Goshka Mackuga, Deutsche Volk – Deutsche Arbeit. Photo © Tara Booth / Culture24 Tara Booth takes an objective look at this year’s Turner Prize – at Tate Britain until January 18 2009. The work by this year’s shortlisted artists in the running for the 2008 Turner Prize has gone on display at London’s Tate Britain [...]
Shozo Shimamoto
Szozo Shimamoto, was born in Osaka, Japan in 1928, he is an authoratative member of the Gutai Group, which was formed in 1954 in the Kansai region. Other important figures included in the group were the likes of Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayama Akira, Murakami Saburo and Shiraga Kazuo. The activities of the group helped evolve western [...]
Revealed: $72.8m Rockefeller Rothko has gone to Qatar
I absolutely love Rothko, so simple yet so emotional. When I visit Teh Tate Modern in London I always spend hours in the Rothko Room, gazing at his masterpieces. I just came across this in The Art Newspaper, obviously another great admirer. If you like Emir of Qatar, I will sell you acouple of my [...]
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. [...]
Hockney donates his biggest work to Tate
David Hockney has given Tate his largest painting, Bigger Trees near Warter. This is one of the most generous gifts presented by an artist to a UK gallery in recent years. The Hockney is over 12 metres long and 4.5 metres high, which probably makes it the biggest painting ever done in the open air. [...]
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 [...]
Zarina Bhimji
Born in 1963 in Mbarara, Uganda, Zarina Bhimji now lives and works in London and Berlin. Immediately after receiving a B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of London in 1987, she began exhibiting her work in group exhibitions. Following post-graduate work she became an Artist in Residence at Darwin College in Cambridge. In 1996, [...]
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 [...]
The Turner Prize – Tate Liverpool 2007
The Turner Prize has travelled outside London for the first time in its 23-year history, and you can’t help but notice that this daring excursion is making its organisers feel just a little anxious. In the capital, you see, there are enough pseuds on hand: types in architectural spectacles who are perfectly at ease ignoring [...]
