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ARTISTIC TALENT REQUIRED

ZERO DE CONDUITE 3 ADVENTURES IN LIVE ART At elevator gallery Calling all performance artists Musicians, sound artists, installation and light artists,video and filmmakers and really good dj’s Continuing the success of our performance and music events of 2008 we are looking to programme the ‘next zero de conduite’ to take place spring 2009. To apply please send proposals and read more..

artist talk by Yoko Ono SOLD OUT

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce an artist talk by Yoko Ono, one of the pioneers of conceptual art, on Sunday 14 December 2008. Tickets for the event priced at £10.00 / £6.00 concession go on sale at 9am on Friday 21 November through Ticket Web, please see details below. STOP PRESS - read more..

Europeana , Europe’s online Museum

The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, and the ministers of Culture of the European Union attended the launch of “”Europeana”” in Brussels, Belgium. Europeana, the Eurpean “virtual museum” offers from now on free access to more than two million books, paintings, videos and other digital documents from the cultural centers all read more..

Private Views In London Tonight Friday 21st November

1 Wilson Williams Gallery , I Saw Three Ships, group show, 6-9pm, info:www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com 30 Queensdown Rd London E5 8NN 2 Showflat, Toby Clarkson, This Lives In Us, 6-10pm, 8 The Mount, Mount Pleasant Lane, Clapton E5 9PD info:www.showflat.org 3 Wilkinson, Paul Housley, Some Have Eyes, Fabian Seiz, both 6-8.30pm,50-58 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ info:www.wilkinsongallery.com 4 read more..

White Noise 2009

Black Rat Press’s annual group show ‘White Noise’ will open on Saturday 29th November. The exhibition will feature works by 7 artists, 3 of whom we have had solo shows at the gallery this year and 4 whose work they will be exhibiting in 2009. The artists featured are: D*Face, Nick Walker, Blek Le read more..

Susan Hefuna 25th November – 12 January 2009 at Albion Gallery

German-Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna will present a selection of her Mashrabiya screens, drawings, photographs and installation works. Hefuna takes up everyday aspects of life in her work and explores the indeterminacy of location and ideas of identity. Much of Hefuna’s work is informed by her dual heritage and often features striking images of family, interior read more..

Richard Corbett Wetland Reflections 24th-28th November

Monmouth-based artist, Richard Corbett, has always been inspired by Nature, especially the vast open spaces carved by rivers and seas, so, when he discovered Newport Wetlands, he found it to be the perfect place to inspire his “beautiful and evocative” paintings and prints for his first London solo exhibition at The Smithfield Gallery www.richardcorbett.biz More than read more..

Private Views In London Tonight Thursday 20 th November

As always big thanks to Russell Herron 10 Private Views below; 1 Nettie Horn, Kate Street, Little Death, 6-9pm, info:www.nettiehorn.com 2 Hales, Jane Harris, Space Opera, 6-8pm, info:www.halesgallery.com 3 The James Taylor Gallery, Collent Street Matter of Time, group show info:www.fivestoreyprojects.com 4 Elevator, In Its Wake, group show, 7-9pm, info:www.elevatorgallery.co.uk 5 Unit 2 Gallery, Foyer Gallery, read more..

SARTORIAL Gallery Need an INTERN

INTERESTED IN ART? VOLUNTEER INTERN WITH POTENTIAL JOB OPPORTUNITY AND IMMEDIATE START AT SARTORIAL CONTEMPORARY ART’S NEW SPACE IN KINGS CROSS For more information please visit sartorialart.com/internship.html

Fused

London-based production company thefyzz is delighted to announce that its latest film, Fused, has been awarded the top prize at the prestigious 48 Hour Film Project, being named Best Film – London 2008. The six-minute short is a slick and engaging nugget of cinematic excellence, revolving around the humorous and unexpected events facing a group of read more..

INTERNSHIPS AT ELEVATOR GALLERY- 2009

Elevator will be offering several new Internships at the Gallery Beginning in January 2009. Gallery Assistant Internship (Three Months- renewable- days hours to be agreed) An excellent opportunity to gain work experience in all areas of running a gallery. We have several positions available for this post. Duties Include: Installing Exhibitions Assistant Curating and Managing Marketing Developing our new Education Programme Invigilating Helping at read more..

mutatebritain private view Thursday 20th

Behind the Shutters Curtain Rd EC2A 3AA www.mutatebritain.co.uk 25,000 sq ft, 5 floor art space with originals and prints on sale. Newly opening this Thursday then open every thurs/fri/sat until the end of the year. Over 80 artists, Mutoid Waste sculptures, life size waxworks, video installation, performance, photography etc

Worlds top 20 selling artists

In at Number One … Jeff Koons born 1955 in Pennsylvania, incorporates kitsch imagery. Sold £69.4m in the past year. 2 Jean-Michel Basquiat, born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, was a graffiti artist who died in 1988. Sold £54.3m. 3 Damien Hirst, born 1965 in Bristol, a key member of the Young British Artists. Sold £45.7m. 4 Richard read more..

Not all Doom and Gloom - Chinese ART booms !!

With its £2 trillion surplus, China’s economic might dominates the world. Now its painters and sculptors are developing, collectively, into a contemporary arts superpower. Asian artists, and in particular those from China, dominate a new list of the world’s best-selling contemporary artists of last year. Among the world’s most sought-after artists are the unfamiliar names read more..

Gordon Cheung / Masakatsu Kondo / Sea Hyun Lee at i-Myu Wed 19th Nov 2008

OPENING Wed 19 Nov 2008 6-9pm LANDSLIDE Gordon Cheung / Masakatsu Kondo / Sea Hyun Lee 19 Nov – 20 Dec 2008 I-Myu Gallery, London UK www.i-myu.com

John Welchman on Paul McCarthy

John Welchman, LA based speaker, author and expert and colleague of artist Paul McCarthy spent Friday at Sheffield Hallam Arts Dept The talk, slides and film shown of McCarthy’s recent ‘Caribbean Pirates’ (not showing at a cinema near you) was totally engaging. Abject art has nothing on what’s going on here, grotesque, ritualised, scatalogical, bloody, read more..

Jasper Joffe, Does the Royal Family like poornography at Sartorial

You are invited to the opening party to view Jasper Joffe’s Poornographywith Her Majesty The Queen, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, and Princess Anne.There will be a live performance of classical music on a baby grand piano, oboe, and violin by acclaimed musicians Sabina Rakcheyeva, Carolyn Landau, and Shzr Ee Tan. At Sartorial’s read more..

JANE BUSTIN at Art Projx Private View Tuesday 18th November

Jane Bustin: Holzlied - Woodsong, 2008 JANE BUSTIN: Paintings 1998-2008 EXHIBITION DATES: 19 November - 20 December 2008 ARTPROJX SPACE 53 Beauchamp Place London SW3 1NY www.artprojxspace.com JANE BUSTIN: PAINTINGS 1998-2008 Jane Bustin’s abstract paintings are described as ‘emotional minimalism’. This solo exhibition at Artprojx Space is a retrospective of selected works from projects that have been shown read more..

Tanya Vlach wants a webcam in her eye!!

Tanya Vlach, a San Francisco-based artist, lost her eye in a 2005 car accident, and now keeps a blog chronicling the “monocular life.” She’s got a real-enough looking prosthetic peeper, but Tanya’s a self-described “sci-fi geek,” and, with the approval of her doctor, she’s put out a call for engineers to build her a camera… read more..

Visions Art Mumbai presents new works by Debjani Datta

November 2008 till 15th December 2008 Raised in the Middle East,graduated from Jadavpur University ,Debjani is now based at New Bombay from where she pursues her career as an artist.She has completed her 7 year course in fine arts from Bangiya Sangeet Academy.For the last 10 years she has been working with her Teacher Srimati Bonani read more..