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The Saatchi Gallery Magazine Art & Music presents the ‘THE GLITTERING PRIZES – A&M TV’s New Talent Award’, a global competition for international bands and musicians.The winning act will receive a free live recording session at Blackburn Art College, directed by Jamie Holman and pro... |
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London based public art organisation UP Projects have just returned home from New Zealand where they took their Portavilion concept down under for the first time, to collaborate with Auckland based artists Cut Collective and the Splore Festival at Tapapakanga Regional Park. Artist, curator and stree... |
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CEDAR LEWISOHN: Massive Attack are one of the most iconic British bands of the last twenty years; their music defined and broke the rules of numerous genres. Constantly innovative and given to potent marriages of music and visual art, their aesthetic has been shaped from the outset by graffiti... |
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Liquitex and The Saatchi Gallery Magazine Art & Music present ‘Street Art Competition - The Saatchi Gallery Magazine Art & Music’, a global competition for international street artists. The competition winner will receive a £1,000 donation of art materials from Liquitex and be featured... |
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HOUMAN BAREKAT: The most instructive detail about Postmodernism: Style and
Subversion
is that it is held in a museum. It is a display of assorted relics - historical
artefacts that tell us something about the times in which they were conceived;
artistic merit is only tenuously relevant, an... |
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DAVE LAZER: I have such strong feelings of resentment for so many
things I am actually becoming increasingly worried that I will never be able to
love a band, book or person ever again; so much so that I made an appointment
with my GP to address the situation. My doctor asked if I “could... |
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Mix + Mash: Saatchi Online Collage Showdown (Launching Dec.12) in Association with The Saatchi Gallery Magazine Art & MusicWe are happy to announce that the next Saatchi Online Showdown will feature the art of collage, and that internationally renowned artist, Wangechi Mutu, will be judging the... |
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CEDAR LEWISOHN: Monday I’m at the airport on my way to Kyiv. It’s exciting, I’ve never been and have wanted to go for a while. I’m going as part of a press trip to an art fair. I’m the official Art & Music Magazine representative, lol. (Sorry, I promise no more text speak). Anywa... |
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DAVE LAZER: A few days ago, while I was going through files on my laptop, making sure there was no pornography or jpegs of swastikas (a childhood obsession reawakened when I learned how to use Photoshop), I found a film review I don’t remember writing (by the way, it’s not that I’m a rac... |
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DAVE LAZER: Through my work, I often have to ‘rep’ at gigs by bands which are unsigned – and often unsignable. Just last week it was my honour and privilege to attend an all day ‘screamo’ event. For those of you not familiar with the genre, it basically consists of one guy singing a Maro... |
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This year's final round is being judged by internationally acclaimed artist, Dexter Dalwood, whose work can be found in both the Tate and Saatchi Collections. In '10 he was a finalist for the prestigious Turner Prize. - Submissions open till October 2 (11:59 pm PDT) - Preliminary voting begin... |
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SIMON DUFF: Goran Kajfes is a composer, trumpet
player, performer and producer. Based in Sweden he grew up in a family of
musicians and artists. He has performed with José
Gonzales, Stina Nordenstam, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Lester Bowie, The Soundrack of
our Lives and many others. Last year he... |
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SIMONE SCOTT WARREN: On the
November 3rd 1957, Russia's Sputnik 2, a shuttle the size of a small
washing machine, launched into space with a solitary passenger. Her name was
Kudryavka, although she became known as Laika, she had been plucked from the streets
of Moscow, and ca... |
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DAVE LAZER: “Dave, are you coming carnival this year? You’ve got to come; it’s gonna be so, so sick”.
No it’s not. It’s going to be a fucking nightmare.
Between the ages of 15 and 17, I smoked skunk pretty much every day. Me, a guy called Patrick and a guy called Mike. Patrick and... |
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PENNIE QUINTON: I had been out of London when the riots began, having a genteel Sunday afternoon in Stratford-on-Avon. My mobile rang as I was standing in a queue at the Royal Shakespeare company: the ringtone blared from my handset generating a severe frown from the one woman taking forever d... |
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