Ninety Minutes of One Million Years
Share When I read about the opportunity to participate in On Kawara’s ongoing performance One Million Years as part of the North East’s AV Festival, I was immediately interested in signing up. The chance to participate in something that has been taken around the world with hundreds of people taking part seemed like a brilliant...
A Meditation on Waiting – Bani Abidi: Section Yellow
Share Bani Abidi’s Pakistani roots are inextricable from the art that she creates. The sensibilities of the nation in which she was born have always inspired her practice, and her first UK solo show, ‘Section Yellow’, which is currently showing at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, is no exception. Previously shown at Project 88...
Lumiere Festival, Durham
Share Durham is not a city you would immediately associate with being contemporary. Its beauty lies in its rich history, grand architecture and cobbled streets, yet last weekend Lumiere festival saw the city transformed with contemporary art works designed both to highlight and contrast with Durham’s impressive array of architecture. Lumiere (as the name suggests)...
Matt Stokes’ Cantata Profana at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Share The Baltic is gearing up to become the first non-Tate host of the prestigious Turner Prize next month and much media focus has therefore been aimed at this converted flour mill, one of the biggest contemporary art spaces of its kind in Europe. However before we get too entrenched in judges, winners and awards...
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