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A recent work by Vong Phaophanit - Field of Wheat - has recently arrived on the grounds of the Cass Sculpture Foundation. Formed from a series of highly polished, steel rods resembling sheaves of wheat, Field of Wheat's delicate structure sways in the wind, making a faint musical sound as the rods knock gently together. Read more

We are pleased to announce the installation of Untitled by Tania Kovats on the Foundation's grounds. This is the first work by Kovats to become part of the Foundation's ever-changing display. Untitled is made of two long stone monoliths, smooth slate-coloured surfaces contrast with the rough, craggy side profiles, hewn to expose the rhythmic strata running through the rock. One a bench, the other a counter, each stone mirrors the other, separated by a chasmic void - a Grand Canyon in miniature. Read more

Birmingham based PR and design agency Seal announces three key promotions for its Birmingham office as part of its five year strategic plan to focus on its award winning on and offline talent...

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An innovative multi-platform media production course that helps young people to break into the industry is making a welcome return to the North West. 'Northern Lights', which is funded by Vision+Media, is a four-week programme...

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We have added six new video files today to our new Lightroom 3 Video Tutorial ; Numbers 38 through 43, which are found in zipfiles 27 through 30. This will be the last time files are added before the final videos are completed on or before September 15th. - Slideshow - Web - Keywords & Painter - Metadata - Metadata changes made outside of Lightroom - XMP sidecar Files This is your last chance at the 10% off Pre-Publication Sale price. If you've already purchased our LR3 tutorial, just log onto your account on the LuLa Store and download them. BUT FIRST – Please Read the New Table of Contents PDF. ___________________ "These tutorials have ma...

Design legend Peter Saville, best known for his album covers for Factory Records, has designed the new England football shirts for Umbro, which they will wear on their Euro 2012 qualifying match on Friday against Bulgaria, reports Creative Review . Saville's contribution is to have tiny sewn crosses in different colours on the shoulder area of the shirt, referencing trends from menswear tailoring - Umbro are also tagging the shirts 'tailored by Umbro'. It's attracting rather a lot of criticism, as the crosses can't really be seen by cameras during games, though reportedly Saville's brief was to include colour on the shirt whilst keeping the shirt white.

Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, is soon to open a museum in his home country of Mexico, reports Reuters. Slim's Soumaya museum, named for his late wife, is expected to open in November, and will house his collection of artwork by French sculptor Auguste Rodin, considered the biggest outside France. The museum, designed by son-in-law Fernando Romero, is a six-story, chimney-shaped structure covered in shiny panels. It will be the anchor of a new development, including offices, apartments and retail, that Slim is building in western Mexico City with an initial investment of $750 million.

Update: Earlier we reported that a courier was being sued for losing a painting on a drunken night out, but now, as Associated Press reports, the case has been dropped and the plot thickens. The painting, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Portrait of a Girl (1857) was, it appears, owned by more than one person, and owner Kristyn Trudgeon, who was bringing the case against the courier James Carl Haggerty, has now dropped the case. This is because the painting's co-owner, Thomas Doyle, has been identified as a recognised art thief. Doyle pleaded guilty in 2007 to the theft of an Edgar Degas sculpture from a wealthy collector, and spent two and a half years in jail. Attempts have been made to cont...

Building on its successful performance in the US, The Style Glossy has debuted in the United Kingdom. Recognised as the personal style resource for women, the award-winning online programme will create content tailored specifically to the region's interests...

Lulu Li was this week announced as the winner of the inaugural GAM Gilbert de Botton Art Prize for new talent. The Chelsea College of Art and Design student was selected for her series of five temporal installations and was presented with the award at the opening of the College's annual postgraduate show...

The first 'bpma Design Innovation Award', sponsored by 3M, has been won by Andrea Pisa, a design student at Brunel University. The Competition challenges UK based undergraduate design students to create a new product idea for the promotional merchandise industry...

Smoking Gun PR, the Manchester based PR agency, launched earlier this year by Rick Guttridge, has scooped another double win. Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses and Greenhalgh's Craft Bakery Ltd - both north-west, family-owned, artisan food companies - boost the agency's burgeoning portfolio of brands...

James Whitworth is a topical cartoonist and writer. He has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines, including Creative Boom...

Once every five years Canon holds a technology exposition. The latest took place in New York City, opening yesterday, September 1st. This event is for Canon's customers and partners (as well as selected media), and includes business, education and government participants. Attendance is by invitation only. I spent the day at the show, and while there was only one new product announced – the Canon XF100 and XF105 video cameras, there was an impressive array of expo type future products on display. I have just posted a brief overview of the show and also a 2 minute video that tries to give a taste of what it was like. ___________________ "These tutorials have made ...

book now Event Dates: 30-31 Mar 2011 On sale Friday 3rd Sept 9am. Star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and if.comedy Best Newcomer, Sarah Millican, has announced an extension to her hugely popular debut tour, Chatterbox, which opened to rave reviews in August at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. read more

Lulu Li has won the inaugural Gilbert de Botton Art Prize for emerging talent. The installation artist - a student Chelsea College of Art and Design - was awarded the £5,000 prize fund by a jury consisting of Raven Row director Alex Sainsbury, Haunch of Venison curator Nina Miall, artist Gary Hume and critic Louisa Buck.

The performance artist Ann Liv Young is to return to MoMA PS1 this weekend, reports the New York Times , six months after her controversial turn at the Brooklyn Is Burning event was cut short by director-curator Klaus Biesenbach. Back then Young, in the guise of her alter-ego Sherry, masturbated and peed on stage, and delivered a tirade of insults to fellow artist Georgia Sagri, who was also on the performance weekend's bill. Sagri reacted, from the audience, and reportedly had to be restrained, before Bisenbach stepped in and ordered the electricity to be cut. The decision to allow Young back - for a lecture on Sunday in which she will lead a discussion on the merits of her original appea...

Michael Snow if off to court, the Toronto Star reports. The artist and video pioneer is seeking CAN$950,000 in damages from the developers of an apartment block in Toronto, after Snow claims they reneged on a commission for a public art work from him. The apartment block is adjacent to and on top of the Bell Lightbox, the new home to the Toronto International Film Festival. Snow says that though no contract had even been signed, he was counting on the good faith of the King John Festival Corporation - a venuture involving the festival - and has worked on his idea for a large-scale sculpture over many years.

Three leading brands operating in the home enhancement market have turned to Hangar Seven for their retail photography requirements. The Cheshire-based photography studio has been...

The autumn edition of UK Handmade magazine brings with it a flavour of Japan, with recipes including Japanese-inspired cup cakes, a fabric 'Furoshiki' gift-wrapping tutorial...

Charlie Boots is the latest name in ethical fashion this week after a new label was launched in Bristol. The label "Charlie Boots" is the brainchild of Charlie Harrison, a local fashion designer who creates original, stylish womenswear from ethically sourced materials...

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book now Event Dates: 14 Nov 2010 Extra date added on the 14th November. If u is reading this then u is an idiot coz u don't have to! If u is still reading this my name is Lee Nelson and I'm a massive legend. I live in London and I done a TV show on BBC called Lee Nelson's Well Good Show. Over 500 million people watched it and it was such a success that I banged 62 birds. Since then I've been doin some relaxing and going out. If u didn't see the series then I'm sure someone from China will sell u a copy. read more

book now Event Dates: 23 Oct 2010 Winner of Edinburgh Best Comedy Show 2010. Additional date added 23rd October. In his new show, the triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and co host of ITV2's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here NOW! explores self, family, and the consequences of his Dad buying his own council house. Sociological silliness and high energy contortions guaranteed. read more

It's been in the pipeline for quite some time and sure enough, the new Creative Boom design will be launching very soon. We're very excited and hope you'll like it because it's the first time we've stepped away from Wordpress themes and created something bespoke...

Adobe has just released Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2. These are available for download here . There is support for a number of new cameras, including the Canon EOS 60D, Fuji FinePix HS10, Panasonic DMC-FZ100, Panasonic DMC-FZ40 (FZ45), Panasonic DMC-LX5, Pentax 645D, Samsung NX10, Samsung TL500 (EX1), Sony A290, Sony A390, Sony Alpha NEX-3, Sony Alpha NEX-5, Sony SLT-A33, Sony SLT-A55V. There are also more than 120 new lens profiles available as part of the free download update. What's very gratifying to note is that many of these new cameras aren't even shipping yet, which means that these manufacturers are working closely with Adobe to provide early samples for profiling. One m...

The photographer Corinne Day, best known for her fashion photography, has died after a long battle with cancer. Day emerged in the 1990s in tandem with Kate Moss, who she photographed regularly. Her style of photography was notable for being grungy and documentary-like - she shot Moss in her own messy flat for British Vogue in 1993 - and her photographic style was extremely influential in British and international fashion. Her more documentary works have been shown at the Photographer's Gallery and the V&A.

Robert Devereux, Richard Branson's brother-in-law and former business partner at Virgin, has announced that he is to sell his art collection, using the proceeds to form a charity that will help African artists, The Observer reports. Consisting of 329 post-war paintings, sculptures and prints - including works by Frank Auerbach, Anthony Caro and Lucian Freud - Sotheby's, who are handling the auction have valued the sale at £4m. Devereux, who's business interests now involve the Soho House group, is quoted as stating "It can be a struggle to be an artist wherever you are, but in Africa the lack of resources makes the challenge infinitely greater".

Bahrain has won the Golden Lion for best national pavilion in the Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened last week. This was the country's first official participation in the biennale and their exhibition, through three former fisherman huts transported from their original location to Venice, explored the decline of sea culture in the Gulf state.

Director and filmmaker Gregg Masuak studied at film school and started his career as a cameraman before deciding to direct. He has recently launched his first project - a short film called FireBall... Read what he has to say about himself here...

Working closely with his subjects - many of whom have since become household names - Peter Anderson's photographs capture the energy of an era when music, fashion and politics first collided. It is a time that is still deeply influential today...

Following the success of last year, international digital arts festival North East of North, NEoN, returns to Dundee this November with over a month of various exciting and inspiring events and exhibitions, all focused on this year's theme of 'character'...

Revolve Gallery, a new art gallery showcasing the best contemporary Northern artists, is to open in the Ribble Valley. The gallery has relocated from Manchester city centre to 30, Castle Street, Clitheroe, and is open to the public before an...

James Whitworth is a topical cartoonist and writer. He has contributed to a number of newspapers and magazines, including Creative Boom...

We have just made available seven new videos to our new Lightroom 3 Video Tutorial videos 30 through 37, within Zip files 23-26. These include... - Print 1: Page Setup, Settings & Resolution - Print 2: Print Sharpening & Color Management - Print 3: Page Panel, Print to JPEG, Picture Packages - Identity Plate - Lightroom 3 & CS4 - a gotcha! - Roundtrip to Photoshop (Soft Proof) - Merge to Panorama with Photoshop - Sync Develop Settings If you've already purchased our LR3 tutorial, just log onto your account on the LuLa Store and download them. BUT FIRST – Please Read the New Table of Contents PDF. ___________________ "These tutorials h...

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution, by Dennis Dutton, Oxford University Press 2009. A review by David Maclagan.

Both the Institute of Contemporary Art's Executive Director, Ekow Eshun, and the Chairman of the troubled institution's council, Alan Yentob, have announced that they will be leaving the London arts centre, it emerged late in the working day, Friday. There has been no official explanation of the development, other than a rushed-out early evening press release (its a public holiday in the UK this Monday - meaning it's a perfect time to slip out something you want to pass under the radar) stating that having now set some sort of stable platform for the ICA's future (it was rumoured to be on the brink of closure following a financial crisis earleir this year) Eshun felt it was time to move on....

Audi have awarded their first Urban Future Award to architecture firm J. Mayer H. The car company invited practices to develop a conceptual design for a sustainable city of the future. The Berlin firm were awarded the EUR100,000 prize - over a shortlist of Alison Brooks Architects, Bjarke Ingels Group, Cloud9 and Standardarchitecture - at the fourteenth century Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice on Wednesday.

The Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist Satoshi Kon has died, aged 46. The director made his debut in 1997 with Perfect Blue, which was followed by Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika and a television series Paranoia Agent. The Dream Machine, the director's fifth film, will be released posthumously. Kon penned a final public statement for his blog (English translation here ) - posted by family members yesterday. He signed off with the epitaph "Now excuse me, I have to go".

Expansion continues at The fresh Group as Michael McCabe joins as Director of Video and Interactive, working alongside Judith Ross, Head of Interactive, and Gareth Crook, Head of Video...

In the early half of the eighteen hundreds the French Neo-Classical painter Ingres sneeringly described the younger Romantic painter Delacroix as "a disciple of ugliness". A century later the French novelist Jean Genet claimed that "Ugliness is Beauty at rest." Between these two events stretches the Romantic revolution in art.

'Tis the season for new product announcements. Photokina is just around the corner and all of the major manufacturers seem hell-bent on announcing their latest offerings a month before the show even opens. (Can't let the other guy beat us to the punch, can we?) Nikon announced the D3100 along with several lenses last week, and Sony began this week with four new camera (A33, A55, A560 and A580). There have also been about 712 new point-and-shoot (but who's counting)? Today, it's Canon's turn with the announcement of the 60D and six new L series lenses. The Canon 60D is the replacement for the 50D and will be available at the end of September for about US $1,100. It features an 18 M...

The Cass Sculpture Foundation welcomes its largest-ever sculpture - Gerry Judah's Alpha . Gifted to the Foundation by Gerry Judah and Alfa Romeo , the original structure of Alpha, commissioned by the Goodwood Estate , has been reworked as the Cass Sculpture Foundation's most monumental sculpture to date. Read more

The National Gallery of Canada have announced Stephen Shearer - known for his interest in teen culture, materialising itself as photo montage works and playful sculptural installations - as its representative in next year's Venice Biennale. the gallery's director and CEO Marc Mayer said of Shearer "Under its pop cultural surface, Steven Shearer's work is surprisingly complex and insightful. By showing us aspects of popular culture anachronistically, and from so many different points of view, he exposes the false hierarchy of high and low art and prompts us to consider the more interesting differences between the cultural industries and the art world. Shearer's intelligence and originality a...

From the second week of August until the end of September there will be refurbishment works in the outer foyer of the Bloomsbury Theatre. This will include the relocation of our box office and replacement of the theatre building's front doors as well as a much overdue update to the foyer's appearance. To enable the work to take place, we will have reduced opening hours of our box office telephone lines during August (10am-2pm Mon-Fri only), returning to our usual telephone opening hours (10-6pm Mon-Fri, 12-6pm Sat) from the 31st August. Also, with the exception of ticket collections and purchase before each performance, we will be closed to counter customers until the end of September. ...

Sony today is introducing three new DSLRs and three new lenses. These include the A560, A55 and A33, as well as a Zeiss Distagon T* 24mm F2, a DT 35mm F1.8 SAM and an 85mm F2.8 SAM. I had an opportunity to work for several days last week with the exciting new A55, and have just published my Sony A55 Preview Field Report . ___________________ Phase One and Mamiya have announced the long-awaited vertical grip for the DF cameras. You can find out more about it on the Phase One site . The V-Grip Air should be available at the end of September for US $1,290, with the optional Profoto wireless receiver at $199. ___________________ "These tutorials have made my understandi...

LAXART has appointed Malik Gaines as its curator. Gaines is no stranger to the Los Angeles nonprofit gallery having previously worked on several projects in a freelance capacity, including the 2008 Anna Sew Hoy solo show and a Kalip Linzy exhibition in 2006. Gaines' first contract job will be the programme for next year's Pacific Standard Time public art and performance festival.

Christoph Schlingensief, the German director of stage and film, actor and artist, has died aged 49. Schlingensief, who was due to represent Germany at the Venice Art Biennale next year, had suffered from lung cancer for over two years. Always controversial, Schlingensief particularly enraged the conservative media with his 2004 production of Wagner's Parsifal in which he used an image of a rotting hare as the opera's backdrop.

The director Richard Lester - best known for the films he made with the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965) - has donated his papers to the British Film Institute's national archive, the organisation has announced. The collection, stored in over 60 boxes, contains draft scripts, correspondence and stills. Lester said of the donation, "It is a pleasure for me to be able to offer them the detritus of my working life."

I always enjoyed the story of how Ludwig Wittgenstein, after delivering a four-hour lecture to his class in Cambridge on the intricacies of some logical problem, would then go to a movie in town (his favorite genre was the American Western) and sit in the front row, letting the images inundate his overheated brain.

Convergence is happening – like it or not. Just about every new DSLR model has HD video, and now Sony has introduced the world's first  interchangable lens, APS-C sized sensor camcorder, the Sony VG10. Along with a small group of web and print journalist I spent part of last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park working with the VG10 and its included E mount 18-200mm lens. My Sony NEX VG10 HD Camcorder / 14MP Stills Camera Field Report is now online.  ___________________ "These tutorials have made my understanding of much of the digital world so much easier. It is far easier to watch these two experts and learn than trying to unde...

We have just made available five new videos to our new Lightroom 3 Video Tutorial in Zip files 20, 21 & 22. This is the final hour on the Develop Module. - Lens Correction - Effects - Camera Calibration - Spot Removal - Sync & Auto-Sync If you've already purchased our LR3 tutorial, just log onto your account on the LuLa Store and download them. BUT FIRST – Please Read the New Table of Contents PDF. ___________________ "These tutorials have made my understanding of much of the digital world so much easier. It is far easier to watch these two experts and learn than trying to understand from some of the 'encyclopedias' that are on the mar...

ArtReview is the media partner for Daydreaming with James Lavelle , a weekend-long collaborative exhibition at Haunch of Venison featuring UNKLE's James Lavelle alongside a plethora of names from music, art, film, fashion and design. Daydreaming With... have generously offered a pair of tickets to be won by an ArtReview.com reader to UNKLE On Screen, at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square on Tuesday 31 August. The event features the screening of a selection of UNKLE music videos, including the John Hillcoat directed video for the band's new single The Answer, and commercials scored by the band, as well as the feature film Odyssey in Rome, directed by Alex Grazioli and scored by...

There are a vast number of useful apps for the iPhone, but one that pro photographers may find of use is ID-Release , a model release manager. Contributor Jim Martin today provides us with his review. ___________________ I have been shooting near Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park this past week with the exciting new Sony VG-10 and 18-200mm lens. The VG-10 is the world's first camcorder with a large sensor (APS-C) and interchangable lenses. It is also a still camera with a 14MP sensor as well as being a camcorder. How did it fare? Watch for my field report by the weekend. ___________________ "These tutorials have made my understanding of much of the d...

Marquettes from the artists shortlisted for the next Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square have been unveiled. The winning work will occupy the plinth next year, taking the place of the current work, Yinka Shonibare's Ship in a Bottle. It's Never Too Late And You Can't Go Back by Mariele Neudecker Battenberg by Brian Griffiths Untitled (ATM/Organ) by Allora and Calzadilla Sikandar by Hew Locke Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 by Elmgreen & Dragset Hahn / Cock by Katharina Fritsch

Thomas Kellein has been appointed the director of the Chinati Foundation, it has been announced. Kellein's appointment comes after the retirement of Marianne Stockebrand, who has been with the museum for six years. Kellein is an authority on Donald Judd - the artist who founded the complex of galleries in Marfa, Texas in 1986 - and has been the director at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany for the past 14 years.

A group of leading galleries has announced the launch of the first major online art fair, named the VIP Art Fair, spearheaded by James and Jane Cohan. Taking place in the quiet, post-Christmas lull of 22-30 January, 2011, the fair will allow collectors to browse online, offering such interactive features as a scaling system for measuring the artworks alongside other works and human figures. The 'human touch' will be replicated using Skype and instant messaging so that dealers won't miss out on presenting a bit of patter. Founding galleries include Gagosian, White Cube, Sadie Coles HQ, Xavier Hufkens and David Zwirner.

Event Dates: 5 Sep 2010 Sold Out The Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-winning co-creator of The Office and Extras tries out some new material before London run. With support. read more