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Artistry and technology combine to create 'hyper-photos'
Friday, 13 November 2009
Jean-Francoise Rauzier at the Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery
The Diary: Shantaram film; Lumiere festival; Tom Atkinson; Hans Holbein; Harold Evans
Friday, 13 November 2009
Party Of The Week: A night of pop art for Rankin and friends
Friday, 13 November 2009
The singer Joss Stone, Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes, magazine editor Jefferson Hack and My Summer of Love actress Natalie Press were out in force on Monday night for the private view of Rankin's exhibition Destroy at London's Phillips de Pury Gallery.
Art of the matter
Friday, 13 November 2009
Director Richard Eyre says it's time to rethink our ideas about what makes great art
Observations: Gavin Turk and Paula Rego take on torture
Friday, 13 November 2009
Some of Britain's most prominent contemporary artists have donated works to the Medical Foundation Art Auction, whose proceeds will support the victims of torture.
Observations: Award-winning young artists master Raphael and Dürer
Friday, 13 November 2009
The inaugural winners of the Young Masters Art Prize have been announced – artists Hector de Gregorio and Ghost of a Dream, jointly. They are among 16 artists who were inspired by the Old Masters to create new work. For 35 year-old, Spanish, de Gregorio, this year was already going rather well, with a sell-out Royal Academy graduation show which saw Sir Terence Conran and Theo Fennell snap up his mixed-media work, which reinvents historical paintings by introducing his own new narratives. He digitally photographs his subjects and prints the images onto canvas before treating them heavily with varnishes, oils, and waxes to make them look like weathered, 500 year-old, works.
Lou Reed: Photographer
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
As frontman with the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed epitomised the rock'n'roll lifestyle. But a book of his photographs reveals a quieter, more reflective figure. He tells Hannah Duguid what inspired him
Frank Auerbach - in the thick of it
Monday, 9 November 2009
Frank Auerbach gets through serious amounts of paint in the creation of his work. But, asks Tom Lubbock, couldn't this dynamic artist lighten up just a little?
Modern comic genius: the graphic art that's not just for geeks
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Comica, London's annual festival of comic books and graphic novels, shows how the genre is not just for geeky boys, says Emma Love
Observations: Basquiat in photographic notes from the underground
Friday, 6 November 2009
In a modestly sized apartment on the Lower East of New York, the writing remains on the wall. Despite a childlike charm, they're no ordinary scribblings and the resident, Nicholas Taylor, has no intention of whitewashing over them. Originating from the hand of Jean-Michel Basquiat, they're a reminder of a close friendship that was curtailed by the untimely passing of the artist, aged 27 in 1988. Taylor was part of a very small tight-knit circle of friends that Basquiat trusted as his career spiralled. "All Jean wanted was someone to sit and watch him paint. To be quiet with him," reminisces Taylor. "I really believe he is the most important painter of the late 20th century."
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