Category Archives: Art

Street Scapes photography exhibition launches this week.

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Jason

Creed St (formally Madcap) presents a month long exhibition of awesome photographic works produced by Milton Keynes based artist, Neil Beardmore. The showcase includes challenging and thoughtful imagery of Britain’s society in the 80s The exhibition runs throughout the month … Continue reading →

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Concrete Cows get a makeover.

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Jason

The concrete cows, our city’s most loved works of art got a Halloween update by some so called “Vandals” recently. We quite like the new look, what do you think? Image taken from Mk Citizen fan page on Facebook, you … Continue reading →

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MK heats up for nine days of International festivities

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Jason

For the next nine days, Milton Keynes will be transformed in to a sprawling urban arts festival, bringing colour, sounds and performance to the streets and venues of our concrete City. Listed in the top 100 festivals by The Sunday … Continue reading →

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Scratch Nights: alternative gallery action

Posted on February 29, 2012 by dan

Finding experimental music, film, or performance in Milton Keynes is hard at the best of times. But now they’re all available together— in an unlikely venue. Scratch Nights have been taking place in MK Gallery since January 2010, giving the … Continue reading →

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Gigs not art will give us our Satisfaction, Ronnie

Posted on October 21, 2011 by dan

Ronnie Wood has not only survived more than 30 hardcore years of being one part of the Rolling Stones, he’s also held it together enough to be able to create a collection of artworks, and even put it on show … Continue reading →

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Random piece of graffiti of the week #1

Posted on September 21, 2011 by dan

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Pint down the Shed anyone?

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Jason

There is a new venue in town, and it smells nice and sounds even better….. this little place has picked up quite the cult following almost exclusively by word of mouth. The watershed, it says above the door ”A dirty … Continue reading →

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Random sticker of the week #1

Posted on June 17, 2011 by dan

This just about sums it up. If you see any more, be sure to send them our way. You know where we are. Happy weekend people.

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Sick ink in the concrete city

Posted on June 6, 2011 by dan

Here’s a glimpse of some of the sick ink that’s set to bring a bit of colour to our residents’ skin at the city’s first tattoo convention: [slideshow] The people putting on the first MK Tattoo convention have gone balls … Continue reading →

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And now a word from our head poet

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jason

You may not know it, but last week  Milton Keynes got its very own Poet Laureate. in the form of Mark Niel. We guess this makes him the new leader of all things poetic in the concrete city – but … Continue reading →

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