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Maria Balshaw appointed Tate Director

MARIA BALSHAW APPOINTED NEW DIRECTOR OF TATE Tate has announced that Maria Balshaw, currently Director of the Whitworth (University of Manchester) and Manchester City Galleries, and Director of Culture for Manchester City Council, has been appointed the new Director of Tate. The appointment by the gallery’s Board of Trustees has been approved by the Prime Minister,…
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Representing the Calais ‘Jungle’

Representing the Calais ‘Jungle’ A tour and book launch with photographer and activist Gideon Mendel. Part of his exhibition Dzhangal, an alternative view of the Calais ‘Jungle’. The event will begin with a guided tour led by the artist in conversation with art historians Christine Eyene and Dominique Malaquais. Mendel will reflect on the challenges and sensitivities faced in…
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Radouan Zeghidour: Jian
French artist Radouan Zeghidour presents his first solo show in England at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix Gallery with pieces exploring an archaeology of forgetting. Zeghidour’s works are composed of memory, fragment and monument, through sculptures that are at once forbidden discoveries and fragmented rememberings of past places. Zeghidour said: “The title for the exhibition comes from…