Realism or fiction, poetry, abstraction or pure nostalgia?" In a bold move, Hebel has made monochrome photography the core of the festival, and if the question he poses is not answered definitively, enough new and interesting issues are explored in the 50-odd exhibitions spread between the town's churches, galleries, a converted convent and several vast railway sheds.
Melancholy reports of leaks in the ceiling, or yet another director promising change before evaporating, overshadowed the odd loan exhibition.
According to a brief essay that accompanies this odd, small exhibition, Shaver suffered from some kind of mental illness.
She spent her 20s decorating nurseries, "getting the odd picture into an exhibition and selling a few textiles".
Through next Friday This initially odd, even unprepossessing group exhibition of stylistically disparate paintings and large drawings has been selected by the painter Dan McCarthy.
A prelude to the Brighton festival proper, which begins on 7 May, the fringe rounds up the quirkier, less-frills cabaret, theatre, comedy, even magic, and throws in the odd music concert and exhibition at locations across town.
These works are part of Ueda's second solo exhibition entitled Odd Eye at the Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles.
The bleakness of nihilism seems like an odd theme for an exhibition, let alone a biennial featuring the work of over 60 artists, but the team behind art book publisher Endless Editions has done precisely that for the 2016 edition of their Endless Biennial.
Although the 30-odd paintings in the exhibition will probably be familiar to visitors because they are usually on view at the museum, they have never been seen in the context of Stieglitz's collection, which includes scores of watercolors and drawings rarely seen because of their delicacy.
