Vegas Hits Adulthood Jun 8, 2008
Furthering the perception of culture in Las Vegas, CityCenter developers last month announced a $40 million fine art program to supply works for the project, including commissioned pieces by Maya Lin, Nancy Rubins and Richard Long.. CityCenter is scheduled to open late 2009. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
$35m collection given to NSW gallery Apr 3, 2008
In subsequent years Mr Kaldor invited more artists including Gilbert & George, LeWitt, Richard Long and Nam June Paik to make and discuss their art at the gallery. In 1995 Koons's Puppy was erected in Sydney and next week Mr Kaldor is bringing the prominent video artist Bill Viola to Sydney to install a work at a church in Redfern. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Author and actor Maya Angelou celebrates 80 years of pain, joy Mar 27, 2008
In the tribute book, compiled by Butler, Marcia Ann Gillespie, the former editor of Essence and Ms., and Richard Long, a historian at Emory University in Atlanta, Winfrey describes that first encounter. "I was careful not to take a second more than I asked for. At the end of the five minutes, she inquired with a quizzical smile, 'Who are you, girl?' ". (USA Today)
* Oasis of art planned in the land of glitter Mar 15, 2008
Richard Long, a British artist, is furnishing a pair of 24m-by-15m mud drawings that will loom in the lobbies of a pair of angular residential towers called Veer. And Rubins has fashioned an outdoor 26m-by-20m sculpture from a variety of seafaring vessels that might be viewed as a steroidal version of a boat assemblage she did that was suspended over the plaza at Lincoln Center in New York in the summer of 2006. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
On the Vegas Strip, wagering on the public arts Mar 15, 2008
Richard Long, a British artist, is furnishing a pair of 80-by-50 foot mud drawings that will loom in the lobbies of a pair of residential towers called Veer. And Rubins has fashioned an outdoor 85-by-65 foot sculpture from a variety of seafaring vessels. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Germaine Greer Oct 8, 2007
Lucian Freud can hardly have been gratified to find himself shortlisted in 1988 and 1989, only to lose to the sculptors Tony Cragg and Richard Long. Cragg was first listed in 1985; Long had been listed in 1984, 1987, 1988 and 1989. In 1990, no prize was given, as the great and the good pondered the evident unwisdom of their proceedings. (Guardian Unlimited)
What's the point of the Turner Prize? Oct 3, 2007
The walking sculptor Richard Long was shortlisted for the first Turner Prize in 1984 ... That, after all was why it was funny for Richard Long to be repeatedly shortlisted. (Independent)
The Turner is not about beauty Oct 2, 2007
To preserve the dignity of the judges who, in 1989, preferred Richard Long to Lucian Freud. A Turner retrospective without Tracey Emin's bed - a loser in 1999 - is a history without the dirty, interesting bits. (Guardian Unlimited)
Its Turner Prize time again Sep 29, 2007
Established in 1984, the first prizes went to already older-generation artists such as Malcolm Morley, Tony Cragg and Richard Long. But in the early 1990s Sir Nicholas Serota and Waldemar Janusczek, then arts commissioning editor at Channel 4, revamped the event by televising it and restricting prizes to artists under 50. The average age of Turner nominees dropped from 46 in 1985 to 30 at the time of its relaunch in 1991. (Financial Times)
Long's art is steps ahead Jul 1, 2007
Richard Long has walked the Earth for his art and his footprints have left a very deep impression ... A Line Made by Walking, 1967, by Richard Long ... On another occasion I pointed to some muddy handprints on the wall and said to my friends, "That's Richard Long". (Guardian Unlimited)
Crowd attends Campbell County Art Show, Ice Cream Social May 29, 2007
Richard Long Splendor ; Photography: 1. Holt Messerly Jr. Batteaux in Cartersville Fog , 2. (Brookneal Union Star, VA)
Natural talent Mar 11, 2007
Richard Long, who imported that tradition to Britain, is another mentor; like them, he wants to get away from two-dimensional representation of landscape in a frame, and give you the thing itself. That's the theory. (Guardian Unlimited)
The A-Z of alternative breaks Feb 17, 2007
But it's also a smart modern city with cutting-edge contemporary museums including Castello di Rivoli (Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, 956 5222, ) with works by Richard Long, Joseph Beuys and Sol LeWitt, and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Via Modane 16, 379 7600, ) which celebrates the avant-garde movement. Turin also spawned a string of famously fast cars - visit the Museo dell Automobile (677 666, ) to gawp at Ferraris and Maseratis from years gone by. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Picking up the pieces Dec 7, 2006
Parker springs from a tradition of British artists such as Richard Long, famous for making art out of objects he finds in the landscape. She's also inspired by the pranks of Marcel Duchamp; at the Tate Britain, Parker once wrapped Rodin's "The Kiss" in a mile of string. (Boston Globe)
Muddled British Art Show at Hayward Lacks Zest: Martin Gayford Sep 8, 2006
There is a screaming pope by Francis Bacon, a stone circle by Richard Long and office furniture in a tank by Damien Hirst. All these items are jumbled together in one of the most dismal installations I have ever seen. (Bloomberg)
Hamburger Bob sets up B&B Jul 25, 2006
We hear Deutsche Bank's Richard Long will join Citi in a few weeks. But having analysed telecoms at Ze Germans for years, Long has succumbed to the even darker side. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Rocks of ages Jan 7, 2006
Richard Long walks the remote corners of the Earth, leaving subtle traces of his passing ... But then, it must seem a long way off to Richard Long, too, when he is walking across some far-flung desert ... I don't see why artists should have all the fun, so I decided to ponder the art of Richard Long in the open air, far from the madding crowd, on a gelid day at the end of the old year. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
