Quite A Stritch May 26, 2008
Ebersole was accompanied by Grammy winner Billy Stritch as she sang tunes from their upcoming CD, "Summer in New York." In the spellbound audience were Alexandra Lebenthal, Self editor Lucy Danziger and her husband, art dealer James Danziger, artist Malcolm Morley, Fox News' Eric Shawn, Ralph Lauren creative director Michel Botbol, and Glamour's Suzanne Donaldson. SHARE BOX Show your support. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Al-Bee Darned Dec 19, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Last Update: 06:30 AM EST. POLITICAL MARRIAGE' WELL DONE. (New York Post -- Gossip)
The Painting of Modern Life Oct 5, 2007
There are some fine works by Luc Tuymans, and Malcolm Morley s work is extraordinary. Elizabeth Peyton s Arsenal, based on a photograph of Prince Harry at a football match not long after his mother s death, is brutally striking, whereas Peter Doig s Lapeyrouse Wall, a curious conflation of two photographs, has the opposite, calming, effect. (Times Online)
What's the point of the Turner Prize? Oct 3, 2007
Only two over 50s have ever won: the first two winners, Malcolm Morley and Howard Hodgkin. Since any prize must be partly judged by its omissions, here are some artists who have not won the Turner, and are now either dead or too old to qualify: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Paula Rego, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Helen Chadwick, Susan Hiller. (Independent)
Its Turner Prize time again Sep 29, 2007
Established in 1984, the first prizes went to already older-generation artists such as Malcolm Morley, Tony Cragg and Richard Long. But in the early 1990s Sir Nicholas Serota and Waldemar Janusczek, then arts commissioning editor at Channel 4, revamped the event by televising it and restricting prizes to artists under 50. The average age of Turner nominees dropped from 46 in 1985 to 30 at the time of its relaunch in 1991. (Financial Times)
War protest artist tipped to take Turner May 9, 2007
The first winner, Malcolm Morley, sparked healthy controversy by not turning up to collect his prize. The criteria changed in 1988 when Nicholas Serota took over as Tate director and insisted that entrants had to be artists; critics and curators were no longer eligible. (Financial Times)
