April 2009
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Tate art made available on iTunes →
BBC news reports that the Tate galleries are to make hundreds of audio and video downloads available for free download from iTunes.
Will this open up art to new audiences, or just redistribute the same content to the same already-switched-on audience? Discuss.
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Whitechapel takeover - an intimate portrait of the... →
Check out this video of the Chapman brothers at work in their studio.
Filmed by none other than their Staffordshire bull terrier Kylie (ok with a bit of dad’s help!), it’s another knock at the old ‘but is it art?’ chestnut. Thoughts, barks?
Source: Guardian.co.uk
March 2009
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Art Galleries With Less of a Profit Motive... →
The New York Times reports on the “art-for-art’s-sake gallerists” of Bushwick, Brooklyn. These galleries are about art, community and culture, rather than business, the art ‘industry’ and big, big money.
Check out Jason Irwin’s Privateer Gallery and nonprofit arts foundation Norte Maar, Austin Thomas’s Pocket Utopia, and Garrison Buxton’s Ad Hoc...
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What makes Fuse a little bit different
We’re not artists and we’re not art dealers.
We’re people who believe in the importance of art and artists. We all love art (many kinds — we don’t tend to agree on any one or two) and we’re all genuinely passionate about being a catalyst in the artist-collector relationship.
So what’s next? Planning! We’ve got our culture-tracking radars switched...
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All about Fuse
Fuse is a pop-up gallery shaped by five London-based professionals.
Our mission is to create a temporary, flexible space for people to discover and explore art. We aspire to be the spark between artists, collectors and ideas, a place where people who love art connect with the art they love.
Fuse showcases work by emerging artists from London and beyond. Our shows are deliberately fleeting and...