Resent articles in "Library and information science" available at The Free Libraryhttp://www.thefreelibrary.comen-usFarlex, Inc.Wed, 16 May 2012 12:20:12 GMT360http://www.thefreelibrary.comhttp://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/static/TFLbyFarlex.gif17565Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Headless+ACE.-a0289121247
In a manoeuvre more arm lock than arm's length, culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has effectively sacked chair of Arts Council England Liz Forgan, asking her to step down when her four-year term ends in January. This was an unexpected move by Hunt considering that ACE is in the middle of a seismic restructuring following chancellor George Osborne's insistence that it cut its operating...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Smear+tax.-a0289121248
Jeremy Hunt's grandiose 'endowments century' (Artnotes AM349), the central strategy in his vision for the arts to rely more upon private funding, is in danger of eclipse thanks to chancellor George Osborne's recent budget. The contradictory actions of these two Tory cabinet members have arisen because the Treasury has been faced with a problem of Europe's making: rules which ensure that...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Disarm+the+gallery.-a0289121249
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) continued its pressure on the National Gallery with another day of protest at the end of March. Following its Trafalgar Square die-in last September when the gallery hosted a corporate dinner for attendees of the DSEi arms fair in London's Docklands (Artnotes AM350), a group of protestors arrived in the square with berets, palettes and easels...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Galleries.-a0289121250
The Photographers' Gallery will reopen in Soho, central London on 19 May following its 18-month, [pounds sterling]8.9m transformation. Irish architects O'Donnell and Tuomey have added two new floors to the building and reconfigured its internal layout. The venue now boasts double its previous exhibition space, a whole floor dedicated to education and, of course, its popular bookshop...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Survivors.-a0289121251
Last year Arts Council England revealed that 110 organisations would receive regular ACE funding for the first time as part of its new National Portfolio funding scheme, but that a further 206 of its Regularly Funded Organisations would no longer receive regular support as its RFO scheme closed. One year on, and as the new regime finally kicked in last month for the 2012-13...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Battle+of+Berlin.-a0289121252
The gentrification of Berlin is hitting resistance. The iconic Tacheles building, the former supermarket that became artists' studios after the fall of the Berlin Wall, has been purchased by an investor who is busy trying to clear its occupants prior to redevelopment, an action that has led to protestors barricading themselves inside the building. Supplies for the occupiers are...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Impermanent+collection.-a0289121253
The Jerwood Foundation has chosen to auction 18 monumental works from its Jerwood Sculpture Collection which have, in recent years, stood in the grounds of Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. Colin Gleadell, AM's Salerooms columnist, pointed out in the Telegraph that Jerwood was initially keen for the works to be on view more often than Ragley Hall's limited weekend-and-holidays...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Events.-a0289121254
Culture24's annual Museums at Night returns this month, taking place over the weekend of 18 May. While many of the 200 events are more broadly heritage events--numerous museums are being lit by gas and candlelight as they open late--there are number of contemporary art events, notably those resulting from the Connect 10 competition in which venues bid to win a visit from one of ten...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Prizes.-a0289121256
The inaugural Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Award has been announced, with Ed Atkins and Naheed Raza each winning a [pounds sterling]20,000 commission (see Impermanent Collection above). The shortlist was completed by Emma Hart and Corin Sworn, and the four proposals were exhibited at Jerwood Space in London--review p27. www.jerwoodvisualarts.org

The Deutsche Borse...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Say+what%3f-a0289121261
Thanks to Google, art lovers are able, with a few simple clicks of their fingers, to discover not just paintings, but also sculpture, street art, and photographs.

The Dulwich Picture Gallery press department, in announcing an expansion of the Google Art Project (Artnotes AM344), proves the old Arthur C Clarke adage about mistaking technology for magic: just snap your...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sara+MacKillop.-a0289121262
'On paper'--that habitual phrase, marking out a terrain of virtual or hypothetical planning, not to mention the supposed calculation of success--continues to come to mind when we think of the difference between the actual and the virtual. Previously light and throwaway, paper seems--for now at least--decisively material. Solidifying, paper now reveals a hidden weight, albeit one...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hanne+Darboven.-a0289121263
Camden Arts Centre London 20 January to 18 March

It was Sol LeWitt who started Hanne Darboven's 'art showing life'. LeWitt met Darboven during the opening of a show Joseph Kosuth curated in New York in November 1967. She was carrying with her a small group of drawings that she showed him. Struck by the originality and depth of the work, LeWitt visited her studio...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/James+Benning.-a0289121264
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Sunderland 1 March to 9 June Platform A Middlesbrough 1 to 31 March

'We used to lead the world in making things. But we stopped making things. We don't make anything anymore. I miss that.' That is George Clooney, of all people, speaking for the US in a recent issue of Esquire. Click open the Huffington Post and you can read that US...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Zoe+Leonard%3a+Observation+Point.-a0289121265
Camden Arts Centre London 31 March to 24 June

Of all the subjects that do not readily lend themselves to representation, the sun ranks as among the most difficult to picture. Indeed, the absurdity of reducing the sublime to the pictorial realm, the modalities of seeing and the meaning of landscape, are all themes running through Zoe Leonard's solo exhibition 'Observation...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Song+Dong%3a+Waste+Not.-a0289121266
The Curve Barbican London 15 February to 12 June

What does a lifetime's worth of possessions look like? Most of us will never know, as limitations of space and a desire for tidiness lead to a constant ebb and flow of objects: as new ones come in, old ones are discarded. The installation Waste Not by Song Dong (Profile AM348) offers a hint, however. The work is...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Amikam+Toren%3a+Moving+in+the+Right+Direction.-a0289121267
Although the title of Amikam Toren's current exhibition at Anthony Reynolds Gallery, 'Moving in the Right Direction', is borrowed from a work Toren completed this year and which is included in the show, the second central element of this display develops a sculpture that is six years old. Deus Ex Machina, 2006, a curious pseudo-readymade formed from a rectified clothes horse, is...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sarah+Lucas%3a+Make+Love.-a0289121268
Situation London 17 March to December

Several uncertainties tugged at my mind while trudging back up the insalubrious staircase to 'Make Love'--the second incarnation of Sarah Lucas's Situation project, a year-long residency in the yet-to-be-developed rooms above Sadie Coles's gallery on Burlington Place. How could the principle of contingency attributed to site-specific...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Trisha+Baga%3a+Rock.-a0289121269
Vilma Gold London 4 April to 20 May

What kind of new creature are you, in our digital landscape? Are you a digital native, gliding around, elegant as a shimmering fish in water, or a digital immigrant, transitioning awkwardly from one environment to the other? Either way, Trisha Baga's installations, characterised by fragments of sound, images of glittering water and light...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Heather+%26+Ivan+Morison+Ben+rivers%2c+David+Thorpe.-a0289121270
The Hepworth Wakefield 11 February to 10 June

I looked up 'dystopia', and it didn't quite mean what I'd thought it did. Conjoining the ancient Greek for 'hard' and 'place', the term refers not to a failed utopia but specifically to a reversed one, run on repressive lines--the Orwellian opposite of free. So, despite the D-word featuring in the publicity materials, maybe we need...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tomorrow+Never+Knows.-a0289121271
Jerwood Space London 14 March to 22 April

It is unusual to be presented with an exhibition of moving-image work that announces itself as a display of pre-production proposals for new work in the future but which, at the same time, exhibits the presented works in the mode of completed pieces. The four artists selected for the new Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards, Ed Atkins,...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/On+the+Edgware+Road.-a0289121272
Serpentine Gallery London 6 to 28 March

'We are connecting with our community, which we always do, but this time in a different way.' These were the words of Julia Peyton-Jones, Serpentine Gallery director, during her speech on the opening night of the exhibition 'On the Edgware Road'. These words, accompanied by a short but frantically delivered speech by Hans Ulrich...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/On+the+Edgware+Road.-a0289121273
Serpentine Gallery London 6 to 28 March

Well-used amplifiers and scuffed musical instruments are secured on old ladders, repaired in a makeshift way with microphone and guitar leads; Hiwa K's It's spring and the weather is great so let's close all object matters, 2012, is a welcoming tableau. In Susan Hefuna's Edgware Road@ (several locations), 2010, four videos...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cutting+Across+Media.-a0289121274
As its subtitle suggests, Cutting Across Media--appropriation art, interventionist collage, and copyright law casts its net wide across different facets of both contemporary and historical cultural production. Its emphasis veers more towards the latter part of the subtitle, with various essays addressing musical sampling, literary collage, social intervention and their skirmishes with...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hal+Foster%3a+The+Art+Architecture+Complex.-a0289121275
Hal Foster's previous book to step beyond his field of expertise--Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes), 2002--received a poor response in the design world. One reviewer, in the graphic design magazine Emigre, even bemoaned: 'The paucity of context or specificity in Foster's critique of design is only surpassed by its stunning lack of originality. Once again, design as "scapegoat" is...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Artists'+Film+International.-a0289121276
Whitechapel Gallery London 28 March to 16 June

The current iteration of Artists' Film International explores, via five films, themes of displacement, migration, transience and loss. At the same time, the works crystallise some current threads in artists' moving image practice: the documentary and the 'social turn'; the abiding importance of the performative; and a rekindled...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Max+Hattler%3a+Shift.-a0289121277
Tenderpixel London 9 March to 28 April

For his first solo London exhibition, animator and media artist Max Hattler presents Shift. The film is the first in five new commissions by Channel 4, in collaboration with Animate Projects, as part of the broadcaster's Random Acts strand, the daily three-minute slot that is an updating of its now-defunct 3 Minute Wonders series dedicated...]]>Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Immaterial+production.-a0289121278
The premise of this half-day symposium was to explore changing conditions of artistic production, asking how artists 'both embody and contest the precarious working conditions of immaterial labour' and whether art, within this state of affairs, has the capacity to serve as 'immanent critique of capitalism'. Immaterial labour is a concept that has gained currency in the art world since at...]]>