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Then and Now: West Street, Gateshead, 35 years ago - and the same view today

The distinctive four-metre sculpture Sports Day on West Street, Gateshead, takes centre stage on both our 1987 image and our more recent photograph of the same location

Chronicle Live · Oct 25, 2022

Work begins to create Dumfries and Galloway community coronavirus memorial

Artists ts Beall and Katie Anderson have been commissioned to lead the project to honour those who lost their lives to Covid-19

Daily Record · Oct 25, 2022

Bob Geldolf says Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup on Van Gogh are ‘clever’

The Boomtown Rats frontman said he would have been among the crowds protesting in central London if he was 18

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2022

‘A lot of my work has this insane anxiety about it’: David Shrigley on worrying, God and drawing like a five-year-old

He has been shortlisted for the Turner prize for his acerbic, often hilarious images. Now living in the countryside with his wife and dog, the artist has produced a new book – and his work is as tense and restless as ever

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022

'Freaked out' Burley Banksy from Leeds says newfound fame makes him feel anxious

The 51-year-old, well known for painting electricity boxes in Leeds United colours, has been invited to speak at swanky dos and fans ask for selfies

Leeds Live · Oct 25, 2022

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery review - weird and wonderful

A show about this extraordinary, humble material that can say so much

Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2022

Appreciation: Why New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl was the last of a breed

Peter Schjeldahl, the eminent and widely read New York art critic, died Friday at his country home in the tiny upstate town of Bovina, near the Catskills, where he and his wife, former actor Brooke Alderson, lived. He was 80.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 24, 2022

Lady Leshurr attacked ex-girlfriend and woman’s new partner, court told

Prosecutors claim artist attacked Chante Boyea and Sidnee Hussein after she left club in Hackney Wick

The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2022

Spencer Tunick plans Sydney beach shoot

US artist Spencer Tunick, famed for his photographs of nude crowds in public spaces, will stage a photo shoot on a Sydney beach.

AAP · Oct 24, 2022

2,500 naked bodies needed: Spencer Tunick announces his return to Sydney

The US artist’s next mass nude installation will take place in November at a Sydney beach. ‘We’re hoping for a rainbow of people,’ he says

The Guardian - AU · Oct 24, 2022