Thursday, 12th March 2009
3:32pm
According to the Guardian, a Cobbe portrait unveiled yesterday in London is unlikely to be of William Shakespeare, as has previously been suggested. Professor Stanley Wells, who is heading up the claim that this portrait is of Shakespeare, may have a weak body of evidence to support his claim.
The painting was discovered when its owner attended a ‘Searching for Shakespeare’ competition that was curated by Tarnya Cooper two years ago at the National Portrait Gallery. At the exhibition, the owner saw a portrait of Shakespeare known as the Janssen portrait, which he believed was a copy of his painting.
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Thursday, 26th February 2009
5:11pm
Not everything is doom and gloom in the art world at the moment. A shock sale at Christie's, Paris, has given hope to many who feared the extent to which the global art market would be tainted by the current international economic downturn.
A leather armchair, designed by the Irish artist Eileen Gray, has fetched a staggering 22 million euro at Christie's as part of the three day sale of the collection of the late Yves Saint Laurent and his partner. The chair, which is 24 inches high, has broken the world record for a piece of 20th century...
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Friday, 13th February 2009
1:55pm
My kingdom for a horse
Former Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has been announced as the winner of the £2m public art comission to mark the building of Ebbsfleet International station in Kent, dubbed the 'Angel of the South'. Wallinger's sculpture of a giant white horse (the model is pictured above) is due to be completed and installed by 2012 and is expected to be 50 metres high. Wallinger was among a shortlist of three artists, including Richard Deacon and Daniel Buren.
Moscow off
The sixth annual Moscow World Fine Art Fair, originally scheduled to open on...
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Friday, 30th January 2009
5:49pm
Saatchi Search
The Saatchi Gallery and the BBC have announced that they will be forming a new partnership to help spot new talent in the arts, across Britain. They have created a new show called ‘Saatchi’s Best of British’ which will feature six young artists, who will attend an art school for three months and be tutored by some of the UK’s finest contemporary artists. The students will then go on to exhibit their work at the upcoming exhibition of British art from the Saatchi Gallery Collection at Russia’s Hermitage Museum St Petersburg. By 2010, the exhibition will be...
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Friday, 16th January 2009
3:43pm
Google at the Prado
The technology underpinning the internet facility Google Earth has been used in a joint project by the Prado, Madrid, and the internet search company to enable in-depth online viewing of the museum's masterpieces (pictured above).
A spokesperson for the museum said, 'It allows people to see the main masterworks in the museum as they never have done before. You can see details tha tthe human eye is unable to see.' The images have a resolution of 14,000 megapixels, around 1,400 times greater than a picture taken on a standard 10 megapixel camera.
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A recent exhibition in Nottingham showcases contemporary artists' exploration of the Communist-era space race.
Cast aside by Modernists for much of the 20th century, Classicism
has a comeback of sorts, with an excellent new book reappraising
architecture partnerships and a recent exhibition at one of the very
institutions that so derided the style.
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