September is a month of mellow, of apples red...
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Artyfacts is an online art and cultural bi-monthly journal for the London area. Our purpose is to inform its readers of non-mainstream art and cultural events such as exhibitions and independent picture-house movies, and to discover new artists whose output is ‘off the beaten track’.

Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011)..
Opening This Week

John Martin: Apocalypse opens on September 21, at Tate Britain.
Current Exhibitions

The Poster King: Edward McKnight Kauffer The spectator will feel nostalgic, and be reminded of an era when train travel seemed a pleasurable and relaxing event....Nehrain Khalifa

Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement explores the fascinating links between Degas’s highly original way of viewing and recording the dance, and the inventive experiments being made at the same time in photography and film...Nehrain Khalifa

Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 The curators have assembled a selection of their finest altarpieces into an enticing display, reminding us that they were originally made for churches...Mary Phelan

Glamour Of The Gods: Hollywood Portraits is a revelation for the Hello generation, accustomed to seeing shots of knickerless heiresses arriving at nightclubs and restaurants. In this vanished, tightly-controlled era, the candid shot was a no-no...Mary Phelan

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century is what it says on the brochure, a glorious, heady celebration of Brassai, Capa, Moholy-Nagy and many others. All life is there; peace, war, luxury and terrible, terrible poverty...
Mary Phelan

The above links are for information only. The organisations are not connected with us and do not necessarily express our views.

You may contact us at editors@artyfacts.info

Artyfacts is an online art and cultural bi-monthly journal for the London area. Our purpose is to inform its readers of non-mainstream art and cultural events such as exhibitions and independent picture-house movies, and to discover new artists whose output is ‘off the beaten track’.

Sparkling, summer gems...
Current Exhibitions

Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500 The curators have assembled a selection of their finest altarpieces into an enticing display, reminding us that they were originally made for churches...Mary Phelan

Glamour Of The Gods: Hollywood Portraits is a revelation for the Hello generation, accustomed to seeing shots of knickerless heiresses arriving at nightclubs and restaurants. In this vanished, tightly-controlled era, the candid shot was a no-no... Mary Phelan

Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscapes from the Lunde Collection There are over fifty sparkling images to be seen in this summer charmer at the National Gallery's Sunley Rooms. It is open until September 18 and is not to be missed. Mary Phelan

United Artists of Italy: Photographic Portraits The exhibition shows a cross-section of Italian photography spanning more than thirty years, revealing the extraordinary skills of the photographers while at the same time paying homage to the subjects, the great artists... Nehrain Khalifa

Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century is what it says on the brochure, a glorious, heady celebration of Brassai, Capa, Moholy-Nagy and many others. All life is there; peace, war, luxury and terrible, terrible poverty...
Mary Phelan

Toulouse Lautrec and Jane Avril; Beyond the Moulin Rouge is one of those shows that can be described as a big, sparkling and glistening gem that hypnotises the viewer. As the spectator continues from painting to painting they will be confronted by the relationship between two uncompromising, unconventional and exceptional artists.... Nehrain Khalifa

Vorticism: Manifesto For A Modern World Vorticism was an essentially British movement, though with definite transatlantic influences, both Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound being US-born... Mary Phelan

Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape We are made aware of the interconnectedness of life, of cause and effect, the microcosm and the macrocosm. This theme of connectedness runs throughout the exhibition, a kind of poetry binding its various parts together... Mary Phelan

Watercolour Open until August 21, this exhibition is a vehicle for not alone the watercolours of the usual suspects; Turner, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and so on, but many, many more artists from all ages, with shocks and surprises at every turn.
Mary Phelan

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You may contact us at Artyfacts

Here is list of the 2011 workshops for authors organised by the Highlights Foundation.

Are you interested in adding "freelance writer" to your cv?
This link is to a helpful Newsletter with a US-bias.

The Richmond-upon-Thames Writer's Group meets on Sunday afternoons. Details from richmondwriters@yahoo.co.uk

Author, Publish Thyself! New Directions Online for Big Publishing's Rejects and Refugees
by Daniel D'Addario from The New York Observer, March 15th, 2011

Karin Slaughter has launched a new non-profit organization, Save the Libraries, which will host fundraising events for various library organizations. The first such event, featuring Slaughter, Kathryn Stockett and Mary Kay Andrews, took place on March 12 in Atlanta to benefit the DeKalb County System. A second event benefiting the Boston Public Library is scheduled for June 2011. Facebook.

Save the L.A. Libraries campaign. Facebook. Twitter.

Voices for the Library.

The campaign to save UK libraries continues

Some Worldwide InterLibrary Loan Links.

Summer Reading Campaigns: Find books you'd like to read whether you're reading for school or for pleasure

Need to do a translation? We recommend www.word2word.com

6th July, 2010: Millions of books get digitized for the disabled.

Winter over and summer begun...

Artyfacts is an online art and cultural bi-monthly journal for the London area. Our purpose is to inform its readers of non-mainstream art and cultural events such as exhibitions and independent picture-house movies, and to discover new artists whose output is ‘off the beaten track’.

Why art will never run dry...
Current Exhibitions

Double Portrait: Ida Barbarigo and Zoran Music The intertwined artistic lives of husband and wife painters Zoran Music and Ida Barbarigo are explored in this exhibition, comprising some twenty-five works, as well as photographs and ephemera at the Estorick Collection..
Nehrain Khalifa

Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape We are made aware of the interconnectedness of life, of cause and effect, the microcosm and the macrocosm. This theme of connectedness runs throughout the exhibition, a kind of poetry binding its various parts together.
Mary Phelan

Magnus Opus is the official blog for Scottish playwrite Joan Ure (Betty Clark). Betty is featured in the British Dictionary of National Biography and in most of the reference books on modern Scottish Literature.

This volume of letters that will be on sale from September 2011 reproduces a revealing selection of the correspondence of pioneering Scottish poet-playwright Joan Ure (1918-1978) with friend and fellow writer John Cairns.

The letters, archived and compiled by John, span the period from 1963 to 1971, a time when her innovative contribution to late twentieth century Scottish Theatre was beginning to make its mark.

Writing both as her literary self and more personally under her real name Betty Clark, she sends John a fascinating record of her emotive literary and personal relationships, preoccupations, philosophies, and commentary on her creative output. They also form a highly readable narrative of an intense and engrossing relationship between two writers in 1960s Britain .

By her own admission, Ure’s letters are very much part of her oeuvre as a writer, and the poems and short pieces penned within them (a number of which were subsequently published) add to their value for scholars, theatre professionals and readers alike. This edition includes scans of Ure’s original letters and additional notes and commentary by co-author and archivist John Cairns.

Watteau: The Drawings This selection of eighty-eight of the artist’s drawings is, to say the least, astonishing; in the variety of his subject matter, and his mastery of the craft.
Mary Phelan

Watercolour Open until August 21, this exhibition is a vehicle for not alone the watercolours of the usual suspects; Turner, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and so on, but many, many more artists from all ages, with shocks and surprises at every turn.
Mary Phelan

Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings And Watercolours Drawings and sketches are the artists’ equivalent of the writers’ notes, and the musician tinkling on the piano keys. Small works are less likely to have survived the ravages of time, therefore are paradoxically more precious than the canvases that change hands for exorbitant sums of money...
Mary Phelan

The above links are for information only. The organisations are not connected with us and do not necessarily express our views.

You may contact us at editors@artyfacts.info

Mary Phelan Contributing Writer

I am an art historian, magazine editor, design philosopher and fiction writer. I am also a sometime artist and photographer. I write for and edit Artyfacts.info, an online arts magazine that I founded with a colleague in 2004. It can be accessed on www.artyfacts.info

I present my thoughts on architecture, design and popular culture in a weekly blog. These interests have proven fertile ground for the books I have written, am writing, and will write (watch this space). And it all started with the Roman writer, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio.

I graduated in 2001 from University College London, with a degree in the History of Art. Within six months, I had a feature on the Roman writer, Vitruvius, published.Between 2002 and 2003, I had three more features on building and architecture published by Property People magazine.

By now, I was working asadvisory reader for Cambridge Publishing Management.I worked on the new translation of the Benezit art historical dictionary, checking the text for translation, spelling and grammatical errors. I also checked art historical facts and assisted in compiling and updating bibliographies.

In 2004, I became co-founder of Artyfacts.info, online arts magazine. I took a magazine concept from scratch, designed the initial pages and created the graphics. Since our launch, the readership of Artyfacts has gone onwards and upwards. I now write fortnightly editorials and contribute features, images and photographs. We are constantly seeking ways to evolve Artyfacts, strengthening our appeal to both new and existing readers.

In the meantime, my thoughts on building, architecture and housing had burgeoned and grown into a series of illustrated essays,which I turned into a book and published in 2008 on Lulu.com, Where Do You Live? A New Look At Old Houses, (ISBN 9780955941900).

But the lure of fiction is as strong as ever, and I will continue to write.

Latest Articles
Academy of the Lynxes: Science, Art & Nature in Renaissance Italy
A brief explanation of an institution that flourished while Europe was moving from medieval superstition to scientific enlightenment.
May 20, 2011 - Mary Phelan
The Artist's Shop: Dyes, Yolks and Gold Leaf in Medieval Florence
An exploration of the intimate intertwining of art and commerce in medieval Florence.
May 12, 2011 - Mary Phelan
The Watchers and the Watched
An exploration of the surveillance culture through history and literature, what it is, how did it originate, and how it affects everything that we do.
May 5, 2011 - Mary Phelan
Savonarola: Mystic or Medieval Miscreant?
This charts the life, times and death of Girolamo Savonarola, a medieval monk, mystic and ultimately, miscreant.
Apr 23, 2011 - Mary Phelan
Galileo: Music, Maths and Cosmic Spheres
It is impossible to sum up Galileo Galilei in a few words. He was a mathematician, writer, inventor and physicist before the profession had been defined.
Mar 26, 2011 - Mary Phelan

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