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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
LIVERPOOL.- The Hard Days Night Hotel Gallery, in association with Turner Fine Arts, is proud to announce that the first public exhibition of the work from celebrated micro-sculpturist, Willard Wigan MBE has been extended until 31st October. This is due to exceptional demand from visitors keen to see the work during Wigan 's first public exhibition for five years.
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Baltimore, MD - Majestic settings of the English countryside have inspired writers and artists from the poetry of William Wordsworth to the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. This fall, the BMA focuses on the transforming British landscape in Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints. On view through December 7, 2008, this one gallery exhibition features an array of more than 20 prints, watercolors,...
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www.rossdouglas.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I'm no art critic, and the lord knows I'm no artist, but what's the gig with the Turner Prize? Last year the Turner was won by someone dressed in a bear costume wandering around an art gallery and this years entrants features; A mannequin on a toilet with assorted crap nailed to it and scattered porridge at its feet [1] , a piece entitled "Different Sky (rain)" [2] which is essentially a white wall...
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TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
(TrendHunter.com) The ultimate head-turner for your game room, these round pool tables from the JM Billiard Co. can be customized however you desire. Let your imagination run wild--from a fish tank base to a stripper…
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The Paris Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Just returned from my exhibition, The End Of The World, at the Wm Turner Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, where I produced an ode to France and America : My tri-color “trap souris,” a metaphor for survival amidst global economic chaos. Oui! Produced in an edition of 39 (signed, numbered and dated), they come in [...]
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Liverpool Art and Culture (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
WILLARD WIGAN MBE EXHIBITION IS EXTENDED AT HARD DAYS NIGHT HOTEL GALLERY Liverpool, 02/10/2008: The Hard Days Night Hotel Gallery, in association with Turner Fine Arts, is proud to announce that the first public exhibition of the work from celebrated...
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Canuckflack (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
A portion of the transcript from a conversation earlier this year between Peter Campus, Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon and David A. Ross, formerly Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, published in Tate Etc. DOUGLAS GORDON Well, I have a story to tell. When I was a student at the Slade, I was bored, [...]
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
A naked mannequin draped in horseshoes and sitting on a toilet forms part of one of several novel art works nominated for Britain's Turner Prize this year.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Turn up, tune in and drop off. That’s the mood of the Turner Prize exhibition this year. This award once played an important role in British culture, pulling contemporary artists out of their studios and putting them on the public stage. They may, as often as not, have been pelted with metaphorical eggs. But at least that was a sign of critical life.
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
WHAT’S the Turner Prize all about then? Are Cathy Wilkes, Goshka Macuga, Mark Leckey, and Runa Islam three women and a man trying to win a prize, or are they three women and man trying not to win a prize? Their surnames are listed in Reverse alphabetical order, which might mean something. Anorak has once again [...]
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - A messy supermarket checkout flanked by a mannequin doll on a toilet will vie with a video of a teacup and saucer smashing on the floor for the Turner Prize, one of the contemporary art world's top awards.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Get a sneak peek inside this year's Turner prize exhibition
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Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
If you're wondering why stuckists are demonstrating outside Tate Britain today (yesterday's post) it's because tomorrow sees the opening of that national joke the Turner Prize exhibition. The untalented twerps selected for public ridicule this year are Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes . The graphic above is a still detail from Mark Leckey's Felix Gets Broadcasted (2007). Groan....
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The work of the four artists nominated for this year's £25,000 Turner Prize goes on display at Tate Britain in London.
