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Gilbert & George
Bleeding Medals
2008
118 7/8 x 174 13/16 in. (302 x 444 cm)
© the artist
Courtesy White Cube

Gilbert and George make bid for establishment status

The Britart duo Gilbert and George have built their reputations on producing some of the most outrageous and shocking artworks featuring nudity, images of sexual acts and using bodily fluids including urine and semen. But today, they insisted they were not ‘anti-establishment’ as they revealed their latest series of pictures in which they celebrate ‘Britishness’.

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Sir Nicholas Serota welcomed the appointment of the latest Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Ben Bradshaw, but he believes only five MP's have the passion to be Culture Secretary

Has politics lost the art of culture?

Thursday, 9 July 2009

Only five MPs have the passion to be Culture Secretary, says Tate director

Anti-smoking protestor Stuart Holmes stands on the fourth plinth

Trafalgar Square protester hijacks fourth plinth

Monday, 6 July 2009

The man leapt on to the plinth ahead of the housewife who had been due to be the first with her children.

Jasper Joffe in his studio: he hopes to sell all his possessions for £100,000

Lovelorn artist sells his all to heal heartbreak

Monday, 6 July 2009

Jasper Joffe exhibition to clear out 'emotional clutter' so he can start his life afresh

<b>Richard Diebenkorn</b>, Berkeley No. 52, 1955, oil on canvas: Critically acclaimed 20th century American painter. His early work is associated with Abstract Expressionism; his later work (best known as the Ocean Park paintings) was instrumental to his acclaim. The Obamas have the robustly coloured Berkeley No. 52 in their living  quarters.

Obama brightens up the White House

Saturday, 4 July 2009

With modern tastes and a mission to promote diversity, the President's art collection signals a break with tradition. Arifa Akbar reports

Competition winner Frank Muller's image of Leeds Castle at sunset

PhotoBritain competition winners revealed

Thursday, 2 July 2009

The 12 winners of the DK Eyewitness Travel PhotoBritain competition have been announced.

Michelangelo's fresco showing the crucifixion of St Peter, painted at the Pauline Chapel in the Vatican City, contains a detail of the artist

Hidden Michelangelo self-portrait discovered

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Michael Day: The Renaissance genius left his image in his final painting, the Crucifixion of Saint Peter

'Popeye' 2003 - by Jeff Koons

Koons brings his 'toons to town

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Inspired by Popeye, the multimillionaire King of Kitsch unveils his first ever solo show in the UK

A visitor views 'Cold Corners' a new installation artwork by Eva Rothschild at the Tate Britain

Little-known artist takes over the Tate

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

It is one of the country's largest spaces to showcase the best of British sculpture, so being commissioned to create an artwork for the Duveen Galleries - the central space in Tate Britain - has not just drawn in hordes of visitors but also cemented the reputations of Britain's boldest contemporary artists.

Dr Arthur Wheelock of the National Gallery of Art in Washington believes the blue-cloaked figure, centre, in Lievens' The Cardplayers is Rembrandt at 16

Rembrandt: a portrait of the artist as a young lad

Monday, 29 June 2009

US scholar identifies rare depiction of the Old Master as a 16-year-old

The notorious portrait of Myra Hindley by artist Marcus Harvey

From muse to artist – Hindley's anonymous work on display

Friday, 26 June 2009

Revealed: ceramic pig crafted by the Moors murderer is being exhibited in Nottingham gallery

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Eva Rothschild (Tate Britain, London)
Geometry and chaos: the dynamic sculptor fills almost the whole length of the central Duveen galleries with ‘Cold Corners’, a single work 70-metres long. (020-7887 8888) to 29 Nov

Jeremy Moon (Rocket Gallery, London)
A bulletin of “late” work from the early 1970s by the delightful but short-lived abstract painter. (020-7729 7594) to 25 Jul

Garden & Cosmos (British Museum, London)
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Beuys Is Here (De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea)
The German artist who wanted art to change the world, and left a legacy of heavy beauty. (01424 229111) 4 Jul to 27 Sept

Thomas Bewick Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Whole microscopic worlds, crammed with trees, animals, birds, people and weather: the vignettes of the 18th-century wood-engraver and naturalist. (0191-232 6789) to 18 Oct