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Art

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Broadcast Yourself
still from EL NAFTAZTECA PAN (detail)
From Fri 13 June to Sun 10 August
A selection of TV and web-based works which demonstrates how artists have successfully challenged the dominant broadcast culture since the 1970s.
Text Images
Still from RICHARD SHIELDS, SOUTHY LOOKING AT HIS FACE ON THE TELEVISION (detail)
Part of Cornerhouse Projects
From Fri 13 June to Sun 10 August
A selection of painting by Richard Shields that form the central stage of Intrinsic Phone, a project based around mobile phone technology.

New Books

Access to Israel 1
Access to Israel 1
Israeli Contemporary Art
£16.00
Is it possible to understand Israel? An exhibition of contemporary artists' work at The Frankfurt Jewish Museum in 2008 has created a new platform to access this question, 60 years after the state of Israel was formally established.
Mircea Cantor
Micea Cantor cover
The Need for Uncertainty
£19.95
Romanian artist Mircea Cantor often mines the territory of conceptual and performance art associated with Alan Kaprow, Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol. This title has been published alongside an exhibition at Modern Art Oxford in 2008 / 9.

Film

still from SUMMER HOURS
Summer Hours
13:50  15:55  18:10  20:20 
Cert 12A, 102 mins
In French with English Subtitles 
Three forty-something siblings are forced into confronting the end of their childhood, their shared memories, and their futures after the sudden death of their mother.
Still from LA ANTENA
La Antena
13:55  15:50  20:30 
Cert 12A, 90 mins
In Spanish with English Subtitles 
With a nod to Guy Maddin and silent cinema, LA ANTENA is an enchanting, monochrome fable of media manipulation and power.
Still from HEARTBEAT DETECTOR
Heartbeat Detector
17:45 
Cert PG, 141 mins
In French with English Subtitles 
Idea-driven political thriller. A psychologist discovers troubling links between WWII and modern day big business whilst investigating its director.
still from STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Standard Operating Procedure
13:40  16:00  18:20  20:40 
Cert 15, 117 mins
In English
Documentary depicting abuse inflicted on prisoners by US army personnel in the notorious Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib.