That Mitchell and Stiglitz look
Those book lovers who saw the tall, willowy figure of the highly acclaimed novelist, David Mitchell (pictured), roaming the verdant grounds of Charlotte Square Gardens, at the Edinburgh Book Festival, over the weekend, might have been a little miffed when they opened up their copy of The Scotsman this morning, to discover a photograph of [...]
By Arifa Akbar | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Monday, 23 August 2010 at 12:36 pm
Fiona Banner’s brilliant, brutal art
Just as Tate Britain revealed Fiona Banner’s Duveen Galleries commission this week – to fill the vast neo-classical space at the front of the London gallery – many art critics and correspondents braced themselves for sensationalism. As a true-blue former YBA, Banner caused a ruckus when in 2002 her artwork, ‘Arsewoman in Wonderland’, was [...]
By Arifa Akbar | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Wednesday, 30 June 2010 at 7:10 pm
No ‘fright wig’, no dark sunglasses: an intimate portrait of Andy Warhol
In public, Andy Warhol was seen as the consummate artist-showman, presiding over his celebrity-riddled studio, The Factory, surrounded by socialites and rarely seen out of his famously flamboyant ‘fright wig’ by paparazzi. In private, he was a near-recluse who lived with his mother and had a terror of ageing and death.
These little seen aspects of [...]
By Arifa Akbar | Arts - News, notes and quotes on the Arts world - | Monday, 28 June 2010 at 12:23 pm
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