In March 2010 Harry Taylor a philosophy tutor and militant atheist, was charged in court for the offense of religious harassment. He was caught dumping literature in the prayer room at Liverpool's John Lennon airport, including "sexually abusive and sexually unpleasant cartoons". Taylor defended his action saying that a prayer room in an airport named after John Lennon was an offense and that he was just spreading his own 'religion of reason'.
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Worthing Museum and Art Gallery has teamed up for the first time with Creative Future, charity working with marginalised artists and writers in Sussex to present a special exhibition in the Studio gallery, entitled The Near Far Pool.  

The artists and writers featured are all highly talented, and many have been published or exhibited before.  Most artists’ careers are hard enough without the added difficulties of homelessness, mental ill health or physical disability.  Prejudice, and the social exclusion that can follow, adds to these difficulties. The organisation Creative Future was set up three years ago to facilitate and promote artistic development amongst talented individuals who find themselves excluded for reasons that are often beyond their control.

Tom Conti, one of the UK’s finest comic actors, leads the cast in the world premiere of comedy Wife After Death by Eric Chappell, BAFTA award-winning author of Rising Damp, Home to Roost and Only When I Laugh.

Wife After Death opens at Theatre Royal Brighton on Wednesday 17 March and runs to Saturday 20 March at the start of a 10-date tour of the UK.

Just a few weeks after the release of Dennis Locorriere’s new album Post Cool, the much-loved local and singer whose distinctive voice features on every Dr Hook hit will visit the Pavilion Theatre in Worthing.

 As the lead singer with Dr Hook, Dennis Locorriere featured on over 60 gold and platinum-selling albums, with songs such as If Not You, Sylvia‘s Mother and When You‘re In Love With A Beautiful Woman. Dr Hook’s angst-filled songs made them one of America’s most successful acts of the 70s and 80s, now Dennis’ solo career continues to attract famous fans as his self-penned hits are recorded by artists such as Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.

Worthing boasts a fine stable of living, breathing artists, and the jewel in Worthing's architectural crown, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, is the perfect setting to display this collection of art by the Sussex Road Group, exploring interpretations on the theme of Skin Deep.
 

Worthing Museum and Art Gallery presents forty sculptures spanning the last decade, by the Frink School-trained artist Jon Edgar. We are proud to be hosting Worthing’s first solo show of Edgar’s work, which extends beyond the Garden and Garden Gallery to all around the museum and art gallery.

There are a number of reasons why Jon Edgar wanted to exhibit here at Worthing. After returning to live in West Sussex, he was drawn to Worthing’s Frink Desert Quartet, Worthing Museum’s quality public collection, and the proximity to his birthplace in Rustington.

In summer 2010, Tate Britain will collaborate with a host of comic talent to present Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, a ground-breaking exhibition about the role of humour in British visual culture.

Through a great diversity of art forms – including painting, drawing, sculpture, film and photography – comedy, the comic, and visual humour will be explored in their many dimensions. The exhibition will be presented and interpreted by some of the country’s best-known cartoonists and comedy writers including Steve Bell, Harry Hill, Gerald Scarfe, and the team at Viz Magazine. Their expertise and opinion will offer visitors a fresh take on comic traditions from the 1600s to the present day, and encourage debate around the wider role of humour in British life.

This summer Tate Modern will present Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, a fascinating insight into photographic images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of those depicted. Spanning a variety of lens-based media from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the exhibition will offer an illuminating and provocative perspective on subjects both iconic and taboo.

 

Artists from the Empty Shops Network are currently touring the UK with a project which helps artists understand the challenges and opportunities of working in empty shops. Experienced empty shop artists will create an exhibition in one week, exploring local place and distinctiveness in a variety of media.

Throughout the week, the Empty Shops Network's founder, author of the Empty Shops Workbook and well-known speaker (Central St Martins, Chain Reaction, AIR Time, Arts Council England 'Art in empty shops', RIBA, Space Makers) Dan Thompson will be available to talk to artists about how to use empty shops successfully, with friendly, informal but practical meetings to discuss projects available free of charge.

And open events throughout the week will help artists network, with a coffee morning from 10am-12 noon each Wednesday and a workshop on using online publishing tool bookleteer.com each Friday.