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Halfslant is very excited to release this video celebrating our upcoming Nowa Soda: Solvay Transformed project in Krakow, Poland and to send out a call for donations. With original music by Alex Bleeker of Real Estate and a T-shirt by artist Ester Partegas rewarding any donation of $100 and over, this video aims to raise the remaining funds to support the proposed projects of artists Hagen Betsweitzer, Ninar Esber, Tara Hughes-Hall and Luke Montgomery at the Centre for Contemporary Art Solvay opening May 13th, 2010

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WE LOVE: Smiling Face Film from Yoko Ono

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March
19th

smile WE LOVE: Smiling Face Film from Yoko Ono

Go to the site uploading a smiling face to flickr just be happy and make everyone else happy www.smilingfacefilm.com/
My ultimate goal in film-making is to make a film which includes a smiling face snap of every single human being in the world. Of course, I cannot go around the whole world and take the shots myself. I need cooperation from something like {...}

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Harry Pye Presents “Another Time, Another Place” Preview: Friday 19 March

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March
19th

harry-pye-presents Harry Pye Presents Another Time, Another Place Preview: Friday 19 March

Harry Pye Presents “Another Time, Another Place”
with Marcus Cope, Cedar Lewisohn, Stephanie Moran, Chloe Mortimer
Preview: Friday 19 March 6 - 9PM Open Sat - Sun 1 - 6PM 20 March - 4 April

Harry Pye, Marcus Cope, Cedar Lewisohn, Stephanie Moran, Chloe Mortimer.
A collborative project initatied by Cedar Lewisohn and Harry Pye. The show will include paintings and sculptures {...}

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ANDREW RANVILLE - ROOTS RADICAL at HIVE Projects | T1+2 Gallery Saturday March 20th

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March
18th

ranville_ramp_tilt500 ANDREW RANVILLE - ROOTS RADICAL at HIVE Projects | T1+2 Gallery Saturday March 20th
ANDREW RANVILLE - ROOTS RADICAL
Curated by Nadim Samman

20 March – 22 April 2010 Private View: Saturday 20 March, 7-10pm
Are ecology and urbanism mutually exclusive? Is there such a thing as sustainable sculpture? Where does guerrilla gardening meet romantic conceptualism? Provisional answers can be found in Roots Radical.

Following his successful exhibition at Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange Gallery {...}

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David James OUT OF PRINT -Digital Exhibition ONLINE NOW

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March
18th

049_1997 David James OUT OF PRINT -Digital Exhibition ONLINE NOW
Out Of Print A digital exhibition by David James Through to May 1, 2010 davidjames-outofprint.com

Out of print is a carefully conceived digital exhibition that explores the changing nature of creative design and advertising over the last 20 years. Exhibiting mixed media works by acclaimed creative director David James in chronological order, the show illustrates a considered engagement with technology {...}

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A sculptor and a painter take to the ice for site-specific works addressing global warming

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March
18th

nasser-azam-2 A sculptor and a painter take to the ice for site-specific works addressing global warming
Image:Nasser Azam’s 13 large-scale paintings

Two artists separated by a continent—Ap Verheggen and Nasser Azam—recently completed independent climate-based projects, each using weather to indicate the outcome.

Verheggen, who calls Holland his home, installed the first in a series of four sculptures, which will all be placed in geographic areas undergoing severe climate changes (pictured above). Concerned that “climate {...}

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Valérie Jolly: Infra-Thin at The Alexia Goethe Gallery Private View Thursday 18th March

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March
18th

1273image Valérie Jolly: Infra-Thin at The Alexia Goethe Gallery Private View Thursday 18th March
19 Mar 2010 - 7 May 2010
Alexia Goethe Gallery is pleased to present Valérie Jolly’s first solo exhibition, “Infra-Thin”. Her ethereal sculptures and photographs could either be an apparition or in the process of vanishing, like a lasting impression or a fading memory.

Valérie Jolly’s delicate and fragile casts of everyday objects, echoes of the interstices between {...}

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42 Figurative Artists to exhibit at ‘Real’ 18-21 March Chelsea, London PV March 18th

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March
18th

nicholas-phillips 42 Figurative Artists to exhibit at ‘Real’ 18-21 March Chelsea, London PV March 18th

Image:7 O’clock News, 2001, Watercolour 410 x 600mm, Nicholas Phillips.

42 Figurative Artists to exhibit at ‘Real’ 18-21 March Chelsea, London
Go Figurative, the first online gallery and community exclusively for figurative art, will hold its first exhibition, Real at The Heatherley’s School of Art 18th to 21st March.

Real comprises a wide range of contemporary figurative art, including works {...}

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Billy Childish in Conversation with Matthew Higgs Thursday 18th March

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March
18th

thumbnail-billy-childish Billy Childish in Conversation with Matthew Higgs Thursday 18th March

Curator and artist Matthew Higgs is the director of White Columns in New York, where an exhibition of Childish’s paintings is being mounted in parallel with the ICA show. Tonight Higgs is in conversation with Billy Childish, discussing Childish’s work as a painter and printmaker in the context of his wider practice.

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The New Fantastic: Grems, Remed, Zbiok, 3TTMan, Pure Evil From Thursday 18th March

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March
17th

evil1 The New Fantastic: Grems, Remed, Zbiok, 3TTMan, Pure Evil From Thursday 18th March
First Thursday Event April 1: The Opening of an Envelope

Will people really turn up to the opening of an envelope?. The envelope will be opened at 8pm. All those in super hero costume will receive a free comic book created specially for the event.

Four free-minded artists, who enjoy playing with texts and colourful characters, create a new form {...}

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