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Big Boys Gone Bananas* [Film]

Back in 2009 director Frederik Gertten was scheduled to premiere his latest film at the LA Film Festival. Called simply Bananas, it dealt with alleged abuses suffered by Nicaraguan workers who worked...

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Emma Sywyj: China [Photography]

Sywyj's China series is as colourful and eclectic as one would expect of the location, but dispenses with the more obvious depictions of new-urban environments, ancient aesthetics and displaced...

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Korean Eye 2012: Saatchi Gallery

This month there are many things inspiring me, but one that really catches the eye is the arrival of contemporary Korean art from 33 artists including Debbie Han, Seon Ghi Bahk, Ji Yen Lee and Myung...

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Ben Young: Victory Gallery, Oregon

Ben Young i think i’m free When I was given the role of art writer for Trebuchet magazine I knew instantly that I wanted to write about new and emerging artists to relay exhibitions that people...

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Honest and Unmerciful. What do you want to think? What you read makes you what you are. Sounds a bit strident we know, but we believe it....

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Bedwyr Williams bound for Venice Bienniale

Bedwyr Williams in a project jointly curated by Mostyn and Oriel Davies and supported by the Arts Council of Wales will be the artist to represent Wales at the 55th Venice Biennale 2013 International...

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Emma Sywyj, Photographer: Interview

Photographer Emma Sywyj has a wry approach to her craft. Sean Keenan interviews Emma Sywyj about her photography and travelling in the UK. ...

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Transition Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’

As we approach the end of February, the galleries of East London start buzzing in anticipation for the First Thursday of the month – the day it all happens. I talk to the Director of Transition...

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From Shiny Things to Silliness – Frieze Overview

Frieze was a fantastic opportunity to see a so many of the world’s top artists and galleries in one place. With a multitude of  styles and genres on show from over 170 galleries from...

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Metahub – Nuit Blanche, Amiens 2011

Digital Arts: Flash in the pan, light at the end of the tunnel or oncoming train wreck.  Amiens, France 15th October  This year saw a conjunction between digital artists in the UK and...

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Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad...

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‘Dear Curator’: Exhibition Do’s and Don’ts with Sara Raza

Artists want to be curators & curators want to be artists....

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Sublime Simplicity: Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku

Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku at the Wilkinson Gallery strips the world bare and celebrates the uncomplicated and beautiful. Another month, another First Thursday. Galleries on the surprisingly...

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Watch the Pretty Birdy: Sage Vaughn

Sage Vaughn’s press bio is a juxtaposition of culture and wildness, of knowing clichés and their subversion, bold phrases that beg repetition, and suggestions of a contemplative day trip...

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Trappings, Friezes and Being Female.

Kleio Gizeli, Lisa Holden, Martha Parsey, Carol Robertson, Susan Gunn, Rana Begum. Crossroads, Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill, March 2011 – June 2011. UK Female Artists...

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How do I look: Robert Mapplethorpe?

Glossy photographs in glossy frames create the perfect environment for glossy fashionistas in Alison Jaques gallery. ‘Curated by Scissor Sisters’. Need the gay fashion pack know more?...

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Trouble with Curating?

Ben Street’s Gifted at the Josh Lilley Gallery answers the ICA’S question; why do we need curators? December 2010. Outside the great student fees debate rages. Placards set to one side, a...

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The Architecture of Dreaming Buildings

Yuange Sheng lifts the modular city free of function...

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Venus, Saturn and Wet Paint

Kirsten Glass layers antique erotica, alchemy and restless abstraction...

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Shibari and New Forms of Cultural Expression 

Xin Zhang reshapes Shibari into a feminist art of agency...

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What Euphoria Got Right About Being a Woman

Hot and Invisible: Notes on Bodies, Screens and the Cost of Being Seen ...

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Craft as Crisis Response: Shenlu Liu

Liu's textiles restore what screens have quietly taken away...

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Form Without Words: Sirvon Azarm’s Circle

How one Iranian artist uses abstraction to say what language cannot...

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Light Made Visible: Victoria Orr Ewing’s Luminous Landscapes

Scottish painter finds the infinite in Britain's wildest edges...

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Capital, Myth and the Layered Canvas

Gordon Cheung and the archaeology of global systems...

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Tjukurpa: Dreaming Bloodlines, Desert Storytelling Survives

Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi carries her father's legacy forward...

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Matter Unbound: Tony Cragg Transforms Perception

A monumental Murano commission redefines sculptural language in Venice...

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Bound Bodies: How Tianle Zhao Sculpts Female Experience 

A London artist confronts the structures that shape women's lives ...

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Indigenous Voices Redefine World Photography in 2026

Sony World Photography Awards returns to Somerset House with global urgency...

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