Be careful where you leave your car in case artists find it and take it over, with a 1953 VW beetle turned into a giant Beetle Sphere by Ichman Noor (now worth far more than the original car) or, in the case of an unregistered Fiat 500, having characteristic images applied over it by Tracy […]
While the Nunan-Cartwright Family and the Sydney Nolan Trust are bringing Australian art to London, British artist Julian Opie is off to Melbourne to show, along with other works, silhouettes of people walking around Melbourne itself. Opie’s work celebrates modern urban life; we enjoy his stylised figures of people walking, running and enjoying the city. […]
At the ‘New Now’ preview of the auction next week at Phillips, it is fun to see how many works follow the theme of the King’s College London exhibition ‘The Classical Now’, taking inspiration from classical art and the search for beauty and perfection. Quite a few, it seems. Some are obvious such as Viktor […]
Lines are everywhere. Streets are covered in them – white lines, yellow line, red lines and, in America, even more colours for parking designations. Lines of buses, lines of cars, underground lines and train lines. The world is constructed around lines of longitude and latitude as drawn on schoolboy globes. Computer imagery and design relies […]
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