Posts Tagged ‘ARTINFO U.K.’
March 19, 2013, 2:15 pm
A post-mortem examination of the body of David Hockney’s friend and assistant Dominic Elliott will be conducted today. Elliot was taken to Scarborough hospital from the Pop artist’s house in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, on Sunday night and pronounced dead that evening at 6pm. “The circumstances of the man’s death are not clear and officers are currently undertaking inquiries to establish events leading to his death,” a spokeswoman for Humberside Police told The Sun. “There were no signs of violence,” she added. (more…)
Tags: ARTINFO U.K., David Hockney, News
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March 5, 2013, 8:43 am
ARTINFO U.K. cherry-picks must-see art shows in London and beyond. (more…)
Tags: Antoni Tàpies, ARTINFO U.K., David Weiss, Eddie Peake, Fischli&Weiss, News
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February 26, 2013, 8:43 am
ARTINFO U.K. cherry-picks must-see art shows in London this week. (more…)
Tags: ARTINFO U.K., Kutlug Ataman, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, News, Richard T. Walker
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February 25, 2013, 3:15 pm
The forthcoming exhibition, “David Bowie is” at the Victoria & Albert Museum, is gathering a spectacular level of interest. According to The Telegraph’s Roya Nikkhah, 26,000 tickets have already been sold — the biggest advance booking figure in the institution’s 150 year-long history. (more…)
Tags: Alexander McQueen, ARTINFO U.K., David Bowie, Museum attendance, Museums, News, Victoria and Albert Museum
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February 20, 2013, 1:25 pm
One of the most sought-after curatorial posts in London has been filled: Nicola Lees will take over from Sarah McCrory as Frieze Foundation’s curator. The Serpentine Gallery’s former senior curator of public programmes will look after the London fair’s series of artist commissions and sit on the Emdash Award’s judging panel. (more…)
Tags: Appointments, Art Fairs, ARTINFO U.K., Coline Milliard, Frieze Foundation, Frieze London, News, Nicola Lees
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February 20, 2013, 9:23 am
The donation of late Sir Denis Mahon’s impressive collection of Baroque paintings to Britain’s national galleries has been finalized, the Art Fund announced yesterday. Fifty-seven pictures by the likes of Guido Reni, Ludovico Carracci, and Pietro de Cortana have now entered the permanent collections of six major U.K. galleries. Twenty five pieces have gone to London’s National Gallery, 12 to Oxford’s Ashmolean, eight to Edinburgh’s Scottish National Gallery, six to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, five to Birmingham’s Museums and Art Gallery, and one to Leeds’s Temple Newsham House. (more…)
Tags: ARTINFO U.K., Denis Mahon, Donations, National Gallery, News
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February 5, 2013, 8:34 am
ARTINFO U.K. cherry-picks this week’s must-see art shows in London and beyond. (more…)
Tags: ARTINFO U.K., Judith Lauand, Jutta Koether, Mike Nelson
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January 28, 2013, 3:22 pm
ARTINFO U.K. cherry-picks must-see art shows in London and beyond. (more…)
Tags: ARTINFO U.K., Běla Kolářová, COLE, Lisson Gallery, Raven Row, Richard Wentworth, Yelena Popova
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January 23, 2013, 8:47 am
Tracey Emin is urging U.K. Secretary of State Michael Gove to “rethink the policy” on education, the Independent’s Nick Clark reports. Currently being examined by the government, the proposal for the Ebacc to replace the GCSEs involves dropping the arts as a core subject. (more…)
Tags: ARTINFO U.K., Michael Gove, News, Tracey Emin
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