Market site will become Brighton arts centre (From The Argus)
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Market site will become Brighton arts centre
3:10pm Sunday 21st March 2010 in
A former fruit and veg market will be transformed into an arts space.
Brighton and Hove City Council applied for planning permission to breathe new life into the disused Old Municipal Market in Circus Street, Brighton, by turning it into a major cultural location.
The proposals have now been agreed by the local authority’s planning committee.
The site, which hosted Anish Kapoor’s massive sculpture The Dismemberment Of Jeanne D’Arc during Brighton Festival last year, will remain an arts venue until redevelopment plans are agreed.
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freddo
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5:17pm Sun 21 Mar 10
sussexone
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6:07pm Sun 21 Mar 10
freddo wrote:In a word, NO!
Wasn't it supposed to be some eco-development? I'm glad yet another Art Deco building is not going to be demolished...
It's not an Art Deco building, it's a concrete fronted industrial building, and here's a picture of it:
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You are thinking of the Old Market in HOVE not the former vegetable market in Brighton, LOL!!!!
Turing Test
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6:19pm Sun 21 Mar 10
corruptive wrote:You're evidently not familiar with the kind of work Anish Kapoor produces, corruptive... but don't let ignorance stop you. Yes, the piece he exhibited in the Old Municipal Market during the festival last was called "This Dismemberment of Jeanne D'Arc" but you're wrong to assume that title literally described the piece. Artists can be a bit like that when giving titles to their pieces. I imagine you were also confused to discover that the Mona Lisa wasn't actually a picture of a person called Lisa portrayed in the act of complaining about something.
Yeah well I'm sure we're all agreed that statues showing the dismemberment of teenage catholic girls are much more edifying for the public than fresh fruit and vegetables. What next - a badger baiting museum? A huge mural showing the Life in the Trenches? An interactive waterboarding installation? Public stocks and catherine wheels filled with ASBO-violators?
corruptive
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8:04pm Sun 21 Mar 10
kenzie757
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8:09pm Sun 21 Mar 10
corruptive
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9:33pm Sun 21 Mar 10
Turing Test
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10:18pm Sun 21 Mar 10
corruptive wrote:It's true. My favourite sitcom is EastEnders. It's a laugh a minute, that one. Hilarious.
Likewise, Turing Test, you must get really confused when you watch sitcoms, and can't understand why silly things keep happening and the audience keep laughing.
corruptive
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9:23am Mon 22 Mar 10
scthetruth
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9:46am Mon 22 Mar 10
B&H has a rich history where art plays a very small role so it should be left on the sideline. Visitors can be shown the wonders of Victorian inventiveness and the glory of our great empire days.
There are also a few interesting people buried here. Like Henry Holden, who joined the US army to fight in the Indian Wars and won the Congressional Medal of Honour. A true British hero.
corruptive
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9:59am Mon 22 Mar 10
Lady Smith
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10:56am Mon 22 Mar 10
scthetruth wrote:Yes, as we speak, Brighton & Hove Council have discovered a previously-untapped source of funding for a new history museum, and private investors are queuing up to contribute to it, as they are just plain bored with building for-profit businesses.
A new museum of Brighton & Hove history would be better both for residents and visitors. B&H has a rich history where art plays a very small role so it should be left on the sideline. Visitors can be shown the wonders of Victorian inventiveness and the glory of our great empire days. There are also a few interesting people buried here. Like Henry Holden, who joined the US army to fight in the Indian Wars and won the Congressional Medal of Honour. A true British hero.
Crikey - look at that pig up in the sky...
Whitedot
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12:46pm Mon 22 Mar 10
corruptive wrote:US policy's not changed much then.
I agree, scthetruth. The genocide of the North American natives by imperialist colonial invaders such as Henry Holden is something we can all be proud of. Thank god the wicked Sioux and Cherokee nations were wiped off the face of the earth and we can all enjoy Macdonald's burgers instead. But doubtless the Political Correctness brigade would whinge on about 'human rights' and complain that land-grabbing an entire continent and exterminating the inhabitants was somehow wrong.
Jimmy Stewart's Imaginary Rabbit
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1:32pm Mon 22 Mar 10
stan bailey
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7:31am Tue 23 Mar 10
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3:15pm Sun 21 Mar 10