Friday, 19th December 2008
7:51pm
Shepherd Takes Gold.
A small collection of Winnie the Pooh drawings from Winnie the Pooh, children’s
Books fetched a whooping £1.26 million, at a recent auction in Sotheby’s. This is a record, for the artist EH Shepherd. The illustration ‘He went on tracking, and piglet… ran after him’, which is one of Shepherd’s most famous illustrations, reached £115,250 another well known drawing, ‘Bump, bump, bump – going up the stairs’, sold for £92,250. Out of the 44 lots in the sale, all but two sold.
Blake at the Tate
The Tate Britain has decided that in...
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Thursday, 11th December 2008
10:59am
Arguments that Britain badly needs a system of tax incentives to encourage collectors to give works of art to public collections will be strengthened by the publication this week of the report of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) allows estates to settle death duties in whole or in part by offering works of art to the nation. The report reveals that in 2007-08 tax liability to the tune of £10.3m was settled in this way, meaning that the country’s collections received works whose total value amounts to £15.2m.
The range and depth of the art...
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Friday, 5th December 2008
5:54pm
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
In a recent ‘Times’ opinion piece Eli Broad (pictured above) announced that he would make a voluntary donation of $30m to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. The money, if MOCA decide to accept it, has been offered as a no-strings-attached payment which Broad believes will keep the organisation ‘a vibrant, independent Museum of the city’. Part of Broad's proposal includes a $25 million donation to replenish the endowment that has gradually diminished over the last eight years and a $5 donation to cover the museum's future operating costs. Broad is known...
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Wednesday, 3rd December 2008
5:05pm
Mark Leckey, 44, was announced as winner of the Turner Prize on Monday evening and awarded the £25,000 prize by the singer Nick Cave.
As curator Michelle Cotton forecast in a blog for Apollo after the October announcement of the shortlist, 'The Turner Prize has a habit of falling into the hands of the artists whose careers are underwritten by a highly singular practice. If the tradition is upheld this year either Wilkes or Leckey will serve a handsome match.'
The success of the centrepiece of Leckey's exhibition, Cinema in the Round (2007), hinges on its ability to...
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Now in its 30th year, the London Park Lane Arms Fair returns with its annual array of fine arms and armoury. Elsewhere in the capital, impressive surveys of Freud, Hirst and mid-century British art can be found.
George Gilbert Scott described the dome as ‘the noblest of all forms’, and it appears as a powerful symbol in secular and religious architecture throughout history. On the island of Malta, however, the craze for dome-building reached astonishing heights.
