Able for art / UM gets dosh / Void fills with pub (Friday 22 December 2006)
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Ulster Museum gets money despite cited deficiencies
This from last Sunday's Observer:
Five days after being criticised for poor management, the Ulster Museum in Belfast has received its largest ever grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Last week the Public Accounts Committee at Westminster accused the museum's officials of 'profound deficiencies in custodianship' and found 90 per cent of the museum's collection was stored out of public view. But yesterday £4,527,000 was handed over to rejuvenate one of Northern Ireland's best-known landmarks. Belfast's Botanic Gardens, where the museum is located, has been forced to shut temporarily as part of an overall £12m project to upgrade the building.
You can read the full report here.
Void moves drinking hole
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| Klaus Kinski in Fitzcarraldo, with the Molly Aida in the background |
It's always a wrench when a favourite pub changes, and clearly that prospect hit a few artists in Derry particularly keenly. Paula Bernardella, Maolíosa Boyle, Damien Duffy and Kieran Ferris, collectively NULL, will be moving the interior of Tinneys pub into Void gallery for a period. Various interventions involving the pseudo-bar will then take place, before the lot is returned to a renovated Tinneys. The project is called Molly Aida, which is the name of the boat on which Fitzcarraldo (Klaus Kinski) loses the plot in the Werner Herzog film of the same name.
Confused? Download the explanatory PDF here. Opening is on 5 January 2007. The NULL artists might like to consult this site before starting...
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