A few years ago Mort wrote about the Archibald, it’s an annual exhibition held at the NSW gallery in Sydney. Generally there are about a 100 portraits on display, but there are many more that don’t make it. The packers; the people who unload and display the works have a vote amongst themselves. I . . . → Read More: Archbald
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As an 18-year-old girl in the long hot summer of 1976 Fiona Walker, then Butler, cheerfully allowed her boyfriend, Martin Elliott, to photograph her knickerless, walking towards a tennis net. Elliott sold the image to Athena, and up it speedily went on the bedroom walls of boys everywhere, becoming one of the world’s . . . → Read More: Great poster Albert Irvin RA, British, born 1922 Greenwich 11 Screenprint – printed in colours, on wove, signed in pencil, dated, titled, framed and numbered 1991 ed 90 76×104 I snapped this up at the . . . → Read More: Bit of blue for the bedroom I heard about this on the radio this morning and just took a look and this is a wonderful example of modern stained glass which I knew nothing about. It was given by the people of Wales in 1965 to a church in Birmingham, Alabama which had been bombed by the KKK. There . . . → Read More: Wales window This book is completely fab and while there are IMHO some omissions there are paintings I did not know about from favourite artists and artists that I had never heard of – anyone interested in art will enjoy . . . → Read More: I got an early Christmas present from Jane David Hockney speaks to Click about creating digital artwork for his latest exhibition in Paris. This interview will be broadcast on Click from 12th November 2010. View here I love the way he smokes throughout better link here with more art and even better . . . → Read More: David Hockney’s digital artwork display
View Full Album Fiona Banner is best known for her ‘wordscapes’, written transcriptions of the frame-by-frame action in Hollywood war films. She has long been fascinated by the emblem of the fighter plane. Her compulsion to grasp the uncomfortable resonances of these war machines has produced a growing archive of material. From . . . → Read More: Fiona Banner Tate Britain The market for artworks by Damien Hirst shrank by an astounding 93% between autumn 2008 and the same time in 2009, reports the latest issue of the Economist, and this year has been even worse. This has less to do with the recession than with the two-day sale at Sotheby’s of Hirst’s . . . → Read More: Laughing all the way to the bank… Allen Jones No Strings Lithograph 1995 ed 50 76×50 |
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