Posted by Andrew Soar on November 4, 2011 · 1 Comment
Today at the Tate Britain, London 2012′s Cultural Olympiad team unveiled a series of posters to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The images seem to nod their hat in a big way to the Munich games of 1972, where the organisers of the Munich Olympics ran a very similar enterprise with the … Read more
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Posted by Andrew Soar on May 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Two Scottish sculptors are among four nominees for the 2011 Turner Prize, one of contemporary art’s most prestigious and controversial awards, following the success last year of Scotland’s Susan Philipsz. Karla Black, the youngest of the nominees aged 38, was born in Alexandria, Scotland, and lives and works in Glasgow, as does Hamilton-born Martin Boyce, aged … Read more
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