Reporting on t

Variant magazine have produced a press release addressing the response of James Doherty, Media Manager of Culture and Sport Glasgow and President of the National Union of Journalists, to a text published in Variant by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt. 'The main thrust of the article is to expose the connections between the various board members of CSG and its trading arm and their multifarious business interests and strategies for culture, which point to the privatisation of a valuable public service and the erosion of the common good.'

Pedro Costa's films belie both the cinematic exploitation of suffering and the documentary urge to record truth and fix recognition. Ana Balona de Oliveira sifts through the bones and ruins of Costa's Fontaínha trilogy, set in a disappearing Lisbon slum

Over the past couple of months We Are Bad's invectives against sport as class-cleansing have been appearing on the notorious blue fence that runs around the site of the London 2012 Olympic games. Mute made contact with this shadowy underground organisation and can now present the first in a series of specially commissioned posters, made available here in hi-res for home printing

The BBC's Live Sites 2012 program is set to roll out 60 big screens in urban centres around the UK by 2012. Considering the vague agenda currently guiding their use, Richard Wright asks whether these big screens will ever open themselves to creative use or simply remain giant TVs controlled by giants
 

In an interesting intervention into the debate initiated by Claire Bishop [see http://www.metamute.org/en/exodus] on the social instrumentalisation of art, Building magazine has revealed plans for a dual (at least) purpose 'productivist' public sculpture to be sited at Stratford Station.