Entries from Londonist tagged with 'charlessaatchi'
January 30, 2007
Artist and curator Robert Gordon McHarg III founded the Subway Gallery last year and on 6th of June 2006, the gallery joined the rest of London's art scene. While some galleries like to say they are underground, this one is undeniably so. It's in a pedestrian subway, still open to the public, still used by many people trying to get from one side of Edgware Road to the other. It's, like, totally underground. The......
Continue Reading "The Black Wall At The Subway Gallery"August 22, 2006
You can't buy happiness... but you can certainly buy things that will bring you happiness. An artwork by a leading British artist, for example, at a really good price could put a smile on a your face and a corresponding spring in your step. Nice artworks by big names at affordable prices - who doesn't love an "everything must go" sale? The next Damien Hirst could be lurking among the items being sold at......
Continue Reading "Mall Galleries - Studio Clearance Sale"December 12, 2005
Art collector Charles Saatchi's new gallery, at The Duke of York's Building in Chelsea, opens in April with a Tessa Farmer collection entitled 'Swarm'. And that's exactly what you get. A swarm of frickin' insects. But shaped like humans. Argh! The appropriately named Farmer has harvested the wing parts from countless little beasties, and glued them to delicate twig skeletons to form 'evil fairies'. Presumably to scare the Bejesus out of any landlord who......
Continue Reading "Saatchi Art Swarms To Chelsea"October 29, 2004
The Young British Art Phenomenon has come in for a lot of stick over the years. Hirst, Emin and Turk et al have been accused of shallow shock tactics, cruelty to animals, and making themselves comfortable in the pocket of Charles Saatchi. But last week Damien Hirst manged to surprise everyone who thought the YBA fad has died a death years ago, by auctioning off the contents of his failed restaurant venture Pharmacy for a......
Continue Reading "A Quick Buck For Hirst"