The hunt is on: Titian donations nearly halfway there Nov 20, 2008
She said: "This is exactly what the fund was set up to do. We have moved quickly to show our support and hope this persuades others to dig deep to make this dream a reality." Bridget Riley, one of many contemporary artists backing the appeal, made her third visit to the painting yesterday, saying she admired Titian as the supreme master of colour: "You would have had no C;zanne, no Monet, no Delacroix without Titian.". Both galleries believe it will still take funding from government and the... (guardian.co.uk)
Catholic church's anti-abuse chief quits on eve of scathing report Nov 2, 2008
A new art book with works by Damien Hirst, Julian Opie and Bridget Riley aims to calm and entertain babies. Jun 16 2008. (Yahoo News -- Catholic Church Abuse Scandal)
Bridget Riley retrospective opens in Paris Jun 20, 2008
A detail from Bridget Riley's 1963 work "Blaze 3." (Bridget Riley, Karsten Schubert London) ... Bridget Riley's retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris opens with landscape drawings from the 1950s, passes through the Op Art with which she became famous, soars into the big lusciously colored abstracts of recent years and ends with a wall painting which the curator sees as a homage to the museum's prize possession, "La Danse" by Matisse ... Photographs The works of Bridget... (International Herald Tribune)
Public to get peek at government's art treasure hoard May 6, 2008
Johnson and her small team now spend months brooding over what to send where: Byron, the very image of a romantic hero in absurdly splendid oriental costume, off to Athens; the Andy Warhol portrait of the Queen to Washington; a Bridget Riley to Cairo, inspired by the colours she saw on her visits to ancient Egyptian tombs; a painting by Carel Weight of a woman reading George Bernard Shaw to Dublin. At the moment the treasures in the London stores include the Lowry and the Freud, a gigantic early... (Guardian Unlimited -- Politics)
AUCTIONS: At Christie's Post-War and Contemporary sale, 3 world records, but danger looms Feb 9, 2008
Later in the sale, it was the turn of a London school artist, Bridget Riley, to be greeted with a world auction record price ... Exhibited several times - "Static 2" was seen in the Bridget Riley retrospective at the "Tate Britain" gallery in 2003 - the painting realized 1. (International Herald Tribune)
What recession? Bacon sells for 26.3m Feb 7, 2008
9m and saw a record paid for a Bridget Riley work - Static 2 (1966) - as well as artist records for Lucio Fontana (6. 7m) and Gerhard Richter (7. (Guardian Unlimited)
Letter: Dismay at British Council art cuts Jan 12, 2008
Anthony Abrahams, Shazeela Alim, Sam Bakkabulindi, Dr Wendy Baron OBE, Emmanuel Basaza, Lewis Biggs Director, Liverpool Biennial, Sir Peter Blake, Quentin Blake, Iwona Blazwick Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, OBE, Lord Melvyn Bragg of Wigton, Ralph Brown, Jon Buck, Louisa Buck The Art Newspaper, Anthony Bukenya, David Bwambale, Richard Calvocoressi Director, Henry Moore Foundation, Jeffrey Camp RA, Sir Anthony Caro OM CBE, Eva Chadwick, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sarah Jane Checkland, Emma... (Guardian Unlimited)
Changes at British Council 'appalling' Jan 12, 2008
More than 100 of Britain's leading artists, from Lucian Freud to Bridget Riley to David Hockney to Rachel Whiteread, today put their names to a condemning one of the country's most respected institutions: the British Council. It is a battle which has the potential to be protracted as well as acrimonious, and which is still largely shrouded in secrecy. (Guardian Unlimited)
* Modern art isn't modern forever Feb 15, 2007
Bridget Riley and Frank Stella both used ordinary house paints, Stella because they "had the nice dead kind of color" that he wanted, right out of the can. Over the last few years, in its labs perched high in the hills of Brentwood, the Getty has brought complex technology to bear on modern paints, building up a database of thousands of kinds of pigments, solvents, chemical binders and other substances. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Art: New paints challenge conservators Feb 15, 2007
Bridget Riley and Frank Stella used ordinary house paints, Stella because they "had the nice dead kind of color" that he wanted. But while conservators have inherited generations' worth of knowledge about oil paints, they know comparatively little about synthetics and how to protect the masterpieces created by using them, many of which are rapidly approaching the half-century mark. (International Herald Tribune)
Tate in 5m race to save Turner's 'Blue Rigi' for the nation Jan 23, 2007
Artists including David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Bridget Riley and Antony Gormley as well as television stars such as Joanna Lumley have already signed up at. The Tate has the biggest collection of Turners in the world, thanks to a bequest from the artist when he died in 1851 aged 76. (Independent)
