LONDON.- For the first time ever, a painting is being made into a ‘living wall’ outside the National Gallery. With over 8,000 living plants, General Electric (GE) has brought a masterpiece to life with a version of Van Gogh’s famous pain…
For the First Time Ever, National Gallery Painting by Van Gogh Comes to Life
LONDON.- For the first time ever, a painting is being made into a ‘living wall’ outside the National Gallery. With over 8,000 living plants, General Electric (GE) has brought a masterpiece to life with a version of Van Gogh’s famous pain…
National Gallery’s Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition Aims to Limit Number of Tickets
LONDON (REUTERS).- Britain’s National Gallery is planning to limit the number of tickets available at an upcoming Leonardo da Vinci exhibition in a bid to reduce the frustration of jostling crowds for art lovers. The number of visitors allowed in each …
Yinka Shonibare Announces Kazuya Tsuji Winner of The Grange Gardens Sculpture Prize
LONDON.- GALERIE8 announces the artist Kazuya Tsuji as the winner of the Grange Garden Sculpture project 2011. Kazuya Tsuji’s installation entitled Ripples has been chosen as the winning artwork for the new sculpture prize dedicated to the aesthet…
Yinka Shonibare Announces Kazuya Tsuji Winner of The Grange Gardens Sculpture Prize
LONDON.- GALERIE8 announces the artist Kazuya Tsuji as the winner of the Grange Garden Sculpture project 2011. Kazuya Tsuji’s installation entitled Ripples has been chosen as the winning artwork for the new sculpture prize dedicated to the aesthet…
Mayor Boris Johnson Announces Rocking Horse and Rooster Set for Trafalgar Square
LONDON (AP).- A giant blue rooster and a boy on a rocking horse will stand alongside a statue of military hero Adm. Horatio Nelson in London’s Trafalgar Square. Officials on Friday announced the next two artworks to fill the square’s empty “fourth plin…
Ben Johnson Begins to Complete One of His Paintings in Public at the National Gallery
LONDON.- This autumn, to coincide with the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National Gallery has invited contemporary artist Ben Johnson to display his work in an exhibition in Room 1. Ben Johnson paints the city, for ver…
Ben Johnson Begins to Complete One of His Paintings in Public at the National Gallery
LONDON.- This autumn, to coincide with the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National Gallery has invited contemporary artist Ben Johnson to display his work in an exhibition in Room 1. Ben Johnson paints the city, for ver…
Ben Johnson Starts to Complete One of His Paintings in Public at the National Gallery
LONDON.- This autumn, to coincide with the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National Gallery has invited contemporary artist Ben Johnson to display his work in an exhibition in Room 1. Ben Johnson paints the city, for ver…
National Gallery in London Invites Contemporary Artist Clive Head to Display His Work
LONDON.- This autumn, to coincide with the Sainsbury Wing exhibition Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals, the National Gallery has invited contemporary artists Clive Head and Ben Johnson to display their work in two consecutive exhibitions in Room 1. Both…