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Review of Ron Meuck at the Foundation Cartier pour l´art contemporain, Paris

Ron Mueck’s skill lies in the creation of figurative sculptures that appear to be real, in a sense that they are made of flesh and blood, but moreover, have presence in a profoundly individual way.

Interview with Street Artist BotMan

Already well known in international urban art circles, it has not yet been two years since Cornwall’s celebrated street artist came up with the idea for BotMan, an innocent robot with a heart.

Rolf Sachs: Camera in Motion: from Chur to Tirano, St Moritz Art Masters

Noted for his conceptual approach, Rolf Sachs has photographed fleeting moments of the landscape along the World Heritage Rhaetian Albula/Bernina train journey between Thusis and Tirano.

Sensoria Festival 2013

Sensoria features an eclectic mix of film screenings, live music, exhibitions, installations and talks rolled out across the city of Sheffield. Cinema highlights include Luc Besson’s The Big Blue.

Review of Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Coming into Fashion – a unique glimpse into the most sparkling and striking of images from the international Condé Nast archives- is both a history lesson in glamour and an ode to photography.

Design the Limited Edition Movie Poster for Filth

To celebrate the release of Irvine Welsh’s film adaptation of Filth, Lionsgate in partnership with Talenthouse are inviting graphic designers, illustrators and artists to create original artwork.

Susan Yardley: SCAR, Finalist in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition 2012

There’s over a week left to enter the Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition. Now in its sixth year, the award is a great opportunity for emerging and established writers to showcase their work.

A Journey Through London’s Subculture: 1980s to Now

A Journey Through London’s Subculture at the Old Selfridges Hotel is part of the ICA’s Off-Site. The exhibition illustrates a perceived thread of creativity between the post-punk era and the present day.

Introducing the 2013 Designers in Residence at the Design Museum

The Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence programme provides a platform to celebrate new and emerging designers at an early stage in their career. The programme is now in its sixth year.

Alex Noble: Creatures from the Kaleidoscope, Londonewcastle

Londonewcastle Project Space opens an exhibition of works by Alex Noble entitled Creatures from the Kaleidoscope. Noble’s work fuses fashion and art in an immersive landscape of visceral aesthetics.

Review of Sean Edwards: Drawn in Cursive at Chapter Arts Centre

Drawn in Cursive takes inspiration from The Queens Gambit: one of the oldest known opening moves in a game of chess and positional play where you force your opponent to either accept or decline.

Frieze London 2013: Frieze Talks Announced

For this year’s Frieze London, Frieze Talks will include: Jérôme Bel, Meredith Monk and Stephen Shore as part of the line up of international artists, filmmakers, curators and cultural commentators.

Indrė Šerpytytė, Ffotogallery

Exploring history, individual and collective memory and loss, Indrė Šerpytytė exhibits a solo exhibition at Ffotogallery. The showcase coincides with Lithuania taking up the Presidency of the European Union.

Haris Epaminonda: Chapters, Modern Art Oxford

Cyprus-born artist Haris Epaminonda has a new exhibit on display at Modern Art Oxford. The exhibit features four screens in a blackened room playing a continuous loop of tableaux filmed in Cyprus.

Review of Cassie Raihl: Appetites at Dodge Gallery, New York

The pedestal is a sort of prosthesis for objects; it is their feet, their legs. It gives an object strength, lifts it up. Cassie Raihl’s first solo show at Dodge Gallery comprises of variations on the pedestal.

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

This September the border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed will transform into one giant screen for the ninth Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival featuring newly commissioned and curated films.

Interview with Director of Film and Video Umbrella Steven Bode

Steven Bode has been the Director of Film & Video Umbrella for 20 years. Formed in the early days of moving image artworks, the company has played an important role in promoting moving image.

AIR/PORT: Biennale of International Art in Essaouira

IBeauty Without Irony (BWI) showcases the first edition of the Biennale of International Art in Essaouira, Morocco: AIR/PORT, a cultural exchange between Essaouira and port cities across the world.

Gabriel Orozco: thinking in circles, Fruitmarket Gallery

The Fruitmarket Gallery’s new exhibition of Gabriel Orozco’s (b.1962) work maps the way in which a central artistic motif migrates and mutates its way through a whole body of multi-material work.

Artists Selected for Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards: What Will They See of Me?

The four moving-image artists have now been selected for the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards. The chosen artists are Lucy Clout, Kate Cooper, Anne Haaning and Marianna Simnett.