Display:
Sorted by Most Recent
-
19 JUL 09
National Art Hate Week needs you | Art and design | guardian.co.uk SAVE
PEOPLE
Where public opinion holds the likes of the Tate and National Gallery to be repositories of artistic value, National Art Hate Week largely considers them vacuous factories of business and bureaucracy. The idea, says Childish, is to give the UK's art institutions "a necessary kicking" by calling for the public to stage a silent revolt and visit a local gallery to actively hate its contents.TAGS
-
Can an artist's wheatfield in Hackney switch the mood on climate change? | Madeleine Bunting | Comment is free | The Guardian SAVE
PEOPLE
Curators are searching for an iconic image that can smash indifference and succeed where science and statistics fall shortTAGS
-
Why can't art be allowed to shock? | Sam Leith | Books | The Guardian SAVE
PEOPLE
What's interesting is that, when it comes to shock, the different arts seem to be out of phase with each other. The big shock of modernism arrived in verse, painting, music and dance at around the same time: the beginning of the 20th century. In terms of material and subject matter, though, the genres are all over the place. For the last few years, being shocking has been one of the qualities most prized by critics and collectors in the visual arts.TAGS
-
Gambling with peace: how US bingo dollars are funding Israeli settlements | World news | The Guardian SAVE
PEOPLE
Each dollar spent on bingo by the mostly Latino residents of Hawaiian Gardens, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, helps fund Jewish settlements on Palestinian land in some of the most sensitive areas of occupied East Jerusalem, particularly the Muslim quarter of the old city, and West Bank towns such as Hebron where the Israeli military has forced Arabs out of their properties in their thousands.TAGS
-
More animals 'being killed during medical research' - Telegraph SAVE
Growing numbers of animals are being used during medical research, official figures are expected to show, amid claims the majority die during experiments.TAGS
-
Review: V&A's Telling Tales show gives furniture a fairytale twist | Art and design | guardian.co.uk SAVE
PEOPLE
The museum's summer exhibition invites you into a world of dreamlike design, where chairs, cabinets – even baths – are remade in fantastical new formsTAGS
-
15 JUL 09
Dow runs scared from water | The Yes Men SAVE
PEOPLE
The attractive yet toxic product, developed by the Bhopal Medical Appeal and the Yes Men with pro-bono help from top London creative design firm Kennedy Monk (making-of video here), highlights Dow's continued refusal to take responsibility for the disaster.TAGS
-
13 JUL 09
Stopping culture at our borders | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk SAVE
PEOPLE
There are no words in the thesaurus of insult that quite do justice to the UK Border Agency and the minister for borders and immigration, Phil Woolas. So let's just agree that new rules barring artists from visiting this country and so enriching our culture are some of the most contemptible ever devised, even by this narrow-minded apology for a government.TAGS
-
translocal.org - ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAVE
PEOPLE
investigation into the environmental sustainability of the international art world that includes both consideration of the direct environmental impact of art works, conferences, biennials and art fairs, and discussion of the potential positive offsets associated with the social role of contemporary art in a globalised world.TAGS