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Yes, art fairs are foul – but we need them (Guardian Unlimited)
Let's face it: art fairs are exhausting and a terrible way to see work. But they're essential for galleries and artists
The peculiar delights of mannerist art (Guardian Unlimited)
For some it's an ugly, unspiritual perversion of Renaissance art. But mannerism's eccentric poetry has a rightful place in history
Arts diary: Leven shows its community spirit as Art Deco cinema is reborn (The Scotsman)
THE seaside town of Leven, in Fife, is getting ready for its close-up. After a mammoth effort by local citizens to return their 1922 Art Deco cinema to its former glory, it re
Urban art (BBC News)
Striking graffiti and art on walls around South Yorkshire
What is art? (The lawsuit version) (Arts Journal)
Superior Court Judge Richard J. Hicks of Thurston County, Washington, recently handed down a verdict that so ably parses the issue of the meaning of art as to be required reading in contemporary art issues classes.
Art reviews: Drawing for Instruction | Smugglerius Unveiled (The Scotsman)
DRAWING FOR INSTRUCTION: THE ART OF EXPLANATION **** SMUGGLERIUS UNVEILED *** TALBOT RICE GALLERY, EDINBURGH
Wine club talk on art fraud (Sussex Express)
THE PROBLEM of fraud in art will be discussed at the next meeting of Polegate Wine and Social Club.
New name wanted for old art college (Yorkshire Post Today)
PEOPLE in Doncaster are set to be asked to come up with a new name for the former art college on Church View. (10/03/2010 21:30:47)
Jenny Holzer, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (Independent)
We live in a jaded world where we are bombarded by information, much of it in the form of text. It must have been quite different when Jenny Holzer was setting out in the 1970s. She made her name in the pre-digital media stone age on the cutting edge of the New York underground art scene, pitching for the attention of passers-by with fly posters carrying a few well-chosen words pursuing ...
Live Art (London SE1)
Vodafone World of Difference winner Charlotte Pawle is organising an art fundraiser for children's charity Hope for Children.