
With only two more weeks to go until the end of the Warhol Show, the artist himself turned up fashionably late to check out the work and enjoy another 15 minutes of fame. Erica Smith writes…
Nearly 100 people crammed into a meeting room on Thursday 9 Feb to hear updates on the housing-led regeneration of Central St Leonards and the launch of the St Leonards Way Forward Group. The meeting was a report back from the two-day Community Planning Weekend held in late January (see previous report), writes Richard Hull.
Where should new homes be built, which open spaces should be preserved, how should architecture be conserved, where should we play, work and shop? Monday 6 February saw the launch of an informal public consultation on these questions by Hastings Borough Council planning policy team. The Shaping Hastings consultation is the start of a lengthy process of negotiating how space in the town will be allocated and will result in a plan that will be in force until 2028, writes Richard Hull.
Julia Kay’s Portrait Party (JKPP) is an international collaborative art project involving more than 650 artists from more than 50 countries. Working in both digital and traditional media, members of JKPP have made more than 20,000 portraits of each other in less than two years. Although the portrait party mainly operates over the internet, every now and again the contributing artists arrange a party in the real world, and Bexhill is the next party hot spot.