Art is for the Public
A lot of galleries and museums in this city are free to visit and for this we are blessed. You don't get that everywhere you know, so in the spirit of all that is free and beautiful...
"Streetsy" is a street art photo blog that is sponsored by the Wooster Collective (as mentioned in a previous post of mine - "The writing on the wall"). People send pictures from all over the world, and there is some awesome stuff on there. It's all very graffiti based, but at the same time it often manages to be much more intriguing than the produce of what we generally think of as urban culture.
At the ICA on the 3rd of June, performance artist Tim Brennan is heading a tour around monuments in the area around the ICA in a specially commissioned walk-work, Monere Manoeuvre. The website states: "Brennan's practice is situated between performance art, historiography, archival procedures and travel writing. The title of this event evokes the root of the word monument in the verb monere, which means to remind or to warn."
But the biggest tip I have and the greatest thing I've seen for a while in terms of scale, is Channel 4's Big Art Mob. It is still fairly early days for this project, but I love sharing nature of it.
Big Art Mob is "...the UK’s first comprehensive survey of Public Art – based entirely on pictures from the camera phones of art-lovers nationwide. It aims to record for posterity the wealth of artworks in public places right across the country and serve as the focus of a dynamic national conversation."
There is a Barbara Hepworth sculpture that is above the entrance of one of the main department stores on Oxford Street. I think that there is something special about knowing that it is there, where most people don't think to look and there are so many other little things around the country that most people might miss, or forget. I honestly think projects like this help to enrich and preserve our culture, not to mention adding interest to your walk home from work. Get involved if you can.
Finally, if you haven't heard of PostSecret, then you should be ashamed. It's an online community Art Project I heard about in the Guardian a couple of years ago and although they have a book out now, the website is still one of the best things on the web. It consistently manages to stun, touch and occasionally terrify me. It's one hundred times more effective than any shock-art you'll ever see, just because it's real and pretty much ego-less. If only all the internet was this good...
Katherine Whitehouse
Creative Director
"Streetsy" is a street art photo blog that is sponsored by the Wooster Collective (as mentioned in a previous post of mine - "The writing on the wall"). People send pictures from all over the world, and there is some awesome stuff on there. It's all very graffiti based, but at the same time it often manages to be much more intriguing than the produce of what we generally think of as urban culture.
At the ICA on the 3rd of June, performance artist Tim Brennan is heading a tour around monuments in the area around the ICA in a specially commissioned walk-work, Monere Manoeuvre. The website states: "Brennan's practice is situated between performance art, historiography, archival procedures and travel writing. The title of this event evokes the root of the word monument in the verb monere, which means to remind or to warn."
But the biggest tip I have and the greatest thing I've seen for a while in terms of scale, is Channel 4's Big Art Mob. It is still fairly early days for this project, but I love sharing nature of it.
Big Art Mob is "...the UK’s first comprehensive survey of Public Art – based entirely on pictures from the camera phones of art-lovers nationwide. It aims to record for posterity the wealth of artworks in public places right across the country and serve as the focus of a dynamic national conversation."
There is a Barbara Hepworth sculpture that is above the entrance of one of the main department stores on Oxford Street. I think that there is something special about knowing that it is there, where most people don't think to look and there are so many other little things around the country that most people might miss, or forget. I honestly think projects like this help to enrich and preserve our culture, not to mention adding interest to your walk home from work. Get involved if you can.
Finally, if you haven't heard of PostSecret, then you should be ashamed. It's an online community Art Project I heard about in the Guardian a couple of years ago and although they have a book out now, the website is still one of the best things on the web. It consistently manages to stun, touch and occasionally terrify me. It's one hundred times more effective than any shock-art you'll ever see, just because it's real and pretty much ego-less. If only all the internet was this good...
Katherine Whitehouse
Creative Director
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