Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | yesterday
David Hockney visited Tate Britain to see the installation of the biggest work he has ever made - alongside two equally huge photographic facsimiles
Amrita Paul (Free subscription) | yesterday
In 1957 John Moores (1896 - 1993) sponsored a competition for contemporary artists at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, with the intention of showcasing the best of new British painting. The John Moores, as it is always known, has since been held approximately every two years. It has become one of the most familiar events in the British Art world and now forms one of the four main strands of the Liverpool...
Light reading (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am mildly averse to scandalmongering, but I cannot resist linking to this little piece about the death of Alan Bennett's female lover because it represents such a good example of how to deflect (if one were only witty and British!) an intrusive or impertinent question: After the media furore over Bennett's reverse outing died down in the mid-1990s, portraits of the playwright and photographs of him...
excess memory (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Friday the 14th of November saw the opening of the new Nottingham Contemporary gallery and as mentioned in my last post, Helen and I went to see what all the fuss was about. The 20th was our tenth wedding anniversary and, as we had met some thirteen years earlier during a life drawing class, it was only appropriate that we should celebrate this land mark occasion in an 'artsy' kind of way. The inaugural...
J's Theater (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
How quickly the weeks whip past. I'll post more tomorrow, but in lieu of prose, here're are a few more iPhone drawings. I'm up to nearly 40; I have managed about 1 per day, all drawn from live subjects (=people), by thumb and index finger, the sketches preceding the filling in. A friend who's an artist thought that Elizabeth Peyton might be my inspiration, so I had to tell him that it has been, as...
The Globalista Travel Journal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In the run-up to Thanksgiving New York's buzzing with things to do. There's a Tim Burton retrospective on show at MoMA, an exhibition of never-before-seen paintings from David Hockney and if you can, catch The Brother/Sister Plays by Talvin McCraney for some really excellent theatre. And of course there's a slew of holiday-related activities on offer - go ice skating at The Pond in Bryant Park and...
excess memory (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
It's not safe out there... in cyber-space that is. All manner of nasty things floating around in the digital aether. Like this 'Advanced Virus Removal' . Christ knows where this came from but it caused hell in my box of tricks. It's some sort of trojan and hijacks everything. Your browser, task manager, run command line, system restore, reg edit. Man, what a nightmare. Until I found those nice people...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Born: 1 November, 1938, in Keighley, Yorkshire. Died: 8 November, 2009, in London, aged 71.IN JULY Malcolm Laycock staggered his loyal Sunday evening listeners to Sunday Night at Ten on Radio 2 when he announced his departure from the station. The controller, Bob Shennan, had not been informed and the popular programme, devoted to dance band music of the 1930s and '40s, was in jeopardy. Laycock had...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
DAVID HOCKNEY’S famous painting, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, went on display at the Walker Art Gallery yesterday.
Michon Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
On Saturday ‘Nottingham Contemporary’ finally opened it’s doors to the public. We’ve been watching as this unsual building has taken shape, with more than 500 local craftsmen and women involved in turning the site of caves, cellars and a derelict railway tunnel into this four-storey arts centre. Experience Nottinghamshire predicts that in the first 10 weeks [...]
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Iris Schneider has posted her photos from MOCA's 30th anniversary party, including John Baldessari and David Hockney, Eva Mendes and Gwen Stefani, and Lady Gaga performing on a pink piano....
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
After a tough year financially, the Museum of Contemporary Art put on a gala party to celebrate with 1,000 of its closest friends.
The Dish Rag (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Hollywood stars mingled with LA's art elite at the MOCA 30th anniversary gala on Saturday night. Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale, Pierce Brosnan Eva Mendes, Rose McGowan, Kate Beckinsale, Chloe Sevigny, Christina Ricci, Eva Mendes, Ridley Scott, Brett Ratner, Brian...
TravelDailyNews.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Nestled in the heart of Museum Row in downtown Louisville, 21C Museum Hotel, also dubbed the ‘art gallery with rooms’, has been voted the ‘number one hotel in the United States and
Nottingham Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Nottingham's newest cultural centre and tourist attraction has now opened. Ironically when I went today, I found that the gallery was closed. So I'll have to go tomorrow to look at the David Hockney exhibition and see what the building looks like in the inside, as the outside still looks like a something that was built in the Eastern Bloc during the 1950s. This sign on the otherhand, reminds me of...
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