Hidden Gems : Top 10 Summer Arts Festivals
Bored of big-name festivals with less than impressive line-ups? Feed your creativity this summer with something a little out of the ordinary Shambala August 22-25 Located in the heart of the Northamptonshire countryside, Shambala is an arts festival with a difference. Offering everything from a wide range of musical acts, to cabaret, workshops, stand-up comedy, [...]
Leeds Must-See: Harewood House
Anna Beketova explores one of Leeds’ top attractions and unearths some of its artistic delights, including the current ‘In Cloud Country: Abstracting from Nature’ exhibition Next weekend if you find yourself craving some more aesthetic stimulus than the graffiti strewn streets of Hyde Park, jump on the number 36 bus – 20 minutes and £3.50 later you could [...]
A Closer Look At… Abstract Expressionism
Moving firmly away from the past, works of art that culminate to create the movement we call Abstract Expression focus primarily on the notions of the ‘new’ and the active role of the artist. With paintings on a canvas no longer consumed by a series of pictorial representations or narrative tales, audiences in the early [...]
Art | The Most Expensive Paintings of All Time
Sotheby’s art auction last week cements the fact that even in our less-than-stable economic climate, the value of good art is on the rise every day- and people are certainly willing to pay good money for it. The auction in London brought in a staggering £74 million- Sotheby’s second-highest total for a February sale of [...]
Interview | Village Books
Village are a newly established independent art bookstore. Based in the Corn Exchange in Leeds City Centre, the shop also deals in creative magazines and zines, functioning as a small publishing house. Kelechi Anucha caught up with Ben Holmes, one half of the partnership behind the project. ‘I graduated from Leeds University about two years [...]
Instagram and Lomography: The Reel Deal?
Current fads see us reaching for our smartphones to capture the moment with a Lo-fi filter. Marysia Korzeniowska considers whether our passion for quick fixes is eroding the traditional art of photography. What camera do you shoot with? Instagram. The new fad is readily available for anyone who enjoys taking pictures, providing users with the [...]
Remodelling the Female Nude
Holly Holder explores Yossi Loloi’s new photography project ‘FullBeauty’. Is this radical shift in the depiction of the female nude positive or simply shocking? The female nude is one of the longest standing contentious issues in the History of Art. The depiction of beauty as virginal and pure, beginning with Botticelli’s The [...]
Art | Vandalism in Art
In light of recent events in the art world, Hannah Woodhead explores instances where artworks have been subject to vandalism. Is there ever artistic merit in defacing a work of art, or is it a simple act of selfishness? It’s hard to walk down any street in Leeds without catching sight of a wall daubed [...]
Art | Farewell, Old Flo!
After braving the elements in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the last fifteen years, the colossal Henry Moore sculpture ‘Draped Seated Woman’, although commonly known as ‘Old Flo’, is facing a controversial move. The sculpture has been reclaimed by its owner, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, who plans to sell her to offset funding [...]
November 23, 2012