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It's my own personal history project stretching back to 2007 - with hundreds of recorded interviews, podcasts and plays. This section of the site is pretty old so don't expect it to work all the time and ignore it asking for Real Player to be loaded. 
Ian is now a fully fledged twitterer (tweeter?) follow on twitter.com, username artinliverpool (of course) http://www.twitter.com/artinliverpool
Biennial News this week - Turning the Place Over, Arbores Laetae and Rockscape are all continuing for the rest of this year.
Later this week (Friday the 13th!) Liverpool Council are decided the distribution of the arts grants - After an extensive four month bidding and consultation process with the cultural sector, a report is to recommend the council annually fund 33 arts bodies - a growth of 25% on the previous three-year programme. In 2001 that figure was 7.
'Next Up' at the Bluecoat has now been extended to 22 February. Hurrah!
Round up of the Visual Arts in Liverpool over the last week
A (New) Superlambanana to going to stay in Liverpool (for at least 80 years) - Ian and Mina meet Taro Chiezo in Liverpool as he signed the contract to produce the new peice. Charles Darwin is 200 years old so World Museum Liverpool have put his 'ovenbird' on display in the atrium for a few months. Colin Serjent's 'Abstract Way' photo exhibition opened at Unity, it was cold and quiet especially as the evening's theatre performance had been cancelled due to the weather! But there was still a good turn out. The Pendlebury's Duo show opened at Egg - very nice - 84!! small paintings and photos. Also went to the Lever Prize Awards at the 2008 prizes winners -Tate Liverpool- it was won by the Football Museum (Preston) - Sir Tom Finney was there.
THIS WEEK
Just opened 'Buttons' - Buckles and Bows (thats the theme) at Liverpool Academy of Arts, Seel St. The Twestival (twitter festival) at Leaf Cafe on Thursday 6pm onwards with live bands, raffle, auction in aid of Charity: Water. www.artinliverpool.com have donated a holga camera.
The Walker big exhibition FASHION V SPORT open this Friday 13 February - 31 May 2009
The Walker Art Gallery is to host a stylish exhibition on tour from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, exploring the relationship between contemporary fashion and global sportswear brands over the last 20 years. Displaying around 50 outfits and 120 objects including contemporary sportswear, streetwear, accessories and shoes, the exhibition aims to reflect the convergence of fashion and sport, showing the extent to which designers take inspiration from each other to score hits on the both the catwalks and the sports fields.
ART SLAM! FRIDAY 13 February 2009, 19.00 at A Foundation
SLIP & SLIDE SLAM (taxed off Art In General, New York) is the first of our regular events for, and by, Liverpool based artists. A Foundation’s artist committee has set up a room containing 16mm slide projectors and laptops with data projectors, and invited twenty artists to each make a three minute presentation. We are seeking a critical audience, a collection of individuals willing to make their opinion of what they have seen - to probe, to scrutinize and to lay themselves as bare as those who willingly serve up their ideas as intellectual sustenance for the ravenous horde! But if you’d like to come along just to listen, that’s fine too.
Confirmed slammers incude: Leo Fitzmaurice, Juan Cruz, Tracey Eastham, Mike Aitken,, Claire Potter, Karen McLeod, Tabitha Moses, Jack Welsh, Neko, Claudia Lastra, Sacha Waldron, Jemma Eagan, Patrick Gould, Birgit Deubner, Emily Speed, Josh Tennant, Mike Aitken, Amy Goring, Daniel Simpkins, Harry Lawson
Saturday (14th) at Williamson. FELLOWSHIP SHOW at Williamson Art Gallery
14 February - 29 March 2009. Private View: SATURDAY 14 February 2009 12.00-14.00.
Show participants:
Jason Bold
Mike Cunningham
Robyn Woolston
FURTHER AHEAD
Lady Lever - French Impressionists - February 20, 2009 - Sunday, May 31, 2009
French Impressionists will give you a rare opportunity to see works usually only on display in Sweden’s capital. Works by Renoir, Monet, Degas and Rodin are amongst some of the artists to be featured in this exhibition of 13 treasured works.
A major retrospective of the work of Glenn Brown, one of the most revered painters of his generation, this exhibition will bring together the largest selection of the artist's work to date. Brown borrows from art history and popular culture, working from the paintings and sculptures of Dalí, Auerbach, Rembrandt, science fiction illustrators and many others to investigate the languages of painting and how images are read by the viewer.
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