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This is a giant musical instrument made from a decaying building which, as it happens, is located only a walk away from the World Trade Centre remnants. David Byrne, backed by New York based Creative Time, is responsible for the work. Read on…
Battery Maritime Building, New York
31 May - 24 August 2008
Celestial Radio, the creation of Zoë Walker and Neil Bromwich, appears firstly like an opportunity for the two artists to go on a jolly. Maybe it is and so what. They sail around the coast of Kent (and further afield) broadcasting Read on…
Folkstone Triennial (and other locations), Folkstone
19 - 20 July 2008
A key activity of the newly formed Doomsbury Set, based in East Sussex, UK, will be to take the kinds of imagery and artefacts which escape critical attention more seriously. Generally it is seen as acceptable to state whether one does or does Read on…
The Prince Albert, Brighton
31 December 2004 - 31 December 2008
There is no such thing as a passive experience. With ‘interactive art’ and the increased usage of technology by artists and in other aspects of contemporary culture this fact is often overlooked. A Read on…
La Sucri're - Confluent, Lyon
19 September 2007 - 6 January 2008
Outside the main Arsenale exhibition building in Venice stands a truck. Its colour is primarily a warm vivid red, approaching orange, but with yellow, also a warm version, bordering on ochre, used on the lower parts, on the bumper, around the Read on…
Arsenale, Venice Biennale
6 June 2007 to 11 November 2007
Surveillance equipment comprises the main component of almost all of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's art work. The oldest piece on display at Mexico's debut show at the Venice Biennale is Surface Tension which was developed for an event in Read on…
Palazzo Van Axel, Venice Biennale, Venice
5 June - 21 November 2007
You'll notice Nedko Solakov's contribution to the current Venice Biennale. Like so much on display at this show the subject matter concerns political conflict. The difference with this piece, Discussion (Property), is that Read on…
Arsenale, Venice Biennale
6 June 2007 to 11 November 2007
If you live in Brighton, call yourself an artist and miss this then you're an idiot. I'm referring to John Goto's travelling exhibition New World Circus. A secondary title is Portrait of the Artist as a Clown so you might be one (a fool Read on…
University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
7 July - 8 August 2007
Intuitively eight sculptural and video pieces in Brighton's independent Grey Area is too much for the space. As it happens this was most definitely not so for Jonathan Gilhooly's recent show there: now you don't. Read on…
Grey Area
6 June 2007 to 7 July
For a week my intention was to begin by writing the following: "A leading surrealist once commented that a bad film is better than a good one. Blast Theory's Day of the Figurines, a multi-user game (most recently played between the Read on…
Lighthouse
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007
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