Artists offer a few of their 'Favorite Things' Sep 13, 2008
The exhibit, which opened Sept. 2 and will run through Dec. 14, fea tures 59 prints dating from 1964 to 2002 by Jim Dine, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann. Selected primarily from the Zimmerli's extensive graphic arts collection, the exhibition also will include the loan of four Lichten stein prints, and 10 photographs by Warhol -- part of a... (NJ.com -- Times)
Expert view: Perverse and baffling with an obvious winner May 14, 2008
There's a quality of William Burroughs's cut-ups to his remorseless, frantic hybrid works of art, like his Soundsystem, which splices together fragments of high and low culture and everyday life, and his brilliant video The March of the Big White Barbarians, which weaves images of London's 20th-century public art - all those clunking metal sculptures by Eduardo Paolozzi - into a hypnotic, endlessly fascinating dream of the city's secret life. I've nothing against Runa Islam, Cathy Wilkes or... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Glad to be grey Apr 23, 2008
The second piece, Head of a Fallen Giant, formally relates to the sculptures of William Turnbull and Eduardo Paolozzi, via Damien Hirst. It is a large war-like bronze skull; its subject is the changing face of Britain in the second half of the 20th century. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Experts quit over the 'lion of Holyrood' Apr 13, 2008
So far works by Christine Borland, the Boyle family, Calum Innes, John Bellany, Eduardo Paolozzi and Ian Hamilton Finlay have been purchased with a relatively modest annual budget. We] invited five artists to come up with proposals for a work to be sited outside the Parliament; Ronald Rae was not on this shortlist,' said Calvocoressi. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Magda McHale, sociologist and futurist thinker; at 86 Mar 24, 2008
Other members of the Independent Group included artists Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and the critic Lawrence Alloway, who is often credited with inventing the term Pop Art. In 1956, Mrs. McHale participated with the group in producing "This Is Tomorrow," a famously innovative exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, which mixed fine art and many different sorts of commercial products. (Boston Globe)
Anthony dOffay Mar 2, 2008
Through the 1970s he held defining shows by the likes of Lucian Freud, Gilbert & George and Eduardo Paolozzi. In 1977 he married Anne, then a curator at the Tate. (Times Online)
A collector's item: art dealer's 125m gift to the nation is ... Feb 29, 2008
In the years following the opening of his Dering Street gallery, he staged a glittering series of seminal shows for artists including Lucian Freud, Gilbert e, Eduardo Paolozzi and Frank Auerbach. In 2002 he announced his retirement and shut his gallery, sparking rumours of a huge philanthropic gesture. (Independent)
Artists' Nude Models Strike in Italy Jan 19, 2008
"It can be rewarding to be immortalized as great art," said Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times chief art critic, who modeled for Eduardo Paolozzi and Euan Uglow. "But it can also be extremely physically demanding. Rodin used to twist his models into painful positions and make them stay like that for hours. Lucian Freud demands that you turn up punctually day after day. It can take years and you can t walk out halfway through.". (Fox News)
Germaine Greer on the Arts Council's sculptures Dec 17, 2007
Even what you are likely to see at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is as likely to belong to someone else: to the Henry Moore Foundation, or the Elisabeth Frink or Eduardo Paolozzi estate, or Habitat, or the Tate. The Winter/H. (Guardian Unlimited)
Modern art by the shedload in DIY tycoon's space Mar 24, 2007
He bought a lot of modern British art - Edward Burra, Maggi Hambling, Eduardo Paolozzi. Later, although he missed the boat for the early work of Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, et al, he started to acquire contemporary art voraciously. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
