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Art of disaster: photographs go under the hammer for Samoa (18 pictures) (Guardian Unlimited)
9 March 2010: Works by some of the biggest names in photography will be auctioned in London tonight to raise money for Oxfam New Zealand's Samoan tsunami appeal . Jane Bown, Tom Hunter and Daniel Lynch are among the several portrait, press and fine-art photographers to contribute signed, limited-edition images in aid of the 2009 South Pacific disaster, which killed 140 and displaced thousands of ...
State-of-the-art play area scheme unveiled for Crawshawbooth (Lancashire Telegraph)
PLANS to revitalise a Rossendale village with a state-of-the-art play area have been unveiled.
Regina Hackett takes her Art to Go (Arts Journal)
I don't think my work is particularly about art. It's really about me, being here in this life, in this skin. I'm cannibalizing my own experience, my surroundings.
Art review: The Roberts/John McLean (The Scotsman)
THE ROBERTS **** SCOTTISH GALLERY, EDINBURGH JOHN MCLEAN: SCULPTURE FROM PAINTING **** BOURNE FINE ART, EDINBURGH
Art 'crime' (BBC News)
UK painter defiant despite Turkish conviction
Attic art (BBC News)
Friends create mini-museum to help earthquake victims
1,000 people needed to strip for art (Oldham Chronicle)
CELEBRATED international artist Spencer Tunick is hoping to find 1,000 people from Greater Manchester to take their clothes off for art. New York-based artist Tunick has travelled the world for years, taking photographs of specially-posed, mass “installations” of naked people.
Artes Mundi prize contenders' art goes on show (Guardian Unlimited)
The work of eight artists competing for the UK's richest visual arts prize went on display in Wales today ‑ and none could be accused of triviality. There was no sight of a light being turned off and on at the preview opening of the fourth Artes Mundi prize exhibition in Cardiff.
Black Art Bolsters Sales, Distribution Capabilities (Drinks Business Review)
Black Art Beverage has entered into a contract with MWH Services of New York for licensing, logistics and warehousing in all 50 states. The company also said that it has received the necessary label approval for the State of New York and will be shipping product by the end of March.
Labour's lost loves: art and poetry (Guardian Unlimited)
Michael Foot was a name I knew long before I was old enough to vote Labour . My dad's fading paperback copy of the first volume of Foot's biography of Aneurin Bevan was one of the familiar volumes on the bookshelves at home. I don't think I knew he was a politician, but I did know he was a writer.