NEWS
Rodin's KISS leaves Tate Liverpool on Sunday 15 March to be replaced by Jacob Epstein's 'Jacob and the Angel' as part of the new. Why the controversy neither Ian nor I know but we welcome the chance to see what you used to have to pay for in an adults only show.

Jacob and the Angel has enjoyed a rich and colourful history, including a long-established connection with Liverpool. While Jacob and the Angel was spared the extraordinary hostility meted out to Epstein’s earlier works, the sculpture was considered sufficiently sensational to be acquired by entrepreneur Charles Stafford and exhibited as a sideshow attraction in a Blackpool funfair. It then toured Britain and South Africa as an ‘adults only’ exhibit, with a money-back guarantee if it wasn’t “the most shocking thing you’ve ever seen”.
The sculpture was shown at Tate Liverpool in its opening year (1988), and was purchased by Tate for the nation in 1996. Since then it has become one of the most popular works in the Tate Collection. The presence of the work at Tate Liverpool marks its triumphant return to the city.

Round up of the Week

No matter how busy Ian has still manged to get to a few shows -  Editions - Seven from Sefton - Really nice watercolours

4x4 at the Bluecoat - He really enjoyed this. Shana Moulton's videos are clever and amusing. Also Colin Darke & David Mabb: Commodity Form, David Osbaldeston: Your Answer Is Mine - a large billboard which you can see as you walk along college lane and Anya Gallaccio works are inspiring everybody to take up macrame

Ian on Film - First event at the new JMU Academy opened - Action Diana is a re-creation of the 1965 film, Centre of Attention are in residence there and at FACT filming members of the public. You may be able to catch Ian in the final film.

Stories & Memories at Bluecoat display centre
Fascinating as it documents both artist and collector - some of whom we recognise

This week
Its Thank You Art Week with offers and events all week

Tuesday at NOVAS CUC Ground Floor Gallery
'Metronova' 11 - 19 March 2009
Ground Floor Gallery, Novas CUC.
23 creative artists on the second year of their fine art degree course at Wirral School of Art are exhibiting their most recent work in 'MetroNova'. The exhibition is not themed - the work too eclectic to be categorised.

Wednesday at Anglican Cathedral
Terry Duffy 'MONUMENTS' at Liverpool Cathedral 
10 March - 30 March 2009 
Private View: WEDNESDAY 11 March 18.00 - 19.30
This is the last time to view the work and in this dramatic location before it goes on tour to London in April - May and then during the Venice Biennale in June-July 2009.

Thursday at Novas, FACT and Open Eye.
OPEN EYE Until it Hurts
13 March - 23 May 2009
Preview: THURSDAY 12 March, 17.30-19.30
Sascha Weidner, Markus Hansen, Josh Weinstein, Yang Zhenzhong
Who am I? Am I unique? Do I have an essence, an inner core that makes me myself? Am I free to choose who I am and what I do? Am I an actor, a puppet, a machine? Am I the same person as I was ten years ago? Ten minutes ago? Where do I end? Where does the rest of the world begin?

FACT, Climate for Chnage
Private View: Thursday 12 March, 18.00 - 20.00
For its first new exhibition of 2009, its UNsustainable year, FACT is proud to present Climate for Change, a unique experiment in activism, engagement and networking, examining the multiple crises affecting the planet – ecological, financial, food and housing. From peak oil to peak credit, Climate for Change seizes the moment, and asks: how do we respond?

Contemporary Urban Centre
The Liverpool Art Prize Exhibition.
Private View: THURSDAY 12 March 2009 17.30 - 21.00
with Live Music by Mayming 
Open to the Public from Friday 13 March to Monday 4 May 2009
Awards Ceremony: WEDNESDAY 22 April 2009 18-20.00
The Liverpool Art Prize is a competition of contemporary art open to professional artists based in the Liverpool City Region.

FRIDAY 13 March, auction starts at 18.30 at The Cornerstone Gallery
Liverpool Hope University's Fine Art & Design Auction 2009
Liverpool Hope University would like to invite you to the Third Year Fine Art & Design Degree Students Annual Auction.  It is an exciting event in which Third Year Students and University Staff donate their work to be auctioned to raise funds for the forthcoming Fine Art and Design Degree Show in May. Art work to be auctioned is of an eclectic mix, incorporating Painting, Digital Image Making, Metal, Photography, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Printmaking and Wood. The event is to be hosted by the entertaining auctioneer Paul O'keeffe, so why not join us for a very enjoyable evening.

FRIDAY 13 March, 19.00 at St Luke's Church
Purgatory is a horror performance set in St. Luke's Church. Witk Mayming, Frakture and aPAtT
The story of five ghosts trapped within the grounds of the church will be told. Each tale stripped down to its raw emotional impact.
Friday March 13th 7pm. £6, £5.
Tickets available from News From Nowhere

Further Ahead

Liverpool Academy of Arts - A Private Collection
17 March - 3 April 2009
Private View: 16 March 18.30 - 21.00.
This is a rare opportunity to see and buy some artistic gems.  We will have on display nearly eighty paintings by forty different artists, amongst them such luminaries as Maurice Cockrill, Don McKinlay and Sam Walsh.

Cornerstone - Jason Jones - ‘Self Observed’ by Jason Jones.
20 March - 24 April 2009
Viewing Thursday 19 March 18-20.00
‘Self Observed’ attempts to re-evaluate the typical male within contemporary painting.

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