3:09pm
Agnew’s, one of the grandest commercial galleries in London, has sold its Grade II listed premises on London’s Bond Street after 131 years of business. The gallery at 43 Bond Street was purpose built in 1877 and has provided the setting for seven generations of the Agnew family to build up one of the most prestigious Old Master dealerships in the world. Among the masterpieces that the firm have handled are the Rokeby Venus by Velazquez – now in London’s National Gallery; The Annunciation by Rossetti – now with Tate; Ruben’s The Entombment, in the National Gallery of Canada; and...
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12:41pm
The Turner Prize 2008 shortlist was revealed this morning at a press conference at Tate Britain. Making the announcement were jury chair and Tate Britain director Stephen Deuchar and two members of the panel; Suzanne Cotter, curator, Modern Art Oxford and Jennifer Higgie, editor of Frieze Magazine. The £25,000 award – given to a UK-based artist under 50 for an outstanding exhibition, or other presentation of their work in the last 12 months – will go to Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga or Cathy Wilkes. The Turner Prize exhibition, featuring the work of all four, opens in the autumn....
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1:10pm
Tomorrow’s announcement of the shortlist for this year’s Turner Prize has been neatly preceded by the unveiling of the shortlist for the ‘Booker of Bookers’. Six novels have been chosen from the 41 that have won since the Booker Prize was founded in 1969 (in 1974 the prize was split between Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist and Stanley Middleton’s Holiday – Gordimer’s novel is on the new shortlist, but who has read Middleton’s?) The shortlist seems fairly quirky to me – can anyone seriously believe, for example, that Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road (which is on the list) is superior to...
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12:25pm
You will, I suspect, already have an opinion on the proposed sculptures competing to be the ‘landmark’ at the Ebbsfleet gateway. Mark Wallinger’s giant horse or a Rachel Whiteread cast of a house? Public art seems to be mushrooming around us, but a University of the Arts debate at the National Gallery held on the evening of the Ebbsfleet unveiling asked ‘Is public art a waste of space?’ That the question was asked at all already proves one thing. We, the public, are clearly disgruntled. Is this because often the work is poor and unexciting? Or are we reacting to...
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11:49am
The shortlist for a giant £2m sculpture landmark in north Kent was revealed yesterday. Designed to do for the Thames Gateway what Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the North’ has done for Tyneside, it will stand on a prominent site overlooking the new Eurostar high-speed line at Ebbsfleet. Frenchman Daniel Buren – the only non-English artist on the list – has proposed a five-storey tower of stacked lattice-work cubes, through which a laser-beam will be projected into the sky. Richard Deacon has created the most abstract proposal, a steel skelton of 26 differently shaped polyhedrons. Christopher le Brun evokes memories of...
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