Street Art Brighton

New StreetArt shots from Brighton.

North Laine (near Bond Street)

North Street (near Chapel Royal)

Church Street (near Brighton Art Gallery)

Artsy Café in Brighton

Tic Toc Cafe

A place to chill out, have a chat, write postcards & enjoy coffee!

I've stayed 2 weeks in Brighton and I've made some new experiences, although it wasn't my first time in this city. In the picturexsque quarter of the Lanes (old town) you can find several lovely and artsy cafés, restos and pubs, but there's one which I would emphasize: the Tic Toc Cafe.

The way I've found the café was a funny one. I went to Brighton Museum & Art Gallery on an afternoon off and spent there quite a lot of time. After that, I wanted to chill out in a café in the Lanes and first I was looking for a Café Néro, but on my way there, I beheld that small and cosy café: the Tic Toc Café.

I stepped inside and the atmosphere of the cafe entrapped me. The staff was very friendly and international (they are French-speaking) and the cafe... yummy. On my last day I bought a bag of their roasted cafe. The interior of the cafe makes you feel good, even on a rainy day (what isn't unusual in England) and they always have fresh lemnades or iced teas!

I'm sure, the next time I'll go to Brighton, I'll visit that nice café again! ;) Au revoir!

Towner *the new contemporary art museum*

I'm in the UK now, where you can find a lot of galleries, museums, exhibition centres - it's the Mecca of modern and contemporary arts!

First I'd like to introduce you this new (opened 4.4.09) museum of conntemporary arts in South England, Eastbourne. There are always temporary exhibitions, at the moment it's Jodie Carey's "In the Eyes of Others", which is a breath-taking installation and is worth to be seen. Don't miss the People's Choice exhibition, which presents the Towner Collection in another concept: people could vote in different categories and the winners of the voting are now exposed in the Main Gallery. The new building of Towner is a work of art as well, it's an architectural eye-candy.

The collection includes works of:
Henry Moore
William Nicholson
Julian Opie
Victor Pasmore
Pablo Picasso
Eric Ravilious
Wolfgang Tillmans, etc.

Towner

The entrance

visit: http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/leisure/museums-galleries/towner/towner-gallery/collection/

La Roux - Bulletproof

I've found a really cool and artsy video on YouTube (yes, YT is not only crap!) of the British electropop-band La Roux. The song is called Bulletproof and this week it possesses the 3rd position of the BBC Radio1 charts. I love the colours and the whole appearance of the video, so it's worth to be seen!

Some screenshots:

Futurism *TATE*

Futurism

Tate Modern - London

16/6/09 - 20/9/09

Tate Modern celebrates the centenary of this dramatic art movement with a ground-breaking exhibition. Futurism was launched by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1909 with the publication of the Manifesto of Futurism on the front page of Paris newspaper Le Figaro.

Luigi Russolo - The Revolt 1911

Drawing upon elements of Divisionism and Cubism, the Futurists created a new style that broke with old traditions and expressed the dynamism, energy and movement of their modern life.
This exhibition both showcases the work of key Futurists such as Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini and explores art movements reacting to Futurism. Highlights include Boccioni's dynamic bronze Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 1913 and Picasso's Head of a Woman (Fernande) 1909 as well as major works by artists such as Braque, Malevich and Duchamp.

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Vienna StreetArt

Here are some nice shots from Vienna, I've made them last week as I was walking through the city centre and the museumsquarter (MQ). I think the MQ is one of the coolest places to be in Vienna because you can chill out, meet new mates, visit the MuMoK, which is the Museum of Modern Arts and there are also some fancy design stores, cocktail bars and bookshops. Although I'm still of the opinion that Vienna isn't really a hotspot of contemporary art or culture, when I go to the MQ, I feel like I would be in a temple of modernArt.

Some pics from the MQ: Space Invaders, ElevatorArt, funny creatures on the wall and something more simple, but decorative. If you are in Vienna and you'd like to see modernArt, you should definitely go to the MQ!

Cy Twombly visits Vienna

Cy Twombly @ MuMoK

Sensations of the Moment

04/06/09 - 11/10/09

"Flowers II"

The American artist Cy Twombly (born in 1928) is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Starting off from abstract expressionism he developed his own original style using writing-like signs which he exaggerated in size into monumental, large-format canvases. The presentation in the MUMOK—the first in Austria—brings together works from all periods of his oeuvre and presents a new cycle of works specially created for the show. In Twombly’s pictures and sculptures the ancient myths of the Mediterranean world are evoked though it is the incidental and underlying that is the focal point. The alternation between sensitivity and vulgarity, filigree technique and expressivity constitute the enormous tension in the works. The exhibition, presented as a retrospective, brings together genres that, up till now, have generally been shown separately – sculpture, painting, drawing, graphic works and photographs. The works will be presented in such a way that the mutual reflection, influence and enrichment of the individual mediums will become clear and the aesthetic and conceptual guiding principles in Twombly’s art will become visible: the establishment of the colour white, the use of writing, the significance of the principles of collage and the aesthetic means of expression such as the melancholic down flow of heavily pastose pigment. Up till now it has not been widely known that ever since his time at Black Mountain College in the 1950s, Twombly has been continually occupied with photography. In the Vienna exhibition this wealth of photographic works will be integrated into the depiction of Twombly’s work for the first time.

Nocomment - just Banksy

Banksy vs. Bristol Museum
This summer's contemporary arts hit. Must see.

visit http://www.banksy.co.uk/