Art For Whose Sake?

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Art For Whose Sake?

When the Arts Council announced that they’d pulled the plug on Anthony MacCall’s column of steam yesterday, we guess the only real surprise was that it took them so long to come to their decision. So much time, and so much money. We kind of figured that it wasn’t going to work when the Cultural [...]

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Biennial Radar: Wendy Williams ‘Journeys End’

Art blurb becomes art in ‘Journey’s End’ where planes and boats and houses made from recycled art mags represent a creative and geographical journey. After being awarded a bursary to visit and exhibit in Tromso, Norway in 2011, artist Wendy Williams needed to find a way of ‘travelling light’ with her work. She had started [...]

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Biennial Review: Fallout Factory

If you like your art to be fun and provocative, the Fallout Factory’s new show will be just up your street (Dale Street, to be precise). To provide an antithesis to the Liverpool Biennial, their show, Response, forms part of the Fallout Factory’s Bregennial – taking its title from a fusion of the two founders [...]

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The Cave Art Fair: How to Buy Art

The debut Cave Art Fair moves among us tomorrow. A thrilling artist-led celebration of the best in contemporary art. Within, you’ll discover 45 of the UK’s most exciting unrepresented artists, with works available from £10 – £3000. But more than that, you’ll be buying straight from the creator. No middle man. No commission. “Painting, drawing, [...]

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