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It has been crowned the capital of music – but what makes this northern city tick? Mike Morris visits a new exhibition to find out Laurence Topham Hildegunn Soldal Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

The London Design festival proves that the best design breaks down international borders – that’s what makes the city’s cultural scene unique It’s the London Design festival this week, and the capital is celebrating its creativity. But if you’ve been reading the International Herald Tribune or watching the BBC recently, you might wonder if there [...]

She’s a master of abstract art, the exception to every rule – beating the big boys of high modernism at their own game Bridget Riley, whose exhibition Flashback opens this weekend at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, is an exception to every rule. She is an abstract painter in a nation that has always [...]

Twenty years after the YBAs launched their careers there, a new generation of artists is putting Deptford on the cultural map once again Ever since an ambitious group of students from Goldsmiths School of Art in New Cross Gate staged a makeshift show called Freeze in 1988, Deptford has been a landmark on the London [...]

First pieces of gold were found in a farm field by an amateur metal detector who lives alone on disability benefit A harvest of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver so beautiful it brought tears to the eyes of one expert, has poured out of a Staffordshire field – the largest hoard of gold from the period [...]

Just thought I would share a nice EP called Queen of Cities put out by Luna Roslyn. They’re using one of my paintings from Turkey for the cover. Hear the songs on their MySpace page here or support them by buying the album online here. It’s good for the ears while holding a brush! Luna [...]

New Shepard Fairey installation coming to a street near you soon… Read the original post on Stolen Spaces

London Fashion Week may have come to a close, but the impact made by some of the designs is still being talked about. Read the original article on the BBC

Last month, CR magazine subscribers received their issue in a card envelope that could be turned into a handy binder. This month, everyone gets a print from the Photography Annual… Over the next 6 months we are working with Cyberpac on a series of special Creative Review packaging solutions that will explore and utilise different [...]

Julie Verhoeven – Eight of Diamonds Leo Burnett ad agency has commissioned a set of cards featuring artworks by leading artists and designers that will be sold on behalf of UK homeless charity Shelter. To launch the set, the original artworks for the cards will be on show at the Haunch of Venison gallery in [...]