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An exclusive video interview with artist curator Gavin Wade at the opening of the new gallery Eastside Projects in the heart of Digbeth the new cultural quarter of Birmingham UK. Gavin talks to Now Public about 'this is the gallery and the gallery is many things' The exhibition runs from 27 September

John Horner: Going to MAP for the first time on Friday I found the space to be very pleasing. It was a very neat and professional exhibition with good lighting. The show had two parts, Afrikatalyst and Invisible Omniscience.

When Alissa Wilkinson, editor of The Curator, asked me if I’d contribute some perspectives on the Coen Brothers’ movies, I revisited my original reviews of Barton Fink, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski, and decided to hold them up and compare them with the Coens’ latest… Burn After Reading.  By comparison, the new film doesn’t hold up so well with either of those three memorable, masterful films.

Tonight see's the opening of Eastside Projects a new gallery space that is also art itself. I will be attending the opening and hope to report back with pictures of and interviews with some of the artists including... read more

The Guggenheim named Richard Armstrong of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh as its next director.

A woman walking her dog in the Welsh countryside recently found an empty coffin sitting in the middle of a field. The coffin had a note … Read more: Mystery Coffin

ARTthrough IRONY Michael Elmgreen brings the world-renowned artistic vision of Elmgreen and Dragset to Bangkok Story by SAMILA WENIN There was little intended irony when Michael Elmgreen taunted art-school students who possessed a romantic idea that they would be accepted as artists by offering the public art that is personal and honest.

Download audio file (Bad_at_Sports_Episode_159-BAN5.mp3) download This week Brian and Patricia head over to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to check out Bay Area Now 5, a triennial of local contemporary art.

A few months ago I posted a phony video showing a guy on a surfboard being towed by a shark. It now looks like that video was a case of satirical prophecy, because a guy in Australia is reporting that something similar happened to him in real life.

During my brief jaunt to Montreal, I carved out just enough time to take in the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibit, a retrospective spanning Saint-Laurent's forty years in the business, is quite simply breathtaking. All of Saint-Laurent's iconic creations are featured and many more.