Artbar 15th December (Next Tuesday), it's the Artbar Christmas Quiz! Get a team together and win some prizes..

Artbar Guest 17th November (tomorrow evening) is Professor Anita Taylor, Bath Spa University, discussing the possible move of the School of Art and Design

Artbar 20th October: Geoff Dunlop, filmaker..

Artbar Next Tuesday, 15th September, Tom Trevor, Artistic Director of Dojima River Biennale, Japan

Next Artbar Tuesday 15th September, Tom Trevor, Artistic Director Dojima Biennale, Japan (and former Director of Arnolfini) discusses his work as a curator of international projects.

Tom Trevor, Artistic Director of the current 4th Dojima River Biennale in Japan talks about this in the context of his work as a curator of international projects. Trevor is a curator and writer, based in Bristol. He is currently Artistic Director of the 4^th Dojima River Biennale, Take Me To The River, in Osaka, Japan, as well as Guest Curator of Music for Museums at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Curator of the 1^st ARoS Triennale for Aarhus 2017, European Capital of Culture, in Denmark. Other projects in 2015 include commissions by Do Ho Suh for Bristol Museum and by John Akomfrah for All the World’s Futures at the Venice Biennale. 

Recent exhibitions include Black Sun at the Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, and Joelle Tuerlinckx’ Wo(r)(l)d in Progress? at Arnolfini, Bristol (in collaboration with Wiels, Brussels, and Haus der Kunst, Munich). 

He was formerly Director of Arnolfini (2005-13), Associate Curator of the Art Fund International collection (2007-12) and Director of Spacex (1999-2005), in the UK.

 The biennale website is www.dojimariver.com, or there is more info on my blog: www.tomtrevor.net.

Next Artbar: Tuesday 21st July, Warren & Mosley, artists and collaboration

Next Artbar: Tuesday 16th June. The artist Christopher Bucklow discussing his recent work.

Next Artbar: Tuesday 19th May, The Art of Drumming - A talk by Clive Deamer from the band Get The Blessing

Next Artbar Tuesday 21st April: Albert Irvin, Life and Work, A discussion by Professor Mike Tooby

You may wish to read Mike's obituary on Bert Irvin in the Guardian here.

March ARTBAR - Tuesday 17th March: Dexter Dalwood in conversation with the philospher Barry C. Smith...

February ARTBAR: Tuesday 17th February, Karen MacKinnon, Artistic Director, Artes Mundi

Artbar January on Tuesday, join us for a social evening, get on your 'soapbox'

Artbar 20th January 2015

Happy New Year!

There is an Artbar on Tuesday 20th January, guests are being finalised and we shall post details as soon as possible!

Artbar Team