dooyoo newest opinions in UK / Irel (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
a new opinion on www.dooyoo.co.uk about Saatchi Gallery (London) written by magenta23 I first visited the Saatchi Gallery when it was on The South Bank in County Hall and saw an exhibition of Saatchi's more famous purchases...Tracy Emin's bed, 'that' Myra Hindley portrait and some of Grayson Perry's famous pots. It was an impressive ...
British Blogs (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
No. 10 Downing Street has condemned London’s tourist board for featuring a painting of the late moors murderer Myra Hindley (above) in a promotional film shown at an official party celebrating the handover of the Olympic Games to the capital. Marcus Harvey’s portrait of Hindley, which is comprised of children’s handprints, is seen fleetingly in “Visit London’s” three-minute film, which aimed to give...
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Thank heavens for Myra Hindley, eh? Had she not gatecrashed a promotional video for London 2012, the Olympics would have gone smoothly for us, and we wouldn't want that, would we? Royal Air Force Red Arrows fly over Buckingham Palace I don't think it is our impressive haul of medals that has shocked us so. It's the fact that, for once competent in sporting events, w...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
There was a bit of an awkward silence at London House in Beijing when the image of Myra Hindley flashed up during a video meant to promote London. A six-minute video by Visit London was playing on a loop at London House for a private audience. Unfortunately, while panning through an art gallery, one of the paintings featured is that of Myra Hindley's mug shot done in children's handprints. Though...
Sha's Blog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Including Marcus Harvey's portrait of serial killer Myra Hindley, in an Olympic video promoting London, may have been a bad choice but I don't consider the art itself to be offensive. Thought provoking and disturbing? Yes, but wrong? No. The famous painting, which was displayed by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1997, is 11ft by 9ft tall and shows Hindley's face made up of children's hand prints. It is...
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
As the Olympic baton was finally handed over to London in Beijing, a stoney-eyed image of Myra Hindley cast a shadow over Britain's celebration.
Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
You’ll have seen the weekend hoo-ha about the arty Myra Hindley pic that led the Mirror to have the headline that the Open University’s most famous graduate had gatecrashed the Olympic festivities. Well the other half of the pair that the young Morrissey had such a morbid fascination for has now launched an extraordinary [...]
Re-cycle of Life (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The portrait of Myra Hindley, the Moors murderess, that was displayed on video during Gordon Brown's speech at the end of the Olympics in Beijing said more about contemporary Britain than was probably intended. Murder, after all, is one of our few growth industries, apparently immune from any downturn.
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
THE mother of Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett has criticised the `disgusting' decision to use an image of Myra Hindley to promote London in the run-up to the next Olympics.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Talk about getting off on the wrong foot. Organizers of the 2012 London Olympics were left red-faced yesterday after a picture of notorious "Moors Murderer" Myra Hindley was used to promote the Summer Games. The painting of Hindley - convicted...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Jessica Lack: Marcus Harvey's portrait of Myra Hindley has caused controversy once again
[last year's girl] (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
As we headed into Inverness to get the bus home yesterday, we heard a little of the Olympics closing ceremony played on the radio (it lost a little in translation it had to be said: “here comes a big red bus, oh here’s Myra Hindley“, that sort of thing). “I bet if Joe Strummer was [...]
Fora (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
From the BBC : Downing Street and the mayor of London have condemned the use of a portrait of murderer Myra Hindley in a video shown at a London 2012 event in Beijing. The painting was shown in promotional footage produced by Visit London, not the Olympic 2012 organisers. A spokesman for Boris Johnson said the mayor was "deeply disturbed" the image had been shown. A Downing Street spokesman said it...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Downing Street led condemnation of London's tourism body today after a painting of Moors murderer Myra Hindley was shown in a promotional video screened Beijing
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
The dust from yesterday's Olympic handover celebrations has hardly settled before an art controversy has blown up. At a party in Beijing's London House, the half-wits of Visit London showed a promotional video which included footage of Marcus Harvey's portrait of sadistic child-killer Myra Hindley , a painting made by children's hand prints. From its first showing it created an uproar and was vandalised...
