News from Guardian Unlimited - 05/23/2011
Olympic velodrome in race for building of the year prize
The London 2012 Olympic velodrome, nicknamed the giant Pringle, has been put in the long list by RIBA for the Stirling prize The velodrome for the 2012 Olympics, nicknamed the giant Pringle for its crisp-like curves, is in the running to be named building of the year after picking up a design award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. The 6,000-seat building, completed in February, is ...
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News from Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - 05/19/2011
Chiswick House Cafe Sees Off the Competition 2011 RIBA LONDON BUILDING OF THE YEAR Sponsored by BLP Announced Today
LONDON, ENGLAND--(Marketwire - 05/19/11) - Editor's Note: There is a photo associated with this press release. At an awards ceremony held at the V&A this morning, RIBA President elect Angela Brady announced that the RIBA London Building of the Year 2011 supported by BLP and The English Heritage Award for Sustaining the Historic Environment is the Chiswick House Cafe designed by Caruso St John ...
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News from Art Daily - 04/05/2011
Tate Britain Presents Renowned British Architect James Stirling: Notes from the Archive
James Frazer Stirling, Forest Ranger’s Lookout Station: perspective, section, elevation, and plans, 1949. James Stirling / Michael Wilford fonds, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal © CCA © CCA. Ink, watercolour, and graphite on paper.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/30/2011
Arts Council funding decision day: live updates
Today is the day, finally, for the Arts Council England cuts and funding decisions. Follow it live and let us know how you've been affected 10.00am: Artsdepot in North Finchley, which had its funding brutally and suddenly removed by Barnet Council - a 100% cut of £194,000 for the only professional arts venue in the borough - has at least had cheering arts council news. They've got £300,000 this ...
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 03/30/2011
Arts funding decision day – LIVE
Today is the day, finally, for the Arts Council England cuts and funding decisions. Follow it live and let us know how you've been affected • Read a summary of the key winners and losers • See the cuts on a map • 695 successful organisations • 206 casualties • 110 newly funded groups 7.56am: Well it's here – the day hundreds of arts organisations have been dreading. Today they find out what ...
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News from BBC News - 03/24/2011
£8.2m gift to arts learning areas
Philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield gives a total of £8.2m to 11 galleries, theatres and museums to create learning areas for children and young people.
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News from The Art Newspaper - 03/24/2011
Major £8.2m donation to cultural organisations in the UK
london. A £8.2m donation by leading philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield will benefit 11 cultural organisations in the UK. The money will go towards the development of new creative learning spaces for young people at institutions including Tate...
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News from Art Daily - 03/13/2011
Frieze Announces London-Based Studio Carmody Groarke as New Architects for 2011
Studio East Dining with Bistrotheque. Project by Carmody Groarke. Photo: Christian Richters) LONDON.- Frieze Art Fair directors Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, announced today the appointment of the London-based architectural studio Carmody Groarke as the new architects for Frieze Art Fair. In previous years the fair has employed a series of internationally recognised architectural firms ...
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News from Independent - 02/13/2011
A home fit for a genius: Sir John Soane's Museum
You'd be hard-pressed to guess what single London building completely fascinates Antony Gormley, Vivienne Westwood, Damien Hirst, Stephen Bayley and – let's add an architect, shall we? – Daniel Libeskind.
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News from Independent - 01/06/2011
The supersize skyline: Why 2011 will be the year architecture takes a giant leap upwards
Brute bigness will be a defining feature of architecture in 2011. The way large buildings occupy space, and even the way architecture will become the threshold to outer space (thanks to Norman Foster and Richard Branson) has put supersizing firmly on the menu.
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News from Londonist - 12/01/2010
Tate Britain To Get £45m Makeover
Too often overshadowed by its younger, brasher brother downriver, Tate Britain is finally getting some pecuniary TLC: the gallery is to benefit from a £45 million upgrade.
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News from The Art Newspaper - 11/16/2010
Far right scuppers public art project
ZURICH. A public work of art by German artist Thomas Demand, undertaken in collaboration with London-based architectural firm Caruso St John, has been rejected after the far right Swiss People’s Party (SVP) launched a petition against it, saying it...
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News from Art Daily - 11/13/2010
Gagosian Opens a New Gallery in Geneva
GENEVA.- The inaugural exhibition “Giacometti in Switzerland” is curated by Véronique Wiesinger, director of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris who is also responsible for the catalogue raisonné of Alberto Giacometti.
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News from AFP via Yahoo! News - 10/20/2010
US art titan Gagosian takes on Paris
One of the world's most powerful art dealers, Larry Gagosian, opened a new outpost in his empire Tuesday with a gallery in Paris -- a sign, he says, of a rejuvenation of France's modern art scene.
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News from AFP via Yahoo! News - 10/19/2010
US art titan Gagosian takes on Paris
One of the world's most powerful art dealers, Larry Gagosian, opened a new outpost in his empire Tuesday with a gallery in Paris -- a sign, he says, of a rejuvenation of France's modern art scene.
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News from Independent - 10/15/2010
A 10-point plan for creating your own art collection
Passionate about painting? Not a multi-millionaire? Don't despair, says Caroline Roux
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News from Independent - 10/15/2010
Anish Kapoor: 'I don't want my work to be popular'
"Filthy hands!" booms Anish Kapoor, poking his head around the door of the sleek, all-white office. Silvery hair sticking up, black-rimmed spectacles perched on top of his head, swaddled top-to-toe in white overalls, he looks a bit like a startled penguin. Two great big dirty, clay-coloured hand prints run down his thighs and, when he turns, across his backside. He ducks out again and re-emerges ...
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 10/05/2010
Our cheap old blocks | Owen Hatherley
Again the Stirling prize goes to a building abroad. British clients prefer their architecture parochial For the fourth time, the Stirling prize , the award for "the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year", has been awarded to a building outside the UK. In itself, that isn't so alarming – the prize aims to show how influential British ...
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News from Bloomberg - 09/13/2010
Aston Martin Sets Record; Gagosian Enters Paris; $9 Million Book: Art Buzz
An Aston Martin DB5 coupe has sold for 414,500 euros ($534,373), an auction record for the model.
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News from Art Daily - 09/02/2010
Larry Gagosian to Open New Gallery in Paris in October
The gallery was designed by the Paris based architect Jean-Francois Bodin in collaboration with the London based practice Caruso St. John. Photo: © Gautier Deblonde.
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