We've kept this possibility under wraps for about 6 months... it's been tantalizing waiting for confirmation. But we are now hugely proud to announce that A New Dictionary of Art is now available in Tate Modern.
Thank you to Alison for spotting it out on display and for capturing the images.

Triangulations is the upcoming three-way show at OpenHand OpenSpace in Reading. The exhibition features Peter Driver, Sarah Britten-Jones, and Robert Fitzmaurice. Peter will be showing work from his Walk for Stanley project that will feature in his forthcoming book to be published by Peculiarity Press. 
The exhibition opens on Tuesday 18th September, with a meet the artists on Thursday 20th September from 6-9pm.

Sunday 8 July, 10am-1pm - Thinking about what is and what is not art with Stash Art Collective on a plinth in Broad Street, Reading alongside the Open for Art event ArtLine art market organised by Jelly

Inspired by some of the rants in 'A New Dictionary of Art' - Peculiarity Press will be showing little models recreating some classic pieces that are so frequently berated as 'not art'. Looking forward to hearing what the shoppers of Reading think!

Thanks so much to artist Natalie Parsley who blogs at Spanner in the workz for a fantastically thoughtful and considered review of the New Dictionary. Although Natalie's post does indeed start with a curse, I'm pleased to say it feels more like a mild rebuke and she goes on to raise all sorts of questions about the status of the dictionary and indeed its definitions.

It is great the 'ambitiously mad' New Dictionary can give such food for thought and I'm glad to see 'like a strawberry cake' make an appearance in the text as it is one of my favourites.

I particularly liked Natalie's query as to whether art can exist without  a definition (and indeed vice versa) - that has certainly got me thinking. We may have to ask Prof Derek Matravers for an answer to that?

But one question I can tackle with confidence is the rhetorical title of the review. Only 3000?! - well technically there are 3557, but who's counting?

Great day on Saturday at South Hill Park Arts Centre where Jane Glennie has created a totally fab dictionary-themed installation in which visitors vote for their favourite and/or create their own definition. Over the staircase a slideshow of definitions scrolls lazily round. Hopefully all the rude ones have been edited out for such a family-friendly space! Lovely to catch up with Mark Langley too whose own beautiful memorial work was exhibited nearby. Big thanks to curator Cat Cooke for hosting. Very impressed.

Should have known that Lucy would have the answer! Bob Ross was right after all - trees, a lake, a log cabin, a waterfall, a deer and a sunset is all you need. Many thanks to Margaret Farrell for sharing this, from Tate Etc magazine and originally the San Francisco Chronicle of 1968.

This blog postdates the launch of the Dictionary (we were somewhat busy then I seem to remember), but I thought it was worth a quick look back at some of the events we had – Cambridge University at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge again at the Festival of Ideas, then Westminster Arts Library in London, the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University, and finally at Clapham Library. Then in December we had a couple of pop-up exhibitions that the Dictionary participated in: Five Years: My Brain Hurts A Lot with Art Language Location at Guest Projects; and as part of the artists-in-residence show at Reading College.

Thank you to all who came and joined us, and fired up the debates on 'What is art?'. And here's looking forward to the next iteration at South Hill Park in April.