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Arts Newsletter
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Mix the City lets you make and share your own remix of a set of 12 video clips featuring Tel Aviv-based musicians. YouTube sensation Kutiman kicked off the project by recording a four-minute video of the selected musicians that represents the diverse voices of Tel Aviv's music scene. Mix the City now invites people all over the world to create their own interpretation through the interactive website.
The Space and British Council jointly commissioned Mix the City as an innovative example of how combining music, participatory technology and the internet can connect communities and provide a different perspective on cities around the world.
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As BFI Flare, London's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Film Festival, opened for audiences in the capital, we launched an ambitious global digital programme to make five of the Festival's films available free for everyone everywhere. They are only available until 29 March, so take some time to watch these fantastic short films before they're gone.
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As part of a new series on disability arts, producer Jo Verrent looks at some of the key issues affecting disabled artists and organisations in the sector. Whilst there is much to be positive about, there is also a lot of work to be done in improving the options for young disabled people looking to access the creative industries and creating more opportunities for disabled actors, directors, and writers to change the work that we see on our stages.
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Olivia Laing discovers the ‘undiminished charisma’ of Sarah Lucas, as she meets the artist at her temporary workspace in London where she is preparing for the British Council’s commission at the Venice Biennale in May of this year. Lucas has been selected to represent Britain at the 56th Venice International Art Biennale and will present a major solo show in the British Pavilion.
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The Tate’s Landscapes of the Mind exhibition opened at The National Museum of Art in Mexico City this week. It is the first ever Tate exhibition to travel to Mexico and covers 300 years of British landscape painting. As part of the UK in Mexico 2015 season, the British Council supported one particular painting, David Hockney’s monumental Bigger Trees Near Warter (2007), which takes up a whole gallery.
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Have a listen to the latest Selector, the show that brings you up to date with all that is going on in new British music. Goldierocks has another packed show this week, with Peace joining her in the studio for Tea & Tunes and London-based DJ/producer Lex Luca is In The Mix, plus the usual selection of new British music from East India Youth, Nadine Shah, Ghostpoet and Portico.
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Listen to an interview with Thomas Heatherwick from our archive as our new exhibition, Inside Heatherwick Studio, opens in Singapore. Featuring recent Heatherwick Studio designs, including a petal from the cauldron at the London 2012 Games and the newest red London double decker buses, the exhibition will tour a number of cities in East Asia.
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