All artists are anarchists to some degree. The Walk 2015 starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Charlotte Le Bo & Ben Kingsley & Clement Sibony & James Badge Dale & Cesar Domboy & Ben Schwartz Benedict Samuel & Steve Valentine at el, director Robert Zemeckis
One of the pioneers of the LA performance art scene. The R & B Feeling: The Bob Parks Story, BBC 2016
He cared about art and he genuinely believed in its redemptive power. ibid.
The Vietnam war had reached new levels of brutality. And LA itself was a violent, unhappy place. These new artists were responding to that friction, that upheaval. ibid.
Bob took his performance art to national television. ibid.
One of those words – an idea, a call to arms and a way of thinking. Vic Reeves, Gaga for Dada: The Original Art Rebels, BBC 2016
Dada made an art out of the absurd: mocking politicians, satirizing the media and ridiculing centuries of culture. ibid.
The world has gone gaga for dada. ibid.
Also shaping comedy, music and political protest. ibid.
In Berlin Club Dada would unleashed a fiercely political rage. ibid.
Dada mutated and evolved: Zurich Dada had introduced absurdist nonsense; Berlin Dada had targeted the political established, and New York Dadaists had sent up the art world. Now in Cologne it was all about shock for shock’s sake. ibid.
Christie’s is the world’s largest auction house. At the crossroads of art, taste and money it brings together great works of art, fervent collectors, world-beating prices, and the fine art of the sell. This year this great British brand celebrate its 250th anniversary. Sold! Inside the World’s Biggest Auction House, BBC 2016
Will they stay at the top of their £5-billion-a-year game? ibid.
Anyone can just wander in. ibid.
When James Christie founded his firm, George III was on the throne. ibid.
Ten years ago Christie’s became the first art auctioneers to open up in Dubai. ibid.
Christie’s don’t just wait for buyers they go after them. ibid.
Modigliani $170.4 million; Francis Bacon’s Triptych $148.4 million; Picasso $179.3 million. ibid.
New York: now located at the swanky Rockefeller address. ibid.
Some sellers are so desperate that bargains can be had, but most put a reserve price below which the auctioneer cannot sell, and it becomes a pass. ibid.
They can create an appearance of interest in the room to push up bids and it’s quite legal. ibid.
Twenty years ago Christie’s went beyond the rules fixing commissions with apparent rivals Sotherby’s. ibid.
A company at the epicentre of a secret and private world. Sold! Inside the World’s Biggest Auction House II
Special Sale: Defining British Art: ‘No more than thirty lots … A very British sale. So the ask was a big one.’ ibid. Jussi
James Christie used to throw private parties that were THE place to be in London 250 years ago. It was a way of softening up potential clients. ibid.
Asian art is selling well. ibid.
The Rab C Nesbitt school – the De-pressionists. Rab C Nesbitt s3e3: Gifted, Burney, BBC 1993
January 28th 2008: the head of one of Britain’s most illusive crime families arrives to be sentenced. Together, Olive, Shaun and George Greenhalgh have become the most successful forgers in history. Their fakes ranged across all types of art. The Artful Codgers, Channel 4 2008
Most of their fakes were made in their garden shed. ibid.
The Artful Codgers – the most unlikely master-criminals the world has ever seen. ibid.
Police suspect they sold over 140 forgeries. ibid.
The Greenhalghs moved on from faked paintings to bogus antiquities … all made by their son Shaun … Shaun taught himself how to fool the experts by visiting his local libraries. ibid.
It’s a hundred years since the word surreal was first used. And now you hear it everywhere. How to be a Surrealist with Philippa Perry, BBC 2017
Their interest in the unconscious mind sparked an explosion of revolutionary ideas that transformed art and cinema and the world around us. ibid.
Surrealists were more about opening things out and playing with what you opened out. ibid.
One of the artists most dedicated to the surrealist life was Max Ernst. ibid.
Magritte: ‘Surrealism is neither a literary school not a school of art. Surrealists use literary and artistic means with a view to expressing what the mind can say and which is not already known.’ ibid.
I’m really don’t care. I don’t listen to you. Cutie and the Boxer, him to her on 80th birthday eating cake, 2013
Maybe I can sell. I have to sell. ibid.
I’m not his assistant. ibid. her
From the airport she arrived to the Times Square. One day Cutie visited Bullie’s Soho studio by chance. She had never seen art like this in all her life. Cutie was only 19 and Bullie was 41. ibid. her story
Shinohara has been making sculpture since the beginning of his career. ibid. Ethan Cohen art critic
As a young man in Tokyo he emerged as a leader in Japan’s avant-garde art movement with his imitation of American pop-art and action painting. ibid. art report
Ushio and I had many fights caused by his drinking. ibid. her
Day by day poverty and misery struck Cutie. ibid.
Here, you see a fusion of Japanese Oiran style and strawberry ice cream. ibid. him
We are the ones suffering the most for art. ibid.
I started thinking by myself. ibid. her
On April 8th 2000 Mark Hogancamp was in a bar – he left the bar about closing time and a group of five individuals had been in the bar harassing him, then they went outside followed him and beat him senseless. Marwencol, 2010
He was in a coma for nine days. ibid.
I wanted to find out who I was. ibid.
I know what it’s like to build things in miniature; I want to have a society outside of society, a smaller society. ibid.
The arts have long provided a refuge for gay people in Britain. A place they could express themselves. Queer as Art, BBC 2017
‘If there’s one thing worse than homosexual art it’s heterosexual art.’ ibid. David Hockney
‘It consists of one hundred and twenty bricks stacked in two layers.’ Bricks! BBC 2017
‘It was talked about all over the nation and it went on for months.’ ibid.
February 1976: ‘They’re probably the most expensive bricks in the world.’ ibid. news
‘My art poses questions.’ ibid. Carl Andre
The bricks arrived on 22nd May 1972. ibid.
‘This figure in tweed smoking a cigar.’ Gluck: Who Did She Think He Was? Sky Arts 2017
‘She was a society painter.’ ibid.
Gluck: Medallion (YouWe) 1936; Portrait of Miss E M Craig 1920; Sketching on the Moors 1919; Self-Portrait 1913; Bettina 1917; Girl With Orange Scarf. ibid.
Modern Britain was forged in the Industrial Revolution … So why is it that when asked to paint a picture of Britain we seem to see ourselves in a very different light? Awesome Beauty: The Art of Industrial Landscapes, BBC 2017
It seems the good life is never smeared in diesel … We are addicted to this pastoral idyll. ibid.
John Martin: The Great Day of His Wrath 1851-3. ibid.
Welcome to Dudley: this is 19th century painted by Constable’s greatest rival and Britain’s other favourite landscape painter J M W Turner. ibid.
The Vorticists: these young punks celebrated the promise of the machine age. ibid.