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Mind Over Matter: Putting Thought in its Place

Mind and Brain dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;W/dropcaphenever we think about thinking, we think about mind. It is a common commendation to say of someone that he or she has a good...

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The Tides Are In Our Veins

Floridian Post-Rockers Tides of Man return with brand new instrumental release 'Everything Nothing'. ...

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First prize winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2018

The winner of the prestigious first prize in 2018 is Jacqui Hallum with her painting King and Queens of Wands....

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Painting and Research in the University

Jo Volley's 'Research Art' at Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone ...

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Neo Futurist Collective

Following Marinetti is a big ask the man called the caffine of Europe would surely approve of the publicity though. ...

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Painterly Process and Human Traces

The emerging artist Connor Robertson has a sophisticated painterly technique and a strong sense of drama. ...

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Miyako Narita’s Photography at Flowers

Miyako Narita works in fine art photography, video and music. Her photography was on show in Cork Street last week. Flowers Gallery held the 24th edition of Artist of the Day, a West End exhibition...

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Bullet For My Valentine’s Not Dead Yet!

Welsh Metalcore stalwarts Bullet For My Valentine are back with new release 'Gravity'. But does it stand up against their early material?...

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“Everything Is Devolving Right Before Our Very Eyes” – Rhys Fulber

Trebuchet talks to Industrial and EBM kingpin Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly) about brand new release "Your Dystopia, My Utopia"...

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Neo-Modernism: soul nourishing renaissance ?

Can we have another renaissance? why not, Neo-Modernism only needs its own Michelangelo to fuel a return to modernisms core values. ...

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Time Lapse: Iranian Film in Photography

CAMA Gallery of Iranian art presents Time Lapse, an exhibition of photographs by seven prestigious Iranian film directors. ...

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St Albans Museum + Gallery, Opens

A new centre for arts and culture has opened in St Albans City....

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What’s in Graham Massey’s Toolshed?

The eclectic, revolving lineup that is Graham Massey's Toolshed Collective make a rare Preston appearance at UCLAN's Media Factory, as part of Preston Jazz & Improvisation Festival...

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Postcards from the Lost Generation: Picasso 1915-1925

Review of 'Pablo Picasso: Between Cubism and Classicism 1915-1925' Ed. Berggruen and von Liechtenstein. ...

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The Rise of the Curator

New forms of power emerge all the time and for a while they escape criticism, but not forever!...

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Sci-Fi Politicism Meets Erudite Poetry

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;I/dropcapmagine another world in which extra-terrestrials roam or slide with their cyborg affiliates. Imagine their futuristic habitats, their disasters...

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Equivalence & the Loss of the Engaged Human

Does postmodernity gradually traumatise the population, and is this happening in such a way that our senses cant quite grasp it?...

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An Explosion in the Hayward

We are creatures. We flourish as bits of nature. However, it has been claimed that we survive our natural life to live in the spirit world, or something like it. There is something uncanny about the...

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Depictive seeing, Pictures, and Imagination

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;R/dropcapichard Wollheim, some-time Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at University College London, regards our looking at pictures as a special kind of...

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Madame Moustache

Mistress of Beautiful Intoxicating Street Art...

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Photo London 2018 at Somerset House

Showcasing the best photography and cementing London as a key location in the international photographic community. ...

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Simone de Beauvoir and Research Impact

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir In 1946, Sartre suggested that Simone de Beauvoir write a piece on the contemporary condition of women for the journal, Les Temps Moderne. She thought it would...

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Why Being an Artist is not a Job

Working away in the studio is play with consequences not a job, thank goodness!...

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Colleen Quigley, The Remarkable Resilience of Symbols

A conversation with Colleen Quigley about her recent work and practice ...

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Geoff Diego Litherland, Painter of Another Present

Explore human hopes and technological power while worrying away at the fragility of life on Earth, welcome to the worlds of Geoff Diego Litherland. ...

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Cult, It’s Joan Pope

Joan Pope uses her body to promote her religion and calls it art, you decide....

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Hey Buddy! Heads Up – Cancer Bats

Canadian Southern-fried Hardcore fiends Cancer Bats drop an indie-released album on our heads with nary a warning...

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Wrecked The Grading Curve – Home Wrecked

Sheffield Pop Punkers Home Wrecked tackle the tricky sophomore release with a fresh, mature approach in ‘Try What You Want, Just Make Sure It Works’....

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Newness & Nostalgia In Art

The Idea of newness is an essential part of the function of art in modern times but what does that mean and how does newness form and change? Are we all prone to long for a past that never was or a...

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Aspects of Modernism & William Morris

As part of the exploration of the forming of Modernism Natalie Andrews considers the influence of William Morris via an object in the V&A....

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