In pictures: Celebrating Ivory Coast's large ladies. 'Never let money get in the way of an idea': Damien Hirst walks through his Tate Modern show - video | Art and design. Damien Hirst faces eight new claims of plagiarism | Art and design. From formaldehyde-immersed sharks to diamond-encrusted skulls, Damien Hirst has become used to taking flak from traditionalists. Less than welcome have been the accusations of plagiarism, the latest of which were detailed today with claims that no fewer than 15 works produced over the years by the self-styled enfant terrible have been allegedly "inspired" by others. While Hirst has previously faced accusations that works including his diamond skull came from the imagination of other artists, the new allegations include his "crucified sheep", medicine cabinets, spin paintings, spot paintings, installation of a ball on an air-jet, his anatomical figure and cancer cell images.
Charles Thomson, the artist and co-founder of the Stuckists, a group campaigning for traditional artistry, collated the number of plagiarism claims relating to Hirst's work for the latest issue of the Jackdaw art magazine. He came up with 15 examples, with eight said to be new instances of plagiarism. 5,000 Books Pour Out of a Building in Spain. Artist Alicia Martin's tornado of books shoot out a window like a burst of water from a giant hose. The Spain-based artist's sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid depicts a cavalcade of books streaming out of the side of a building. The whirlwind of literature defies gravity and draws attention with its grandeur size.
There have been three site-specific installations, thus far, of the massive sculptural works in this series known as Biografias, translated as Biographies, that each feature approximately 5,000 books sprawled out around and atop one another. Martin's giant book structures give life to the inanimate objects filled with knowledge. By constructing the curving towers with a rather free and disheveled exterior, while maintaining a sturdy core, the books' loose pages are free to blow and rustle in the wind, allowing the piece to be further animated. Alicia Martín at Galleria Galica via [pulmonaire, DesignVerb] Thomas Wattebled. Thomas WATTEBLED, WHO WIN, 2011. Hisaji Hara – review | Art and design | The Observer.
In 1949, Albert Camus provided an introductory essay for an exhibition of paintings by his friend, enigmatic Polish-French artist Balthus. "We do not know how to see reality," wrote Camus of Balthus's strange and sometimes sexually suggestive paintings of adolescent girls, "and all the disturbing things our apartments, our loved ones and our streets conceal. " Balthus, who died in 2001, aged 92, made paintings that managed to be both naive and slightly sinister, and his precise figurative style only emphasises the general air of dark fairytale mystery in his paintings, the hidden disturbing things that Camus picked up on. Balthus said that he painted little girls because "women, even my own daughter, belong to the present world, to fashion". He was aiming, he said, for the timeless quality that Poussin's paintings possessed. Balthus's studies of girls in often stilted poses are certainly timeless in their strangeness, their evocation of a pre-adult world of dark childhood reverie.
China's Cultural Revolution: portraits of accuser and accused | Art and design. No portrait is more important to Xu Weixin than his first. It was 1966; the artist was eight; and he had learned, to his shock, that his kindly young teacher was the daughter of a landlord – an enemy of the people. Outraged, he drew a hideous caricature and pinned it to the blackboard. When Miss Liu entered the classroom, "She turned pale but didn't say a word," he said. She had good reason to be frightened. The Cultural Revolution was at its height, and across China teachers, former landlords and intellectuals were being humiliated, beaten and murdered.
By the time the chaos subsided 10 years later, an estimated 36 million had been persecuted and at least 750,000 were dead in the countryside alone. Xu, now 53, is among the handful daring their country to confront its past. China's Cultural Revolution remembered by artist Xu Weixin Link to video: China's Cultural Revolution remembered by artist Xu Weixin Some of Xu's subjects were victims, some perpetrators.
Carol Chow. Percy Kelly, the painter of hidden talent | Art and design. Few artists draw as well as Percy Kelly did. It's said he learned to hold a pencil before he could walk. His style is inimitable yet hard to define. He's a bit like Lowry without people (he almost never drew human figures), or a bit like Hockney without California (the furthest he ever went was Brittany). Comparisons might be made with other artists from the Lake District – Sheila Fell, for example, a near-contemporary of his. Percy Kelly Discoveries Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth and the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick Starts 2 March 2012 Until 22 April 2012 Venue websire It all might have been so different.
The biggest problem was his refusal to sell his work. With posthumous recognition in mind, he squirrelled many of his paintings away. Not the least remarkable aspect of it was that a man who once played football for Workington AFC under the management of Bill Shankly became a woman. He exulted in colour too. Harold Pinter - Arte, Verdad y Política. Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body? Starry Night (interactive animation) Moscow's Banksy: the street art of P183 – in pictures | Art and design. A Russian street artist who created a giant pair of spectacles from a streetlamp has been dubbed 'the Russian Banksy'. The mysterious figure, known only as P183, creates eye-catching works around Moscow.
P183 reveals little about himself except that his name is Pavel, he is 28 and that he studied 'communicative design' Who I am and What I Want. David Shrigley saves the arts from cuts – and wants you to help | Video. KULTUR ER KULT! La Grünerløkka Lufthavn, Galleri 69 og MIR bli i Toftesgate 69 - underskrift.no. Unstill lives: Tate Britain's Migrations exhibition | Art and design. Where does art start? People were at it on pots long before they carried pigments into their caves at Lascaux. Migrations, a startlingly original show at Tate Britain, will open up all sorts of new ways of seeing art as migration, as a continual flowing in from somewhere else. Its migrant nature begins when you translate what you've seen into what you make. You dream up wavy lines on a soup bowl in response to lines you've seen in the world, but later in response to what other people have made of the world. But migration and home belong together, too. Migrations also, therefore, redraws the parameters for the larger question: what is British?
The book that accompanies the show, edited by curator Lizzie Carey-Thomas, is full of reflections on what migration and art mean today in Britain. When Tate Britain's new director, Penelope Curtis, arrived in 2009 she wanted, she says, to look at the collection "in relation to its troubling name". Choreographer uses Frank Gehry architecture as stage. Art to Be Thankful For. Incredible Water Art. Believing is seeing: What lies behind some iconic photos? <div id="blq-no-js-banner"><p>For a better experience on your device, try our <a href=" site</a>. </p></div> Accessibility links BBC iD Sign in BBC navigation Magazine In association with Believing is seeing: What lies behind some iconic photos?
10 November 2011Last updated at 04:43 Help They say a picture is worth a thousand words - but sometimes it takes more words than that to explain what a photograph is really showing. In his new book, Believing Is Seeing, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris dissects the stories behind a series of iconic photographs. From the photograph of the US troops raising the flag at Iwo Jima to the controversy over snapshots of abuses at Abu Ghraib, Morris explores the connection between how a photograph makes us feel versus the reality hidden within the image.
Portrait of Errol Morris by Julian Dufort Iwo Jima flag raising. Rosenthal taking picture of Flag Raising. The Hooded Man. The Hooded Man. V-J Day in Times Square. Cow Skull 3. Paul Daniels Magic-Philippe Genty Puppeteer. Arts education defended by star-studded campaign | Education | The Observer. Actor Kevin Spacey is one of the leading names who have backed the ImagineNation report on the importance of arts subjects.
Photograph: David Levene Kevin Spacey, Lord Puttnam, Nick Hornby and Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota are at the head of a concerted cultural backlash against government plans to concentrate the British schools' curriculum on a core of "traditional" subjects. Spacey, artistic director at London's Old Vic theatre, has joined leading names in theatre, art, film and education to support ImagineNation: The Case for Cultural Learning, a campaigning report launched by the Cultural Learning Alliance. The artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Michael Boyd, and Lord Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House, have also signed the document, alongside educationists and the heads of teaching unions.
The alliance's move was prompted by growing concerns that cultural learning is under threat from a new government emphasis on a handful of central subjects. Edgy embroidery - in pictures. Favorite art.