Altermodern, the fourth Tate Triennial, which will present some of the best new contemporary art in Britain, opens at Tate Britain on 3 February 2009. It includes works in all media - from photography, film and video, to extraordinary installations - and features many new works being shown for the first time. The exhibition proposes a definition for a new form of art that celebrates a fresh energy and spirit in contemporary culture. Altermodern has been conceived by Nicolas Bourriaud, Gulbenkian {...}

LIFE is teaming up with Google to create a massive online database of more than 10 million photos from the 1750s through to today. It is a work in progress but there is already an impressive collection of photographs online now. The LIFE photography archive is hosted here by Google. There’s an excellent collection of Pablo Picasso pictures here. The Google Image Search is free for personal and research purposes. Copyright and ownership of all images will remain with Time Inc. Searching for {...}

12. Dec - 7. Feb 09 Bloomberg SPACE presents newlycommissioned series of work by four artists who share an interest in photographic portraits yet follow a variety of specific approaches. Within comes out of a completely open, yet at the same time quite specific, brief. Asked to consider “the group” as their subject but to represent the individuals within that group. Each artist, already known for working with varying levels of representation, spent some time thinking about who they might like to portray {...}

Exhibition Runs: 2nd - 7th December 2008. 12-7pm Ada street gallery is pleased to present ‘9 Stories’, a solo exhibition by photographer Christian Smith. This exhibition brings together work made in the last 6 years and features a series of photographic stories taken in Milan, Stockholm, Spain,Los Angeles and London. The scenes captured are both real and staged with the subject often actively participating in the construction of the narrative. The result is filmic and often dreamlike image sequences that {...}

www.crisplondonlosangeles.com CRISP LONDON LOS ANGELES presents L.A. based Kelly Kleinschrodt. Deep Space is the artist’s solo debut to London and Los Angeles, showing concurrently in both cities from 7 November - 13 December 2008. (more…)

An installation: films, sound system, arcade games, posters, stickers, comics, t-shirts, badges, kung fu artefacts PREVIEW: WEDS 10 SEPT 6-9pm Featuring a live sound clash: The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim versus The Legendary Manasseh Sound System Sound release: Barefoot Skank - the Manasseh dub instrumental soundtrack to Blandy’s Samurai Story film (more…)