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Award-winning Scottish artist turns his back on homeland
Tel Aviv :: Israel | about 3 hours ago
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He is a Turner-prize winning artist who has represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and made an award-winning film capturing the athletic beauty and grace of the French footballer, Zinedine Zidane. Celebrated as a former YBA and seminal figure on...
Tags: National Galleries of Scotland, Douglas Gordon, Israel, Tel Aviv, Gordon, National Gallery, Conceptual artists, Entertainment Culture, Turner Prize
Art v books: the critical double standard | Jonathan Jones
London :: United Kingdom | about 7 hours ago
Credibility a critical double standard We don't rubbish the Booker shortlist, or demand that it should be banned – yet we do when it comes to the Turner prize...A viewer examines Richard Wright's work painting at this year's Turner prize. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty...
Tags: turner prize, United Kingdom, London, Novel, G., Mohsin Hamid, Entertainment Culture, Man Booker Prize
Police investigate forged Tracey Emin festive circular
London :: United Kingdom | about 21 hours ago
Credibility Headed “Seasonal Good Wishes from Tracey Emin” and addressed to “Dear Spitalfields neighbours” it gushed: “You’re all so wonderful and I feel really blessed to be loved and cherished by the community.” It soon became clear, however, that the letter was...
Tags: Tracey Emin, festive circular, United Kingdom, London, Art, British art, Women artists, Turner Prize
Artists cast as saviours of British cinema
Cannes :: France | 12 days ago
Credibility Full of soul-searching and menace, it was the toast of the Cannes film festival last year. Next came the success this autumn of Nowhere Boy , artist Sam Taylor-Wood's uplifting biopic of the young John Lennon. Now, following these unexpected triumphs,...
Tags: Steve McQueen, UK Film Council, turner prize, Sam Taylor-Wood, France, Cannes, Young British Artists, Cinema of the United Kingdom, Cannes Film Festival, British films, films, Entertainment Culture
Barbie dolls get naked for art's Turnip Prize
Somerset :: NJ :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility The award, an alternative to the Turner Prize, is presented by the residents of a Somerset village. In what the organisers have described as "an insignificant development" pieces entitled Wallace and Vomit and Knickerless cage have been submitted...A...
Tags: knickerless cage, Somerset, Wedmore, Prideaux, Mesh, Turner Prize, Cage, British art, Contemporary art, Turnip Prize, Law Crime
Conceptual photography's prized moment
Beirut :: Lebanon | 18 days ago
Credibility Why conceptual photography is having a prized moment This year's Deutsche Börse prize seems designed to blur the lines between conceptual art and contemporary photography – perfect for provoking debate and grabbing public attention Detached and deadpan...
Tags: Turner, Donovan Wylie/Magnum Photography, contemporary photography, Phil Collins, conceptual photography, Lebanon, Beirut, Photography, Anders Petersen, Turner Prize, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Prix Pictet, Contemporary art, Photographers' Gallery, Donovan Wylie
Turner and the Masters is not a competition | Jonathan Jones
London :: United Kingdom | 18 days ago
Credibility Turner and the Masters is not a competition In Tate Britain's exhibition, Turner isn't so much a challenger of other art styles as an admirer of their richness and variety Homage to Claude Lorrain .....Photograph: The National Gallery The newly appointed...
Tags: Turner, Tate Britain, United Kingdom, London, Turner Prize, Tate, National Gallery, Tate Gallery, British art, J. M. W. Turner
Damien Hirst says anyone can learn to paint like Rembrandt. But does the art world agree?
London :: United Kingdom | 20 days ago
Credibility But does art world agree? • Dutch master was no genius, says British artist • Not true, say experts and a Turner prize-winner Damien Hirst with one of his works, The Incredible Journey, a zebra in formaldehyde estimated at around £3 million on display...
Tags: Damien Hirst, art world, United Kingdom, London, Tate Gallery, Young British Artists, Rembrandt, Painting, Contemporary art, Conceptual artists, British art, Conceptual art, Tracey Emin, Turner Prize, Entertainment Culture, Women artists, Adrian Searle, For the Love of God, Art
The Turner prize trinity
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Adrian Searle plunges in and picks his winner Tate curators explain what's behind the artwork in the 2009 Turner prize Link to this video Much is always expected of the Turner prize show, and critics and the public alike give more weight to the exhibition...
Tags: turner prize, Tate Britain, Roger Hiorns, Richard Wright (author), UK Turner, sperm whale, Lucy Skaer, jet engine, Enrico David, London
Crystal cave up for Turner Prize
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility Roger Hiorns filled a derelict flat with sparkling blue chemical structures while Richard Wright paints directly onto gallery walls. Surrealist Enrico David and Lucy Skaer, who bases her work on photographs she has found, also compete for the prize. The...
Tags: Turner Prize, Richard Wright (author), Britain, Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, prize shortlisted, South London, Lucy Skaer
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