being a survey of friendly protests and other creative acts wholly illustrating the artist’s verve, love, wisdom and wit forged through spiritual engagement with life and self ina climate of creative constipation, impotence and aspirational fear heralded and compounded by an insular, moribund and timid cultural and critical elite Paintings, records, books, pamphlets, placards, film, photographs, exploration, sketches, notes, prints, clothing, prints, badges, jewellery,poetry, protest and wonderment Made in 2008 www.theaquariumonline.co.uk

Arun Khopkar’s award winning film on the life and career of Jehangir Sabavala to be introduced by Timothy Hyman. saturday 15th november 12:00 pm Ricorso has been extended to run until 22nd November 2008. Aicon Gallery 8 Heddon Street

My earliest vivid memory of a TV news report was one on the dirty protests at Northern Ireland’s Maze prison. Some earlier events left vague memories - Thatcher’s election as Conservative leader, the rescue of the US hostages from Iran, the Winter of Discontent - but those shit-covered H-Block walls and the hosepipes spraying them down are still clear in my mind as if I’d seen them yesterday. So tonight I went to see Steve McQueen’s film Hunger: (more…)

New installation by visual artist Pierre Bismuth and acclaimed director Michel Gondry, exploring the themes at the core of Gondry’s Oscar-wining film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The new Gallery commission at BFI Southbank is a collaboration between visual artist Pierre Bismuth and acclaimed film director Michel Gondry. For the BFI they have created a new version of The All-seeing Eye, an installation which explores, this time in the visual arts field, the themes at the core of the feature movie {...}