Went along to the new Wolverhampton Art Gallery today, the fresh gallery space is impressive and really well designed. At the center of the redesign is the triangle Pop Art gallery, with lots of important British popart. There’s lots of interactive stuff running on sexy iMacs, here’s something I “created” earlier, the gallery even published it to flickr somewhere (when I find the photo I’ll post it).

Upstairs we saw Pleasure Gardens, including an interactive films by Ben Sadler, (God appears to have a really lonely life) some plug socket sculpture by Carolyn Godsiff and very weird plant like things. There’s also a lot of traditional olde-worldy art, it’s good stuff but it’s not really my taste.

I also swagged a very glossy booklet of all the exhibitions, a smaller semi-glossy guide to the whole gallery, a pop-supplimental and a few pop speech bubble stickers (of which I’m going back to steal more) freebies are ace.

I’ve been to Ikon a few times but Wolverhampton’s new gallery is much more impressive. A decent permanent collection with an impressive set of exhibitions makes it a much better choice. Ikon on contrast has very hit and miss exhibitions, no permanent collections and floors which give me static shocks. All Wolverhampton is missing is a huge book/magazine store with “hint hint” decent prices for students.