weekly art news round-up
Isabel Andrews, Friday, 13th February 2009
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 25 May, has been cancelled this week due to difficulties in finding sponsors for the event.
Garden Sculptures leave a bitter taste
The Art Newspaper has reported that inadequate insurance taken out by Lancaster city council has put paid to a public art project by US artist Mark Dion. 21 Bronze sculptures, by local sculptor Robert Williams, have been stolen. The sculptures were part of an art project called The Tasting Garden, a public garden created in 1998 by Mark Dion for the inaugural Artranspennine exhibition organised by Tate Liverpool and the Henry Moore Institute. The Tasting Garden consisted of a series of pathways leading to a fruit tree and a plinth alongside it showing a sculpture of the tree's fruit. Says Dion, 'The idea was that when the garden matured, visitors could taste their way through it.'
Yale's new space
The Yale University School of Art has opened a new art space dedicated to showing international contemporary art. The gallery will host four exhibitions a year. The inaugural show, Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs, is organised by Robert Storr and Jaret Vadera.
Art Cologne prize
Collector and writer Harald Falckenberg has been awarded the 2009 Art Cologne Prize, awarded annually to an individual for outstanding services to the promotion of modern and contemporary art. The prize of 10,000 euros will be awarded in April during Art Cologne.
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As part of a metal salvage drive for munitions in World War II, many of the UK’s parks and squares lost their iron railings. With the National Gallery now victim to a constant stream of commercial events in its environs, isn’t it time we got them back?
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