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Doom, gloom and Damien Hirst

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:13:02 GMT

Your rating Click on a star to rate When Damien Hirst showed A Thousand Years, his vitrine featuring a cows head, maggots, flies and an insectocutor at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992, it attracted a particularly esteemed visitor.
Source: This Is London

Interview with prisons' minister Maria Eagle

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:05:04 GMT

'I don’t think you can do a proper operational ministerial job, which is about providing a function of the state, without going and having a proper look.' Photograph: Martin Argles Ask Maria Eagle what she thinks about being called "Labour's answer to...
Source: Guardian Unlimited

The Royal Society: From dilettantes to DNA via cuckoos and kites

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:17:51 GMT

Sir Christopher Wren is remembered today for the architectural wonder of St Paul's Cathedral, but he was also one an architect of one of the oldest scientific institutions in the world, the Royal Society, which today begins a celebration of its 350th...
Source: The Independent

Injuries and the NFL

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:34:36 GMT

In the past year, the AFC has brought forth a couple of prime examples of the difficulties and the contradictions that are created by this problem.
Source: Mile High Report

Reheated Bacon

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:05:28 GMT

What can a portrait do to its subject, beyond the usual act of depiction? The question is unexpectedly raised in Damien Hirst's new two-site show.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Saatchi Gallery Sunday Telegraph Art Prize winners named

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:11:51 GMT

Lauren Mincher, a sixth form student at Durham Johnston School with her grandfather Bernard Purvis 70 Photo: NORTH NEWS & PICTURES First place is awarded to Lauren Mincher, 18, whose touching portrait of her grandfather, submitted by Durham...
Source: The Telegraph

Second City to Second City

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:02:09 GMT

Last Saturday, March 31, we took the Megabus up to Milwaukee, to witness the Francis Bacon exhibition, and to see firsthand the architectural design of Santiago Calatrava.
Source: Associated Content

Damien Hirst: A painter's progress

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:52:22 GMT

Scenes of destruction and misery … Damien Hirst's triptych Insomnia.
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Quoted in 'The Vatican's Plans For A Meeting With Artists'

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:26:24 GMT

said in ArtsJournal:

Before the Sistine Chapel meeting, the invited artists are being taken on a guided tour of this collection which includes works by Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland, Matisse and Georges Rouault. They will be gently encouraged to make a gift of one of their works to the Vatican collection.

Quoted in 'Charles Saatchi's new generation of artists'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:13:26 GMT

said in Times Online:

There is a cabal of curators, critics and gallery owners who want the world to believe that Russian collectors are among the most important on the international scene ... That simply isn’t true at the moment: Roman Abramovich may have paid £43m for Francis Bacon’s Triptych last year, but it was an ill-advised purchase made at the top of the market. However, it could prove a self-fulfilling prophecy — and if those collectors buy from Saatchi or even just push the market up, he’s going to do extremely well out of it.

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Mon, 18 May 2009 08:40:00 GMT

A visitor to 'Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective', a major retrospective of British artist Francis Bacon, looks at paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a press preview in New York on May 18, 2009.

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Mon, 18 May 2009 08:37:00 GMT

Francis Bacon - Documentary part 1/6

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:43:23 GMT