Entries from Londonist tagged with 'peterblake'
July 4, 2007
The well-known darlings of the Young British Artist (YBA) scene are lined up to sell their wares from the back of a car this Sunday. For the 2007 Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, previous stall holders and YBAs Gavin Turk, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tracey Emin, Fiona Banner, Cedric Christie and Abigail Lane are back again to sell affordable and collectable artworks in this peculiarly English impromptu market style, on the grounds of the......
Continue Reading "Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair"March 26, 2007
Ken's got himself a new piece of art - entirely drawn by Londoners. The People's Panorama, conceived by artist Ben Johnson, is a hand-drawn view of London that's just gone on show at City Hall: The artist...based the work on a photograph he took from the top of Canary Wharf. He divided the image into 1280 squares measuring three inches each. Members of the public were then invited to contribute a pencil drawing on......
Continue Reading "Writing's On The Wall For Mayor?"February 27, 2006
Although fine arts are less our forte than appaling puns, Londonist nonetheless found itself wandering along the South Bank on Saturday, email print out in one hand, friend in the other, searching for the Oxo Tower and Bargehouse and War Child's Picture This exhibition. Admittedly we were drawn by the idea of seeing some real life Stanley Donwood work as much as anything (he's the dude that does the Radiohead artwork), and for nish......
Continue Reading "A Grave-y Exhibition"May 5, 2005
Buy art this month for your pleasure and for a good cause. Two times a year The Drawing Room holds fundraisers. All proceeds from the event will be used to ensure spectacular exhibitions at The Drawing Room for the coming year. The Drawing Room is a non profit organisation, founded by Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout as the first dedicated public space for contemporary drawing in the UK. The Drawing Room was......
Continue Reading "Want to Expland /Begin Your Art Collection? Start Here."