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...I’m also delighted to unveil homeware brand Abask, the latest project from MatchesFashion co-founder Tom Chapman and his business partner Nicolas Pickaerts....
...There are several UK-based artists of note too, not least Peter R Mason, Emma Biggs, Ed Chapman and Gary Drostle....
...Some are made for this exhibition, including those “fixed” from items sourced from local junk and antique shops – as the Chapmans notoriously overworked Goya’s prints – because “working on someone else’s...
...Expect to see celebrity-studded front rows at Burberry, Tom Ford and Marchesa, which is designed and co-founded by Harvey Weinstein’s wife Georgina Chapman....
...This includes work by Damien Hirst, the Chapman brothers and Theaster Gates, and turns on the new global reality: “What is power, terror, religion and how we lose religious feeling and spirituality – when...
...Portrait Prize and the Mall Galleries’ £25,000 Threadneedle Prize reward conservatism; the Royal Academy’s £25,000 Charles Wollaston Award favours international celebrity (Jeff Koons, Anselm Kiefer, the Chapman...
...And Grace Kelly and Jackie Kennedy, both of whom looked far cooler in crisp, off-duty holiday cotton shirts than they ever did in their princess pinks....
...With a young Jake Chapman as gallery technician and occasional babysitter – “he was always talking about this brother of his who was a painter” – she took over a tiny space in Cork Street in 1985 from Robert...
...among the delicate Giacomettis; a new version of “Hell” modelled by the Chapman brothers, “Upstairs and Downstairs” (2013), opposite a shimmering, earnest Rothko; Huang Yong Ping’s vast resin grotto “Plato...
...Spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, it ranges from Jacob Epstein and Picasso to Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, the Chapman Brothers and young emerging artists....
...Works, celebrated and little-known alike, range across all media: Annette Messager’s fragmentary depictions of diseased body parts suspended by coloured threads in “Anatomie”; the Chapman Brothers’ defacements...
...On offer will be “Three Targets” (1985-86) with an estimate of $1m-$1.5m and a red-white-and-black “Jackie” from the 1960s, looking for $200,000-$300,000....
...“The fun of the fair as usual, is in the aisles,” wrote FT visual arts critic Jackie Wullschlager last year....
...Yet his rise over the past two decades, as ambassador of a London vernacular art embodied in the streetwise styles of Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn and the Chapman brothers, bears witness to complex societal...
...This joins a trend for historical quotation – from Huyghe’s and Althamer’s witty takes on modernist sculpture to the Chapman Brothers’ vapid faux-gothic Madonna and Child installation “The Milk of Human...
...such as “Pink Brown Smoke” by Gary Hume, most of the Young British Artist generation with which Jopling made his name, notably those who have barely developed since the 1990s – Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman...
...But whereas Sensation, tightly selected around curator Norman Rosenthal’s theme of a “new and radical attitude to realism” by artists including Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Rachel Whiteread, Marc Quinn...
...Pop Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head, by Rob Chapman, Faber RRP£14.99 Chapman’s biography digs beneath the romanticising of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett as crazed psychedelic Icarus to find a dreamy...
...Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head , by Rob Chapman, Faber RRP£14.99 Rob Chapman has written a big biography of a fleeting talent....
...At 16 she went to art school and at 17 fell in love with the artist Jake Chapman, her boyfriend for the next nine years....
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s chief visual arts critic....
...On its surface wander crowds of tiny Chapman-like bronze soldiers – the work predates “Hell” – mythic half-animals, headless creatures, a sedan chair whose occupant’s delusions of grandeur are offset by...
...But the Chapmans’ mannequins did not diminish: they went on and on, larger, louder, more pointless....
...Other provocateurs tamed into the mainstream are Gilbert and George at Tate Modern (February) and Jake and Dinos Chapman at Tate Liverpool (now) and Tate Britain (January)....
...Philosophers and artists from Foucault to Jake Chapman have been among the fans of Bataille’s bassesse, and it is easy to see how his anguished democratic muddle, along with an early emphasis on black artists...
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