2for1 Ticket Offer for Saturday 27th March

Enjoy this 2for1 ticket offer to the Glasgow Art Fair and other exclusive member offers that include free and 2for1 tickets to many of the art fairs in the UK through the year, private view invitations, free art magazine subscriptions and many more.

Scotland’s National Art Fair, the Glasgow Art Fair 2010, is held from 25th – 28th March. This is the 15th year of the Fair and throughout this time, the Fair has built and sustained a well deserved reputation as an event where the best quality contemporary art, using varied media, is showcased. Both well established artists and new talent are equally represented.

The prominent white marquees, located in George Square which is itself a dominant feature of the Glaswegian landscape, are full to the brim with outstanding examples of contemporary art from 46 galleries especially selected for the exhibition. These galleries hail from throughout Scotland, the rest of the UK, Europe and beyond and represent around 1,000 artists. It is anticipated that approximately 16,500 people will visit the Fair in 2010.

Glasgow has become renowned for its patronage of visual arts and the Art Fair has, over the past decade and a half, become established as a springboard from which emerging talent is able to gain exposure to the buying public.

One special feature of the 2010 Glasgow Art Fair is a special exhibition of work by the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (RGI). This Institute was founded in 1860 and is active in the promotion of contemporary art works by Scottish artists.

The Fair is the ideal place in Scotland to purchase, sell or simply view art, whether you are an avid collector, a casual purveyor, or just interested in art.  Art works can be purchased for as little as £50, whilst others attract prices in excess of £70,000.

Take a look at our exclusive member offers and get 2for1 ticket to the Affordable Art Fair in London in March 2010 and free tickets for Russian, Eastern and Oriental Fine Art Fair in London and Cambridge Art Fair both in June 2010.

Inspiring Relationship Between Art and Science

Every year the University hosts a Cambridge Science Festival in the city, the UK’s largest free science festival, when the general public has the opportunity to visit some of the University's famous laboratories and departments, and hear from world leading researchers. As part of the Festival, a wide number of activities and events take place. Between 8 – 21 March 2010, the Cambridge Science Festival offers over 150 free events designed to give families, adults and children of all ages two weeks of hands on science.

This year the Science Festival explores the inspiring relationship between art and science. Talks, exhibitions and debates will provide an opportunity to discover the exciting interplay and stimulating connections between art and science which include photography, paint and talks regarding the connection between the two. The art workshops will be held on the 9th and 17th as part of the University of Cambridge Science Festival and in association with the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

9 March 10:00 – 13:00 Chain reaction
17 March 16:30 – 18:00 Creative responses to 'Assembling bodies'

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Buy Rugs and Carpets at a Prestigious London Art Event

Become our member to enjoy FREE tickets to the Russian, Eastern and Oriental Fine Art Fair in London, June 2010 and many other art events across the UK all year around. If you are looking to buy Persian, Oriental or Antique rugs and carpets, then you certainly should not miss a great opportunity to buy some rare and high quality pieces during the fair.

Visitors to the Russian, Eastern and Oriental Fine Art Fair should prepare to be astonished by the amazing number and variety of fine art works and antiques on display by dealers and galleries from across the world. Those examples with a higher profile such as Byzantine iconography and paintings, as well as Faberge jewellery will be there, but you're going to get a lot more: indeed, there will be something for anyone who is in love with the fine art that has been manufactured by Russian and Oriental artists and craftsmen during the last millennium.

The art fair visitors will be able to see and buy such gorgeous pieces of art as highly decorated and beautifully crafted Persian, Oriental and Antique rugs and carpets. Some prominent examples of exquisite pieces to anticipate are Afghan Caucasian designed rugs, Fachralo Kazak rugs with classic design elements such as the classic box medallion with wine glass and a serrated leaf border and Turkoman carpets originating from Russian Turkmenistan.

Russian art collectors nowadays naturally gravitate to London to purchase the best examples of this genre as this city has become one of the most significant locations for Russian art auctions. Expatriate Russians living in London and other places and those still in the motherland travel to these auctions.

The 2009 Fair was designated by London's Russian community as a premier event on their social calendar. A highlight of this Fair was the Charity Gala Evening on behalf of The Children's Burns Trust, which was patronised by highly ranked Russians such as Their Highnesses Prince and Princess Dimitri Lobanov Rostovsky, celebrities and other VIPs. Approximately £15,000 was raised just for this charity through this evening, in conjunction with the Ritz Club VIP dinner.

Expectations were exceeded in quite a few examples of artwork sales: some even being recorded within the high six figure amounts. The Fair is particularly well regarded by the art community to the extent that galleries from as distant as, for example, the Far East and the United States are represented together with galleries from Russia, Europe and the Middle East.

Due to ever higher demand, the 2010 Fair will have on display Asian Art for the first time. The majority of this art primarily hails from the geographical area formerly known as Persia, for a long period renowned as the home of fine rugs and furnishings. Specialist Oriental and Indian art and antiquities dealers will also have on exhibit examples of a number of their finest collections: many who have attended the London Russian, Oriental and Eastern Art sales will see this as an answer to their prayers.

The organisers of the Russian Art Fair, in association with the Ritz Club Casino, The St Petersburg Ball, The Russian Summer Ball and representatives from the media and other Fair organisers, are intent on attracting top calibre clientele. To make certain that this happens, the venue selected for this 2010 Art Fair will be the opulent Art Deco ballroom in the Park Lane Hotel, located in London's Mayfair.

The Fair has been timed in order to take advantage of the greater numbers of art purchasers who are in London to capitalise from the Russian sales at Sotheby's, Christie's, Bonham's and MacDougall's, which are all occurring in the same week.

The 2010 Russian Oriental and Eastern Fine Art Fair will be open at the following days and events:

Private View: Wednesday 9th June 6pm to 9:30pm
Charity Gala Evening: Friday 11th June from 6pm
Public Days: Thursday 11am-6, Friday 11am-5 Saturday 11am-6pm

Those wishing to attend the specially organised Charity Gala Evening will be pleased to know that the recipient is once more the Children's Burns Trust.

FREE Tickets to Our Members for this Cambridge Art Event

Become a member to receive a free ticket for the Cambridge Art Fair 2010 and many other art events across the UK all year around, including free tickets to the prestigious Russian, Eastern and Oriental Fine Art Fair in London June 2010.

In 2010, the annual Cambridge Art Fair will be held from 24th to 27th June, for the fourth time, with the venue once more being the Chilford Hall Vineyard in the picturesque rural area of Cambridgeshire. This beautiful venue is the largest of its kind in Eastern England solely dedicated to events such as the Fair. It is imperative that art lovers mark June on their calendars to ensure that they do not miss this event.

Opening Hours
Thursday 24th June : 18.30 – 21.30
Charity Preview Evening & Champagne Reception
Friday 25th June : 11.00 – 18.00
Saturday 26th June : 11.00 – 18.00
Sunday 27th June : 11.00 – 17.00

The Cambridge Art Fair again promises to showcase a unique and eclectic collection of art from a number of genres including fine, modern and contemporary artworks.Visitors will be delighted to know that the galleries exhibiting in 2010 come from as far afield as Argentina. This is testimony to the international importance of the Cambridge Art Fair. Artists from such diverse cultures as those found in Russia, Australia, the Americas and Europe will have work on display, as well as a choice selection of local artists’ work.

The Cambridge Art Fair is bound to have something to appeal to all tastes. Become our member to receive free tickets for this event and take advantage of other membership benefits that include free subscriptions to top international art magazines, private view invitations and many more.

2 for 1 Tickets to The Affordable Art Fair Spring Collection 2010

Become our member to print your 2for1 Affordable Art Fair ticket. Receive updates on similar events in the future and get free and discounted ticket vouchers  exclusive to our members for top art exhibitions in London and across UK – including the Glasgow Art Fair in March 2010, Russian, Eastern and Oriental Fine Art Fair in London, and Cambridge Art Fair, both in June 2010.

This year, the Affordable Art Fair’s Spring Exhibition will be held from Thursday, 11th to Sunday, 14th March, 2010. The venue is Battersea Park and around 120 galleries will showcase an enormous variety of contemporary art within the £50 – £3,000 price range.

Contemporary art enthusiasts, both serious collectors and those who just want to purchase something to display in their homes, will be certain to discover an item that appeals to them at the Fair. Both young talent and established artists will have examples of their work on offer.

As well as the amazing artwork, there are a number of special events that have been organised. These include educational presentations regarding art collecting, as well as a family friendly, hands on AAF (Affordable Art Fair) educational programme, with plenty of activities to entertain, which is free of charge.

A community of practising artists and designers from the University of Arts London known as ‘jotta’, who work both online and offline, have been commissioned to organise an exhibition of work selected from recent graduates of the University who are also members of jotta. Visitors to the Fair should not miss this chance to purchase some high quality art from tomorrow’s ‘stars’.

What could be better than to wander through the park, appreciating the unique art work on display? Don’t miss the Affordable Art Fair this March!

Become a member to receive 2for1 tickets for this event and updates on art events in the future and take advantage of other membership benefits that include free and discounted tickets to art events, private view invitations, free international art magazine subscriptions any many more. All special offers that are exclusive to our members.