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Observations: Artist reveals the human face of death row
If you were lucky enough to catch Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta's Life Before Death exhibition at the Wellcome Collection early last year, then this might just be the perfect topical – and artistic – counterpoint. While Schels and Lakotta photographed hospice patients before and after death, Claire Phillips, a portrait artist from West Sussex, has travelled to the US to paint pictures of those who have spent time on Death Row. Working with human- rights charity Reprieve, her subjects have included Linda Carty, a British citizen who has faced execution in Texas for the last eight years for the murder of a neighbour (the conviction, apparently, was based entirely on the testimonies of her co-accused, three career criminals). Carty is joined by Howard Neal, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the alleged killing of his niece and half-brother.
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Friday, 14 August 2009
Observations: Lucky seven are in the frame for Threadneedle Prize
Friday, 14 August 2009
The £25,000 Threadneedle Prize – a rival to the Turner Prize and now in its second year – is the most valuable art prize awarded by the public in the UK for contemporary figurative painting and sculpture.
Send us your awful family snaps - and win a Sony Cyber-shot camera
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Share the horrors of the 70s slideshow and win the new camera with modern slideshow functionality
Art of staying home: The world's greatest artworks online
Monday, 10 August 2009
Leave the queues behind – the world's greatest artworks look almost as good online. Rob Sharp takes a virtual tour
The Diary: Sebastian Faulks' A Week in December; Lord Attenborough's art sale; Oubliette Arthouse squatters' Gormley homage; Nicholas de Jongh's Plague over England; Art for Africa
Friday, 7 August 2009
Great Works: Embroidery: The Artist's Mother (1882–83) Georges Seurat
Friday, 7 August 2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Observations: Artists transform tents for Blank Canvas Project
Friday, 7 August 2009
Camping at music festivals is nothing new but the tents being exhibited as part of the Blank Canvas Project at this weekend's Big Chill are complete originals. The tents, which have been transformed into individual artworks by artists including Keith Coventry, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Vivienne Westwood and Tom Ormond, will be lit up at night to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness.
Evolution makes for inspired art
Monday, 3 August 2009
An exhibition exploring how artists have been inspired by Darwin's theory of evolution is the best of this year's anniversary shows, says Tom Lubbock
Seaside exposure: Martin Parr turns his lens on the densely crowded beaches of South America
Saturday, 1 August 2009
Martin Parr is a self-proclaimed "aficionado of the British seaside". Since his controversial project of 1985, The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton, in which the documentary photographer captured the highs and lows experienced by residents and day-trippers at a run-down resort on the Wirral Peninsula, Parr has braved the wind-beaten shores of beaches across the country. For his latest project, Playas, the 57-year-old and his wife Susie went a little further afield. The couple spent several years visiting some of the biggest resorts in South America, travelling between Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina and Chile in the process. Be it home or abroad, Parr explains, there is something endlessly appealing about the beach.
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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS
The Russian Linesman
(Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea)
Only connect: a fantastic miscellany of art and non-art, on the themes of frontiers, borders and thresholds, curated by Mark Wallinger.
(01792 516900) to 20 Sept
Walking in My Mind (Hayward Gallery, London)
Immerse yourself in all-round installations and get inside some artists’ heads. A summer group show for all the family, with 10 quite famous names. (0871-663 2500) to 6 Sept
Thomas Bewick
(Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle)
Whole microscopic worlds, crammed with trees, animals, birds, people and weather: the vignettes of the 18th-century wood-engraver and naturalist.
(0191-232 6789) to 18 Oct
Eva Rothschild
(Tate Britain, London)
Geometry and chaos: the dynamic sculptor fills almost the whole length of the central Duveen galleries with ‘Cold Corners’, a single work 70-metres long.
(020-7887 8888) to 29 Nov
Beuys Is Here
(De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea)
The German artist who wanted art to change the world, and left a legacy of heavy beauty.
(01424 229111) to 27 Sept
