bbc newsnight review - Banksy

caught the end of this, discussion on Banksy, it takes a while to get through total program time 35mins - Banksy discussion appears approx. 29mins!
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Tom Phillips Exhibition

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Widely considered a touchstone of postmodernism, Tom Phillips’ artistic project, ‘A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel’, has achieved cult status since its initial publication in 1970. One day, Phillips went into a book shop with the intention of buying a cheap book which he would use as the basis for an art project. He randomly selected William Hurrell Mallock’s A Human Document and began the long process of transforming it into a work of art. He paints, draws or collages over the pages, leaving some of the original text on show. This display will follow the evolution of the ongoing project from its beginnings to the present day, with different editions on show alongside related works-on-paper, as well as a number of new pages that have not been seen in public.
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, until Sun 6 Jan

The painting of modern life

As some one who uses photography in their work, I will give this a whirl, from the brief intro on the site it looks good
For video introduction:

The first major museum survey of its kind, The Painting of Modern Life re-examines what has been arguably the most influential development in the history of contemporary painting: the use and translation of photographic imagery. Curated by The Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff, the exhibition charts the international evolution of this tendency over the past 45 years, including seminal photo-inspired works from the early 1960s by artists such as Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol. Revealing the surprising stylistic diversity of this work, the exhibition also focuses on the great variety of subject matter from the personal to the political, addressed by featured artists.

'This is the rare show that can sustain an argument' (Daily Telegraph).

'This is a show that stimulates mind and eye' (Observer).

List of Artists:


Richard Artschwager, Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Thomas Eggerer, Judith Eisler, Franz Gertsch, Richard Hamilton, Eberhard Havekost, David Hockney, Johannes Kahrs, Johanna Kandl, Martin Kippenberger, Liu Xiaodong, Malcolm Morley, Elizabeth Peyton, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Luc Tuymans and Andy Warhol.

the other side......

THIS REALLY APPEALS TO ME:
The alternative to the Art Frieze show, more in keeping with ground roots:
Free entry
New work by artist both well known and up and coming artists
Also you can own the work for free
the deal is:
go and have a look during the week and register the piece you like, then on Sunday, first come first served - could be a mad time, but its worth a punt.
http://www.freeartfair.com/

Horns provide plenty of entertainment as London fair crown's record year for art

Following my interest in this years Frieze exhibition, looks like a sculptute to catch the eye!

The annual sculpture park erected in Regent's Park is always a highlight of the annual Frieze Art Fair, London's biggest contemporary art fair, and when it opens on Thursday it promises to make more noise than ever.
Two huge, bright yellow musical instruments, entitled French Horns: Unwound and Entwined, 2005, are among the most unusual exhibits because they mark a collaboration between leading artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The two have unravelled, and then twisted together, the oversize stainless instruments which yesterday appeared in their temporary home, the park's English Gardens.
Visitors will also come face to face with three life-size bronze statues by Christian Jankowski of street performers dressed as Che Guevara, Salvador Dali's 'anthropomorphic cabinet' woman

and a Roman legionnaire who calls himself 'Caesar'. Kadar Attia has topped broken concrete columns with rusted metals fragments to create works that resemble decaying house foundations and distorted concrete trees. The work was inspired by houses the artist has seen in his native Algeria.
In all the park will showcase nine sculptures by young artists and established names such as Bjoern Dahlem and Brigitte Kowanz. The majority have been made specifically for the fair, and all but one is from 2007.
This year's fair will crown an unprecedented boom in the contemporary art market in Britain. Figures released last week by specialist art insurer Hiscox show that in the past year the value of contemporary art has risen by 55 per cent. One of Damien Hirst's trademark medicine cabinets sold at auction for £9.65m, breaking the European record for work by a living artist, while a Banksy painting, Space Girl and Bird, went for £288,000.
· The Sculpture Park is free and open until 14 October.
Source: The Observer