Artist Curator Gavin Wade - NP Exclusive Video Interview

An exclusive video interview with artist curator Gavin Wade at the opening of the new gallery Eastside Projects in the heart of Digbeth the new cultural quarter of Birmingham UK. Gavin talks to Now Public about 'this...

UPDATE: This is the gallery and the gallery is many things

Update: Video Interview with Gavin Wade now available HERETonight see's the opening of Eastside Projects a new gallery space that is also art itself. I will be attending the opening and hope to report back with...

UK homes are smallest in Europe

UK is facing an extreme space crunch and now houses are becoming smaller and smaller. London has the smallest house in the Europe and to end this woes London Mayor Boris Johnson has threatned to make a law about minimum space standards on all council flat houses. The Mayor...

Turtles return home after UK stay

Two stranded endangered turtles  were  released  into the sea  on UK  coast  after they landed British coastline sometime back."Two loggerhead turtles, which were washed up on the south-west UK coast this winter, have been flown to Gran Canaria...

Norwegian blue parrot did exist

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Superheroes Invade Met's Costume Institute

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to be filled with a superheroic, couturiered assortment of capes, spandex, and transformative suits, as its new Costume Institute exhibit, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy"...

California lowriders become art, big business

I've always been a fan of lowriders.  Not so good with the kids car seats but hard to beat their style.  Maybe I'll trade in the kids and get myself one in the name of art."LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) -...

Curator arrested over Indonesia museum theft

"The recent alleged thefts are not the first to strike the museum, which sits in a city that is a historic centre of high Javanese culture. Before being named a suspect in the current theft case, curator Dharmodipuro...

Blooming plant goes through roof

"A rare Mexican plant which flowers once in its lifetime has blossomed, smashing a glasshouse roof in the process. Scientists at Bangor University waited 28 years to see the Century plant, from which tequila can be made, bloom. A curator, who had planted the seed as a student...

10,000th visitor to Museum of Free Derry

"The Museum of Free Derry, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, recently celebrated its 10,000th visitor this year, indicating just how popular the Bogside facility is becoming with local people and visitors alike. Robbie Robertson, from Govanhill in Glasgow, was visiting the city...

Mexican Curator Killed During Venice Biennale

This is really sad and awful - I hadn't heard about it. Priamo Lozada, curator of the artspace Laboratoria Aarte Alameda in Mexico City ,was killed June 14, 2007 in Venice when he fell out a 3rd story window while...

Roaches, get your roaches here! 25 cents a piece!

How many roaches have you squashed in your life? I know I've manhandled a few of those scurrying little suckers in my time, but maybe I should have just caught them instead. Because now, I could make a pretty penny...

Protein from T.rex's leg bone shows link to chicken

"Researchers have decoded proteins from a 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, the oldest such material ever found. The unprecedented step, once thought impossible, adds new weight to the idea that today's birds...

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New Media, Modern Twist

" The Museum of Modern Art announced yesterday that it had created a new curatorial department to focus exclusively on the growing number of contemporary artworks that use sound and moving images in gallery...

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