After my whinge about the lack of decent public art in Stratford, here comes a whole new festival of art, with a giant moving tent, no less! Lift comes from the same people that brought us the Sultan’s Elephant, apparently, and that was fabulous.
Festival events are running from the 12 June to the 6 July, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Art’
June 6, 2008
Lift festival lands in Stratford
May 19, 2008
The Mount Fear project / Facebook wades into London politics
I love this:
It’s a work by Abigail Reynolds called Mount Fear. The model landscape is generated from East London crime statistics. She describes it better:
The terrain of Mount Fear is generated by data sets relating to the frequency and position of urban crimes. Precise statistics are provided by the police. Each individual incident adds to [...]
May 14, 2008
Is public art a waste of space?
I know that’s the question that has been keeping you awake at night too. So on behalf of all of us I went to a free arts debate on the subject last week in the National Gallery. I’ll come back to it later but Apollo magazine has a good summary of the issues that came [...]
