Fresh from his exhibition in the Hague, Duncan Ward is featured in an exhibition currently on display in Berlin entitled 'Reliquaries of Empires Dust'. That's a title worthy of Arachnotaur of you ask me...
http://www.bereznitsky-gallery.com/cms/website.php?id=/en/index/exhibitions/measures.htm
4 - 7 June is the 12th British Silent Film Festival at the Barbican
http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/series.asp?id=736&show=listing
Another interesting film listing at the aforementioned is a bleak late 50s view of angry youth in post-way Liverpool: Violent Playground stars David MacCallum and features a cameo by a young Freddie Starr.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=8750
The next exhibition at the Barbican, after the Corbusier, is called Radical Nature (opens 19 June) and focuses on nature's inspiration of artists and architects: Beuys, Ant Farm, Simon Starling and more.
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8908
A bit late, but Kevin Blechdom has released a new record called Gentlemania. Surprisingly its an acoustic record, and although still a mixed up bag of styles, this shows a more gentle side then the schizophrenic electronica we know her for.
http://www.myspace.com/kevinblechdom
Go and see Michael Raedecker: line up at the Camden Arts Centre before 28 June.
www.camdenartscentre.org
You've just got time to see Annette Mesenger's show at the Hayward before it closes next week. And the next show is called Walking in my Mind: Adventures into Artists Imaginations. It features Charles Avery and Thomas Hirschhorn, Keith Tyson ans Pipilotti Rist, and opens 23 June.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/productions/walking-in-my-mind-46998/?utm_campaign=email_hay&utm_source=email_hay090428&utm_content=email_hay090428_walking
Not much time to get tickets or anything, but Susan Hiller is speaking about her latest collection of texts at the Royal Festival Hall on Friday night.
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/literature-spoken-word/productions/susan-hiller-the-provisional-46984/?utm_campaign=email_hay&utm_source=email_hay090428&utm_content=email_hay090428_hiller
See PaulMart: Breton Brut at the Southbank Centre before the end of May
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=production&production=90f
Also this Friday night John Cale will be talking at the National Gallery about his upcoming installation at the Venice Biennale. That starts at 10pm so you might even get to see Susan Hiller first.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/what/events/2009/may/1505_museums_at_night.htm
