David Shrigley: Brain Activity
Wednesday 25 January 2012
The Hayward Gallery presents David Shrigley's first major survey show in London. It covers the full range of Shrigley's diverse practice, extending beyond the drawing for which he is best known to include photography, books, sculpture, animation, painting, music and...
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Paul Davis: These Drawings Were Sent Down to Walk Amongst You
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Paul Davis exhibits recent drawings, paintings and photographs at the Coningsby Gallery from 21 February to 2 March. The work concerns itself with the perpetual bombardment of what life throws at you; love, sex, death, wealth and penury, idiocy, marketing,...
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Umberto Eco, Etgar Keret, Shalom Auslander & Bidisha at Jewish Book Week
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Drawbridge contributors Umberto Eco, Etgar Keret , Shalom Auslander, Bidisha, Julia Hobsbawm, Marcus du Sautoy and Zygmunt Bauman join the line-up at this year's Jewish Book Week at its new home at Kings Place from 18 to 26 February. Selected...
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Hans-Peter Feldmann at the Serpentine
Wednesday 25 January 2012
A comprehensive survey exhibition presents seminal works from Feldmann's influential early photographic series alongside new works. The early works include a series of booklets consisting of photographs of everyday subjects and situations from views of mountains to aircrafts in the...
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Hari Kunzru: Gods Without Men
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Hari Kunzru will be touring the UK this summer to promote his new novel Gods Without Men, which hopscotches across time, exploring the nature of reality and religion, magic and mystery. Events include readings at Keats House, Hampstead on Thursday...
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Jim Goldberg wins Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Jim Goldberg has been awarded the prize for his series Open See, which documents the experiences of refugee, immigrant and trafficked populations travelling from war-torn, socially and economically devastated countries such as Iraq, Bangladesh, China, the Balkans and The Congo...
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Paul Graham: Photographs 1981–2006
Sunday 3 April 2011
Whitechapel Gallery, in collaboration with Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, presents an extensive overview of Paul Graham's work, established over 25 years of detailed attention to what can and cannot be seen on the surface of everyday life. Anecdotal, gentle...
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Alec Soth: Somewhere to Disappear
Sunday 3 April 2011
Large-format photographer Alec Soth travels across America to document people who have retreated from society and the places they hide. Some subjects live in abandoned mountain cabins, others in caves and others still in the desolation of the desert. Soth...
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Printout! magazine evening
Sunday 3 April 2011
Why print when you can blog? Stack magazines and magCulture present a panel discussion on the print vs. blog debate, featuring Tim Hayward from Fire & Knives, Rob Orchard from Delayed Gratification and John L. Walters from Eye. The evening...
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David Maisel in conversation with Julian Cox
Sunday 3 April 2011
David Maisel's exhibition "History's Shadow" continues to 4 June at the Haines Gallery in San Fransisco, where the artist will be in conversation with Julian Cox, Founding Curator of Photography for the Fine Arts Museums and Chief Curator at the...
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Chloé Poizat: Odradeks
Sunday 3 April 2011
"My principal interest is in the bizarre, in metamorphosis and modification," says Chloé Poizat. Her latest exhibition of drawings and paintings is on display at Galerie Martine Gossieaux in Paris from 6 May. Galerie Martine Gossieaux 56, rue de l'Université...
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David Spero: Churches
Sunday 3 April 2011
Taken in London between 2002 and 2006, these photographs document buildings that feature none of the usual monumental architecture of the traditional church with its overt symbolism of status and power. Temporary, semi-permanent and often unconsecrated, the churches are where...
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A Different Window: Reading European Fiction
Sunday 3 April 2011
Drawbridge regular Gonçalo M. Tavares (Portugal) joins Merece Ibarz (Catalunya) and Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) in conversation with Bosnian novelist Aleksander Hemon, editor of the new anthology Best European Fiction 2011, published by Dalkey Archive Press. Southbank Centre Thursday 21 April,...
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François-Marie Banier: Beckett and Balthazar
Saturday 2 April 2011
Literaturhaus Stuttgart presents François-Marie Banier's photographs of Samuel Beckett resulting from an encounter that took place over thirty years ago in Tangiers. Following Beckett's movement amongst the crowds of Morocco, when the two finally met Banier forgot all about his...
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John Stezaker at Whitechapel Gallery
Sunday 6 February 2011
The first major exhibition of John Stezaker's subversive collages, which present found images in new contexts, continues at Whitechapel Gallery to 18 March. Events include: Big Ideas: John Stezaker lecture Thursday 17 February, 7pm John Stezaker in conversation with Dawn...
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John Gray: Immortality
Sunday 6 February 2011
John Gray will be in conversation with Adam Phillips to discuss themes in his new book The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. The Tabernacle Talbot Road, London W11 Monday 21 February, 7pm An Intelligence Squared...
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Bettina von Kameke: Wormwood Scrubs
Saturday 5 February 2011
Great Western Studios kicks off a new series of exhibitions, talks and screenings with Bettina von Kameke's remarkable pictures from inside the West London prison. 15 February to 11 March 2011 Great Western Studios 65 Alfred Road London W2 5EU...
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David Vann's Caribou Island on Radio 4
Friday 4 February 2011
David Vann's story of an unravelling marriage, as featured in the Flight issue, is Radio 4's "Book at Bedtime" from 7 February, read by William Hope. Listen live or on iPlayer....
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Photographers' Gallery Charity Auction viewing and Simon Roberts talk
Friday 4 February 2011
From Saturday 12 to Thursday 17 February the works on sale for the Photographers' Gallery charity auction are on view at Christie's, South Kensington. A series of free public talks by featured artists take place alongside the viewing, including Simon...
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Flight exhibition
Wednesday 12 January 2011
The Drawbridge and Q Book present an installation of artworks from the Flight issue and related publications Q Forum 5–8 Lower John Street London W1F 9HA 18–29 January 2011 Weekdays 11am to 7pm Saturdays by appointment Featured artists: Maurizio Anzeri...
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