News from Independent - 05/31/2011
Royal Academy 'embarrassed' by amateur efforts
The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition is the world's largest open submission for contemporary art, which for over 200 years has seen the work of amateur and unknown artists hang alongside the great and the good of British art.
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News from The Irish Times - 02/16/2011
Cuts make councils pull the chain on a great British convenience
LONDON LETTER:IT WAS not supposed to be like this. Prime minister David Cameron wanted local authorities to wage a relentless war on the salaries of top executives, wasteful spending and administration costs.
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News from Independent - 02/09/2011
Now cross your legs: Britain's public lavatories are vanishing fast
Name a lavatory Emerald Isle and you might expect to be derided. Public conveniences rarely invite allusions to precious stones or sun-kissed atolls. Those on Notting Hill's Westbourne Grove are an exception. Housed alongside a florist in a building designed with the sleek lines of a Victorian steam yacht, they are some of the more inviting loos in London.
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News from Guardian Unlimited - 10/05/2010
Artists' self-portraits to raise money for drawing campaign
Philip Pullman and James Lloyd among those donating their images to be sold for The Big Draw campaign A row of familiar faces will line up inside a Bath gallery this month as celebrated artists and writers such as Maggi Hambling and Philip Pullman sell self-portraits to raise money for The Big Draw, an annual campaign to get people drawing. Hambling, the portraitist and sculptor, will join James ...
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Blog from BULS - 03/11/2009
On the waterfront
Why are some of the biggest names in architecture queuing up to build on flooded Cotswolds gravel pits? ... , Will Alsop, Piers Gough, Eva Jiricna, Roger Sherman, Sarah Wigglesworth, Sarah Featherstone and many ... , the architects seem to be eating out of Paxton’s hand. “You just dream,” says Piers Gough
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