Paul Graham wins 2012 Hasselblad Award
Friday 9 March 2012
Paul Graham, whose work has featured in The Drawbridge's Risk and Money issues, is the recipient of this year's Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. As well as a substantial cash prize, his work will feature in a major show...
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Untitled interviews: Shalom Auslander and Etgar Keret
Thursday 8 March 2012
The Drawbridge's Literary Editor Mark Reynolds caught up with Shalom Auslander and Etgar Keret on their recent visits to London. The resulting interviews appear in the March edition of Untitled Books. "It's like Milan Kundera's thing about Kafka, of going...
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Edward Burtynsky: Oil
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Edward Burtynsky and New Delhi based Raqs Media Collective will launch the Photographers' Gallery's 2012 exhibition programme at its refurbished Soho home on Saturday 19 May 2012. The major solo exhibition of Burtynsky's photographs will showcase over thirty large-scale images...
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Hans-Peter Feldmann at the Serpentine
Tuesday 14 February 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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Simon McBurney: The Master and Margarita
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Simon McBurney's award-winning company Complicité returns to the Barbican with a new adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic Soviet satire. 15 March to 7 April 2012 Barbican Theatre 24 March, 2pm: post-show talk In conversation with Simon McBurney More info...
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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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Radio Ambulante
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Daniel Alarcón is launching a new narrative project called Radio Ambulante. Its goal is to tell compelling human stories from around Latin America and the United States - in Spanish, in sound and transnational. Through a vast network of radio...
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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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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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D.W. Wilson wins National Short Story Award
Tuesday 18 October 2011
D.W. Wilson, first published in The Drawbridge, wins the 2011 BBC National Short Story Award with "The Dead Roads". His first collection of short stories titled Once You Break a Knuckle is published this autumn by Penguin Canada. More info...
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Project Space: Broomberg & Chanarin present Dora Fobert
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin present a series of portraits by Dora Fobert at Paradise Row. Recently discovered and exhibited during Krakow PhotoMonth 2011, Fobert's images are shown for the first time in the UK. Paradise Row 74a Newman Street...
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Deborah Levy: Swimming Home
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Deborah Levy's first novel in fifteen years is a taut and unnerving thriller about the devastating secrets we keep from ourselves. The story unfolds over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera...
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The Eye is a Lonely Hunter
Thursday 1 September 2011
Edward Burtynsky, Jacob Holdt, Rinko Kawauchi and Taryn Simon are exhibiting at the 4th edition of the Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg under the title The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind. The festival takes as its point of...
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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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