Bridget Riley retrospective opens in Paris Jun 20, 2008
A detail from Bridget Riley's 1963 work "Blaze 3." (Bridget Riley, Karsten Schubert London) ... Bridget Riley's retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris opens with landscape drawings from the 1950s, passes through the Op Art with which she became famous, soars into the big lusciously colored abstracts of recent years and ends with a wall painting which the curator sees as a homage to the museum's prize possession, "La Danse" by Matisse ... Photographs The works of Bridget... (International Herald Tribune)
Public to get peek at government's art treasure hoard May 6, 2008
Johnson and her small team now spend months brooding over what to send where: Byron, the very image of a romantic hero in absurdly splendid oriental costume, off to Athens; the Andy Warhol portrait of the Queen to Washington; a Bridget Riley to Cairo, inspired by the colours she saw on her visits to ancient Egyptian tombs; a painting by Carel Weight of a woman reading George Bernard Shaw to Dublin. At the moment the treasures in the London stores include the Lowry and the Freud, a gigantic early... (Guardian Unlimited -- Politics)
AUCTIONS: At Christie's Post-War and Contemporary sale, 3 world records, but danger looms Feb 9, 2008
Later in the sale, it was the turn of a London school artist, Bridget Riley, to be greeted with a world auction record price ... Exhibited several times - "Static 2" was seen in the Bridget Riley retrospective at the "Tate Britain" gallery in 2003 - the painting realized 1. (International Herald Tribune)
What recession? Bacon sells for 26.3m Feb 7, 2008
9m and saw a record paid for a Bridget Riley work - Static 2 (1966) - as well as artist records for Lucio Fontana (6. 7m) and Gerhard Richter (7. (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)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
More than 100 of Britain's leading artists, from Lucian Freud to Bridget Riley to David Hockney to Rachel Whiteread, today put their names to a condemning one of the country's most respected institutions: the British Council. It is a battle which has the potential to be protracted as well as acrimonious, and which is still largely shrouded in secrecy. (Guardian Unlimited)
* Modern art isn't modern forever Feb 15, 2007
Bridget Riley and Frank Stella both used ordinary house paints, Stella because they "had the nice dead kind of color" that he wanted, right out of the can. Over the last few years, in its labs perched high in the hills of Brentwood, the Getty has brought complex technology to bear on modern paints, building up a database of thousands of kinds of pigments, solvents, chemical binders and other substances. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Art: New paints challenge conservators Feb 15, 2007
Bridget Riley and Frank Stella used ordinary house paints, Stella because they "had the nice dead kind of color" that he wanted. But while conservators have inherited generations' worth of knowledge about oil paints, they know comparatively little about synthetics and how to protect the masterpieces created by using them, many of which are rapidly approaching the half-century mark. (International Herald Tribune)
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)
The 'vision' thing Dec 10, 2006
On the walls, a field of spots undulates in an Op Art painting by Bridget Riley , and blurry concentric circles on a pair of circular canvases by Ugo Rondinone pulsate hypnotically. Smooth, mirrored glass jars in a wall-hung cabinet by Josiah McElheny recede infinitely into the mirrored background, while Andreas Gursky's door-size photograph of an ultramodern Shanghai hotel's vast indoor atrium suggests an architecture of limitless height and depth. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Institute of Contemporary Art Dec 8, 2006
Bridget Riley s Pause, is a classic example of 1960 s pop art demonstrating three dimensional circles. Fine Eyes by Tony Oursler shows hanging round spheres with blinking eyeballs projected onto them. (Suite101.com)
Dive in. The water's fine. Dec 7, 2006
It serves up a lot of art that's just plain fun to look at -- works by Jeff Koons, Bridget Riley, and many others. Call it the "Wow!" factor -- pieces that affect the eye the way fine chocolate kisses excite the taste buds. (Boston Globe)
Through the square windows Nov 15, 2006
In a recent essay, Bridget Riley quotes Cezanne's famous remark to Joachim Gasquet. "Colour," said Cezanne, "is the place where our brain and the universe meet." Buren, too, provides an occasion for us to focus on this meeting. (Guardian Unlimited)
Hockney's Portraits Chart Exploits, Setbacks: Martin Gayford Oct 12, 2006
Beneath his feet is a striped rug much like an abstract painting by, say, Bridget Riley. That's Hockney -- an engaging individualist exploring the world of modern art. (Bloomberg)
- Adrian Searle picks his Turner prize favourite Oct 3, 2006
Watching them turn, one is reminded of early Bridget Riley, of Marcel Duchamp's "rotoreliefs" and of a trillion teenage acid trips. TV monitors flare with strobe lighting, and dates taken from a Liberty human rights audit flash back at me. (Guardian Unlimited)
The eyes have it in super-sized show Sep 10, 2006
"Artists in this group include light artist Turrell, sculptor Kapoor (whose 35-foot, concave ``Sky Mirror" opens in Rockefeller Center this fall), and Op artist Bridget Riley. Next stop: Technology as a vision prosthetic. (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)
- Charles Saumarez Smith Jun 25, 2006
9m at Sotheby's and a work by Bridget Riley sold for more than 1m. In April, a Turner watercolour of Venice sold in New York for $35. (Guardian Unlimited)
From Moscow with moolah: Russians fuel the art boom Jun 24, 2006
Bridget Riley joined the handful of women artists to break the 1m mark, with her Untitled (Diagonal Curve). The next night, Francis Bacon's Three Studies for a Self-portrait, 1980, sold for 3. (Guardian Unlimited)
Record sales at UK art auctions Jun 23, 2006
Paintings by two other British artists, Peter Doig and Bridget Riley, also fetched more than 1m each. Dora Maar With Cat was one of Picasso's last paintings. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Hockney canvas makes a record 'splash' at London auction Jun 22, 2006
"Untitled (Diagonal Curve)" by Bridget Riley fetched 1. 184 million pounds -- the first time her work had crested the million pound mark. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Hodgkin on show Jun 13, 2006
The exhibition is part of a series by Tate Britain to represent the work of "senior British artists of exceptional significance" and follows Lucian Freud in 2002, Bridget Riley in 2003 and Anthony Caro in 2005. Serota yesterday said Hodgkin missed out on recognition in the 1960s because he did not fall into any of the categories popular at the time. (Guardian Unlimited)
* The Emperor is butt naked May 11, 2006
"Jeff Koons doesn't touch anything. Bridget Riley has workers. It's accepted today. It doesn't have to have traces of your own hand.". In an interview in his studio here, Zhou, 39, said that what was most important was the concept behind the work. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Another look May 8, 2006
The largest work in the show is "Drift No. 2," a nearly 8-foot-tall acrylic painting from 1966 by British artist Bridget Riley, who is also represented in the show with pieces from the '70s and '80s. The undulating smoky-colored waveforms of "Drift" seem to vibrate and sway. (Albany Times Union)
