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Feral Kingdom

Feral Kingdom

(2 stars)18 Oct 2007

DRAWING, PAINTING, FILM AND SCULPTURE CCA, Glasgow, until Sat 10 Nov There seems to be little or no relationship between the works showing at Feral Kingdom in the CCA – all conceptual and aesthetic decisions seem almost arbitrary. It is true that…

Artist reveals hidden initial on Che artwork

9 Oct 2007

The artist behind the iconic artwork which immortalised Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara in black, white and red has revealed a secret initial in the picture to identify the work as his own. Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, who created the image from…

Final Van Gogh painting expected to fetch £17m

9 Oct 2007

A Van Gogh painting has gone on show in London before being auctioned in New York next month. Thought to be the artist’s last painting, the vibrant masterpiece The Fields (Wheat Fields) was painted 19 days before Van Gogh’s suicide. The picture is…

Monet painting damaged by intruders

8 Oct 2007

A group of intruders punched a hole in a painting by Claude Monet after breaking in to the Orsay Museum in Paris. The French culture minister Christine Albanel said that four or five people, who appeared to be drunk, had broken through a back door at…

Alasdair Gray - art review

Alasdair Gray - art review

(4 stars)4 Oct 2007

To cherry pick from one’s own oeuvre sounds delightfully painful, a self indulgent task requiring sticky fingers and a good eye. It should be someone else’s enviable job, especially when the artist in question is Alasdair Gray, one of Scotland’s most…

Freud painting of pregnant daughter to be auctioned

26 Sep 2007

A painting by Lucian Freud which took more than a year to complete is expected to generate excitement amongst collectors when it goes on sale next month. Painted in 1992, Ib and Her Husband is a portrait of the artist’s daughter Isobel while…

Dan Miller: Stockade

Dan Miller: Stockade

(3 stars)20 Sep 2007

DRAWING, SCULPTURE AND PAINTING Studio Warehouse, Glasgow, until 24 Sep One has to wade through the familiar sophomoric references to modernist architecture, ‘dazzle’ camouflage and death to arrive at the germ of what is an interesting talent, in the…

Bacon rent set to reach £9m in auction

4 Sep 2007

A painting by Francis Bacon is expected to fetch £9 million when it is put up for sale by the Royal College of Art. Bacon had given a painting to the RCA to rent one of the college’s studios in 1969, after his own had burned down. The original…

Hirst skull sold for £50 million

31 Aug 2007

Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull is officially the world’s most expensive piece of contemporary art, after it was bought for £50 million. An unnamed investment group bought the skull, which is covered with 8,601 diamonds, in a cash-only deal…

Anonymous Hirst work auctioned for £200

29 Aug 2007

An anonymous auction surprised art dealers when it transpired that a bidder who offered £200 for ‘lot 15’ had actually bought a little-known Damien Hirst painting. The auction saw art connoisseurs eagerly await the painting, which was being sold…

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