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The Museum of Everything

Opens: 14/11/2009 Closes: 14/02/2010 Museum of Everything, London

This impressive gallery space, formerly a dairy, sits near Frieze Art Fair's Regent’s Park plot and is dedicated to work by artists living and working on the fringes of society.  The pieces, selected by distinguished art world figures including Eva Rothschild and Ed Ruscha, represent the diverse and often anonymous nature of creative work that pushes artistic parameters.

For more information visit: http://www.musevery.com/exhibition1.html Buy tickets at: http://www.musevery.com/whereweare.html
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Art Review“A welcome antidote to the ‘official’ artworld...” Each work is accompanied by a text from a range of creative professionals, including artists and curators. Tracing the influence of Morton Bartlett’s family of dolls to Grayson Perry’s work, for example, is fascinating...
 
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The Times“Uplifting, intriguing, frustrating, poignant, enchanting...” Some works are given rooms to themselves, some are grouped together, most effectively in a huge hall about halfway through this maze of a building. Here the high walls are covered in paintings, drawings, wall-hangings and sculptures...
 
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The Independent“Get along before Christmas...” A great show. This is an art you can never get your head round. You can wonder at it. You can diagnose it. As an artist, you can learn from it. But you can't make company with it. It never speaks to you, only to itself...
 
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Financial Times“It’s a sense of the otherworldly that the museum is particularly good at.” Offers glimpses into strange realms of private obsession such as Alexandre Lobanov’s gun-fixation which resulted in wondrously ornate, mythologised depictions of Soviet heroism, or the elaborate wire assemblages of Emery Blagdon...
 
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