Each portrait is made with 10 pints of the artist’s blood. Quinn says he will continue to make a new version every five years The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is hoping to buy Marc Quinn’s Self, a frozen sculpture of the artist’s head, made out of his own blood. Quinn produces a new version every [...]
First show of Arab contemporary art in Israeli musem
The L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem, which is supported by a Jewish endowment fund, run by Jewish staff, and located in a Jewish neighbourhood, is showing work by 13 Arab artists—the first group exhibition of local Arab works in an Israeli museum. The show is also the first contemporary art exhibition in [...]
Awesome Exhibitions at The Tate Modern
I have just become aware of these two exhibitions in London, mainly because I don’t visit that often. I know that if I had checked it out earlier I would have been commuting to see these rather than go to work. I would rather do that and probably be a lot happier but there you [...]
Tate Modern Again
I went to the Tate Modern yesterday, with someone very dear to me. I hadn’t met her for quite a few years so it was quite a reunion. We had a great time, I got to see Pollock again, and the Rothko room. There was Picabia but unfortunately you needed to pay to go in. [...]
Damien Hirst, go away!
Last night I switched on my TV to a programme called Imagine. A programme about contemporary art, and how it is selling for more than some of the masters these days. Well, rubbish is what I said, the show presenter, Alan Yentob, proceeded to by a piece of wood painted red for £3,500, and it [...]
Nathan Coley
I did some research on Nathan Coley, shortlisted for this years Turner Prize, but couldn’t find very much about him except long lists of where he has had exhibitions. So here is a short and sweet biography of the artist. You can see more of him and his works if you click: Doggerfisher Camouflage Church [...]
Mike Nelson
This is a really nasty part of London – not in any definable way, just in its lack of clarity. Go through an underpass and you find yourself in a dead zone between traffic and empty industrial buildings. I’m looking for Mike Nelson’s studio, but instead blunder through a plastic curtain into a space full [...]
Mark Wallinger
English painter, sculptor and video artist. He studied in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1978–81) and Goldsmiths’ College (1983–5). From the mid-1980s his work has addressed the traditions and values of British society, its class system and organized religion. The range of approaches he has adopted reflects his wish to have a broad [...]
