UK denies Ai Weiwei full business visa based on disputed ‘criminal’ history
British embassy officials say celebrated Chinese artist failed to declare his record on application – but supporters say he was never actually charged with a crime
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ART OPENING: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Birth of British Pop-Art @A&D Gallery Tuesday 18th February 2014
In Britain, Pop-Art had a unique impact on publishing, fashion, music, TV, and cinema. Perhaps it was the dispersal over the various media that lessened the effect that Pop Art had on Fine Art. But we did do it first, and we did some of it very well indeed. So celebrate it and as they said without irony in the 60’s: Buy British
A great art project TWENTYEIGHT FINGERS from Joanna Brown
TWENTYEIGHT FINGERS has been realised by Joanna Brown after the idea cropped up in a conversation with five fellow fine arts masters students from the University of Leeds in 2007. It has resulted in a collection of 28 bronze casts of the index fingers of significant creative figures of our time.
VIDEO : Save The Arts
The Save the Arts campaign is organised by the London branch of the Turning Point Network, a national consortium of over 2,000 arts organisations and artists dedicated to working together and finding new ways to support the arts in the UK.
