Alice Notley
Intercapillary Space is going Alice Notley nuts at the moment. Openned has something in the works too. Just wait and see. No, you wait, honestly, it'll be pleasant.
Intercapillary Space is going Alice Notley nuts at the moment. Openned has something in the works too. Just wait and see. No, you wait, honestly, it'll be pleasant.
A 50kg solid gold statue of model Kate Moss has been unveiled at the British Museum, in London. The £1.5m sculpture, entitled Siren, is by artist Marc Quinn and is one of several contemporary sculptures in the exhibition Statuephilia. Quinn's sculpture is said to be the largest gold statue created since the time of Ancient Egypt.
The Mind Shop will be performing alongside poets Keith Jebb, Alyson Torns and Wanda Phipps in the ‘Sundays at the Oto’ series at Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3 DL (www.cafeoto.co.uk), from 3.00, 19 October. http://www.myspace.com/sundaysattheoto
The next Openned night will take place on 21st October at The Foundry, London. Click here for a map. Admission is free.
Jeff Hilson’s new anthology, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, is flat out the best book of its kind I have ever seen. It is easily – too easily, alas – the finest collection of contemporary sonnets ever put together.
OCTOBER 11th 7:30 p.m Poetry Café 22 Betterton St WC2H 9BX www.myspace.com/langoustine £5/£4 conc.
The Battle of Ideas 2008 will be a two-day festival of high-level, thought-provoking debate organised by the Institute of Ideas and hosted by the Royal College of Art.The events run 1-2 November, with a variety of Battle Satellite events taking place throughout October. via Robert Hampson
Hmm.A number of works by guerrilla artist Banksy have failed to sell at a modern art auction in London.
Fungle Junk - a mural painted on the side of a van - was expected to make £150,000 but was withdrawn after a bid of half that price was made. A spokesman for auctioneer Lyon and Turnbull said the artist's refusal to authenticate the works was to blame.