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Review: The Box, Plymouth

Plymouth has just opened it’s new arts and heritage complex and a lot was riding on it. There’s the £47m budget and the fact that it’s coinciding with the 400th anniversary of the launch of the Mayflower from Plymouth — the ship carrying English settlers to North America. Plus, much like everything else in art and the wider world, the launch was delayed due to the pandemic.

FAD magazine Migrate Art_Scorched Earth_Anish Kapoor_

Migrate Art announces ‘Scorched Earth’

Migrate Art presents ‘Scorched Earth’ a charity auction and exhibition of new works by leading artists, organised in direct response to the widespread deliberate destruction of crop fields in Iraq. The participating artists have created new works using paint pigmented with ash collected by Migrate Art from land scorched by these fires.

The Connor Brothers, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Bambi, Julian Opie, Sarah Pope and Grayson Perry donate to Bonhams The Blue Auction To Raise Funds for NHS Charities Covid-19 Appeal

Lee Sharrock spoke to The Connor Brothers about the charity auction organised by Bonhams which features artworks donated by leading contemporary artists, and special experiences including a visit to Grayson Perry’s studio and lunch with Dame Joan Collins at Claridges after the lockdown is lifted.

Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley: SUBJECT

This summer Kettle’s Yard will present ‘SUBJECT’ by Antony Gormley, the artist’s first major UK presentation in a public gallery in over a decade. ‘SUBJECT’ is the first solo artist exhibition to be staged in Kettle’s Yard’s new galleries.

Chantal Joffe_ Self Portrait with Ishbel at Glasgow School of Art_2016 (c) Chantal Joffe

Leading International artists use materials recovered from The Glasgow School of Art fire to create new works for auction.

25 leading international artists, including Simon Starling, Sir Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Jenny Saville, David Shrigley and Douglas Gordon have used materials retrieved from The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh library after the fire to create original works of art to help raise money for restoration of the Mackintosh Building.

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