19 January – 17 March 2012 Preview: Wednesday 18 January 5:30-7:30 Kerstin Drechsel’s investigation of everyday culture, artistic production and individual taste is orientated towards the rhythms of popular music, film and daily occurrences. From transvestites to sex club devotees, office workers to nuclear protestors, Drechsel captures intimate personal moments of individuals or sub-culture groups [...]
via Journal Live DAVID WHETSTONE, Arts & Entertainment Editor, on a year of financial cuts and artistic triumphs CUTS, cuts, cuts… the key word of 2011 wormed its way into every facet of North East life, including the arts. The funding landscape changed dramatically because Arts Council England, in common with other quangos, was given [...]
The Daily Mail’s coverage of The Turner Prize is almost an event in itself and this year their article’s headline epitomises everything I find fun about their coverage. It typifies how tabloidesque newspapers sell articles on contemporary art to their centre-right conservative readership. Here are of some highlight quotes and comments from this years articles: Who could [...]
Thursday 8 December 12:30-1:30pm Simon Le Ruez will be in conversation in the gallery with Katharine Welsh, Assistant Curator at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, on Thursday 8 December, 12:30-1:30pm, to discuss the work in his current solo exhibition at Vane. Admission to the talk is free but booking is required. Please contact the gallery on 0191 [...]
