Art and more Art this week as we discuss AND, the Lever Prize nominations and the last week in the Visual Arts in Liverpool

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NEWS
Just announced… The four shortlisted arts organisations for the prestigious Lever Prize 2010. They are:

• Noise Festival (Manchester)
• The Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester)
• Liverpool & Merseyside Theatres Trust (Merseyside)
• Future Everything CIC (Manchester)

Not only will this prestigious award showcase four of the world-class arts organisations in the region but will provide the winner with £10,000 cash and support from the Northwest’s most influential business leaders. The winner will be announced early next year at an event hosted by last year’s winners the National Footballing Museum.?

Biennial 2010 (International 10) Motto / Theme is ‘Touched’ Liverpool Biennial presents Touched, the International 10 exhibition
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ROUNDUP of the Week

AND Festival – Ian’s quick links to further information about AND

• AND Festival – Portable Pixel Playground
• AND Festival – DJ Spooky ‘Rebirth of a Nation’
• AND Festival – Films
• AND Festival – Strange Attractors
• AND Festival – War Veteran Vehicle
• AND Festival – Water Piano
• AND Festival – The Hand From Above

Our Long Night 2009 Film on the Waterfront – Saw first half hour of On The Waterfront
Bold Street Festival

Twenty Years of FACT

Walker – Bridget Riley: Flashback

Bridget Riley: Flashback
25 September – 13 December 2009
Bridget Riley: Flashback is the first in a major new series of touring exhibitions from the Arts Council collection, Southbank Centre. Riley’s distinctive and optically vibrant paintings generate extraordinary sensations of movement, light and space. Eight large scale paintings will be on show, with four coming from Riley’s personal collection. Alongside these are around 30 drawings and studies that illuminate her working methods over her five-decade-long-career. Many of these will be exhibited for the first time.

The Bluecoat – Under the Volcano: an exhibition for Malcolm Lowry (1909 – 1957)

Under the Volcano: an exhibition for Malcolm Lowry (1909 – 1957)
25 September – 22 November 2009
The Bluecoat celebrates Lowry’s centenary with an ambitious programme that includes an exhibition, a book, live music, dance, talks and special participatory events such as a Mexican Day of the Dead altar dedicated to Lowry. The influence of Lowry’s work has extended beyond writers to visual artists, and this exhibition brings together twelve from Merseyside, the UK, Mexico and Chile, who respond to Lowry in different ways.

This Week

VIEWING: Haroon Mirza

THURSDAY 1 October, 19.00 – 21.00 at A Foundation (bar opens until 23.00)
Haroon Mirza continues the series of exhibitions examining contemporary sculpture through solo presentations of UK-based artists at A Foundation, Liverpool. Mirza considers the acoustic and the visual of equal significance in his work. Exhibition detail

OPENS: Looking Back: Facing Forward

 

OPENS: Looking Back: Facing Forward

FRIDAY 2 October 2009 at VG&M, University of Liverpool
An exhibition of Paintings, Prints and Drawings by Pete Clarke. The retrospective will be a critical overview and selection of significant works by Pete Clarke from the 1980s to recent paintings including works produced for Sheffield City Art Gallery from the collections of the Arts Council and Liverpool University. Exhibition details

Viewing: Magdalene Odundo Solo Exhibition

FRIDAY 2 October, 17.30 – 19.30 at Bluecoat Display Centre
Magdalene showed her hand built and coiled ceramics in 1985, very early in her career, at the Bluecoat Display Centre and is now an internationally renowned artist who last year won the African Art Recognition Award. In this major new exhibition Magdalene will show her renowned ceramics alongside new forms in metal seen for the first time in exhibition in the UK. Exhibition details

OPENS: Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely

FRIDAY 2 October 2009 at Tate Liverpool
This exciting exhibition will focus upon the connection between the work of Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), one of the most radical, inventive and subversive sculptors of the mid twentieth-century, and renowned British artist Michael Landy, who has been significantly influenced by Tinguely and his constructive and destructive tendencies. Exhibition details

OPENS: Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals

FRIDAY 2 October 2009 at Tate Liverpool
In 1988 Tate Liverpool opened it’s doors for the very first time with a memorable display of Mark Rothko’s The Seagram Murals. Over 20 years later the series will make a welcome return to the gallery. Tate Liverpool’s ground floor gallery is transformed into an emotive display of these nine significant paintings – the walls will be painted grey according to Rothko’s specifications and atmospheric lighting will enhance the dramatic qualities of the works. Admission Free Exhibition details

VIEWING: ‘How We Work’

FRIDAY 2 October, 16.00 – 18.00 at Blackburne House. Refreshments provided
A feminist art exhibition by 13 Liverpool women curated by Sarah Stones, a second year fine arts degree student at Liverpool Community College. Some of the artists are showing work for the first time; some are fellow students; some are housewives others are professionals. Exhibition details

MARKET: NEW VILLAGE FETE @ Heebie Jeebies

SATURDAY 3 October 2009, 10.00 – 16.30 at Heebie Jeebies
Bringing together Liverpool’s leading creative designers, vintage sellers, craft makers, and musicians under the roof of one of the city’s best known institutions, Heebie Jeebies is ‘The New Village Fete’.