Art on a pedestal Jan 12, 2008
A sextet of serious names in serious competition forms a dazzling line-up: leading sculptors Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor, both in their 50s and at the peak of their careers; mixed-media political artists Jeremy Deller and Yinka Shonibare, a decade younger, who faced each other as Turner Prize nominees a few years ago; populist outsiders Tracey Emin and Bob and Roberta Smith, both born in 1963. Their proposals vary in brains, wit, seriousness of purpose and formal beauty, but each brings a... (Financial Times)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
The signatories also include artists Sir Peter Blake, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gilbert and George, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk and Mark Wallinger. The leaders of some of Britain's most important galleries have also signed, including the Tate's Sir Nicholas Serota, Stephen Deuchar of Tate Britain, and Sir Norman Rosenthal and Charles Saumarez Smith of the Royal Academy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Wanted: 8,760 living statues Jan 10, 2008
The sculptor's idea is one of six competing to fill the empty plinth; Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Yinka Shonibare, and Bob ta Smith have also submitted proposals. But Gormley's is both the oddest and the most original. (Guardian Unlimited)
A statue for London: The battle of Trafalgar (square, that is) Jan 9, 2008
Anish Kapoor, meanwhile, was shortlisted for a structure comprising five concave mirrors (although one had fallen off his small scale model) positioned to turn the world upside down and reflect the sky down to earth ... Anish Kapoor SKY PLINTH. (Independent)
In PicturesMeerkats, mirrors or people? Artists unveil Trafalgar Square ideas Jan 9, 2008
Anish Kapoor plans to reflect the changing sky of London through Sky Plinth. Five concave mirrors will cantilever from the plinth. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
New art considered for Trafalgar Square Jan 9, 2008
Finalists to fill the space next year include Jeremy Deller's "The Spoils of War (Memorial for an Unknown Civilian)," the remains of a vehicle destroyed in an attack on civilians in Iraq; Anish Kapoor's "Sky Plinth," which would use five mirrors to reflect the sky to passers-by; and Tracey Emin's "Something for the Future," a sculpture of a group of meerkats. Emin whose autobiographically charged past work includes a recreation of her disheveled bed and an appliqued tent entitled "Everyone I... (Yahoo News)
Tracey Emin gives meerkats a brush with stardom Jan 6, 2008
Contending with Emin for the chance to exhibit in the square are Turner Prize winners Antony Gormley and Anish Kapoor. The winner will be announced this spring. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
The winner takes it all in Turner show Dec 7, 2007
Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley benefit from having rooms of their own, as do the films by Douglas Gordon and Gillian Wearing, though Jeremy Deller's thought-provoking film Memory Bucket, about George Bush's home town, is relegated to an alcove. Damien Hirst's bisected cow and calf, Mother and Child Divided, is still a seminal work, grisly and compelling, and demanding a reaction - though it says something about its fragile longevity that this is a new version recently made by the Hirst studio... (Scotsman)
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama Dec 6, 2007
Curated by Randy Rosenberg, formerly the curator for the art collections of The World Bank and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the roster of artists includes: Marina Abramovic, Seyed Alavi, Jane Alexander, El Anatsui, Laurie Anderson, Ken Aptekar, Richard Avedon, Kirsten Bahrs Janssen, Chase Bailey, Tayseer Baraket, Sanford Biggers, Phil Borges, Dove Bradshaw, Guy Buffet, Dario Campanile, Andy Cao, Squeak Carnwath, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Chuck Close, Constantino Ciervo, Christo... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Creative Visionaries Receive Louise T Blouin Award Oct 17, 2007
Past winners include President Bill Clinton, artists Gregoy Colbert, Anish Kapoor, Ruchard Serra and Chuck Close, Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel, Eric Kandel and Richard Axel, and others. The Louise T Blouin Foundation, founded in 2004 by Louise T. Blouin MacBain, promotes culture and creativity and their role in making societies stronger. (PR Newswire)
The sky is the limit in Chicago Oct 14, 2007
Cloud Gate, its real name, is by British sculptor Anish Kapoor, and it s a favorite spot to have your photo taken with the Chicago skyline reflected in it. With Gehry s footprint now in Chicago, next up is Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who will make his mark in 2010 with the 150-story Chicago Spire. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Russian collectors snap up art at London Frieze Fair Oct 11, 2007
She said she was considering a "beautiful Anish Kapoor" at Lisson Gallery's booth and was discussing the potential purchase of a piece by Mike Kelley with Berlin-based Jablonka Galerie, where the artist currently has a solo show. Not all Russian visitors are enthusiastic about contemporary art. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
London Frieze Art Fair Lures Buyers, Hedge Funds as Bonus Concern Grows Oct 10, 2007
Hedge-fund manager Adam Sender's art curator, Todd Levin, said he'd reserved works by Stephan Balkenhol, Alighiero e Boetti, Thomas Hirschhorn, Anish Kapoor, On Kawara, Richard Prince, and Rosemarie Trockel. Sandy Heller, who advises U.S. hedge-fund collectors, said he was ``looking forward to the action. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Art world braced for a crash Sep 30, 2007
Another seller is Marino Golinelli, an Italian multi-millionaire and philanthropist, whose collection includes works by Gilbert and George and Anish Kapoor. One London dealer said: Contemporary art has been the big money spinner in recent years so the sales coming up will be a major test. (Times Online)
Turner is agony or ecstasy, say prize winners Sep 8, 2007
Gormley deprecated the "gladiatorial" aspect of the prize and the fact that artists are tried by public exposure: "I feel embarrassed and guilty to have won - it's like being a Holocaust survivor." Anish Kapoor, 1991 winner, felt that the prize lacked dignity. "I remember thinking after getting the prize that it was all a bit crap, a bit of trash, with this celebrity thing that came along with it. And that was not what one was an artist for.". (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
* A new luster in the elegant heart of Brittany Aug 8, 2007
A work by Anish Kapoor at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, part of Estuaire 2007, in Nantes, France. The opening phrase of the song fits this friendly, elegant - albeit rainy - city on the banks of the Loire, which, this summer, unveiled a series of impressive urban revitalization projects that have been drawing tourists from across France. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
To explore India's contemporary art, 'Gateway Bombay' is a start Aug 3, 2007
OK, other than Anish Kapoor. I couldn't either before I saw "Gateway Bombay," an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum that, despite being small and muddled, serves to introduce uninitiated viewers to some of India's most celebrated modern and contemporary artists. (Boston Globe)
* Portrait of the artist as curator, and the dealer as artist Jul 12, 2007
In the final sequences, he compares kinds of blackness in a painting by Ad Reinhardt, a sculpture by Anish Kapoor and another unusual Eakins study. He finishes with a striking arrangement of dark bronze or plaster portrait busts, including two tiny Daumiers, lined up in profile along the final wall. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Whose art is it anyway? Jun 11, 2007
Anish Kapoor has a giant new sculpture in steel in the Artempo group show organised by the Belgian collector Axel Vervoordt. Work by veteran sculptor Anthony Caro can be seen at Venice's Design Art Gallery and another grand old man of British art, Richard Hamilton, is showing A Host of Angels at the Palazzetto Tito. (Scotsman)
War protest artist tipped to take Turner May 9, 2007
Winners have included: Howard Hodgkin (1985), Gilbert & George (1986), Anish Kapoor (1991), Rachel Whiteread (1993), Damien Hirst (1995), Tracey Emin (1999) and Grayson Perry (2003). The Financial Times Limited 2007. (Financial Times)
Emin tops artistic bill in Venice May 2, 2007
Past British winners also include Anish Kapoor, Richard Hamilton and Frank Auerbach. Sarah Gillet, the British Council's visual arts manager, added: "The kaleidoscope of artistic talent exhibiting across four pavilions at this year's Biennale reveals the UK's true spirit and creativity. We hope that there's something new here for everyone to discover as they wander the city.". (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Sculptor set for Tate Modern hall Apr 6, 2007
Other artists to have exhibited in the Turbine Hall include Louise Bourgeois, Juan Munoz, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Bruce Nauman and Rachel Whiteread. SEE ALSO 09 Oct 06 | Entertainment 19 Sep 06 | Entertainment 25 Jul 06 | Entertainment 22 May 06 | Entertainment 16 Jan 06 | Entertainment 10 Oct 05 | Entertainment. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Master of spectacular sculpture takes on Turbine Hall Apr 6, 2007
ller, whose helter-skelter slides are still attracting long queues; Anish Kapoor, who filled the hall with a red, trumpet-like sculpture based on the notion of flayed skin; and Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project with its sodium sun, whirling mist and mirrored ceiling. Achim Borchardt-Hume, curator of contemporary and modern art at the Tate, said there were two key reasons for chosing Salcedo: "First, we have been impressed by her work for a long time. We first showed pieces by her in 1999 and... (Guardian Unlimited)
Art in the Garbage May Signal Stealth Criticism: Martin Gayford Commentary Mar 21, 2007
Last week, a court in London awarded 350,000 pounds ($685,248) in compensation and legal costs to Ofir Scheps, a Swiss collector who had deposited a sculpture by Anish Kapoor with a specialist storage company, Fine Arts Logistics. He had instructed the company to remove and take care of the work -- ``Hole and Vessel'' (1984) -- after he bought it at Christie's in 2004. (Bloomberg -- UK)
350,000 damages for 'binned' art Mar 17, 2007
A High Court judge has ordered an art storage company to pay 350,000 for accidentally binning an artwork by Turner Prize winner Anish Kapoor. The judge ruled that the 1984 sculpture, Hole and Vessel II, was put in a skip during building works in 2004 and later destroyed at a waste plant. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Sculpture that cost £132,000 crushed to dust Mar 17, 2007
A sculpture by Anish Kapoor, entrusted to a specialist fine art storage firm, was probably mistaken for builders' rubble, dumped in a skip and destroyed by a waste crusher, a high court judge concluded yesterday. Hole and Vessel II, a piece by the Turner prize-winning artist in polystyrene, cement, earth, acrylic and pigment, was stored by the collector Ofir Scheps, who lives in Switzerland, with Fine Art Logistics, in south-west London, where it promptly disappeared without trace. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Tate in 5m race to save Turner's 'Blue Rigi' for the nation Jan 23, 2007
Artists including David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Bridget Riley and Antony Gormley as well as television stars such as Joanna Lumley have already signed up at. The Tate has the biggest collection of Turners in the world, thanks to a bequest from the artist when he died in 1851 aged 76. (Independent)
An Indian is not a freak in London: Rushdie Jan 21, 2007
Well, I've done a sculpture with Anish Kapoor that some people have shown interest in buying. It's called Blood Relations and has a distressed bronze box with installations in it and text all around. (Times of India)
The 'vision' thing Dec 10, 2006
An egg-shaped sculpture the size of a weather balloon made of polished stainless steel by Anish Kapoor looks like something that fell from outer space. Its quicksilver surface reflects everything around it, and a deep dimple in its top makes it look like it's starting to turn inside out. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Bacon's 'drug' painting sells for a record 7.9 million Nov 17, 2006
6 million and set 15 records, including one for a work by Britain's Turner Prize-winning sculptor Anish Kapoor. He proved the sensation of the evening when his untitled carved alabaster sculpture from 1999 went under the hammer for 1. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
`Spooky,' `ugly'--and `really powerful' Nov 16, 2006
Knight and others say Chicago is already at the forefront of the public-art scene, both for the size of its 700-piece collection, and for the stature of its artists, such as Joan Miro and Anish Kapoor. The city mandates that 1. (FOX59, IN)
The dense heart of a city, revealed in a reflection Nov 1, 2006
LONDON Walking around the cluster of warehouses in South London where the sculptor Anish Kapoor works, it is easy to forget that they are an artist's studio and not the planning division of a multinational corporation. In one room there is a maquette for a Naples subway entrance, which resembles a massive mock turtleneck collar made of steel. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Deutsche Bank `Looks Forward' to More Frieze Fair Sponsorship in London Oct 14, 2006
The London headquarters feature works by Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg, Damien Hirst and James Rosenquist -- a painting commissioned for the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. More recently, a painting by the Ukrainian artist Viktor Jakowetz was hung near the door. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Power list shows growth of British influence in art Oct 14, 2006
Artists included this year include Tracey Emin, who is to represent Britain at the next Venice Biennale, Gilbert and George, Gavin Brown and Anish Kapoor. Mr Weich said: "Even though Rugoff and Obrist aren't British, [the fact they have come to work here] does indicate the pull that London has as a growing and important art capital.". (Independent)
Wheee ... the Tate takes an artistic slide Oct 9, 2006
Others have included Anish Kapoor s gigantic trumpet-shaped sculpture, Rachel Whiteread s white boxes and Olafur Eliasson s weather project with its amazing sun. Made of stainless steel and polycarbonate acrylic glass, the slides will be partly enclosed for safety, but it will be possible to see through the glass for most of the journey. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Urban landscapes focus of Clifford Symposium Oct 6, 2006
Among Millennium Park's prominent features are its existence as a veritable outdoor art museum, eschewing a single theme and instead showcasing works by a diverse array of artists such as Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa and Kathryn Gustafson. While critics of the park initially dismissed the establishment as a "sculpture garden on steroids," Gilfoyle maintains that "big, massive public art" plays a vital role in attracting the community's attention. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Indian reaches for Manhattan skyline Sep 22, 2006
New York: Mumbai-born Anish Kapoor is one of the best-known names in installation art in the world. His Cloud Gate at the Millennium Park in Chicago is a landmark of the Windy City. (CNN-IBN)
Anish Kapoor's 'Sky Mirror' displayed in NY Sep 21, 2006
Anish Kapoor's 'Sky Mirror' displayed in NY - NDTV.com - News on Anish Kapoor's 'Sky Mirror' displayed in NY ... Anish Kapoor's 'Sky Mirror' displayed in NY ... Mumbai-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor is one of the world's best-known installation artists and now his work is being shown at the Rockefeller Centre in New York. (NDTV.com)
Artist Anish Kapoor turns mirror on Manhattan skyline Sep 21, 2006
UK sculptor Anish Kapoor has unveiled his Sky Mirror work in New York. The sculpture, a giant mirrored disc made up of polished stainless steel panels, has previously been displayed at various locations in Britain. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Dust and cracks fail to diminish Kapoor's mirror Sep 19, 2006
Anish Kapoor is a worried man. "Can you please watch the dust!" he pleads with a builder sweeping up around his new artwork. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Anish Kapoor Reflects Life in New York Sep 18, 2006
Between September 19 and October 27, sculptor Anish Kapoor s concave, 35-foot-diameter Sky Mirror will attempt a similar feat at Rockefeller Center, where it will reflect Fifth Avenue life in inverse. This is the first New York public artwork for Kapoor, whose works include the popular Cloud Gate at Chicago s Millennium Park. (BusinessWeek)
The eyes have it in super-sized show Sep 10, 2006
Baume has tapped 27 contemporary artists of international stature, including James Turrell , Mona Hatoum , Anish Kapoor , Jeff Koons, and Ed Ruscha , for an exhibition more ambitious in size and scope than the ICA could ever have previously mounted. Super Vision" starts off caressing the optic nerve.``Rather than looking at a painting with vanishing- point perspective, you have to move around the art physically in order to see and understand it," says Baume. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Muddled British Art Show at Hayward Lacks Zest: Martin Gayford Sep 8, 2006
An early op art eye-teaser by Bridget Riley, in which black and white squares seem to disappear into a crack in space, is paired with a mirror piece by Anish Kapoor. Gaze into that, and the world, with you in it, seems to vanish into a void. (Bloomberg)
The art of noise: Tate works given soundtrack Sep 1, 2006
The east London garage act Roll Deep recorded their contribution inspired by the Turner prize-winning Anish Kapoor's 2003 sculpture Ishi's Light ... Artist: Anish Kapoor. (Independent)
Tate art purchases ruled illegal Jul 19, 2006
Currently they are Fiona Rae and Anish Kapoor. Michael Craig-Martin, Gillian Wearing and Peter Doig are some of the previous incumbents. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Basel Art Fair May Sell More Than $300 Million Jun 15, 2006
A collector was coming to claim an Anish Kapoor metallic panel, she said. At David Zwirner's stand, too, about five works had been sold, said Zwirner director Hanna Schouwink. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Modern talking May 2, 2006
Candy Yung and Andy Wang, Vancouver, Canada "Interesting sculptures - especially the circular one with the reflection inside [by Anish Kapoor]. You go in and it reflects. It's much bigger than other museums I've seen." ... Glenn Nuyten, Belgium "I thought it was going to be more boring - something where you need to know things to understand it - but no, it wasn't. I liked the half-sphere where you need to stand inside it [by Anish Kapoor] - that was very strange.". (Guardian Unlimited)
Melancholia: Chronicle of an Artwork Apr 25, 2006
Size isn't everything according to famous installation artist Anish Kapoor. Anish Kapoor's Melancholia ... Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor has a succinct way of explaining himself in this melodic and ethereal documentary. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Collector sues for £500,000 after his Kapoor disappears Jan 21, 2006
Anish Kapoor has spoken of his "deep regret" over the disappearance of a sculpture that he created more than two decades ago ... " Mr Scheps' solicitor, Stephen Walker, said: "He [Anish Kapoor] had agreed to restore the piece for the owner. (The Independent, UK)
German artist chosen to fill Tate Jan 17, 2006
Other artworks which have been housed in the space include a blood-red snaking sculpture by Anish Kapoor and Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, an artificial sun which bathed the hall in a yellow light. LINKS TO MORE ENTERTAINMENT STORIES. (BBC News -- Europe)
Carsten Holler to fill Tate Modern's great hall Jan 16, 2006
Holler, 44, who lives in Sweden, will be the seventh artist to undertake the commission, which has produced audience-pulling works including Olafur Eliasson's giant sun and Anish Kapoor's red horn-like sculpture, Marsyas. And despite heavyweight academic descriptions of his work as ranging from "the purely conceptual to the elaborately architectural", on initial viewing they simply seem great fun. (The Independent, UK)
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Nearly 500,000 visit Turkey's year-old modern art museum Jan 7, 2006
Anish Kapoor, Ghada Amer of Egypt by way of New York, along with the critic's darling Haluk Akakce, who divides his time between Istanbul and London. The museum expects to receive an even greater number of visitors in 2006, when one of the biggest draws will be an exhibit of artworks which were presented last year during the 51st Venice Biennale in Italy, according to the Istanbul Modern. (The Daily Star, Lebanon)
