The Bluecoat Secures Three-Year Funding
posted 01 Jul 2014
Sat 5 July – Sun 26 October, 10am - 6pm
FREE
A Needle Walks into a Haystack is the Biennial’s exhibition of international art that unfolds across Liverpool’s public spaces and galleries. Curated by Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman, it disrupts the way we assume our habits, and experience our habitats.
The Bluecoat presents a single artist, American painter James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). Through paintings, prints, drawings, sound, ephemera and key correspondences, this exhibition, the first of its kind in the UK, will explore elements of Whistler’s practice and life that position him as the ‘original’ contemporary artist, in a reflection of how artists operate today.
Liverpool’s creative hub, the Bluecoat showcases talent across visual art, music, dance, live art and literature.
As the oldest building in Liverpool’s city centre, the Bluecoat houses a creative community of...
Thu 10 Jul, 6pm
Free
Inspired by Liverpool's International Festval of Business, management specialist Peter Bond discusses how art and artists can provide solutions to some of the thorny problems facing today's managers.
Sat 12 - Sun 13 Jul, 10am - 4pm
Tickets: £10/£120
with Emma Gregory
Sat 12 Jul, 2pm
Free. booking required
Join the exhibition’s co-curator Rosie Cooper (Project Curator, Liverpool Biennial) and the Bluecoat’s exhibitions curator Sara-Jayne Parsons.
Thu 3 Jul - Sun 3 Aug, 10am - 6pm
Free
This selection of intaglio prints exhibited takes its inspiration from Whistler’s drypoint and etching work in the gallery.
Friday, 24 Jan 2014 - Friday, 23 Jan 2015
Visitors arriving from College Lane will have noticed brightly coloured words painted onto the ...
Thursday, 03 Jul 2014 - Sunday, 03 Aug 2014
This selection of intaglio prints exhibited takes its inspiration from Whistler’s drypoint and etching ...
Saturday, 05 Jul 2014 - Sunday, 26 Oct 2014
Artist Tony Knox celebrates a decade of his MothMan alter ego, the dysfunctional, bumbling Superhero he has explored through ...
Saturday, 05 Jul 2014 - Sunday, 26 Oct 2014
Liverpool Biennial 2014: The UK Biennial of Contemporary Art A Needle Walks Into a Haystack Sat ...
Saturday, 05 Jul 2014 - Saturday, 25 Oct 2014
A host of creative activities related to the Whistler exhibition for families to do ...
Wednesday, 16 Jul 2014 - Friday, 01 Aug 2014
A pioneering arts festival engineered by young people, created for everyone. Set within Liverpool’s ...
Liverpool’s centre for the contemporary arts, the Bluecoat showcases talent across visual art, music, dance, live art and literature. As the ...
Mon - Sat 8.00am - 6.00pm
Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm
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