Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
FOLLOWING an exhibition at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre, works by Sir Peter Blake - best-known for his artwork for The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album - will be exhibited in Parbold, Lancashire, from November 8.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Beatles artist to aid charity by , Liverpool Echo Beatles 200A ONE-OFF original canvas by the artist who created the Beatles’ album cover Revolver is being auctioned for charity.Fab Four friend Klaus Voormann, who drew the 1966 Beatles album cover, created the canvas especially for the Willow Foundation.His work features alongside another Beatles album cover artist, Sir Peter Blake, in...
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
... Bridget Riley, 77, was today to become the latest to pay homage to the Titian, after Lucian Freud, Peter Blake, Paula Rego, Tracey Emin and Michael Craig-Martin joined in support. Jenny Abramsky, who recently took over as chairwoman of the heritage fund, said: 'It was an extraordinary decision for us financially, but it's as important as ever to protect our cultural heritage.' The...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Primary school students became environmental warriors yesterday, launching the Sir Peter Blake Trust's clean-up calendar with a morning at a West Auckland beach. Students from Rutherford Primary School were the first to roll up...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Pop is going under the hammer in two very different guises. First off, Sir Peter Blake, the man who made Sergeant Pepper look the way it did, and arguably 'the Godfather of British Pop Art', is putting 40 pieces of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
To lose this vivid, action-filled tone-poem of a painting from our public collections would be "like the Louvre not having the Mona Lisa", according to the National Gallery curator Carol Plazzotta. And a host of Britain's most prominent artists, from Sir Peter Blake to Paula Rego, are in passionate agreement. Plazzotta was referring to Titian's Diana and Actaeon, which will be lost to...
