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• Miniskirts years 60s 70s • Girls sixties seventies images gallery minidress pictures
----The miniskirt is a skirt with a hemline well above the knees ( generally 20 cm , or more , above knee level ).
The mini was the defining fashion symbol of "Swinging London" in the 1960s.
The miniskirt's existence in the 1960s is generally credited to the fashion designer Mary Quant who was inspired by the Mini Cooper automobile, although the French designer André Courrèges is also often cited as its inventor (the French referred to it as la mini-jupe), and there is disagreement as to who invented it first.
Some give the credit to Helen Rose who made some miniskirts for actress Anne Francis in the 1956 science fiction movie forbidden-planet.
Recently, Marit Allen, a Vogue "Young Ideas" editor at the time, has stated that "John Bates, in particular, has always been completely unappreciated for his contribution to the innovation and creativity he brought to the London design scene." He bared the midriff, used transparent vinyl and, Marit Allen asserts, was responsible for "the raising of the hemline. It was John Bates, rather than Mary Quant or Courrèges, who was responsible for the miniskirt."
Bates' costumes and accessories for Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in the ABC TV series, The Avengers, from 1965-7, helped to define "Mod style".
As The Avengers' filmed episodes were made several months before screening, Avengers producer Brian Clemens confirmed in interviews that the miniskirt designed by Bates had to be used as a "gamble", since they did not know if it would catch on in public or be seen as a fashion failure by the time the episodes aired .
However, Emma Peel's fashions were accepted by the public and even spawned a line of replicas of her clothes for public sale.
Another, more "immediate" proponent of the miniskirt on television was Cathy McGowan, who introduced the weekly rock music show, Ready Steady Go! (1964-66).
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Touring internationally since 2008, “Play Me, I’m Yours” is an artwork by artist Luke Jerram.
From 21st June – 5th July, 60 upright pianos will be distributed across New York City by Sing for Hope. Located in public parks, streets and plazas the pianos will be available for any member of the public to play and engage with. Their website (http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/) is made for you to post and share your films, photos and stories about the pianos. While documenting each piano’s journey, the website will connect the pianos with their individual communities across the city. Following the artwork, the pianos will be donated to local schools and community groups.
Play Me, I’m Yours is being presented simultaneously in London and New York. Connect here with the street pianos across the Atlantic.
http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/
The street pianos project grew out of a disaster. Sky Orchestra is an performance artwork of mine that involves playing music in surround sound from 7 hot air balloons. Drifing over a city at dawn the aim is to inspire the publics’ imagination as they lie at home in their beds. In 2007 we were commissioned to perform over Birmingham and we’d promised the city council we’d reach an audience of 100,000 people. We all turned up to perform but the MET office got their weather prediction wrong and it was too windy to fly. We had to pay all the pilots and musicians for this failed attempt and had no artwork to show for it. With most of the budget blown, I had to think of a new artwork in just 3 weeks, that would reach 100,000 people. Play Me, I’m Yours is that artwork.
Play Me, I’m Yours was designed to act as a catalyst for strangers who regularly occupy the same space, to talk and connect with one another. Listening to this BBC world radio service programme, it seems to be working.
Disrupting people’s negotiation of their city, the pianos are also aimed to provoke people into engaging, activating and claiming ownership of their urban landscape.
The pianos have also levered many hidden musicians from out of the woodwork. It has become apparent that there are hundreds of pianists out there who don’t have access to a piano to play. ‘Play Me I’m Yours’ provides access to musical instruments and provides musicians an opportunity to share their creativity by performing in public.
Like Facebook, the street pianos, together with this website, provide a interconnected resource, an empty blank canvas, for the public to express themselves and share their creativity.Touring internationally since 2008, “Play Me, I’m Yours” is an... more
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Wonderland was an exhibition of prints by East London Printmakers at the Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood in the UK that ran from September 26th, 2009, to January 10th, 2010. The exhibition featured artist’s works that are loosely based around the fairy tales of our youth, specifically the themes of Cautionary Tales, Fantasy, Good Versus Evil, Love and Friendship, Myths and Folklore and The Heroic Quest. Much of the artwork in the exhibition acted, essentially, as the artist’s own interpretation of these stories.
Read more: http://www.whitespace.bz/ws/web/forms/pulse/PulseMainArticle.aspx?id=380Wonderland was an exhibition of prints by East London Printmakers at the Victoria and... more
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When in London, there’s no need to visit art museums, simply look up, look left and look right. London’s vibrant graffiti culture is backed by individual writers, artists and crews that are always moving fast. From large-scale political showcases to quirky stencils and tags, the rainbow flecked streets captivate eyes and minds like no gallery could.
http://jetsetta.com/travel/londons-super-cool-street-art/When in London, there’s no need to visit art museums, simply look up, look left... more
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FoolishPeople present A Red Threatening Sky; an immersive Valentine’s event combining performance, art installation and investigative interaction to create Club Aethereus; a strange and surreal underworld of Gnostic Noir. A place where crime, passion, the sacred and profane all cast one shadow.FoolishPeople present A Red Threatening Sky; an immersive Valentine’s event... more
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Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days, a different person will step up to the Fourth Plinth and help make a living portrait of the UK now...Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days, a different person will step up to the Fourth... more
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Jason Hawkes has been an aerial photographer since 1991. He takes photographs all across the globe and has produced over 35 aerial photography books for several major publishers. His photographs give viewers breathtaking views of familiar and not-so familiar places they would never see otherwise.Jason Hawkes has been an aerial photographer since 1991. He takes photographs all... more
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London artists now have a sustainable solution for the dilemma of renting expensive studio space to work in. Furniture Designer Auro Foxcraft purchased four old Underground subway cars for 200 pounds each and mounted them to a rooftop to create some unique, affordable office space. Located on the roof of a brick warehouse in Shoreditch, London, the Village Underground, as it’s called, provides affordable studio space for artists at the cost of 15 pounds a week. The seats were removed and the cars were retrofitted to create the highly desirable and much needed studio space.London artists now have a sustainable solution for the dilemma of renting expensive... more
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Today a the Bankside riverside walkway you can see 2,057 pink smiley-faced clouds float over Bankside as British artist Stuart Semple experiments with a never-before-used technology.
The Happy Cloud installation is intended to be a message of hope and positivism in reaction to the doom and gloom of current events.
Weather permitting, one happy cloud (helium, soap and vegetable dye) will be released every seven seconds.
Each cloud should last for 30 minutes.Today a the Bankside riverside walkway you can see 2,057 pink smiley-faced clouds... more
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The Brick Lane Gallery is a rentable gallery space in the lively east end of London’s art district. The Gallery welcomes new international artists from all backgrounds including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture to exhibit in our contemporary London gallery. The gallery has worked with many successful artists in the past including Bob and Roberta Smith and Wolfgang Tillmans from the Tate gallery London. We have helped many new and emerging international artists show their work to a new London audience and welcome all different styles art and all styles. The gallery can be rented for £2000 per week and can be booked for weekly or monthly bookings.
The gallery team help with organising and promoting the exhibitions and the professional staff can organise important promotions including: releasing details to the UK arts press and onto the UK arts Internet network. Sending invitations to our gallery mailing lists and take care of setting up the and Installation and hanging the exhibitions also packaging for sales or transport. Our Gallery staff can look after the exhibitions daily and maintain the gallery open hours.
For further information contact the director tony@thebricklanegallery.com 0207 729 9721The Brick Lane Gallery is a rentable gallery space in the lively east end of... more
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The "Art in Mind" group exhibitions offer a platform for UK and international artists to showcase their work to a new London audience. There is a gallery fee to cover all costs and we charge £250 per week for a 3 metre wide space - you can book as much space as you like (3,6,9 meters) depending on how much work you wish to include and the size of your work. Our team organise everything including internet marketing, email promotion, printing flyers, sending invitations, staff for set up, daily invigilating and sales (we take 0% commission on all sales made). All you need to do is organise delivery and pickup of the artworks the rest is taken care of. We supply a free bar during the opening night to entertain viewers, buyers and press contacts.
The next available space is a two week exhibition from the 31 March – 13 April 2009 with a preview opening night on Wednesday 1st April between 6.30 and 8.30pm. The Art in Mind exhibitions take place throughout the year on a regular basis.
For further information contact the director tony@thebricklanegallery.com
t: +44 (0) 207 729 9721
w: www.thebricklanegallery.comThe "Art in Mind" group exhibitions offer a platform for UK and... more
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Sao Paulo artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo obliged London's Tate Gallery by painting their distinctive yellow graffiti on outside walls of the museum. Just a month later, their hometown began rolling gray paint across one of the brothers' murals as part of clean-up efforts.
Officials did an abrupt about-face after the Pandolfos and other artists complained both to the city and in the news media. Now Sao Paulo is creating a registry of street art to be preserved, exempt from Mayor Gilberto Kassab's drive to eliminate ``visual pollution.'' The episode is sparking a public discussion of what constitutes art.
``Outside of Brazil, graffiti art has been much more accepted,'' said Gustavo Pandolfo, speaking by telephone from Barcelona, Spain. ``Galleries and museums invite us to do shows. And in Sao Paulo, where we do this mural for free as a present to the people of the city, it's viewed as trash.''
Under the Clean City law, enacted in 2006, billboards were removed, signs with large corporate logos were scaled back, and graffiti is being expunged.
The Pandolfos' 680-meter (2,230-foot) mural on retaining walls along the 23 de Maio expressway, south of downtown, was half-covered by gray paint on July 3. The destruction occurred even though the art had been officially sanctioned.
Some of the city's 800 inspectors ``understood the Clean City law to mean paint over anything that's irregular,'' Monteiro said. ``Because the law didn't give objective criteria, it was left up to subjective opinion.''
Sao Paulo is developing those criteria, giving priority to cataloguing works of graffiti that were painted with permission from the property owner, Monteiro said. The Clean City law prohibits graffiti that functions as advertising. The city expects the catalog to be ready by November.
Before the crackdown, South America's biggest city had been seen as a place where graffiti artists could go to work without interference from passersby or police, Gustavo Pandolfo said.
``Graffiti would stay up for 10 years, and no one would erase it,'' he said. ``People liked seeing the graffiti.''
Hundreds of the brothers' works have disappeared during the clean-up campaign, he said. That would be a costly loss if measured by the price of their gallery works.
The Tate exhibition is helping change Sao Paulo's perception of its graffiti art, Monteiro said.
``We want to make this part of the city's look,'' she said. ``It's a trademark of the city.''
Sao Paulo artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo obliged London's Tate Gallery by... more
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A ground breaking design exhibition takes place this September as part of the London Design Festival. It will bring together talented avant-garde designers and artists whose work is inspired by animals – forms that are simultaneously highly familiar but slightly disturbing; and radical yet nostalgic. Here are just a selection of some of the works of art that will be on show.A ground breaking design exhibition takes place this September as part of the London... more
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Interventions is the first of a series of public art events curated by PUBLIC VIEW. It will take place on Friday, 20 June 2008 between 5pm and 11 pm in Hackney, London and it will last for just one day.
The event will include a range of international artists featuring a variety of art practices such as Sound Design, Performance, Posters and Installations. Artists were selected for their specific approach working with and within the environment.
A map will indicate the placements of different artworks within the area and can be viewed and downloaded under:
http://www.publicview.eu
email to postmaster@publicview.euInterventions is the first of a series of public art events curated by PUBLIC VIEW. It... more
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Under the plans, the hotel collection Guest Hotels will turn its five hotels into stages for emerging talent from London's creative arts scene. At the centre of the idea lies a members club for guests enabling them to enjoy leading-edge contemporary arts events within the hotels where they are staying and exclusive access to events in London.Under the plans, the hotel collection Guest Hotels will turn its five hotels into... more
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Here's a piece I'm really proud of which I recently created for Current TV. It aims to examine what it's like to live in the UK today, through portraying it's diverse community of people, and exploring the possible connections & conflicts between them. It’s about a chance to enrich our lives, celebrate our lives, and the chance to change for the better. Hope you like it.
I re-cut & remixed The National's ‘Fake Empire’, which works perfectly to set an emotional & powerful mood.
Current TV: Sky 193 & Virgin 155
Here's a piece I'm really proud of which I recently created for Current TV.... more
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The story of a young creatively minded man called Tom Foxcroft who was managed to get 4 decommissioned tube carriages and place them on the top of a railway viaduct in the heart of Shoreditch. The trains will be turned into artist's studios.The story of a young creatively minded man called Tom Foxcroft who was managed to get... more
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'The Video Art Gallery' is the only London art gallery specialising in moving image art from emerging artists who make use of video, digital animation, animation, and other media to create powerful and beautiful images.
To view work samples from the artists, you can go to: http://www.thevideoartgallery.com
The exhibit runs until December 16th, 2007 and it is located at the 'Punctum Gallery' - No15 Redchurch Street, at London's East End.
"This exhibition only runs for a limited amount of time so by putting together this video and along with references to the related websites, people will have a greater chance to see these works of art, especially for those who live outside London." - MK
To download this video from Skill-Pill.com to your mobile phone, you can go to: http://www.skill-pill.com/vag
(You can download the video via a WAP network directly to your mobile phone or from the Internet on to your computer and then via 'Bluetooth' move it to your mobile phone and share it with your peers)'The Video Art Gallery' is the only London art gallery specialising in... more
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Great Western Studios, in London, which houses work studios for fine artists, faces a tear down to make way for the railway. Meet some of the very talented artists that use this space to collaborate and create.Great Western Studios, in London, which houses work studios for fine artists, faces a... more
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