Recently added articles from Art Monthly:
Pleasure & pain: Omer Fast.(Interview)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Marcus Verhagen: You regularly use the format OF THE INTERVIEW IN YOUR WORK, for instance in pieces like The Casting, 2007, and Spielberg's List, 2003. Can you say a bit about how it works for you? Omer Fast: I don't always start a work with interviews but the interview is one ...
Art & politics: Mark Prince on the critical distance between real life and presentation.(FEATURE 01)(Essay)
Oct 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the release of Steve McQueen's Hunger, 2008--a feature film about the death of Bobby Sands by hunger strike in Long Kesh prison in Belfast in 1981--a journalist interviewing McQueen innocently used the term 'art film' to describe the work. He apparently ...
Pope Art.(exhibition at Tate Britain called 'Pop Life')(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Two weeks before the opening of Tate Britain's 'Pop Life' exhibition featuring the work of, among others, the 'Pope of Pop' himself, Andy Warhol, a curious item appeared in the Guardian under the banner: 'Pope seeks to frame new relationship with artists.' Reading more like the kind of ...
Raise the Titanic.(ART NOTES)(Southampton City Council's fund raising activity to raise money for the Sea City Museum)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Hoping to cash in on the notoriety of the Titanic, Southampton City Council is planning to sell works from its collection to raise money for a new 15m [pounds sterling] Sea City Museum, which is to open in 2012 with a centenary exhibition about the Belfast-built ship which sailed once--and ...
Deleting Ai Weiwei.(ART NOTES)(attempts to delete the artist's websites by Chinese authorities)
Oct 01, 2009 ... Ai Weiwei, arguably the most important Chinese artist of his generation and co-designer of Beijing's 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium, is recovering from surgery in Munich after being attacked in August by, the artist says, Chinese police. Weiwei was preparing to stand as a defence witness in ...