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Friday, 11th December 2009

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4:02pm

1. Richard Wright wins 2009 Turner Prize:
Glasgow-based painter Richard Wright, 49, was announced the winner of the 2009 Turner Prize on Monday (pictured above). The artist used the painstaking techniques of Renaissance fresco-makers to make his gold-leaf fresco for the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain in London. In keeping with Wright’s insistence that his works be destroyed after being exhibited, his latest fresco will be painted over when the show closes on 3 January 2010. Judges described Wright’s paintings as rooted in the fine art tradition yet ‘radically conceptual in impact.’ Wright beat the three other finalists,...

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Around the galleries

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.

Architecture

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.