Martin Creed’s new work runs rings around the Tate

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To the untrained eye, an athlete running at full tilt along the serene corridors of the Tate could pose a serious health and safety risk to visitors viewing the artwork.

Worthy of listed status, Percy Thrower’s Blue Peter garden

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Mention the words "Italian sunken garden" and almost everyone who grew up in Britain in the latter part of the 20th century will immediately know what is being discussed.

Banned! The statues they won’t let you see

Posted by www.artgalery.co.uk on June 29th, 2008 and filed under Art News | No Comments »

Banksy and Ronald Reagan make strange bedfellows. But they, together with the eminent sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, have something in common – they're not welcome in central London. Not, at least, in the eyes of the jury of experts that decides what public art should be allowed.

Radical Light: Italy’s Divisionist Painters 1891-1910, National Gallery, London

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The trouble with the National Gallery's exhibition, "Radical Light", is that it is dominated by Gauguin and Signac, Seurat, Millais and Courbet. Not that any of these artists is actually in the show. Instead, we are given approximate work by a group of painters with names like Pellizza, Morbelli and Segantini, of whom, unless late 19th-century Italian painting happens to be your bag, you may never have heard, and who it is unlikely you will want to hear of again.

Art world rallies behind Paula Rego in her battle with council planners

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Art luminaries are offering support to Paula Rego, the Portuguese painter whose backstreet studio in north London is under threat.

BP Portrait Award

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This year's finalists plus work by last year's BP Travel Award winner

The Courtauld Cézannes

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Exhibition of the Courtauld's entire Cézanne collection as part of the institute's 75th anniversary

BP Portrait Award

Posted by www.artgalery.co.uk on June 27th, 2008 and filed under Art News | No Comments »
This year's finalists plus work by last year's BP Travel Award winner

The Courtauld Cézannes

Posted by www.artgalery.co.uk on June 27th, 2008 and filed under Art News | No Comments »
Exhibition of the Courtauld's entire Cézanne collection as part of the institute's 75th anniversary

BP Portrait Award

Posted by www.artgalery.co.uk on June 27th, 2008 and filed under Art News | No Comments »
This year's finalists plus work by last year's BP Travel Award winner