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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)
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg may have been an accidental sex symbol, but sex symbol he most certainly was. Just ask Jane Birkin, Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot, all of whom played a major role in his rich and colourful l (read full article)
Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios that was written and directed by J. Searle Dowley. It was the first motion picture adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The unbilled cast included Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Char (read full article)
Ringo Starr A teenage Beatles fan amassed an extraordinary photograph album of her heroes at their homes after Sir Paul McCartney gave her his band mates’ addresses. He told Sue Baker where to find John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr after (read full article)
Today I am going to see photographs of large groups of naked people in Salford and Manchester at The Lowry. I am not in any of the photographs. (read full article)
(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)
Brian Duffy, whose photographs helped define the mood of the Swinging Sixties, has died aged 76. Together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Duffy formed part of the “black trinity” of photographers who became as famous as the models, musici (read full article)
What do David Cameron, Nigella Lawson, George Clooney and Wayne Rooney have in common? Apart from healthy bank balances and the odd column inch? They’re all devotees of table tennis, the humble game that’s capturing the zeitgeist, taking to the (read full article)
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)
Before After Mickey Rourke has told the Orlando Sentinel that he is to play Genghis Khan, the Mongol emperor who died in 1227 after conquering Asia from the Pacific to the Caspian Sea. Directing and writing is John Milius, responsible for the Apocaly (read full article)
“Do you know Alan Sillitoe?” aksed Robert [Graves], and added half-seriously, “I invented him. He used to live in Soller in the Fifties, writing I don’t know what you’d call them, fantasies about imaginary countries set in no particular pe (read full article)
Malcolm McLaren, the man who irreversibly changed the face of British music as manager of the Sex Pistols, died yesterday, aged 64. He had suffered from mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer, for some time and, despite a recent period of good health, (read full article)
The archive of author and illustrator Mervyn Peake has been acquired by the British Library for £410,000. Peake, who died in 1968, was the author of the classic Gormenghast fantasy trilogy (Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone), telling the sto (read full article)
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)
More than 100,000 people have joined a Facebook campaign as David Bowie and Emily Eavis appeal for threatened BBC 6 Music to be saved. David Bowie has thrown his weight behind efforts to lobby the BBC over the closure, saying: “For new artists to (read full article)
2010 sees the closure of Manchester Central Library for restoration and refurbishment. The project will restore this beautiful building and create an adjoining, ultra-modern city centre community library. A temporary library will open on Deansgate f (read full article)
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)
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)
(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)
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)
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