Jon Sleigh works as a Learning Officer at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, where he has been hired to deliver an educational programme in national […]
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Exhibition review | Willard Wigan MBE: ‘In The Eye of The Needle’ | Museum of the Jewellery Quarter
Birmingham is the first city to see brilliant new microscopic artworks by the internationally renowned artist Willard Wigan MBE. His stunning solo show ‘In The […]
Exhibition review | Birmingham’s magical ‘Museum of the Moon’ | Thinktank
As an art historian, I usually spend my weekends in Birmingham’s best art galleries. However, I had heard that there was a gigantic moon recently […]
Arts careers | I want your job: Exhibitions Curator
Want to know how to become a museum curator in the UK? Everyone knows that securing a job in the museum sector is tough. So I […]
Artist in focus | West meets East in Samin Ahmadzadeh’s cross-cultural photography
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything […]
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Art event | ‘Wine & Watercolours’: RBSA & Artisan Alchemy
An email in my inbox reads: ‘Would you like to come to a ‘Wine and Watercolour event’ in two Birmingham galleries next week’? My answer […]
Exhibition review | Mat Collishaw: ‘Thresholds’ | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
‘Thresholds’ is a new virtual reality artwork by the renowned British artist Mat Collishaw, which is currently, and significantly, on show at Birmingham Museum & Art […]
Artists in focus | YBAs: Young Birmingham Artists
This week I visited Birmingham School of Art to view (and review) the BA Fine Art degree show. Having moved to Birmingham not too long […]
Arts careers | Katrine Levin: from lawyer to London art dealer
Katrine Levin is a respected London art dealer, who showcases exceptional emerging artists within the Western art world. After receiving her Master’s in Art History […]
Exhibition review | Damien Hirst: ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’ | Venice
Gigantic, gaping sea monsters, coral-covered maidens, one-eyed cyclopes, goddesses and golden coins – these make up ‘Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable’. It’s Damien […]