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Aug 02

Matteo Pericoli: Views of New York City

Matteo Pericoli found fame with his 22ft fold-out drawing of the Manhattan skyline. His new book shows the city through the windows of New York resident musicians, artists and writers, from Annie Leibovitz to Philip Glass, David Byrne to Nora Ephron (read full article)

annie leibovitz, artists, composers, culture, david byrne, hammersmith, isle of dogs, London, Manhattan, matteo pericoli

Jun 23

Play Me, I’m Yours (in Bolton)

(The Bolton News) New York, Barcelona, Sydney, Sao Paulo – now Turton, near Bolton, has become the latest place to host a quirky art project which has brought music to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. From next month, pianos wi (read full article)

art installation, artists, bolton, Bristol, culture, jackson heights, jean rigby, luke jerram, Manhattan, Music

May 22

Do you hate modern art? What about modern music?

I think the principal problem with someone saying that they “hate modern art” is the dismissal of a lot of very diverse works completed over a century or so, in widely differing circumstances by a host of unconnected artists. The people who say (read full article)

20th century, abstract, art, artists, culture, Dance, education, modernism, Music, painting

Apr 23

Tracey Emin and Dame Vivienne Westwood at Malcolm McLaren’s funeral in Camden

Tracey Emin Vivienne Westwood Malcolm McLaren’s send-off: They came in leather and studs to say goodbye Anarchy rules as Malcolm McLaren funeral draws punk glitterati (read full article)

artists, camden, Designers, funeral, malcolm mclaren, Music, news, Punk, tracey emin, vivienne westwood

Mar 12

Tracey Emin’s Mum

Tracey Emin reveals all in the Independent: The advice my mum gave me: 1.You might be able to buy the big house, but can you afford to keep it? 2. Forget about the people who you really love, and concentrate on the ones who really love you. 3. Every (read full article)

artists, culture, independent, mother’s day, tracey emin, Women

Mar 01

Tracey Emin Enjoys Balls

I think the closest I have been to Tracey Emin was spending a sleepless night on a camp bed in the third floor back of 25 Fournier Street, Spitalfields, nearly thirty years ago. Both Tracey and I have come a long way since then, without ever meeting (read full article)

artists, camden, culture, fournier street, London, love ball, naked heart foundation, roundhouse, spitalfields, tracey emin

Dec 09

£10,000,000 Hockney

Copenhagen, Denmark: An art work which is part of the project SevenMeters, using red blinking LED-light, to symbolise that the world is moving towards a climate catastrophe – 24km of red blinking lights will appear during the climate summit I read (read full article)

artists, culture, david hockney, money, opera, painting, rothko, tate gallery, the minotaur

Dec 02

Tracey Emin: “I’m not a good person”

(Independent) Tracey Emin’s latest work deals with the threat of climate change, but she admits she is a “bad advert” for action on the issue. Unveiling her embroidered images of flowers, insects and birds for a Royal Academy exhibition on res (read full article)

artists, climate change, culture, royal academy, tracey emin, Women

Nov 27

Tracey Emin: Lady Liberty

Tracey Emin in Manhattan She’s not about to leave Britain as a tax exile – but she is spreading her wings abroad. Tracey Emin gets personal in a New York hotel bed with David Usborne of the Independent “I’m not going to tell anyone how much I (read full article)

artists, culture, interview, Manhattan, New York City, tracey emin, Women

Oct 26

Princess Michael gets arty with Emin

(Sunday Times) The Queen once quipped that she was “too grand for us”. Now Princess Michael of Kent has struck up an unlikely friendship with Tracey Emin, the one-time bad girl of Brit Art, to modernise and “educate” her artistic tastes. The (read full article)

artists, culture, kensington palace, London, margate, princess michael of kent, royalty, tracey emin

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