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DCMS Announces 8% Cut In Arts Spending For 2015-2016
The (DCMS) Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced an 8% cut in spending for the period 2015-2016. The deal, made with the Treasury is...
SHUBBAK CONTEMPORARY ARAB CULTURE ARTS FESTIVAL UNVEILED FOR LONDON
Shubbak is a window on contemporary Arab culture, with 15 days of art exhibitions, concerts, films, theatre, family events, talks and debate in...
Massimiliano Gioni’s New Dialectic At The 55th Venice Biennale
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace, this is the title for the 55th International Venice Biennial of contemporary Art, curated by...
Tate Modern Film Curator Stuart Comer To Head Media and Performance At MoMA
Stuart Corner, who has been curator of film at Tate Modern since January 2004, has been appointed the new curator of Media and Preformance at MoMA...
Queen Elizabeth Portrait By Ralph Heiman Vandalised By Protester
A recent portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, unveiled for the diamond jubilee in Westminster Abbey has been defaced with spray paint, by a...
House of Peroni Pop Up Defines Contemporary Italian Culture In London
Peroni Nastro Azzurro is creating 'The House of Peroni', an event to celebrate the new wave of visionaries defining contemporary Italian culture....
Identity And Migration Themes within Contemporary Art Explored In New Exhibition
The Ben Uri gallery is presenting the exhibition, Looking In: Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae. This is the first in a series...
New Photography Exhibition Explores The Impact Of DNA
The discovery of DNA was arguably the most significant breakthrough of modern science. From DNA fingerprinting to personalised genomes the...
Royal Swan Counting Celebrated In New Museum Exhibition
The River & Rowing Museum, Henley on Thames, has created a major exhibition that celebrates and reveals the art of Swan Upping, a 900 year old...
Gasworks To Receive £1million Commitment From Arts Council England
Gasworks has received a £1million commitment from Arts Council England towards the purchase and renovation of its building. Established in 1994,...
Tony Reichardt Collection Of Modern British Art Offered At Christie’s
Christie’s is selling the collection of Tony Reichardt, a pioneering British art dealer in the 1960s and 1970s. Reichardt was an innovative...
Embassy for Refugees Pavilion Erected On London’s South Bank
The Embassy for Refugees, commissioned for Celebrating Sanctuary London, on the South Bank is an art/design project which blurs the boundaries...