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A detailed exhibition currently at the New York Met reveals the extraordinary power of the photographer’s eye What makes a great photography exhibition? The question came into my head as I left the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York a few weeks ago, after spending around two hours wandering through Looking In: Robert Franks’ [...]

As a Welshman, poetry was in my soul – until the editor of a poetry magazine poured cold water on my efforts So, the Turner prize award is coming up, and it will be presented by the poet laureate. Which reminds me of my adolescent desire to be a poet. Perhaps most teenagers want to [...]

Martin Wainwright with finalists of Northern Art prize 2009 Martin Wainwright Read the original post on Guardian Arts & Architecture

Rachel Goodyear and Matt Stokes are among the contenders for this year’s award, which honours artists who live and work in the north of England Texas, Berlin and other centres far from the Pennines feature in the newly announced shortlist for this year’s Northern Art prize, which has just gone on show at Leeds City [...]

Last Thursday i went to see Open City: Designing Coexistence, the main exhibition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. It’s one of the most exciting and satisfying exhibition i’ve seen this year. Proper report will follow in an hopefully not too distant future. Until then here’s one of the [...]

Mask. Central PENDE; DRC. Royal Museum for Central Africa. Gift from R. P. Biebuyck. Registered in 1929. Studio R. Asselberghs – photo F. Dehaen, RMCA Tervuren © Last Friday, it was sunny, i took the old tram number 44 from Brussels center through the forest of Tervuren and to the Royal Museum for Central Africa. [...]

The future seen from here is gloomy. It is made of ecological disasters, political tensions, economical apartheid, overpopulation and promises never fulfilled. Feedforward, the exhibition opened a couple of weeks ago at the Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón, offers space for artist to reflect and comment on the global political and [...]

Haltestelle, 2009. ©Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst Part of Thomas Demand’s wonderful show Nationalgalerie, “Haltestelle” (2009) is a very recent work, as usual a large-scale photograph of a life-size paper model resembling a space of cultural significance. In this case it is a nondescript rural German bus shelter, which happens to be the place just outside [...]

We are loving Ryan Bubnis new show ‘Ghost Magic’ at the Flatcolor gallery in Seattle until November 28th. Look out for new work from him in our upcoming Christmas group show also. Read the original post on Stolen Spaces

Check out Dan Witz new show ‘Dark Doings’ at the Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art, LA. Exhibition Dates: November 5 – December 3 Address: 1257 N. La Brea Ave / West Hollywood CA 90038 “Dan Witz is a true pioneer of the street art movement. What makes Dan so special is his true passion and [...]