterling] spending in 2007/08 acquiring artworks. The largest grant of 2.25m [pounds sterling] was given to secure the contents of Dumfries House, while 500,000 [pounds sterling] was given to secure ...
Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008.(Obituary)
Jul 01, 2008; Taylor, Brandon ... Robert Rauschenberg was exceptionally fertile in painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, choreography and set design. His genius lay above all in the inventive mixing of formats, media and locations that nonetheless, and paradoxically, carry the distinctive traces of his unique ...
Traces du Sacre.
Jul 01, 2008; Corris, Michael ... Traces du Sacre Centre Pompidou Paris May 7 to August 11 Art, according to some, is the answer to the question 'What becomes of religion in a secular world?'. Is it possible that such a response brings us closer to uncovering and understanding the contemporary ...
The Object Quality of the Problem.
Jul 01, 2008; Dezeuze, Anna ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The Object Quality of the Problem Henry Moore Institute Leeds June 1 to July 27 Les Inquiets: 5 artistes sous la pression de la guerre Centre Pompidou Paris February 13 to April 19 The title of the current ...