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Seized - New Revenue & Customs Museum Opens This Week

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New gallery opens at Merseyside Maritime Museum

This weekend (May 17 -18 May 2008) sees the opening of a new permanent gallery at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, with two fun-filled days of activities.

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Almiro - 'Outside'

image'Outside' - Nathan and Anthony Pendlebury
Viewing Friday May 16 2008 18-21.00
Exhibition May 17 to June 2 2008

'Erpen' are 'Dad and Lad' artists Anthony Pendlebury and Nathan Pendlebury. Nathan and Anthony have exhibited and sold nationally and internationally.

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C.U.C. - Chester College Degree Show

chester college logoChester College Degree Show 2008
Viewing Friday May 16
Exhibition May 17 to May 26 2008

Departure is the culmination of three years of hard work from Fine Arts Students and Photography Students at The University of Chester.

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Editions - Angela Hackett

Exhibition ImageAngela Hackett - Recent Paintings
Exhibition May 16 to June 7 2008

These new works draw inspiration from flora of the natural landscape, gardens and floral displays.

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Gostins - Spaces, Places and People

small imageSpaces, Places and People - Paintings by Will Simmons and Peter Barker
Exhibition May 16 to June 21 2008

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View Two - Eyes and Ears

small image'Eyes & Ears' - Ken Martin and others
Exhibition May 15 to May 24 2008

View Two Gallery celebrates its passion for art and music with an exhibition and evening of live music. Artists and musicians selected by founder and owner of View Two, Ken Martin

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Bluecoat - Variable Capital
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Variable Capital (Opening Postponed Due to Fire at the Bluecoat)

Exhibition Friday 16 May – Sunday 29 June 2008

As a regenerated Liverpool enjoys its status as European Capital of Culture and anticipates the opening of Europe’s largest retail development, Variable Capital presents a timely comment on today’s consumer culture.

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JMU - Degree Shows - Details

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Final year art and design students showcase work across Liverpool
Various Venues and Dates from May 16 to June 26 2008

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John Lennon Complete Collection coming to Liverpool

john lennon small image John Lennon Exhibition. Complete Collection
at Daily Post & Echo Building
May 23 to June 2 2008

The exhibition will feature the Complete Collection of John Lennon’s artwork for the first time in their entirety in Liverpool.

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3345 Parr St. - Brigitte Vandenbulcke

small imageBrigitte Vandenbulcke - Abstract Oil Paintings
April 25 to May 30 2008

Fresh from a successful showing in the city of Brugge in the artist's native Belgium

 
Liverpool Academy of Arts - Randolph Caldecott

small image Randolph Caldecott
May 7 to May 16 2008

An exhibition in Conjunction with the UK Randolph Caldecott society of this famous Victorian children's book illustrator. Link: Randolph Caldecott

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Metal - Edge Hill Pavilion Now Open

small imageEdge Hill Station Pavilion Now Open
Opened to Public Saturday May 3 2008

Highlights to the summer programme include:
Friday Film screenings selected by local residents, Cabaret, Ganzfelds experiments in ESP,and a symposium on the Railway and Creativity.

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Egg - The World in One City

image'The World in One City'
Exhibition May 1 to May 26 2008

Showcasing typographic & illustrative posters based on the lyrics of songs with cities in their titles. Each artist designed one or more posters based on the lyrics of their chosen song.

 

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FACT - Eternal Youth Video Trailer & Interview

trailer imageHere is a trailer for - Al and Al's Eternal Youth at FACT (mpeg4)

and listen to our Podcast Interview with Al & Al here

 
Walker - 'Art in the Age of Steam'
imageArt in the Age of Steam
Exhibition 18 April 2008 - 10 August 2008 - Free admission

This major exhibition will capture the excitement of the steam train in art from the earliest days, through the boom years of Victorian railways to the end of the line in the 1960s.

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St George's Hall - Sikhs in Print

image small Sikhs in Print - A unique exhibition of historical images from the Singh Twin Studio archive - April 24 to June 20 2008
St George's Hall Exhibition Room, 3rd Floor
Open Tues - Sun 10.00 - 17.00. Free Admission
This exhibition offers a fascinating view of how the Sikh community has been depicted in print

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People's Centre - Four Artists

stuart easton image smallStuart Easton, Susan and David Brown , Lilly Colley
Exhibition 25th April to 30th May 2008

 

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Unity Theatre - Mike Bernard

bernard image smallMike Bernard Paintings
April 15 - May 17 2008

Mike Bernard sold his first painting from the Bluecoat Gallery whilst he was a student at the Art High School, Gambier Terrace

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New Slaughterhouse - Adrian Henri
imageAdrian Henri
Exhibition April 11 - May 16 2008
An exclusive Adrian Henri retrospective. Adrian’s career encompassed painting,
poetry, performance, song and playwriting.
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Open Eye - Anne Collier
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Anne Collier
Exhibition April 11 - May 24 2008

First solo exhibition in a UK public gallery by New York based artist Anne Collier. Over the past decade Collier has created a body of work that investigates the role of photographs in contemporary culture.

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National Conservation Centre - 'Metropolis'
imageMETROPOLIS: CAPTURING MODERN LIVERPOOL
Opens Friday March 21 to August 10 2008

Featuring over 60 images from the archives of Stewart Bale Ltd, a photographic practice based in Liverpool, the display spans a period of great change for the city.

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Artwork of the Week 18
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'rue Denovez 20e' by Kate McLean in 'The Other Side of Paris' at Domino
 
Diary of Events
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Check the Diary for Upcoming Events
 
Podcast for the Week May 14

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14/5/08 - This weeks show covers - Fire at the Bluecoat!, Futuresonic, Nexus at Edge Hill, Tate’s Birthday, Dream in St Helens and much much more.
 
Fire at the Bluecoat

bluecoat fire imageFire broke out at the Bluecoat in the early hours of Tuesday May 13.
UPDATE: This week's events including the opening of the Variable Capital
exhibition are postponed, cancelled or moved to alternative venues.

See below for further details

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View Two - Mike Absalom

small imagePeninsula by Mike Absalom
Exhibition May 15 to June 7 2008

Building on Irish artist Mike Absalom’s successful exhibition My Irish Eyes on Liverpool in 2007 at View Two, he returns in 2008 with The Peninsula

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Domino - The Other Side of Paris
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'The Other Side of Paris', photographs by Kate McLean.
Exhibition May 10 to June 14 2008
'Very Cartier-Bresson, all that capturing of moments and
I can just smell the gitane and petrol fumes.'
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Metropolitan Cathedral - The City Within

small image'The City Within' by Patricia McDonald
The exhibition runs from 2nd – 30th May, 2008

A new series of digitally produced and printed banners
and large scale digital and traditional prints.

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Contemporary Urban Centre - Design Show Liverpool
imageDesign Show Liverpool
June 19 to June 22 2008
The Contemporary Urban Centre venue will showcase the very best of product design, cutting-edge technology and stylish living. It will be a unique opportunity for the public to browse and buy from over 150 selected designers, who represent the best in regional, national and international design and contemporary fashion.
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Liverpool Academy of Arts - Red Dot Exhibitions

image small Red Dot Exhibitions - 'Hearts and Minds' Group Show
Exhibition May 7 to May 23 2008

Liverpool-based artist collective Red Dot are staging a new exhibition which will feature work by over twenty of their members.

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Cornerstone - Fine Art Degree Show

hope logoHope University's Fine Art Degree Show
at The Cornerstone Building
Open to Public Monday May 26 to Friday May 30 2008

http://www.hope.ac.uk/untangled

 
HUB Festival 2008 - Line Up Confirmed

hub small imageHUB Festival 2008
Otterspool Park May 17/18 2008
11.00 - 18.00 FREE

Line Up confirmed. Includes 250 foot Graffiti Wall. Details and Video on the blog

 

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Bluecoat Display Centre - 'West Meets West'

small image'West Meets West'
Exhibition April 26 to May 31 2008

Curated by Maureen Bampton and Mike Holmes of Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, this unique exchange exhibition will send UK jewellers and metalworkers to the USA and bring USA artists to Liverpool.

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Liverpool Cityscape Complete

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Ben Johnson's Liverpool Cityscape is now complete
and goes on show at the Walker from May 24th.

Full story and a bigger picture on the blog

 
Tatton Park Biennial Opens May 3

tatton image small Tatton Park Biennial
May 3 to September 2008

Tatton Park Biennial is a new contemporary art event for the UK being staged from May to September 2008 and presented in association with Cheshire’s Year of Gardens 08. Over 30 artists, performers and writers.

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FACT - Al & Al

al and al imageAl & Al - 'Eternal Youth'
April 18 - June 8 2008

Renowned and respected for their work with blue-screen computer generated video, AL and AL‘s new work, developed through an artists’ residency at Edge Hill station in partnership with Metal, is inspired by Liverpool’s unique society, history and politics.

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Lark Lane Atelier - Seymour Family

john seymour imageAn exhibition of 'Art Works By The Extended Family Of John Seymour'.
Exhibition April 20 - June 14 2008
Books by the late John Seymour, acknowledged leader of care for nature and the environment, will also be on sale.

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Site - Martha Rosler Library
martha rosler library imageThe Martha Rosler Library
Exhibition April 12 to June 14 2008

Established in 2005, this unique collection of around 7,700 books first opened as a storefront reading room for the New York-based arts project e-flux.

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Walker - Terry Duffy 'Standing Stones'

image 1STANDING STONES by Terry Duffy
Exhibition April 26 to June 8 2008

The title Standing Stones is a metaphor for humanity. It expresses Duffy's long-term fascination with humankind's legacy and the decisions made for good or evil by individuals, groups, societies and cultures.

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Beatles Story - Backstage at CBS
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The Beatles! Backstage and Behind the Scenes at CBS!
April 4 to August 15 2008

The exhibition documents the whirlwind few months of 1964 when the Beatles took America by storm and changed pop music for ever.

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Tate - DLA Piper Series
the kissDLA Piper Series: The Twentieth Century: How it looked & how it felt.
Until April 2009

A major new display of some of the best works from the Tate Collection.

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