Psycho Buildings
Mike Nelsons To the Memory of HP Lovecraft
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Matthew Ritchie Ghost Operator 21 May?28 Jun 2008 Hoxton Square
Wow... The animation in this show is just WOW.
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ALAN CRISTEA GALLERY [TURNED ON]

Turned On will include works by Julian Opie, Jeffrey Blondes, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Ron Haselden, Dan Flavin, Catherine Yass, Michael Craig-Martin and Langlands & Bell. All the peices in the exhibition are linked by their use of digital and electrical media ranging from lightboxes to digital neon and scrolling LED anmations. The exhibition shows how contemporary artists respond to and use ever-changing technology, both in the way they create and the way they present their artworks.
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Small galleries dominate list of best British art shows
Yesterday, that museum featured on the nations largest art prize shortlist, which was dominated by small regional galleries or exhibitions that have opened over the past year.
The Lightbox Gallery and Museum in Woking, the Shetland Museum and Archive in Lerwick, and an anti-slavery exhibition at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol were all selected for the Art Fund prize, which recognises Britains best new or renovated galleries and shows in the past 12 months with an award, for the winner, of ?100,000.
All except the fourth shortlisted venue, the Wellcome Collection, which opened its doors in central London last year with the help of ?30m from the Wellcome Trust, are small-scale venues or exhibitions that were up against some of the goliaths of the art world on the long list. Theyincluded the British Librarys exhibition of religious scripts called Sacred, and the International Slavery Museum, which opened in Liverpool to great fanfare.
In Woking, 70 campaigners worked for years as unpaid volunteers to help start the Lightbox, which was hailed as an "ingenious jewel" by the cultural critic, Stephen Bayley, when it opened. A new museum which traces the history of the town and two galleries alongside it were built with ?3.5m funding from the borough council, matched by fundraising efforts.
The exhibition in Bristol, entitled Breaking the Chains, was put on by trustees who were initially refused Heritage Lottery Funding (HLF) money. Gareth Griffiths, director of the museum, said trustees managed to raise ?250,000, even pledging their own private funds, because they felt a "moral responsibility" to put on a show which marked the colonial history of the town.
The HLF finally awarded the museum funding, months before the exhibition was due to open in May last year. It was regarded as a landmark show when it opened to mark the bicentenary of the 1807 Act that abolished the British Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The museum in the Shetlands was welcomed as a "heritage hub", displaying more than 3,000 items over two floors tracing the islands geological beginnings to the present day.
The Wellcome Collection was commended for its innovative hybrid exhibitions. These brought together the worlds of art and science with shows dedicated to themes such as death, sleep and the heart. They included a live link to a hospital theatre to view an open-heart operation.
The winner will be announced on 22 May.
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