For 10 weeks every two years Liverpool is transformed Euro into an amazing gallery of new art, showcasing the best of contemporary artist from around the world. In 2008 the festival is bigger and better than ever celebrating 10 years of ambitious and challenging work as well as Liverpool’s status as European Capital of Culture.
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The work of the four artists nominated for this year’s Turner Prize has gone on display at Tate Britain in London.
Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga, Runa Islam and Cathy Wilkes are competing for the accolade, given to outstanding projects by UK artists aged under 50.
The winner of the £25,000 prize will be named on 1 December.

Sophie O’Brien said: “The Turner Prize is about showing things that are intriguing and surprising and interesting. “It is about creating debate and I think this year is just like every other year.
“All of the four artists do very different things and I think it is a really exciting year and people should come and see for themselves.”

The Turner Prize has traditionally been won by bizarre and often controversial work.

Previous recipients include Gilbert and George, Damien Hirst, and transvestite potter Grayson Perry.
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Concrete and Glass, the pioneering music and contemporary art event taking place in East London cultural hotspot, Shoreditch on Thursday 2nd & Friday 3rd of October has lined up a truly stunning array of acts from the reassuringly well established to the most exciting new band’s emerging for what is set to be a true land mark event. upto date schedule here: http://cg08.sched.org/all

Curated by Eat Your Own Ears’ Tom Baker, alongside Steve Lamacq, John Kennedy, Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, Bloggers Delight, Merok, Witchita Recordings, The Wire, Time Out and The Stool Pigeon, amongst others, and held across a staggering 18 venues, Thursday 2nd October will kick off with Beyond The Wizards Sleeve the Balearic behemoth formed by erstwhile Trash promoter Erol Alkan and former grid member Richard Norris. Other notable acts playing on Thursday will include former Clor front-man Barry Dobbin’s new band Barringtone, the proggy power pop of the hotly tipped Cats In Paris, North London troubadour Kid Harpoon, Franki Valli remixer Pilooski with the Dirty Sound System, psychedelic rockers The Oscillation and synth-pop noise-niks Semi Finalists plus more special guests to be announced.
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Twenty. 3rd October- 5th November 2008 Opening Party- 2nd October, 7-9pm
Curated by Stanley Project www.stanleyproject.com
Taking as its nucleus many of the artists previously showing at the hugely successful ‘Tech-Mac-Mayacom’ in Tokyo in the summer of 2007, ‘Twenty.’ includes some of the most cutting edge and successful young artists currently working in London and Tokyo. Many of the artists have shown extensively in the UK and abroad and this exhibition seeks to represent the very best Art being produced now.

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British artist Damien Hirst has paid an undisclosed amount for a portrait of US socialite Paris Hilton made from images taken from pornographic magazines.

The collage - entitled Paris, 2008 - was the work of Jonathan Yeo, the son of former Conservative minister Tim. INFO LINK
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Legendary promoter and 1234 records boss Sean McLusky presents musical works of new neurotic realism performed live by S.C.U.M, Futurism VS. Passéism, Vegas Whores, Wire Rooms and with DJ sets from ­Sean McLusky and Les McKeown
Whitechapel Art Gallery

Friday September 26th
Hold and Freight, For Those Killed in Ambush, group show, curated by Robert Dingle and Tom Trevatt, 6-9pm, info: www.holdandfreight.org
Siteshow, group show curated by Sanja Sakic and John O’Hora, 7.30-10pm, 31 Warwick Square, SW1, info: www.siteshow.co.uk

Saturday September 27th
Bearspace, Sarah Baker, Studs, 5.30-7.30pm, info: www.bearspace.co.uk

Whitechapel Art Hunt III, 1 – 5pm, Art Hunt will lead you through the maze of contemporary galleries hidden in the area’s back streets. Discover amazing spaces and meet the scene’s artists, curators and gallery owners. Crack the code with the help of the people you meet to win prizes and find your way to a secret hidden gallery party. All you need is a sense of adventure. Part of Open Rehearsals weekend for the Cultural Olympiad
£6 per person, booking essential to receive the first clue
www.whitechapel.org/arthunt

Big Thanks as always to RUSSELL HERRON

John Baldessari forms an important bridge between Pop Art and Nouveau Realisme and the big crop of artists/photographers that belong to a younger generation”, according to the jury of the BACA International edition 2008, which is made up of Bice Curiger, Robert Storr and Alexander van Grevenstein.

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