168 posts tagged “guardian”
Ten museums - from Orkney to Exeter - have been longlisted for this year's £100,000 Art Fund prize for museums and galleries. See the contenders here.
-Maev Kennedy visits three of the contenders
An exhibition of photographs has opened at the Rivington Place gallery documenting the Bangladesh war of independence
Royal Mint reveals the first new coin designs for 40 years, dreamt up by a 26-year-old trainee graphic designer. See the designs here.
-Mint unveils new coin designs
He has his knighthood and his Nobel and only in flashes does he write as he used to. The next few days may be his last big week. The biography is published on Monday and on Thursday he has a 90-minute documentary on BBC4. They are well worth reading and watching, but having done both I feel no need to know any more. "Never meet a famous author if you like their work" is not a bad maxim. I am glad to have met him, but reading him is the worthwhile thing to do. Be grateful, if you must, remember his shuddersome life, that so much selfishness has given us such great books.
-Adrian Searle reviews Artes Mundi
Frank Gehry will design the Serpentine Gallery's ninth summer pavilion. Take a look at some of the past projects.
-Steve Rose on Gehry's pavilion
In 1987, Margaret Thatcher declared: "There's no such thing as society." Now, an exhibition of photography explores life in Britain in the 20-year period leading up to that speech.
-Tories, turmoil and tank tops
from the Guardian:
But although his dreams of intergalactic space travel and colonisation of nearby planets were never realised in his lifetime, Clarke's predictions of a host of technological breakthroughs were uncannily accurate.
