The New Culture Forum publication: What’s That Thing? A Report on Public Art by Igor Toronyi-Lalic, to be published on May 15th 2012, proposes a centre-right perspective of cultural thinking as a challenge to a perceived left/liberal cultural orthodoxy. ‘Public art is … a load of ugly, pompous, pretentious and narcissistic rubbish dumped on a snoozing … Continue reading
What is unique about your city? What do you love and hate about it? Which sights, sounds, smells and feelings make you call this home? Where are your favourite places, the hidden paradises? How do you negotiate the daily grind? What is changing? What stays the same? “Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds … Continue reading
The completion of the 26 artworks in the Art in the Park programme for the Olympic Park launched the London 2012 Festival (UK wide from 21 June – 9 September). The commissions include Monica Bonvicini’s free-standing mirror sculpture, RUN, with the majority of the commissions integrated into the Olympic Park infrastructure of bridges, underpasses, security … Continue reading
The Jerwood Gallery in Hastings opened in March 2012 to provide a new regional venue for the Jerwood Visual Arts Programme and as a permanent home for the Jerwood Collection of 20th and 21st century paintings. Designed by architects HAT Projects, the gallery is a response both to the character of the site and the … Continue reading
At a recent conference on The Art of Placemaking at NLA, London, the air was thick with talk of “branding” and “curating” real estate and “programming” opportunities in the built environment for people to socialise. (Standard device: hip canteen. Decor: super-sized graphics. Fuel: super-sized soya latte.) The event was timely, since the making of successful places is … Continue reading
