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RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition winner announced

RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

By Arts Hub

Jennifer McRae has been selected as this years RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition winner, with her watercolour ‘David by the window, Spencer’s Belle Vue’.

Kounter Kulture launches at London Art Week

Kounter Kulture launches at London Art Week

By Arts Hub

An edgy and exciting new art fair is set to burst onto London’s arts scene this October.

Polish deConstruction call for artists

Polish deConstruction call for artists

By Arts Hub

Polish deConstruction in conjunction with Homeless Gallery have just announced a call for artists, in line with the upcoming British manifestation of their traveling photographic exhibit.

Too sexually explicit for the Bernie Grant Arts Centre

Too sexually explicit for the Bernie Grant

By Arts Hub

The artist Adelaide Damoah, best known for her 2006 exhibition "Black Brits", will unveil her latest collection entitled "Black Lipstick" late August.

Verve shines on European stage

Verve shines on European stage

By Arts Hub

Verve, the graduate performance company of Leeds-based Northern School of Contemporary Dance, has won the Best International Production award at the 2008 ITs Festival in Amsterdam.

New exhibition Sonia Blair

New exhibition Sonia Blair

By Arts Hub

An exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Sonia Blair on childhood, memory and self-sabotage, is due to go on show this September in London.

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VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Picasso at the Chateau de Bray

VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Picasso at the Chateau

By Gordon Haynes

Picasso has never produced the goods for me despite having stood in front of the Demoiselles d’Avignon in New York and wandered around the museum dedicated to him in Paris. Nothing resonated. That is until last week when I was simply bowled over ...

VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Late Summer Exhibition

VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Late Summer Exhibition

By Gordon Haynes

This summer, Kilmorack has been waving Gerald Laing’s portrait of Kate Moss as its star attraction, Laing having lately returned to his pop art roots with screen printing. In the context of the other works on display it is clearly a stand out ...

VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Anya Gallaccio at the Camden Arts Centre

VISUAL ARTS REVIEW: Anya Gallaccio at the

By Serena Sharp

With the Freeze 20 exhibition opening at The Hospital this month the controversial YBAs who made a big splash two decades ago are being thrown back into the spotlight. Much has been said of the self promotional methods used by YBAs and ...

THEATRE REVIEW: Let there be love in (The Tricycle)

THEATRE REVIEW: Let there be love in (The

By David Trennery

It is often lazily said that, whilst the Victorians could not bring themselves to acknowledge sex, they were quite happy with death and we are the other way round.

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