http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/picture-post-the-british-library-reveals-a-collection-of-17thcentury-manuscripts-of-a-sanskrit-epic-829134.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/picture-post-the-british-library-reveals-a-collection-of-17thcentury-manuscripts-of-a-sanskrit-epic-829134.html?r=RSS <p>One of the world's most enduring stories, The Ramayana has been told and retold throughout India and South East Asia for more than 2,000 years. Today, a collection of lavishly illustrated 17th-century manuscripts of the Sanskrit epic, hidden away in the archives of the British Library since 1844, goes on public display for the first time.</p> News Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/after-tate-dispute-graffiti-artist-makes-the-capital-his-canvas-828290.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/after-tate-dispute-graffiti-artist-makes-the-capital-his-canvas-828290.html?r=RSS <p>For his London debut, the Parisian photographic graffiti artist JR is thinking big. The photograffeur wanted to paste a giant blow-up of one of his images on to the 325ft tower at the Tate Modern. But when the gallery refused, JR decided to stage a wider exhibition of his work across the capital.</p> News Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/naked-supervisor-painting-sells-for-record-pound17m-827861.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/naked-supervisor-painting-sells-for-record-pound17m-827861.html?r=RSS <p> A life-size Lucian Freud painting of a naked Jobcentre supervisor sleeping broke the world auction record for a work by a living artist when it sold for more than &pound;17m, Christie's said today. </p> News Wed, 14 May 2008 09:03:36 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/turner-prize-shortlist--the-critics-verdict-827931.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/turner-prize-shortlist--the-critics-verdict-827931.html?r=RSS News Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:34 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/shortlist-for-turner-prize-promises-end-to-male-domination-827700.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/shortlist-for-turner-prize-promises-end-to-male-domination-827700.html?r=RSS <p>In the 24 years of the Turner Prize, only three female artists have won. The odds for a fourth were raised yesterday with the announcement that three out of four artists on this year's shortlist &ndash; Bangadeshi-born Runa Islam, Goshka Macuga from Poland and the Belfast-born artist Cathy Wilkes &ndash; are women. The only male contender for the prize, to be awarded on 1 December, is Mark Leckey, from London.</p> News Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/robert-rauschenberg-champion-of-junk-art-dies-aged-82-827711.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/robert-rauschenberg-champion-of-junk-art-dies-aged-82-827711.html?r=RSS <p>Robert Rauschenberg, the most versatile, inventive and iconoclastic American artist of the past 50 years, who would use anything from canvas to a stuffed goat or household junk for his creations, has died in Florida after a long illness, his gallery representative said. He was 82. </p> News Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/mannequin-on-toilet-bids-for-turner-prize-827310.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/mannequin-on-toilet-bids-for-turner-prize-827310.html?r=RSS <p> Characters from The Simpsons and a female mannequin perched on a toilet have made it into this year's Turner Prize shortlist. </p> News Tue, 13 May 2008 12:13:03 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/is-the-art-market-heading-for-a-crash-825907.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/is-the-art-market-heading-for-a-crash-825907.html?r=RSS <p>Applause rang round Christie's auction room in New York on Tuesday when the hammer came down on Monet's 1873 Le Pont du chemin de fer &#224; Argenteuil for $41.5m (&pound;21m) &ndash; breaking the record for the artist set last year when his Nymphéas 1904 sold for &pound;18.6m in London.</p> News Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/sculptors-go-to-war-with-boris-825927.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/sculptors-go-to-war-with-boris-825927.html?r=RSS <p>Leading figures from the arts world criticised Boris Johnson, the new Mayor of London, and said he would be forced into an embarrassing climbdown over his pledge to scrap the competition for a temporary work of art to be placed on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square every 18 months.</p> News Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/an-artist-at-play-the-unseen-side-of-picasso-822808.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/an-artist-at-play-the-unseen-side-of-picasso-822808.html?r=RSS <p>When Pablo Picasso presented an ornate, cut-out doll to the four-year-old daughter of his close friends as a birthday gift, the girl promptly burst into tears because she had wanted a doll she had seen in a toy shop, not a creation from the Spanish artist's own hand.</p> News Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/colossal-ideas-or-the-makings-of-a-white-elephant-822814.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/colossal-ideas-or-the-makings-of-a-white-elephant-822814.html?r=RSS <p>You know the Angel of the North. Now imagine the Colossus of the South. It will stand near Ebbsfleet International station, to amaze Eurostar passengers as they travel through Kent. It will cost &pound;2m and stand 50 metres high. </p> News Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/lowry-auction-tests-impact-of-credit-crunch-821600.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/lowry-auction-tests-impact-of-credit-crunch-821600.html?r=RSS <p>Four works by L S Lowry expected to reach &pound;2m when they are sold at auction next month were unveiled by Christie's yesterday, as analysts watch to see whether the booming art sales market will also fall victim to the credit crunch. </p> News Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraqi-expert-accuses-west-over-antiquities-trade-818775.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraqi-expert-accuses-west-over-antiquities-trade-818775.html?r=RSS <p>A senior Iraqi official has accused the West of not doing enough to stop the thriving trade in antiquities smuggled out of the country's depleted archeological sites and sold in auction houses across Britain, America and Europe. </p> Middle East Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/barbicans-tribute-to-1948-accused-of-demonising-israel-818048.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/barbicans-tribute-to-1948-accused-of-demonising-israel-818048.html?r=RSS <p>As far as the organisers of the exhibition are concerned, these photographs of Arab refugees, displaced from their homes in Israel in 1948, are merely an artistic slice of life from a dramatic point in Middle Eastern history.</p> News Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/the-posters-that-celebrate-cool-multitasking-breasts-816224.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/the-posters-that-celebrate-cool-multitasking-breasts-816224.html?r=RSS <p>Breastfeeding is cool as well as healthy, according to the message behind an exhibition that opens in London this week.</p> Health News Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/ica-searches-for-even-younger-british-artists-816227.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/ica-searches-for-even-younger-british-artists-816227.html?r=RSS <p>Since Damien Hirst and the other self-promoting titans of the young British art scene emerged in the 1990s, they have left almost everyone else in the shade. Now the Institute of Contemporary Arts is promoting their would-be successors. </p> News Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/arts-leaders-appeal-to-the-rich-to-donate-works-815851.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/arts-leaders-appeal-to-the-rich-to-donate-works-815851.html?r=RSS <p>Arts administrators have begun a campaign for a change in tax laws to encourage art collectors to donate more works, and cash, to the nation's public galleries.</p> News Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/alannah-currie-from-1980s-synthpop-to-armchair-destructivist-815860.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/alannah-currie-from-1980s-synthpop-to-armchair-destructivist-815860.html?r=RSS <p>Back in the Eighties she was the girl with the hairspray-stiff blonde hair and black cap who intrigued a generation of semi-alternative adolescents.</p> News Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/david-lister/david-lister-the-week-in-arts--would-you-keep-your-elvis-moment-a-secret-815879.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/david-lister/david-lister-the-week-in-arts--would-you-keep-your-elvis-moment-a-secret-815879.html?r=RSS <p>A few years ago I wrote a story for this paper about a plaque being placed at Prestwick airport in Scotland to mark the only time that Elvis Presley set foot in Britain. It was a brief stop-over on his way to Germany.</p> David Lister Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/toulouselautrec-inspires-shortlist-for-portrait-prize-815421.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/toulouselautrec-inspires-shortlist-for-portrait-prize-815421.html?r=RSS <p>Influenced by 19th century painters, including Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, these are the four muses that inspired to modern-day artists to portray women at various stages of their lives.</p> News Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/if-you-cant-get-to-the-national-gallery-it-will-come-to-you-814061.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/if-you-cant-get-to-the-national-gallery-it-will-come-to-you-814061.html?r=RSS <p>The best most travellers can expect from a departure lounge is a dog-eared copy of a celebrity magazine and lukewarm cappuccino in a cardboard cup. </p> News Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/death-arts-final-taboo-812189.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/death-arts-final-taboo-812189.html?r=RSS <p>It was, perhaps, only a matter of time before contemporary art's obsession with death led to its natural conclusion: an exhibit featuring the act of dying.</p> News Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/acquisitions-take-saatchi-back-to-iraqi-roots-811776.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/acquisitions-take-saatchi-back-to-iraqi-roots-811776.html?r=RSS <p>Charles Saatchi is the art collector who creates trends. When he started amassing British art, the world flocked to buy works by the YBAs. He then turned his attention to American paintings and the Royal Academy showcased his collection with a sell-out exhibition. Saatchi moved on to Chinese contemporary artists and the market rocketed. </p> News Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/small-galleries-dominate-list-of-best-british-art-shows-811238.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/small-galleries-dominate-list-of-best-british-art-shows-811238.html?r=RSS <p>In Victorian times, Woking was known as a place for the "mad, the bad and the dead" because of its large cemetery, Zoroastrian burial ground, crematorium and asylums. The title was relevant until 1993, when a group of determined locals shook off the shadows of the past by helping to open its first gallery and museum.</p> News Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/kew-opens-the-worlds-first-gallery-for-botanical-art-810392.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/kew-opens-the-worlds-first-gallery-for-botanical-art-810392.html?r=RSS <p>The state-of-the-art glass, timber and stone building that will be opened today at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, by Sir David Attenborough might have carefully controlled light, temperature and humidity levels, but it is not intended to house rare plants. </p> News Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/the-hidden-parisian-art-going-down-the-tube-810398.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/news/the-hidden-parisian-art-going-down-the-tube-810398.html?r=RSS <p>The Paris Metro has become a cavern of ephemeral but beautiful underground art, discovered one month and destroyed the next. Renovations in two-thirds of the underground stations in the French capital have exposed a cornucopia of old, torn advertising posters or paintings. Some appear to date back to the earliest days of the Paris Metro a century ago. </p> News Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0100