The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Site-specific painter whose understated yet radical works are rooted in fine-art tradition wins judges' vote • Adrian Searle: All that glitters is not gold The creator of a subtle and unashamedly beautiful fresco in gold leaf has been named the winner of this year's most prestigious UK art prize. Glasgow-based Richard Wright, 49, used the age-old, painstaking techniques of the old masters to...
Cultured Views (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
For the past three weeks my son, who is five, has been bringing special homework assignments home which involve plenty of paper, glue, pencils, paints, cotton wool, odd bits of cloth…and me. His class are making their own xmas decorations as part of their preparations for the festive season. Let me make this perfectly clear; I [...]
Amrita Paul (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Wednesday 11Th November Hamo Thornycroft 1850 - 1925 " Teucer " 1881 bronze The champion Greek archer Teucer was one of the heroes of Homer's story of the Trojan War. When this bronze was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1882 a quotation from Pope's translation of Holmer was printed in the catalogue, as the subject was unusual. Thornycroft admired the Elgin marbles, and his early works were...
Fine Art Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
We thought we would start with some general background on Sherree as this is our first of many posts about this most celebrated of English artists. A Day At The Fair by Sherree Valentine Daines (New for Winter 09) This remarkable lady celebrated her 30th anniversary as an artist in 2007 by publishing her first art book [...]
Busworld Photography (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
It's always easier to pull up somewhere one shouldn't in a van as you can always say you stopped to ask directions. I expect it's even more difficult to get away with it now in London where one of the vast army of over-eager traffic-wardens appear from nowhere desperate to build up their weekly tally of fines. So I don't really miss distance driving any more but back in the Eighties my van often found...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Hamburg, Germany - Since the artist’s inaugural exhibition of the K 21 in Düsseldorf in 2001, Deichtorhallen are the first to present a comprehensive solo exhibition of Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, Germany in 1956). The work show, set up in cooperation with Kunsthaus Zürich, will be exclusively presented in Germany at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. As one of the leading female artists...
Radio Clash Podcast (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Well the legend that is Greg Wilson is well known, but with the Music Played In Discotheques mix he had me at Chairmen of the Board and George McCrae’s woefully underloved ‘Rock Your Baby’ showing his true 70’s northern soul credentials! The idea was to use tracks from 1972-75 for the Tate Gallery in Liverpool, [...]
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A PORTRAIT believed to be an 18th century British masterpiece worth about $1 million has been uncovered by chance - in a Queensland cupboard.
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A PORTRAIT believed to be an 18th century British masterpiece worth about $1 million has been uncovered by chance.
P. Viktor (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Liverpool is without doubt one of my favourite cities in the world. I am perhaps biased in this as I have a long-running relationship with the city. My father was born and raised there as well as my grandmother and...
Creative Media Diploma Yasemin Cakli (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
For our art project we had to create a campaign that relates to a child’s right form the UNICEF website (www.unicef.org.uk/). In order to promote our campaign we had to design poster using inspiration from the Tate gallery exhibition 'Rodchenko and Popova'. Here are a few that our group designed: Now using these posters we are going to create an animation that relates to our campaign and that...
Postcard Mania (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Humans have it seems always taken malicious delight in the misfortune of others. The Germans have a word for this - Schadenfreude. Many of the disasters to befall humankind in the early part of the twentieth century, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent damage from fires through the 1912 sinking of the RMS [...]
Sparkleknits (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
D and I are just back from a rather wonderful week in Cornwall. We were pretty lucky with the weather and although it was cold, it was clear and just about the perfect weather for wandering along deserted beaches and staring wistfully out at the sea. As you can see from the photo, my Flicca cardigan got its very first outing in public, accompanying me to St Ives where we took in the sea air and visited...
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Helen D (Blackbird) added the blog post ' The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe exhibited at A-ha's O2 gig in London '
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
ROME (Reuters) - Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of humanity despite contrasting approaches to realism.
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