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ixia's guidance update: Public Art - A Guide to Evaluation: 3rd Edition 2013
ixia has just published an updated guidance document to help users of the Toolkit evaluate their public art projects: 'Public Art – A Guide to Evaluation: 3rd Edition 2013'.
Date uploaded: May 20, 2013
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Jerwood Open Forest
Jerwood Visual Arts and Forestry Commission England have announced Jerwood Open Forest, an opportunity for visual artists to propose ideas for a new £30,000 commission to be realised anywhere within England's Public Forest Estate.
Date uploaded: May 13, 2013
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Katharina Fritsch's 'Hahn' approved for the Fourth Plinth
Westminster Council has approved plans to display a giant blue French cockerel by artist Katharina Fritsch on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London.
Date uploaded: May 13, 2013
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Sculpture in the City 2013
Robert Indiana, Jake & Dinos Chapman and Antony Gormley are amongst first artists announced for 'Sculpture in the City 2013'.
Date uploaded: May 13, 2013
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‘A Maze for Yorkshire’: new commission by artist Richard Woods at The Orangery, Wakefield
‘A Maze for Yorkshire’ - the new commission by artist Richard Woods - will be in place at at The Orangery, Wakefield from 8th June until 29th September 2013.
Date uploaded: May 13, 2013
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'Out in the Open': new publication about West Lothian's Public Art collection
'Out in the Open', the first comprehensive and fully illustrated book about West Lothian's extensive Public Art collection, will be launched on Thursday 9th May and available for purchase.
Date uploaded: May 8, 2013
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Call for papers and art projects: Art + Mobility - Deadline: July 15, 2013
For issue #55, the digital journal 'InterArtive' will publish a special issue dedicated to diverse aspects of the current discussion about Art & Mobility. They are inviting theorists, critics, curators and artists who work on the subject to participate.
Date uploaded: May 8, 2013
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Interventions in the Public Realm of London: Call for Submissions
The aim of platform79–the london project is to create is an extensive discussion about the modalities of art in the public, inciting a debate, which explores and critiques the 'public realm'. This will be achieved through innovative and daring artistic interventions. platform79 are calling for submissions: 'Interventions in the Public Realm of London'.
Date uploaded: May 8, 2013
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Final Call for Submissions - The 5th Annual Art of Good Health and Wellbeing International Arts and Health Conference
Final Call for Submissions - The 5th Annual Art of Good Health and Wellbeing International Arts and Health Conference, Sydney, 12th - 14th November 2013.
Date uploaded: May 8, 2013
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Award Winning Artists at Grizedale Forest
Grizedale Forest launch this season with two new works by award winning artists Lucy Tomlins, Owen Bullet and Rupert Ackroyd.
Date uploaded: April 24, 2013
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Folkestone Artworks Launch
The unveiling of Folkestone Artworks new website, map, programme of free talks and tours, audio guide, learning resources for schools and colleges and family activities will all take place on the May Bank Holiday Weekend - Saturday 4th May - Monday 6th May 2013.
Date uploaded: April 24, 2013
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Woolgather's 'Art Vend'
In 'Art Vend', by contemporary arts organisation Woolgather, miniature artworks are being sold from vending machines in Leeds for £1 each in an attempt to make art more accessible.
Date uploaded: April 17, 2013
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Arts & Culture and Regeneration - Business Improvement Districts: Where the cultural can drive the economic
In this article, Caroline Davis analyses the back drop which Business Improvement Districts offer for understanding how the business community are involved in co-financing and commissioning new work.
Date uploaded: April 8, 2013
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New publication by Geoff Archer's: 'Public Sculpture in Britain - A History'
Published by Frontier Publishing in May 2013, Geoff Archer's 'Public Sculpture in Britain ~ A History' will chart the history of Public Sculpture in Britain. Intended for the ‘man or woman in the street’, as well as scholars and artists, it uses British examples to show a number of ideas of just what public sculpture can be.
Date uploaded: April 8, 2013
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School of Visual Arts: Reconfiguring Site: New Approaches to Public Art and Architecture
School of Visual Arts, New York's 'Reconfiguring Site: New Approaches to Public Art and Architecture' - a two-week Summer residency in New York City.
Date uploaded: April 3, 2013
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Vote now for the Loughborough University Enterprise Awards 2013: 'Cultural Impact award - The social benefits of public art'
John Atkin and Mel Jordan have been nominated for the Loughborough University Enterprise Cultural Impact Award 2013 - for 'The social benefits of public art'. The winner is decided by public vote.
Date uploaded: April 3, 2013
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Art & the Public Sphere journal - Volume 1. Number 2
'Art & the Public Sphere journal - Volume 1. Number 2' has just been published and includes articles by Mark Hutchinson, Gretchen Coombs & Justin O'Connor, Angela Harutyunyan and Malcolm Miles; an interview with Vito Acconci by the Freee art collective; and various reviews.
Date uploaded: April 3, 2013
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The launch of the Crossrail Art Programme
On Monday 25th March 2013, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, Crossrail, launched 'The Culture Line', its new Art Programme at the Guildhall in London. The Programme will bring world-class artists together with international architecture and engineering teams to create a permanent line-wide art exhibition across eight new central and east London stations.
Date uploaded: March 27, 2013
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Commission opportunities in and around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park now live
The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) Arts & Culture are advertising three commission opportunities in and around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Date uploaded: March 25, 2013
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Design Competition launched for a Memorial to the 6000 Lost Trawlermen from Hull
STAND, with support from Hull City Council, has now launched a call for Expressions of Interest from which three competitors will be selected to enter a Design Competition for a new memorial which will mark and preserve the memory of the thousands of Hull’s trawlermen whose lives were lost and their contribution to the life of the city and the nation.
Date uploaded: March 20, 2013
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March News from UP Projects
March News from UP Projects: Floating Cinema Wins Award; Short Documentary Film Competition; and Secret Garden Project Tooting: 'Common Knowledge'.
Date uploaded: March 20, 2013
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Stirchley Prospects
In this article, artist Jayne Murray and place maker Emma Larkinson, aka Place Prospectors CIC, look back at their project within Stirchley, south Birmingham, describing a self-initiated engagement project they explore how their work has brought about change at a neighbourhood level through artistic interventions.
Date uploaded: March 20, 2013
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Plot 16: The Fermenting Room (return of the rhizome)
This series of texts were written in response to 'Plot 16: The Fermenting Room (return of the rhizome)', an offsite, temporary public art work by brook & black, commissioned by Modern Art Oxford for the ‘Art in Rose Hill’ Programme.
Date uploaded: March 18, 2013
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A hidden economy: a critical review of Meanwhile Use
In this article, Sue Ball and Ruth Essex look at the opportunities and risks of temporary use for the arts, looking at 'meanwhile use’ agreements and the new types of opportunities, collaborations and the new models for cultural infrastructure and production which they have generated.
Date uploaded: March 18, 2013
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EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT, ART - A new year: new opportunities
In this article, Eileen Adams looks at how the opportunities which new government policy initiatives might create for art and design education.
Date uploaded: March 18, 2013
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'Arch-Innovate' Competition: Call for Entries
Open-City launches 'Arch-Innovate' Competition - giving you the opportunity to develop your creative process and share your design knowledge and creativity with young and curious people!
Date uploaded: March 18, 2013
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Art Across the City 2013: 28th March - 12th May, Swansea
'Art Across the City 2013', by LOCWS International, runs from 28th March - 12th May in Swansea. There are twelve artworks to be seen across the city. Five have been newly commissioned and seven are permanent.
Date uploaded: March 18, 2013
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2013 Arts and Crafts in Architecture Awards Launched
The Saltire Society invites you to make submissions to the Saltire Arts and Crafts in Architecture Award.
Date uploaded: March 13, 2013
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Crossrail appoints Futurecity to support Crossrail Art Programme
The Crossrail Art Programme will include permanent art commissions from leading artists within Crossrail’s new stations in central London and Docklands.
Date uploaded: March 13, 2013
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park: William Turnbull at Chatsworth
'William Turnbull at Chatsworth', a major exhibition of the important 20th century artist’s work that includes large-scale outdoor sculptures, paintings and drawings, is now open in Chatsworth House and Garden and runs until 30th June 2013.
Date uploaded: March 13, 2013
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River of Light: a celebration of the rivers of the world through public art
This summer the Red Deer River in Alberta, Canada will become the stage for a light installation that will transform the city's waterway into a River of Light.
Date uploaded: March 13, 2013
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Open Call for a New Pavilion for Coniston Cricket Club
Coniston Cricket Club with the Coniston Institute and Grizedale Arts are making an international open call to architects for a design for a new Cricket Pavilion.
Date uploaded: March 11, 2013
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HOUSE 2013: Mariele Neudecker, 4-26 May 2013
HOUSE, Brighton’s festival of art and domestic space, is pleased to announce Mariele Neudecker as Lead Artist for the 2013 edition of the Festival, in a co-commission with Brighton Festival.
Date uploaded: March 11, 2013
