Placing themselves amongst the myriad of art-events surrounding the Frieze Art Fair, the Museum of Everything opened their doors to the general public on Wednesday last week. While Frieze is certainly all about being ‘in’, the Museum of Everything displays more than 200 works by those most commonly referred to as outsider-artists. Situated just a [...]
Author Archives: Janina Pedan
Pete and Repeat at 176 Gallery
October 13, 2009 – 5:38 am
Set in the impressive environment of a former Methodist chapel, the 176 Gallery is currently showing a selection of artworks from the Zabludowicz Collection. The show, entitled Pete and Repeat, includes work by 35 contemporary artist and is curated around the rather broad theme of repetition. The fact that the works come from a private [...]
Sci-Emo – “We float like a mote of dust in the morning sky”
October 5, 2009 – 2:41 am
Carl Sagan was an astronomer who hosted several successful popular science shows in the 1970s and 80s. He was deeply involved in bringing different aspects of science to public attention and also made some groundbreaking contributions to the research into extraterrestrial life. He believed that the existence of other technological civilizations was highly probable, but [...]
Homemade – The South London Cultural Centre
September 21, 2009 – 12:25 pm
Cultural producers have always created their own support systems when the traditional routes provided by the art world feel either too stultifying or simply too boring. It might be premature to say that the opening of any given alternative art space is a consequence of the economic crisis, but it does seem as though the [...]
