From The Times
Work No 850 is the latest piece by Martin Creed, who has been commissioned to fill the long space known as the Duveen Galleries. For the next four months, people will sprint as fast as they can through the gallery at 30-second intervals. Fifty amateurs are each being paid £10 an hour to […]
From The Mirror (it was them or The Sun)
Fans have named Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures as the most iconic album cover of all time.
The “pulses” design by artist Peter Saville topped a poll which included the Beatles and Pink Floyd.
And like so much else that came out of Factory Records looked great. I […]
Whilst I believe that Tracey Emin is sincere about her art, it’s not generally my cup of tea. But her “Something for the Future”, a small group of meerkats on the 4th Plinth at Trafalgar Square is an interesting piece that is both contemporary, but is highly accessible.
The meerkats are small, and only occupy a […]
Normally, I don’t have the time for such things, but I was tucked up in bed with a cold yesterday, and I decided to watch the Appendices to Peter Jackson’s Return of the King. These are the 2 extra DVDs that make up the 4 disc edition. Mostly, it was in-depth material into the whole […]
From the BBC:-
"One of Damien Hirst’s trademark medicine cabinets has sold at auction for £9.65m, breaking the European record for work by a living artist. "
earlier…
"The day before, one of Claude Monet’s water lily paintings, Nympheas, sold for £18.5 million at Sotheby’s, having been expected to fetch around £15 million."
I know art’s subjective, and all […]
Just picked up an Oliver Kamm piece on arts sponsorship
Unlike Stephen, I have a blind spot about ballet, and never attend it (though I admire the ballet music of Stravinsky and many others). But I believe I should contribute to the public provision of ballet if other taxpayers do, because the alternative is a system […]
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