Over on the Organ pages, where the recent Something Black and Red shows were co-hosted, you’ll find daily coverage of art, music, and more. The reason Organ still exists is partly because no one else much is bothering to cover the art in the smaller artist-led back street galleries. Organ has been around since the…
And so Vilma Gold gallery has closed (or is closing or hasn’t really bothered for ages anyway or whatever the current state of affairs is). Another East London art gallery going going gone, It was never the greatest gallery in terms of attitudes or indeed program of shows – they stopped me going in to…
The Something Black open call has now closed, thanks to everyone who submitted work, we’ve got back to most of you already, we’ll be getting back to the rest of you over the weekend as we make the final selections, “hang” the show and get ready for opening night. Something Black opens on line at…
The Dates for this year’s Art Car Boot Fair have been announced. As we’ve said before, the day when art lets down his or her hair (still wonder if art is a he or a she?), is always one of the highlights of the London art Calendar, and this year things are at to be…
Lucinda Rogers – animation still Here ar Cultivate we make no apology for our anger about the way the artist community and the galleries, studios and engaging community were forced out of East London’s Vyner Street a couple of years ago, a specia lstreet lost to the greed and inflated ego of one rather obnoxiously…
The notion of an exhibition with a formal opening time and such is a curious one when that exhibition happens to be happening on-line rather than in a conventional white-walled building…. The experiment that is Red opened just over twenty-three hours ago, so far it has been viewed on-line via both the Organ website and…
Cultivate presents (in association with Organ) RED, an art exhibition on line. The notion is simple, an on-line art exhibition, curated and presented on line. Twenty four artists selected via an on-line open call or by invitation, alongside images from previous Cultivate shows, along with other observations (and that red feeling while waiting for the…
Hot on the heels of Cultivate’s triumphant return to Dalston’s beautiful basement gallery known as BSMT Space with the Fragile show two weeks ago, Cultivate brings you Red. Opening on Monday February 27th at 6pm, Red will be another gathering of pro-active artists and another exercise in artist-led cross-pollination. This time we Cultivate on line,…
Over on Cultivate’s Sister website Organ, you’ll find the start of an ongoing series of interview with artists, here’s the links to the first four… 13 Questions Thirteen Questions From Organ. The idea is simple, an ongoing series of thirteen questions sent out to people who’s creativity we’re rather admiring and enjoying at the moment…
The RED deadline is extended by a week, the reason for this is simple, the on-line experiment has only partly worked (so far). As with all open calls there’s been some great art and some not so great art, there been some exciting new artists come our way, but there’s also been some very badly…
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