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Peterlee murders dominate papers
Peterlee :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Their assessment is gloomy, with three out of four expecting the situation to deteriorate or stay the same. All agree that the outcome of the sovereign debt crisis in the euro-zone will be crucial to Britain's prospects. The Times says the first
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Hockney vs Hirst: the Queen's chosen one puts king of the YBAs on the spot
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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A row is threatening to break out between two of Britain's most celebrated artists after David Hockney criticised Damien Hirst for the "insulting" use of assistants to create his works. Hockney, whose new exhibition opens later this month, has taken
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The arts in 2012: visual arts
Kassel :: Germany | over 1 year ago
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A detail from Winter Timber by David Hockney Photograph: Jonathan Wilkinson Damien Hirst : The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011; Tate Modern retrospective Fancy a world trip? All Gagosian's 11 galleries, from London to Hong Kong, will be filled with
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Call it the Tracey Emin effect: art overcoming austerity outside London | John Kampfner
Margate :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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The Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, where a third of a million people have visited since it opened in April 2011. Photograph: Antonio Zazueta Olmos Across the UK, 2012 will be the year where art meets sport in hundreds of towns and villages.
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New Turner for Scottish gallery
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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New Turner watercolour for Scottish gallery A Turner view of Rome fetched a record £29.7m at auction last year Edinburgh's National Gallery of Scotland has acquired a major Turner watercolour, to be shown at the annual Turner in January exhibition
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Gormley unveils 'empty' sculpture
Gateshead :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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To mark English Pen's 90th anniversary, Gormley's creation depicts an empty chair made out of metal. The chair is a symbol used by the charity to represent writers in prison. "This is a place of witness, cast in massive iron that will simply rest,
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Cooper to star in 'Summer in February'
London :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Dominic Cooper will topline in love-triangle drama "Summer in February," which is skedded to start lensing next month. Thesp plays artist Alfred Munnings, who was part of the bohemian Lamorna Group, based in Cornwall, England, at the beginning of the
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London
Liverpool :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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Since 1949, students at British art schools have allowed themselves to be cajoled into taking part in an exhibition, held annually when funds allowed, designed to spotlight the hottest talents of the year. The show was originally known as Young
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Books for giving: art
Vienna :: Austria | over 1 year ago
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The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian The Art Museum (Phaidon £125) weighs well over a stone, and is less a book than a virtual building. Coolly neoclassical in design, it contains 25 separate
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Hockney: A Rake's Progress, By Christopher Simon Sykes
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Suggested Topics David Hockney is, we are often told, our most popular living artist. This always sounds like faint praise, as if to earn your place in the canon you're better off being dead. Perhaps more costly to his standing is that he is
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