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Coming up in July Cassone : Mo White interviews artist Nina Danino about her interest in exploring religious and secular imagery in her films, and her interest in 'using materials and ideas beyond the confines of modernism, Surrealism and postmode...

'Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye' opens at Tate Modern, London, today, 28 June. A review will appear in Cassone shortly. A number of events are planned at Tate, starting with a curator's talk on the artist's life and work by Nicholas Cull...

A stunning new exhibition at the Quest Gallery, Bath, England The work of five Slovakian glass masters And Paintings and works on paper by Barrington Tobin Private view: Wednesday 27 June 6.00 p.m. – 7...

Extra money has been made available to a range of arts organizations across England, provided they can match the amounts offered by their own fund raising. Dulwich Picture Gallery , which is not government funded, will get an extra £2 million, pr...

Garments that cross the boundary into art feature in a film created by a De Montfort University (DMU) lecturer and six of the university’s fashion students. The film, commissioned to celebrate an exhibition of creative tailoring at Leicester...

Yesterday's London Evening Standard featured an exclusive cover with Damien Hirst artwork to mark the launch of the London 2012 Festival – the beginning of the capital’s biggest ever arts extravaganza. In support of the offi...

‘Sharon Hayes: There's So Much I Want to Say to You’, the artist's largest museum installation to date, opens today at the Whitney Museum , New York. The exhibition features works across many media, exploring the connections...

As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture , two creative companies - Space Syntax and Hype! - have teamed up to organise a novel photo competition with a playful theme. PLOY: Public Life in the Olympic Year invites membe...

The Clore Award for Museum Learning presents £10,000 each to Leicestershire County Council Heritage and Arts Service and Whitworth Art Gallery In an outstanding year for new museum learning initiatives, two new programmes have each been awar...

Nick Samsworth, Dominic Samsworth Until 15 July 2012 Down Stairs, Great Brampton House, Madley, Herefordshire, HR2 9NA Friday-Sunday 10 a.m. –5 p.m. or by appointment ‘WE ONE ARE TWO’ brings together recent work...

Dance, Circus, Carnival, Theatre, Music, Visual Art and Street Performances to engage audiences in IYAF’s 4th year 29 June – 22 July 2012 | Showcase: 6 July Gala: 17 July For tickets call: 08444 821 556 or visit: www.iyaf...

How often have you wanted to learn a foreign language but been put off by the memory of school lessons? All those hours spent on how to tell a doctor your mother is ill, or ask the time of day, or even say that your postilion has been struck by lightnin...

The deadline for submissions for this year's BITE is 12 noon, Thursday 21 June. BITE shows all that is best about printmaking in Britain today. BITE’s Selectors welcome all original printmaking methods (including lithography, etchi...

The Museum of London is marking the Jubilee with ‘ At Home with the Queen’ . This display features 12 professional photographic portraits of Londoners at home with their treasured souvenirs, alongside photographs taken by Londoners themselve...

It is with great sadness that Peppercanister Gallery reports the death of internationally renowned American artist Paul Jenkins. Jenkins, whose work is currently on show at Peppercanister Gallery in Dublin, was born in Kansas on 12 July 1923 and passe...

Catherine Daunt (Sussex / National Portrait Gallery), ' Heroes and villains: portraits of the famous and the infamous in Tudor and Jacobean England'

, Monday 18 June 2012, 7.30p.m. The Monarch, Camden
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London and Barcelona take poll position as favourite Olympic cities Largest annual urban photography competition celebrates ‘Cities at Work’ and discovers the most popular Olympic host cities of the last 50 years London and B...

FID – Foire Internationale Du Dessin – exists to promote the art of drawing in the 21st century, by supporting both young artists and young collectors. Since 2009, year of its first fair, FID has become a unique place where young collector...

Rollington Barn is showcasing a wide range of art during the Purbeck Art Weeks Festival, which ends this Sunday, so if you are anywhere in the vicinity make sure you don't miss it. Rollington Barn is a lovely old building set in beautiful countrys...

Our free article this month is a review of Bridget Riley's current London show. If you want to know about the sixties, look at the paintings of Bridget Riley. The 1960s came immediately after the post-war period of ‘high modernism&rsqu...

To commemorate the Diamond Jubilee, artist Tom Hiscocks has created modern versions of the famous Queen's Beasts, the statues that stand in Kew Gardens, representing the heraldic history of the monarchy. The Beasts have been made entirely from recyc...

A touring Diamond Jubilee exhibition, ‘ The Queen: Art and Image ’, which opened last year in Edinburgh – reviewed in August 2011 edition of Cassone – has since visited Belfast and Cardiff, before completing its circuit at the...

HM The Queen celebrates 60 years as Monarch in 2012 and here at Cassone we have to crave the indulgence of our many readers outside the UK, as we cannot avoid catching the spirit of the times. Wherever you may be, this website http://www.thediamondjub...

An important space for international artists built by London's creative community. A huge gathering of artists from the UK and around the world will descend on London this summer for Southbank Centre’s Festival of the World from 1 June ...

British artist Rachel Whiteread has received a major new commission by for the Whitechapel Gallery’s historic façade. The work is Whiteread’s first ever permanent public commission in the UK. The Whitechapel Gallery Rachel Wh...

25 contemporary artists and groups from across the UK – presenting their actions, thoughts, and creations, in this one-off exhibition where the public choose the winner. Mike Ballard (London) / Holly English (Essex) / Nathan Evans (Lee...

In June 2012, Joana Vasconcelos will be representing contemporary art at Versailles. After the American Jeff Koons, the Japanese Takashi Murakami, and the French Xavier Veilhan and Bernar Venet, she will be the first woman and the youngest artist also ...