TAITMAIL Turner and the artists’ story
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Poor Will Gompertz, the BBC’s arts editor, seemed close to tears this week when he had to tell viewers that the Turner Prize had been awarded to all four finalists. “Is this the end of the Turner Prize?” he almost sobbed. The face of Chloé who is shifting the art storyMarine Tanguy, a young French-born entrepreneur who dropped out of university twice, is quietly and energetically switching the balance of the market in favour of artists. THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the monthBig Foot, Small Chick, Sherwood Zoo, April 4, 1974, by Ian Tyas Alan Sparrow introduces this month’s image Tate Britain becomes its own Christmas treeEach year Tate Britain on London’s Millbank invites an artist to create its Christmas tree. This year, Anne Hardy has decorated the museum’s whole facade. Agency created to make fantasy realA new organisation has been created to forge collaboration between the movie industry and social research. The debt of the Mayflower, 400 years onThe 400th anniversary of the Mayflower sailing for America with 102 passengers is the springboard for Plymouth’s resurgence. But the city’s inclusion in the story is an accident. Maitreyi to head FACT programmesMaitreyi Maheshwari is the new head of programme at FACT Liverpool. Labour’s £1bn arts pledgeLabour has promised a “cultural renaissance” with a £1bn new charter for the arts. ‘Philanthropy is not just money’ – Hannah RothschildA retired estate agent who helped a music academy find a new home – and then gave the organisation £37,500 to help them buy it – has won the individual Achates Philanthropy Prize. Titian is Wallace’s first loan in 119-year historyThe Wallace Collection is to lend from its international standard collection for the first time in its 119-year history. £800k for national loans to local museumsLocal and regional museums will be able to borrow treasures from the national collections thanks to a three year grant scheme with £810,000 by the Garfield Weston Foundation and the Art Fund. TAITMAIL Council cash crisis? Flog the artBy Patrick Kelly It may surprise you to know that the TaxPayers’ Alliance, that secretive lobby group that promotes low taxes and free market fetishism, has long had a fixation about art, particularly that art owned by the public. Visual artists and composers share £600k Hamlyn cashFive composers and five visual artists have won £60,000 reach in the 25th awarding of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists scheme. REVIEW Reverspective: the inside-out-world of Patrick HughesThis is a self-portrait of the surrealist artist Patrick Hughes. It looks like a conventional convex life mask, but it isn’t: it’s concave, a paradigm of Hughes’s “reverspective” world. AI PROFILE Helen Wallace and the nature of musicWhat Kings Place’s 2020 season Nature Unwrapped – Sounds of Life is emphatically not about is climate change. It is so much more. GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE The twittering of governanceA year ago the Cultural Governance Alliance (CGA) was set up by the Clore Leadership Programme, with partners such as UK Theatre, Cause 4 and Association of Independent Museums, writes Simon Tait. Scottish Portrait Gallery sacks BPThe National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), particularly the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG), is ending the relationship with BP, it was announced today. Casely-Hayford to run V&A EastThe cultural historian Gus Casely-Hayford is to be the first director of V&A East when it opens in the Queen Elizabeth Olympics Park, Stratford East, in 2023. Aberdeen reopens gallery after £35m makeoverAberdeen’s art gallery has reopened after a £35 million makeover. THE WORD The operatic canon in crisis?Following an international research project and a meeting of stakeholders at the Royal Opera House earlier this month, the picture remains complex, writes Cormac Newark. ‘Iconic’ Grace Jones to curate MeltdownThis year’s guest curator for the Southbank Centre’s Meltdown Festival is to be Grace Jones. |
