Mark Wallinger

Artwork at King's Cross St Pancras

Art On The Underground: Mark Wallinger’s “Labyrinth”

Something to while away the minutes while waiting for the next train to arrive.

Titian, Diana and Actaeon. Photo © The National Gallery, London.

Art Review: Metamorphosis – Titian 2012 @ National Gallery

Titian’s three masterpieces inspire artists, ballet and poetry.

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Mark Wallinger Leads Fight Against Arts Cuts

A new campaign to save arts funding gained momentum today with this Banksy-like image from Mark Wallinger. The artist, famous for his 1999 fourth plinth commission Ecco Homo and the giant white horse set to go up in Kent, has spent ten minutes in Photoshop …

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Hot art news of the day: Mark ‘White Horse’ Wallinger is displaying a mirrored tardis at the Hayward. Unnecessary survey of the day award: litter and graffiti make people ‘feel less safe’. Miracle of the day: the baby who survived twenty minutes underwater in a …

Image by Mick h 51 from the Londonist Flickr pool

A Gift Of A Horse For Ebbsfleet

Image by Mick h 51 from the Londonist Flickr pool The Angel of the South has turned out to be… a great big white horse. The noble beast by Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has been selected out of a shortlist of three by the …

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Angel Of The South Shortlist Announced

The five leading designs for an Angel of the South have been revealed. The winner will be built in Ebbsfleet, Kent in 2010, as the South’s answer to Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North. Top left: Turner Prize winner Richard Deacon offers a skeletal tower …

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Fourth Plinth – What Next?

Big names making big sculptures are making big waves. Six new ideas for sculptures for Trafalgar Square are open to public viewing from today – and you will have the chance to pick which one will follow the current whacking huge great Thomas Schütte coloured …

Week Around the -ists

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on …

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State Britain Scoops Turner Prize

The Turner Prize may have been spirited away to Liverpool but Mark Wallinger’s recreation of Brian Haw’s protest camp outside the Houses of Parliament pre-SOPCA nailed the Turner Prize for him last night. Although he chose to exhibit himself dressed as a bear, wandering around …

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Join The Mass Lone Protest

The kind of record-breaking attempt where you balance an egg on your head while performing La Traviata backwards in a vat of custard – Londonist thinks those are pretty lame, on the whole. The kind of record-breaking attempt where you stand up for free speech …

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Haw gets Last Laugh

This is great. Brian Haw’s protest has been transformed into art and that art itself forms a fresh protest: Now former Turner Prize nominee Mark Wallinger has recreated the protestor’s camp, and his banners, in the Tate. The gallery falls within a 1km zone around …