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Round up of the week

Just opened Arbores Laetae

Launching on 20.08.2008, exactly one month before the Biennial festival, Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Arbores Laetae playfully reinvents the tradition of the public park. The work transforms a brownfield site, situated on a key route into city centre, into a beautiful wooded space for contemplation.

Consisting of 17 vibrant hornbeam trees formally planted in a grid pattern, at the heart of this landscape three trees will slowly rotate. In place of the familiar movement of shade according to the rotation of the earth around the sun, here shade migrates at an artificial speed, transforming the familiar patterns of the natural world into artificial creations.

Opened last week is Bluecoat Display Centre - National Sculpture prize, a fruity show at View Two; Luli Barzman, Fruitopia and  at Ceri Hand Gallery, Doug Jones with Inservi Deo et Laetare till 11 September 2008

Liverpool Academy of Arts - The Art of Ronnie Wood till 29 August 2008
Liverpool's very first exhibition of artworks by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. Away from the stage and recording studio, the 61 year-old rock star has become an established and prolific artist.

Coming Up

Artroom - Modern Contemporary Creatives - Claire McCarthy, Elaine Preece Stanley, Jacqui Chapman with a viewing on Thursday 21 August 4-9pm and continues till 12 October 2008.

Liverpool University Victoria Museum - Stuart Sutcliffe Retrospective
Exhibition opens: 21 August 2008 and it's on till 31 January 2009 - This exhibition draws on the collection of the Stuart Sutcliffe Estate and charts the development of his style. Early works from his days at Prescot Grammar School will be seen, together with material produced at the School of Art.

Gallery at Hard Days Night Hotel - Ron Campbell
Ron Campbell is the only animator in America to have directed and animated on both The Beatles Yellow Submarine and the ABC television series The Saturday Morning Beatles. You tube it here.  Signing sessions on 22 and 25 August 2008

DaDaFest - 4-7 September -There is an exhibition at the Afoundation site on Greenland street from 22 August to 7 September Exhibitors: Ju Gosling, Tanya Raabe, Wolfgang Temmel, Alison Jones, Gus Cummins There are also loads more events taking place check out the DaDaFest website for more details. www.nwdaf.co.uk/

Willard Wigan - Micro Sculptures
30 August to 30 September
Willard Wigan MBE (born 1957) is a sculptor from Wolverhampton, England. He was awarded an MBE for services to art in July 2007. He is the creator of the world's smallest sculptures, often taking months to complete one, working between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors.

La Machine
5-7 September- The show will take place in the streets and public spaces of Liverpool over three days. You can come for an hour or stay for all three days. At the heart of the action is a gigantic mechanical creature - identity a closely-guarded secret - fifty feet high and weighing thirty tonnes. It is brought to Liverpool by François Delarozière, the designer of Royal de Luxe's Sultan's Elephant, which appeared in London in 2006. This time, though, Delarozière will be bringing his own sixty-strong company, La Machine, to work alongside twenty musicians and of course a huge crew of British technicians and stewards. www.lamachine.co.uk