Tom Hume, who has died of a cardiac arrest at age 81, was an inspirational head of art at Middlesbrough High School from 1971 until 1990, the happiest years of his teaching career. Past pupils, of whom I was one, talk of the unconventional atmosphere he created in the art […]
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0 Artist Simon Beck is known for his incredible snow drawings that span between 100 and 150 metres in diameter. He creates them armed only with a magnetic compass and his snowshoes. Taking a ski lift to a remote mountain, walking for up to 10 hours in thick snow to draw […]
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0 When I see the car number plate ending in “GAY,” I know I’m in the right place. Pulling up to a pretty cottage in rural Suffolk, the statement two-tone Chrysler on the gravel driveway is a tell-tale sign that the owner is artist Maggi Hambling. She duly emerges from her […]
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0 The South African artist turning plastic into portraits. While other artists might use watercolours or oil paints, Mbongeni Buthelezi uses waste plastics to create highly textured portraits at his studio in Booysens, Johannesburg. His medium is the plastic litter he collects from local rubbish dumps and city streets. “Animals are […]
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0 Veronica Ryan, who created the UK’s first permanent artwork to honour the Windrush generation, has won the 2022 Turner prize, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for visual arts. Ryan, 66, becomes the oldest artist to win the prize. She was nominated for the Windrush sculpture, which was unveiled […]
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0 He was born in Farnborough, Kent, and raised in nearby St Paul’s Cray, the first child of William Barnes, chief executive of the Mullard electrical components company, and his wife, Eileen (nee Hiley), a seamstress at Morphy Richards. His parents supported him in everything and he had a happy childhood. […]
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0 Chuck Close, a Photorealist painter who earned acclaim for his incisive portraits and more recently faced criticism after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment, has died at 81. Pace Gallery, which represents him, said on Thursday that he had died after a congestive heart failure resulting from a long […]
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0 The world’s largest painting, which was created by British artist Sacha Jafri, has been sold for £45m to raise funds for children’s charities. Jafri spent eight months painting the 1,600 sq m (17,000 sq ft) artwork in a deserted hotel’s ballroom in Dubai. He planned to sell it in 70 […]
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0 “Who wants to be famous?” screams Divine in John Waters’s 1974 comedy Female Trouble. “Who wants to die for art?” Even if Waters himself won’t die for art exactly, he will, when he dies, donate his art collection—to his hometown institution, the Baltimore Museum of Art. The beloved cult filmmaker and visual artist will […]
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0 Some of the iconic scenes of Hong Kong democracy protests will be preserved permanently through a monumental sculpture by the California-based Chinese artist Chen Weiming, who wants to pay tribute to the protesters and the city that has been supporting the democracy movement in mainland China for the past three […]
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