Posts Tagged ‘Damien Hirst’

Design & Shopping: I spot DH T-shirt

How about this for an ingenious and perfectly formed piece of design? Whether or not you ♥ Damien Hirst and his Spot Paintings – recently on show at all eleven Gagosian Galleries around the world (and ending this

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Prize draw: win Damien Hirst’s spots

Prize draw ends 5pm, 20 April 2012; Tate show ends 9 Sep 2012

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OK, so we aren’t giving away one of his ultra-expensive spot paintings but we do have a really fun set of fridge magnets, reproduced exclusively from one of the paintings at the newly-opened Tate show. If you haven’t seen much… Continue reading

Art: Gillian Wearing at Whitechapel Gallery

Till 17 June, 2012. Gallery open: Tues - Sun: 11am - 6pm and till 9pm on Thurs & Fridays

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This exhibition, Gillian Wearing’s first major international survey show, is great. Wearing, one of the original YBA’s, who won the Turner prize in 1997, is such a clever artist, and her work is executed fantastically well. Her best pieces stick

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Photography: Don McCullin at the Tate and Imperial War Museums

Don McCullin at Tate Britain: until 4 March 2012. Shaped by War at the Imperial War Museum: 7 Oct - 15 April 2012. Talk with Kate Adie on 18 Oct, 7pm.

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We are blessed this autumn with not just one but two exhibitions of work by the brilliant, British photographer Don McCullin.  Intrepid and brave, he spent 18 years on assignment for The Sunday Times magazine highlighting the plight of the… Continue reading

Prize draw: win tickets, catalogue and T-shirt for Tracey Emin show at Hayward

Till 29 August 2011. Open daily 10am - 6pm except Thurs & Fri, till 8pm

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Whatever you think of Tracey Emin’s work, you can’t pretend that it doesn’t register on your radar. And here it is, taking up all three floors of the Hayward Gallery in all it’s glory: the first major Emin retrospective. And… Continue reading

Art: Tracey Emin at Hayward Gallery

Till 29 August 2011. Open daily 10am - 6pm except Thurs & Fri, till 8pm

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Whatever you think of Tracey Emin’s work, you can’t pretend that it doesn’t register on your radar. And here it is, taking up all three floors of the Hayward Gallery in all it’s glory: the first major Emin retrospective. And… Continue reading

Music: Doc Fingers plays barrel-house blues and boogie woogie

Thur 4 & Fri 5 Nov

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HIX Oyster and Chop House is one of London’s best restaurants. Situated around the corner from Smithfield’s Meat Market, it takes its inspiration from the old oyster and chop houses that used to be more common in the capital. One… Continue reading

Art: bring your failed attempts to ArtBin

29 Jan-14 March

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ArtBin by Michael Landy opens at the South London Gallery in Peckham tomorrow. Landy is the YBA best known for his 2000 work Breakdown, in which, over two weeks, he destroyed all his possessions in

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